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DICTIONARY OF THOUGHTS
BEING
A Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations
FROM THE BEST AUTHORS, BOTH ANCIENT AND MODERN
BY
TRYON EDWARDS, D.D.
ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED BY SUBJECTS
A GREAT THOUGHT IS A GREAT BOON, FOR WHICH GOD 18 TO BE FIRST THANKED,
THEN HE WHO IS THE FIRST TO UTTER IT, AND THEN, IN A LESSER, BUT STILL IN A
CONSIDERABLE DEGREE, THE MAN WHO IS THE FIRST TO QUOTE IT TO U8.-Boves
NEW YORK
CASSELL PUBLISHING COMPANY
104 & 106 FOURTH AVENUE
COPYRIGHT, 1891, BY
CASSELL PUBLISHING COMPANY.
All rights reserved.
THE MERSHON COMPANY PRESS,
RAHWAY, N. J.
From the library of
Crape Smith
8-20-48
PREFACE.
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885-48 FBW
We have Dnctionaries of WORDS. Why not have a Diclionary of THOUGHTS? Why
not a gathering of the condensed and striking thoughts of the world's best thinkers
on important and interesting subjects, arranged, as in verbal dictionaries, in alpha-
betical order of topics, for ready reference and familial use?
Of the brief and stiiking sayings of wise and good men, Tillotson says:
are of great value, like the dust of gold on the sparks of diamonds." And Johnson
counts "him a benefactoi of mankind who condenses the great thoughts and rules of
life into short sentences that are easily impressed on the memory and secur promptly
to the mind " Such laconic thoughts Swift compares to “burning glasses, as they
collect the diffused rays of wit and learning in authors, and make them point with
warmth and quickness on the reader's imagination And of such thoughts it is
that Coleridge says: “Let every book-woim, when in any flagiant, scarce old tome
he discoveis a sentence, a stoly, an illustration that does bis heait good, basten to
give it” to otheis.
A collection of such thoughts was begun by the writer, years ago, as a matter of
personal interest and foi personal use and reference, with no thought of publication.
But their number and variety so incieased that, as far back as 1852, they were embodied
in the “ WORLD'S LACONICS," a work which, under two different titles, was so favoiably
received and widely calculated as to suggest the plan of a far larger work, which might
be a treasury of the best and most striking thoughts of the world's best authois
Durig all these years the plan has been kept in mind, and constant additions
have been made from a wide range of personal study and miscellaneous i eaching, gemas
of wisdom, and beauty, and common sense, being taken from any and every mine of
authorship from which they might be gathered. A broad and rich field for selection
has abo been found in such valuable collections as Lacon," "Laconia," "The Laconic
Manual"
' Burning Words of Brilliant Writeis," "Many Thoughts of Many Minds,"
• Classical and Foreign Quotations, “Great Thoughts from Greek Authors," Apho-
risms of the World's Literature," "Living Thoughts of Living Thinkers," "The
Treasury of Thought,” “Great Truths by Great Authors," "Thoughts and Apothegms,”
“Day's Collocon," "Thirty Thousand Thoughts,” “Stars from the Poets and Thinkers'
Heaven of all Ages," "Wit and Wisdom of Bulwer,” “Gems of Thought," "Familiar
Quotations," "Life Thoughts," “ Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations," "Bits of Bur-
nished Gold,” “ Beautiful Thoughts," "Seed Giain," German, French, Spanish, and
Italian collections, and many other interesting and valuable works, indebtedness to
which is freely and gratefully acknowledged.
Fiom these and many other and similar sources the choicest thoughts have been
culled, forming a work which, it is hoped, may be of permanent value as in advance
of any manual of the kind thus far ever given to the public No meiit is claimed
the gathering except that which belongs to a diligent compiler. The labor of
preparing the work has been its own reward. It 18 hoped that the work itself may
be a source of pleasure and profit to others.
T. E.
Detroit, 1891.
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INDEX OF AUTHORS.
AUSTEN, JANE.
AUSTIN, WILLIAM.
AZAI, RABBI BEN.
AZARIAS, FATHER.
ABDALRAHMAN.
ALLEINE, JOSEPH.
ABD-EL-KADER.
ALLSTON, WASHINGTON.
ABBOTT, F. E.
ALMERON.
ABBOTT, JACOB.
ALROY.
ABBOTT, J. S. C.
AMBROSE.
A.BBOTT, LYMAN.
AMES, FISHER.
A BERNETHY, JOHN. AMIEL, H. F.
ABRANTES, DOCHESSE DE, ANACHARSIS.
ACKERS, ELIZABETH. ANACREON.
ADAM, H. G. J.
ANDERSON
ADAM, THOMAS.
ANDRE, FATHER.
ADAMS, H. G.
ANDREWS, JOHN.
ADAMS, John.
ANGELO, MICHAEL,
ADAMS, JOHN Q.
ANN OF AUSTRIA,
ADAMS, M.
ANSELM,
ADAMS, NEHEMIAH. ANTHONY, SAINT.
ADDISON, JOSEPH.
ANTIGONUS.
ADRIAN.
ANTIPATER.
ADVENTURER.
ANTISTHINES.
ÆSCHINES.
ANTONINUS, M.
ÆSCHYLUS.
ARBUTHNOT, JOHN.
AGASSIZ, L. J. R.
ARISTIPPUS.
AGAPET.
ARISTOTLE.
AGATHON.
ARISTOPAANES.
AGESILAUS.
ARMSTRONG, JOAN.
AIKEN, JOHN.
ARNIM, B. VON.
AIKEN, LUCY.
ARNOLD, EDWIN.
AIKMAN, WILLIAM. ARNOLD, MATTHEW.
AKENSIDE, MARK.
ARNOLD, THOMAS.
ALCOTT, A, B.
ARNOT, NEIL.
ALBERT
ARNOT, W. D.
ALDRICH, T. B.
ARROWSMITH, JOHN.
ALEMBERT, J. L. R. DE. ARTAUR, T. S.
ALEMBERT, MARCUIONESS ASCHAM, ROGER.
DE.
ATKINSON, EDWARD.
ALEYN, CHARLES.
ATTERBURY, FRANCIS.
ALEXANDER ARCHIBALD. ATWELL, GEORGE.
ALEXANDER, JAMES W. AUCHESTER, C.
ALEXANDFR, MRS.
AUERBACH, BERTHOLD.
ALFIERI, V.
AUFFENBERG, JOSEPH.
ALFORD, AUGUSTA.
AUGHEY, D. H.
ALFORD, HENRY.
AUGUSTINE, SAINT.
ALGER, W. R.
AUREL.
ALISON, ARCHIBALD. AUSONIUS, D. M.
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BACKUS, AZEL.
BACON, FRANCIS.
BACON, LEONARD,
BACON, W. T.
BAILEY, G. S.
BAILEY, P. J.:
BAILLIE, JOANNA.
BALFOUR, F. M.
BALGUY, JOHN.
BALLOU, Hosea.
BALLOU, M. M.
BALZAC, H. DE.
BANCROFT, GEORGE.
BARBAULD, A. L.
BARKER, JOIIN.
BARNES, ALBERT.
BARNUM, P. T.
BARR, AMELIA E.
BARRETT, E. S.
BARRINGTON, D.
BARRINGTON, J.
BARROW, ISAAC.
BARTHOLINI, A.
BARTOL, C. A.
BARTON, BERNARD.
BASIL, SAINT
BATE, JULIUS.
BAXTER, RICHARD.
BAYARD, JAS, A.
BAYLE, PIERRE.
BAYLEY, J. R.
BAYNE, PETER.
BEADLE, E R.
BEATTIE, JAMES.
BEAUMELLE, L. A. D.
BEAUMONT, FRANCIS.
BEAUMONT, I. L. M. DE.
BEAUMONT, JOHN.
BECCARIA, C. B.
.
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INDEX OF AUTHORS.
BECKWITH, W.
BOWEN, FRANCIS.
BUNYAN, JOIIN.
BEDELL, G. T.
BOWES, G. S.
BURBRIDGE, TUOMAS.
BEDFORD, EARL OF. BOWLES, CAROLINE. BURGER, C. A.
BEECHER, H. W.
BOWRING, JOIIN.
BURGU, JAMES.
BEECHER, LYMAN.
BOYD, A. K. H.
BURKE, EDMUND.
BEETHOVEN, L. V.
BOYSE, J. F.
BURKITT, WILLIAM.
BELLAMY, EDWARD. BOYSE, SAMUEL.
BURLEIGII, CELIA.
BELLAMY, JOSEPH. BOUPLERS, S.
BURLEIGH, LORD).
BELLERS, JOHN.
BRADDON, M. E.
BURLEIGII, W. H.
BELLOWS, H. W.
BRAINARD, DAVID. BURNAP, J.
BENJAMIN, PARK.
BRAINARD, J. G. C. BURNET, GILBERT.
BENNETT, G. T.
BRAISLIN.
BURNS, ROBERT.
BENSERADE, ISAAC. BRATTERTON
BURR, AARON.
BENTHAM, JEREMY. BRAY, ANN E
BURR, E. F.
BENTHAM, TUOMAS. BREMER, FREDERIKA. BURRITT, ELIHU.
BENTLEY, RICHARD. BRENT, NATIIANIEL. BURTON, N.J.
BERKELEY, BP. GEORGE. BRENT, RICHARD.
BURTON, R. E.
BERNARD, SAINT.
BREWSTER, SIR D.
BURY, R. DE.
BERNERS, J. B.
BRIDGEMAN.
BUTLER, FANNIE K.
BERNI, FRANCESCO. BRIDGES, C.
BUTLER, JOSEPII.
BERRIDGE, JOHN.
BRISSOT, J. P.
BUTLER, SAMUEL.
BERRIDGE, W.
BRISTED, C. A.
BUXTON, SIR T. F.
BERSIER, J.
BROADIIURST.
BYRON, LORD.
BETTINI, ANTOINE. BROADUS, J. A.
BIAS.
BRODIE, B. C.
CABALLERO, F,
BICKERSTAFF,
ISAAC. BRODIE, J. F.
CESAR.
BIGELOW, JOHN.
BROOKE, S. D.
CAIRD, JOHN.
BINGIIAM, HIRAM.
BROOKS, J. G.
CALDERON, DE LA B.
BINNEY, HORACE,
BROOKS, PHILLIPS.
CALIIOUN, JOHN C.
BINNEY, THOMAS.
Brooks, T.
CALVIN, JOHN.
Bion.
BRONTÉ, CHARLOTTE. CAMPBELL., GEORGE.
BISMARCK, K. 0.
BROOME, WILLIAM. CAMPBELL, HOPE.
BLACKIE, J. S.
BROUGHAM, LORD.
CAMPBELL, THOMAS.
BLACKSTONE, SIR W. BROWN, D. P.
CANNING, C. J.
BLAIR, HUGH.
BROWN, I. B.
CANNING, GEORGE.
BLESSINGTON, LADY. BROWN, JOIIN, OF HAD- CAPELL, EDWARD.
BLOUNT, T. B.
DINGTON,
CAREW, THOMAS.
BOARDMAN, G. D.
BROWNE, ROBERT W. CARLETON, WILLIAM.
BOERHAVE, HERMAN. BROWNE, SIR TIOMAS. CARLISLE, LORD.
BOILEAU, NICOLAS.
BROWNING, MRS. E. B. CARLYLE, THOMAS.
Boiste, P. C. B.
BROWNING, ROBERT. CARNEADES.
BOLINGBROKE, LORD. BRUYÈRE, J. DE L.
CARNEGIE, A.
BOLTON, ROBERT.
BRYANT, J. H.
CARPENTER, W. B.
BONALD, L. G. A.
BRYANT, W. C.
CARY, ALICE.
BONAPARTE, JOSEPI BRYDGES, SIR E.
CARY, PH@BE.
BONAPARTE, NAPOLEON. BRYDGES, SAMUEL E. Cass, LEWIS.
BONAR, HORATIUS.
BUCK, CIIARLES.
CATTERWOOD, MARY H.
BONAVENTURA, SAINT. BUCKINGHAM, DUKE OF. CATO.
BONNELL. JAMES.
BUCKMINSTER, J. S. CATULLUS.
BONSTETTEN, C. V. I
DE. BUDDIIA.
CAUSSIN, N.
BOSSUET, J. B. DE.
BUDDHIST SCRIPTURE. CAWDREY, D.
BOSTUN, THOMAS.
BUDGELI, EUSTACE. CECIL, RICHIARD.
BOUCHARD, P.
Burrox, G. L. L.
CERVANTES, S. M DE.
BOOHOURS, DOMINIQUE. BULWER, E. G.
CHADBOURNE, P. A
BOVEE, C. N.
BULWER, F.
CHADWICK, EDWIN.
BOWDLER, JOIIN.
BUNSEN, C K. J.
CHALMERS, THOMAS.
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INDEX OF AUTHORS.
V
CHAMBERS, A. W.
CHAMFORT, S. R. N.
CHANNING, T. W.
CHANNING, W. E.
CUAPIN, E. H.
CIIAPLIN, JEREMIAII.
CIIAPMAN, GEORGE.
CHARLES V.
CHIARNOCK, STEPLEN.
CHARRON, R. DE.
CHASLES, V. E. P.
CHATEAUBRIAND, F. A.
CHATFIELD, PAUL.
CHATHAM, LORD.
CHEEVER, G. B.
CHIERBULIEZ, VICTOR.
CHESTERFIELD, LORD.
CHILD, MRS. L. M.
CHILLINGWORTII, WM.
CHILO.
CHOATE, Rufus.
CHRISTLIEB, THEODORE.
CHRISTIANA, QUEEN.
CHRYSOSTOM, SAINT.
CHURCIIILL, CHARLES.
CIBBER, COLLEY.
CICERO, M. T.
CLARENDON, LORD.
CLARK, ALEXANDER.
CLARKE, ADAM.
CLARKE, JAMES F.
CLARKE, MACDONALD.
CLAUDIAN.
CLAY, HENRY.
CLEANTIIES.
CLEMENT, SAINT.
CLEVELAND, GROVER.
CLINTON, DE WITT.
('LULOW, W. B.
COBBE, FRANCES P.
COBBETT, WILLIAM.
COBDEN, WILLIAM.
COBDEN, RICIIARI).
COCKTON, HENRY.
COGAN, TIIOMAS.
COKE, SIR EDWARD.
COLBERT, J. B.
COLEMAN, G.
COLERIDGE, BISHOP.
COLERIDGE, HARTLEY.
COLERIDGE, S. T.
COLERIDGE, SARA.
COLLEY, S.
COLLIER, JEREMY.
COLLINS, WILKIE.
COLLYER, ROBERT.
COLTON, C. C.
DE BURY, R.
COMBE, CHARLES.
DECKER, THOMAS.
COMBE, GEORGE.
DE FINOD.
CONFUCIUS.
DEFOE, DANIEL.
CONGREGATIONALIST. DEGERANDO, J. M.
CONGREVE, WILLIAM. DE HALES.
CONWAY, M. D.
DELANY, PATRICK.
CORNEILLE, PIERRE. DELOREINE.
CONINGSBY.
DELSARTE, FRANÇOIS.
CORNWALL, BARRY. DELUZY, MADAM.
COTTLE, JOSEPII.
DEMADES.
COTTON, NATIIANIEL. DEMOCRITUS.
COWLEY, ABRAILAM. DEMOPIIILUS.
COWPER, WILLIAM.
DEMOSTIIENES.
Cowsin, VICTOR.
DE Moy.
Cox, SAMUEL H.
DENTIAM, SIR JOIN.
CRABBE, GEORGE.
DE QUINCY, TIIOMAS.
CRANCII, CHRISTOPHER. DERBY, EARL.
CRASIIAW, RICHARD,
.
DEROSSI, G. G.
CRATES.
DESMALIS, J. F. E.
CRAWFORD, F. M.
DE VIGNY, A. V.
CROLY, GEORGE
DEWEY, ORVILLE.
CROMWELL, OLIVER. DEXTER, H. M.
CROSBY, HOWARD,
DEXTER, TIMOTHY.
.
CROW, NATHANIEL. DICK, TUOMAS.
CROWELL, ROBERT.
DICKENS CHARLES.
CROWNE, JOIIN.
DICKINSON, JOIIN.
CROWQUILL, ALFRED. DIDEROT, DENNIS.
CUDWORTI, RALPII. DILLON, WENTWORTH.
CULVERWELI., NATIIAN'L. DILWYN, L. W.
CUMBERLAND, RICIIARD, DIOGENES.
CUMMING, JOHN.
DIONYSIUS, OF HALICAR-
CURRAN, J. P
NASSUS.
CURRY, J L. MI.
DISRAELI. BENJAMIN.
CURTISS, G. W.
DISRAELI, ISAAC.
CUSA, N.
DOBELI, SIDNEY,
CUYLER, T. L.
DODDRIDGE, PHILIP.
CYRUS.
DODSLEY, ROBERT
DOLLINGER, J. J. I.
DACIER, ANNE L,
DONNE, JOIIN.
DAGGETT, DAVID.
DORAN, JOIN.
DALE, L. W.
DORNER, ISAAC A.
DANA, JAMES W.
DOUGLAS, FREDERICK.
DANBY, CECIL.
Dow, JOIN.
DANIEL, SAMUEL.
Dow, LORENZO.
DANTE.
Dow, NEAL.
DARLEY, GEORGE.
DOWDEN, EDWARD.
DARWIN, C. R.
DRAYTON, MICHAEL.
DAVENANT, SIR W. DRENNAN, WILLIAM,
DAVIDSON, TIIAIN.
DREW, SAMUEL.
DAVIES, SAMUEL.
DRUMMOND, WILLIAM.
Davis, W. H.
DRYDEN, JOIN.
DAVY, SIR H.
DUBOIS, ABBE.
DAWSON, GEORGE.
DUBOIS, JEAN A.
DAY, JEREMIAII.
DUCIS JEAN F.
DE AUBIGNE, J. N. Duclos, C. D.
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INDEX OF AUTHORS.
DUDEVANT, MADAM. FALCONER, WILLIAM. GALE, T.
DUDLEY, T. U.
FALKLAND, M. L. C. GALEN.
DUGANNE, A. G. H. FANE, SIR F.
GALLUS, C. C.
DULLES, J. W.
FARINDON, A.
GARFIELD, J. A.
DUMAS, ALEXANDER. FARQUHAR, GEORGE, GARIBALDI, GIUSEPPE.
DUNCAN, WILLIAM. FARRAR, F. W.
GARRET, EDWARD.
DUPAY, ALEXANDER. FAUCHET, CLAUDE. GARRICK DAVID.
DUPIN, F. C. P.
FEE, MADAM.
GASPARIN, MADAM.
DUPLESSIS, P. A. G. FELTHAM, OWEN,
GATTY, MARGARET.
DURIVAGE, F. A.
FELTON, C. C.
GAY, JOHN.
DWIGHT, JOIN S.
FÉNELON, FRANCIS DE S. GEILES, T. S.
DWIGIT, TIMOTHY. FERGUS, HENRY.
GEIKIE, C.
FEUERBACH, P. J. A. V. GENLIS, MADAM DE.
EARLES, J. B.
FEUILLET, OCTAVE. GENZ, FREDERICK.
EBERS, EMIL.
FICTITE, I. H.
GEORGE III.
ECCLESIASTICUS.
FIELDING, HENRY.
GIBBON, EDWARD.
EDGEWORTH, MARIA. FINCII, ANN.
GIBSON, JOIN B.
EDWARDS, EUGENE. FINLAYSON, GEORGE. GIBSON, J. M.
EDWARDS, FRANCES P. FINO, ALEMANIS.
GIFFORD, WILLIAM.
EDWARDS, JONATHAN. FISK, WILBUR.
GILBERT, N. J. L.
EDWARDS, TRYON.
FISKE, JOIIN.
GILES, HENRY.
EGGLESTON, EDWARD. FLAVÉL, JOHN.
GILLET, E. H.
ELDON, JOIIN S.
FLETCHER, ANDREW. GILPIN, BERNARD.
ELIOT, GEORGE.
FLETCHER, JOAN.
GIRARDIN, MADAM DE.
ELIOT, JOIIN.
FLETCIER, SAMUEL. GLADDEN, WASHINGTON,
ELIZABETII, QUEEN. FLINT, TIMOTIIY.
GLADSTONE, W. E.
ELLIOT, EBENEZER. FONTAINE, CHARLES. GLYNN, ROBERT.
ELLIS, SARAI S.
FONTENELLE, B, LEB, DE, GODET, F. L.
ELLISON, ADOLPII,
FOOTE, A. L. R.
GODWIN, PARKE.
ELY, RICHARD T.
FOOTE, SAMUEL.
GOETHE, J. W. v.
EMBURY, E. C.
FORD, JONIN.
GOFFE, WILLIAM.
EMERSON, G. B.
FORDYCE, GEORGE. GOLCONDI.
EMERSON, RALPI WALDO, FORNEY, J. W.
GOLDEN RULE.
EMMONS, NATIIANIEL. FORSTER, W. E.
GOLDONI, CARLO.
EMPEDOCLES.
Foss, C. D.
GOLDSMITH, OLIVER.
ENCLOS, NINA DE.
FOSTER, JOIIN.
GOOD, J. M.
ENGLISTI, T. D.
FOWLER, O. S.
GOODRICH, ALBERT,
EPICTETUS.
Fox, C. I.
GOODRICH, S. G.
EPICURUS.
FRANCIS, PHILIP.
GORDON, A. J.
ERASMUS
FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN. GORLAN, LEON.
ERSKINE, LORD.
FRANKLIN,
THOMAS. GOSNER, J.
Essex. LORD.
FRAPPARD, F. G.
GOTTHOLD, J. E L.
EURIPIDES.
FREDERICK THE GREAT. GOUGII, JOHN B.
EVANS, AUGUSTA.
FREEMAN, E. A.
GOULBURN, E. M.
EVANS, J. H.
FRESNEI., A. J.
GRANT, ULYSSES S.
EVARTS, W. M.
FROTTINGHAM, N. L. GRATTAN, HENRY.
EVELYN, JOIIN. .
FROUDE, JAMES A.
GRAVES, RICIIARD.
EVERETT, EDWARD. FROUDE, PHILIP.
GRAY, ASA.
EVERTON, JOIIN.
FRY. ELIZABETII.
GRAY, THOMAS.
EVERTS, W. W.
FUERBACII.
GRAYSON LETTERS.
EVREMOND, CHIARLES. FULLER, MARGARET. GREELEY, HORACE.
EWALD, G. H. A.
FULLER, THOMAS.
GREEN, MARY A. E.
FULLER, RICARD.
GREGORY THE GREAT.
FABER, F. W.
FULTON, R. H.
GRESLEY, PROF.
FAIRFIX, EDWARD. FUSELI, HENRY.
GREVILLE, LORD.
INDEX OF AUTHORS.
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HOPKINS, MARK.
HOPPIN, J. M.
HORACE.
HORNE, BISHOP.
HORNECK, ANTHONY.
HOWARD, JOHN.
HOWE, JOHN.
HOWE, JULIA W.
HOWE, NATIIANIEL. .
HOWELL, J. B.
HOWELLS, W D.
HOWITT, MARY.
HOWITT, WILLIAM.
HUDSON, H. N.
HUFELAND, C. W.
HUGIES, JOHN.
HUGIES, TIIOMAS,
HUGO, VICTOR
HUMBOLDT, ALEXANDER
HUMBOLDT, WILHELM.
HUME, DAVID
.
HUMPIIREY, E. P.
HUNT, J. H. LEIGH.
HUNTER, JOAN.
HUNTINGTON, F. D.
HUTTON, WILLIAM,
HUXLEY, T. H.
GREY, LADY JANE.
HAZLITT, WILLIAM.
GRIER, M. B.
HEATH, JAMES.
GRIMM, F. M.
HEATII, JOIIN.
GRISWOLD, R. W.
HEBER, REGINALD.
GROUT, H. W.
HECKER, I. F.
GUARDIAN.
HEDGE, F. H.
GUERIN, E. D.
HEGESIPPUS.
GUERIN, M. O.
HEINE, H.
GUESSES AT TRUTH.
HEINZELMANN.
GUICCIARDINI, F.
HELPS, ARTIIUR.
GUIZOT, F. P. G.
HELVETIUS.
GUIZOT, MADAM.
HEMANS, FELICIA.
GURNALL, WILLIAM, HENSIIAW, J. P. R.
GURNEY, JOHN J.
HENRY, PATRICK,
GUTHRIE, THOMAS. HENRY, PHILIP.
HENRY, MATTIIEW.
HABINGTON, W. C.
HERACLITUS.
HALE, SIR MATTIIEW. HERBERT, EDWARD.
HALE, SARAI J.
HERBERT, GEORGE.
HALIBURTON, THOMAS C. HERBERT, WILLIAM.
HALIFAX, C. M.
HERDER, J. G. VON.
HALI, BASIL.
HERODOTUS.
HALL, JOIIN.
HERRICK, ROBERT.
HALL, JOSEPH.
HERSCIIEL, SIR J.
HALL, ROBERT.
HERVEY, LADY E. L.
HALL, MRS. S. C.
HESIOD.
HALL, WILLIAM.
HEYWOOD, THOMAS.
HALLAM, A. H.
HIBERNIAN LETTERS.
HALLAM, JOHN.
HIEROCLES.
HALLECK, FITZGREEN. HIGGINSON, T. W.
HALLER, ALBERT.
HILL, AARON.
HAMERTON, P. G.
HILI, ROWLAND.
HAMILTON, ALEXANDER. HILLARD, G. S.
HAMILTON, GAIL.
HILLIIOUSE, J. A.
HAMILTON, JAMES. HITCIICOCK, R. D.
HAMILTON, R. W.
HOADLEY, BENJAMIN.
HAMILTON, SIR W. HOBBES, THOMAS.
HANWAY, JONAS.
HODGE, A, A.
HARDY, A. S.
HODGE, CHARLES.
HARDY, T.
HODKIN, T.
HARE, A. W.
HOGARTII, WILLIAM.
HARE, J. C.
HOGG, JAMES.
HARLEY, G. D.
HOLLAND, J. G.
HARRINGTON, SIR J HOLMES, O. W.
HARRISON, W. HI.
HOME, HENRY.
HARVARD, W.
HOMER.
HAUFF, W.
HOOD, E. P.
HAVEN, JOSEPII.
HOOKE, T. E.
HAVERGAL, F. R.
HOOKER, HERMAN.
HAWEIS, II. R.
HOOKER, RICIIARD.
HAWES, JOEL.
HOOKER, THOMAS.
HAWKESWORTH, JONIN. IIOOLE, JOIIN.
HAWTHORNE, N.
HOPFNER, J. G. C.
HAYGOOD, A.
HOPKINS, A. A.
HAZARD, SAMUEL.
HOPKINS, BISHOP.
IFFLAND, A. W.
INCIIBALD, MRS. ELIZ.
INDEPENDENT, THE.
INGELOW, JEAN.
INGLESANT, JOHN.
INTERIOR, THE.
IRVING, EDWARD.
IRVING, ISAAC.
IRVING, WASHINGTON.
ISELIN, ISAAC.
ISOCRATES.
ISOMACHUS.
JACK, A. L.
JACOBI, F. H.
JACOX, F.
JAMES, J. A.
JAMESON, ANNA.
JANES, E. S.
JAY, JOHN.
JAY, WILLIAM.
JEBI, JOIN.
JEFFERSON, THOMAS.
JEFFREY, FRANCIS.
JENKIN, WILLIAM.
JERDAN, WILLIAM.
JEROME, SAINT.
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INDEX OF AUTHORS.
JERROLD, DOUGLAS. LAFONTAINE.
· LORD, JOHN R.
JEWISI SPY.
LAMARTINE, A. DE. LOUIS XI.
JEWSBURY, MARIA J. LAMB, CHARLES.
LOUIS XIV.
JOHNSON, HERRICK. LAMBERT, MADAM DE. LOUIS XVI.
JOIINSON, SAMUEL.
LAMENNAIS, H. F. R. DE. LOVE, C.
JONES, J.
LANAHAN, J.
LOVER, SAMUEL.
JONES, THOMAS R.
LANDON, L. E. L.
LUBBOCK, SIR JOHN.
JONES, WILLIAM, OF NAY- LANDOR, W. S.
LUCAN.
LAND.
LANG, ANDREW.
LUCAS, SAMUEL.
JONES, SIR WILLIAM. LANGDALE, LORD.
LUCRETIUS.
JONSON, BEN.
LANGFORD, J. W.
LUDLOW, J. M.
JORTIN, JOIIN,
LANGHORNE, JOHN. LUTHARDT.
JOUBERT, JOSEPH.
LANSDOWNE, H. P. F.
LUTHIER.
JOWETT, BENJAMIN. LANSDOWNE, GEORGE. LYON, MARY.
JOY, GEORGE.
LAPLACE, P. S.
LYTTLETON, LORD.
JUDSON, ADONIRAM. LARCOM, LUCY.
LYTTON, E. B.
JUNIUS.
LA SALLE, H. C.
JUST, SAINT.
LATENA.
MACAULAY, T. B.
JUSTINIAN.
LATIMER, HUGII.
MACCHIAVELLI, N.
JUVENAL.
LAVATER, J. C.
MACDONALD, GEORGE.
LAVINGTON, GEORGE. MACDUFF, JOHN.
KAMES, LORD.
LAWRENCE, GEORGE. MACKAY, CHARLES.
KANT, IMMANUEL.
LEE, ANNA.
MACKINTOSH, SIR J.
KARR, J. A.
LEE, D. K.
MACLAURIN, A.
KAVANAII, JULIA.
LEE, NATIIANIEL.
MACKLIN, SIR C.
KEATS, JOHN.
LEDRU-ROLLIN, A. A. MACVICKAR, JOUN.
KEET, HENRY.
L'ESTRANGE, ROGER. MCARTIIUR, R. S.
KEITII, ALEXANDER. LEGOUVÉ, E. W.
McCOSII, JAMES.
KELLER, H.
LEIBNITZ, G IV. VON. MCCULLOCII, JOIIN.
KEMBLE, FRANCES A. LEIGHTON, ARCIBISHOP. McCUNE, W.
KEMPIS, TIOMAS À. LEMESLE, C.
MCLEOD, ALEXANDER.
KENT, JAMES.
LEMIERRE, A. N.
MCLEOD, NORMAN.
KERR, BISIIOP.
LESSING, G. E.
MCPHERSON, JAMES.
KIEFFER, J. S..
LETOURNEUX, N.
MCWHORTER, ALEX.
KINGSLEY, CHARLES. LEVIS, F. G. DE.
MADDEN, A. S.
KIRK, E. N.
LEWES, G. H.
MAGOON, E. L.
KIRKLAND, MRS. C. M. LEWIS, Dio.
MANOMET.
KITCIIELL, H. D.
LIDDON, H. P.
MAINTENON, MADAME DE,
KITTO, JOHN.
LIEBER, FRANCIS.
MALEBRANCIIE, N.
KLOPSTOCK, F. G
LIEBIG, FRANCIS.
MALESUERBES, C. W. L.
KNEBEL, K. II. V. LILLO, GEORGE.
MALET, L.
KNIGUTON, Sir W. LILLY, WILLIAM.
MALLET, DAVID.
KNOWLES, J. S.
LIMAYRAC, P.
MALLET, P. H.
KNOWLES, THOMAS. LINCOLN, ABRALTAM. MANCROIX.
KORAN.
LINCOLN, JOIN L.
MANILIUS.
KOSSUTH.
LIVINGSTON, BROCKHOLST. Mann, HORACE.
KRESINER, J.
LIVINGSTONE, DAVID. MANSFIELD, LORD.
KRUMMACHER, F. W. LIVY.
MANT, RICHARD.
LLOYD, W.
MANVAUX.
LABERIUS.
LOCKE, JOIIN. .
MARCII, DANIEL.
LABOULAYE, E. R. L. LOCKILART, J. G.
MARGARET OF NAVARRE.
LACORDAIRE, J. F.
LOCKIER, E. H.
MARLOWE, CIIRISTOPHER.
LACRETELLE, J. C. D. LOCKIER, FRANCIS.
MARRYAT, FREDERICK.
LACTANTIUS.
LOGAN, J. M.
MARTENSEN, HANS L.
LADD, WILLIAJI.
LONGFELLOW, H. W. MARTIAL.
LAFAYETTE, MADAM. LONGINUS.
MARTIN, HENRI.
INDEX OF AUTHORS.
ix
MARTIN, L. A.
MARTINEAU, HARRIET.
MARTINEAU, JAMES.
MARTYN, HENRY.
MARTYN, JOHN.
MARVELL, ANDREW.
MASON, ERSKINE.
MASON, JOAN.
MASON, JOIN M.
MASON, WILLIAM.
MASSER, A.
MASSEY, GERALD.
MASSILLON, J. B.
MASSINGER, PHILIP.
MATIIER, COTTON.
MATILDA, QUEEN.
MATURIN, C. R.
MAUND, B.
MAUNDER, SAMUEL.
MAURY, M. F.
MAURICE, J. F. D.
MAXIMUS, TYRIUS.
MAXWELL, J. C.
MAY, TIIOMAS E.
MAZZINI, GUISEPPE.
MELANCIITIION, PHILI.
MELLEN, GRENVILLE.
MELMOTII, WILLIAM.
MELVILLE, HENRY.
MENANDER.
MENCIUS.
MENDELSSOIIN, MOSES.
MERE, G B.
MEREDITH, GEORGE.
MEREDITII, OWEN.
MERRY, ROBERT.
MESSER, A.
METASTASIS, P. T.
METTERNICII, C. W.
MEYRICK, SAMUEL.
MICHELET, JULES.
MIDDLETON, CONYERS. .
MIDDLETON, TIOMAS.
MILDMAY, CHARLES.
MILLER, HUGH.
MILLER, JOIIN.
MILLS, S. J.
MILMAN, H. H.
MILNER, JAMES.
MILNES, R. M.
MILTON, JOIIN.
MIRABEAU, H. G. R.
MITCHELL, D. G.
MITFORD, MARY R.
MitroRD, WILLIAM.
MOIR, D. M.
MOLE, THOMAS.
NEWTON, SIR ISAAC.
MOLIÈRE, J. B. P.
NEWTON, RICHARD.
MOLINOS, MIGUEL. Nicol, JOIIN.
MONDAY CLUB.
NICHOL, J. P.
MONOD, ADOLPIE.
NICCOLE, G. H.
MONTAGUE, MARY W. NICOLE, CLAUDE.
MONTAGUE, S.
NIEBUIIR, B. G.
MONTAIGNE, M. E.
NISBET, CHARLES.
MONTALEMBERT. C. F. NONE, F. DE LA.
MONTESQUIEU, C. DE S. NORRIS, JOIN.
MONTFORT, J. C.
NORTII, CHRISTOPIER.
MONTGOMERY, JAMES. NORTICOTE, JAMES.
MONTGOMERY, ROBERT. NORTON, MRS. C. S. S.
MONTLOSIER, F. D. . NOTT, ELIPHALET.
MOODY, D. L.
NOTTIDGE, J. I.
MOORE, THOMAS.
NOVALIS.
MORDAUNT, CHARLES.
MORE, HANNAN.
O'CONNELL, DANIEL.
MORE, SIR THIOMAS. OERLENSCIILAGER, A. G.
MORELL, SIR CHARLES. OERTER, J.
MORGAN, LADY S.
O'HARA, KANE.
MORLEY, GEORGE.
OLIPIANT, MRS. M.
MORNING STAR.
OLSHAUSEN, HERMAN.
MOSER, JUSTUS.
OʻRELL, MAX.
MOSQUERA.
O'REILLY, J. B.
MOTLEY, JOIN L.
ORFILA, M. J. B.
MOTHERWELL, WILLIAM. ORIGEN.
MOTTEVILLE,MADAME DE. ORRERY, EARL OF.
MOTTO, GERMAN.
OSBORN, FRANCIS.
MOUNTFORD, WILLIAM. OSBORNE, SIR THOMAS.
MOWATT, ANNA C.
Osgood, FRANCES S.
Moy, De.
OSGOOD, SAMUEL.
MULOCK, DINAH M. Ossoli, S. M. F.
MULLER, GEORGE.
OTIS, JAMES.
MULLER, J. VON.
OTWAY, THOMAS.
MULLER, Max.
OUIDA.
MUNGER, T. T.
OVERBURY, THOMAS.
MURPIIY, ARTITUR.
OWEN, JOAN.
MURRAY, NICIIOLAS. OWEN, J. J.
MURRAY, WILLIAM. OWEN, PROF.
MUSSET, ALFRED DE. Ovid.
MUTCIIMORE, S. A. OXENSTIERN, AXEL,
NABB, THOMAS.
NAPOLEON I.
NAPOLEON III.
NATION, THE
NEAL, JOnn.
NECKER, MADAME.
NELSON, LORD.
NEPOS, CORNELIUS.
NERVAL, G. DE.
NEVIUS, WILLIAM.
NEWMAN, F. W.
NEWMAN, J. H.
NEWTON, JOHN.
PAGET, EUSEBIUS.
PALEY, WILLIAM.
PALMER, RaY.
PALMER, TIOMAS W.
PALMERSTON, LORD.
PANIN, N. I.
PARK, E. A.
PARK, SIR ALLAN.
PARKER, JOSEPII.
PARKER, THEODORE.
PARKHURST, C. H.
PARR, SAMUEL.
PARTON, JAMES.
INDEX OF AUTHORS.
POWER, TYRONE.
POWERS, HIRAM.
PRENTISS. GEORGE D.
PRESCOTT, W. H.
PRESSENSÉ, E. DE.
PRIESTLEY, JOSEPII.
PRIME, S. 1.
PRINCETON REVIEW,
PRIOR, MATTHEW.
PROVERBS,
ARABIAN
CHINESE.
EASTERN.
FRENCH,
HINDOO.
MALABAR.
PERSIAN.
PROCTER, B. W.
PROCTER, ADELAIDE A.
PUBLIUS, SYRUS.
PULSFORD,
J.
PUNSHON, W. MI.
PUSEY. E. B
PUSIEUX, MADAME DE.
PYTIAGORAS.
PASCAL, BLAISE,
PATRICK, SIMON.
PATTON, F. L.
PAULDING, J. K.
PAULET, AMYAS.
PAXTON, J. R.
PAXTON, W. M.
PAYNE, J. II.
PAYSON, EDWARD.
PEABODY, GEORGE.
PEARSON, JOIN.
PEEL, SIR ROBERT.
PELIIAM, BISHOP.
PELLICO, SILVIO.
PENN, WILLIAM.
PERCIVAL, J. G.
PERCIVAL, MARGARET.
PERRY, JAMES.
PERSIUS.
PESTALOZZI, J. II.
PETRARCII.
PHELPS, AUSTIN.
PHELPS, E. S.
PHILEMON.
PAILIP II.
PHILIP, ROBERT.
PHILLIPS, CATHARINE.
PHILLIPS, WENDELL.
PHÆDRUS.
PIERRE, SAINT.
PIERREPONT, EDWARDS.
PIERREPONT, JOnn.
PICKARD, L. B.
PINCKARD, GEORGE.
PINCKNEY, C. C.
PINCKNEY, WILLIAM.
PINDAR.
PLATO.
PLAUTUS.
PLINY, TIIE ELDER.
PLINY, THE YOUNGER.
PLUMER, W. S.
PLUTARCI.
PoE, EDGAR A.
POINCELOT, A.
POLLOK, ROBERT.
POLYBIUS.
POPE, ALEXANDER.
POPE, WALTER.
PORTER, ANNA M.
PORTER, JANE.
PORTER, NOAIT.
PORTEUS. BEILBY.
POTTER W. J.
POWELL, T.
POWELL, SIR JOHN.
RICARD, DOMINIQUE.
RICCOBONI, MADAM.
RICE, E. W.
RICIIMOND, LEGH.
RICHTER, HENRI.
RICITER, JEAN PAUL.
RICHELIEU, A. J. DU P.
RIDGEWAY, J.
RIEUX, MADAM.
RIVAROL.
ROBERTSON, F. W.
ROBINSON, C. S.
ROBINSON, H. C.
ROBINSON, Joun.
ROCHEBRUN.
ROCHEFOUCAULD, F.
ROCHESTER, EARL OF.
ROE, EDWARD P.
ROGERS, HENRY.
ROGERS, SAMUEL,
.
ROJAS, FERNANDO.
ROJAS, FRANCISCO.
ROLAND, MADAM.
ROMAINE, WILLIAM.
ROSCOMMON, EARL OF.
ROSETTI, CONSTANTINE.
ROTHSCHILD, MAYER A.
ROUSSEAU, J. J.
ROWE, NICHOLAS.
ROYDON, MATTHEW.
RUCKERT, FREDERIC.
RUFFINI, G.
RULE OF LIFE, THE.
RUMBOLD, RICHARD.
RUMFORD, BENJAMIN.
RUSII, RICHARD.
RUSSELL, LORD JOHN.
RUSSELL, RACIIAEL.
RUSSELL, THOMAS.
RUTTER, J.
RUTHERFORD, SAMUEL.
RUTLEDGE, JONIN.
RYLAND, JOIIN.
QUARLES, FRANCIS.
QUESNEL, PASQUIER.
QUINCY, JOSIAII.
QUINTILIAN.
QUIVER, TIE
. .
RABELAIS, F.
RACINE, J.
RADCLIFFE, WALLACE.
RAIIEL, I.
RALEIGH, SIR W.
RAMBLER, TIIE.
RAYSAY, A. M.
RANCE, W.
RANDOLPII, JOIN.
RAPIN, RÉNÉ.
RAUNCI, ABBÉ DE.
RAY, JOIN
RAYNAL, ABBÉ.
READ, T. B.
READE, CHARLES.
RECAMIER, MADAM DE.
REES, G. E.
REID. TIIOMAS.
REMBRANDT, G.
RÉNAN, ERNEST.
RETZ, CARDINAL DE.
REYNOLDS, BISHOP.
REYNOLDS, SIR JOSTIUA.
RHODES, ALEXANDER.
SAADI.
ST. JOIN, J. A. B.
SAINT PIERRE, J. H. B.
SAINT SIMON.
SALA, G. A.
SALES, SAINT F. DE.
SALLUST.
SAMPLE, R. F.
SAND, GEORGE.
SANFORD, BISHOP.
SANNAZARRO, J.
SARGENT, EPES.
INDEX OF AUTHORS.
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SAUNDERS, FREDERICK. SIDNEY, HENRY
STANLEY, A. P.
SAVAGE, M. J.
SIDNEY, SIR PIILIP. STANLEY, LORD.
SAVAGE, RICHARD. SIEYÈS, ABBÉ.
STEELE, RICHARD.
SAVARIN, BRILLAT. SIGOURNEY, LYDIA.H. STENDHAL, M. H.
SAVILE, SIR H.
SIMMONS, CHARLES.
STEPIIEN, SIR J.
SAYILLE, J. F.
SIMMS, W. G.
STERLING, JOIN.
SCARGILL, W. P.
SIMON, J. F. S.
STERNE, LAWRENCE.
SCHEFER, LEOPOLD.
SIMONIDES.
STEVENS, THADDEUS.
SCHAFF, PALIP.
SIMPSON, MATTIIEW. STEVENSON, R. L.
SCHELLING, F. W.J. voN. SINCLAIR, GEORGE. STEWART, ALEXANDER.
SCHILLER, J. C. F. SINCLAIR, SIR JOHN. STEWART, DUGALD:
SCHLEGEL, W. VON. SISMONDI, J. C. S.
STILLINGFLEET, BISiiop,
SCHLEIERMACIIER, F.E.D. SKELTON, PIILIP.
STIRLING, EARL OF.
SCHOPENHAUER, ARTIIUR. SMART, CIIRISTOPIIER. STODDARD, C. A.
SCHUBERT, C. F. D. SMILES, SAMUEL.
STORKS, E. A.
SCIPIO, AFRICANUS. SMITH, ADAM.
STORRS, R. S.
SCOTT, J. W.
SMITH, ALBERT.
STORY, JOSEPI.
SCOTT, TIIOMAS.
SMITH, ALEXANDER. STOUGIITON, JOIN.
SCOTT, SIR WALTER. SMITII, GERRIT.
STOUGIITON, WILLIAM.
SCUDERI, MADAM.
SMITII, J. P.
STOWE, MRS. H. B.
SECKER, TIOMAS.
SMITH, HORACE.
STOWELL, W. S
SEDGWICK, C. M.
SMITH, ELIZABETII O. STRAIIAN, WILLIAM.
SEED, JEREMIAH.
SMITII, ROBERT P. STRAUSS, D. F.
SEELEY, J. R.
SMITII, SYDNEY.
STREET, A. B.
SEELEY, S.
SMOLLETT, TOBIAS. STRETCH.
SEELYE, J. H.
SOCRATES.
STRICKLAND, AGNES.
SELDEN, JOHN.
SOLON.
SUARD, J. B. A.
SÉNANCOUR, E. P. DE. SOMERVILLE, MARY. SUCKLING, SIR JOHN.
SENECA.
SOMERVILLE, TUOMAS. SUE, EUGÈNE.
SENN, J. P.
SOMERVILLE, WILLIAM. SUMNER, CHARLES.
SEUME, J. G.
SOPIIOCLES.
SUMNER, JOIN G.
SÉVIGNÉ. MADAM DE. SOUTI, ROBERT.
SUMNER, W. G.
SEWARD, W. H.
SOUTIERN, THOMAS. SWARTZ, J.
SEWELL, GEORGE.
SOUTHEY, ROBERT. SWARTZ, OLOF.
SHAFTESBURY, EARL OF. SOUTIIWELL, ROBERT. SWEDENBORG, EMANUEL.
SAAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. SPADARA, MARCIIIONESS SWETCIIINE, MADAM.
SHARP, ARCHBISHOP.
SWIFT, DEAN
SHAW, J. B.
SPALDING, WILLIAM. SWINNOCK, GEORGE.
Shaw, H. W
SPANIEIM, FREDERICK. SWINBURNE, A. C.
SHEDD, W. G. T.
SPECTATOR.
SHEE, M. A.
SPENCER, HERBERT. TACITUS.
SHEFFIELD, JOIN.
SPENCER, I. S.
TAINE, H. A.
SHELLEY, P. B.
SPENSER, EDMUND. TALFOURD, T. N.
SIIENSTONE, WILLIAM. SPRING, GARDINER. TALLEYRAND, P. A. A. DE.
SHEPARD, E.
SPRING, SAMUEL.
TALMAGE, T. D.
SIEPARD, THOMAS. SPRAGUE, CHARLES. TALMUD.
SHERLOCK, BISHOP. SPRAGUE, W. B.
TANCRED.
SHERIDAN, R. B.
SPRAT, TIIOMAS.
Tasso.
SIIIELDS, C. W.
SPROAT, E.
TATE, NAHUM.
SHIPLEY, W. D.
SPURGEON, C. H.
TATTLER.
SHIRLEY, G. E
SPURSTOWE, WILLIAM. TAYLOR, BAYARD.
SHIRLEY, JAMES.
SPURZHEIM, J. G.
TAYLOR, H.
SHULZ, J.
STAËL, MADAM DE. TAYLOR, ISAAC.
SHUTTLEWORTH, P. N. STANL, J. P. DE.
TAYLOR, JEREMY.
SIBBS, RICHARD.
S'TANFORD, C.
TAYLOR, W. M.
SIDNEY, ALGERNON. STANISLAUS, L.
TEMPLE, SIR W.
DE.
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INDEX OF AUTHORS.
TENNENT, E.
USIER, ARCHBISIIOP. WELLS, W. V.
TENNYSON, ALFRED.
WESLEY, JOIN
TERENCE.
VALENTINE.
WESSENBERG, I. H. K.
THACKERAY, W. M. VALERA.
WEST, BENJAMIN.
THALES.
VAN BRUGII, JONIN. WIIATELY, ARCIBISHOP.
THATCHER, B. B.
VAN DYKE, H. J.
WHELPLEY, SAMUEL.
TEAYER, W. M.
VARNHAGEN, VON E. WHEWELL, WILLIAM.
THEOCRITUS,
VARRO, MARCUS T.
WHIPPLE, E. P.
THEOPIIRASTUS.
VAUGHAN, HENRY.
WHITE, H. K.
THEOPHILE.
VAUVENARGUES, L. O. DE. WHITE, R. G.
TIOLUCK, F. A. G. Vaux, W. S. W.
WHITECOTE.
THOMAS, DAVID.
VENNING, RALPII,
WIIITEFIELD, GEORGE.
TIIOMASOF MALMESBURY. VERE, SIR A. DE.
WHITEHEAD, PAUL.
THIOMPSON, C. L.
VIGEE, L. J. B.
WHITEHEAD, WILLIAM.
THOMPSON, J. P.
VIGNE, ALFRED DE. WHITTIER, J. G.
THOMSON, BISHOP.
VILLEFRE.
WIELAND, ( M.
THIOMSON, JAMES.
VILLIERS, BISHOP.
WIGGLESWORTII, EDWARD
THIOREAU, HENRY.
VILLIERS, GEORGE. WILBERFORCE, WILLIAM.
THORNTON, W. L.
VINCENT, H.
WILCOX, CARLOS.
THOU, F. A. DE.
VINCENT, BISTOP.
WILKINS, JOJIN.
THRALL, ESTIIER L. S. VINET, ALEXANDER R. WILKINSON, J. B.
TIUCYDIDES.
VIRGIL.
WILLIAMS, THOMAS.
TIBERIUS.
VOLNEY, CONSTANTINE F. WILLIAMS, W. R.
TIECK, LUDWIG.
VOLTAIRE, F. M. A, DE, WILLIS, N P.
TIGHE, MARY B.
VON KNOBEL.
WILLI'TTS, A. A.
TILLOTSON, ARCIBISIOP.
WILLMOTT, R. A.
TOCQUEVILLE, A. C. H.DE. WALKER, J. B.
WILSON, ALEYANDER.
TODD, JOAN
WALI, WILLIAM.
WILSON, DANIEL.
TOLLENS, H.
WALLACE, LEW.
WILSON, JOIN.
TOPLADY, AUGUSTUS. WALLER, SIR W.
WILSON, S J.
TRAFFORD, F. G.
WALPOLE, HORACE. WINSLOW, HUDB.ARD.
TRAIN, G. F.
WALTON, IZAAK.
WINTIIROP, R. C.
TRAPP, JOSEPII.
WALSINGIIAM, FRANCIS. WIRT, WILLIAM.
TRENCII, R. C.
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A DICTIONARY OF THOUGHTS
BEING
A Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations.
ABILITY. – Ability is a poor man's
wealtlı.-M. Wren.
Ability involves responsibility; power, to
its last particle, is duty.--A. Maclaren.
What we do upon some great occasion
will probably depend on what we already
are; and what we are will be the result of
previous years of self-cliscipline.-H. P.
Lirldon.
Natural abilities can almost compensate
for the want of every kind of cultivation,
but no cultivation of the mind can make up
for the want of natural abilities.--Schopen-
hauer.
Ability doth hit the mark where presump-
tion Over-sliooteth and diffidence falleth
shiort.-Cusa.
All may do what has by man been done.
Young.
The height of ability consists in a thor-
ough knowledge of the real value of things,
and of the genius of the age in which we
live.-Rochefoucauld.
Who does the best his circumstance al-
lows, does well, acts nolly, angels could no
more. -Young.
The force of his own merit makes his
way-a gift that heaven gives for lim.-
Shakespeare,
The art of being able to make a good use
of moderate abilities wins esteem, and often
confers more reputation than greater real
mcrit, -Rochefoucauld.
Men are often capable of greator things
than they perform. –They are sent into the
world with bills of credit, and seldom draw
to their full extent.-Walpole.
As we advance in life, we learn the limit
of our abilities.-Troude,
The abilities of man must fall short on
one side or tho other, like too scauty a
blanket when you are abed. If you pull it
upon your shoulders, your feet are left
bare; if you thrust it down to your feet,
your shoulders are uncovered. -Sir W.
Temple.
An able man shows his spirit by gentle
words and resolute actions. He is neither
hot nor timid.--Chesterfield.
No man's abilities are 80 remarkably
shining as not to stand in need of a proper
opportunity, a patron, and even the praises
of a friend to recommend them to the
notice of the world.- Pliny.
Some persons of weak understanding are
so sensible of that weakness, as to be able
to make a good use of it.-Rochefoucauld.
We are often able because we think we
are able.---J. Hawes.
The winds and waves are always on the
side of the ablest navigators.-Gibbon.
ABSENCE. Absence from those we
love is self from self-a deadly banish-
inent.---Shalcespeare.
Short absence quickens love; long absence
kills it.--Mirabeau.
Love reckons hours for months, and days
for years; and every little absence is an
age. --Dryden.
Absence in love is like water upon fire; a
littlo quickens, but much extinguishies it. -
Hannah More,
The absent are like children, helpless to
defend themselves.-- Charles Reade.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Bailey.
Absence lessens moderate passions and
increases great ones ; as the wind extin-
guishes the taper, hut kindles the burning
dwelling. --Rochefoucauld.
Distance of time and place generally cure
what they seem to aggravate ; and taking
leave of our friends resembles taking leave
of the world, of which it has been said,
that it is not death, but dying, which is ter-
rible.--Fielding.
Absence, like death, sets a seal on the
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ABSTINENCE.
2
ACCIDENT.
be fools ourselves than to have others so.
Pope.
image of those we love: we cannot realize
the intervcning changes which time may
have effected. ---Goldsmith.
The absent are never without fault, nor
the present without excuse. -- Iranklin.
The joy of meeting pays the pangs of
absence; else who could bear it?-Rowe.
As the presence of those we love is as a
double life, so absence, in its anxious long-
ing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste
of death.-Mrs. Jameson.
ABSTINENCE,(Seo "TEMPERANCE.")
The whole duty of man is enibraced in
the two principles of abstinence and pa-
tience : temperance in prosperity, and
patient courage in adversity.--Seneca.
Always rise from the table with an ap-
petite, and you will never sit down withi-
out one.-Penn.
Against diseases the strongest fence is thic
defensive virtue, abstinence.- Herrick.
Refrain to-night, and that shall lend a
band of easiness to the next abstinence;
the next more easy; for use can almost
change the stamp of nature, and either curb
the devil, or throw him out with wondrous
potency.-Shalcespeare.
The stomach begs and clamors, and listens
to no precepts. And yet it is not an ob-
durate crcditor ; for it is dismissed with
small payment if you only give it what you
owe, and not as much as you can.-Seneca.
If thou wouldst make the best advantage
of the muses, either by reading to benefit
tlıyself, or by writing to benefit others,
kcep a peaceful soul in a temperate body.
A full belly makes a dull brain, and a tur-
bulent spirit a distracted judgment. The
muses starve in a cook's shop and a lawyer's
study.-- Quarles.
To set the mind above the appetites is the
end of abstinence, which if not a virtue, is
the groundwork of a virtue.--Johnson.
It is continued temperance which sus-
tains the body for the longest period of
time, and which most surely prescrves it
free from sickness.-W. Humboldt.
ABSURDITIES.-There is nothing so
absurd or ridiculous that has not at some
time been said by some philosopher. Ton-
tenelle says he would undertake to persuade
the whole republic of readers to believe that
the sun was neither the cause of light or
heat, if he could only get six philosophers
on his side.—Goldsmith.
To pardon those absurdities in oursclves
which we coudcmn in others, is neither
better nor worse than to be more willing to
ABUSE.-Abuse is often of service.
There is nothing so dangerous to an author
as silence. His name, like the shuttlecock,
must be beat backward and forward, or it
falls to the ground.—Johnson.
It is the wit and policy of sin to hate
those we have abused.-Davenant.
I never yet heard man or woman much
abused that I was not inclined to think the
better of them, and to transfer the sus-
picion or dislike to the one who found
pleasure in pointing out the defects of an-
other.-Jane Porter.
Abuse of any one generally shows that he
has marked traits of character. The stupid
and indifferent are passed by in silence.
Tryon Edwards.
It is not he who gives abuse that affronts,
but the view that we take of it as insulting;
so that when one provokes you it is your
own opinion which is provoking.-Epic-
tetus,
When certain persons abuse us let us ask
what kind of characters it is they admire.
We shall often find this a most consolatory
question.- Colton.
Abusc me as much as you will; it is often
a benefit rather than an injury. But for
heaven's sake don't make me ridiculous.
E. Nott.
The difference between coarse and re-
fined abuse is the difference between being
bruised by a club and wounded by a poi-
soucd arrow.-Johnson.
Cato, being scurrilously treated by a low
and vicions fellow, quietly said to him, “A
contest between us is very unequal, for
thou canst bear ill language with ease, and
return it with pleasure; but to me it is uin-
usual to hear, and disagreeable to speak it,
Thaerc arc nong more abuzsive to others
than they that lic most open to it them-
selves, but the humor goes round, and he
that laughs at me to-day will have some-
body to laugh at him to-imorrow.–Seneca.
ACCINT.-Accent is the soul of lan-
guage; it gives to it both feeling and
truth.-Rousseau.
ACCIDENT.-Nothing is or can be ac-
cidental with God.-Longfellow.
No accidents are so unlucky but that the
wise may draw some advantage from them;
nor are thcre ally so lucky but that the
foolish may turn them to their own pre-
judice.—Rochefoucauld.
What reason, like the careful ant, drawe
ACCURACY.
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ACTION
laboriously together, the wind of accident
sometimes collects in a moment. Schiller.
What men call accident is the doing of
God's providence. -Bailey.
ACCURACY.- Accuracy is the twin
brother of honcsty ; inaccuracy, of dis-
honesty.-C. Simmons.
Accuracy of statement is one of the first
elements of truth; inaccuracy is a vear kini
to falsehood.-- Tryon Edwards.
ACQUAINTANCE.-If a man does not
make new acquaintances as he advances
through life, he will soon find liimself left
alone; one should keep his friendships in
constant repair. --Johnson.
It is good discretion not to make too
much of any man at the first; because one
cannot hold out that proportion.-- Bacon,
It is expedient to have acquaintance with
those who have looked into the world, who
know men, understand business, and can
give you good intelligence and good advico
when they are wanted.-Bp. Horne.
I love the acquaintance of young people;
because, in the first place, I don't like to
think niyself growing old. In the next
place, young acquaintances must last
longest, if they do last; and then young
men lave more virtue than old men; they
have more generous sentiments in every
respect.---Johnson,
Three days of uninterrupted company in
à vehicle will make you better acquainted
with another, than one hour's conversat-
tion with him every day for three years.
Lavaler.
Never say you know a man till you have
divided an inheritance with him. --Lavalcr.
If a man is worth knowing at all, he is
worth knowing well.-lerander. Smith.
ACQUIREMENT.That which we ac-
qnire with most difficulty we retain the
longest; as those who have earned a for-
te are commonly more careful of it
than those by whom it may have been in-
herited.--Colton.
Every noble acquisition is attended with
its risks : he wlio fears to encounter the
one must not expect to obtain the other.
Metastasio.
An injust acquisition is like a barberl
arrow, whiclı must be drawn backward with
horrible anguish, or else will be your de-
struction.- Jeremy Taylor.
ACTION.-Heaven never helps the mall
who will not act. - Sophocles.
Action may not always bring happiness;
but there is no happiness without action.-
Disraeli.
Remember you have not a sinew w}1080
law of strength is not action; not il filculty
of body, mind, or soul, wliose law of im-
provement is not energy.-L. B. Hall,
Our grand business is not to see what
lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies
clearly at hand.--Carlyle.
Ouly actions give to life its strength,
as only moderation gives it its charn. --
Richter.
Every noble activity makes room for
itself, Emerson.
Mark this well, ye proud men of action !
ye are, after all, nothing but wconscious
instruments of the men of thought.--Heine.
The actions of men are like the index of
il book; they point out what is most re-
markable in them
Happiness is in action, and every power
is intended for action; human happiness,
therefore, can only be complete as all the
powers have their full and legitimate play.-
Thomas.
Great actions, the lustre of which dazzles
us, are represented by politicians as the
effects of dcep design; whereas they are
commonly the effects of caprice ind pas-
sion. Tline the war between Augustus aud
Antony, supposed to be owing to their ain-
bition to give a master to the world, arose
probably froin jealousy,--Rochefoucauld.
A right act strikes a chord that extends
through the whole universe, touches all
moral intelligence, visits every world, vi-
brates along its whole extent, and conveys
its vibrations to the very bosom of God!-
T. Binney.
Good thoughts, though God accept them,
yet toward men are little better than good
dreams except they be put in action.“
Bacon.
Doing is the great thing. For if, reso-
lutely, people do what is right, in tinie they
come to like cloing it.- Ruskin.
Activity is God's medicine ; the highest
genius is willingness and ability to do hard
work. Any other conception of genius
makes it ir doubtful, if not à dangerous pos-
session.-R. S. MacArthur.
That action is not warrantable which
cither fears to ask the divine blessing on its
performance, or having succeedel, does not
come with thanksgiving to God for its suc-
cess. - Quarles.
A holy act strengthens the inward loli-
It is a need of life growing iuto more
life, -- F. W. Robertson,
liess
ACT
outward
ACTION.
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ACTION.
If you have no friends to share or rejoice Unselfish and noble actions are the most
in
your success in life-if you cannot look radiant pages in the biograplıy of souls.
back to those to whom you owo gratitude, Thomas.
or forward to those to whom you ought to It is vain to expect any advantage from
afford protection, still it is no less incun-
our profession of the truth if we be not
bent on you to move steadily in the path of
sincerely just and honest in our actions. —
duty: for your active exertions are due not
Sharpe.
only to society, but in humble gratitude to
the Being who made you a member of it,
We should not be so taken up in the search
with powers to serve yourself and others.-
for truth, as to neglect the needful duties
Walter Scott.
of active life; for it is only action that gives
a true value and commendation to virtue.-
The actions of men are the best inter-
Cicero.
preters of their thoughts.-- Loclce,
Be great in act, as you have been in
Act well at the moment, and you have thought.-Suit the action to the word, and
performed a good action for all eternity.-- the word to the action. --Shakespeare,
Lavater.
We must be doing something to be
In activity we must find our joy as well
happy.-Action is no less necessary to us
as glory; and labor, like everything else
than thought.-Hazlitt.
that is good, is its own reward.-E. P.
Whipple.
Active natures are rarely melancholy.
Activity and sadness are incompatible.
To do an evil act is basc. To do a good
Bovee. .
one without incurring danger, is common
enough. But it is the part of a good man
In all cxigencies or miseries, lamentation
to do great and noble deeds though he risks
becomes fools, and action wise folk. Sir
everything in doing them.- Plutarch.
P. Sidney.
All our actions take their hue from the
Nothing, says Goethe, is so terrible as
complexion of the heart, as landscapes do
activity without insight.-Look before you
their variety from light.-W. T. Bacon,
leap is a maxim for the world.-L. P.
Whipple.
Life was not given for indolent contem-
plation and study of self, nor for brovding
Actions are ours; their consequences be-
over emotions of piety: actions and aetions
long to heaven.-Sir P. Francis.
only determine the worth.-Fichte.
The flighty purpose never is o'ertook un-
A good action is never lost; it is a treas-
less the deed co with it.--Shakespeare.
ure laid up and guarded for the door's The end of man is action, and not
nced. Calderon.
thought, though it be of the noblest.-
Deliberate with caution, but act with de-
Carlyle.
cision ; and yield with graciousness, or The fire-tly only shines when on the wing;
oppose with firmness.- Colton.
so it is with the mind; when we rest we
Existence was given us for action. Our
darken.- Bailey.
worth is determined by the good decds we Thought and theory must precede all
do, rather than by the fine emotions we salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself
feél.-E. L. Magoon.
than either thought or theory.- Words-
I have never heard anything about the
worth.
resolutions of the apostles, but a great deal What man knows should find expression in
about their acts.-II. Mann.
what he does.-The chief value of superior
Think that day lost whose slow descending
knowledge is that it leads to a perforining
sun views from thy hund no noble action
manhood.-Bovee.
done.-J. Bobari.
Life, in all ranks and situations, is an
The more we do, the more we can do; the
more busy we are the more leisure we
work.-W. Humboldt.
have.- Hazlitt.
Every action of our lives touches on some
To will and not to do when there is op-
chord that will vibrate in eternity.-E. H.
portunity, is in reality not to will; and to Chapin.
love what is good and not to do it, when it Nothing ever happens but once in this
is possible, is in reality not to love it. world. What I do now I do once for all.
Swedenborg.
It is over and gone, with all its eternity of
Life though a short, is a working day.-
soleinn meaning.- Carlyle.
Activity may lead to evil ; but inactivity Only the actions of the just smell sweet
cannot be led to good.-Hannah More. and blossom in the dust.-shirley.
ACTORS.
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ADMIRATION.
Action is eloquence; the eyes of the igno-
rant are more learned than their ears.---
Shalcespeare.
The acts of this life are the destiny of the
next.-Eastern Proverb.
ACTORS.--The profession of the player,
like that of the painter, is one of the imita-
tive arts, whose means are plensure, and
whose end should be virtue.-Shenstone.
Actors are the only honest hypocrites.
Their life is a voluntary dream; and the
height of their ambition is to be beside
themselves. They wear the livery of other
men's fortunes: their very thouglats are not
their own. -Hazlill.
All the world's à stage, and all the men
and women in it merely players. They have
their exits and their entrances; and one inan
in his time plays many parts.--Shakespeare.
An actor should take lessons from the
painter and the sculptor. Not only should
he make attitude his study, but he should
highly develop his mind by an assiduous
study of the best writers, ancient and
modern, which will enable hin not only to
understand liis parts, but to communicato
il nobler coloring to his manners and mien.
Goethe.
It is with some violence to the imagina-
tion that we conceive of an actor belonging
to the relations of private life, so closely
do we identify these persons in our mind
with the characters tlicy assume upon the
stage.- Lamb.
A young girl must not be taken to the
theatre, let 178 say it once for all. It is not
only tille drama which is immoral, but the
place. --Aler. Dumas.
The most difficult character in comedy is
that of the fool, and lemust be no simpleton
that plays that part.-- Cervantes.
ADDRESS. Brahma once asker of
Force, " Who is stronger than thon?” She
replied, " Address.”.
Victor Hugo.
Address makes opportunities; the want
of it gives them.- Bovee.
Give a boy address and accomplishments
and you give liim the mastery of palaces
and fortunes where he goes. He has not
the trouble of earning to own them: they
solicit him to enter and possess. J'merson.
The tear that is wiped with a little address
may be followed, perlaps, by a smile.
Corper.
A man wlio knows the world will not
only make the most of everything he does
know, but of many things liecloes not know;
and will gain more credit by his adroit mode
of hiding his ignorance, than the pedant by
his awkward attempt to exhibit his cru-
dition.Collon.
There is a certain artificial polish and
address acquired by mingling in the beau
moncle, which, in the commerce of the world,
supplies the place of natural suavity and
good lumor; but it is too ofteu purchased
at the expcuse of all original and sterling
traits of Character.-- Washington Irving.
ADMIRATION. - Admiration is the
daughter of ignorance.-Franklin.
Admiration is a very short-lived passion
that decays on growing familiar with its
object unless it be still fod with fresh
discoveries and kept alive by perpetual mir-
acles rising up to its view. --Addison.
Those who are formeel to win general ad-
miration are sellom calculated to bestow
individual happiness.- Lacly Blessington,
Few men are admired by their scrvants.
Montaigne.
We always like those who aclmire us, but
we do not always like those whom we ad-
mire.--Rochefoucauld.
To cultivate sympathy you must be
among living beings and thinking about
them;
to cultivato admiration, among
beautiful things and looking at them.
Ruskin,
Admiration must be kept up by the
novelty that at first produced it, and how
much soever is given, there must always
be the impression that more remains.-
Johnson.
No nobler feeling than this, of admiration
for one higher than himself, dwells in the
breast of inan..--It is to this lour, aud at
all hours, the vivifying influence in man's
life.-Carlyle.
It is a good thing to believe; it is a good
thing to admire. By continually looking
upwirls, our minds will themselves grow
11pwards; as a man, by indulging in habits
of scorn and contempt for others, is sure to
descend to the level of those he despises.
It is better in some respects to be all-
mired by those with whom you live, than to
be loved by them, Aud this is 1100 011
account of any gratitication of vanity, but
because admiration is so much more toler-
ant than love.--. Helps.
There is it pleasure in admiration ; and
this it is which properly canseth admiration,
when we discover a great deal in an object
which we understand to be excellent; and
yet we see more beyond that, which our
understandings cannot fully reacli and com-
prehend,- Tillotson,
ADVERSITY.
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ADVERSITY.
There is a wide difference between ad-
miration and love. The sublime, which is
the cause of the former, always clwells on
great objects and terrible; the latter on
small ones and pleasing; we subinit to what
we admire, but we love what submits to 118:
in one case we are forced, in the other we
are flattered, into compliance.-Burke.
ADVERSITY.-(See "AFFLICTION.")
Adversity is the trial of principle.-With-
out it a man hardly knows whether he is
honest or not.–Fielding.
Adversity is the first path to truth. --
Byron.
No man is more unhappy than the one
who is never in adversity; the greatest
affliction of life is never to be afflicted.--
Anon,
Adversity is like the period of the former
and of the latter rain,-cold, comfortless,
unfriendly to man and to animal; yet from
that season have their birth the flower and
the fruit, the date, the rose, and the pome-
granate. — Walter Scott.
Adversity has ever been considered the
state in which a man most easily becomes
acquaintecl with himself, then, especially,
being free from flatterers.—Johnson.
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the
only balance to weigh friends. -- Plutarch.
Who hath not known ill fortune, never
knew himself, or his own virtuc.-Mallet.
Stars may be seen from the bottom of a
deep well, when they cannot be discerned
from the top of a mountain. So are inany
things learned in adversity which the pros-
perous man dreams not of.--Spurgeon.
Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven
polishes its jewels with. ---Leighlon.
I never met with a single instance of ad-
versity which I have not in the end seen
was for my good.- I have never lieard of a
Christian on his death berl complaining of
liis afflictions.--A, Proudfit.
We ought as much to pray for a blessing
upon our daily rod as upon our daily
breac.-John Owen.
Heaven often smites in mercy, even when
the blow is severest.-Joanna Baillie.
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents
which in prosperous circumstances would
have lain dormant.-Horace.
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is
a greater. Possession pampers the mind;
privation trains and strengthens it. --Haz-
litt.
The flower that follows the son does so
even in cloudy days.-Lcighlon.
The good things of prosperity are to be
wished; but the good things that belong to
adversity are to be admired.-Seneca.
Adversity, sage useful guest, severe in-
structor, but the best; it is from thee alone
we know justly to value things below.-
Somerville.
Prosperity has this property: It puffs up
narrow souls, makes them imagine them-
selves high and mighty, and leads them to
look down upon the world with contempt;
but a truly noble spirit appears greatest in
distress; and then becomes more bright and
conspicuous.-Plutarch.
In the adversity of our best friends we
often find something that does not displease
18.-Rochefoucauld.
Prosperity is too apt to prevent us from
examining our conduct; but adversity leads
us to think properly of our state, and so is
most beneficial to us.-Johnson.
Sweet are the rises of adversity, whichi,
like a toad, though ugly and venomous,
wears yet a precious jewel in its head.
Shakespeare.
The truly great and good, in affliction,
bear a countenance more princely than they
are wont; for it is the temper of the highest
hearts, like the palm-tree, to strive most
upwards when it is most burdened.—Sir P.
Sidney.
In this wild world, the fondest and the
best are the most tried, most troubled, and
distrest.–Crabbe.
Prosperity is the blessing of the old
Testament; adversity of the New, which
carrieth the greater benediction and the
clearer revelation of God's favor. Pros-
perity is not without many fears and
distastes; adversity not without many com-
forts and hopes.-Bacon.
The sharpest sting of adversity it borrows
from our own impatience.—Bp. Horne.
The brightest crowns that are worn in
heaven have been tried, and smelted, and
polished, and glorified through the furnace
of tribulation.-E. H. Chapin,
IIe that can heroically endure adversity
will bear prosperity with equal greatness of
soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected
by the former is not likely to be transported
with the latter.-Fielding.
He that has no cross will have no crown.-
Quarles.
Adversity is a severe instructor, set over
us by one who knows us better than we do
ourselves, as he loves us better too. He
that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves
and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is
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ADVICE.
our helper. This conflict with difficulty
makes 178 acquainted with our object, and
compels us to consider it in all its relations.
It will not suffer us to be superficial.-
Burke.
Genuine morality is preserved only in the
school of adversity; a state of continuous
prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to
virtue.-Schiller.
Those who have suffered much are like
those who know many languages; they have
learned to understand and be understood
by all.--Mad. Swetchine.
Though losses and crosses be lessons
right severe, there's wit there ye'll get there,
ye'll find no other where.-Burns.
A smooth sea never made a skilful mari-
ner, neither do vinterrupted prosperity
and success qualify for usefulness and hap-
piness. The storms of adversity, like those
of the ocean, rouse the faculties, and excite
the invention, prudence, skill, and fortitude
of the voyager. The martyrs of ancient
times, in bracing thcir minds to outward
calamities, acquired a loftiness of purpose
and a moral heroism worth a lifetime of
softness and security.-Anon.
A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its
greatest countenance in its lowest estate.
Sir P. Sidney.
Adversity exasperates fools, dejects cow-
arcs, draws out the faculties of the wise
and industrious, puts the modest to the
necessity of trying their skill, awes the
opulent, and makes the idle industrious.
Anon,
Adversity, like winter weather, is of use
to kill those vermin which the summer of
prosperity is apt to produce and nourish.
Arrowsmith.
He that has never known adversity, is
but half acquainted with others, or with
himself. Constant success shows 119 but
one side of the world; for as it surrounds
us with friends, who tell us only our merits,
so it silences those enemies from whom only
we can learn our defects.--Colton.
God kills thy comforts to kill thy corrup-
tions; wants are ordained to kill wanton-
ness; poverty to kill pride; reproaches to
destroy ambition.-Flavel.
God lays his cross upon those whom he
loves, and those who bear it patiently gain
much wisdom.-Luther,
It is good for man to suffer the aniversity
of this earthly life: for it brings him back
to the sacred retirement of the heart, where
only he finds he is an exile froin his native
home, and ought not to place his trust in any
worldly enjoyment.- Thomas a Kempis,
So your fiery trial is still unextinguished.
But what if it be but His beacon light on
your upward path 2-F. R. Havergal.
It is not the so-called blessings of life,
its sunshine and calm and pleasant expe-
riences that make men, but its rugged
experiences, its storms and tempests and
trials. Early adversity is often a blessing
in disguise. — W. Mathews.
Wherever souls are being tried and
ripened, in whatever commonplace and
homely ways, there God is hewing out the
pillars for His temple.-Phillips Brookcs.
The Gods in bounty work up storms
about us, that give mankind occasion to
exert their hidden strength, and throw out
into practice virtues that shun the day, and
lie concealed in the smooth seasons and the
calms of life.--Addison.
How blunt are all the arrows of adversity
in comparison with those of guilt !-Blair.
ADVICE.-Let no man presume to give
advice to others who has not first given
good counsel to himself.-Seneca.
The greatest trust between man and man
is the trust of giving counsel. --Bacon.
When a man seeks your advice he gene-
rally wants your praise.- Chesterfield.
Advice is a superfluity. Ninety-nive
times ont of a hundred people don't take it.
The hundredth they do take it, but with a
reservation.-Then of course it turns out
badly, and they think you an idiot, and
never forgive you.--L. Malet.
Agreeable advice is seldom useful ad-
vice.-Massilon.
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.Bacon.
A thousand times listen to the counsel
of your friend, but seek it only once.-A. S.
Hardy.
There is nothing of which men are more
liberal than their good advice, be their
stock of it ever so small; because it seems
to carry in it an intimation of their own
influence, importance or worth.—Young.
When a man has been guilty of any vice
or folly, the best atonement he can make
for it is to warn others not to fall into the
like.-Addison.
It is a good clivine that follows his own
instructions. I can easier teach twenty
what were good to be done, than be one
of twenty to follow mine own teaching.-
Shakespeare,
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AFFECTATION.
He who calls in the aid of an equal un-
derstanding doubles his own; and he who
profits by a superior understanding raises
his powers to a level with the height of the
superior understanding he unites with..--
Burke.
It is easy when we are in prosperity to
give advice to the afflicted.-- Æschylus.
The worst men often give the best advice;
our thoughts are better sometiines than
our deeds.- Bailey.
We ask advice; we mean approbation.-
Colton,
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls,
the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper
it.sinks into the mind. - Coleridge.
Let no man value at a little price a vir-
tuous woman's counsel.-G. Chapman.
Men give away nothing so liberally as
their advice.--Rochefoucauld.
To accept good advice is but to increase
one's own ability.--Goethe.
Good counsels observed are chains of
grace.-Iuller,
Wait for the season when to cast good
counsels upon subsiding passion.-Shake-
speare.
Nothing is less sincere than our mode of
asking and giving advice. He who asks
seems to have doference for the opinion of
his friend, while he only aims to get ap-
proval of his own and make his friend
responsible for his action. And he who
gives repays the confidence supposed to be
placed in him by a seemingly disinterested
zeal, while he seldom means anything by
his advice but his own interest or reputa-
tion.-Rochefoucauld.
No man is so foolish but he may some-
times give another good counsel, and no
man so wise that he may not easily err if
he takes no other counsel than his own.--
He that is taught only by himself has a fool
for a master. --Ben Jonson.
Advice is seldom welcome. Those who
need it most, like it least.-Jolinson,
Every man, however wise, needs the ad-
vice of some sagacious friend in the affairs
of life.- Plautuis.
Those who school others, oft should
school themselves. --Shakespeare.
We give advice by the bucket, but take it
by the grain.-W. R. Alger.
They that will not be conselled, can-
not be helped. If you do not hear reason
she will rap you on the knuckles.-Franli-
lin.
It takes nearly as much ability to know
how to profit by good advice as to know how
to act for one's self. - Rochefoucauld.
How is it possible to expect mankind to
take advice when they will not so much as
take warning ?--Swift.
Do not give to your friends the most
agreeable counsels, but the most advantage-
ous.–Tuckerman,
Harsh counsels have no effect: they are
like hammers which are always repulsed by
the anvil.—Helvetius.
The advice of friends must be received
with a judicious reserve: we must not give
ourselves up to it and follow it blindly,
whether right or wrong.–Charron.
Advice and reprehension require the ut-
most delicacy ; painful truths should be
delivered in the softest terms, and expressed
no farther than is necessary to produce
their due effect. A courteous man will inix
what is conciliating with what is offensive;
praise with censure; deference and respect
with the authority of admonition, so far as
can be done in consistence with probity
and honor. The mind revolts against all
censorian power which displays pride or
pleasure in finding fault; but advice, di-
vested of the harshness, and yet retaining
the honest warmth of truth, is like honey
put round the brim of a vessel full of worm-
wood.--Even this, however, is sometimes
insufficient to conceal the bitterness of the
draught.-Percival.
Give every man thine car, but few thy
voice; take each man's censture, but reserve
thy judgment.-Shakespeare.
Giving advice is sometimes only showing
our wisdom at the expense of another.-
Shaflesbury.
AFFECTATION.-Affectation in any
part of our carriage is but the lighting up
of a candle to show our defects, and never
fails to make us taken notice of, either as
wanting in sense or sincerity.- Locke.
All affectation is the vain and ridiculous
attemptof poverty to appear rich.-Lavater.
Affectation is a greater enemy to the face
than the small-pox. ----Si. Evremond.
All affectation proceeds from the supposi-
tion of possessing something better than
the rest of the world possesses. Nobody is
vain of 'possessing two legs and two arms,
because that is the precise quantity of
either sort of liml) which everybody pos-
sesses. --Syciney Smith.
Among the
numerous stratagems by
which pride endeavors to recommend folly
to regard, scarcely one meets with less suc-
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cess than affectation, which is a perpetual
disguise of the real character by false ap-
pearances.-Johnson.
Great vices are the proper objects of our
detestation, and smaller faults of our pity,
but affectation appears to be the only true
source of the ridiculous.-Fielding.
We are never so ridiculous by the qualities
we have, as by those wo affect to have.
Rochefoucauld.
Affectation is certain deformity:- By
forming themselves on fantastic models the
young begin with being ridiculous, and
often end in being vicious.--Blair.
Affectation differs from hypocrisy in
being the art of counterfeiting qualities
which we might with innocence and safety
be known to want. -Hypocrisy is the neces-
sary burden of villainy; affectation, a part
of the chosen trappings of folly,--Johnson.
Affectation proceeds either from vanity
or hypocrisy; for as vanity puts us on
affecting false characters to gain applause,
so hypocrisy sets us on the endeavor to
avoid censures by concealing our vices
under the appearance of their opposite
virtues.-Fielding.
Avoid all singularity and affectation.-
What is according to nature is best, while
what is contrary to it is always distasteful.
Nothing is graceful that is not our own.-
Collier,
Hearts may be attracted by assumed
qualities, but the affections can only be
fixed and retained by those that are real.--
De Moy.
Affectation naturally counterfeits those
excellencies which are farthest from our
attainment, because knowing our defects
we eagerly endeavor to supply them with
artificial excellence. - Johnson.
Paltry affectation and strained allusions
are easily attained by those who choose to
wear them; but they are but the badges of
ignorance or stupidity when it would en-
deavor to please. — Goldsmith.
All false practices and affectations of
knowledge are more odious than any want
or defect of knowledge can be.-Sprat.
Be yourself. Ape no greatness. Be will-
ing to pass for what you are.
A good
farthing is better than a bad sovereign.
Affcct no oddness; but dare to be right,
though you have to be singular.-S. Coley.
Affectation lights a candle to our defects,
and though it may gratify ourselves, it dis-
gusts all others. - Lavater.
AFFECTION,-There is so little to re-
deem the dry mass of follies and errors that
make up so much of life, that anything to
love or reverence becomes, as it were, a sab-
bath to the soul.--Bulwer.
How often a new affection makes a new
The sordid becomes liberal
;
the
cowering, heroic; the frivolous girl, the
steadfast martyr of patience and ministra-
tion, transfigured by deathless love.-E. H.
Chapin.
Mature affection, homage, devotion, does
not easily express itself. Its voice is low.
It is modest and retiring, it lays in ambush
and waits. Such is the mature fruit.
Sometimes a life glides away, and finds it
still ripening in the shade. The light in-
clinations of very young people are as dust
compared to rocks.Dickens.
Our affections are our life. We live by
them; they supply our warmth.- Channing.
The affections are like lightning: you
cannot tell where they will strike till they
have fallen.- Lacordaire.
How sacred and beautiful is the feeling
of affection in the pure and guileless soul!
The prond may sneer at it, the fashionable
call it a fable, the selfish and dissipated
affect to despise it, but the holy passion is
surely from heaven, and is made evil only
by the corruptions of those it was sent to
preserve and bless.-Mordaunt.
Of all earthly music that which reaches
farthest into heaven is the beating of a
truly loving heart.-H. W. Beecher.
If there is any thing that keeps the mind
open to angel visits, and repels the mivis-
try of evil, it is a pure human love.- N. P.
Willis.
Our sweetest experiences of affection are
meant to point us to that realm which is the
real and endless home of the heart.-H. W.
Beecher,
The affections, like conscience, are rather
to be led than driven,-Those who marry
where they do not love, will be likely to love
wliere they do not marry.-Fuller.
Affection, like melancholy, magnifies
tritles; but the magnifying of the one is
like looking through a telescope at heavenly
objects; that of the other, like enlarging
nonsters with a microscope.-Leigh Hunt.
The heart will commonly govern the
liead ; and any strong passion, set the
wrong way, will soon infatuate even the
wisest of men; therefore the first part of
wisdom is to watch the affections.- Water-
land.
There is in life no blessing like affection;
it soothes, it hallows, elevates, subdues, and
bringeth dowu to earth its native heaven :
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AFFLICTION.
0111 cull'e.-
life has nought else that may supply its
place.-L. L. Landon.
I'd rather than that crowds should sigh
for me, that from some kindred eye the
trickling tear should steal.-H. K. White.
AFFLICTION.-(See ADVERSITY.)
Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects
levity, and interrupts the confidence of sin-
ning. - Atterbury.
As threshing separates the wheat from
the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.--
Burton,
Though all afflictions are evils in them-
selves, yet they are good for us, because
they discover to us our disease and tend to
Tillotson.
Affliction is the good man's shining scene;
prosperity conceals his brightest ray ; as
night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.
Young.
Many secrets of religion are not perceived
till they be felt, and are not felt but in the
day of a great calamity.-Jeremy Taylor.
The lord gets his best soldiers out of the
highlands of affliction.-Spurgeon.
That which thou dost not understand
when thou readest, thou shalt understand
in the day of thy visitation ; for many
secrets of religion are not perceived till they
be felt, and are not felt but in the day of
calamity.–Jeremy Taylor.
It has done me good to be somewhat
parched by the heat and drenched by the
rain of life.- Longfellow.
Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue,
where patience, honor, sweet humility, and
calm fortitude, take root and strongly
flourish.-Mallet.
Gol sometimes washes the eyes of his
children with tears that they may read
aright his providence and his command-
ments.-T. L. Cuyler.
If your cup seems too bitter, if your bure
den seems too heavy, be sure that it is the
wounded hand that is lolding the cup, and
that it is He wlio carries the cross that is
carrying the burden.-S. I. Prinie,
I have learned more of experimental
religion since my little boy died than in all
my life before.- Horace Bushnell.
Paradoxical as it may scem, God means
not only to make 178 good, but to make 118
also happy, by sickness, disaster and dis-
appointment.-C. A. Bartol.
The hiding places of men are discovered
by affliction.-As one has aptly said, “Our
refuges are like the nests of birds; in sim-
mer they are hidilen away ainong the green
leaves, but in winter they are seen among
the naked branches."-J. W. Alexander,
Sanctified afflictions are like so many
artificers working on a pious man's crown
to make it more bright and massive.- Cud-
worth.
Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction,
and oft the cloud that wraps the present
hour serves but to brighten all our future
days.-J. Brown.
If you would not have affliction visit you
twice, listen at once to what it teaches.
Burgh,
Affliction is not sent in vain from the
good God who chastens those that he
loves.-Southey.
Nothing can occur beyond the strength
of faith to sustain, or transcending the
resources of religion to relieve.-T. Binney.
As in nature, as in art, so in grace ; it is
rough treatment that gives souls, as well as
stones, their lustre. The more the dia-
mond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in
what seems hard dealing, there God has no
end in view but to perfect his people.-
Guthrie.
It is not from the tall, crowded workhouse
of prosperity that men first or clearest see
the eternal stars of heaven.-Theodore
Parker.
Ah! if you only knew the peace there is
in an accepted sorrow.--Mde. Guion.
It is not until we have passed through
the furnace that we are made to know how
much dross there is in our composition.--
Colton.
It is a great thing, when the cup of bit-
terness is pressed to our lips, to feel that it
is not fate or necessity, but divine love
working upon us for good ends.-E. H.
Chapin.
Afflictions sent by providence melt the
constancy of the noble ininded, but confirm
the obduracy of the vile, as the same fur-
nace that liquefies the gold, hardens the
clay, Colton.
Tuš soul that suffers is stronger than the
soul that rejoices.-E. Shepard.
There is such a difference between comº
ing out of sorrow merely thankful for relief,
and coming out of sorrow full of sympathy
with, and trust in, Him who has released
11s.-Phillips Brooks.
Tears are often the telescope by which
men see far into heaven.--H. W. Beecher.
Affliction comes to us all not to make 118
sad, but soher; not to make 118 sorry, but
wise ; not to nake us despondent, but by
its darkness to refresh us, as the night
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refreshes the day; not to impoverish, but
to enrich us, as the plough enriches the
field; to multiply our joy, as the seed, by
planting, is multiplied a thousand-fold.---
H. W. Beecher.
Strength is born in the deep silence of
long-suffering hearts ; not amid joy.-Mrs.
Hernans.
By afflictions God is spoiling us of what
otherwise might have spoiled us. When he
makes the world too hot for us to hold, we
let it go.-Powell.
No Christian but has his Gethsemane; but
every praying Christian will find there is no
Gethsemane without its angel.-T. Binney.
With the wind of tribulation God sepa-
rates, in the floor of the soul, the wheat from
the chaff.-Molinos.
We are apt to overlook the hand and
hcart of God in our afflictions, and to con-
sider them as mere accidents, and unavoid-
able evils. This view makes them absolute
and positive evils which admit of no remedy
or relief.-If we view our troubles and trials
aside from the divine design and agency in
them, we cannot be comforted.-Immons.
Amid my list of blessings infinite, stands
this the foremost, "that my heart has
bled.”- Young.
Affliction is a divine diet which thongh it
be not pleasing to mankind, yet Almighty
God hath often imposed it as a good, though
bitter, physic, to those children whose souls
are dearest to him.--Izaak Wallon.
The very afflictions of our earthly pil-
grimage are presages of our future glory,
as shadows indicate the sun.-Richter.
How fast we learn in a day of sorrow!
Scripture shines out in a new effulgence;
every verse seems to contain a sunbeam,
every promise stands out in illuminated
splendor; things hard to be understood bc-
come in a moment plain.--H. Bonar.
The most genero118 vine, if not prined,
runs out into many superfluous stems and
grows at last weak and fruitless : so doth
the best man if he be not cut short in his
desires, and pruned with afflictions.—Bp.
Hall,
Extrordinary afflictions are not always
the punishment of cxtraordinary sinis,
but sometimes the trial of extraordinary
graces.-Sanctified afflictions are spiritual
promotions.-M. Henry.
The only way to meet affliction is to pass
through it solemnly, slowly, with humility
and faith, as the Israelites passed through
the sea. Then its very waves of misery will
divide, and become to us a wall, on the right
side and on the left, until the gulf narrows
before our eyes, and we land safe on the
opposite shore. -Miss Mulock.
We should always record our thoughts in
affliction : set up way-marks, that we may
recur to them in health; for then we are in
other circumstances, and can never recover
our sick-bed views,
The good are better made by ill, as odors
crushed are sweeter still.-Rogers.
What seem to us but dim funereal tapers,
may be heaven's distant lamps.- Longfel-
low.
It is from the remembrance of joys we
have lost that the arrows of afilliction are
pointed.-Mackenzie.
The gem cannot be polished without fric-
tion, nor man perfected without trials.--
Chinese Proverb.
Never on earth calamity so great, as not
to leave to 119, if rightly weighed, what
woull console 'mid what we sorrow for.-
Shakespeare.
The lessons we learn in sadness and from
loss are those that abide...Sorrow clarifies
the mind, steadies it, forces it to weigh
things correctly.-The soil moist with tears
best feeds the seeds of truth.-T. T. Mun-
ger.
Never was there a man of deep piety, who
has not been brought into extremities-who
has not been put into fire-who has not
been taught to say, “Though he slay ine,
yet will I trust in him.”— Cecil.
As sure as God puts his children into the
furnace of affiction, he will be with them
in it.-Spurgeon..
Heaven tries our virtue by affliction; as
oft the cloud that wraps the present hour,
serves but to lighten all our future days.
J. Brown.
Come then, affliction, if my Father wills,
and be my frowning friend. A friend that
frowns is better than a smiling enemy.-
Anon.
AGE.-It is not by the gray of the hair
that one knows the age of the heart.-
Bulwer.
A graceful and honorable old age is the
childhood of immortality.- Pindar,
How beautiful can time with goodness
make an old man look.-Jerrold.
Old age adds to the respect due to virtue,
but it takes nothing from the contempt
inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair. -
J. P. Senn.
Age does not depend upon years, but
upon temperament and health. Some men
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AGE.
are born old, and some never grow so.—
Tryon Edwards. ·
A person is always startled when he hears
himself seriously called old for the first
time.-0. W. Holmes.
The vices of old age have the stiffness of
it too ; and as it is the unfittest time to
learn in, 80 the unfitness of it to unlearn
will be found much greater.-South.
Let us respect gray hairs, especially our
own.-J. P. Senn.
Our youth and manhood are due to our
couutry, but our declining years are due to
ourselves.- Pliny.
When we are young, we are slavishly em-
ployed in procuring something whereby we
may live comfortably when we grow old ;
and when we are old, we perceive it is too
late to live as we proposed. Pope.
Old men's eyes are like old men's memo-
ries ; they are strongest for things a long
way off.- George Eliot.
No wise man ever wished to be younger.- -
Swift.
To be happy, we must be true to nature,
and carry our age along with us.--Hazlitt.
Years do not make sages ; they only make
old men.- Mad. Swetchine.
Every one desires to live long, but no one
would be old.-Swift.
Nothing is more disgraceful than that an
old man should have nothing to show to
prove that he has lived long, except his
years.--Seneca,
.
How many fancy they have experience
simply because they have growii old.
Stanislaus.
Men of age object too much, consult too
long, adventure too little, repent too soon),
and seldom drive business home to the full
period, but content themselves with a me-
diocrity of success. --- Bacon.
As we grow old we become both more
foolish and more wise.--Rochefoucaulu.
Age that lessens the enjoyment of life,
increases our desire of living. - Goldsmith.
Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely
than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age. --
L. M. Child.
Wlien one becomes indifferent to women,
to children, and to young people, he may
know that he is superannuated, and has
withdrawn from what is sweetest and purest
in human existence.-A. B. Alcotl.
Old age is a blessecl time. It gives 118
leisure to put off our earthly garments onc
by one, and dress ourselves for heaven.
"Blessed are they that are home-sick, for
they shall get home.”
A comfortable old age is the reward of a
well-spent youth.-Instead of its bringing
sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it
should give us hopes of eternal youth in a
better world.-R. Palmer.
No snow falls lighter than the snow of
age; but none lies heavier, for it never melts.
It is a rare and difficult attainment to
grow old gracefully and happily.-L. M.
Child.
Old age is a tyrant, which forbids the
pleasures of youth on pain of death.–
Rochefoucauld.
Old age has deformities enough of its
own. It should never add to them the de-
formity of vice.- Cato. .
We should so provide for old age that it
may have no urgent wants of this world to
absorb it from meditation on the next.-It
is awful to see the lean hands of dotage
making a coffer of the grave.-Bulwer.
To resist the frigidity of old age one
must combine the body, the mind, and the
heart.-And to keep tliese in parallel vigor
one must exercise, study, and love.-Bon-
stettin.
When a noble life has prepared old age,
it is not decline that it reveals, but the first
days of immortality.--Mad. de Staël.
The evening of a well-spent life brings its
lamps with it.-Joubert.
Age does not make 118 childish, as some
say; it finds us true children.- Goethe.
Age is rarely despised but when it is con-
temptible.—Johnson.
As winter strips the leaves from around
118, so that we may see the distant regions
they formerly concealed, so old age takes
away our enjoyments only to enlarge the
prospect of the coming eternity.-Richter.
He who would pass his declining years
with honor and comfort, should, when
young, consider that he may one day be-
come old, and remember when he is old,
that he has once been young.--Addison.
That man never grows old who keeps a
child in his heart.
A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is
the happiest creature living.Steele.
In old age life's shadows are meeting
eternity's. day.- Clarke.
The Grecian ladies counted their age
from their marriage, not from their birth.
Homer.
The golden age is before 178, not bebind
us. - St. Sinion.
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AGE.
The tendency of old age to the body, say
the plıysiologists, is to form bone.-It is as
rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old
man whose opinions are not ossified.--J. F.
Boyse.
That old man dies prematurely whose
memory records no benefits conferred.
They only have lived long who havo lived
virtuously.-Sheridan.
I venerate old age ; and I love not the
man who can look without emotion upon
the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening
begins to gather over the watery eye, and
the shadows of twilight grow broader and
deeper upon the understanding. -Longfel-
low.
While one finds company in himself and
his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter
what his years may be.-A. B. Alcotl.
It is only necessary to grow old to become
more charitable and even indulgent.—I see
no fault committed by others that I have
uot coinmitted myself.- Goethe.
An aged Christian, with the snow of time
upon his head, may remind us that those
points of earth are whitest which are nearest
to heaven.-E. H. Chapin.
Tliere are three classes into which all the
women past seventy years of age I have ever
known, vere divided : that dear old soul;
that old womall
i
that old witch.- Cole-
witch
ridge.
That which is called dotage, is not the
weak point of all old men, but only of such
as are distinguished by their levity and
weakness. — Cicero.
.
There cannot live a more unhappy crea-
ture than an ill-natured old man, who is
neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor
sensible of conferring them on others. -Sir
W. Temple.
As we advance in life the circle of our
pains enlarges, while that of our pleasures
contracts.---Nad. Swetchine.
Gray hairs seem to my faucy like the soft
light of the moon, silvering over the evening
of life.--Richter.
One's age should be tranquil, as child-
hood should be playful.—Hard work at
either extremity of life seems out of place.-
At mid-day the sin may burn, and men
labor under it; but the morning and cvening
should be alike calm and cheerful.--Arnold.
When we are out of sympatlıy with the
young, then I think our work in this world
is over.-G. Macdonald.
At twenty, the will reigns ; at thirty, the
at forty, the judgment; afterward,
proportion of character. -Grallan.
It is often the case with fine natures, that
when the fire of the spirit dies out with
increasing age, the power of intellect is
unaltered or increased, and an originally
educated judgment grows broader and
gentler as the river of life widens out to
the everlastiug sea.—Mrs. Gatty.
Some men never seem to grow old. Al-
ways active in thouglat, always ready to
adopt new ideas, they are never chargeable
with fogyism. Satisfied, yet ever dissatis-
fiec, settled, yet ever unsettled, they always
enjoy the best of what is, and are the first
to find the best of what will be.
l'hough I look old, yet I am strong and
lusty ; for in my youth I never did apply
hot and rebellious liquors in my blood ; and
did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the
means of weakness and debility : therefore
my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but
kindly.-Shalcespeare.
When men grow virtuous in their old age,
they are merely making a sacrifice to God
of the devil's leavings.-Swift.
Age sits with decent grace upon his vis-
age, and worthily becomes his silver locks,
who wears the marks of many years well
spent, of virtue, truth well tried, and wise
experience.-- Rowe.
Toward old age both men and women
lang to life by their habits.-Charles Reade.
Probably the happiest period in life most
frequently is in middle age, when the eager
passions of youth are cooled, and the in-
firmities of age not yet begun; as we see
that the shadows, which are at morning and
evening so large, almost entirely disappear
at mid-day.- T. Arnold.
Like a morning dream, life becomes more
and more bright the longer we live, and
the reason of everything appears more
clcar, What has puzzled us before seems
less mysterious, and the crooked paths
look straighter as we approach the end.-
Richter.
Ye who are old, remember youth with
thought of like affection.-Shakespeare.
Age should fly concourse, cover in retreat
defects of judgment, and the will subdue ;
walk thonglitful on the silent, solem sliore
of that vast ocean it must sail so soon.
Young.
Cautious age suspects the flattering form,
and only credits what experience tells.
Johnson.
If reverence is due from others to the old,
they ought also to respect themselves; and
by grave, prudent, and holy actions, put a
crown of glory upon their own gray heads.
Bp. Hopkins.
wit;
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AGNOSTICISM.,
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AGRICULTURE.
These are the effects of doting age ; vain folly of the people that says with its head
doubts, and idle cares, and over caution.- that it does not know whether there is a
Dryden.
God or not, - Bismarcko.
There are two things which grow stronger An agnostic is a man who doesn't know
in the breast of man, in proportion as he whether there is a God or not, doesn't know
advances in years : the love of country and whether he has a soul or not, doesn't know
religion. Let them be never so inuch for- whether there is a future life or not, doesn't
gotten in youth, they sooner or later present believe that any one else knows any more
themselves to us arrayed in all their charms, about these matters than he does, and
and excite in the recesses of our hearts an thiuks it a waste of time to try to find
attachment justly due to their beauty. - out.- Dana.
Chateaubriand.
The term agnostic" is only the Greek
Thirst of power and of riches now bear equivalent of the Latin and English “Igno-
sway, the passion and infirmity of age.-- ramus”-a vame one would think scientists
Froude.
would be slow to apply to themselves.
Youth changes its tastes by the warmth Agnosticism is the philosophical, ethical,
of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit. - and religious dry-rot of the modern world.-
Rochefoucauld.
F. E. Abbot.
There is not a more repulsive spectacle
than an old man who will not forsake the
AGRARIANISM.-The agrarian would
world, which las already forsaken him.-
divide all the property in the community
Tholuck.
equally among its members. But if Bo
divided to-day, industry ou the one hand,
AGITATION.-Agitation is the mar- and idleness on the other, would make it
shalling of the conscience of a nation to unequal on the morrow. There is no agra-
mould its laws,-Sir R. Peel.
rianism in the providence of God.-Tryon
Agitation prevents rebellion, keeps the
Edwards.
peace, and secures progress. Every step The agrarian, like the communist, would
she gaïis is gained forever. Muskets are bring all above him down to his own level,
the weapons of animals. Agitatiou is the at- or raise himself to theirs, but is not anxious
mosphere of the brains.- Wendell Phillips. to bring those below him up to himself.
Those who mistake the excitement and
C. Sinirons.
agitation of reform for the source of danger,
must have overlooked all history.
AGRICULTURE.-Agriculture is the
foundation of manufactures, since the pro-
We believe in excitement when the theme
ductions of nature are the materials of
is great ; in agitation when huge evils are
art.- Gibbon.
to be reformed. It is thus that a state or
nation clears itself of great moral wrongs,
Agriculture not only gives riches to a
an effects important changes. Still waters
nation, but the only riches she can call her
gather to themselves poisonous ingredi-
ents, and scatter epidemics and death. The Let the farmer for evermore be honored
noisy, tumbling brook, and the rolling and in his calling, for they who labor in the
roarivg ocean, are pure and healthful. The earth are the chosen people of God.--Jef-
moral and political elements need the rock- ferson.
ings and heavings of free discussion, for Agriculture for an honorable and high-
their own purification. The nation feels a minded man, is the best of all occupations
healthier pulsation, and breathes a more or arts by which men procure the means of
invigorating atmosphere, than if pulpit,
living.-Xenophon.
platform, and press, were all silent as the
tomb, leaving misrule and oppression un-
Trade increases the wealth and glory of a
watched and unscathed.-P. Cooke.
country; but its real strength and stamina
are to be looked for among the cultivators
Agitation, under pretence of reform, with of the land.-Lord Chatham.
a view to overturn revealed truth and order,
is the worst kind of mischief.-C. Simmons.
The farmers are the founders of civiliza-
tion and prosperity, -Daniel Webster.
Agitation is the method that plants the
school by the side of the ballot-box.- Wen-
He that would look with contempt on the
dell Phillips.
pursuits of the farmer, is not worthy the
name of a man.-H. W. Beecher.
AGNOSTICISM.-There is only one There seem to be but three ways for a
greater folly than that of the fool who says nation to acquire wealth : the first is by
in his heart there is no God, aud that is the war, as the Romans did, in plundering their
AIMS.
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ALCHEMY.
conquered neighbors—this is robbery , the
second by commerce, which is generally
cheating ; the third by agriculture, the only
honest way, wherein man receives a real
increase of the seed thrown into the ground,
in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by
the hand of God in his favor, as a reward
for his innocent life and his virtuous indus-
try.- Franklin,
In the age of acorns, before the times of
Ceres, a single barley-corn had been of more
value to mankind than all the diamonds of
the mines of India.-A. Brooke.
The first three men in the world were a
gardener, a ploughman, and a grazier ; and
if any object that the second of these was a
murderer, I desire hiin to consider that as
soon as he was so, he quitted our profes-
siou, and turned builder.- Cowley.
In a moral point of view, the life of the
agriculturist is the most pure and holy of
any class of men; pure, because it is the
most healthful, and vice can hardly find
time to contaminate it; and holy, because
it brings the Deity perpetually before his
view, giving him thereby the most exalted
notions of supreme power, and the most
endearing view of the divine benignity.-
Lord John Russell.
Command large fields, but cultivate small
ones. - Virgil.
Whoever makes two cars of corn, or two
blades of grass to grow where only one
grew before, deserves better of mankind,
and does more essential service to his
country than the whole race of politicians
put together. -Swift.
The frost is God's plough which he drives
through every inch of ground in the world,
opening each clod, and pulverizing the
wliole. -Fuller.
We may talk as we please of lilies, and
lions rampant, and spread eagles in fields
of d'or or d'argent, but if lieraldıy were
guided by reason, a plough in the field
arable would be the most noble and ancient
arms.- Cowley.
AIMS.-(See “ASPIRATION.")
High aims form high characters, and great
objects bring out great minds. - Tryon Ed-
wards.
Have a purpose in life, and having it,
throw into your work such strength of mind
and muscle as God has given you.-- Car-
lyle,
The man who seeks one, and but one,
thing in life may hope to achieve it; but he
who seeks all things, wherever he goes, only
reaps, from the hopes which he sows, a liar-
vest of barren regrets. -Bulwer.
Not failure, but low aim, is crime.-J. R.
Lowell,
Aim at perfection in everything, though
in most things it is unattainable ; however,
they who aim at it, and persevere, will
come much nearer to it, than those whose
laziness and despondency make them give
it up as nattainable.- Chesterfield.
Aim at the sun, and you may not reach
it; but your arrow will tly far higher than
if aimed at an object on a level with your-
self.-J. Hawes.
Resolved to live with all my might while I
do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten
thousand ages hence.—Jonathan Edwards.
It is a sad thing to begin life with low
conceptions of it. It may not be possible
for a young man to measure life ; but it is
possible to say, I am resolved to put life to
its noblest and best use.-T. T. Dunger.
Dream manfully and nobly, and thy
dreams shall be prophets.—Bulwer.
In great attempts it is glorious even to
fail. - Longinus.
We want an aim that can never grow vile,
and which cannot disappoint our hope.
There is but one such on earth, and it is
that of being like God. He who strives
after union with perfect love must grow out
of selfishness, and his success is secured in
the omnipotent holiness of God.-S. Brooke.
What are the aims which are at the same
time duties ?--they are the perfecting of
ourselves, and the happiness of others. —
Kant.
High aims and lofty purposes are the
wings of the soul aiding it to mount to
heaven. In God's word we have a perfect
standard both of duty and character, that
by the influence of both, appealing to the
best principles of our nature, we may be
roused to the noblest and best efforts.
S. Spring.
Providence has nothing good or high in
store for one who does not resolutely aim
at something high or good.- A prirpose is
the eternal condition of success.--7. T.
Munger.
ALCHEMY,-Alchemy may be com-
pared to the man who tola liis sons of gold
buried somewhere in bis vineyard, where
they by digging found no gold, but by turn-
ing up the mould about the roots of their
vines, procured a plentiful vintage. So the
search and endeavors to make gold have
brought many useful inventions and iu-
structive experiments to light.-Bacon.
I have always looked upon alchemy in
natural philosophy, to be like over enthu-
ALLEGORIES.
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AMBITION.
:
siasm in divinity, and to have troubled the
world much to the same purpose.—Sir W.
Temple.
ALLEGORIES.-Allegories, when well
chosen, are like so many tracks of light in
discourse, that make everything about
them clear and beautiful... Addison..
The allegory of a sophist is always
screwed ; it crouches and bows like a snake,
which is never straight, whether she go,
creep, or lie still ; only when she is dead,
she is straight enough.-Luther.
A man conversing in carnest, if he watch
his intellectual process, will find that a
material image, more or less luiainous,
arises in his mind with every thought which
furnishes the vestment of the thought.-
Hence good writing and brilliant discourse
are perpetual allegorics.-Emerson.
Allegories are fine ornaments and good
illustrations, but not proof.---Luther.
AMBASSADOR.-An ambassador is an
honest man sent to lie and intrigue abroad
for the benefit of his country.--Sir H.
Wotlon,
AMBITION.- Ambition is the germ
from whiclı all growth of nobleness pro-
ceeds.-T. D. English.
Ambition is the spur that makes man
struggle with destiny. It is heaven's own
incentive to make purposo great and
achievement greater.--Donald G. Vilchell.
A noble man compares and estimates
himself by an idea which is higher than
himself; and a mean man, by one lower
than himself.-The one produces aspira-
tion; the other ambition, which is the way
in which a vulgar man aspires.--11. W.
Beecher,
Tling away ambition. By that sin angels
fell. How then can man, the image of his
DIaker, hope to win by it?-Shakespeare.
Ambition often puts men npon doing the
meanest offices : so climbing is performed
in the same posture as creeping.--Swift.
As dogs in a wheel, or squirrels in a cage,
ambitious men still climb and climb, with
great labor and incessant anxiety, but never
reach the top.-Burton.
Ambition is a lust that is never quenched,
but grows more inflamed and madder by
enjoyment.— Otway.
The noblest spirit is most strongly at-
tracted by the love of glory.--Cicero.
It is the nature of ambition to make men
liars and cheats who hide the truth in their
liearts, and like jugglers, show another
thing in their mouths ; to cut all friendships
and enmities to the measure of their inter-
est, and put on a good face where there is
no corresponding good will.---Sallust.
Ambition is the avarice of power ; and
happiness herself is soon sacrificed to that
very lust of dominion which was first en-
couraged only as the best means of obtain-
ing it.--Colton.
To be ambitious of tine honor and of the
real glory and perfection of our nature is
the very principle and incentive of virtue ;
but to be ambitious of titles, place, cere-
monial respects, and civil pageantry, is as
vain and little as the things are which we
court.—Sir P. Sidney.
Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps it-
seiſ.--Shakespeare.
Say what we will, we may be sure that
ambition is an error. Its wear and tear of
heart are never recompensed; it steals away
tlie freshness of life ; it deadens our vivid
and social enjoyments ; it sluts our souls
to our youth ; and we are old ere we re-
member that we have made a fever and a
labor of our raciest years.--Buluer.
Ambition is but the evil shadow of aspi-
ration.-G. Macdonald.
Ambition is an idol on whose wings great
minds are carried to extremes, to be sub-
limely great, or to be nothing. --Southern.
Ambition is not & vice of little people.--
Montaigne.
Ambition is not a weakness unless it be
disproportioned to the capacity. To have
more ambition than ability is to be at once
weak and unhappy.-G. Š. Hillard.
It is by attempting to reach the top at a
single leap, that so much misery is caused
in the world.—Cobbett.
Ambition has one lieel nailed in well,
though she stretch her fingers to touch the
leavens.- Lilly.
Ambition thinks no face so beautiful, as
that which looks from under a crown. -Sir
P. Sidney.
It is the constant fault and inseparable
evil quality of ambition, that it never looks
behind it. --Seneca.
Ambition makes the same mistake con-
cerning power, that avarice makes as to
wealth. She begins by accumulating it as
a means to happiness, and finishes by con-
tinuing to accumulate it as an end.- Collon. .
High seats are never but uncasy, and
crowns are always stuffed with thorns.-
Broolcs.
The tallest trees are most in the power of
the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts
of fortune.- Penn,
AMERICA.
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AMIABILITY.
government of the people, by the people,
and for the people-a government of the
principles of eternal justice, the unchang-
ing law of God.-Theodore Parker.
America has proved that it is practicable
to elevate the mass of mankind--the labor-
ing or lower class—to raise them to self-
respect, to make them competent to act a
part in the great right and the great duty
of self-government, and she has proved
that this inay be done by education and the
diffusion of knowledge. She holds out an
example a thousand times more encouraging
than ever was presented before to those
nine-tenths of the human race who are born
without hereditary fortune or hereditary
rank.-
Daniel Webster.
Ambition is like love, impatient both of
delays and rivals.-Denhani.
Most people would succeed in small things
if they were not troubled by great ambi-
tions. - Longfellow.
He who surpasses or subdues mankind,
must look down on the hate of those below.
- Byron.
Where ambition can cover its enterprises,
even to the person himself, under the ap-
pearance of principle, it is the most incur-
able and inflexible of passions. - Hume.
The slave las but one master, the ainbi-
tious man has as many as there are persons
whose aid may contribute to the advauco-
ment of his fortunes.-Bruyere.
Ambition is so powerful a passion in the
human breast, that however high we reach
we are never satisfied.-Machiavelli.
Nothing is too high for the daring of
mortals : we storm heaven itself in our
folly.- Horace.
The very substance of the ambitious is
merely the shadow of a dream.--Shalce-
speare.
How like a mounting devil in the heart
rules the unreined ambition,--N. P. Willis,
Too often those who entertain ambition,
expel remorse and nature. - Shakespeare.
Too low they build who build below the
skies. — Young.
Great souls, by nature half divine, soar
to the stars, and hold a near acquaintance
with the gods.-Rowe.
AMERICA.-America is another name
for opportunity. Our whole history appeals
like a last effort of divine Providence in
behalf of the human race.- Emerson.
America is rising with a giant's strength.
Its bones are yet but cartilages.-Fisher
Ames,
America is a fortunate country; she
grows by the follies of our European na-
tions.- Napoleon.
America-half-brother of the world.
Bailey.
The home of the homeless all over the
earth.--Street.
If all Europe were to become a prison,
America wonld still present a loop-hole of
escape; and, God be praised ! that loop-
hole is larger than the dungeon itself.-
Heine.
The home of freedom, and the hope of the
down-trodden and oppressed among the
pations of the earthDaniel Webster.
This is what I call the American idea, a
AMIABILITY.-The constant desire of
pleasing which is the peculiar quality of
some, may be called the happiest of all
clesires in this, that it rarely fails of attain-
ing its end when not disgraced by affecta-
tion.-Fielding.
To be amiable is most certainly a duty,
but it is not to be exercised at the expense
of
any
virtue.--He who seeks to do the ami-
able always, can at times be successful only
by the sacrifice of his manhood.-Sinims.
How easy to be anziable in the midst of
happiness and success. Mad. Swetchine.
Amiable people, though often subject to
imposition in their contact with the world,
yet radiate so much of sunshine that they
are reflected in all appreciative hearts.
Deluzy.
AMUSEMENTS.--It is doing some ser-
vice to humanity, to amuse innocently.
They know but little of society who think
we can bear to be always employed, either in
duties or meditation, without relaxation.--
H. More.
The mind ought sometimes to be diverted,
that it may return the better to thinking.---
Phadrus.
Amusement is the waking sleep of labor.
When it absorbs thought, patience, and
strength that might have been seriously
employed, it loses its distinctive character
and becomes the task-master of idleness.-
Willmott.
Let the world have whatever sports and
recreations please them best, provided they
be followed with discretion.-Burton.
Amusement that is excessive and followed
nly for its own sake, allures and deceives
us, and leads us down imperceptibly in
thoughtlessness to the grave. -Pascal.
The habit of dissipating every serious
thought by a succession of agreeable sensa-
AMUSEMENTS.
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ANCESTRY.
rule;
tions is as fatal to happiness as to virtue i
for when amusement is uniformly substi-
tuted for objects of moral and mental in-
terest, we lose all that elevates our enjoy-
ments above the scale of childish pleasures.
Anna Maria Porler.
Amusements are to religiou like breezes
of air to the flame,--gentle ones will fan it,
but strong ones will put it out.- Thomas.
Innocent amusements are such as excite
moderately, and such as produce a cheerful
frame of mind, yot boisterous mirth ; such
as refreshi, instead of exhausting, the sys-
tem ; such as recur frequently, rather than
coutinue long ; such as send us back to our
daily duties invigorated in body and spirit;
such as we can partake of in the presence
and society of respectable friends, such as
consist with and are favorable to a grate-
ful piety ; such as are chastened by self-
respect, and are accompanied with the con-
sciousness that life has a higher end than
to be amused.- Channing.
If those who are the enemies of innocent
amusements liad the direction of the world,
they would take away the spring and youth,
the former from the year, the latter from
human life.-Balzac.
It is a sober truth that people who live
only to amuse themselves, work harder at
the task than most people do in carving
their daily bread.-H. More.
It is exceedingly deleterious to withdraw
the sanction of religion from amusement.
If we feel that it is all injurious we should
strip the earth of its flowers and blot out
its pleasant sunshine.-E. H. Chapin.
Dwell not too long upon sports ; for, as
they refresh a man that is weary, so they
weary a man that is refreshed.--Fuller.
If you are animated by right principles,
and are fully awakened to the true dignity
of life, the subject of amusements may be
left to settle itself.-T. T. Munger.
Christian discipleship does not involve
the abandonment of any innocent enjoy-
ment. Any diversion or amusement which
we can use so as to receive pleasure and
enjoyment to ourselves, and do no harm to
others, we are perfectly free to use; and
any that we cannot use without injury to
ourselves or barn to others, we have no
right to use, whethier wo are Christians or
not.-W. Gladden.
I am a great friend to public amusements,
for they keep people from vice.-Johnson.
Amusement to an observing mind is
study.-- Disraeli,
It is doing some service to humanity to
amuse innocently; and they kuow very little
of society who think we can bear to be
always employed, either in cutics or medi-
tations, without any relaxation.—Sir P.
Sidney.
All amusements to which virtuous women
are not admitted, are, rely upon it, dele-
terious in their nature.-Thackeray.
Joining in the amusements of others is,
in our social state, the next thing to sym-
pathy in their distresses, and even thie
slendierest bond that holds society together
should rather be strengthened than snapt.
--Landor.
The church has been so fearful of amuse-
ments that the devil has had the charge
of them; the claplet of flowers has been
suatched from the brow of Christ, and given
to Mammon, H. W. Beecher.
ANALOGY.-Analogy, although it is
not infallible, is yet that telescope of the
mind by wliich it is marvelously assisted in
the discovery of both physical and moral
truth.-Colton.
Those who reason only by analogies,
rarely reason by logic, and are generally
slaves to imagination.-C. Simmons,
ANARCHY.-Anarcliy is the choking,
sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no
the consecration of cupidity and bray-
ing of folly and dim stupidity and baseness,
in most of the affairs of men, Slop-shirts
attainable three half-pence cheaper by the
ruin of living bodies and immortal souls.-
Carlyle.
Burke talked of "that digest of anarchy
called the Rights of Man."- Alison.
Anarchy is hatred of human authority;
atheism of divine authority-two sides of
the same whole.--Macpherson.
ANCESTRY,-(See "BIRTH," and "GEN-
EALOGY.")
The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth .
is concerned, is that it should be such as to
give lrim but little occasion to think much
about it. Whately.
I will not borrow merit from the dead,
myself an undescrver.-Rowe.
Every man is his own ancestor, and every
man is his own heir. He devises his own
future, and he inherits his own past.-H.
F. Hedge.
It is the highest of earthly honors to be
descended from the great and good.--They.
alone cry out against a noble ancestry who
bave none of their own.-Ben Jonson.
Good blood-descent from the great and
good, is a high honor and privilege. He
that lives worthily of it is deserving of the
ANCESTRY.
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ANCESTRY.
highest esteem ; he that does not, of the
deeper disgrace.-Colton.
They that on glorious ancestors enlarge,
produce their debt, instead of their dis-
charge. - Young.
We take rank by descent. Such of us as
have the longest pedigree, and are there-
fore the furthest removed from the first
who made the fortune and founded the
family, we are the noblest.-Froude.
Breed is stronger than pasture.-George
Eliot.
It is, indeed, a blessing, when the virtues
of noble races are hereditary.-Nabb.
How poor are all hereditary honors, those
poor possessions from another's deeds, un-
less our own just virtues form our title, and
give a sanction to our fond assumption,
Shirley.
It is a noble faculty of our nature which
enables us to connect our thoughts, sym-
pathies, and happiness, with what is distant
in place or time ; and looking before and
after, to hold communion at once with our
ancestors and our posterity. There is a
moral and philosophical respect for our an-
cestors, whiclı elevates the character and
improves the heart. Next to the sense of
religious duty and moral feeling, I hardly
know what should bear with stronger obli-
gation on a liberal and enlightened mind,
than a consciousness of an alliance with
excellence which is departed ; and a coll-
sciousness, too, that in its acts and conduct,
and even in its sentiments anä thoughts, it
may be actively operating on the happiness
of those that come after it, --Daniel Webster.
A grandfather is no longer a social insti-
tution.-Men do not live in the past. -They
inerely look back.-Forward is the universal
cry.
What can we see in the longest kingly
line in Europe, save that it runs back to a
successful soldier ? --- Walter Scott.
Some decent, regulated pre-eminence,
some preference given to birth, is neither
unnatural nor unjust nor impolitic.—Burke.
It is with antiquity as with ancestry, na-
tions are proud of the one, and individuals
of the other ; but if they are nothing in
themselves, that which is their pride ought
to be their humiliation,-Collon.
The origin of all mankind was the same :
it is only a clear and a good conscience that
makes a man noble, for that is derived from
heaven itself.- Seneca.
It is of no consequence of what parents
a man is born, so he be a man of merit.-
Horace.
The glory of ancestors sheds a light
around posterity ; it allows neither their
good or bad qualities to remain in obscur-
ity.-Sallust.
Consider whether we ought not to be
more in the habit of seeking honor from
our descendants than from our ancestors ;
thinking it better to be nobly remembered
tlian nobly born ; and striving so to live,
that our sons, and our sons' sons, for ages
to come, might still lead their children
reverently to the doors out of which we had
been carried to the grave, saying, “Look,
this was his house, this was his chamber."
Ruslcin.
Mere family never made a man great.
Thought and deed, not pedigree, are the
passports to enduring fame.-Skobeleff.
It is fortunate to come of distinguished
ancestry.-It is not less so to be such that
people do not care to inquire whether you
are of high descent or not.—Bruyere.
Few people disparage a distinguished an-
cestry except those who have one of their
own.-J. Flawes.
Title and ancestry render a good man
more illustrious, but an ill one more con-
temptible.--Addison.
It is a shame for a man to desire honor
only because of his noble progenitors, and
not to deserve it by his own virtue.-
Chrysostom.
Philosophy does not regard pedigree.-
She did not receive Plato as a noble, but
made him 50,-Seneca.
I am no herald to inquire after men's
pedigrees : it sufficeth me if I know of their
virtues.-Sir P. Sidney.
Nothing is more disgraceful than for a
man who is nothing, to hold himself honored
on account of his forefathers ; and yet
hereditary honors are a noble and splendid
treasure to descendants.--Plato.
Some men by ancestry are ouly the
shadow of a mighty name.-Lucan.
Pride in boasting of family antiquity,
makes duration stand for merit.-Zimmer-
972 an.
The man of the true quality is not he
who labels himself with genealogical tables,
and lives on the reputation of his fathers,
but he in whose conversation and behavior
there are references and characteristics
positively unaccountable, except on the
hypothesis that his descent is pure and
illustrious.-Theodore Parker'.
The inheritance of a distinguished and
noble name is a proud inheritance to him
who lives worthily of it. - Colton,
ANECDOTES.
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ANGER.
Honorable descent is, in all nations,
greatly esteeined. It is to be expected that
the children of men of worth will be like
their progenitors; for nobility is the virtue
of a family. ---Aristotle.
The glory of ancestors sheds a light
around posterity; it allows neither their
good nor their bad qualities to remain in
obscurity.-Sallust.
It would be more honorable to our dis-
tinguished ancestors to praise them in
words less, but in deeds to imitate them
more.-H. Mann.
They who depend on the merits of an-
cestors, search in the roots of the tree for
the fruits which the branches ought to pro-
duce.-Ball7'020.
The man who has nothing to boast of but
his illustrious ancestry, is like the potato-
the best part under ground.- Overbury.
Distinguished birth is like a cipher : it
has no power in itself like wealth, or talent,
or personal excellence, but it tells, with all
the power of a cipher, when added to either
of the others.-Boyes.
The pride of blood has a most important
and beneficial influence.-It is much to feel
that the ligh and honorable belong to a
name that is pledged to the present by the
recollections of the past.-L. E. Landon.
When real nobleness accompanies the
imaginary one of birth, the `imaginary
mixes with the real and becomes real too. -
Greville.
We inherit nothing truly, but what our
actions make us worthy of. - Chapman.
He that can only boast of a distinguished
lineage, boasts of that which does not be-
long to himself ; but he that lives worthily
of it is always held in the highest honor. —
Junius.
All history shows the power of blood over
circumstances, as agriculture shows the
power of the seeds over the soil.-E. P.
Whipple.
Birth is nothing where virtue is not. –
Molière.
Nobility of birth does not always insure
a corresponding nobility of mind ; if it did,
it would always act as a stimulus to noblé
actions; but it sometimes acts as a clog
rather than a spur.—Colton.
ANECDOTES.-Anecdotes and maxims
are rich treasures to the man of the world,
for he knows how to introduce the former
at fit places in conversation, and to recollect
the latter on proper occasions.-Goethe.
Some people exclaim, “Give me no anec-
dotes of an author, but give me his works
and yet I have often found that the anec-
dotes are more interesting than the works.-
Disraeli.
Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles
of truth, and if striking and appropriate
are often more impressive and powerful
than argument.- Tryon Edwards.
Occasionally a single anecdote opens a
character ; biography has its comparative
anatomy, and a saying or a sentiment en-
ables the skillful hand to construct the
skeleton.- Willmott,
Story-telling is subject to two unavoidable
defects : frequent repetition and being soon
exhausteil ; so that whoever valuies this gift
in himself, has need of a good meinory, and
ought frequently to shift his company.-
Swift.
ANGELS.-Millions of spiritual crea-
tures walk the earth uuseen, both when we
slecp and when we wake.--Milton.
We are never like angels till our passion
dies.- Decker.
The guardian angels of life sometimes
fly so ligh as to be beyond our sight, but
they are always looking down upon us.-
Richler.
The angels may have wider spheres of
action and nobler forms of duty than our-
selves, but truth and right to them and
to iis are one and the same thing.-E. H.
Chapin.
ANGER.-Anger begins in folly, and
ends in repentance.-Pythagoras.
The fire you kindle for your enemy often.
burns yourself more than him.- Chinese
Proverb.
Anger is the most impotent of passions.-
It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts
the one who is possessed by it more than
the one against whom it is directed.-
Clarendon
He that would be angry and sin not, must
not be angry with anything but sin.-
Secker.
To be angry is to revenge the faults of
others on ourselves.- Pope.
Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.---
Fuller.
Never forget what a man has said to you
when he was angry.--If he has chargeci
you with anything, you had better look it
up.-H. W. Beecher.
Temperate anger well becomes the wise.
Philemon.
When anger rushes, unrestrained, to
action, like a bot steed, it stumbles in its
way.-Savage.
ANGER.
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ANTICIPATION.
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If a man meets with injustice, it'is not
required that he shall not be roused to meet
but if he is angry after he has had time
to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame
is not wrong, but the coals are.-H. W.
Beecher.
Anger ventilated often hurries towards
forgiveness ; anger concealed often hardens
into revenge.-Bulwer.
Keep cool and you command everybody.-
St. Just.
Anger may be kindled in the noblest
breasts ; but in these the slow droppings of
an unforgiving temper never take the shape
and consistency of enduring hatred.-G. S.
Hillard
The continuance and freqnent fits of
anger produce in the soul a propensity to
be angry ; which ofttimes ends in choler,
bitterness, and morosity, when the mind
becomes ulcerated, peevish, and quierulous,
and is wounded by the least occurrence. -
Plutarch.
Beware of the fury of a patient man.--
Dryden.
A man that does not know how to be
angry, does not know how to be good.-
Now and then a man should be shaken to
the core with indignation over things evil. -
H. W. Beecher.
There is not in nature, a thing that makes
man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intem-
porate anger.- John Webster. .
To be angry about trifles is mean and
childislı ; to rage and be furious is brutish;
and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to
the practice and teinper of devils ; but to
prevent and suppress rising resentinent is
wise and glorious, is manly and divine.-
Watts.
Men often make up in wrath what they
want in reason.-dlger.
Life appears to me too short to be spent in
nursing animosity or registering wrong.-
Charlotte Bronté.
Consider how much more you often suffer
from your anger and grief, than from those
very things for which you are angry and
grieved.-Marcus Antoninus.
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.-
Seneca.
Wise anger is like fire from the flint; there.
is a great ado to bring it out; and when it
does come, it is out again immediately.-
M. Henry.
Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's
nest, Malabar Proverb.
When a man is wrong and won't admit it,
he always gets angry.-Haliburton,
When one is in a good sound rage, it is
astonishing how calm one can be.-Bulwer.
He who can suppress a moment's anger
may prevent a day of sorrow.
To rule one's anger is well ; to prevent it
is still better. - Tryon Edwards.
Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous
failing of the just; the one degree that
riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative
of virtue.- Tupper.
The intoxication of anger, like that of
the grape, shows us to others, but hides 118
from ourselves.-We injure our own cause
in the opinion of the world when we too
passionately defend it. - Colton.
When angry, count ten before you speak;
if very angry, count a hundred. -Jefferson.
Consider, when you are enraged at any
one, what you would probably think if lie
should die during the dispute.-Shenstone.
Violence in the voice is often only the
death rattle of reason in the throat.- Boyes.
All anger is not sinful, because some de-
gree of it, and on some occasions, is inevit-
able. But it becomes sinful and contradicts
the rule of Scripture when it is conceived
upon slight and inadequate provocation,
and when it continues long.--Paley.
When passion is on the throne reason is
out of doors.-M. Henry.
An angry man is again angry with him-
self when he returns to reason.--Publius
Syrus.
Auger, if not restrained, is frequently
more hurtful to us than the injury that pro-
vokes it.-Seneca.
He best keeps from anger who remembers
that God is always looking upon him.
Plato.
When anger rises, think of the conse-
quences.-Confucius.
Beware of him that is slow to anger ; for
when it is long coming, it is the stronger
then it comes, and the longer kept.--Abused
patience turns to fury.-Quarles.
ANTICIPATION.-All earthly delights
are sweeter in expectation than in enjoy-
ment; but all spiritual pleasures more in
fruition than in expectation,-Feltham.
He who foresees calamities, suffers them
twice over.-Porteous.
All things that are, are with more spirit
chased than enjoyed.--Shakespeare.
Among so many sad realities we can but
ill endure to rob anticipation of its pleasant
visions. - Giles.
The hours we pass with happy prospects
ANTICIPATION.
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ANXIETY.
when to-morrow's burden is added to the
burden of to-day that the weight is more
than a man can bear.-G. Macdonald.
in view aro more pleasant than those
crowned with fruition. In the first case
we cook the dish to our own appetite ; in
the last it is cooked for us.-- --Goldsmith
We often tremble at an empty terror, yet
the false fancy brings a real misery.--
Schiller.
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses
than the anticipation of suffering.-Quin-
tilian.
Sorrow itself is not so hard to bear as the
thought of sorrow coming. Airy ghosts
that work no harm do terrify us nore than
men in steel with bloody purposes.--T. B.
Aldrich.
In all worldly things that a man piirsnies
with the greatest eagerness he finds not
half the pleasure in the possession that he
proposed to himself in the expectation.-
South.
The worst evils are those that never
arrive.
Few enterprises of great labor or hazard
would be undertaken if we had not the
power of maguifying the advantages we
expect from them.--Johnson.
Be not looking for evil.--Often thou
drainest the gall of fear while evil is passing
by thy dwelling.- Tupper.
To tremble before anticipated evils, is to
bemoan what thou hast never lost. --Goethe.
We part more casily with what we possess
than with our expectations of what we hope
for : expectation always goes beyond enjoy-
ment. -Home.
Our desires always disappoint 178 ; for
though we meet with something that gives
us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly
answers our expectation.-Rochefoucauld.
Nothing is so good as it seems before-
hand.—George Eliot.
Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to
anticipate misfortunes.—What madness is
it to be expecting evil before it comes.--
Seneca.
· Why need a man forestall his date of
grief, and run to meet that he would most
avoid ?--Milton.
The joys we expect are not so bright, nor
the troubles so dark'as we fancy they will
be.-Charles Reade.
It is expectation makes blessings dear. -
Feaven were not heaven if we knew what
it were. -Suckling.
It is worse to apprehend than to suffer-
Bruyere.
It has been well said that no man ever
sank under the burden of the day. It is
ANTIQUITY,-All the transactions of
the past differ very little from those of the
present.-M. Antoninus.
Those we call the ancients were really
new in everything. ---Pascal.
The earliest and oldest and longest has
still the mastery of 1.5.-George Eliot,
All things now held to be old were once
new.-What to-day we hold up by example,
will rank hereafter as precedent.-Tacilus.
It is one proof of a good education, and
of a true refinement of feeling, to respect
antiquity.—Mrs. Sigourney.
When ancient opinions and rules of life
are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be
estimated. From that moment we have no
compass to govern us, nor can we know
distinctly to what port to steer.—Burke.
I do by no means advise you to throw
away your time in ransacking, like a dull
antiquarian, the minute and unimportant
parts of remote and fabulous times. Let
blockheads read, what blockheads wrote.-
Chesterfield.
Antiquity !-I like its ruins better than
its reconstructions.--Joubert.
Time consecrates ; and what is gray with
age becomes religion.-Schiller.
Antiquity is enjoyed not by the ancients
who lived in the infancy of things, but by
us who live in their maturity.- Collon.
What subsists to-day by violence, con-
tinues to-morrow by acquiescence, and is
perpetuated by tradition, till at last the
hoary abuse shakes the gray hairs of anti-
buity at ns, and gives itself out as the wis-
dom of ages.-Everett.
Those old ages arc like the landscape that
shows best in the purple distance, all ver-
dant and smooth, and bathed in mellow
light.-E. H, Chapin.
ANXIETY,-Anxiety is the rust of life,
destroying its brightness and weakening
its power. -A childlike and abiding trust
in Providence is its best preventive and
remedy.--Tryon Edwards.
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about
what may never happen. Keep in the sun-
light.--1ranklin.
Better be despised for too anxious ap-
prehensions, than ruined by too confident
security. - Burke.
How much have cost us the evils that
never happened !- Jefferson.
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ANXIETY.
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APOTHEGMS.
Don't be forecasting evil unless it is what blessed in disappointment, why this restless
you can guard against. Anxiety is good stir and commotion of mind ?-Can it alter
for nothing if we can't turn it into a de- the cause, or unravel the mystery of human
fense.-Meyrick.
events ?=Blair.
It is not the cares of to-day, but the cares Sufficient to each day are the duties to be
of to-morrow that weigh a man down. For done and the trials to be endured. God
the needs of to-day we have corresponding never built a Christian strong enough to
strength given.-For the morrow we are carry to-day's duties and to-morrow's anx-
told to trust.-It is not ours yet.--G. Mac- ieties piled on the top of them.--T. L. Cuy-
donald.
ler.
When we borrow trouble, and look for-
APOLOGIES.-Apologies only account
ward into the future and see what storms
for the evil which they cannot alter.--Dis-
are coming, and distress ourselves before
raeli.
they come, as to how we shall avert them if
they ever do come, we lose our proper trust-
Apology is only egotism wrong side out.-
fulness in God. When we torment ourselves
Nine times out of ten the first thing a man's
companion knows of his short-comings, is
verses, we have already parted with that from his apology.-0. W. Holmes.
perfect love which casteth out fear.-H. W. No sensible person ever made an apol-
Beecher.
ogy.-Emerson
Anxiety is a word of unbelief or unreason-
APOTHEGMS.-(See “ PROVERBS.")
ing dread.–We have no right to allow it.
Full faith in God puts it to rest. ---Horace
Apothegms are the wisdom of the past
Bushnell.
condensed for the instruction and guidance
of the present.--Tryon Edwards.
He is well along the road to perfect man-
hood who does not allow the thousand little
The short sayings of wise and good men
worries of life to embitter bis temper, or
are of great value, like the dust of gold, or
disturb his equanimity.
the sparks of diamonds.- Tillotson.
An undivided heart which worships God
Apothegms to thinking minds are the
alone, and trusts him as it should, is raised
secds from which spring vast fields of new
above anxiety for carthly wants.--Geikie.
thought, that may be further cultivated,
beautified, and enlarged.-Ramsay.
One of the most useless of all things is to
take a deal of trouble in providing against
Apothegms are in history, the same as
pearls in the sand, or gold in the mine.-
dangers that never come. How many toil
Erasmus.
to lay up riches which they never enjoy ; to
provide for exigencies that never happen;
Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quin-
to prevent troubles that never come ; sacri-
tessential extracts of thought and feeling.-
ficing present comfort and enjoyment in
R. W. Alger.
guarding against the wants of a period they He is a benefactor of mankind vho con-
may never live to see.- W. Jay.
tracts the great rules of life into short sen-
It is not work that kills men ; it is tences, that may be easily impressed on the
worry.-Work is healthy ; you can hardly
memory, and so reçur habitually to the
put more on a man than he can bear.-Brit
miud. - Johnson.
worry is rizst upon the blade.--It is not Nothing hits harder, or sticks longer in
movement that destroys the machinery, but the memory, than an apothegm.- J. A.
friction.--H. W. Beecher.
Murray.
Worry not about the possible troubles of A maxim is the exact and noble expres-
the future ; for iť they come, you are but sion of an important and indisputable
anticipating and adding to their weight; truth.-Sound maxims are the germs of
and if they do not come, your worry is use- good ; strongly imprinted on the memory
less; and in either case it is weak and in they fortify and strengthen the will.-Jou-
vain, and a distrust of God's providence. bert.
Tiyon Edwards.
The excellence of aphorisms consists not
Let us be of good cheer, remembering 80 much in the expression of some rare or
that the misfortunes hardest to bear are abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehen-
those which never come.-J. R. Lowell. sion of some useful truth iu few words.
Anxiety is the poison of human life ; the
Johnson.
parent of many sins and of more miseries.- Nor do apothegms only serve for orna-
In a world where everything is doubtful, ment and delight, but also for action and
and where we may be disappointed, and be civil use, as being the edge tools of speech,
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APPEARANCES. .
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APPLAUSE.
which cut and penetrate the knots of busi-
ness and affairs.-Bacon.
Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the
largest and worthiest portion of our kuowl-
edge consists of aphorisms, and the great-
est and best of men is but an aphorism.
Coleridge.
Under the veil of these curious sentences
are hid those germs of morals which the
masters of philosophy have afterwards de-
veloped into so many volumes.- Plutarch.
A man of maxims only, is like a cyclops
with one eye, and that in the back of his
head.--Coleridge.
There are but few proverbial sayings
that are not true, for they are all drawn
from experience itself, which is the mother
of all sciences.-- Cervantes.
Sensible men show their sense by saying
much iu few words.-If noble actions are
the substance of life, good sayings are its
ornament and guide.-C. Simions.
Few of the many wise apothegms which
have been uttered from the time of the
seven sages of Greece to that of poor Rich-
ard, have prevented a single foolish ac-
tion.-Macaulay.
honor in the world, is to be in reality what
we would appear to be.-Socrates,
APPETITE.-Reason should direct,
and appetite obey.-Cicero.
Good cheer is no hindrance to a good
life.--Aristippus.
Choose rather to punish your appetites
than to be punished by them. - Tyrius
Maximus,
Animals feed ; man eats. Only the man
of intellect and judgment knows how to
eat.-Savarin.
Let not thy table exceed the fourth part
of thy revenue : let thy provision be solid,
and not far fetched, füller of substance
than art: be wisely fiugal in tlıy prepara-
tion, and freely cheerful in thy entertain-
ment: if thy guests be right, it is enough ;
if not, it is too much : too much is a vanity;
enough is a feast.- Quarles.
There are so few that resist the allure-
ments and luxuries of the table, that the
usual civilities at a meal are very like being
politely assisted to the grave.-N. P. Wil-
lis.
Now good digestion wait on appetite, and
health ou both.-Shakespeare.
Temperance and labor are the two best
physicians of man ; labor sharpens the ap-
petite, and temperance prevents from in-
dulging to excess.-Rousseare.
A well governed appetite is a great part
of liberty.-Seneca.
The lower your senses are kept, the better
you may govern them.-Appetite and reason
are like two buckets—when one is up, the
other is doin.-Of the two, I would rather
have the reason-bucket uppermost. ---Col-
lier.
For the sake of health, medicines are
taken by weight and measure ; so ought
food to be, or by some similar rule.—Skel-
ton.
APPEARANCES.—There are no great-
er wretches in the world than many of those
whom people in general take to be happy.-
Seneca.
Do not judge from mere appearances ;
for the light laughter that bubbles on the
lip often mantles over the depths of sad-
ness, and the serious look may be the sober
veil 'that covers a divine peace and joy.-
The bosom can achiebeneath diamond
brooches ; and many a blithe heart dauces
under coarse wool.-E. H. Chapin.
Foolish men mistake transitory sem-
blances for eternal fact, and go astray more
and more.-Carlyle.
Half the work that is done in this world
is to make things appear what they are
not.-L. R. Beadle.
How little do they see what is, who frame
their hasty judgments upon that which
scems.-Southey.
A man of the world must seem to be
what he wishes to be thought. -- Bruyere.
Beware, so long as you live, of judging
men by their outward appearance.- La
Fontaine,
The world is governed more by appear-
ances than by realities, so that it is fnlly as
pecessary to seem to know something as to
know it. - Daniel Webster.
The shortest and surest way to live with
APPLAUSE.-Applause is the spur of
noble minds; the end and aim of weak
ones.-Colton.
Neither luman applause nor human
censure is to be taken as the test of truth;
but either should set us upon testing our-
selves.- Whately.
When the million applaud yoni, seriously
ask what harm you have done ; when they
censure you, what good !- Colton.
Applause waits on success. The fickle
multitude, like the light straw that floats on
the stream, glide with the current still, and
follow fortune.-Franklin.
APPRECIATION.
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ARCHITECTURE.
Praise from the common people is gener-
ally false, and rather follows the vain than
the virtuous.-Bacon. .
A slowness to applaud betrays a cold tem-
per or an envious spirit.-E. More.
O popular applause !-What heart of
man is proof against thy sweet, seducing
charms ! - Cowper.
Great minds had rather deserve contem-
poraneous applause without obtaining it,
than obtain without deserving it. If it fol-
low them it is well, but they will not devi-
ate to follow it.-Collon.
Man's first care should be to avoid the
reproaches of his own leart, and next to
escape the censures of the world. If the
last interfere with the first it should be
entirely neglected.-But if not, there can-
not be a greater satisfaction to an honest
mind than to see its own approbation sec-
onded by the applauses of the public, -
Addison
APPRECIATION.-(See “INFLU-
ENCE.")
Next to excellence is the appreciation of
it. -Thackeray.
To love one that is great, is almost to be
great one's self.-Mad, Neckar.
You may fail to shine in the opinion of
others, both in your conversation and ac-
tions, from being superior, as well as in-
ferior, to them.- Greville.
We must never undervalue any person. -
The workman loves not to have his work
despised in his presence. Now God is
present everywhere, and every person is
his work. --De Sales.
Contemporaries appreciate the
rather than the merit; but posterity will
regard the merit rather than the man.-
Colton.
We should allow other's excellences, to
preserve a modest opinion of our ow).-
Barrow.
Appreciation wliether of nature, or
books, or art, or men, depends very much
temperament.- What is beauty
genius or greatness to one, is far from
being so to another.-Tryon Edwards.
One of the Godlike things of this world
is the veneration done to human worth by
the hearts of men.- --Carlyle.
When a nation gives birth to a man who
is able to produce a great thonght, another
is born who is able to understand and
admire it.--Joubert.
No story is the same to 118 after a lapse of
time; or rather we who rearl it are 110
longer the same interpreters.-- George Eliot.
Next to invention is the power of inter-
preting invention ; next to beauty the
power of appreciating beauty.-Margaret
Fuller.
You will find poetry nowhere unless you
bring some with you.-Joubert.
It is with certain good qualities as with
the senses ; those who have them not can
neither appreciate nor comprehend them in
others.-Rochefoucauld.
We never know a greater character unless
there is in ourselves something congenial
to it.-Channing.
He is incapable of a truly good action
who finds not a pleasure in contemplating
the good actions of others.--Lavater.
In proportion as our own mind is enlarged
we discover a greater number of men of
originality.-Commonplace people see no
difference between one man and another. -
Pascal.
Whatever are the benefits of fortune,
they get require a palate fit to relish and
taste them.-Montaigne.
Every man is valued in this world as he
shows by his conduct that he wishes to be
valued.-Bruyere.
In an audience of rough people a generous
sentiment always brings down the house.-
In the tumult of war both sides applaud a
heroic deed.--T. W. Higginson.
We are very much what others think of
118.–The reception our observations meet
with gives us courage to proceed, or damps
our efforts.---- Hazlilt.
A work of real merit finds favor at last.
A. B. Alcott.
To feel exquisitely is the lot of very many;
but to appreciate belongs to the few.-Only
one or two, here and there, have the blended
passion and understanding which, in its
essence, constitute worship.-C. Auchester.
man
OD
Or
ARCHITECTURE. Architecture is
the printing press of all ages, and gives &
history of the state of society in which the
structure was erected, from the cromlachs
of the Druids to the toyshops of bad taste.
The Tower and Westminster Abbey are
glorious pages in the history of time, and
tell the story of an iron despotism, and of
the cowardice of an unlimited power.
Lacy Morgan.
The architecture of a nation is great
only when it is as universal and established
as its langunge, and when provincial dif-
ferences are nothing more than so many
dialects.--Ruskin.
Architecture is frozen music.- De Staël.
ARGUMENT.
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ARISTOCRACY.
Greek architecture is the flowering of
geometry.—Emerson.
Architecture is a landmaid of devotion.
A beautiful church is a sermon in stone,
and its spire a finger pointing to heaven. -
Schaft.
A Gothic church is a petrified religion.-
Coleridge.
If cities were built by the sound of music,
then some edifices would appear to be con-
structed by grave, solemn tones, and others
to have danced forth to light fantastic
airs.- Hawthorne.
Architecture is the art which so disposes
and adorns the edificcs raised by man, that
the sight of them may contribute to his men-
tal health, power, and pleasure.-Ruskin.
Houses are built to live in, more than to
look on ; therefore let use be preferred be-
fore uniformity, except where both may be
had.-Bacon.
Never argue at the dinner table, fo: the
one who is not bungry always gets the best
of the argument.
Weak arguments are often thrust before
my path ; but although they are most un-
substantial, it is not easy to destroy them.
There is not a more difficult feat known
than to cut through a cushion with a
sword.- Whately.
The soundest argument will produce no
more conviction in an empty head than the
most superficial declamation; a feather
and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a
vacuum.- Colton.
An ill argument introduced with defer-
ence will procure more credit than the
profoundest science with a rough, insolent,
and noisy management.-Locke.
Heat and animosity, contest and conflict,
may sharpen the wits, although they rarely
do; they never strengthen the under-
standing, clear the perspicacity, guide the
judgment, or improve the heart.— Landor.
Be calm in arguing: for fierceness makes
error a fault, and truth discourtesy ; calm-
ness is a great advantage.- Herbert.
There is no good in arguing with the
inevitable. The only argument available
with an east wind is to put on your great-
coat.-J. R. Lowell.
The first duty of a wise advocate is to
convince bis opponents that he understands
their arguments, and sympathises with their
just feelings.-Coleridge.
There is no dispute managed without
passion, and yet there is scarce a dispute
worth a passion.-Sherlock,
Testimony is like an arrow shot from a
long-bow; its force depends on the strength
of the hand that draws it. But argument
is like an arrow from a cross-bow, which
has equal force if drawn by a child or a
man.- Boyle.
ARGUMENT.-Argument, as usually
managed, is the worst sort of conversation,
as in books it is generally the worst sort of
reading.-Swift.
Be calın in arguing; for fierceness makes
error a fault, and truth discourtesy.-Her-
bert,
In argument similcs are like songs in
love; they describe much, but prove no-
thing.–Prior.
Wise men argne causes ; fools decide
them.-- Anacharsis,
He wlo establishes his argument by noise
and command, shows that his reason is
weak.-Montaigne.
Nothing is more certain than that much
of the force as well as grace of arguments,
as well as of instructions, depends on their
conciseness,— Pope.
When a man argues for victory and not
for truth, he is sure of just one ally, that is
the devil.-Not the defeat of the intellect,
but the acceptance of the heart is the only
true object in fighting with the sword of the
spirit. — G. Macdonald,
Men's arguments often prove nothing but
their wishes.- Collon.
Prejudices are rarely overcome by argu-
ment; not being founded in reason they
cannot be destroyed by logic.- Tryon Ed-
wards.
Clear statement is argument.-W. G. 7.
Shedd.
If I were to deliver up my whole self to
the arbitrament of special pleaders, to-day
I might be argued into an atheist, and to-
morrow into a pickpocket.—Bulwer.
ARISTOCRACY.-And lords, whose
parents were the Lord knows who, De Foe.
Some will always be above others.-De-
stroy the inequality to-day, and it will
appear again to-morrow.-Tmerson.
A social life that worships money or
makes social distinction its aim, is, in spirit,
an attempted aristocracy.
Among the masses, even in revolutions,
aristocracy must ever exist.-Destroy it in
the nobility, and it becomes centred in the
rich and powerful Houses of Commons.---
Pull them down, and it still survives in the
master and foreman of the workshop.
Guizot.
ARMY.
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ART.
I never could believe that Providence had
sent a few men into the world, ready booted
and spurred to ride, and millions ready sad-
dled and bridled to be ridden.-Richard
Rumbold.
Aristocracy has three successive ages : the
age of superiorities, that of privileges, and
that of vanities.-Having passed out of the
first, it degenerates in the second, and dies
away in the third.—Chateaubriand.
ARMY.-The army is & school where
obedience is taught, and discipline is en-
forced ; where bravery becomes a l'abit
and morals too often are neglected; where
clivalry is exalted, and religion under-
valued; where virtue is rather understood
in the classic sense of fortitude and courage,
than in the modern and Christian sense of
true moral excellence.- Ladd.
Armies, though always the supporters
and tools of absolute power for the time
being, are always its destroyers too, by fre-
quently changing the hands in which they
think proper to lodge it. Chesterfield.
The army is a good book in which to study
human life.-One learns there to put his
hand to everything.-The niost delicate and
rich are forced to see poverty and live with
it; to understand distress; and to know
how rapid and great are the l'evolutions and
changes of life. --De Vigny.
The best armor is to keep out of gun-
shot.-Bacon.
by appearance the illusion of a higher
reality.-Goethe.
The true work of art is but a shadow of
the divine perfection.—Michael Angelo.
All that is good in art is the expression of
one soul talking to another, and is precious
according to the greatness of the soul that
utter's it.-Ruskin,
Art, as far as it has the ability, follows
nature, as & pupil imitates his master, 80
that art must be, as it were, a descendant
of God.-Dante,
The perfection of art is to conceal art.-
Quintilian.
Never judge a work of art by its defects.-
Washinglon Allston.
There is no more potent antidote to low
sensuality than admiration of the beauti-
ful.-All the higher arts of design are
essentially chaste, withont respect to the ob-
ject.They purify the thoughts, as tragedy
purifies the passions.-Their accidental ef-
fects are not worth consideration ; for there
are souls to whom even a vestal is not
holy.--Schlegel.
The artist is the child in the popular
fable, every one of whose tears was a pearl.
Ah! the world, that cruel stepmother, beats
the poor child the harder to make him shed
more pearls. Heine. .
The highest triumph of art, is the truest
presentation of nature.- N. P. Willis.
The names of great painters are like pass-
ing bells.-In Velasquez you hear sounded
the fall of Spain ; in Titian, that of Venice;
in Leonardo, that of Milan ; in Raphael,
that of Rome.-And there is profound j118-
tice in this ; for in proportion to the noble-
ness of power is the guilt of its use for
purposes vain or vile; and litherto tlic
greater the art the more surely las it been
used, and used solely, for the decoration of
price, or the provoking of sensuality:-
Rusicin.
The mission of art is to represent nature;
not to imitate her.-W. M. Hunt.
The real truthfulness of all works of imag-
ination,-sculpture, painting, and written
fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that
the artist never seeks to represent positive
truth, but the idealized image of a truth.-
Bulwer.
The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot
be the object of the arts.--Illusion on a
ground of truth, that is the secret of the
fine arts.-Joubert.
Art does not imitate nature, but founds
itself on the study of nature-takes from
nature the selections which best accord with
ARROGANCE.When men are most
sure and arrogant they are coinmonly most
mistaken, giving views to passion without
that proper deliberation which alone can
secure them from the grossest absurdi-
ties.-Hume.
Nothing is more hateful to a poor man
than the purse-proud arrogance of the
rich.-But let tho poor man become rich
and he runs at once into the vice against
which he so feelingly declaimed.-There
are strange contradictions in human char-
acter.- Cumberland, .
The arrogant man does but blast the
blessings of life and swagger away his own
enjoyments.--To say nothing of the folly
and injustice of such behavior, it is always
the sign of a little and unbenevolent temper,
having no more greatness in it than the
swelling of the dropsy.-Collier.
ART.-True art is reverent imitation of
God.-Tryon Edwards.
All great art is the expression of man's
delight in God's work, not his own.-Rus-
kin.
The highest problem of any art is to cause
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ASKING
its own intention, and then bestows on them
that which nature does not possess, viz. :
the mind and soul of man.-Bulwer.
The object of art is to crystallize emotion
into thought, and then fix it in form.---
Delsarte.
The learned understand the reason of
art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.-
Quintilian.
The highest problem of every art is, by
means of appearances, to produce the illu-
sion of a loftier reality.--Goethe.
The mother of the useful art, is necessity;
that of the fine arts, is luxury.-The former
have intellect for their father; the latter,
genius, which itself is a kind of luxury.-
Schopenhauer.
The painter is, as to the execution of his
work, a mechanic ; but as to his conception
and spirit and design he is hardly below
even the poet.-Schiller.
In the art of design, color is to form what
verse is to prose, a more harmonious and
luminous vehicle of thought. -Mrs. Jame-
son.
Very sacred is the vocation of the artist,
who has to do directly with the works of
God, and interpret the tecching of creation
to mankind. All honor to the man who
treats it sacredly ; who studies, as in God's
presence, the thoughts of God which are
expressed to him ; and makes all things
according to the pattern which he is ever
ready to show to carnest and reverent
genius on the mount.-Brown.
Art employs metliod for the symmetrical
formation of beauty, as science employs it
for the logical exposition of truth; but the
mechanical process is, in the last, cver kept
visibly distinct, while in the first it escapes
from sight amid the shows of color and the
shapes of grace.-Bulwer.
Would that we could at once paint with
the eyes !-In the long way from the eye
through the arm to the pencil, how much is
lost !--Lessing.
The artist ought never to perpetuate a
temporary expression.
In sculpture did any one ever call the
Apollo a fancy piece ; or say of the Laocoon
how it might be made different ?-A master-
picce of art has, to the mind, a fixed place
in the chain of being, as much as a plant or
a crystal. -Emerson.
Art does not lie in copying nature.-
Nature furnishes the material by means of
which to express a beauty still unexpressed
in nature. The artist beholds in nature
more than she herself is conscious of,–
H. James.
The highest art is always the most relig-
ious, and the greatest artist is always a
devout man.-A scoffing Raphael, or an
irreverent Michael Angelo, is not conceiv-
able.-Blailcie.
Artists are nearest God. Into their souls
he breathes his life, and from their hands
it comes in fair, articulate forms to bless
the world.-J. G. Holland.
Since I have known God in a saving man-.
ner, painting, poetry, and music have had
cliarms unknown to me before. I have
either received what I suppose is a taste for
them, or religion has refined my mind, and
made it susceptible of new impressions from
the sublime and beautiful.--0, how religion
secures the heightened enjoyment of those
pleasures which keep so many from God
by their being a source of pride !— Henry
Martyn.
ARTIFICE.--The ordinary employ-
ment of artifice, is the mark of a petty
mind; and it almost always happens that
he who uses it to cover himself in one place,
uncovers himself in another.-Rochefou-
cauld.
To know how to dissemble is the knowl-
edge of kings.-Richelieu.
Artifice is weak; it is the work of mere
man, in the imbecility and self distrust of
his mimic understanding.--Hare.
ASCETICISM,--Three forms of asceti-
cism have existed in this weak world.--
Religious asceticism, being the refusal of
pleasure and knowledge for the sake, as
supposed, of religion ; seen chiefly in the
middle ages.—Military asceticism, being
the refusal of pleasure and knowledge for
the sake of power ; seen chiefly in the early
days of Sparta and Rome. And monetary
asceticism, consisting in the refusal of
pleasure and knowledge for the sake of
money ; seen in the present days of Lon-
don and Manchester. - Ruskin.
I recommend no sour ascetic life. I
believe not only in the tlorns on the rose-
bush, but in the roscs which the thorns
defend, Asceticism is the child of sensu-
ality and superstition. She is the secret
mother of many a secret sin. God, when
he made man's body, did not give us a fibre
too much, nor a passion too many.--Theo-
dore Parker,
ASKING.-I am prejudiced in favor of
him who, withont impudence, can ask
boldly. He has faith in humanity, and
faith in himself.-.No one who is not acc118-
tomed to give grandly can ask nobly and
with boldness. – Lavaier.
ASPIRATION.
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ASSOCIATES.
as eternity, and they point him to it.-
Tryon Edwards.
There are glimpses of heaven to us in
every act, or thought, or word, that raises
us above ourselves.--A. P. Stanley.
ASSERTIONS- Weigh not so much
what men assert, as what they prove.-
Truth is simple and naked, and needs not
invention to apparel her comeliness.-Sir
P. Sidney.
Assertion, unsupported by fact, is nuga-
tory.-Surmise and general abuse, in how-
ever elegant language, ought not to pass
for truth.-Junius.
It is an impudent kind of sorcery to
attempt to blind us with the smoke, with-
out convincing us that the fire has existed.
-Junius.
ASPIRATION.-(See "AIMS," and
" AMBITION.”)
It is not for man to rest in absolute con-
tentment.-He is born to hopes and aspi-
rations as the sparks fly upivard, unless he
has brutified his nature and quenched the
spirit of immortality which is his portion.-
Southcy.
'Tis not what man does which exalts him,
but what man would do !--Browning.
There is not a heart but has its nioinents
of longing, yearning for something better,
nobler, holier than it knows now.-H. W.
Beecher.
Man ought always to have something
that he prefers to life ; otherwise life itself
will seem to him tiresome and void.-
Seume.
They build too low who build beneatli the
skies. ---Young.
Be always displeased with what thou art
if thou desire to attain to what thou art
not, for where thou hast pleased thyself,
there thou abidest.-Quarles.
There is no sorrow I have thought more
about than that-to love what is great, and
try to reach it, and yet to fail. --George
Eliot,
The heart is a small thing, but desireth
great matters. It is not sufficient for a
lite's dinner, yet the whole world is not
sufficient for it. - Quarles.
We are not to make the ideas of content-
ment and aspiration quarrel, for God made
them fast friends.-A man may aspire, and
yet be quite content until it is time to rise
and both flying and resting are but parts of
one contentment. The very fruit of the
gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart
what spring is to the earth, inaking every
loot, and bud, and bough desire to be
more.-E. W. Beecher.
It seems to me we can never give up
longing and wishing while we are thor-
oughly alive. There are certain things we
feel to be beautiful and good, and we must
hunger after them.— George Eliot.
What we truly and earnestly aspire to be,
that in some sense we are. The mere aspi-
ration, by changing the frame of the mind,
for the moment realises itself.---Mrs. Jame-
ASSOCIATES.-(See "COMPANION-
SHIP.")
Tell me with whom thou art found, and I
will tell thee who thou art.- Goethe.
If you wish to be held in esteem, you
must associate only with those who are
estimable.—Bruyere.
Evil communications corrupt good man-
ners,-Menander.
We gain nothing by being with such as
ourselves : we encourage each other in
mediocrity.-I am always longing to be
with men more excellent than myself.-
Lamb.
You may depend upon it that he is a
good man whose intimate friends are all
good, and whose enemies are decidedly
bad.-Lavater.
When one associates with vice, it is but
one step from companionship to slavery.
Be very circumspect in the choice of thy
company. In the society of thine equals
thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the
society of thy snperiors thou shalt find
more profit. To be the best in the company
is the way to grow worse ; the best means
to grow better is to be the worst there.
Quarles.
No company is far preferable to bad,
because we are more apt to catch the vices
of others than their virtues, as disease is
more contagious than health, - Collon.
Choose the company of your superiors
whenever you can have it ; that is the right
and true pride. -Chesterfield.
No man can be provident of his time,
who is not prudent in the choice of his
company.-Jeremy Taylor.
A man should live with his superiors as
son.
God has never ceased to be the one true
aim of all right human aspirations.— Vinet. .
Aspirations after the holy—the only aspi-
rations in which the soul can be assured it
will never meet with disappointment.---
Maria McIntosh,
The desires and longings of man are past
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ASSOCIATION.
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ATHEISM.
he does with his fire : not too near, lest he
buru ; uor too far off, lest he freeze.-Di-
ogenes.
Company, villainous company hath been
the ruin of me.-Shakespeare.
It is best to be with those in time, that
we hope to be with in eternity.--Fuller.
It is certain that either wise bearing or
ignorant carriage is caught, as men tako
diseases, one of another ; therefore let men
take heed of their company.-Shakespeare.
Frequent intercourse and intimate con-
nection between two persons, make them
80 alike, that not only their dispositions
are moulded like each other, but their very
faces and tones of voice contract a simi-
larity.-Lavater.
It is no small happiness to attend those
from whom we may receive precepts and
examples of virtue.—Bp. Hall.
When we live habitually with the wicked,
we become necessarily their victims or their
disciples ; on the contrary, when we associ-
ate with the virtuous we form ourselves in
imitation of their virtues, or at least lose,
every day, something of our faults.-Aga-
pet.
In all societies it is advisable to associato
if possible with the highest; not that they
are always the best, but because, if dis-
gusted there, we can always descend; but
if we begin with the lowest to ascend is
impossible.-Colton.
It is only when men associate with the
wicked with the desire and purpose of doing
then good, that they caż rely upon the
protection of God to preserve them from
contamination.-C. Hodge.
It is meet that noble minds keep ever
with their likes ; for who so firm that can-
not be seduced. --Shakespeare.
People will in a great degree, and not
without reason, forin their opinion of you
by that they have of your friends, as, says
the Spanish proverb), - Tell me with whom
you live and I will tell you who you are."
Those unacquainteil with the world take
pleasure in intimacy with great men ; those
wlio are wiser fear the consequences.
Horace.
ASSOCIATION.-I have only to take
up this or that to flood my soul with memo-
ries. ---Madame Deluzy.
There is no man who has not some inter-
esting associations with particular scenes,
or airs, or books, and who does not feeí
their beauty or sublimity enhanced to him
by such connections.-Alison.
That man is little to be envicd whose
patriotism would not gain force on the
plain of Marathon, or whose piety would
not grow warmer amid the ruins of Iona.-
Johnson.
He whose heart is not excited on the
spot which a martyr has sanctified by his
sufferings, or at the grave of one who has
greatly benefited maukind, must be more
inferior to the multitude in his moral, than
he possibly can be above them in his intel-
lectual nature.-Southey.
ASTRONOMY.--Astronomy is one of
the sublimest tields of human investiga-
tion. The mind that grasps its facts and
principles receives something of the enlarge-
ment and grandeur belonging to the science
itself.-It is a quickener of devotion.-H.
Mann.
No one can contemplate the great facts of
astronomy without feeling his own little-
ness and the wonderful sweep of the power
aud providence of God.-Tryon Edwards.
An undevout astronomer is mad.--Young.
The contemplation of celestial things will
make a man both speak and think more
sublimely and magnificently when he comes
down to human affairs. - Cicero.
ATHEISM.-The three great apostles of
practical atheism that make converts with-
out persecuting, and retain them without
preaching, are health, wealth, and power. -
Colton.
Atheism is rather in the life than in the
heart of man.-Bacon.
To be an atheist requires an infinitely
greater measure of faith than to receive
all the great truths which atheism would
deny.-Addison.
Atheism, if it exists, is the result of igno-
rance and pride, of strong seuse and feeble
l'eason, of good eating and ill living. It is
the plague of society, the corrupter of
morals, and the underminer of property.--
Jeremy Collier.
If a man of sober habits, moderate,
chaste, and just in all his dealings should
assert there is no God, he would at least
speak without interested motives ; but such
u man is not to be found.—Bruyere.
No one is so thoroughly superstitious as
the godless man. Life and death to him
are haunted grounds, filled with goblin
forms of vague and shadowy dread.-Mrs.
Stowe.
Atheism is the death of hope, the suicide
of the soul.
The footprint of the suvage in the sand is
sufficient to prove the presence of man to
the atheist who will not recognize God
ATHEISM.
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ATTENTION.
though his hand is impressed on the entire
universe.-Hugh Miller.
Tewmen are so obstinate in their atheism,
that a pressing danger will not compel them
to the acknowledgment of a divine power.
Plato.
A little philosophy inclineth men's minds
to atheism
;
but depth in philosoplıy
bringeth men's minds to religion; for.whilo
the mind of man lookcth upon second
causes scattered, it may sometimes rest iu
them, and go no further.-—But when it
beholdeth the chain of them, confeclerate
and linked together, it must needs fly to
Providence and Deity.-- Bacon.
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph,
make atheists of mankind.--Dryden.
Atheism is the folly of the metaplıysician,
not the folly of human nature. George
Bancroft.
In agony or danger, no nature is athe-
ist.—The mind that knows udt what to tiy
to, flies to God.-H. More.
The atheist is one who fain would pull
God from his throne, and in the place of
beaven's eternal king set up the phantom
chance.- Glynn.
Plato was right in calling atheism a dis-
ease. The human intellect in its healthy
action, holds it for certain that there is a
Great Being over us, invisible, infinite,
ineffable, but of real, solid personality, who
made and governs 118, and who made and
governs all things.-R. D. Hitchcock.
An irreligious man, a speculative or a
practical atheist, is as a sovereign, who
voluntarily takes off his crown and declares
himself unworthy to reigu.-Blaclcie.
Atheism is never the error of society, in
any stage or circumstance whatever. --In
the belief of a Deity savage and sage have
alike agreed.-The great error has been,
not the denial of one God, but the belief of
many ; but polytheism has been a popular
and poetical, rather than a pliilosophical
error. - Henry Fergus.
Atheism is a disease of the soul, before it
becomes an error of the understanding.-
Plato.
God never wrought miracles to convince
atheism, because His ordinary works con-
vince it.- Bacon.
There are innumerable souls that would
resent the charge of the fool's atheism, yet
daily deny God in very deed.
The atheist is one of the most daring
beings in creation-a contemner of God
who explodes his laws by denying his exis-
tence.-Join Foster.
What can be more foolish than to think
that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth
could come by chance, when all the skill of
art is not able to make an oyster? To see
rare effects, and no cause ; a motion, with-
out a mover; a circle, without a centre; a
time, without an eternity; a second, with-
out a first: these are things so against
philosophy and natural reason, that he
must be a beast in understanding who can
believe in them. The thing forined, says
that nothing formed it; and that which is
inade, is, while that which made it is uot!
This folly is infinite.-Jeremy Taylor.
A traveller amid the scenery of the Alps,
surrounded by the sublimest demonstra-
tions of God's power, had the hardihood to
write against his name, in an album kept
for visitor's, "An atheist." Auother who
followed, shocked and indignant at the in-
scription, wrote beneath it, ** If an atheist,
a fool; if not, a liar !"_G. B. Cheever.
Atheists put on a false courage in the
midst of their darkness and misapprehen-
sions, like children who when they fear to
go in the dark, will sing or whistle to keep
up their courage.-Pope.
Whoever considers the study of anatomy
can never be an atheist.-Lord Herbert.
ATTENTION.—The power of applying
attention, steady and undissipated, to a
single object, is the sure mark of a superior
genius.— Chesterfield.
Few things are impracticable in them-
selves : and it is for want of application,
rather than of means, that men fail of suic-
cess.-Rochefoucauld.
Attention makes the genius ; all learning,
fancy, science, and skill depend upon it.
Newton traced his great discoveries to it.
It builds bridges, opens new worlds, licals
diseases, carries on the business of the
world.— Without it taste is useless, and the
beanties of literature unobserved.--Will-
anott.
If I have made any improvement in the
sciences, it is owing more to patient atten-
tion than to anything beside.—Sir I. New-
ton.
If there be anything that can be called
genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give
that attention to a subject which keeps it
steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed
it accurately on all sides.--Reid.
It is attention, more than any difference
in native powers that makes the wide differ-
ence between minds and men.--In this is
the source of poetic genius, and of the
genius of discovery in science.-It was this
that led Newton to the invention of fluxions,
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AUTUMN.
and the discovery of gravitation, and Har-
vey to find out the circulation of the blood,
and Davy to those views which laid the
foundation of modern chemistry. -Brodie.
AUTHORITY.-(See “OFFICE.”)
Nothing is more gratifying to the mind
of man than power or domiuion.--Addison.
Nothing sooner overthrows a weak head
than opiniou of authority ; like too strong
liquor for a frail glass.--Sir P. Sidney.
Nothing more impairs authority than a
too frequent or indiscreet use of it. If
thunder itself was to be continual, it would
excite no more terror than the noise of a
mill.
Man, proud man ! dressed in a little brief
authority, plays such fantastic tricks before
high heaven as make the angels weep.-
Shalcespeare.
They that govern make least noise, as
they that row the barge do work and puff
and sweat, while he that governs sits quietly
at the stern, and scarce is seen to stir. -
Selden.
He who is firmly seated in authority soon
learns to think security, and not progress,
the highest lesson of statecraft.-J. R.
Lowell.
AUTHORSHIP,--Authorship, accord-
ing to the spirit in which it is pulrsued, is
an infancy, a pastime, a labor, a handicraft,
an art, a science, or å virtue.-Schlegel.
The two most engaging powers of an
author, are, to make new things familiar,
and familiar things new.-Johnson.
It is quite as much of a trade to make a
book, as to make a clock.-It requires more
than inere genius to be an author, — Bruyere.
No author is so poor that he cannot be
of some service, if only as a witness of his
time.-Fauchet.
To write well is to think well, to feel well,
and to render well; it is to possess at once
intellect, soul, and taste. -Buffon.
He who purposes to be an author, should
first be a student.-Dryden.
Never write on a subject without first
having read yourself full on it ; and never
read on a subject till you have thought
yourself hungry on it.-Richter.
Clear writers, like clear fountains, do not
seem so deep as they are ; the turbid seem
the most profound.-Landor.
No fathers or mothers think their own
children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet
stronger with respect to the offspring of
the mind.–Cervantes.
The most original authors are not so
because they advance what is new, but be
cause they put what they have to say as if
it had never been said before.- Goethe.
The chief glory of a country, says John-
son, arises from its authors. But this is
only when they are oracles of wisdom.-
Unless they teach virtue they are more
worthy of a halter than of the laurel.-- Jane
Porter.
Next to doing things that deserve to be
written, nothing gets a man more credit,
or gives him more pleasure than to write
things that deserve to be read.-Chester-
field.
There are three difficulties in author-
ship :-to write anything worth publishing
-to find honest men to publish it—and to
get sensible men to read it.-Collon.
Talent alone cannot make a writer ; there
must be a man behind the book.- Emerson.
Every author in some degree portrays
himself iu his works, even if it be against
his will.-- Goethe.
Writers are the main landmarks of the
past.- Bulwer.
A great writer is the friend and bene-
factor of his readers.-Macaulay.
Satire lies about men of letters during
their lives, and eulogy after their death. -
Voltaire.
It is doubtful whether mankind are most
indebted to those who like Bacon and But-
ler dig the gold from the mine of literature,
or to those who, like Paley, purify it, stamp
it, fix its real value, and give it currency
and utility.-Collon.
Authorship is a royal priesthood ; but
woe to him who raslily Jays unhallowed
hands on the ark or altar, professing a zeal
for the welfare of the race, only to secure
his own selfish ends.--Horace Greeley.
AUTUMN.-The melancholy days are
come, the saddest of the year.-- Bryant.
A moral character is attached to autumnal
scenes.-Tlie flowers fading like our hopes,
the leaves falling like our years, the clouds
fleeting like our illusions, the light dimin-
ishing like our intelligence, the sun grow-
ing colder like our affections, the rivers
becoming frozen like our lives—all bear
secret relations to our destinies.-Chateau-
briand.
Season of mist and mellow fruitfulness.-
Keals.
The Sabbath of the year.-Logan.
Magnificent autumn! He comes not like
a pilgrim, clad in russet weeds; not like a
bermit, clad in gray ; but like a warrior
they
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AVARICE.
with the minin of blood on his brazen mail. murders in this loathsome world than any
His crimson scarf is rent; his scarlet ban- morbal drug.--Shalcespeare.
ner dripping with gore ; his step like a flail
Avarice is to the intellect and heart, what
on the threshing floor. -Longfellow.
sensuality is to the morals.-Mrs. Jameson.
The leaves in autuinn do not change color The lust of goli, unfeeling and remorse-
from the blighting touch of frost, but from
less, the last corruption of degenerate man.
the process of natural decay.--They fall
-Johnson.
when the fruit is ripened, and their work is
done.--And their splendid coloring is but
Avarice is generally the last passion of
their graceful and beautiful surrender of those lives of which the first part has been
life whicn they have finished their summer
squandered in pleasure, and the second
offering of service to God and man. And
devoted to ambition. He that sinks under
one of the great lessons the fall of the leaf the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age
teaches, is this : Do your work well, and
with the milder business of saving it.
Jolinson.
then be ready to depart when God shall
call.---Tryon Edwards.
Study rather to fill your mind than your
The tints of autumn-a mighty flower
coffers ; knowing that gold and silver were
garden, blossoming under the spell of the
originally mingled with dirt, until avarice
enchanter, frost.-Whittier.
or ambition parted them.--Seneca.
Who at this season does not feel im-
The avaricious man is like the barren
pressed with a sentiment of melancholy ?
sandy ground of the desert which sucks in
Or who is able to resist the current of
all the rain and dew with greediness, but
thought, which, from the appearances of
yields no fruitful herbs or plants for the
benefit of others.- Zeno.
decay, so naturally leads to the solemn
imagination of that inevitable fate which is All the good things of the world are no
to bring on alike the decay of life, of em- further good to us than as they are of use;
pire, and of nature itself ?--A. Alison. and of all we may heap up we enjoy only as
much as we can use, and no more. ---De
AVARICE.--Avarice is the vice of de-
Foe.
clining year'8. --Bancroft.
O curseu finald! when for thy sake
The list of avarice has so tolally seized
the fool throws üp us interest in both
upou mankind that their wealth seems
worlds, first starved in this, then damned
rather to possess them, than they to possess in that to come. --Blair.
their wealth. -- Pliny,
Avarice, in old age, is foolish ; for what
We are but stewards of what we falsely can be more absurd than to increase our
call our own ; yet avarice is so insatiable
provisions for the road the nearer we ap-
that it is not in the power of abundance to
proach to our journey's end ?- Cicero.
content it.Seneca.
How vilely has he lost himself who has
How quickly nature falls into revolt when
become a slave to his servant, and exalts
gold becomes her object. --Shalcespeare. him to the dignity of his Maker! Gold is
Poverty wants some things, luxury many,
the frieud, the wife, the god of the money-
avarice all things.-Cowley.
monger of the world.--Penn.
It is one of the worst effects of prosperity Avarice reigns most in those who have
that it makes a man a vortex instead of a but few good qualities to commend them :
fountain, so that instead of throwing out, it is a weed that will grow only in a barren
he learns only to draw in.-H. W. Beecher. soil.-Hughes.
Avarice begets more vices than Priam did Some men are thought sagacious merely
children, and like Priam survives them all. on account of their avarice ; whereas a child
-It starves its keeper to surfeit those who can clench its fist the moment it is born.-
wish him dead, and makes him submit to Shenstone.
more mortifications to lose heaven than the
The avarice of the miser is the grand
martyr undergoes to gain it.— Colton.
sepulchre of all his other passions as they
As objects close to the eye shut ont larger successively decay ; but unlike other tombs
objects on the horizon, so man sometimes it is enlarged by reflection and strengthened
covers up the entire disc of eternity with a by age.--Colton. -
dollar, and quenches transcendent glories Avarice is always poor, but poor by its
with a little shining dust.-E. H. Chapin. own fault.-- Johnson.
Avarice increases with the increasing pile Because men believe not in providence,
of gold.—Juvenal.
Worse poison to men's souls, doing more Hoard.--They do not believe in any reward
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BARGAIN.
importance as would make us insupport-
able through life.-Happy the child whose
mother is tired of talking nonsense to him
before he is old enough to know the sense
of it.-Hare.
for charity, and therefore they will part
with nothing.-Barrow.
AWKWARDNESS.-Awkwardness is a
more real disadvantage than it is generally
thought to be: it often occasions ridicule,
and always lessens dignity.--Chesterfield.
An awkward man never does justice to
himself; to his intelligence, to his inten-
tions, or to his actual merit.—A fine per-
son, or a beauteous face are in vain without
the grace of deportment.-Churchill.
B.
BABBLERS.-(See " GOSSIP.")
They always talk who never think.-
Prior.
Fire and sword are but slow engines of
destruction in comparison with the bab-
bler.- Steele,
Talkers are no good doers, be assured.-
We go to use our hands and uot our
tongues.-Shakespeare.
BABE.-Of all the joys that lighten
suffering earth, what joy is welcomed like a
new-born child?-Mrs, Norton,
A babe in the house is a well-spring of
pleasure, & messenger of peace and love, a
resting place for innocence on earth, a link
between angels and men.--Tupper.
A sweet new blossom of humanity, fresh
fallen from God's own home, to flower on
earth.-Massey.
Some wonder that children should be
given to young mothers.-But what instruc-
tion does the babe bring to the mother !
She learns patience, self-control, endur-
ance ; her very arm grows strong so that
she holds the dear burden longer than the
father can.-T. W. Higginson.
Living jewels, dropped unstained from
heaven.-Pollok.
A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet
folded.-Byron.
The coargest father gains & new impulse
to labor from the moment of his baby's
birth.-Every stroke he strikes is for his
child.-New social aims, and new moral
motives come vaguely up to him.--T. W.
Higginson.
Good Christian people, here is for you an
inestimable loan. - Take all heed thereof,
and in all carefulness employ it.— With
high recompense, or else with heavy penalty,
will it one day be required back.- Carlyle.
Could we understand half what mothers
say and do to us when infants, we should
be filled with such conceit of our own
BACHELOR. I have no wife or chil-
dren, good or bad, to provide for ; a mere
spectator of other men's fortune's and ad-
ventures, and how they play their parts ;
which, methinks, are diversely presented
unto me, as from a common theatre or
scene.-Burton,
Because I will not do the wrong to mis-
trust
any, I will do myself the right to trust
none; I will live a bachelor.-Shakespeare.
A mun unattached, and without a wife, if
he have any genius at all, may raise himself
above his original position, may nuingle with
the world of fashion, and hold himself on a
level with the highest; but this is less easy
for him who is engaged.-It seems as if
marriage put the whole world in their
proper rank.—Bruyere.
A bachelor's life is a splendid breakfast;
a tolerably flat dinner; and a most miserable
supper.
BALLADS.-Ballads are the vocal por-
traits of the national mind.-Lamb.
Ballads are the gipsy children of song,
born under green hedge-lows, in the leafy
lanes and by-paths of literature, in the
genial summer timo.-Longfellow.
Let me write the ballads of a nation, and
I care not who may make its laws.-Fletcher
of Saltoun,
A well composed song or ballad strikes
the mind, and softens the feelings, and pro-
duces a greater effect than a moral work,
which convinces our reason but does not
warm our feelings or effect the slightest
alteration of our habits.- Napoleon.
Ballads and popular songs are both the
cause and effect of general morals ; they
are first formed, and then re-act.-In both
points of view they are an index of public
morals.--H. Martineau.
BARGAIN. I will give thrice so much
land to any well-deserving friend; but in
the way of bargain, mark me, I will cavil
on the ninth part of a hair.---Shakespeare.
A dear bargain is always disagreeable,
particularly as it is a reflection on the buyer's
judgment.
Whenever you buy or sell, let or hire,
make a definite bargain, and never trust to
the flattering lie,“We shan't disagree about
trifles."
There are many things in which one gains
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BEAUTY,
Beard was never the true standard of
brains.-Kuller,
and the other loses ; but if it is essential to
any transaction that only one side shall
gain, the thing is not of God.-G. Mac-
donald.
BASENESS,-Every base occupation
makes one sharp in its practice, aud dull in
every other.--Sir P. Sidney.
There is a law of forces which hinder's
bodies from sinking beyond a certain depth
in the sea ; but in the ocean of baseness tlie
deeper we get the easier the sinking.-J. R.
Lowell.
Baseness of character or conduct not only
sears the conscience, but deranges the intel-
lect.-Right conduct is connected with right
views of truth.- Colton.
BASHFULNESS.--There are two kinds
of bashfulness : one, the awkwardness of
the booby, which a few steps into the world
will convert into the pertness of a coxcomb;
the other, a consciousness, which the most
delicate feelings produce, and the most ex-
tensive knowledge cannot always remove.--
Mackenzie,
Bashfulness is more frequently connected
with good sense than with over-assurance ;
and impudence, on the other hand, is often
the effect of downright stupidity.----Shen-
stone.
Bashfulness is a great hindrance to a
man, both in uttering his sentimients and
in understauding'what is proposed to him ;
it is therefore good to press forward with
discretion, both in discourse and company
of the better sort.-Bacon.
Conceit not so high an opinion of any one
as to be baslıful and impotent in their pres-
ence. -Fuller,
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but
a reproach to old age.--Aristotle.
Bashfulness may sometimes exclude
pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to
Sorrow Ol' rennoise. --Johnson,
We do not accept as genuine the person
not characterized by this blushing bashful-
ness, this youthfulness of heart, this sen-
sibility to the sentiment of suavity and
self-respect. Modesty is bred of self-rever-
ence.-Fine manners are the mantle of fair
minds.- None are truly great without this
ornament.--A. B, Alcott.
We must prune it with care, so as only to
remove the redundant branches, and not
injure the stem, which has its root in a gen-
erous sensitiveness to shame.-Plutarch.
BEARD.--He that hath a beard is more
than a youth, and he that hath none is less
than a man.—Shakespeare.
BEAUTY.-Socrates called beauty a
short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of
nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; T'leo-
critus, a delightful prejudice ; Carneades, a
solitary kingdomn ; Aristotle, that it was
better than all the letters of recommenda-
tion in the world ; Homer, that it was a
glorious gift of nature, and Ovid, that it
was a favor bestowed by the gods.
The fountain of beauty is the heart, and
every generous thought illustrates the walls
of your chamber.
If virtue accompanies beauty it is the
heart's paradise ; if vice be associate with
it, it is the soul's purgatory.--It is the wise
man's bonfire, and the fool's furnace.-
Quarles.
The best part of beauty is that which no
picture can express.- Bacon,
Beauty bath so many charms one knows
not how to speak against it; and when a
graceful figure is the habitation of a virtuous
soul-when the beauty of the face speaks
out the modesty and humility of the mind,
it raises our thoughts up to the great
Creator ; but after all, beauty, like truth,
is never so glorious as when it goes the
plainest.---Sterne.
The beauty seen, is partly in him who
sees it. Bovee.
After all, it is the divinity within that
makes the divinity without; and I have
been more fascinated by a woman of talent
and intelligence, though deficient in per-
sonal charms, than I have been by the most
regular beauty.- Washington Ir-ving.
There is no more potent antidote to low
sensuality than the adoration of beauty.-
All the higher arts of design are essen-
tially chaste.-They purify the thoughts, as
tragedy, according to Aristotle, purifies tho
passions. --Schlegel.
There is no beautifier of complexion, or
form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter
joy and not pain around us.
Even virtue is more fair when it appears
in a beautiful person.- Virgil.
Beauty is but the sensible image of the
Infinite.-Like truth and justice it lives
within us ; like virtue and the moral law it
is a companion of the soul.- Bancroft.
That which is striking and beautiful is
not always good ; but that which is good is
always beautiful.-Ninon de l'Enclos.
If either man or woman would realize the
full power of personal beauty, it must be by
cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and
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BEAUTY
purposes ; by having something to do and out the signatures of these graces in the
something to live for that is worthy of very countenance.-Ray.
humanity, and which, by expanding the
The common foible of women who have
capacities of the soul, gives expansion and
beeu handsome is to forget that they are no
symmetry to the body which contains it.-
Upham.
louger 80.-Rochefoucauld.
How much wit, good-nature, indulgences,
Every trait of beauty may be referred to
some virtue, as to innocence, candor, gen-
how many good offices and civilities, aré
crosity, modesty, or heroisin. --St. Pierre.
required among friends to accomplish in
sowe years what a lovely face or a fine hand
To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is does in a minute !-Bruyere.
one of the most effcctual ways of cultivating
an appreciation of the divine goodness.-
Beauty is as summer fruits, which are
Bovee.
easy to corrupt and cannot last; and for
the most part it makes a dissolute youth,
No man receives the full culture of a man and an age a little out of countenance ; but
in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is if it light well, it makes virtues shine and
not cherished ; and there is no condition of vice blush.--Bacon.
life from which it should be excluded. -Oť
Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom
all luxuries this is the cheapest, and the
most at land, and most important to those
despised, except by those to whom it has
been refused. - Gibbon.
conditions where coarse labor tends to give
grossness to the mind. -- Channing.
A woman who could always love would
never grow old ; and the love of mother and
To give pain is the tyranny ; to make wife would often give or preserve many
happy, the true empire of beauty.-Steele. charms if it were not too often combined
If the nose of Cleopatra had been a little with parental and conjugal anger. There
shorter, it would have changed the history remains in the faces of women who are
of the world.-Pascal.
naturally screve and peaceful, and of those
Beauty in a modest woman is like fire at
rendered so by religion, an after-spring,
a distance, or a sharp sword beyond reach.
and later an after-summer, the reflex of
The one does not burn, or the other wound
their most beautiful bloom.-Richter.
those that come not too near them.--Cer- Beauty is the first present nature gives to
vantes.
women and the first it takes away.-Méré.
Beauty is often worse than wine; intoxi- If you tell a woman she is beautiful,
cating both the holder and beholder,-- Zin- whisper it softly ; for if the devil hears it
mernan.
he will echo it many times.-Durivage.
The most natural beauty in the world is An appearance of delicacy, and even of
honesty and moral truth. -Tor all beauty fragility, is almost essential to beauty.-
is truth.-True features make the beauty of Burke.
the face ; true proportions, the beauty of Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good ;
architecture; true measures, the beauty of a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly ; &
harmony and music. --Shaflestury.
flower that dies when it begins to bud; a
How goodness heightens beauty !-Han- donbtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower,
nah More.
lost, faced, broken, dead within an hour..
Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue.-
Shakespeare.
Every natural action is graceful; every
What tender force, wbat dignity divine,
heroic act is also decent, and causes the what virtue consecrating every feature;
place and the bystanders to shine.- Ener- around that neck what dross are gold and
pearl !- Young.
The soul, by an instinct stronger than Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a
reason, ever associates beauty with truth.- flower without perfume.-From the French.
Tuckerman
Loveliness needs not the aid of foreign
No woman can be handsome by the force ornament, but is, when unadorned, adorned
of features alone, any more than she can be
the most.-Thomson.
witty by only the help of speech.-Hughes. I pray thee, O God, that I may be beauti-
Beanty is like an almanack: if it last a
ful within.-Socrates.
year it is well.-T. Adans.
All beauty does not inspire love ; some
There are no better cosmetics than a beauties please the sight without captivat-
severe temperance and purity, modesty and ing the affections. Cervantes.
humility, à gracions temper and calmness The criterion of true beauty is, that it
of spirit; and there is no true beauty with- innreases on examination ; if false, that it
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BELIEF.:
lessens.There is therefore, something in when labors closc, to gather round an ach-
true beauty that corresponds with right ing heart the curtaiu of repose ; stretch
reason, and is not the inere creation of the tired limbs, and lay the weary head
fancy.-Greville.
down on our own delightful bed.-J. Mont-
Every year of my life I grow more con- gomery
vinced that it is wisest and best to fix our
attention on the beautiful and the good,
BEGINNINGS.-Let 118 watch well our
and dwell as little as possible on the evil
beginnings, and results will manage thein-
and the false.-Cecil.
selves.-dlex. Clarl.
By cultivating the beautiful we scatter
When the ancients said a work well begun
the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing
was half done, they meant to impress the
good we cultivate those that belong to
importance of always endeavoring to make
humanity.-Howard.
a good beginning.--Polybius.
In all ranks of life the buman heart
Meet the first beginnings ; look to the
yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful
budding mischief before it has time to ripen
things that God makes are his gift to all
to maturity.-Shakespeare.
alike.-H. B. Slowe.
BEHAVIOR.-Behavior is a mirror in
Beauty attracts us men ; but if, like an which every one displays his image.---
armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with Goethe.
gold or silver, it attracts with ten-fold
What is becoming in behavior is honor-
power: --Richter.
able, and what is honorable is becoming.
There should be as little merit in loving Cicero.
a woman for her beauty, as a man for his
A consciousness of inward knowledge
prosperity, both being equally subject to
change. - Pope.
gives confidence to the outward behavior,
which, of all things, is the best to grace a
Never lose an opportunity of seeing any- man in his carriage.--I'ellham.
thing that is beautiful ; for beauty is God's
handwriting—a wayside sacrament.-Wel-
Levity of behavior is the bane of all that
come it in every fair face, in every fair sky,
is good and virtuous.- Seneca.
in every fair flower, and thank God for it Oddities and singularities of behavior
as a cup of blessing.- Emerson.
may attend genins, but when they do, they
are its misfortunes and blemishes. ---The
Beauty of form affects the mind, but then
it must not be the mere sliell that we
man of trile genius will be ashamed of
then ; at least he will never affect to dis-
only the beautiful case adjusted to the
tinguish himself by whimsical peculiarities.
-Sir W. Temple.
shape and value of a still more beautiful
pearl within.-The perfection of outward
Joveliness is the soul shining through its
BELIEF.-(See "RELIGION.")
crystalline covering.–Jane Porter.
Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's
O! how much more doth beauty beante-
self; for what we wish, that we readily
believe.- Demosthenes.
ou8 seem, by that sweet ornament which
truth doth give !-Shakespeare.
There are many great truths which we do
not deny, and which lievertheless we do
BED.-(See “SLEEP.")
not fully believe.-J. W. Alexander.
The bed is a bundle of paradoxes : we go He that will believe only what he can
to it with reluctance, yet wc quit it with fully comprehend, must have it very long
regret; we make up our minds every night liead or a very short creed. - Collon.
to leave it early, but we make up our bodies
every morning to keep it late.-- Collon.
There are three means of believing, by
inspiration, by reason, and by custom.-
What a delightful thing rest is !—The
Christianity, which is the only rational sys-
bed has become a place of luxury to me. — tein, admits none for its sons who do not
I would not exchange it for all the thrones
believe according to inspiration.-Pascal.
in the world.- Napoleon.
A man may be a heretic in the truth; and
In bed we laugh; in bed we cry; in bed if he believes things, only on tlic authority
are born ; in bed we die ; the near approach of others without other reason, then,
the bed doth show, of human bliss to human
thongh his belief be true, yet the very truth
woe. Benserade.
he holds becomes heresy.---Milton.
Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a
Remember that what you believe will
man healthy, wealthy, and wise. Franklin.
depend very much upon what you are.-
Night is the time for rest; how sweet Noah Porter,
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Orthodoxy is my doxy; heterodoxy is
another man's doxy.--Bp. Warburton.
We are slow to believe that which if
believed would hurt onr feelings.-- Ovid.
The practical effect of a belief is the real
test of its soundness.-Froude.
You believe easily what you hope for
earnestly.-Terence.
Some believe all that parents, tutors, and
kindred believe.-They take their principles
by inheritance, and defend them as they
would their estates, because they are born
heirs to them.- Watts.
In belief lies the secret of all valuable
exertion.-Bulwer.
A skeptical young man one day, convers-
ing with the celebrated Dr. Parr, observed,
that he would believe nothing which he
could not understand. "Then, young man,
your creed will be the shortest of any man's
I know."
I am not afraid of those tender and
scrupulous consciences who are ever cau-
tious of professing and believing too much;
if they are sincerely wrong, I forgive their
errors and respect their integrity.-The
men I am afraid of are those who believe
everything, subscribe to everything, and
vote for everything.--Shipley.
He who expects men to be always as.good
as their beliefs, indulges a groundless hope ;
and he who expects men to be always as
bad as their beliefs, vexes himself with a
needless fear.-J. S. Kieffer.
It is a singular fact that many men of
action incline to the theory of fatalism,
while the greater part of men of thought
believe in a divine providence.- Balzac.
Newton, Pascal, Bossuet, Racine, Fene-
lon, that is to say some of the most enlight-
ened men on earth, in the most philosophi-
cal of all ages, have been believers in Jesus
Christ; and the great Conde, when dying,
repeated these nolle words, "Yes, I shall
see God as he is, face to face ! ”— Vauven-
argues.
We enjoy thoroughly only the pleasure
that we give. - Dumas.
The luxury of doing good surpasses every
other personal enjoyment.—Gay.
He that does good to another, does good
also to himself, not only in the consequences,
but in the very act; for the consciousness
of well doing is, in itself, ample reward.
Seneca:
God has so constituted our nature that
we cannot be happy unless we are, or think
we are, the means of good to others.-Wo
can scarcely conceive of greater wretched-
ness than must be felt by him who knows
he is wholly useless in the world.-Erskine
Mason.
Men resemble the gods in nothing so
much as in doing good to their fellow crea-
tures. --Cicero.
Rich people 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 of their property till they die show
that they would not then if they could keep
it any longer.—Bp. Hall.
It is another's fault if he be ungrateful ;
but it is mine if I do not give.—To find one
thankful man, I will oblige à great many
that are not so.-I had rather never receive
a kindness than never bestow one.-Not to
return a benefit is a great sin; but not to
confer one is a greater. -Seneca.
For his bounty there was no winter to it;
an autumn it was that grew more by reap-
ing.--Shakespeare.
There is no 118e of money equal to that of
beneficence; here the enjoyment grows on
reflection ; and our money is most truly
ours when it ceases to be in our posses-
sion.—Mackenzie.
Time is short ;-your obligations are in-
finite.--Are your houses regulated, your
children instructed, the afflicted relieved,
the poor visited, the work of picty accon-
plished ?-Massillon.
I never knew a child of God being bank-
rupted by his benevolence. What we keep
we may lose, but what we give to Christ we
are sure to keep.--T. L. Cuyler.
Be charitable before wealth makes thee
coveto118.—Sir T. Browne.
Of all the virtues necessary to the com-
pletion of the perfect man, there is none to
be more delicately implicd and less ostenta-
tiously vaunted than that of exquisite feel-
ing or wiversal benevolence.-- Bulwer,
BENEFICENCE.-Christian benef-
icence takes a large sweep; that circun-
ference cannot be small of which God is the
centre.- Hannah More.
Doing good is the only certainly happy
action of a man's life. -Sir P. Silney.
To pity distress is but human ; to relieve
it is Godlike.-- A. Mann.
We should give as we would receive, cheer-
fully, quickly, and without hesitation ; for
there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to
the fingers. ----Seneca.
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BEST THINGS.
Money spent on ourselves may be a mill-
stone about the neck ; spent on others it
may, give us wings like eagles.--R. D.
Hitchcock.
You are go to give, and to sacrifice to
give, as to earn the eulogium pronounced
on the woman, “She hath done what she
could."-Do it now.--It is not safe to leave
a generous feeling to the cooling influences
of a cold world.-Guthrie.
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a
good action by stealth, and to have it found
out by accident. - Lamb.
Beneficence is a duty; and he who fre-
quently practises it, and sees his benevolent
intentions realized comes, at, length, really
to love him to whom he has done good.--
Kant.
Time, which gnaws and diminishes all
things else, augments and increaseth bene-
fits; because a noble action of liberality
doth grow continually by our generously
thinking of it and remembering
it.—Rabe-
lais.
BENEVOLENCE:-(See "KINDNESS."')
To feel much for others, and little for
ourselves ; to restrain our selfish, and exer-
cise our benevolent affections, constitutes
the perfection of human nature.-Adam
Smith.
Benevolent feeling ennobles the most
trifling actions. Thackeray.
There cannot be a more glorious object
in creation than a human being replete
with benevolence, meditating in what inan-
her he may render himself most acceptable
to the Creator by doing good to his crea-
tures.--Fielding.
Benevolence is allied to few vices
i
sel-
fishness to fewer virtues.--Home.
In this world it is not what we take 11p,
but what we give up, that makes us rich.
H. W. Beecher.
He who will not give some portion of his
ease, his blood, his wealth, for others' good,
is a poor frozen chil.- Joanna Baillie.
He only does not live in vain, who em-
ploys his wealth, his thought, his speech
to advance the good of others.- Hindoo
Maxim.
I truly enjoy no more of the world's good
things than what I willingly distribute to
the needy.-Seneca.
It is good for us to think that no grace or
blessing is truly ours till we are aware that
God has blessed some one else with it
through us.-Phillips Brooks.
They who scatter with one hand, gather
with two, not always in coin, but in kind.
Nothing multiplies so much as kindness.--
Wray.
Genuine benevolence is not stationary,
but peripatetic; it goes about doing
good.-W. Nevins.
Do not wait for extraordinary circum-
stances to do good actions : try to use
ordinary situations.-Richter.
The best way to do good to ourselves, is
to do it to others; the right way to gather,
is to scatter.
This is the law of benefits between men ;
the one ought to forget at once what he has
given, and the other ought never to forget
wliat he has received.--Seneca,
Never did any soul do good, but it came
readier to do the same again, with more en-
joyment. Never was love, or gratitude, or
bounty practised, but with increasing joy,
which made the practiser still more in love
with the fair act.-Shaftesbury.
The one who will be found in trial capable
of great acts of love is ever the one who is
always doing considerate small ones.-F.
W. Robertson.
It is the glory of the true religion that it
inculcates and inspires a spirit of benevo-
lence.-It is a religion of charity, which
none other ever was.-Christ went about
doing good ; he set the example to his dis-
ciples, and they abounded in it.-Fuller.
Rare benevolence! the minister of God.--
Carlyle.
When Fenelon's library was on fire,
“God be praised," he said, “that it is not
the dwelling of some poor man,
The conqueror is regarded with awe; the
wise man commands our respect; but it is
only the benevolent man that wins our
affection,
The disposition to give a cup of cold
water to a disciple, is a far nobler property
than the finest intellect.--Howells.
He who wishes to secure the good of
others, has already secured his own.-Con-
fucius.
Just in proportion as a man becomes
good, divine, Christ-like, he passes out of
the region of theorizing into the region of
benevolent activities. It is good to think
well ; it is divino to act well.-H. Mann.
It is no great part of a good man's lot to
enjoy himself.-To be good and to do good
are his ends, and the glory is to be revealed
hereafter.-S. I. Prime.
BEST THINGS.-A firm faith is the
best divinity; a good life, the best philos-
ophy; a clear conscience, the best law;
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honesty, the best policy; and temperance
the best.physic;- living for both worlds is
the wisest and best life.
.
BIBLE.-The Bible is the only source of
all Christian truth ;—the only rule for the
Christian life ;-the only book that unfolds
to us the realities of eternity.
There is no book like the Bible for excel-
lent visdom and use.-Sir M. Hale.
The philosophers, as Varro tells us,
counted up three hundred and twenty
answers to the question, "What is the
supreme good?” How needful, then, is a
divine revelation, to make plain what is the
true end of our being.- Tryon Edwards.
There never was found, in any age of the
world, either religion or law that did so
highly exalt the public good as the Bible. -
Bacon.
The Bible is a window in this prison of
hope, through which we look into eter-
nity.-Dwight.
The Bible is the light of my understand-
ing, the joy of my heart, the fullness of my
hope, the clarifier of my affections, the
mirror of my thoughts, the consoler of my
sorrows, the guide of my soul through this
gloomy labyrinth of time, the telescope sent
from heaven to reveal to the eye of man the
amazing glories of the far distant world.
The Bible contains more true sublimity,
more exquisite beauty, more pure morality,
more important history, and finer strains
of poetry and eloquence, than can be col-
lected from all other books, in whatever
age or language they may have been writ-
ten.--Sir Wni. Jones.
In what light soever we regard the Bible,
whether with reference to revelation, to
history, or to morality, it is an invaluable
and inexhaustible mine of kuowledge and
virtue.--J. Q. Adams.
Bad men or devils would not have written
the Bible, for it condemns them and their
works,---good men or angels could not have
written it, for in saying it was from God
wlien it was but their own invention, they
would have been guilty of falsehood, and
thus could not have been good. The only
remaining being who could have written it,
is God-its real author.
The Scriptures teach us the best way of
living, the noblest way of suffering, and
the most comfortable way of dying.-Flavel.
There are no songs comparable to the
songs of Zion; no orations equal to those
of the prophets ; and no politics like those
which the Scriptures teach.-Milton.
It is a belief in the Bible, the fruit of
deep meditation, which has served me ås .
the guide of my moral and literary life.-I
have found it & capital safely invested, and
richly productive of interest.-Goethe. ·
The longer you read the Bible, the more
you will like it; it will grow'sweeter and
sweeter : and the more you get into the
spirit of it, the more you will get into the
spirit of Christ.---- Romaine,
I have always said, I always will say, that
the studions perusal of the sacred volume
will mako better citizens, better. fathers,
and better husbands.-Jefferson.
Men cannot be well educated without the
Bible. It ought, therefore, to- hold the
place in every seat of learuing through-
out Christendom; and I do not know of a
higher service that could be rendered to
this republic than the bringing about this
desirable result.-E, Nott.
Thie general diffusion of the Bible is the
most effectual way to civilize and humanize
mankind; to purify and exalt the general
system of public morals ; to give efficacy to
the just precepts of international and
municipal law; to enforce the observance
of prudence, temperance, justice and forti-
tude; and to improve all the relations of
social and domestic life.--Chancellor Kent.
Scholars may quote Plato in their studies;
but the hearts of millions will quote the
Bible at their daily toil, and draw strength,
from its inspiration, as the meadows draw
it froin the brook. Conway.
The Bible goes equally to the cottage of
the peasant, and the palace of the king:-
It is woven into literature, aud colors the
talk of the street.-The bark of the mer-
chant cannot sail without it; and no ship
of war goes to the conflict but it is there. --
It enters men's closets ; directs their con-
duct, and mingles in all the grief and cheer-
fulness of life.-Theodore Parker.
The Bible is one of the greatest blessings
bestowed by God on the children of men.
It has God for its anthor ; salvation for its .
end, and truth without any mixture for its
matter.-It is all pure, all sincere ; nothing
too much ; nothing wanting.-Locke.
The man of one book is always formid-
able ; but when that book is the Bible he is
irresistible.- W. M. Taylor.
.
To say nothing of its holiness or author-
ity, the Bible contains more specimens of
genius and taste than any other volume in
existence. --Landor.
So great is my veneration for the Bible,
that the earlier my children begin to read it
the more confident will be my hopes that
they will prove useful citizens to their
.
.
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country and respectable members of society.
-J. Q. Adams.
The incongruity of the Bible with the age
of its birth ; its freedom from earthly mix-
tures ; its original, unborrowed, solitary
greatness; the suddenness with which it
broke forth amidst the general gloom ;
these, to me, are strong indications of its
Divine descent: I cannot reconcile them
with a buman origin.— Channing.
I believe that the Bible is to be under-
stood and received in the plain and obvious
meaning of its passages ; for I cannot per-
suade myself that a book intended for the
instruction, and conversion of the whole
world should cover its true meaning in any
sucli mystery and doubt that none but
critics and philosophers can discover it.
Darviel Webster.
The Gospel is not merely a book-it is a
living power—a book surpassing all others.
-I never onit to read it, and every day
with the same pleasure. Nowhere is to be
found such a series of beautiful ideas, and
admirable moral maxims, which pass before
us like the battalions of a celestial army.
The soul can never go astray with
this book for its guide.- Napoleon on St.
Helena,
Turn from the oracles of man-still dim
even in their clearest response--to the
oracles of God, which are never dark.
Bury all your books when you feel the night
of skepticism gathering around you; bury
them all, powerful though you may have
deemed their spells to illuminate the un-
fathomable ; open your Bible, and all the
spiritual world will be as bright as day.-J.
Wilson.
The Bible belongs to the world. It has
outlived all other books as a mighty factor
in civilization, as radical in its unique and
peerless teachings, as identified with the
promotion of liberty, as the companion or
pioneer of commerce, as the foundation of
civil government, as the source and sup-
port of learning, as both containing and
fostering literature of the noblest order, as
the promoter and purifier of art, and as
the book which claims to be, and is, from
God.
Never yet did there exista full faith in
the divine word which did not expand the
intellect, while it purified the heart; which
did not multiply and exalt the aims and
objects of the understanding, while it fixed
and simplified those of the desires and feel-
ings.-S. T. Coleridge.
There is not in the whole compass of
human literature a book like the Bible,
which deals with such profound topics,
which touches human nature on so inany
sides of experience, which relates 80 espe-
cially to its duties and sorrows and tempta-
tions, and yet which looks over the whole
field of life with such sympathy and cheer-
fulness of spirit. -The New Testament is a
book.of radiant joy.-E. W. Beecher.
When that illustrious man, Chief Justice
Jay, was dying he was asked if he had any
farewell address to leave his children. He
replied, “ They have the Bible."
In this little book (the New Testament),
i8 contained all the wisdom of the world.
Ewald.
All the distinctive features and superi-
ority of our republican institutions are
derived from the teachings of Scripture.-
Everetl.
Read your Bible, making it the first morn-
ing business of your life to understand
some portion of it clearly, and your daily
business to obey it in all that you do under-
stand. To my early knowledge of the Bible
I owe the best part of my taste in literature,
and the most precious, and on the whole,
the one essential part of my education.
Ruslcin.
The majesty of Scripture strikes me with
admiration, as the purity of the Gospel has
its influence on my heart. Peruse the works
of our philosophers; with all their pomp of
diction, how mean, how contemptible, are
they, compared with the Scriptures! Is it
possible that a book at once so simple and
sublime should be merely the work of man?
The Jewish authors were incapable of the
diction, and strangers to the morality con-
tained in the Gospel, the marks of whose
truths are so striking and inimitable that
the inventor would be a more astonishing
character than the hero.—Rousseau..
The morality of the Bible is, after all,
the safety of society. The doctrine of the
goldeu rule, the interpretation of the law
as love to God and man, and the specific
directions in it to husbands and wives,
parents and children, masters and ser-
vants, rulers and citizens, and the warnings
against covetousness and sin are the best
preventives and care of all political dis-
eases.--7, C. Monfort.
I use the Scriptures not as an arsenal to
be resorted to only for arins and weapons,
but as a matchless temple, where I delight
to contemplate the beauty, the symmetry,
and the magnificence of the structure, and
to increase my awe and excite my devotion
to the Deity there preached and adored.---
Boyle.
That the truths of the Bible have the
power of awakening an intense moral feel-
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li
ing in every human being; that they make
bad men good, and send a pulse of healthful
feeling through all the doinestic, civil, and
social relations; that they teach men to love
right, and hate wrong, and seek each others
welfare as children of a common parent;
that they control the baleful passions of the
heart, and thus make men proficient in self-
government; and finally that they teach
man to aspire after conformity to a being
of infinite holiness, and fill liim with hopes
more purifying, exalted, and suited to liis
nature than any other book the world has
ever known—these are facts as incontro-
vertible as the laws of philosophy, or the
demonstrations of mathematics.-F. Way-
land.
We account the Scriptures of God to be
the most sublime philosophy. I find more
sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than
in any profane history whatever.-Isaac
Newton.
Of the Bible, says Garibaldi, “This is the
cannon that will inake Italy free.”
Sink the Bible to the bottom of the ocean,
and still man's obligations to God would be
unchanged.--He would have the same path
to tread, only his lamp and his guide would
be gone ;-the same voyage to make, but
his chart and compass would be over-
board.-H. W. Beecher.
I know the Bible is inspired because it
finds me at greater depths of my being than
any other book.--Coleridge.
The highest earthly enjoyments are but a
shadow of the joy I find in reading God's
word.-Lady Jane Grey.
Tlicy who are not induced to believe and
live as they ought by those discoveries
which God hath made in Scripture, would
stand ont against any evidence whatever ;
even that of a messenger sent express from
the other world.--- Atterbury.
Do you know a book that you are willing
to put under your head for a pillow when
you lie dying? That is the book you want
to study while you are living. There is but
one such book in the world.- Joseph Coole.
Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet-anchor
of your liberties ; write its precepts in your
hearts, and practice them in your lives. To
the indluence of this book we are indebted
for all the progress made in true civiliza-
tion, and to this we must look as our guide
in the future. "Righteousness cxalteth
a nation; but sin is a reproach to any
people."--U. S. Grant,
The most learned, acute, and diligent
sturlent cannot, in the longest life, obtain
an entire knowledge of this one volume.
The more deeply lie works the mine, the
richer and more abundant he finds the
ore ; new light continually beams from this
source of heavenly knowledge, to direct the
conduct, and illustrate the work of God and
the ways of men; and he will at last leave
the world confessing, that the more he
studied the Scriptures, the fuller conviction
he had of his own ignorance, and of their
inestimable value.- Walter Scott.
Philosophical argument, especially that
drawn from the vastuess of the universe, in
comparison with the apparent insignificance
of this globe, has sometimes shaken ny
reason for the faith that is in me; but my
heart bas always assured and reassured me.
that the gospel of Jesus Christ must be a
divine reality.-Daniel Webster.
Cities fall, empires come to nothing, king-
doms fade away as smoke. Where is Numa,
Minos, Lycurgus? Where are their books 2
and what has become of their laws? But
that this book no tyrant should have been
able to consume, no tradition to choke, no
heretic maliciously to corrupt; that it should
stand unto this day, amid the wreck of all
that was haman, without the alteration of
one sentence so as to change the doctrine
taught therein,-surely there is a very sin-
gular providence, claiming our attention in
à most remarkable manner.-Bp. Jewell.
A poble book! All men's book! It is our
first, oldest statement of the never-ending
problem,-man's destiny, and God's ways
with him here on earth; and all in such free-
flowing ontlines, -grand in its sincerity, in
its simplicity, and its epic melody.-- Carlyle.
One monarch to obey, one creed to own;
that monarch God; that creed his word
alone.
If there is any one fact or doctrine, or
command, or promise in the Bible which
has produced no practical effect on your
temper, or heart, or conduct, be assured
you do not truly believe it.--Payson.
There is a Book worth all other books
which were ever printed.--Patrick Henry.
The Bible furnislies the only fitting vehi-
cle to express the thoughts that overwhelm
us when contemplating the stellar uni-
versc.-0. M. Mitchell.
The grand old Book of God still stands,
and this old earth, the more its leaves are
turned over and pondered, the more it will
sustain and illustrate the sacred Word.-
Prof. Dana.
In my investigation of natural science, I
have always found that, whenever I can
meet with anything in the Bible on my sub-
jects, it always affords me a firm platform
on which to stand.—Lieutenant Maury.
l; and I say to you, Search the
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BIGOTRY.
It is impossible to mentally or socially that is made of them they are still not ex-
enslave a Bible-reading people. The prin- hausted.-A. P. Slanley.
ciples of the Bible are the groundwork of
Nobody ever outgrows Scripture ; the
human freedom.-Horcice Greeley.
book widens and deepens with our years.
I speak as a man of the world to men of Spurgeon.
the world
After reading the doctrines of Plato,
Scriptures! The Bible is the book of all
Socrates, or Aristotle, we feel that the
others, to be read at all ages, and in all con-
specific difference between their words and
ditions of human life ; not to be read once
Christ's is the difference between an in-
or twice or thrice through, and then laid
quiry and a revelation.-Joseph Parker.
aside, but to be read in small portions of
one or two chapters every day, and never
When one has given up the one fact of
to be intermitted, unless by some overruling
the inspiration of the Scriptures, he has
necessity.-J. Q. Adans.
given up the whole foundation of revealed
religion.-H. W. Beecher,
Give to the people who toil and suffer, for
whom this world is hard and bad, the belief
I have read the Bible through many
that there is a better made for them. Scatter
times, and now make it a practice to read
Gospels among the villages, a Bible for every
it through once every year. - It is a book of
cottage.- Victor Hugo.
all others for lawyers, as well as divines ;
The word of God will stand a thousand
and I pity the man who cannot find in it a
rich supply of thought and of rules for con-
readings; and he who has gone over it most
duct.-Daniel Webster.
frequently is the surest of finding new won-
ders there.-J. Hamilton,
So far as I have observed God's dealings
with my soul, the flights of preachers some-
Holy Scripture is a stream of running
times entertained me, but it was Scripture
water, where alike the elephant may swim,
expressions which did penetrate my heart,
and the lamb walk without losing its feet.-
and in a way peculiar to themselves.- John
Gregory the Great.
Brown of Haddington.
A Bible and a newspaper in every house,
A man may read the figures on the dial, but
a good school in every district--all studied
he cannot tell how the day goes unless the
and appreciated as they merit-are the prin-
sun is shining on it ; so we may read the
cipal support of virtue, morality, and civil
Bible over, but we cannot learn to purpose
liberty.-
Franklin.
till the spirit of God shine upon it and into
As the profoundest philosophy of ancient our hearts.-T. Watson,
Rome and Greece lighted her taper at Is- There is no book on which we can rest in
racl's altar, so the sweetest strains of the
a dying moment but the Bible.---Selder.
pagan muise were swept from harps attuned
on Zion's hill.–Bp. Thomson.
Wilmot, the infidel, when dying, laid his
The whole hope of human progress is
trembling, emaciated hand on the Bible,
suspended on the ever growing influence of
and said solemnly and with unwonted
the Bible.- William H. Seward.
energy, "The only objection against this
book is a bad life !"
The Bible is the only cement of nations,
The Bible is to us what the star was to the
and the only cement that can bind religious
hearts together.- Bunsen.
wise men ; but if we spend all our time in
gazing upon it, observing its motions, and
The Bible stands alone in human litera-
admiring its splendor, without being led to
ture in its elevated conception of manhood Christ by it, the use of it will be lost to us.
as to character and conduct. It is the in- T. Adams.
valuable training book of the world.-H.
All human discoveries seem to be made
W. Beecher.
only for the purpose of confirming more
After all, the Bible must be its own argil- and more strongly the truths that come
ment and defence. The power of it can from on high and are contained in the
never be proved unless it is felt. The 8:17- sacred writings.--Herschel
thority of it can never be supported unless
A loving trust in the Author of the Bible
it is manifest. The light of it can never be
demonstrated unless it shines.-H. J. Van
is the best preparation for a wise and profit-
able study of the Bible itself. --H. C. Trun-
Dyke.
bull.
You never get to the end of Christ's
words. There is something in them always BIGOTRY,-The mind of the bigot is
behind. They pass into proverbs, into laws, like the pupil of the eye; the more light
into doctrines, into consolations ; but they you pour npon it, the more it will contract.
never pass away, and after all the use -0. W. Holmes.
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BIRTĂ.
The bigot sces religion, not as a sphere,
but a line; and it is the line in which he is
moving. He is like an African buffalo-
sees right forward, but nothing on the right
or the left. He would not perceive a legion
of angels or devils at the distance of ten
yards, on the one side or the other, John
Foster.
Bigotry has no head, and cannot think;
no heart, and cannot feel. When she
movės, it is in wrath ; when she pauses it
is amidst ruin; her prayers are curses-her
God is a demon-her communion is death.-
O'Connell,
There is no bigotry like that of “free
thought" iun to seed.--Horace Greeley.
Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools
with her ghost.--Colton,
There is no tariff so injurious as that
with which sectarian bigotry guards its
commodities.-It dwarfs the soul by shut-
ting out truths from other continents of
thought, and checks the circulatiou of its
own.-É. H.:Chapin.
When once a man is determined to believe,
the very absurdity of the doctrine does but
confirm him in his faith.-Junius.
A man must be both stupid and unchari-
table who believes there is no virtue or
truth but on his own side.-Addison.
The bigot for the most part clings to
opinion's adopted without investigation,
'and defended without argument, while he
is intolerant of the opinions of others.--
Buck.
.. BIOGRAPHY,-Biography is the per-
sonal and home aspect of history. - Wilmotl.
The best teachers of humanity are the
lives of great men.--Fowler.
Great men have often the shortest biog-
raphies.-Their real life is iu their books or
deeds.
There is properly no history, only biog-
raphy.--Emerson.
One anecdote of a man is worth a volume
of biography.--Channing.
The remains of great and good men,
like Elijah's inantle, ought to be gathered
up and preserved by their survivors ; that
as their works follow them in the reward of
them, they may stay behind in their bene-
fit. ---Á. Henry.
Most biographies are of little worth.-
They are panegyrics, not lives.-The object
is, not to let down the hero ; and conse-
quently what is most human, most genuine,
most characteristic in his history, is ex-
cluded.-No department of literature is so
false as biography.-Channing.
Rich as we are in biography, it well writ-
ten life is almost as rare as a well-spent
one ; and there are certainly many more
men whose history deserves to be recorded
than persons able and willing to furnish
the record.—Carlyle.
To be ignorant of the lives of the most
celebrated men of antiquity is to continue
in a state of childhood all our days.—Plu-
tarch.
A life that is worth writing at all, is
worth writing minutely and truthfully.-
Longfellow.
Biography, especially of the great and
good, who have risen by their own exertions
to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring
and ennobling study. Its direct tendency
is to reproduce the excellence it records.-
H. Mann.
Of all studies, the most delightful and
useful is biography.--The seeds of great
events lie near the surface; historians
delve too deep for them.-No history was
ever true ; but lives which I have read, if
they were not, had the appearance, the in-
terest, the utility of truth.-Landor.
Biography is the most universally pleas-
ant and profitable of all reading.-Car-
lyle.
Those only who live with a man can write
his life with any genuine exactness and
discrimination, and few people who have
lived with a man know what to remark
about him.-Johnson.
Biographies of great, but especially of
good meri, are most instructive and useful
as helps, guides, and incentives to others.
Some of the best are almost equivalent to
gospels—teaching high living, high think-
ing, and energetic actions for their own
and the world's good.-S. Smiles.
History can be formed from permanent
monuments and records ; but lives can
only be written from personal knowledge,
which is growing every day less, and in a
short time is lost forever.-Johnson.
My advice is, to consult the lives of other
men as we would a looking-glass, and from
thence fetch examples for our own imita-
tion.—T'erence.
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BIRTH. (See ANCESTRY," and
“ GENEALOGY.”)
Our birth is nothing but our death begun,
as tapers waste the moment they take tire.
-Young.
Custom forms us all; our thoughts, our
morals, our most fixed belief, are conse-
quences of the place of our birth.-Hill.
What is birth to a man if it be a stain to
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his dead ancestors to have left such an off-
spring ?-Sir P. Sidney.
A noble birth and fortune, though they
make not a bad man good, yet they are a
real advantage to a worthy one, and place
his virtues in the fairest light.-Lillo.
High birth is a gift of fortune which
should never challenge esteem toward
those who receive it, since it costs them
neither study nor labor.–Bruyere.
Of all vanities and fopperies, the vanity
of high birth is the greatest. True 10-
bility is derived from virtue, not from
birth. Titles, indeed, may be purchased ;
but virtue is the only coin that makes the
bargain valid.-Burton.
Distinguished birth is indeed an honor
to him who lives worthily of the virtue of
his progenitors. If, as Seneca says, “Vir-
tue is the only nobility,” he is doubly a
nobleman who is not only descended from
& virtuous ancestry, but is himself vir-
tuous.
When real nobleness accompanies the
imaginary one of birth, the imaginary
seems to mix with the real and become
real too.-Greville.
Those who have nothing else to recom-
mend them to the respect of others but only
their blood, cry it up at a great rate, and
have their months perpetually full of it. By
this mark they.commonly distinguish them-
selves ; but you may depend upon it there
is no good bottom, nothing of the true
worth of their own when they insist so
much and set their credit on that of others.
Charron.
I have learned to judge of men by their
own deeds, and not to make the accident
of birth the standard of their inerit.-
Mrs. Hale.
Features alone do not run in the blood;
vices and virtues, genius and folly, are
transmitted through the same sure but
unseen channel.-Hazlitt.
BLESSEDNESS,-True blessedness
consisteth in a good life and a happy
death.-Solon.
Nothing raises the price of a blessing like
its removal ; whereas, it was its continu-
ance which should have taught us its value.
-H. Moore.
Blessings we enjoy daily, and for the
most of them, because they be so common,
men forget to pay their praises.-But let
not us, because it is a sacrifice so pleasing
to him who still protects 178, and gives us
flowers, ind showers, and meat, and con-
tent.--Izack Walton.
Reflect upon your present blessings, of
which every man has many : not on your
past misfortunes, of which all men have
sojne.—Dickens.
The beloved of the Almighty are the rich
who have the bumility of the poor, and the
poor who have the magnanimity of the
rich.-Saadi.
Let me tell you that every misery I miss
is a new blessing.-Izaak Wallon.
There are three requisites to the proper
enjoyment of earthly blessings : a thankful
reflection, on the goodness of the giver ; a
deep sense of our own unworthiness; and
a recollection of the uncertainty of our long
possessing them.-The first will make us
grateful; the second, humble ; and the
third, moderate.- Harinah More.
Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds,
and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.
Congreve.
It is generally true that all that is re-
quired to make men unmindful of what
they owe to God for any blessing, is, that
they should receive that blessing often and
regularly.-- Whately..
How blessings brighten as they take their
flight !- Young.
Health, beauty, vigor, riches, and all the
other things called goods, operate equally
as evils to the vicious and unjust, as they
do as benefits to the just.–Plato.
The good things of life are not to be had ,
singly, but come to us with a mixture ; like
al schoolboy's holiday, with a task affixed to
the tail of it.-Charles Lanib.
Blessedness consists in the accomplish-
ment of our desires, and in our having only
regular desires.-Augustine.
BLOCKHEAD:-(Seo*****COMMON
SENSE.")
A blockhead cannot come in, nor go away,
nor sit, nor rise, nor stand, like a man of
sense.--Bruyere.
There never was any party, faction, sect,
or cabal whatsoever, in which the most
ignorant were not the inost violent; for a
bee is not a busier animal than a block-
head.—Pope.
Heaven and earth fight in vain against a
dunce.-Schiller.
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BLUSH, A blush is the color of vir-
tue.- Diogenes.
Whoever blushes seems to be good.-
Menander,
Whoever blushes, is already guilty ;-true
innocence is ashamed of nothing.-Rous-
seau.
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The ambiguous livery worn alike by
modesty and shame.-Balfour.
When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost
the most powerful charm of her beauty.-
Gregory.
A blush is beautiful, but often incon-
venient.-Goldoni.
A blush is a sign that nature hangs out,
to show where chastity and honor dwell.
Gotthold.
Better a blush on the face than a blot on
the heart.- Cervantes.
The man that blushes is not quite a
brute.--Young:
Men blush less for their crimes, than for
their weaknesses and vanity.---Bruyere.
Blushing is the livery of virtue, though
it may sometimes proceed from guilt.-
Bacon.
It is better for a young man to blush,
than to turn pale.—Cicero.
The blush is nature's alarna at the ap-
proach of sin, and her testimony to the
dignity of virtue.-Fuller.
The troubled blood through his pale face
was seen to come and go with tidings from
his heart, as it a running messenger had
been.-Spenser.
The inconvenience, or the beauty of the
bltish, which is the greater ?–Madame
Neckar.
Playful blushes, that seem but luminous
escapes of thought.-Moore.
BLUSTERINGA killing tongue, but
a quiet sword.—Shakespeare.
A brave man is sometimes a desperado ;
but a bully is always a coward.—Hali-
burlon,
It is with narrow souled people as with
narrow necked bottles; the less they have
in them, the inore noise they make in pour-
ing it out.-Pope.
There are braying men in the world as
well as braying asses; for what is loud and
senseless talking other than a way of bray-
ing.-L'Estrange.
They that are loudest in their threats are
the weakest in the execution of them.--It
is probable that he who is killed by light-
ning hears no noise ; but the thunder-clap
which follows, and which most alarms the
ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety.
Colton
Commonly they whose tongue is their
weapon, use their feet for defense.-Sir P.
Sidney.
BOASTING.-We wound our modesty,
and make foul the clearness of our desery-
ings, when of ourselves we publish them.-
Shakespeare.
Where boasting ends, there dignity be-
gins.-Young.
Where there is much pretension, much
has been borrowed; nature never pre-
tends.- Lavatera.
There is this benefit in brag, that the
speaker is unconsciously expressing his own
ideal.-Humor himn by all means ; draw it
all out, and hold him to it.—Emerson.
Who knows himself a braggart, let him
fear this ; for it will come to pass that
every braggart shall be found an ass.-
Shalcespeare.
Men of real merit, whose noble and
glorious deeds we are ready to acknowledge
are not yet to be endured when they vaunt
their own actions.-Xschines.
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.
With all his tumid boasts, he's like the
sword-fish, who only wears his weapon in
his mouth.-Madden.
Conceit, more rich in matter than in
words, brags of bis. substance: they are
but beggars who can count their worth.
Shalcespeare.
A gentleman that loves to hear himself
talk, and will speak more in a minute than
he will stand to in a month.-Shakespeare.
Self-laudation abounds among the un-
polished, but nothing can stamp a man
more sharply as ill-bred.- Charles Buxton.
Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when
he was boasting, “The less you speak of
your greatness, the more shall I think of
it."
The empty vessel makes the greatest
sound.--Shakespeare.
BODY.Our bodies are but dust, but
they can bring praise to him that formed
them.--Dull and tuneless in themselves,
they can become glorious harps on which
the music of piety may be struck to
heaven.-Punshon.
Can any honor exceed that which has
been conferred on the human body ?—Can
any powers exceed the powers—any glory
exceed the glory with which it is invested ?
No wonder the apostle should beseech men
to present their bodies a living sacrifice to
God.-Pulsford.
Our body is a well set clock, which keeps
good time, but if it be too much or indis-
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creetly tampered with, the alarum runs out
before the hour.-Bp. Hall.
It is shameful for a man to rest in igno-
rance of the structure of his own body,
especially when the knowledge of it mainly
conduces to his welfare, and directs his
application of his owu powers.--Melancthon.
God made the human body, and it is the
inost exquisite and wonderful organiza-
tion which has come to us from the divine
hand.—It is a study for one's whole life.-
If an undevout astronomer is mad, an
undevout physiologist is madder.--H. W.
Beecher.
If there be anything common to us by
nature, it is the members of our corporeal
frame; yet the apostle taught that these,
guided by the spirit as its instruments, and
obeying a holy will, become transfigured,
so that, in his language, the body becomes
a temple of the Holy Ghost, and the meanest
faculties, the lowest appetites, the humblest
organs are ennobled "by the spirit mind
which guides them.-7. W. Robertson.
look down on me from yonder shelves,
waiting patiently to answer my questions
and enrich me with their wisdom.-A pre-
cious book is a foretaste of immortality.-
T. L. Cuyler.
Books are immortal sons deifying their
sires.---Plato.
I love to lose myself in other men's minds.
When I am not walking, I am reading. I
cannot sit and think ; books think for me.
Charles Lamb.
God be thanked for books ; they are the
voices of the distant and the dead, and
make us heirs of the spiritual life of past
ages.- Channing.
If a book come from the heart it will con-
trive to reach other hearts.--All art and
authorcraft are of small account to that.-
Carlyle.
Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it
once falls, cannot be rekindled.--Memory,
once interrupted, is not to be recalled.-
But written learning is a fixed luminary,
which, after the cloud that had hidden it
has passed away, is again bright in its
proper station.-So books are faithful re-
positories, which, may be awhile neglected
or forgotten, but when opened again, will
aguin impart instruction.—Johnson.
Books are the metempsychosis ; the sym-
bol and presage of immortality. The dead
are scattered, and none shall find them;
but behold they are here.-H. W. Beecher,
Books standing counselors and
preachers, always at band, and always
disinterested ; having this advantage over
oral instructors, that they are ready to re-
peat their lesson as often as we please.--
Chambers.
Books are masters who instruct us with-
out rods or ferules, without words or anger,
without bread or money. If you approach
them, they are not asleep ; . if you seek
them, they do not bide ; if you blunder,
they do not scold ; if you are ignorant,
they do not laugh at you.--Richard de
are
BOLDNESS.—We make way for the
man who boldly pushes past us.—Bovee.
Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not
dangers and inconveniences; whence it is
bad in council though good in execution.-
The right use of the bold, therefore, is,
that they never command in chief, but
serve as seconds under the direction of
others. For in council it is good to see
dangers, and in execution not to see them
unless they be very great.—Bacon.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.-
Pope.
Who bravely dares must sometimes risk
a fall.-Smollett.
Carried away by the irresistible influence
which is always exercised over men's minds
by a bold resolution in critical circum-
stances.-Guizot.
Fortune befriends the bold.—Dryden.
It is wonderful what strength of purpose
and boldness and energy of will are roused
by the assurance that we are doing our
duty.-Scott.
:
Bury.
BOOKS.-A book is the only immor-
tality.--R. Choate.
Books are lighthouses erected in tho
great sea of time.-L. P. Whipple.
Books are embalmed minds.-Bovee.
A good book is the very essence of a good
man.—His virtues survive in it, while the
foibles and faults of his actual life are for-
gotten.-All the goodly company of the
excellent and great sit around my table, or
Some books are to be tasted; others
swallowed ; and some few to be chewed
and digested.-Bacon.
Except a living man there is nothing
more wonderful than a book! a message
to us from the dead from human souls we
never saw,
who lived, perhaps, thousands
of miles away. And yet these, in those
little sheets of paper, speak to us, arouse
us, terrify us, teach us, comfort us, open
their hearts to us as brothers.-- Charles
Kingsley:
Books are those faithful mirrors that re-
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flect to our mind the minds of sages and
heroes.—Gibbon.
Books, like friends, should be few and
well chosen. Like friends, too, we should
return to them again and again--for, like
true friends, they will never fail us-never
cease to instruct--never cloy-
Next to acquiring good friends, the best
acquisition is that of good books.- Collon. .
A good book is the best of friends, the
same to-day and forever.-Tupper.
Without books, God is silent, justice dor-
mant, natural science at a stand, philoso-
phy lame, letters dumb, and all things in-
volved in darkness.-Bartholini.
Books are not absolutely dead things,
but do contain a certain potency of life in
them, to be as active as the soul whose prog-
eny they are ; they preserve, as in a vial,
the purest efficacy and extraction of the
living intellect that bred them.--Milton.
My books kept me from the ring, the
dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.The
associate of Pope and Addison, the mind
accustomed to the noble thongh silent dis-
course of Shakespeare and Milton, will
hardly seek or put up with low or evil com-
pany and slaves.-Thomas Hood.
A book may be compared to your neigh-
bor : if it be good, it cannot last too long ;
if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early..
-Brooke.
Books are the legacies that genius leaves
to mankind, to be delivered down from
generation to generation, as presents to
those that are yet unborn.-Addison.
There is no book so poor that it would
not be a prodigy if wholly wrought out by
a single mind, without the aid of prior in-
vestigators.-Johnson.
The past but lives in written words : a
thousand ages were blank if books had not
evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale un-
bodied shades to warn us from teshless
lips.-- Bulwer.
There is no book so bad but something
valuable may be derived from it.--Pliny.
If all the crowns of Europe were placed
at my disposal on condition that I should
abandon my books and studies, I should
spurn the crowns away and stand by the
books.-Fenelon.
Books are a guide in youth, and an enter-
tainment for age. They support us under
solitude, and keep us from becoming a
burden to ourselves. They help us to forget
the crossness of men and things, compose
our cares and our passions, and
lay our dis-
appointments asleep. When we are weary
of the living, we may repair to the dead,
who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or
design in their conversation.—Jeremy Col-
lier.
Books are but waste paper uuless we
spend in action the wisdom we get from
thought.—Bulwer.
The books we read should be chosen with
great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian
king wrote over his library, 'The medicines
of the soul."
Be as careful of the books you read, as of
the company you keep ; for your' habits and
character will be as much influenced by the
former as by the latter.—Paxton Hood.
When I get a little money, I buy books;
and if any is left, I buy food and clothes.--
Erasmus.
The silent influence of books, is a mighty
power in the world ; and there is a joy in
reading them known only to those who read
them with desire and enthusiasm.-Silent,
passive, and noiseless though they be, they
yet set in action countless multitudes, and
change the order of nations.-Giles.
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief
value from the stamp and esteem of the
ages through which they have passed.
Sir W. Temple.
It is books that teach us to refine our
pleasures when young, and to recall them
with satisfaction when we are old.-Leigh
Hurit.
A good book is the precious life-blood of
a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured
up on purpose for a life beyond. --Millon.
Books, to judicious compilers, are useful;
to particular arts and professions, they are
absolutely necessary; to men of real science,
they are tools: but more are tools to them.
Johnson.
Books are the true levellers.--They give
to all who faithfully use them, the society,
the spiritual presence of the greatest and
best of our race.-Channing.
Books that you may carry to the fireside,
and hold readily in your hand, are the most
useful after all.-Johnson.
There is no worse robber than a bad
book.-Italian Proverb.
We are as liable to be corrupted by books,
as by companions.-Fielding.
Some books, like the City of London, fare
the better for being burned.-Tom Brown.
Few are sufficiently sensible of the im-
portance of that economy in reading which
selects, almost exclusively, the very first
order of books. Why, except for some
special reason, read an inferior book, at
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the very time you might be reading one of
the highest order ?-John Foster.
A bad book is the worse that it cannot
repent. It has long been the devil's policy
to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance;
but finding that they will
. read, he is doing
all in his power to poison their books.-E.
N. Kirl.
A good book, in the language of the book-
sellers, is a salable one; in that of the
curious, a scarce one; in that of men of
sense, a useful and instructive one.
Chambers.
Bad books are like intoxicating drinks ;
they furnish neither nourishment, nor
medicine.-Both improperly excite; the
one the mind ; the other the body.--The
desire for each increases by being fed.
Both ruin ; one the intellect; the other the
health ; and together, the soul.--The safe-
guard against each is the same-total ab-
stinence from all that intoxicates either
mind or body.-Tryon Edwards.
In good books is one of the best safe-
guards from evil.-Life's first danger has
been said to be an enpty mind; which,
like an unoccupied room, is open for base
spirits to enter. The taste for reading
provides a pleasant and elevating preoccu-
pation.-H. W. Grout.
When a book raises your spirit, and in-
spires you with noble and manly thoughts,
seek for no other test of its excellence. It
is good, and made by a good workman.-
Bruyere.
Choose an author as you choose a friend.
-Roscommon.
In books, it is the chief of all perfections
to be plain and brief.—Buller.
To lise books rightly, is to go to them
for help; to appeal to them when our own
knowledge and power fail ; to be led by
them into wider sight and purer conception
than our own, and to receive from them the
united sentence of the judges and councils
of all time, against our solitary and un-
stable opinions.-Ruskin.
The best books for a man are not always
those which the wise recommend, but often
those which meet the peculiar wants, the
natural thirst of his mind, and thereforo
awaken interest and rivet thought. ---Clan-
ning.
Books (says Bacon) can never teach the
use of books; the student must learn by
commerce with mankind to reduce his
speculations to practice. No man should
think so highly of himself as to suppose he
can receive but little light from books, nor
so meanly as to believe he can discover
nothing but what is to be learned from
them.--Johnson.
If religious books are not widely circu-
lated among the masses in this country,
and the people do not become religious, Í
do not know what is to become of us as a
nation. And the thought is one to cause
solemn reflection on the part of every
patriot and Christian. If truth be not dif-
fused, error will be ; if God and his word
are not known and received, the devil and
his works will gain the ascendancy; if the
evangelical volume does not reach every
hamlet, the pages of a corrupt and licen-
tious literature will; if the power of the gos-
pel is not felt through the length and
breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule,
degradation and misery, corruption and
darkness, will reign without mitigation or
end.—Daniel Webster.
Dead counsellors are the most instruc-
tive, because they are heard with patience
and reverence.-Johnson,
A house without books is like a room
without windows. No man has a right to
bring up his children without surrounding
them with books, if he has the means to
buy them. It is a wrong to his family.
Children learn to read by being in the
presence of books. The love of knowledge
comes with reading and grows upon it.
And the love of knowledge, in a young
mind, is almost a warrant against the
inferior excitement of passions and vices.-
H. Mann.
The constant habit of perusing devout
books is so indispensable, that it has been
termed the oil of the lamp of prayer. Too
much reading, however, and too little
meditation, may produce the effect of a
lamp inverted; which is extinguished by
the very excess of that aliment, whose
property is to feed it.-H. More.
The books that help you most, are those
which make you think the most. The hard-
est way of learning is that of easy reading
but a great book that comes from a great
thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted
with truth and beauty.-Theodore Parler.
There was a time when the world acted
on books ; now books act on the world.-
Joubert.
To buy books only because they were
published by an eminent printer, is much
as if a man should buy clothes that did not
kt him, only because made by some famous
tailor. —Pope.
If a secret history of books could be
written, and the author's private thoughts
and meanings noted down alongside of his
story, how many insipid volumes would
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become interesting, and dull tales excite
the reader !—Thackeray.
The book to read is not the one which
thinks for you, but the one which makes
you think. No book in the world equals
the Bible for that.-McCosh.
The best of a book is not the thought
which it contains, but the thought which
it suggests ; just as the charm of music
dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of
our hearts.-O. W. Holmes.
There is a kind of physiognomy in the
titles of books no less than in the faces of
men, by which a skillful observer will know
as well what to expect from the one as the
other.-- Bp. Buller.
Every man is a volume if you know how
to read him.-Channing.
When a new book comes out I read an
old one.-Rogers.
Thou mayst as well expect to grow
stronger by always eating as wiser by
always reading. Too much overcharges
Nature, and turns more into disease than
nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion
which make books serviceable, and give
health and vigor to the mind.-Fuller.
l'hat is a good book which is opened with
expectation, and closed with delight and
profit.-A. B. Alcott.
The most foolish kind of a book is a kind
of leaky boat on the sea of wisdom ; some
of the wisdom will get in anyhoiv.-0. W.
Holnies.
The books of Nature and of Revelation
equally elevate our conceptions and invite.
our pietý; they are both written by the
tinger of the one eternal, incomprehensible
God.-7. Watson.
Books are men of higher. stature ; the
only men. that speak aloud for future times
to hear.- Barrett.
The society of dead authors has this ad-
vantage over that of the living : they never
flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind
our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy,
nor quit their shelves until we take them
down.--Colton.
A man who writes an immoral but im-
mortal book may be tracked into eternity
by a procession of lost souls from every
generation, everyone to be a witness against
him at the judgment, to show to him and
to the universe the immeasurableness of
his iniquity.-G. B. Cheever.
Master books, but do not let them master
you.-Read to live, not live to read.-Bul-
wer.
A book is a garden, an orchard, a store-
house, a party, a company by the way, a
counsellor, a multitude of counsellors.-H.
W. Beecher.
Most books, like their authors, are born
to die; of only a few books can it be said
that death bath no dominion over them ;
they live, and their influence lives for-
ever.-J. Swarlz.
Books should to one of these four ends
conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or
use.- Denham.
Deep versed in books, but shallow in
himself. Milton.
We ought to reverence books ; to look on
them as useful and mighty things.- If they
are good and true, whether they are about
religion, politics, farming, trade, law, or
medicine, they are the message of Christ,
the maker of all things-the teacher of all
truth.-C. Kingsley.
Books are the best of things if well used ;
if abused, among the worst.—They are good
for nothing but to inspire.-I had better
never see a book than be warped by its
attraction clean out of my own orbit, and
made a satellite instead of a system.
Emerson
The colleges, while they provide us with
libraries, furnishi no professors of books ;
and I think no chair is so much needed.--
Emerson
The books that help you most are thoso
that make you think the most.-Theodore
Parler.
The last thing that we discover in writing
a book, is to know what to put at the be-
ginning.-Pascal.
After all manner of professors have done
their best for 18, the place we are to get
knowledge is in books.—The true univer-
sity of these days is a collection of books.
Carlyle.
Many books require no thought from
those who read them, and for a very simiple
reason ; they made no such demand upon
those who wrote them. Those works, there-
fore, are the most valuable, that set our
thinking faculties in the fullest operation.
- Colton,
He that loves not books before he comes
to thirty years of age, will hardly love them
enough afterward to understand them.--
Clarendon. .
As well almost kill a man, as kill a good
for the life of the one is but a few
short years, while that of the other may be
for ages.--Who kills a man kills a reason-
able creature, God's image ; but he who
destroys a good book, kills reason itself ;
kills as it were, the image of God.--Millon.
book ;
BORES.
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BREVITY.
No book can be so good as to be profit-
able when negligently read.-Seneca.
Upon books the collective education of
the race depends ; they are the sole instru-
ments of registering, perpetuating, and
transmitting thought.-H. Roger's,
BORES.-Few men are more to be
shunned than those who have time, but
know not how to improve it, and so spend
it in wasting the time of their neighbors,
talking forever though they have nothing
to say,-- Tryon Edwards,
The secret of making one's self tiresome,
is, not to know when to stop.- Voltaire.
There are some kinds of men who cannot
pass their time alone ; they are the tails of
occupied people.- Bonald.
There are few wild beasts more to be
dreaded than a talking man having nothing
to say.-Swift.
0, he is as tedious as is a tired horse, or
a railing wife ; worse than a smoky house,
-Shalcespeare.
It is hoped that, with all modern improve-
ments, a way will be dişcovered of getting
rid of bores ; for it is too bad that a poor
wretch can be punished for stealing your
handkerchief or gloves, and that no punish-
ment can be inflicted on those who steal
your time, and with it your temper and
patience, as well as the bright thoughts that
might have entered your mind, if they had
not been frightened away by the bore.-
Byron.
We are almost always wearied in the
company of persons with whom we are not
permitted to be weary.-Rochefoucauld.
BORROWING:-Borrowing is not
much better than begging.-Lessing.
If you would know the value of money,
go and try to borrow some.--He that goes
a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.-Iranklin.
Neither a borrower, nor a lender be; for
loan oft loses both itself and friend ; and
borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry,
Shakespeare.
Getting into debt, is getting into a tangle-
some net.-Franklin.
The borrower rung in his own debt.
Emerson.
He that would have a short Lent, let him
borrow money to be repaid at Easter'.-
Franklin.
No remedy against this consumption of
the purse ; borrowing only lingers it out,
but the disease is incurable.--Shakespeare.
BRAVERY,The best liearts are ever
the bravest, --Sterne,
No man can be brave who considers pain
the greatest evil of life ; or temperate, who
regards pleasure as the highest good.-
Cicero.
A true knight is fuller of bravery in the
midst, than in the beginning of danger.--
Sir P, Sidney.
Some one praising a man for his fool-
hardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, “There
is a wide difference between true courage
and a mere contempt of life."-Plutarch.
At the bottom of not a little of the bravery
that appears in the world, there lurks i
miserable cowardice. Men will face powder
and steel because they have not the courage
to face public opinion.-E. H. Chapin.
True bravery is shown by performing
without witnesses what one might be cap-
able of doing before all the world.-Roche-
foucauld.
Nature often enshrines gallant and noble
hearts in weak bosoms ; oftenest, God bless
her, in woman's breast.—Dickens.
The bravery founded on lope of recom-
pense, fear of punishment, experience of
success, on l'age, or on ignorance of danger,
is but common bravery, and does not de-
serve the name.-True bravery proposes a
just end ; measures the dangers, and meets
the result with calmuness and unyielding
decision.-La None.
All brave men love ; for he only is brave
who has affections to figlit for, whether in
the daily battle of life, or in physical con-
tests.- Hawthorne.
BREVITY,-Brevity is the soul of wit.-
Shakespeare.
Have something to say ; say it; and stop
when you've done.—Tryon Edwards,
Genuine good taste consists in saying
much in few words, ini choosing among our
thoughts, in having order and arrangement
in what we say, and in speaking with com-
posure.-Fenelon.
When one has no design but to speak
plain truth, he may say a great deal in a
very narrow compass.-Steele.
The one.prudence of life is concentra-
tion.- Emerson.
One rare, strange virtue in speeches, and
the secret of their mastery, is, that they are
short. — Halleck.
Brevity is the best recommendation of
speech, whether in a senator or an orator. -
Cicero.
Talk to the point, and stop when you
have reached it.-Be comprehensive in all
you say or write.-To fill a voluine about
nothing is a credit to nobody.-John Neal,
BRIBERY.
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BRUTES.
"Our
can
The fewer the words, the better the
prayer.-Luther,
Words are like leaves, and where they
most abound, much fruit of sense bencată
is rarely found.-Pope.
If you would be pungent, be brief ; for it
is with words as with sunbeams--the more
they are condensed, the deeper they burn.-
Southey.
Say all you have to say in the fewest pos-
sible words, or your leader will be sure
to skip them; and in the plainest possible
words, or lie will certainly misunderstand
them.-- Ruskin.
I saw one excellency within my reach-it
was brevity, and I determined to obtain
it-Jay.
Brevity to writing is what charity is to
all other virtues ; righteousness is nothing
without the one, nor authorship without
the other. ---Sidney Smith.
When you introduce a moral lesson let it
be brief.- Horace.
Never be so brief as to become obscure.--
Tryon Edwards.
BRIBERY.-Judges and senators have
been bought with gold.--Pope.
The universe is not rich enough to buy
the vote of an honest man. -Gregory.
Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet
he is oft led by the nose with gold.-Shake-
speare.
Petitions not sweetened with gold, are
but unsavory, and often refuser ; or if re-
ceived, are pocketed, not read. - Massin-
ger.
Who thinketh to buy villainy with gold,
shall find such faith so bouglit, so sold.
Marston.
A man who is furnished with arguments
from the wint, will convince his antagonist
much sooner than one who draws them
from reason and philosophy.-Gold is a
wonderful clearer of the understanding;
it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an
instant; accommodates itself to the meanest
capacities; silences the loud and clamorous,
aud cringes over the most obstinate and
inflexible.-Philip of Macedon was a man
of most invincible reason this way. He
refuted by it all the wisdom of Athens;
confounded their statesmen ; struck their
orators dumb; and at length argued them
out of all their liberties.-Addison.
sibility to God.”—The present nineteenth
says, 1. The brotherhood of man."-C. L.
Thompson.
Whoever in prayer
say,
Father," acknowledges and should feel the
brotherhood of the whole race of mail-
kind.- Tryon Edwards.
There is no brotherliood of man without
the fatherhood of God.-H. M. Field.
We must love men ere they will seem to
us worthy of our love. - Shakespeare.
If God is thy father, man is thy brother.-
Lamartine.
The brotherhood of man is an integral
part of Christianity no less than the Father-
hool of God; and to deny the one is no less
infidel than to deny the other.---Lyman
Abbott.
We are members of one great body,
planted by nature in a mutual love, and
fitted for a social life.—We must consider
that we were born for the good of the
whole.–Seneca.
The race of mankind would perish did
they cease to aid each other.-We cannot
exist without mutual help. All therefore
that need aid have a right to ask it from
tlıeir fellow-inen ; and no one who has the
power of granting can refuse it without
guilt. — Waller Scott.
The universe is but one great city, full of
beloved ones, divine and human, by nature
endeared to each other.- Epictetus.
However degraded or wretched a fellow
inortal may be, he is still a member of our
common species.--Scneca.
Jesus throws down the dividing preju-
dices of nationality, and teaches universal
love, without distinction of race, merit, or
rank.ro man's neighbor is every one that
needs help.--All men, from the slave to
the highest, are sons of the one father in
heaven.-J. C. Geilcie.
Give bread to the stranger, in the name
of the universal brotherhood which binds
together all men under the common father-
hood of nature.—Quintilian.
BRUTES,-When man is a brute, he
is the most sensual and loathsome of all
brutes.—Hawthorne.
Though natural love in brutes is much
more violent and intense than in rational
creatures, Providence has taken care that
it shall no longer be troublesome to the
parent than it is useful to the young ; for
so soon as the wants of the latter cease, the
mother withdraws her fondness and leaves
them to provide for themselves. --Addison.
BROTHERHOOD.-To live is not to
live for one's self alone; let us help one
another.-Merander.
The sixteenth century said, Respon-
BUILDING.
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BUSYBODIES.
BUILDING.He that is fond of build-
ing will soon ruin himself without the help
of enemies.Plutarch.
Never build after you are five-and-forty ;
have five years' income in hand before you
lay a brick; and always calculate the ex-
penso at double the estiinate.--Kett.
Houses are built to live in, more than to
look at; therefore let use be preferred be-
fore uniformity, except where both may be
bad.- Bacon.
BURIAL.-To close the eyes, and give a
seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead,
is the holiest touch of nature.—Dickens.
A Christian burial, whether at land or
sea, is not so much a ceremonial of death
as a preparation for life; not so much a
consequence of our mortality, as of our im-
mortality; not so truly the subject for a
dirge, as for a ballelujah anthem.-G. B.
Cheever'.
BUSINESS.-In business, three things
are necessary, knowledge, temper, and
time.-Fellharn.
Not because of any extraordinary talents
did he succeed, but because he had a capac-
ity on a level for business and not above
it.-Tacitus.
Never shrink from doing anything your
business calls you to do. The man who is
above his business, may one day find his
business above him.-Drew.
Avoid multiplicity of business, the man
of one thing, is the man of success.- Try-
on Edwards.
Formerly wlien great fortunes were only
made in war, war was a business; but now
when great fortunes are only made by busi-
ness, business is war.- Bovee.
A man who cannot mind his own busi-
ness, is not to be trusted with that of the
King.–Saville.
It is a wise man who knows his own busi-
ness; and it is a wiser inan who thoroughly
attends to it.-H. L. Wayland.
There is no better ballast for keeping the
mind steady on its keel and saving it from
all risk of crankiness than business.-J. R.
Lorell.
Religion belongs to the place of business
as well as to the church.-H. W. Beecher.
Rare almost as great poets, rarer perhaps
than veritable saints and martyrs are con-
summate men of business.—Helps.
To business that we love, we rise botimes,
and go to it with delight. — Shakespeare.
There be three parts of business: the
preparation ; the debate, or examination ;
and the perfection; whereof, if you look
for despatch, let the middle only be the
work of many, and the first and last the
work of few.- Bacon.
To men addicted to delights, business is
an interruption ; to such as are cold to
delights, it is an entertainment.--For which
reason it was said to one who commended
a dull man for his application, “No thanks
to him ; if he had no business he would
have nothing to do.”— Steele.
Men of great parts are often unfortunate
in the management of public business,
because they are apt to go out of the com-
mon road by the quickness of their imagi-
nation.--Swift.
Stick to your legitimate business.--Do
not go into outside operations.-Few men
have brains enough for more than one
thing.–To dabble in stocks, put a few
thousand dollars into a mine, a few more
into a factory, and a few more into an in-
vention is enough to ruin any man.--Do
not be greedy.-Be content with fair re-
turns.-Make friends.-All the money in
the world is not worth so much to you as
one good staunch friend.-H. W. Beecher.
Call on a business man only at business
times, and on business ; transact your busi-
ness, and go about your business, in order
to give him time to finish his business.--
Wellington.
It was a beautiful truth which our fore-
fathers symbolized when in the old market
towns they erected a market-cross, as if to
teach both buyers and sellers to rule their
actions and sanctify their gains by the
remembrance of the cross.-Bowes.
The Christian must not.only mind heaven,
bnt attend diligently to his daily calling;
like the pilot, who, while his eye is fixed on
the star, keeps his hand upon the helm.-
T. Watson.
BUSYBODIES.-(See "BoREs.”)
Always occupied with the duties of others,
never, alas ! with our own.-Joubert.
Have you so much leisure from your own
business that you can take care of that of
other people that does not at all belong to
you ?- Terence.
I never knew any one interfere with
other people's disputes, but that he heartily
repented of it.- Lord Carlisle.
One who is too wise an observer of the
business of others, like one who is too curi-
ons in observing the labor of bees, will
often be stung for his curiosity.-Pope.
This is a maxim of unfailing truth, that
nobody ever pries into another man's con-
BUT.
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CALUMNY.
cerns, but with a design to do, or to be
able to do him a mischief.-South.
BUT." But” is a word that cools many
a warm impulse, stifles many & kindly
thought, puts à dead stop to many a
brotherly deed.-No.one would ever love
his neighbor as himself if he listened to all
the “buts" that could be said.---Bulwer.
Oh, now comes that bitter word—but,
which makes all nothing that was said
before, that smoothes and wounds, that
strikes and dashes more than flat denial, or
& plain disgrace.--Daniel.
I know of no manner of spcaking so
offensive as that of giving praise, and clos-
ing it with an exception.-Steele.
I do not like “ But yet.”-It does allay
the good precedence.–Fie pon “but
But yet” is as a jailer, to bring
forth some monstrous malefactor.-Shake-
speare.
The meanest, most contemptible kind of
praise is that which first speaks well of a
man, and then qualifies it with a “but.”—
H. W. Beecher.
yet."
proof, and even then we should not expose
them to others.-Colton.
Who stabs my name would stab my per-
son too, did not the hangman's axe lie in
the way.
- Crown.
To persevere in one's-duty, and be silent,
is the best answer to calumny.-Cecil.
The calumniator inflicts wrong by slan-
dering the absent; and he who gives credit
to the calumny before he knows it is true,
is equally guilty.-The person traduced is
doubly injured; by him who propagates,
and by him who credits the slander.--He-
rodotus.
Neglected calumny soon expires; show
that you are hurt, and you give it the ap-
pearance of truth. - Tacitus.
Close thine ear against him that opens
his mouth against another.-If thou re-
ceive not his words, they fly back and
wound him,-If thou receive them, they
flee forward and wound thee.-Quarles.
There are calumnies against which even
innocence loses courage.- Napoleon.
Those who ought to be most secure
against calumny, are generally those who
least escape it. - Stanislaus.
I never think it needful to regard calum-
nies ; they are sparks, which, if you do not
blow them, will go out of themselves.-
Boerhave.
Calumny crosses oceans, scales moun-
tains, and traverses deserts with greater
ease than the Scythian Abaris, and, like
him, rides upon a poisoned arrow.- Colton.
Never chase a lie ; if you let it alone, it
will soon run itself to death. You can
work out a good character faster than
calumny can destroy it.-L. Nott.
I am beholden to calumny, that she hath
80 endeavorod to belie me.-It shal make
me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a
better watch upon my actions.-Ben Jon-
C.
CALAMITY.-Calamity is man's true
touchstone.-Beauinont and Fletcher.
Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we
truly see and know ourselves.-Davenant.
When any calamity has been suffered, the
first thing to be remembered, is, how much
has been escaped.—Johnson.
It is only from the belief of the goodness
and wisdom of a supreme being, that our
calamities can be borne in the manner
which becomes a man.-Mackenzie.
He who foresees calamities, suffers them
twice over.-Porteus.
Times of general calamity and confusion
have ever been productive of the greatest
minds.—The purest ore is from the hottest
furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt
from the darkest cloud. ---Colton.
If we take sinful means to avoid calamity,
thilt very often brings it upon us.- Wall.
CALUMNY:-(See “SCANDAL," and
SLANDER.")
Be thou chaste as ice, and pure as snow,
thou shalt not escape calumny.--Shake-
spear'l.
Back-wounding calumny the whitest vir-
tue strikes.-Shakespeare.
Caluinintors have neither good hearts,
mor good understandings.-We ought not
to think ill of any one till we have palpable
son.
I never listen to calumnies ; because, if
they are untrue, I run the risk of being
deceived; and if they are true, of hating
persons not worth thinking about.-Mon-
tesquieu.
Calumny is like the wasp that worries
you, which it is not best to try to get rid of
unless you are sure of slaying it; for other-
wise it returns to the charge more furious
than ever. - - Chamfort.
To persevere in one's duty and be silent,
is the best answer to caluniny.- Washing-
ton.
He that lends an easy and credulous ear
to calumny, is either a man of very ill
CALVINISM.
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CANDOR.
morals, or he has no more sense and under-
standing than a child.--Menander:-
No might nor greatness in inortality can
ceusure 'scape; back wounding calumny
the whitest virtue strikes : What king so
strong, can tie the gall up in the slanderous
tongue ?-Shalespeare.,
The upright man, if he suffer calumny
to move hini, fears the tongue of man more
than the eye of God.-Colton.
Taise praise can please, and calumny
affright, none but the vicious and the hypo-
crite.- Horace.
We cannot control the evil tongues of
others, but a good life enables us to de
spise them.--Cato.
To seem disturbed at calumny, is the
way to make it believed, and stabbing your
defamer, will not prove you innocent.
Live an exemplary life, and then your good
character will overcome and refute the cal-
umny.-Blair.
Calumny would soon starve and die of
itself if nobody took it in and gave it a
lodging.-Leighton.
Believe nothing against another but on
good authority; and never report what
may hurt another, unless it be a greater
hurt to some other to conceal it.--Penn.
CALVINISM. - Calvinism is a term
used to designate, not the opinions of an
individual, but a mode of religious thought,
or a system of religious doctrine, of which
the person whose name it bears was an
eminent expounder.-A. A. Hodge.
There is no system which equals Cal-
vinism in intensifying, to the last degree,
ideas of moral excellence and purity of
character.-It has always worked for lib-
erty.-There never was a system since the
world began, which puts upon man such
motives to holiness, or builds batteries
which sweep the whole ground of sin with
such horrible artillery.-H. W. Beecher.
Calvinism has produced characters nobler
and grander than any which republican
Rome ever produced. --- Froude.
Calvinism is a democratic and republican
religion.- De Tocqueville.
Wherever Calvinism was established, it
brought with it not only truth but liberty,
and all the great developments which these
two fertile principles carry with them.-
D'Aubigné.
To the Calvinists, more than to any other
class of men, the political liberties of Hol-
land, England, and America are due.
Molley.
There was not a reformer in Europe so
resolute as Calvin to exorcise, tear out, and
destroy what was seen to be false--80 res-
olute to establish what was true in its
place, and to make truth, to the last fibro
of it, the rule of practical life.—Froude.
He that will not honor the memory, and
respect the influence of Calvin, knows but
little of the origin of American indepen-
dence.--Bancroft.
Calvin's Institutes, in spite of its imper-
fections, is, on the whole, one of the noblest
edifices ever erected by the mind of man,
and ono of the mightiest codes of moral law
which ever guided him.- Guizot.
"In the centuries after the Reforma-
ion," says Froude, “Calvinism numbered
among its adherents nearly every man in
Europe who abhorred a lie.—It made men
haters of sin and intolerant of evil and
loathing all wrong.--Some of its adherents
may have been deficient in the graces of
society and the amenities of life, but their
sternness and intolerance was bori of pro-
found convictions, and their ideal of social
life was lofty, and made up in part from
the Bible views of heaven.
The promulgation of Calvin's theology
was one of the longest steps that mankind
have taken toward personal freedom.-- John
Fisice.
Bancroft, speaking of the great Calvinistic
doctrines embodied in the " Confession of
Faith,” says: “They infused enduring ele-
ments into the institutions of Geneva, and
made it for the modern world, the impreg-
nable fortress of popular liberty—the fertile
seed-plot of Democracy.
CANDOR.-The diligent fostering of a
candid habit of mind, even in trifles, is a
patter of high moment both to character
and opinions.--Howson.
I can promise to be candid, though I may
not be impartial.- Goethe.
Candor is the brightest gem of criticism.
-Disraeli.
Candor is the seal of a noble mind, the
ornament and pride of man, the sweetest
charm of women, the scorn of rascals, and
the rarest virtue of sociability.-Sternac.
It is great and manly to disdain disguise ;
it shows our spirit, and proves our strength.
- Young.
Making my breast transparent as pure
crystal, that the world, jealous of me, may
see the foulest thought my heart doth hold.
- Buckingham.
Examine what is said, not him who
speaks.-Arabian Proverb.
I make it my rule, to lay hold of light
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CARE.
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and embrace it, wherever I see it, though
held forth by a child or an enemy.-Presi-
dent Edwards,
In reasoning upon moral subjects, we
have great occasion for candor, in order to
compare circumstances, and weigh argu-
ments with impartiality.- Emmons.
CANT.-Cant is the voluntary over-
charging or prolongation of a real senti-
ment; hypocrisy is the setting up pretence
to a feeling you never had, and have 110
wish for.--Hazlitt.
Cant is itself properly a double-distilled
lie, the materia prima of the devil, from
which all falsehoods, imbecilities, and
abominations body themselves, and from
which no true thing can come. -Carlyle.
Of all the cants in this canting world,
though the cant of hypocrites may be the
worst, the cant of criticism is the most
tormenting.-Sterne.
Cant is good to provoke common sense.
-Emerson.
The affectation of some late authors to
introduce and multiply cant words is the
most ruinous corruption in any language.
-Swift.
CARDS.-It is very wonderful to see per-
sons of the best sense passing hours togeth-
er iu shuffling and dividing a pack of cards
with no conversation but what is made up
of a few game-phrases, and no other ideas
but those of black or red spots ranged to-
gether in different figures. . Would not a
man laugh to hear any one of his species
complaining that life is short ?-Addison.
It is quite right that there should be a
heavy duty on cards; not only on moral
grounds ; not only because they act on a
social party like a torpedo, silencing the
merry voice and numbing the play of the
features ; not only to fill the hunger of the
public purge, which is always empty, how-
ever much you may put into it; but also
because every pack of cards is a malicious
libel on courts, and on the world, seeing
that the trumpery with number one at the
head is the best part of them; and that it
gives kings and queens no other compan-
ions than knaves. --Southey.
CARE.-Care admitted as a guest,
quickly turns to be master.-Bovee.
Care is no cure, but rather a corrosive
for things that are not to be remedied.-
Shalcespeare.
Cares are often more difficult to throw
off than sorrows; the latter die with time;
the former grow upon it.--Richler.
They lose the world who buy it, with
much care.—Shalcespeare.
Our cares are the mothers not only of our
charities and virtues, but of our best joys,
and most cheering and enduring pleasures.
-Simms,
Put off thy cares with thy clothes
shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so
thy labor sweeten thy rest.-Quarles.
To carry care to bed, is to sleep with a
pack on your back.- Haliburton.
Providence has given us hope and sleep
as a compensation for the many cares of
life.--- Voltaire.
The cares of to-day are seldom those of
to-morrow; and when we lie down at night
we may safely say to inost of our troubles,
“Ye have done your worst, and we shalí
see you no more. Cowper.
Only man clogs his happiness with care,
destroying what is, with thoughts of what
may be.-Dryden.
Life's cares are comforts ; such by
heaven design'd; he that hath none must
make them, or
be wretched : cares are
employments; and without employ the
soul is on the rack; the rack of rest, to
souls most adverse ; action all their joy.-
Young.
This world has cares enough to plague
218; but he who meditates on others' woe,
shall, in that meditation, lose his own.-
Cumberland.
We can easily manage, if we will only
take, each day, the burden appointed for
it. But the load will be too heavy for us if
we carry yesterday's burden over again to-
day, and then add the burden of the mor-
row to the weight before we are required to
bear it.-John Newton.
Many of our cares," says Scott,“
but a morbid way of looking at our privi-
leges. "We let our blessings get mouldy,
and then call them curses.-H. W. Beecher.
Tho every-day cares and duties, which
men call drudgery, are the weights and
counterpoises of the clock of time, giving
its pendulum a trne vibration, and its
hands a regular motion; and when they
cease to hang upon the wheels, the pendu-
lum no longer swings, the hands no longer
move, and the clock stands still.---Long-
fellow.
Anxious care rests on a basis of heathen
worldly-niindedness, and of heathen mis-
understanding of the character of God.-
A. Maclaren.
He that takes his cares on himself loads
himself in vain with an uneasy burden. I
are
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CENSURE
and do not take things by the point.
Rance.
Look before you leap ; see before you go.
-Tusser.
When clouds are seen wise men put on
their cloaks.-Shakespeare.
None pities him that's in the snare, who
warned before, would not beware. - Her-
quiclc.
Open your mouth and purse cautiously,
and your stock of wealth and reputation
shall, at least in repute, be great.--Zim-
merman.
will cast my cares on God; he has bidden
me; they cannot burden him.-Bp. Hall.
Care keeps his watch in every old man's
eye ; and where care lodges sleep will never
lie.—Shakespeare.
Men do not avail themselves of the riches
of God's grace.—They love to nurse their
cares, and seem as uneasy without some
fret as an old friar would be without his
hair girdle. They are commanded to cast
their cares on the Lord; but even when
they attempt it, they do not fail to catch
them up again, and think it meritorious to
walk burdened.--H. W. Beecher.
CARICATURE.—Nothing conveys a
more inaccurate idea of a whole truth than
a part of a truth so prominently brought
forth as to throw the other parts into slad-
OW.-This is the art of caricature, by the
happy use of which you might caricature
the Apollo Belvidere. --Bulwer.
Take my advice, and never draw carica-
ture.—By the long practice of it I have lost
the enjoyment of beauty.-I never see a
face but distorted, and never have the sat-
isfaction to behold the human face divine.
--Hogarth.
CASTLES IN THE AIR.—Charming
Alnaschar visions ! It is the happy privi-
lege of youth to construct you !-Track-
eray.
If you have built castles in the air, your
work need not be lost; there is where they
should be. Now put foundations under
them.-Thoreau.
We build on the ice, and write on the
waves of the sea.—The waves roaring, pass
away; the ice melts, and away goes our
palace, like our thoughts.-Herder.
Ever building to the clouds, and never
retlecting that the poor narrow basis can-
not sustain the giddy, tottering column.-
Schiller.
CAUTION.-It is well to learn caution
by the misfortunes of others.--Publius
Syrus.
All is to be fcared where all is to be lost.
-Byron.
Caution in crediting, and reserve in
speaking, and in revealing one's self to but
very few, are the best securities both of a
good understanding with the world, and of
the inward peace of our own minds.
Thomas d Kempis.
When using a needln you move your fin-
gers delicately, and with a wise caution.-
Use the same precaution with the inevit-
able dulness of life.--Give attention; keep
yourself from imprudent precipitation;
Whenever our neighbor's house is on fire,
it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a
little on our own. Better to be despised
for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined
by too confident security.-
Burke.
Trust not him that hath once broken
faith; he who betrayed thee once, will be-
tray thee again.-Shakespeare.
He that is over-cautious will accomplish
but very little.-Schiller.
Take warning by the misfortunes of
others, that others may not take example
from you.-Saadi.
More firm and sure the hand of courage
strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of
caution.-Thomson.
Things done well and with a care, ex-
empt themselves from fear.---Shakespeare.
I don't like these cold, precise, perfect
people, who, in order not to speak wrong,
ilever speak at all, and in order not to do
wrong, never do anything.-H. W. Beecher.
CENSURE.-Censure is the tax a man
pays to the public for being eminent.---
Swift.
The censure of those who are opposed to
us, is the highest commendation that can
be given us. -Sl. Evremond.
He that well and rightly considereth his
own works will find little cause to judge
hardly of another.--Thos. à Kempis.
There are but three ways for a man to
revenge himself for the censure of the
world: to despise it; to return the like; or
to live so as to avoid it. The first of these
is usually pretended ; the last is almost im-
possible ; the universal practice is for the
second.-Swift.
Torbear to judge, for we are sinners all.-
Shakespeare.
The readiest and surest way to get rid of
censure, is to correct ourselves. - Demos-
thenes.
It is folly for an eminent person to think
of escaping censure, and a weakness to be
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CHANCE.
affected by it.-All the illustrious persons
of antiquity, and indeed of every age, have
passed through this fiery persecution.-
There is no defence against reproach but
obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to
greatness, as satires and invectives were an
essential part of a Roman triumph.-Addi-
son.
Censure pardous the ravens, but rebukes
the doves.-Juvenal.
Tew persons have sufficient wisdom to
prefer censure, which is useful, to praise
which deceives them.-Rochefoucauld.
Horace appears in good humor while he
censures, and therefore his censure has the
nore weight, as supposed to proceed from
judgment and not from passion.-Young.
If any one speak ill of thee, consider
whether he hath truth on his side; and if
80, reform thyself, that his censures may
not affect thee.- Epictetus.
The villain's censure is extorted praise.—
Pope.
It is harder to avoid censure than to gain
applause, for this may be done by one great
or wise action in an age ; but to escape
censure a man must pass his whole life
without saying or doing one ill or foolish
thing.--Hume.
He is always the severest censor on the
merits of others who has the least worth of
his own.-E. L. Magoon.
It is impossible to indulge in habitual
severity of opinion upon our fellow-men
without injuring the tenderness and deli-
cacy of our own feelings.-H. W. Beecher.
Most of our censure of others is only ob-
lique praise of self, uttered to show the
wisdom and superiority of the speaker.-It
has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and
all the ill-desert of falsehood.— Tryon Ed-
wards.
We hand folks over to God's mercy, and
show nonc ourselves.-George Eliot.
The most censorions are generally the
least judicious, or deserving, who, having
nothing to recommend themselves, will be
findling fault with others.--No man envies
the merit of another who has enough of his
OW.-Rule of Life.
Our censure of our fellow-men, which we
are prone to think a proof of our superior
wisdoin, is too often only the evidence of
the conceit that would magpify self, or of
the malignity or envy that would detract
from others.-Tryon Edwards.
CEREMONY,-All ceremonies are, in
themselves, very silly things ; but yet a
man of the world should know them. They
are the outworks of manners and decency,
which would too often be broken in upon,
if it were not for that defence which keeps
the enemy at a proper distance.-Chester-
field.
Ceremony is the invention of wise men
to keep fools at a distance ; as good breed-
ing is an expedient to make fools and wise
men equals.--Steele.
To dispense with ceremony is the most
delicate mode of conferring a compliment.
-Bulwer.
To repose our confidence in forms and
ceremonies, is superstition ; but not to
submit to them is pride or self-conceit.
Pascal.
Ceremonies differ in every country; they
are only artificial helps which ignorance
assumes to imitate politeness, which is the
result of good sense and good nature.
Goldsmith.
If we use no ceremony toward others,
we shall be treated without any.-People
are soou tired of paying trifling attentions
to those who receive them with coldness,
and return them with neglect.--Hazlitt.
Ceremony resembles that base coin which
circulates through a country by royal man-
date; it serves every purpose of real money
at home, but is entirely useless if carried
abroad.—A person who should attempt to
circulate his native trash in another country
would be thought either ridiculous or cul-
pable.—Goldsmith.
Ceremony was devised at first, to set a
gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, and
rocanting goodness ; but where there is
true friendship, there needs none.--Shake-
speare.
To divest either politics or religion of
ceremony, is the most certain method of
bringing either into contempt.-The weak
must have their inducements to admiration
as well as the wise ; and it is the business
of a sensible government to impress all
ranks with a sense of subordination,
whether this be effected by a diamond
buckle, a virtuous edict, a sumptuary law,
or a glass necklace.-Goldsmith.
CHANCE:-( See "ACCIDENT.") There
is no such thing as chance; and what
seems to 118 the merest accident springs
from the deepest source of destiny.--Schil-
ler.
By the word chance we merely express
our ignorance of the cause of any fact or
effect not that we think that chance was
itself the cause.—Henry Fergus.
The doctrine of chances is the bible of
the fool.
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59
CHARACTER.
There is no doubt such a thing as chance;
but I see no reason why Providence should
not make use of it.--Sininis.
What can be more foolish than to think
that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth
could come by chance, when all the skill of
art is not able to make an oyster !-Jeremy
Taylor.
Chance is but the pseudonym of God for
those particular cases which he does not
choose to subscribe openly with his own
sign-manual.- Coleridge.
The mines of knowledge are often laid
bare by the hazel-wand of chance.- Tupper.
Many shining actions owe their success
to chance, though the general or statesman
runs away with the applause.--Home.
Be not too presumptuously sure in any
business ; for things of this world depend
on such a train of unseen chances that if it
were in man's hands to set the tables, still
he would not be certain to win the game.-
Herbert.
How often events, by chance, and unex-
pectedly, come to pass, which you had not
dared even to hope for -- Terence.
Chance never writ a legible book; never
built a fair house; never drew a neat pic-
ture; never did any of these things, nor
ever will ; nor can it, without absurdity, be
supposed to do them, which are yet works
very gross and rude, and very easy and
feasible, as it were, in comparison to tho
production of a flower or a tree.-Barrow.
Chance is always powerful.-Let your
hook be always cast; in the pool where you
least expect it, there will be a fish.-- Ovid.
Chance is a word void of sense ; nothing
can exist without a cause. -- Voltaire,
He who distrusts the security of chance
takes more pains to effect the safety which
results from labor. To find what you seek
in the road of life, the best proverb of all
is that which says:
Leave no stone un-
turned."-Bulwer.
There is no such thing as chance or acci-
dent, the words merely signify our igno-
rance of some real and immediate cause. -
Adam Clarice.
Chance generally favors the prudent.--
Joubert.
CHANGE.-The world is a scene of
changes; to be constant in nature were in-
constancy.-- Cowley.
The circumstances of the world are so
variable, that an irrevocable purpose or
opinion is alınost synonymous with a fool-
W. H, Seward.
Perfection is immutable, but for things
imperfect to change, is the way to perfect
them.-Constancy without knowledge can-
not be always good; and in things ill, it
is not virtue but an absolute vice.-1'el-
thат.
What I possess I would gladly retain.-
Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely
profits.-Goethe.
If a great change is to be made in human
affairs, the minds of men will be fitted to
it; the general opinions and feelings will
draw that way.
Every fear and hope will
forward it; and they who persist in oppos-
ing this mighty current will appear rather
to resist the decrees of Providence itself,
than the mere designs of men.—They will
not be so much resolute and firm as per-
verse and obstinate.-Burlce.
He that will not apply new remedies
must expect new evils.-
Bacon.
To-day is not yesterday.-We ourselves
chauge.—How then, can our works and
thoughts, if they are always to be the fit-
test, continue always the same.-Change,
indeed, is painful, yet ever needful; and if
memory have its force and worth, so also
has hope.-Carlyle.
History fades into fable ; fact becomes
clouded with doubt and controversy; the
inscription moulders from the tablet; the
statue falls from the pedestal.—Columus,
arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps
of sand, and their epitaphs but characters
written in the dust ?- Washington Irving.
Remember the wheel of Providence is al-
ways in motion; and the spoke that is 11p-
permost will be under; and therefore mix
trembling always with your joy.-Philip
Henry.
It is not strange that even our loves
should change with our fortunes.--Shake-
speare.
In this world of change nanglit which
coines stays, and naught which goes is lost.
- Mad. Swetchine.
CHARACTER.--(Seo "TALENTS.")
Character is perfectly educated will.—
Novalis.
The noblest contribution which any man
can make for the benefit of posterity, is that
of a good character. The richest bequest
which any man can leave to the youth of
his native land, is that of a shining, spotless
example.-R. C. Winthrop.
Let us not say, Every man is the architect
of his own fortune; but let us say, Every
man is the architect of his own character. -
G. D. Boardman.
Give us a character on which we can
thoroughly depend, which we know to be
ish one.
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CHARACTER.
based on principle and on the fear of God,
and it is wonderful how many brilliant and
popular and splendid qualities we can safely
and gladly dispense with.-A. P. Stanley.
Talents are best nurtured in solitude ;
character is best formed in the stormy bil-
lows of the world.-Goethe.
There is not a man or woman, however
poor they may be, but have it in their
power, by the grace of God, to leave behind
them the grandest thing on earth, char-
acter; and their children might rise up
after them and thank God that thieir mother
was a pious woman, or their father a pious
man.- N. Macleod.
Only what we have wrought into our char-
acter during life can we take away with
us.-Humboldt:
It is not what a man gets, but what a
man is, that he should think of.-He should
think first of his character, and then of his
condition: for if he have the former, he
need have no fears about the latter:--Char-
acter will draw condition after it.--Circum-
stances obey principles.-H. W. Beecher.
Men best show their character in trifles,
where they are not on their guard.--It is
in insignificant matters, and in the simplest
habits, that we often see the boundless
egotism which pays no regard to the feelings
of others, and denies nothing to itself.
Schopenhauer.
He who acts wickedly in private life, can
never be expected to show himself noble in
public conduct. He that is base at home,
will not acquit himself with honor abroad;
for it is not the man, but only the place
that is changed. Æschines.
Character is a diamond that scratches
every other stone.--Bartol.
Character and personal force are the only
investments that are worth anything.–
Whitmain.
Actions, looks, words, steps, form the
alphabet by which you may spell characters:
some are mere letters, some contain entire
words, lines, pages, which at once decipher
the life of a man. One such genuine unin-
terrupted page may be your key to all the
rest; but first be certain that lie wrote it
all alone, and without thinking of publisher
or reader.-Lavater.
A man's character is the reality of him-
self. His reputation is the opinion others
have formed of him.-Character is in him ;
-reputation is from other people—that is
the substance, this is the shadow.--H. W.
Beecher.
The best characters are made by vigorous
and persistent resistance to evil tenden-
cies; whose amiability has been built upon
the ruins of ill-temper, and whose gener-
osity springs from an over-mastered and
transformed selfishness. Such a character,
built up in the presence of enemies, has
far more attraction than one which is na-
tively pleasing.- Dexter.
A good character is, in all cases, the fruit
of personal exertion. It is not inherited
froin parents ; it is not created by external
advantages ; it is no necessary appendage
of birth, wealth, talents, or station ; but
it is the result of one's own endeavors-
the fruit and reward of good principles
manifested in a course of virtuons and hon-
orable action.-J. Hawes.
As the sun is best seen at his rising and
setting, so men's native dispositions are
clearest seen when they are children, and
when they are dying.--Boyle.
As there is much beast and some devil in
man, so is there some angel and some God
in him. The beast and the devil may be
conqucred, but in this life never destroyed.
Coleridge.
Every man, ils to character, is the crea-
ture of the age in which he lives.- Very few
are able to raise themselves above the ideas
of thcir times.- Voltaire, .
The great hope of society is in individual
character.-Channing.
The Duc de Chartres used to say, that
no man could less value character than
himself, and yet he would gladly give
twenty thousand pounds for a good char-
acter, because, he could, at once, make
double that sum by it.- Colton.
Characters do not change.-Opinions
alter, but characters are only developed.-
Disraeli.
The character is like white paper; if once
blotted, it can hardly ever be made to ap-
pear white as before.—One wrong step often
stains the character for life.It is much
easier to form a good character and pre-
serve it pure, than to purify it after it hus
becoine defiled.-J. Hawes.
As they, who for every slight infirmity
take physic to repair their health, do rather
impair it; so they, who for every trifle are
eager to vindicate their character, do rather
weaken it.-J. Mason.
Thoughts of virtue lead to virtuous ac-
tion ; acts of virtue ripen into habits; and
the goodly and permanent result is, the
formation or establishment of a virtuous
character. -Chalmers.
Our character is but the stamp on our
souls of the free choices of good and evil we
have made through life.- Geikie.
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CHARACTER.
A man is what he is, not what men say
he is.—His character is what he is before
God.-That no wan cau touch ; only he
himself can damage it.-His reputation is
what men say lie is.—That may be dam-
aged.--Reputation is for time ; character
is for eternity.-J. B. Gough.
A fair reputation is a plant of delicate
nature, and by no means rapid in its
growth.-It will not shoot up, like the
gourd of the prophet, in a single night, but
like that gourd in à siugle night it may
perish.-J. Hawes.
Every thought willingly contemplated,
every word meaningly spoken, every ac-
tion freely done consolidates itself in the
character, and will project itself onward
continually.-H. Giles.
Truthfulness is a corner-stone in char-
acter, and if it be not firmly laid in youth,
there will ever after be a weak spot in the
foundation.-J. Davis.
All the little vexations of life have their
use as a part of our moral discipline. They
afford the best trial of character. Many a
man who could bow with resignation, if
told that he was to die, is thrown off his
guard and out of temper by the slightest
opposition to his opinions or his projects.
Character is like stock in trade ; the more
of it a man possesses, the greater his facili-
ties for making additions to it. Character
is power-is influence ; it makes friends ;
creates funds ; draws patronage and sup-
port; and opens a sure and easy way to
wealth, honor, and happiness.-J. Hawes.
Experience serves to prove, tbat the worth
and strength of a state depend far less upon
the form of its institutions than upou the
character of its men ; for the nation is only
the aggregate of individual conditions, and
civilization itself is but a question of per-
sonal improvement.--S. Smiles.
Wherever you find patience, fidelity,
honor, kindness, truth, there you find re-
spectability, however obscure and lonely
men may be.--H. W. Beecher.
All that makes men true, pure, and godly,
goes with them everywhere. All that makes
them false, impure, wicked, abides with
them. Every man goes to his own place.-
Golden Rule.
A tree will not only lie as it falls, but it
will fall as it leans. And the great question
every one should bring home to himself is
this: “What is the inclination of my soul?
Does it, with all its affections, lean toward
God or away from him ?”—J. J. Gurney.
A good name is rather to be chosen than
great riches, and loving favor rather than
silver and gold.--Solomon.
Character is built out of circumstances.-
From exactly the same materials one man
builds palaces, while auother builds hov-
els.-G. H. Lewes.
The shortest and surest way to live with
honor in the world, is to be in reality what
we would appear to be; all human virtues
increase and strengthen themselves by the
practice and experience of them.--Socrates.
The character that needs law to mend it,
is hardly worth the tinkering-Jerrold.
The best part of human character is ten-
derness and delicacy of feeling in little
matters, the desire to soothe and please
others-miuutiæ of the social virtues.-
Emerson.
As there is nothing in the world great but
man, there is nothing truly great in man
but character.-W. W. Lvarts.
If you would create something, you must
be something.-Goethe.
Not education, but character, is man's
greatest need and man's greatest safe-
guard.--Spencer.
If I take care of my character, my repil-
tation will take care of itself.-D. L.
Moody.
There is a broad distinction between
character and reputation, for one may be
destroyed by slander, while the other can
never be harmed save by its possessor.
Reputation is in no man's keeping. You.
and I cannot determine what other men
shall think and say about us. We can only
determine what they ought to think of us
and say about us.-J. G. Holland.
A man may be outwardly successful all
his life long, and die hollow and worthless
as & puff-ball; and he may be externally de-
feated all his life long, and die in the roy-
alty of a kingdom established within liim.
A man's true estate of power and riches, is
to be in himself ; not in hi
not in his dwelling, or
position, or external relations, but in his
own essential character.-That is the realın
in which he is to live, if he is to live as a
Christian man.--H. W. Beecher.
It is not money, nor is it mere intellect,
that governs the world; it is moral charac-
ter, and intellect associated with moral ex-
cellence.-T. D. Woolsey. .
Character is higher than intellect.
A great soul will be strong to live as well
to think.-Emerson.
Character must stand behind and back
up everything—the sermon, the poem, the
picture, the play. None of them is worth
a stray without it.-J. G. Holland.
To judge human character rightly a man
may sometimes have very small experience
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CHARITY.
provided he has a very large heart, - Bul-
wer'.
Make but few explanations. The charac-
ter that cannot defend itself is not worth
vindicating.-F. W. Robertson.
No more fatal error can be cherished than
that any character can be complete with-
out the religious element. The essential
factors in character building are religion,
morality, and kuowledge.-J. L. Pickard.
Iu the destiny of every moral being there
is an object more worthy of God than hap-
piness. - It is character. -And the grand
aim of man's creation is the development
of a grand character-and grand character
is, by its very nature, the product of pro-
bationary discipline. — Auslin Phelps.
To be worth anything, character must be
capable of standing firm upon its feet in
the world of daily work, , and
trial ; ablo bear wear and tear of
actual life. Cloistered virtues do not count
for much.-S. Smiles.
The great thing in this world is not so
much where we are, but in what direction
we are moving.-0. W. Holmes.
Do what you kuow and perception is con-
verted into character.-Itmerson.
We shall never wander from Christ while
qe {make character the end and aim of all
our intellectual discipline; and we shall
never misconceive character while we hold
fast to Christ, and keep bim first in our
motto and our hearts.-S. F. Scovel.
Nothing can work me damage, except my-
self.--The harm that I sustain I carry about
me, and never am a real sufferer but by
my own fault.–St. Bernard.
Good character is human nature in its
best form. It is moral order embodied in
the individual.-Men of character are not
only the conscience of society, but in every
well governed state they are its best motive
power; for it is moral qualities which, in
the main, rule the world.-S. Smiles.
Never does a man portray his own char-
acter more vividly, than in his manner of
portraying another.-Richter.
Should one tell you that a mountain had
changed its place, you are at liberty to
doubt it; but if any one tells you that a
man has changed his character, do not
believe it.-Manomet.
A good heart, benevolent feelings, and a
balanced mind, lie at the foundation of
character. Other things may be deemed
fortuito18; they may come and go ; but
character is that which lives and abides,
and is admired long after its possessor has
left the earth.-Jolin Todd.
You cannot dream yourself into a char-
acter ; you must hammer and forge one for
yourself.-I'roude.
CHARITY,-First daughter to the love
of God, is charity to man.-Drennan.
The word “alms" has no singular, as if
to teach us that a solitary act of charity
scarcely deserves the name.
Charity gives itself rich; covetousness
hoards itself poor.–German Proverb.
Charity is never lost: it may meet with
ingratitude, or be of 20 service to those on
whom it was bestowed, yet it ever does a
work of beauty and grace upon the heart of
the giver.
The deeds of charity we have done shall
stay with us forever.-Only the wealth we
have so bestowed do we keep; the other is
not ours.-Middleton.
Defer
does so is rather liberal of another man's
substance than his own.-Stretch.
Posthumous charities are the very es-
sence of selfishness when bequeathed by
those who, when alive, would part with
nothing.-Colton.
I would have none of that rigid and cir-
cumspect charity which is never exercised
without scrutiny, and which always mis-
trusts the reality of the necessities laid open
to it.-Massilon.
Beneficence is a duty; and he who fre-
quently practices it and sees his benevolent
intentions realized, at length comes to love
him to whom he has done good.-Kant.
How often it is difficult to be wisely
charitable—to do good without multiplying
the sources of evil. . To give alms is noth-
ing unless you give thought also. It is
written, not "blessed is he that feedeth the
poor," but "blessed is he that considereth
A little thought and a little
kindness are often worth more than a great
deal of money.-Ruslcin.
The charities that soothe, and heal, and
bless, lie scattered at the feet of men like
flowers.-- Wordsworth.
Every good act is charity. Your smiling
in your brother's face, is charity ; an ex-
hortation of your fellow-man to virtuous
deeds, is equal to alms-giving ; your put-
ting a wanderer in the right road, is
charity; your assisting the blind, is char-
ity; your removing stones, and thorns,
and other obstructions from the road, is
charity ; your giving water to the thirsty,
is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter,
is the good he does in this world to his fel-
low-man. When he dies, people will say,
“What property has he left behind him ??
the poor.
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But the angels will ask, “What good deeds
bas he sent before him." Mahomet.
The charity that bastens to proclaim its
good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is
only pride and ostentation.—Hutton.
It is an old saying, that charity begins at
home; but this no reason that 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 quar-
ter or square, or even alley in which he
lives, but he should have a generous feel-
ing for the welfare of the whole.- Cumber-
land.
A man should fear when he enjoys only
the good he does publicly.—Is it not pub-
licity rather than charity, which he loves ?
Is it not vanity, rather than benevolence,
that gives such charities ?--H. W: Beecher
In my youth I thought of writing a satire
on mankind, but now in my age I think
I should write an apology for them.-
Walpole.
When faith and hope fail, as they do
sometimes, we must try charity, which is
love in action. We must speculate no more
on our duty, but simply do it.
When we
have done it, however bliudly, perhaps
Heaven will show is why.--Mulocić.
Pity, forbearance, long-sufferance, fair
interpretation, excusing our brother, and
taking in the best sense, and passing the
gentlest sentence, are certainly our duty;
and he that does not so is an unjust person.
-Jeremy Taylor.
Give work rather than alms to the poor.
The former drives out indolence, the latter
industry.
There are two kinds of charity, remedial
and preventive. The former is often inju-
rious in its tendency; the latter is always
praiseworthy and beneficial.-Tryon Ed-
wards.
To pity distress is but human ; to relieve
it is Godlike.-H. Mann.
Prayer carries us half-way to God, fast-
ing brings us to the door of his palace,
and alms-giving procures us admission.-
Koran.
We are rich only through what we give;
and poor only through what we refuse and
keep.-Mad. Swetchine.
Public Charities and benevolent associa-
tions for the gratuitous relief of every
species of distress, are peculiar to Christian-
ity; no other system of civil or religious
policy has originated them; they form its
highest praise and characteristic feature.
Colton.
The spirit of the world has four kinds of
spirits diametrically opposed to charity, re-
sentment, aversion, jealousy, and indiffer-
ences.- Bossuet.
The place of charity, like that of God, is
everywhere.
Proportion thy charity to the strength of
tline estate, lest God proportion thine estate
to the weakness of thy charity.-Let the
lips of the poor be the trumpet of thy gift,
lest in seeking applause, thou lose thy re-
ward.-Nothing is more pleasing to God
than an open band, and a closed mouth.
Quarles.
A rich man without charity is a rogue ;
and perhaps it would be no difficult matter
to prove that he is also a fool. --Fielding.
Our true acquisitions lie only in our char-
ities, we gain only as we give. -Simms.
My poor are my best patients. God pays
for them.---Boerhaave.
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.
That charity is bad which takes from in-
dependence its proper pride, and from
mendicity its proper shame.--Southey.
In giving of thine alms inquire not so
much into the person, as his necessity.-
God looks not so much on the merits of him
that requires, as to the manner of him that
relieves.--If the man deserve not, thou hast
given to humanity.- Quarles.
He who has never denied bimself for the
sake of giving, bas but glanced at the joys
of charity.--Mad. Swetchine.
Be charitable and indulgent to every one
but thyself.-Joubert.
The last, best fruit that comes late to
perfection, even in the kindliest soul, is
tenderness toward the hard, forbearance
toward the unforbearing, warmth of heart
toward the cold, and philanthropy toward
the misanthropic.-Richter.
The truly generous is truly wise, and he
who loves not others, lives unblest.--Home.
Great minds, like heaven, are pleased in
doing good, though the ungrateful subjects
of their favors are barren in return.-Rowe.
Nothing truly can be termed my own, but
what I make my own by using well ; those
deeds of charity which we have done, shall
stay forever with 118 ; and that wealth which
we have so bestowed, we only keep; the
other is not ours.—Middleton.
While actions are always to be judged by
the immutable standard of right and wrong,
the judgment we pass iipon men must bo
qualified by considerations of age, country,
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situation, and other incidental circun-
stances; and it will then be found, that he
who is most charitable in his judgment, is
generally the least unjust.–Southey.
Let him who neglects to raise the fallen,
fear lest, when he falls, no one will stretch
out his hand to lift him up.--Saadi.
I will chide no heathen in the world but
myself, against whom I know most faults.--
Shakespeare.
Loving kindness is greater than laws;
and the charities of life are more than all
ceremonies.- Talmud.
CHASTITY.--A pure mind in a chaste
body is the mother of wisdom and delib-
eration; sober counsels and ingenuous
actions ; open deportment and sweet car-
riage; sincere principles and unprejudiced
understanding; love of God and self-denial;
peace and confidence; holy prayers and
spiritual comfort; and a pleasure of spirit
infinitely greater than the sottish pleasure
of unchastity.–Jeremy Taylor.
Chastity enables the soul to breathe a
pure air in the foulest places.—Continence
makes her strong, no matter in what con-
dition the body may be —Her sway over
the senses makes her queenly: her light
and peace render her beautiful.-Joubert.
A man defines his standing at the court
of chastity, by his views of women.—He
cannot be any man's friend, nor his own,
if not bers.-A. B. dlcott.
There needs not strength to be added to
inviolate chastity; the excellency of the
mind makes the body impregnable.-P.
Sidney.
That chastity of honor, which feels a
stain like a wound.--Burke.
CHEERFULNESS, I had rather have
a fool make me merry, than experience
make me sad.—Shakespeare.
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are
to humanity. They are but trifles, to be
sure ; but, scattered along life's pathway,
the good they do is inconceivable.
A cheerful temper joined with innocence
will make beauty attractive, knowledge
delightful, and wit good-natured. It will
lighten sickness, poverty, and affliction ;
convert ignorance into an amiable sim-
plicity, and render deformity itself agree-
able.-Addison.
Oh, give us the man who sings at his
work.- Carlyle.
The highest wisdom is continual cheer-
fulness ; such a state, like the region above
the moon, is always clear and serene.-
Montaigne.
Wondrous is the strength of cheerful-
ness, and its power of endurance—the
cheerful inan will do more in the same time,
will do it better, will persevere in it longer,
than the sad or sullen.--Carlyle.
Honest good humor is the oil and wine
of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial
companionship equal to that where the
jokes are rather small and the laughter
abundant.- Washington Irving.
Cheerfulness is ás natural to the heart
of a man in strong health, as color to his
cheek ; and wherever there is habitual
gloom, there must be either bad air, un-
wholesome food, iniproperly severe labor,
or erring habits, of life. --Ruskin.
Be cheerful always. There is no path
but will be easier traveled, no load but will
be lighter, no shadow on heart and brain
but will lift sooner for a person of .de-
termined cheerfulness.
Get into the habit of looking for the sil-
ver lining of the cloud, and, when you have
found it, continue to look at it, rather than
at the leaden gray in the middle. It will
help you over many hard places. Willitts.
To be free-minded and cheerfully dis-
posed at hours of meals, and of sleep, and
of exercise, is one of the best precepts of
long-lasting.-- Bacon.
A light heart lives long.-Shakespeare.
Cheerfulness is health ; its opposite, mel-
ancholy, is disease.--Haliburton.
If my heart were not light, I would die.
-Joanna Baillie.
If the soul be happily disposed every-
thing becomes capable of affording enter-
tainment, and distress will almost want a
name.-Goldsmith.
The true source of cheerfulness is be-
nevolence. The soul that perpetually over-
flows with kindness and sympathy will
always be cheerful.-P. Godwin.
Climate has much to do with cheerful-
ness, but nourishing food, a good digestion,
and good health much more.-A. Rhodes.
If good people would but make their
goodness agreeable, and smile instead of
frowning in their virtue, how many would
they win to the good cause. - Usher.
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a
pound of sadness to serve God with.-
Fuller.
God is glorified, not by our groans but
by our thanksgivings; and all good thought
and good action claim a natural alliance
with good cheer.—E. P. Whipple.
I have always preferred cheerfulness to
mirth. The former is an act, the latter a
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never · allow yourself to say anything
gloomy.-L. M. Child.
To be happy, the temperament must be
cheerful and gay, not gloomy and melan-
choly:-A propensity to hope and joy, is
real riches; one to fear and sorrow, is real
poverty.-Hume.
To inake knowledge valuable, you must
have the cheerfulness of wisdom. Good-
ness smiles to the last.- Emerson.
Every time a man smiles, and much more
when he laughs, it adds something to his
fragment of life.-Sterne.
Not having enough sunshine is what ails
the world.-Make people happy, and there
will not be half the quarrelling, or a tenth
part of the wickedness there now is.-L.
M. Child.
Cheerfulness is a friend to grace ; it puts
the heart in tune to praise God, and so hon-
ors religion by proclaiming to the world
that we serve a good master.-Be serious,
yet cheerful.-Rejoice in the Lord always.
Watson.
Always look out for the sunlight the
Lord sends into your days.-Hope Camp-
bell.
habit of the mind. Mirth is short and
transient; cheerfulness, fixed and perruu-
nient. Mirth is like a flash of lightning,
that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and
glitters for a moment. Cheerfulness keeps
up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it
with a steady and perpetual serenity:-
Addison.
You have not fulfilled every duty unless
you have fulfilled that of being cheerful
and pleasant.-C. Buxton.
If I can put one touch of a rosy sunset
into the life of any man or woman, I shall
feel that I have worked with God.-G.
Macclonald.
Be cheerful: do not brood over fond
hopes unrealized until a chain is fastened
on each thought and wound around the
heart. Nature intended you to be the
fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social
life, and not the monument of despair and
melancholy.-A. Helps.
Burdens become light when cheerfully
borne.-Ovid.
The habit of looking on the best side of
every event is worth more than a thousand
pounds a year.—Johnson.
The cheerful live longest in years, and
afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness
is the offshoot of goodness.-Bovee.
The mind that is cheerful at present will
have no solicitude for the future, and will
meet the bitter occurrences of life with a
smile.—Horace.
Cheerful looks make every dish a feast;
and it is that which crowns a welcome. -
Massinger.
Every one must have felt that a cheerful
friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its
brightness on all around; and most of us
can, as we choose, make of this world either
a palace or a prison.-Sir J. Lubbock.
There is no greater every-day virtue than
cheerfulness. This quality in man among
men is like sunshine to the day, or gentle
renewing moisture to parched herbs. The
light of a cheerful face diffuses itself, and
communicates the happy spirit that inspires
it. The sourest temper must sweeten in
the atmosphere of continuous good humor.
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfuluess,
altogether past calculation its powers of en-
durance. Efforts, to be permanently use-
ful, must be uniformly joyonis,-a spirit
all suushine, graceful from very gladness,
beautiful because bright.-Carlyle.
You find yourself refreshed by the pres-
ence of cheerful people.-Why not make
earnest effort to confer that pleasure on
others ?-Half the battle is gained if you
CHILDREN.-Many children, many
cares ; 10 children, no felicity.-Bovee.
Childhood shows the man, as morning
shows the day.-Milton.
The child is father of the man.- Words-
worth.
I love these little people ; and it is not a
slight thing, when they, who are so fresh
from God, love us.--Dickens.
The 'clew of our destiny, wander where
we will, lies at the foot of the cradle.---
Richter
The interests of childhood and youth are
the interests of mankind.-Janes.
Never fear spoiling children by making
them too happy. Happiness is the atmos-
phere in which all good affections grow-
the wholesome warmth necessary to make
the heart-blood circulate healthily and
freely ; unhappiness—the chilling pressure
which produces here an inflammation,
there an excrescence, and, worst of all,
“the mind's green and yellow sickness
ill temper:-Bray.
Children have more need of models
thau of critics.-Joubert.
If I were asked what single qualification
was necessary for one who has the care of
children, I should say patience-patience
with their tempers, with their understand-
iugs, with their progress. It is not brilliant
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parts or great acquirements which are
necessary for teachers, but patience to go
over first principles again and again ; stead-
ily to add a little every day ; never to be
irritated by wilful or accidental hinder-
ance,
Beware of fatiguing them by ill-judged
exactness. If virtue offers itself to the
child under a melaucholy and constrained
aspect, while liberty and license present
themselves under an agreeable form, all is
lost, and your labor is in vain.--Tenelon.
Children sweeten labors, but they make
misfortunes more bitter. —They increase
the cares of life, but they mitigate the
remembrance of death.-Bacon.
In bringing up a child, think of its old
age.—Joubert.
Some one says,“ Boys will be boys”; he
forgot to add,“ Boys will be men."
The future destiny of the child is always
the work of the mother.-Bonaparte.
The interests of childhood and youth are
the interests of mankind.-Janes.
When parents spoil their children, it is
less to please them than to please them-
selves. It is the egotism of parental love.
Good Christian people, here lies for you
an inestimable loan ;-take all heed there-
of, in all carefulness employ it. With high
recompense, or else with heavy penalty,
will it one day be required back.-Car-
lyle.
Your little child is your only true demo-
crat. - Mrs. Stowe.
Call not that man wretched, who, what-
ever ills he suffers, has a child to love.-
Southey.
I have often thought what a melancholy
world this would be without children ; and
what an inhuman world, without the aged.
- Coleridge.
What gift has Providence bestowed on
man that is so dear to him as his children?
- Cicero.
God sends children for another purpose
than merely to keep up the race-to en-
large our hearts ; and to make us unselfish
and full of kindly sympathies and affec-
tions ; to give our souls higher aims ; to call
out all our faculties to extended enterprise
and exertion; and to bring round our fire-
sides bright faces, happy smiles, and lov-
ing, tender hearts.-My soul blesses the
great Father, every day, that he has glad-
dened the earth with little children.- Mary
Howitt.
Be ever gentle with the children God has
given you. -Watch over them constantly;
reprove them earnestly, but not in anger.-
In the forcible language of Scripture, “Be
not bitter against them."-"Yes-they are
good boys," said a kind father. “I talk to
them much, but I do not beat my chil-
dren: the world will beat them.”_ſt was
a beautiful thought, though not elegantly
expressed.-Burvitt.
Childhood has no forebodings; but then
it is soothed by no memories of outlived
sorrow.-George Eliot,
Children are God's apostles, sent forth,
day by day, to preach of love, and hope and
peace.---J. R. Lowell.
A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard
words bruise the heart of a child.-Long-
fellow.
Blessed be the hanıl that prepares a
pleasure for a child, for there is no saying
when and where it may bloom forth.-Jer-
qold.
You cannot teach a child to take care of
himself unless you will let him try to take
care of himself. He will make mistakes ;
and out of these mistakes will come his
wisdom.-H. W. Beecher.
Of nineteen out of twenty things in chil-
dren, take no special notice ; but if, as to
the twentieth, you give a direction or com-
mand, see that you are obeyed.- Tryon
Edwards.
An infallible way to make your child
miserable, is to satisfy all his demands.--
Passion swells by gratification ; and the
impossibility of satisfying every one of his
wishes will oblige you to stop short at last
after he has become headstrong.--Home.
With children we inust mix gentleness
with firmness.—They must not always have
their own way, but they must not always
be thwarted. If we never have headaches
through rebuking them, we shall have
plenty of heartaches when they grow up.-
Be obeyed at all costs ; for if you yield up
your authority once, you will hardly get it
again.-Spurgeon.
Children generally hate to be idle.--All
the care then should be, that their busy
humor should be constantly employed in
something that is of use to them.-Locke.
Who is not attracted by bright and
pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and
to play with them 3-Epictetus.
The child's grief throbs against its little
heart as heavily as the man's sorrow; and
the one finds as much delight in his kite or
drum, as the other in striking the springs
of enterprise, or soaring on the wings of
fame.-E. H. Chapin.
Children are very nice observers, and
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will often perceive your slightest defects.
In general, those who govern children, for-
give vothing in them, but everything in
themselves. T'enelon.
Childhood and genius have the same mag-
ter-organ in common-inquisitiveness.-
Let childhood bave its way, and as it began
where genius begins, it may find what
genius finds.-Bulwer.
If a boy is not trained to endure, and to
bear trouble, he will grow up a girl; and a
boy that is a girl has all a girl's weakness
without any of her regal qualities.-A
woman), made out of a woman, is God's
noblest work; a woman made out of a man
is his meanest.-H. W. Beecher.
Who feels injustice ; who shrinks before
a slight; who has a sense of wrong so acute,
and so glowing a gratitude for kindness, as
a generous boy?--Thackeray.
The first duty to children is to make
them happy.-If you have not made them
so, you bave wronged them.--No other good
they may get can make up for that.— Bux-
ton.
In the man whose childhood has known
caresses and kindness, there is always a
fibre of memory that can be touched to
gentle issues.- George Eliot.
Be very vigilant over thy child in the
April of his understanding, lest the frost of
May nip his blossoms.-While he is a tender
twig, straighten him; whilst he is a new
vessel, season him; such as thou makest
him, such commonly shalt tliou find liim.-
Let his first lesson be obedience, and his
second shall be what thou wilt.— Quarles.
I do not like punishments. You will never
torture a child into duty ;-but a sensible
child will dread the frown of a judicious
mother more than all the rods, dark rooms,
and scolding school-mistresses in the uni-
verse.-H. K. White.
We step not over the threshold of child-
hold till we are led by love.-L. E. Landon.
When a child can be brought to tears,
not from fear of punishment, but from re-
pentance for his offence, he needs no chas-
tisement.—When the tears begin to flow
from grief at one's own conduct, be sure
there is an angel nestling in the bosom.
A. Mann.
Children are not so much to be taught
as to be trained. To teach a child is to
give him ideas ; to train him is to enable
him to reduce those ideas to practice. -
H. W. Beecher.
It always grieves me to contemplate the
initiation of children into the ways of
life when they are scarcely more than in-
fants. It checks their confidence and sim-
plicity, two of the best qualities that hea-
ven gives them, and demands that they
share our sorrows before they are capable
of entering into our enjoyments.--Diclcens.
All the gestures of children are graceful;
the reign of distortion and unnatural atti-
tudes corainences with the introduction of
the dancing master.—Sir J. Reynolds.
Children are the hands by which we take
hold of heaven. By those tendrils we clasp
it and climb thitherward. We never half
know them, nor can we in this world.-
H. W. Beecher.
"Beware," said Lavater, "of him who
hates the laugh of a child." "I love God
and little children," was the simple yet
sublinie sentiment of Richter.--Mrs. Sig-
ourney.
He had the rare quality of not only loving
but respecting childhood-its innocence,
its keen sense of justice, its passionate and
yet sensitive affections.-Mulocic.
Where there is a houseful of children,
one or two of the eldest may be restricted,
and the youngest ruined by indulgence;
but in the midst, some are, as it were, for-
gotten, who many times, nevertheless,
prove the best.- Bacon.
In praising or loving a child, we love and
praise not that which is, but that which we
hope for.–Goethe.
The smallest children are nearest to God,
as the smallest planets are nearest the
sun.-Richter.
Above all things endeavor to breed them
up in the love of virtue, and that holy plain
way of it which we liave lived in, that the
world in no part of it get into my family.
I had rather they were homely, than finely
bred as to outward behavior ; yet I love
sweetness mixed with gravity, and cheer-
fulness tempered with sobriety.-Penn to
his wife.
Better be driven out from among men,
than to be disliked by children.-Dana.
The true idea of self-restraint is to let a
child venture.-The mistakes of children
are often better than their 10-mistakes.-
H. W. Beecher.
Just as the twig is bent, the tree is in-
clined.-Pope.
The training of children is a profession,
where we must know how to lose 'time in
order to gain it.-Rousseau.
The tasks set to children should be mod-
ente. Over-exertion is hurtful both phy-
sically and intellectually, and even morally.
But it is of the utmost importance that
they should be made to fulfil all their tasks
correctly and punctually. This will train
SON.
they reap from them are balm to all their
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them for an exact and conscientious dis- love them, and they never will till the grave
charge of their duties in after life.-- Fare. closes over those parents, or till they have
Heaven lies about us in our infancy.-
children of their own.-Coole.
Wordsworth.
Where children are, there is the golden
The plays of natural lively children are age.--Novalis.
the infancy of art.—Children live in a Childhood sometimes does pay a second
world of imagination and feeling.–They visit to a mall; youth never.--Mrs. Jame- :
invest the inost insignificant object with
any form they please, and sce in it what-
ever they wish to see.-Oehlenschlager.
CHIVALRY,-The age of chivalry has
As the vexations men receive from their
gone, and one of calculators and economists
has succeeded.-Burke.
children hasten the approach of age, and
double tho force of years, so the comforts
The age of chivalry is never past, so
long as there is a wrong left uuredressed
sorrows, and disappoint the injuries of
on earth.-Charles Kingsley.
time. Parents repeat their lives in their Collision is as necessary to produce virtue
offspring ; and their esteem for them is so in men, as it is to elicit fire in inanimate
great, that they feel their sufferings and matter, and so chivalry is of the essence of
taste their enjoyments as much as if they virtue.-Russell.
were their own.-R. Palmer.
CHOICE.-The measure of choosing
Childhood has no forebodings; but then
well, is, whether a man likes and finds good
it is soothed by no memories of outlived
in what he has chosen.- Lanıb.
soll'OTY. George Eliot.
Be ignorance thy choice where knowledge
Children are excellent physiognomists, leads to woe.--
--Beattie.
and soon discover their real friends.-Lut-
trell calls them all lunatics, and so in fact
Life often presents us with a choice of
they are.—What is childhood but a series
evils rather than of good.--Colton.
of liappy delusious ?--Sidney Sneith.
God offers to every mind its choice be-
Let all children remember, if ever they
tween truth and repose. Emerson.
are weary of laboring for their parents, that Choose always the way that seems the
Christ labored for his; if impatient of their best, however rough it may be ; custom will
commands, tliat Christ cheerfully obeyed; soon render it easy and agreeable.-Pytha-
if reluctant to provide for their parents, goras.
that Christ forgot himself and provided for
Between two evils, choose neither ; be-
his mother amid the agonies of the cruci-
tween two goods, choose both. - Thyon Ed-
fixion. The affectionate language of this wards.
divine example to every child is, Go thou
and do likewise.”—Dwight.
CHRIST.-All history is incomprehens-
They who have to educate children should
ible without Christ.–Renan.
keep in mind that boys are to become men, Jesus Christ, the condescension of divin-
and that girls are to become women. The ity, and the exaltation of humanity.-Phil-
neglect of this momentous consideration lips Brooks.
gives us a race of moral hermaphrodites.
In his life, Christ is an example, show-
Hare.
ing us how to live ; in his death, he is a
In the long course of my legal profession, sacrifice, satisfying for our sius ; in his
I have met with several sons who had, in cir- resurrection, a conqueror ; in his ascension,
cumstances of difficulty, abandoned their a king; in his intercession, a liigh priest.
fathers; but never did I meet with a father -Luther.
that would not cheerfully part with his last The nature of Christ's existence is mys-
shilling to save or bless his son.-David
terious, I admit; but this mystery meets
Daggett.
the wants of man.-Reject it and the
Whether it be for good or evil, the edu-
world is an inexplicable riddle ; believe it,
cation of the child is principally derived
and the history of our race is satisfactorily
from its own observation of the actions,
cxplained.-Napoleon.
worils, voice, and looks of those with whoni Jesus Christ is a God to whom we can
it lives.--The friends of the young, then, approach without pride, and before whom
cannot be too circumspect in their presence we may abase ourselves without despair.–
to avoid overy and the least appearance of Pascai.
evil.-Jebb.
I believe Plato and Socrates. I believe
Children do not know how their parents in Jesus Christ. ---Coleridge.
.
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As little as humanity will ever be without
religion, as little will it be without Christ.
-Strauss.
Every step toward Christ kills a doubt.
Every thought, word, and deed for Him
carries you away from discouragement.---
T. L. Cuyler.
The name of Christ-the one great word
-well worth all languages in earth or
heaven.- Bailey.
God never gave man a thing to do, con-
cerning which it were irreverent to ponder
how the Son of God would have done it.-
G. Macdonald.
This is part of the glory of Christ as com-
pared with the chiefest of His servants, that
Ho alone stands at the absolute center of
humanity, the one completely harmonious
man, unfolding all which was in humanity,
eqnally and fully on all sides, the only one iu
whom the real and ideal met and were ab-
solutely one.--He is the absolute and per-
fect truth, the highest that humanity can
reach ; at once its perfect image and all-
preme Lord.-French.
As the print of the seal on the wax is
the express image of the seal itself, so
Clirist is the express image—the perfect
representation of God.- Ambrose.
Men who neglect Christ, and try to win
heaven through moralities, are like sailors
at sea in a storm, who pull, some at the
bowsprit, and some at the mainmast, but
never touch the helm.-H. W. Beecher.
facing the cannon's mouth, and encounter-
ing the enemy in the field.-E. H. Cha-
pin.
The devotion to the person of Christ that
steers clear of the doctrines and precepts
of Christ, is but sentimental rhapsody -
Herricko Johnson.
He who was foretold and foreshadowed
by the holy religion of Juden, which was
designed to free the universal aspiration of
mankind from every impure element, he
has come to instruct, to obey, to love, to
die, and by dying to save mankind.-Pres-
sense.
Every occupation, plan, and work of
man, to be truly successful, must be done
under the direction of Christ, in union with
his will, from love to him, and in depen-
dence on his power.-Müller.
Christ is the great central fact in the
world's history; to him everything looks
forward or backward. All the lines of his-
tory converge upon him. All the march of
providence is guided by him. All the great
purposes of God culminate in lim. The
greatest and most momentous fact which
the history of the world records is the fact
of his birth. --Spurgeon.
The Christian faith reposes in a person
rather than a creed.—Christ is the personal,
living center of theology, around which the
wholo Christian Aystein is ensphered.
Christ is the personal source of the indi-
vidual Christian life; the personal head of
the whole Christian church; the personal
sovereign of the kingdom of grace.-R. B.
Welch.
That there should be a Christ, and that I
should be Christless; that there should be
& cleansing, and that I should remain fou]
i
that there should be a Father's love, and I
should be an alien ; that there should be
a heaven, and I should be cast into hell,
is grief einbittered, sorrow aggravated.-
Spurgeon.
Let it not be imagined that the life
of a good Christian must be a life of mel-
ancholy and gloominens; for he only re-
signs some pleasures to enjoy others infin-
itely better. -Pascal.
One truly Christian life will do more to
prove the divine origin of Christianity than
innny lectures. It is of much grcater im-
portance to clevelop Christian character,
than to exhibit Christian evidences.J.
M. Gibson.
It is a truth that stands out with start-
ling distinctness on the pages of the New
Testament, that God has no sons who are
not servants.-H. D. Ward.
CHRISTIAN.- A Christian is the higli-
est style of man.—Young.
To be a Christian is to believe all that,
Christ teaches, and to do all that Christ di-
l'ects, so far as both are understood. It is
to receivo all that Christ says as true, and
to treat it as true, and to act upon it as
true, because it is right, and God com-
mands it, and that we may be saved.-Try-
on Edwards.
Though a great man may, by a rare pos-
sibility, be an infidel, yet an intellect of the
highest order must build upon Christianity.
De Quincey.
The only truly happy men I have ever
known, were Christians.--John Randolph.
He is a Christian who is manfully strug-
gling to live a Christian life.-H. W.
Beecher.
The only way to realize that we are God's
children is to let Christ lead us to our
Father.-Phillips Brooks.
A man can no more be a Christian with
out facing evil and conquering it, than he
can be a soldier without going to battle,
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The Christian life is not merely knowing
nor hearing, but doing the will of Christ.
I'. W. Robertson.
I have known what the enjoyments and
advantages of this life are, and what are
the more refined pleasures which learning
and intellectual power can bestow; and
with all the experience that more than
three-soore years can give, I now, on the
eve of my departure, declare to you, that
health is a great blessing; competence ob-
tained by honorable industry is a great
blessing ; and a great blessing it is, to have
kind, faithful, and loving friends and rela-
tives ; but that the greatest of all bless-
ings, as it is the most ennobling of all privi-
leges, is to be indeed a Christian. - Cole-
riclge.
It is more to the honor of a Christian by
faith to overcome the world, than by mon-
astical vows to retreat from it ; more for
the honor of Christ to serve him in the
city, than to serve him in the cell.-M.
Henry.
He is no good Christian who thinks he
can be safe without God, or not safe with
him.--Henshaw.
It does not require great learning to be
a Christian and be convinced of the truth
of the Bible. It requires only an honest
heart and a willingness to obey God.-
Barnes.
No man is so happy as the real Christian ;
none so rational, so virtuous, so amiable.
How little vanity does he feel, though he
believes himself united to God! How far
is he from abjectness, though he ranks
himself with the worms of the carth.
Pascal.
To be good and to do good are the two
great objects set before the Christian ; to
develop a perfect character by rendering a
perfect service. True Christian culture
leads to and expresses itself in service,
while faithful and loving service is the best
means of Christian culture.- Washington
Gladden.
A child of God should be a visible beati-
tude for, joy and happiness, and a living
doxology for gratitude and adoration.-
Spurgeon..
The Christian has greatly the advantage
of the unbeliever, having everything to gain
and nothing to lose.-Byron.
Faith makes, life proves, trials confirm,
and death crowns the Christian.-Hopfner.
A Christian is nothing but a sinful man
who has put himself to school to Christ for
the honest purpose of becoming better.
H. W. Beecher'.
A Christian in this world is but gold in
the ore; at death, the pure gold is melted
out and separated, and the dross cast away
and consumed.-Flavel.
The Christian needs & reminder every
hour; some defeat, surprise, adversity,
peril; to be agitated, mortified, beaten
out of his course, so that all remains of
self will be sifted out.-Horace Bushnell.
The best advertisement of a workshop is
first-class work. The strongest attraction
to Christianity is a well-made Christian
character.-T. L. Cuyler.
CHRISTIANITY,-Christianity is
more than history. It is also a system of .
truths. Every event which its history rec-
ords, either is a truth, or suggests or ex-
presses a truth, which man needs assent to
or to put into practice.-
Noah Porter.
Heathenism was the seeking religion ;
Judaism, the hoping religion ; Christian-
ity is the reality of what heathenism sought
and Judaism hoped for.-Luthardt.
Christianity is not a theory or specula-
tion, but a life ; not a philosophy of life, but
a life and a living process.-Coleridge.
The distinction between Christianity and
all other systems of religion consists large-
ly in this, that in these others men are
found seeking after God, while Christian-
ity is God seeking after men.-T. Arnold.
He who shall introduce into public affairs
the principles of primitive Christianity,
will revolutionize the world.-Franlilin.
Christianity did not come from Heaven
to be the amuseinent of an idle bour, or
the food of mere imagination ; to be " as a
very lovely song of one that hath a pleas-
ant voice, and playeth well upon an instru-
ment." It is intended to be the guide and
companion of all our hours—the serious
occupation of our whole existence.-Bp.
Jebb.
Christianity is the good man's text; his
life, the illustration.
Where science speaks of improvement,
Christianity speaks of renovation ; where
science speaks of development, Chris-
tianity speaks of sanctification ; where
science speaks of progress, Christianity
speaks of perfection.-J. P. Thompson.
So comprehensive are the doctrines of
the Gospel, that they involve all moral
truth known by man; so extensive are the
precepts, that they require every virtue,
and forbid every sin. Nothing has been
added either by the labors of philosophy or
the progress of human knowledge.
Christianity everywbere gives dignity to
labor, sanctity to marriage, and brother-
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hood to man.-Where it may not convince,
it enlightens; where it does not convert, it
restrains ; where it does not renew, it re-
fines ; where it does not sanctify, it sub-
dues and elevates.-It is profitable alike
for this world, and for the world that is to
come. - Lord Lawrence.
Christianity is not a religion of transcen-
dental abstraction, or brilliant speculation ;
its children are neither monks, mystics,
epicureans, nor stoics. It is the religion of
loving, speaking, and doing, as well as be-
lieving. - It is a life as well as a creed.--It
has a rest for the heart, a word for the
tongue, a way for the feet, and a work for
the hand. The same Lord who is the foun-
dation of our hopes, the object of our faith,
and the subject of our love, is also the
model of our conduct, for “He went about
doing good, leaving us an example that we
should follow his steps.”--Cumming.
It matters little whether or no Christi-
anity makes men richer. But it does make
them truer, purer, nobler. It is not more
wealth that the world wants, a thousandth
part as much as it is more character ; not
more investments, but more integrity; not
money, but manhood; not regal palaces,
but regal souls.-E. G. Beckwith.
Give Christianity a common law trial ;
submit the evidence pro and con to an
impartial jury under the direction of a com-
petent court, and the verdict will assuredly
be in its favor.-- Chief Justice Gibson.
Christianity is the companion of liberty
in all its conflicts—the cradle of its infancy,
and the divine source of its claims. De
Tocqueville.
The religion of Christ has made a Re-
public like ours possible ; and the more
we have of this religion the better the Re-
public.-H. M. Field.
However much the priestlings of science
may prate against the Bible, the high priests
of science are in accord with Christianity.-
Prof. Simpson.
Independent of its connection with
human destiny hereafter, the fate of re-
publican government is indissolubly bound
12P with the fate of the Christian religion,
and a people who reject its holy faith will
find themselves the slaves of their own evil
passions and of arbitrary power.-Lervis
Cass.
Christianity is the basis of republican
goverment, its bond of cohesion, and its
life-giving law.-More than the Magna
Charta itself, the Gospels are the roots of
English liberty.—That Magna Charta, and
the Petition of Right, with our completing
Declaration, was possible only because the
Gospels had been before them.-R. S.
Stories.
There is no leveler like Christianity, but
it levels by lifting all who receive it to the
lofty table-land of a true character and of
undying hope both for this world and the
next.
Prophecy and miracles argue the imper-
fection of the state of the church, rather
than its perfection. For they are means
designed by God as a stay or support, or as
a leading string to the church in its infancy,
rather than as means adapted to it in its full
growth. ---Jonathan Edwards.
Christianity will gain by every step that
is taken in the knowledge of man.--Spur-
zheim.
There never was found in any age of the
world, either philosophy, or sect, or re-
ligion, or law, or discipline, which did so
highly exalt the good of the community,
and increase private and particular good as
the holy Christian faith.-Hence, it clearly
appears that it was one and the same God
that gave the Christian law to men, who
gave the laws of nature to the creatures.-
Bacon.
Christianity has no ceremonial.-It has
forms, for forms are essential to order ; but
it disdains the folly of attempting to rein-
force the religion of the heart by the antics
of the body or mind.-- Croly.
Christianity requires two things from
every man who believes in it: first, to ac-
quire property by just and righteous means,
and second, to look not only on his own
things, but also on the things of others.-
H. J. Van Dylce.
With Christianity came a new civiliza-
tion, and a new order of ideas.--Tastes were
cultivated, manners refined, views broad-
ened, and natures spiritualized.-Azarias.
Whatever may be said of the philosophy
of Coleridge, his proof of the trutli of
Christianity was most simple and conclu-
sive.--It consisted in the words, “Try it
for yourself.”
Christianity proves itself, as the sun is
seen by its own light.--Its evidence is in-
volved in its existence.- Coleridge.
The moral and religious system which
Jesus Christ has transmitted to us, is the
best the world has ever seen, or can see.-
Franlclin.
When a man is opposed to Christianity, it
is because Christianity is opposed to him.
Your infidel is usually a person who resents
the opposition of Christianity to that in lis
Dature and life which Jesus came to rebuke
and destroy.-Robert Hall.
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Christianity is intended to be the guide,
the guardian, the companion of all our
hours: to be the food of our immortal
spirits; to be the serious occupation of our
whole existence.-Jebb.
The task and triumph of Christianity is
to make men and nations true and just and
upright in all their dealings, and to bring
all law, as well as all conduct, into subjec-
tion and
conformity to the law of God.-H.
J. Van Dyle.
Christianity works while infidelity talks.
She feeds the hungry, clothes the naked,
visits and cheers the sick, and seeks the
lost, while infidelity abrises her and babbles
nonsense and profanity. “By their fruits
ye shall know them.”_H. W. Beecher.
Had the doctrines of Jesus been prcachod
always as pure as they came from his lips,
the whole civilized world would now have
been Christians.—Jefferson.
After reading the doctrines of Plato, Soc-
rates, or Aristotle, we feel that the specific
difference between their words and Christ's
is the difference between an inquiry and a
revelation.-Joseph Parker.
Through its whole history the Christian
religion has developed supreme affinities
for best things. For the noblest culture,
for purest morals, for magnificent litera-
tures, for most finished civilizations, for
most energetic national temperaments, for
most enterprising races, for the most virile
and progressive stock of mind, it has mani-
fested irresistible sympathies. Judging
its future by its past, no other system of
human thought has so splendida destiny.
It is the only system which possesses un-
dying youth.-. Phelps.
There's not much practical Christianity
in the man who lives on better terms with
angels and seraphs, than with his children,
servants, and neighbors.--H. W. Beecher.
Whatever men may think of religion, the
historic fact is, that in proportion as the
institutions of Christianity lose their hold
upon the multitudes, the fabric of society
is in peril.-4. T. Pierson.
The tendency of Christian ideas is to
mental growth.-The mind must expand
that takes them in with corclial sympathy.
The conversion of Saul of Tarsus wrought
in him an intellectunl as well as a moral
revolution.-A. Phelps.
Christianity has its best exponents in the
lives of the saints.-It is only when our
creeds pass into the iron of the blood that
they become vital and organic.-Faith if
not transmuted into character, has lost its
power.-C. L. Thompson.
“Learn of me," says the philosopher,
sand ye shall find restlessness." Learn
of me," says Christ, “ and ye shall find
rest." --Drummond.
Christianity is the only system of faith
which combines religious beliefs with cor-
responding principles of morality.-It
builds ethics on religion.-A. Phelps.
Christianity as an idea begins with think-
ing of God in the same way that a true son
thinks of his father ; Christianity as a life,
begins with feeling and acting toward God
as a true son fecls and acts toward his
father.-C. H. Parkhurst.
Christ built no church, wrote no book,
left no money, and erected no monuments
yet show me ten square miles in the whole
earth without Christianity, where the life
of man and the purity of women are re-
spected, and I will give up Christianity.--
Drummond.
Christendom is accounted for only by
Christianity; and Christianity burst too
suddenly into the world to be of the world,
F. D. Huntington.
Christianity always suits us well enough
so long as we suit it. A mere mental diffi-
culty is not hard to deal with. With most
of us it is not reason that makes faith hard,
but life.-Jean Ingelow.
Christianity is a missionary religion, con-
verting, advancing, aggressive,
passing the world ; a non-missionary church
is in the bands of death.-Max Muller.
If ever Christianity appears in its power,
it is when it erects its trophies upon the
tomb;
when it takes up its votaries where
the world leaves them; and fills the breast
with immortal hope in dying moments. -
Robert Hall.
The real security of Christianity is to be
found in its benevolent morality ; in its ex-
quisite aclaption to the human heart; in the
facility with which it accommodates itself
to the capacity of every liuman intellect; in
the consolation which it bears to every
house of mourning i and in the light with
which it brightens the great mystery of the
grave.—Macaulay.
There was never law, or sect, or opinion
did so much magnify goodness, as the
Christian religion doth.-Bacon.
Christianity ruined emperors, but saved
peoples.--It opened the palaces of Constan-
tinople to the barbarians, but it opened the
doors of cottages to the consoling angels
of Christ. Musset.
Christianity is intensely practical.-She
has no trait more striking than her common
sense. Bus:1072.
encom-
son.
barbarism, and press its way to perdition.
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Christianity is the record of a pure and Surely the church is a place where one
holy soul, humble, absolutely disinterested, day's truce ought to be allowed to the dis-
a truth-speaker, and bent on serving, teach- sensions and animosities of mankind.-
ing, and uplifting men.-It teaches that to Burice.
love the All-perfect is happiness.—Emer-
The church of Christ glories in her bis-
tory, in her brotherhood, in her conquering
Christianity, rightly understood, is iden- march over the world, as being the custo-
tical with the highest philosophy; the es- dian of great ideas, as having furnished a
sential doctrines of Christianity are ne- complete account of the moral economy-
cessary and eternal truths of reason.- explaining sin, interpreting conscience,
Coleridge.
manifesting God, and paving the way for
The truo social reformer is the faithful
man's return to the Almighty.-7. L.
preacher of Christianity; and the only or-
Patton.
ganization truly potent for the perfection of It is the province of the church not only
Society, is the Christian church.--I know of to offer salvation in the future, but to
nothing which, as a thought, is more super- teach men how they ought to live in the
ficial, or which, as a feeling, is better enti- present life.-F. C. Monfort.
tled to be called hatred of men, than that
which disregards the influence of the gos-
The church is not a gallery for the exhi-
pel in its efforts for social good, or attempts
bition of eminent Christians, but a school
for the education of imperfect ones, a nur-
to break its hold on mankind by destroying
their faith in its living power.-J. H. Seelye.
sery for the care of weak ones, a hospital
for the healing of those who need assid-
Christianity is a religion which is jealous uous care.-H. W. Beecher.
in its demands, but how infinitely prodigal
I have seen much of the world and of
in its gifts ?-If it troubles you for an liour,
it repays you with immortality.—Bulwer.
men, and if there are truth, purity, sound
morals, and right aims anywhere, you may
A fit abode, wherein appear enshrined find them in the Christian church.--J. P.
our hopes of immortality.-Byron.
Thompson.
CHURCH.--The clearest window ever Men say the pinnacles of the churches
fashioned, if it is barred by spider's webs, point to heaven; so does every tree that
and hung over with carcasses of dead in- buds, and every bird that rises and sings.--
sects, so that the sunlight cannot find its They say their aisles are good for worship;
way through, is of little use.-Now the 80 is every rough seashore and mountain
church is God'a window, and if it is so glen.—But this they have of distinct and
obscured by errors that its light becomes indisputable glory, that their mighty walls
darkness, low great is that darkness ! were never raisel, and never shall be, but
H. W. Beecher.
by men who love and aid each other in their
A Christian church is a body or collection
weakness, and on the way to heaven.--
of
Ruslcin.
persons, voluntarily associated together,
professing to believe what Christ teaches, There ought to be such an atmosphere in
to do what Christ enjoins, to imitate his every Christian church, that a man going
example, cherish his spirit, and make and sitting there should take the contagion
known his gospel to others.
of heaven, and carry home a fire to kindle
Christ alone is the head of the clinch-
the altar whence he came.-H. W. Beecher.
by his truth to instruct it; by bis authority That is the only true church organization
to govern it; by his grace to quicken it; when lieads and hearts unite in working
by his providence to protect and guide it; for the welfare of the human race.-Lydia
by his Holy Spirit to sanctify and bless it Maria Child.
-the source of its life, wisdom, unity,
peace, power, and prosperity, dwelling with CIRCUMSTANCES. - He is happy
it here on earth, and preparing its faithful
whose circumstances suit his temper ; but
inembers to dwell forever with him in he is more excellent who can buit his tem-
heaven.
per to any circumstances.--Hume.
The church is the great uplifting and Men are the sport of circumstances, when
conserving agency in the world, without the circumstances seem the sport of men.-
which the race would soon relapse into Byron.
It is our relation to circumstances that
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determines their influence over us. The
The way to preserve the peace of the same wind that carries one vessel into port
church is to preserve its purity.--M. Henry. may blow another off shorc.-- Bovee.
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Trivial circumstances, which show the
manners of the age, are often more in-
structive as well as entertaining, than the
great transactions of wars and negotiations,
which are nearly similar in all periods, and
in all countries of the world.--Hume.
Circumstances are the rulers of the weak;
they are but the instruments of the wise.-
Samuel Lover.
Circumstances form the character ; but
like petrifying waters they harden while
they form.--L. E. Landon.
Men are not altered by their circum-
stances, but as they give them opportuni-
ties of exerting what they are in themselves;
and a powerful clown is a tyrant in the
most ugly form in which he can possibly
appear.- Steele.
Occasions do not make a man either
strong or weak, but they show what he is.-
Thomas à Kempis.
Circumstances ! I make circumstances !
- Napoleon.
CITIES.—The city is an epitome of the
social world. All the belts of civilization
intersect along its avennies. It contains
the products of every moral zone, and is
cosmopolitan, not only in a national, but in
a moral and spiritual sense.-E. H. Chapin.
Cities force growth, and make men talka-
tive and entertaining, but they make them
artificial.-Emerson.
The union of men in large masses is in-
dispensable to the development and rapid
growth of their higher faculties.-Cities
have always been the fireplaces of civiliza-
tion, whence light and heat radiated out into
the dark, cold world.-Theodore Parker.
God the first garden made, and Cain the
first city.--Cowley.
I have found by experience, that they
who have spent all their lives in cities, con-
tract not only an effeminacy of habit, but
of thinking.--Goldsmith.
If you suppress the exorbitant love of
pleasure and money, idle curiosity, iniqui-
tous purpose, and wanton mirth, what a
stillness would there be in the greatest
cities.--Bruyére.
The city has always been the clecisive bat-
tle ground of civilization and religion. It
intensifies all the natural tendencies of
From its fomented energies, as well
as from its greater weight of numbers, the
city controls. Ancient civilizations rose
and fell with their leading cities. In mod-
ern times, it is hardly too much to say, as
goes the city so goes the world.”-S. J. Mc-
Pherson.
I bless God for cities.—They have been
as lamps of life along the pathways of
humanity and religion. Within them,
science has given birth to her noblest dis-
coveries. --Behind their walls, freedom has
fought her noblest battles. They have
stood on the surface of the earth like great
breakwaters, rolling back or turning aside
the swelling tide of oppression.-Cities, in-
deed, have been the cradles of human lib-
erty.—They have been the active sentries of
almost all church and state reformation.-
Guthrie.
If you would know and not be known,
live in a city.-Collon.
Men, by associating in largo masses, as
in camps and cities, improve their talents,
but impair their virtues ; and strengthen
their minds, but weaken their morals.-
Colton.
The conditions of city life may be made
healthy, so far as the physical constitution
is concerned.--But there is connected with
the business of the city so much competi-
tion, so much rivalry, so much necessity for
industry, that I think it is a perpetual,
chronic, wholesale violation of natural law.
-There are ten men that can succeed in
the country, where there is one that can
succeed in the city.-H. W. Beecher.
Whatever makes men good Christians,
makes them good citizens.-Daniel Web-
ster.
There is no solitude more dreadful for a
stranger, an isolated man, than a great city.
-So many thousands of men, and not one
friend.-Boiste.
In the country, a man's mind is free and
easy, and at his own disposal ; but in the
city, the persons of friends and acquaint-
ance, one's own and other people's business,
foolish quarrels, ceremonies, visits, imper-
tinent discourses, and a thousand other
fopperies and diversions steal away the
greatest part of our time, and leave no lei-
sure for better and more necessary employ-
ment. Groat towns are but a larger sort of
prison to the soul, like cages to birds, or
pounds to beasts.- Charron.
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CIVILITY-(See" COURTESY.") Ci-
vility is a charm that attracts the love of all
men and too much is better than to show
too little.-Bp. Horne.
The general principles of urbanity, po-
liteness, or civility, have been the same in
all nations; but the mode in which they
are dressed is continually varying. The
general idea of showing respect is by mak-
ing yourself less ; but the manner, whether
by bowing the body, kneeling, prostration,
;
inan.
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CIVILIZATION.
pulling off the upper part of our dress, or
taking away the lower, is a matter of cus-
tom.—Sir J. Reynolds.
While thou livest, keep a good tongue in
thy head.--Shalcespeare.
The insolent civility of a proud man is,
if possible, more shocking than his rude-
ness could be ; because he shows you, by
his manner, that he thinks it mere conde-
scension in him, and that his goodness
alone bestows upon you what you have no
pretence to claim.-
Chesterfield.
Nothing costs less, nor is cheaper, than
the compliments of civility.-Cervantes.
When a great merchant of Liverpool was
asked by what means he had contrived to
realize the large fortune he possessed, his
reply was, “By one article alone, in which
thou mayest deal too, if thou pleasest—it is
civility." —Bentley.
If a civil word or two will render a man
happy, he must be a wretch, indeed, who
will not give them to him.-Such a disposi-
tion is like lighting another man's candle
by one's own, which loses none of its bril-
liancy by what the other gains.-Penn.
CIVILIZATION.-All that is best in
the civilization of to-day, is the fruit of
Christ's appearance among men.-Daniel
Webster.
More than one of the strong nations may
shortly have to choose between a selfish
secular civilization, whose God is science,
and an unselfish civilization whose God is
Christ.-R. D. Hitchcoclc.
If you would civilize a man, begin with
his grandmother.- Victor Hugo.
Here is the element or power of conduct,
of intellect and knowledge, of beauty, and
of social life and manners, and all needful
to build up a complete human life. We
have instincts responding to them all, and
requiring them all, and we are perfectly
civilized only when all these instincts of our
nature-all these elements in our civiliza-
tion have been adequately recognized and
satisfied.-Matthew Arnold.
In order to civilize a people, it is neces-
sary first to fix it, and this cannot be done
without inducing it to cultivate the soil.-
De Tocqueville.
The most civilized people are as near to
barbarism, as the most polished steel is to
rust.-Nations, like metals, have only a
superficial brilliancy.-Rivarol.
The true test of civilization is, not the
census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops,
but the kind of man that the country tuins
out.-Emerson.
A sufficient and sure method of civiliza-
tion is the influence of good women.--En-
er'son.
The ultimate tendency of civilization is
toward barbariam.-Hare.
The case, the luxury, and the abundance
of the highest state of civilization, are as
productive of selfishness as the difficulties,
the privations, and the sterilities of the low-
est.-Colton.
It is the triumph of civilization that at
last communities have obtained such a
mastery over natural laws that they drive
and control them. The winds, the water,
electricity, all aliens that in their wild form
were dangerous, are now controlled by
human will, and are made useful servants.
-H. W. Beecher.
Civilization is the upward struggle of
mankind, in which millions are trampled to
death that thousands may mount on their
bodies.-Balfour.
Nations, like individuals, live or die, but
civilization cannot perish.-Mazzini.
The old Hindoo saw, in his dream, the hu-
man race led out to its various fortunes.
First, men were in chains, that went back
to an iron hand-then he saw them led by
threads from the brain,
which went upward
to an unseen hand. The first was despo-
tism, iron, and ruling by force.-The last
was civilization, ruling by ideas.- Wendell
Phillips.
No civilization other than that which is
Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
- Bismarck.
The Post office, with its eclucating energy,
augmented by cheapness, and guarded by
a certain religious sentiment in mankind,
so that the power of a wafer, or a drop of
wax guards a letter as it flies over sea and
land, and bears it to its address as if a bat-
talion of artillery had brought it, I look
upon as a first measure of civilization.
Emerson.
With Christianity came a new civiliza-
tion, and a new order of ideas.-Tastes were
cultivated, manners retined, views broad-
enied, and natures spiritualized.-Azarias.
Christianity has carried civilization along
with it, whithersoever it has gone.-Andas
if to show that the latter does not depend
on physical causes, some of the countries
the most civilized in the days of Angustus,
are now in a state of hopeless barbarism.
Hare.
No true civilization can be expected per-
manently to continue which is not based
on the great principles of Christianity.-
Tryon Edwards.
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COMMANDERS.
CLEANLINESS.-Cleanliness of body
was ever .esteemed to proceed from a due
reverence to God.-Bacon.
Certainly, this is a duty-not a sin.-
Cleanliness is, indeed, next to Godliness.-
John Wesley.
Let thy mind's sweetness have its opera-
tion upon thy body, thy clothes, and thy
habitation. -- Eerbert.
The consciousness of clean linen is, in,
and of itself, a source of moral strength,
second only to that of a clean conscience.
A well-ironed collar or a fresh glove has
carried many a man through an emergency
in which a wrinkle or a rip would have de-
feated him.--E. S. Phelps.
Even from the body's purity the mind
receives a secret sympathetic aid.—Thon-
son,
So great is the effect of cleanliness upon
man, that it extends even to his moral
character.---Virtue never dwelt long with
filth ; nor do I believe there ever was a per-
son scrupulously attentive to cleanliness
who was a consummate villain.--Rumford.
Beauty commonly produces love, but
cleanliness preserves it.--Age itself is not
unamiable while it is preserved clean and
unsullied-like a picco of metal constantly
kept smooth and bright, which we look on
with more pleasure than on a new vessel
cankered with rust.-Addison.
Cleanliness may be recommended as a
mark of politeness, as it produces affection,
anl as it bears Analogy to purity of mind.
As it renders 118 agrecable to others, so it
makes us easy to ourselves. It is an excel-
lent preservative of health ; and several
vices, destructive both to body and mind,
are inconsistent with the habit of it.--Ad-
dison.
CLEMENCY,-Clemency is not only
the privilege, the honor, and the duty of i
prince, but it is also his security, and better
than all lis garrisons, forts, and guards
to preserve himself and his dominions in
safety..... It is the brightest jewel in a mon-
arch's crow.--Stretch.
Lenity will operate with greater force, in
some instances, than rigor.-It is, there-
fore, my first wish, to have my whole con-
luct distinguished by it.- Washington.
Clemency, which we make a virtue of,
proceeds sometimes from vanity, sometimes
from indolence, often from fear, and almost
always from a mixture of all three.--Roche-
foucauld.
As meekness moderates anger, so clem-
ency moderates pruishment. ----Stretch.
In general, indulgence for those we know,
is rarer than pity for those we know not.
Rio ºol.
Clemency is profitable for all; mischiefs
contemned lose their force.—Stretch.
CLOUDS.-Those playful faucies of the
mighty sky - Albert Smith.
That looked as though an angel, in his
upward flight, had left his mantle floating
in mid-air, Joanna Baillie.
My God, there go the chariots in which
thou ridest forth to inspect thy fields, gar-
dens, meaclows, forests, and plains. They
are the curtains, which, at thy good plens-
ure, thou drawest as a covering over the
plants, that they may not be withered and
destroyed by the heat; and not seldom are
they the arsenal in which thou keepest
thine artillery of thunder and lightning,
at times to strike the children of men with
reverential awe, or inflict on thein some
grent punishinent.--Gotthold.
COMFORT.-Of all created comforts,
God is the lender ; you are the borrower,
not the owner.-- Rutherford.
It is a little thing to speak a phrase of
common comfort, which by dnily use has
almost lost its sense ; and yet, on the ear of
him who thought to die unmourned, it will
fall like the choicest music.--Talfourd.
I have enjoyed many of the comforts of
life, none of which I wish to esteem light-
ly ; yet I confess I know not any joy that is
so dear to me, that so fully satisfies the
inmost desires of my mind, that so enli-
vens, refines, and elevates my whole nature,
as that which I derive froin religion-from
faith in God.----May this God be thy God,
thy refuge, thy.comfort, as he has been
mine.—Lavater.
Most of our comforts grow up between
012r crosses. -Young.
The comforts we enjoy here below, are
not like the anchor in the bottom of the
sca, that holds fast in a storm, but like the
ting upon the top of the mast, that turns
with every wind.-C, Love.
Giving comfort under affliction requires
that penetration into the human mind,
joined to that experience which knows how
to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridi-
cule, taking the utmost care not to apply
those arts improperly. I'ielding.
COMMANDERS.-He who rules must
humor full as much as he commands.
George Eliot,
It is better to have a lion at the head of
an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head
of an army of lions.-De Foe.
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COMMON SENSE.
The right of commanding is no longer
an advantage transmitted by nature ; like
an inheritance, it is the fruit of labors, the
price of courage.-- Vollaire.
A brave captuin is as a root, out of which,
as branches, the courage of his soldiers
doth spring.--Sir P. Sidney.
A man must require just and reasonable
things if le would see the scales of obe-
dience properly trimmed.--From orders
which are improper, springs resistance
which is not easily overcome. Basil.
COMMERCE, I am wonderfully de-
lighted to see it body of men thriving in
their own fortunes, and at the same time
promoting the public stock ; or, in other
words, raising estates for their own fami-
lies by bringing into their country what-
ever is wanting, and carrying out of it
whatever is superfluous.--Addison.
Perfect freedom is as necessary to the
health and vigor of commerce, as it is to
the health and vigor of citizenship.-Pat-
rick Henry.
Commerce tends to wear off those preju-
dices which maintain destruction and ani-
mosity between nations.-It softens and
polishes the manners of men.-It unites
them by one of the strongest of all ties—the
desire of supplying their mutual wants.
It disposes them to peace by establishing in
every state an order of citizens bound by
their interest to be the guardians of public
tranquillity.-F. W. Robertson.
Commerce has made all wincls her mes-
sengers ; all climes her tributaries : all peo-
ples her servants.--Tryon Edwards.
Commerce may well be termed the youn-
ger sister, for, in all emergencies, she looks
to agriculture both for defence and for sup-
ply.- Colton.
Every dollar spent for missions las
added hundreds to the commerce of the
world.-N. G. Clarl.
It may alınost be held that the hope of
commercial gain has done nearly as much
for the cause of truth, as even the love of
truth itself. Bovee.
A well regulated commerce is not like
law, physic, or divinity, to be over-stocked
with hands ; but, on the contrary, flourishes
by multitudes, and gives employment to
all its professors.-Addison.
A statesman may do much for commerce
-most, by leaving it alone. A river never
flows so smoothly as when it follows its
own course, without either aid or check-
Let it make its owu bed; it will do so bet-
ter thau you can.
Commerce defies every wind, outrides
every tempest, and invades every zone.-
Bancrofl.
Commerce is no missionary to carry more
or better than you have at home.But
what you liave ut home, be it gospel, or
be it druikenness, commerce carries the
world over.-7. E. Hale.
COMMON SENSE.--(Sec "SENSE.")
Common sense is, of all kinds, the most
uncommon.-It implies good judgment,
sound discretion, and true and practical
wisdom applied to common life.—Tryon
Edwards.
Fine sense, and exalted sense, are not
half as useful as common sense. There are
forty men of wit to one man of sense. He
that will carry nothing about him but gold,
will be every day at a loss for readier
change.-Pope.
To act with common sense according to
the moment, is the best wisdom I know
;
and the best philosophy is to do one's
duties, take the world as it comes, submit
respectfully to one's lot; bless the goodness
that bas given us so much happiness with
it, whatever it is; and despise affectation.--
Walpole.
Common sense is the knack of seeing
things as they are, and doing things as
they ought to be done.-C. E. Šlowe.
“Knowledge, without common sense,
says Lee, "is folly ; without method, it is
waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism ;
without religion, it is death.” But with
common sense, it is wielom ; with method,
it is power ; with clarity, it is beneficence;
with religion, it is virtue, and life, and
peace.-Farrar.
If a man can have only one kind of sense,
let him have common sense.-If he has that
and uncommon sense too, he is not far
from genius.-H. W. Beecher.
He was one of those men who possess
almost every gift, except the gift of the
power to use them.---C. Kingsley.
Tlie crown of all faculties is common
sense.-It is not enough to do the right
thing, it must be done at the right time and
place.--Talent knows what to do;tact knows
wlien and how to do it.-W. Matthews.
The figure which a man makes in life, the
reception whiclı he meets with in company,
,
the esteem paid him by his acquaintance-
all these depend as much upon his good
seuse and judgment, as upon any other
part of his character. A man of the best
intentions, and farthest removed from all
injustice and violence, would never be able
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78
COMPASSION.
to make himself much regarded, without a
moderate share of parts and understand-
ing.--Hume.
Common seuse is only a modification of
talent.-Genius is an exaltation of it. The
difference is, therefore, iu degree, not ua-
ture.-Bulwer.
No man is quite sane.-- Each has a vein
of folly in his composition a slight deter-
mination of blood to the head, to inake sure
of holding him hard to some one point
Vyhich he has taken to heart.-
Emerson.
If common sense has not the brilliancy
of the sun, it has the fixity of the stars. —
Caballero.
One pound of learning requires ten
pounds of common seuse to apply it. --Per-
sian Proverb.
If you haven't grace, the Lord can give
it to you.--If you haven't learning, I'll help
you to get it. But if you haven't commou
sense, neither I, nor the Lord can give it
to you.—John Brown (of Haddingtoni, to
his students).
COMMUNISM.—What is a commun-
ist 2--One who has yearnings for equal
division of unequal earnivgs.-Idler or
bungler, he is willing to fork out his penny
and pocket your shilling.-Ebenezer Elliot
Your leveler8 wish to level down as far as
themselves.--But they cannot bear leveling
up to themselves. They would all have
some people under them.-Why not then
bave some people above them ?-Johnson.
Communism possesses a language which
every people can understand. Its elements
are hunger, envy, and death.-Heine.
COMPANIONSHIP:-(See
" ASSOCI-
ATES.")
Good company, and good discourse are
the very sinews of virtue.-Izaalc Walton.
It is goud discretion not to make too
much of any man at the first, because one
cannot hold out in that proportion.-Bacon.
It is expedient to have an acquaintance
with those who have looked into the world ;
who know men, understand business, and
can give you good intelligence and good
advice when they are wanted.—Bp. Horne.
Be cautious with whom your associate,
and never give your company or your con-
fidence to those of whose good priuciples
you are not sure.—Bp. Coleridge,
No company is preferable to bad, because
we are more apt to catch the vices of others
than their virtues, as disease is far more
contagious than health.--Colton, .
What is companionship where nothing
that improves the intellect is communi-
cated, and where the larger heart contracts
itself to the model and dimeusion of the
smaller ?- Landor,
Wicked companions invite and lure us to
bell.-Fielding.
No man can possibly improve in any
company for which he has not respect
enough to be under some degree of re-
straint.- -Chesterfield.
No man can be provident of his time,
who is not prudent in the choice of his com-
pany.Jeremny Taylor,
Evil companions are the devil's agents
whom he sends abroad into the world to
debauch virtue, and to advance his king-
dom; and by these ambassadors he effects
more than he could in his own person.-
Anthony Horneck.
Take rather than 'give the tone of the
company you are in. If you have parts,
you will show them, more or less, upon
every subject; and if you have not, you
had better talk sillily upon a subject of
other people's choosing than of your own.-
Chesterfield.
The most agreeable of all companions is
a simple, frank man, without any high pre-
tensions to an oppressive greatness ; one
who loves life, and understands the use of
it; obliging, alike, at all hours ; above all,
of a golden tomper, and steadfast as an
anchor.- For such an one we gladly ex-
change the greatest genius, the most bril-
liant wit, the profoundest thinker.—Less-
ing.
COMPARISON.-If we rightly esti-
mate what we call good and evil, we shall
find it lies much in comparison.- Loclce.
The superiority of some inen is merely
local.--They are great because their associ-
ates are little.-Johnson.
When the moon shone we did not see the
candle: so doth the greater glory dim the
less.-A substitute shines lightly as a king
until a king be by, and then his state emp-
ties itself, as doth an inland brook into the
main of waters.—Shalcespeare.
COMPASSION.There never was any
heart truly great and generous, that was
not also tender and compassionate.-
South.
It is the crown of justice and the glory,
where it may kill with right, to save with
pity.-Beaumont and Fletcher.
The dew of compassion is a tear.-
Byron.
Compassion to an offender who has gross-
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COMPLAINING.
ly violated the laws, is, in effect, a cruelty
to the peaceable subject who has observed
them.-Junius.
Man may dismiss compassion from his
heart, but God will never.-Cowper.
COMPENSATION.-There is wisdom
in the saying of Feltham, that the whole
creation is kept in order by discord, and
that vicissitude maintains the world.
Many evils bring many blessings.-Mamma
drops in the wilderness.--Corn grows in
Canaan.- Willmott.
All advantages are attended with disad-
vantages.-A universal compensation pre-
vails in all conditions of being and exis-
tence.- Hume.
No evil is without its compensation.-
The less money, the less trouble.-The less
favor, the less envy.-Even in those cases
which put us out of our wits, it is not the
loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that
troubles ús.-Seneca.
Whatever difference may appear in the
fortunes of mankind, there is, nevertheless,
a certain compensation of good and evil
which makes them equal.-- W. Rochefou-
caula.
If the poor man cannot always get meat,
the rich man cannot always digest it.
Giles.
If poverty makes man groan, he yawns
in opulence.—When fortune exempts us
from labor, nature overwhelms us with
time.--Rivarol.
When you are disposed to be vain of your
mental acquirements, look up to those who
are more accomplished than yourself, that
you may be fired
with emulation ; but when
you feel dissatisfied with your circum-
stances, look down on those beneath you,
that you may learn contentinent. -H.
More.
When fate has allowed to any man more
than one great gift, accident or necessity
seems usually to contrive that one shall
encumber and impede the other.-Swin-
burne.
As there is no worldly gain without some
loss, so there is no worldly loss without
some gain.-If thou hast lost thy wealth,
thou hast lost some trouble with it. If thou
art degraded from thy honor, thou art like-
wise freed from the stroke of envy. If
sickness hath blurred thy beauty, it hath
delivered thee from pride.-Set the allow-
ance against the loss and thou shalt find 110
loss great. He loses little or nothing who
reserves himself.—Quarles.
COMPLACENCY,-Complaisance
renders a superior amiable, an equal agree-
able, and an inferior acceptable. It
smooths distinction, sweetens conversation,
and makes everyone in the company
pleased with hiniself. It produces good
nature and mutual benevolence, encour-
ages the timorous, soothes the turbulent,
humanizes the fierce, and distinguishes a
society of civilized persons from a confu-
sion of savages.--Addison.
Complacency is a coin by the aid of which
all the world can, for want of essential
means, pay its club bill in society. It is
necessary, however, that it may lose noth-
ing of its merits, to associate judgment and
prudence with it.- Voltaire.
Complaisance, though in itself it be scarce
reckoned in the number of moral virtues,
is that which gives a luster to every talent
a man can be possessed of.—I would advise
every man of learning, who would not ap-
pear a mere scholar or ] hilosopher, to make
himself master of this social virtue.-Ad-
dison.
Complaisance pleases all ; prejudices
none; adorns wit; renders humor agree-
able ; augments friendship ; redoubles
love ; and united with justice and gener-
osity, becomes the secret chain of the so-
ciety of mankind.-M. de Scuderi.
COMPLAINING.We do not wisely
when we vent complaint and censure.-We
cry out for a little pain, when we do but
smile for a great deal of contentment.-
Fellhan.
Every one must see daily instances of
people who complain from å mere habit of
complaining; and make their friends un-
easy, and strangers merry, by murmuring
at evils that do not exist, and repining at
grievances which they do not really feel.-
Graves.
I will chide no brother in the world but
myself, against whom I know most faults.
---Shakespeare.
The man who is fond of complaining,
likes to remain amid the objects of his
vexation.-It is at the moment that he de-
clares them insupportable that he will most
strongly revolt against every means pro-
posed for his deliverance. This is what
suits him.--He asks nothing better than to
sigh over his position and to remain in it.
-Guizot.
I will not be as those who spend the day
in complaining of headache, and the night
in drinking the wine that gives it.-Goethe.
Murmur at nothing: if our ills are irre-
parable, it is ungrateful ; if remediless, it
is vain. A Christian builds his fortitude
QH a better foundation than stoicism; he
COMPLIMENTS.
SO
CONCEIT.
is pleased with everything that happens,
because he knows it could not happen un-
less it had first pleased God and that which
pleases Him must be the best.--Colton.
The usual fortune of coniplaint is to
excite contempt more than pity.-Johnson.
I have always despised the whining yelp
of complaint, and the cowardly feeble
resolve. - Burns.
COMPLIMENTS.- Compliments are
only lies in court clothes.--Slerling.
A deserved and discriminating compli-
ment is often one of the strongest en-
couragements and incentives to tie diffi-
dent and self-distrustful.-Tryon Edwards.
A compliment the usually accompanied
with a bow, as if to beg pardon for payiug
it.-Hare.
Compliments of congratulation are al-
ways 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.- Chesterfield.
Compliments which we think are de-
served, we accept only as debts, with indif-
ference; but those which conscience in-
forms us we do not merit, we receive with
the same gratitude that we do favors given
away.-Goldsmith.
COMPROMISE.-Compromise is but
the sacrifice of one right or good in the
hope of retaining another,too often end-
ing in the loss of both.- Tryon Edwards.
From the beginning of our history the
country has been afflicted with compro-
mise. It is by compromise that buman
rights have been abandoned. I insist that
this shall cease. The country needs repose
after all its trials ; it deserves repose. And
repose can only be found in everlasting
principles.- Charles Suniner.
CONCEALMENT,- (See CRIME.")
To conceal anything from those to whom Í
am attached, is not in my nature. I can
never close my lips where I have opened
my heart.-Dickens.
He who can conceal his joys, is greater
than he who can hide his griefs.-Lavater.
It is great cleverness to know how to con-
ceal our cleverness.-Rochefoucauld.
“Tliou shalt not get found ont" is not
one of God's commandments; and no inan
can be saved by trying to keep it.---Leo-
nard Bacon.
It is vanity driven from all other shifts,
and forced to appeal to itself for admira-
tion.-Hazlilt.
It is wonderful how near conceit is to in-
sanity !- Jerrold.
Wind puffs up empty bladders ; opinion,
fools.-Socrales.
He who gives himself airs of importance,
exhibits the credentials of impotence. -
Lavater.
The overweening self-respect of conceited
men relieves others from the duty of le-
specting them at all.--H. W. Beecher.
Conceit is to nature, what paint is to
beauty ; it is not only needless, but it im-
pairs what it would improve. ---Pope.
The more one speaks of himself, the less
he likes to hear another talked of.- Lavater.
They say that every one of us believes
in his heart, or would like to have others
believe, that he is something which he is
not. I'hackeray.
Conceit and confidence are both of them
cheats.—The first always imposes on itself :
the second frequently deceives others.
Zimmerman.
A man-poet, prophet, or whatever he
may be-readily persuades himself of his
right to all the worship that is voluntarily
tendered.—Hawthorne.
None are so seldom found alone, or are
so soon tired of their own company, as
those coxcombs who are on the best terms ·
with themselves. -Collon.
No man was ever so much deceived by
another, as by himself.--Greville.
Every man, however little, makes a figure
in his own eyes.- Hone.
It is the admirer of himself, and not the
admirer of virtue, that thinks himself su-
perior to others.—Plutarch.
The weakest spot in every man is where
he thinks himself to be the wisest.--Em-
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The best of lessons, for a good many
people, would be, to listen at a key-hole.
It is a pity for such that the practice is dis-
honorable.—Mad. Swetchine.
If he could only see how small a vacancy
his death would leave, the proud man
would think less of the place he occupies
in his life-time.—Legouve.
One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind
of property, which it is very unpleasant to
find depreciated. George Eliot.
If its colors were but fast colors, self-con-
ceit would be a most comfortable quality.--
But life is so humbling, mortifying, disap-
CONCEIT,- (See “SELF-CONCEIT.)
Conceit is the most contemptible, and one
of the most odious qualities in the world.--
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CONFIDENCE.
pointing to vanity, that a great man's idea
of himself gets washed out of him by the
time he is forty.-C. Buxton.
I've never any pity for conceited people,
because I think they carry their comfort
about with them.- George Eliot.
Conceit may puff a man up, but can never
prop him up.-Ruskin.
We uniformly think too well of ourselves.
But self-conceit is specially the mark of a
small and narrow mind. Great and noble
natures are most free from it.
CONDUCT.-Conduct is the great pro-
fession. Behavior is the perpetual reveal-
ing of us. What a man does, tells us what
he is.-F. D. Huntington.
If we do not weigh and consider to what
end life is given us, and thereupon order
and dispose it aright, pretend what we will
as to arithmetic, we do not, and cannot
number our days in the narrowest and
most limited signification.- Clarendon.
It is not enough that you form, and even
follow the most excellent rules for conduct-
ing yourself in the worla ; you must, also,
know when to deviate from them, and
where lies the exception.-Greville.
Fools measure actions, after they are
done, by the event; wise men beforehand,
by the rules of reason and right. The
former look to the end, to judge of the act.
Let me look to the act, and leave the end
with God.-Bp. Hall.
The integrity of men is to be measured by
their conduct, not by their professious.
Junius.
I will govern my life and my thoughts as
if the whole world were to see the one and
read the other.-For what does it signify
to make anything a secret to my neighbor,
when to God, who is the searcher of our
hearts, all our privacies are open.-Seneca.
Every one of us, whatever our specula-
tive opinions, knows better than he prac-
tices, and recognizes a better law than he
obeys.-Froude.
In all the affairs of life let it be your
great care, not to hurt your inind, or offend
your judgment.-And this rule, if observed
carefully in all your deportment, will be a
mighty security to you in your undertak-
ings.-
Epictetus.
All the while that thou livest ill, thou
hast the trouble, distraction, and inconven-
iences of life, but not the sweet and true
use of it. -Fuller.
CONFESSION -A man should never
be ashamed to own he has been in the
wrong, which is but saying, in other words,
that he is wiser to-day than he was yester-
day.-Pope.
The confession of evil works is the first
beginning of good works.Augustine.
Why does no man confess his vices ?
because he is yet in them. It is for a wak-
ing mau to tell his dream.-Seneca.
Be not ashamed to confess that you have
been in the wrong. It is but owning what
you need not be ashamed of-that you now
have more sense than you had before, to
see your error ; more humility to acknowl-
edge it, more grace to correct it. Seed.
If thou wouldst be justified, acknowledge
thine injustice.--He that confesses his sin,
begins his journey toward salvation.--He
that is sorry for it, mends his pace. He
that forsakes it, is at his journey's end.
Quarles.
It is not our wrong actions which it re-
quires courage to confess, so much as those
which are ridiculous and foolislı.-Rous-
seau.
Confession of sin comes from the offer
of mercy.-Mercy displayed causes con-
fession to flow, and confession flowing opens
the way for mercy.--If I have uot a con-
trite heart, God's mercy will never be
mine ; but if God had not manifested his
mercy in Christ, I could never have had a
contrite heart.-Arnot.
CONFIDENCE.-Trust men and they
will be true to you; treat them greatly and
they will show themselves great.-Emerson.
Trust not him that hath once broken
faith. --Shalcespeare.
He that does not respect confidence will
never find happiness in his path. The be-
lief in virtue vanishes from his heart; the
source of nobler actions becomes extinct
in him.-Auffenberg.
Confidence is a plant of slow growth;
especially in an aged bosom.-Johnson.
Trust him with little, who, without
proofs, trusts you with everything, or when
he has proved you, with nothing.–Lavater.
When young, we trust ourselves too
much; and we trust others too little when
old.-Rashness is the error of youth; timid
caution of age.-Manhood is the isthmus
between the two extremes--the ripe and
fertile season of action when, only, we can
hope to find the head to contrive, united
with the band to execute.-Colton.
Society is built upon trust, and trust
upon confidence in one another's integrity.
-South.
All confidence is dangerous, if it is not
entire ; we ought on most occasions to
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speak all, or conceal all. We have already
too much disclosed our secrets to a man,
from whom we think any one single circum-
stance is to be concealed.-Bruyere.
Let us have a care not to disclose our
hearts to those who shut up theirs against
118.-Beaumont.
Fields are won by those who believe in
winning.-T. W. Figginson. .
They can conquer who believe they can.-
Dryden.
Confidence imparts a wondrong inspira-
tion to its possessor.-It bear's him on in
security, either to meet no danger, or to
find matter of glorious trial.-Millon.
The human heart, at whatever age, opens
only to the heart that opens in return.
Maria Edgeworth.
Confidence in one's self, though the chief
nurse of magnanimity, doth not leave the
care of necessary furniture for it; of all
the Grecians, Homer doth make Achilles
the best armed.--Sir; P. Sidney.
I could never pour out my ininost soul
without reserve to any human being, with-
out danger of one day repenting my con-
fidence. -Burns.
There are cases in which a man would be
ashamed not to have been imposed upon.
There is a confidence necessary to human
intercourse, and without which men are
often more injured by their own suspi-
cions, than they could be by the perfidy of
others.--Burke.
Self-trust is the essence of heroism.--
Emerson
Confidence, in conversation, has a greater
share than wit.--Rochefoucauld.
Confidence in another man's virtue, is no
slight evidence of one's own.-Montaigne.
If we are truly prudent we shall cherish
those noblest and happiest of our ten-
dencies—to love and to confide.-Bulwer.
Trust him little who praises all; him less
who censures all: and him least who is in-
different to all.-Lavaler.
To confide, even though to be betrayed,
is much better than to learn only to con-
ceal.-In the one case your neighbor wrongs
you ;-but in the other you are perpetually
doing injustice to yourself.--Siinnis.
Never put much confidence in such as
put no confidence in others. A man prone
to suspect evil is mostly looking in his
neighbor for what he sees in himself. As
to the pure all things are pure, even so to
the impure all things are impure.-Hare.
All confidence which is not absolute and
entire, is dangerous.—There are few occa-
sions but where a man ought either to say
all, or conceal all; for, how little soever
you have revealed of your secret to a friend,
you have already said too much if you think
it not safe to make him privy to all par-
ticulars.-Beaumont.
CONSCIENCE. Conscience ! con-
science ! man's most faithful friend!
Crabbe.
Man's conscience is the oracle of God.-
Byron.
Conscience is the reason, employed about
questions of right and wrong, and accom-
panied with the sentiments of approbation
or condemnation.- Whewell.
A tender conscience is an inestimable
blessing ; that is, a conscience not only
quick to discern what is evil, but instantly
to shun it, as the eyelid closes itself against
the mote.-N. Adams.
The truth is not so much that man has
conscience, as that conscience has man.--
Dorner.
It is far more important to me to preserve
an unblemished conscience than to compass
any object however great. — Channing.
He will easily be content and at peace,
whose conscience is pure.—Thomas à
Kempis.
Conscience is God's vicegerent on earth,
and, within the limited jurisdiction given
to it, it partakes of his infinite wisdom and
speaks in his tone of absolute command.
It is a revelation of the being of a God, a
divine voice in the human soul, making
known the presence of its rightful sover-
eign, the author of the law of holiness and
truth.-Bowen.
I feel within me a peace above all earthly
dignities, a still and quiet conscicuce.-
Shakespeare.
If conscience smite thee once, it is an
admonition; if twice, it is a condemnation.
Whatçöther dungeon is so dark as one's
own heart! What jailer so inexorable as
one's self !- Hawthorne.
A good conscience is a continual Christ-
Franklin.
Conscience is merely our own judgment
of the right or wrong of our actions, and
so can never be a safe guide unless en-
lightened by tho word of God.-Tryon
Edwards.
We cannot live better than in seeking to
become better, nor more agreeably than in
having a clear conscience. -Socrates.
The voice of conscience is so delicate
that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also 80
mas.
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clear that it is impossible to mistake it. -
Mad. de Staël.
Conscience is the voice of the soul, as
the passions are the voice of the body.--
No wonder they often contradict each
other.-Rousseau.
A conscience void of offence, before God
and man, is an inheritance for eternity.-
Daniel Webster.
A good conscience is the palace of Christ;
the temple of the Holy Ghost; the paradise
of delight; the standing Sabbath of the
saints.-
Augustine.
To endeavor to dominecr over conscience,
is to invade the citadel of heaven.---
Charles V.
Conscience is the true vicar of Christ in
the soul; a prophet in its information ; a
monarch in its peremptoriness; a priest in
its blessings or anathemas, according as we
obey or disobey it.-J. Newman.
Conscience, in most men, is but the antici-
pation of the opinions of others. - Taylor.
No man ever offended his own conscience,
but first or last it was revenged upon him
for it. -South.
Conscience, honor, and credit, are all in
our interest, and without the concurrence
of the former, the latter are but imposi-
tions upon ourselves and others.—Steele,
There is no future pang can deal that
justice on the self-condemned, le deals on
his own soul.-Byron.
If any speak ill of thee, flee home to thine
own conscience, and examine thine heart;
if thou be guilty, it is a just correction ; if
not guilty, it is a fair instruction. Make
use of both-So shalt thou distil honey out
of gall, and out of an open enemy make a
secret friend.—Quarles.
We never do evil so thoroughly and heart-
ily as when led to it by an honest but per-
verted, because mistaken, conscience.-
Tryon Edwards.
Conscience is a great ledger book in
which all our offences are written and reg-
istered, and which time reveals to the sense
and feeling of the offender.--Burton.
Our conscience is a fire within 118, and
our sins as the fuel ; instead of warming,
it will scorch us, unless the fuel be re-
moved, or the heat of it be allayed by peni-
tential tears.-J. M. Mason.
There is no witness so terrible—no ac-
cuser 80 powerful as conscience which
dwells within us.--Sophocles.
Conscience, true as the needle to the pole
points steadily to the polc-star of God's
eternal justice, reminding the soul of the
fearful realities of the life to come.-E. II.
Gillett.
He that is conscious of crime, however
bold by nature, becomes a coward.—Menan-
der.
Conscience warns us as a friend before it
punishes as a judge.-Slanislaus.
Conscience tells us that we ought to do
right, but it does not tell us what right is-
that wo are taught by God's word.-H. C.
Trumbull.
That conscience approves of any given
course of action, is, of itself, an obligation.
- Bp. Butler.
Conscience bas notliing to do as lawgiver
or judge, but is a witness against me if I
do wroug, and which approves if I do right.
-To act against conscience is to act against
reason and God's law.
Conscience is not law.-No.-God has
made and reason recognizes the law, and
conscience is placed within us to prompt
to the right, and warn against the wrong.
A disciplined conscience is a man's best
friend.—It may not be his most amiable,
but it is his most faithful monitor.-A.
Phelps.
What conscience dictates to be done, or
warns me not to do, this teach me more
than hell to slun, that more than heaven
pursue.--Pope.
A good conscience is to the soul what
health is to the body ; it preserves constant
ease and serenity within 118, and more
than countervails all the calamities and af-
flictions which can befall us without.-Ad
dison.
Labor to keep alive in your heart that
little spark of celestial fire called cou-
science.- Washington.
There is no class of men so difficult to
be managed in a state as those whose in-
tentions are honest, but whose consciences
are bewitched.-Napoleon.
Preserve your conscience always soft and
sensitive. If but ono sin force its way into
that tender part of the soul and is suffered
to dwell there, the road is paved for a thon-
sand iniquities.- Watts.
Tenderness of conscience is always to be
distinguished from scrupulousness. The
conscience cannot be kept too sensitive
and tender ; but scrupulousness arises from
bodily or mental 'infirmity, and discovers
itself in a multitude of ridiculous, super-
stitious, and painful feelings.—Cecil.
The men who succeed best in public life
are those who take the risk of standing by
their own convictions.-J. A. Garfield.
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CONSERVATISM.
Cowardice asks, Is it safe? Expediency
asks, Is it politic? Vanity asks, Is it popu-
lar?' but Conscience asks, Is it right?-
Punshon.
A wounded conscience is able to unpara-
dise paradise itself.--Fuller.
Were conscience always clear and de-
cided in its awards, we could scarcely
remain unconsoled for the resignation of
any delight, however delightful. It is
doubt in all cases, that is the real malicious
devil.-Mrs. Alexander,
The torture of a bad conscience is the
hell of a living soul.-Calvin.
Keep your conduct abreast of your con-
science, and very soon your conscience
will be illumined by the radiance of God. —
W. M. Taylor.
A man of integrity will never listen to
any reason against conscience.--Ilome.
In the commission of evil, fear no man
so much as thyself.-Another is but ono
witness against thee; thou art a thousand.
-Another thou mayst avoid, thyself thou
canst not-Wickedness is its own punish-
ment.—Quarles.
My dominion ends where that of con-
science begins.-Napoleon.
Many a lash in the dark, doth conscience
give the wicked.-Boston.
Trust that wan in nothing who has not a
conscience in everything.–Sterne.
He who commits a wrong will himself in-
evitably see the writing on the wall, though
the world may not count him guilty.-
Tupper.
Some persons follow the dictates of their
conscience, only in the same sense in which
a coachman may be said to follow the horses
he is driving.–Whately.
Conscience doth make cowards of us all.-
Shakespeare.
The foundation of true joy is in the con-
science.-Seneca.
A quiet conscience makes one so serene.-
Byron.
A clean and sensitive conscience, a stead-
fast and scrupulous integrity in small
things as well as great, is the most valuable
of all possessions, to a nation as to an indi-
vidual.-H. J. Van Dyke,
Conscience--that vicegerent of God in
the human heart, whose still, small voice
the loudest revelry cannot drown.-W. H.
Harrison,
A good conscience fears no witness, but
à guilty conscience is solicitous even in
solitude.-If we do nothing but what is
iionest, let all the world know it. But if
otherwise, what does it signify to have
nobody else kuow it, so long as I know it
myself ?-Miserable is he who slights that
witness.-Seneca.
Conscience is not given to a man to in-
struct him in the right, but to prompt him
to choose the right instead of the wrong
when he is instructed as to what is right.
It tells a man that he ought to do right, but
does not tell him what is right. And if a
man has made up his mind that a certain
wrong course is the right one, the more he
follows his conscience the more hopeless be
is as a wrong-doer. One is pretty far gone
in an evil way when he serves the devil
conscientiously.-H. C. Trumbull.
What we call conscience, is, in many
instances, only a wholesome fear of the
constable.-Bovee.
Conscience, though ever so small a worm
while we live, grows suddenly into a serpent
on our death-bed.--Jerrold.
I am more afraid of my own heart, than
of the Pope and all his cardinals.-I have
within me the great Pope, self.-Luther.
Be fearful only of thyself, and stand in
awe of none more than of thine own con-
science. There is a Cato in every man—a
severo censor of his manners.-And he that
reverences this judge will seldom do any-
thing he need repent of.—Burton.
Conscience is justice's best minister.-It
threatens, promises, rewards, and pun-
ishes, and keeps all under its control.-
The busy must attend to its remonstrances ;
the most powerful submit to its reproof,
and the angry endure its upbraidings.-
While conscience is our friend, all is peace ;
but if once offended, farewell to the tran-
quil mind.-Mary Wortley Montague.
It is astonishing how soon the whole con-
science begins to unravel if a single stitch
drops.-One single sin indulged in makes a
hole you could put your head through.-
C. Buxton.
CONSERVATISM, A conservative is
a man who will not look at the new moon,
out of respect for that "ancient institu-
tion," the old one.---Jerrold.
We are reformers in spring and sum-
mer.-In autumn and winter we stand
by the old.-Reformers in the morning ;
conservatives at night.-Reform is affirma-
tive; conservatism, negative.-Conserva-
tism goes for comfort; reform for truth.-
Emerson.
Conservatism, in its place, is good, and
80 is gravitation. But if there were no
upspringing and renovating force, where
would be the growth of the flowers and
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CONSTANCY.
God has commanded time to console the
unhappy.-Joubert.
For every bad there might be a worse ;
and when one breaks his leg let him be
thankful it was not his neck.- Bp. Hall.
Consolation, indiscreetly pressed upon
us when we are suffering under affliction,
only serves to increase our pain and to ren-
der our grief more poignant.-Rousseau.
Nothing does so establish the mind amidst
the rollings and turbulences of present
things, as to look above them and beyond
them-above them, to the steady and good
hand by which they are ruled, and be-
yond them, to the sweet and beautiful
end to which, by that hand, they will be
brought.-Jeremy Taylor.
Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the
most welcome and efficient consolation to
the afflicted.--Said a wise man to one in
deep sorrow, “I did not come to comfort
you; God only can do that; but I did come
to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for
you in your affliction." Thyon Edwards.
The powers of Time as a comforter can
hardly be overstated; but the agency by
which he works is exhaustion.-L. E. Lan-
dorr.
fruits ?-Centripetal forces are well bal-
anced by centrifugal ;-and only this are
the planets kept to their orbits.- Tryon
Edwards.
The highest function of conservatism is
to keep what progressiveness has accom-
plished.--R. H. Fulton.
A conservative young man has wound up
his life before it was unreeled. We expect
old men to be conservative, but when a
nation's young men are so, its funeral bell
is already tolled.-H. W. Beecher.
The conservative may clamor against re-
form, but he might as well clamor against
the centrifugal force.--He sighs forºs the
good old times.”—He might as well wish
the oak back into the acorn.-E. H. Chapin.
CONSIDERATION.-Better it is to the
right conduct of life to consider what will
be the end of a thing, than what is the be-
ginning of it; for what promises fair at ·
first, may prove ill, and what seems at first
a disadvantage, may prove very advan-
tageous.- Wells.
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom
may be expected to grow, and strength bo
given to every upspringing plant of duty.-
Emerson.
CONSISTENCY.- (See “INCONSIS-
TENCY.")
With consistency a great soul bas simply
nothing to do.-He may as well concern
himself with his shadow on the wall.-
Emerson.
Intellectual consistency is far from being
the first want of our nature, and is seldom
a primary want in minds of great per-
suasive, as distinguished from convincing
power. -Strahan.
Inconsistency with past views or conduct
may be but a mark of increasing knowledge
and wisdom.-- Tryon Edwards.
Those who honestly mean to be true con-
tradict themselves more rarely than those
who try to be consistent.-0. W. Holmes.
Without consistency there is no moral
strength.- Owen.
Either take Christ into your lives, or cast
him out of your lips.-Either be what thou
seemest, or else be what thou art.-Dyer.
He who prays as he ought, will endeavor
to live as he prays.- Owen.
CONSOLATION.-Before afflic-
tion is digested, consolation comes too soon;
and after it is digested, it comes too late;
but there is a mark between these two, as
fine almost as a hair, for a comforter to
take aim at.-Sterne.
CONSPIRACY,-Conspiracy-a game
invented for the amusement of unoccupied
men of rank.
Conspiracies no sooner should be formed
than executed.-Addison.
Combinations of wickedness would over-
whelm the world by the advantage which
licentious principles afford, did not those
who have long practiced perfidy grow faith-
less to each other.-Johnson.
Conspiracies, like thunder clouds, should
in a moment form and strike like lightning,
ere the sound is heard. Dow.
CONSTANCY-Constancy is the com-
plement of all other human virtues.--
Mazzini.
The secret of success is constancy of pur-
pose.—Disraeli.
A good man it is not mine to see. Could
I see a man possessed of constancy, that
would satisfy me.--Confucius.
It is often constancy to change the mind.
-Hoole.
Without constancy there is neither love,
friendship, nor virtue in the world.-Addi-
un
son.
I am constant as the Northern star, of
whose true-fixed and resting quality there
is no fellow in the firmanent. --Shakespeare.
Constancy to truth and principle may
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sometimes lead to what the world calls in-
constancy in conduct.---Tryon Edwards.
O heaven! were man but constant, he
were perfect. --Shakespeare.
CONTEMPLATION.--There is a sweet
pleasure in contemplation; and when a
mau hath run through a set of vanities in
the declension of his age, he knows not
what to do with himself if he cannot think.
--Blount.
In order to improve the mind, we ought
less to learn, than to contemplate.-Des-
cartes.
Contemplation is to knowledge, what di-
gestion is to food—the way to get life out
of it.---Tryon Edwards.
A contemplative life bas more the appear-
ance of piety than any other
;
but this
divine plan is to bring faith into activity
and exercise, -Cecil.
Let us unite contemplation with action.-
In the harmony of the two, lies the perfec-
tion of character. They are not contra-
dictory and incompatible, but mutually
helpful to each other.--Contemplation will
strengthen for action, and action sends us
back to contemplation, and thus the inner
and outer life will be harmoniously devel-
oped.-Foote.
CONTEMPT.-There is not in human
nature a more odious disposition than a
proneness to contempt, which is a mixture
of pride and ill-nature.-Nor is there any
which more certainly denotes a bad dispo-
sition ; for in a good and benign temper,
there can be no room for it.-It is tlie triest
symptom of a base and bad heart.-Fielding.
It is often more necessary to conccal con-
tempt than resentment, the former being
never forgiven, but the latter sometimes
forgot. Wrongs are often forgiven ; con-
tempt never.- Chesterfield.
None but the contemptible arc apprchen-
sive of contempt.-Rochefoucauld.
Contempt is the only way to triumph
over calumny.-Mad. de Maintenon.
I have unlearned contempt.--It is a sin
that is engendered earliest in the soul,
and doth beset it like a poison-worm, feed-
ing on all its beauty.- N. P. Willis.
Contempt naturally implies a man's es-
teeming himself greater than the person
whom he contemns.-He, therefore, that
slights and contemns an affront, is properly
superior to it.-Socrates, being kicked by
an ass, did not think it a revenge proper
for him to kick the ass again.--South.
Speak with contempt of no man.--Every
one hath a tender sense of reputation.-
And every man hath a sting, which he may,
i provoked too far, dart out at one timo
or another.—Burton.
Despise not any man, and do not spurn
anything ; for there is no man that hath
not his hour, nor is there anything that
hath not its place.-Rabbi Berr Azai.
The basest and meanest of all human
beings are generally the most forward to
despise others.--So that the most contempt-
ible are generally the must contemptuous.
-Fielding.
Contempt is commonly taken by the
young for an evidence of understanding ;
but it is neither difficult to acquire, nor
meritorious when acquired. To discover
the imperfections of others is penetration ;
to hate them for their faults is contempt.
We may be clear-sighted without being ma-
levolent, and make use of the errors we
discover, to learn caution, not to gratify
satire.--Sidney Smith.
Christ saw much in this world to weep
over, and much to pray over ; but he saw
nothing in it to look upon with contempt. -
E. H. Chapin.
CONTENTION.- Weakness on both
sides, is, as we know, the trait of all quar-
rels. — Vollaire.
Contention is like fire, for both burn 80
long as there is any exhaustible matter
to contend within.-Only herein it tran-
scends fire, for fire begets not matter, but
consumes it: debates beget matter, but
consume it not.-T. Adanis.
It is as hard a thing to maintain a sound
understanding, a tender conscience, a
lively, gracious, heavenly spirit, and an
· upright life in the midst of contention, as
to keep your candle lighted in the greatest
storms, — Baxter.
Religious contention is the devil's har-
vest.- Fontaine.
Never contend with one that is foolish,
proud, positive, testy, or with a superior,
or a clown, in matter of argument.--Fuller.
Where two discourse, if the anger of one
rises, he is the wise man who lets the con-
test fall.-Plutarch.
I never love those salamanders that are
never well but when they are in the fire of
contention. I will rather suffer a thon-
sand wrongs than offer one. I have always
found that to strive with a superior, is in-
jurious ; with an equal, doubtful; with an
inferior, sordid and base ; with any, full of
unquietness.-Bp. Hall.
CONTENTMENT, -A contented mind
is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in
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CONTENTMENT.
this world ; and if, in the present life, his
happiness arises from the subduing of his
desires, it will arise in the next from the
gratification of them.-Addison.
Submission is the only reasoning between
a creature and its maker, and contentment
in his will is the best remedy we can apply
to misfortunes.-Sir W. Teinple.
It is right to be contented with what we
have, never with what we are.-Maclcin-
tosh.
If we fasten our attention on what we
have, rather than on what we lack, a very
little wealth is sufficient.-F. Johnson.
A wise man will always be contented with
his condition, and will live rather according
to the precepts of virtue, than according to
the customs of his country.-Antisthenes.
I never complained of my condition but
once, said an old man-when my feet were
bare, and I had 10 money to buy shoes ;
but I met a man without feet, and became
contented.
Content can soothe, where'er by fortune
placed ; can rear a garden in the desert
waste.-H. K. White.
Great is he who enjoys his earthenware
as if it were plate, and not less great is the
man to whom all his plate is no more than
eartlienware.-Leighton.
Want of desire is the greatest riches.-
Vigée.
The contented man is never poor; the
discontented never rich.
Whether happiness may come or not, one
should try and prepare one's self to do with-
out it.- George Eliot.
An ounce of contentment is worth a
pound of sadness, to serve God with.-
Fuller.
If you are but content you have enough
to live upon with comfort. —Plautus.
Since we cannot get what we like, let us
like what we can get.- Spanish Proverb.
He who is not contented with what he
bas, would not be contented with what he
would like to have.
Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is
artificial poverty. --Socrates.
Resign every forbidden joy; restrain
every wish that is not referred to God's
will; barish all eager desires, all anxiety ;
desire only the will of God; seck him alone
and supremely, and you will find peace.
Fenelon.
There is a sense in which a man looking
at the present in the light of the future,
and taking his whole being into account,
may be contented with his lot: that is
Christian contentment.-But if a man has
come to that point where he is so content
that he says, I do not want to know any
more, or do any more, or be any more," he
is in a state in which he ought to be changed
into a mummy !-Of all hideous things a
mummy is the most hideous; and of mum-
mies, the most hideous are those that are
running about the streets and talking.-
H. W. Beecher.
One who is contented with what he has
done will never become famous for what he
will do.-He has lain down to die, and the
grass is already growing over him.-Bovee.
I am always content with what happens ;
for I know that what God chooses is better
than what I choose.--Epictetis.
The fountain of content must spring up
in the mind; and he who has so little
knowledge of human nature as to seek bap-
piness by changing anything but his own
disposition, will waste his lifo in fruitless
efforts, and multiply the griefs which he
proposes to remove.-Johnson,
.
That happy state of mind, so rarely pos-
sessed, in which we can say, "I have
enough," is the highest attainment of phil-
osophy. Happiness consists, not in pos-
sessing much, but in being content with
what we possess.
He who wants little
always has enough.-Zinumermann,
My God, give me neither poverty nor
riches, but whatsoever it may be thy will to
give, give me, with it, a heart that knows
humbly to acquiesce in what is thy will.--
Gotthold.
Contentment gives a crown, where for-
tune hath denied it.-Ford.
What though we quit all glittering pomp
and greatness, we may enjoy content; in
that alone is greatness, power, wealth,
honor, all summed up.--Powell.
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 einployments.--John
Newton.
To be content with even the best people,
we must be contented with little and bear a
great deal. Those who are most perfect
have many imperfections, and we have
great faults; between the two, mutual tol-
eration becomes very difficult. -Fenelon.
True contentment depends not upon
what we have; a tub was large enough for
Diogenes, but a world was too little for
Alexander.--Colton.
Learn to be pleased with everything;
with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial
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to others; with poverty, for not having
much to care for; and with obscurity, for
being unenvied.-Plutarch.
They that deserve nothing should be
content with anything. Bless God for what
you have, and trust God for what you want.
If we cannot bring our condition to our
mind, we must bring our mind to our con-
dition ; if a man is not content in the stato
he is in, he will not be content in the state
he would be in.-Erslcine Mason.
You traverse the world in search of hap-
piness, which is within the reach of every
a contented mind confers it all.
Horace.
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.-- Balguy.
It is a great blessing to possess what
one wishes, said one to an ancient philos-
opher. It is a greater still, was the reply,
not to desire what one does not possess.
Contentment with the divine will is the
best remedy we can apply to misfortunes.-
Sir W. Temple.
Contentment produces, in some measure,
all those effects which the alchymist as-
cribes to what he calls the philosopher's
stone; and if it does not bring riches, it
does the same thing by banishing the desire
of them. If it cannot remove the dis-
quietudes arising from a man's mind, body,
or fortune, it makes him easy under them.
Addison.
He that is never satisfied with anything,
satisfies no one.
A man who finds no satisfaction in him-
self, seeks for it in vain elsewhere.-Roche-
foucauld.
Content has a kindly influence on the
soul of man, in respect of every being to
whom he stands related. It extinguishies
all murmuring, repining, and ingratitude
toward that Being who has allotted us our
part to act in the world. It destroys all
inordinate ambition; gives sweetness to
the conversation, and serenity to all the
thoughts; and if it does not bring riches, it
does the same thing by banishing the desire
of them.--Addison.
The noblest mind the best contentment
has. - Spenser.
CONTRADICTION. - We must not
contradict, but instruct him that contra-
dicts us ; for a madman is not cured by
another running mad also.-Antisthenes.
We take contradiction more easily than
is supposed, if not violently given, even
though it is well founded.—Hearts are like
flowers ; they remain open to the softly
falling dew, but shut up in the violent
down-pour of rain.-Richter.
Assertion is not argument; to contradict
the statement of an opponent is not proof
that you are correct.-Johnson.
CONTRAST.-The lustre of diamonds
is invigorated by the interposition of darker
bodies; the lights of a picture are created
by the shades, the highest pleasure which
nature lias indulged to sensitive perception
is that of rest after fatigue.--Johnson.
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and
gladness are linked together. ---Saadi.
Where there is much light, the shadow is
deep.-Goethe.
If there be light, then there is darkness
if cold, then heat; if height, depth also ; if
solid, then fluid ; hardness and softness;
roughness and smoothness; calin and tem-
pest; prosperity and adversity; life and
death.–Pythagoras.
Joy and grief are never far apart.-In the
same street the shutters of one house are
closed, while the curtains of the next are
brushed by the shadows of the dance. --A
wedding party returns from the church;
and a funeral winds to its door.--The smiles
and sadnesses of life are the tragi-comedy of
Shakespeare.-Gladness and sighs brighten
and dim the mirror he beholds.— Willmott.
It is a very poor, though common pre-
tence to merit, to make it appear by the
faults of other men ; a mean wit or beauty
may pass in a room where the rest of the
company are allowed to have none; it is
something to sparkle among diamonds ; but
to shine among pebbles is neither credit
nor value worth the pretending.-Sir W.
Temple.
CONTROVERSY,-There is no
learned man but will confess he hath much
profited by reading controversies; his
senses awakened, bis judgment sharpened,
and the truth which he holds more firmly
established. In logic they teach that con-
traries laid together more evidently appear;
and controversy being permitted, falsehood
will appear more false, and truth more
true.-Milton.
Most controversies would soon be ended,
if those engaged in them would first accu-
rately define their terms, and then adhere
to their definitions.--Tryon Edwards.
Disagreement is refreshing when two
men lovingly desire to compare their views
to find out truth.—Controversy is wretched
when it is only an attempt to prove another
wrong.--Religious controversy does only
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than of what others are saying; and we
never listen when we are planning to speak.
-Rochefoucauld.
I don't like to talk much with people who
always agree with me. It
It is amusing to
coquette with an echo for a little while, but
ono soon tires of it.-Carlyle.
He who sedulously attends, pointedly
asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers, and
ceases when hē has no more to say, is in
possession of some of the best requisites of
conversation.-Lavater.
Never hold any one by the button, or the
hand, in order to be heard out; for if peo-
ple are unwilling to hear you, you had bet-
ter hold your tongue than them.-Chestera
field.
Silence is one great art of conversation.
- Hazlitt.
Conversation is an art in which a man
has all mankind for competitors.--Emer-
son.
harm.-It destroys humble inquiry after
truth, and throws all the energies into an
attempt to prove ourselves right--a spirit
in which no man gets at truth._F. W.
Robertson.
The evils of controversy are transitory,
while its benefits are permanent.—Robert
Hall.
What Cicero says of war may be applied
to disputing,-it should always be so man-
aged as to remember that the only true end
of it is peace.—But generally, disputants
are like sportsmen--their whole delight is
in the pursuit ; and a disputant no more
cares for the truth, than the sportsman for
the hare.—Pope.
CONVERSATION.-It is good to rub
and polish our brain against that of others.
- Montaigne.
The first ingredient in conversation is
truth; the next, good sense; the third,
good humor; and the fourth, wit.—Sir W.
Temple.
One of the best rules in conversation is,
never to say a thing which any of the com-
pany can reasonably wish had been left
unsaid.-Swift.
Among well-bred people, a mutual def-
erence is affected ; contempt of others
disguised ; authority concealed ; attention
given to each in his turn ; and an easy
stream of conversation is maintained, with-
out vehemence, without interruption, with-
out eagerness for victory, and without any
airs of superiority.-Hume.
To listen well, is as powerful a means of
influence as to talk well, and is as essential
to all true conversation.
A single conversation across the table
with a wise man is worth a month's_study
of books.- Chinese Proverb.
Know how to listen, and you will profit
even from those who talk badly.- Plutarch.
Great talent for conversation should be
accompanied with great politeness. He
who eclipses others owes them great civili-
ties ; and, whatever mistaken vanity may
tell us, it is better to please in conversa-
tion than to shine in it.
The art of conversation consists as much
in listening politely, as in talking agree-
ably.- Atwell.
No one will ever shine in conversation
who thinks of saying fine things ; to please,
one must say many things indifferent, and
many very bad.-- Francis Lockier.
The reason why so few people are agree-
able in conversation, is, that each is think-
ing more of what he is intending to say,
In conversation, humor is more than wit,
and easiness more than knowledge. Few
desire to learn, or think they need it.--
All desire to be pleased, or at least to be
easy.--Sir W. Temple.
The tone of good conversation is brilliant
and natural.-It is neither tedious nor friv-
olous.--It is instructive without pedantry;
gay, without tumultuousness ; polished,
without affectation ; gallant, without insi-
pidity ; waggish, without equivocation.-
Rousseau,
As it is the characteristic of great wits to
say much in few words, so it is of small
wits to talk much, and say nothing.-
Rochefoucauld.
Not only to say the right thing in the
right place, but far more difficult, to leave
unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting
moment.--Sala.
It is a secret known to but few, yet of no
small use in the conduct of life, that when
you fall into a man's conversation, the first
thing you should consider, is, whether he
has a greater inclination to hear you, or
that you should hear him.-Steele.
Our companions please us less from the
charms we find in their conversation, than
from those they find in ours.---Greville.
There cannot be a greater rudeness than
to interrupt another in the current of his
discourse. -Locke.
The most necessary talent in a man of
conversation is good judgment.—He that
hath this in perfection is master of his
companion without letting him see it.—He
has the same advantage over men of any
other qualifications, as one that can see
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would have over a blind man of ten times
his strength.--Steele.
The less men think, the more they talk.-
Montesquieu.
The secret of pleasing in conversation
is not to explain too much.—To say half,
and leave a little for divination, is a mark
of the good opinion we have of others,
and nothing flatters their self-love more.-
Rochefoucauld.
The secret of tiring is, to say everything
that can be said on a subject. Voltaire.
The extreme pleasure we take in talking
of ourselves should make us fear that we
give very little to those that hear us.-
Rochefoucauld.
In table talk, I prefer the pleasant and
witty, before the learned and grave.-Mon-
taigne.
It is when you come close to a man in
conversatiou that you discover what his
real abilities are.-To make a speech in a
public assembly is a knack.---Johnson.
That is the happiest conversation where
there is no competition, no vanity, but only
a calm, quiet interchange of sentiment.
Johnson.
Were we eloquentas angels, yet we should
please some people more by listening than
by talking.- Colton.
Conversation is a traffic.-If you enter
into it without some stock of knowledge to
balance the account perpetually betwixt
you and another, the trade drops at once.-
Slerne..
I would establish but one general rule to
be observed in all conversation, which is
this, that men should not talk to please
themselves, but those that hear them.
Steele.
When in the company of sensible men,
we ought to be doubly cautious of talking
too much, lest we lose two good things-
their good opinion and our own improve-
ment; for what we have to say we know,
but what they have to say we know not.
Colton.
Take as many half minutes as you can
get, but never talk more than half a minute
without pausing and giving others an op-
portunity to strike in.-Swift.
Those who have the true taste of conver-
sation enjoy themselves in communicating
each other's excellences, and not triumph-
ing over their imperfections.-Addison.
'Tis a task indeed to learn to hear in
that the skill of conversation lies; that
shows or makes you both polite and wise.--
Young.
Repose is as necessary in conversation as
in a picture.—Hazlitt.
If a man accosts you, and talks to you
ever so dully or frivolously, it is worse than
rudeness, it is brutality, to show him, by
a manifest inattention to what he says,
that you think him a fool or a blockhead,
and not worth hearing.---Chesterfield.
Conversation derives its greatest charm,
not from the multitude of ideas, but from
their application.
Conversation opens our views, and gives
our faculties a more vigorous play ; it puts
us upon turning our notions on every side,
and holds them up to a light that discovers
those latent flaws which would probably
have lain concealed in the gloom of unagi-
tated abstraction.-Melmoth.
The pith of conversation does not consist
in exhibiting your own superior knowledge
on matters of small importance, but in en-
larging, improving, and correcting the in-
formation you possess, by the authority of
others.-Walter Scott.
One reason why so few people are reason-
able and agreeable in conversation is, that
there is scarce anybody who does not think
more of what he has to say than of answer-
ing what is said to him. To be studious of
pleasing one's self is but a poor way of
pleasing or convincing others, and to hear
patiently, and answer precisely, are the
great perfections of conversation.--Roche-
foucauld.
In private conversation between intimate
friends the wisest men very often talk like
the weakest; for, indeed, the talking
with a friend is nothing else but thinking
alond.-Addison.
Conversation should be pleasant without
scurrility, witty without affectation, free
without indecency, learned without conceit-
edness, novel without falsehood.-shake-
speare.
One would think that the larger the com-
pany is, the greater variety of thoughts and
subjects would be started in discourse ; but
instead of this, we find that conversation is
never so much straitened and confined as
in large assemblies.-Addison.
In company it is a very great fault to be
more forward in setting off one's self, and
talking to show one's parts, than to learn
the worth, and be truly acquainted with
the abilities of men.-He that makes it his
business not to know, but to be known, is
like a foolish tradesinan, who makes all the
haste he can to sell off his old stock, but
takes no thought of laying in any new.-
Charron.
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COQUETTE.
The time when I was converted was when
religion became no longer a mere duty, but
a pleasure.-Prof. Lincoln.
Conversion is no repairing of the old
building; but it takes all down and erects
a new structure. The sincere Christian
is quite a new fabric, from the foundation
to the top-stone all new.--Alleine.
CONVIVIALITY,—There are few tables
where convivial talents will not pass in pay-
ment, especially where the host wants
brains, or the guest has money.--Zimmer-
mian.
The dangers of a convivial spirit are,
that it may lead to excess in that which, in
moderation, is good.-Excessive indulgence
bas made many a young man prematurely
old, and changed a noble nature to that of
the beast.-Armstrong.
COQUETTE.-A coquette is a young
lady of more beauty than sense, more ac-
complishments than learning, more charms
of person than graces of mind, more ad-
mirers than friends, more fools than wise
men for attendauts. - Longfellow.
A coquette is a woman without any heart,
who makes a fool of a man that hasn't got
any head.
Conversation warms the mind, enlivens
the imagination, and is continually starting
fresh game that is immediately pursued and
taken, which would never have occurred in
the duller intercourse of epistolary corre-
spondence.-Franklin.
It is not necessary to be garrulous in
order to be entertaining.–To be a judicious :
and sympathetic listener will go far toward
making you an agreeable companion, self-
forgetful, self-possessed, but not selfish
enough to monopolize the conversation.-
A. L. Jack.
It is wonderful that so many shall enter-
tain those with whom they converse by giv-
ing them the history of their pains and
aches; and imagine such narrations their
quota of the conversation. This is, of all
other, the meanest help to discourse, and a
man must not think at all, or think himself
very insignificant when he finds an account
of his headache answered by another's
asking what is the news in the last mail.-
Steele.
CONVERSION.-As to the value of
conversions, God only can judge.--He alone
can know how wide are the steps which the
soul has to take before it can approach to a
community with him, to the dwelling of the
perfect, or to the intercourse and friend-
ship of higher natures.-- Goethe.
In what way, or by what manner of work-
ing God changes a soul from evil to good-
how he impregnates the barren rock with
priceless gems and gold-is, to the hu-
man mind, an impenetrable mystery.-
Coleridge.
Conversion is not implanting eyes, for
they exist already; but giving them a
right direction, which they have not. -
Plato.
Conversion is but the first step in the
divine life.-As long as we live we should
more and more be turning from all that is
evil, and to all that is good.--Tryon Ed-
wards.
We are born with our backs upon God
and heaven, and our faces upon sin and
hell, till grace comes, and that converts
turns us.-Philip Henry.
Conversion is a deep work—a heart-
work.-It goes throughout the man,
throughout the mind, throughout the
members, throughout the entire life.-A2-
leine.
Where there is a sound conversion, then
a man is wholly given unto God, body, soul,
and spirit.
He regards not sin in his
heart, but bath a respect to all God's com-
mandments.- Bollon.
Heartlessness and fascination, in about
equal quantities, constitute the receipt for
forming the character of a court coquette,
- Mad.
Deluzy.
An accomplished coquette excites the
passions of others, in proportion as she
leels none herself.-Hazlitt.
The characteristic of coquettes is affec-
tation governed by whim.--Their life is one
constant lie; and the only rule by which
you can form any judgment of them, is,
that they are never what they seem.-
Fielding.
A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant,
always on the lookout for fresh victims.-
Jerrold.
There is one antidote only for coquetry,
and that is true love.-Mad. Deluzy.
The adoration of his heart had been to
her only as the perfume of a wild flower,
which she had carelessly crushed with her
foot in passing.-Longfello20.
The most effective coquetry is innocence.
--Lamartine.
She who only finds her self-esteem in
admiration, depends on others for her
daily food and is the very servant of her
slaves.- Over men she may exert a childish
power, which not ennobles, but degrades
her state.-Joanna Baillie.
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COUNTRY
A coquette is one that is never to be per-
suaded out of the passion she has to please,
nor out of a good opinion of her own beauty.
-Time and years she regards as things that
wrinkle and decay only other women ; for-
gets that age is written in the face; and
that the same dress which became her when
young, now only makes her look the older.
-Affectation cleaves to her even in sick-
ness and pain, and she dies in a high head
and colored ribbons.-Fielding.
God created the coquette as soon as he
had made the fool.-- Victor Hugo.
CORRUPTION.-0 that estates, de-
grees, and offices were not derived cor-
ruptly, and that clear honor were purchased
by the merit of the wearer. --Shakespeare.
Corrupt influence is itself the perennial
spring of all prodigality, and of all disor-
der; it loads us more than millions of debt;
takes away vigor from our arms, wisdom
from our councils, and every shadow of au-
thority and credit from the most venerable
parts of our constitution.-Burice.
The corruptions of the country are closely
allied to those of the town, with no differ-
ence but what is made by another mode of
thought and living.–Swift.
COUNSEL:-- Consult your friend on
all things, especially on those which respect
yourself.—His counsel may then be useful
where your own self-love might impair your
judgment. Seneca,
The kingdom of Israel was first rent and
broken by ill counsel ; upon which there
are set, for our instruction, the two marks
whereby bad counsel is ever best discerned
--that it was young counsel for the persons,
and violent counsel for the matter.- Bacon.
In counsel it is good to see dangers; but
in execution, not to see them unless they
be very great.-Bacon.
There is as much difference between the
counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man
giveth himself, as there is between the
counsel of a friend and a flatterer.-Bacon.
Good counsels observed, are chains to
grace, which, neglected, prove halters to
strange, undutiful children.-Fuller.
Counsel and conversation are a second
education, which improve all the virtue,
and correct all the vice of the first, and of
nature itself.- Clarendon.
Whoever is vise is apt to suspect and
be diffident of himself, and upon that ac-
count is willing to hearken unto counsel ;
whereas the foolish man, being, in propor-
tion to his folly, full of himself, and swal-
lowed up in conceit, will seldom take any
counsel but his own, and for the very reason
that it is his own.-Balguy.
COUNTENANCE.-(See."FACE.")
N is hard for the face to conceal the
thoughts of the heart—the true character
of the soul.-The look without is an index
of what is within.
The cheek is apter than the tongue to tell
an errand.--Shakespeare.
A cheerful, easy, open countenance will
make fools think you a good-natured man,
and make designing men think you an un-
designing one.--Chesterfield.
Alas! how few of nature's faces there are
to gladden us with their beauty !- The
cares, and sorrows, and hungerings of the
world change them, as they change hearts ;
and it is only when the passions sleep
and have lost their hold forever that the
troubled clouds pass off, and leave heaven's
surface clear.-It is a common thing for the
countenances of the dead, even in that fixed
and rigid state, to subside into the long
forgotten expression of infancy, and settle
into the very look of early life.-So calm,
so peaceful do they grow again, that those
who knew them in their happy childhood,
kneel by the coffin's side in awe, and see
the angel even upon earth.—Diclcens,
COUNTRY, If you would be known
and not know, vegetate in a village.--If
you would know and not be knowu, live in
à city.- Colion.
The country is both the philosopher's
garden and his library, in which he reads
and contemplates the power, wisdom, and
goodness of God.-- Pennr.
Not rural sights alone, but rural sounds,
exhilarate the spirit, and restore the tone
of languid nature.- Cowper.
There is virtue in country houses, in
gardens and orchards, in fields, streams,
and groves, in rustic recreations and plain
manners, that neither cities nor universi-
ties enjoy.--A. B. Alcotl.
Men are taught virtue and a love of inde-
pendence, by living in the country.-Men-
ander.
If country life be healthful to the body,
it is no less so to the mind.-Ruffini.
In those vernal scasons of the year when
the air is calm and pleasant, it were an
injury and sullenness against nature not to
go out and see her riches, and partake in
her rejoicing with heaven and earth.-
Millon.
I consider it the best part of an educa-
tion to have been born and brought up in
the country.--A. B. Alcott.
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COURTESY.
God made the country, and man made Physical courage which despises all dan-
the town.-What wonder, then, that health ger, will make a man brave in one way;
and virtue should most abound, and least and moral courage, which despises all opin-
be threatened in the fields and groves.- ion, will make a nian brave in another.
Cowper.
The former would seem most necessary for
I fancy the proper means for increasing the camp ; the latter for the council; but
the love we bear to our native country, is,
to constitute a great man both are neces-
to reside some time in a foreign one. -
sary.- Colton.
Shenstone.
To see what is right and not to do it, is
Let our object be our country, our whole
want of courage.-Confucius.
country, and nothing but our country.- True courage is the result of reasoning.
Daniel Webster.
Resolution lies more in the head than in
Our country, however bounded or de- the veins; and a just sense of honor and of
scribed-still our country, to be cherished infamy, of duty and of religion, will carry
in all our hearts—to be defended by all our us farther than all the force of mechanism.
hands.-R. C. Winthrop.
-Collier.
COURAGE,-Courage consists, not in
If we survive danger it steels our courage
blindly overlooking dauger, but in seeing
more than anything else.-Niebuhr.
and conquering it.-Richter.
A great deal of talent is lost in this world
True courage is cool and calm.--The
for the want of a little courage.-Sydney
bravest of men have the least of a brutal,
Smith,
bullying insolence, and in the very time of Women and men of retiring timidity are
danger are found the most serene and free. cowardly only in dangers which affect
-Shaftsbury.
themselves, but are the first to rescue when
The truest courage is always mixed with
others are endangered.--Richter.
circumspection ; this being the quality Courage ought to be guided by skill,
which distinguishes the courage of the wise
and skill armed by courage.—Hardiness
from the bardiness of the rash and foolish. should not darken wit, nor wit cool hardi-
---Jones of Nayland.
ness.-Be valiant as men despising death,
It is an error to suppose that courage
but confident as unwonted to be overcome.
-Sir P. Sidney.
means courage in everything.-Most people
are brave ouly in the dangers to which they Courage consists not in hazarding with-
accustom themselves, either in imagination out fear, but being resolutely minded in a
or practice.-Butroer.
just cause. Plutarch.
Courage that grows from constitution, That courage is poorly housed which
often forsakes the man when he has occa- dwells in numbers.--The lion never counts
sion for it; courage which arises from a
the herd that is about him, nor weighs
sense of duty, acts in a uniform manner.- how many flocks he has to scatter.-Hill.
Addison.
By how much unexpected, by so much
Courage from hearts and not from nun- we must awake, and endeavor for de-
bers grows.—Dryden.
feuce ; for courage mounteth with occasion.
Courage is, on all hands, considered as
- Shalcespeare.
an essential of high character.-Froude.
The brave man is not he who feels no
Conscience is the root of all true cour-
fear, for that were stupid and irrational;
age ; if a man would be brave let him obey
but he whose noble soul subdues its fear,
his conscience.-J. F. Clarke.
and bravely dares the danger nature shrinks
from.--Joanna Baillie.
Courage in danger is half the battle.-
Plautus.
COURTESY:- (See “CIVILITY.")
True courage is not the brutal force of When saluted with a salutation, salute the
vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of vir- person with a better salutation, or at least
tue and reason.--- Whitehead.
return the same, for God taketh account
No man can answer for his courage who of all things.—Koran.
has never been in danger.--Rochefoucauld. The small courtesies sweeten life; the
Moral courage is a virtue of higher cast greater, ennoble it,-Bovee.
and nobler origin than physical.-It springs Hail! ye small sweet courtesies of life ;
from a consciousness of virtue, and renders for smooth do ye make the road of it, like
a man, in the pursuit or defence of right, grace and beauty, which beget inclinations
superior to the fear of reproach, opposition, to love at first sight; it is ye who open the
or contempt.-S. G. Goodrich.
door and let the stranger in.--Sterrie.
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COVETOUSNESS.
There is a courtesy of the heart ; it is
allied to love. From it springs the purost
courtesy in the outward behavior.---Gocche.
Life is not so short but that there is al-
ways time for courtesy.--Emerson.
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.---Fuller.
Small kindnesses, small courtesies, small
considerations, habitually practised in our
social intercourse, give a greater charm to
the character than the display of great
talents and accomplishments.-M. A. Kelly.
There is no outward sign of true courtesy
that does not rest on a deep moral founda-
tion.- Goethe.
A churlish courtesy rarely comes but
either for gain or falsehood.—Sir P. Sidney.
We should be as courteous to a man as
we are to a picture, which we are willing to
give the advantage of the best light.-
Emerson.
Courtesy is a science of the highest im-
portance. It is like grace and beauty in
the body, which charm at first sight, and
lead on to further intimacy and friendship.
--Montaigne.
The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in
courtesy.-A man of fine manners shall
pronounce your name with all the orna-
ment that titles of nobility could add.
Enerson.
The courtesies of a small and trivial char-
acter are the ones which strike deepest to
the grateful and appreciating heart. It is
the picayune coinpliments which are the
most appreciated; far more than the double
ones we sometimes pay.-Henry Clay.
Approved valor is made precious by natu-
ral courtesy.-Sir P. Sidney.
COURTS AND COURTIERS. - A
court is an assemblage of noble and dis-
tinguished beggars.-- Talleyrand.
The court is a golden, but fatal circle,
upon whose magic skirts a thousand devils
sit tempting innocence, and beckon early
virtue from its center.- N. Lee.
An old courtier, with veracity, good sense,
and a faithful memory, is an inestimable
treasure ; he is full of transactions and
maxims; in him one may find the history of
the age, enriched with a great many curi-
ous circumstances which we never meet
with in books; from him we may learn
rules for our conduct and manners, of the
more weight, because founded on facts,
and illustrated by striking examples.-
Bruyère.
Bred in camps, trained in the gallant
openness of truth that best becomes a sol-
dier, thou art happily a stranger to the
baseness and infamy of courts.- Mallet.
The court is like a palace built of marble
-made up of very hard, and very polished
materials.- Bruyère.
The chief requisites for a courtier are a
flexible conscience and an inflexible polite-
ness.-Lady Blessington.
With the people of courts the tongue is
the artery of their withered life, the spiral
spring and flag-feather of their souls.-
Richter.
See how he sets his countenance for de-
ceit, and promises a lie before he speaks.--
Dryden.
Poor wretches, that depend on great-
ness's favor, dream, as I have done, and
wake and find nothing.-Shakespeare.
COURTSHIP.-Courtship consists in a
number of quiet attentions, not so pointed
as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be un-
derstood.-Sterne.
The pleasantest part of a man's life is
generally that which passes in courtship,
provided his passion be sincere, and the
party beloved, kind, with discretion. Love,
desire, hope, all the pleasing motions of
the soul, rise in the pursuit. --Addison.
She half consents, who silently denies.-
Ovid.
She is a woman, therefore may be wooed ;
she is a woman, therefore may be won.-
Shakespeare.
If you cannot inspire a woman with love
of yourself, fill her above the brim with
love of herself : all that runs over will be
yours.-Colton.
Men are April when they woo; December
when they wed.-Shalcespeare.
With women worth being won, the softest
lover ever best succeeds.-A. Hill.
I profess not to know how women's hearts
are wooed and wou.—To me they have al-
ways been matters of riddle and admiration.
- Washington Irving.
The man that has a tongue, I say, is no
man, if with his tongue he cannot win a
woman.--Shalcespeare.
Let a woman once give you a task and
you are hers, heart and soul; all your care
and trouble lend new charms to her for
whose sake they are taken.--To rescue, to
revenge, to instruct, or to protect a woman,
is all the same as to love her.-Richter.
COVETOUSNESS.-Desire of having
is the sin of covetousness.—Shakespeare.
COVETOUSNESS.
95
CREDIT.
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.-Bacon.
Covetousness, by a greediness of getting
more, deprives itself of the true end of get-
ting: it loses the enjoyment of what it had
got.--Sprat.
The only gratification a covetous man
gives his neighbors, is, to let them see that
he himself is as littlo better for what he
has, as they are.--Penn.
Covetous men are fools, miserable
wretches, buzzards, madmen, who live by
themselves, in perpetual slavery, fear, sus-
piciou, sorrow, discontent, with more of
gall than honey in their enjoyments ; who
are rather possessed by their money than
possessors of it; bound 'prentices to their
property ; mean slaves and drudges to their
substance.-Burton.
The covetous person lives as if the world
were made altogether for him, and not he
for the world ; to take in everything and
part with nothing.--South.
Covetousness swells the principal to no
purpose, and lessens the use to all pur-
poses.-Jeremy Taylor.
A man may as easily fill a chest with
grace as the heart with gold.--The air fills
not the body, neither does money the cove-
tous heart of man. ---Spenser'.
When all sins are old in us and go upon
crutches, covetousness does but then lie
in her cradle.- Declcer.
Covetousness is both the beginning and
end of the devil's alphabet—the first vice
in corrupt nature that moves, and the last
which dies.-South.
Why are we so blind?—That which we
improve, we have ; that which we hoard, is
not for ourselves.—Mad. Deluzy.
The covetous man heaps up riches, not to
enjoy, but to have them; he starves himself
in the midst of plenty; cheats and robs
himself of that which is his own, and makes
a hard shift to be as poor and miserable
with a great estate as any man can be with-
out it.-Tillotson.
Refrain from covetousness, and thy estate
shall prosper.—Plato.
The covetous man pines in plenty, like
Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet
thirsty.-T. Adams.
After hypocrites, the greatest dupes the
devil bas are those who exhaust an anxious
existence in the disappointments and vexa-
tions of business, and live miserably and
meanly only to die magnificently and
rich.--They serve the devil without receiv-
ing his wages, and for the empty foolery of
dying rich, pay down their health, happi-
uess, and integrity.--Colton.
COWARDICE.-The craven's fear is
but selfishness, like his merriment.--- Whit-
tier.
Cowardice is not synonymous with pru-
deuce.-It often happens that the better
part of discretion is valor.—Hazlitt.
It is the coward who fawns upon those
ilove him.--It is the coward who is insolent
whenever he dares be so.- - Junius.
Cowards falter, but danger is often over-
come by those wlio nobly dare.—Queen
Elizabeth.
Peace and plenty breed cowards ; hard-
nens ever of bardiness is the mother.-
Shalcespeare.
At the bottom of a good deal of the brav-
ery that appears in the world there lurks a
miserable cowardice.-Men will face pow-
der and steel because they cannot face
public opinion.-E. H. Chapin.
Cowards die many times before their
death ; the valiant never taste of death but
once. -Shalcespeare.
COXCOMB.-(See “TOPPERY.")
A coxcomb begins by determining that
his own profession is the first; and he
finishes by deciding that he is the first in
his profession.—Colton.
Nature has sometimes made a fool; but
a coxcomb is always of a man's own mak-
ing.--Addison.
Toppery is never cured. It is the bad
stamina of the mind, which, like those of
the body, are never rectified.–Once a cox-
comb, always a coxcomb.-Johnson.
None are so seldom found alone, and are
80 soon tired of their own company as those
coxcombs who are on the best terms with
themselves. -Collon.
A coxcomb is ugly all over with the affec-
tation of the fine gentleman.-Johnson.
CREDIT.-Credit is like a looking-glass,
which, when once sullied by a breath, may
be wiped clear again; but if once cracked
can never be repaired.- Walter Scott.
The most trifling actions that affect a
man's credit are to be regarded. The sound
of your hammer at five in the morning, or
vine at night, heard by a creditor, makes
him easier six months longer ; but if he
sees you at a billiard table, or hears your
voice at a tavern when you should be at
work, ho sends for his money the next
day.-Franklin.
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CREED.
Too large a credit has made many a bank- It is a curious paradox that precisely in
rupt; taking even less than a man can proportion to our own intellectual weak-
answer with ease, is a sure fund for extend- ness, will be our credulity as to the mys-
ing it whenever his occasions require.- terious powers assumed by others.-Colton.
The Guardian.
You believe easily that which you hope
Nothing so cements and holds together for earnestly.-- Terence.
all the parts of a society as faith or credit,
The most positive men are the most
which can never be kept up unless men are
credulous, since they most believe them-
under some force or necessity of honestly
selves, and advise most with their falsest
paying what they owe to one another.-
flatterer and worst enemy,—their own self-
Cicero.
love.-Pope.
CREDITOR.-Creditors have better Generous souls are still most subject to
memories than debtors; they are a super- credulity.-Davenant.
stitious sect, great observers of set days
Some men are bigoted in politics, who
and times.- Franklin.
are infidels in religion.-Ridiculous credu-
The creditor whose appearance glad- lity !-Junius.
dens the heart of a debtor may hold his
We believe at once in evil, we only be-
head in sunbeams, and his foot on storms.-
lieve in good upon reflection.—Is not this
Lavater,
sad ?-Mad. Deluzy.
CREDULITY.–0 credulity, thou hast . More persons, on the whole, are hum-
as many ears as fame has tongues, open to bugged by believing in nothing, than by
every sound of truth, as falsehood. -Har- believing too much.-P. T. Barnum.
vard.
Your noblest natures are most credulous.
Credulity is belief on slight evidence, -Chapman.
with no evidence, or against evidence. In
To take for granted as truth all that
this sense it is the infidel, not the belicver,
who is credulous. "The simple," says
is alleged against the fame of others, is a
species of credulity that men would blush
Solomon, "believeth every word.”—Tryon
Edwards.
at on any other subject.-Jane Porter,
The more gross the fraud, the more
Beyond all credulity is the credulousness
glibly will it go down and the more greedily
of atheists, who believe that chance could
will it be swallowed, since folly will always
make the world, when it canuot build a
house.—Clarke.
find faith wherever impostors will find im-
pudence.-Bopee.
The remedy for the present threatened
The only disadvantage of an honest heart
decay of faith is not a more stalwart creed
is credulity.—Sir P. Sidney.
or a more unflinching acceptance of it, but
a profoundly spiritual life. -Lyman Abbott.
Credulity is the common failing of inex-
perienced virtue; and he who is sponta-
Charles the Second, hearing Vossius, a
celebrated free-thinker, repeating some in-
neously suspicious may justly be charged
credible stories about the Chinese, said,
with radical corruption.—Johnson.
This is a very strange man. He believes
Credulity is perhaps a weakness, almost
everything but the Bible !"
inseparable from eminently truthful char-
acters.--Tuckerman.
CREED.-(See “ BELIEF.")
As credulity is a more peaceful posses-
A good creed is a gate to the city that
sion of the mind than curiosity, so prefer-
hath foundations ; a misleading creed may
able is that wisdom which converses about be a road to destruction, or if both mis-
the surface, to that pretended philosophy
leading and alluring it may become what
which enters into the depth of things, and Shakespeare calls à primrose path to the
then comes back gravely with the informa- eternal bonfire.-Joseph Cook.
tions and discoveries that in the inside they In politics, as in religion, we have less
are good for nothing.–Swift.
charity for those who believe the half of
I cannot spare the luxury of believing
our creed, than for those who deny the
that all things beautiful are what they
whole of it.-Colton.
seem.- -Halleck.
If you have a Bible creed, it is well ; but
The general goodness which is nour-
is it filled out and inspired by Christian
ished in noble hearts, makes every one
love ?--J. F. Brodie.
think that strength of virtue to be in an- Though I do not like creeds in religious
other whereof they find assured foundation matters, I verily believe that creeds had
in themselves.-Sir P. Sidney.
something to do with our Revolution.-In
CRIME.
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CRITICISM.
their religious controversies the people of
New England had always been accustomed
to stand on points ; and when Lord North
undertook to tax them, then they stood
on
points also.-It so happened, fortu-
nately, that their opposition to Lord North
was a point on which they were all united.
-- Daniel Webster.
The weakest part of a man's creed is that
which he holds for himself alone; the
strongest is that whiclı he holds iu common
with all Christendom.-Mc Vickar.
CRIME.-(See “ CONCEALMENT.”)
Society prepares the crime ; the crimi-
nal commits it.
Heaven will permit no man to secure
happiness by crime.- Alfieri.
Whenever man commits a crime heaven
finds a vituess.--Bulwer.
Of all the adult male criminals in London,
not two in a hundred have entered upon
a course of crime who have lived an honest
life up to the age of twenty.--Almost all
who enter on a course of crime do so between
the ages of eight and sixteen.-Shaftes-
bury.
Crimes sometimes shock 18 too much;
vices almost always too little.-Hare.
Small crimes always precede great opes.
Never have wo seen timid innocence pass
suddenly to extreme licentiousness, -Ra-
cine.
Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.
- Voltaire.
The contagion of crime is like that of the
plague.-Criminals collected together cor-
rupt each other.—They are worse than ever
when, at the termination of their punish-
ment, they return to society.-
Napoleon.
Those who are themselves incapable of
great crimes, are ever backward to suspect
others.-Rochefoucauld.
It is supposable that in the eyes of an-
gels, a struggle down a dark lane and a
battle of Leipsic differ in nothing but in
degree of wickedness.- Willmott.
There is no den in the wide world to hide
a rogue.-Commit a crime and the earth is
made of glass.—Commit a crime, and it
seems as if a coat of snow fell on the
ground, such as reveals in the woods the
track of every partridge, and fox, and
squirrel.-Emerson.
If poverty is the mother of crimes, want
of sense is the father of them.-Bruyère.
Man's crimes are his worst enemies, fol-
lowing him like shadows, till they drive his
steps into the pit he dug:--Creon.
We easily forget crimes that are known
only to ourselves.-Rochefoucauld.
Crimes lead into one another.-They who
are capable of being forgers, are capable of
being incendiaries. Burke.
Crime is not punished as
an offence
against God, but as prejudicial to society.-
Troude.
The villainy you teach me I will execute;
and it shall go hard but I will better the in-
struction.--Shakespeare.
For the credit of virtuo it must be ad-
mitted that the greatest evils which befall
mankind are caused by their crimes.-
Rochefoucauld.
CRITICISM.-Criticism, as it was first
instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a
standard of judging well.-Johnson.
Criticism is the child and handmaid of
reflection.-It works by censure, and cen-
sure implies a standard.—R. G. White.
It is ridiculous for any man to criticise
the works of another if he has not distin-
guished himself by his own performances.-
Addison.
Criticism is as often a trade as a science ;
requiring more health than wit, more labor
than capacity, more practice than genius.--
Bruyère.
Criticism often takes from the tree cater-
pillars and blossoms together.-Richter.
It is easy to criticise an author, but diffi-
cult to appreciate him.-- Vauvenargues,
Ten censure wrong, for one that writes
amiss.--Pope.
Silence is sometimes the severest criti-
cism.-Charles Button.
Neither praise nor blame is the object
of true criticism.--Justly to discriminate,
firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, aná
honestly to award-these are the true aims
and duties of criticism.-Sininus.
It is a maxim with me, that no man was
ever written out of a reputation but by
himself.-- Bentley.
Of all the cants in this canting world,
deliver me from the cant of criticism.-
Sterne.
Doubtless criticism was originally be-
nignant, pointing out the beauties of a
work rather than its defects.-The passions
of men have made it malignant, as the bad
heart of Procrustes turned the bed, the
symbol of repose, into an instrument of
torture.—Longfellow.
The most noble criticism is that in which
the critic is not the antagonist so much as
the rival of the author.--Disraeli.
CRITICS.
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CROSS.
It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander
through his regions of enchantment with-
out having a critic, forever, like the old
man of the sea, upon his back.--Moore.
Get your enemies to read your works in
order to mend them; for your friend is 30
much your second self that he will judge
too much like you.-Pope.
Is it in destroying and pulling down that
skill is displayed ?-Tho shallowest under-
standing, the rudest hand, is more than
equal to that task.--Burlce.
The pleasure of criticism takes from us
that of being deeply moved by very beauti-
ful things.-Bruyère.
It is a barren kind of criticism which
tells you what a thing is not.-R. W. Gris-
wold.
The legitimate aim of criticism is
direct attention to the excellent. The bad
will dig its own grave, and the imperfect
may safely be left to that final neglect from
which no amount of present undeserved
popularity can rescue it.-Bovee.
The opinion of the great body of the
reading public is very materially influ-
enced even by the unsupported assertions
of those who assume a right to criticise. --
Macaulay.
The strength of criticism lies only in the
weakness of the thing criticised.-Longfel-
low.
CRITICS.-Critics are sentinels in the
grand army of letters, stationed at the cor-
ners of newspapers and reviews, to chal-
lenge every new author.-- Longfellow.
There is scarcely a good critic of books
born in our age, and yet every fool thinks
himself justified in criticising persous. -
Bulwer.
Critics must excuse me if I compare them
to certain animals called asses, who, by
gnawing vines, originally taught the great
advantage of pruning them.-Shenstone.
The eyes of critics, whether in commend-
ing or carping, are both on one side, like
those of a turbot. - Landor.
A spirit of criticism, if indulged in, leads
to a censoriousness of disposition that is
destructive of all nobler feeling. The man
who lives to find fault has a miserable mis-
sion.
Some critics are like chimney-sweepers ;
they put out the fire below, and frighten
the swallows from their nests above; they
scrape a long time in the chimney, cover
themselves with soot, and bring nothing
away but & bag of cinders, and then sing
out from the top of the house, as if they
had built it.-Longfellow.
The critical faculty has its value in cor-
recting errors, reforming abuses, and
demolishing superstitions. But the con-
structive faculty is much nobler in itself,
and immeasurably more valuable in its
results, for the obvious reason that it is a
much nobler and better thing to build up
than to pull down.-It requires skill and
labor to crect a building, but any idle
tramp can burn it down.--Only God can
form and paint a flower, but any foolish
child can pull it to pieces.-J. M. Gibson.
It behooves the minor. critic, who hunts
for blemishes, to be a little distrustful of
his own sagacity.-- Junius.
To be a mere verbal critic is what no man
of genius would be if he could : but to be a
critic of true taste and feeling, is what no
man without genius could be if he would.---
Colton.
Critics are a kind of freebooters in the
republic of letters, who, like deer, goats,
and diverso other graminivorous animals,
gain subsistence by gorging upon buds and
leaves of the young shrubs of the forest,
thereby robbing them of their verdure and
retarding their progress to maturity.
Washinglon Irving.
He, whose first emotion on thc view of an
excellent production is to undervalue it,
will never have one of his own to show.-
Aikin.
The severest critics are always those who
have either never attempted, or who have
failed in original composition.-Hazlitt.
Of all mortals a critic is the silliest ; for,
inuring himself to examine all things,
whether they are of consequence or not, he
never looks upon anything but with a de-
sign of passing sentence upon it; by which
means he is never a companion, but always
a censor.- Steele.
There are somo critics who change every-
thing that comes under their hands to gold ;
but to this privilege of Midas they join
sometimes bis ears.-J. P. Senn.
CROSS.-The cross is the only ladder
bigh enough to touch Heaven's threshold.-
G. D. Boardman.
The greatest of all crosses is self.-If we
die in part every day, we shall have but little
to do on the last.--These little daily deaths
will destroy the power of the final dying. -
Fenelon.
Carry the cross patiently, and with per-
fect submission, and in the end it shall
carry you.-- Thomas d Kempis.
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CUNNING.
While to the reluctant the cross is too
heavy to be borne, it grows light to the
heart of willing trust.
The cross of Christ, on which he was ex-
tended, points, in the length of it, to heaven
and earth, reconciling them together; and
in the breadth of it, to former and following
ages, as being equally salvation to both.
The cross of Christ is the sweetest burden
that I ever bore ; it is such a burden as
wings are to a bird, or sails to a ship, to
carry me forward to my harbor,—Ruther-
ford.
CRUELTY.-All cruelty springs from
hard-heartedness and weakness.-Seneca.
I would not enter on my list of friends
the man who needlessly sets foot upon a
worm.- Cowper.
Cruelty and fear shake hands together.-
Balzac.
Man's inhumanity to man, makes count-
less thousands moun.--Burns.
Cruelty, like every other vice, requires
no motive outside of itself ; it only requires
opportunity.-George Eliot.
One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it
makes the by-standers cruel.-Buxton.
Cruelty to dumb animals is one of the
distinguishing vices of the lowest and
basest of the people.- Wherever it is found,
it is a certain mark of ignorance and mean-
ness.—Jones of Nayland.
Detested sport, that owes its pleasures to
another's pain.— Cowper.
CULTIVATION. - The highest pur-
pose of intellectual cultivation is, to give a
man a perfect knowledge and mastery of
his own inuer self.- Novalis.
Virtue and talents, though allowed their
due consideration, yet are not enough to
procure a man a welcome wherever be
conies, Nobody contents himself with
rough diamonds, or wears them so. When
polished and set, then they give a lustre.-
Locke.
It matters little whether a man be mathe-
matically, or philologically, or artistically
cultivated, so he be but cultivated. Goethe.
Partial culture runs to tho ornate ; ex-
treme culture to simplicity.--Bovee.
It is very rare to find ground which pro-
duces nothing. If it is not covered with
flowers, fruit-trees, and grains, it produces
briars and pines. It is the same with man ;
if he is not virtuous, he becomes vicious.
Bruyère.
Cultivation to the mind, is as necessary
ils food to the body.- Cicero.
That is true cultivation which gives us
syimpathy with every form of human life,
and enables us to work most successfully
for its advancement. Retineruent that car-
ries us away from our fellow-men is not
God's refinement.--H. W. Beecher.
As the soil, however rich it may be, can-
not be productive without culture, so the
mind, without cultivation, can never pro-
duce good fruit. -- Seneca.
I am very sure that any man of common
understanding may, by culture, care, atten-
tion, and labor, make himself whatever he
pleases, except a great poet.— Chesterfield.
Whatever expands the affections, or en-
larges the sphere of our sympathies-what-
ever makes us feel our relation to the uni-
verse and all that it iuberits in time and in
eternity, and to the great and beneficeut
cause of all, must: unquestionably refine
our nature, and elevate us in the scale of
being.-Channing,
CUNNING. (See “KNAVERY.")
Cunning is the ape of wisdom.-Lockce.
Cunning signifies, especially, a habit or
gift of overreaching, accompanied with en-
joyment and a sense of superiority. It is
associated with small and dull conceit, and
with an absolute want of sympathy or af-
fection. It is the intensest rendering of
vulgarity, absolute and utter.---Ruslin.
Cleverness and cunning are incompatible.
--I never saw them united.--The latter is
the resource of the weak, and is only natural
to them.- Children and fools are always
cunning, but clever people never.-Byron.
Cunning is none of the best nor worst
qualities; it floats between virtue and vice :
there is scarce any exigence where it may
not, and perhaps ought not to be supplied
by prudence.-Bruyère.
Cunning pays no recard to virtue, and is
but the low mimic of wisdom.--Bolingbroke.
The greatest of all cunning is to scem
blind to the shares which we know are laid
for 18 ; men are never so easily deceived
as while they are endeavoring to deceive
others.-Rochefoucauld.
The certain way to be cheated is to fancy
one's self more cunning than others. -
Charron.
A cunning man is never a firm man ; but
an honest man is ; & double-minded man
is always unstable; a man of faith is firm
as a rock. There is a sacred connection
between honesty and faith ; honesty is
faith applied to worldly things, and faith
is honesty quickened by the Spirit to the
use of heavenly things.-Edward Irving.
CURIOSITY.
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Cunning has effect from the credulity of
others. It requires no extraordinary tal-
ents to lie and deceive.-Johnson.
We should do by our cuuning as we do
by our courage,-always have it ready to
defend ourselves, never to offend others.-
Greville.
Cunning is only the mimic of discretion,
and may pass upon weak men, as vivacity
is often mistaken for wit, and gravity for
wisdom.-Addison.
Cunning leads to knavery.-It is but a
step from one to the other, and that very
slippery.-Only lying makes the difference ;
add that to cunning, and it is knavery.-
Bruyère.
We take cunning for a sinister or crooked
wisdom, and certainly there is a great dif-
ference between a cunning man and a wise
man, not only in point of honesty, but in
point of ability.-Bacon.
The common practice of cunning is the
sign of a small genius.-It almost always
happens that those who use it to cover them-
selves in one place, lay themselves open in
another.---Rochefoucauld,
In a great business there is nothing 80
fatal as cunning management.—Junius.
The very cunning conceal their cunning;
the indifferently shrewd boast of it.-Bovee.
A cunning man overreaches no one half
as much as himself.-H. W. Beecher.
The most sure way of subjecting yourself
to be deceived, is to consider yourself niore
cunning than others.—Rochefoucauld.
Discretion is the perfection of reason,
and a guide to us in all the duties of life
i
cunning is a kind of instinct, that only
looks out after our immediate interests and
welfare. Discretion is only found in meu
of strong sense and good understanding ;
cunning is often to be met with in brites
themselves, and in persons who are but the
fowest removes from them.-Bruyère.
All my own experience of life teaches me
the contempt of cunning, not the fear.
The phrase "profound cunning" has al-
ways seemed to me a contradiction in terms.
I never knew a cunning inind which was
not either shallow, or, on some points, dis-
eased.-Mrs. Jameson.
Curiosity in children is but an appetite
for knowledge. One great reason why
children abandon themselves wholly to silly
pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly
is, because they find their curiosity balked,
and their inquiries neglected. —Locice.
Men are more inclined to ask curious
questions, than to obtain necessary instruc-
tion.--Quesnel.
The over curious are not over wise.-
Massinger.
Curiosity is as much the parent of atten-
tion, as attention is of memory.- Whately.
No heart is empty of the humor of curi-
osity, the beggar being as attentive, in his
station, to an increase of knowledge, as the
prince.Osborn.
How many a noble art, now widely known,
owes its young impulse to this power alone.
--Sprague.
Eve, with all the fruits of Eden blest,
save only one, rather than leave that oné
unknown, lost all the rest.--Moore.
Avoid him who, for mere curiosity, asks
three questions running about a thing that
cannot interest him.---Lavater.
Curiosity is a kernel of the forbidden
fruit which still sticketh in the throat of a
natural man, sometimes to the danger of
his choking. -Fuller.
There are different kinds of curiosity;
one of interest, which causes us to learn
that which would be useful to us ; and the
other of pride, which springs from a desire
to know that of which others are ignorant.
Rochefoucauld.
Curiosity is one of the permanent and
certain characteristics of a vigorous intel-
lect.---Every advance into knowledge opens
new prospects and produces new incite-
ments to further progress.—Johnson.
The curiosity of an honorable mind will-
ingly rests where the love of truth does
not urge it further onward and the love of
its neighbor bids it stop.-In other words,
it willingly stops at the point where the
interests of truth do not beckon it onward,
and charity cries "Halt."— Coleridge.
Inquisitive people are the funnels of con-
versation ; they do not take anything for
their own use, but merely to pass it on to
others.--Steele.
The gratification of curiosity rather frees
Ils from uneasiness, than confers pleas-
ure.—We are more pained by ignorance,
than delighted by instruction.-Curiosity
is the thirst of the soul.--Johnson.
A person who is too nice an observer of
the business of the crowd, like one who is
CURIOSITY.-The first and simplest
emotion which we discover in the human
mind, is curiosity.-Burke.
Seize the moment of excited curiosity on
any subject, to solve your doubts ; for if
you let it pass, the desire may never return,
and you may remain in ignorance.-W.
Wirt.
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too curious in observing the labor of bees,
will often be stung for his curiosity.-Pope.
I loathe that low vice, curiosity.--Byron.
Curiosity is lookiug over other people's
affairs, and overlooking our own.--. L.
Wayland.
What a vast deal of time and ease that
man gains who is not troubled with the
spirit of impertinent curiosity about others;
who lets his neighbor's thoughts and be-
havior alone; who confines his inspections
to himself, and cares chiefly for his own
duty and conscience.
CURSES.-Dinna curse him, sir; I have
heard it said that a curse was like a stone
flung up to the heavens, and most likely to
return on the head of him that sent it.-
Walter Scott.
Curses are like young chickens, and still
come home to roost.-Bulwer.
CUSTOM.-(See “FASHION.")
Custom is the universal sovereign.-
Pindar.
The way of the world is to make laws,
but follow customs.--Montaigne.
Custom is often only the antiquity of
error.-Cyprian.
Custom may lead a man into many errors,
but it justifies none.-Fielding.
Custom is the law of fools.- Vanbrugh.
Choose always the way that seems best,
however rough it may be, and custom will
soon render it easy and agreeable.-Py-
thagoras.
Custom doth make dotards of us all.-
Carlyle.
There is no tyrant like custom, and no
freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
Bovee.
As the world leads, we follow.–Seneca.
Men commonly think according to their
inclinations, speak according to their learn-
ing and imbibed opinions, but generally
act according to custom.-Bacon.
In this great society wide lying around
us, a critical analysis would find very few
spontaneous actions. It is almost all cus-
tom and gross sense.—Emerson.
The influence of custom is incalculable ;
dress a boy as a man, and he will at once
change his conception of himself.-B. St.
John.
New customs, though they be never so
ridiculous, nay, let them be unmanly, yet
are followed. --Shakespeare.
There are not unfrequently substantial
reasons underneath for customs that appear
to us absurd.-C. Bronté.
Custom is the law of one description of
fools, and fashion of another ; but the two
partios often clash, for precedent is the
legislator of the first, and novelty of the
last.-Colton.
Be not so bigoted to any custom as to
worship it at the expense of truth.--Zim-
miernan.
The custom and fashion of to-day will
be the awkwardness and outrage of to-
morrow--80 arbitrary are these transieut
laws.-- Dumas.
Custom governs the world; it is the
tyrant of our feelings and our manners and
rules the world with the hand of a despot.
J. Bartlett.
To follow foolish precedents, and wink
with both our eyes, is easier than to think.-
Cowper.
Immemorial custom is transcendent
law.-Menu.
The despotism of custom is on the
wane.-Wo are not content to know that
things are ; we ask whether they ought to
be.-J. S: Mill.
Man yields to custom, as he bows to
fate-in all things ruled, mind, body, and
estate.--Crabbe.
CYNICS.-It will generally be found
that those who sneer habitually at human
nature, and affect to despise it, are among
its worst and least pleasant samples. --
Dickens.
Don't be a cynic, and bewail and be-
moan.-Omit the negative propositions.-
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark
against the bad, but chant the beauty of
the good.-Set down nothing that will help
somebody.- Emerson.
The cynic is one who never sees a good
quality in a man, and never fails to see a
bad one.—He is the human owl, vigilant in
darkness and blind to light, mousing for
vermin, and never seeing noble game.--H. .
W. Beecher.
To admire nothing is the motto which
men of the world always affect. They
think it vulgar to wonder or be entlıu-
siastic. They have so much corruption and
charlatanism, that they think the credit
of all high qualities must be delusive.
Brydges.
D.
DANCING.-The gymnasium of run-
ning, walking on stilts, climbing, etc.,
steels and makes hardy single powers and
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muscles, but dancing, like a corporeal poc- Well was it said, by a man of sagacity,
sy, embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all that dancing was a sort of privileged an
and
the muscles at once.-Richter.
reputable folly, and that tho best way to
Those move easiest, who have learned to . and judge of it by the eyes alone.-Gott-
be convinced of this was, to close the ears
dance.--Pope.
hold.
A merry, dancing, drinking, laughing,
quafting, and unthinking time.--Dryden.
For children and youth, dancing in the
parlor or on the green may be a very pleas-
Dancing is an amusement which has been
ant and healthful amusement, but when we
discouraged in our country by many of the
see older people dancing we are ready to
best people, and not without some reason.
ask with the Chinese, “Why don't you have
It is associated in their mind with balls i
your servants do it for you?
and this is one of the worst forns of social
pleasure.--The time consumed in preparing
All the gestures of children'are graceful ;
for a ball, the waste of thought upon it, the
the reign of distortion and unnatural atti-
extravagance of dress, the late hours, the
tudes commences with the introduction of
exhaustion of strength, the exposure of
dancing master.-Sir Joshua Reynolds.
health, and the languor of the succeeding Where wildness and disorder are visible
day—these and other evils connected with in the dance, there Satan, death, and all
this amusement, are strong reasons for kinds of mischief are likewise on the floor.
bavishing it from the community. But --Gotthold.
dancing ought not, therefore, to be pro-
scribed.-On the contrary, balls should be
DANDY,-A dandy is a clothes-wearing
discouraged for this among other reasons,
man,-a man whose trade, office, and exis-
that dancing, instead of being a rare pleas-
tence consist in the wearing of clothes.
ure, requiring elaborate preparation, may
Every faculty of his soul, spirit, person,
become an everyday amusement, and mix
and purse is heroically consecrated to this
with our common intercourse.-This exer-
one object-the wearing of clothes wisely
cise is among the most healthful. The
and well ; so that as others dress to live, ho
lives to dress.-Carlyle.
body as well as the mind feels its gladden-
ing influence. No amusement seems more
A fool may have his coat embroidered
to have a foundation in our nature.-The with gold, but it is a fool's coat still.
animation of youth overflows spontane-
Roahºol.
ously in harmonious movements. The true Dandies, when first-rate, are generally
idea of dancing entitles it to favor.-Its end very agreeable men.-Bulwer.
is to realize perfect grace in motion ; and
The all-importance of clothes has sprung
who does not know that a sense of the
up in the intellect of the dandy, without
graceful is one of the higher faculties of
our nature.-Channing.
effort, like an instinct of genius : he is in-
spired with cloth—a poet of clothing.
The chief benefit of dancing is to learn
Carlyle.
one how to sit still.-Johnson.
Learn to dance, not so much for the sake
DANGER. Danger levels man and
brute, and all are fellows in their need.-
of dancing, as for coming into a room and
Byron.
presenting yourself genteely and gracefully.
Women, whom you ought to endeavor to We should never 80 entirely avoid danger
please, cannot forgive a vulgar and awk- as to appear irresolute and cowardly ; but,
ward air and gestures.- Chesterfield.
at the same time, we should avoid unneces-
In ancient times dancing as a religious
sarily exposing ourselves to danger, than
service, was before and to the Lord; in
which nothing can be more foolish.Cicero.
modern days it is too often a dissipating
A timid person is frightened before a
amusement for and to the devil.
danger ; a coward during the time; and a
A ball-room is nothing more or less than
courageous person afterward.--Richter. .
a great market place of beauty.-For my
Let the fear of a danger be & spur to
part, were I a buyer, I should like making prevent it; he that fears not, gives advan-
my purchases in a less public mart.-
tage to the danger.- Quarles.
Bulier.
It is better to meet danger than to wait
You may be invited to a ball or dinner
for it.-He that is on a lee shore, and fore-
because you dance or tell a good story;
sees a hurricane, stands out to sea and en-
but no one since the time of Queen Eliza-
counters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.-
beth has been made a cabinet minister or
Colton.
a. lord chancellor for such reasons.-E. A man's opinion of danger varies at dif-
Pierrepont.
ferent times according to his animal spirits ;
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and he is actuated by considerations which
he dares not avow.Smollett.
DAUGHTERS.-To a father waxing old
nothing is dearer than a daughter. -Sons
have spirits of higher pitch, but less in-
clined to sweet, endearing fondness.-Er-
ripides.
A daughter is an embarrassing and tick-
lish possession.-Menander.
Fathers, I think, are most apt to appre-
ciate the excellence and attainments of
their daughters ; mothers, those of their
sons.
save.
DAY,—There is nothing more univer-
sally commended than a fine day; the rea-
son is, that people can commend it without
envy.-Shenstone.
Every day is a little life, and our whole
life is but a day repeated. Therefore live
every day as if it would be the last. Those
that dare lose a day, are dangerously prod-
igal; those that dure misspend it are des-
perate. Bp. Hall,
Count that day lost, whose low descend-
ing sun views from thy hand no worthy
action done.--Stanford.
“I've lost a day”--the prince who nobly
cried, had been an emperor without his
crown.-Young.
Enjoy the blessings of the day if God
sends them: and the evils bear patiently
and sweetly ; for this day only is ourg : we
are dead to yesterday, and not born to to-
morrow.--Jeremy Taylor.
DEATH:-It is not death, it is dying
that alarms me.-Montaigne.
Death is as the foreshadowing of life. We
die that we may die no more.-Herman
Hooler.
This world is the land of the dying ; the
next is the land of the living.–Tryon Ed-
wards.
Men fear death, as if unquestionably the
greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it
may not be the greatest good., W. Mitford.
We call it death to leave this world, but
were we once out of it, and enstated into
the happiness, of the next, we should think
it were dying indeed to come back to it
again.-Sherlock.
Death has nothing terrible which life has
not made so. A faithful Christian life in
this world is the best preparation for the
next.— Tryon Edwards.
It is impossible that anything so natural,
so necessary, and so universal as death,
should ever have been designed by Provi-
dence as an evil to mankind.-Swifl.
We understand death for the first time
when he puts his hand upon one whom we
love. Mad. De Staël:
Death is like thunder in two particulars :
we are alarmed at the sound of it, and it is
formidable only from that which preceded
it.--Colton.
Death, to a good man, is but passing
through' a dark entry, out of one little
dusky room of his father's house, into
another that is fair and large, lightsome
and glorious, and divinely entertaining.--
Clarice.
Death is not, to the Christian, what it
has often been called, "Paying the debt of
nature."
No, it is not paying a debt; it is
rather like bringing a note to a bank to
obtain solid golă in exchange for it. You
bring a cumbrous body which is nothing
worth, and which you could not wish to
retain long; you lay it down, and receive
for it, from the eternal treasures, liberty,
victory, knowledge, and rapture.-John
Foster.
We picture death as coming to destroy ;
let us rather picture Christ as coming to
We think of death as ending; let us
rather think of life as beginning, and that
more abundantly. We think of losing; let
us think of gaining: We think of parting;
let us think of meeting. We think of going
away; let us think of arriving. And as the
voice of death whispers “You must go from
earth," let us hear the voice of Christ say.
ing, "You are but coming to Me!”-N.
Macleod.
No man who is fit to live need fear to
die. To us here, death is the most terrible
thing we know. But when we have tasted
its reality it will mean to us birth, deliver-
ance, a new creation of ourselves. It will
be what health is to the sick man ; what
home is to the exile; what the loved one
given back is to the bereaved. As we draw
near to it a solemn gladness should fill our
hearts. It is God's great morning lighting
up the sky. Our fears are the terror of
children in the night. The night with its
terrors, its darkness, its feverish dreams, is
passing away; and when we awake it will
be into the sunlight of God.-Fuller.
The gods conceal from men the happi-
ness of death, that they may endure life.-
Lucan.
A wise and due consideration of our latter
end, is neither to render us sad, melancholy,
disconsolate, or unfit for the business and
offices of life ; but to make us more watch-
ful, vigilant, industrious, sober, cheerful,
and thankful to that God who hath been
pleased thus to make us serviceable to him,
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comfortable to ourselves, and profitable to
others; and after all this, to take away
the
bitterness and sting of death, through Jesus
Christ our Lord.-Sir M. Hale.
One may live as a conqueror, a king, or a
magistrate ; but he must die à man. The
bed of death brings every human being to
his pure individuality, to the intense con-
templation of that deepest and most solemn
of all relations—the relation between the
creature and his Creator.—Daniel Webster.
If thou expect death as a friend, prepare
to entertain him; if as an enemy, prepare
to overcome him.-Death has no advantage
except when he comes as a stranger. -
Quarles.
What a superlatively grand and consoling
idea is that of death ! Without this radiant
ideam--this delightful morning star, indi-
cating that the luminary of eternity is
going to rise, life would, to my view, darken
into midnight melancholy: The expecta-
tion of living bere, and living thus always,
would be indeed a prospect of overwhelming
despair. But thanks to that fatal decree
that dooms us to die ; thanks to that gospel
which opens the visions of an endless life
and thanks above all to that Saviour friend
who has promised to conduct the faithful
through the sacred trance of dcatlı, into
scenes of Paradise and everlasting de-
light.-John Foster.
Death is the golden key that opens the
palace of eternity.--Milton.
Death expecteth thee everywhere ; be
wise, therefore, and expect death every-
where.Quarles.
The ancients feared death; we, thanks to
Christianity, fear only dying:- Guesses at
Truth.
Death is the crown of life.—Yere death
denied, poor man would live in vain; to
live would not be life; even fools would
wish to die.--Young.
Death opens the gate of fame, and shuts
the gate of envy after it.-It unloosens the
chain of the captive, and puts the bonds-
man's task in another's hands. --Sterne.
Be still prepared for death : and death or
life shall thereby be the sweeter.---Shake-
speare.
To neglect, at any time, preparation for
death, is to sleep on our post at a siege; to
omit it in old age, is to sleep at an attack.
Johnson.
One of the fathers says, There is but
this difference between the death of old
men and young; that old men go to death,
and death comes to the young.
.
He who should teach men to die, would,
at the same time, teach them to live.-
Montaigne.
A dislike of death is no proof of the want
of religion. The instincts of nature shrink
from it, for no creature can like its own
dissolution.—But though death is not de-
sired, the result of it may be, for dying to
the Christian is the way to life eternal.-
W. Jay.
A good man, when dying, once said,
Formerly death appeared to me like a wide
river, but now it has dwindled to a little rill;
and my comforts, which were as the rill,
have become the broad and deep river.
He whom the gods love, dies young. -
Menander.
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last
and final awakening.- Walter Scott,
The air is full of farewells to the dying,
and mournings for the dead.-Longfellow.
The good dio first; and they whose
hearts are dry as summer dust, burn to the
socket.- Wordsworth.
Cullen, in his last moments, whispered,
"I wish I had the power of writing or
speaking, for then I would describe to you
how pleasant a thing it is to die. ---Derby.
The darkness of death is like the evening
twilight; it makes all objects appear more
lovely to the dying.---Richter.
Men may live fools, but fools they cannot
die.— Young.
Death is the liberator of him whom free-
dom cannot release ; the physician of him
whom medicine cannot cure, the comforter
of him wliom time cannot console. -Colton.
Let death be daily before your eyes, and
you will never entertain any abject thought,
nor too eagerly covet anything.--Epictetus.
On death and judgment, heaven and hell,
who oft doth think, must needs die well.
Sir W. Raleigh.
It matters not at what hour the righteous
fall asleep.--Death cannot come untimely
to him who is fit to die.--The less of this
cold world the more of heaven; the briefer
life, the earlier immortality.--Milman,
There is no better armor against the
shafts of death than to be busied in God's
service.--Fuller.
He who always waits upon God, is ready
whensoever he calls.--He is a happy man
who so lives that death at all times may find
him at leisure to die. Ielihani.
Let dissolution come when it will, it can
do the Christiani no harm, for it will be but
a passage out of a prison into a palace; out
of a sea of troubles, into a haven of rest;
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DEATH.
ont of a crowd of enemies, to an innumer-
able company of true, loving, and faithful
friends; out of shame, reproach, and con-
tempt, into exceeding great and eternal
glory.-Bunyan.
We sometimes congratulate ourselves at
the moment of waking from a troubled
dream;
it may be so the moment after
death.-Hawthorne,
Death and love are the two wings that
bear the good man to heaven.-Michael
Angelo.
If Socrates died like a philosopher, Jesus
Christ died like a God.-Rousseau.
Each departed friend is a magnet that
attracts us to the next world.-Richter.
Living is death ; dying is life.--On this
side of the grave we are exiles, on that,
citizens ; on this side orphons, on that,
children ; on this side captives, on that,
freemen; on this side disguised, unknown,
on that disclosed and proclaimed as the
sons of God.-H. W. Beecher.
It is as natural to man to die, as to be
born; and to a little infant, perhaps the one
is as painful as the other. -Baconi.
Death stamps the characters and con-
ditions of men for eternity.-As death finds
then in this world, so will they be in the
next.-Emmons.
Ah! what & sign it is of evil life, when
death's approach is seen terrible!
Shakespeare.
How shocking must thy summons be, O
death, to him that is at ease in his posses-
sions! who, counting on long years of
pleasure here, is quite unfurnished for the
world to come.-Blair.
I love to think of my little children whom
God has called to himself as away at school-
at the best school in the universe, under the
best teachers, learning the best things, in
the best possible manner.
Readiness for death is that of character,
rather than of occupation. It is right liv-
ing which prepares for safe or even joyous
dying.
O death! We thank thee for the light
that thou wilt shed upon our ignorance.-
Bossuet.
I believe that a family lives but a half life
until it has sent its forerunners into the
heavenly world, until those who linger here
can cross the river, and fold transfigured a
glorious form in the embrace of an endless
life.- Bridgman.
I never think he is quite ready for an-
other world who is altogether weary of
this.-H. A. Hamilton.
There is no death! What seems so is
transition ; this life of mortal breath is but
a suburb of the life elysian, whose portal
we call death.-Longfellow.
When I am dying I want to know that I
have a similarity to God, so that my will is
the same as his will, and that I love and
bate and wish what he does.-J. Cook.
The bad man's death is horror ; but the
just does but ascend to glory from the
dust.-Habbington.
When the sun goes below the horizon, he
is not set; the heavens glow for a full hour
after his departure. And when a great
and good man sets, the sky of this world is
luminous long after he is out of sight.-
Such a wan cannot die out of this world.
When he goes he leaves behind much of
himself.–Being dead he speaks.-H. W.
Beecher.
Death is but the dropping of the flower
that the fruit may swell.-H. W. Beecher.
Alexander the Great, seeing Diogenes
looking attentively at á parcel of human
bones, asked the philosopher what he was
looking for. “That which I cannot find,”
was the reply; "the difference between
your
father's bones and those of his slaves."
A good man being asked during his last
illness, whether he thought himself dying,
“Really, friend, I care not whether I am
or not; for if I die I shall be with God'; if
I live, He will be with me."
Not by lamentations and mournful chants
ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good
man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be
numbered with mortals he enters upon the
heritage of a diviner life.- Plutarch.
Leaves have their time to fall, and flowers
to wither at the North-wind's breath, and
stars to set-but all, thou hast all seasons
for thine own, o death !
-Mrs. Hemans.
The sense of death is most in apprehen-
sion, and the poor beetle that we tread
upon feels a pang as great as when a giant
dies.-Shalcespeare.
The chamber where the good man meets
his fate is privileged beyond the common
walk of virtuous life, quite on the verge of
heaven.-Young.
As long as we are living, God will give
us living grace, and he wont give us dying
grace till it's time to die. What's the use
of trying to feel like dying when you
aint dying, nor anywhere near it?-H. W.
Beecher.
I know of but one remedy against the
fear of death that is effectual and that will
stand the test either of a sick-berl, or of a
sound mind that is, a good life, a clear
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DEBT.
106
DECEIT.
conscience, an honest heart, and a well-
ordered conversation; to carry the thoughts
of dying men abont 18, and so to live before
we die as we shall wish we had when we
come to it, -Noris.
Man's highest triumph, man's pro-
foundest fall, the death-bed of the just is
yet undrawn by mortal hand; it merits a
divine : angels should paint it, angels ever
there ; there, on a post of honor and of
joy.--Young.
Be of good cheer about death, and kuow
this of a truth, that no evil can happen to
a good man, either in life or after death.--
Socrates.
Death did not first strike Adam, the first
sinful man, nor Cain, the first hypocrite,
but Abel, the innocent and righteous.--The
first soul that met death overcame death;
the first soul parted from earth went to
heaven. Death argues not displeasure,
because he whom God loved best dies first,
and the murderer is punished with living.–
Bp. Hall.
DEBT-I have discovered the philoso-
pher's stone, that turns everything into
gold: it is, "Pay as you go." -John Ran-
colph.
Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice
and idleness are its open foes.--The debt-
habit is the twin brother of poverty.- T. ?'.
Munger.
Run not into debt, either for wares sold,
or money borrowed; be coutent to want
things that are not of absolute necessity,
rather than to run up the score : such a
man pays, at the latter end, a third part
more than the principal, and is in perpetual
servitude to his creditors ; lives uncom-
fortably ; is necessitated to increase his
debts to stop his creditors' mouths; and
many times falls into desperate courses.--
Sir M. Hale.
Do not accustom yourself to consider
debt only as an inconvenience; you will
find it a calamity.-Johnson.
Poverty is hard, but debt is horrible...A
man might as well have a smoky house and a
scolding wife, which are said to be the two
worst evils of our life.--Spurgeon.
Think what you do when you run in debt;
you give to another power over your liberty.
If you cannot pay at the time, you will be
ashamed to see your creditor, will be in
fear when you speak to him; will make
poor, pitiful, sneaking excuses, and by de-
grees come to lose your vericity, and sink
into base, clownright lying ; for the second
vice is lying, the first is running in debt.
A freeborn man ought not to be ashamed
nor afraid to see or speak to any man living,
but poverty often deprives a man of all
spirit and virtue. It is hard for an empty
bag to stand upright.-Fran/clin.
The first step in debt is like the first step
in falsehood, involving the necessity of
going on in the same course, debt follow-
ing debt, as lie follows lie.--. Smiles.
Youth is in danger until it learns to look
upon
debts as furies, --Bulwer.
Paying of debts is, next to the grace of
God, the best means of delivering you from
a thousand temptations to vanity and sin.
-Pay your debts, and you will not have
wherewithal to buy costly toys or perni-
cious pleasures.—Pay your debts, and you
will not have what to lose to a gamester.-
Pay your debts, and you will of necessity
abstain from many indulgences that war
against the spirit and bring you into cap-
tivity to sin, and cannot fail to end in your
utter destruction, both of soul and body.-
Delany.
"Out of debt, out of danger," is, like
many other proverbs, full of wisdom'; but
the word danger does not sufficiently ex-
press all that the warning demands. For
a state of debt and embarrassment is a state
of positive misery, and the sufferer is as
one hannted by an evil spirit, and his heart
can know neither rest nor peace till it is
cast out.-Bridges.
A man who owes a little can clear it off in
a little time, and, if he is prudent, he will :
whereas a man, who, by long negligence,
owes great deal, despairs of ever being
able to pay, and therefore never looks into
his accounts at all. - Chesterfield.
A small debt produces a debtor ; a large
one, an enemy.- Publius Syrus.
Debt is to a man what the serpent is to
the bird ; its eye fascinates, its breath poi-
sons, its coil crushes sinew and bone, its
jaw is the pitiless grave.-Bulwer.
DECEIT.-There is no wickedness 80
desperate or deceptive-we can never fore-
see its consequences.
Of all the evil spirits abroad in the world,
insincerity is the most dangerous.—Troude.
Deceivers are the most dangerous mem-
bers of society.-They trifle with the best
affections of our nature, and violate the
most sacred obligations.-Crabbe.
No man, for any considerable period,
can wear one face to himself and another
to the multitude, without finally getting
bewildered as to which may be true.- Haw-
tluorne,
Idiots only may be cozened twice.-
Dryden.
DECEIT.
107
DECISION.
There is less misery in being cheated
than in that kind of wisdom which per-
ceives, or thinks it perceives, that ail man-
kind are cheats.-E. H. Chapin.
It is as easy to deceive one's self without
perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive
others without their finding it out.--Roche-
foucauld.
We never deceive for a good purpose ;
knavery adds malice to falsehood.-Bru-
yère.
Our double dealing generally comes down
upon ourselves.-To speak or act a lie, is
alike contemptible in the sight of God and
man.-Everton.
The surest way of making a dupe is to
let your victim suppose you are his.-
Bulwer.
No man was ever so much deceived by
another as by himself.-Greville.
Deceit is the false road to happiness ;
and all the joys we travel through to vice,
like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch
thein.-A. Hill.
Who dares think one thing and another
tell, my heart detests him as the gates of
hell.-Pope.
The first and worst of all fraucls is to
cheat one's self.--All sin is easy after that.
- Bailey.
He that has no real esteem for any of the
virtues, can best assume the appearance of
them all.--Colton.
When once a concealment or a deceit has
been practiced in matters where all should
be fair and open as day, confidence can
never be restored, any more than you can
restore the white bloom to the grape or
plum that you once pressed in your hand.
H. W. Beecher.
O, what a tangled web we weave, when
first we practice to deceive.- TValter Scott.
Many an honest man practices on him-
self an amount of deceit, sufficient, if prac-
ticed on another, and in a little different
way, to send him to the State prison.-
Bovee.
Mankind, in the gross, is a gaping mon-
ster, that loves to be deceived, and has sel-
dom been disappointeil. -Mackenzie.
All deception in the course of life is in-
deed nothing else but a lie reduced to prac-
tice, and falsehood passing from words
into things.-South.
There are three persons you should never
deceive : your physician, your confessor,
and your lawyer. - Walpole.
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 dis-
guise at all.--Rochefoucauld.
It many times falls out that we deem our:
selves much deceived in others, because we
first deceived ourselves.---Sir P. Sidney.
DECENCY,-Virtue and decency are
80 nearly related that it is difficult to sep-
arate them from each other but in our
imagination.—Cicero.
Want of decency is want of sense.--Ros-
COานกาO. .
Decency of behavior in our lives obtains
the approbation of all with whom we con-
verse, from the order, consistency, and
moderation of our words and actions.-
Steele.
Decency is the least of all laws, but yet
it is the law which is most strictly observed.
-Rochefoucauld.
DECISION.-There is nothing more to
be esteemed than a manly firmness and de-
cision of character.--I like a person who
knows his own mind and sticks to it; who
sees at once what, in given circumstances,
is to be done, and does it.- Hazlitt.
When we
can say "no," not only to
things that are wrong and sinful, but also
to things pleasant, profitable, and good
which would hinder and clog our grand
duties and our chief work, we shall in-
derstand more fully what, life is worth,
and how to make the most of it.-C. A.
Stoddard.
I hate to see things done by halves. If
it be right, 'do it boldly,-if it be wrong
leave it undone.-Gilpin.
Decision of character will often give to
an inferior mind, command over a superior.
W. Wirt.
When desperate ills demand a speedy
culle, distrust is cowardice, and prudence
folly.-- Johnson. .
Men must be decided on what they will
not do, and then they are able to act with
vigor in what they onght to do.-Mencius.
The block of granite which was an obsta-
cle in the pathway of the weak becomes a
stepping stone in the pathway of the strong.
-Carlyle.
All the world over it is true that a double-
minded man is unstable in all his ways, like
a Wive on the streamlet, tossed hither and
thither with every eddy of its tide.--A de-
terminate purpose in life and a steady
adhesion to it through all disadvantages,
are indispensable conditions of success.-
W:M. Punshon.
The souls of men of uindecided and fee-
DEEDS.
108
DEFINITION.
ble purpose are the graveyards of good in-
tentions.
It is a poor and disgraceful thing not to
• be able to reply, with some degree of cer-
tainty, to the simple questions, * What will
you be? What will you do ?" --John Foster.
He that cannot decidedly say "No," when
tempted to evil, is on the highway to ruin.-
He loses the respect even of those who
would tempt him, and becomes but the
pliant tool and victim of their evil designs.
J. Hawes.
The man who has not learned to say
No," will be a weak if not a wretched man
as long as he lives.-A. Maclaren.
DEEDS. Our deeds determine us, as
much as we determine our deeds.-George
Eliot.
We are our own fates.-Our deeds are
our own doomsmen.--Man's life was made
not for creeds, but actions.-Meredith.
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
makes ill deeds done !-Shakespeare.
Our deeds are seeds of fate, sown here on
earth, but bringing forth their harvest in
eternity.-G. D. Boardman.
The flighty purpose never is o'ertook, un-
less the deed go with it.-Shakespeare.
Our deeds follow us, and what we have
been makes us what we are.
It is our own past which has made us
what we are. We are the children of our
own deeds. Conduct has created character i
acts have grown into habits, each year has
pressed into us a deeper moral print; the
lives we have led have left us such as we
are to-day.-
Dykes.
A word that has been said may be unsaid
-it is but air.-But when a deed is done,
it cannot be undone, nor can our thoughts
reach out to all the mischiefs that may fol-
low-Longfellou.
Look on little deeds as great, on account
of Christ, who dwells in us, and watches
our life; look on great deeds as easy, on
account of His great power.—Pascal.
Good actions ennoble us, and we are the
sous of our own deeds.-Cervantes.
We should believe only in deeds; words
go for nothiug everywhere.-Rojas.
No matter what a man's aims, or resolu-
tions, or professions may be, it is by one's
deeds that he is to be judged, both by God
and man.-H. W. Beecher.
Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds,
and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.
- Congreve.
Foul deeds will rise, though all the earth
o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.—Shake-
speare.
Good deeds ring clear through heaven
like a bell.-Richter.
A noble deed is a step toward God.-
J. G. Holland.
A life spent worthily should be measured
by deeds, not years.--Sheridan.
DEFEAT. -What is defeat ?-Nothing
but education ; nothing but the first step
to something better. Wendell Phillips.
Defeat is a school in which truth always
grows strong.--H. W. Beecher.
No man is defeated without some resent-
ment, which will be continued with obstin-
acy while he believes himself in the right,
and asserted with bitterness, if even to his
own conscience he is detected in the wrong.
-Johnson.
It is defeat that turns bone to flint, and
gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible,
and formed those heroic natures that are
now in ascendency in the world.-Do not
then be afraid of defeat.-You are never
so near to victory as when defeated in a
good cause.-H. W. Beecher.
DEFERENCE.-Deference is the most
delicate, the most indirect, and the most
elegant of all compliments, and before com-
pany is the genteelest kind of flattery.-
Shensione.
Deference is the instinctive respect wbich
we pay to the great and good.—The uncon-
scious acknowledgment of the superiority
or excellence of others.- Tryon Edwards.
Deference often shrinks and withers as
much upon the approach of intimacy, as
the sensitive plant does upon the touch of
one's finger. --Shenstone.
DEFINITION.- All arts acknowledge
that then only we know certainly, when we
can define ; for definition is that which re-
fines the pure essence of things from the
circumstance.-Milton.
Just definitions either prevent or put an
end to disputes. - Immons.
A large part of the discussions of dispız-
tants come from the want of accurate defi-
nition.-Let one define his terms and then
stick to the definition, and half the differ-
ences in philosophy and theology would
come to an end, and be seen to have no real
foundation.-Tryon Edwards.
I am apt to think that men find their
simple ideas agree, though in discourse
they confound one another with diffurent
names.-Locke.
DEFORMITY.
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DELICACY.
66 If my
DEFORMITY.-Many a man has risen
to eminence under the powerful reaction
of his mind against the scorn of the
unworthy, daily evoked by his personal
defects, who, with a handsome person,
would have sunk into the luxury of a care-
less life under the tranquilizing smiles of
continual admiration.-
De Quincey.
Do you suppose we owe nothing to Pope's
deformity ?-He said to himself,
person be crooked, my verses shall be
straight.”-Hazlitt.
Deformity is daring ; it is its essence to
overtake mankind by heart and soul and
make itself the equal, aye, the superior of
others.- Byron.
Deformity of heart I call the worst de-
formity of all ; for what is form, or face,
but the soul's index, or its case ? — Colton.
DELAY.-(See “PROCRASTINATION," and
"INACTIVITY.")
Delay has always been injurious to those
who are prepared.-Lucan.
Defer no time; delays have dangerous
ends.—Shakespeare.
It is one of the illusions, that the present
hour is not the critical, decisive hour.-
Write it on your heart that every day is the
best day in the year.-No man has learned
anything rightly until he knows and feels
that every day is doomsday.- Carlyle.
0, how many deeds of deathless virtue
and immortal crime the world had wanted
had the actor said, “I will do this to-mor-
row!"-Lord John Russell.
God keep you from “It is too late."
When the fool has made up his mind the
market has gone by.--Spanish Proverb.
No man ever served God by doing things
to-morrow. If we honor Christ, and are
blessed, it is by the things which we do
to-day.
Procrastination is the thief of time ; year
after year it steals till all are flert, and to
the mercies of a moment leaves the vast
concerns of an eternal scene.--Young.
He that takes time to resolve, gives leisure
to deny, and warning to prepare.- Quarles.
The procrastinator is not only indolent
and weak but commonly false too; most of
the weak are false.—Lavater.
Iu delay we waste our lights in vain ;
like lamps by day.--Shakespeare.
To-morrow, didst thou say? Go to—I will
not hear of it-To-morrow! 'tis a sliarper
who stakes his penury against thy plenty-
who takes thy ready cash, and pays thee
nought but wishes, hopes, and promises,
the currency of idiots. To-morrow! it is a
period nowhere to be found in all the hoary
registers of time, unless perchance in the
fool's calendar. Wisdom disclaims the
word, nor holds society with those that own
it. 'Tis fancy's child, and folly is its father:
wrought on such stuff as dreams are ; and
baseless as the fantastic visions of the even-
ing.-Cotton.
To-morrow I will live, the fool does say:
to-day itself's too late ; the wise lived yes-
terday.-Martial.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-mor-
row, creeps in this petty pace from day to
day, to the last syllable of recorded time;
and all our yesterdays have lighted fools
the way to dusty death.-Shalcespeare.
Every delay is hateful, but it gives wis-
dom.- Publius Syrus.
Some one speaks admirably of the well-
ripened fruit of sage delay.-Balzac.
Shun delays, they breed remorse ; take
thy time while 'time is lent thee.--Creeping
snails have weakest force ; fly their fault,
lest thou repent thee.-Good is best when
soonest wrought; lingering labors come to
nought.-Southwell.
Where duty is plain delay is both foolish
and hazardous ; where it is not, delay may
be both wisdom and safety.- Tryon Ed
wards.
Time drinketh up the essence of every
great and noble action which ought to be
performed but is delayed in the execu-
tion.- Veeshnoo Sarma.
The surest method of arriving at a knowl-
edge of God's eternal purposes about us is
to be found in the right use of the present
moment. Each hour comes with some little
fagot of God's will fastened upon its back.
F. W. Faber.
DELICACY.-Delicacy is to the affec-
tions what grace is to beauty.-Degerando.
True delicacy, that most beautiful heart-
leaf of humanity, exbibits itself most sig-
nificantly in little things.--Mary Howitt.
The finest qualities of our nature, like the
bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by
the most delicate handling.–Thoreau.
If you destroy delicacy and a sense of
shame in a young girl you deprave her very
fast.-Mrs. Stowe.
Weak men, often, from the very prin-
ciple of their weakness, derive a certain
siisceptibility, delicacy, and taste, which
render them, in these particulars, much
superior to men of stronger and more con-
sistent minds, who laugh at them.-Greville.
Friendship, love, and piety, ought to be
handled with a sort of mysterious secresy.-
DELIGHT.
110
DEMOCRACY.
They ought to be spoken of only in the rare
moments of perfect confidence-to be mu-
tually understood in silence.--Many things
are too delicate to be thought; many more
to be spoken.- Novalis.
An appearance of delicacy, and even of
fragility, is almost essential to beauty.--
Burke.
Delicacy is to the mind what fragrance
is to the fruit.-A. Poincelot.
DELIGHT:-What more felicity can fall
to man than to enjoy delight with liberty ?-
Spenser.
As high as we have mounted in delight,
in our dejection do we sink as low.- Words-
worth.
These violent delights have violent ends,
and in their triumph die, like fire and
powder, which, as they kiss, consume.-
Shakespeare.
I am convinced that we have a degree of
deligbt, and that no small one, in the real
misfortunes and pains of others.--Burke.
Sensual delights soon end in loathing,
quickly bring a glutting surfeit, and de-
generate into torments when they are con-
tinued and unintermitted.-John Howe.
DELUSION.-No man is happy without
a delusion of some kind.-Delusions are as
necessary to our happiness as realities.-
Bovee.
The worst deluded are the self-deluded.-
Bovee.
Were we perfectly acquainted with the
object, we should never passionately desire
it.-Rochefoucauld.
The strive as hard to hide our hearts from
ourselves as from others, and always with
more success; for in deciding upon our
own case we are both judge, jury, and exe-
cutioner, and where sophistry cannot over-
come the first, or flattery the second, self-
love is always ready to defeat the sentence
by bribing the third.—Colton.
You think a man to be your dupe.--If
he pretends to be so, who is the greatest
dupe-he or you ?-Bruyère.
It many times falls out that we deem our-
selves much deceived in others, because we
are first deceived ourselves.-Sir P. Sidney.
When our vices quit us, we flatter our-
selves with the belief that it is we who quit
them.-Rochefoucauld.
O thoughts of men accurst.-Past and to
come seem best; things present, worst.
Shakespeare.
This is the excellent foppery of the world!
hat, when we are sick in fortune, we make
guilty of our disasters, the sun, the moon,
and tbe stars : as if we were villains by ne-
cessity; fools, by heavenly compulsion
kuaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical
predominance : drunkards, liars, and adul-
terers, by au enforced obedience of plane-
tary influence; and all that we are evil in,
by a divine thrustiug ou —Shakespeare.
Mankind in the gross is a gaping mon-
ster, that loves to be deceived, and has
seldom been disappointed.-Macicenzie.
Hope tells a flattering tale, delusive, vain,
and hollow.- Wrother.
The disappointment of manhood suc-
ceeds the delusion of youth.-
Disraeli.
DEMOCRACY.The love of democ-
racy is that of equality.—Montesquwu.
In every village there will arise some
miscreant, to establish the most grinding
tyranny by calling himself the people.-Sir
Robert Peel.
The history of the gospel has been the
history of the development and growth of
Christian deinocratic ideas.-H.W. Beecher.
Your little child is your only true demo-
crat.-Mrs. Stowe.
It is the most beautiful truth in morals
that we have no such thing as a distinct or
divided interest from our race.-In their
welfare is ours; and by choosing the
broadest paths to effect their happiness, we
choose the surest and shortest to our own.-
Bulwer.
Knowledge and goodness--these make
degrees in heaven, and they must be the
graduating scale of a true democracy.-
Miss Sedgwick.
Lycurgus being asked why he, who in
other respects appeared to be so zealous for
the equal rights of men, did not make his
government democratic rather than an
oligarclıy, replied, “Go you, and try a de-
mocracy in your own house." ---Plutarch.
If there were a people consisting of gods,
they would be governed democratically ; 80
perfect a government is not suitable to
men.--Rousseau.
Intellectual superiority is so far from
conciliating confidence that it is the very
spirit of a democracy, as in France, to pro-
scribe the aristocracy of talents. To be the
favorite of an ignorant multitude, a man
must descend to their level; he must desire
what they <lesire, and detest all they do not
approve: he must yield to their prejudices,
and substitute them for principles. In-
stead of enlightening their errors, he must
adopt them, and must furnish the sophistry
that will propagate and defend them. –
Fisher Ames.
DEPENDENCE.
111
DEPRAVITY
none
SO
Democracy will itself accomplish the solidity and entireness of the whole fabric
salutary universal change from the clelusive of which it is a part.- Boyle.
to the real, and make a new blessed worla
How beautifully is it ordered, that as
of us bye and bye.-Carlyle.
many thousands work for one, so must
The progress of democracy seenis irre- every individual bring his labor to make
sistible, because it is the most uniforın, the the whole.-The liighest is not to despise
most ancient, and the most permanent ten- the lowest, por the lowest to envy the
dency which is to be found in history.--De highest; each must live in all and liy all.-
Tocqueville.
So God has ordered, that men, being in
The devil was the first democrat.-Byron.
need of each other, should learn to love
“It is a great blessing," says Pascal, " to
each other, and to bear each other's bur-
dong.--G. A. Sala.
be boru a man of quality, since it brings a
man as far forward at eighteen or twenty
The acknowledgment of weakness which
as another would be at fifty, which is a
wo make in imploring to be relieved from
clear gain of thirty years.”—These. thirty
hunger and from temptation, is surely
years are commonly wanting to the am-
wisely put in our prayer.-Think of it, you
bitious characters of democracies.—The
who are rich, and take hiced how you turn
principle of equality, which allows every
a beggar away.-- Thackeray.
man to arrive at everything, prevents all
The beautiful must ever rest in the arms
men from rapid advancement. - De Tocque- of the sublime.--The gentle need the strong
ville.
to sustain it, as much as the rock-flowers
The real democratic American idea is,
need rocks to grow on, or the ivy the rug-
not that every man shall be on a level with
ged wall which it embraces.--Mrs. Slowe.
every other, but that every one shall have Depend on no man, on no friend but liim
liberty, without hindrance, to be what God who can depend on himself.--He only who
made him.-H. W. Beecher.
acts conscientiously towards himself, will
act so towards others.--Lavater,
DEPENDENCE. There is
DEPRAVITY.-(See “SIN.")
great but he may both need the help and
service, and stand in fear of the power and
We are all sinful ; and whatever one of
us blames in another each one will find in
unkindness, even of the meanest of mor-
tals.-Seneca.
his own heart.-Seneca.
God has made no one absolute.-The rich Men sometimes affect to deny the de-
depend on the poor, as well as the poor on
pravity of our race; but it is as clearly
the rich.—The world is but a magnificent
taught in the lawyers' office and in courts
building; all the stones are gradually
of justice, 23 in the Bible itself.--Every
cemented together.-No one subsists by
prison, and fetter, and scaffold, and bolt,
himself alone.--Felthan.
and bar, and chain is evidence that man
believes in the depravity of man.—Tryon'
No degree of knowledge attainable by
Edwards.
man is able to set him above the want of
hourly assistance.-Johnson.
Controlled depravity is not innocence;
and it is not the labor of delinquency in
Dependence is a perpetual call upon bu- chains that will correct abusos. Never did
manity, and a greater incitement to tender-
a serious plan of amending any old tyran-
ness and pity than any other motive what-
nical establishment propose the authors
ever. -Thaciceray.
and abettors of the abuses as the reform-
The greatest man living may stand in ers of them.—Burke.
need of the meanest, as much as the meanest
Every man has his devilish moments.--
does of him.-Fuller.
Lavater.
Heaven's eternal wisdom has decreed,
Original sin is in us, like the beard.-
that man should ever stand in need of
We are shaved to-day and look clean, and
man.-Theocritus.
have a smooth chin ; to-morrow our beard
Dependence goes somewhat against the has grown again, nor does it cease growing
grain of a generous mind; and it is no while we remain on earth.--In like man-
wonder that it should do so, considering ner original sin cannot be extirpated from
the unreasonable advantage which is often 118 ; it springs up in us as long as we live.--
taken of the inequality of fortune. Jeremy Nevertheless we are bound to resist it to
Collier.
our utmost strength, and to cut it down un-
In an arch, each single stone, which, if
ceasingly.-Luther.
severed from the rest, woull be perhaps We have such an habitual persuasion of
defenceless, is sufficiently secured by the the general depravity of human nature,
so die the two
DESIRE.
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DESIRE.
that in falling in with strangers we almost heart; producing good, if moderately in-
always reckon on their being irreligions, till dulged; but certain destruction, if suffered
we discover some specific indication of the to become inordinate.-Burton.
contrary.--J. Foster.
By annihilating the desires, you iunili-
It is not occasionally that the human late the mind.-Every man without passions
soul is under the influence of depravity ; has within him no principle of action, nor
but this is its habit and state till the soul is motive to act.-Helvetius.
renewed by grace.- Dick.
Every desire bears its death in its very
DESIRE.-Desires are the pulses of tlie
gratification.-Curiosity languishes under
soul ;--as physicians judge by the appetite,
repeated stimulants, and novelties cease
to excite surprise, until at length we do not
80 may you by desires.- Manton.
wonder even at a miracle. - Washington
The thirst of desire is never filled, nor Irving.
fully satisfied.- Cicero.
We trifle when we assign limits to our
It is much easier to suppress a first de- desires, siuce nature hath set none.-- Bovee.
sire than to satisfy those that follow.- Inordinate desires commonly produce
Rochefoucauld.
irregular endeavors. If our wishes be not
The reason that so many want their de- kept in submission to God's providence,
sires, is, that their desires want reason.- our pursuits will scarcely be kept under
He may do what he will, who will do but the restraints of his precepts.-M. Henry.
what he may.- Warwick.
Onr nature is inseparable from desires,
Every one would have something, such and the very word desire—the craving for
perhaps as we are ashamed to utter. The something not possessed-implies that our
proud man would have honor ; the cove- present felicity is not complete. - Hobbes.
tous man, wealth and abundance; the ma- However rich or elevated we may be, a
licious, revenge on his enemies; the epi-
nameless something is always wanting to
cure, pleasure and long life; the barren,
our imperfect fortune.-Horace.
children ; the wanton, beauty ; each would
be humored in his own desire, though ir
Unlawful desires are punished after the
opposition both to God's will, and his own
effect of enjoying ; but impossible desires
good.--Bp. Hall.
are punished in the desire itself.-Sir P.
Sidney.
Some desire is necessary to keep life in
motion; he whose real wants are supplied,
Before we passionately desire anything
must admit those of fancy.-Johnson.
which another enjoys, we should examine
as to the happiness of its possessor.-Roche-
Those things that are not practicable are
foucauld.
not desirable. There is nothing in the
world really beneficial that does not lie
He who can wait for what he desires,
within the reach of an informed understand-
takes the course not to be exceedingly
ing and a well-protected pursuit. There is
grieved if he fails of it; be on the contrary
nothing that God has judged good for
who labors after a thing too impatiently,
thinks the success when it comes is not a
us that he has not given us the means to
accomplish, both in the natural and the recompense equal to all the pains he has
been at about it.-Bruyère.
moral world. If we cry, like children, for
the moon, like children we must cry on.- There is nothing capricious in nature;
Burle.
and the implanting of a desire indicates
Where necessity ends, desire and curi-
that its gratification is in the constitution
of the creature that feels it.- Emerson.
osity begin ; no sooner are we supplied with
everything nature can demand, than we In moderating, not in satisfying desires,
sit down to contrive artificial appetites.- lies peace.—Heber.
Johnson.
The soul of man is infinite in what it
The stoical schemes of supplying our covets.-Ben Jonson.
wants by lopping off our desires, is like cut-
When a man's desires are boundless, his
ting off our feet when we want shoes.-
labors are endless.—They will set him a
Swift.
task he can never go through, and cut him
A wise man will desire no more than he out work he can never finish.—The satisfac-
may get justly, use soberly, distributo tion he seeks is always absent, and the hap-
cheerfully, and leave contentedly.
piness he ainis at is ever at a distance.
Balguy.
twists of a rope, mutually mix one with the It should be an indispensable rule in life
other, and twino inextricably round the to contract our desires to our present con-
I
DESOLATION.
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DESPONDENCY.
dition, and whatever may be our expecta-
tions to live within the compass of what we
actually possess.- It will be time enough to
enjoy an estate when it comes into our
hands; but if we anticipate our good for-
tune we shall lose the pleasure of it when it
arrives, and may possibly never possess
what we have so foolishly counted on.-
Addison.
DESOLATION.--No one is so utterly
desolate, but some heart, though unknown,
responds unto his owu.—Longfellow.
None are so desolate but something
dear,--dearer than self,--possesses or is pos-
sessed.-Byron.
No soul is desolate as long as there is a
human being for whom it can feel trust
and reverence.- George Eliot.
My desolation begins to make a better
life. --Shalcespeare.
What is the worst of woes that wait on
age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on
the brow?-To view each loved one blotted
from life's page, and be alone on earth.-
Byron.
Unhappy he, who from the first of joys-
society-cut off, is left alone, amid this
world of death !-Thomson.
DESPAIR.—What we call despair is
often only the painful eagerness of unfed
hope.-George Eliol.
He that despairs measures Providence
by his own little contracted model and
limits infinite power to finite apprehen-
sions.-South.
Considering the unforeseen events of this
world, we should be taught that no human
condition should inspire men with absolute
despair.-F'ielding.
It is impossible for that man to despair
who remembers that his Helper is omnipo-
tent.Jeremy Taylor.
Despair is like froward children, who,
when you take away one of their playthings,
throw the rest into the fire for madness.
It
grows angry with itself, turns its own
executioner, and revenges its misfortunes
on its own head.-Charron.
Despair is the offspring of fear, of lazi-
ness, and impatience; it argues a defect of
spirit and resolution, and often of honesty
too. I would not despair unless I saw my
misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and
signed and sealed by necessity.-Collier.
Despair gives courage to the weak.
Resolved to die, he fears no more, but
l'ushes on his foes, and deals his deaths
around.- Sonierville.
Beware of desperate steps.—The darkest
day, live till to-morrow, will have passed
away.- Cowper.
He that despairs degrades the Deity, and
seems to intimate that He is insufficient,
or not just to his word; in vain bath ho
read the Scriptures, the world, and man,
Feltham.
He who despairs wants love and faith, for
faith, hope, and love are three torches which
blend their light together, nor does the one
shine without the other.-Metastasio.
Despair gives the shocking ease to the
mind that mortification gives to the body.-
Greville.
Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the
serenity of heaven.--
Donne.
The fact that God has prohibited de-
spair gives misfortune the right to hope all
things, and leaves hope free to dare all
things.-Mad. Swetchine.
Religion converts despair, which de-
stroys, into resignation, which submits.
Lady Blessingtori.
DESPONDENCY.-To despond is to
be ungrateful beforehand.-Be not looking
for evil.-Often thou drainest the gall of
fear while evil is missing by thy dwelling.--
Tupper.
Life is a warfare ; and he who easily de-
sponds deserts a double duty-he betrays
the noblest property of man, which is
dauntless resolution; and he rejects the
providence of that all-gracious Being
who guides and rules the universe, Jane
Porter.
To believe a business impossible is the
way to make it so.—How many feasible
projects have miscarried through despon-
dency, and been strangled in their birth
by a cowardly imagination.—Collier.
In the lottery of life there are more prizes
drawn than blanks, and to one misfortune
there are fifty advantages. Despondency
is the most unprofitable feeling a man can
indulge in.-De Witt Talmage.
Despondency is not a state of humility.-
On the contrary, it is the vexation and
despair of a cowardly pride ; nothing is
worse.—Whether we stumble, or whether
we fall, we must only think of rising again
and going on in our course.-Fenelon.
Despondency is ingratitude ; hope is
God's worship.-H. W. Beecher.
Some persons depress their own minds,
despond
at the first difficulty, and conclude
that making any progress in knowledge,
further than serves their ordinary business,
is above their capacity.- Locke.
As to feel that we can do a thing is often
DESPOTISM.
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DESTINY.
success, so to doubt and despond is a sure
step to failure.
DESPOTISM. I will believe in the
right of one man to govern a nation de-
spotically when I find a man born into the
world with boots and spurs, and a nation
born with saddles on their backs.-Alger-
non Sidney.
Despotism can no more exist in a nation
until the liberty of the press be destroyed,
than the night can happen before the sun
is set.- Collon.
It is odd to consider the connection be-
tween despotism and barbarity, and how
the making one person more than man
makes the rest less.-Addison.
In times of anarchy one may seem a
despot in order to be a savior.-Mirabeau.
Despots govern by terror.-They know
that he who fears God fears nothing else,
and therefore they eradicate from the
mind, through their Voltaire and Helvetius,
and the rest of that infamous gang, that
only sort of fear which generates true
courage.- Burkce.
As virtue is necessary in a republic, and
honor in a monarchy, fear is what is re-
quired in a despotism.-As for virtue, it
not at all necessary, and honor would be
dangerous there.—Montesquieu.
All despotism is bad ; but the worst is
that which works with the machinery of
freedoin.-Junius.
It is difficult for power to avoid despot-
ism. The possessors of rude health-the
characters never strained by a doubt-the
minds that no questions disturb and no
aspirations put out of breath-there, the
strong, are also the tyrants.-Gasparin.
When the savages wish to have fruit they
cut down the tree and gather it. That is
exactly a despotic government.--Montes-
quieu.
There is something among men more
capable of shaking despotic power than
lightning, whirlwind, or earthquake ; that
is, the threatened indignation of the whole
civilized world.-- Daniel Webster.
DESTINY.-Man proposes, but God
disposes.-Thomas a Kenipis.
We are but the instruments of heaven;
our work is not design, but destiny.- Owen
Meredith.
No man of woman born, coward or brave,
can shun his destiny.- Honer.
Destiny is the scape-goat which we make
responsible for all our crimes and follies;
a necessity which we set down for invin-
cible when we have no wish to strive against
it.--Balfour.
The acts of this life are the destiny of the
next.-
Lastern Proverb.
That which God writes on thy forehead,
thou wilt come to it.-Koran.
Destiny is but a phrase of the weak hu-
man heart-the dark apology for every
error.-The strong and virtuous admit no
destiny.-On earth conscience guides ; in
heaven God watches.--And destiny is but
the phantom we invoke to silence the one
and dethrone the other.--Bulwer.
Philosophers never 'stood in need of
Homer or the Pharisees to be convinced
that everything is done by immutable
laws; that everything is settled ; that
everything is the necessary effect of some
previous cause. — Voltaire.
The clew of our destiny, wander where
we will, lies at the cradle foot.-Richter.
Nothing comes to pass but what God ap-
points.-Our fate is decreed, and things do
not happen by chance, but every man's por-
tion of joy or sorrow is predetermined.-
Seneca.
That which is not allotted the band can-
not reach ; and what is allotted you will
find wherever you may be.-Saadi.
Man supposes that he directs his life and
governs his actions, when his existence
is irretrievably under the control of des-
tiny.-Goethe.
If the course of human affairs be con-
sidered, it will be seen that many things
arise against which heaven does not allow
us to guard.—Machiavelli.
Death and life have their determined
appointments ; riches and honors depend
upon heaven.-Confucius.
The wheels of nature are not made to
roll backward: everything presses on to-
ward eternity: from the birth of time an
impetuous current has set in, which bears
all the sons of men toward that intermin-
able ocean. Meanwhile heaven is attracting
to itself whatever is congenial to its nature,
is enriching itself by the spoils of earth,
and collecting within its capacious bosom
whatever is pure, permanent, and divine.-
Robert Hall.
I do not mean to expose my ideas to in-
genious ridicule by maintaining that every-
thing happens to every man for the best ;
but I will contend, that he who makes the
best use of it, fulfills the part of a wise and
good man.- Cumberland.
Thoughts lead on to purposes ; purposes
go forth iu actions ; actions form habits ;
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habits decide character ; and character
fixes our destiny.-Tryon Edwards.
DETRACTION.—(See “SLANDER.”)
The detractor may, and often does, pull
down others, but by so doing he never, as
he seems to suppose, elevates liimself to
their position. -The most he can do is,
maliciously to tear from them the blessings
which he cannot enjoy himself.
To be traduced by ignorant tongues, is
the rough brake that virtue must go
through. - Shakespeare.
Those who propagate evil reports frè-
quently invent them; and it is no breach
of charity to suppose this to be always the
case, because no man who spreads detrac-
tion' would have scrupled to produce it, as
he who should diffuse poison in a brook
would scarce be acquitted of a malicious
design, though he should allege that he
received it of another who is doing the same
elsewhere.- Adventurer.
To make beads of the faults of others,
and tell them over every day, is infernal.
If you want to know bow devils feel, your
do know if you are such an one.-H. W.
Beecher.
Happy are they that hear their detrac-
tions, and can put them to mending.--
Shakespeare.
In some dispositions there is such an en-
vious kind of pride that they cannot endure
that any but themselves should be set forth
for excellent; so that when they hear one
justly praised, they will either seek to dis-
mount his virtues, or, if they be like a clear
light, they will stab him with a “but” of
detraction.-Feltham.
Much depends upon a man's courage
when he is slandered and traduced. Weak
men are crushed by detraction; but the
brave hold on and succeed.
He whose first emotion, on the view of an
excellent work, is to undervalue or depre-
ciate it, will never have one of his own to
show. Aikcin.
Base natures joy to see hard hap happen
to them they deem happy.-Sir P. Sidney.
Whoever feels pain in hearing a good
character of his neighbor, will feel pleasure
in the reverse ; and those who despair to
rise to distinction by their virtues are
happy if others can be depressed to a level
with themselves.-J. Barler.
The man that makes a character, makes
foes.-Young.
If we considered detraction to be bred of
envy, and nested only in deficient minds,
we should find that the applauding of virtue
would win us far more honor than seeking
to disparage it. -That would show we loved
what we commended, while this tells the
world we grudge at what we want our-
selves.-
I'etham.
There is no readier way for a man to
bring his own worth into question, than by
endeavoring to detract froin the worth of
other men.-Tillotson.
Unjustifiable detraction always proves
the weakness as well as nieanness of the one
who employs it.—To be constantly carping
at, and exaggerating petty blemishes in the
characters of others, putting an unfavor-
able construction on their language, or
• damniug with faint praise" their deeds,
betrays, on the part of the detractor, å
conscious inability to maintain a reput-
able standing on legitimate and honorable
ground.-L. L. Magoon.
DEVIATION.-When people once be-
gin to deviate, they do not know where to
stop.-George III.
Ah! to what gulfs a single deviation from
the track of human duties leads !-Byron.
Deviation from either truth or duty is a
downward path, and none can say where
the descent will end.--"He that despiseth
small things shall fall by little and little."-
Tryon Edwards.
DEVIL.-The devil is no idle spirit, but
a vagrant, runagate walker, that never
rests in one place. The motive, cause, and
main intention of his walking is to ruin
man.-T. Adams.
No sooner is a temple built to God, but
the devil builds a chapel hard by.--Herbert.
As no good is done, or spoken, or thought
by any man without the assistance of God,
working in and with those that believe in
him, so there is no evil done, or spoken, or
thought without the assistance of the devil,
who worketh with strong though secret
power in the children of unbelief.-All the
works of our evil nature are the work of the
devil.-J. Wesley.
What, man! Defy the devil! Consider
he's an enemy to mankind.--Shakespeare.
He who would fight the devil with his own
weapons, must not wonder if he finds him
an overmatch.-South.
The devil knoweth his own, and is a par-
ticularly bad paymaster.-F. M. Crawford.
The devil has at least one good quality,
that he will flee if we resist him.-Though
cowardly in him, it is safety for us.—Tryon
Edwards.
Talk of devils being confined to hell, or
hidden by invisibility !-We have them by
of the
DEVOTION.
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DIET.
shoals in the crowded towns and cities of God gives to his people when they are on
the world._Talk of raising the devil ! their knees in the closet.-Prayer, if not
What need for that, when he is constantly the very gate of heaven, is the key to let us
walking to and fro in our streets, seeking into its holiness and joys.-T. Broolcs.
whom he may devour.--Anon.
Once I sought a time and place for soli-
DEVOTION.--All is holy where devo-
tude and prayer ; but now where'er I find
tion kncels.--0. W. Holmres.
thy face I find a closet there.
The most illiterate man who is touched DEW,-The dew of evening -- those
with devotion, and uses frequent exercises teals of the sky for the loss of the sun.
of it, contracts a certain greatness of mind, Chesterfield.
ipingled with a noble simplicity, that raises Stars of the morning-dew-drops--which
him above others of the same coudition.
the sun impearls on every leaf and flower.
By this, a man in the lowest condition will
-Milton.
not appear mean, or in the most splendid
fortune insolent.-Johnson.
Dew-drops-nature's tears, which she
sheds on her own breast for the fair which
The private devotions and secret offices die.—The sun insists on gladness; but at
of religion are like the refreshing of i gar- night, when he is gone, poor nature loves
den with the distilling and petty drops of to weep.--Bailey.
& waterpot; but addressed from the tem-
Dew-drops are the gems of morning, but
ple, they are like rain from heaven.-Jeremy the tears of mournful eve.- Coleridge.
Taylor.
Earth's liquid jewelry, wrought of the
Satan rocks the cradle when we sleep at
air.- Bailey.
our devotions.-Bp. Hall.
It is of the utmost importance to season
DICE.- I look. upon every man as a sui-
the passions of the young with devotion,
cide from the moment he takes the dice-
which seldom dies in the mind that has re- box desperately in his hand; all that follows
ceived an early tincture of it. Though it
in his career from that fatal time is only
may seem extinguished for a while. by the sharpening the dagger before he strikes it
cares of the world, the heats of youth, or
to his heart.--Cumberland.
the allurements of vice, it generally breaks I never hear the rattling of dice that it
out and discovers itself again as soon as does not sound to me like the funeral bell
discretion, consideration, age, or misfor-
tunes have brought the man to himself.
The best throw with the clice, is to throw
The fire may be covered and overlaid but
them away.-Old Proverb.
cannot be entirely quenched and smoth-
ered.-Addison.
DIET.-Regimen is better than physic.
All the duties of religion are eminently Every one should be his own physician.
solemu aud venerable in the eyes of cliil- We should assist, not force uature.-Eat
dren. But none will so strongly prove the
with moderation what you know by expe-
sincerity of the parent; none so powerfully rience agrees with your constitution.-
awaken the reverence of the child ; none Nothing is good for the body but what we
so happily recommend the instruction lie can digest. What can procure digestion ?
receives, as family devotions, particularly -Exercise.—What will recruit strength.
those in which petitions for the children Sleep.—What will alleviate incurable evils?
occupy a distinguished place.-Dwight.
Patience.- Voltaire.
The secret heart is devotion's temple ; In general, mankind, since the improve-
there the saint lights the flame of purest ment of cookery, eat twice as much as na-
sacrifice, which burns unseen but not un- ture requires.-Franklin.
accepted.--Ilannah More.
All courageous animals are carnivorous,
The inward sighs of bumble penitence and greater courage is to be expected in a
rise to the ear of heaven, when pealed people whose food is strong and hearty,
hymns are scattered to the common air. --- than in the half-starved of other countries.
Joanna Baillie,
.
-Sir W. Temple.
Solid devotions resemble the rivers which Food improperly taken, not only produ-
run under the earth—they steal from the ces diseases, but affords those that are al-
eyes of the world to seek the eyes of God; ready engendered both matter and suste-
and it often happens that those of whom we nance; so that, let the father of disease be
speak least on earth, are best known in what it may, intemperance is its mother. --
heaven.---Caussin.
Burton.
The best and sweetest flowers in paradise, Simple diet is best; for many dishes
DIFFERENCE.
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DIFFIDENCE.
bring many diseases ; and rich sauces are
worse than even heaping several meats
upon each other.–Pliny.
The chief pleasure in eating does not
consist in costly seasoning, or exquisito
flavor, but in yourself. Do you seek for
sauce by labor 7- Horace.
If thou wouldst preserve a sound body,
use fasting and walking ; if a healthful
soul, fasting and praying.-Walking exer-
cises the body ; praying exercises the soil ;
fasting cleanses both. -Quarles.
One meal a day is enough for a lion, and
it ought to be for a man.-G. T'ordyce.
A fig for your bill of fare ; show me your
bill of company.-Swift.
DIFFERENCE.-It is remarkable that
men, when they differ in what they think
considerable, are apt to differ in almost
everything else. Their difference begets
contradiction; contradiction begets heat;
beat rises into resentment, rage, and ill-
will.--Thus they differ in affection, as they
differ in judgment, and the contention
which began in pride, ends in anger.-Cato.
In all differences consider that both you
and your opponent or enemy are mortal,
and that ere long your very memories will
be extinguished.-Aurel.
If men would consider not so much
wherein they differ, as wherein they agree,
there would be far less of wucharitableness
and angry feeling in the world.-Addison.
DIFFICULTY,What is difficulty ?-
Only a word indicating the degree of
strength requisite for accomplishing par-
ticular objects ; a mere notice of the neces-
sity for exertion; a bugbear to children
and fools; only a stimulus to men.-Samuel
Warren.
It has been the glory of the great masters
in all the arts to confront and to overcome ;
and when they had overcome the first diffi-
culty, to turn it into an instrument for new
conquests over new difficulties; thus to
enable them to extend the empire of science.
Difficulty is a severe instructor, set over
us by the Supreme guardian and legislator,
who knows us better than we know our-
selves, and loves us better too. He that
wrestles with 118 strengthens our nerves
and sharpens our skill.–Our antagonist is
our helper.- Burke.
The greatest difficulties lie where we are
not looking for them.-Goethe.
The weak sinews become strong by their
conflict with difficulties.—Hope is born in
the long night of watching and tears.-
Faith visits us in defeat and disappoint-
ment, amid the consciousness of earthly
frailty and the crumbling tombstones of
mortality.-L. H. Chapin.
It is not every calamity that is a curse,
and early adversity is often a blessing.-
Surmounted difficulties not only teach, but
hearten us in our future struggles.-Sharp.
Difficulty is the soil in which all manly
and womanly qualities best flourish; and
the true worker, in any sphere, is con-
tinually coping with difficulties. His very
failures, throwing him upon his own re-
sources, cultivate energy and resolution ;
his hardships teach him fortitude ; his suc-
cesses inspire self-reliance.
It cannot be too often repeated that it is
not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but
difficulties that make men.-W. Mathews.
Difficulties are God's errands; and when
we are sent upon them we should esteem it
a proof of God's confidence—as a compli-
ment from him.-H. W. Beecher.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor
does the body.-Seneca.
There is no merit where there is no trial
and till experience stamps the mark of
strength, cowards may pass for heroes, and
faith for falsehood.-A. Hill.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory
we have in overcoming it; the difficulties
with which we are met are the maids of
honor which set off virtue.-Moliere.
Difficulties show men what they are.-In
case of any difficulty God has pitted you
against a rough antagonist that you may be
a conqueror, and this cannot be without
toil.- Epictetus.
Our energy is in proportion to the re-
sistance it meets.- We attempt nothing
great but from a sense of the difficulties we
have to encounter; we persevere in noth-
ing great but from a pride in overcoming
them.-Hazlill.
There are difficulties in your path.-Be
thankful for them. They will test your
capabilities of resistance, you will be im-
pelled to persevere from the very energy
of the opposition. But what of himn that
fails ?-What does he gain?-Strength for
life.-The real merit is not in the success,
but in the endeavor ; and win or lose, he will
be honored and crowned.-W.M. Punshon.
DIFFIDENCE. Persons extremely re-
served and diffident are like the old enam-
elled watches, which had painted covers
that hindered you from secing what time
it was.
- Walpole.
We .are as often duped by diffidence as
by confidence.- Chesterfield.
of what others Day think of you, and it will
DIGNITY.
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DISAPPOINTMENT.
Diffidence may check resolution, and ob- Who makes quick use of the moment, is
struct performance, but it compensates its a genius of prudence.-Lavater.
embarrassments by more important advan-
He who labors diligently need never de-
tages. It conciliates the proud, and softens
spair ; for all things are accomplished by
the severe ; averts envy from excellence,
diligence and labor.-Menander.
and censure from miscarriage. ---Johnson.
In all departments of activity, to have
Nothing sinks a young man into low com-
one thing to do, and then to do it, is the
pany, both of men and women, so surely secret of success.
as timidity and diffidence of hiinself.-Ifle
thinks he shall not please, he may depend
DINNER.A dinner lubricates busi-
upou it that he will not.—But with proper Dess.--Stowell.
endeavors to please. and a degree of per- Before dinner, men meet with great ino-
suasion that he shall, it is almost certain quality of understanding, and those who
that he will.—Chesterfield.
are conscious of their inferiority have the
One with more of soul in his face than modesty not to talk : when they liave drunk
words on his tongue.-- Wordsworth.
wine, every man feels liimself happy, anıl
loses that modesty, and grows impudent
Have a proper self-respect and think less
and vociferons ; but he is not improved ;
aid you to overcome diffidence, and help you
be is only not sensible of his defects. -
Johnson.
to self-possession and self-reliance.
A good dinner sharpens wit, while it
DIGNITY.-True dignity is never
softens the heart.--Doran.
gained by place, and never lost when honors
are withdrawn. - Massinger.
The pleasant talk of the dir nr table
promotes digestion, anil prevents the minil
Dignity of position adds to dignity of
from dwelling on the grinding of the diges-
character, as well as to dignity of car- tive mill that is going on within us, The
riage.—Give us a proud position, and we satisfaction and repose that follow a full
are impelled to act up to it.— Bovee.
meal tend to check à disposition to splenetic
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, argument, or too inuch zcal in supporting
but in the consciousness that we deserve an opinion, while the freedom and aban-
them.-Aristotle.
don of the intercourse kept up is eminently
Lord Chatham and Napoleon were
conducive to the feelings of general benevo-
much actors as Garrick or Talma.-An im-
lence.-Jerdan.
posing air should always be taken as evi-
DIRT.-"Ignorance,” says Ajax,
dence of imposition.--Dignity is often a veil
painless evil." -So, I should think, is dirt,
between us and the real truth of things.-
E. P. Whipple.
considering the merry faces that go along
with it. - George Eliot.
Dignity and love do not blend well, nor
Dirt is not dirt, but only something in
do they continue long together.-- Ovid.
the wrong place.- Lord Palmerston.
Most of the men of dignity, who awe or
bore their more genial brethren, are simply DISAPPOINTMENT.-The dis-
men who possess the art of passing off their appointment of manhood succeeds to the
insensibility for wisdom, their dullness for delusion of youth.-Disraeli.
depth, and of concealing imbecility of in-
No man, with a man's heart in him, gets
tellect under haughtiness of manner.-E. far on his way without some bitter, soul-
P. Whipple.
searching disappointment.—Happy he who
DILIGENCE.-What we hope ever to
is brave enough to push on another stage
of the journey, and rest where there are
do with ease, we must learn first to do with:
"living springs of water, and three-score
diligence.-Johnson.
and ten palms."-Brown. .
The expectations of life depend upon
diligence, the mechanic that would perfect
The best enjoyment is half disappoint-
ment to what we intend or would have in
his work must first sharpen his tools.-
this world.-Bailey.
Confucius.
Diligence is the mother of good luck,
Oft expectation fails, and most oft where
and God gives all things to industry.
most it promises ; and oft it hits where
Work while it is called to-day, for you know
hope is coldest, and despair most sits.
not how much you may be hindered to-
Shakespeare.
One to-day is worth two to-mor-
How disappointment tracks the steps of
rowy; never leave that till to-morrow which
hope-L. İ. Landon.
you can do to-day.-Franklin.
He who expects much will be often dis-
as
bois a
morrow.
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No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne;
no gall, no glory ; no cross, no crown.-
Penn.
A man in old age is like a sword in a shop
window.-Men that look upon the perfect
blado do not imagine the process by which
it was completed.—Man is a sword; daily
life is the workshop; and God is the artifi-
cer; and those cares which beat upon the
anvil, and file the edge, and eat in, acid-like,
the inscription on the hilt—those are the
very things that fashion the man.-H. W.
Beecher.
The discipline wbich corrects the base-
ness of worldly passion, fortifies the heart
with virtuous priuciples, enlightens the
mind with useful knowledge, and furnishes
it with enjoyment from withiu itself, is of
more consequence to real felicity, than all
the provisions we can make of the goods
of fortune.-Blair.
appointed ; yet disappointment seldom
cures us of expectation, or has any other
effect than that of producing a moral sen-
tence or peevish exclamation.-Johnson.
In the light of eternity we shall see that
what we desired would have been fatal to
us, and that what we would have avoided
was essential to our well-being.-Fenelon.
Man must be disappointed with the lesser
things of life before he can comprehend
the full value of the greater.- Bulwer.
There is many a thing which the world
calls disappointment, but there is no such
a word in the dictionary of faith. What to
others are disappointments are to believers
intimations of the way of God.-John
Newton,
Mean spirits under disappointinent, like
small beer in a thunder-storm, always turn
sour.--John Randolph.
An old man once said, “When I was
young, I was poor ; when old, I became
rich; but in each condition I fonnd disap-
pointment.--When I had the faculties for
enjoyment, I had not the means ; when the
means came, the faculties were gone."-
Mad. Gasparin.
We mount to heaven mostly on the ruins
of our cherished schemes, finding our fail-
ures were successes.--A. B. Alcott.
It is sometimes of God's mercy that men
in the eager pursuit of worldly aggran-
dizement are baffled ; for they are very like
a train going down an inclined plane-put-
ting on the brake is not pleasant, but it
keeps the car on the track and from ruin.-
H. W. Beecher.
Life often seems like a long shipwreck
of which the debris are friendship, glory,
and love. The shores of existence are
strewn with them.-Mad. de Slaël.
DISCERNMENT.-After a spirit of
discernment, the next rarest things in the
world are diamonds and pearls.-Bruyère.
To succeed in the world, it is much more
necessary to possess the penetration to dis-
cern who is a fool, than to discover who is
a clever man. -Talleyrand.
Penetration or discernment has an air of
divination ; it pleases our vanity more than
any other quality of the mind. --Rochefou-
cauld.
The idiot, the Indian, the child, and the
unschooled farmer's boy stand nearer to
the light by which nature is to be read,
than the dissector or the antiquary.-
Emerson.
DISCIPLINE.-A stern discipline per-
vades all nature, which is a little cruel that
it may be very kind.-Spenser.
ness.
DISCONTENT.-Discontent isthewant
of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.
Emerson.
Our condition never satisfies us; the
present is always the worst.-Though Ju-
piter should grant his request to each, we
should continue to importune him.--I'on-
taine.
Noble discontent is the path to heaven.-
T, W. Higginson.
Discontent is like ink poured into water,
wbich fills the whole fountain full of black-
It casts a cloud over the mind, and
renders it more occupied about the evil
which disquiets than about the means of
removing it.-Fellhan.
The root of all discontent is self-love.-
J. F. Clarke.
The more self is in dulged the more it
demands, and, therefore, of all men the
selfish are the most discontented.
All human situations have their inconve-
niences.- We feel those of the present, but
neither see nor feel those of the future;
and hence we often make troublesome
changes without amendment, and fre-
quently for the worse.— Franklin.
The best remedy for our discontent is to
count our mercies. By the time we have
reckoned up a part of these, we shall be
on our knees praising the Lord for His
great mercy and love. — The Quiver.
We love in others what we lack ourselves,
and would be everything but what we are.
C. A. Stoddard.
Discontent may be a very good thing, or
a very bad.--There is a discontent that is
divine ; that has its birth in the highest
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DISCUSSION.
and purest inspiration that visits and stirs
the soul.-All the discontent which grows
from dissatisfaction with present attain-
ments, or springs from a desire for higher
usefulness, or that impels to the worthy
achievement of an honorable name or place,
is a noble discontent, and to be visited with
blessings.—But the discontent that comes
from below-froin a soul disgusted with its
lot, and faithless to God, and out of har-
mony with the arrangements and opera-
tions of providence, is evil, and only evil
continually.-Oue tends to the develop-
ment of a symmetrical, strong, and har-
monious character; the other to an evil
temper, and a complaining spirit, and a
rebellious heart.--One is of heaven; the
other of hell.-H. W. Beecher.
That which makes people dissatisfied with
their condition, is the chimerical idea they
form of the happiness of others.--Thomson.
Discontents are sometimes the better part
of our life. -I know not which is the most
useful.--Joy I may choose for pleasure ;
but adversities are the best for profit; and
sometimes these do so far help me, that I
should, without them, want much of the
joy I have.-Feltham.
A good man and a wise man may, at
times, be angry with the world, and at times
grieved for it; but no man was ever dis-
contented with the world if he did his duty
in it. --Southey.
Save me from impious discontent at
aught thy wisdom has denied or thy good-
ness has lent.-Pope.
DISCOVERY-A new principle is an
inexhaustible source of new views.-- Van-
venargues.
It is a mortifying truth, and ought to
teach the wisest of us humility, that many
of the most valuable discoveries have been
the result of chance rather than of con-
templation, and of accident rather than of
design.-Colton.
If I have ever made any valuable dis-
coveries, it has been owing more to patient
attention, than to any other talent.--Sir
Isaac Newton,
It is a profound mistake to think that
everything has been discovered ; as well
think the horizon the boundary of the
world.-Lemierre.
He who sing against men, may fear dis-
covery ; but he who sins against God is sure
It is the modest, not the presumptuous
inquirer, who makes a real and safe prog-
ress in the discovery of divine truths.
He follows God in his works and in his
word.—Bolingbroke.
DISCRETION.-The greatest parts,
without discretion, may be fatal to their
owner.-Polyphemus, deprived of his eye,
was only the more exposed on account of
his enormous strength and stature.--Hume.
Be discreet in all things, and so render
it unnecessary to be mysterious about
&ny.-- Wellington.
There are many shining qualities in the
mind of man ; but none so useful as dis-
cretion. It is this which gives a value to
all the rest, and sets them at work in their
proper places, and turns them to the acl-
vantage of their possessor. Without it,
learning is pedantry; wit, impertinence;
virtue itself looks like weakness ; and the
best parts only qualify a man to be more
sprightly in errors, and active to his own
prejudice. Though a man has all other
perfections and wants discretion, he will be
of no great consequence in the world ; but
if he has this single talent in perfection,
and but a common share of others, he may
do what he pleases in his station of life.
Addison.
Discretion in speech, is more than elo-
quence.-
Bacon.
Open your mouth and purse cautiously,
and your stock of wealth and reputation
shall, at least in repute, be great.--Zim-
mern2an.
A sound discretion is not so much indi-
cated by never making a mistake, as by
never repeating it.-Bovee.
The better part of valor is discretion,
in the which better part I have saved my
life.-Shakespeare.
Discretion is the perfection of reason,
and a guide to us in all the duties of life.-
It is only found in men of sound sepse and
good understanding.-Bruyère.
Discretion is the salt, and fancy the
sugar of life; the one preserves, the other
sweetens it.-Bovee.
If thou art a master, be sometimes blind;
if a servant, sometimes deaf.-Fuller.
DISCUSSION.-Tree and fair disciis-
sion will ever be found the firmest friend
to truth.-6. Campbell.
It is an excellent rule to be observed in
all discussions, that men should give soft
worris and hard arguments ; that they
should not so much strive to silence or vex,
as to convince their opponents. - Willcins.
of it.
Through every rift of discovery some
seeming anomaly drops out of the dark-
ness, and falls, as a golden link, into the
great chain of order.-E. H. Chapin.
.
0
gravity to wit.--Make a full concession to
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DISGUISE.
He who knows only his own side of the a great noise to make the enemy believe
case, knows little of that.-J. Stuart Mill. them more numerous and strong than they
He that is not open to conviction, is not
really are.-Swift.
qualified for discussion.- Whately.
DISEASE.-The disease and its medi-
Whosoever is afraid of submitting any cine are like two factions in a besieged
question, civil or religious, to the test of town ; they tear one another to pieces, but
free discussion, is more in love with his both unite against their common enemy-
own opinion than with truth.-T. Watson. Nature.--Jeffrey.
Understand your antagonist before you Diseases are the penalties we pay for over-
answer him.
indulgence, or for our neglect of the means
The more discussion the better, if pas-
of health.
sion and personality be eschewed.-Dis- In these days half our diseases come from
cussion, even if stormy, often winnows the neglect of the body, and the overwork
truth from error-a good never to be ex- of the brain.-In this railway age the wear
pected in an uninquiring age.--Channing. and tear of labor and intellect go on with-
There is no dispute managed without out pause or self-pity.-We live longer than
passion, and yet there is scarce a dispute our forefathers; but we suffer more, from
worth a passion.-Sherloclc.
a thousand artificial anxieties and cares. -
There is nothing displays the quickness
They fatigued only the muscles ; we ex-
of genius more than a dispute-as two dia-
haust the finer strength of the nerves.
Bulwer.
monds, encountering, contribute to each
other's lustre.—But perhaps the odds is Taking medicine is often only making a
against the man of taste in this particu- new disease to cure or hide the old one.
lar.--Shenstone.
It is with diseases of the mind, as with
The pain of dispute exceeds, by much, those of the body : we are half dead before
its utility.-All disputation makes the we understand our disorder, and half cured
mind deaf, and when people are deaf I am when we do.-Colton.
dumb.-Joubert.
Sickness and disease are in weak minds
Gratuitous violence in argument betrays
a conscious weakness of the cause, and is
the sources of melancholy; but that which
is painful to the body, inay be profitable to
usually a signal of despair.-Junius.
the soul. Sickness puts us in mind of our
Men are never so likely to settle a question mortality, and, while we drive on heedlessly
rightly, as when they discuss it freely.- in the full career of worldly pomp and
Macaulay.
jollity, kindly pulls 178 by the ear, and
In debate, rather pull to pieces the argu- brings us to a proper sense of our duty.-
ment of thine antagonist, than offer him Burton.
any of thine own; for thus thou wilt fight
him in his own country.- Fielding.
DISGRACE,-Disgrace is not in the
punishment, but in the crime.-Alfieri.
If thou take delight in idle argumenta-
tion, thou mayest be qualified to combat
Among the numberless contradictions in
with the sophists, but will never know how
our nature bardly any is more glaring than
to live with men.-Socrates.
this, between our sensitiveness to the slight-
est disgrace which we fancy cast upon us
Reply with wit to gravity, and with from without and our callousness to the
grossest which we bring down on ourselves.
your adversary; give him every credit for
In truth, they who aro the most sensitive
the arguments you know you can answer, to the one are often the most callous to the
and slur over those you feel you cannot.- other.-Guesses at Truth.
But above all, if he have the privilege of
making his reply, take especial care that
Do not talk about disgrace from a thing
the strongest thing you have to urge be the
being known, when the disgrace is, that
last.—Collon.
the thing should exist. - Falconer.
Do not use thyself to dispute against thine
Whatever disgrace we may bave deserved
own judgment to show thy wit, lest it pre-
or incurred, it is almost always in our power
pare thee to be indifferent about what is
to re-establish our character.-Rochefou-
right; nor against another man to vex him,
cauld.
or for mere trial of skill, since to inform DISGUISE.-Men would not live long in
or be informed ought to be the end of all society, were they not the mutual dupes of
conferences.-Penn.
each other.-Rochefoucauld.
It is in disputes, as in armies, where the Disguise yourself as you may to your fel-
weaker side sets up false lights, and makes low-men, if you are honest with yourself
-
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conscience will make known your real char- ous thought and noble feeling.–We should
acter, and the heart-searching one always cherish kind wishes, for a time may come
knows it.-Payson.
when we may be able to put them in prac-
Were we to take as much pains to be
tice.--Miss Mitford.
what we ought to be, as we do to disguise Love thyself last. Cherish the hearts
what we really are, we might appear like that hate thee.-Be just and fear not.-Let
ourselves without being at the trouble of all the ends thou aimest at be thy coun-
any disguise whatever.-Rochefoucauld. try's, thy God's, and truth's ; then if thou
DISHONESTY,-Dishonesty is a for-
fallest, thou fallest a blessed martyr.-
Shakespeare.
saking of permanent for temporary ad-
vantages.-Bovee.
DISOBEDIENCE.~Wherever there is
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense
authority, there is a natural inclination to
talked about bad men not looking you in
disobedience.- Haliburton.
the face.-Don't trust that idea.-Dishon- Rogues differ little. Each begun first as
esty will stare honesty out of countenance a disobedient son.--Chinese Proverb.
any day in the week, if there is anything to
That men so universally disobey God
be got by it.--Dickens.
bespeaks alienation and enmity of mind,
He who purposely cheats his friend, for as obedience proceeds from love so dis-
would cheat his God.-Lavater.
obedience proceeds from enmity.—John
Every man takes care that his neighbor
Howe.
shall not cheat him. But a day comes
Disobedient children, if preserved from
when he begins to care that he do not the gallows, are reserved for the rack, to be
cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. tortured by their own posterity.-One com-
He has changed his market-cart into a plaining, that never father had so undutiful
chariot of the sun.-Emerson.
a child as he had, yes, said his son, with
That which is von ill, will never wear
less grace than truth, my grandfather had.
well, for there is a curse attends it which
-Fuller,
will waste it.—The same corrupt disposi- DISPATCH.-Dispatch is the soul of
tions which incline men to sinful ways of business.-Chester field.
getting, will incline them to the like sinful
True dispatch is a rich thing, for time is
ways of spending.-M. Henry.
the measure of business, as money is of
If you attempt to beat a man down and
wares; and business is bought at a dear
so get his goods for less than a fair price, hand where there is small dispatch.-Bacon.
you are attempting to commit burglary as
Use dispatch.--Remember that the world
inuch as though you broke into his shop
only took six days for its creation.-Ask
to take the things without paying for them.
-There is cheating on both sides of the
me for whatever you please except time;
that is the only thing which is beyond my
counter, and generally less behind it than
before.-H. W. Beecher.
power.— Napoleon.
To choose time is to save time. There
So grasping is dishonesty, that it is no
respecter of persons ; it will cheat friends
the debate or examination, and the per-
as well as focs ; and were it possible, would
fection; whereof, if you look for dispatch,
cheat even God himself.-Bancroft.
let the middle only be the work of many,
I could never draw the line between mean- and the first and last the work of few.
ness and dishonesty.-What is mean, so far
Bacon,
as I can see, slides by indistinguishable
If it were done when it is done, then it
gradations into what is dishonest.-G. Mac-
were well it were done quickly.—Shake-
donald.
speare.
DISINTERESTEDNESS,-Men of the
Our only safe rule is, “Whatsoever our
world hold that it is impossible to do a
hand findeth to do, to do it with all our
benevolent action, except from an inter-
might."-Let it be a subject of daily prayer,
ested motive ; for the sake of admiration,
if for no grosser and more tangible gain.
as well as an object of daily endeavor, tó
Doubtless they are also convinced, that,
do our right work at the right time.-N.
Macleod.
when the sun is showering light from the
sky, he is only standing there to be stared Measure not dispatch by the times of sit-
at. Anon.
ting, but by the advancement of business.-
Bacon.
The slightest emotion of disinterested
kindness that passes through the mind im- DISPOSITION.-A good disposition is
proves and refreshes it, producing gener- more valuable than gold ; for the latter is
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the gift of fortune, but the former is the
dower of nature.--Addison,
The most phlegmatic dispositions often
contain the most inflammable spirits, as
fire is 'struck from the hardest tlints.
Hazlitt.
The man who has so little knowledge of
human nature, as to seek happiness by
changing anything but his own disposi-
tions, will waste his life in fruitless efforts,
and multiply the griefs which he proposes
to remove. - Colton.
Envy's memory is nothing but a row
of hooks to hang up grudges on. Some
people's sensibility is a mere bundle of
aversions ; and you hear them display and
parade it, notin recounting the things they
are attached to, but in telling you how
many things and persons "they cannot
bear.”—John I'oster.
A tender hearted, compassionate disposi-
tion, which inclines men to pity and to feel
the misfortunes of others, and which is
incapable of involving any man in ruin and
misery, is, of all tempers of mind, the most
amiable ; and though it seldom receives
much honor, is worthy of the highest.-
Fielding.
There is no security in a good disposition
if the support of good principles, that is
to say, of religion-of Christiản faith, be
wanting.--It may be soured by misfortune,
corrnpted by wealth, blighted by neediness,
and lose all its original brightness, if des-
titute of that support.-Southey.
DISSIMULATION,-Dissimulation is
but a faint kind of policy or wisdom, for it
asketh a strong wit and a strong heart to
know when to tell the truth, and to do it:
therefore it is the weaker sort of politicians
that are the greatest dissemblers.-Bacon.
Dissimulation in youth is the forerunner
of perfidy in old age.--It degrades parts
and learning, obscures the lustre of every
accomplishment, and sinks is into con-
tempt.--The path of falsehood is a per-
plexing maze.—One artifice leads on to an-
other, till, as the intricacy of the labyrinth
increases, we are left entangled in our own
snare.-Blair.
Dissimulation is often humble, often
polished, grave, smooth, decorous, but it
is rarely gay and jovial, a hearty langher,
or a merry, cordial, boon companion.-
Bulwer.
Dissimulation is ever productive of em-
barrassment; whether the design is evil or
not, artifice is always dangerous and almost
inevitably disgraceful. The best and safest
policy is, never to have recourse to decep-
tion, to avail yourself of quirks, or to prac-
tice low cunning, but to prove yourself in
every circumstance of life upright and
sincere. This system is that which noble
minds will adopt, and the dictates of an
enlightened and superior understanding
would be sufficient to insure its adoption.-
Bruyère.
DISSIPATION, Dissipation is abso-
lutely a labor when the round of Vanity fair
has been once made ; but fashion makes
us think lightly of the toil, and we describe
the circle as mechanically as a horse in a
mill.- Zimmerman,
There is a dissipation of thought and
feeling, as well of bodily energies ; and the
latter is as wasteful and ruinous to the
mind and heart, as the former is to the
health and strength of the body.-Dreamy
reveries, desultory reading, unregulated
and scattering thought, plans formed with-
out reason, or never carried out to wise
results, are as truly dissipation of the soul
as the wildest revelries and indulgences are
of the body.
DISTANCE.--Distance lends enchant-
ment to the view.-Campbell.
Distance sometimes endears friendship,
and absence sweeteneth it—for separation
from those we love shows us, by the loss,
their real value and dearness to us.-Howell.
Wishes, like paiuted landscapes, best de-
light while distance recoinmends them.
Afar off they appear beautiful ; but near,
they show their coarse and ordinary colors.
- Yalden.
Sweetest melodies are those that are by
distance made more sweet. - Wordsworth.
Glories, like glow-worms afar off, shine
bright, but looked at near have neither
heat nor light.-J. Webster.
Distance in truth produces in idea the
same effect as in real perspective.-Objects
are softened, rounded, and rendered doubly
graceful. The harsher and more ordinary
points of character are melted down, and
those by which it is remembered are the
more striking outlines that mark sublimity,
grace, or beauty.-There are mists, too, as
in the natural horizon, to conceal what is
less pleasing in distant objects; and there
are happy lights, to stream in full glory
upon those points which can profit by bril-
liant illumination.- Walter Scott.
DISTINCTION.-You may fail to shine
in the opinion of others, both in your con-
versation and actions, from being superior,
as well as inferior to them.-Greville.
Talent and worth are the only eternal
grounds of distinction. To these the Al-
mighty has affixed his everlasting patent
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DOGMATISM.
of nobility, and these it is which make the
bright inmortal names to which our chil-
dren, as well as others, may aspire.-Miss
Sedgwick.
All our distinctions are accidental.-
Beauty and deformity, though personal
qualities, are neither entitled to praise or
censure ; yet it so happens that they color
our opinion of those qualities to which man-
kind Have attached importance.-Zimmer-
man.
How men long for celebrity !-Some
would willingly sacrifice their lives for
fame, and not a few would rather be known
by their crimes than not known at all.
Sinclair.
DISTRUST,-A.certain amount of dis-
trust is wholesome, but not so much of
others as of ourselves.--Neither vanity nor
conceit can exist in the same atinosphere
with it.-Mad. Neclcar.
Excessive distrust of others is not less
hurtful than its opposite.-Most men be-
come useless to him who is unwilling to
risk being deceivec.— Vauvenargues.
The feeling of distrust is always the last
which a great mind acquires.- Racine.
Nothing is more certain of destroying
any good feeling that may be cherished to-
ward us, than to show distrust. On the
contrary confidence leads 118 naturally to
act kindly; we are affected by the good
opinion others entertain of us, and are not
easily induced to lose it.- Mad. Sevigné.
As health lies in labor, and there is no
royal road to it but through toil, so there
is no republican road to safety but in con-
stant distrust. Wendell Phillips.
What loneliness is more lonely than dis-
trust?-George Eliot.
Self-distrust is the case of most of our
failures. In the assurance of strength,
there is strength, and they are the weakest,
however strong, who have no faith in them-
selves or their own powers.—Bovee.
To think and feel we are able, is often to
be so.--J. Hawes.
DIVERSION.-(See "AMUSEMENT.")
Diversions are most properly applied to
ease and relieve those who are oppressed
by being too much employed. Those that
are idle have no need of them, and yet
they, above all others, give themselves up
to them.---To unbend our thoughts when
they are too much stretched by our cares,
is not more natural than it is necessary ;
but to turn our whole life into a holiday is
not only ridiculous, but destroys pleasure
instead of increasing it.--Saville.
Let the world have whatever sports and
recreations please them best, provided they
be followed with discretion.-Burton.
DOCILITY.-. docile disposition will,
with application, surmount every difficulty.
-Manilius.
Willingness to be taught what we do not
know, is the sure pledge of growth both
in knowledge and wisdom.--Blair.
DOCTRINE, -Doctrine is the necessary
foundation of duty; if the theory is not
correct, the practice cannot be right.-Tell
me what a man believes, and I will tell yout
what he will do.-Tryon Edwards.
Say what men may, it is doctrine that
moves the world. He who takes no posi-
tion will not sway the human intellect.-
W. G. T. Shedd.
The question is not whether a doctrine
is beautiful but whether it is true.--When
we wish to go to a place, we do not ask
whether the road leads throngh a pretty
country, but whether it is the right road.
Hare.
Doctrine is the framework of life-the
skeleton of truth, to be clothed and rounded
out by the living grace of a holy life.--A.
J. Gordon.
The doctrine that rectifies the conscience,
purifies the heart, and produces love to God
and man, is necessarily true, whether men
can comprehend all its depths and relations
or not.-If it destroys sin, and makes lap-
piness grow out of right living and right
loving, it is the truth of God. --J. B. Walker.
Pure doctrine always bears fruit in pure
benefits.- Emerson.
He that shall broach any doctrine that
cometh jiot from God, whatsoever he say
for it, or what gloss soever he set upon it, is
a traitor to God though he were an angel
from heaven.-Boston.
DOGMATISM.-Nothing can be more
unphilosophical than to be positive or dog-
matical on any subject.-When men are
the most sure and arrogant, they are coin-
monly the most mistaken and Tave there
given reins to passion without that proper
deliberation and suspense which alone cau
secure them from the grossest absurdities.
Fumie.
A dogmatical spirit inclines a man to be
censorions of his neighbors. Every one of
his opinions appears to him written as with
sunbeams, and he grows angry that liis
bighbors do not see it in the same light.-
He is tenipted to disdain his correspondents
as men of low and dark understandings be-
cause they do not believe what he does.--
Watts.
DOING WELL.
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It has been said of dogmatism, that it is
only puppyism come to its full growth, and
certainly the worst forin this quality can
assume is that of opinionativeness and arro-
gance.-S. Smiles.
Those who differ most from the opinions
of their fellow-men are the most confident
of the truth of their own.--Mackintosh.
Those who refuse the long drudgery of
thought, and think with the beart rather
than the head, are ever most fiercely dog-
matic.-Bayne.
DOING WELL.- Whatever is worth
doing at all, is worth doing well. - Chestcr-
field.
We do not choose our own parts in life,
and have nothing to do with those parts.
Our duty is confined to playing them well.
- Epictetus.
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave
others to talk of you as they please.-Py-
thagoras.
Thinking well is wise ; planning well,
wiser ; doing well wisest and best of all.--
Persian Proverb.
DOMESTIC.- Domestic happiness—
thou only bliss of paradise that has sur-
vived the fall.-Cowper.
Domestic happiness is the end of almost
all our pursuits, and the common reward
of all our pains.--When men find them-
selves forever barred from this delightful
fruition, they are lost to all industry, and
grow careless of their worldly affairs.
--Thus
they become bad subjects, bad relations,
bad friends, and bad men.—I'ielding.
A prince wants only the pleasures of pri-
vate life to complete his happiness.--Bruy-
ère.
Domestic worth—that shuns too strong a
light.--Lytlleton.
Our notion of the perfect society em-
braces the family as its center and orna-
ment.-Nor is there a paradise planted till
the children appear in the foreground to
animate and complete the picture.-A. B.
Alcott.
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 so dressed.-Johnson.
DOUBT.-A bitter and perplexed,
What shall I do?" is worse to man than
worse necessity.-Coleridge.
Modest doubt is called the beacon of the
wisc-the tent that searches to the bottom
of the worst.-Shalcespeare.
In contemplation, if a man begins with
certainties he shall end in doubts ; but if
he be content to begin with doubts, he shall
end in certainties. -Bacon.
Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in
danger of becoming denial ; but if honest,
and bent on thorough investigation, it
may soon lead to full establishment in the
truth.-Tryon Edwards.
When you doubt, abstain.-Zoroaster.
Human knowledge is the parent of
doubt.-Greville.
Man was not made to question, but
acore.--Young.
We know accurately only when we know
little; with knowledge doubt increases.
Goethe.
When a doubt is propounded, learn to
distinguish, and show wherein a thing
holds, and wherein it doth not hold. The
not distinguishing where things should be
distinguished, and the not confounding,
where things should be coufounded, is the
canse of all the mistakes in the world.
Selden.
The doubter's dissatisfaction with his
doubt is as great and widespread as the
doubt itself.-J. Dewitt.
Doubt is the disease of this inquisitive,
restless age. It is the price we pay for our
advanced intelligence and civilization-the
dim night of our resplendent day.—But as
the most beautiful light is born of darkness,
so the faith that springs from conflict is
often the strongest and best.--R. Turnbull.
There is no moral power in doubt, or in
the denial of truth, and any human soul
that tries to live on it will die, both morally
and spiritually.-It is vegative, and there is
no life in it.
The vain man is generally a doubter. It
is Newton who sees himself as a child on
the seaslıore, and his discoveries in the
colored shells.- Willnzott.
Our doubts are traitors, and make 118
lose the good we oft might win by fearing
to attempt.-Shakespeare.
Doubt is an incentive to search for truth,
and patient inquiry leads the way to it.
Who never doubted, never lalf be-
lieved.--Where doubt is, there truth is-it
is her shadow.--Bailey.
In the hands of unbelief half-truths are
made to do the work of whole falsehoods.
The sowing of doubts is the sowing of
dragon's teeth, which ere long will sprout
upinto armed and hostile men.-E. B. Burr,
There is no weariness like that which
rises from doubting-from the perpetual
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faith of people under a worldly yoke.--
Doudan.
The end of doubt is the beginning of
repose. -Petrarch.
Doubt is hell in the human soul.-Gas-
parin.
jogging of unfixed reason.—The torment
of suspense is very great; but as soon as
the wavering, perplexed mind begins to
determine, be the determination which way
soever it may be, it will find itself at ease.
South.
Beware of doubt--faith is the subtle
chain that binds us to the infinite.-E. 0.
Smith.
Misgive, that you may not mistake.-
Whately.
Doubt is almost a natural phase of life ;
but as certainly as it is natural, it is also
temporary, unless it is unwisely wrought
into conduct.-T. T. Munger.
Doubt comes in at the window when in-
quiry is denied at the door.—Jowell.
Uncertain ways unsafest are, and doubt
a greater mischief than despair. -Denham.
It is never worth while to suggest doubts
in order to show how cleverly we can an-
swer them.- Whately.
The man who speaks his positive con-
victions is worth a regiment of men who
are always proclaiming their doubts and
suspicions.
Never do anything concerning the recti-
tude of which you have a doubt.-Pliny.
Doubt is the vestibule which all must
pass before they can enter the temple of
wisdom.-When we are in doubt and puzzle
out the truth by our own exertions, we have
gained something that will stay by us and
will serve us again.-But if to avoid the
trouble of the search we avail ourselves of
the superior information of a friend, such
knowledge will not remain with us, we
have not bought, but borrowed it. - Collon
Doubt is brother devil to despair.-
O'Reilly.
"If you are in doubt," says Talley-
rand, " whether to write a letter or not-
don't!"—And the advice applies to many
doubts in life besides that of letter writing.
- Bulwer.
Knowledge and personality make doubt
possible, but knowledge is also the cure
of doubt; and when we got a full and ace-
quate sense of personality we are lifted into
a region where doubt is almost impossible,
for no man can know himself as he is, and
all the fulness of his nature, without also
knowing God.--T. T. Munger.
Give me the benefit of your convictions,
if you have any, but keep your doubts to
yourself, for I have enough of my own.-
Goethe.
The doubts of an honest man contain
more inoral truth than the profession of
DREAMS.--Children of the night, of
indigestion bred.-Churchill.
A world of the dead in the hues of life.-
Mrs. Hemans.
Dreams full oft are found of real events
the forms and shadows.-Joanna Baillie.
We have in dreams no true perception of
time--a strange property of mind !—for if
such be also its property when cntered into
the eternal disembodied state, time will ap-
pear to us eternity !—The relations of space
as well as of time are also annihilated, so
that while almost an eternity is compressed
into a moment, infinite space is traversed
more swiftly than by real thought. -- Win-
slow.
We are somewhat more than ourselves in
our sleeps, and the slumber of the body
seems to be but the waking of the soul.-It
is the litigation of sense, but the liberty of
reason; and our waking conceptions do
not match the fancies of our sleeps.--Sir J.
Browne.
As dreams are the fancies of those that
sleep, so fancies are but the dreams of those
awake.Blount.
Dreaming is an act of pure imagination,
attesting in all men a creative power, which,
if it were available in waking, would make
every man a Dante or a Shakespeare.-
Hedge.
Let not our babbling dreams affright our
sous. Shakespeare.
Nothing so much convinces me of the
boundlessness of the buman mind as its
operations in dreaming.- Clulow.
DRESS.-Dress has a moral effect upon
the conduct of maukind.---Let any gentle-
man find himself with dirty boots, old sur-
tout, soiled neckcloth, and a general negli-
gence of dress, and he will, in all proba-
bility, find a corresponding disposition in
pegligence of address.—Sir J. Barrington.
As you treat your body, so your house,
your domestics, your enemies, your friends.
-Dress is the table of your contents.
Lavater.
Out of clothes, out of countenance; out
of countenance, out of wit.---Ben Jonson.
A becoming decency of exterior may not
be necessary for ourselves, but is agreeable
to others; and while it may render a fool
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more contemptible, it serves to embellish
inherent worth. It is like the polish of the
diamond, taking something perhaps from
its weight, but adding much to its bril-
liancy.-David Paul Brown.
The body is the shell of the soul, and
dress the husk of that shell ; but the liusk
often tells what the kernel is.-Anon.
Eat to please thyself, but dress to please
others.-Franklin.
An emperor in his night-cap would not
meet with half the respect of an emperor
with a crown.-- Goldsmith.
If honor be your clothing, the suit will
last a lifetime; but if clothing be your
honor, it will soon be worn threadbare.--
Annot.
Had Cicero himself pronounced one of
his orations with a blanket about his
shoulders, more people would have laughed
at his dress than admired his eloquence.-
Addison.
As the index tells the contents of the
book, and directs to the particular chapter,
even so do the outward habit and garments,
in man or woman, give us a taste of thé
spirit, and point to the internal quality of
the soul; and there cannot be a more evi-
dent and gross manifestation of poor, de-
generate, dunghilly blood and breeding,
than a rude, unpolished, disordered, and
slovenly ontside. -Massinger.
As to matters of dress, I would recom-
mend one never to be first in the fashion
nor the last out of it.-J. Wesley.
The medium between a fop and a sloven
is what a man of sense would endeavor to
keep ; yet one well advises his son to appear,
in his habit, rather above than below his
fortune ; and tells him he will find a hand-
some suit of clothes always procures some
additional respect. My banker ever bows
lowest to me when I wear ny full-bottomed
wig ; and writes me “Mr." or "Esq." ac-
cording as he sees me dressed.-Budgell.
The perfection of dress is in the union of
three requisites—in its being comfortable,
cheap, and tasteful.-Bovee.
Next to clothes being fine, they should
be well made, and worn easily : for a man
is only the less genteel for a fine coat, if. in
wearing it, he shows a regard for it, and is
not as easy in it as if it were a plain one. —
Chesterfield.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
but not expressed in fancy ; rich, but not
gaudy, for the apparel oft proclaims the
man.-Shakespeare.
The plainer the dress with greater lustre
does beauty appear.–Virtue is the greatest
ornament, and good sense the best equi-
page.-G. Saville.
Beauty gains little, and homeliness and
deformity lose much by gaudy attire.--Zin-
mer777.an.
A fine coat is but a livery when the per-
son who wears it discovers no bigher sense
than that of a footman.-Addison.
No man is esteemed for gay garments,
but by fools and women.-Sir W. Raleigh.
The vanity of loving fine clothes and new
fashions, and valuing ourselves by them,
is one of the most childish pieces of folly.-
Sir M. Hale.
Be neither too early in the fashion, nor
too long out of it, nor too precisely in it.
What custom hath civilized, is become de-
cent; till then, ridiculous.—Where the eye
the jury, thine apparel is the evidence.-
Quarles.
Dress yourself fine, where others are fine,
and plain, where others are plain ; but take
care always that your clothes are well made
and fit you, for otherwise they will give you
a very awkward air. - Chesterfield.
A gentleman's taste in dress, is, upon
principle, the avoidance of all things ex-
travagant. It consists in the quiet simplic-
ity of exquisite neatness ; but as the neat-
ness must be a neatness in fashion, employ
the best tailor ; pay him ready money ; and
on the whole you will find him the cheapest.
-- Bulwer.
A rich dress adds but little to the beauty
of a person; it may possibly create a defer-
ence, but that is rather an enemy to love.-
Shenstone.
It is not every man that can afford to
wear a shabby coat ; and worldly wisdom
dictates the propriety of dressing somewhat
beyond one's means, but of living within
them, for every one sees how we dress, but
none see how we live unless we choose to let
them.-Collon.
We sacrifice to dress till household joys
and comforts cease. Dress drains our cellar
dry, and keeps our larder clean ; puts out
our fires, and introduces hunger, frost, and
woe, where peace and hospitality might
reign.- Cowper.
In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind
of youth with which age should surround
itself.---Joubert.
Too great carelessness, equally with ex-
cess in dress, multiplies the wrinkles of old
age, and makes its decay more conspicuous.
Bruyère.
In the indications of female poverty there
can be no disguise.—No woman dresses be-
low herself from caprice.-Lamb.
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In civilized society external advantages
make us more respected.-A man with a
good coat on his back meets with a better
reception than he who has a bad one. You
may analyze this and say, what is there in
it ?-But that will avail you nothing, for it
is a part of a general system.-Johnson.
Persons are often inisled in regard to
their choice of dress by attending to the
beauty of colors, rather than selecting such
colors as may increase their own beauty.-
Shenstone.
The only medicine which does women
more good than harm, is dress.-Richter.
Those who think that in order to dress
well it is necessary to dress extravagantly
or grandly, make a great mistake.- Notli-
ing so well becomes true feminine beauty
as simplicity.-G. D. Prentice.
Two things in my apparel I will chiefly
aim at commodiousness and decency ;
more than these is not commendable ; yet I
hate au effeminate spruceness, as much as a
fantastic disorder.-A neglected comeliness
is the best ornament.-Anon.
A loose and easy dress contributes nuch
to give to both sexes those fine proportions
of body that are observable in the Grecian
statues, and which serve as models to our
present artists.—Roussea
The consciousness of clean linen is, in
and of itself, a source of moral strength,
second only to that of a clean conscience.
DRINKING. — (See INTEMPERANCE"
and “ WINE.'')
The first dranght serveth for health, the
second for pleasure, the third for shame,
and the fourth for madness.-Anacharsis.
The Japanese say: “Aman takes a drink,
then the drink takes a drink, and the next
drink takes the man.
Some one commending Philip of Macedon
for drinking freely, " That,” said Demos-
thenes," is a good quality in a sponge, but
not in a king.
The maxim, "in vino veritas--that a man
who is well warmed with wine will speak
truth,” may be an argument for drinking,
if you suppose men in general to be
liars ; but, sir, I would not keep company
with a fellow, who lies as long as he is
sober, and whom you must make drunk be-
fore you can get a word of truth out of him.
-Johnson.
The bar-room as & bank : You deposit
your money-and lose it ; your time and
lose it; your character and lose it
; your
manly independence—and lose it ; your
home comfort—and lose it; your self-con-
trol-aud lose it; your children's happiness
-and lose it; your own soul-and lose it.
Every moderate drinker could abandon
the intoxicating cup, if he would; every
inebriate would if he could.-J. B. Gough.
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.
Guthrie.
In the bottie, discontent seeks for com-
fort; cowardice, for courage ; bashfulness,
for confidence ; sadness, for joy; and alſ
find ruin !
Strong drink is not only the devil's way
into a man, but man's way to the devil.-
Adam Clarke,
DRUNKENNESS. — (See “INTEMPER-
ANCE.'')
Drunkenness is nothing else but a volun-
tary madness.-Seneca.
All excess is ill; but drunkenness is of
the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts
the mind, and unmans men.
It reveals
secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impu-
dent, dangerous, and mad. He that is
drunk is not a man, because he is void of
reason that distinguishes a man from a
beast.---Penn.
Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet
poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever
hath, hath not himself, which whosoever
doth commit, doth not commit sin, but he
himself is wholly sin.-Augustine.
Intoxicating drinks have produced evils
more deadly, because more continuous,
than all those caused to mankind by the
great historic scourges of war, famine, and
pestilence combined.-Gladstone.
Drunkenness is the vice of a good con-
stitution, or of a bad memory : of a con-
stitution so treacherously good, that it
never bends till it breaks, or of a mentory
that recollects the pleasures of getting in-
toxicated, but forgets the pains of getting
sober.-Colton.
Some of the domestic evils of drunken-
ness are houses without windows, gardens
without fences, fields withont tillage, barns
without roofs, children without clothing,
principles, morals, or manners.-Franklin.
All the armies on earth do not destroy so
many of the human race, nor alienate so
much property, as drunkenness.- Bacon.
Habitual iutoxication is the epitome of
every crime.--Jerrold.
Let there be an entire abstinence from
intoxicating drinks throughout this country
.
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during the period of a single generation,
and a mob would be as impossible as com-
bustion without oxygen.--Horace Mann.
A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty;
the trouble of civility; the spoil of wealth ;
the distraction of reason. He is the brewer's
agent; the tavern audalehouse benefactor ;
the beggar's companion ; the constable's
trouble ; his wife's woe; his children's sor-
row; his neighbor's scoff ; his owu shame.
In short he is a tub of swill, & spirit of un-
rest, a thing below a beast, and a monster
uf a man.-T. Adans.
Drunkenness places man as much below
the level of the brutes, as reason elevates
him above them.-Sinclair.
Beware of drunkenness, lest all good
men bevare of thee.—Where drunkenness
reigns, there reason is an exile, virtue a
stranger, and God an enemy; blasphemy is
wit, oaths are rhetoric, and secrets are proc-
lamations.- Quarles.
Troops of furies march in the drunkard's
triumph.-Zimmerman.
There is scarcely a crime before me that
is not, directly or indirectly, caused by
strong drink.-Judge Coleridge.
Call things by their right names.--
"Glass
of brandy and water ! That is the cur-
rent but not the appropriate name; ask
for, “A glass of liquid fire and distilled
damnation."--Robert Hall.
It were better for a man to be subject to
any vice, 'than to drunkenness : for all
other vanities and sins are recovered, but a
drunkard will never shake off the delight
of beastliness; for the longer it possesseth
a man, the more he will delight in it, and
the older he groweth the more he shall be
subject to it; for it dulleth the spirits, and
destroyeth the body as ivy doth the old
tree ; or as the worm that engendereth in
the kernel of the nut.-Sir W. Raleigh.
What is a drunken man like? Like a
drown'd man, a fool, and a madman: one
draught above heat makes him a fool; the
second mads him; and a third drowns him.
- Shakespeare.
The sight of a drunkard is a better ser-
against that vice than the best that
was ever preached on that subject. --Saville.
Of all vices take heed of drunkeuness.
Other vices are but the fruits of disordered
affections ; this disorders, nay banishes,
reason.-Other vices but impair the soul;
this demolishes her two chief faculties, the
understanding and the will.--Other vices
make their own way; this makes way for all
vices. He that is a drunkard is qualified
for all yice.-Quarles.
DUELS.-A duellist is only a Cain in
high life.---Jerrold.
Duelling makes a virtue of pride and
revenge ; and, in defiance of the laws, both
of God and man, assumes to itself the right
of avenging its own wrongs, and even exults
in the blood of its murdered victim.-J.
Hawes,
If all seconds were as averse to duels as
their principals, very little blood would be
shed in that way.-Colton.
Duelling, though barbarous in civilized,
is a highly civilizing institution among
barbarous people ; and when compared to
assassination is a prodigious victory gained
over human passions. -Sydney Smith.
Duelling, as a punishment, is absurd,
because it is an equal chance whether the
punislıment falls upon the offender, or the
person offended.-Nor is it much better as
a reparation, it being difficult to explain in
what the satisfaction consists, or how it
tends to undo an injury, or to afford a
compensation for the damage already sus-
tained.--Paley.
DULNESS.-A dull man is so near a
Acad man that he is hardly to be ranked in
the list of the living; and as he is not to be
buried whilst half alive, so he is as little to
be employed whilst he is half dead.-Saville.
There are some heads that have no win-
dows, and the day can never strike from
above; nothing enters from heavenward.-
Joubert.
What a comfort a dull but kindly man is,
to be sure, at times! A ground glass shade
over a gas-light does not bring more solace
to our dazzled eyes than such an one to our
minds.-0. W. Holmes.
DUTY,-There is not a moment without
some duty.- Cicero.
Duty is carrying on promptly and faith-
fully the affairs now before yoii.-It is to
fulfill the claims of to-day.-Goethe.
Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee!
Thy second duty will already have become
clearer.—Thomas Carlyle.
Duty is a power that rises with us in the
morning, and goes to rest with us at night.
It is co-extensive with the action of our
intelligence. It is the shadow that cleaves
to us, go where we will.---Gladstone.
Every duty which we omit, obscures
some truth which we should have known.-
Ruskin,
Duties are ours, events are God's. This
l'emoves an infinite burden from the shoul-
ders of a miserable, tempted, dying crea-
ture. On this consideration only can he
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I
securely lay down his head and close his
eyes.-Cecil
.
Duty performed gives clearness and firm-
ness to faith, and faith thus strengthened
through duty becomes the more assured and
satisfying to the soul.-Tryon Edwards.
Duty is the grandest of ideas, because it
implies the idea of God, of the soul, of lib-
erty, of responsibility, of immortality.--
Lacordaire.
We do not choose our own parts in life,
and have nothing to do with selecting those
parts. Our simple duty is confined to play-
ing them well.” - Epictetus,
The brave man wants no charms to en-
courage him to duty, and the good man
scorns all warnings that would deter him
from doing it.—Bulwer.
Do to-day's duty, fight to-day's tempta-
tion, and do not weaken and distract your-
self by looking forward to things which you
cannot see, and could not understand if you
saw them.- Charles Kingsley.
The reward of one duty done is the power
to fulfill another.- George Eliot.
Know thyself and do thine own work,
says Plato; and each includes the other
and covers the whole duty of man.-Mon-
taigne.
The best things are nearest: light in your
eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your
hand, the path of God just before you.
Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's
common work as it comes, certain that
daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest
things of life.
God always has an angel of help for those
who are willing to do their duty.-T. L.
Cuyler.
The truth is, one's vocation is never some
far-off possibility. It is always the simple
round of duties which the passing hour
brings.-J. W. Dulles.
Let us never forget that every station in
life is necessary ; that each deserves our
respect; that not the station itself, but the
worthy fulfillment of its duties does honor
to man.
There is nothing in the universe that I
fear, but that I shall not know all my duty,
or shall fail to do it.-
Mary Lyon.
We are apt to mistake our vocation by
looking out of the way for occasions to ex-
ercise great and rare virtues, and by step-
ping over the ordinary ones that lie directly
in the road before us.-H. More.
Duties in general, like that class of them
called debts, give more trouble the longer
they remain undischarged.
Let men laugh, if they will, when you
sacrifice desire to duty.—You have time and
eternity to rejoice in.-Theodore Parler.
Do the duty that lies nearest to thee.-
Goethe.
I find the doing of the will of God leaves
me no time for disputing about His plans.
-G. Macdonald.
To what guiis a single deviation from
the path of human duties leads I-Byron.
Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain.-Theo-
dore Parler.
I believe that we are conforming to the
divine order and the will of Providence
when we are doing even indifferent things
that belong to our condition.-Fenelon.
Whether your time calls you to live or dio
do both like a prince.--Sir P. Sidney.
Exactness in little duties is a wonderful
source of cheerfulness.-Faber.
There is no evil we cannot face or fly from,
but the consciousness of duty disregarded.
- Daniel Webster.
Men do less than they ought, unless they
do all that they can.- Carlyle.
Be not diverted from your duty by any
idle reflections the silly world may make
upon you, for their censures are not in your
power and should not be at all your concern.
-Epictetus.
It is one of the worst of errors to suppose
that there is any path of safety except that
of duty.- Wm. Nevins.
Every duty that is bidden to wait comes
back with seven fresh duties at its back.-
Charles Kingsley.
There is no mean work, save that which
is sordidly selfish ; no irreligious work, save
that which is morally wrong ; in every
sphere of life the post of honor is the post
of duty.-E. H. Chapin.
Perish discretion when it interferes with
duty.--E. More.
No man's spirits were ever hurt by doing
his duty.-On the contrary, one good ac-
tion, one temptation resisted and overcome,
one sacrifice of desire or interest purely for
conscience's sake, will prove a cordial for
weak and low spirits far beyond what either
indulgence, or diversion, or company can
do for them.-Paley.
Duty performed is a moral tonic ; if neg-
lected, the tone and strength of both mind
and heart are weakened, and the spiritual
health undermined.-Tryon Edwards.
Do right, and God's recompense to you
will be the power of doing more right. --F:
W. Robertson.
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Practice in life whatever thou prayest
for, and God will give it thee inore abund-
antly.—7'. D. Huntington.
Try to put well in practice what you al-
ready know; and in so doing, you will, in
good time, discover the hidden things whiclı
you now inquire about. Practice what you
know, and it will help to make clear what
now you do not know. -Renrbrandt.
So nigh is grandeur to ou dust, so near
is God to man, when duty whispers low,
“Thou must,” the youth replies, “I can.
- Emerson.
Do thy duty ; that is best ; leave unto
the Lord the rest. - Longfellow.
All that any one of us has to do in this
world is his simple duty. And an archangel
could not do more than that to advantage.
-H. C. Irumbull.
When the soul resolves to perform every
duty, immediately it is conscious of the
presence of God.-Bacon.
Every day remember that to-day you have
a God to glorify ; a Saviour to imitate ; il
soul to save ; your body to mortify ; virtue
to acquire ; heaven to seek ; eternity to
meditate upon ; temptations to resist; the
world to guard against; and perhaps death
to meet.
By doing our duty, we learn to do it.-E.
B. Pusey.
If I am faithful to the duties of the
pres-
ent, God will provide for the future.—Be-
dell.
Every hour comes with some little fagot
of God's will fastened upon its back.
Faber.
Can any man or woman choose duties?
No more than they can choose their birth-
place, or their father and mother.-George
Clioi.
It is wonderful what strength and bold-
ness of purpose and energy will come from
the feeling that we are in the way of duty.
-John Foster.
Let us do our duty in our shop or our
kitchen; in the market, the street, the
office, the school, the home, just as faith-
fully as if we stood in the front rank of
some great battle, and knew that victory
for mankind depended on our bravery,
strength, and skill.—When we do that, the
humblest of us will be serving in that great
army which achieves the welfare of the
world.-Theodore Parker.
Do the truth ye know, and you shall learn
the truth you need to know.-G. Mac-
donald.
Reverence the highest; have patience
with the lowest ; let this day's performance
of the meancst duty be thy religion.--
Margaret Fuller.
The consideration that human happiness
and moral duty are inseparably connected,
will always continue to prompt me to pro-.
mote the former by inculcating the practice
of the latter.- Washinglon.
There are not good things enough in life,
to indemnify us for the neglect of a single
duty.--Mad. Swetchine.
The best preparation for the future is the
present wall seen to, the last duty well done.
-G. Macdonald.
The duty of man is plain and simple, and
consists but of two points ; his duty to God,
which every man must feel; and his duty to
his neighbor, to do as he would be done by.
-Thomas Paine.
The path of duty lies in what is near, and
men seek for it in what is remote.-The work
of duty lies in what is easy, and men seek
for it in what is difficult. -11encius.
Duty by habit is to pleasure turned.--
Brydges.
This is the feeling that gives a man true
courage the feeling that he has a work to
do at all costs the sense of duty.-C. Kings-
ley.
Man is not born to solve the problem of
the universe, but to find out what he has to
do
i and to restrain himself within the
limits of his comprehension.--Goethe.
Duty is above all consequences, and often,
at a crisie of difficulty, commands us to
throw them overboard. It commands us to
look neither to the right, nor to the left,
but straight onward. Hence every act of
duty is an act of faith. It is performed in
the assurance that God will take care of the
consequences, and will so order the course
of the world, that, whatever the immediate
results may be, his word shall not return to
him void.
This span of life was lent for lofty duties,
not for selfishness; not to be whiled away
in aimless dreams, but to improve our-
selves and serve mankind.---Aubrey De
Vere.
No human being, man or woman, can act
up to a sublime standard without giving
offence.- Channing.
It is surprising how practical duty en-
riches the fancy and the heart, and action
clears and deepens the affections.-Mar-
tinean,
Our grand business is not to see what
lies dimly in the distance, but to do what
lies clearly at hand.-Carlyle.
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EARLY RISING.--Whoever has tasted
the breath of morning, knows that the most
invigorating and delightful hours of the
day are commonly spent in bed, though it
is the evident intention of nature that we
should profit by them.--Southey.
When one begins to turn in bed, it is
time to turn out.- Wellington.
The difference between rising at five and
seven o'clock in the morning, for forty
years, supposing a man to go to bed at
the same hour at night, is nearly equivalent
to the addition of ten years to a man's life.
- Doddridge.
It is well to be up before, daybreak, for
such habits contribute to health, wealth, and
wisdom.–Aristotle.
Early rising not only gives us more life
in the same number of years, but adds,
likewise, to their number; and not only
enables us to enjoy more of existence in
the same time, but increases also the meas-
ure.- Colton.
The early morning hath gold in its mouth.
Franklin.
Next to temperance, a quiet conscience,
a cheerful mind, and active håbits, I place
early rising as a means of health and hap-
piness.-Flint,
Few ever lived to old age, and fewer still
ever became distinguished, who were not in
the labit of early rising.-J. Todd.
Is there aught in sleep can charm the
wise to lie in dead oblivion, losing half the
fleeting moments of too short a life?
Thones0n2.
I would have it inscribed on the curtains
of your bed and the walls of your chamber:
“If you do not rise early you can make
progress in nothing."--Lord Chatham.
He who rises late may trot all day, and
not overtake his business at night.-Frank-
lin.
I never knew a man come to greatness or
eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
-Swift.
Every night I make up my mind to rise
early the next morning, but every morning
make up my body to lie still.
Better to get up late and be wide awake
then, than to get up early and be asleep
all day.
Those who would bring great things to
pass must rise early.-Love not sleep, lest
thou come to poverty.-M. Henry.
EARNESTNESS.--Earnestness is cn-
thusiasm tempered by reason.-Pascal.
There is no substitute for thorouglı-going,
ardent, and sincere earnestness. - Diclcens.
A man in earnest finds means, or if he
cannot tind, creates them.-Channing.
Do you wish to become rich ?-You may
become so if you desire it in no half-way,
but thoroughly.-Do you wish to master any
science or accomplishment?-Give yourself
to it and it lies beneath your feet.-This
world is given as the prize for the men in
earnest ; and that which is true of this
world, is truer still of the world to come. -
F. W. Robertson.
Earnestness is the devotion of all the
faculties. It is the cause of patience ; gives
endurance ; overcomes pain; strengthens
weakness ;- braves dangers ; sustains hope ;
makes light of difficulties, and lessens the
sense of weariness in overcoming them.-
Bovee.
Earnestness commands the respect of
mankind. A wavering, vacillating, dead-
and-alive Christian does not get the respect
of the Church or of the world.—John Hall.
There are important cases in which the
difference between half a heart and a whole
heart makes just the difference between sig-
nal defeat and a splendid victory.-A. H.
K. Boyd.
Without earnestness no man is ever great
or does really great things. He may be
the cleverest of men ; he may be brilliant,
entertaining, popular ; but he will waut
weight.-
Bayne.
To impress others we must be earnest;
to amuse them, it is only necessary to be
kindly and fanciful. Tuckerman.
The superior man is slow in his words
and earnest in his conduct.-Confucius.
“Earnestness gives intellect," says a
maxim of the Jesuits ; and so says Solomon,
in various expressions in the book of Prov-
erbs.---And says Bulwer, "Earnestness is
the best source of mental power : and defi-
ciency of heart is the cause of many men
never becoming great."
Man should trust in God as if God did
all, and yet labor as earnestly as if he him-
self did all.-Chalniers.
EARTH,-The waters deluge man with
rain, oppress him with hail, and drown
him with inundations; the air rushes in
storms, prepares the tempest, or lights up
thie volcano ; but the earth, gentle and in-
dulgent, ever subservient to the wants of
man, spreads his walks with flowers, and
his table with plenty; returns, with inter-
est, every good coinmitted to her care; and
though she produces the poison, she still
supplies the andidote ; though constantly
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teased more to furnish the luxuries of man
than his necessities, yet even to the last she
continues her kind' indulgence, and, when
life is over, she piously covers his remains
in her bosom.- Pliny.
The earth, that is nature's mother, is her
tomb. Shakespeare.
I believe the earth on which we stand is
but the vestibule to glorious mansions, to
which a moving crowd is forever pressing.
-Joanna Baillie.
Where is the dust that has not been
alive ?—The spade and the plough disturb
our ancestors. From human mold we reap
our daily bread. — Young.
The earth's a stage which God and nature
do withfactors fill. Heywood.
Earth, with her thousand voices, praises
God.—Coleridge.
Earth, thou great footstool of our God,
who reigns on high; thou fruitful source of
all our raiment, life, and food; our house,
our parent, and our nurse.- Watts.
EATING.-The chief pleasure in eating
does not consist in costly seasoning or ex-
quisite flavor, but in yourself.-Do you seek
sauce by labor ?-Horace.
The turnpike road to most people's hearts,
I find, lies through their months, or I mis-
take mankind.— Wolcott.
Simple diet is best, for many dishes bring
many diseases, and rich sauces are worse
than even heaping several meats upon each
other.--Pliny.
Go to your banquet, then, but use de-
light, so as to rise still with an appetite.-
Herrick.
For the sake of health, medicines are
taken by weight and measure; so ought
food to be, or by some similar rule.- Skelton.
The difference between a rich man and a
poor man, is this—the former eats when he
pleases, and the latter when he can get it.
Sir W. Raleigh.
One should eat to live, not live to eat.-
Franklin.
By eating what is sufficient man is en-
abled to work; he is hindered from working
and becomes heavy, idle, and stupid if he
takes too much.-As to bodily distempers
occasioned by excess, there is no end of
them.-Jones.
They are as sick that surfeit with too
much, as they that starve with nothing.-
Shakespeare.
ECCENTRICITY.-Oddities and sin-
gularities of behavior may attend genius,
but when they do, they are its misfortunes
and blemishes.-The man of true genius
will be ashamed of them, or, at least, will
never affect to be distinguished by them.-
Sir W. Temple.
Even beauty cannot palliate eccentricity,
Balzac.
Eccentricity has always abounded when
and where strength of character has
abounded. And the amount of eccentricity
in a society has been proportional to the
amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral
courage it contained.-J. S. Mill.
He that will kéop a monkey, should pay
for the glasses he breaks.-Selden.
ECHO,—That tuneful nymph, the bab-
bling echo, who has not learned to conceal
what is told her, nor yet is able to speak
till another speaks. -Ovid.
The shadow of a sound; a voice without
a mouth, and words without a tongue.-
Horace Smith.
The babbling gossip of the air.--Shake-
speare.
Where we find echoes we generally find
emptiness and hollowness ; it is the con-
trary with the echoes of the heart. — Boyes.
ECONOMY,- If you know how to spend
less than you get, you have the philosopher's
stone.-Traniclin.
Economy is the parent of integrity, of
liberty, and of ease; and the beauteo118
sister of temperance, of cheerfulness, and
health: and profuseness is a cruel and
crafty demon, that gradually involves her
followers in dependence and debts, and so
fetters them with irons that enter into their
inmost souls.--Hawlesworth.
Economy is in itself a source of great
revenue.- Seneca.
Large enterprises make the few rich,
but the majority prosper only through the
carefulness and detail of thrift. He is al-
ready poverty-stricken whose babits are not
thrifty.-T. T. Munger.
A sound economy is a sound understand-
ing brought into action. It is calculation
realized ; it is the doctrine of proportion
reduced to practice; it is foreseeing con-
tingencies and providing against them : it
is expecting contingencies and being pre-
pared for them.-Hannah More.
To make three guineas do the work of
five.--Burns.
Men talk in raptures of youth and beauty,
witand sprightliness; but after seven years
of union, not one of them is to be compared
to good family management, which is seen
at every meal, and felt every hour in the
husband's purse. - Witherspoon.
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The regard one shows economy, is like
that we show an old aunt, who is to leave
us something at last.--Shenstone.
Waste cannot be accurately told, though
we are sensible how destructive it is,
Economy on the one hand, by which a cer-
tain income is made to maintain a man
genteely; and waste on the other, by
which, on the same income, another man
lives shabbily, cannot be defined. It is a
Very nice thing; as one man wears his coat
out much sooner than another, we cannot
tell how.-Johnson.
Without economy none can be rich, and
with it few will be poor.-Johnson.
It is no small commendation to manage a
little well.-To live well in abundance is the
praise of the estate, not of the person.-I
will study more how to give a good account
of my little, than how to make it more.-
Bp. Hall.
There is no gain so certain as that which
arises from sparing what you have.-Pub-
lius Syrus.
No man is rich whose expenditures ex-
ceed his means; and no one is poor whose
incomings exceed his outgoings.—Halibur-
ton.
Economy, whether public or private,
means the wise management of labor,
mainly in three senses; applying labor ra-
tionally, preserving its produce carefully,
and distributing its produce seasonably.-
Ruskin.
A man's ordinary expenses ought to be
but to the half of his receipts, and if lie
think to wax rich, but to the third part.-
Bacon.
Economy before competence is meanness
after it; therefore economy is for the poor ;
the rich may dispense with it.— Bovee.
He who is taught to live upon little owes
more to his father's wisdom than he that
has a great deal left him does to his father's
care. -Penn.
Nothing is cheap which is superfluous,
for what one does not need, is dear at a
penny.–Plutarch.
The art of living easily as to money is to
pitch your scale of living one degree below
your means.-H. Taylor.
Take care to be an economist in pros-
perity; there is no fear of your not being
one in adversity.- Zimmerman.
The habit of saving is itself an education ;
it fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial,
cultivates the sense of order, trains to fore-
thought, and so broadens the mind.--T. T.
Munger.
Not to be covetous, is money; not to be
a purchaser, is a revenue.- Cicero.
Let honesty and industry be thy constant
companions, and spend one penny less than
thy clear gains; then shall thy pocket begin
to thrive; creditors will not insult, nor
want oppress, uor hunger bite, nor naked-
ness freeze thee.-Franklin.
Proportion and propriety are among the
best secrets of domestic wisdom; and there
is no surer test of integrity than a well-
proportioned expenditure.--Hannah More.
The man who will live above his present
circumstances, is in great danger of soon
living much beneath them ; or as the Italian
proverb says, “The man that lives by hope,
will die by despair."-Addison.
A man may, if he knows not how to save
as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the
grindstone and dic not worth a groat after
all.- Franklin.
Economy is half the battle of life; it is
not so hard to earn money, as to spend it
well.—Spurgeon.
Ere you consult fancy, consult your
purse.- Franklin,
The world abhors closeness, and all but
admires extravagance ; yet a slack hand
shows weakness, and a tight hand strength.
Buxton.
The back door robs the house.-Herbert.
Take care of the pence, and the pounds
will take care of theinselves.-Franklin.
There are but two ways of paying a debt;
increase of industry in raising income, or
increase of thrift in laying out.--Carlyle.
EDUCATION.-(See "TEACHING.”)
Education is the apprenticeship of life.-
Willnzott.
A human being is not, in any proper
sense, a human being till lie is educated.
H. Mann.
What sculpture is to a block of marble,
eclucation is to the human soul. The phil-
osopher, the saint, the hero, the wise, and
the good, or the great, very often lie hid
and concealed in a plebeian, which a proper
education might have disinterred and
brought to light.--Addison.
The great end of education is, to disci-
pline rather than to furnish the mind; to
train it to the use of its own powers, rather
than fill it with the accumulations of others.
- Tryon Edwards.
The aim of education should be to teach
us rather how to think, than what to think
ra thier to improve our minds, so as to
enable us to think for ourselves, than to
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load the memory with the tlioughts of other
men.-- Beattie.
Education does not mean teaching peo-
ple to know what they do not know; it
means teaching them to behave as they do
not behave. Ruskin,
Education begins with life. Before we
are aware the foundations of character are
laid, and subsequent teaching avails byt
little to remove or alter them.
If a man empties his purse into his head,
no man can take it away from him. An in-
vestment in knowledge always pays the
best interest.-Franklin.
Educate your children to self-control, to
the habit of holding passion and prejudice
and evil tendencies subject to an upright
and reasoning, will, and you have done
much to abolish misery from their future
lives and crimes from society.
Knowledge does not comprise all which
is contained in the large term of education.
The feelings are to be disciplined ; the pas-
sions are to be restrained ; true and worthy
motives are to be inspired ; a profound re-
ligious feeling is to beinstilled, and pure mo-
rality inculcated under all circumstances.
All this is comprised in education.--Dan-
iel Webster.
We speak of educating our children. Do
we know that our children also educate us?
-Mrs. Sigourney.
Promote, as an object of primary impor-
tance, institutions for the general diffusion
of knowledge. In proportion as the struc-
ture of a government gives force to public
opinion, it is essential that public opinion
should be enlightened. - Washington.
Observation more than books, experience
rather than persons, are the prime educa-
tors.-A. B. Alcott.
Planting colleges and filling them with
studious young men and women is planting
seed corn for the world.--Judson.
I call, therefore, a complete and generous
education, that which fits a man to perform
justly, skillfully, and magnanimously, all
the offices, both private and public, of peace
and war.- Millon.
We all have two educations, one from
others, and another, and the most valuable,
which we give ourselves. It is this last
which fixes our grade in society, and event-
ually our actual condition in this life, and
the color of our fate hereafter. All the
professors and teachers in the world would
not make you a wise or good man without
your own co-operation ; and if suich you
are determined to be, the wont of them will
not prevail.—John Randolph.
It is a great art in the education of youth
to find out peculiar aptitudes, or where
none exist, to create inclinations which may
serve as substitutes.-D. M. Moir.
Education is a companion which no mis-
fortune can depress--no crime destroy-10
enemy alienate-no despotism enslave. At
home, a friend ; abroad, an introduction ;
in solitude, a solace ; and in society, an or-
nament. Without it, what is man?-a
splendid slave, a reasoning savage.-- Varle.
Education, briefly, is the leading human
minds and souls to what is right and best,
and to making what is best out of them.
And these two objects are always attain-
able together, and by the same means.-
The training which makes men happiest in
themselves, also makes them most service-
able to others. - Ruskin.
He is to be educated not because he is to
make shoes, nails, and pins, but because he
is a man,
- Channing.
To know the laws of God in nature and
revelation, and then to fashion the affec-
tions and will into harmony with those
laws--this is education.-S. F. Scovel.
The greatest evil of modern education is
the evil which it inflicts on health.-0. S.
l'owler.
The greatest and noblest work in the
world, and an effect of the greatest pru-
dence and care, is to rear and build up a
man, and to form and fashion him to piety,
justice, temperance, and all kinds of hon-
est and worthy actions.—Tillotson.
Modern education too often covers the
fingers with rings, and at the same time
cuts the sincws at the wrists.-- Sterling.
Education is only like good culture ; it
changes the size, but not the sort.-H.W.
Beecher.
A true education--what is it? It is
awakening a love for truth; giving a just
sense of duty ; opening the eyes of the
soul to the great purpose and end of life.
It is not so much giving words, as thoughta;
or mere maxims, as living principles. It
is not teaching to be honest, because “hon-
esty is the best policy," but because it is
right. It is teaching the individual to love
the good, for the sake of the good ; to be
virtuous in action, because so in heart; to
love and serve God supremely, not from
fear, but from delight in his perfect char-
acter.
Universal suffrage, without universal ed-
ucation, would be a curse.-H. L. Way-
land.
A true education aims to implant a love
of knowledge ; an adherence to truth be-
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cause it is truth ; a reverence for man be-
cause he is a man; an enthusiasm for liberty:
a spirit of candor, of breadth, of sympathy ;
and, above all, a supreme regard for duty.
-H. L. Wayland.
Educate men without religion, and you
make them but clever devils. - Wellinglon.
Next in importance to freedom and jus-
tice is popular education, without which
neither justice nor freedom can be perma-
nently maintained.-Garfield.
The public mind is educated quickly by
events—slowly by arguments.
Capacity without education is deplorable,
and education without capacity is thrown
away.-Saadi.
The parent who sends his son out into
the world uneducated, defrauds the com-
munity of a useful citizen, and bequeaths
a nuisance.-James Kent.
The true object of education should be
to train one to think clearly and act
rightly.-H. J. Van Dyke.
Education is a better safeguard of liberty
than a standing army. If we retrench the
wages of the schoolmaster, we must raise
those of the recruiting sergeant.-Everelt.
An industrious and virtuous education of
children is a better inheritance for them
than a great estate. --Addison.
The real object of education is to give
children resources that will endure as long
as life endures; habits that time will ame-
liorate, not destroy ; occupations that will
render sickness tolerable, solitude pleas-
ant, age venerable, life more dignified and
useful, and death less terrible.—Sidney
Smith
The secret of education lies in respecting
the pupil. -Emerson.
He that has found a way to keep a child's
spirit easy, active, and free, and yet at the
same time to restrain him from many
things he has a mind to, and to draw him
to things that are uneasy to him, has, in
my opinion, got the true secret of educa-
tion.-Locke.
I call education, not that which is made
up of shreds and patches of useless arts;
but that which inculcates principles, pol-
ishes taste, regulates temper, cultivates
reason, subdues the passions, directs the
feelings, liabituates to reflection, trains to
self-denial, and, more especially, that which
refers all actions, feelings, sentiments,
tastes, and passions, to the love and fear
of God.-Hannah More.
The education of our children is never
out of my mind. Train them to virtue,
habituate them to industry, activity, and
spirit. Make them consider every vice as
shameful and unmanly. Fire them with
ambition to be useful. Make them disdain
to be destitute of any useful knowledge.-
John Adams to his wife.
Of ten infants, destined for different vo-
cations, I should prefer that the one who is
to study through life should be the least
learned at the age of twelve.--Tissot.
For their learning be liberal.. Spare no
cost; for by such parsimony all is lost that
is saved; but let it be useful knowledge,
such as is consistent with truth and god-
liness, not cherishing a vain conversation
or idle mind; ingenuity mixed with in-
dustry is good for the body and the mind
too.- Penn to his wife.
Education is the cheap defense of na-
tions.-Burke,
The eclucation of children should not be
forced, like the growth of plants in the hot-
house. The more haste in this matter, the
less speed in the end. It is from too early
forcing the intellect, from premature, pre-
cocious mental growth, that we
see in
modern times, so many cases of wilted, and
feeble, and sickly children ; or of remark-
able, wonderful children, who grow up to
be prodigies by their second or third year,
and die by the next.- Tryon Edwards.
Intellectual effort in the early years of
life, is very injurious. All labor of mind
l'equired of children before the seventh
year is in opposition to the laws of nature,
and will prove injurious to the physical
organization, and prevent its proper and
mature development.--Hufeland.
The college, appealing immediately to
the mental part, is yet to train every part.
It is doing its duty only when it causes
man to regulate appetite, to crush passion,
to guide desires, to quicken affections,
to prevent wrong, and to stimulate right
choices.-C.F. Thuing.
It should be the aim of education to
mako men first, and discoveries afterward;
to regard mere learning as subordinate to
the development of a well-rounded, solid,
moral, and intellectual character ; 'as thé
first and great thing, to supply vigorous,
intelligent, God-fearing citizens for the
welfare of the land.-H. J. Vandyke.
Experience demonstrates that of any
number of children of equal intellectual
powers, those who receive no particular
care in infancy, and who do not begin to
study till the constitution begins to be con-
solidated, but who enjoy the benefit of a
good physical education, very soon surpass
in their studies those who commenced
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earlier, and who read numerous books
when very young.--Spurzheim.
Instruction ends in the school-room, but
education ends only with life. A child is
given to the universe to be educated.--7.
W. Robertson.
Neither piety, virtue, nor liberty can long
flourish in a community where the educa-
tion of youth is neglected.- Cooper, .
Education is the knowledge of how to use
the whole of oneself. Many men use but
one or two faculties out of the score with
wbich they are endowed. A man is edu-
cated who knows how to make a tool of
every faculty-how to open it, how to keep
it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical
purposes.-E. W. Beecher.
The worst education that teaches self-
denial is better than the best that teaches
everything else and not that.-J. Sterling.
The best education in the world is that
got by struggling to get a living.- Wen-
dell Phillips.
He has seen but little of life who does
not discern everywhere the effect of early
education on men's opinions and habits of
thinking. Children bring out of the nur-
sery that which displays itself throughout
their lives. ---Cecil.
The poorest education that teaches self-
control, is better than the best that neg-
lects it. - Anon.
It makes little difference what the trade,
business, or branch of learning, in mechan-
ical labor, or intellectual effort, the educat-
ed man is always superior to the common
laborer. One who is in the habit of apply-
ing his powers in the right way will carry
system into any occupation, and it will help
him as much to handle a rope as to write a
poem.-F. M. Crawford.
The sure foundations of the State are
laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and
every sneer at education, at culture, and at
book-learning which is the recorded wisdom
of the experience of mankind, is the dema-
gogue's sneer at intelligent liberty, inviting
national degeneracy and ruin.-G. W.
Curtis.
You demand universal suffrage, I de-
mand universal education to go with it.
W. E. I'orster.
Education in its widest sense includes
everything thatexerts a formative influence,
and causes a young person to be, at a given
point, what he is.—Marle Hoplins.
Education is a debt due from the present
to future generations.--George Peabody.
The education of the human mind com-
mences in the cradle.—7. Cogan.
Education is not learning; it is the exer-
cise and development of the powers of the
mind; and the two great methods by which
this end may be accomplished are in the
halls of learning, or in the conflicts of life.
- Princeton Review.
Don't fall into the vulgar idea that mind
is a warehouse, and education but a pro-
cess of stuffing it full of goods.
The aim of education should be to convert
the mind into a living fountain, and not a
reservoir. That which is filled by merely
pumping in, will be emptied by pumping
out.-John M, Mason.
Every day's experience shows how much
more actively education goes on out of the
school-room, than in it.
Men are every day saying and doing,
from the power of education, habit, and
imitation, what has no root whatever in
their serious convictions.-Channing.
The best school of discipline is home-
family life is God's own method of training
the young ; and homes are very much what
women make them.-S. Smiles.
There is a moral as well as an intellectual
objection to the custom, frequent in these
times, of making education consist in a
mere smattering of twenty different things,
instead of in the mastery of five or six. —
Chadwick.
It depends on education to open the gates
which lead to virtue or to vice, to happi-
ness or to misery.---Jane Porter.
That call not education, which decries
God and his truth, content the seed to
strew of moral maxims, and the mind imbue
with elements which form the worldly wise ;
so call the training, which can duly prize
such lighter lore, but chiefly holds to view
what God requires us to believe and do,
and notes man's end, and shapes him for
the skies. ---Bp. Mant.
The true order of learning should be,
first, what is necessary; second, what is
useful, and third, what is ornamental.
To reverse this arrangement, is like begin-
ning to build at the top of the edifice.-
Mrs. Sigourney.
Education commences at the mother's
knee, and every word spoken in the hear-
ing of little children tends toward the for-
mation of character.—Let parents always
bear this in mind.-H. Ballou.
That which we are we are all the while
teaching, not voluntarily, but in voluntarily.
-Emerson.
The wisest man may always learn some-
thing from the humblest peasant.-J. P.
Senn.
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Public instruction should be the first ob-
ject of government.-Napoleon.
No woman is educated who is not equal
to the successful management of a family.
-Burnap.
The schoolmaster deserves to be beaten
himself who beats nature in a boy for a
fault. And I question whether all the
whippings in the world can make their
parts which are natually sluggish rise one
minute before the hour nature hath ap-
pointed.-Fuller.
All who have meditated on the art of
governing mankind have been convinced
that the fate of empires depends on the edu-
cation of youth.- Aristotle.
It is by education I learn to do by choice,
what other men do by the constraint of
fear.–Aristotle.
Jails and prisons are the complement of
schools ; so many less as you have of the
latter, so many more must you have of the
former.-H. Mann,
The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust
bim, armed with his primer, against the
soldier in full military array-Broughan.
Schoolhouses are the republican line of
fortifications.-Horace Mann,
The education of the present race of fe-
males is not very favorable to domestic hap-
piness.--For my own part, I call education,
not that which smothers a woman with ac-
complishments, but that which tends to
consolidate a firm and regular system of
character.—That which tends to form a
friend, a companion, and a wife.- Hannah
More.
Do not ask if a man has been through
college ; ask if a college has been through
him-if he is a walking university.-E. H.
Chapin.
An intelligent class can scarce ever be,
as a class, vicious, and never, as a class,
indolent. The excited mental activity op-
erates as a counterpoise to the stimulus of
sense and appetite. -Everett.
Early instruction in truth will best keep
out error. Some one has well said, “Fill
the bushel with wheat, and you may defy
the devil to fill it with tares. "— Tryon Ed-
wards.
Education gives fecundity of thought,
copiousness of illustration, quickness, vig-
or, fancy, words, images, and illustrations ;
it decorates every common thing, and gives
the power of trifling without being undig-
nified and absurd.- Sidney Smith.
If we work upon marble, it will perish;
if on brass, time will efface it; if we rear
temples, they will crumble into dust; but
if we work upon immortal minds, and im-
bue them with principles, with the just
fear of God and love of our fellow-men, we
engrave on those tablets something that will
brighten to all eternity.—Daniel Webster.
Never educate a child to be a gentleman
or lady only, but to be a man, a woman.-
Herbert Spencer.
It is on the sound education of the people
that the security and destiny of every na-
tion chiefly rest.-Kossuth.
Nothing so good as a university educa-
tion, nor worse than a university without
its education.-Bulwer.
Family education and order are some of
the chief means of grace; if these are duly
maintained, all the means of grace are
likely to prosper and become effectual.
Jonathan Edwards.
A college education shows a man how
little other people know.—Haliburton.
'Tis education forms the common mind;
just as the twig is bent the tree is in-
clined.-Pope.
Education does not consist in mastering
languages, but is found in that moral train-
ing which extends beyond the schoolroom
to the playground and the street, anl
Which teaches that a meaner thing can
be done than to fail in recitation.-- Chad-
bourne.
No part of education is more important
to young woman than the society of the
other sex of her own age.--It is only by
this association that they acquire that in-
sight into character which is almost their
only defence.—Burnap.
Education does not commence with the
alphabet; it begins with a mother's look,
with a father's nod of approbation, or a
sign of reproof; with a sister's gentile pres-
sure of the hand, or a brother's noble act
of forbearance; with handfuls of flowers
in green dells, on hills, and daisy meadows;
with birds' nests admired, but not touched :
with creeping ants, and almost impercep-
tible emmets; with humming-bees and
glass beebives; with pleasant walks in shady
lanes, and with thoughts directed in sweet
and kindly tones and words to nature, to
beauty, to acts of benevolence, to deeds of
virtue, and to the source of all good-to
God Himself !- Anon.
Thelwall thought it very unfair to in-
fluence a child's mind by inculcating any
opinions before it had come to years of dis-
cretion to choose for itself. I showed him
my garden, and I told him it was my botan-
ical garden.--"How so?"
How so?” said he ;
said he ; "it is
covered with weeds."-":0," I replied,
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“that is only because it has not yet come to
its age of discretion and choice.--The weeds,
you see, have taken the liberty to grow, and
I thought it unfair in me to prejudice the
soil toward roses and strawberries.”—Cole-
pidge,
Education is our only political safety.-
Outside of this ark all is deluge.-H. Mann.
EFFORT.-(See “LABOR.")
Things don't turn up in this world until
somebody turns them up.-Garfield.
The fact is, nothing comes ; at least,
nothing good. All has to be fetched.
Charles Buxton.
If you would relish food, labor for it be-
fore you take it; if enjoy clothing, pay for
it before you wear it; if you would sleep
soundly, take a clear conscience to bed with
you.- Franklin.
EGOTISM.-Egotism is the tongue of
vanity.-Chamfort.
It is never permissible to say “I say.”—
Mad. Neckar.
The more you speak of yourself, the more
you are likely to lie.--Zimmerman.
An egotist is a man who talks so much
about himself that he gives me no time to
talk about myself.--H. L. Wayland.
The more any one speaks of himself, the
less he likes to hear another talked of.-
Lavalere,
Egotism is more like an offence than a
crime, though 'tis allowable to speak of
yourself provided nothing is advanced in
your
own favor ; but I cannot help suspect-
ing that those who abuse themselves are,
in reality, angling for approbation.--Zim-
merman.
Do you wish men to speak well of you?
Then never speak well of yourself.--Pascal.
There is not ono wise man in twenty that
will praise himself.--Shakespeare.
When all is summed up, a man never
speaks of himself without loss ; his accusa-
tions of himself are always believed; his
praises never.-Montaigne.
Christian piety annihilates the egotism
of the heart; worldy politeness veils and
represses it.-Pascal.
The personal pronoun "I," might well
be the coat of arms of some individuals.
Richºol.
I shall never apologize to you for ego-
tism.--I think very few men in writing to
their friends have enough of it.—Sidney
Smith.
It is a false principle, that because we
care entirely occupied with ourselves, we
must equally occupy the thoughts of others.
The contrary inference is the fair one.-
Hazlitt.
The reason why lovers are never weary
of one another is this they are ever talk-
ing of themselves.-Rochefoucauld.
What hypocrites we seem to be whenever
we talk of ourselves !-Our words sound so
humble while our hearts are so proud.-
Hare.
An egotist will always speak of himself,
either in praise or censure ; but a modest
man ever shuns making himself the subject
of bis conversation.—Bruyère.
We often boast that we are never bored ;
but we are so conceited that we do not per-
ceive how often we bore others.-Roche-
foucauld.
ELEGANCE.-When the mind loses its
feeling for elegance, it grows corrupt and
grovelling, and seeks in the crowd what
ought to be found at home.-Landor.
Elegance is something more than ease-
more than a freedom from awkwardness
and restraint.--It implies a precision, a
polish, and a sparkling which is spirited,
yet delicate.-Hazlitt.
Taste and elegance, though they are
reckoned only among the smaller and sec-
ondary morals, are of no mean importance
in the regulations of life.-A moral taste is
not of force to turn vice into virtue ; but it
recommends virtue with something like the
blandishments of pleasure, and it infinitely
abates the evils of vice.- Burke.
ELOQUENCE.-True eloquence con-
sists in saying all that is proper, and noth-
ing more. -Rochefoucaulil.
Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.-
Cicero.
Action is eloquence; the eyes of the ig-
norant are more learned than their ears.-
Shakespeare.
The clear conception, outrunning the
deductions of logic, the high purpose, the
firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking
on the tongue, beaming from the eye, in-
forming every feature, and urging the
whole man onward, right onward to his
object--this, this is eloquence; or rather
it is something greater and higher than
all eloquence ; it is action, noble, sublime,
godlike action.—Daniel Webster.
It is but a poor eloquence which only
shows that the orator can talk.-Sir Joshua
Reynolds.
Eloquence is relative.-One can no more
pronounce on the eloquence of any composi-
Words and phrases may be marshalled in
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tion, than on the wholesomeness of a medi- each, by radiating on him the feeling of
cine without knowing for whom it is in- all,-Emerson.
tended. Whately.
Great is the power of eloquence; but
The truest eloquence is that which holds never is it so great as when it pleacis along
us too mute for applause. --Bulwer.
with nature, and the culprit is a child
Those who would make us feel, must
strayed from his duty, and returned to it
feel themselves.- Churchill.
again with teal8.—Sterne.
No man ever did, or ever will become Honesty is one part of eloquence. We
most truly eloquent without being a con-
persuade others by being in earnest our-
stant reader of the Bible, and an admirer
selves.--Hazlitt.
of the purity and sublimity of its language.
EMINENCE,-Every man ought to aim
-Fisher Ames.
at eminence, not by pulling others down,
It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires but by raising himself; and enjoy the
matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; pleasures of his own superiority, whether
and it brightens as it burns. -Tacitus. imaginary or real, without interrupting
Eloquence is in the assembly, not merely
others in the same felicity.-- Johnson.
in the speaker.-William Pitt.
The road to eminence and power from
Eloquence is logic on fire.Lyman
obscure condition ought not to be made too
Beecher.
easy, nor a thing too much of course. If
rare merit be the rarest of all rare things,
Eloquence is vehement simplicity--Cecil.
it ought to pass through some sort of pro-
There is no eloquence without a man bation. The temple of honor ought to be
behind it.- Emerson.
seated on an eminence.
If it be open
Eloquence is the transference of thought
through virtue, let it be remembered, too,
and emotion from one heart to another, no
that virtue is never tried but by some dif-
matter how it is done.—John B. Gough.
ficulty and some struggle.-- Burke.
There is not less eloquence in the voice, It is folly for an eminent man to think of
the eye, the gesture, than in words. escaping censire, and a weakness for him
Rochefoucauld.
to be affected by it.-All the illustrions
If any thing I have ever said or written
persons of antiquity, and indeed of every
deserves the feeblest encomiums of my fel-
age in the world, have passed through this
low countrymen, I have 20 hesitation in
fiery persecution.-Addison.
declaring that for their partiality I am in- EMOTION.-All loving emotions, like
debted, solely indebted, to the daily and plants, shoot up most rapidly in the tem-
attentive perusal of the Sacred Scriptures, pestuous atmosphere of life. -Richter.
the source of all true poetry and eloquence, Tie taste for emotion may become a
as well as of all good and all comfort.
dangerous taste; we should be very cautious
Daniel Webster.
how we attempt to squeeze out of human
Speech is the body ; thought, the soul, life more ecstasy and paroxysm than it can
and suitable action the life of eloquence.-- well afford.-Sydney Smilh.
C. Sinimons.
Emotion has no value in the Christian
Talking and eloquence are not the same. system save as it is connected with right
To speak and to speak well are two things. conduct.--It is the bud, not the flower, and
-A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks. is of no value until it expands into the
Ben. Jonson.
flower.--Every religious sentiment, every
True eloquence does not consist in speech.
act of devotion which does not produce a
-It cannot be brought from far.-Labor corresponding elevation of life, is worse
and learning may toil for it in vain. than useless it is absolutely pernicious,
because it ministers to self-deception, and
every way, but they cannot compass it. tends to lower the tone of personal morals.
It must consist in the man, in the subject,
- Murray.
and in the occasion.-Daniel Webster.
Emotion turning back on itself, and not
The manner of speaking is full as im- leading on to thought or action, is the ele-
portant as the matter, as more people have ment of madness.--J. Sterling.
ears to be tickled than understandings to Emotion, whether of ridicule, anger, or
judge.- Chesterfield.
sorrow, whether raised at a puppet-show,
The pleasure of eloquence is, in greatest a funeral, or a battle, is your grandest of
part, owing often to the stimulus of the levelers. The man who would be always
occasion which produces it-to the magic superior should be always apathetic. —
of sympathy which exalts the feeling of Bulwer.
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EMULATION.
Emotion which does not lead to and flow alone, we have our thoughts to watch ; in
out in right action is not only useless, but the family, our tempers; and in company,
it weakens character, and becomes an ex- our tongues.-Hanriah More.
cuse for neglect of effort.-Tryon Edwards,
The wise prove, and the foolish confess,
EMPIRE.-As a general truth, nothing
by their conduct, that a life of employment
is more opposed to the well-being and free-
is the only life worth leading.--Paley.
dom of men, than vast empires.-De Toc- Life's cares are comforts, such by heaven
queville.
designed; he that has none must make
Extended empire, like expanded gold,
them or be wretched.--Cares are employ-
exchanges solid strength for feeble splen- ments, and without employ the soul is on
dor.-Johnson.
a rack--the rack of rest to souls most ad-
It is not their long reigus, nor their fre-
verse :--action all their joy.--Young.
quent changes which occasion the fall of Occupation is one great source of enjoy-
empires, but their abuse of power.-Crabbe. ment. No man, properly occupied, was
ever miserable.-L. E. Landon.
EMPLOYMENT,-(See “OCCUPA-
TION,” and “TIME.")
EMPTINESS-Tour things are griev-
Employment is nature's physician, and
ously empty : a head without brains, a wit
is essential to human happiness.-Galen. .
without judgment, a heart without honesty,
and a purse without money.--Earle.
Be always employed about some rational
thing, that the devil find thee not idle.- EMULATION.-Emulation is a noble
Jerome.
passion.-It is enterprising, but just withal.
Life is hardly respectable if it has no
-It keeps within the terms of honor, and
makes the contest for glory just and gen-
generous task, no duties or affections that
constitute a necessity of existing.–Every
erous ; striving to excel, not by depressing
mau's task is his life-preserver.-G. B.
others, but by raising itself. Beaumont.
Emerson.
Emulation admires and strives to imitate
“I have,” says Richter, "fire-proof, per-
great actions; envy is only moved to malice.
-Balzac.
ennial enjoyments, called employments”;
and says Burton, "So essential to human Emulation is the devil-shadow of aspira-
happiness is. employment, that indolence is tion. To excite it is worthy only of the
justly considered the mother of misery." commonplace vulgar schoolmaster, whose
ambition is to show what fine scholars he
He that does not bring up his son to some
honest calling and employment, brings him
can turn out, that he may get the more
up to be a thief.-Jewish Maxim.
pupils.-G. Macdonald.
Employment gives health, sobriety, and
Emulation, in the sense of a laudable
morals.-Constant employment and well-
ambition, is founded on humility, for it
paid labor produce, in a country like ours,
implies that we liave a low opinion of our
general prosperity, content, and cheerful-
present, and think it necessary to advance
ness. -Daniel Webster'.
and make improvement.---Bp. Hall.
The devil never tempted a man whom he
Where there is emulation, there will be
found judiciously employed.-Spurgeon.
vanity; where there is vanity, there will be
folly.-Johnson.
The safe and general antidote against
sorrow, is employment. It is cominonly
The emulation of a man of genius is sel-
observed, that among soldiers and seamen,
dom with his cotemporaries. The com-
though there is much kindness, there is
petitors with whom his secret ambition
seeks to vie are the dead.-Bulwer.
little grief; they see their friend fall with-
out that lamentation which is indulged in
Emulation has been termed a spur to
security and idleness, because they have 110 virtue, and assumes to be a spur of gold.-
leisure to spare from the care of them- But it is a spur composed of baser materials,
selves; and whoever shall keep his thoughts
and if tried in the furnace will be found
equally busy, will find himself equally un- wanting.–Colton.
affected by irretrievable losses.-Johnson. Emulation looks out for merits, that she
Not to enjoy life, but to employ life, may exalt herself by a victory; envy spies
ought to be our aim and inspiration. - out blemishes, that she may have another
Macduff:
by a defeat.- Colton.
Employment and ennui are simply incom- There is a long and wearisome step be-
patible.—Mad. Deluzy.
tween admiration and imitation.-Richter.
We have employments assigned to us for
Without emulation we sink into mean-
every circumstance in life. When we are ness, or mediocrity, for nothing great or
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ENEMIES.
excellent can be done without it.---Beau-
mont.
ENCOURAGEMENT, I'aint not; the
miles to heaven are but few and short.-
Rutherford.
Correction does nuch, but encourage-
ment does nore.--Encouragement after
censure is as the sun after a shower.-
Goethe.
We ought not to raise expectatious
which it is not in our power to satisfy.-It
is more pleasing to see smoke brightening
into flame, than flame sinking into smoke.
-Johnson.
All may do what has by man been done.--
Young.
END.-Let the end try the man.--Shake-
speare.
If well thou hast begun, go on ; it is the
end that crowns us, not the fight.- Ller-
rick.
The end crowns all, and that old com-
mon arbitrator, time, will one day end it.-
Shakespeare.
All's well that ends well ; still the finis is
the crown.-Shakespeare.
ENDURANCE.-Not in the achieve-
ment, but in the endurance of the human
soul, does it show its divine grandeur, and
its alliance with the infinite God.-E. H.
Chapin.
The greater the difficulty, the more glory
in surmounting it.-Skilful pilots gain
their reputation from storms and tempests.
- Epicurus.
T'he palm-tree grows best beneath a pon-
derous weight, and even so the character
of man.—The petty pangs of small daily
cares have often bent the character of men, ,
but great misfortunes seldom.-Kossuth.
There is uothing in the world so much
admired as a man who knows how to bear
unhappiness with courage.-Seneca.
Our strength often increases in propor-
tion to the obstacles imposed upon it. It is
thus we enter upon the most perilous plans
after having had the shame of failing in
more simple ones.-Rapin.
He conquers who endures.--Persius.
By bravely enduring, an evil which can-
not be avoided is overcome.- Old Provery.
ENEMIES,-Make no enemies.-He is
insignificant indeed who can do thee no
harm.-Colton.
Have you fifty friends ?-it is not enough.
-Have you one enemy?-it is too much.-
Italian Proverb.
If we could read the secret history of our
enemies, we should find in each mun's life
sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all
hostility.-
Longfellow.
There is no little enemy. Franklin.
Those who get through the world with-
out enemies are commonly of three classes :
the supple, the adroit, the phlegmatic.
The leaden rule surmounts obstacles by
yielding to them; the oiled wheel escapes
friction, the cotton sack escapes damage
by its impenetrable elasticity.--- Whately.
It is much safer to reconcile an enemy
than to conquer him ; victory may deprive
him of his poison, but reconciliation of his
will.-Feltham.
However rich or powerful a man may be
it is the height of folly to make personal
enemies ; for one unguarded moment may
yield you to the revenge of the most despic-
able of mankind.-Lyttleton.
We should never make enemies, if for no
other reason, because it is so hard to be-
have toward them as we ought.-Palmer.
Some men are more beholden to their
bitterest enemies than to friends who ap-
pear to be sweetness itself. The former
frequently tell the truth, but the latter
never.-Cato.
Observe your enemies, for they first find
out your faults.-Antisthenes.
To love an enemy is the distinguished
characteristic of a religion which is not of
man but of God. It could be delivered as
a precept, only by him who lived and died
to establish it by his example.
It is the enemy whom we do not suspect
who is the most dangerous. - Rojas.
Our worst enemies are those we carry
about with us in our own hearts. Adam
fell in Paradise and Lucifer in heaven,
while Lot continued righteous in Sodom.
Let us carefully observe those good
qualities wherein our enemies excel us,
and endeavor to excel then by avoiding
what is faulty, and imitating what is ex-
cellent in them.-Plutarch.
I am persuaded that he who is capable of
being a bitter enemy can never possess the
necessary virtues that constitute a true
friend.-Fitzosborne.
Men of sense often learn from their ene-
mies. — It is from their foes, not their
friends, that cities learn the lesson of
building high walls and ships of war; and
this lesson saves their children, their homes,
and their properties.--Aristophanes.
Be assured those will be thy worst enc-
mies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but
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ENERGY.
who have done evil to thee. And those
will be thy best friends, not to whom thou
hast done good, but who have done good
to thee.--Lavater.
Did a person but know the value of an
enemy, he would purchase him with pure
gold.-Raunci.
Plutarch has written an essay on the
benefits which a man may receive from his
enemies; and among the good fruits of
enmity, mentions this in particular, that
by the reproaches which it casts upon us
we see the worst side of ourselves.-Addi-
son.
Our enemies are our outward consciences.
-Shalcespeare.
In order to have an enemy, one must be
somebody.-One must be a force before he
can be resisted by another force.-A ma-
licious enemy is better than a clumsy
friend.-Mad. Swetchine.
A merely fallen enemy may rise again,
but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.
Schiller.
Whatever the number of a man's friends,
there will be times in his life when he has
one too few; but if he has only one enemy,
he is lucky indeed if he has not one too
many.-Bulwer.
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
that it do singe yourself.---Shakespeare.
If you want enemies, excel others; if
friends, let others excel you.- Collon.
Though all things do to barm him what
they can, no greater enemy to himself than
man.--Earl of Stirling.
Our enemies come nearer the truth in
the opinions they form of 18 than we do in
our opinion of ourselves.-Rochefoucauld.
The fine and noble way to destroy a foe,
is not to kill him : with kindness you may
so change him that he shall cease to be so ;
then he's slain.--Aleyn.
There is no enemy can hurt us but by our
own hands.--Satan could not hurt us, if
onr owu corruption betrayed us not.-Afflic-
tions cannot hurt us without our own im-
patience.-Temptations cannot hurt us,
without our own yieldance.-Death could
not hurt us, without the sting of our own
sins. Sins could not hurt us, without our
own impenitence.- Bp. Hall.
O wise man, wash your hands of that
friend who associates with your enemies.
-Saadi.
“No one's enemy but his own," is gener-
ally the enemy of everybody with wliom be
is in relation.-His leading quality is a
reckless imprudence, and a selfish pursuit of
selfish enjoyinents, independent of all con-
sequences. He runs rapidly through his
means ; calls, in a friendly way, on bis
friends, for bonds, bail, and securities ; in-
volves his nearest kin; leaves his wife a
beggar, and quarters his orphans on the
public; and after enjoying himself to his
last guinea, entails a life of dependence
upon his progeny, and dies in the ill-under-
stood reputation of harmless folly which
is more injurious to society than some
positive crimes.—Mrs. Jameson.
ENERGY,-The longer I live, the more
deeply am I convinced that that which
makes the difference between one man and
another-between the weak and powerful,
the great and insignificant, is energy-in-
visible determination--a purpose once
formed, and then death or victory. This
quality will do anything that is to be done
in the world ; and no talents, no circum-
stances, no opportunities will make one a
man without it. -Buxton.
This world belongs to the energetic.
Emerson.
Energy will do anything that can be done
in this world ; and no talents, no circum-
stances, no opportunities will make a two-
legged animal a man without it.- Goethe.
To think we are able, is almost to be so;
to determine on attainment, is frequently
attainment itself.-Earnest resolution bas
often seemed to have about it almost a savor
of omnipotence.-S. Smiles.
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie,
which we ascribe to heaven : the fated. sky
gives us free scope; only, doth backward
pull our slow designs, when we ourselves
are dull.--Shalcespeare.
The truest wisdom, in general, is a reso-
lute determination.-- Napoleon.
The wise and active conquer difficulties
by daring to attempt them.-Sloth and
folly shiver and shrink at sight of toil and
hazard, and make the impossibility they
fear.-Rowe.
He alone has energy who cannot be de-
prived of it.- Lavater.
Toil, feel, think, hope ; you will be sure
to dream enough before you die, without
arranging for it.-J. Sterling.
There is no genius in life like the genius
of energy and activity.--D. G. Milchell.
Resolution is omnipotent.-Determine to
be something in the world, and you will be
something:-Aim at excellence, and excel-
lence will be attained.-This is the great
secret of effort and eminence."Į cannot
ENJOYMENT.
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ENNUI,
All solitary enjoyments quickly pall, or
become painful. --Sharp.
Whatever advantage or enjoyment we
snatch beyond the certain portion allotted
us by nature, is like money spent before it
is due, wbich at the time of regular pay-
ment will be missed and regretted.—John-
son.
do it,” never accomplished anything; “I
will try," has wrought wonders.-J. Hawes.
The reward of a thing well done, is to
have done it.-
Emerson.
ENJOYMENT.-Those who would en-
joyment gain.must find it in the purpose
they pursue.-Mrs. Hale.
No enjoyment, however inconsiderable,
is confined to the present moment. A man
is the happier for life from having made
once an agreeable tour, or lived for any
length of time with pleasant people, or en-
joyed any considerable interval of innocent
pleasure.-Sidney Sneith.
Gratitude is the memory of the heart;
therefore forget not to say often, I have all
I have ever enjoyed.—Mrs. L. M. Child.
Restraint is the golden rule of enjoyment.
-L. E. Landon.
He scatters enjoyment, says Lavater, who
enjoys much ; and it is equally true that he
will enjoy much who scatters enjoyinents
to others.
Temper your enjoyments with prudence,
lest there be written on your heart that
fearful word "satiety.”—Quarles.
True enjoyment comes from activity of
the mind and exercise of the body; the two
are ever united.-Humboldt.
Imperfect enjoyment is attended with
regret; a surfeit of pleasure with disgust.
There is a certain nick of time, a certain
medium to be observed, with which few
people are acquainted.-
Evremond.
Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed
to man.-Blair.
I have told you of the Spaniard who
always put on his spectacles when about to
eat cherries, that they might look bigger
and more tempting. In like manner I
make the most of my enjoyments; and
though I do not cast my cares away, I pack
them in as little compass as I can, and carry
them as conveniently as I can for myself,
and never let them annoy others.--Southey.
Whatever can lead an intelligent being
to the exercise or habit of mental enjoy-
ment, contributes more to his happiness
than the highest sensual or mere bodily
pleasures. The ono feeds the soul, while
the other, for the most part, only exhausts
the frame, and too often injures the im-
mortal part.
Let all seen enjoyments lead to the in-
seen fountain from whence they flow.
Haliburton.
The less you can enjoy, the poorer
and
scantier yourself ; the more you can enjoy,
the richer and more vigorous.-Lavater,
The enjoyments of this present short
life, which are indeed but puerile amuse-
ments, must disappear when placed in com-
petition with the greatness and durability
of the glory which is to come.-Haller.
Sleep, riches, health, and so every bless-
ing, are not truly and fully enjoyed till
after they have been interrupted.- Richter.
What we have, we prize, not to the worth
while we enjoy it; but being lacked and
lost, why then we rack the value ; then we
find the virtue that possession would not
show us while it was ours.--Shakespeare.
ENNUI.-Eunui is the desire of activity
without the fit means of gratifying the de-
sire.--Bancroft.
Ennui is one of our greatest enemies ; re-
munerative labor, our most lasting friend.
-Moser.
I do pity unlearned gentlemen on a rainy
day.-Falkland
The victims of ennui paralyze all the
grosser feelings by excess, and torpefy all
the finer by disuse and inactivity. Dis-
gusted with this world and indifferent about
another, they at last lay violent hands upon
themselves, and assume no small credit for
the sangfroid with which they meet death.
But alas ! such beings can scarcely be said
to die, for they have never truly lived.-
Collon.
Ennui has, perhaps, made more gamblers
than avarice; more drunkards than thirst;
and perhaps as many suicides as despair.-
Collona.
Ennui is a word which the French in-
vented, though of all nations in Europe
they know the least of it.—Bancroft.
That which renders life burdensome to
us, generally arises from the abuse of it. -
Rousseau.
As gout seems privileged to attack the
bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to ex-
ert a similar prerogative over their minds.
Collon.
Ambition itself is not so reckless of hu-
man life as ennui.--Clemency is a favorite
attribute of the former, but ennui has tho
taste of a cannibal.-Bancroft.
There is nothing so insupportable to man
as to be in entire repose, without passion,
ENTERPRISE.
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ENVY.
occupation, amusement, or application.
Then it is that he feels his own nothing-
ness, isolation, insignificance, dependent
nature, powerlessness, emptiness. Imme-
diately there issue from his soulennui, sad-
ness, chagrin, vexation, despair.—Pascal.
ENTERPRISE.-The method of the
enterprising is to plan with audacity, and
execute with vigor; to sketch out a map
of possibilities, and then to treat them as
probabilities. --Bovee.
To do anything in this world worth doing,
we must not stand back shivering and
thinking of the cold and danger, but jump
in, and scramble through as well as we can.
Sidney Smith.
Before undertaking any design weigh the
story of thy action with the danger of the
attempt.--If the glory outweigh the danger
it is cowardice to neglect it; if the danger
exceed the glory, it is rashness to attenupt
it; if the balances stand poised, let thine
own genius cast them.-Quarles.
Kites rise against, not with the wind. -
No man ever worked his passage anywhere
in a dead calm.-John Neal.
Attempt the end, and never stand to
doubt; nothing so hard but search will
find it out.-Herrick.
ENTHUSIASM.Every great and com-
manding movement in the annals of the
world is the triumph of enthusiasm.-Noth-
ing great was ever achieved without it.-
Emerson.
Enthusiasm is a virtue rarely to be met
with in seasons of calm and unruffled pros-
perity.-It flourishes in adversity, kindles
in the hour of danger, and awakens to
deeds of renown.—The terrors of persecu-
tion only serve to quicken the energy of its
purposes. It swells in proud integrity,
and, great in the purity of its cause, it can
scatter defiance amidst hosts of enemies.
Chalmers.
The sense of this word among the Greeks
affords the noblest definition of it ; enthu-
siasm signifies “God in us.”—Mad. De
Staël.
Opposition always inflames the enthu-
siast, never converts him.-Schiller.
No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.
-Seeley.
An excess of excitement, and a deficiency
of enthusiasm, may easily characterize the
same person or period. Enthusiasm is
grave, inward, self-controlled ; mere ex-
citement is outward, fantastic, hysterical,
and passing in a moment from tears to
laughter ; from one aim to its very oppo-
site.-J. Sterling.
Truth is never to be expected from au-
thors whose understandings are warped
with enthusiasm : for they judge all actions
and their causes by their own perverse
principles, and a crooked line can never.be
the measure of a straight one.--Dryden.
Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.
- It is the real allegory of the tale of
Orpheus ; it moves stones, and charms
brūtes. It is the genius of sincerity, and
truth accomplishes no victories without it.
- Bulwer,
Enlist the interests of stern morality and
religious enthusiasm in the cause of politi-
cal liberty, as in the time of the old Puri-
tans, and it will be irresistible.--Coleridge.
All noble enthusiasms pass through a
feverish stage, and grow wiser and more
serene.-Channing.
Every production of genius must be the
production of enthusiasm.-Disraeli.
! Let us recognize the beauty and power
of true enthusiasm ; and whatever we may
do to enlighten ourselves or others, guard
against checking or chilling a single earn-
est sentiment.-- Tuckerman.
The enthusiasm of old men is singularly
like that of infancy.--Noval.
Great designs are not accomplished with-
out enthusiasm of some sort. It is the in-
spiration of everything great.-Without it
no man is to be feared, and with it none
despised.-Bovee.
Enthusiasm is an evil much less to be
dreaded than superstition.--Superstition is
the disease of nations ; enthusiasm, that of
individuals. The former grows inveterato
by time ; the latter is cured by it.- Robert
Hall.
Enthusiasts soon understand each other.
-Irving.
No wild enthusiast ever yet could rest,
till half mankind were, like himself, pos-
sest.-Cowper.
ENVY.-Envy has no other quality but
that of detracting from virtue. -Livy.
Envy is a passion so full of cowardice
and shame, that nobody ever had the con-
fidence to own it.-Rochester,
A man that hath no virtue in himself
ever envieth virtue in others; for men's
minds will either feed upon their own good,
or upon others' evil; and who wanteth thé
one will prey upon the other; and whoso is
out of hope to attain to another's virtue,
will seek to come at even hand by depress-
ing another's fortune.—Bacon.
Whoever feels pain in hearing a good
character of his neighbor, will feel a pleas-
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ENVY.
ure in the reverse. And those who despair
to rise in distinction by their virtues, are
happy if others can be depressed to a level
with themselves.-Franklin,
Envy sets the stronger seal on desert; if
he have no enemies, I should esteem his
fortune most wretched.-Ben Jonson.
Tools may our scorn, not envy raise, for
envy is a kind of praise.—Gay.
If our credit be so well built, so firm that
it is not easy to be shaken by calumny or
insinuation, envy then commends us, and
extols us beyond reason to those upon whom
we depend, till they grow jealous, and so
blow us up when they cannot throw us
down.- Clarendon.
All envy is proportionate to desire; ve
are uneasy at the attainments of another,
according as we think our own happiness
would be advanced by the addition of that
which he withholds from us ; and there-
fore whatever depresses immoderate wishes,
will, at the same time, set the heart free
from the corrosion of envy, aud exempt us
from that vice which is, above most others,
tormenting to ourselves, hateful to the
world, and productive of mean artifices
and sordid projects.—Johnson.
If we did but know how little some enjoy
of the great things that they possess, there
would not be much envy in the world.-
Young,
The truest mark of being born with great
qualities, is being born without envy.
Rochefoucauld.
Every other sin hath some pleasure an-
nexed to it, or will admit of some excuse,
but envy wants both. We should strive
against it, for if indulged in it will be to
us as a foretaste of hell upon earth.
Burton.
Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue, but,
like a shadow, proves the substance 'true.
- Pope.
Many men profess to hate another, but
no man owns envy, as being an enmity or
displeasure for no cause but another's
goodness or felicity.-Jeremy Taylor.
Emulation looks out for merits, that she
may exalt herself by a victory; envy spies
out blemishes, that she may lower another
by & defeat.-Colton.
Envy is like a fly that passes all a body's
sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores,
-Chapman.
Envy feels not its own happiness but
when it may be compared with the misery
of others.-Johnson.
Other passions have objects to flatter
them, and which seem to content and sat-
isfy them for a while.-There is power in
ambition, pleasure in luxury, and pelf in
covetousness ; but envy can gain nothing
but vexation.--Montaigne.
There is no surer mark of the absence of
the highest moral and intellectual qualities
than a cold reception of excellence.--
Bailey.
Base rivals, who true wit and merit hate,
maliciously aspire to gain renown, by
standing up, and pulling others down.-
Dryden.
Base envy withers at another's joy, and
hates the excellence it cannot reach.-
Thomson.
Envy, like the worm, never runs but to
the fairest fruit; like a cunning blood-
hound, it singles out the fattest deer in the
tlock. ---Abraham's riches were the Philis-
tines' envy, and Jacob's blessings had
Esau's hatred.-Beaumont.
Envy is but the smoke of low estate,
ascending still against the fortunate.-
Brooke.
Envy always implies conscious inferiority
wherever it resides.- Pliny.
No crime is so great to envy as daring
to excel.-- Churchill.
We are often vain of even the most
criminal of our passions ; but envy is so
shameful a passion that we never dare to
acknowledge it.--Rochefoucauld.
The envious praise only that which they
can surpass ; that which surpasses theni
they censure.- Colton.
Men of noble birth are noted to be envi-
ous toward new men when they rise ; for
the distance is altered ; it is like a deceit of
the eye, that when others come on they
think themselves go back.-Bacon.
Euvy ought to have no place allowed it
in the heart of man; for the goods of this
present world are so vile and low that they
are beneath it; and those of the future
world are 80 vast and exalted that they are
above it.-Colton.
If envy, like anger, did not burn itself
in its own fire, and consume and destroy
those persons it possesses before it can de-
stroy those it wishes worst to, it would set
the whole world on fire, and leave the
most excellent persons the most miserable.
- Clarendon.
Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the
brightness of another's prosperity, like the
scorpion confined within a circle of fire,
will sting itself to death.-Colton.
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EQUALITY.
euce,-
Envy makes us see what will serve to
accuse others, and not perceive what may
justify them.—Bp. Wilson.
As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth
envy consume a man.- Chrysostom.
The envious man grows lean at the suc-
cess of his neighbor.--Horace.
The benevolent have the advantage of
the envious, even in this present life; for
the envious is tormented not only by all the
ill that befalls himself, but by all the good
that happens to another ; whereas the be-
nevolent man is the better prepared to bear
his own calamities unruftled, from the com-
placency and serenity he has secured from
contemplating the prosperity of all around
him.-Collon.
EPITAPHS.-They are the abstract and
brief chronicles of the time; after your
death you were better have a bad epitaphi
than their ill report while you live.--Shake-
speare.
Some persons make their own epitaphs,
and bespeak the reader's good-will." It
were, indeed, to be wished, that every man
would early learn in this manner to make
his own, and that he would draw it up in
terms as flattering as possible, and that he
would make it the employment of his whole
life to deserve it.-Goldsmith.
Do ye not laugh, O, listening friends,
when men praise those dead whose virtues
they discovered not when living?-It takes
much marble to build the sepulchre.—How
little of lath and plaster would bave re-
paired the garret !-- Bulwer.
If all would speak as kindly of the living
as in epitaphs they do of the dead, slan-
der and censorious gossip would soon be
strangers in the world.
EQUALITY.-All men are by nature
equal, made, all, of the same earth by the
same Creator, and however we deceive our-
selves, as dear to God is the poor peasant
as the mighty prince.-Plato.
By the law of God, given by him to hu-
manity, all men are free, are brothers, and
are equals.-Mazzini.
In the gates of eternity the black hand
and the white hold each other with an equal
clasp.-Mrs. Stowe.
Equality is the share of every one at their
advent upon earth; and equality is also
theirs when placed beneath it.--Enclos.
Liberty, equality-bad principles ! The
only true principle for humanity is justice;
and justice to the feeble is protection and
kindness.-Amiel.
Your fat king, and your lean beggar, is
but variable service ; two dishes, but to one
table; that is the end.--Shakespeare.
Kings and their subjects, masters and
slaves, find a common level in two places-
at the foot of the cross and in the grave.--
Collon.
It is not true that equality is a law of
nature.-Nature has no equality.-Its sov-
ereigu law is subordination and depend-
- Vauvenargues.
If by saying that all inen are born free
and equal, you mean that they are all
equally born, it is true, but true in no other
sense ; birtlı, talent, labor, virtue, and
providence, are forever making differences.
-Eugene Edwards.
Let them ease their hearts with prate of
equal rights, which man never knew.-
Byron.
So far is it from being true that men are
naturally equal, that no two people can be
half an hour together but one shall acquire
an evident superiority over the other.
Johnson.
Society is a more level surface than we
imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are
hard to be met with ; and there are few
giants or dwarfs.-Hazlitt.
They who say all men are equal speak an
undoubted truth, if they mean that all have
an equal right to liberty, to their property,
and to their protection of the laws.--But
they are mistaken if they think men are
equal in their station and employments,
since they are not so by their talents.
Voltaire.
Equality is one of the most consummate
scoundrels that ever crept from the brain
of a political juggler--a fellow who thrusts
his band into the pocket of honest industry
or enterprising talent, and squanders their
hard-earned profits on profiigate idleness
or indolent stupidity.--Paulding.
Men are by nature unequal.-It is vain,
therefore, to treat them as if they were
equal.-Froude.
Some must follow, and some command,
though all are made of clay.-Longfellow.
The equality of conditions is more com-
plete in the Christian countries of the pres-
ent day, than it has been at any time, or
in any part of the world.-Its gradual de-
velopment is a providential fact, and it
possesses all the characteristics of a divine
decree ; it is universal, it is durable, and it
constantly eludes all human interference;
and all events, as well as all men, contribute
to its progress. -De Tocqucville.
Whatever difference there may appear to
be in men's fortunes, there is still a certain
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compensation of good and ill in all, that
makes them equal.-Charron.
When the political power of the clergy
was founded and began to exert itself, and
they opened their ranks to all classes, to
the poor and the rich, the villain and the
lord, equality penetrated into the govern-
ment through the church ; and the being
who as a serf must have vegetated in per-
petual bondage, took his place, as a priest,
in the midst of nobles, and not unfrequently
above the head of kings. -De Tocqueville.
EQUANIMITY.-In this thing one man
is superior to another, that he is better able
to bear prosperity or adversity.-Philemon.
The excellence of equanimity is beyond
all praise.-One of this disposition is not
dejected in adversity, nor elated in pros-
perity: he is affable to others, and con-
tented in himself. Buck.
EQUITY.-Equity is a roguish thing.-
For law we have a measure, and know what
to trust to; equity is according to the con-
scieuce of him that is chancellor, and as
that is larger or narrower, so is equity.
It is all one as if they should make the
standard for the measure we call a foot,
a chancellor's foot. What an uncertain
measure would this be!_One chancellor
has a long foot; another, a short foot; &
third, an indifferent foot. It is the same
thing with the chancellor's conscience.-
Selden.
Equity is that exact rule of righteousness
or justice which is to be observed between
man and man.-It is beautifully and coin-
prehensively expressed in the words of the
Saviour, "All things whatsoever ye would
that men should do to you, do ye even so
to them, for this is the law and the proph-
ets."-Buck.
Equity in law is the same that the spirit
is in religion, what every one pleases to
make it: sometimes they go according to
conscience, sometimes according to law,
sometimes according to the rule of court.-
Selden,
EQUIVOCATION.—I doubt the equiv-
ocation of the fiend that lies like truth.-
Shakespeare.
A sudden lie may sometimes be only
manslaughter upon truth; but by a care-
fully constructed equivocation truth is
always, with malice aforethought, deliber-
ately murdered.-Morley.
Be these juggling fiends no more believed,
that palter with us in a double sense ; that
keep the word of promise to our ear, and
break it to our hope. Shakespeare.
When thou art obliged to speak, be sure
to speak the truth ; for equivocation is half
way to lying, and lying is the whole way to
hell.-Penn.
He who is guilty of equivocation, may
well be suspected of hypocrisy.-Maunder.
We must speak by the card, or equivoca-
tion will undo us. --Shakespeare.
There is no possible excuse for a guarded
lie.--Inthusiastic and impulsive people will
sometimes falsify thoughtlessly, but equivo-
cation is malice prepense.-H. Ballou.
The lie indirect is often as bad, and
always meaner and more cowardly than
the lie direct.
ERROR:-(See “TRUTH.")
Find earth where grows no weed, and
you may find a heart wherein no 'error
grows.-Knowles.
Men err from selfishness; women because
they are weak.-Mad. De Staël.
There are errors which no wise man will
treat with rudeness, while there is a proba-
bility that they may be the refraction of
some great truth still below the horizon.-
Coleridge.
Our understandings are always liable to
error.-Nature and certainty are very hard
to come at, and infallibility is mere vanity
and pretence. Marcus Arloninus.
Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error
to an afflicted truth.--Jeremy Taylor.
A man should never be ashamed to own
he has been in the wrong, which is but
saying, in other words, that he is wiser to-
day than he was yesterday.--Pope.
The copy-books tell us that “to err is
human." That is wrong. To err is inhu-
man, to be holy is to live in the straight
line of duty and of truth to God's life in
everyintrinsic existence.-Phillips Brooks.
My principal method for defeating error
and heresy, is, by establishing the truth.
One purposes to fill a bushel with tares;
but if I can fill it first with wheat, I may
defy his attempts.—John Newton.
Wrong conduct is far more powerful to
produce erroneous thinking, than erro-
neous thinking to produce wrong conduct.
-J. S. Kieffer.
Error commonly has some truth in what
it affirms, is wrong generally in what it
denies.-F. L. Patton.
Half the truth will very often amount to
absolute falsehood.—Whately.
No tempting form of error is without
some latent charm derived from truth.-
Keitli.
ERROR.
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ERROR.
elase.
It is only an error of judgment to make
a mistake, but it argues au infirmity of
character to adhere to it when discovered.
The Chinese say, " The glory is not in nover
falling, but in rising every time you fall."
-Bovee.
It is almost as difficult to make a man
unlearn his errors as his knowledge. Mal-
information is more hopeless than non-in-
formation ; for error is always more busy
than ignorance. Ignorance is a blank
sheet, on which we may write; but error is
a scribbled one, from which we must first
Ignorance is contented to stand
still with her back to the truth ; but error
is more presumptuous, and proceeds in the
wrong direction. Ignorance has no light,
but error follows a false one. The conse-
quence is, that error, when she retraces her
steps, has farther to go before she can ar-
rive at truth, than ignorance.--Colton.
Few practical errors in the world are
embraced on conviction, but on inclina-
tion ; for though the judgment may err on
account of weakness, yet, where one error
enters at this door, ten are let into it
through the will; that, for the most part,
being set upon those things which truth is
a direct obstacle to the enjoyment of ; and
where both cannot be had, a man will be
sure to buy his enjoyment, though he pays
down truth for the purchase.--South.
In all science error precedes the truth,
and it is better it should go first than last.
- Walpole.
Errors to be dangerous must have a great
deal of truth mingled with them. It is only
from this alliance that they can ever obtain
an extensive circulation. From pure ex-
travagance, and genuine, unmingled false-
hood, the world never has, and never can
sustain
any mischief.-Sydney Smith.
Our greatest glory is not in never fall-
ing, but in rising every time we fall. -
Confucius.
If any one sincerely, candidly, unselfisbly
tries to understand and to obey the voice of
divine wisdom, he will not go fatally astray.
- H. L. Wayland.
There is no error so crooked but it hath
in it some lines of truth, nor is any poison
so deadly that it serveth not some whole-
some use. -Spurn not a seeming error, but
dig below its surface for the truth.--
Tupper.
Error is sometimes so nearly allied to
truth that it blends with it as imperceptibly
as the colors of the rainbow fade into each
other. -- Crulow.
Error of opinion may be tolerated where
reason is left free to combat it.-- Jefferson.
Error is not a fault of our knowledge, but
a mistake of our judgment giving assent to
that which is not true.—Locke.
Sometimes we may learn more from a
man's errors, than from his virtues.-Long-
fellow.
From the errors of others a wise man
corrects his own.— Publius Syrus.
False doctrine does not necessarily make
the man a heretic, but an evil heart can
make any doctrine heretical.-Coleridge.
To make no mistakes is not in the power
of man ; but from their errors and mis-
takes the wise and good learn wisdom for
the future, --Plutarch.
The least error should humble, but we
should never permit even the greatest to
discourage us. —Potler.
Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.
- Chesterfield.
Errors of theory or doctrine are not so
much false statements, as partial state-
ments.-Half a truth received, while the
corresponding half is unknown or rejected,
is a practical falsehood.- Tryon Edwards.
There is nothing so true that the damps
of error have not warped it.--Tupper.
The consistency of great error with great
virtue, is one of the lessons of universal
history.-But error is not made harmless
by such associations. False theories,
though held by the greatest and best of
men,
and though not thoroughly believed,
have wrought much evil.-Channing.
All errors spring up in the neighbor-
hood of some truth; they grow round
about it, and, for the most part, derive
their strength from such contiguity.-7.
Binney.
Whatever is only almost true is quite false,
and among the most dangerous of errors,
because being so ncar truth, it is the more
likely to lead astray.-Precise knowledge
is the ouly true knowledge, and he who
does not teach exactly, does not teach at
all.-H. W. Beecher.
In its influence on the soul, error has
been compared to a magnet concealed near
the ship's compass.-As in the latter case,
the morc favorable the winds, and the
greater the diligence and skill in working
the ship, the more rapidly will it be speeded
on in a wrong course ; and so in the for-
mer, tlo greater the struggle for safety,
the more speedy the progress to ruin.
Tryon Edwards.
There will be mistakes in divinity while
men preach, and errors in governments
while men govern.-Dudley Carleton.
ESTEEM.
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ETERNITY
will
The little I have seen of the world teaches
me to look upon the errors of others in sor-
row, not in anger. When I take the history
of one poor heart that has sinned and suf-
fered, and think of the struggles and temp-
tations it has passed through, the brief
pulsations of joy, the feverish'inquietude
of hope and fear, the pressure of want, the
desertion of friends, I would fain leave the
erring soul of my fellow-man with Him
from whose hands it came.--Longfellow.
ESTEEM.-The chief ingredients in the
composition of those qualities that gain
esteem and praise, are good nature, truth,
good sense, and good breeding.-Addison.
The esteem of wise and good men is the
greatest of all temporal encouragements to
virtue ; and it is a mark of an abandoned
spirit to have no regard to it.- Burke.
Esteem has more engaging charms than
friendship and even love.-It captivates
hearts better, and never makes ingrates.-
Rochefoucauld.
Esteem cannot be where there is no con-
fidence; and there can be no confidence
where there is no respect.–Giles.
We have so exalted a notion of the human
soul that we cannot bear to be despised, or
even not to be esteemed by it.-Man, iu
fact, places all his happiness in this esteem.
Pascal.
All true love is founded on esteem.-
Buckingham.
ESTIMATION.-A life spent worthily
should be measured by deeds, not years.-
Sheridan.
To judge of the real importance of an
individnal, we should think of the effect
his death would produce.—Levis.
It is seldorn that a man labors well in his
minor department, unless be overrates it.
It is lucky for us that the bee does not look
upon the honeycomb in the same light we
do.- Whately.
Men judge 118 by the success of our ef-
forts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
- Charlotte Elizabeth.
No man can pass into eternity, for lie is
already in it.— Farrar.
This is the world of seeds, of causes, and
of tendencies; the other is the world of
harvests and results and of perfected and
eternal consequences.
Eternity, thou pleasing dreadful thought!
through what variety of untried being !
through what new scenes and changes must
we pass! The wide, the unbounded proga
pect lies before me ; but shadows, clouds,
and darkness rest upon it.-
Addison.
He that will often put eternity and the
world before him, and will dare to look
steadfastly at botli of them, will find that
the more he contemplates them, the former
grow greater and the latter less.-
Colton.
The wish falls often, warm upon my
heart, that I may learn nothing here that I
cannot contiuue in the other world ; that
I' may do nothing here but deeds that will
bear fruit in heaven.-Richter.
The most momentous concern of man is
the state he shall enter upon after this
short and transitory life is ended ; and in
proportion as eternity is of greater iinpor-
tance than time, so onght men to be solici-
tous upon what grounds their expecta-
tions with regard to that durable state are
built, and on what assurances their hopes
or their fears stand. Clarke.
How vast is cternity !—It will swallow up
all the human race; it will wollect all the
intelligent universe ; it will open scenes
and prospects wide enougli, great enough,
and various enough to fix the attention,
and absorb the minds of all intelligent
beings forever.- Enimons.
Every natural longing has its natural
satisfaction. If we thirst, God has created
liqnids to gratify thirst. If we are suscep-
tible of attachment, there are beings to
gratify that love. If we thirst for life and
love eternal, it is likely that there are an
eternal life and an eternal love to satisfy
that craving.-F. W. Robertson.
Eternity invests every state, whether of
Lliss or suffering, with a mysterious and
awful importance entirely its own.-It gives
weight and moment to whatever it attaches,
compared to which all interests that know
a period fade into absolute insignificance.
Robert Hall.
The sum and substance of the prepara-
tion needed for a coming. eternity is, that
we believe what the Bible tells us, and do
what the Bible bids us.--Chalmers.
There is, I know not how, in the minds
of men, a certain presage, as it were, of a
ETERNITY-(See "FUTURE STATE.")
What is eternity? was asked of a deaf
and dumb pupil, and the beautiful and
striking answer was, “It is the lifetime of
the Almighty."
Eternity is a negative idea clothed with a
positive name.--It supposes, in that to
which it is applied, a present existence, and
is the negation of a beginning or an end of
that existence.—Paley.
ETERNITY.
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EVENTS.
1
future existence, and this takes the deepest
root, and is most discoverable in the greatest
geniuses and most exalted souls.-Cicero.
Eternity looks grander and kinder if
time grows meaner and more hostile.-
Carlyle.
All great natures delight in stability; all
great men find eternity affirmed in the very
promise of their faculties.-Emerson.
The grand difficulty is so to feel the
reality of both worlds as to give each its
due place in our thoughts and feelings—to
keep our mind's eye, and our heart's eye,
ever fixed on the land of Promise, without
looking away from the road along which
we are to travel toward it.-Hare, .
The eternal world is not merely a worla
beyond time and the grave. It embraces
time; it is ready to realize itself under all
the forms of temporal things. Its light and
power are latent everywhere, waiting for
human souls to welcome it, ready to break
through the transparent veil of earthly
things and to suffuse with its ineffable
radiance the common life of man.-John
Caird.
The thought of eternity consoles for the
shortness of life.-Malesherbes.
The disappointed man turns his thoughts
toward a state of existence where his wiser
desires may be fixed with the certainty of
faith.-The successful man feels that the
objects he has ardently pursued fail to
satisfy the craving of an immortal spirit.
The wicked man turneth away from his
wickedness, that he may save his soul alive.
-Southey.
Eternity stands always fronting God; a
stern colossal image, with blind eyes, and
grand dim lips, that murmur evermore,
"God God God!"--E. B. Browning.
Our object in life should be to accumulate
a great number of grand questions to be
asked and resolved in eternity.--Now we
ask the sage, the genius, the philosopher,
the divine, but none can tell ; but we will
open our queries to other respondents—we
will ask angels, redeemed spirits, and God.
-Foster.
What we call eternity may be but an end-
less series of the transitions which men call
deaths, abandonments of home, going ever
to fairer scenes and loftier heights. —Age
after age, the spirit—that glorious nomad-
may shift its tent, carrying with it ever-
more its elements, activity and desire.
Bulwer.
Let me dream that love goes with us to
the shore unknown.-Mrs. Hemans.
ETIQUETTE --A man may with more
impunity be guilty of an actual breach,
either of real good breeding or good morals,
than appear ignorant of the most minute
points of fashionable etiquette.- Walter
Scott.
We must conform, to a certain extent, to
the conventionalities of society, for they
are the ripened results of a varied and long
experience.-A. A Hodge.
Good taste rejects excessive nicety; it
treats little things as little things, and is
not hurt by them.-Fenelon.
EVASION,-Evasions are the common
shelter of the hard-hearted, the false, and
the impotent when called upon to assist i
the real great, alone plan instantaneon18
help, even when their looks or words pre-
sage difficulties.- Lavater.
Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always
the intimate of equivocation.--Balzac.
Evasion, like equivocation, comes gen-
erally from a cowardly or a deceiving
spirit, or from both ; afraid to speak out
its sentiments, or from guile concealing
them,
EVENING.-Now came still evening on,
and twilight gray had in her sober livery
all things clad.-Milton,
A palor shadow strews its mantle over the
mountains ; parting day. dies like the dol-
phin, whom each pang imbues with a new
color as it gasps away.-Byron.
The evening came.--The setting sun
stretched his celestial rods of light across
the level landscape, and like the miracle in
Egypt, smote the rivers, the brooks, and
the ponds, and they became as blood.-
Longfellow.
Evening is the delight of virtuous age;
it seems an emblem of the tranquil close of
a busy life—serene, placid, and mild, with
the impress of the great Creator stamped
upon it; it spreads its quiet wings over the
grave, and seems to promise that all shall
be peace beyond it. ---Bulwer.
There is an evening twilight of the heart,
when its wild passion waves are lulled to
rest.-Halleck.
EVENTS.--Events of all sorts creep or
fly exactly as God pleases.—Cowper.
Coming events cast their shadows before.
- Campbell.
Often do the spirits of great events stride
on before the events, and in to-day already
walks to-morrow.-Coleridge.
There is little peace or comfort in life if
we are always anxious as to future events.
EVIDENCE.
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EVILS.
He that worries himself with the dread
of possible contingencies will never be at
rest.—Johnson.
EVIDENCE.-Upon any given point,
contradictory evidence seldom puzzles the
man who has mastered the laws of evidence,
but he knows little of the laws of evidence
who has not studied the unwritten) law of
the human heart; and without this last
knowledge a man of action will not attain
to the practical, nor will a poet achieve the
ideal.-Bulwer'.
Hear one side and you will be in the
dark ; hear both sides, and all will be clear.
Haliburton.
EVILS,-Evil is in antagonism with the
entire creation.-Zscholcke.
If we rightly estimate what we call good
and evil, we shall find it lies much in com-
parison.-Locke.
Physical evils destroy themselves, or they
destroy us.-Rousseau.
By the very constitution of our nature,
moral evil is its own curse.-Chalmers.
This is the course of every evil deed,
that, propagating still it brings forth evil.
Coleridge.
There is this good in real evils,--they de-
liver us, while they last, from the petty
despotisın of all that were imaginary.-
Colton.
Even in evil, that dark cloud that hangs
over creation, we discern rays of light
and hope, and gradually come to see, in
suffering and temptation, proofs and in-
struments of the sublimest purposes of
wisdom and love.—Channing.
To be free from evil thoughts is God's
best gift.-- Æschylus.
It is some compensation for great evils,
that they enforce great lessons.- Bovee.
All physical evils are so many beacon
lights to warn us from vice.--Bowen.
The existence of evil, as Whately well
says,
is the great theological difficulty ;
and the apparent want of success of good
men in overcoming it, is but one branch of
this difficulty.-Brisleri.
The first lesson of history, is, that evil
is good.--Emerson.
Many have puzzled themselves about the
origin of evil. I am content to observe
that there is evil, and that there is a way to
escape from it, and with this I begin and
end.-John Newton.
Good has but one enemy, the evil ; but
the evil has two enemies, the good and
itself.-J. Von Muller.
Evil is but the shadow, that, in this world,
always accompanies good.--You may have
a world without shadow, but it will be a
world without light--a mere dim, twilight
world. If you would deepen the intensity
of the light, you must be content to bring
into deeper blackness and more distinct and
definite outline, the shade that accompa-
nies it.-F. W. Robertson.
He who does evil that good may come,
pays a toll to the devil to let him into hea-
ven.--Hare.
There is nothing truly evil, but what is
within 118; the rest is either natural or ac-
cidental.- Sir P. Sidney.
We sometimes learn more from the sight
of evil than from an example of good ; and
it is well to accustom ourselves to profit by
the evil which is so common, while that
which is good is so rare.—Pascal.
If we could aunihilate evil we should an-
nihilate hope, and hope is the avenue of
faith.-Bulwer.
Imaginary evils soon become real by in-
dulging our reflections on them; as he who
in a melancholy fancy sees something like a
face on the wall or the wainscot, can, by
two or three touches with a lead pencil,
make it look visible, and agreeing with what
he fancied.---Swift.
It is a great evil not to be able to bear
an evil.-Bion.
As it is the chief concern of wise men to
retrench the evils of life by the reasonings
of philosophy, it is the employment of fools
to multiply them by the sentiments of
superstition.--Addison.
The lives of the best of us are spent in
choosing between evils.-Junius.
If you do what you should not, you must
bear what you would not.--Traniclin.
We cannot do evil to others without doing
it to ourselves.-Desmanis.
The first evil choice or act is linked to
the second ; and each one to the one that
follows, both by the tendency of our evil
nature and by the power of habit, which
holds us as by a destiny.-As Lessing says,
“Let the devil catch you but by a single
hair, and you are his forever.”—Tryon
Edwards.
He who is in evil, is also in the punish-
ment of evil.---Swedenborg.
As there is much beast and some devil
in man, so there is some angel and some
God in him.--The beast and devil may be
conquered, but in this life are never de-
stroyed. — Coleridge.
Much that we call evil is really good in
EVILS.
153
EVIL SPEAKING.
disguise ; and we should not quarrel rashly
with adversities not yet understood, nor
overlook the mercies often bound up in
them.-Sir T. Browne.
It is a proof of our natural bias to evil,
that in all things good, gain is harder and
slower than loss; but in all things bad or
evil, getting is quicker and easier than get-
ting rid of them.-Hare.
All evil, in fact the very existence of evil,
is inexplicable till we refer to the father-
hood of God. It hangs a huge blot in the
universe till the orb of divine love rises be-
hind it.-In that we detect its meaning:-
It appears to us but a finite shadow, as it
passes across the disk of infinite light.-
E. H. Chapin.
The evil that men do lives after them;
the good is oft interred with their bones.
Shakespeare.
Never let a man imagine that be can pur-
sue a good end by evil means, without sin-
ning against his own soul.-The evil effect
on himself is certain.---Southey.
The truest definition of evil is that which
represents it as something contrary to nit-
ture.-Evil is evil because it is unnatural.
--A vine which should bear olive-berries-
an eye to which blue seems yellow, would
be diseased.--An unnatural mother, an
unnatural son, an unnatural act, are the
strongest terms of condemnation.-F. W.
Robertson
Evils in the journey of life are like the
bills which alarm travelers on their road.
Both appear great at a distance, but when
we approach them we find they are far less
insurmountable than we had conceived.--
Colton.
There is some soul of goodness in things
evil, would men observingly distil it out.
Shakespeare.
For every 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
Muloclc.
Every evil to which we do not succumb
is a benefactor.–As the Sandwich Islander
believes that the strength and valor of the
enemy he kills passes into himself, so we
gain the strength of the temptation we
resist.–Enerson.
There are thousands hacking at the
branches of evil to one who is striking at
the root.--Thoreau.
There are three modes of bearing the ills
of life : by indifference, which is the most
common; by philosophy, which is the most
ostentatious; and by religion, which is the
most effectual.-Colton.
With every exertion the best of men can
do but a moderate amount of good; but it
seems in the power of the most contemptible
individual to do incalculable mischief.-
Washington Irving.
All evils natural, are moral goods ; all dis-
cipline, indulgence on the whole. — Young.
In the history of man it has been very
generally the case, that when evils have
grown insufferable they have touched the
point of cure.--E, H. Chapin.
Evil is wrought by want of thought, as
well as by want of heart.--Hood.
As surely as God is good, so surely there
is no such thing as necessary evil.–Southey.
Not to return one good office for another
is inbuman; 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.-Seneca.
EVIL SPEAKING.-A good word is an
easy obligation; but not to speak ill, re-
quires only our silence, which costs us
nothing.-Tillotson.
It is safer to affront some people than to
oblige them: for the better a man deserves
the worse they will speak of him; as if the
possessing of open hatred to their bene-
factors were an argument that they lie
under no obligation.-Seneca.
Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.-
Shakespeare.
How much better it is that he should
speak ill of me to all the world, than all the
world speak ill of me to him.- Tasso.
It may be asked,—whether the incon-
veniences and ill-effects which the world
feels from the licentiousness of this prac-
tice, are not sufficiently counterbalanced
by the real influence it has upon men's
lives and conduct?—for if there was no
evil-speaking in the world, thousands would
be encouraged to do ills, and would rush
into many indecorums, like a horse into the
battle, were they sure to escape the tongues
of men.-Sterne.
Evil report, like the Italian stiletto, is an
assassin's weapon.-Mad. de Maintenon.
It is not good to speak evil of all whom
we know to be bad; it is worse to judge
evil of any who may prove good.-To speak
ill upon knowledge shows a want of charity;
to speak ill upon suspicion shows a want of
honesty.--To know evil of others and not
speak it is sometimes discretion ; to speak
evil of others and not know it, is always
dishonesty.-A. Warwick.
Where the speech is corrupted, the mind
is also.-Seneca.
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EXAMPLE
.When will talkers refrain from evil speak-
ing?-When listeners refrain from evil
hearing.-Hare.
EXAGGERATION.-Some persons are
exaggerators by temperament.--They do
not mean untruth, but their feelings are
strong, and their imaginations vivid, so
that their statements are largely discounted
by those of calm judgment and cooler
temperament.--They do not realize that
we always weaken what we exaggerate.”.
Tryon Edwards.
Exaggeration is a blood relation to false-
hood, and nearly as blameable.-H. Ballou.
Exaggeration, as to rhetoric, is using a
vast force to lift a feather; as to morals
and character, it is using falsehood to lift
one's self out of the confidence of his fellow-
men.
There are some persons who would not
for their lives tell à direct and wilful lie,
but who so exaggerate that it seems as if
for their lives they could not tell the exact
truth.–Paget.
Never speak by superlatives; for in so
doing you will be likely to wound either
truth or prudence. Exaggeration is neither
thoughtful, wise, nor safe. It is a proof of
the weakness of the understanding, or the
want of discernment of him that utters it,
80 that even when he speaks the trutlı, he
soon finds it is received with partial, or
even utter unbelief.
There is a sort of harmless liars, fre-
quently to be met with in company, who
doal much in the marvellous. Their usual
intention is to please and entertain: but as
men are most delighted with what they con-
ceive to be truth, these people mistake the
means of pleasing, and incur universal
blame.-Hume.
The habit of exaggeration becomes, in
time, a slavish necessity, and they who
practise it pass their lives in a kind of
mental-telescope through whose magnifying
mediuna they look upon themselves, and
everything around them.-J. B. Owen.
Perfectly truthful men of vivid imagina-
tion and great force of sentiment often feel
so warmly, and express themselves so
strongly, as to give what they say a disa-
greeable air of exaggeration and almost of
falsehood.-J. F. Boyes.
Exaggerated language employed on triv-
ial occasions spoils that simplicity and
singleness of mind so necessary to a right
judgment of ourselves and others.
Those who exaggerate in their statements
belittle themselves.--C. Sinmons.
Some men can never state an ordinary
fact in ordinary terms.--All their geese are
swans, till you see the birds.-J. B. Owen.
There is no strength in exaggeration;
even the truth is weakened by being ex-
pressed too strongly.
EXAMPLE.-There is a transcendent
power in example. We reform others un-
consciously, when we walk uprightly.-
Mad. Swetchine.
Men trust rather to their eyes than to
their ears.-The effect of precepts is, there-
fore, slow and tedious, while that of ex-
amples is summary and effectual.-Seneca.
Example is more forcible than precept.-
People look at my six days in the week to
see what I mean on the seventh.--Cecil.
People seldom improve when they have
no model but themselves to copy after. -
Goldsmith.
Nothing is so infectious as example.-
Charles Kingsley.
We can do more good by being good,
than in any other way.-- Rowland Hill.
Though the words of the wise be as
nails fastened by the masters of assemblies,'
yet their examples are the hammer to drive
them in to take the deeper hold. A father
that whịpped his son for swearing, and
swore himself whilst he whipped him, did
more harm by his example than good by
his correction.-Fuller.
Example is the school of mankind ; they
will learn at no other.- Burke.
Noble examples stir 118 up to noble ac-
tions, and the very history of large and
public souls inspires a man with generous
thoughts.--Seneca.
I am satisfied that we are less convinced
by what we hear than by what we see.-Eler-
odotus.
The first great gift we can bestow on
others is a good example.--Morell.
So act that your principle of action might
safely be made a law for the whole world.-
Kant.
It is certain, that either wise bearing or
ignorant carriage is caught, as men take
diseases one of another ; therefore, let them
take heed of their company.--Shakespeare.
No man is so insignificant as to be sure
his example can do no hurt.—Lord Claren-
don.
The innocence of the intention abates
nothing of the mischief of the example.-
Robert Hall,
One watch set right will do to set many
by; one that goes wrong may be the means
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EXAMPLE
of misleading a whole neighborhood; and
the same may be said of example.- Dilwin.
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.
Alexander received more bravery of mind
by the pattern of Achilles, than by hear-
ing the definition of fortitude.--Sir P.
Sidney.
A wise and good man will turn examples
of all sorts to his own advantage. The
good he will make his patterns, and strive
to equal or excel them. The bad he will
by all means avoid.---Thomas a Kempis.
In early life I had nearly been betrayed
into the principles of infidelity ; but there
was one argument in favor of Christianity
that I could not refute, and that was the
consistent character and example of my
own father.
Thou canst not rebuke in children what
they see practised in thee.--Till reason be
ripe, examples direct more than precepts.
-Such as is thy behavior before thy
children's faces, such is theirs behind thy
back.- Quarles.
Live with wolves, and you will learn to
howl.--Spanish Proverb.
My advice is to consult the lives of other
men, as one would a looking-glass, and
from thence fetch examples for imitation.-
Terence.
Example has more followers than reason.
-We unconsciously imitate what pleases
us, and approximate to the characters we
most admire.-A generous habit of thought
and action carries with it an incalculable
influence.-Bovee.
You can preach a better sermon with
your life than with your lips,
Allured to brighter worlds and led the
way.-Goldsmith.
Our lives, by acts exemplary, not only
win ourselves good names, but do to others
give matter for virtuous deeds, by which
we live.-Chapman.
The conscience of children is formed by
the influences that surround them; their
notions of good and evil are the result of
the moral atmosphere they breathe.-
Richter.
Of all commentaries upon the Scriptures,
good examples are the best and the liveliest.
Donne.
None preaches better than the ant, and
she says nothing.–Franklin.
Precept is instruction written in the
sand.-The ticle flows over it, and the record
is gone. Example is graven on the rock,
and the lesson is not soon lost.-Channing.
A world of mischief may be done by a
single example of avarice or luxury.-One
voluptuous palate makes many more.-
Seneca.
Whatever parent gives bis children good
instruction, and sets them at the same time
a bad example, may be considered as bring-
ing them food in one hand, and poison in
the other.- Balguy.
There are bad examples that are worse
than crimes; and more states have perished
from the violation of morality, than from
the violation of law.—Montesquieu.
Not the cry, but the flight of the wild
duck, leads the tick to tly and follow,-
Chinese Proverb.
It is a good divine that follows his own
instructions. I can easier teach twenty
men what were good to be done, than to be
one of twenty to follow mine own teaching.
- Shalcespeare.
The pulpit teaches to be honest, the mar-
ket-place trains to overreaching and fraud.
--Teaching has not a tithe of the efficacy of
example and training.-H. Mann.
Example is a dangerous lure ; where the
wasp got through, the gnat sticks fast.-
Fontaine
Example teaches better than precept.
It is the best modeler of the character of
men and women. To set a lofty example is
the richest bequest a man can leave behind
him.-S. Smiles.
There is no part of history which seems
capable of either more instruction or enter-
tainment, than that which offers to us the
lives of great and virtuous men who have
macle an eminent figure on the public stage
of the world. In these we see what the
annals of a whole ago can afford that is
worthy of notice; and in the wide field of
universal history gather all its flowers, and
possess ourselves of all that is good in it.----
Middleton,
Preaching is of much avail, but practise
is far more effective.-A godly life is the
strongest argument you can offer to the
skeptic.-No reproof or denunciation is so
potent as the silent influence of a good ex-
ample.-M. Ballou.
Nothing is so contagious as example.
Never was any considerable good or evil
done without producing its like.-We imi-
tate good actions through emulation ; and
bad ones through the evil of our nature,
which shame conceals, but example sets at
liberty.--Rochefoucauld.
EXCELLENCE.
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EXCESS.
Ci'own8.
We are all of us more or less echoes, re-
peating involuntarily the virtues, the de-
fects, the movements, and the characters
of those among whom we live.-Joubert.
Every great example takes hold of us
with the authority of a miracle, and says
to us, “If ye had but faith, ye, also, could
do the same things."-Jacobi.
Examples of vicious courses, practised in
a domestic circle, corrupt more readily
and more deeply, when we behold them in
persons of authority.-Juvenal.
No life can be pure in its purpose, and
strong in its strife, and all life not be purer
and stronger thereby.-Owen Meredith.
Much more gracious and profitable is
doctrine by ensample, than by rule.-
Spenser.
EXCELLENCE.-One that clesires to
excel should endeavor it in those things
that are in themselves most excellent.
Epictetus.
Virtue and genuine graces in themselves
speak what no words can utter. --Shake-
speare.
Human excellence, apart from God, is
like the fabled flower which, according to
the Rabbis, Eve plucked when passing out
of paradise ; severed from its native root
it is only the touching memorial of a lost
Eden-sad while charming and beautiful,
but dead. - Stanford.
Those who attain to any excellence com-
monly spend life in some one single pur-
suit, for excellence is not often gained upon
easier terms.-Johnson.
Nothing is such an obstacle to the pro-
duction of excellence as the power of pro-
ducing what is good with ease and rapidity.
- Ailcin.
There is a moral excellence attainable
by all who have the will to strive for it ;
but there is an intellectual and physical
superiority which is above the reach of our
wishes, and is granted to only a few.-
Crabbé.
Excellence is never granted to man but
as the reward of labor. It argues no small
strength of mind to persevere in habits of
industry without the pleasııre of perceiv-
ing those advances, which, like the band
of a clock, whilst they make hourly ap-
proaches to their point, yet proceed so
slowly as to escape observation.-Sir J.
Reynolds.
EXCELSIOR.-People never improve
unless they look to some standard or ex-
ample higher and better than themselves.
-Tryon Edwards.
What we truly and earnestly aspire to
be, that in some seuse we are.—The mere
aspiration, by changing the frame and
spirit of the mind, for the moment realizes
itself.--Mrs. Jameson.
It is but a base, ignoble mind that mounts
no higher than a bird can soar.--Shake-
speare.
While we converse with what is above us,
we do not grow old, but grow young.-
Emerson.
Who shoots at the midday sun, though
sure he shall never hit the mark, yet sure
he is that he shall shoot higher than he
who aims but at a bush.—Sir. P. Sidney.'
Lift up thyself, look around, and see
something higher and brighter than earth,
earth worms, and earthly darkness. —
Richter.
Fearless minds climb soonest unto
.--Shakespeare.
Beside the plcasure derived from acquired
knowledge, there lurks in the mind of man,
and tinged with a shade of sadness, an un-
satisfactory longing for something beyond
the present-a striving toward regions yet
unknown and unopened.—Humboldt.
Happy those who here on earth have
dreamt of a higher vision! They will the
sooner be able to endure the glories of the
world to come.-Novalis.
The little done vanishes from the sight
of him who looks forward to what is still to
do.- Goethe.
Too low they build who build beneath
the stars.--Young.
O sacred hunger of ambitious minds !--
Spenser,
The hunger and thirst of immortality is
upon the buman soul, filling it with aspi-
rations and desires for higher and better
things than the world can give.We can
never be fully satisfied but in God.-Tryon
Edwards.
As plants take hold, not for the sake of
staying, but only that they may climb
higher, so it is with men.-By every part
of our nature we clasp things above us,
one after another, not for the sake of re-
maining where we take hold, but that we
may go higher.--H.'W. Beecher.
Desires and inspirations after the holy
are the only ones as to which the human
soul can ever be assured that they will
never meet with disappointment. -- Miss
Macintosh.
EXCESS,-Let us teach ourselves that
honorable step, not to outdo discretion.-
Shakespeare.
EXCESS.
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EXERCISE.
All things that are pernicious in their
progress must be evil in their birth, for no
Booner is the governmeut of reason thrown
off, than they rush forward of their own
accord ; weakness takes a pleasure to in-
dulge itself; and having imperceptibly
launched out into the main ocean, can find
no place where to stop.— Cicero.
He who indulges his sense iu any ex-
cesses, renders himself obnoxious to his
own reason; and to gratify the brute in
him, displeases the man, and sets his two
natures at variance.-W. Scott.
The body oppressed by excesses, bears
down the mind, and depresses to the earth
any portion of the divine Spirit we had
been endowed with.-Horace.
The excesses of our youth are drafts
upon our old age, payable with interest,
about thirty years after date.-Colton.
Pleasures bring effeminacy, and effemi-
nacy foreruns ruin ; such conquests, with-
out blood or sweat, do sufficiently revenge
themselves upon their intemperate con-
querors.--Quarles.
Violent delights have violent ends, and
in their triumph die ; like fire and powder,
which, as they kiss, consume.—They are
as sickí that surfeit with too much, as they
that starve with nothing.–Shakespeare.
· Pliability and liberality, when not re-
strained within due bounds, must ever turn
to the ruin of their possessor.-- Tacitus.
The best principles, if pushed to excess,
degenerate into fatal vices.-Generosity is
nearly allied to extravagance ; charity
itself may lead to ruin ; and the steruness
of justice is but one step removed from the
severity of oppression. -Alison.
The desire of power in excess caused
angels to fall ; the desire of knowledge in
excess caused man to fall ; but in charity
is no excess, neither can man or angels
come into danger by it.— Bacon.
Let pleasure be ever so innocent, the
excess is always criminal.—Evrenond.
There can be no excess to love, to knowl-
edge, to beauty, when these attributes are
considered in the purest sense.-Emerson.
All excess brings on its own punishment,
even here.-By certain fixed, settled, and
established laws of him who is the God of
nature, excess of every kind destroys that
constitution which temperance would pre-
serve.-The debauchee offers up his body
a living sacrifice to sin.-Colton.
Too much inoise deafens us ; too much
light blinds us ; too great a distance, or too
much of promixity equally prevents us
from being able to see; too long or too
short a discourse obscures our knowledge
of a subject; too much of truth stuns us.
-Pascal.
Excess generally causes reaction and
produces a change in the opposite direc-
tion, whether it be in the seasons, or in in-
dividuals, or in government.-Plato.
EXCITEMENT,Excitement is so en-
graven on our nature that it may be re-
garded as an appetite ; and like all other
appetites it is not sinful unless indulged
unlawfully, or to excess.-Guthrie.
It is the passions that wear--the appe-
tites that grind out the force of life.--Ex-
citement in the higher realm of thought
and feeling does not wear out or waste
men.--The moral sentiments nourish and
feed us.-H. W. Beecher.
Violent excitement exhausts the mind,
and leavesit withered and sterile.-Fenelon.
The language of excitement is at best
but picturesque merely.--You must be calm
before you can utter oracles.-Thoreau.
Never be afraid because the community
teems with excitement.-Silence and death
are dreadful.–The rush of life, the vigor
of earnest men, and the conflict of reali-
ties, invigorate, cleanse, and establish the
truth.-H. W. Beecher.
Religious excitement is to the steady in-
fluence of Christian principle as is the flush
of fever to the uniform glow of health.--
N. Murray.
Excitement is of impulse, while earnest-
ness is of principle; the one a glow, the
other a fire ; the one common, the other
rare ; the one theorizes, the other acts;
the one needs company, the other can live
alone.-The two are oftener found in sepa-
ration than in union, though neither is
incompatible with the other.-Merry.
EXCUSES.–Of all vain things excuses
are the vainest.-Buton.
He that is good for making excuses, is
seldom good for anything else.-Franiclin.
Uncalled for excuses are practical con-
fessions.-C. Simnions.
Oftentimes excusing of a fault, doth
make a fault the worse by the excuse.--
Shakespeare.
EXERCISE,--Health is the vital princi-
ple of bliss ; and exercişe, .of health.-
Thomson.
Inactivity, supineness, and effeminacy
have ruined more constitutions than were
ever destroyed by excessive labors. Mode-
rate exercise and toil, so far from pre-
will
EXERTION.
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EXPENSE.
judicing, strengthen and consolidate the wish for: and the reason of it is, that what
body.-Dr. Rush.
we expect is always greater than what we
There are many troubles which you can-
enjoy.
not cure by the Bible and the liyinn-book, Oft expectation fails, and most oft there
but which you can cure by a good perspira- where most it promises.-Shakespeare.
tion and a breath of fresh air.--Many a Nothing is so good as it seems before-
man, by the help of the Bible and the sad-
hand.--George Eliot.
dle, has gone to heaven with comparative
ease, who would not have gone there very
'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear i
easily by the help of either alone.--H. W.
heaven were not heaven if we knew what
Beecher.
it were.--Suckling.
I take the true definition of exercise to
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys
be, labor without weariness.-Johnson,
of life. Security is an insipid thing, though
the overtaking and possessing of a wish dis-
The only way for a rich man to be healthy covers the folly of the chase. --Congreve.
is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if
We love to expect, and when expectation
he was poor ; which are esteemed the worst
is either disappointed or gratified, we want
parts of poverty.--Sir W. Temple.
to be again expecting.--Johnson,
The wise, for cure, on exercise depend.-
Our ancestors have travelled the iron
Better to buntin fields for health unbought
than fee the doctor for a nauseous draugut.
age; the golden is before us. -St. Pierre.
-Dryden.
With what a heavy and retarding weight
Such is the constitution of man, that
does expectation load the wing of time. -
W. Mason.
labor inay be styled its own reward.-Nor
EXPEDIENCY.Many things lawful
if it be considered how much happiness is are not expedient, but nothing can be truly
gained, and how much misery escapel, by expedient which is unlawful or sinful.-C.
frequent and violent agitation of the body. Simmons.
Johnson.
Expedients are for an hour, but prin-
EXERTION.-Every man's task is his ciples are for the ages.-Just because the
life-preserver.-
Emerson.
rains descend, and the winds blow, we can-
not afford to build on the shifting sands.-
Never live in hope or expectation, while
H. W. Beecher.
your arms are folded. God helps those
that help themselves. Providence smiles
When private virtue is hazarded on the
on those who put their shoulders to the
perilouis cast of expediency, the pillars of
wheel that propels to wealth and happiness.
the republic, however apparent their sta-
It is only the constant exertion and work-
bility, are infected with decay at the very
centre.-L. H. Chapin,
ing of our sensitive, intellectual, moral,
and physical machinery that keeps us from EXPENSE,-(See “EXTRAVAGANCE.")
rusting, and so becoming useless.-C. Sim-
What maintains one vice would bring up
two children. You may think, perhaps,
Experience shows that success is due less
that a little tea, or a little punch now and
to ability than to zeal. The winner is he
.then, diet a little more costly, clothes a
who gives himself to his work, body and
little finer, and a little entertainment now
soul. — Charles Buxton.
and then, can be no great matter; but re-
EXPECTATION.-In our pursuit of
member, "Many a little makes a mickle."
the things of this world, we usually prevent
Beware of little expenses. A small leak
enjoyment by expectation, we anticipate
will sink a great ship.-Franklin.
our happiness, and eat out the heart and Riches are for spending, and spending
sweetness of worldly pleasures by delightful for honor and good actions; therefore ex-
forethoughts of them ; so that when we traordinary expense must be limited by the
conie-to possess them, they do not answer worth of the occasion,-Bacon. .
tlre expectation, nor satisfy the desires
Buy what thou hast no need of, and
which were raised about them, and they
ere long thou shalt sell thy necessaries.-
vanish into nothing.-Tillotson.
Franklin.
By expectation every day beguiled ; dupe
No money is better spent than what is
of to-morrow even from a child.--Gold-
laid out for domestic satisfaction. A man
smith.
is pleased that his wife is dressed as well as
We part more easily with what we pos- other people, and the wife is pleased that
sess, than with the expectation of what we she is so dressed.-Johnson.
mons.
EXPERIENCE.
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EXPERIENCE.
Gain may be temporary and uncertain ;
but ever while you live, expense is con-
stant and certain : and it is easier to build
two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.-
Franklin.
The vices, and follies, and sins of men,
cost more than everything else ; and the
useless and abominable expenditures of na-
tions are a weight on their prosperity, and
crush tho spirits, benight the minds, and
well nigh enslave the bodies of their people.
-C. Sinimons.
He that buys what he does not want, will
soon want what he cannot buy.
EXPERIENCE.-Experieuce is the
extract of suffering.-A. Helps.
Experience is the name men give to their
follies or their sorrows.-Musset.
All is but lip-wisdom which wants experi-
ence.—Sir P. Sidney.
Experience is the successive disenchant-
ment of the things of life. It is reason
enriched by the spoils of the heart.-J. P.
Senn.
Experience is the shroud of illusions.-
Finod.
This is one of the sad conditions of life,
that experience is not transmissible. No
man will learn from the suffering of au-
other ; he must suffer himself.
To most men experience is like the stern
lights of a ship, which illumine only the
track it has passed.—Coleridge.
However learned or eloquent, man knows
nothing truly that he has not learned from
experience.- Wieland.
Experience is the Lord's school, and they
who are taught by Him usually learn by
the mistakes they make that in themselves
they have no wisdom; and by their slips
and falls, that they have no strength.
John Newton.
Experience keeps a dear school ; but fools
will learn in no other, and scarce in that;
for it is true, we may give advice, but we
cannot give conduct.-Franlclin.
No man was ever so completely skilled in
the conduct of life, as not to receive new
information from age and experience.
Terence.
The rules which experience suggests are
better than those which theorists elaborate
in their libraries.-R. S. Storrs.
Experience joined with common sense,
to mortals is a providence.-Green.
He cannot be a perfect man, not being
tried and tutored in the world.-Experience
is by industry achieved, and perfected by
the swift course of time. --Shakespeare.
No man was ever endowed with a judg-
ment so correct and judicious, but that
circumstances, time, and experience, would
teach him something new, and apprise
him that of those things with which he
thought himself the best acquainted, he
knew nothing; and that those ideas which
in theory appeared the most advantageous
were found, when brought into practice,
to be altogether impracticable.-Terence.
When I was young I was sure of every-
thing; in a few years, having been mis-
taken a thousand times, I was not half so
sure of most things as I was before ; at pres-
ent, I am hardly sure of anything but what
God has revealed to me.—John Wesley.
To wilful men, the injuries that they
themselves procure must be their school-
masters.-Shalespeare. .
Adversity is the first path to truth. He
who hath proved war, storm, or woman's
rage, whether his winters be eighteen or
eighty, bath won the experience which is
deemed so weighty. - Byron.
It is foolish to try to live on past expe-
rience. It is a very dangerous, if not a
fatal habit to judge ourselves to be safe
because of something that we felt or did
twenty years ago.-Spurgeon.
It may serve as a comfort to us in all our
calamities and afflictions, that he who loses
anything and gets wisdom by it, is a gainer
by the loss.-L'Estrange.
Nobody, will use other people's experi-
rience, nor has any of his own till it is too
late to use it. - Hawthorne.
That man is wise to some purpose who
gains his wisdom at the expense and from
the experience of another. - Plautus:
Experience is a jewel, and it had need be
so, for it is often purchased at an infinite
rate.-Shakespeare.
Each succeeding day is the scholar of
that which went before it.-Publius Syrus.
Experience, if wisdom's friend, her best;
if not, her foe. - Young.
Every man's experience of to-day, is that
he was a fool yesterday and the day be-
fore yesterday.--To-morrow he will most
likely be of exactly the same opinion. -
Mackay.
Experience takes dreadfully high school-
wages, but he teaches like no other.-Car-
lyle.
He hazardeth much who depends for his
learning on experience. An unhappy mas-
ter is he who is made wise only by many
shipwrecks ; a miserable merchant, who is
EXTRAVAGANCE.
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EXTREMES.
neither rich nor wise till he has been bank-
rupt.--By experience we find out a short
way by long wandering. ---Roger Ascham.
Experience is the common schoolhouse
of fools and ill men.-Men of wit and hon-
esty are otherwise instincted.-Erasmus.
We are often prophets to others, only
because we are our own historians.-- Mad.
Swetchine.
In all instances where our experience of
the past has been extensive and uniform,
our judgment as to the future amounts to
moral certainty.-Beattie.
Experience, that chill touchstone whose
sad proof reduces all things from their
false hue.- Byron.
Life consists in the alternate process of
learning and unlearning, but it is often
wiser to unlearn than to learn.-Bulwer.
Experience teaches slowly, and at the
cost of mistakes.-Froude:
I know the past, and thence will assay to
glean a warning for the future, so that
man may profit by his errors, and derive
experience from his folly.-Shelley.
Experience is a safe light to'walk by, and
he is not a rash man who expects success
in the future by the same means which se-
cured it in the past.- Wendell Phillips.
Experience-making all futures, fruits of
all the pasts.-Arnold.
EXTRAVAGANCE,~(See "Ex-
PENSE,” and “ECONOMY.")
He that is extravagant will soon become
poor, and poverty will enforce dependence,
and invite corruption.-Johnson.
The passion of acquiring riches in order
to support a vain expense, corrupts the
purest souls.-Fenelon.
Waste of time is the most extravagant
and costly of all expenses.-Theophrastus.
Prodigality is the vice of a weak nature,
as avarice is of a strong one.-It comes of
a weak craving for those blandishments of
the world which are easily had for money.
-H. Taylor.
That is suitable to a man, in point of or-
namental expense, not which he can afford
to have, but which he can afford to lose.-
Whately.
The man who builds, and lacks where-
with to pay, provides a home from which
to run away. - Young.
The covetous man never has money;
the prodigal will have none shortly.-Ben
Jonson.
Laws cannot prevent extravagance; and
this perhaps is not always an evil to the
public. A shilling spent idly by a fool may
be picked up by a wiser person, who knows
better what to do with it; it is, therefore,
not lost.--Franklin.
EXTREMES.-Extremes are danger-
ous.-A middle estate is safest, as a middle
temper of the sea, between a still calm and
a violent tempest, is most hopeful to bear
the mariner to his haven.-Swinnoclc.
All extremes are error:--The reverse of
error is not truth, but error still.–Truth
lies between these extremes.-Cecil.
The man who can be nothing but serious,
or nothing but merry, is but half a man.--
Leigh Hunt.
There is a mean in everything.--Even
virtue itself hath its stated limits, which,
not being strictly observed, it ceases to be
virtue.--Horace.
Extremes meet in almost everything : it
is hard to tell whether the statesman at the
top of the world, or the ploughman at the
bottom, labors hardest.
Extreme views are vever just; something
always turns up which disturbs the calcu-
lations founded on their data. Tancred.
That extremes beget extremes, is an
apothegm built on the most profound ob-
servation of the human mind.Colton.
The blast that blows loudest is soonest
overblown.--Smollett,
Extremes, though contrary, have the
like effects. - Extreme heat kills, and so
extreme cold ; extreme love breeds satiety,
and so extreme hatred ; and too violent
rigor tempts chastity, as does too much
license.-Chapman.
Mistrust the man who finds everything
good ; the man who finds everything evil;
and still more the man who is in different to
everything.–Lavater.
We must remember how apt man is to
extremes-rushing from credulity and
weakness, to suspicion and distrust.-- Bul-
wer'.
The greatest flood has soonest ebb; the
sorest tempest, the most sudden calm, the
hottest love, the coldest end; and from the
deepest desire often ensues the deadliest
hate.--Socrates.
It is a hard but good law of fate, that as
every evil, so every excessive power wears
itself out. Herder.
Neither great poverty, nor great riches
will hear reason.-Fielding.
Both in individuals, and in masses, vio-
lent excitement is always followed by re-
mission, and often by reaction. We are all
inclined to depreciate what we have over-
EYE.
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+
praised, and, on the other hand, to show
undue indulgence where we have shown
undue rigor.-Macaulay.
Too austere a philosophy makes few wise
men; too rigorous politics, few good sub-
jects ; too hard a religion, few persons
whose devotion is of long continuance.-St.
Evremond.
No violent extremes endure ;
a sober
moderation stands secure.-- Aleyn.
Extremes are vicious and proceed from
men; compensation is just, and proceeds
from God.-- Bruyère.
EYE.-That fine part of our constitu-
tion, the eye, seems as much the receptacle
and seat of our passions, appetites, and
inclinations, as the mind itself; at least it
is the outward portal to introduce them to
the bouse within, or rather the common
thoroughfare to let our affections pass in
und out. Love, anger, pride, and a varice,
all visibly move in those little orbs. -Ad-
dison.
One of the most wonderful things in na-
ture is a glance of the eye ; it transcends
speech ; it is the bodily symbol of identity.
Ener'son.
It is the eyes of other people that ruin
If all but myself were blind I should
neither want a fine house nor fine furni-
ture.- Franklin.
The balls of sight are so formed, that one
man's eyes are spectacles to another, to
read his lieart with.-Johnson,
The curious questioning eye, that plucks
the heart of every mystery.- Mellen.
Men are born with two eyes, but only one
tongue, in order that they should see twice
as much as they say.- Colton.
The eyes are the pioneers that first an-
nounce the soft tale of love.—Properlius.
The eye speaks with an eloquence and
truthfulness surpassing speech. ---It is the
window out of which the winged thoughts
often fly unwittingly.-It is the tiny magic
mirror on whose crystal surface the moods
of feeling fitfully play, like the sunlight
and shadow on a quiet stream.- Tucker-
us.
mals look for man's intentions right into
his eyes.-Even & rat, when you hunt and
bring him to bay, looks you in the eye.-
Hiran Powers.
A beautiful eye makes silence eloquent;
a kind eye makes contradiction an assent;
an enraged eye make beauty deformed.
This little member gives life to every other
part about us. --Addison.
The eye of the master will do more work
than both his hands.--Franıclin.
Lovers are angry, reconciled, entreat,
thank, appoint, and finally speak all things
by their eyes.--Montaigne.
The dearest things in the world are
our neighbor's eyes; they cost everybody
more than anything else in housekeeping.–
Smith.
Our
eyes,
when gazing on sinful objects,
are out of their calling, and out of God's
keeping.–Fuller.
A wanton eye is the messenger of an un-
chaste heart.- Augustine.
The eye observes only what the mind,
the heart, the imagination are gifted to
see ; and sight must be reinforced by insight
before souls can be discerned as well as
manners ; ideas as well as objects ; realities.
and relations as well as appearances and
accidental connections.-E. P. Whipple.
Eyes are bold as lions, roving, running,
leaping, here and there, far and near.
They speak all languages; wait for no in-
troduction; ask no leave of age or rank;
respect neither poverty nor riches, neither
learning nor power, nor virtue, nor' sex, but
intrude, and come again, and go through
and through you in a moment of time.
What inundation of life and thought is dis-
charged from one soul into another through
them!- Enrer son.
Men of cold passions have quick eyes.-
Hawthorne.
'Twas but for a moment and yet in that
time she crowded the impressions of many
an hour; her eye had a glow, like the sun
of her clime, which waked every feeling at
once into flower !-Moore.
The eyes of women are Promethean fires.
--Shakespeare.
Eyes will not see when the heart wishes
them to be blind.-Desire conceals truth,
as darkness does the earth.--Seneca.
Taster than his tongue did make offence,
his eye did heal it up.-Shakespeare.
The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark
eye.-L. E. Landon.
The intelligence of affection is carried on
by the eye only.-Good breeding has made
inan.
The eye is the pulse of the soul; as
physicians judge the heart by the pulse, so
we by the eye.-T. Adams.
Who has a daring eye, tells downright
truths and downright lies.-Lavater.
Where is any author in the world teaches
such beauty as a woman's eye ?-Shake-
speare.
The eye is the window of the soul; the
intellect and will are seen in it.-The ani-
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the tongue falsify the heart and act a part
of continued restraint, while Nature has
preserved the eyes to herself, that she may
not be disguised or misrepresented.-Ad-
dison.
Eyes raised toward heaven are always
beautiful, whatever they may be.-- Joubert.
Sweet, silent rhetoric of persuading eyes.
- Davenant.
An eye can threaten like a loaded and
levelled pistol, or can insult, like hissing or
kicking; or in its altered mood, can, by
beams of kindness, make the heart dance
with joy.-Some eyes have no more expres-
sion than blueberries, while others are as
deep as a well which you can fall into.-
Emerson.
Her eyes are homes of silent prayer.-
Tennyson.
A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind.—
Shalcespeare.
Whatever of goodness emanates from the
soul gathers its soft halo in the eyes ; and
if the heart be a lurking place of crime, the
eyes are sure to betray the secret. ---F.
Saunders.
Language is slow; the mastery of wants
doth teach it to the infant, drop by drop,
as brooklets gather.—Yet there is a love,
simple and sure, that asks no discipline of
weary years, the language of the soul, told
through the eye.-The stammering lip oft
mars the perfect thought; but the heart's
lightning hath no obstacle.—Quick glances,
like the thrilling wires, transfuse the tele-
graphic look.--Mrs. Sigourney.
FACE,-(See “PAYSIOGNOMY and
EYE.”)
There is in every human countenance,
either a history or a prophecy, which must
sadden, or at least softeu every reflecting
observer.—Coleridge.
A good face is the best.letter of recom-
mendation.- Queen Elizabeth.
Look in the face of the person to whom
you are speaking if you wish to know his
real sentiments, for he can command his
words more easily than his countenance.-
Chesterfield.
A cheerful face is nearly as good for an
invalid as healthy weather.-Franklin.
Your face is a book, where men may read
strange matters.-Shakespeare.
We are all sculptors and painters, and
our material is our own flesh and blood and
bones.--Any nobleness begins, at once,
to refine a man's features ; any meanness
or sensuality to imbrute them.-Thoreau.
The cheek is apter than the tongue to tell
an errand.-Shalcespeare.
I am persuaded that there is not a single
sentiment, whether tending to good or evil
in the human soul, that has not its distinct
interpreter in the glance of the eye, and
in the muscling of the countenance. When
nature is permitted to express herself by
this language of the face, she is understood
by all people, and those who were never
taught a letter can instantly read her sig-
natures and impressions, whether they be
of wrath, hatred, envy, pride, jealousy,
vexation, contempt, pain, fear, horror, and
dismay; or of attention, respect, wouder,
surprise, pleasure, transport, complacence,
affection, desire, peace, lowliness, and love.
-Broolie.
All men's faces are true, whatsoever their
hands are.-Shakespeare.
Truth makes the face of that person shine
who speaks and owns it. --South.
There are 'faces so fluid with expres-
sion, so flushed and rippled by the play of
thought, that we can hardly find what the
mere features really are.-When the deli-
cious beauty of lineaments loses its power,
it is because a more delicious beauty has
appeared—that an interior and durable
form has been disclosed.-Emerson.
Faces are as legible as books, with this in
their favor, that they may be perused in
much less time, and are less liable to be
misunderstood.-F. Saunders.
The faces which have charmed us the
most escape us the soonest. — Walter Scott,
The countenance is the title-page which
F.
FABLES.-Fables, like parables, are
more ancient than formal arguments and
are often the most effective means of pre-
senting and impressing both truth and
duty.--Tryon Edwards.
Fables take off from the severity of in-
struction, and enforce at the same time
that they conceal it. --Addison.
The fable is allegorical; its actions are
natural, but its agents imaginary.--The
tale is ' fictitious, but not imaginary, for
both its agents and actious are drawn from
the passing scenes of life.--Tales are writ-
ten mainly for amusement: fables for in-
struction. - Crabbe.
The virtile which we gather from a fable
or an allegory, is like the health we get
by hunting, as we are engaged in an agree-
able pursuit that draws us on with pleasure,
and makes us insensible of the fatigues
that accompany it. --Addison.
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heralds the contents of the human volume,
but like other title-pages it sometimes
puzzles, often misleads, and often says
notliing to the purpose.-W. Matthews.
Features are the visible expression of
the soul—the outward manifestation of the
feeling and character within.-Tryon Ed-
wards.
I more and inore see this, that we judge
men's abilities less from what they say or
do, than from what they look. "Tis the
man's face that gives him weight. His
doings help, but not more than his brow.-
Charles Buxton.
I never knew a genius yet who did not
carry about him, either in face or person,
or in a certain inexplicable grace of man-
ner, the patent of nobility which heaven
has bestowed upon him.-The Ogilvies.
There is a garden in her face, where roses
and white lillies show-a heavenly paradise
wherein all pleasant fruits do grow.-R.
Alison.
In thy face I see the map of honor, truth,
and loyalty.-Shalcespeare.
A beautiful face is a silent commenda-
tion.-Bacon.
That same face of yours looks like the
title-page to a whole volume of roguery.-
Cibber,
The loveliest faces are to be seen by moon-
light, when one sees half with the eye, and
half with the fancy.-Bovec.
A countenance habitually under the in-
fluence of amiable feelings acquires a
beauty of the highest order from the fre-
quency with which such feelings stamp
their character upon it.-Mrs. S. C. Hale.
He had a face like a benediction. Cera
vantes.
If we could but read it, every human
being carries his life in his face, and is
good-looking, or the reverse, as that life
has been good or evil. On our features
the fine chisels of thought and emotion are
eternally at work.- Alexander Smith.
In the faces of women who are naturally
serene and peaceful, and of those rendered
80 by religion, there remains an after-
spring, and later, an after-summer, the
reflex of their most beautiful bloom.-
Richter.
As the language of the face is universal,
so it is very comprehensive.--It is the short-
hand of the mind, and crowds a great deal
in a little room.-A man may look a sen-
tence as soon as speak a word.—Collier.
FACTION.-Taction is the demon of
lliscord armed with power to do endless
mischief, and intent only on destroying
whatever opposes its progress.—Woe to that
state in which it has found an entrance.--
Crabbe.
A feeble government produces more
factions than an oppressive one.- Fisher
Ames.
Taction is the excess and abuse of party.
It begins when the first idea of private
interest, preferred to public good, gets
footing in the heart.— It is always danger-
ous, yet always contemptible.-Cheneviz.
Seldom is faction's ire in haughty minds
extinguished but by death; it oft, like
flame suppressed, breaks forth again, and
blazes higher.-May.
FACTS.-Any fact is better established
by two or three good testimonies, than by
a thousand arguments.--Eminons.
Facts are to the mind, what food is to the
body.-On the due digestion of the former
depend the strength and wisdom of the one,
just as vigor and health depend on the
other. The wisest in council, the ablest in
debate, and the most agreeable companion
in the commerce of human life, is that man
who has assimilated to his understanding
the greatest number of facts. --Burke.
From principles is derived probability,
but truth or certainty is obtained only
from facts.
Every day of my life makes me feel more
and more how seldom a fact is accurately
stated;
how almost invariably when a story
has passed through the mind of a third
person it becomes, so far as regards the
impression it makes in further repetitions,
little better than a falsehood ; and this,
too, though the narrator be the most truth-
seeking person in existence.- Hawthorne.
There should always be some foundation
of fact for the most airy fabric ; pure in-
vention is but the talent of a deceiver.
Byron.
Facts are God's arguments ; we should
be careful never to misunderstand or per-
vert them.- Tryon Edwards.
FAILINGS.—The finest composition of
human nature, as well as the finest china,
may have flaws in it, though the pattern
may be of the highest value.
Every one has a wallet behind for his
own failings, and one before for the failings
of others.- La Fontaine.
If we had no failings ourselves we should
not take so much pleasure in finding out
those of others.-Rochefoucauld.
Such is the force of envy and ill-nature,
that the failings of good men are more
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published to the world than their good
deeds; and one fault of a well-deserving
man shall meet with more reproaches than
all his virtues will with praise.-N. P.
Willis.
FAILURE,--We mount to heaven mostly
on the ruins of our cherished schemes,
finding our failures were successes.-A. B.
Alcott.
Every failure is a step to success; every
detection of what is false directs us toward
what is true, every trial exhausts some
tempting form of error. Not only so, but
scarcely any attempt is entirely a failure ;
scarcely any theory, the result of steady
thought, is altogether false; no tempting
form of error is without some latent charm
derived from truth.- Whewell.
Sometimes a noble failure serves the
world as faithfully as a distinguished suc-
cess.--Dowden.
Failure is often God's own tool for carving
some of the finest outlines in the character
of his children; and, even in this life, bitter
and crushing failures have often in them
the germs of new and quite unimagined
happiness.-T. Hodglcin.
He only is exempt from failures who
makes no efforts.- Whately.
Failure is, in a sense, the highway to
success, inasmuch as every discovery of
what is false leads us to seek earnestly after
what is true, and every fresh experience
points out some form of error which we
shall afterward carefully avoid.—Keats.
It is an awful condemnation for a man to
be brought by God's providence face to
face with a great possibility of service and
of blessing, and then to show himself such
that God has to put him aside, and look for
other instruments.—McLaren.
In the lexicon of youth, which fate re-
serves for a bright manhood, there is no
such word as fail. --Bulwer.
They never fail who die in a great cause.
Byron.
There is only one real failure in life that
is possible, and that is, not to be true to
the best one knows.-Farrar.
Only the astrologer and the empyric
never fail.-Willmott.
A failure establishes only this, that our
determination to succeed was not strong
enough.-Bovee.
FAITH-Faith affirms many things re-
specting which the senses are silent, but
nothing which they deny.-It is superior to
their testimony, but never opposed to it. -
Pascal.
Faith is a certain image of eternity. All
things are present to it-things past, and
things to come; it converses with angels,
and antedates the hymns of glory. Every
man that hath this grace is as certain there
are glories for him, if he perseveres in duty,
as if he had beard and sung the thanks-
giving song for the blessed sentence of
doomsday.-Jeremny Taylor.
Never yet did there exist a full faith in
the divine word which did not expand the
intellect while it purified the heart; which
did not multiply the aims and objects of
the understanding, while it fixed and sim-
plified those of the desires and passions.
Coleridge.
All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a
ruined edifice, before one single word
faith.-Napoleon.
There is a limit where the intellect fails
and breaks down, and this limit is where
the questions concerning God, and free-
will, and immortality arise. -- Kant.
Faith marches at the head of the army of
progress.--It is found beside the most re-
fined life, the freest government, the pro-
foundest philosophy, the noblest poetry,
the purest humanity.-T. T. Munger.
Faith must have adequate evidence, else
it is mere superstition.-A. A. Hodge.
Under the influence of the blessed Spirit,
faith produces holiness, and boliness
strengthens faith. Faith, like & fruitful
parent, is plenteous in all good works; and
good works, like dutiful children, confirm
and add to the support of faith.
Faith in an all-seeing and personal God,
elevates the soul, purifies the emotions,
sustains human dignity, and lends poetry,
nobility, and holiness to the commonest
state, condition, and manner of life.—Juan
Valera.
We cannot live on probabilities. The
faith in which we can live bravely and die
in peace must be a certainty, so far as it
professes to be a faith at all, or it is nothing.
Froude.
Some wish they did, but no man dis-
believes.--Young.
Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with
divinely pictured windows.--Standing with-
out, you can see no glory, nor can imagine
any, but standing within every ray of light
reveals a harmony of unspeakable splen-
dors.--Hawthorne.
Epochs of faith, are epochs of fruitful-
ness ;
but epochs of unbelief, however
glittering, are barren of all permanent
good.- Goethe.
In actual life every great enterprise be-
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gins with and takes its first forward step in
faith.-Schlegel.
Faith is not only a means of obeying, but
a principal act of obedience; not only an
altar on which to sacrifice, but a sacrifice
itself, and perhaps, of all, the greatest. It
is a submission of our understandings; an
oblation of our idolized reason to God,
which he requires so indispensably, that
our whole will and affections, though seem-
ingly a larger sacrifice, will not, without
it, be received at his hands.—Young.
The saddest thing that can befall a soul
is when it loses faith in God and woman.-
Alexander Smith.
The Calvinistic people of Scotland, Switz-
erland, Holland, and New England, have
been more moral than the same classes
among other nations. Those who preached
faith, or in other words a pure mind, have
always produced more popular virtue than
those who preached good acts, or the mere
regulation of outward works.-Sir James
Macintosh
Things of God that are marvellous are
to be believed on a principle of faith, not
to be pried into by reason. For if reason
set them open before our eyes, they would
no longer be marvellous.-S. Gregory.
Man is not made to question, but adore.
-Young.
Naturally, men are prone to spin them-
selves a web of opinions out of their own
brain, and to have a religion that may be
called their own. They are far readier to
make themselves a faith, than to receive
that which God hath formed to their hands;
are far readier to receive a doctrine that
tends to their carnal commodity, or honor,
or delight, than one that tends to self-de-
nial.-Baxter.
Taith and works are as necessary to our
spiritual life as Christians, as soul and body
are to our life as men; for faith is the soul
of religion, and works, the body.—Colton.
Faith is not reason's labor, but repose.
Young.
Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God,
if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor; I
think not thou hast charity for thy neighbor,
if thou wantest faith in God.-Where they
are not both together, they are both want-
ing ; they are both dead if once divided.-
Quarles.
There never was found in any age of the
world, either philosopher or sect, or law,
or discipline which did so highly exalt the
public good as the Christian faith.-Bacon.
Faith makes the discords of the present
the harmonies of the future.-Collyer.
Despotism may govern without faith,
but Liberty cannot.—De Tocqueville.
Faith is the eye that sees Him, the hand
that clings to Him, the receiving power
that appropriates Him.- Woodbridge.
Faith is to believe, on the word of God,
what we do not see, and its reward is to see
and enjoy what we believe.-Augustine.
Faith evermore looks upward and de-
scribes objects remote: but reason can dis-
cover things only near-sees nothing that's
above her.--Quarles.
Faith niakes all evil good to us, and all
good better ; unbelief nakes all good evil,
and all evil worse. Taith laughs at the
shaking of the spear ; belief trembles at
the shaking of a leaf : unbelief starves the
soul ; faith finds food in famine, and a table
in the wilderness. In the greatest danger,
faith says, “I have'a great God." When
outward strength is broken, faith rests on
the promises. In the midst of sorrow, faith
draws the sting out of every trouble, and
takes out the bitterness from every afflic-
tion.-Cecil.
Faith in order, which is the basis of sci-
ence, cannot reasonably be separated from
faith in an ordainer, which is the basis of
religion.- Asa Gray.
Science has sometimes been said to be
opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it.
But all science, in fact, rests on a basis
of faith, for it assumes the permanence and
uniformity of natural laws-a thing which
can never be demonstrated.— Tryon Ed-
wards.
The steps of faith fall on the seeming
void, but find the rock beneath.— Whittier.
When men cease to be faithful to their
God, he who expects to find them so to each
other will be much disappointed.--- Bp.
Horne.
To believe is to be strong. Doubt
cramps energy. Belief is power.-F. W.
Robertson.
Faith is the root of all good works ; &
root that produces nothing is dead.--Bp.
Wilson.
As the flower is before the fruit, so is
faith before good works.-- Whalely.
Faith and works are like the light and
heat of a candle ; they cannot be separated.
Taith without works is like a bird without
wings; though she inay hop about on earth,
she will never fly to heaven.-But when
both are joined together, then doth the
soul mount ip to her eternal rest.-Beau-
mont.
Wbat I admire in Columbus is not his
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having discovered a world, but his having
gone to search for it on the faith of an
opinion.-Turgot.
Faith is the pencil of the soul that pic-
tures heavenly things.-T. Burbridge.
All I have seen teaches me to trust the
Creator for all I have not seen.-Inverson.
The errors of faith are better than the
best thoughts of unbelief. Thomas Rus-
sell.
The experience of life nearly always
works toward the confirmation of faith.-
It is the total significance of life that it re-
veals God to man; and life only can do
this ; neither thought, nor demonstration,
nor miracle, but only life, weaving its
threads of daily toil and trial and joy into
a pattern on which, at last, is inscribed the
name of “God.”—T. T. Munger.
All the strength and force of man comes
from bis faith in things unseen.
He who
believes is strong ; he who doubts is weak.
Strong convictions precede great actions.-
J. F. Clarke.
Faith lights us through the dark to Deity
faith builds a bridge across the gulf of
death, to break the shock that nature can-
not shun, and lands thought smoothly on
the further shore.- Young.
Christian faith is nothing else but the
soul's venture. It ventures to Christ, in
opposition to all legal terrors. It ventures
on Christ in opposition to our guiltiness.
It ventures for Christ, in opposition to
all difficulties and discouragements. ---- W.
Bridges.
While reason is puzzling herself about
the mystery, faith is turning it into her
daily bread and feeding on it thankfully in
her heart of hearts.--. D. Huntington,
Strike from mankind the principle of
faith, and men would have no more history
than a flock of sheep.-- Bulwer.
It is faith among men that holds the
moral elements of society together, as it is
faith in God that binds the world to his
throne.-W. M. Evaris.
There is one sure criterion of judgment
as to religious faith in doctrinal matters;
can you reduce it to practice ?-If not, have
none of it.-H. Ballou.
Ignorance as to unrevealed mysteries is
the mother of a saving faith ; and under-
standing in revealed truths is the mother
of a sacred knowledge.-Understand not
therefore that thou mayest believe, but
believe that thou mayest understaid.-
Understanding is the wages of a lively faith,
and faith is the reward of an humble igno-
rance.- Quarles.
Faith is the root of all blessings. Believe,
and you shall be saved ; believe, and you
must needs be satisfied ; believe, and you
cannot but be comforted and happy.-
Jeremy Taylor.
Faith does nothing alone-nothing of
itself, but everything under God, by God,
through God.---- Sloughton.
Much knowledge of divine things is lost
to us through want of faith.-Heraclitus.
I prefer a firm religious faith to every
other blessing.--For it makes life a dis-
cipline of goodness ; creates new hopes,
when those of the world vanish; throws
over the decay of life the most gorgeous of
all lights ; and awakens life even in death.-
Sir H, Davy.
Faith is like love: it cannot be forced.
As trying to force love begets hatred, so
trying to compel religious belief leads to
unbelief.-Schopenhauer.
FALSEHOOD. (See “LIARS.")
Dishonor waits on perfidy.-Aman should
blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime
of cowards.-C. Johnson.
Dare to be true; nothing can need a lie.
Herbert.
The lie of fear is the refuge of cowardice,
and the lie of fraud the device of the cheat.
-The inequalities of men and the lust
of acquisition are a constant premium on
lying --Edward Bellamy.
A lie has always a certain amount of
weight with those who wish to believe it.
E. W. Rice.
If falseñood had, like
futh, but one face
only, we should be upon better terms ; for
we should then take the contrary to what
the liar says for certain truth; but the
reverse of truth hath a hundred figures,
and is a field indefinite without bound or
limit.—Montaigne.
Falsehoods not only disagree with truths,
but usually quarrel among themselves. –
Daniel Webster.
The gain of lying is nothing else but not
to be trusted of any, nor to be believed
when we say the truth. -Sir W. Raleigh.
Some men relate what they think, as
what they kpow; some men of confused
memories, and habitual inaccuracy, ascribe
to one man what belongs to another; and
some talk on without thought or care. А
fcw men are sufficient to broach falsehoods,
which are afterwards innocently diffused
by successive relaters.-- Johnson.
A liar begins with making falsehood ap-
pear like truth, and ends with making
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truth itself appear like falsehood.-Shen-
stone.
None but cowards lie.—Murphy.
He who tells, a lie is not sensible how
great a task he undertakes ; for he must
invent twenty more to maintain that one.-
Pope.
No species of falschood is more frequent
than flattery; to which the coward is be-
trayed by fear, the dependent by interest,
and the friend by tenderness.
Falsehood is never 80 successful as when
she baits her hook with truth, and no
opinions so fatally mislead us, as those that
are not wholly wrong ; as no watches so
effectually deceive the wearer as those that
are sometimes right.-Collon.
It is more from carelessness about the
truth, than from intentional lying, that
there is so much falsehood in the world.-
Johnson.
Falsehood, like the dry rot, flourishes the
more in proportion as air and light are ex-
cluded. - Whately.
When Aristotle was asked what a man
could gain by telling a falsehood, be replied
“Never to be credited when he speaks the
truth.”
Although the devil be the father of lies,
he seems, like other great inventors, to have
lost much of his reputation by the continual
improvements that have boen made upon
him.--Swift.
The telling of a falsehood is like the cut
of a sabre ; for though the wound may
heal, the scar of it will remain.-Saadi.
Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult !
Examine your words well and you will find
that even when you have no motive to be
false it is very hard to say the exact truth,
even about your own immediate feelings-
much harder than to say something fine
about them which is not the exact truth.-
George Eliot.
Not the least misfortune in a prominent
falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to
repeat it for truth.-H. Ballou.
Falsehood, like poison, will generally be
rejected when administered alone; but
when blended with wholesome ingredients,
may be swallowed unperceived.- Whately.
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath;
a goodly apple rotten at the heart !-Shake-
speare.
Falsehood has an infinity of combina-
tions, but truth has only one mode of being.
Rousseau.
Do not let us lie at all. Do not think of
one falsity as harmless, and another as
slight, and another as unintended. Cast
them all aside; they may be light and
accidental, but they are ugly soot from the
smoke of the pit, and it is better that our
hearts should be swept clean of them,
without one care as to which is largest or
blackest.-Ruskin.
Round dealing is the honor of man's na-
ture; and a mixture of falsehood is like
alloy in gold and silver, which may make
the metal work the better, but it embaseth
it.- Bacon.
Nothing gives such a blow to friendship
as detecting another in an untruth.-It
strikes at the root of our confidence ever
after.-Hazlitt.
Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of
him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance
his value in the eyes of others.-G. J. Ben-
nett.
Let falsehood be a stranger to thy lips.-
Shame on the policy that first began to
tamper with the heart, to hide its thoughts.
And doubly shame on that inglorious
tongue that sold its honesty, and told a lie.
Havard.
Half a fact is a whole falsehood. He who
gives the truth a false coloring by his false
manner of telling it, is the worst of liars.---
E. L. Magoon.
Every lie, great or small, is the brink of
a precipice, the depth of which nothing but
Omniscience can fathom.-C. Reade.
This above all; to thine own self be true;
and it must follow, as the night the day,
thou canst not then be false to any man.-
Shakespeare.
FAME,—What is fame ?-The advantage
of being known by people of whom you
yourself know nothing, and for whom you
care as little.- Stanislaus.
The way to fame is like the way to heaven,
through much tribulation.-Sterne.
Fame, to the ambitious, is like salt water
to the thirsty—the more one gets, the more
he wants.- Lbers.
Human life is too short to recompense
the cares which attend the most private
condition : therefore it is, that our souls
are made, as it were, too big for it ; and ex-
tend themselves in the prospect of a longer
existence, in good fame, and memory of
worthy actions, after our decease.-Steele.
Tame is no sure test of merit, but only a
probability of such ; it is an accident, not
a property of man.- Carlyle.
That fame is the universal passion is by
nothing more discovered than by epitaphs.
The generality of mankind are not content
ws.-
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FAME.
to sink ingloriously into the grave, but and we seldom hear of a celebrated person
wish to be paid that tribute after their without a catalogue of some of his weak-
deaths, which in many cases may not be nesses and infirmities.-Addison.
due to the virtues of their lives.-Kett.
Even the best things are not equal to
Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.- their fame. Thoreau,
Socrates.
An earthly immortality belongs to a great
I courted fame but as a spur to brave and and good character.-History embalms it;
honest deeds ; who despises fame will soon it lives in its moral influence, in its au-
renounce the virtues that deserve it.- thority, in its example, in the memory of
Mallet.
its words and deeds. -É. Everett.
Of present fame think little, and of fu- A man wlio cannot win fame in his own
ture less; the praises that we receive after ago, will have a very small chance of win-
we are buried, like the flowers that are ning it from posterity.-There may be
strewed over our grave, may be gratifying some half dozen exceptions to this truth
to the living, but they are nothing to the among myriads that attest it; but what
dead; the dead are gone, either to a place man of common sense would invest any
where they hear them not, or where, if they large amount of hope in so unpromising a
do, they will despise them.-Colton.
lottery ?-Bulwer,
There is not in the world so toilsome a It is the penalty of fame that a man must
trade as the pursuit of faine : life concludes ever keep rising, -"Get a reputation, and
before you have so much as sketched your then go to bed," is the absurdest of all
work.-Bruyère.
a
He that pursues fame with just claims,
bed,” would be nearer the truth.-E. H.
trusts his happiness to the winds; but he
Chapin.
that endeavors after it by false merit, has What a heavy burden is a name that has
to fear, not only the violence of the storm, too soon become famous.-- Vollaire.
but the leaks of his vessel.-Johnson.
Fame is an undertaker that pays but
The temple of fame stands upon the little attention to the living, but bedizens
grave ; the flame upon its altars is kindled the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and
from the ashes of the dead.--Hazlitt.
follows them to the grave.- Collon.
It often happens that those of whom we Worldly fame is but a breath of wiari
speak least on earth are best known in
that blows now this way, and now that, and
heaven.-Caussin.
changes name as it changes direction.-
Men think highly of those who rise rapidly Dante.
in the world, whereas nothing rises quicker In fame's temple there is always to be
than dust, straw, and feathers.--Hare. found a niche for rich dunces, importu-
Faine, like the river, is narrowest where nate scoundrels, or successful butchers of
it is bred, and broadest afar off.-Dave- the human race.--Zinimernan.
nant.
I am not covetous for gold; but if it be
Much of reputation depends on the pe- a sin to covet honor, I am the most offend-
riod in which it rises.-In dark periods, ing soul alive.--Shakespeare.
when talents appear, they shine like thé
Fame is a flower upon a dead man's heart.
sun through a small hole in the window-
- Motherwell.
shutter, and the strong beam dazzles amid
the surrounding gloom.-Open the shutter,
Tame-a few words 7zpon a tombstone,
and the general diffusion of light attracts
and the truth of those not to be depended
no notice.- Walpole. .
on.- Bovee.
Few people make much noise after their If fame is only to come after death, I am
deaths who did not do so while living.- in no hurry for it.-Marlial.
Elazlitt.
As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of
Let us satisfy our own consciences, and its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the
trouble not ourselves by looking for fame. fame that is truly precious:-Landor.
If we deserve it, we shall attain to it: if we
Suppose your candidate for fame pur-
deserve it not we cannot force it. The
sies unremittingly the object of his love,
praise bad actions obtain dies soon away ; through every difficulty and over every
if good deeds are at first unworthily re- obstacle, till at last he overtakes her lady-
ceived, they are afterward more properly ship, and is permitted to kiss the bem of
appreciated.–Seneca.
her garment on mount immortality, what
Our admiration of a famous man lessens will the dear-bought damsel boot him? If
upon our nearer acquaintance with him ; he take her to his bosom, she has no flesh
FAME.
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FAMILY.
granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.
Johnson.
Time has a doomsday book, on whose
pages he is continually recording illustrious
names.-Butas often as a new name is writ-
ten there, an old one disappears.-Only a
few stand in illuminated characters never
to be effaced.--Longfellow.
Only the actions of the just smell sweet
and blossom in the dust.-Shirley.
Men's evil manners live in brass ; their
virtues we write in water.-Shakespeare.
No true and permanent fame can be
founded except in labors which promote
the happiness of mankind. - Charles Sum-
ner.
and blood to warm it. If he taste of her
lip, there is no more nectar in it than there
are sunbeans in a cucumber. -Every ras-
cal who has been bold and fearless enough,
Nimrod, Cataline, and Tom Paine, all have
had a smack at her before him: They have
all more or less become famous, and will
be remembered much longer than better
men.-Daniel Webster.
Milton neither aspired to present fame,
nor even expected it.-His high ambition
was (to use his own words), “To leave
something so written, to after ages, that
they should not willingly let it die."--Aud
Cato finally observed, he would much
rather posterity should ask why no statues
were erected to him, than why they were.
- Colton.
Those who despise fame seldom deserve
it.-We are apt to undervalue the purchase
we cannot reach, to conceal our poverty the
better.-It is a spark that kindles upon the
best fuel, and" burns brightest in the
bravest breast.–Jeremy Collier.
It is an indiscreet and troublesome am-
bition that cares 80 much about fame;
about what the world says of us ; to be
always looking in the faces of others for
approval; to be always anxious about the
effect of what we do or say; to be always
shouting to hear the echoes of our own
voices.- Longfellow.
Good fame is like fire ; when you have
kindled you may easily preserve it; but if
you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle
it again... Bacon.
He who would acquire fame must not
show himself afraid of censure.—The dread
of censure is the death of genius.—Simms.
Men's fame is like their hair, which grows
after they are dead, and with just as little
use to them.- Villiers.
Fame is a revenue payable only to our
ghosts ; and to deny ourselves all present
satisfaction, or to expose ourselves to so
much hazard for this, were as great mad-
ness as to starve ourselves or fight des-
perately for food to be laid on our tombs
after our death.-Mackenzie.
Common fame is the only liar that de-
serves to have some respect.-though she
tells many an untruth, she often hits right,
and most especially when she speaks ill of
men.-Saville.
Of all the possessions of this life fame is
the noblest : when the body has sunk into
the dust the great name still lives.-Schiller.
To get a name can happen but to few; it
is one of the few things that cannot be
bought. It is the free gift of mankind,
which must be deserved before it will be
FAMILIARITY,- All objects lose by too
familiar a view.-Dryden.
Make not thy friends too cheap to thee,
nor thyself to thy friend.--Fuller.
Though familiarity may not breed con-
tempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
- Hazlitt.
The confidant of my vices is my master,
though he were iny valet.-Goethe.
Vice is a monster of such frightful mien
as to be hated, needs but to be seen : but
seen too oft, familiar with her face, we first
endure, then pity, then embrace.-Pope.
Be not too familiar with thy servants.-
At first it may beget love, but in the end it
will breed contempt.-Fuller.
Familiarities are the aphides that imper-
ceptibly suck out the juices intended for
the germ of lore.-Landor.
When a man becomes familiar with his
goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.-
Addison.
FAMILY,-The family was ordained of
God that children might be trained up for
himself
;
it was before the church, or
rather the first form of the church on
earth.
Civilization varies with the family, and
the family with civilization.-Its highest
and most complete realization is found
where enlightened Cliristianity prevails ;
where woman is exalted to her true and
lofty place as equal with the man; where
husband and wife are one in honor, influ-
ence, and affection ; and where children
are a common bond of care and love. This
is the idea of a perfect family.-W. Aik-
man.
Happy are the families where the govern-
ment of parents is the reign of affection,
and obedience of the children the submis-
sion of love.
FANATICISMI.
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FANCY.
If I might control the literature of the
household, I would guarantee the well-
being of the church and state.--Bacon.
If God has taught us all truth in teach-
ing us to love, then he has given 18 an in-
terpretation of our whole duty to our
households.—We are not born as the par-
tridge in the wood, or the ostrich of the
desert, to be scattered everywhere ; but we
are to be grouped together, and brooded
by love, and reared day by day in that first
of churches, the fainily.-H. W. Beecher.
As are families, so is society.-If well
ordered, well instructed, and well governed,
they are the springs from which go forth
the streams of national greutuess and pros-
perity-of civil order and public happiness.
Thayer.
The ties of family and of country were
never intended to circumscribe the soul.-
If allowed to become exclusive, engrossing,
clannish, so as to shut out the general
claims of the human race, the highest end
of Providence is frustrated, and home, in-
stead of being the nursery, becomes the
grave of the heart.-Channing.
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- Bowring.
A house without a roof would scarcely
be a more different home, than a family
unshelted by God's friendship, and the
sense of being always rested in His provi-
dential care and guidance.-Horace Bush-
nell.
« The last word " is the most dangerous
of infernal machines, and the husband and
wife should no more right to get it than
they would struggle for the possession of a
lighted bombshell.–Douglas Jerrold.
"A family without government,” says
Matthew Henry, "is like a house without a
roof, exposed to every wind that blows.
He might better llave said, like a house in
flames, a scene of confusion, and com-
monly too hot to live in.
Woman is the salvation or the destruc-
tion of the family. She carries its destiny
in the folds of her mantle.- Amiel.
The downright fanatic is nearer to the
heart of things than the cool and slippery
disputant.-E. H. Chapin.
Fanaticism, the false fire of an overheated
mind.- Cowper.
Everybody knows that fanaticism is re-
ligion caricatured, and yet, with many,
contempt of fanaticism is regarded as a
sign of hostility to religion.-E. P.Whipple.
The blind fanaticism of one foolish hon-
est man may cause more evil than the
united efforts of twenty rogues.-Grimm.
The weakness of humau nature has al-
ways appeared in times of great revivals of
religion, by a disposition to run into ex-
tremes, especially in these three things :
enthusiasm, superstition, and intemperato
zeal.--Jonathan Edwards.
Fanatic faith, once wedded fast to some
dear falsehood, hugs it to the last.-Moore.
Of all things wisdom is the most terrified
with epidemical fanaticism, because, of all
enemies, it is that against which she is the
least able to furnish any kind of resource.-
Burke.
We often excuse our own want of phil-
anthropy by giving the name of fanaticism
to the more ardent zeal of others.-- Long-
fellow.
FANCY,Fancy rules over two thirds
of the universe, the past and future, while
reality is confined to the present.--Richter.
Fancy and humor, early and constantly
indulged, may expect an old age overrun
with follies.- Waits.
Most marvellous and enviable is that
fecundity of fancy which can adorn what-
ever it touches, which can invest naked
fact and dry reasoning with unlooked for
beanty, make flowers bloom even on the
brow of the precipice, and turn even the
lock itself into moss and lichens.-This
faculty is most important for the vivid and
attractive exhibition of truth to the minds
of men.-Fuller'.
Fancy has an extensive influence in
morals.--Some of the most powerful and
dangerous feelings, as ambition and envy,
derive their principal nourishment from a
source so trivial.--Its effects on the com-
mon affairs of life is greater than might be
supposed.-Naked reality would scarcely
keep the world in motion.- Clulow.
Tancy, when once brought into religion,
knows not where to stop.-It is like one of
those fiends in old stories which any one
could raise, but which, when raised, could
never be kept within the magic circle.-
Whately.
FANATICISM.-Fanaticism is the child
of false zeal and superstition, the father of
intolerance and persecution.-Fletcher.
What is fanaticism to-day is the fash-
ionable crced to-morrow, and trite as the
multiplication table a week after.-- Wendell
Phillips.
Fanaticism is such an overwhelming im-
pression of the ideas relating to the future
world as disqualifies for the duties of this.
Robert Hall.
FAREWELL.
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FASHION.
a
Every fancy that we would substitute for
a reality, is, if we saw ariglit, and saw the
whole, not only false, but every way less
beautiful and excellent than that which we
sacrifice to it.-J. Sterling.
FAREWELL.-In that fatal word, —
howe'er we promise, hopė, believe, there
breathes despair.- Byron.
I never spoke that word “farewell,” but
with an utterance faint and broken
;
lieart-sick yearning for the time when it
should never more be spoken.-Caroline
Bowles.
That bitter word, which closed all earthly
friendships, and finished every feast of
love--farewell!Pollok.
Pass-word of memory-of by-gone days—
thou everlasting epitaph-is there a land
in which thou hast no dwelling place ?
There is, O God, a world where human lips
may say
Farewell!” no inore !
Like some low and mournful spell, we
whisper that sad word, “farewell.”—P.
Benjamin.
FASHION.-(See “CUSTOM.”)
It is the rule of rules, and the general
law of all laws, that every person should
observe the fashions of the place where he
is.—Montaigne.
Fashion is the science of appearances,
and it inspires one with the desire to seem
rather than to be.-E. H. Chapin.
Every generation laughs at the old fash-
ions, but follows religiously the new.-
Thoreau,
Fashion is, for the most part, nothing
but the ostentation of riches. - Locle.
Without depth of thought, or earnestness
of feeling, or strength of purpose, living an
unreal life, sacrificing substance to sliow,
substituting the fictitious for the natural,
mistaking a crowd for society, finding its
chief pleasure in ridicule, and exhausting
its ingemnity in expedients for killing time,
fashion is among the last influences under
which a human being who respects himself,
or who coinpreheuds the great end of life,
would desire to be placed.—Channing.
A fop of fashion is the mercer's friend,
the tailor's fool, and his own foe.- Lavater.
Change of fashions is the tax which in-
dustry imposes on the vanity of the rich.-
Chamfort.
Fashion is gentility running away from
vulgarity, and afraid of being overtaken by
it. It is a sign the two things are not far
asunder. Hazlitt.
Fashion is a word which knaves and fools
may use to excuse their knavery and folly.
Churchill.
The more leader of fashion has no genu-
ine claim to supremacy; at least, no abid-
ing assurance of it. He has embroidered
his title upon his waistcoat, and carries his
worth in his watch chain; and if he is
allowed any real precedence for this, it is
almost a moral swindled way of obtain-
ing goods under false pretences.-E. H.
Chapin.
Fashion is a tyrant from which nothing
frees us. We must suit ourselves to its
fantastic tastes.—But being compelled to
live under its foolish laws, the wise man
is never the first to follow, nor the last to
keep them.-Pascal.
Fashion seldom interferes with nature
without diminishing her grace and effi-
ciency.-Tuckerman.
Thus grows up fashion, an equivocal
semblance; the most puissant, the most
fantastic and frivolous, the most feared
and followed, and which morals and vio-
lence assault in vain.--Emerson.
The fashion doth wear out more apparel
the man.--Shakespeare.
He alone is a man, who can resist the
genius of the age, the tone of fashion, with
vigorous simplicity and modest courage.
Lavater,
Avoid singularity.-There may often be
less vanity in following the new modes, than
in adhering to the old ones.—It is true that
the foolish invent them, but the wise may
conform to, instead of contradicting them.
--Joubert.
Those who seem to lead the public taste,
are, in general, merely outrunning it in the
direction it is spontaneously pursuing.-
Macaulay.
Fashion is only the attempt to realize art
in living forms and social intercourse.-
0. W. Holmes.
Tashion is the great governor of the
world.-It presides not only in matters of
dress and amusement, but in law, physic,
politics, religion, and all other things of
the gravest kind.--Indeed, the wisest men
would be puzzled to give any better reason
why particular forms in all these have been
at certain times universally received, and at
other times universally rejected, than that
they were in, or out of fashion.-Fielding.
It is as absurd to suppose that everything
fashionable is bad, as it would be to sup-
pose that everything unfashionable is good.
Momerie.
FASTIDIOUSNESS.
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FAULTS.
,
To be happy is of far less consequence to
the worshippers of fashion than to appear
80 ; even pleasure itself they sacrifice to
parade, and enjoyment to ostentation.--
Colton,
Fashion must be forever new, or she be-
comes insipid.-J. R. Lowell.
Cast an eye on the gay and fashionable
world, and what see we for the most part,
but a set of querulous, emaciated, fluttering
fantastical beings, worn out in the keen
pursuit of pleasure-creatures that know,
own, condemn, deplore, and yet pursue
their own infelicity? The decayed monu-
ments of error! The thin remains of what
is called delight !- Young.
We should conform to the manners of the
greater number, and so behave as not to
draw attention to ourselves.-Excess either
way shocks, and every wise man should
attend to this in his dress as well as lan-
guage ; never be affected in anything, but
follow, without being in too great baste, the
changes of fashion.-Moliere.
Be not too early in the fashion, nor too
long out of it; nor at any time in the ex-
tremes of it. - Lavater.
Custom is the law of one description of
fools, and fashion of another ; but the two
parties often clash, for precedent is the
legislator of the first, and novelty of the
last!--Colton.
FASTIDIOUSNESS.– Fastidiousness
is only another form of egotism; and all
men who know not where to look for truth,
save in the narrow well of self, will find
their owu image at the bottom, aud mistake
it for what they are seeking.-J. R. Lowell.
Fastidiousness is the envelope of indeli-
cacy.-Haliburton.
Like other spurious things, fastidions-
ness is often inconsistent with itself, the
coarsest things are done, and the cruelest
things said by the most fastidious people.-
Mrs. Kirliand.
Whatever may happen to thee, it was
prepared for thee from all eternity; and
the implication of causes was, from eter-
nity, spinning the thread of thy being, and
of that which is incident to it.-Marcus
Antoninus.
God overrules all mutinous accidents,
brings them under his laws of fate, and
makes them all serviceable to his purpose.
Marcus Antoninus.
“Whosoever quarrels with his fate does
not understand it,” says Bettine; and
among all her sayings she spoke none wiser.
Mrs. L. M. Child.
Heaven from all creatures hides the book
of fate.-Shakespeare,
If you believe in fate, believe in it, at
least, for your good.--Emerson.
Fate is the friend of the good, the guide
of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the
enemy of the bad.-W. R. Alger.
A strict belief in fate is the worst kind of
slavery ; on the other hand there is comfort
in the thought that God will be moved by
our prayers.—Epicurus.
Thought presides over all.–Fate, that
dead phantom, shall vanish from action,
and providence alone be visible in beaven
and on earth.-Bulwer.
All things are ordered by God, but his
providence takes in our free agency, as
well as his own sovereignty.-Tryon Ed-
wards.
All is created and goes according to
order, yet o'er our lifetime rules an uncer-
tain fate.—Goethe.
Our wills and fates do so contrary run,
that our devices still are overthrown ; our
thoughts are ours, their ends none of our
own. --Shakespeare.
Fate! there is no fate.-Between the
thought and the success God is the only
agent.—Bulwer.
FAULTS,-(See "IMPERFECTIONS.")
He will be immortal who liveth till he
be stoned by one without fault.-Fuller.
If the best man's faults were written on
his forehead, he would draw his bat over
his eyes.--Gray.
We should correct our own faults by see-
ing how incomely they appear in others.-
Beaumont.
This I always religiously observed, as a
rule, never to chide my husband before com-
pany nor to prattle abroad of miscarriages
at home. What passes between two people
is much easier made up than when once it
has taken air.
FATE.-There is a divinity that shapes
our ends, rough-lew them as we will.--
Shakespeare.
Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of
Providence.-Bulwer.
What must be shall be ; and that which
is a necessity to him that struggles, is little
more than choice to him that is willing.
Seneca.
All things are by fate, but poor blind
man sees but a part of the chain, the near-
est link, his eyes not reaching to that equal
beam which poises all above.-Dryden.
numerary distresses.-Johnson.
FAULTS.
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FEAR.
We confess small faults, in order to in- while those of the other are known to the
sinuate that we have no great ones.—Roche- world, and concealed from himself.-J.
foucauld.
Mason.
You will find it less easy to uproot faults, Think of your own faults the first part of
than to choke them by gainiug virtues.- the night when you are awake, and of the
Ruslin.
fauits of others the latter part of the night
No one sees the wallet on his own back, when you are asleep.- Chinese Proverb.
though every one carries two packs, one Men are almost always cruel on their
before, stuffed with the faults of his reigh- neighbors' faults, and make the overthrow
bors; the other behind, filled with his own. of others the badge of their own ill-masked
Old Proverb.
virtue.- Sir P. Sidney.
To reprove small faults with undue ve-
Faults of the head are punished in this
hemence, is as absurd as if a man should world, those of the licart in another ; but
take a great hammer to kill a fly on his as most of our vices are compound, so also
friend's forehead.- Anon,
is their punishment.--Colton.
People are commonly so employed in The greatest of faults is to be conscious
pointing out faults in those before them, as of noue.-Carlyle.
to forget that some behind may at the same
time be descanting on their own.—Dilwyn.
If you are pleased at finding faults, you
are displeased at finding perfections.-
It is not so much the being exempt from Lavater.
faults, as having overcome them, that is Bad men excuse their faults ; good men
an advantage to us; it being with the fol-
will leave them.-- Ben Jonson.
lies of the mind as with the weeds of a field,
which if destroyed and consumed upon the
The fault-finder-it is his nature's plague
place of their birth, enrich and improve it
to spy into abuses ; and oft his jealousy
inore than if none had ever spring there.
shapes faults that are not.--Shalcespeare.
-Pope.
Ten thousand of the greatest faults in
If thou wouldst bear thy neighbor's faults,
our neighbors are of less consequence to
cast thiue eyes upon thine own.—Molinos.
us than one of the smallest in ourselves.-
He who exhibits no faults is a fool or a
Whately.
hypocrite whom we should distrust.-Jou- The lowest people are generally the first
bert.
to find fault with show or equipage; espe-
cially that of a person lately emerged from
We easily forget our faults when they
his obscurity. They never once consider
are known only to ourselves.--Rochefou-
cauld.
that he is breaking the ice for themselves.
- Shenstone.
Observe your enemies for they first find
To find fault is easy ; to do better may
out your faults.-Antisthenes.
be difficult. Plutarch.
If we were faultless we should not be so
much annoyed by the defects of those with FEAR,Tear is the tax that conscience
whom we associate.-Fenelon.
pays to guilt.—
Sewell.
Every one is eagle-eyed to see another's Tear is implanted in 118 as a preservative
faults and deformity.-Dryden.
from evil; but its duty, like that of other
To acknowledge our faults when we are
passions, is not to overbear reason, but to
blamed, is modesty ; to discover them to
assist it. It should not be suffered to
one's friends, in ingenuousness, is confi-
tyrannize in the imagination, to raise phan-
dence : but to proclaim them to the world,
toms of horror, or to beset life with super-
if one does not take care, is pride.-Con-
fucius.
Present fears are less than horrible im-
Endeavor to be always patient of the
aginings.—Shakespeare.
faults and imperfections of others; for We often pretend to fear what we really
thou hast many faults and imperfections of despise, and more often to despise what we
thine own that require forbearance. If thou really fear, - Colton.
art not able to make thyself that which
Fear guides more to duty than gratitude.
thou wishest, how canst thou expect to -For one man who is virtuous from the
mold another in conformity to thy will ?-
love of virtue, or from the obligation he
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thinks he lies under to the giver of all,
The wise man has his foibles as well as there are thousands who are good only from
the fool. Those of the one are known to their apprehension of punishment. — Gold-
himself, and concealed from the world; smith.
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FEAR.
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FEELINGS.
In time we hate that which we often
fear.-Shakespeare.
God planted fear in the soul as truly as
he planted hope or courage.--It is a kind
of bell or gong which rings the mind into
quick life and avoidance on the approach
of danger. ---It is the soul's signal for rally-
ing.-H. W. Beecher.
Fear on guilt attends, and deeds of dark-
ness; the virtuous breast ne'er knows it.-
Havard.
Fear nothing but what thine industry
may prevent, and be confident of nothing
but what fortune cannot defeat.-It is no
less folly to fear what cannot be avoided
than to be secure when there is a possibility
of preventing.-Quarles.
I'ear is the mother of foresight.--H.
Taylor.
Nothing is so rash as fear ; its counsels
very rarely put off, whilst they are always
sure to aggravate the evils from which it
would fly.- Burke.
Tear is more painful to cowardice than
death to true courage.--Sir P. Sidney.
All fear is painful, and when it conduces
not to safety, is painful without use.—Every
consideration, therefore, by which ground-
less terrors may be removed, adds some-
thing to human happiness.-Johnson.
Good men have the fewest fears. He
who fears to do wrong has but one great
fear; he has a thousand who has overcoino
it. Bovee.
He who fears being conquered is sure of
defeat.-Napoleon.
Early and provident fear is the mother
of safety.—Burke.
l'ear manifested invites danger ;
cealed cowards insult kuown ones. --Ches-
terfield.
It is only the fear of God that can deliver
us from the fear of man. Witherspoon.
There is great beauty in going through
life without anxiety or fear.-Half our
fears are baseless, and the other half dis-
creditable.---Bovee.
There is a virtuous fear which is the
effect of faith, and a vicious fear which is
the product of doubt and distrust.-The
former leads to hope as relying on God, in
whom we believe; the latter inclines to de-
spair, as not relying upon God, in whom
we do not believe. -Persons of the one
character fear to lose God; those of the
other character fear to find him.-Pascal.
In morals, what begins in fear usually
ends in wickedness; in religion, what be-
gins in fear usually ends in fanaticism.
Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is ·
the beginning of all evil.-Mrs. Jameson.
Fear is two-fold; a fear of solicitous
anxiety, such as makes us let go our con-
fidence in God's providence, and a fear of
prudential caution, whereby, from a due
estimate of approaching evil, we endeavor
our own security.--The former is wrong and
forbidden; the latter not only lawful, but
laudable.--South.
Desponding fear, of feeble fancies full,
weak and uumanly, loosens every power. -
Thomson.
No one loves the man whom he fears.
Aristotle.
FEASTING.-(See “HOSPITALITY.")
It is not the quantity of the meat, but
the cheerfulness of the guests, which makes
the feast. - Clarendon.
He who feasts every day, feasts no day.-
C. Simmons.
The turnpike road to people's hearts, I
find, lies through their mouths, or I mis-
take mankind.-Peter Pindar.
To pamper the body is a miserable ex-
pression of kindness and courtesy ; the
most sumptuous repast is “the feast of
reason and the flow of soul”-an intel-
lectual and moral treat.--0. Sinmons.
He that feasts his body with banquiets
and delicate fare, and starves his soul for
want of spiritual food, is like him that
feasts bis slave and starvex his wife,
When I behold a fashionable table set ont
in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see
gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies,
with other innumerable distempers, lying
in ambuscade among the dishes Nature
delights in the most plain and simple diet.
Every animal, but man. keeps to one dish.
Herbs are the food of this species, fish of
that, and flesh of a third. Man falls upon
everything that comes in his way; not the
smallest fruit or excrescence of the earth,
scarce a berry or a mushroom can escape
him.-Addison.
FEELINGS-(See “SENSIBILITY.")
Our feelings were given 11s to excite to
action, and when they end in themselves,
they are cherished to no good purpose. —
Sandford.
Feeling in the young
precedes philosophy,
and often acts with a better and more cer-
tain aim.- Carleton,
Strong feelings do not necessarily make
a strong character. The strength of a man
is to be measured by the power of the feel-
ings lie subdues, not by the power of those
which subdue him.
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FICTION.
Cultivate consideration for the feelings
of other people if you would not have your
own injured. Those who complain most
of ill-usage are those who abuse others the
oftepest.
The last, best fruit which comes to late
perfection, even in the kindliest soul, is,
tenderness toward the hard, forbearance
toward the unforbearing, warmth of heart
toward the cold, philanthropy toward the
misanthropic. ---Richter.
The heart of man is older than his head.
The first-born is sensitive, but blind-his
younger brother has a cold, but all-com-
prehensive glance. The blind must con-
sent to be led by the clear-sighted, if he
would avoid falling.--Ziegler.
Some people carry their hearts in their
heads; very many carry their heads in
their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them
apart, and yet both actively working to-
gether.
A word-a look, which at one time
would make no impression-at another
time wounds the heart; and like a shaft
flying with the wind, pierces deep, which,
with its own natural force, would scarce
have reached the object aimod at. --Sterne.
Every human feeling is greater and
larger than its exciting cause—a proof, I
think, that man is designed for å higher
state of existence.- Coleridge.
The heart that is soonest awake to the
flowers is always the first to be touched by
the thorns.--Moore.
Feelings come and go, like light troops
following the victory of the present; but
principles, like troops of the line, are un-
disturbed and stand fast.-Richter.
Feeling does not become stronger in the
religious life by waiting, but by using it.-
H. W. Beecher.
He who looks upon Christ through frames
and feelings is like one who sees the sun on
the water, and so sees it quivering and
moving as the water moves. -But he that
looks upon him in the glass of his word by
faith, sees him forever the same.--Nottidge.
Thought is deeper than all speech ; feel-
ing deeper than all thought; soul to souls
can never teach what unto themselves was
taught. — Cranch,
Feeling hearts, touch them but rightly,
pour a thousand melodies unheard before.
-Rogers.
Our higher feelings move our animal
nature ; and our animal nature, irritated,
may call back a semblance of those emo-
tions; but the whole difference between
nobleness and baseness lies in the question,
whether the feeling begins from below or
above.-F. W. Robertson.
In religion faith does not spring out of
feeling, but feeling out of faith. The less
we feol the more we should trust.We can-
not feel right till we have believed.-Bonar.
The heart has often been compared to
the needle of the compass for its constancy;
has it ever been so for its variations ? - Yet
were any man to keep minutes of his feel-
ings from youth to age, what a table of
variations would they present-how nume-
rois, how diverse, how strange !Hare.
FICKLENESS._Fickleness has its rise
in our experience of the fallaciousness of
present pleasure, and in our ignorance of
the vanity of that which is absent.--Pascal.
The uncertain glory of an April day.-
Shakespeare.
They are the weakest-minded and the
hardest-hearted men that most love change.
-Ruslcin.
Everything by starts, and nothing long.
--Dryden.
He wears his faith but as the fashion of
his hat: it ever changes with the next
block.--Shakespeare.
A fickle memory is bad ; a fickle course
of conduct is worse ; but a fickle heart and
purposes, worst of all.-0. Simmons.
FICTION.-Man is a poetical animal
and delights in fiction.- Hazlitt.
Fiction allures to the severe task by a
gayer preface.-Embellished truths are the
illuminated alphabet of larger children.
Willmott.
I have often maintained that fiction may
be much more instructive than real his-
tory.--John Foster'.
Every fiction that has ever laid strong
hold on human belief is the mistaken image
of some great truth.-Martineau.
Tiction is no longer a mere amusement;
but transcendent genius, accommodating
itself to the character of the age, has seized
upon this province of literature, and turned
fiction from a toy into a mighty engine. -
Channing.
The most influential books and the truest
in their influence, are works of fiction.-
They repeat, rearrange, and clarify the les-
8ons of life, disengage 118 from ourselves,
constrain us to the acquaintance of others,
and show 118 the web of experience, but
with a single change.—that monstrous,
consuming ego of ours struck out.-R. L.
Stevenson.
FIDELITY.
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FLATTERY.
The best histories may sometimes be
those in which a little of the exaggeration
of fictitious narrative is judiciously ein-
ployed.--Something is lost in accuracy, but
much is gained in effect.—The fainter lines
are neglected, but the great characteristic
features are imprinted on the mind forever.
-Macaulay.
Many works of fiction may be read with
safety ; some even with profit ; but the
constant familiarity, even with such as are
not exceptionable in themselves, relaxes
the mind, which needs hardening; dis-
solves the heart, which wants fortifying ;
stirs the imagination, which wants quiet-
ing; irritates the passions, which want
calming ; and, above all, disinclines and
disqualifies for active virtues and for spirit-
ual exercises. The habitual indulgence in
such reading, is a silent mining mischief.
Though there is no act, and no moment, in
which any open assault on the mind is
made, yet the constant habit performs the
work of a mental atrophy-it produces all
the symptoms of decay ; and the danger is
not less for being more gradual, and there-
fore less suspected.-H. More.
Fiction is not falsehood, as some seem to
think. It is rather the fanciful and dra-
matic grouping of real traits around imag-
inary scenes or characters.—It may give
false views of men or things, or it may, in
the hands of a master, more truthfully
portray life than sober history itself.
Tryon Edwards.
Those who delight in the study of human
nature, may improve in the knowledge of
it, and in the profitable application of it by
the perusal of the best selected fictions.-
Whately.
FIDELITY:- Nothing is more noble,
nothing more venerable than fidelity.--
Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred
excellences and endowments of the human
mind.- Cicero.
Fidelity is the sister of justice.-Horace.
His words are bonds; his oaths are ora-
cles ; his heart is as far from fraud as
heaven from earth.--Shakespeare.
It goes far toward making a man faith-
ful to let him understand that you think
hin so; and he that does but suspect I
will deceive him, gives me a sort of right to
do it.-Seneca.
Trust reposed in noble natures obliges
them the more.-Dryden.
The way to fill a large sphere is to glorify
& small one. There is no large sphere;
you are your sphere; the man regenerate
and consecrated is the lordliest thing on
earth, because he makes himself 80.--Ed-
ward Braislin.
I am constant as the Northern star, of
whose true-fixed and resting quality there
is no fellow in the firmanent. --Shakespeare.
Fidelity is seven-tenths of business suc-
cess.-Parton.
Faithful found among the faithless, his
loyalty he kept, his love, bis zeal, nor num-
ber, nor example with him wrought to
swerve from truth, or change his constant
mind.-Milton.
O Heaven ! were man but constant, he
were perfect ; that one error fills him with
faults.--Shalcespeare.
To God, thy country, and thy friend be
true, then thou'lt ne'er be false to any one.
— Vaughan.
FIRMNESS.--Firmness of purpose is
one of the most necessary sinews of char-
acter, and one of the best instruments of
success.-Without it genius wastes its ef-
forts in a maze of inconsistencies.- Cluesler-
field.
When firmness is sufficient, rashness is
unnecessary.- Napoleon.
The firm, without pliancy, and the pliant,
without firmness, resemble vessels without
water, and water without vessels.-- Lavater.
The greatest firmness is the greatest
mercy.- Longfellow.
I know no real worth but that tranquil
firmness which meets dangers by duty,
and braves them without rashness.- Slanis-
laus.
Steadfastuess is a noble quality, buti,
unguided by knowledge or humility, it be-
comes rashness, or obstinacy.-Swartz.
Firmness, both in suffering and exertion,
is a character which I would wish to pos-
sess.--I have always despised the wliining
yelp of coinplaint, and the cowardly feeble
resolve.—Burns.
It is only persons of firmness that can
have real gentleness.—Those who appear
gentle are, in general, only a weak charac-
ter, which easily changes into asperity.-
Rochefoucauld.
That profound firmness which enables
a man to regard difficulties but as evils to
be surmounted, no matter what shape they
may assume.-Cockton.
The purpose firm is equal to the deed.-
Young.
FLATTERY.-Men find it more easy to
flatter than to praise.-Richter.
FLATTERY.
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FLATTERY
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a
tyrant; and of all tame, from a tlatterer.
- Ben Jonson.
The art of flatterers is to take advantage
of the foibles of the great, to foster their
errors, and never to give advice which may
aunoy.-Molière.
If we would not flatter ourselves, the
flattery of others could not harm us.
Rochefoucauld.
Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors :
for they will strengthen thy imperfections,
encourage thee in all evils, correct thee in
nothing, but so shadow and paint all thy
vices and follies as thou shalt never, by
their will, discern good from evil, or vice
from virtue.--Sir W. Raleigh.
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and
the giver ; and adulation is not of more
service to the people than to kings.-
Burke.
There is an oblique way of reproof,
which takes off the sharpness of it, and an
address in flattery, which makes it agree-
able, though never so gross ; but of all
flatterers, the most skilful is he who can do
what you like, without saying anything
which argues he does it for your sake.
Pope.
He that is much flattered soon learns to
flatter himself.—We are commonly taught
our duty by fear or shame, but how can
they act upon a man who hears nothing
but his own praises ?-Johnson.
Deference before company is the gen-
teelest kind of flattery. The flattery of
epistles affects one less, as they cannot be
shown without an appearance of vanity.
Flattery of the verbal kind is gross. In
short, applause is of too coarse a nature to
be swallowed in the gross, though the ex-
tract of tincture be ever so agreeable.-
Shenstone.
To be flattered is grateful, even when we
know that our praises are not believed by
those who pronounce them; for they prove
at least our power, and show that our favor
is valued, since it is purchased by the
meanness of falsehood.-Johnson2.
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 re-
ceive you into their bosom.-Fielding.
Flattery, though a base coin, is the ne-
cessary pocket-money at court; where, by
custom and consent, it has obtained such
à currency, that it is no longer a fraudu-
lent, but a legal payment.-Chesterfield.
Know thyself, thine evil as well as thy
good, and flattery shall not harm thee; her
speech shall be a warning, a humbling,
and a guide ; for wherein thou lackest
most, there chiefly will the sycophant come
pend thee.— Tupper.
No man flatters the woman ho truly
loves.-Tuckerman, .
Adulation is the death of virtue.--Who
flatters, is, of all mankind, the lowest, save
he who courts the flattery.-H. More.
You play the spaniel, and think with
wagging of your tongue to win me.-Shake-
speare.
Nothing is so great an instance of ill-
manners as flattery. If you flatter all the
company, you please none; if you flatter
only one or two, you affront the rest.
Swift.
Flattery is a base coin which gains cur-
rency only from our vanity.-Rochefou-
cauld.
Imitation is the sincerest flattery.
Cotton.
It is better to fall among crows than flat-
terers; for those devour only the dead-
these the living.--Antisthenes.
We sometimes think we hate flattery,
when we only hate the manner in which we
have been flattered.--Rochefoucauld.
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.
The rich man despises those who flatter
him too much, and liates those who do not
flatter him at all.- Talleyrand.
A death-bed flattery is the worst of
treacheries. Ceremnonies of mode and com-
pliment are mightily out of season when
life and salvation come to be at stake.-
L'Estrange.
There is scarcely any man, how much
soever he may despise the character of a flat-
terer, but will condescend in the meanest
manner to flatter himself.-Fielding.
Allow no man to be so free with you as to
praise you to your face.-Your vanity, by
this means, will want its food, but at the
same time your passion for esteem will be
more fully gratified ; men will praise you
in their actions: where you now receive
one compliment, you will then receive
twenty civilities. --Šteele.
The lie that flatters I abbor the most.---
Cowper.
There is no detraction worse than to over-
praise a man ; for if his worth
prove
short
of what report doth speak of him, his own
actions are ever giviug the lie to his honor.
-Feltham.
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FLOWERS.
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There is no tongue that flatters like a
lover's ; and yet in the exaggeration of his
feelings, flattery seems to him common-
place.—Bulwer.
There is no flattery so adroit or effectual
as that of implicit assent.-Hazlitt.
Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies.
-Tacitus.
The most skilful flattery is to let a per-
son talk on, and be a listener.--Addison.
The most subtle flattery a woman can
receive is that conveyed by actions, not by
words.--Mad. Necker,
Self-love is the greatest of flatterers.
Rochefoucauld.
A fool flatters himself; the wise man flat-
ter's the fool.-Bulwer.
It is a dangerous crisis when a proud
heart meets with tlattering lips.-Flavel.
When flatterers meet the devil goes to
dinner.- De Foe.
We love flattery, even when we
through it, and are not deceived by it, for
it shows that we are of importance enough
to be courted.—Emerson.
Adroit observers will find that some who
affect to dislike flattery may yet be flattered
indirectly by a well-seasoned abuse and
ridicule of their rivals.-Colton.
It has well been said that the arol-
flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers
have intelligence, is a man's self.-Bacon.
Flattery is often a traffic of mutual mean-
ness, where, although both parties intend
deception, neither are deceived. Colton.
The only benefit of flattery is that by
hearing what we are not, we may be in-
structed what we ought to be.-Swift.
'Tis an old maxim in the schools, that
flattery is the food of fools.-Yet now and
then your men of wit will condescend to
take a bit.-Svift.
FLOWERS,Flowers are God's
thoughts of beauty taking form to gladden
mortal gaze.
Lovely flowers are the smiles of God's
goodness.-- Wilberforce.
Flowers are the sweetest things that God
ever made and forgot to put a soul into.-
H. W. Beecher.
What a desolate place would be a world
without flowers ?-It would be a face with-
out a smile; a feast without a welcome.
Ale not flowers the stars of the earth ?
And are not our stars the flowers of heaven?
-Mrs. Balfour.
To me the meanest flower that blows can
give thoughts that do often lie too deep for
tears.- Wordsworth.
What a pity flowers can utter no sound ?
-A singing rose, à whispering violet, a
murmuring honeysuckle, -oh, what a rare
and exquisite miracle would these be !-
H. W. Beecher.
The flowers are nature's jewels, with
whose wealth she decks her sammer beauty.
- Croly.
The instinctive and universal taste of
mankind selects flowers for the expression
of its finest sympathies, their beauty and
fleetingness serving to make them the most
fitting symbols of those delicate sentiments
for which language seems almost too gross
a medium.-Hillard.
Flowers are love's truest language.-P.
Benjamin.
To analyze the charms of flowers is like
dissecting music; it is one of those things
which it is far better to enjoy, than to
attempt fully to understand. Túcicerman.
In eastern lands they talk in flowers, and
tell in a garland their loves and cares.-
Percival.
How the universal heart of man blesses
flowers !—They are wreathed round the
cradle, the marriage altar, and the tomb.-
They should deck the brow of the youthful
bride, for they are in themselves a lovely
type of marriage. They should twine round
the tomb, for their perpetually renewed
beauty is a symbol of the resurrection,
They should festoon the altar, for their
fragrance and beauty ascend in perpetual
worship before the most high.-Mrs. L. M.
Child.
It is with flowers as with moral qualities
,
the bright are sometimes poisonous, but I
believe never the sweet.- Ēare.
Your voiceless lips, O, flowers, are living
preachers—each cip a pulpit, and each
Icaf a book.-Horace Snriin.
Stars of earth, these golden flowers
blems of our own great resurrection; em-
blems of the bright and better land.- Long-
fellow.
Every rose is an autograph from the
hand of God on this world about us.-Ho
has inscribed his thoughts in these marvel-
lous hieroglyphics which sense and science
have, thiese many thousand years, been
seeking to understand.-Theodore Parler.
A passion for flowers, is, I think, the only
one which long sickness leaves untouched
with its chilling influenco.—Mrs. Hemans.
To cultivate a garden is to walk with
God. Bovee.
.
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FOLLY.
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FOOLS.
There is not the least flower but seems to
hold up its head, and to look pleasantly,
in the secret sense of the goodness of its
leaveuly Maker.-South.
Flowers are God's thoughts of beauty,
taking form to gladden mortal gaze ;
bright gems of earth, in which, perchance,
we soo what Eden was-what Paradise
may be!
FOLLY,-Folly consists in drawing of
false conclusions from just principles, by
which it is distinguished from madness,
which draws just couclusions from false
principles.--Loclce.
There is a foolish corner even in the
brain of the sage.-
Aristotle.
This peculiar ill property has folly, that
it enlarges men's desires while it lesseus
their capacities. --South.
Men of all ages have the same inclina-
tions over which reason exercises no con-
trol. Thus wherever men are found there
are follies, aye, and the same follies.-F01-
tenelle.
The wise man has his follies no less than
the fool; but herein lies the difference-
the follies of the fool are knowu to the
world, but are hidden from himself ; the
follies of the wise man are known to him-
self, but hidden from the world.--Colton.
Want and sorrow are the wages that
folly earns for itself, and they are generally
paid.-Schubart.
He who lives without folly is not so wise
as he imagines.-Rochefoucauld.
People have no right to make fools of
themselves, unless they have no relations
to blush for them.--Haliburton.
A fool may be known by six things : an-
ger, without cause; speech, without profit;
change, without progress; inquiry, with-
out object; putting trust in a stranger,
and mistaking foes for friends.-Arabian
Proverb.
There are many more fools in the world
than there are knaves, otherwise the knaves
could not exist.-Bulwer.
Nothing is more intolerable than a pros-
perous fool; and hence we see men who,
at one time, were affable and agreeable,
completely changed by prosperity, despis-
ing old friends and clinging to new.-
Cicero.
A fool always finds some greater fool to
admire him.--Boileau.
There is no greater fool than he that
says, “There is no God,” unless it be the
one who says he does not know whether
there is one or not.-Bismarck.
A fool at forty is a fool indeed.--Young.
None but a fool is always right.-Hare.
To be a man's own fool is bad enough;
but the vain man is everybody's. -Perin.
The greatest of fools is he who imposes
on himself, and thinks certainly he knows
that which he has least studied, and of
which he is most profoundly ignorant.
Shaftesbury.
A fool may have his coat embroidered
with gold, but it is a fool's coat still.
Roanol.
There are more fools than wise men ;
and even in wise men, more folly than wis-
dom.-- Chamfort.
Men may live fools, but fools they can-
not die.--Young.
A man may be as much a fool from the
want of sensibility, as from the want of
sense.--Mrs. Jameson.
A fool can no more see his own folly than
he can see his ears.- -Thackeray.
Young men think old men fools, and old
men know young men to be 80.-Metcalf.
Where lives the man that has not tried
how mirth can into folly glide, and folly
iuto sin ! - Walter Scott.
Fools are often united in the strictest in.
timacies, as the lighter kinds of woods are
the most closely glued together.-Shen-
store.
Fools with bookish knowledge, are chil-
dren with edged weapons; they hurt them-
selves, and put others in pain.-The half-
man
FOOLS,—The world is full of fools ;
and he who would not wish to see one, must
not only shut himself up alone, but must
also break his lookiug-glass.-
Boileau.
What the fool does in the end, the wise
does in the beginuing. - Spanish
maxin.
A fool in a high station is like a man on
the top of a high mountain--everything
appears small to him and he appears smalí
to everybody.
In all companies there are more fools
than wise men, and the greater part al-
ways gets the better of the wiser.-Rabe-
lais.
If any young man expects without faith,
without thought, without study, without
patient, persevering labor, in the midst of
and in spite of discouragement, to attain
anything in this world that is worth attain-
ing, he will simply wake up, by-and-by,
and find that he has been playing the part
of a fool.-M. J. Savage.
without reflection is but a phrase for the
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FORETHOUGHT.
learned is more dangerous than the sim- FORCE.- Who overcomes by force,
pleton.-Zinimerman.
hath overcome but half his foe.-Milton.
To pursue trifles is the lot of humanity ; Force rules the world-not opinion ; but
and whether we bustle in a pantomime, or opinion which makes use of force.—Pascal.
strit at a coronation, or shout at a boufire,
or harangue in a senate-house ; whatever FOREBODING.-A heavy summons
object we follow, it will at last conduct us lies like lead upon me.-Shakespeare.
to futility and disappointment. The wise
Half our forebodings of our neighbors,
bustle and laugh as they walk in the pa-
are but our wishes, which we are ashamed
geant, but fools bustle and are inportant;
to utter in any other form.-L. E. Landon.
and this probably, is all the difference be-
tween tliem.--Goldsmit).
FORETHOUGHT,To fear the worst,
I am always afraid of a fool ; one cannot oft cures the worst.-Shalcespeare.
be sure he is not a knave.-Hazlitt.
To have too much forethought is the
FOPPERY,-(See "CoxcomB.")
part of a wretch ; to have too little is the
part of a fool. - Cecil.
Foppery is the egotism of clothes.-
As a man without forethought scarcely
Victor Hugo.
deserves the name of man, so forethought
Foppery is never cured ; it is of the bad
stamina of the mind, which, like those of instinct of the beast.- Coleridge.
the body, are never rectified.--Once a cox-
comb, always a coxcomb.-Johnson.
It is only the surprise and newness of
the thing which makes terrible that mis-
The soul of this man is in his clothies.
fortune, which, by premeditation might be
Shakespeare.
made easy to us; for what some people
Fops take a world of pains, to prove that make light by sufferance, others do by
bodies can exist without brains ; the former foresight.-Seneca.
so fantastically drest, that the latter's ab-
Happy those who knowing they are sub-
sence may be safely guessed.— Churchill.
ject to uncertain changes, are prepared
Puppets, who, though on idiotism's dark and armed for either fortune ; a rare prin-
brink, because they've heads, clare fincy ciple, and with much labor learned in vis-
they can think !- Wolcott.
dóm's school.—Massinger.
A shallow brain, behind a serious mask; He that foretells his own calamity, and
an oracle within an enipty cask—the sol- makes events before they come, doth twice
emn fop - Cowper.
endure the pains of evil destiny.-Dave-
nant.
FORBEARANCE,- If thou would'st
Human foresight often leaves its proudest
be borne with, then bear with others.-
Fuller,
possessor only a choice of evils.-Colton.
The kindest and the happiest pair, will
If a man take no thought about what is
find occasion to forbear; find something
distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.-
every day they live, to pity, and perhaps
Confucius.
forgive.---Cowper.
In life, as in chess, forethought wins.-
Cultivate forbearance till your heart
Buxton.
yields a fine crop of it. Pray for a short Whatever is foretold by God will be done
memory as to all unkindnesses.-Spurgeon. by man; but nothing will be done by man
It is a noble and great thing to cover the because it is foretold by God. — Wordsworth.
blemishes and excuse the failings of a Whoever fails to turn aside the ills of
friend ; to draw a curtain before his stains, life by prudent forethought, must submit
and to display his perfection ; to bury his to the course of destiny.-Schiller.
weaknesses in silence, but to proclaim his
virtues on the house-top.--South.
Accustom yourself to submit on every
occasion to a small present evil, to obtain
Use every man after his deserts, and who
a greater distant good. This will give de-
shall escape whipping ?-Shalcespeare.
cision, tone, and energy to the mind, which,
To bear injuries, or annoying and vexa- thus disciplined, will often reap victory
tious events, meekly, patiently, prayer- from defeat, and honor from repulse. -
fully, and with self-control, is more than Colton.
taking a city.--C. Simmons.
Few things are brought to a successful
There is a limit at which forbearanco issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm
ceases to be a virtue.-Burlce.
and prudent forethought.— Thucydides.
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FORGETFULNESS.-Though the past
haunt ine as a spirit, I do not ask to forget.
-Mrs. Hemans.
There is a noble forgetfulness-that which
does not remember injuries.-C. Simmons.
When out of sight, quickly also out of
mind. --Thos. d Kempis.
FORGIVENESS.-(See “PARDON.")
To err is human; to forgive, divine.--
Pope.
His heart was as great as the world, but
there was no room in it to hold the memory
of a wrong.-Emerson.
He that cannot forgive otbers, breaks the
bridge over which he himself must pass if
he would ever reach heaven; for every one
has need to be forgiven.- Herbert.
Said General Oglethorpe to Wesley, “I
never forgive. Then I hope, sir," said
Wesley,
you never sin."
We hand folks over to God's mercy, and
show none ourselves.--George Eliot.
Forgiveness is the most necessary and
proper work of every man; for, though,
when I do not a just thing, or a charitable,
or a wise, another man may do it for nie,
yet no man can forgive my enemy but my-
self.- Lord Herbert.
A brave man thinks no one his superior
who does him an injury; for he has it then
in his power to make himself superior to
the other by forgiving it.-Pope.
Life that ever needs forgiveness has for
its first duty to forgive.- Bulwer.
A more glorious victory cannot be gained
over another man, than this, that when the
injury began on his part, the kindness
should begin on ours. -Tillotson.
It has been a maxim with me to admit of
easy reconciliation with a person whose
offence proceeded from no depravity of
heart; but where I was convinced it did
so, to forego, for my own sake, all oppor-
tunities of revenge. I have derived 110
small share of happiness from this prin-
ciple.—Shenstone.
The heart has always the pardoning
power.—Mad. Swetchine.
A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the full value of time
and will not suffer it to pass away in uune-
cessary pain.-Rambler.
It is hard for a haughty man ever to for-
give one that has caught him in a fault,
and whom he knows has reason to complain
of him : his resentment never subsides till
he has regained the advantage he has lost,
and found means to make the other do him
equal wrong.-Bruyère.
Never does the human soul appcar so
strong and noble as when it foregoes re-
venge, and dares to forgive an injury.-E.
H. Chapin.
It is more easy to forgive the weak who
have injured us, than the powerful whom
we have injured. That conduct will be
continued by our fears which commenced
in our resentment. He that has gone so
far as to cut the claws of the lion will not
feel himself quite secure until he has also
drawn his teeth.--Colton.
Little, vicious minds abound with anger
and revenge, and are incapable of feeling
the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.---
Chesterfield.
It is easier for the generous to forgive,
than for the offender to ask forgiveness.-
Thomson.
They never pardon who commit the
wrong.-Dryden.
The sun should not set on our anger;
neither should it rise on our confidence.-
We should forgive freely, but forget rarely.
I will not be revenged ; this I owe to my
enemy. I will remember ; this I owe to
myself.- Collon.
To be able to bear provocation is an ar-
gument of great reason, and to forgive it
of a great mind.-Tillotson.
The narrow soul knows not the godlike
glory of forgiving - Rowe.
Only the brave know how to forgive ; it
is the most refined and generous pitch of
virtue human nature can arrive at. ----Sterne.
May I tell you why it seems to me a good
thing for us to remember wrong that has
been done us? That we may forgive it.
Dickens.
We pardon as long as we love.--Roche-
foucauld.
We forgive too little ; forget too much.
Mad. Swetchine.
Humanity is never so beautiful as when
praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving
another.-Richler.
When thou forgivest, the man who has
pierced thy heart stands to thee in the re-
ſation of the sea-worm, that perforates the
shell of the mussel, which straightway
closes the wound with a pearl.–Richter.
He who has not forgiven an enemy has
never yet tasted one of the most sublime
enjoyments of life.- Lavater.
A Christian will find it cheaper to pardon
than to resent. Forgiveness saves the ex-
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pense of anger, the cost of hatred, the
waste of spirits.—Hannah More.
Hath any wronged thee ?-Be bravely
revenged.-Slight it, and the work is be-
gun: forgive, and it is finished. He is
below himself that is not above an injury.-
Quarles.
Who from crimes would pardoned be, in
mercy should set others free.-Shakespeare.
“I can forgive, but I cannot forget," is
only another way of saying, “I will not
forgive.”-Forgiveness ought to be like a
cancelled note-torn in two, and burned
up, so that it never can be shown against
one.-H. W. Beecher.
Of him that hopes to be forgiven it is
required that he forgive.-On this great
duty eternity is suspended ; and to hiin
that refuses to practice it the throne of
mercy is inaccessible, and the Saviour of
the world has been born in vain.-- Johnson.
It is in vain for you to expect, it is im-
pudent for you to ask of God forgiveness
for yourself if you refuse to exercise this
forgiving temper as to others.-Houdly.
Pardon, not wrath, is God's best at-
tribute.-B. Taylor,
The more we know, the better we for-
give.-Whoe'er feels deeply, feels for all that
live. --Mad. de Stäiel.
Forgive many things in others ; nothing
in yourself.-Ausonius.
FORMALISM.-It is the tendency, if
not the essence of formalism to set the out-
ward institutions of religion above its in-
ward truths ; to be punctilions in the round
of ceremonial observances, while neglect-
ful of those spiritual sacrifices with which
God is well pleased ; to substitute means
in the room of ends, and to rest in the type
and symbol without rising to the glorious
reality.-Pearson.
What are all the forms of religion, com-
pared with the true and holy life of the de-
voted Christian ?-Bp. Thomson.
The house of the formalist is as empty of
religion as the white of an egg is of savor.
- Bunyan.
FORMS.-Forms are but aynıbols ; we
should never rest in tliem, but make them
the stepping stones to the good to which
they point.
The more men bave multiplied the forms
of religion, the more vital Godliness has
declined.- Lmmons.
Of what use are forms, seeing at times
they are empty 2-Of the same use as bar-
rels, wbich, at times, are empty too.
Hare.
FORTITUDE.Fortitude I take to be
the quiet possession of a man's self, and an
undisturbed doing his duty whatever evils
beset, or dangers lie in the way.-In itself
an essential virtue, it is a.guard to every
other virtue.-Locice.
The human race are sons of sorrow born;
and each must have its portion. Vulgar
minds refuse, or crouch beneath their load
i
the brave bear theils without repining.-
Mallet.
True fortitude is seen in great exploits
that justice warrants and that wisdom
guides.-Addison.
There is a strength of quiet endurance as
significant of courage as the most daring
feats of prowess.-Tuckerman.
Who fights with passions and overcomes,
that man is armed with the best virtue-
passive fortitude.-J. Webster.
The fortitude of the Christian consists in
patience, not in enterprises which the poets
call heroic and which are commonly the
effects of interest, pride, and worldly honor.
-Dryden.
FORTUNE. The wheel of fortune
turns round incessantly, and who can say
to himself, “I shall to-day be uppermost.
-Confucius.
Fortune is ever seen accompanying in-
dustry, and is as often trundling in a wheel-
barrow as lolling in a coach and six.-
Goldsmith
It cannot be denied that outward acci-
dents conduce much to fortune ; favor, op-
portunity, death of others, occasion fitting
virtue : but chiefly, the mold of a man's
fortune is in his own hands.- Bacon.
We make our fortunes, and we call them
fate.--- Alroy.
Fortune is like the market, where many
times if you can stay a little the price will
fall ;, and, again, it is sometimes like a
Sibyl's offer, which at first offereth the
commodity at full, then consumeth part
and part, and still loldeth up the price.
-
Bacon.
May I always have a heart superior, with
economiy suitable, to my fortune.--Shen-
stone.
Human lifo is more governed by fortune
than by reason.-Hume.
Fortune does not change men ; it only
unmasks them.-Riccoboni.
The way of fortune is like the milky-way
in the sky; which is a number of small
stars, not seen asuinder, but giving light
together : 80 it is a umber of little and
scarce discerned virtues, or rather facul-
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ties and customs, that make men fortunate.
-Bacon.
We should manage our fortune as we do
our health-enjoy it when good, be patient
when it is bad, and never apply violent
remedies except in an extreme necessity.-
Rochefoucauld.
Ovid finely compares a broken fortune
to a falling column; the lower it sinks, the
greater weight it is obliged to sustain.
When a man's circumstances are such that
he has no occasion to borrow, he finds num-
bers willing to lend him ; but should his
wants be such that he sues for a trifle, it
is two to one whether he will be trusted
with the smallest sum.-Goldsmith.
There is no one, says another, whom for-
tuno does not visit once in his life : but
when she does not find him ready to receive
her, she walks in at the door, and flies out
at the window.-Montesquieu.
“ Fortune knocks at every man's door
once in a life," but in a good many cases
the man is in a neighboring saloon and
does not hear her.-Mark Twain.
Every man is the maker of his own for-
tune.-Tatller.
We do not know what is really good or
bad fortune.-Rousseau.
The bad fortune of the good turns their
faces up to heaven ; the good fortune of
the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
-Saadi.
Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the
staff of the brave.-J. R. Lowell.
Ill fortune never crushed that man whom
good fortune deceived not.-Ben Jonson.
The fortunate circumstances of our lives
are generally found, at lust, to be of our
own producing.-Goldsmith.
High fortune makes both our virtues and
vices stand out as objects that are brought
clearly to view by the light.-Rochefoucauld.
Fortune, to show us her power, and abate
our presumption, seeing she could not make
fools wise, has made them fortunate.-
Montaigne.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
-Publius Syrus.
It requires greater virtues to support
good than bad fortune.-Rochefoucauld.
There is nothing keeps longer than a mid-
dling fortune, and nothiug melts away
sooner than a great one. Poverty treads
upon the heels of great and unexpected
riches.-Bruyère.
To be thrown upon one's own resources, is
to be cast into the very lap of fortune ; for
our faculties then undergo a development
and display an energy of which they were
previously unsusceptible.- Franklin.
Fortune gives too much to many, but to
none enough.-Martial.
It is a madness to make fortune the mise
tress of events, because in herself she is
nothing, but is ruled by prudence.—Dry-
den.
We are sure to get the better of fortune
if we do but grapple with her.--Seneca.
Fortune is ever seen accompanying in-
dustry.- Goldsmith.
Many have been ruined by their fortunes,
and many have escaped ruin by the want
of fortune.—To obtain it the great have
become little, and the little great.--Zima
mermann.
The power of fortune is confessed only
by the miserable, for the happy impute all
their success to prudence or merit. -Swift.
FRAUD,-For the most part fraud in
the end secures for its companions re-
pentance and shame.-C. Simmons.
All frauds, like the wall daubed with
untempered mortar, with which men think
to buttress up an edifice, always tend to
the decay of what they are devised to sup-
port. - Whately.
The more gross the fraud the more glibly
will it go down, and the more greedily be
swallowed, since folly will always find faith
where impostors will find impudeuce.--
Colton.
The first and worst of all frauds is to
cheat oneself.–Bailey.
Fraud generally lights a candle for justice
to get a look atit; and a rogue's pen indites
the warrant for his own arrest.
FREEDOM.-To have freedom is only
to have that which is absolutely necessary
to enable us to be what we ought to be,
and to possess what we ought to possess.-
Rahel.
No man is free who is not master of him-
self.- Epictetus.
Countries are well cultivated, not as they
are fertile, but as they are free.--Montes-
quieu.
The cause of freedoni is identified with
the destinies of humanity, and in whatever
part of the world it gains ground, by and
by it will be a common gain to all who de-
sire it.-Kossuth.
The only freedom worth possessing is
that which gives enlargement to a people's
energy, intellect, and virtues. The savage
makes his boast of freedom. But what is
its worth? He is, indeed, free from what
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he calls the yoke of civil institutions. But
other and worse chains bind him. The
very privation of civil governmeut is in
effect a chain; for, by withholding protec-
tion from property it virtually shackles the
arm of industry, and forbids exertion for
the melioration of his lot. Progress, the
growth of intelligence and power, is the
end and boon of liberty; and, without this,
a people may have the name, but want the
substance and spirit of freedoin.-Chan-
ning.
This is what I call the American idea of
freedom-a goverument of all the people,
by all the people, for all the people; of
course, a government of the principles of
eternal justice—the unchanging law of God.
-Theodore Parker.
Void of freedom, what would virtue be ?
- Lamartine.
There is no legitimacy on earth but in a
government which is the choice of the na-
tion.- Joseph Bonaparte.
The greatest glory of a free-born people
is to transmit that freedom to their chil-
dren.-Havard.
None are more hopelessly enslaved than
those who falsely believe they are free.-
Goethe.
There are two freedoms: the false, where
a man is free to do what he likes ; the true,
where a man is free to do what he ought.-
Kingsley.
A man that loves his own fireside, and
can govern his house without falling by the
ears with his neighbors, or engaging in
suits at law, is as free as 'a Duke of Venice.
--Montaigne.
True freedom consists with the obsery-
ance of law.–Adam was as free in paradise
as in the wilds to which he was banished
for his transgression.-Thornton.
To be truly free, nations must believe,
and so the individuals that compose them.
-De Tocqueville.
The only freedom which deserves the
name is that of pursuing our own good, in
our own way, so long as we do not attempt
to deprive others of theirs, or impede their
efforts to obtain it.-J. S. Mill.
Many politicians lay it down as a self-
evident proposition, that no people onght
to be free till they are fit to use their free-
dom.--The waxim is worthy of the fool in
the old story, who resolved not to go into
the water till he had learned to swim.
Macaulay.
He is the freeman whom the truth makes
free, and all are slaves beside.-Cowper.
Where the Bible forms public opinion, a
nation must be free.-G. Spring.
Freedom of religion, freedom of the
press, and freedom of person under the
protection of the habeas corpus, these are
principles that have guided our steps
through an age of revolution and reforma
tion.--Jefferson.
FREE-THINKING. - Some sciolists
have discovered a short path to celebrity.
Having heard that it is vastly silly to believe
everything, they take for granted that it
must be vastly wise to believe nothing.
They therefore set up for free-thinkers,
though their only stock in trade is, that
they are free from thinking. It is not safe
to contemn, nor very easy to convince them,
since no persons make so large a demand
upon the reason of others as those who have
none of their own; just as a highwayman
will take greater liberties with our purse
than a banker.--Colton.
Nothing can be plainer, than that ignor-
ance and vice are two ingredients abso-
lutely necessary in the composition of free-
thinkers, who, in propriety of speech, are
no thinkers at all. ---Swift.
Free thinking is very apt to lead to free-
living, as free living does to free thinking.
False theories lead to wrong conduct;
and wrong conduct excuses itself by resort-
ing to false theories.- Tryon Edwards.
FRETFULNESS,-Men call fretting a
minor fault-a foible and not a vice, But
there is no vice except drunkenness which
can so utterly destroy the peace and hap-
piness of a home.-- Felen Etunt.
I dare no more fret than I dare curse and
swear..-J. Wesley.
Do not fret, or worry, or be anxious.-
Greet your cares as God's messengers ;
accept your duties as God's teachers, and
accept your lot as God's appointment; and
take your work as God's opportunities, and
your life will become a higliway to the
palace of the king.-Bp. Pelhan.
Fretfulness of temper will generally char-
acterize those who are negligent of order.
Blair.
A fretful spirit will of course flow out in
fretful speech, and is the discomfort of
others, an arraignment of God's provi-
dence, and almost a form of blasphemy
against him.
FRIENDSHIP.-A faithful friend is the
true image of the Deity.--Napoleon.
Love and esteem are the first principles
of friendship ; it is always imperfect if
either of these two is wanting.- Budgell.
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Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all
mankind are agreed.-- Cicero.
A faithful and true friend is a living
treasure, inestimable in possession, and
deeply to be lamented when gone. Noth-
ing is more common than to talk of a
friend; nothing more difficult than to find
one; nothing more rare than to improve by
one as we ought.
A friend shoula be one in whose under-
standing and virtue we can equally confide,
and whose opinion we can value at once for
its justness and its sincerity.
He who has made the acquisition of a
judicious and sympathizing friend, may be
said to have doubled his mental resources.
Robert Hall.
There is nothing more becoming any wise
man, than to make choice of friends, for
by them thou shalt be judged what thou
art; let them therefore be wise and vil-
tuous, and none of those that follow thee
for gain; but make election rather of thy
betters than thy inferiors, shunning always
such as are poor and needy ; for if thou
givest twenty gifts, and refuse to do the
like but once, all that thou hast done will
be lost, and such men will become thy
mortal enemies.—Sir W. Raleigh.
Friendship improves happiness, and
abates misery, by doubling our joy, and
dividing our grief.-Addison.
Old friends are best. King James used
to call for his old shoes; they were the
easiest for his feet.-Selder.
Those friends are weak and worthless,
that will not use the privilege of friend-
ship in admonishing their friends with
freedom and confidence, as well of their
errors as of their danger.- Bacon.
In poverty and other misfortunes of life,
true friends are a sure refuge.-The young
they keep out of mischief; to the old they are
a comfort and aid in their weakness, and
those in the prime of life they incite to
noble deeds. Aristotle.
Thou mayest be sure that he that will
in private tell thee of thy faults, is thy
friend, for he adventures thy dislike, and
doth hazard thy hatred ; there are few
men that can endure it, every man for the
most part delighting in self-praise, which
is one of the most universal follies that
bewitcheth mankind.—Sir W. Raleigh.
He that hath no friend, and no enemy,
is one of the rulgar; and without talents,
powers, or energy.-Lavater.
Be not the fourth friend of him who had
three before and lost them.-Lavater.
Let friendship creep gently to a height;
if it rushes to it, it may soon run itself
out of breath.-Kuller.
If thy friends be of better quality than
thyself, thou mayest be sure of two things ;
the first, they will be more careful to keep
thy counsel, because they have more to
lose than thou hast ; the second, they will
esteem thee for thyself, and not for that
which thou dost possess.—Sir W. Raleigh.
It is best to live as friends with those in
time with whom we would be to all eter-
nity.-Fuller,
By friendship you mean the greatest
love, the greatest usefuluess, the most open
communication, the noblest sufferings, the
severest truth, the heartiest counsel, and
the greatest union of minds of which brave
men and women are capable.--Jeremy
Taylor.
If a man does not make new acquaint-
ances as he passes through life, he will soon
find bimself left alone. A man should
keep his friendships in constant repair.-
Johnson.
The love of man to woman is a thing
common and of course, and at first par-
takes more of instinct and passion than of
choice ; but true friendship between man
and man is infinite and immortal.- Plato.
Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
-Euripides.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in
adversity than in prosperity.-Chilo.
The most powerful and the most lasting
friendships are usually those of the early
season of our lives, when we are most sus-
ceptible of warm and affectionate impres-
sions. The connections into which we enter
in any after-period decrease in strength
as our passions abate in heat; and there is
not, I believe, a single instance of a vigor-
ous friendship that ever struck root in a
bosom chilled by years.-Fitzosborne.
Be careful to make friendship the child
and not the father of virtue, for many are
rather good friends than good men ; so,
although they do not like the evil their
friend does, yet they like him who does the
evil ; and though no counselors of the of-
fence, they yet protect the offender.-Sir
P. Sidney.
Because discretion is always predominant
in true friendship, it works and prevails
least upon fools. Wicked men are often
reformed by it, weak men seldom.-- Clar-
endon.
All inen have their frailties; and whoever
looks for a friend without imperfections,
will never find what he seeks. We love
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ourselves notwithstanding our faults, and
we ought to love our friends in like manner.
- Cyrus.
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and
ruins the walls it embraces ; but true friend-
ship gives new life and animation to the
object it supports.--Burton,
We take care of our health, we lay up
money, we make our roof tight and our
clothing sufficient, but who provides wisely
that he shall not be wanting in the best
property of all—friends ?-Emerson.
No one can lay himself under obligation
to do a wrong thing. Pericles, when oue
of his friends asked his services in an un-
just cause, excused himself, saying, “I am
à friend only as far as the altar.”-Fuller.
Friendship is the shadow of the evening,
which strengthens with the setting sun of
life.---La Fontaine.
Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou
ceasest to give, such will cease to love.
Triller.
You'll find the friendship of the world
mere outward show !—"Tis like the harlot's
tears, the statesman's promise, or the false
patriot's zeal, full of fair seeming, but de-
lusion all.Savage.
Friendship with the evil is like the
shadow in the morning, decreasing every
hour; but friendship with the good is like
the evening shadows, increasing till the sun
of life sets.
-Herder.
The friendships of the world are oft con-
federacies in vice, or leagues of pleasure.
---Addison.
Friendship must be accompanied with vir-
tue, and always lodged in great and gener-
ons minds.--Trap.
Real friendship is a slow grower, and
never thrives unless engrafted upon a stock
of known and reciprocal merit.-Chester-
field.
Get not your friends by bare compli-
ments, but by giving them sensible tokens
of your love. It is well worth while to
learn how to win the heart of a man the
right way. Force is of no use to make or
preserve a friend, who is an animal that is
never caught nor tamed but by kinduess
and pleasure. Excite them by your civili-
ties, and show them that you desire notbing
more than their satisfaction ; oblige with
all your soul that friend who has made you
a present of his own.-Socrates.
The attachments of mere mirth are but
the shadows of that true friendship of which
the sincere affections of the heart are the
substance.- Burton.
The friends thou hast and their adoption
tried, grapple them to thy soul with books
of steel.--Shakespeare.
Make nota bosom friend of a melancholy
soul: he'll be sure to aggravate thy adver-
sity, and lessen thy prosperity. He goes
always heavy loaded ; and thou must bear
half. He's never in a good humor ; and
may easily get into a bad one, and fall out
with the6. -Fuller.
Make not thy friends too cheap to thee,
nor thyself to thy friend.-Fulley.
Nothing more dangerous than a friend
without discretion ; even a prudent enemy
is preferable.-La Fontaine.
The light of friendship is like the light of
phosphorus, seen plainest when all around
is dark.-Crowell.
False friends are like our shadow, keep-
ing close to 118 while we walk in the sun-
shine, but leaving us the instant we cross
into the shade.- Bovee.
The amity that wisdom knits not, folly
may easily untie. --Shakespeare.
Kindred weaknesses induce friendships
as often as kindred virtues.--Bovee.
Heaven gives us friends, to bless the
present scene; resumes them to prepare us
for the next.-Young.
Life is to be fortified by many friend-
ships.--To love and to be loved is the
greatest happiness of existence.—Sidney
Smith.
He that doth a base thing in zeal for his
friend burns the golden thread that ties
their hearts together.— Jeremy Taylor.
That friendship will not continue to the
end which is begun for an end.—Quarles.
Ho is our friend who loves more than
admires 118, and would aid us in our great
work.-Channing.
What an argument in favor of social
connections is the observation, that by
communicating our grief we have less, and
by communicating our pleasure we have
more.- Greville.
The firmest friendships have been formed
in mutual adversity; as iron is most
strongly united by the fiercest flame.
Colton.
Friendship is a plant of slow growth, and
must undergo and withstand the shocks of
adversity before it is entitled to the appel-
lation.- Washington.
Friendship hath the skill and observation
of the best physician, the diligence and
vigilance of the best nurse, and the tender-
ness and patience of the best mother.-
Clarendon.
FRIENDSHIP.
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FRUGALITY.
Friends should not be chosen to flatter,-
The quality we prize is that rectitude
which will shrink from no truth.-In-
timacies which increase vanity destroy
friendship.-Channing.
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when
thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Socrates.
The loss of a friend is like that of a limb;
time may heal the anguish of the wound,
but the loss cannot be repaired.-Southey.
It is one of the severost tests of friend-
ship to tell your friend his faults.-So to
love a man that you cannot bear to see a
stain upon him, and to speak painful truth
through loving words, that is friendship.--
H. W. Beecher.
One of the suręst evidences of friendship
that one can display to another, is telling
him gently of a fault.-If any other can
excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure
with gratitude, and amending the error.-
Bulwer.
There is nothing so great that I fear to
do it for my friend; nothing so small that
I will disdain to do it for him.--Sir P. Sid-
ney.
We learn our virtues from the friends
who love us; our faults from the enemy
who hates us.— We cannot easily discover
our real character from a friend.-Ho is a
mirror, on which the warmth of our breath
impedes the clearness of the reflection.--
Richter.
A friend that you have to buy won't be
worth what you pay for him, no matter
what that may be.-6. D. Prentice.
Take heed how you place your good will
upon any other ground than proof of vir-
tuo.-Neither leugth of acquaintance, m12-
tual secrecies, nor height of benefits can
bind a vicious heart; no man being good
to others who is not good in himself.--Sir
P. Sidney.
There are three friendships which are
advantageous : friendship with the upright,
with the sincere, and with the man of much
observation.-Friendship with the man of
specious airs, with the insinuatingly soft,
and with the glil-tongued, these are in-
jurious.-Confucius.
A trne friend is the gift of God, and he
only who made hearts can unite them.-
South.
The difficulty is not so great to die for a
friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
-Home.
Poor is the friendless master of a world;
a world in purchase of a friend is gain. -
Young.
That is a choice friend who conceals our
faults from the view of others, and dis-
covers them to our own.--Secker.
Two persons cannot long be friends if
they cannot forgive each other's little fail-
ing8.--Bruyère.
Never contract friendship with a man
that is not better than thyself.-Confucius.
No man can expect to find a friend with-
out faults, nor can be propose himself to
be so to another.--Every man will have
something to do for his friend, and some-
thing to bear with in him.-Only the sober
man can do the first; and for the latter,
patience is requisite. It is better for á
man to depend on himself than to be an-
noyed with either a madman or a fool.---
0. Feltham.
The only way to have a friend is to be
one.-Emerson.
Friendship is the privilege of private
men: for wretched greatness knows no
blessing so substantial.-Tate.
FRUGALITY,-Frugality may be
termed the daughter of prudence, the
sister of temperance, and the parent of
liberty. He that is extravagant will quickly
become poor, and poverty will enforce de-
pendenco and invite corruption.---Johnson.
Frugality is founded on the principle
that all riches have limits.--- Burke.
If frugality were established in the
state, if our expenses were laid out rather
in the necessaries than the superfluities of
life, there might be fewer wants, and even
fewer pleasures, but infinitely imore hap-
piness. -Goldsmith.
He seldom lives frugally who lives by
chance. Hope is always liberal, and they
that trust her promises make little scruple
of revelling to-day on the profits of to-
morrow.-Johnson.
Frugality is a fair fortune; and habits
of industry a good estate.-Franklin.
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 inoney, but make
the best use of both.-Without industry
and frugality nothing will do ; with them,
everything. -Iranklin.
He that spareth in everything is an
inexcusable niggard.—He that spareth in
nothing is an inexcusable madman.-The
mean is to spare in what is least necessary,
and to lay out more liberally in what is
most required.-- Finlifax.
By sowing frugality we reap liberty, a
golden harvest.-- Agesilaus.
FUTURITY.
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FUTURE STATE.
Frugality is good if liberality be joined
with it. -The first is leaving off superfluous
expenses ; the last is bestowing them for
the benefit of those who need. -The first,
without the last, begets covetousness; tho
last without the first begets prodigality.-
Penn.
With parsimony a little is sufficient;
without it nothing is sufficient; but fru-
gality makes a poor man rich.-Seneca.
Nature is avariciously frugal.-In matter
it allows no atom to elude its grasp ;
in
mind, no thought or feeling to perish.-It
gathers up the fragments that nothing be
lost.—Thomas.
FUTURITY,-Everything that looks to
the future elevates human nature; for life
is never so low or so little as when occu-
pied with the present.-L. E. Lariann.
We are always looking to the future; the
present does not satisfy us.–Our ideal,
whatever it may be, lies further on.— Gillett.
Trust no future however pleasant; let
the dead past bury its dead. Act-act in
the living present, heart within, and God
o'erhead. -Longfellow.
How narrow our souls become when ab-
sorbed in any present good or ill !—It is
only the thought of the future that makes
them great.- Richter.
The veil which covers the face of futurity
is woven by the hand of mercy.-Bulwer.
What is already passed is not more fixed
than the certainty that what is future will
grow out of what has already passed, or is
now passing.-G. B. Cheever,
The future is always a fairy land to the
young.–Sala.
Age and sorrow have the gift of reading
the future by the past.-Farrar.
The golden age is not in the past, but in
the future ; not in the origin of human
experience, but in its consummate flower;
not opening in Eden, but out from Geth-
semane.-E. H. Chapin.
Look not mournfully to the past-it
comes not back again; wisely improve the
present-it is thine ; go forth to meet the
shadowy future without fear, and with a
manly heart. - Longfellow.
God will not suffer man to have a knowl-
edge of things to come; for if he had pre-
science of his prosperity, he would be care-
less; and if understanding of his adversity,
he would be despairing and senseless. —
Augustine.
The best preparation for the future, is
the present well seen to, and the last duty
done.-G. Macdonald.
The future, only, is our goal.-We are
never living, but only hoping to live ; and»
looking forward always to being happy, it
is inevitable that we vever are 80.--Pascal.
We always live prospectively, never re-
trospectively, and there is no abiding mo-
ment.-Jacobi.
Oh, blindness to the future ! kindly given,
that each may fill the circle marked by
heaven.-Pope.
Every to-morrow has two handles. We
can take hold of it with the handle of
anxiety or the handle of faith.
We should live for the future, and yet
should find our life in the fidelities of the
present; the last' is the only method of
the first.-H. W. Beecher.
FUTURE STATE.-(See "ETERNITY.”)
There is, I know not how, in the minds
of men, a certain presage, as it were, of a
future existence, and this takes the deep-
est root, and is most discoverable, in the
greatest geniuses and most exalted souls.-
Cicero.
Why will any man be so impertinently
officious as to tell me all prospect of a
future state is only fancy and delusion?
Is there any merit in being the messenger
of ill news? If it is a dream, let me enjoy
it, since it makes me both the happier and
better man.-Addison.
If there were no future life, our souls
would not thirst for it.-Richter.
We are born for a higher destiny than
that of earth. There is a realm where the
rainbow never fades, where the stars will
be spread before us like islands that slum-
ber on the ocean, and where the beings
that now pass over before us like shadows,
will stay in our presence forever.-Bulwer.
It is the divinity that stirs within us.-
'Tis heaven itself that points out an here-
after, and intimates eternity to man.-Ad-
dison.
Belief in a future life is the appetite of
reason.--Landor.
I feel my immortality o'ersweep all pains,
all tears, all time, all fears, and like the
eternal thunders of the deep, peal to my
ears this truth—“Thou livest forever."
Byron.
A voice within us speaks that startling
word, “Man, thou shalt never die!".
Celestial voices hymn it to our souls ; ac-
cording larps, by angel fingers touched, do
sound forth still the song of our great im-
mortalitv.-Dana.
There's none but fears a future state :
and when the most obdurate swear they do
GAIN.
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GAMBLING.
not, their trembling hearts belie their
boasting tongues.-Dryden.
My mind can take no hold on the present
world nor rest in it a moment, but my
whole nature rushes onward with irre-
sistible force toward a future and better
state of being.-Tichte,
To me there is something thrilling and
exalting in the thought that we are drift-
ing forward into a splendid mystery-into
something that no mortal eye hath yet seen,
and no intelligence has yet declared.-E.
H. Chapin.
The dead carry our thoughts to another
and a nobler existence.--They teach us,
and especially by all the strange and seem-
ingly untoward circumstances of their de-
parture from this life, that they and we shall
live in a future state forever, ---0. Dewey..
We believe that we shall know each
other's forms hereafter, and, in the bright
fields of the better land, shall call the lost
dead to us.-N. P. Willis:
Divine wisdom, intending to detain us
some time on earth, has done well to cover
with a veil the prospect of the life to come;
for if our sight could clearly distinguish
the opposite bank, who would remain on
this tempestuous coast of time ?-Mad. De
Stäiel.
The grand difficulty is to feel the reality
of both worlds, so as to give each its due
place in our thoughts and feelings : to keep
our mind's eye and our heart's eye ever
fixed on the land of promise, without look-
ing away from the road along which we are
to travel toward it.-Hare,
Another life, if it were not better than
this, would be less a promise than a threat.
-J. P. Senn.
What a world were this ; how unendur-
able its weight, if they whom death had
sundered did not meet again !-Southey.
You ask if we shall know our friends in
heaven.-Do you suppose we are greater
fools there than here?- Ennons.
Gallantry to women—the sure road to
their favor—is nothing but the appearance
of extreme devotion to all their wants and
wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and
a confidence in yourself as being able to
contribute toward it.--Hazlitt.
Gallantry thrives most in the atmosphere
of the court.-Mad. Necker.
The gallantry of the mind consists in
agreeable flattery.-Rochefoucauld.
Gallantry, though a fashionable crime, is
a very detestable one.-The wretch who
pilfers from us in the hour of distress is in-
nocent compared to the plunderer who robs
us of happiness and reputation.-Kelley.
Conscience has no more to do with gal-
lantry, than it has with politics.—Sheridan.
GAMBLING.Gambling is the child
of avarice, but the parent of prodigality.-
Colton.
Gambliug is a kind of tacit confession
that those engaged therein do, in general,
exceed the bounds of their respective for-
tunes ; and therefore they cast lots to de-
termine on whom the ruin shall at
present
fall, that the rest may be saved a little
longer.-Blackstone.
Gambling with cards, or dice, or stocks,
is all one thing; it is getting money with-
out giving an equivalent for it.-H. W.
Beecher.
By gambling we lose both our time and
treasure, two things most precious to the
life of man.- Feltham.
It is possible that a wise and good man
may be prevailed on to gamble, but it is
impossible that a professed gamester should
be a wise and good man.- Lavater.
Some play for gain; to pass time others
play ; both play the fool ; who gets by play
is loser in the end.-Heath.
I look npon every man as a suicide from
the moment he takes the dice-box des-
perately in his hand.-All that follows in
his fatal career, from that time, is only
sharpening the dagger before he strikes it
to his heart.- Cumberland.
Curst is the wretch enslaved to such a
vice, who ventures life and soul upon the
dice.- Horace.
The gamester, if he die a martyr to his
profession, is doubly ruined; he adds his
soul to every other loss, and by the act of
suicide renounces earth to forfeit heaven.
Colton.
All gaming, since it implies a desire to
profit at the expense of others, involves a
breach of the tenth commandment.-
Whately.
G.
GAIN.–The true way to gain much, is
never to desire to gain too much.-He is
not rich that possesses much, but he that
covets no more ; and he is not poor that
enjoys little, but he that wants too much.-
Beaumont.
Sometimes the best gain is to lose.-
Herbert.
GALLANTRY,Gallantry consists in
saying the most empty things in an agree-
able manner.-Rochefoucauld.
GAMBLING.
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GENEROSITY.
Keep flax from fire, and youth from
gaming.-Franlclin.
Gambling is the child of avarice, the
brother of iniquity, and the father of mis-
chief.- Washington.
Gambling houses are temples where the
most sordid and turbulent passions con-
tend ; there no spectator can be indifferent.
A card or a small square of ivory interests
more than the loss of an empire, or the
ruin of an unoffending group oť infants
and their nearest relatives.-Zimmermann.
There is nothing that wears out a fine
face like the vigils of the card-table, and
those cutting passions which maturally at-
tend them. Hollow eyes, haggard looks,
and pale complexions are the natural in-
dications of a female gamester. Her morn-
ing sleeps are not able to repay her mid-
night watching8.-Steele.
Although men of eminent genins have
been guilty of all other vices, none worthy
of more than a secondary name has ever
been a gamester.
Either an excess of
avarice, or a deficiency of excitability, is
the cause of it; neither of which can exist
in the same bosom with genius, patriotisın,
or virtue.-Landor'.
An assembly of the states or a court of
justice, shows nothing so serious and grave
as a table of gamesters playing very high;
a melancholy solicitude clouds their looks
envy and rancor agitate their minds while
the meeting lasts, without regard to friend-
ship, alliances, birtlı, or distinctions.-
Bruyère.
Games of chance are traps to catch school-
boy novices and gaping country squires,
who begin with a guinea and end with a
mortgage.--Cumberland.
Play not for gain, but sport; who plays
for more than he can lose with pleasure
stakes his heart.--Herbert.
If thou desire to raise thy fortunes by
the casts of fortue, be wise betimes, lest
thou repent too late.- What thou winnest,
is prodigally spent. What thon losest, is
prodigally lost.-It is an evil trade that
prodigality drives, and a bad voyage where
the pilot is blind.-Quarles.
Gaming finds a man a cully, and leaves
him a kuave.-Cumberland.
Sports and gaming, whether pursued
from a desire of gain or the love of pleas-
ure, are as ruinous to the temper and dis-
position of the one addicted to them, as
they are to his fame and fortune.—Burton.
Gambling, in all countries, is the vice of
the aristocracy.-The young find it estab-
lished in the best circles, and enticed by
the habits of others they are ruined when
the habit becomes their own.-Bulwer.
Bets, at the first, were fool-traps, where
the wise, like spiders, lay in ambush for
the flies. - Dryden.
The best throw with the dice is to throw
them away.-C. Simmons.
GAYETY,-(See "GOOD HUMOR.")
Gayety is to good humor, as animal per-
fumes to vegetable fragrance : the one
overpowers weak spirits, the other recreates
and revives them.-Johnson.
Gayety is not a proof that the heart is at
ease, for often in the midst of laughter the
heart is sad.-Mad. De Genlis,
The gayety of the wicked is like the
flowery surface of Mount Ætua, beneath
which materials are gathering for an erup-
tion that will one day reduce all its beau-
ties to ruin and desolation.
Leaves seem light, useless, idle, waver-
ing, and changeable—they even dance ;
yet God has made them part of the oak.-
So he has given us a lesson, not to deny
stout-heartedness within, because we see
lightsomeness without.--Leigh Hunt.
Gayety is often the reckless ripple over
depths of despair.-E. H. Chapin.
GEMS.-How very beautiful these gems
are! It is strange how deeply colors seem
to penetrate one like scent. I suppose that
is the reason why gems are used as spirit-
ual enblems in Revelatious.—They look
like fragments of heaven.-- George Eliot.
GENEROSITY.-Men of the noblest
dispositions think themselves happiest
when others share their happiness with
them.-Duncan.
True generosity is a duty as indispensa-
bly necessary as those imposed on us by
law. It is a rule imposed by reason, which
should be the sovereign law of a rational
being.-Goldsmith.
Generosity, wrong placed, becometh a
vice ; a princely mind will undo a private
family.--Fuller.
True generosity does not consist in obey-
ing every impulse of humanity, in following
blind passion for our guide, and impairing
our circumstances by present benefactions,
so as to render us incapable of future ones.
-Goldsmith.
There is wisdom in generosity, as in
everything else.-A friend to everybody is
often a friend to nobody; or else, in his
simplicity, he robs his family to help
strangers, and so becomes brother to å
beggar.-Spurgeon.
GENEROSITY.
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GENIUS.
For his bounty, there was no winter in't;
an autumn 'twas that grew the more by
reaping.--Shakespeare.
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.--Fuller.
The generous who is always just, and the
the just who is always generous, may, un-
announced, approach the throne of heaven.
-Lavater.
He that gives all, though but little, gives
much ;
because God looks not to the quan-
tity of the gift, but to the quality of the
givers.-- Quarles.
Generosity during life is a very different
thing from generosity in the hour of death ;
one proceeds from genuine liberality and
benevolence, the other from pride or fear.
-Horace Mann.
A generous man places the benefits he
confers beneath his feet; those he receives,
nearest his heart.
One great reason why inen practise gen-
erosity so little in the world is, their finding
80 little there : generosity is catching; and
if so many men escape it, it is in a great
degree from the same reason that country-
men escape the small-pox,--because they
meet with no one to give it them.-Greville.
The truly generous is the truly wise, and
he who loves not others, lives unblest.-
Hone.
Generosity is the accompaniment of high
birth; pity and gratitude are its attend-
ants. -- Õorneille.
Some are unwisely liberal, and more de-
light to give presents than to pay debts.-
Sir P. Sidney.
A man. there was, and they called him
mad; the more he gave, the more he had.
Bunyan.
What I gave, I have ; what I spent, I had;
what I kept, I lost.- Old Epitaph.
When you give, take to yourself no credit
for generosity, unless you deny yourself
something in order that you may give.-
H. Taylor.
The secret pleasure of a generous act is
the great mind's bribe.--Dryden.
What seems to be generosity is often no
more than disguised ambition, which over-
looks a small interest in order to secure a
great one.-Rochefoucauld.
Almost always the most indigent are the
most generous.---Stanislaus.
How much easier it is to be generous
than just! Men are sometimes bouutiful
who are not honest.--Junius.
If there be any truer measure of a man
than by what he does, it must be by what
he gives.--South.
I would have a man generous to his
country, his neighbors, bis kindred, his
friends, and most of all liis poor friends.
Not like some who are most lavish with
those who are able to give most to thein.-
Pliny.
All my experience of the world teaches
me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hun-
dred, the safe and just side of a question
is the generous and merciful side.-Mrs.
Jameson.
It is not enough to help the feeble up,
but to support him after.-Shakespeare.
He who gives what he would as readily
throw away, gives without generosity; for
the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.
-H. Taylor.
GENIUS.-Genius is infinite painstak-
ing.-Longfellow.
Genius is nothing but continued atten-
tion.--Helvelius.
Genius is a superior aptitude to patience.
-Buffon.
I know no such thing as genius; it is
nothing but labor and diligence.-Hogarth.
Genius is but a mind of large general
powers accidentally determined in a par-
ticular direction.-Johnson.
Genius is supposed to be a power of pro-
ducing excellencies which are out of the
reaclı of the rules of art; a power which no
precepts can teach, and which no industry
can acquire.—Sir Joshua Reynolds.
A man's genius is always, in the begin-
ning of life, as much unknown to himself
as to others; and it is only after frequent
trials, attended with success, that he dares
think' himself equal to those undertakings
in which those who have succeeded bave
fixed the admiration of mankind.-Hune.
The popular notion of genius is—of one
who can do almost everything-except make
a living.
Gening is only a superior power of seeing.
-Ruslcin.
The greatest genius is never so great as
when it is chastised and subdued by the
highest reason.—Colton.
There is no genius in life like the genius
of energy and industry.-D. G. Mitchell.
We meet with few utterly dull and stupid
souls; the sublime and transcendent are
still fewer; the generality of mankind
stand between these two extremes ; the in-
terval is filled with multitudes of ordinary
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GENTILITY.
geniuses, but all very useful, the ornaments
and supports of the commonwealth : these
produce the agreeable and the profitable,
and are conversant in commerce, finances,
war, navigation, arts, trades, society, and
conversation.- Bruyère.
The richest genius, like the most fertile
soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the
rankest veeds; and instead of vines and
olives for the pleasure and inse of man,
produces to its slothful owner the most
abundant crop of poisons.— Eume.
Talent, lying in the understanding, is
often inherited ; genius, being the action
of reason and imagination, rarely or never.
-Coleridge.
Men of genius are often dull and inert in
society; as the blazing meteor, when it de-
scends to earth, is only a stone.-Longfel-
low,
Genius finds its own road, and carries its
own lamp.- Willmott.
The drafts which true genius draws upon
posterity, although they may not always
be honored 80 soon as they are due, are
sure to be paid with compound interest in
the end.--Colton.
When a true genius appears in the world,
you may know him by this sigu, that the
dunces are all in confederacy against him.
-Swift.
Every man who observes vigilantly, and
resolves steadfastly, grows unconsciously
into genius. - Bulwer.
Genius is the gold in the mine ; talent is
the miner who works and brings it out.-
Lady Blessington.
Great geniuses have the shortest biog-
raphies. -Emerson.
Genius must be born; it never can be
taught.-Dryden.
The first and last thing required of genius
is the love of truth.-- Goethe.
There is no work of genius which has
not been the delight of mankind ; no word
of genius to which the human heart and
soul have not, sooner or later, responded.-
J. R. Lowell.
The merit of great men is not under-
stood but by those who are formed to be
such themselves.-Genius speaks only to
genius.-Stanislaus.
Genius always gives its best at first;
prudence, at last.- Lavater.
Genius may be described as the spirit of
discovery.-It is the eye of intellect, and
the wing of thought.-It is always in ad-
vance of its time--the pioneer for the gen-
eration which it precedes.-Simms.
Genius does what it must, and talent
what it can.-Owen Meredith.
There never appear more than five or
six men of genius in an age, and if they
were united the world could not stand be-
fore them.-Swift.
Cleverness is a sort of genius for instru-
mentality. It is the brain of the hand. In
literature, cleverness is more frequently
accompanied by wit, genius, and sense,
than by humor.—Coleridge.
Genius, without religion, is only a lamp
on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve
to cast a gleam of light on those that are
without, while the inhabitant is in darkness.
-H. More.
All the means of action-the shape-
less masses—the materials-lie everywhere
about us.-- What we need is the celestial
fire to change the flint into the transparent
crystal, bright and clear.--That fire is gen-
ius.-Longfellou.
One of the strongest characteristics of
genius is the power of lighting its own
fire.-John Foster.
Genius is entitled to respect, only when
it promotes the peace and improves the
happiness of mankind.-Lord Essex.
To carry the feelings of childhood into
the powers of manhood, to combine the
child's sense of wonder and novelty with
the appearances which every day for years
has rendered familiar, this is the character
and privilege of genius, and one of the
marks which distinguish it from talent.--
Coleridge.
Nothing will give permanent success in
any enterprise of life, except native capac-
ity cultivated by honest and persevering
effort.--Genius is often but the capacity
for receiving and improving by discipline.
-G. Eliot.
GENTILITY. --There cannot be a surer
proof of low origin, or of an innate mean-
ness of disposition, than to be always talk-
ing and thinking about being genteel.–
Hazlitt.
Gentility is neither in birth, wealth,
manner, nor fashion-but in the mind. А
high sense of honor, a determination never
to take a mean advantage of another, an
adherence to truth, delicacy, and politeness
toward those with whom we have dealings,
are its essential characteristics.
I would not have you stand so much on
your geutility, which is au airy and mere
borrowed thing from dead men's dust and
bones, and none of yours, except you make
and hold it.-Ben Jonson.
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GENTLENESS.
How weak a thing is gentility, if it wants
virtue!
-Fuller.
GENTLEMAN. - Whoever is open,
loyal, true; of humane and affable de
meanor; honorable himself, and in his judg-
ment of others ; faithful to his word as to
law, and faithful alike to God and man-
such a man is a true gentleman.
The flowering of civilization is the fin-
ished man--the man of sense, of grace, of
accomplishment, of social power-the gen-
tlenian.-Enverson.
Education begins the gentleman, but
reading, good company, and reflection must
finish him.- Loclce.
The taste of beauty, and the relish of
what is decent, just, and amiable, perfect
the character of the gentleman and the
philosopher. And the study of such a taste
or relish will be ever the great employment
and concern of him who covets as well to
be wise and good as agreeable and polite.
-Shaftesbury.
Thoughtfulness for others, generosity,
modesty, and self-respect are the qualities
which make a real gentleman or lady, as
distinguished from the veneered article
which commonly goes by that name.-
Huxley.
Repose and cheerfulness are the badge
of the gentleman — repose in energy.-
Emerson.
It is a grand old name, that of gentle-
man, and has been recognized as a rank
and power in all stages of society. To pos-
sess this character is a dignity of itself,
commanding the instinctive homage of
every generous mind, and those who will
not bow to titular rank will yet do homage
to the gentleman. His qualities depend
not upon fashion or manners, but upon
moral worth ; not on personal possessions,
but on personal qualities.-S. Šmiles.
You may depend upon it, religion is, in
its essence, the most gentlemanly thing in
the world.--It will, alone, gentilize, if un-
mixed with cant; and I know nothing else,
which, alone, will.-- Coleridge.
Perhaps propriety is as near a word as
any to denote the manners of the gentle-
man.-Elegance is necessary to the fine
gentleman ; dignity is proper to noblemen;
and majesty to kings.--Hazlitt.
Men of courage, men of sense, and men
of letters are frequent; but a true gentle-
man is what one seldoin sees. -Steele.
The real gentleman should be gentle in
everything, at least in everything that de-
pends on himself,-in carriage, temper,
constructions, aims, desires.
He ought
therefore to be mild, calm, quiet, even,
temperate,--not hasty in judgment, not
exorbitant in ambition, not overbearing,
not proud, not rapacious, not oppressive ;
for these things are contrary to gentleness.
-Hare.
We sometimes meet an original gentle-
mai, who, if manners had not existed,
would have invented them.--Emerson.
He that can enjoy the intimacy of the
great, and on no occasion disgust them by
familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility,
proves that he is as perfect a gentleman
by nature, as his companions are by rauk.
Colton.
Gentleman is a term that does not apply
to any station, but to the mind and feel-
ings in every station.—Talfourd.
It is difficult to believe that a true gen-
tleman will ever become a ganester, a lib-
ertine, or a sot.-E. H. Chapin.
Perhaps a gentleman is a rarer man than
some of us think for. Which of us can
point out many such in his circle ; men
whose aims are generons, whose truth is
not only constant in its kind, but elevated
in its degree ; whose want of meanness
makes them simple, who can look the world
honestly in the face with an equal manly
sympathy for the great and the small.-
Thackeray.
To be a gentleman is to be honest, to be
gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be
wise, and possessing all those qualities to
exercise them in the most graceful outward
manner.-Thackeray.
GENTLENESS,--We are indebted to
Christianity for gentleness, especially to-
ward women.-C. Sinimons.
True gentleness is love in society, hold-
ing intercourse with those around it.-It is
considerateness ; it is tenderness of feel-
ing; it is promptitude of sympathy; it is
love in all its depths, and in all its delicacy.
-It is everything included in that match-
"the gentleness of Christ."
J. Hamilton.
True gentleness is founded on a sense of
what we owe to him who made us, and to
the common nature which we all share.-
It arises from reflection on our own fail-
ings and wants, and from just views of the
condition and duty of men.-It is pative
feeling heightened and improved by prin-
ciple. --Blair.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness ; noth-
ing so gentle as real strength. Francis de
Sales.
less grace,
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What thou wilt thou shalt rather enforce
with thy smile than hew to it with thy
sword. - Shakespeare.
GEOLOGY,-(See "SOLENCE.")
So long as the phenomena (of geology)
are simply recorded, and only the natural
and obvious causes inferred from them,
there can be no fear that the results of the
study will prove hostile to religion. If the
representations they give of nature are tlie
fictions of men, they cannot stand against
the progress of science; and if they truly
picture the works of God, they must be
easily reconcilable with his revealed mavi-
festations.- Wisenan.
Geology gives us a key to the patience of
God.-J. G. Holland.
GIFTS.-It is the will, and not the gift
that makes the giver.- Lessing,
The manner of giving shows the charac-
ter of the giver, more than the gift itself.-
Lavater.
There is a gift that is almost a blow, and
there is a kind word that is munificence;
so much is there in the way of doing things.
-A. Helps.
Giy what you have. To some one it
may be better than you dare to think.-
Longfellow.
We should give as we would receive,
cheerfully, quickly, and without hesita-
tion'; for there is no grace in a benefit that
sticks to the fingers. - Seneca.
To reveal its complacence by gifts, is one
of the native dialects of love.-Mrs. Sig-
ourney.
Serving God with our little, is the way
to make it more ; and we must never think
that wasted with which God is honored, or
men are blest.
Give according to your means, or God
will make your means according to your
giving.--John Hall.
A gift, its kind, its value, and appear-
ance; the silence or the pomp that attends
it; the style in which it reaches you, may
decide the dignity or vulgarity of the giver.
- Lavater.
Presents which our love for the donor
has rendered precious are ever the most
acceptable.- Ovid.
People do not care to give alms without
some security for their money; and a
wooden leg or a withered arm is a sort of
draft upon heaven for those who choose to
have their money placed to account there.-
Mackenzie.
He who loves with purity considers not
the gift of the lover, but the love of the
giver.-Thomas d Kenipis.
One must be poor to know the luxury of
giving.---George Eliot.
Examples are few of men ruined by giv-
ing.-Men are heroes in spending-cravens
in what they give.-Bovee.
When a friend asks, there is no to-mor-
row.--Herbert.
When thou makest presents, let them bo
of such things as will last long; to the end
they may be in some sort immortal, and
may frequently refresh the memory of the
receiver, — Fuller.
The best thing to give to your enemy is
forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; 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.-Balfour.
It is a proof of boorishness to confer a
favor with a bad grace.-How little does a
smile cost !-Bruyère.
Every gift, though it be small, is in real-
ity great if given with affection.-
Pindar.
The secret of giving affectionately is
great and rare ; it requires address to do
it well; otherwise we lose instead of doriy-
ing benefit from it. - Corneille.
Independence is of more value than any
gifts; and to receive gifts is to lose it.
Men most commonly seek to oblige thee
only that they may engage thee to serve
them.-Saadi.
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove
unkind.—Shakespeare.
The heart of the giver makes the gift
dear and precious.---Luther.
Gifts are as the gold which adorns the
temple ; grace is like the temple that sanc-
tifies the gold.—Burkitt.
Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than
the trifle.-Lavater.
That which is given with pride and osten-
tation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
--Seneca.
He gives not best who gives inost; but he
gives most who give best.-If I cannot give
bountifully, yet I will give freely, and what
I want in my hand, I will supply by my
heart.- Warwick.
Gifts weigh like mountains on a sensitive
heart.-To me they are oftener punish-
ments than pleasures.—Mad. Fee.
GLORY,True glory consists in doing
what deserves to be written; in writing
what deserves to be read; and in so living
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as to make the world happier and better
for our living in it.-Pliny.
True glory takes root, and even spreads ;
all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the
ground ; nor can any counterfeit last long.
Cicero.
It is by what we ourselves have done,
and not by what others have done for us,
that we shall be remembered by after ages.
It is by thought that has aroused the intel-
lect from its slumbers, which has given
luster to virtue and dignity to truth, or by
those examples which have intlamed the
soul with the love of goodness, and not by
means of sculptured marble, that I hold
communion with Shakespeare and Milton,
with Johnson and Burke, with Howard and
Wilberforce.--Francis Wayland.
Real glory springs from the silent con-
quest of ourselves. -Without that, the con-
queror is nought but the foist slavo.-
Thomson.
As to be perfectly just is an attribute of
the divine nature, to be so to the utmost
of our abilities is the glory of man.-Ad-
dison.
always the work of a small number of great
men, and disappears with them.--Grinun.
GLUTTONY.-Swinish gluttony ne'er
looks to heaven amid his gorgeous feast,
but with besotted, base ingratitude, crams
and blasphemes his feeder.-Milton.
They whose sole bliss is eating, can give
but that one brutish reason why they live.
Juvenal.
Some men are born to feast, and not to
fight; whose sluggish minds, even in fair
honor's field, still on their dinner turn.-
Joanna Baillie.
Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook
their priest, the table their altar, and their
belly their God.-Buck.
Gluttony is the source of all our infir-
mities and the fountain of all our diseases.
As a lamp is choked by a superabundance
of oil, and a fire extinguished by excess of
fuel, so is the natural health of the body
destroyed by intemperate diet.-Burton.
I have come to the conclusion that man-
kind consume too much food.--Sidney
Smith.
As houses well stored with provisions are
likely to be full of mice, so the bodies of
those who eat much are full of diseases. -
Diogenes.
The pleasures of the palate deal with us
like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle
those whom they embrace.-.-Seneca.
He who is a slave to his belly seldom
worships God.-Saadi.
I am a great eater of beef, and I believe
that does harın to my wit.--Shakespeare.
-
we give to that eternal, infinite, and in-
comprehensible being, the creator of all
things, who preserves and governs every
thing by his almighty power and wisdom,
and who is the only object of our worship.
Cruden.
God is a spirit. infinite, eternal, and un-
changeable in his being, wisdom, power,
Holiness, justice, goodness, and truth. —
Catechism.
We know God easily, if we do not con-
strain ourselves to define him.-Joubert.
The Mohammedans have ninety-nine
names for God, but among them all they
have not " our Father."
We should give Gocl the same place in
our hearts that he holds in the universe.
If we have God in all things while they
are ours, we shall have all things in God
when they are taken away.
Our greatest glory consists not in never
falling, but in rising every time we fall. —
Goldsmith.
Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame
and guilt.-Cowper.
Like madness is the glory of this life.-
Shalcespeare.
He that first likened glory to a shadow,
did better than he was aware of ; they are
both vain.-Glory, also, like the shadow,
goes sometimes before the body, and some-
times in length infinitely exceeds it.--Mon-
taigne.
By skillful conduct and artificial means
a person may make a sort of name for him-
self; but if the inner jewel be wanting, all
is vanity, and will not last.-- Goethe.
Two things ought to teach us to think
but meanly of human glory—that the very
best have had their calumniators, and the
very worst their panegyrists.—Colton.
Let us not disdain glory too much;
nothing is finer, except virtue.-The height
of happiness would be to unite both in this
life.--Chateaubriand.
The shortest way to glory is to be guided
by conscience.-Home.
Those great actions whose luister dazzles
us are represented by politicians as the
effects of deep design, whereas they are
commonly the effects of caprice and pas-
sion.-Rochefoucauld.
The glory of a people, and of an age, is
COD.-This is one of the names which
GOD.
cause we have nowhere else to go. Auc
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There is something in the nature of ries, as they roll into the dim distances of
things which the mind of man, which rea- departed time, perpetually chanting "Te
son, which human power cannot effect, Deum Laudamus," with all the choral voices
and certainly that which produces this of the countless congregations of the age.
must be better than man. What can this - Bancroft.
be but God ?- Cicero.
It is impossible to govern the world withe,
There is a beauty in the name appro-
out God. He must be worse than an in-
priated by the Saxon nations to the Deity, fidel that lacks faith, and more than wicked
unequalled except by his most venerated that has not gratitude enough to acknowl-
Hebrew appellation. They called him edge his obligation.- Washington.
" GOD,” which is literally “THE GOOD.”
God is great, and therefore he will be
The same word thus signifying the Deity
sought: he is good, and therefore he will
and His most endearing quality.- Turner. be found.
The demand of the human understand-
If in the day of sorrow we own God's
ing for causation requires but the one old
presence in the cloud, we shall find him
and only answer, God.-Dexter.
also in the pillar of fire, brightening and
Let the chain of second causes be ever cheering our way as the niglit comes on.
so long, the first link is always in God's
hand.-Lavington.
In all his dispensations God is at work
for our good.-In prosperity he tries our
God is a circle whose center is every- gratitude ; in mediocrity, our content-
where, and its circumference nowhere.- ment; in misfortune, our submission ; in
Empedocles.
darkness, our faith ; under temptation,
They that deny a God, destroy man's no- our steadfastness, and at all times, our
bility ; for clearly man' is of kin to the
obedience and trust in him.
beasts by his body, and if he be not of kin
God governs the world, and we have only
to God by his spirit, he is a base and ig-
to do our duty wisely, and leave the issue
noble creature.-- Bacon.
to him.-John Jay.
The ancient hieroglyphic for God was When the mind of man looketh upon
the figure of an eye upon & sceptre, to de-
second causes scattered, it may sometimes
note that he sees and rules all things.-
rest in them, and go no further. But when
Barker.
it beholdeth the cliain of them confederate
It were better to have no opinion of God and linked together, it must fly to Provi-
at all than such an one as is unworthy of dence and Deity.-Bacon.
him ; for the one is only unbelief—the other
is contempt.-Plutarch.
There is a God in science, a God in his-
tory, and a God in couscience, and these
I bacl rather believe all the fables in the
three are one.-Joseph Cook.
Talmud and the Koran, than that this uni-
How often we look upon God as our last
versal frame is without a mind.-Bacon.
and feeblest resource! We go to him be-
In all the vast and the minute, we see the
unambiguous footsteps of the God, who
then we learn that the storms of life have
gives its luster to the insect's wing, and
driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the
wheels his throne upon the rolling worlds. desired haven. - Geo. Macdonald.
-Cowper.
I have read up many queer religions ;
If God did not exist it would be necessary
and there is nothing like the old thing,
to invent him.- Voltaire.
after all, I have looked into the most
Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of philosophical systems, and have found
the omnipresent God bursts through every- none that will work without a God.-J. C.
where.-Emerson.
Maxwell
The very word “God” suggests care, An old mystic says somewhere, “God is
kindness, goodness; and the idea of God an inutterable sigh in the innermost depths
in his infinity, is infinite care, infinite of the soul.” With still greater justice, we
kindness, infinite goodness.-We give God may reverse the proposition, and say the
the name of good : it is only by shortening soil is a never ending sigh after God.-
it that it becomes God.-H. W. Beecher. Christlieb.
At the foot of every page in the annals of The world we inhabit must have had an
nations may be written, “God reigus." origin; that origin must have consisted in
Events as they pass away proclaim their à cause; that cause must have been intel-
original; and if you will but listen rev- ligent; that intelligence must have been
érently, you may hear the receding centu- supreme ; and that supreme, which always
GOD.
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GOLD.
sires, the end of all our actions, the prin-
ciple of all our affections, and the governing
power of our whole souls.-Massillon.
In all thine actions think that God sees
thee, and in all his actions lalsor to see him.
-That will make thee fear him, and this
will move thee to love him. The fear of
God is the beginning of knowledge, and
the knowledge of God is the perfection of
love.-Quarles.
If we look closely at this world, where
God seems so utterly forgotten, we shall
find that it is he, who, after all, commands
the most fidelity and the most love.-Mad.
Swelchire.
What is there in man so worthy of honor
and reverence as this, that he is capable
of contemplating something higher than
his own reason, more sublime than the
whole universe-that Spirit which alone is
self-subsistent, from which all truth pro-
ceeds, without which is no truth ?-Jacobi.
To escape from evil we must be made, as
far as possible, like God; and this resem-
blance consists in becoming just, and holy,
and wise.—Plato.
was and is supreme, we know by the name
of God.
Two men please God
who serves Fim
with all his beart because he knows Him;
who seeks Him with all his heart because
he knows Him not.-Panin.
He who bridles the fury of the billows,
knows also to put a stop to the secret plans
of the viclied.-Submitting to His holy
will, I fear God; I have no other fear.
Racine.
It is one of my favorite thoughts, that
God manifests himself to mankind in all
wise, good, humble, generous, great and
magnanimous men. -Lavater.
There is nothing on earth worth being
known but God and our Owu souls.-
Bailey.
A foe to God was never a true friend to
man.-Young.
There is something very sublime, though
very fanciful in Plato's description of God
"That truth is his body, and light his
shadow."- Addison.
If God were not a necessary being of
himself, he might almost seem to be made
for the use and benefit of men. Tillotson.
We cannot too often think, that there is
a never sleeping eye that leads the heart,
and registers our thoughts.—Bacon.
I fear God, and next to God I chiefly fear
him who fears him not.Saadi.
Thc very impossibility which I find to
prove that God” is not, discovers to me his
existence.-Bruyère.
Amid all the war and contest and variety
of human opinion, you will find one con-
senting conviction in every land, that there
is one God, thc king and father of all.-
Maxinius Tyrius.
Live near to God, and so all things will
appear to you little in comparison with
eternal realities.-R. M. McCheyre.
The whole world is a phylactery, and
everything we see is an item of the wisdom,
power, or goodness of God.—Sir Thomas
Browne.
As a countenance is made beautiful by
the soul's shining through it, so the world
is beautified by the shining through it of
God.--Jacobi.
God's thoughts, his will, his love, his
judginents are all man's home. To think
his thoughts, to choose his will, to love his
loves, to judge his judgments, and thus to
know that he is in us, is to be at home.-
George Macdonald.
God should be the object of all our de-
GOLD.--(See MONEY," and "MISER.")
Gola is the fool's curtain, which hides
all his defects from the world.-Feltham.
The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorse-
less; the last corruption of degenerate
man.-Johnson.
It is much better to have your gold in the
hand tlian in the heart. Fuller.
Gold, like the sun, which melts wax, but
hardens clay, expands great souls and con-
tracts bad hearts.-Rivarol.
It is observed of gold, in an old epigram,
that to have it is to be in fear, and to want
it is to be in sorrow.-Johnson.
To purchase heaven has gold the power?
can gold remove the mortal hour? in life
can love be bought with gold? are friend-
ship's pleasures to be sola? no—all that's
worth a wish-a thought, fair virtue gives
unbribed, unbought. Cease then on trash
thy hopes to bind, let nobler views engage
thy mind.-Johnson.
There is no place so high that an ass
laden with gold cannot reach it.-Rojas.
Midas longed for gold.--He got it, so that
whatever he touched became gold, and he,
with his long ears, was little the better for
it.— Carlyle.
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
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the highest station, but he must know some-
thing more to keep it.-- Collon.
Give him gold enough, and marry him to
a puppet, or an aglet-baby, or an old trot
with ne'er a tooth in her head, though she
bavo as many diseases as two and fifty
horses; why, nothing comes amiss, so
money comes withal.-Shakespeare.
A mask of gold hides all deformities.-
Delcker.
How quickly nature falls to revolt when
gold becomes her object. --Shalcespeare.
O cursed lust of gold! when, for thy
sake, the fool throws up his interest in both
worlds, first starved in this, then damned
in that to come !--Blair.
How few, like Daniel, have God and gold
together.- Bp. Villiers.
Gold! in all ages the curse of mankind !
-To gain thee, men yield honor, affection,
and lasting l'enown, and for thee barter thé
crown of eternity.-P. Benjamin.
A vain man's motto is, “Win gold and
wear it”; a generous, “Win gold and share
it"; a miser's, “Win gold and lioard it";
a profligate's, " Win gold and spend it"; a
broker's, “Win gold and lend it”; a gam-
bler's, “Win gold and lose it”; wise
mau's, “Win gold and use it."
They who worship gold in a world so
corrupt as this, have at least one thing to
plead in defence of their idolatry-the
power of their idol.—This idol can boast of
two peculiarities; it is worshipped in all
elimates, without a single temple, and by
all classes, without a single hypocrite.---
Colton,
Mammon bas enriched his thousands,
and has damned his ten thousands.-South.
As the touchstone tries gold, so gold tries
men.- Chilo.
CCOD-BREEDING. (See "MAN-
NERS
1 and “POLITENESS.")
Good-breeding is benevolence in trifles,
or the preference of others to ourselves in
the daily occurrences of life.- Lord Chat-
hanı.
Good-breeding is surface Christianity.-
0. W. Holmes.
Good-breeding is the art of showing men,
by external signs, the internal regard we
have for them. It arises froin good sense,
improved by conversing with good com-
pauy.-Cato.
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.---Swifi.
Nothing can constitute good-breeding
which has not good nature for its founda-
tion.-Bulwer.
Good-breeding is the result of much
good sense, some good nature, and a little
self-denial for the sake of others, and with:
a view to obtain the same indulgence from
them.-- Chesterfield.
A man endowed with great perfections,
without good-breeding, is like one who has
his pockets full of gold, but always wants
change for his ordinary occasions.-Steele.
Good-breeding is not confined to exter-
nals, much less to any particular dress or
attitude of the body; it is the art of pleas-
ing or contributing as much as possible to
the ease and happiness of those with whom
you converse. Fielding.
Good qualities are the substantial riches
of the mind; but it is good-breeding that
sets them off to advantage.--Locke.
The scholar, without good-breeding, is
& pedant; the philosopher, a cynic; the
soldier, a brute, and every man disagree-
able.-- Chesterfield.
A man's own good-breeding is the best
security against other people's ill-manners.
It carries along with it a dignity that is
respected by the most petulant. Iil-breed-
ing invites and authorizes the familiarity
of the most timid. No man ever said a
pert thing to the Duke of Marlborough.
No man ever said a civil one to Sir Robert
Walpole.--Chesterfield.
Among well-bred people, a mutual def-
erence is affected; contempt of others
disguised ; anthority concealed ; attention
given to each in his turn; and an easy
stream of conversation maintained, without
vehemence, withont interruption, without
eagerness for victory, and without any airs
of superiority.-Hume.
Good-breeding shows itself most, where
to an ordinary eye it appears the least.-
Addison.
Virtue itself often offends, when coupled
with bad manners.--Middleton.
The summary of good breeding may be
reduced to this rule : "Behave to all others
as you would they should behave to you.”—
Fielding.
There are fety defects in our nature so
glaring as not to be veiled from observa-
tion by politeness and good-breeding.–
Stanislaus.
The highest point of good-breeding is to
show a very nice regard to your own dig-
nity, and with that in your own heart, to
express your value for the man above you.
-Sleele.
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One may know a man that never con-
versed in the world, by his excess of good-
breeding.- Addison.
As ceremony is the invention of wise
men to keep fools at a distance, so good-
breeding is an expedient to make fools and
wise men equal.--Steele.
Wisdom, valor, justice, and learning,
cannot keep a man in countenance that is
possessed with these excellencies, if he
wants that inferior art of life and behav-
iour, called good breeding.---Steele.
GOOD HUMOR,-(See "HUMOR.")
Good humor is the health of the soul ;
sadness is its poison.-Stanislaus.
Honest good humor is the oil and wine
of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial
companionship equal to that where the
jokes are rather small, and the laughter
abundant.-- Washington Irving.
This portable quality of good humor sea-
song all the parts and occurrences we meet
with in such a manner that there are no
moments lost, but they all pass with so
much satisfaction that the heaviest of loads,
when it is a load, that of time, is never
felt by us.-Steele.
Some people are commended for a giddy
kind of good humor, which is no more a
virtue than drunkenness.- Pope.
Good humor will sometimes conquer ill
humor, but ill humor will conquer it oft-
ener; and for this plain reason, good lu-
mor must operate on generosity; ill hu-
mor on meanness.--Greville.
GOOD NATURE,-Good nature is the
very air of a good mind ; the sign of a
large and generous soul, and the peculiar
soil in which virtue prospers.--Goodman.
The current of tenderness widens as it
proceeds ; and two men imperceptibly find
their hearts filled with good nature for
each other, when they were at first only
in pursuit of mirth and relaxation.-Gold-
smith.
An inexhaustible good nature is one of
the most precious gifts of heaven, spread-
ing itself like oil over the troubled sea of
thought, and keeping the mind smooth and
equiable in the roughest weather.- Wash-
ington Irving.
Good nature, like a bee, collects honey
from every berb. Ill nature, like the spider,
sucks poison from the sweetest flower.
Good nature is one of the richest fruits
of true Christianity.-H. W. Beecher.
Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a
word which I would fáin bring back to its
original signification of virtus--I mean
good nature-are of daily use ; they are
the bread of mankind and the staff of life.
-Dryden.
Good nature is the beauty of the mind,
and like personal beauty, wins almost with-
out anything else--sometimes, indeed, in
spite of positive deficiencies.--Hanway.
A shrewd observer once said, that in
walking the streets of a slippery morning,
oue might see where the good natured peo-
ple lived, by the ashes thrown on the ice
before the doors.-Franklin.
Good nature is stronger than tomahawks.
-Emerson.
Good nature is more agreeable in con-
versation than wit, and gives a certain air
to the countenance which is more amiabio
than beauty. It shows virtue in the fairest
light; takes off, in some measure, from the
deformity of vice; and makes even folly
and impertinence supportable.--Addison.
Good nature is often a mere matter of
health. -With good digestion we are apt
to be good natured; with bad digestion,
morose.-H. W. Beecher.
Good sense and good nature are never
separated ; and good nature is the product
of right reason.-It makes allowance for
the failings of others by considering that
there is nothing perfect in mankind; and
by distinguishing that which comes nearest
to excellence, though not absolutely free
from faults, will certainly produce candor
in judging:-Dryden.
GOODNESS--(See " BENEFICENCE.")
There are two perfectly good men; one
dead, and the other unborn.- Chinese Pro-
verb.
Be not merely good; be good for some-
thing.-Thoreau.
In nothing do men approach so nearly to
the gods as in doing good to men.-Cicero.
There may be a certain pleasure in vice,
but there is a higher in purity and virtue.
-The most commanding of all delights is
the delight in goodness. The beauty of
holiness is but one beauty, but it is the
highest.-It is the loss of the sense of sin
and shame that destroys both men and
states.—Independent.
He that is a good man, is three quarters
of his way toward the being a good Chris-
tian, wheresoever he lives, or whatsoever
he is called.--South.
We may be as good as we please, if we
please to be good.-Barrow.
Real goodness does not attach itself
merely to this lifc-it points to another
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world. Political or professional reputation
cannot last forever, but a conscience void
of offence before God and man is an in-
heritance for eternity.—Daniel Webster.
We can do more good by being good than
in any other way.---Rowland Hill.
If there be a divine providence, no good
man need be afraid to do right; be will
only fear to do wrong.-Haygood.
To be doing good is man's most glorious
task.-Sophocles.
To be good, we must do good; and by
doing good we take a sure means of being
good, as the use and exercise of the muscles
increase their power. - Tryon Edwards.
It is a law of our humanity, that man
i must know good through evil. -No great
principle ever triumphed but through
much evil.—No man ever progressed to
greatness and goodness but through great
mistakes.-F. W. Robertson.
By desiring what is perfectly good, even
when we do not quite know what it is, and
cannot do what we would, we are part of
the divine porver against evil, wideuing the
skirts of light and making the struggle with
darkness narrower.- George Eliot.
Let a man be never so ungrateful or in-
human, he shall never destroy the satis-
faction.of my having done a good office.-
Seneca.
The good are heaven's peculiar care.
Ovid.
All the fame which ever cheated human-
ity into higher notions of its own import-
ance would never weigh in my mind against
the pure and pious interest which a virtu-
ous being may be pleased to take in my
welfare. - Byron.
He who loves goodness barbors angels,
reveres reverence, and lives with God. --
Emerson.
He is good that does good to others. If
le suffers for the good he does, he is better
still; and if he suffers from then to whom
he did good, he has arrived to that height
of goodness that nothing but an increase
of his sufferings can add to it; if it proves
his death, his virtue is at its summit; it is
heroisin complete. --Bruyère.
I have known some men possessed of
good qualities which were very serviceable
to others, but useless to themselves ; like a
sun-dial on the front of a house, to inform
and benefit the neighbors and passengers,
but not the owner within.-Swift.
He that does good to another, does also
good to himself; not only in the conse-
quence, but in the very act of doing it ; for
the consciousness of well-doing is an ample
reward.--Seneca.
A good mau is kinder to his enemy than
bad men to their friends.—Bp. Hall.
The good for virtue's sake abhor to sin.
-Horace.
Never did any soul do good, but it came
readier to do the same again, with more
enjoyment. Never was love, or gratitude,
or bounty practised but with increasing
joy, which made the practiser still more in
love with the fair act.--Shaftesbury.
A good man is influenced by God him-
self, and has a kind of divinity within him ;
so it may be a question whether he goes to
heaven, or heaven comes to him.-Seneca.
The best portion of a good man's life is
his little, nameless, unremembered acts of
kindness and of love.- Wordsworth.
Experience has convinced me that there
is a thousand times more goodness, wisdoin,
and love in the world than men imagine.
Gehles.
Nothing can make a man truly great but
being truly good and partaking of God's
holiness.-M. Henry.
It is only great souls that know how much
glory there is in being good.--Sophocles,
How far that little candle throws his
beams! so shines a good deed in a naughty
world.—Shakespeare.
In the heraldry of heaven goodness pre-
cedes greatness, and so on earth it is more
powerful.—The lowly and lovely may often
do more good in their limited sphere than
the gifted. --Bp. Horne.
Beautiful is the activity which works for
good, and beautiful the stillness which
waits for good ; blessed the self-sacrifice of
one, aud blessed the self-forgetfulness of
the other.-Collyer.
Goodness consists not in the outward
things we do, but in the inward thing we
are.---To be good is the great thing.--E. H.
Chapin.
A good man doubles the length of his
existence; to have lived so as to look back
with pleasure on our past life is to live
twice. -Martial.
The soul is strong that trusts in good-
ness.- Massinger.
You are not very good if you are not
better than your best friends imagine you
to be.--Lavater.
We must first be made good, before wo
can do good; we must first be made just,
before our works can please God-for when
we are justified by faith in Christ, then
come good works.- Latimer.
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GOSPEL.
A good deed is never lost.--He who sows
courtesy, reaps friendship; he who plants
kindness, gathers love; pleasure bestowed
upon a grateful mind was never sterile,
but generally gratitude begets reward.
Basii.
It seems to me it is only noble to be good.
-Kind hearts are more than coronets.
Tennyson.
There never was law, or sect, or opinion
did so much magnify goodness as the Chris-
tian religion doth.-Bacon.
As I know more of mankind I expect less
of them, and am ready to call a man a good
man upon easier terms than I was formerly.
-Johnson.
To love the public, to study universal
good, and to promote the interest of the
whole world, as far as it lies in our power,
is the height of goodness, and makes that
temper which we call divine.-Shaftesbury.
Goodness is love in action, love with its
hand to the plow, love with the burden on
its back, love following his footsteps who
went about continually doing good.-J.
Hanvilton.
He is a good man whose intimate friends
are all good, and whose enemies are de-
cidedly bad.-Lavater.
Of all virtues and dignities of the mind,
goodness is the greatest, being the char-
acter of the Deity; and withoutit, man is a
busy, mischievous, wretched thing:-Bacon.
Your actions, in passing, pass not away,
for every good work is a grain of seed for
eternal life.-Bernard.
His daily prayer, far better understood
in acts than in words, was simply doing
good.- Whittier.
Live for something.-Do good, and leave
behind you a monument of virtue that the
storms 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, and you will
never be forgotten.—Your name and your
good deeds will shine as the stars of heaven.
-Chalmer's.
That is good which doth good.- Venning.
Do all the good you can, in all the ways
you can, to all the souls you can,
place you can, at all the times you can,
with all the zeal you can, as long as ever
you can.-J. Wesley.
Whatever mitigates the woes, or in-
creases the happiness of others, is a just
criterion of goodness; and whatever in-
jures society at large, or any individual in
it, is a criterion of iniquity.-Goldsmith.
Nothing is rarer than real goodness. —
Rochefoucauld.
Goodness thinks no ill where no ill seems.
Milton.
To an honest mind, the best perquisites
of a place are the advantages it gives for
doing good.-Addison.
GOOD SENSE.-(See “COMMON
SENSE.")
COSPEL.-My heart has always as-
sured and reassured me that the gospel of
Christ must be a Divine reality.-The ser-
mon on the mount cannot be inerely a hu-
man production.—This belief enters into
the very depth of my conscience.--The
whole history of man proves it.—Daniel
Webster.
All the gospels, in my judgment, date
back to the first century, and are substan-
tially by the authors to whom they are at-
tributed.-Renan.
The shifting systems of false religion are
continually changing their places ; but the
gospel of Christ is the same forever. While
other false lights are extinguished, this
true light ever shineth.-T. L. Cuyler.
So comprehensive are the doctrines of
the gospel, that they involve all moral truth
known by man ; so extensive are the pre-
cepts, that they require every virtue, and
forbid every sin. Nothing has been added,
either by the labors of philosophy. or the
progress of human knowledge.
Did you ever notice that while the gospel
sets before us a higher and more blessed
heaven than any other religion, its hell is
also deeper and darker than any other?-
Warren.
I search in vain in history to find the
similar to Jesus Christ, or anything which
can approach the gospel. -Neither history,
nor humanity, nor the ages, nor nature,
offer me anything with which' I am able to
compare or explain it.—There is nothing
there which is not beyond the march of
events and above the human mind.—What
happiness it gives to those who believe it !
What marvels there which those admire
who reflect upon it!-Napoleon.
God writes the gospel not in the Bible
alone, but on trees,
and flowers, and clouds,
and stars.-Luther.
The gospel is the fulfillment of all hopes,
the perfection of all philosophy, the inter-
preter of all revelations, and a key to all
the seeming contradictions of truth in the
physical and moral world.-Hugh Miller.
We can learn nothing of the gospel ex-
cept by feeling its truths. There are some
in every
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sciences that may be learned by the head,
but the science of Christ crucified can only
be learned by the heart.-Spurgeon.
The gospel in all its doctrines and duties
appears infinitely superior to any human
composition.-It has no mark of human ig-
norance, imperfection, or sinfulness, but
bears the signature of divine visdom, an-
thority, and importance, and is most worthy
of the supreme attention and regard of all
intelligent creatures.—Emmons.
There is not a book on earth so favorable
to all the kind, and to all the sublime affec-
tions, or so unfriendly to hatred, persecu-
tion, tyranny, injustice, and every sort of
malevolence as the gospel.-It breathes,
throughout, only mercy, benevolence, and
peace.-Beattie.
GOSSIP,-(See "TATTLING.")
Gossip has been well defined as putting
two and two together, and making it five.
I hold it to be a fact, that if all persons
knew what each said of the other, there
would not be four friends in the world.
Pascal.
News-hunters have great leisure, with
little thought; much petty ambition to be
thought intelligent, without any other pre-
tension than being able to communicate
what they have just learned.—Zinumeroa
lievest, lest the greatest part of what thou
believest be the least part of what is true.
Where lies are easily admitted, the father
of lies will not easily be kept out.- Quarles.
Gossip is the benchman of rumor and
scandal.-Feuillet.
Gossip is always a personal confession
either of malice or imbecility, and the
young should not only shun it, but by the
most thorough culture relieve themselves
from all temptation to it. It is a low, friv-
olous, and too often a dirty business.-J.
G. Holland.
Tale bearers are just as bad as tale
maker8.-Sheridan.
Narrow-minded and ignorant persons
talk about persons and not thing8; hence
gossip is the bane and disgrace of so large
a portion of society.
As to people saying a few idle words about
us, we must not mind that any more than
the old church steeple minds the rooks caw-
ing about it.-- George Eliot.
GOVERNMENT,(See “STATESMAN-
SHIP.")
They that govern most make least noise.
In rowing a barge, they that do drudgery
work, slash, puff, and sweat; but he that
governs, sits quietly at the stern, and
scarce is seen to stir. -Seiden.
No matter what theory of the origin of
government you adopt, if you follow it out
to its legitimate conclusions it will bring
you face to face with the moral law.-H. J.
Van Dyke.
The less government we have the better
--the fewer laws and the less confided
power. The antidote to this abuse of for-
inal government is the influence of private
character, the growth of the individual.
Enzerson.
Men well governed should seek after no
other liberty, for there can be no greater
liberty than a good government.--Sir W.
Raleigh.
When men put their trust in God and in
knowledge, the government of the ma-
jority is, in the end, the government of the
wise and good.-Spalding.
While just government protects all in
their religious rites, true religion affords
government its surest support.-Washing-
ton.
The best of all governments is that which
teaches us to govern ourselves. - Goethe.
No government onght to exist for the
piirpose of checking the prosperity of its
people or to allow such a principle in its
policy.-Burke.
mann.
When of a gossipping circle it was asked
" What are they doing?" the answer was,
“Swapping lies.”
There is a set of malicious, prating, pru-
dent gossips, both male and female, who
murder characters to kill tive, and will
rob a young fellow of his good name before
he has years to know the value of it.---
Sheridan.
Tire and sword are but slow engines of
destruction in comparison with the bab-
bler.- Steele.
Truth is not exciting enough to those
who depend on the characters and lives of
their neighbors for all their amusement.--
Bancroft.
An empty brain and a tattling tongue
are very apt to go together : the most silly
and trivial items of news or scandal fill the
former and are retailed by the latter.
Gossip, pretending to have the eyes of
an Argus, has all the blindness of a bat.-
Ouida.
In private life I never knew any one inter-
fere with other people's disputes but that
he heartily repented of it.-Carlyle.
Let the greatest part of the news thout
hearest be the least part of what thou be-
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Tlie less of government the better, if
society be kept in peace and prosperity.--
Channing.
That is the most perfect government
under which a wrong to the humblest is
an affront to all.--Solon.
Government is not mere advice; it is
authority, with power to enforce its laws.-
Washington.
The principal foundation of all states is
in good laws and good arms.- Machiavelli.
The punishment suffered by the wise who
refuse to take part in the government, is
to live under the government of bad men.
-Plato.
Government is only a necessary evil, like
other go-carts and crutches. Our need of
it shows exactly how far we are still chil-
dren.-All overmuch governing kills the
self-help and energy of the governed.
Wendell Phillips.
A man must first govern himself ere he
is fit to govern a family ; and his family ere
he be fit to bear the governinent of the
commonwealth.-Sir W. Raleigh.
In all governments, there must of neces-
sity be both the law and the sword: laws
without arms would give us not liberty,
but licentiousness; and arms without laws
would produce not subjection, but slavery.
Colton.
The proper function of a government is
to make it easy for the people to do good,
and difficult for them to do evil.-Glad-
stone.
A king may be a tool, a thing of straw;
but if he serves to frighten our enemies,
and secure our property, it is well enough;
a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it pro-
tects the corn.--Pope.
It is a dangerous thing to try new experi-
ments in a government; men do not fore-
see the ill consequences that must happen,
when they seek to alter the essential parts
of it upon which the whole frame depends ;
for all governments are artificial things,
and every part of them has a dependence
one upon another.
It is an easy work to govern wise men,
but to govern fools or madmen, a continual
slavery. It is from the blind zeal and stuz-
pidity cleaving to superstition, it is from
the ignorance, rashness, and rage attending
faction, that so many mad and sanguinary
evils have destroyed men, dissolved the best
governments, and thinned the greatest na-
tions.-- Collon.
Other things being eqnal, that is the
best government which most liberally lets
its subject or citizen alonc.--Through the
whole range of authority he governs best
who governis least.-A. Phelps.
Refined policy ever has been the parent
of confusion, and ever will be so, as long
as the world endures. Plain good inten-
tion, which is as easily discovered at the
first view as fraud is surely detected at
last, is of no mean force in the government
of mankind. Genuine simplicity of heart
is a healing and cementing principle.-
Burke.
The repose of nations cannot be secure
without arms; armies cannot be main-
tained without pay; nor can the pay be
produced except by taxes. - Tacitus.
The surest way to prevent seditions is to
take away the matter of them; for if there
be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence
the spark shall come that shall set it on
fire.--Bacon.
It is necessary for a senator to be thor-
oughly acquainted with the constitution ;
and this is a knowledge of the most extensive
nature; a matter of science, of diligence,
of reflection, without which io senator can
possibly be fit for his office. - Cicero.
He who forms the mind of a prince, and
implants in him good principles, may see
the precepts he had inculcated extend
throngh a large portion of his subjects.-
Antigonus.
This nation, under God, shall have a new
birth of freedom, that government of the
people, by the people, for the people, shall
not perish from the earth.-Abrahani Lin-
coin,
Politics resemble religion ; attempting to
divest either of ceremony is the most cer-
tain method of bringing either into con-
tempt. The weak must have their induce-
ments to admiration as well as the vise ;
and it is the business of a sensible govern-
ment to impress all ranks with a sense of
subordination, whether this be efl'ected by
a diamond, or a virtuous edict, a sumptuary
law, or a glass necklace.-Goldsmith.
God demands of those who manage the
affairs of government that they should be
courageously true to the interests of the
people, and the Ruler of the universe will
require of them a strict account of their
stewardship.-Grover Cleveland.
Government is a contrivance of human
wisdom to provide for human wants.-
Burke.
No government can be free that does not
allow all its citizens to participate in the
formation and execution of her laws.
Every other government is a despotism.-
Thaddeus Slevens.
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ĠOVERNMENT.
Of all governments, that of the mob is
the most sanguinary ; that of soldiers the
most expensive ; and that of civilians the
most vexatious.—Colton.
The culminating point of administration
is to know well how much power, great or
small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
-Montesquieu.
Society cannot exist unless a controlling
power upon will and appetite be placed
somewhere; and the less of it there is
within, the more there must be without.-
It is ordained in the eternal constitution
of things, that men of intemperate minds
cannot be free.-Their passions forge their
fetters.--Burle.
The world is governed by three things
wisdom, authority, and appearance. Wis-
dom for thoughtful people, authority for
rough people, and appearances for the
great mass of superficial people who can
look only at the outside.
Government owes its birth to the neces-
sity of preventing and repressing the in-
juries which associated individuals have to
fear from one another.-It is the sentinel
who watches, in order that the common
laborer be not disturbed.-Raynal.
It is to self-government, the great prin-
ciple of popular representation and ad-
ministration, the system that lets in all to
participate in its counsels, that we owe
what we are, and what we hope to be.-
Daniel Webster.
A republican government is in a hundred
points weaker than one that is autocratic ;
but in this one point it is the strongest
that ever existed-it has educated a race of
men that are men.-H. IV. Beecher.
All good government must begin in the
home. It is useless to make good laws for
bad people.- Public sentiment is more
than law.-H. R. Haweis.
There be three sorts of government,
monarchical, aristocratical, and democrat-
ical, and they are to fall three different
ways into ruin : the first, by tyranny; the
second, by ambition ; the last, by tumults.
A commonwealth, grounded on any one
of these, is not of long continuance; but
wisely niingled, each guards the other and
makes government exact.-Quarles.
Society is well governed when the people
obey the magistrates, and the magistrates
obey the laws.-Solon.
The very idea of the power and right of
the people to establish government pre-
supposes the duty of every individual to
obey the established government.-- Wash-
ington.
He that would govern others, first should
be the master of himself, richly endued
with depth of understanding and height of
knowledge.-Massinger.
All government and exercise of power,
no matter in what form, which is not based
on love, and directed by knowledge, is tyr-
anny.-Mrs. Jameson.
A government for the people must de-
pend for its success on the intelligence, the
morality, the justice, and the interest of
the people themselves.-Grover Cleveland.
Power exercised with violence has seldom
been of long duration, but temper and
moderation generally produce permanence
in all things.-Seneca.
The aggregate happiness of society, which
is best promoted by the practise of a vir-
tuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of
all government.- Washington.
No government is respectable which is
not just.-Without unspotted purity of
public faith, without sacred public prin-
ciple, fidelity, and honor, no mere forms of
government, no machinery of laws, can
give dignity to political society.-- Daniel
Webster
A mercantile democracy may govern long
and widely ; a mercantile aristocracy can-
not stand.- Landor.
The worst of governments are always
the most changeable, and cost the people
dearest.-Butler.
The only choice which Providence has
graciously left to a vicious government is
either to fall by the people if they become
enlightened, or with them, if they are kept
enslaved and ignorant.-Coleridge.
The surest way of governing, both in a
private family and a kingdom, is, for the
husband and the prince sometimes to drop
their prerogatives.--Hughes.
The administration of government, like
a guardianship, ought to be directed to the
good of those who confer, not of those who
receive the trust.--Cicero.
It seems to me a great truth, that human
things canunt stand on selfishness, me-
chanical utilities, economics, and law
courts; that if there be not a religious
element in the relations of men, such rela-
tions are miserable, and doomed to ruin.-
Carlyle.
It is among the evils, and perhaps not
the smallest, of democratic governments,
that the people must feel before they will
see.-When this happens, they are roused
to action.- Hence it is that those kinds of
government are too slow.- Washington.
GRACE.
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GRACEFULNESS.
When Tarquin the Proud was asked what
was the best mode of governing a con-
quered city, he replied only by beating
down with his staff all the tallest poppies
in his garden.-Livy.
It is better for a city to be governed by a
good man than even by good laws.--dris-
totle.
Nothing will ruin the country if the
people themselves will undertake its safety ;
and nothing can save it if they leave that
safety in any hands but their owu.-- Daniel
Webster,
For forms of government let fools. con-
test.-That which is best administered is
best.-Pope.
It may pass for a maxim in state, that
the administration cannot be placed in too
few hands, nor the legislation in too many.
--Swift.
Few consider how much we are indebted
to government, because few can represent
how wretched mankind would be without
it.-Addison.
When any of the four pillars of govern-
ment, religion, justice, counsel, and treas-
ure, are mainly shaken or weakened, men
had need to pray for fair weather.--- Bacon.
All free governments, whatever their
name, are in reality governments by public
opinion; and it is on the quality of this
public opinion that their prosperity de-
pends.--I. R. Lowell.
GRACE.-"What is grace?
asked of an old colored man, wlio, for over
forty years, had been a slave. Grace,
he replied, “is what I should call giving
soinething for nothing.'
The king-becoming graces are justice,
verity, temperance, stableness, bounty,
perseverance, mercy, lowliness, devotion,
patience, courage,
fortitude. Shale-
Virtue, wisdom, goodness, and real
worth, like the loadstone, never lose their
power. These are the true graces, which
are linked hand in hand, because it is by
their intuence that human hearts are so
firmly united to each other.--Burton.
Grace is but glory begun, and glory is
but grace perfected.- Jonathan Edwards.
God appoints our graces to be nurses to
other meu's weaknesses.-H. W. Beecher.
The growtli of grace is like the polishing
of metals. There is first an opaque sur-
face ; by and by you see a spark darting
out, then a strong light; till at length it
sends back a perfect image of the sun that
shines upon it.--Payson.
There is no such way to attain to greater
measure of grace as for a man to live up
to the little grace be bas.--Brookes.
Grace comes into the soul, as the morn-
ing sun into the world ; first a dawning ;
then a light; and at last the sun in his full
and excellent brightness.-T. Adanus.
You pray for the graces of faith and hope
and love ; but prayer alone will not bring
them.--They must be wrought in you
through labor and patience and suffering.
--They are not kept put up in bottles for
us, to be had for the mere asking ; they
milst be the outgrowth of the life.-Prayer
for them will be answered, but God will
have us work out each one in the way of
duty,--H. W. Beecher,
The being of grace must go before the
increase of it; for there is no growth with-
out life, and no building without a foun-
dation.--Lavington.
As grace is first from God, so it is con-
tinually from him, as much as light is all
day long from the sun, as well as at first
drwn or at sun-rising. -- Jonathan Ed-
wards.
As heat is opposed to cold, and light to
darkness, so grace is opposed to sin.-Tire
and water may as well agree in the same
vessel, as grace and sin in the same heart.
--T. Broolcs.
GRACEFULNESS.---Grace is to the
body, what good sense is to the mind.
Rochefoucauld.
A graceful and pleasing figure is a per-
petual letter of recomiendation.-Bacon.
Gracefulness has been defined to be the
outward expression of the inward harmony
of the soul. Hazlitt.
All the actions and attitudes of children
are graceful because they are the offspring
of the inoment, without affectation, and
free from all pretense,-Fuseli.
Was
speare.
Let grace and goodness be the principal
loadstone of thy affections. For love which
hath ends, will have an end; whereas that
which is founded on true virtue, will always
continue.-Dryden.
Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and
whatever is virtuous is graceful.—Cicero.
The Christian graces are like perfumes,
the more they are pressed, the sweeter
they smell ; like stars that shine brightest
in the dark ; like trees which, the more
they are shaken, the deeper root they take,
and the more fruit they bear. Beau-
mont.
That word • Grace," in an ingracious
mouth, is profane.—Shakespeare.
GRATITUDE.
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How inimitably graceful children are
before they learn to dance.- Coleridge.
It is graceful in a man to think and
speak with propriety, to act with delibera-
tion, and in every occurrence of life to find
out and persevere in the truth.-Cicero.
GRATITUDE. (See " THANKFUL-
NESS.")
Gratitude is not only the memory but
the homage of the heart--rendered to God
for his goodness.-N. P. Willis.
If I only have the will to be grateful, I
am 80.-Seneca.
In noble liearts the feeling of gratitude
has all the ardor of a passion.--Poincelot.
A grateful thought toward heaven is of
itself a prayer.-Lessing.
Cicero calls gratitude the mother of vir-
tues, the most capital of all duties, and
uses the words grateful and good as synony-
mous terms, inseparably united in the
same character.- Bate.
Gratitude to God makes even a temporal
blessing a taste of heaven.-- Romaine.
Our thanks should be as fervent for mer-
cies received, as our petitions for mercies
· sought.-C. Simnions.
He that urges gratitude pleads the cause
both of God and men, for without it we
can neither be sociable nor religious.-
Seneca.
He enjoys much who is thankful for
little ; a grateful mind is both a great and
a happy mind.--Secker.
He who receives a benefit should never
forget it; he who bestows should never re-
member it.-Charron.
To the generous mind the heaviest debt
is that of gratitude, when it is not in our
power to repay it. Franklin.
He who acknowledges a kindness has it
still, and he who has a grateful sense of it
has requited it. - Cicero.
When I find a great deal of gratitude in
a poor man, I take it for granted there
would be as much generosity if he were
rich.-Pope.
There is as much greatness of mind in
acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
- Seneca.
Those who make us happy are always
thankful to us for being so ; their gratitude
is the reward of their benefits.-Mad.
Swetchine.
We can be thankful to a friend for a few
acres or a little money; and yet for the
freedom and command of the whole earth,
and for the great benefits of our being, our
life, health, and reason, we look upon our-
selves as under no obligation.–Seneca.
O Lord, who lends me life, lend me a
heart replete with thankfulness.-Shake-
speare.
From David learn to give thanks for
everything. -Every furrow in the Book of
Psalms is sown with the seeds of thanks-
giving.–Jeremy Taylor.
No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency
of language so much as the grateful.
Colton.
God is pleased with no music below so
much as with the thanksgiving songs of
relieved widows and supported orphans ;
of rejoicing, comforted, and thankful per-
sons.—Jeremy Taylor.
Epicurus says, "gratitude is a virtue that
has commonly profit annexed to it.” And
where is the virtue that has not? But still
the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not
for the profit that attends it.-Seneca.
Gratitude to God should be as habitual
as the reception of mercies is constant, as
ardent as the number of them is great, as
devout as the riches of divine grace and
goodness is incomprehensible. — C. Sin-
nions.
Gratitude is a virtue most deified and
yet most deserted ; it is the ornament of
rhetoric and the libel of practical life.-
J. W. Forney.
It is another's fault if he be ungrateful,
but it is mine if I do not give.-To find one
thankful man, I will oblige a great many
that are not so.-Seneca.
The gratitude of place-expectants is a
lively sense of future favors.-- Walpole.
He who remembers the benefits of his
parents is too much occupied with his
recollections to remember their faults.-
Béranger.
If gratitude is due from children to
their earthly parent, how much more is
the gratitude of the great family of men
due to our father in lieaven.-H. Ballou.
GRAVE.-A grave, wherever found,
preaches a short and pithy sermon to the
soul.-Hawthorne.
Earth's highest station ends in “Here he
lies ;” and Dust to dust” concludes the
noblest song - Young.
The grave buries every error, covers
every defect, extinguishes every resent-
ment. From its peaceful bosom spring
none but fond regrets and tender recollec-
tions.--Who can look down upon the grave
of an enemy, and not feel a compunctious
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throb that he should have warred with the
poor handful of dust that lies moldering
before him.- Washington Irving.
It is sadness to sense to look to the grave,
but gladness to faith to look beyond it.
A Christian graveyard is a cradle, where,
in the quiet motions of the globe, Jesus
rocks his sleeping children.-By and by he
will wake them from their slumber, and in
the arms of angels they shall be translated
to the skies.-G. B. Cheever.
An angel's arm can't snatch me from the
grave ; legions of angels can't confine me
there.—Young.
The disciples found angels at the grave
of him they loved, and we should always
find them, too, but thatour eyes are too full
of tears for seeing.-H. W. Beecher.
All along the pathway of life are tomb-
stones, by the side of which we have prom-
ised to strive for Heaven.
The churchyard is the market-place where
all things are rated at their true value, and
those who are approaching it talk of the
world and its vanities with a wisdom un-
known before.- Baxter.
When I look upon the tombs of the great,
every emotion of envy dies within me;
when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful,
every inordinate desire goes out.--Addison.
We go to the grave of a friend, saying,
"A man is dead, but angels throng about
him, saying, A man is born.”-H. W.
Beecher.
We weep over the graves of infants and
the little ones taken from us by death ; but
an early grave may be the shortest way to
heaven.- Tryon Edwards.
Of all the pulpits from which the human
voice is ever sent forth, there is none froin
which it reaches so far as from the grave.-
Ruskin..
O how small a portion of earth will hold
us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek
after the whole world while we are living.
--Philip of Macedon.
The ancients feared death ; we, thanks
to Christianity, fear only dying.--Guesses
at Truth.
I like that ancient Saxon phrase which
calls the burial ground “God's acre !” It
is just; it consecrates each grave within its
walls, and breathes a benison over the
sleeping dust. - Longfellow.
Only the actions of the just smell sweet
and blossom in the dust.- Shirley.
GRAVITY,-Gravity is only the bark of
wisdom; but it preserves it.-Confucius.
Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.
-Lavater.
Those wanting wit affect gravity, and
go by the name of solid men. - Dryden.
Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the
body, invented to cover the defects of the
mind.--Rochefoucauld.
The very essence of assumed gravity is
design, and consequently deceit; a taught
trick to gain credit with the world for
more sense and knowledge than a man is
worth:-Sterne.
There is a gravity which is not austere nor
captious, which belongs not to melancholy
nor dwells in contraction of heart, but
arises from tenderness and hangs on reflec-
tion.- Landor.
All the sobriety religion needs or requires
is that which real earnestness produces.-
When men say "be sober," they usually
mean "be stupid.”—When the Bible says
"be sober," it means “rouse up to the
earnestness and vivacity of life.”_-The old
scriptural sobriety was effectual doing ;
ascetic sobriety is effectual dullness.-E.
W. Beecher.
As in a man's life, so in his studies, it is
the most beautiful and humane thing in
the world so to mingle gravity with pleas-
ure, that the one may not sink into nielan-
choly, nor the other rise up into wanton-
ness.- Pliny.
There is a false gravity that is a very
ill
symptom; and as rivers which run very
slowly have always most mud at the bot-
tom, so a solid stiffness in the constant
course of a man's life, is the sign of a thick
bed of inud at the bottom of his brain.
Saville.
Gravity is but the rind of wisdom; but
it is a preservative rind.-Joubert.
Gravity is the very essence of impos-
ture; it not only mistakes other things,
but is apt perpetually to mistake itself.
Shaftesbury.
Gravity must be natural and simple ;
there must be urbanity and tenderness in
it. A man must not formalize on every-
thing.--He who does so is a fool; and a
grave fool is, perhaps, more injurious than
a light fool. — Cecil.
Gravity is the ballast of the soul, which
keeps the mind steady.-Fuller.
There is a care for trifles which proceeds
from love and conscience, and which is
most holy; and there is a care for trifles
which comes of idleness and frivolity, and
is most base. --And so, also, there is a grav-
ity proceeding from thought, which is most
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GREATNESS.
noble, and a gravity proceeding from dull-
ness and mere incapability for enjoyment,
which is most base.—Ruskin.
Gravity—the body's wisdom to conceal
the mind. Young.
As in our lives, so also in our studies, it
is most becoming and most wise to tenper
gravity with cheerfulness, that the former
may not imbue our minds with melancholy,
nor the latter degenerate into licentious-
ne88.--- Pliny.
GREATNESS.-A really great man is
known by three signs-generosity in the
design, humanity in the execution, modera-
tion in success. Bismarck.
The greatest man is he who chooses the
right with invincible resolution; who re-
sists the sorest temptations from within
and without; who bears the heaviest bur-
dens cheerfully; who is calmest in storms,
and most fearless under menace and
frowns; and whose reliance on truth, on
virtue, and on God, is most unfaltering.–
Channing.
He only is great who has the habits of
greatness; who, after performing what
none in ten thousand could accomplish,
passes on like Samson, and " tells neither
father nor mother of it."-Lavater.
The true test of a great man-that, at
least, which must secure his place among
the bigliest order of great men-is, his
having been in advance of his age. —
Broughan.
A contemplation of God's works, a gener-
ous concern for the good of mankind, and
the unfeigned exercise of humility—these
only, denominate men great and glorious.
-Addison.
The study of God's word, for the pur-
pose of discovering God's will, is the secret
discipline which has formed the greatest
characters.--J. W. Alerander.
Greatness lies, not in being strong, but
in the right using of strength; and strength
is not used rightly when it serves only to
carry a man above his fellows for his own
solitary glory. He is the greatest whose
strength carries up the most hearts by the
attraction of his own.
Difficulty is a nurse of greatness—a harsh
nurse, who rocks her foster children
roughly, but rocks them into strength and
athletic proportions. The mind, grappling
with great aims and wrestling with mighty
impediments, grows by a certain necessity
to the stature of greatness.-Bryant.
If any man seeks for greatness, let him
forget greatness
and ask for truth, and he
will find both.-Horace Mann.
There never was any heart truly great
and gracious, that was not also tender and
compassionate.-South.
The superiority of some men is merely
local. Tliey are great because their asso-
ciates are little.-Johnson.
A nation's greatness resides not in her
material resources, but in her will, faith,
intelligence, and moral forces.--J. M.
Hoppin.
Not a day passes over the earth but men
and women of no note do great deeds,
speak great words, and suffer noble sor-
TOWS. of these obscure heroes, philoso-
phers, and niartyrs the greater part will
never be known till that hour when many
that were great shall be small, and the
small great.-Charles Reade.
A great man may be the personification
and type of the epoch for which God des-
tines him, but he is never its creator.-
D'Aubigné.
No man has come to true greatness who
bas not felt in some degree that his life
belongs to his race, and that what God
gives him he gives him for mankind. --
Phillips Brooks.
The greatest men in all ages have been
lovers of their kind. All true leaders of
men have it.-Faith in men and love to
men are unfailing marks of true greatness.
If I am asked who is the greatest man?
I answer the best ; and if I am required to
say who is the best? I reply he that has
deserved most of his fellow-creatures.—Sir
William Jones,
It is easy in the world to live after the
world's opinion-it is easy in solitude to
live after your own ; but the great man is
he who, in the midst of the world, keeps
with perfect sweetness the independence of
solitude.--Ener'son.
In estimating the greatness of great men,
the inverted law of the physical stands for
the intellectual and spiritual nature-the
former is lessened by distance, the latter
increased.-Schopenhauer.
Great men are the commissioned guides
of mankind, who rule their fellows because
they are wiser.-Carlyle.
The theory that a great man is merely
the product of his age, is rejected by the
common sense and common observation of
mankind.-The power that guides large
masses of men, and shapes the channels in
which the energies of a great people flow,
is something more than a mere aggregate
of derivative forces. It is a compound
product, in which the genius of the man is
one element, and the sphere opened to him
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by the character of his age and the institu-
tions of his country, is another.-G. S.
Erilliard.
Nothing can be truly great which is not
right.-Johnson.
Great men often obtain their ends by
means beyond the grasp of vulgar intellect,
and eveu by methods diametrically opposite
to those which the multitude would pursue.
But, to effect this, bespeaks as profound a
knowledge of mind as that philosopher
evinced of matter, who first produced ice
by the agency of heat.-Coltor.
If the title of great man ought to be
reserved for him who cannot be charged
with an indiscretion or a vice ; who spent
his life in establishing the independence,
the glory, and durablo prosperity of his
country; who succeeded in all that he un-
dertook, and whose successes were never
won at the expense of bonor, justice,
integrity, or by the sacrifice of a singló
principle—this title will not be denied to
Washington.-Sparks.
A great, a good, and a right mind is a kind
of divinity lodged in flesh, and may be the
blessing of a slave as well as of a prince:
it came from heaven, and to heaven it must
return; and it is a kind of heavenly felicity,
which a pure and virtuous mind enjoys, in
some degree, even upon earth. ---Seneca.
In life we shall find many men that are
great, and some men that are good, but
very few men that are both great and good.
- Colton.
The great men of the earth are but
marking stones on the road of humanity;
they are the priests of its religion.-Maz-
zini..
Subtract from the great man all that he
owes to opportunity, all that he owes to
chance, and all that he has gained by the
wisdom of his friends and the folly of his
enemies, and the giant will often be seen
to be a pigmy.--Colton.
Distinction is the consequence, never the
object, of a great mind. - Washington All-
ston.
However brilliant an action may be, it
ought not to pass for great when it is not
the result of a great design.-Rochefou-
cauld.
Nothing can make a man truly great but
being truly good, and partaking of God's
holiness.-M. Henry.
Everything great is not always good, but
all good things are great.-- Demosthenes.
There is but one method, and that is
hard labor ; and a man who will not pay
that price for greatness had better at once
dedicate himself to the pursuit of the fox,
or to talk of bullocks, and glory in the
goad.-Sidney Smith,
The reason why great men meet with so
little pity or attachmentin adversity, would
seem to be this : the friends of a great
man were made by his fortune, his enemies
by himself, and revenge is a much more
punctual paymaster than gratitude.--
Colion.
Great men never make bad use of their
superiority; they see it, and feel it, and
are not less modest. The more they have,
the more they know their own deficiencies.
--Rousseau.
He who is great when he falls is great in
his prostration, and is no more an object
of contempt than when men tread on the
ruins of sacred buildings, which men of
piety venerate no less than if they stood.-
Seneca.
Times of general calamity and confusion
have ever been productive of the greatest
minds. The purest ore is produced from
the hottest furnace, and the brighest thun-
derbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
- Colton.
The truly great consider first, how they
may gain the approbation of God; and
secondly, that of their own conscience;
having done this, they would then willingly
conciliate the good opinion of their fellow-
men.- Colton.
Great souls are not those which have less
passion and more virtue than common
8ouls, but only those which have greater
designs.-Rochefoucauld.
A great mind may change its objects,
bat it cannot relinquish them ; it must
have something to prirsue ; variety is its
relaxation, and amusement its repose.--
Colton.
Men in great place are thrice servants ;
scrvants of the sovereign or state, servants
of fame, and servants of business ; so that
they have no freedom, ncither in their per-
sons, in their actions, nor in their times. It
is a strange desire to seek power over others,
and to lose power over a man's self.
Bacon.
He is great who can do what he wishes ;
he is wise who wishes to do what he can.-
Ifland.
A solemn and religious regard to spirit-
ual and eternal things is an indispensable
element of all true greatness. Daniel
Webster.
The difference between one man and
another is by no means so great as the
superstitious crowd supposes. But the
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greatness, must always have had a very
low standard of it in his mind.-Ruslcin.
The man who does his work, any work,
conscientiously, must always be in one
sense a great man.-Mulock.
In the truly great, virtue governs with a
scepter of knowledge and wisdom.-Sir P.
Sidney.
Greatness lies not in being strong, but
in the right using of strength.-8. W.
Beecher.
same feelings which in ancient Rome pro-
duced the apotheosis of a popular emperor,
and in modern times the canonization of
a devout prelate, lead men to cherish an
illusion which furnishes them with some-
thing to adore.-Macaulay.
He is great enough that is his own mas-
ter.--Bp. Hall.
Great minds, like heaven, are pleased in
doing good, though the ungrateful sub-
jects of their favors are barren in return.-
Rowe.
What millions died that Cæsar might be
great.-Campbell.
High stations tumult, not bliss create.
None think the great' unhappy, but the
great.--Young.
The most substantial glory of a country
is in its virtuous great men.-Its pros-
perity will depend on its docility to learn
from their example.-Fisher Ames.
Great is he who enjoys his earthenware
as if it were plate, and not less great is the
man to whom all his plate is no more than
earthenware.Seneca.
Some are boru great; some achieve
greatness; and some have greatness thrust
upon them.-Shakespeare.
Since by your greatness you are nearer
heaven in place, be nearer it in goodness.
There never was yet a truly great man
that was not at the same time truly virtu-
ous.— Franklin.
It is to be lamented that great characters
are seldom withont a blot. - Washington
The world cannot do without great men,
but great men are very troublesome to the
world.--Goethe.
He is not great, who is not greatly good.
-Shalcespeare.
Great men lose somewhat of their great-
ness by being near us; ordinary men gain
much.-Landor.
Speaking generally, no man appears
great to his cotemporaries, for the same
reason that no man is great to his servants
-both know too inuch of him.--Colton,
There never was a great institution or a
great man, that did not, sooner or later,
receive the reverence of mankind.-Theo-
dore Parker.
Great minds must be ready not only to
take opportunities, but to make them.-
Colton.
Great men undertake great things be-
cause they are great ; fools, because they
think them easy.- Vauvenargues.
He who comes up to his own idea of
GRIEF.Never does a man know the
force that is in him till some mighty affec-
tion or grief has humanized the soul.-F.
W. Robertson.
There is no greater grief than to remem-
ber days of joy when misery is at hand.
Dante.
Sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering
happier things.—Tennyson.
Great grief makes sacred those upon
whom its hand is laid.—Joy may elevate,
ambition glorify, but only sorrow can con-
secrate.-
Horace Greeley.
Light griefs are plaintive, but great ones
are dumb.-Seneca.
Every one can master a grief but he that
bath it. --Shakespeare.
No grief is so acute but that time amel-
iorates it.--- Cicero.
Time is the great comforter of grief, but
the agency by which it works is exhaustion.
-L. E. Landon.
Moderate lamentation is the right of the
dead; excessive grief the enemy of the
living.–Shakespeare.
If the internal griefs of every man could
be read, written on his forehead, how
mauy who now excite envy, would appear
to be objects of pity ?-Metastasio.
Who fails to grieve when just occasion
calls, or grieves too much, deserves not to
be blest: inhuman, or effeminate, his
heart.- Young.
Grief should be like joy, majestic, sedate,
confirming, cleansing, equable, making
free, strong to consume small troubles, to
command great thoughts, grave thoughts,
thoughts lasting to the end.- De Vere.
Well has it been said that there is no
grief like the grief which does not speak.
-Longfellow.
Some grief shows much of love; but
much of grief shows still some want of wit.
- Shakespeare.
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds
than happiness ever can ; common suffer-
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ings are far stronger links than common
joys.- Lamartine.
Excess of grief for the dead is madness ;
for it is an injury to the living, and the
dead know it not.-Xenophon.
Why destroy present happiness by a dis-
taut misery which may never come at all,
or you may never live to see it?—Every
substantial grief has twenty shadows, and
most of them shadows of your own making.
-Sidney Smith.
While grief is fresh, every attempt to
divert only irritates.--You must wait till it
be digested, and then amusement will dis-
sipate the remains of it.-Johnson.
Grief hallows hearts even while it ages
heads.-Bailey.
Sorrow's best antidote is employment.--
Young.
Give sorrow words.-The grief that does
not speak, whispers the o'erfraught heart,
and bids it break. --Shakespeare.
Bion, seeing a person who was tearing the
hair off his head for sorrow, said, "Does
this man think that baldness is a remedy
for grief?
GRUMBLING.- Every one may see
daily instances of people who complain
from the mere habit of complaining. -
Graves.
There is an unfortunate disposition in
man to attend much inore to the faults of
his companions that offend him, than to
their perfections which please him.—Gre-
ville.
Just as you are pleased at finding faults,
you are displeased at finding perfections.
-Lavaler.
Grumblers are commonly an idle set.-
Having no disposition to work themselves,
they spend their time in whining and
complaining both about their own affairs
and those of their neighbors.
Those who complain most are most to
be complained of.-M. Henry.
There is a very large and very knowing
class of misanthropes who rejoice in the
naine of grumblers, persons who are so
sure that the world is going to ruin that
they resent every attenipt to comfort them
as an insult to their sagacity, and accord-
ingly seek their chief consolation in being
inconsolable, and their chief pleasure in
being displeased.-E. P. Whipple.
I pity the man who can travel from
Dan to Beersheba, and cry it is all barren.
-Sterne.
Had we not faults of our own, we should
take less pleasure in complaining of others.
-Fénelon.
GUESTS.-True friendship's laws are
by this rule expressed : welcome the com-
ing, speed the parting guest. - Pope.
Be bright and jovial among your guests
to-night.-Shakespeare.
The first day, a guest ; the second, a
burden ; the third, a pest.–Laboulaye.
Unbidden guests are often welcomest
when they are gone.-Shakespeare.
Let the one you would welcome to your
liospitality, be one you can welcome to
your respect and esteem, if not to your
personal friendship.
QUIDANCE.-A sound head, an honest
heart, and an humble spirit are the three
best guides through time and to eternity.
That man may safely venture on'his way,
who is so guided that he cannot stray.-
Walter Scott.
He that takes truth for his guide, and
duty for his end, may safely trust to God's
providence to lead him aright.--Pascal.
If we acknowledge God in all our ways,
he has promised safely to direct our steps,
and in our experience we shall find the
promise fulfilled.-Payson.
GUILT.-(See “REMORSE.")
Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow,-
Horace Bushnell.
God hath yoked to guilt, her pale tor-
mentor, misery.-Bryant.
Let no man trust the first false step of
guilt: it hangs upon a precipice, whose
steep descent in lost perdition ends.-
Young.
Adversity, how blunt are all the arrows
of thy quiver in comparison with those of
guilt.- Blair.
The mind of guilt is full of scorpions.-
Shakespeare.
It is the inevitable end of guilt that it
places its own punishment on a chance
which is sure to occur.-L. E. Landon.
From the body of one guilty deed a
thousand ghostly fears and haunting
thoughts proceed. — Wordsworth.
Better it were, that all the miseries
which nature owns were ours at once,
than guilt. --Shakespeare.
To what deep gulfs a single deviation
from the track of human duties leads.---
Byron. .
He who is conscious of secret and dark
designs, which, if known, would blast him,
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in the dark, dreading every ray of light,
lest it should discover him, and give him
up to sliame and punishment.--Fielding.
They who engage in iniquitous designs
miserably deceive themselves when they
think they will go so far and no farther
one fault begets another ; one crime reu-
ders another necessary; and thus they are
impelled continually downward into a
depth of guilt, which at the commencement
of their career they would have died rather
than have incurred.--Southey.
The sin lessens in the guilty one's esti-
mation, only as the guilt increases.-
Schiller.
GYMNASTICS.-The exercise of all
the muscles of the body in their due pro-
portion is one great secret of health and
comfort as well as of strength, and the full
development of manly vigor.— W. Hall.
Gymnastics open the chest, exercise the
limbs, and give a man all the pleasure of
boxing, without the blows. I could wish
that learned men would lay out the time
they employ in controversies and disputes
about nothing, in this method of fighting
with their own shadows. It might con-
duce very much to evaporate the spleen,
which makes them uneasy to the public as
well as to themselves.-Addison.
is perpetually shrinking and dodging from
publio observation, and is afraid of all
around, and much more of all above him.-
W. Wirt.
The guilty mind debases the great image
that it wears, and levels us with brutes.-
Havard.
They whose guilt within their bosom lies,
imagine every eye beholds their blame.-
Shakespeare.
Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon
iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing
and creeping into it, as that does which at
last eats out the very heart and substance
of the metal. --South.
The guilt that feels not its own shame is
wholly incurable.-It was the redeeming
promise in the facut of Adam, that with
the commission of his crime came the sense
of his nakedness.--Simnis.
Though it sleep long, the vemon of great
guilt, when death, or danger, or detection
comes, will bite the spirit fiercely. --Shake-
speare.
Guilt once harbored in the conscious
breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the
great.-Johnson.
Guilt is the source of sorrow, the aveug-
ing fiend, that follows us behind with
whips and stings.-Rowe.
The guilt being great, the fear doth still
exceed.-Shakespeare.
The greatest incitement to guilt is the
hope of sinning with impunity.- Cicero.
Guiltiness will speak though tongues were
out of use.--Shakespeare.
Oh, that pang, where more than mad-
ness lies, the worm that will not sleep, and
never dies. Byron.
Oh, what a state is guilt! how wild, how
wretched, when apprehensiou can form
nought but fears, and we distrust security
itself.-Havard.
The consequences of our crimes long
survive their commission, and, like the
ghosts of the murdered, forever haunt the
steps of the malefactor: — Waller Scott.
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind;
the thief doth fear each bush an officer.
Shakespeare.
Beside one deed of guilt, how blest is
guileless woe !-Bulwer.
Let wickedness escape, as it may at the
bar, it never fails of doing justice upon
itself ; for every guilty person is his own
hangman.--Seneca.
Fraud and falsehood are his weak and
treacherous allies, and he lurks trembling
H.
HABIT,How use doth breed a habit
in a man. --Shakespeare.
Any act often repeated soon forms a
habit; and habit allowed, steadily gains in
strength.-At first it may be but as the
spider's web, easily broken through, but if
not resisted it soon binds us with chains of
steel.-Tryon Edwards.
We first make our habits, and then our
habits make us.
All habits gather, by unseen degrees, as
brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.-
Dryden.
Habit is a cable.--We weave a thread of
it every day, and at last we cannot break
it.-H. Mann.
If an idiot were to tell you the same story
every day for a year, you would end by be-
lieving him.- Burke.
Habit is the deepest law of human nature.
-Carlyle.
Habit is either the best of servants, or
the worst of masters.-- Enimons.
The habit of virtue cannot be formed in
the closet ; good habits are formed by acts
of reason in a persevering struggle with
temptation.-B. Gilpin.
i
bered by all. It is this, that our power of
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HABIT.
In a majority of things habit is a greater rushing into an element in which he can-
plague than ever afflicted Egypt.-In re- not breathe, as of lying, or cheating, or
ligious character it is a grand felicity.- stealing:-Brougham.
John Foster.
If we would know who is the most de
Charity should be the habit of our esti- graded and wretched of human beings,
mates : kindness of our feelings; benevo- look for a man who has practised a vice so
lence of our affections: cheerfulness of our long that he curses it and yet clings to it
social intercourse ; generosity of our liv- that he pursues it because he feels a great
ing; improvement of our progress ; prayer law of his nature driving him on toward
of our desires ; fidelity of our seif-examina- it; but reaching it. knows that it will guaw
tion ; being and doing good of our entire his beart, and make him roll himself in the
life.
dust with anguish.
When we have practised good actions There are habits, not only of drinking,
awhile, they become easy; when they are swearing, and lying, but of every modifica-
easy, we take pleasure in them; when they tion of action, speech, and thought. Man
please us, we do them frequently, and is a bundle of habits ; in a word, there is
then, by frequency of act, they grow into a not a qnality or function, either of body or
habit.-Tillotson,
mind, which does not feel the influence of
The chains of habit are generally too
this great law of auimated nature.-Paley.
sinall to be felt until they are too strong Habit, to which all of us are more or less
to be broken.-Johnson,
slaves. Fontaine,
As character to be used for eternity must In early childhood you may lay the foun-
be formed in time and in good time, so dation of poverty or riches, industry or
good habits to be used for happiness in this idleness, good or evil, by the habits to
life must be formed early; and then they which you train your children. Teach
will be a treasure to be desired in the house them right habits then, and their future
of the wise, and an oil of life in their dwel- life is safe.
lings.G. B. Cheever.
Habits, though in their commencement
We are all the time following the influ- like the filmy line of the spider, trembling
ences which will presently be our rulers ; at every breeze, may, in the end, prove as
we are making our own destiny. We are links of tempered steel, binding a deathless
choosing our habits, our associates, our being to eternal felicity or woe.--Mrs. Sig-
traits, our homes. In time these acquire a ourney.
power over us which enslaves our will, and
There is one feature in the law of habit
from them we neither will nor can break
loose.-H. L. Wayland.
which is so important, so uniformly sure in
its operation, and in some of its bearings
Habits are to the soul what the veins and
so almost fearful, that it should be remem-
arteries are to the blood, the courses in
which it moves.-Horace Bushnell.
passive sensation is weakened by the repe-
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes ne- tition of impressions; and that, just as cer-
cessity.-Augustine.
tainly, our active propensities are strength-
The phrases that men hear or repeat con-
ened by the repetition of actions.— Tryon
Edwards.
tinually, end by becoming convictions and
ossify the organs of intelligence.—Goethe. Bad habits are as infectious by example
I trust everything, under God, to habit,
as the plague itself is by contact. -Fielding.
upon which, in all ages, the lawgiver as Habit is ten times nature.- Wellington.
well as the schoolmaster has mainly placed A large part of Christian virtue consists
his reliance; habit which makes everything in good habits.-Paley.
easy, and casts all difficulties upon the de-
Habits are the petrefaction of feelings.-
viation from the wontec couse. Make
L. E. Landon.
solriety a habit, and intemperance will be
lateful and hard ; make prudence a babit,
Habits work inore constantly and with
and reckless profligacy will be as contrary
greater force than reason, which, when we
to the nature of the child, grown to be
have most need of it, is seldom fairly con-
an adult, as the most atrocious crimes are
sulted, and more rarely obeyed.---Locke.
to any of your lordships. Give a child the Refrain to-night, and that shall lend a
labit of sacredly regarding the truth, of kind of easiness to the next abstinence;
carefully respecting the property of others, the next more easy ; for use almost can
of scrupulously abstaining from all acts change the stamp of nature, and either
of improvidence which can involve him in curb the devil or throw him out with won-
distress, and he will just as likely think of drous potency.-Shakespeare.
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HAND.
Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed,
becomes truly a second nature ; but un-
.
skillfully and unmethodically directed, it
will be as it were the ape of nature, which
imitates nothing to the life, but only clum-
sily and awkwardly.-- Bacon.
Habit with him was all the test of truth
i
"it must be right, I've done it from my
youth."-Crabbe.
I must think forever : would an eternal
train of iny usual thoughts be either worthy
of me or useful to nie? I must feel forever:
would an eternal reign of my present spirit
and desires please or satisfy me? I must
act forever : would an eternal course of my
habitual conduct bring happiness, or even
bear reflection?
Habits are soon assumed; but when we
endeavor to strip them off, it is being flayed
alive.- Cowper.
Sow an act, and you reap a habit; 8OW
habit, and you reap a character ; sow a
character, and you reap a destiny.-G. D.
Boardman.
Habit is the beneficent harness of routine
which enables silly men to live respectably,
and unbappy men to live calmly.
- George
Cliot.
Good habits are the best magistrates.
Like flakes of snow that fall impercept-
ibly upon the earth, the seemingly uniin-
portant events of life succeed one another.
As the snow-flakes gather, so our babits
are formed.--No single flake that is added
to the pile produces a sensible change.--
No single action creates, however it may
exhibit a man's churacter.-But as the
tempest hurls the avalanche down the
mountain and overwhelms the inhabitant
and his habitation, so passion, acting on
the elements of mischief which pernicions
habits have brought together, may over-
throw the edifice of truth and virtue.-Ben-
thат.
The habits of time are the soul's dress
for eternity.-Habit passes with its owner
beyond this world into a world where des-
tiny is determined by character, and char-
acter is the sum and expression of all pre-
ceding habit.-G. B. Cheever.
Long customs are not easily brokon ; he
that attempts to change the course of his
own life very often labors in vain.-John-
thing is impulse with a little child, and
nothing can be called habit; almost every-
thing is habit in the second childhood of
old age, and there is very little that can be
called impulse.--Impulse is babit in for-
niation ;
habit is impulse fixed.-When
habit is once formed, impulse is powerless
against it.--Indeed all impulse falls into
it-It is like a deep and swift and re-
sistless river, into which an opposing
mountain current may pour with tre-
mendous momentary shock and agitation,
but with no effect whatever, save to in-
crease the volume, rapidity, and fury of
the tide, which is turned downward to the
sea.-G. B. Cheever'.
HAIR. The hair is the richest ornament
of women.-Of old, virgins used to wear it
loose, except when they were in mourning.
-Luther.
Her head was bare, but for her native
ornament of hair, which in a simple knot
was tied ; sweet negligence-unheeded bait
of love.-Dryden.
Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare,
and beauty draws us with a single hair.-
Pope.
By common consent gray bairs are a
crown of glory; the only object of respect
that can never excite envy.-Bancroft.
How ill white hairs become a fool and
jester !- Shakespeare.
Soft hair, on which light drops a diadem.
Massey.
Those curious locks, so aptly twined,
whose every hair a soul doth bind.-Carew.
Beware of her fair locks, for when she
winds them round a young man's neck,
she will not set him free again.—Goethe.
Her sunny locks hang on her temples
like a golden fleece.-Shakespeare.
The hairs of age are messengers which
bid us to repent and pray.--Of death they
are the harbingers that do prepare the way.
Vaux.
Hair, 'tis the robe which curious nature
weaves to hang upon the head, and to
adorn our bodies. When we were born,
God doth bestow that garment. When we
die, then like a soft and silken canopy it still
is over 18.—In spite of death, our hair
grows in the grave, and that alone looks
fresh, when all our other beauty is gone.
Decker.
HAND.-I love a hand that meets my
own with a grasp that causes some sensa-
sation.-F. S. Osgood.
Other parts of the body assist the speaker,
but the hands speak themselves.-By them
SON.
Habit is the child of impulse.-There is
in human life the period of impulse, when
habit is nothing; and there is the period
of habit, when impulse is nothing.-Young
persons are creatures of impulse ; old per-
sons are creatures of labit. --Almost every-
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we ask, promise, invoke, dismiss, threaten, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may
entreat, deprecate.-By them we express alight upon you.
fear, joy, grief, our doubts, assent, or pen- Happiness in this world, when it comes,
itence; we show moderation or profusion, comes incidentally.-Make it the object of
and mark number and time.- Quintilian.
pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase,
The hand is the mind's only perfect vas- and is never attained.-Elawthorne.
sal; and when, through age or illness, the If one only wished to be happy, this
connection between them is interrupted, could be easily accomplished; but wo wish
there are few more affecting tokens of hu- to be happier than other people, and this
man decay.-Tuckerman.
is always difficult, for we believe others to
HAPPINESS. --- (See "OCCUPATION.")
be happier than they are.-Montesquieu.
Happiness consists in the attainment of
Happiness can be built only on virtue, our desires, and in our having only right
and must of necesssity have truth for its desires.--Augustine.
foundation.-Coleridge.
The strength and the happiness of a man
No man is happy who does not think consists in finding out the way in which
himself so.--Marcus Antoninus.
God is going, and going in that way, too.
Happiness is neither within us only, or H. W. Beecher.
without us ; it is the union of ourselves Few things are needful to make the wise
with God.-Pascal.
man happy, but nothing satisfies the fool;
The world would be both better and
-and this is the reason why so many of
brighter if we would dwell on the duty of
mankind are miserable.--Rochefoucauld.
happiness, as well as on the happiness of What happiness is, the Bible alone shows
duty.—Sir J. Lubbock.
clearly and certainly, and points out the
Happiness consists in being perfectly
way that leads to the attainment of it.-
satisfied with what we have got and with
In Cicero and Plato, and other such
what we haven't got.
writers," says Augustine, “I meet with
It is not how much we have, but how
many things acutely said, and things that
much we enjoy, that makes happiness.-
excite a certain warmth of emotion, but in
Spurgeon.
none of them do I find these words, Come
unto me, all ye that labor, and are heavy
I am more and more convinced that our laden, and I will give you rest.'"-Cole-
happiuess or unhappiness depends far l'idge.
more on the way we meet the events of
life, than on the nature of those events
Call no man happy till you know the end
of his life. Till then, at most, he can only
themselves.-Humboldt.
be counted fortunate.- Herodotus.
Happiness is like manna; it is to be
gathered in grains, and eujoyed every day.
The rays of happiness, like those of light,
are colorless when unbroken.-- Longfellow.
It will not keep ; it cannot be accumulated;
nor have we got to go out of ourselves or
Happiness is dependent on the taste, and
into remote places to gather it, since it has
not on things.-It is by having what we
rained down from Heaven, at our very
like that we are made happy, not by hav-
doors.
ing what others think desirable.- Roche-
Seek happiness for its own sake, and you
foucauld.
will not find it; seek for duty, and happi-
Human happiness seems to consist in
ness will follow as the shadow comes with
three ingredients; action, pleasure, and
the sunshine.-Tryon Edwards.
indolence. And though these ingredients
ought to be mixed in different proportions,
In vain do they talk of happiness who
according to the disposition of the person,
never subdued an impulse in obedience to
yet no one ingredient can be entirely want-
a principle. He who never sacrificed a
ing without destroying in some measure
present to a future good, or a personal to
the relish of the whole composition.--Hume.
a general one, can speak of happiness only
as the blind do of colors. - Horace Mann.
Happiness is not the end of life; char-
acter is.-H. W. Beecher.
Men of the noblest dispositions think
themselves bappiest when others share their
Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the
happiness with them.-Jeremy Taylor.
least shadow intercepts, while adversity is
often as the rain of spring.-Chinese Prov-
All who would win joy, must share it; erb.
happiness was born a twin.- Byron.
Happiness is the legitimate fruitage of
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when love and service. It never comes and never
pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, can come by making it an end, and it ig
or
will
an only
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HAPPINESS.
because so many persons mistake liere and these is the greatest disappointment. Our
seek for it directly, instead of loving and hopes are usually bigger than the enjoy-
serving God, and thus obtaining it, that ment can satisfy; and an evil long feared,
there is so much dissatisfaction and sor- besides that it may never come, is many
row.
times more painful and troublesome than
Set happiness before you as an end, no
the evil itself when it comes.-Tillotson,
matter in what guise of wealth, or fame, The chief secret of comfort lies in not
suffering trifles to vex us, and in prudently
-But renounce it and seek the pleasure of cultivating our undergrowth of small pleas-
God, and that instant is the birth of your ures, since very few great ones, alas! are
own.-4. S. Hardy.
let on long leases.--Sharp.
It is only a poor sort of happiness that Pound St. Paul's church into atoms, and
could ever come by caring very much about consider any single atom; it is good for
nothing ; but put all these atoms together,
have the highest happiness, such as goes and you have St. Paul's church. Soit is with
along with true greatliess, by having wide human felicity, which is made up of many
thoughts and much feeling for the rest of ingredients, each of which may be very
the world as well as ourselves ; and this insignificant.-Johnson.
sort of happiness often brings so much pain
There is nothing substantial and satis-
with it, that we can only tell it from pain
factory but the Supreme Good ; in it, the
by its being what we would choose before
deeper we go and the more largely we
everything else, because our souls see it is
drink, the better and happier we are ;
good.- George Eliot.
wheréns, in outward acquirements, if we
Happiness is like the statue of Isis, whose conld attain to the summit and perfection
veil no mortal ever raised.-L. E. Landon,
of them, the very possession of the enjoy-
If you cannot be happy in one way, be in ment palls.
another; this facility of disposition wants The fountain of content must spring up
but little aid fron philosophy, for health in the mind; and he who has so little
and good humor are almost the whole affair.
knowledge of human nature as to seek hap-
Many run about after l'elicity, like an ab-
piness by changing anything but his own
sent man liunting for his hat, while it is in
disposition, will waste his life in fruitless
his hand or on his head.---Sharp.
efforts, and multiply the griefs which he
There is this difference between happi- purposes to remove.-- Johnson.
ness and wisdom, that he that thinks him-
You traverse the world in search of hap-
self the happiest man, really is so; but he
piness, which is within the reach of every
that thinks himself the wisest, is generally man; a contented mind confers it on all.-
the greatest fool.-Collon.
Horace.
No person is either so happy or so un-
If the principles of contentment are
happy as he imagines.--Rochefoucauld.
not within us, the height of station and
We take greater pains to persuade others worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit
that we are happy, than in endeavoring to to a man's stature as to his happiness.-
be so ourselves. Goldsmith.
Sterne.
I see in this world two heaps-one of hap- Know then this truth, enough for man
piness, and the other of misery. Now, if
to know, virtue alone is happiness below.-
I can take but the smallest bit from the
Pope.
second, and add it to the first. I carry a
point. I should be glad indeed to do great
If happiness has not her seat and center
things ; but I will not neglect such little
in the breast, we may be wise, or rich, or
ones as this.-- John Newton.
great, but never can be blest. - Burns.
False happiness is like false money ; it
The spider's most attenuated thread is
for a time as well as the true, and
cord, is cable to man's tender tie on earthly
passes
serves some ordinary occasions ; but when
bliss-it breaks at every breeze.--Young.
it is brought to the touch, we find the light- Life is made up, not of great sacrifices
ness and alloy, and feel the loss. — Pope. or duties, but of little things, in which
Man courts happiness in a thousand
smiles and kindness and small obligations,
shapes; and the faster he follows it the given habitually, are what win and pre-
swifter it flies from him. Almost every-
serve the heart and secure comfort. --Sir
thing prorziseth happiness to 118 at a dis-
H. Davy.
tance, but when we come nearer, either we Beware what earth calls happiness; be-
fall short of it, or it falls short of our ex- ware all joys but joys that never can expire ;
pectation; and it is hard to say which of who builds on less than an immortal base,
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fond as he seems, condemns his joys to others. She flourishes in courts and pal-
death.--Young.
aces, theatres and assemblies, and has no
Fixed to no spot is happiness ; 'tis no-
existence but when she is looked upon.-
where to be found, or everywhere.—Pope.
Addison.
It is not so much by what we attain in
Happiness and virtue rest upon each
this life that we are to be made happy, as
other; the best are not only the happiest,
by the enlivening hope of what we shall
but the happiest are usually the best.---
reach in the world to come. While a nan
Bulwer.
is stringing a harp, he tries the strings, not The sunshine of life is made up of very
for music, but for construction. When it little beams that are bright all the time.
is finished it shall be played for melodies. To give np something, when giving up will
God is fashioning the human heart for prevent unhappiness; to yield, when per-
future joy. He only sounds a string here sisting will chafe and fret others; to go a
and there to see how far his work has pro- little around rather than come against an-
gressed.-H. W. Beecher.
other; to take an ill look or a cross word
Don't try to be happy.—Happiness is a
quietly, rather than resent or return it,-
shy nymph, and if you chase her you will these are the ways in which clouds and
never catch her ; but just go quietly on in
storms are kept off, and a pleasant and
the way of duty and she will come to you.-
steady sunshine secured.-Ailcin.
Eliphalet Nott.
True happiness renders men kind and
The Greeks said grandly in their tragic
sensible ; and that happiness is always
phrase, “Let no one be called happy till shared with others.—Montesquieu.
his death"; to which I would add, "Let no No thoroughly occupied man was ever
one, till his death, be called unhappy.' yet very miserable.--L. E. Landon.
E. B. Browning.
Silence is the perfectest herald of joy. I
It is an inevitable law that a man cannot
were but little happy if I could say how
be happy if he does not live for something much.-Shakespeare.
higher than his own happiness. He cannot
livo in or for himself. Every desire he has
The most happy man is he who knows
links him with others.-Bulwer.
how to bring into relation the end and the
To communicate happiness is worthy the There is one way of attaining what we
beginuing of his life.- Goethe.
ambition of beings superior to man; for it
is a first principle of action with the author may term, if not utter, at least mortal hap-
of all existence. It was God that taught it
piness; it is by a sincere and unrelaxing
as a virtue ; and it is God that gives the
activity for the happiness of others.—Bul-
wer,
exanıple.-Langhorne.
That all who are happy are equally happy
The haunts of happiness are varied, but
is not true. A peasant and a philosopher
I have more often found her among little
may be equally satisfied, but not equally
children, home firesides, and country houses
happy. A small drinking glass and a large
than anywhere else. --Sidney Smith.
one may be equally full, but a large one Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass
holds more than the small.-Johnson.
through a thousand bosoms without losing
The grand essentials to bappiness in this a particle of its original ray; nay, when it
life are, soinething to do, something to love, strikes on a kindred heart, like the con-
and soinething to hope for.
verged light on a mirror, it reflects itself
The true happiness is of a retired nature,
with redoubled brightness.-It is not per-
fected till it is shared.-Jane Porter.
and an enemy to pomp and noise ; it arises,
in the first place, from the enjoyment of He only is happy as well as great who
one's self ; and in the next, from the friend- needs neither to obey nor command in or-
ship and conversation of a few select com- der to be something. --Goethe.
panions ; it loves shade and solitude, and
That state of life is most happy where
naturally haunts groves and fountains,
superfluities are not required, and neces-
fields and meadows; in short, it feels
saries are not wanting.–Plutarch.
everything it wants within itself, and re-
ceives no addition from multitudes of wit-
There is in all of us an impediment to
nesses and spectators. On the contrary,
perfect happiness, namely, weariness of
false happiness loves to be in a crowd, and what we possess, and a desire for what we
have not. Mad. Rieux.
.
to draw the eyes of the world upon her.
She does not receive satisfaction from the It is not the place, nor the condition, but
applauses which she gives herself, but the mind alone that can make any one happy
from the admiration which she raises in or miserable.-L'Estrange.
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HARDSHIP.
The lappiest life is that which con-
stantly exercises and educates what is best
in us.--Hamerion.
There is little pleasure in the world that
is sincere and true beside that of doing our
duty and doing good.-No other is compar-
able to this.-Tillotson.
Do not speak of your happiness to one
less fortunate than yourself. -Plutarch.
The common course of things is in favor
of happiness.-Happiness is the rule, mis-
ery the exception.-Were the order l'c-
versel, our attention would be called to
examples of health and competency, instead
of disease and want.-Paley.
Objects we ardently pursue bring little
happiness when gained ; most of our pleas-
ures come from unexpected sources.--Her-
bert Spencer.
To be happy is not the purpose of our
being, but to deserve happiness.-Fichte.
The great high-road of human welfaro
and happiness lies along the highway of
steadfast well-doing, and they who are the
most persistent and work in the truest
spirit, will invariably be the most success-
ful.-S. Smiles.
Whether happiness may come or not,
one should try and prepare one's self to do
without it.-George Elint.
There is but one way to tranquillity of
mind and happiness ; let this, therefore,
be always ready at hand with thee, both
when thou wakest early in the morning,
and all the day long, and when thon guest
late to sleep, to account no external things
thine own, but commit all these to God.-
Epictetus.
All mankind are happier for having been
liappy, so that if you make them happy
now, yon make them happy twenty years
hence by the memory of it.--Sidney Smith.
To be happy you must forget yourself.
Learn benevolence ; it is the only cure of a
morbid temper.-Bulwer.
Philosophical happiness is to want little ;
civil or vulgar happiness is to want much
and enjoy much.-Burle.
The happiest women, like the happiest
nations, have no history.- George Eliot.
I have now reigned above fifty years in
victory or peace, beloved by my subjects,
dreaded by my enemies, and respected by
my allies. Riches and honors, power and
pleasure, have waited on my call, nor does
any earthly blessing appear to have been
wanting to my felicity. In this situation,
I have diligently numbered the days of pure
and genuine happiness which have füllen
to my lot; they amount to fourteen. 0
man, place not thy confidence in this
pres-
ent world !- The Caliph Abdalraham.
Human happiness has no perfect security
but freedom; freedom none but virtue ;
virtue none but kuowledge; and neither
freedom, virtue, nor knowledge has any
vigor or immortal hope, except in the
principles of the Christian faith, and in
the sanctions of the Christian religion.-
Josiah Quincy.
If I may speak of myself, my happy hours
have far exceeded, and far exceed, the
scanty numbers of the Caliph of Spain ;
and I shall not scruple to add, that many
of them are due to the pleasing labor of
composing my history.–Gibbon.
The best advice on the art of being happy
is about as easy to follow as advice to be
well when one is sick.-Mad. Swetchine.
Happiness consists in activity.-Such is
the constitution of our nature. It is a run-
ning stream, and not a stagnant pool.--J.
M. Good.
The question, "Which is the happiest sea-
son of life,” being referred to an aged man,
he replied: "When spring comes, and in the
soft air the buds are breaking on the trees,
and they are covered with blossoms, I think,
How beautiful is Spring! And when the
summer comes, and covers the trees with
its heavy foliage, and singing birds are
among the branches, I think, How beauti-
Pul is Summer! When autumn loads them
with golden fruit, and their leaves bear the
gorgcous tint of frost, I think, How beau-
tiful is Autumn ! And when it is sere
winter, and there is neither foliage nor
fruit, then I look up throngh the leafless
branches, as I never could until now, and
see the stars shine.'
The world owes all its onward impulses
to men ill at ease. The happy man inevi-
tably confines himself within ancient limits.
The true felicity of life is to be free from
anxieties and perturbations ; to understand
and do our duties to God and man, and
to enjoy the present without any serious
dependence on the future.-
-Seneca.
Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of
sense, lie in three words, health, peace, and
competence.- Pope.
I questioned death-the grisly shade re-
laxed his brow severe-and-"I am hap-
piness.” he said, “if virtue guides thee
here." _Heber.
HARDSHIP. The difficulties, hard-
ships, and trials of life, the obstacles one
encounters on the road to fortune, are
positive blessings.--They knit the muscles
more firmly, and teach self-reliance. -Peril
HARLOT.
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1
and hurry is akin to waste.-The old fable
of the hare and the tortoise is just as good
now, and just as true, as when it was first
written.-C. A. Stoddard.
Stay awhile to make an end the sooner.-
Paulet.
Fraud and deceit are ever in a hurry.-
Take time for all things.-Great baste
makes great waste.- Franklin,
Whoever is in a hurry shows that the
thing he is about is too big for him.--Haste
and hurry are very different things.-Ches-
terfield.
Manners require time, and nothing is
moro vulgar than haste. - Emerson.
Modest wisdom plucks me from over-
credulous haste.-Shakespeare.
Hurry and cunning are the two appren-
tices of despatch and skill, but neither of
thein ever learns the master's trade,- Col-
ton.
is the element in which power is developed.
- W. Mathews.
Ability and necessity dwell near each
other.-Pythagoras.
He who has battled with poverty and
hard toil will be found stronger and more
expert than he who could stay at home from
the battle, concealed among the provision
wagons, or unwatchfully abiding by the
stuff.- Carlyle.
It is not helps, but obstacles, not facili-
ties but difficulties, that make men,-- W.
Mathews.
Kites rise against, not with the wind.-
No man ever worked his passage anywhere
in a dead calm.-Jolin Neal.
HARLOT,-She weaves the winding-
sheet of souls, and lays them in the urn of
everlasting death.--Pollolc.
It is the strumpet's plague to beguile
many, and be beguiled by one.-Shalce-
speare.
HASTE.-Though I am always in haste,
I am never in a hurry.-John Wesley.
The more haste ever the worse speed.
Churchill
No two things differ more than hurry
and despatch. Hurry is the mark of a
weak mind ; despatch of a strong one-
Colton.
Haste is of the devil. Koran.
Wisely and slow ;-they stumble that run
fast. --Shakespeare.
Hurry is only good for catching flies.-
Russian Proverb.
Haste and rashness are storms and tem-
pests, breaking and wrecking business ;
but nimbleness is a full fair wind blowing
it with speed to the haven.-Fuller.
The longest way round is the shortest
way home.
Haste trips its own heels, and fetters and
stops itself. -Seneca.
Haste is not always speed. We must
learn to work and wait. This is like God,
who perfects his works through beautiful
gradations.
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to
error.- Molière.
Haste usually turns upon being late, and
may be avoided by a labit like that of Lord
Nelson, to which he ascribed liis success in
life, of always being ten minutes too early,
- Bovee.
It is of no use running ; to set out be-
times is the main point. - La Fontaine.
Rapidity does not always mean progress,
HATRED-Malice can always find a
mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire.
C. Simmons.
Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they
feed it with all their littlenesses, and make
it the pretext of base tyrannies.—Balzac.
If I wanted to punish an enemy it should
be by fastening on hin the trouble of con-
stantly hating somebody.-H. More.
I will tell you what to hate. Hate hypoc-
risy; late.cant; hate intolerance, oppres-
sion, injustice, Pharisaism; hate them as
Christ Kated them--with a deep, abiding,
God-like hatred.-7. W. Robertson.
When our hatred is violent, it sinks us
even beneath those we hate. -Rochefou-
cauld.
Hate no one ; hate their vices, not them-
selves.-J. G. C. Brainard.
If there is any person whom you clislike,
that is the one of whom you should never
speak.-Cecil.
Hatred is the madness of the heart.
Byron.
Thousands are hated, while none are
loved without a real cause.-Lavater.
Hatred is active, and envy passive dis-
like; there is but one step from envy to
hate.- Goethe.
Dislike what deserves it, but never hate,
for that is of the nature of malice, which
is applied to persons, not to things. -Penn.
It is buman nature to hate him whom
you have injured.- Tacitus.
Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only
by love; this is the eternal rule.-Buddha.
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We hate some persons because we do not
kuow them; and we will not know them
because we hate them.--Colton.
The hatred of those who are most nearly
connected is the most inveterate.-Tacitus.
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred
turned.-Congreve.
If you hate your enemies, you will con-
tract such a vicious habit of mind as by
degrees will break out upon those who are
your friends, or those who are indifferent
to you.--
Plutarch.
The passion of hatred is so durable and
so inveterate, that the surest prognostic of
death in a sick man is a wish for recon-
ciliation.—Bruyère.
There are glances of hatred that stab,
and raise no cry of murder.-George Eliot.
Malice and hatred are very fretting, and
make our own minds sore and uneasy.-
Tillotson.
war.
HEAD.--The head, truly enlightened,
will have a wonderful infliience in purifying
the heart; and the heart really affected
with goodness will much conduce to the
directing of the head.--Sprat.
Such is man's unhappy condition, that
though the weakness of the heart has a
prevailing power over the strength of the
head, yet the strength of the lead has but
small force against the weakuess of the
Leart.-Tatler.
A woman's head is always influenced by
heart; but a man's heart by his head.
Lady Blessington.
HEALTH, A sound mind in a sound
body; if the former be the glory of the
latter, the latter is indispensable to the
former.- Tryon Edwards.
The building of a perfect body crowned
by a perfect brain, is at once the greatest
earthly problem and grandest hope of the
race.- Dio Lewis.
A wise physician is a John Baptist, who
recognizes that his only mission is to pre-
pare the way for a greater than himself-
Nature.-A. S. Fardy.
Half the spiritual difficulties that men
and women suffer arise from a morbid state
of health.-H. W. Beecher.
Without health life is not life; it is only
a state of languor and suffering--an image
of death.-- Rabelais.
Take care of your health ; you have no
right to neglect it, and thus become a bur-
den to yourself, and perhaps to others.
Let your food he simple ; never eat too
much ; take exercise enough; be systematic
in all things ; if unwell, starve yourself till
you are well again, and you may throw
care to the winds, and physic to the dogs.-
W. Hall.
Health is the soul that animates all the
enjoyments of life, which fade and are
tasteless without it.Sir W. Temple.
If the mind, that rules the body, ever so
far forgets itself as to trample on its slave,
the slave is never generous enough to for-
give the injury, but will rise and smito the
oppressor. -Longfellow.
Regularity in the hours of rising and re-
tiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation
of dress to the variations of climate, simple
and nutritious aliment, and temperance in
all things are necessary branches of the
l'egimen of health.-Mrs. Sigourney.
The morality of clean blood ought to be
one of the first lessons taught us by our
pastors and teachers.—The physical is the
substratum of the spiritual; and this fact
ought to give to the food we eat, and the
air we breathe, a transcendent significance.
- Tyndale.
Wet feet are some of the most effective
agents death has in the field. It has peopled
more graves than all the gory engines of
Those who neglect to keep their feet
dry are suicides.—Abernethy.
Men that look no further than their out-
sides, think health an appurtenance unto
life, and quarrel with their constitutions
for being sick ; but I that have examined
the parts of man, and know upon what
tender filaments that fabric hangs, ao won-
dler that we are not always so; and con-
sidering the thousand doors that lead to
death, do thank my God that we can die
but once.-Sir T. Browne.
To preserve health is a moral and re-
ligious duty, for health is the basis of all
social virtues.- We can no longer be use-
ful when not well.-Johnson,
Dyspepsia is the remorse of a guilty stom-
ach.-A. Kerr.
Health is certainly more valuable than
money, because it is by health that money
is procured; but thousands and millions
are of small avail to alleviate the tortures
of the gout, to repair the broken organs of
sense, or resuscitate the powers of diges-
tion. Poverty is, indeed, an evil from
which we naturally fly ; but let us not run
from one enemy to another, nor take shel-
ter in the arms of sickness.-Johi2s0n.
If men gave three times as much atten-
tion as they now do to ventilation, ablution,
and exercise in the open air, and only one
third as much to eating, luxury, and late
end
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HEALTH.
hours, the number of doctors, dentists, and the health of the body, although both are
apothecaries, and the amount of neuralgia, deserving of much more attention than
dyspepsiiv, gout, fever, and consumption, either receives.--Colt
would be changed in a corresponding ratio.
People who are always taking care of
Never hurry; take plenty of exercise ; their health are like misers, who are hoard-
always be cheerful, and take all the sleep ing up a treasure which they have never
you need, and you may expect to be well. spirit enough to enjoy.--Sterne.
-J. F. Clarke.
In these days, half our diseases como
Life is not to live, but to be well.-Mar- from the neglect of the body in the over-
tiαι. .
work of the brain. In this railway age,
There is this difference between the two
the wear and tear of labor and intellect go
temporal blessings-health and money ;
oil without pause or self-pity. We live
money is the most envied, but the least en-
longer than our forefathers; but we suffer
joyed; health is the most enjoyed, but the
more from a thousand artificial anxieties
least envied ; and this superiority of the
and cares. They fatigued only the mus-
latter is still more obvious when we reflect cles, we exhaust the finer strength of the
that the poorest man would not part with
nerves.-Bulwer.
health for money, but that the richest Health is so necessary to all the duties,
would gladly part with all his money for as well as pleasures of life, that the crime
health. - Colton.
of squandering it is equal to the folly.-
The first wealth is health. Sickness is
Jolins012.
poor-spirited, and canuot serve any one; Health is the greatest of all possessions ;
it must husband its resources to live. But a pale cobbler is better than a sick king.-
health answers its own ends, and lias to Bicicersta:ft.
spare ; runs over, and inundates the neigh-
Regimen is better than physic. Every
borhoods and creeks of other men's neces- one should be his own physician. We
sities.-Emerson.
ought to assist, and not to force nature. Eat
To become a thoroughly good man is the with moderation what agrees with your
best prescription for keeping a sound mind constitution. Nothing is good for the
in a sound body.--Bowen.
body but what we can digest. What medi-
The ingredients of health and long life,
cine can procure digestion ? Exercise.
are great temperance, open air, easy labor,
What will recruit strength ? Sleep. What
and little care.—Sir P. Sidney.
will alleviate incurable evils ? Patience.--
Voltaire.
Youth will never live to age unless they
keep themselves in health with exercise,
What a searching preacher of self-com-
and in heart with joyfulness.-Sir P. Sida
mand is the varying phenomenon of health.
-Emerson.
ney.
The only way for a rich man to be
Look to your health ; and if you have it,
healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live
praise God and value it next to a good con-
as if he were poor.—Sir W. Temple.
science : for health is the second blessing
that we mortals are capable of--a blessing
It is the opinion of those who best under-
that money cannot buy; therefore value it,
stand the physical system, that if the phys-
and be thankful for it.-Izaak Walton.
ical laws were strictly observed from gen-
The first sure symptoms of a mind in
to the frightful diseases that cut life short, health are rest of heart and pleasure found
and of the long list of maladies that make at home. - Young.
life a torment or a trial, and that this won- Man subsists upon the air, more than upon
derful machine, the body,—this goodly his meat and drink; and no one can exist
temple,” would gradually decay, and men for an hour without a copious supply of
would at last die as iſ gently falling asleep. air. The atmosphere which some breathe
--Mrs. Sedgwick.
is contaminated and adulterated, and with
With stupidity and sound digestion man
its vital principles so diminished, that it
may fret much ; but what in these dull cannot fully decarbonize the blood, nor
unimaginative days are the terrors of con- fully excite the nervous system.- Thack-
science to the diseases of the liver.-Car- eray.
lyle.
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you
Anguish of mind has driven thousands to are ill; never own it to yourself. “Illness
suicide ; anguish of body, none. This is one of those things which a man should
proves that the health of the mind is of resist on principle at the onset.- Bulwer.
far more consequence to our happiness than A good digestion is as truly obligatory
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as a good conscience ; pure blood is as truly
a part of manhood as a pure faith ; a vigor-
ous brain is as necessary to useful living as
a vigorous will, which it often helps to make
vigorous; and a well-ordered skin is the
first condition of that cleanliness which is
next to godliness.-H. W. Beecher.
Those bypochondriacs, who give up their
whole time and thoughts to the care of their
health, sacrifice unto life every noble prir-
pose of living ; striving to support a frail
and feverish being here, they neglect all
hereafter ; they continue to patch np and
repair their moldering tenement of clay,
regardless of the immortal tenant that must
survive it; agitated by greater fears than
the Apostle, and supported by none of liis
hopes, they “die daily.”—Collon.
There are two things in life that a sage
must preserve at every sacrifice, the coats
of his stomach, and the enamel of his teeth.
Some evils admit of consolations, but
there are no comforters for dyspepsia and
the toothache.-Bulwer,
Seldom shall we see in cities, courts, and
rich families, where men live plentifully,
and eat and drink freely, that perfect health
and athletic soundness and vigor of consti-
tution which are commonly seen in the
country, where nature is the cook, and ne-
cessity the caterer, and where they have no
other doctor but tlie sun and fresh air.-
South.
Gold that buys health can never be ill
spent ; nor hours laid out in harmless mer-
riment.-J. Weuster.
Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the
door on the doctor's nose. -Longfellow.
Be sober and temperate, and you will be
healthy.--Franlilin.
Ele who has health, has hope ; and he who
has hope, has everything.-- Arabian Prov-
erb.
Health, beauty, vigor, riches, and all the
other things called good, operate equally as
evils to the vicious and unjust, as they do
as benefits to the just.-Plalo.
They that have tried both health and
sickness, know what a help it is in every
work of God, to have a healthful body and
cheerful spirits.- Baxter.
Few things are more important to a coin-
munity than the health of its women.-If
strong is the frame of the mother, says a
proverb, the son will give laws to the peo-
ple.-And in nations where all men give
laws, all men need mothers of strong
frames.-T. W. Higginson.
HEART.-The heart is the best logician.
Wendell Phillips.
There is no instinct like that of the heart.
-Byron.
If wrong our hearts, our heads are right
in vain. - Young.
A good heart is worth gold.-Shakespeare.
The heart gets weary, but never gets old.
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.-
Dickens.
The heart has reasons that reason does
not understand.-- Bossuet.
The ways of the heart, like the ways of
providence are mysterious.--- Ware.
Suppose that a man would advertise to
take photographs of the heart; would be
get many customers ?-D. L. Moody.
If a good face is a letter of recommenda-
tion, a good heart is a letter of credit.-
Bulwer.
How mighty is the human heart, with all
its complicated energies—this living source
of all that moves the world, this temple of
liberty, this kingdom of heaven, this altar
of God, this throne of goodness, so beauti-
ful in holiness, so generous in love !-
H. Giles.
All who know their own minds, do not
kuow their own hearts.--Rochefoucauld.
Every one must in a measure be alone in
the world; for no heart was ever cast in
the same mold as that which we bear
within us.-Berni.
The wrinkles of the heart are more indeli-
ble than those of the brow.-Deluzy.
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness,
making everything in its vicinity to freshen
into smiles. - Washington Irving.
When the heart goes before, like a lamp,
anıl illumines the pathway, many things are
made clear that else lie hidden in darkness.
-Longfellow.
When the heart speaks, glory itself is an
illusion.-Napoleon.
Heaven's sovereign saves all beings but
himself that hideous sight, a naked human
heart. Young.
There are many persons the brilliancy of
whose minds depends on the heart. - When
they open that, it is hardy possible for it
not to throw out some fire.--Desmalis.
Memory, wit, fancy, acuteness, cannot
grow young again in old age; but the heart
can. ---Richter.
All our actions take their hue from the
complexion of the heart, as landscapes their
variety fronı light.-Bacon.
It is much easier to pull up many weeds
out of a garden, than one corruption out of
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the heart; to procure a hundred flowers to
adorn a knot, than one grace to beautify
the soul.
The heart never grows better by age ; I
fear rather worse ; always harder. A young
liar will be an old one ; and a young knave
will only be a greater knave as he grows
older, Chesterfield.
The depraved and sinful heart does not
of itself grow better, but goes on from bad
to worse ; but the heart renewed by divine
grace, grows steadily in the divine like-
ness ; its path is that of the just, that
shineth more and more to the perfect day.
To judge human character rightly, a man
may sometimes have very small experience ,
provided he has a very large heart. - Bul-
wer.
Mind is the partial side of man ;
thie
heart is everything.---Rivarol.
The heart of a wise man should resemble
a mirror, which reflects every object with-
out being sullied by any.-Confucius.
Each heart is a world.--You find all
within yourself that you find without. To
know yourself you have only to set down a
true statement of those that ever loved or
hated you.Lavater.
What the heart has once owned and liad,
it shall never lose.-H. W. Beecher,
What sad faces one always sees in the
asylum for orphans !-It is more fatal to
neglect the heart than the head. Theodore
Parker.
Nothing is less in our power than the
heart, and far from commanding we are
forced to obey it.—Rousseau.
The nice, calm, cold thought, which in
women shapes itself so rapidly that they
hardly know it as thought, should always
travel to the lips by way of the heart.-It
does so in those women whom all love and
admire.--0. W. Holmes.
The buman heart is like the millstone in
a mill; when you put wheat under it, it
turns and grinds the wheat into flour, -If
you put no wheat in, it still grinds on, but
then it is itself it grinds and slowly wears
away.-Luther.
Many flowers open to the sun, but only
one follows him constantly.-Heart, be
thou the sunflower, not only open to re-
ceive God's blessing, but constant in look-
ing to him.-Richter.
The hardest trial of the heart is, whether
it can hear a rival's failure without triumph,
- Ailcin.
The heart of man is a short word, a small
substance, scarce enough to give a kite a
meal, yet great in capacity ; yea, so indefi-
nite in desire that the round globe of the
world cannot fill the three corners of it.
When it desires more and cries, “Give,
give,” I will set it over to the infinite good,
where the more it bath, it may desire inore,
and see more to be desired.-- Bp. Hall.
Want and wealth equally harden the hu-
man heart, as frost and fire are both alien
to the human flesh.–Famine and gluttony
alike drive away nature from the heart of
man.-Theodore Parker.
A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its
greatest countenance in its lowest estate.-
Sir P. Sidney.
The heart of a good man is the sanctuary
of God in this world.-Mad. Necicer.
You may as soon fill a bag with wisdom,
a chest with virtue, or a circle with a tri-
augle, 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.
When the heart is won, the understand-
ing is easily convinced.-C. Simmons.
The heart is an astrologer that always
divines the truth.--Calderon.
Men, as well as women, are oftener led
by their hearts than their understandings.
-The way to the heart is through the
senses ; please the eyes and ears, and the
work is half done.- Chesterfield.
Something the heart must have to cher-
ish; must love, and joy, and sorrow learn :
something with passion clasp, or perish,
and in itself to ashes burn.-
Longfellow.
HEAVEN.-Heaven hath many tongues
to talk of it, more eyes to behold it, but few
hearts that rightly affect it.—Bp. Hall.
He that studies to know duty, and labors
in all things to do it, will have two heavens
--one of joy, peace, and comfort on earth,
and the other of glory and happiness beyond
the grave.
There is a land where everlasting suns
shed everlasting brightness ; where the soul
drinks from the living streams of love that
roll by God's high thronc !--myriads of
glorious ones bring their accepted offering.
Oh! how blest to look from this dark prison
to that shrine, to inhale one breath of Para-
dise divine, and enter into that eternal rest
which waits the sons of God !-- Bowring.
If I ever reach heaven I expect to find
three wonders there : first, to meet some I
had not thonght to see there ; second, to
miss some I had expected to see there ; and
third, the greatest wonder of all, to find
myself there.—John Newton.
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There are treasures laid up in the heart,-
treasures of charity, piety, temperance, and
soberness. These treasures a man takes
with him beyond death when he leaves this
world.--Buddhist Scriptures,
Heaven's the perfection of all that can be
said or thought - riches, delight, har-
mony, health, beauty; and all these not
subject to the waste of time, but in their
height eternal.-Shirley.
To that state all the piou8 on eartlı are
tending Heaven is attracting to itself
whatever is congenial to its nature ; is en-
riching itself by the spoils of the earth, and
collecting within its capacious bosom what-
ever is
pure, permanent, and divine, leaving
nothing for the last fire to consume but the
objects and slaves of concupiscence; while
everything which grace has prepared and
beautified shall be gathered and selected
from the ruins of the world to adorn that
eternal city - which hath no need of the
sun or moon to shine in it; for the glory of
God doth lighten it, and the Lamb is the
light thereof."-R. Hall,
My gems are falling away ; but it is be-
cause God is making up his jewels.— Wolfe.
The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
-Shakespeare.
It is heaven upon earth to have a man's
mind move in charity, rest in providence,
and turn upon the poles of truth.- Bacon.
"Do you think we shall know each other
in heaven?” said one friend to another.
"Yes," was the answer. “Do you think
we shall be greater fools there than here?"
-Evans.
Where is heaven? I cannot tell. Even
to the eye of faith, heaven looks much like
a star to the eye of flesh. Set there on the
brow of night, it shines most bright, most
beautiful; but it is separated from us by
80 great à distance as to be raised almost
as high above our investigations as above
the storms and clouds of earth.-Guthrie.
Few, without the hope of another life,
would think it worth their while to live
above the allurements of sense. Atterbury.
The generous who is always just, and the
just who is always generous, may, unan-
nounced, approach the throne of heaven.
Lavater.
There are two unalterable prerequisites
to man's being happy in the world to come.
His sins must be pardoned and his nature
must be changed. He must have a title to
heaven and a fitness for heaven. These two
ideas underlie the whole of Christ's work,
and without the title to, and the fitness for,
no man can enter the kingdom of God.-
Seeley.
Every saint in heaven is as a flower in
the garden of God, and holy love is the
fragrance and sweet odor that they all send
forth, and with which they fill the bowers
of that paradise above. Every soul there
is as a note in some concert of delightful
music, that sweetly harmonizes with every
other note, and all together blend in the
most rapturous strains in praising God and
the Lamb forever.-Jonathan Edwards.
Heaven will be the endless portion of
every man who has heaven in his soul.-H.
W. Beecher.
Heaven must be in me before I can be in
heaven.-Stanford.
One sweetly solemn thought comes to me
o'er and o'er ; I'm nearer to my home to-
day than I've ever been before ; nearer my
Father's house, where the many mansions
be; nearer the great white throne, nearer
the jasper sea ; nearer the bound of life,
where I lay my burden down; nearer leav-
ing my cross ; nearer wearing my crown!
Phoebe Cary.
Heaven is truth now received in love, and
duty now performed in faith on Christ and
in humble dependence on the Holy Spirit.
My chief conception of heaven, said
Robert Hall, is rest.--Mine, said Wilber-
force, is love.-Southey looked to it as a
place of intellectual activity and enjoy-
ment; Foster, as unfolding all the mys-
teries of truth and providence; Leighton,
as the world of perfect spirituality and
holiness ; Payson, as where he should see
Christ, and be with, and serve, and enjoy
him forever.—Unite them all, and add all
that leart can wish, or thought conceive,
or we receive for eternity, and is not this
heaven?— Tryon Edwards.
If God hath made this world 80 fair,
where sin and death abound, how beautiful,
beyond compare, will paradise be found.
Montgomery.
All the truly great and good, all the pure
and holy and excellent from this world, and
it may be from every part of the universe,
are constantly tending toward heaven. As
the streams tend to the ocean, so all these
are tending to the great ocean of infinite
purity and bliss. The progress of time
does but bear them on to its blessedness;
and us, if we are holy, to be united to them
there. Every gem which death rudely tears
away from us here, is a glorious jewel for-
ever shining there. Every Christian friend
that goes before us from this world, is a
ransomed spirit, waiting to welcome ús in
heaven.- Jonathan Edwards.
Heaven, the treasury of everlasting joy.
--Shakespeare.
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Perfect purity, fulness of joy, everlasting
freedom, perfect rest, health, and fruition,
complete security, substantial and eternal
good.-H. More.
Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot
lieal.--Moore.
The song of heaven is ever new; for
daily thus, and nightly, new discoveries are
made of God's unbounded wisdom, love,
and power, which give the understanding
larger room, and swell the hymn with ever
growing praise.--Pollok.
It is heaven only that is given away-
only God may be had for the asking.-J.
R. Lowell.
I would not give one moment of heaven
for all the joy and riches of the world, even
if it lasted for thousands and thousands of
years.-Luther.
Heaven is a place of restless activity, the
abode of never-tiring thought. David and
Isaiah will sweep nobler and loftier strains
in eternity, and the minds of the saints,
unclogged by cumbersome clay, will for-
ever feast on the banquet of rich and glori-
ous thought.-H. W. Beecher.
Nothing is farther than the earth from
heaven ; nothing is nearer than heaven to
earth.—Hare.
If the way to heaven be narrow, it is not
long; and if the gate be strait, it opens iuto
endless life.-Beveridge.
He who geldom thinks of heaven is not
likely to get there ; the only way to hit the
mark is to keep the eye fixed upon it. --Bp.
Horne.
Every man is received in heaven who re-
ceives heaven in himself while in the world,
and he is excluded who does not. Sweden-
borg.
The joys of heaven will begin as soon as
we attain the character of heaven and do
its duties.--Try that and prove its truth.-
As much goodness and piety, so much
heaven.-Theodore Parker.
Heaven is the day of which grace is the
dawn, the rich, ripe fruit of which grace is
the lovely flower ; the inner shrine of that
most glorious temple to which grace forms
the approach and outer court. - Guthrie.
It is not talking but walking that will
bring us to heaven.-M. Henry.
The hope of heaven under troubles is like
wind and sails to the soul.-Rutherford.
The city which God has prepared is as
imperishable in its inhabitants as its ma-
terials. Its pearl, its jasper, its pure gold,
are only immortal to frame the abode of
immortals. No cry of death is in any of
its dwellings. No funeral darkens along
any of its ways. No sepulcher of the
holiest relics gleams among the everlasting
bills. "Violence is not heard in the land.
“There is no more death.” Its very name
has perislied. Is swallowed up in vic-
tory."—R. W. Hamilton.
To us who are Christians, is it not a
solemn, but a delightful thought, that per-
haps nothing but the opaque bodily eyo
prevents us from beholding the gate which
is open just before us; and nothing but the
dull ear prevents us from hearing the ring-
ing of those bells of joy which welcome us to.
the heavenly land ?-E. W. Beecher.
No man will go to heaven when he dies
who has not sent his heart thither while he
lives. Our greatest security is to be de-
rived from duty, and our only confidence
from the mercy of God through Jesus
Christ.–Bp. Wilson.
Here must be the heir, if yonder his in-
heritance ; here the laborer, if yonder his
rest; here the candidate, if yonder his re-
ward.-As he now adds excellence to excel-
lence, as he is now not barren nor unfruit-
ful, so shall an entrance be ministered to
him abundantly into the everlasting king-
dom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
-R. W. Hamilton,
We are as near to heaven as we are far
from self, and far from the love of a sinful
world.-Rutherford.
HEIRS.-(See “INHERITANCE.")
HELL.-(See “INTENTIONS.")
Hell is truth seen too late-duty neglected
in its season.-Tryon Edwards.
Hell is as ubiquitous as condemning con-
science.-F. W. Robertson.
Hell is but the collected ruins of the
moral world, and sin is the principle that
has made them.
When the world dissolves, all places will
be bell that are not heaven. - Marlowe.
In the utmost solitudes of nature the ex-
istence of hell seems to me as legibly de-
clared, by a thousand spiritual utterances,
as that of heaven.--Ruskin.
The mind is its own place, and in itself
can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
-Milton.
Hell is full of good meanings and wish-
ings.—Herbert.
Character is not changed by passing into
eternity, except in degree.-The wilfully
wicked on earth will continue so in the
other world.
DIeu might go to heaven with half the
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labor they put forth to go to hell, if they
would but venture their industry in the
right way.- Ben Jonson.
Hell is the full knowledge of the truth,
when truth, resisted long, is sworn our foe,
and calls eternity to do her right.-Young.
Divines and dying men may talk of hell,
but in my heart her several torments dwell.
Shakespeare.
If there be a paradise for virtues, there
must be a hell for crimes.-Caussin.
A guilty conscience is a hell on earth, and
points to one beyond.
Tell me not of the fire and the worm, and
the blackness and darkness of hell.—To my
terrified conscience there is hell enough in
this representation of it, that it is the com-
inon sewer of all that is abominable and
abandoned and reckless as to principle, and
depraved as to morals, the one common
eddy where all things that are polluted and
wretched and filthy are gathered together.
-Beaumont.
HELP:-Help thyself, and God will help
thee.--Herbert.
When a person is down in the world, an
ounce of help is better than a pound of
preaching.-Bulwer.
God helps them that help themselves.-
Old Proverb.
Light is the task where many share the
toil. - Homer.
"Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but
to support him after.—Shakespeare.
It is one of the most beautiful compensa-
tions of this life, that no man can sincerely
try to help another without helping himself.
God be praised, who, to believing souls,
gives light in darkness, comfort in despair,
- Shakespeare.
God has so ordered that men, being in
need of each other, should learn to love
each other, and bear each other's burdens.
- Sala.
There are heroes in evil as well as in
good.-Rochefoucauld.
The prudent see only the difficulties, the
bold only the advantages, of a great enter-
prize ; the hero sees both ; diminishes the
former and makes the latter preponderate,
and so conquers.-Lavater.
In analyzing the character of heroes it is
hardly possible to separate altogether the
share of fortune from their own.-Hallam.
A light supper, a good night's sleep, and
a fine morning have often made a hero of
the same man who, by indigestion, a rest-
less night, and a rainy morning, would
have proved a coward.— Chesterfield.
We cannot think too highly of our na-
ture, nor too humbly of ourselves. When
we see the martyr to virtue, subject as he is
to the infirmities of a man, yet suffering
the tortures of a demon, and bearing them
with the magnanimity of a God, do we not
behold a heroism that angels may indeed
surpass, but which they cannot imitate, and
must admire.-Colton.
Fear nothing so much as sin, and your
moral heroism is complete.-C. Simmons.
Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly
into the conduct of great victors when their
victory is on the right side.- George Eliot.
Heroes are not knowu by the loftiness
of their carriage; the greatest braggarts
are generally tho merest cowards.-Rous-
seau.
To live well in the quiet routine of life,
to fill a little space because God wills it, to
go on cheerfully with a petty round of little
duties and little avocations; to smile for
the joys of others when the heart is aching
—who does this, his works will follow him.
He is one of God's heroes. - Farrar.
The heroes of literary history have been
no less remarkable for what they have suf-
fered, than for what they have achieved.---
Johnson.
However great the advantages which na-
ture bestows on us, it is not she alone, but
fortune in conjunction with her, which
makes heroes.- Rochefoucauld.
Self-trust is the essence of heroism.-
Emerson.
The grandest of heroic deeds are those
which are performed within four walls and
in domestic privacy.-Richter.
The man who rules his spirit, saith the
voice that cannot err, is greater than the
one who takes a city. ---If each would have
dominion of himself, would govern wisely,
and thus show true courage, knowledge,
power, benevolence, all the princely soul
of private virtues, then each would be a
HEROISM.-Nobody, they say, is a
hero to his valet. Of course not; for one
must be a hero to understand a hero. The
valet, I dare say, has great respect for some
person of his own stamp.-Goethe.
Worship your heroes from afar ; contact
withers them.-Mad. Necicer.
Of two heroes, he is the greatest who
esteems his rivals most.-Beaumelle,
Heroes in history seem to us poetic be-
cause they are there. But if we should tell
the simple truth of some of our neighbors,
it would sound like poetry.-G. W. Curtis.
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prince-a hero—a man in likeness of his
maker.-Mrs. S. J. Hale.
Every man is a hero and an oracle to
somebody, and to that person, whatever he
says, has an enhanced value.--Emerson.
Dream not that helm and harness are
signs of valor true.-Peace hath higher
tests of manhood than battle ever knew.-
Whittier.
Take away ambition and vanity, and
where will be your heroes and patriots ?-
Seneca.
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is
the doubt whether one may not be going
to prove one's self a fool. ---l'he truest hero-
ism is to resist the doubt; and the pro-
foundest wisdom to know when it ought to
be resisted and when obeyed.--Hawthorne.
Unbounded courage and compassion
joined proclaim him good and great, and
make the hero and the man complete.-
Addison.
One murder makes a villain ; millions a
hero.-- Bp. Porteus.
The world's battlefields have been in the
heart chiefly; more heroism has been dis-
played in the household and the closet, than
on the inost memorable battlefields of his-
tory.-H. W. Beecher.
The heroes of mankind are the moun-
tains, the highlands of the moral world. -
A. P. Stanley.
HISTORY,--History is philosophy
teaching by example, and also by warning;
its two eyes are geography and chronology.
History is but the unrolled scroll of pro-
phecy.-Garfield.
All history is a lie.—Sir R. Walpole.
History is a voice forever sounding across
the centuries the laws of right and wrong.
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds
rise and fall, but the moral law is written
on the tablets of eternity.--I'roude.
When Frederic the Great would have his
secretary read history to him, he would
say, Bring me my liar."
History is little more than the register of
the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of man-
kind.--Gibbon.
History is but a kind of Newgate calen-
dar, a register of the crimes and miseries
that man has inflicted on his fellow-man.
Washington Irving.
History is but the development and reve-
lation of providence.—Kossuth.
We read history tlırough our prejudices.
- Wendell Phillips.
God is in the facts of history as truly as he
is in the march of the seasons, the revolu-
tions of the planets, or the architecture of
the worlds.-J. Lanahan.
This I hold to be the chief office of his-
tory, to rescue virtuous actions from the
oblivion to which & want of records would
cousign them, and that men should feel a
dread of being considered infamous in the
opinions of posterity, from their depraved
expressions and base actious.—Tacitus.
An historian ought to be exact, sincere,
and impartial ; free from passion, unbiased
by interest, fear, resentment, or affection ;
and faithful to the truth, which is the
mother of history, the preserver of great
actions, the enemy of oblivion, the witness
of the past, the director of the future.
What is history but a fable agreed upon.
- Napoleon.
What are all histories but God mani-
festing himself, shaking down and tramp-
ling under foot whatsoever he hath not
planted.— Cromwell.
Truth is very liable to be left-handed in
history.-A. Dumas.
History is neither more nor less than biog-
raphy on a large scale.-Laniartine.
The best thing which we derive from his-
tory is the enthusiasm that it raises in us.
Goethe.
Grecian history is a poem ; Latin history,
a picture; modern history a chronicle.
Chateaubriand.
If men could learn from history, what
lessons it might teach us !But passion and
party blind our eyes, and the light which
experience gives is a lantern on the stern
which shines only on the waves behind us.
Coleridge.
The men who make history, have not
time to write it. -Metternich,
We must consider how very little history
there is ; I mean real, authentic history.-
That certain kings reigned, and certain
battles were fought, we can depend on as
true ; but all the coloring, all the philoso-
phy of history is conjecture.—Johnson.
The impartiality of history is not that of
the mirror, which merely reflects objects,
but of the judge who sees, listens, and de-
cides.- Lamartine.
Violent natures make history.-The in-
struments they use almost always kill.-
Religion and philosophy have their vest-
ments covered with innocent blood.-Dou-
dan.
As in every human character so in every
transaction there is a mixture of good
and evil : a little exaggeration, a little sup-
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pression, a judicions use of epithets, a
watchfrl and searching skepticism with re-
spect to the evidence on one side, a conven-
ient credulity with respect to every report
or tradition on the other, may casily make
à saint of Laud, or a tyrant of Henry the
Fourth.--Macaulay.
An old courtier, with veracity, good sense,
and a faithful memory, is an inestimable
treasure ; he is full of transactions and
maxims ; in him one may find the history
of the age, enriched with a great many cut-
rious circumstances, which we never meet
with in books.—Bruyère.
History has its.foreground and its back-
ground, and it is principally in the manage-
ment of its perspective that one artist dif-
fers from another. Some events must be
represented on a large scale, others dimin-
ished; the great inajority will be lost in
the dimness of the horizon, and a general
idea of their joint effect will be given by a
few slight touches.--Macaulay.
Each generation gathers together the
imperishable children of the past, and in-
creases them by new sons of light, alike
radiant with immortality.-Bancroft.
Out of monuments, names, wordls, pro-
verbs, traditions, private records and evi-
dencos, fragments
fragments of stories, passages of
books, and the like, we do save and re-
cover somewhat from the deluge of time.-
Bacon.
He alone reads history aright, who, ob-
serving how powerfully circumstances in-
fluence the feelings and opinions of men,
how often vices pass into virtues, and para-
doxes into axions, learns to distinguish
what is accidental and transitory in human
nature from what is essential and immu-
table.—Macaulay.
All history is but a romance, unless it is
studied as an example.-- Croly.
To be entirely just in our estimate of
other ages is not only difficult, but is im-
possible. Even what is passing in our
presence we see but through a glass darkly.
In historical inquiries the most instructed
thinkers have but a limited advantage over
the most illiterate. Those who know the
most approach least to agreement.
Froude.
The more ve know of history, the less
shall we esteem the subjects of it; and to de-
spise our species is the price we must too
often pay for our knowledge of it.- Collon.
What is public history but a register of
the successes and disappointments, the
vices, the follies, and the quarrels of those
who engage in contention for power. -
Paley.
There is nothing that solidifies and
strengthens a nation like reading the na-
tion's history, whether that history is re-
corded in books, or embodied in customs,
institutions, and monuments.-J. Ander-
son.
It is when the hour of conflict is over,
that history comes to a right understand-
ing of the strife, and is ready to exclaim,
" Lo, God is here, and we knew it not!
Bancroft.
Providence conceals itself in the details
of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in
the generalities of history.-Lamartine.
Every great writer is a writer of history,
let him treat on what subject he may.—He
carries with him, for thousands of years,
a portion of his times.—Landor.
Many historians take pleasure in putting
into the mouths of princes what they bave
neither said zor ought to have said.- Vol-
taire.
We find but few historians who have been
diligent enough in their search for truth.
It is their common method to take on trust
what they distribute to the public ; by
which means, a falsehood, once received
from a famed writer, becomes traditional
to posterity.-Dryden.
The present state of things is the con-
sequence of the past, and it is natural to
inquire as to the sources of the good we
enjoy or the evils we suffer. If we act
only for ourselves, to neglect the study of
history is not prudent; if intrusted with
the care of others, it is not just.-Johnson.
History is not, as it was once regarded,
merely a liberal pursuit in which men
found wholesome food for the imagination
and sympathies; but now is a department
of serious scientific investigation.—We
study it in the hope of giving new pre-
cision, definiteness, and solidity to the
principles of political science.---J. R. Seeley.
The history of the past is a mere puppet
show.-A little man comes out and blows a
little trumpet, and goes in again.-You look
for something new, and lo! another little
man comes out and blows another littlo
trumpet, and goes in again.–And it is all
over.- Longfellow.
Not to know what has been transacted in
former times is to be always a child.-If
no use is made of the labors of past ages,
the world must remain always in the in-
fancy of knowledge.--Cicero.
Those who have employed the study of
history, as they ought, for their instruc-
tion, for the regulation of their private
manners, and the management of public
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affairs, '
must agree with me that it is the
most pleasant school of wisdom.-Dryden.
History maketh a young man to be old,
without wrinkles or gray hairs, privileging
him with the experience of age, without
either the infirmities or inconveniences
thereof.-Fuller,
Historians give us the extraordinary
events, and omit just what we want, the
every-day life of each particular time and
country. - Whately.
History needs distance, perspective.
Tacts and events which are too well attes-
ted cease, in some sort, to be malleable.-
Joubert.
History is the glass through which we
may behold, with ancestral eyes, not only
the various deeds of past ages and the old
accidents that attend them, but also dis-
cern the different humor's of men.—Howell.
History presents the pleasantest features
of poetry and fiction—the majesty of the
cpic, the moving accidents of the drama,
and the surprises and moral of the ro-
mance.- Willmott.
Biography is the only true history.-
Carlyle.
History makes us some amends for the
shortness of life.--Slcelton.
What are most of the histories of the
world but lies ?--Lies immortalized, and
consigned over as a perpetual abuse and a
flaw upon posterity. --South.
There is no part of history so generally
useful as that which relates to the progress
of the human mind, the gradual improve-
ment of reason, the successive advances of
science, the vicissitudes of learning and
ignorance, the extinction and resuscitation
of arts, and the revolutions of the intellec-
tual world. If accounts of battles and in-
vasions are peculiarly the business of
princes, the useful and elegant arts are not
to be neglected, and those who have king-
doms to govern have understandiugs to cul-
tivate.-Johnson.
History is the first distinct product of
man's spiritual nature, his earliest expres-
sion of what can be called thought.- Car-
lyle.
We may gather out of history a policy no
less wise than eternal, by the comparison
and application of other men's forepast
miseries with our own like errors and ill
deservings.-Sir W. Raleigh.
HOLIDAYS.-Who first invented work,
and bound the free and holiday-rejoicing
spirit down ?-Lanıb.
If all the year were playing holidays, to
sport would be as tedious as to work; but
when they seldom come, the wished for
come.-Shakespeare.
The holiest of all holidays are those kept
by ourselves in silence and apart, the secret
anniversaries of the heart, when the full tide
of feeling overflows.-Longfellow.
Let your liolidays be associated with
great public events, and they may be the
life of patriotism as well as a source of re-
laxation and personal enjoyment.— Tryon
Edwards.
Under the leaves, amid the grass, lazily
the day shall pass, yet not be wasted.-
From my drowsy ease I borrow health and
strength to bear my boat through the great
life ocean.-Mackay.
HOLINESS.-Holiness is the symmetry
of the soul.-Philip Henry.
A holy life is not an ascetic, or gloomy,
or solitary life, but a life regulated by di-
vine truth and faithful in Christian duty.-
It is living above the world while we are
still in it.--Tryon Edwards.
It must be a prospect pleasing to God to
see his creatures forever drawing nearer to
him by greater degrees of resemblance.
Addison.
Blessed is the memory of those who have
kept themselves unspotted from the world.
--Yet more blessed and more dear the
memory of those who have kept themselves
unspotted in the world.-Mrs. Jameson.
Holiness is not the way to Christ, but
Christ is the way to holiness.
Holiness is the architectural plan on
which God buildeth“ up his living temple.
--Spurgeon.
Our holy lives must win a new world's
crown.-Shakespeare.
Holiness is religious principle put into
action.-It is faith gone to work.-It is love
coined into conduct ; devotion helping hu-
man suffering, and going upin intercession
to the great source of all good.-F. D.
Huntington.
If it be the characteristic of a worldly
man that he desecrates what is holy, it
should be of the Christian to consecrate
what is secular, and to recognize a present
and presiding divinity in all things. - Chal-
mei's.
Not all the pomp and pageantry of worlds
reflect such glory on the eye supreme, as
the meek virtues of one holy man.-R.
Montgomery.
Everything holy is before what is un-
holy ; guilt presupposes innocence, not the
reverse.-Angels, but not fallen ones, were
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created.-Man does not properly rise to the
highest, but first sinks down from it, and
then afterward rises again.-Richter.
The essence of true boliness consists in
conformity to the nature and will of God.
--Lucas.
Holiness consisteth not in a cowl or in a
garment of gray.-When God purifies the
heart by faith, the market is sacred as well
as the sanctuary; neither remaineth there
any work or place which is profane.—Lu-
ther.
Holiness in us, is the copy or transcript
of the holiness that is in Christ.-As the
wax bath line for line from the scal, and
the child feature for feature from the fa-
ther, so is holiness in us from him.-Philip
Henry.
What Christianity most needs in her all-
tagonism with every forin of unbelief, is
holy living.-Christlieb.
The beauty of holiness has done more,
and will do more, to regenerate the world
and bring in everlasting righteousness than
all the other agencies put together.-It has
done more to spread religion in the world,
than all that has ever been preached or
written on the evidences of Christianity.--
Chalmers.
A holy life is a voice ; it speaks when the
tongue is silent, and is either a constant
attractiou or a perpetual reproof.-Leigh-
ton.
The serene, silent beauty of a holy life is
the most powerful influence in the world,
next to the might of the Spirit of God.-
Pascal.
Real holiness bas love for its essence,
humility for its clothing, the good of others
as its employment, and the honor of God
as its end.--Emmons.
Holiness is what is loved by all the gods.
It is loved because it is holy, and not lioly
because it is loved.-Plato.
There cannot be named a pursuit or en-
terprise of human beings, in which there is
so little possibility of failure, as praying
for sanctification.-J. W. Alexander.
HOME.-To Adam paradise was home.
-To the good among his descendants,
home is paradise.---Hare,
The first sure symptom of a prind in
health, is rest of heart, and pleasure felt at
home.-Young.
Without hearts there is no home.--Byron.
. Our home joys are the most delightful
earth affords, and the joy of parents in
their children is the most holy joy of luu-
manity. It makes their hearts pure and
good, it lifts men up to their Father in
heaven.-Pestalozzi.
The first indication of domestic happi-
ness is the love of one's home.--Montlosier.
A hundred men may make an encamp-
ment, but it takes a woman to make a home.
- Chinese Proverb,
It was the policy of the good old gentle-
mail to make his children feel that home
was the happiest place in the world ; and
I value this delicious home-feeling as one
of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow.--
Washington Irving.
He is the happiest, be he king or peasant,
who finds peace in his home.-- Goethe.
When home is ruled according to God's
word, angels might be asked to stay with
us, and they would not find themselves out
of their element.-Spurgeon.
Home is the sphere of harmony and peace.
The spot where angels find a resting place,
when bearing blessings they descend to
earth.-S. J. Hale.
Households there may be, well-ordered
and abounding in comfort-families there
may be, whose various members live in
harmony and love-but homes, in their true
sense, there cannot be where there is not
one whom manly choice bas made a wife
and infant lips have learned to honor with
the name of mother.-Dudley A. Tyng.
Home can never be transferred-never
repeated in the experience of an individual.
The place consecrated by paternal love, by
the innocence and sports of childhood,
and by the first acquaintance of the heart
with nature, is the only true home.
What a man is at home, that he is indeed,
if not to the world, yet to his own con-
science and to God.-Philip.
The virtuous home is at the basis of all
national prosperity.
Home is the resort of love, of joy, of
peace, and plenty, where supporting and
supported, polished friends and dearest
relatives mingle into bliss.-Thomson.
It is indeed at home that every man must
be known by those who would make a just
estimate either of his virtue or felicity; for
smiles and embroidery are alike occasional,
and the mind is often dressed for show in
painted honor and fictitious benevolence.
Johnıs012.
Any feeling that takes a man away from
his home is a traitor to the household.--
H. W. Beecher.
If I keep my son at home for education,
he is in danger of becoming my young
master; if I send him abroad, it is scarce
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possible to keep him from the reigning con-
tagion of rudeness and vice. He will per-
haps be more innocent at home, but more
ignorant of the world and more sheepish
when he comes abroad.-Lockce.
The strength of a nation, especially of
a republican nation, is in the intelligent
and well-ordered homes of the people.-
Mrs. Sigourney.
It is very dangerous for any man to find
any spot on this broad globe that is sweeter
to him than his home.-H. W. Beecher.
Educating the homes we evangelize the
world.
The homes of a nation are the bulwarks
of personal and national safety and thrift.
J. G. Holland.
Six things are requisite to create a
"happy home."
Integrity must be the
architect, and tidiness the upholsterer. It
must be warmed by affection, lighted up
with cheerfulness; and industry must be
the ventilator, renewing the atmosphere
and bringing in fresh salubrity day by day ;
while over all, as a protecting canopy and
glory, nothing will suffice except the bless-
ing of God.-Hamilton.
To make men out of boys, and women out
of girls, there is no place like home.-Char-
acter is not best formed in an apartment
louse, or in the fashionable hotel--no two
years in the same place.
The sweetest type of heaven is home.-J.
G. Holland.
At evening, home is the best place for
man,- Goethe.
There is no happiness in life, and there
is no misery, like that growing out of the
dispositions which consecrate or desecrate
a bome.-E. H. Chapin.
The paternal hearth, that rallying place
of the affections.- Washington Irving.
There is a magic in that little word,
home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds
comforts and virtues never known beyond
its hallowed limits.--Southey.
A cottage, if God be there, will hold as
much happiness as might stock a palace.-
J. Hamilton.
Be it ever so humble, there's no place
like home.-Payne.
Home is the seminary of all other insti-
tutions.-E. H. Chapin.
The domestic relations precede, and, in
our present existence, are worth more than
all our other social ties. They give the first
throb to the heart and unseal the deep
fountains of its love.- Home is the chief
school of human virtue. Its responsi-
bilities, joys, sorrows, smiles, tears, hopes,
and solicitudes form the chief interest of
human life.-Channing,
A man is always nearest to his good when
at home, and farthest from it when away.--
J. G. Holland.
Home, the spot of earth supremely blest,
a dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.-
Montgomery.
Stiut yourself, as you think good, in
other things; but don't scruple freedom in
brightening home. Gay furniture and a
brilliant garden are a sight day by day, and
make life blither.---Buxton.
To most men their early home is no more
than a memory of their early years. The
image is never marred. There's no disap-
pointment in memory, and one's exaggera-
tions are always on the good side.--George
Eliot.
A good home implies good living, which
is also a means and a token of true culture,
since without good living there can be no
good thinking, and—I speak it reverently
-no good praying ; for mind and soul must
have something healthy to go upon.-J.P.
Thompson,
This fond attachment to the well-known
place whence first we started into life's long
l'ace, maintains its hold with such unfailing
sway, we feel ito'en in age, and at our latest
day.- Cowper.
To be happy at home is the ultimate aim
of all ambition; the end to which every en-
terprise and labor tends, and of which every
desire prompts the prosecution.-Johnson.
We need not power or splendor ; wide
hall or lordly dome; the good, the true, the
tender, these form the wealth of home.-
S. J. Hale.
Only the home can found a state.-Joseph
Cool.
HONESTY,-An honest man's the no-
blest work of God.-Pope.
Honesty is the best policy.-Franklin.
Make yourself an honest man, and then
you may be sure there is one rascal less in
the world.-Carlyle.
It was a grand trait of the old Roman that
with him one and the same word meant both
honor and honesty.- Advance.
To be honest, as this world goes, is to
be one man picked out of ten thousand.
Shakespeare.
The shortest and surest way to live with
honor in the world, is to be in reality what
we would appear to be; and if we observe,
we shall find, that all human virtues in-
God looks only to the pure, not to the full
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crease and strengthen themselves by the oue man should know all the world, but
practice and experience of them.-Socrates. quite possible that one may know himself."
All other knowledge is hurtful to him True honor is to honesty what the court
who has not honesty and good-nature.- of chancery is to common law. Shenstone.
Montaigne.
Socrates being asked the way to honest
Nothing more completely baffles one who
fame, said, "Study to be what you wish to
is full of trick and duplicity than straight- seem.
forward and simple integrity in another.
A knave would rather quarrel with a
The difference there is betwixt honor
brother-knave than with a fool, but he
and honesty, seems to be chiefly the mo-
would rather avoid a quarrel with one
tive: the truly honest man does that from
honest man than with both. He can com-
duty, which the man of honor does for the
bat a fool by management and address, and
sake of character.--Shenstone.
he can conquer a knave by temptations. The man who pauses in his honesty wants
But the honest man is neither to be bam- little of a villain.-J. Martyn.
boozled nor bribed.Colton.
Refined policy has ever been the parent
He who freely praises what he means to of confusion, and ever will be so, as long
purchase, and he who enumerates the faults as the world' endures. Plain good inten-
of what he means to sell, nay set up a part- tion, which is as easily discovered at the
nership with honesty.-Lavater.
first view as frandis surely detected at last,
A grain of honesty and native worth is of
is of no mean force in the government of
more value than all the adventitious orna-
mankind. Genuine simplicity of heart is a
ments, estates, or preferments, for the sake
healing and cementing principle.—Burle.
of which some of the better sort so oft turn Money dishonestly acquired is never
knaves.--Shaftesbury.
worth its cost, while a good conscience
Let honesty be as the breath of thy soul;
never costs as much as it is worth.J. P.
then shalt thou reach the point of happi-
Sennz.
ness, and independence shall be thy shield If he does really think that there is no
and buckler, thy belmet and crown; then distinction between virtue and vice, when
shall thy soul walk upright, nor stoop to he leaves our houses let us count our
the silken wretch because he hath riches, spoons.--Johnson.
nor pocket an abuse because the laná
If honesty did not exist, we ought to in-
which offers it wears a ring set with dia-
vent it as the best means of getting rich.-
monds.Franklin.
Mirabeau,
The only disadvantage of an honest heart
No legacy is so rich as honesty.-Shake-
is credulity.-Sir P. Sidney.
speare.
A straight line is shortest in morals as
Prefer loss before unjust gain : for that
well as in geometry.-Rahel.
brings grief butonce; this forever.- Chilo.
There is no terror in your threats ; for I
bands.-Laberius,
am armod so strong in honesty that they
He who says there is no such thing as an pass by me as the idle wind, which I re-
honest man, is himself a knave.—Bericeley. spect not. Shakespeare.
I hope I shall always possess firmness Lands mortgaged may return, but hon-
and virtue enough to maintain what I con- esty once pawned is ne'er redeemed.--Mid-
sider the most enviable of all titles, the dleton.
character of an honest man.- Washington. “ 'Honesty is the best policy"; but he
True hoijesty takes into account the who acts only on that principle is not an
claims of God as well as those of mani;
it
honest man.--No one is habitually guided
renders to God the things that are God's, by it in practice. -An honest man is always
as well as to man the things tliat are man's. before it, and a knave is generally behind
-C. Simmons.
it. - Whately.
It would be an unspeakable advantage, Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
both to the public and private, if men would -Deinocritus.
consider that great truth, that no man is Do not consider anything for your in-
wise or safe, but he that is honest.--Sir W. terest which makes you break your word,
Raleigh.
quit your modesty, or inclines you to any
To one who said, “I do not believe that practice which will not bear the light, or
there is an honest' man in the world," an- look the world in the face. Marcus An-
other replied, "It is impossible that any ionirus.
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Honest policy is a good friend, both to
our safety and to our usefulness. The ser-
pent's head may well become a good Chris-
tian's body, especially if it have a dove's
eye in it.-M. Henry.
Put it out of the power of truth to give
you an ill character.-If anybody reports
you not to be an honest man let your prac-
tice give him the lie.—Marcus Antoninus.
Honesty is not only the deepest policy,
but the highest wisdom, since however
difficult it may be for integrity to get on,
it is a thousand times more difficult for
kuavery to get off ; and no error is more
fatal than that of those who think that vir-
tue has no other reward because they have
heard that she is her own. -Colton.
HONOR.-Honor and shame from no
condition rise; act well your part, there all
the honor lies.-Pope.
Honor's a sacred tie,--the noble mind's
distinguishing perfection, that aids and
strengthens virtue where it meets her, and
imitates her actions where she is not.-Ad-
dison.
Honor is not a matter of any man's call-
ing merely, but rather of his own actions
in it. Dwight.
That nation is worthless that will not,
with pleasure, venture all for its honor.--
Schiller.
Mine honor is my life; both grow in one;
take honor from me and my life is done.
Shakespeare.
Woman's honor is nice as ermine; it will
not bear a soil.–Dryden.
Honor is unstable, and seldom the same;
for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle
as her food. She builds à lofty structure
on the sandy foundation of the esteem of
those who are of all beings the most subject
to change.-Colton.
If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the
most offensive soul alive. --Shalcespeare.
Purity is the feminine, truth the mascu-
line of honor.—Hare.
Let honor be to us as strong an obliga-
tion as necessity is to others.—Pliny.
Honor is most capricious in her rewards.
She feeds us with air, and often pulls
down our house to build our monument.
Colton.
Our own heart, and not other men's
opinion, forms our true honor.—Coleridge.
Hereditary honors are a noble and
splendid treasure to descendants. Plato.
Honor is like the eye, which cannot suffer
the least impurity without damage.--It is a
precious stone, the price of which is less-
ened by a single flaw.--Bossuet.
The giving of riches and honors to a
wicked man is like giving strong wine to
him that hath a fever. Plutarch.
When vice prevails, and impious men
bear sway, the post of honor is a private
station.-Addison.
The chastity of honor which felt a stain
like a wound. --Burke.
Better to die ten thousand deaths than
wound my honor.--Addison.
Life every man holds dear; but the dear
man holds honor far more precious dear
than life.-Shakespeare.
HOPE.-Hope springs eternal in the
human breast ; man never is, but always
to be blest.--Pope.
Hope is a prodigal young heir, and ex-
perience is his banker, but his drafts are
seldom honored since there is often a heavy
balance against him, because he draws
largely on a small capital and is not yet in
possession.--Colton.
No affliction nor temptation, no guilt nor
power of sin, no wounded spirit nor terri-
fied conscience, should induce us to de-
spair of help and comfort from God.-T.
Scott.
Hope calculates its schemes for a long
and durable life ; presses forward to im-
aginary points of bliss ; and grasps at
impossibilities and consequently very
often eusuares men into beggary, ruin, and
dishonor.-Addison.
The hours we pass with happy prospects
in view are more pleasing than those
crowded with fruition.- Goldsmith.
Hope, of all passions, most befriends us
here ; joy has her tears, and transport has
her death ; hope, like a cordial, innocent
though strong, man's heart at once in-
spirits and serenes, nor makes him pay his
wisdom for his joys.—Young.
You cannot put a great hope into a small
soul.-J. L. Jones,
We speak of hope ; but is not hope only
a more gentle name for fear.-L. È. Lana
don.
Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright
of all parasites ; for she frequents the poor
man's hut, as well as the palace of his su-
perior.-Shenstone.
Man is, properly speaking, based upon
hope ; he has no other possession but hope;
this world of his is emphatically the place
of hope.-Carlyle.
Hope is the last thing that dies in man,
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and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet
it is of this good use to us, that while we
are traveling through life it conducts us in
an easier and more pleasant way to our
journey's end.-Rochefoucauld.
We are never beneath hope, while above
hell; nor above hope, while beneath
heaven.
The miserable hath no other medicine
but only hope.--Shakespeare.
Auspicious hope, in thy sweet garden
grow wreaths for each toil, a charm for
every woe.- Campbell.
True hope is swift, and flies with swal-
low's wings; kings it makes gods, and
meaner creatures king8.-Shakespeare.
Hope is but the dream of those that
wake. -Prior.
Hope--of all ills that men endure, the
only cheap and universal cure; the cap-
tive's freedom, and the sick man's health,
the lover's victory, and the beggar's wealth.
--Crowley.
The man who lives only by hope will die
with despair.-Italian Proverb.
A propensity to hope and joy is real
riches ; one to fear and sorrow, real poverty.
Hume.
It is worth a thousand pounds a year to
have the habit of looking on the bright
side of things.-Johnson.
Hope is like the sun, which, as we jour-
ney foward it, casts the shadow of our bur-
den behind us.--S. Smiles.
The world dares say no more for its de-
vice, than "while I live, I hope"; but the
children of God can add by virtue of a
living hope, "while I'expire,
I expireI hope.”
Leighton.
Had mankind nothing to expect beyond
the grave, their best faculties would be a
torment to them; and the more considerate
and virtuous they were, the greater con-
cern and grief they would feel from the
shortness of their prospects.–Balguy.
He that would undermine the founda-
tions of our hope for eternity, seeks to
beat down the column which supports the
feebleness of humanity.
If the mere delay of hope deferred makes
the heart sick, what will the death of hope
-its final and total disappointment-de-
spair, do to it?-W. Nevins.
Hope is the most beneficial of all the af-
fections, and doth much to the prolongal-
tion of life, if it be not too often frustrated
but entertaineth the fancy with an expec-
tation of good.-- Bacon.
Hope warps judgment in council, but
quickens energy in action.-Bulwer.
Hope--fortune's cheating lottery, where
for one prize, a hundred blanks there be.
Cowley.
Hope is always liberal, and they that
trust her promises make little scruple of
reveling to-day on the profits of to-morrow.
--Johnson.
It is necessary to hope, though hope
should be always deluded; for hope itself
is happiness, and its frustrations, however
frequent, are yet less dreadful than its
extinction.-Johnson.
Hope is a delusion; no hand can grasp a
a wave or a shadow.- Victor Hugo.
The mighty hopes that make us men.-
Tennyson.
Hope is the only good that is common to
all men ; those who have nothing else pos-
sess hope still.-- Thales.
I have a knack of hoping, which is as
good as an estate in reversion, if one can
keep from the temptation of turning it
into certainty, which may spoil all.--
George Eliot.
Eternity is the divine treasure house,
and hope is the window, by means of which
mortals are permitted to see, as through a
glass darkly, the things which God is pre-
paring.--Mountford.
In all things it is better to hope than to
despair.-Goethe.
Tor present grief there is always a
remedy; however much thou sufferest,
hope ; hope is the greatest happiness of
man.-Schefer.
Hope is a lover's staff ; walk hence with
that, and manage it against despairing
thoughts. --Shakespeare.
Hope is brightest when it dawns from
fears.- Walter Scott.
Hope is the chief blessing of man; and
that hope only is rational of which we are
sensible that it cannot deceive us.-John-
son.
The good man's hope is laid far-far be-
yond the sway of tempests, or the furious
sweep of mortal desolation.-H. K. White.
Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an
unsafe friend; not the man for your
banker, though he may do for a traveling
companion.--
Haliburton.
Hope is the best part of our riches.--
What sufficeth it that we have the wealth
of the Indies in our pockets, if we have not
the hope of heaven in our souls ?-Bovee.
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He who loses hope, may then part with
anything.- Congreve.
HOSPITALITY.-(See "FEASTING.”)
As you receive the stranger, so you re-
ceive your God.-Lavater.
There is an emanation from the heart in
genuine hospitality which cannot be de-
scribed but is immediately felt, and puts
the stranger at once at his ease. - Washing-
ton Irving.
Small cheer and great welcome make a
merry feast.-Shakespeare.
Let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in
bed and board, but let truth, love, honor,
and courtesy flow in all thy deeds. -Enver-
SON.
Where there is no hope, there can be no
endeavor.-Johnson.
He that lives on hopes will die fasting.-
Franklin.
Hope is the best possession.-None are
completely wretched but those who are
without hope, and few aro reduced so low
as that.--Elazlitt.
Hope is love's happiness, but not its life.
-L. E. Landon,
Hope is like the cork to the net, which
keeps the soul from sinking in despair ;
and fear, like the lead to the net, which
keeps it from floating in presumption.-
Bp. Watson.
This wonder we find in hope, that she is
both a flatterer and a true friend.--How
many would die did not hope sustain them;
how many
--Felthan.
The flights of the human mind are not
from enjoyment to enjoyment, but from
hope to hope.--Johnson.
The setting of a great hope is like the
setting of the sun.-The brightness of our
life is gone, shadows of the evening fall
around us, and the world seems but a
broader shadow.-Longfellow.
Used with due abstinence, hope acts as a
healthful tonic; intemperately indulged,
as an enervating opiate.-The visions of
future triumph, which at first animate ex-
ertion, if dwelt upon too intently, will
usurp the place of the stern reality, and
noble objects will be contemplated, not for
their own inherent worth, but on account
of the day dreams they engender.--Thus
hope, aided by imagination, makes one
man'a hero, another a somnambulist, and
a third a lunatic, and all enthusiasts.-
Stephen.
Hope without action is a barren undoer.
Fellhan.
When the heart is light with hope, all
pleases ; nothing comes amiss.-Roger's.
Hope is a vigorous principle ; it sets the
head and heart to work, and animates a
man to do his utmost.--Collier.
Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt
courage.—Johnson.
Hope writes the poetry of the boy, but
memory that of the mai. Man looks for-
ward with smiles, but backward with sighs.
Such is the wise providence of God. The
cup of life is sweetness at the brim—the
flavor is impaired as we drink deeper, and
the drugs are made bitter that we may not
struggle when it is taken from our lips.-
Emerson.
If a man be gracious to strangers, it
shows that he is a citizen of the world, and
his heart is no island, cut off from other
islands, but a continent that joins them.-
Bacon.
Like many other virtues, hospitality is
practised, in its perfection, by the poor.
If the rich did their share, how the woes of
this world would be lightened !-Mrs. Kirk-
land.
Provision is the foundation of hospitality,
and thrift the fuel of magnificence. -Sir P.
Sidney.
Breaking through the chills of ceremony
and selfishness, and thawing every heart
into a glow.- Washington Irving.
Hospitality to the better sort, and charity
to the poor; two virtues that are never
exercised so well as when they accompany
each other.- Atterbury.
HOUSE,-My precept to all who build,
is, that the owner should be an ornament
to the house, and not the house to the
owner.-- Cicero.
A house is never perfectly furnished for
enjoyment unless there is a child in it
rising three years old, and a kitten of six
weeks.-Southey.
Make your dwelling tasteful and attrac-
tive, both within and without; the asso-
ciations of the home of our early days
have a strong influence on the future life.
Philips, C.
HOUSEWIFE,Nothing lovelier can
be found in woman than to study house-
hold good, and good works in her husband
to promote.—Milton.
She was a woman of a stirring life, whose
heart was in her house ; two wheels she
had, the large for spinning wool, the small
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for flax; and if one wheel had rest, it was
because the other was at work.- Words-
worth.
HUMANITY, I am a man, and what-
ever concerns humanity is of interest to
me.-Terence.
The true and highest model of humanity
is the humanity of Christ.-C. Sinimons.
It will be very generally found that those
who sneer habitually at human nature, and
affect to despise it, are among its worst and
least pleasant samples.—Dickens.
A man's nature runs either to herbs or
weeds; therefore let him seasonably water
the one and destroy the other.-
Bacon.
I do not know what comfort other people
find in considering the weakness of great
men, but 'tis always a mortification to me
to observe that there is no perfection in
humanity.-S. Montague.
The true proof of the inherent nobleness
of our common nature is in the sympathy
it betrays with what is noble wherever
crowds are collected. Never believe the
world is base; if it were so, 110 society
could hold together for a day.-Bulwer".
It is only when blinded by self-love, that
we can think proudly of our nature. Take
away that blind, and in our judgment of
others we are quicksighted enough to see
there is very little in that nature to rely on.
Human nature is not so much depraved
as to hinder us from respecting goodness
in others, though we ourselves want it. We
love truth too well to resist the charms of
sincerity.-Steele.
There is but one temple in the world,
and that is the body of man.-Nothing is
holier than this high form.-We touch
heaven when we lay our hand on a human
body.-Novalis.
Our humanity were a poor thing but for
the divinity that stirs within us.- Bacon.
Being reproached for giving to an un-
worthy person, Aristotle said, “I did not
give it to the man, but to hunanity.”
Christianity is the highest perfection of
humanity.--Johnson.
A rational nature admits of nothing
which is not serviceable to the rest of man-
kind.-Marcus Antoninus.
However exquisitely human nature may
have been described by writers, the true
practical system can be learned only in the
world.-Fielding.
As there is much beast and some devil in
man, so there is some angel and some God
in him. The beast and devil may be con-
quered, but in this life never wholly do-
stroyed.—Coleridge.
A man's nature is best perceived in pri-
vateness, for there is no affectation ; in
passion, for that putteth a man out of his
precepts ; and in a new case or experiment,
for there custom leaveth him.-Bacon.
Humanity is a duty made known and en-
joined by revelation, and ever keeping pace
with the progress of Christianity.-Sidney
Smith.
HUMILITY.-Humility that low sweet
root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
-Moore.
The casting down of our spirits in true
humility is but like throwing a ball to the
ground, which makes it rebound the higher
toward heaven.-J. Mason.
True humility is not an abject, groveling,
self-despising spirit ; it is but a right esti-
mate of ourselves as God sees us.-- -Tryon
Ldwards.
Sense shines with a double luster when
it is set in humility. An able and yet bum-
ble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.-
Penn.
It is easy to look down on others; to look
down on ourselves is the difficulty.-Peter-
borough.
The doctrines of grace humble man with-
out degrading, and exalt without intlating
him.-Charles Hodge.
It was pride that changed angels into
devils ; it is humility that makes men as
angels.-Augustine.
Humility in religion, as in the world, is
the avenne to glory.-Guesses at Truth.
Be wise ; soar not too high to fall, but
stoop to rise.—Massinger.
They that know God will be humble ;
they that know themselves cannot be proud.
Tlavel.
Humility is the genuine proof of Chris-
tian virtue.-Without it we keep all our
defects : and they are only crusted over by
pride, which conceals them from others,
and often from ourselves.-Rochefoucauld.
Humility is the root, mother, nurse,
foundation, and bond of all virtue.-Chry-
sostom.
It is the witness still of excellence to put
a strange face on its own perfection.-
Shakespeare.
Heaven's gates are not so highly arched
as princes' palaces; they that enter there
must go upon their knees.-J. Webster.
Humanity cannot be degraded by humili-
ation. It is its very character to submit to
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HUMILITY.
such things. There is a consanguinity
betweeu benevolence and humility. They
are virtues of the same stock.-- Burle.
The sufficiency of my merit is to know
that my merit is not sufficient.-Augustine.
Humility is to make a right estimate of
one's self. Spurgeon.
Humility is a virtue all preach, none
practise, and yet everybody is content to
hear. The master thinks it good doctrine
for his servant, the laity for the clergy,
and the clergy for the laity.-Selden.
There is but one road to lead us to God
-humility ; all other ways would only lead
astray, even were they fenced in with all
virtues.-Boileau.
Sense shines with a double lustre when
set in humility.--Penn.
It is from out of the depths of our hu-
mility that the height of our destiny looks
grandest. Let me truly feel that in myself
I am nothing, and at once, through every
iulet of my soul, God comes in, and is
everything in me.-W. Mountford.
It is no great thing to be humble when
you are brought low; but to be humble
when you are praised is a great and rare at-
taiunient.-St. Bernard.
Epaminondas, finding himself lifted up
in the day of his public triumph, the next
day went drooping and hanging down his
head ; and being asked what was the rea-
son of his so great dejection, made answer :
“Yesterday I felt myself transported with
vainglory, therefore I chastise myself for it
to-day."- Plutarch.
The Christian is like the ripening corn ;
the riper he grows the more lowly he bends
his head.-Guthrie.
Believe me, the much-praised lambs of
humility would not bear themselves so
mcckly if they but possessed tiger's claws.
-H. Heire.
If thou wouldst find much favor and
peace with God and man, be very low in
thinc own eyes. Forgive thyself little and
others much.-Leighton.
Humility is the Christian's greatest
honor ; and the higher men climb, the
further they are from heaven. Jane
Porter.
Trees that, like the poplar, lift upward
all their boughs, give no shade and no
shelter whatever their height. Trees the
most lovingly shelter and shade 118 when,
like the willow, the higher soar their sum-
inits, the lowlier droop their boughs.-
Bulwer.
Much misconstruction and bitterness are
spared to him who thinks naturally upon
what he owes to others, rather than on
what he ought to expect from them.-Mad.
Guizot.
I believe the first test of a truly great
man is his humility.-Ruskin.
Humility, like darkness, reveals the
heavenly lights,— Thoreau.
There is nothing so clear-sighted and
sensible as a noble mind in a low estate.-
Jane Porter.
God walks with the humble ; he reveals
himself to the lowly ; he gives understand-
ing to the little ones; he discloses his
meaning to pure minds, but hides his grace
from the curious and the proud.—Thos. d.
Kempis.
The street is full of humiliations to the
proud.-Emerson.
There is many a wounded heart without
a contrite spirit.—The ice may be broken
into a thousand pieces, but it is ice still.-
But expose it to the beams of the sun of
righteousness, and then it will melt.-Mid-
dleton.
Should you ask me, What is the first
thing in religion? I should reply, The
first, second, and third thing therein—nay,
all- humility.--Augustine.
After crosses and losses men grow hum-
bler and wiser.- Franklin.
Humility is the solid foundation of all
the virtues.-Confucius.
The beloved of the Almighty are the rich
who have the humility of the poor, and the
poor who have the magnanimity of the rich.
---Saadi.
Humility is the first lesson we learn from
reflection, and self-distrust the first proof
we give of having obtained a knowledge of
ourselves.-Zinnermann.
It is in vain to gather virtues without
humility ; for the spirit of God delights to
dwell in the hearts of the bumble.- Eras-
mus.
Humbleness is always grace; always dig-
nity.-J. R. Lowell.
To be humble to superiors, is duty ; to
equals, is courtesy ; to inferiors, is noble-
ness ; and to all, safety ; it being a virtue
that, for all its lowliness, commandeth
those it stoops to.-Sir T. More.
True dignity abides with him only, who,
in the silent hour of inward thought, can
still suspect, and still revere himself, in
lowliness of heart.- Wordsworth.
If thou desire the love of God and man,
be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves
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HYPOCRISY.
none but itself, is beloved of none but
itself.—Humility enforces where neither
virtue, nor strength, nor reason can pre-
vail.- Quarles.
Humility is not a weak and timid quality;
it must be carefully distinguished from a
groveling spirit.—There is such a thing as
an honest pride and self-respect.—Though
we may be servants of all, we should be
servile to none.-E. H. Chapin.
The fullest and best ears of corn hang
lowest toward the ground.-Bp. Reynolds.
Humility and love are the essence of true
religion ; the humble formed to adore; the
loving to associate with eternal love.-
Lavater.
Truly, this world can get on without us,
if we would but think 80. —Longfellow.
Nothing sets a person so much out of the
devil's reach as humility.-Jonathan Ed-
wards.
The richest pearl in the Christian's
crown of graces is humility.--Good.
Humility is the eldest born of virtue,
and claims the birth-right at the throne of
heaven.-Murphy.
He that places himself neither higher
nor lower than he ought to do, exercises
the truest humility.--Colton.
The saint that wears heaven's brightest
crown in deepest adoration bends; thie
weight of glory bows him down the most
when most his soul ascends; nearest the
throne itself must be the footstool of hu-
mility.-J. Montgomery.
By humility I mean not the abjectness
of a base mind, but a prudent care not to
overvalue ourselves.-Crew.
Humility is to have a right estimate of
one's self not to think less of himself than
he ought.-The higher a man is in grace,
the lower will he be in his own esteem.
Spurgeon.
Humility is the truest abstinence in the
world. It is abstinence from self-love and
self-conceit, from vaunting our own praise
and exploits, from ambition and avarice,
the strongest propensities of our nature,
and consequently is the noblest self-denial.
Delany.
True humility makes way for Christ, and
throws the soul at his feet.-J. Mason.
HUMOR.-(See GOOD-HUMOR.')
Wit may be a thing of pure imagination,
but humor involves sentiment and char-
acter.-Humor is of a genial quality ; dwells
in the same character with pathos, and is
always mingled with sensibility.-Giles.
I live in a constant endeavor to fence
against the infirmities of ill-health, and
other evils of life, by mirth. I am per-
suaded that every time a man smiles--but
much more so when he laughs-it adds
something to this fragment of life.---Sterne.
There is certainly no defence against ad-
verse fortune which is, on the whole, so
effectual as an habitual sense of humor.-
T. W. Higginson.
True humor springs not more from the
head than from the heart.-It is not con-
tempt; its essence is love.-It issues not in
laughter, but in still smiles, .which lie far
deeper. -- Carlyle.
Good humor is one of the best articles of
dress one can wear in society.-Thackeray.
These poor gentlemen endeavor to gain
themselves the reputation of wits and
humorists by such monstrous conceits as
almost qualify them for bedlam; not con-
sidering that humor should always lie under
the check of reason, and that it requires
the direction of the nicest judgment, by so
much the more as it indulges itself in the
most boundless freedoms.---Addison.
For health and the constant enjoyment
of life, give me a keen and ever present
sense of humor; it is the next best thing
to an abiding faith in providence.
The union of genuine, rich humor with
deep piety, and the chastened, spontaneous
use of it under the guidance of a sound
judgment, are among the rarest manifesta-
tions of intellectual power.-G. B. Cheever.
Good humor is the clear blue sky of the
soul, highly favorable to the discoveries
and progress of genius.
It was the saying of an ancient sage that
humor was the only test of gravity, and
gravity of humor; for a subject that would
not bear raillery was suspicious, and a jest
that would not bear a serious examination
was certainly false to it.-Shaflesbury. .
HUNGER,-(See “APPETITE.")
HURRY,-(See “HASTE.”)
HUSBAND,-(See “FAMILY.")
HYPOCRISY.-The hypocrite was a
man, who stole the livery of the court of
heaven to serve the devil in.-Pollok.
A bad man is worse when he pretends to
be a saint.-Bacon.
Satan was the first that practised false-
hood under saintly show, deep malice to
conceal, couch'd with revenge.--Milton.
'Tis not my talent to conceal iny thoughts,
or carry smiles and sunshine in my face,
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when discontent sits heavy at my heart.-
Addison.
Oh, what authority and show of truth,
can cunning sin cover itself withal !-Shalce-
speare.
As a man loves gold, in that proportion
he hates to be imposed upon by counter-
feits ; and in proportion as a man has re-
gard for that which is above price and
better than gold, he abhors that hypocrisy
which is but its counterfeit. - Cecil.
Grace is the new nature of a Christian,
and hypocrisy that art that counterfeits it
and the more exquisite it is in imitation, it
is the more plausible to men, but the more
aboininable to God.-Bp. Hall,
No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.
Johnson.
The devil can cite Scripture for his pur-
pose. An evil soul, producing holy witness,
is like a villain with a smiling cheek; à
goodly apple rotten at the heart : Oh, what
a goodly outside falsehood hath !-Shake-
speare.
If the devil ever laughs, it must be at
hypocrites ; they are the greatest dupes he
has; they serve him better than any others,
but receive no wages ; nay, what is still
more extraordinary, they submit to greater
mortifications to go to hell, than the sin-
cerest Christian to go to heaven.- Colton.
He was a man would say untruths, and
be ever double, both in his words and
deeds.-He was never, but where he meant
to ruin, pitiful.-Shalcespeare.
Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of vil-
lainy; affectation, part of the chosen trap-
pings of folly; the one completes a villain,
the other only finishes a fop. Contempt is
the proper punishment of affectation, and
detestation the just consequence of hypoc-
risy.-Johnson.
Hypocrisy, of course, delights in the
most sublime speculations ; for never in-
tending to go beyond speculation, it costs
nothing to have it magnificent.—Burke.
Hypocrisy itself does great honor, or
rather justice, to religion, and tacitly ac-
knowledges it to be an ornament to human
nature. The hypocrite would not be at so
much pains to put on the appearance of
virtue if he did not know it was the most
proper and effectual means to gain the love
and esteem of mankind.-Addison.
But then I sigh, and, with a piece of
Scripture, tell them—that God bids us do
good for evil: and thus I clothe my naked
villainy, with old odd ends, stolen forth of
Holy Writ: and seem a saint, when inost I
play the devil. Why, I can smile, and
murder while I smile : and cry, content, to
that which grieves my heart; and wet my
cheeks with artificial tears, and frame my
face to all occasions.-Shalcespeare.
It is the greatest madness to be a hypo-
crite in religion. The world will hate thee
because a Christian even in appearance ;
and God will hate thee because so only in
appearance ; and thus having the hatred
of both, thou shalt have no comfort in
either. - Bp. Hall.
Hypocrisy desires to appear rather than
to be good ; honesty, to be good rather
than seem so.-Fools purchase reputation
by the sale of desert; wise men seek de-
sert even at the hazard of reputation.-
Warwick.
Some people speak as if hypocrites were
confined to religion ; but they are every-
where ; people pretending to wealth when
they have not a sixpence, assuming knowl-
edge of which they are ignorant, shamming
a culture they are far removed from, adopt-
ing opinions they do not hold.-Albert
Goodrich.
Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays
to virtue.--Rochefoucauld.
An atheist is but a mad ridiculous de-
rider of piety ; but a hypocrite makes &
sober jest of God and religion ; he finds it
easier to be upon his knees than to rise to
a good action ; like an impudent debtor,
who goes every day to talk familiarly to
his creditor, without ever paying what he
owes.- Pope.
Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of
villainy.-Johnson.
The most terrible of lies is not that which
is uttered but that which is lived.-W. G.
Clarke.
It is hard to personate and act a part
long ; for where truth is not at the bottom
nature will always be endeavoring to re-
turn, and will peep out and betray herself
one time or another.-Tillotson.
Hypocrites do the devil's drudgery in
Christ's livery.-M. Henry.
False face must hide what the false heart
doth know.-Shakespeare.
Hypocrisy is folly. It is much easier,
safer, and pleasanter to be the thing which
a man aims to appear, than to keep up the
appearance of what he is not.-Cecil.
The hypocrite shows the excellence of
virtue by the necessity he thinks himself
under of seeming to be virtuous.-Johnson.
There is some virtue in almost every vice
except hypocrisy ; and even that, while it
is a mockery of virtue, is, at the same time,
a compliment to it.- Hazlitt.
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IDEAS.
The hypocrite pays tribute to God that
he may impose upon man.
Hypocrisy is much more eligible than
open infidelity and vice, it wears the livery
of religion, and is cautious of giving scan-
dal.-Swift.
Hypocrisy, detest her as we may, and no
man's hatred ever wronged her yet, may
claim this merit still, that she admits the
worth of what she mimics with such care.
--Cowper.
'Tis a cowardly and servile humor to hide
and disguise a man's self under a visor, and
not to dare to show himself what he is.
By that our followers are trained up to
treachery. Being brought up to speak
what is not true, they make no conscience
of a lie.—Montaigne.
Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks in-
visible, except to God alone.--Milton.
Saint abroad and devil at home.-Bun-
yan.
With devotion's visage, and pious action,
we do sugar o'er the devil himself.—Shake-
speare.
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.-Haw-
thorne.
One may smile and smile and be a villain
still.—Shakespeare.
I.
IDEALS,- The best and noblest lives are
those which are set toward high ideals.
And the highest and noblest ideal that any
man can have is Jesus of Nazareth.-Al-
neron.
A large portion of human beings live not
so much in themselves as in what they de-
sire to be. They create an ideal character
the perfections of which compensate in
some degree for imperfections of their own.
-E. P. Whipple.
We never reach our ideals, whether of
mental or moral improvement, but the
thought of them shows us our deficiencies,
and spurg us on to higher and better things.
- Tryon Edwards.
We all have day dreams of what we wish
to be, or have, or do; and the high imag-
inary standard, like the good resolutions
we form, aids us, often, to a higher and
better life.
Every life has its actual blanks which
the ideal must fill up, or which else remain
bare and profitless forever.-J. W. Howe.
Every man has, at times, in his mind the
ideal of what he should be, but is not. In
all men that seek to improve, it is better
than the actual character.-No one is so
satisfied with himself that he never wishes
to be wiser, better, and more holy.--Theo-
dore Parker.
Ideality is only the avant-courier of the
mind, and where that, in a healthy and
norinal state gocs, I hold it to be a
prophecy that realization can follow.---
H. Mann.
Ideals are the world's masters.-J. G.
Holland.
What we need most, is not so much to
realize the ideal as to idealize the real.-
-Hedge.
Ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never
located.-Mad. Sévigné.
We build statues of snow, and weep to
see them melt.-Walter Scoti.
Great objects form great minds.-Em-
mons.
A man's ideal, like his horizon, is con-
stantly receding from him as he advances
toward it.-W. G. t. Shedd.
Nothing more powerfully argues a life
beyond this than the failure of ideals here.
Each gives us only fragments of humanity,
of heart, of mind, of charity, of love and
of virtue.
Man can never come up to his ideal stand-
ard. It is the nature of the immortal
spirit to raise that standard higher and
higher as it goes from strength to strength,
still upward and onward. The wisest and
greatest men are ever the most modest.-
M. F. Osseoli.
IDEAS.-Ideas control the world.-Gar-
field.
A healthful hunger for a great idea is the
beauty and blessedness of life.-Jean In-
gelow.
In these days we fight for ideas, and
newspapers are our fortresses.-H. Heine.
Old ideas are prejudices, and new ones
caprices.-Dondan.
A great idea is usually original to more
than one discoverer. Great ideas come
when the world needs them. They sur-
round the world's ignorance and press for
admission.-A. Phelps.
Many ideas grow. better when trans-
planted into another mind than in the one
where they sprung up. That which was a
weed in one becomes a flower in the other,
and a flower again dwindles down to a mere
weed by the same change. Healthy growths
may become poisonous by falling upon the
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IDLENESS.
wrong mental soil, and what seemed a
night-shade in one mind unfolds as a moru-
ing-glory in the other.--0. W. Holmes.
Temples have their images ; and we see
what influence they have always had over a
great part of mankind.-But, in truth, the
ideas and images in men's minds are the in-
visible powers that constantly govern them;
and to these they all pay universally a ready
submission.-- Jonathan Edwards.
Ideas are the great warriors of the world,
and a war that has no idea bebind it is
simply a brutality.-Garfield.
Ideas are like beards; men do not have
them until they grow up.- Voltaire.
Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out
in proportion to the size of the box which
imprisons the roots.-Bulwer.
Ideas are the factors that lift civilization.
They create revolutions. There is more
dynamite in an idea than in many bombs.
- Bp. Vincent.
By what strange law of mind is it, that
an idea long overlooked, and trodden under
foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles
out in new light as a discovered diamond?
-Mrs. Slowe.
Ideas are cosmopolitan.—They have the
liberty of the world. You have no right to
take the sword and cross the bounds of
other nations, and enforce on them laws or
institutions they are un willing to receive.-
But there is no limit to the sphere of ideas.
Your thoughts and feelings, the whole
world lies open to them, and you have the
right to send them into any latitude, and
to give them sweep around the earth, to
the mind of every human being.-H. W.
Beecher.
Ideas go booming through the world
louder than cannon. Thoughts are mightier
than armies. Principles have achieved
more victories than horsemen or chariots.-
W. M. Pasion.
To the thinker, the most trifling external
object often suggests ideas, which extend,
link after link, from earth to heaven.-
Bulwer.
A soul occupied with great ideas best
performs small duties.—7. Martineau.
If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit
be it spoken, we moderns are building
houses for them.-A. B. Alcott.
Ideas, though vivid and real, are often
indefinite, and are shy of the close furni-
ture of words.-Tupper.
Our land is not more the recipient of the
men of all countries than of their ideas.-
Bancroft.
To have ideas is to gather flowers; to
think, is to weave them into garlands.-
Mad. Swetchine.
An idea, like a ghost, according to the
common notion of ghosts, must be spoken
to a little before it will explain itself.-
Dickens,
Events are only the shells of ideas; and
often it is the fluent thought of ages that
is crystallized in a moment by the stroke
of a peu or the point of a bayonet.-E. H.
Chapin.
Bred to think as well as speak by vote,
we furnish our winds, as we furnish our
houses, with the fancies of others, and
according to the mode and age of our
country.-We pick up our ideas and notions
in common conversation, as in schools.-
Bolingbrolce.
Ideas make their way in silence like tho
waters that, filtering behind the rocks of
the Alps, loosen them from the mountains
ou which they rest.--D'Aubigné.
When young men are beginning life, the
most important period, it is often said, is
that in which their habits are formed.
That is a very important period.—But the
period in which the ideas of the young are
formed and adopted is more important still.
-For the ideal with which you go forth to
measure things determines the nature, so
far as you are concerned, of everything you
meet.-H. W. Beecher.
Ideas in the mind are the transcript of
the world; words are the transcript of
ideas; and writing and printing are the
transcript of words. --Addison.
A vague recollection fills my mind, an
image dazzling, but undefined, like the
memory of a gorgeous drean.-It crowds
my brain confusedly, but will not stay.-It
changes like the tremulous sunshine on the
wave, till imagination itself is dazzled, be-
wildered, overpowered.--Longfellow.
He who wishes to fulfill his mission in the
world must be a man of one idea, that is of
one great overmastering purpose, over-
shadowing all his aims, and guiding and
controlling his entire life.- Bate.
IDLENESS.-(See “INDOLENCE.")
Idleness is the bane of body and mind,
the nurse of naughtiness, the chief author
of all mischief, one of the seven deadly sins,
the cushion upon which the devil chiefly
reposes, and a great cause not only of mel-
ancholy, but of many other diseases; for
the mind is naturally active; and if it be
not occupied about some honest business,
it rushes into mischief or sinks into mel-
ancholy.-Burton.
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IDLENESS.
The idle man is the devil's cushion, on
which he taketh his free case, who, as he is
incapable of any good, so he is fitly dis-
posed for all evil motions.-Bp. Hall.
Idleness is the hot-bed of temptation, the
cradle of disease, the waster of time, the
cauker-worm of felicity. To him that has
no employment, life in a little while will
have no novelty ; and when novelty is laid
in the grave, the funeral of comfort will
soon follow.
Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is
a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for
temptation and for unprofitable, distract-
ing musings; while labor profiteth others
and ourselves.-Baxter.
Idleness is the key of beggary, and the
root of all evil.–Spurgeon.
In idleness there is perpetual despair.-
Carlyle.
From its very inaction, idleness ulti-
mately becomes the most active cause of
evil ; as a palsy is more to be dreaded than
a fever. The Turks have a proverb, which
says, that the devil tempts all other men,
but that idle men tempt the devil.—Colton.
If idleness do not produce vice or ma-
levolence, it commonly produces melan-
choly.-Sydney Smith.
The first external revelations of the dry-
rotin men is a tendency to lurk and lounge;
to be at street corners without intelligible
reason; to be going anywhere when met;
to be about many places rather than any;
to do nothing tangible but to have an in-
tention of performing a number of tangible
duties to-morrow or the day after.-Dickens.
Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds,
and the holiday of fools.-Chesterfield.
Troubles spring from idleness, and griev-
ous toils from needless ease: many without
labor would live by their own wits only,
but they break for want of stock.-Frank-
lin.
Too much idleness, I have observed, fills
up a man's time much more completely,
and leaves him less his own master,
than any sort of employment whatsoever. -
Burke.
It is a mistake to imagine, that the vio-
lent passions only, such as ambition and
love, can triumph over the rest. Idleness,
languid as it is, often masters them all
i
she influences all our designs and actions,
and insensibly consumes and destroys both
passions and virtues.-Rochefoucauld.
If you are idle you are on the way to ruin,
and there are few stopping places upon it..
-It is rather a precipice than a road.-H.
W. Beecher.
Some one saying to the famous Marquis
Spinola, that a distinguished general had
died of having nothing to do, he replied,
"Upon my word, that is enough to kill any-
body.”
Life is a short day; but it is a working
day. Activity may lead to evil, but inac-
tivity cannot lead to good.-Hannah More.
Not only is he idle who is doing nothing,
but he that might be better employed.-
Socrates.
Laziness grows on people ; it begins in
cobwebs and ends in iron chains. The
more business a man has to do the more he
is able to accomplish, for he learns to econ-
onize his time.—Sir M. Hale.
I would have inscribed on the curtains of
your bed, and the walls of your chamber,
"If you do not rise early, you can never
make progress in anything. If you do not
set apart your hours of reading, if you suf-
fer yourself or any one else to break in upon
them, your days will slip through your
lands unprofitable and frivolous, and really
unenjoyed by yourself.”—Lord Chatham.
To be idle and to be poor have always
been reproaches; and therefore every man
endeavors with his utmost care to hide his
poverty from others, and his idleness froin
himself.-Johnson.
A man who is able to employ himself in-
nocently is never miserable. It is the idle
who are wretched. If I wanted to inflict
the greatest punishment on a fellow-crea-
ture I would shut him alone in a dark room
without employment.
Idleness among children, as among men,
is the root of all evil, and leads to no other
evil more certain than ill temper.-Hannah
More.
So long as idleness is quite shut out from
our lives, all the sins of wantonness, soft-
ness, and effeminacy are prevented; and
there is but little room for temptation.
Jeremy Taylor.
It would be thought a hard government
that should tax its people one-tenth part of
their time, to be employed in its service;
but idleness taxes many of us much more ;
sloth, by bringing on diseases, absolutely
shortens life. Sloth, like rust, consumes
faster than labor wears, while the used key
is always bright. Dost'thou love life, then
do not squander time, for that is the stuff
life is made of. How much more than is
necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting
that the sleeping fox catches no poultry,
and there will be sleeping enough in the
grave ! - Franklin.
By nature's laws, immutable and just,
two cold bodies will grow hot
IDLENESS.
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IDLENESS.
enjoyment stops where indolence begins.---- Some register the changes of the wind, and
Pollolc.
die fully convinced that the wind is change-
I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide;
able. There are men yet more profound,
for the man is efficiently destroyed, though
who have heard that two colorless liquors
the appetite of the brute may survive.- may produce a color by union, and that
Cicero.
The idle levy a very heavy tax upon the
mingled : they mingle them, and produce
industrious when, by frivolous visitations,
the effect expected, say it is strange, and
they rob thent of their time. Such persons
mingle them again. -Jolinson.
beg their daily happiness from door to Idleness is the stupidity of the body,
door, as beggars their daily bread. A mere and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.
gossip ought not to wonder if we are tired Seume.
of him, sceing that we are indebted for the
Stagnation is something worse than
lionor of his visit solely to the circumstance
death ; it is corruption also.-Simms.
of his being tired of himself.
Satan selects his disciples when they are
Much bending breaks the bow; much
idle
i
but Christ chose his when they were
unbending the mind.-Bacon.
busy at their work, either mending their
Employment, wliich Galen calls “Na- nets, or casting them into the sea.-F'ar-
ture's physician," is so cssential to human wenden.
happiness that indolence is justly con-
They that do nothing are in the readiest
sidered as the mother of miscry.-Burton.
way to do that which is worse than nothing.
The way to be nothing is to do nothing.-- -Zimmermann.
Ногое.
Idleness is many gathered miseries in
The busy man is troubled with but one one name.-Richter.
devil ; the idle man by a thousand.-Span-
The idle, who are neither wise for this
ish Proverb.
world nor the next, are emphatically fools.
Sloth makes all things difficult, but in- Tillotson.
dustry, all things easy.--He that rises late
Satan finds some mischief still for idle
must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake
liands to do.- Watts.
his business at night, while laziness travels
so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
Ialeness is the burial of a living man.-
--Tranklin.
Jeremy Taylor.
Evil thoughts intrude in an unemployed Absence of occupation is not rest; a
mind, as naturally as worms are generated
mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.-
in a stagnant pool.
Cowper.
Ialeness is an inlet to disorder, and makes
Idleness travels very slowly, and poverty
way for licentiousness.-People who have
soon overtakes her.--Hunter.
nothing to do are quickly tired of their own Idleness is the gate of all harms.-An idle
company.-Collier.
man is like a house that hath no walls
;
the
Rather do what is nothing to the purpose devils may enter on every side.-Chaucer.
than be idle, that the devil may find thee
It is an undoubted truth that the less ono
doing. --The bird that sits is easily shot
has to do the less time one finds to do itin.
when the fliers escape the fowler.--Idleness
One yawns, one procrastinates, one can do
is the Dead Sea that swallows all the vir-
it when one will, and, therefore, one sel-
tues, and is the self-made sepulcher of a
dom does it at all ; whereas, those who
living man.- -Quarles.
have a great deal of business must buckle
An idle brain is the devil's workshop. to it; and then they always find time
English Proverb.
enough to do it.- Chesterfield.
Among those whom I never could per- Do not allow idleness to deceive you ; for
guade to rank themselves with idlers, and while you give him to-day he steals to-mor-
who speak with indignation of my morning row from you.--Crowquill.
sleeps and nocturnal rambles, one passes
I would not waste the springtime of my
the day in catching spiders, that he may
youth in idle dalliance ; I would plant rich
count their eyes with a microscope; another
seeds to blossom in my manhood, and bear
exhibits the dust of a marigold separated
fruit wlien I am old.- Hillhouse.
from the flower with a dexterity worthy of
Leuwenhoeck himself. Some turn the
Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to
wheel of electricity; some suspend rings
live, and by her busy ways, reform thinc
to a loadstone, and find that what they did own.-Smart.
yesterday, they can do again to-day.-- Ten thousand harms more than the ills
IGNORANCE.
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IGNORANCE.
we know, our idleness doth hatch.-Shake-
speare.
Ialeness is the sepulcher of virtue.-Mad.
Roland.
IGNORANCE.-(See “KNOWLEDGE.")
Ignorance is a mere privation, by which
nothing can be produced; it is a vacuity in
which the soul sits motionless and torpid
for want of attraction.—Johnson.
Better be unborn than untaught, for ig-
norance is the root of misfortune.Plato.
Have the courage to be ignorant of a
great number of things, in order to avoid
the calamity of being ignorant of every-
thing.--Sydney Smith.
He that does not know those things
which are of use and necessity for him to
know, is but an ignorant man, whatever he
may know besides.-- Tillotson.
Nothing is so indicative of deepest cult-
ure as a tender consideration of the ig-
norant.--Emerson.
There never was any party, faction, sect,
or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ig-
norant were not the most violent; for a bee
is not a busier animal than a blockhead.
However, such instruments are, perhaps,
necessary; for it may be with states as
with clocks, which must have some dead
weight hanging at them, to help and regu-
late the motion of the finer and more use-
ful parts.-Pope.
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the
malacly of ignorance.-A. B. Alcott.
It is impossible to make people under-
stand their ignorance ; for it requires
knowledge to perceive it, and therefore
he that can perceive it hath it not. —
Jeremy Taylor.
Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug,
but when it prescribes pills it inay happen
to do more harm.- George Eliot.
Ages of ignorance and simplicity are
thought to be ages of purity. But the
direct contrary is the case. Rude periods
have that grossness of manners which is
as unfriendly to virtue as luxury itself.
Men are less ashamed as they are less pol-
ished.- Warton.
By ignorance is pride increased ; those
most assume who know the least.—Gay.
Ignorance, which in behavior mitigates
a fault, is, in literature, a capital offence.
-Joubert.
The ignorant bath an eagle's wings and
an owl's eyes.-- George Herbert.
There is no slight danger from general
ignorance; and the only choice which
Providence has graciously left to a vicious
government is either to fall by the people,
if they are suffered to become enlightened,
or with them, if they are kept enslaved and
ignorant.-- Coleridge.
It is as great a point of wisdom to hide
iguorance, as to discover knowledge.
'Tis sad work to be at that pass, that the
best trial of truth must be the multitude of
believers, in a crowd where the number of
fools so much excoeds that of the wise.
Montaigne.
To be proud of learning is the greatest
ignorance.-Jeremy Taylor.
It is with nations as with individuals,
those who know the least of others think
the highest of themselves ; for the whole
· family of pride and ignorance are incestu-
0118, and mutually beget each other.-Col-
ton.
Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal,
and a man may be properly charged with
that evil which he neglected or refused to
learn how to prevent.-Johnson.
In the natural world ignorance is visited
as sharply as willful disobedience ; inca-
pacity meets the same punishment as
crime.-Nature's discipline is not even a
word and a blow and the blow first, but the
blow without the word. It is left for the
sufferer to find out why the blow was given.
-Huxley.
So long as thou art ignorant be not
ashamed to lcarn.-Ignorance is the great-
est of all infirmities, and, when justified,
the chiefest of all follies. Izaalc Walton.
Ignorance gives a sort of eternity to prej-
udice, and perpetuity to error.-Robert
Hall.
If thou art wise thou knowest thine own
ignorance; and thou art ignorant if thou
knowest not thyself.-Luther.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man
as silence; and if he was sensible of this he
would not be ignorant.-Saadi.
He that is not aware of his ignorance will
be only misled by his knowledge.- Whately.
It is better to be a beggar than ignorant ;
for a beggar only wants money, but an ig-
norant person wants humanity.--Arislip-
pus.
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowl-
edge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
-Shakespeare.
The ignorance that knows itself, and
judges and condemns itself, is not an abso-
lute ignorance ; which to be, it must be ig-
norant of itself.-Montaigne.
ILL-NATURE.
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IMAGINATION.
Ignorance is the night of the mind, but
a night without moon or star.-- Confucius.
A wise man in the company of those who
are ignorant, has been compared to a beau-
tiful girl in the company of blind men.-
Saadi.
As if anything were so common as igno-
rance! The multitude of fools is a protec-
tion to the wise.Cicero.
Ignorance is a prolonged infancy, only
deprived of its charm.-Boufflers.
A man is never astonished or ashamed
that he does not know what another does;
but he is surprised at the gross ignorance
of the other in not knowing what he knows.
--Haliburton.
It is not wisdom. but ignorance that
teaches men presumption.-Genius may
sometimes be arrogant, but nothing is so
diffident as knowledge.—Bulwer.
There are times when ignorance is bliss,
indeed.--Dickens.
Ignorance has been said to be the mother
of devotion ; it is rather the mother of su-
perstition.
Nothing is so haughty and assuming ng
ignorance where self-conceit sets up to be
infallible.-South.
Ignorance lies at the bottom of all hu-
man knowledge, and the deeper we pene-
trate the nearer we come to it.-Tor what
do we truly know, or what can we clearly
affirm of any one of those important things
upon which all our reasonings must of ne-
cessity be built-time and space, life and
death, matter and mind.--Colton.
Too much attention cannot be bestowed
on that important, yet much neglected
branch of learning, the knowledge of man's
ignorance.- Whately.
Be ignorance thy choice, where knowl-
edge leads to woe. Beattie.
Where ignorance is bliss 'tis folly to be
wise.—Gray.
The highest reach of human science is
the scientific recognition of human igno-
rance.—Sir Wm. Hamilton.
ILL-NATURE.-11l-humor is but the
inward feeling of our own want of merit ;
a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is
always united with an envy that foolish
vanity excites. - Goethe.
The world is so full of ill-nature, that I
have lampoons sent me by people who
cannot spell, and satires composed by
those who scarce know how to write. —
Spectator.
It is impossible that an ill-natured man
can have a public spirit; for how should he
love ten thousand men who has never loved
one ?- Pope.
An ill-humored man, is, almost of course,
a selfish man, unhappy in himself, and
disagreeable to others. - His chief pleasure
seems to be, to be displeased, if not with
himself, yet with all about him.
ILLS.-What we count the ills of life are
often blessings in disguise, resulting in
good to us in the end. Though for the
present not joyous but grievous, yet, if re-
ceived in a right spirit, they work out
fruits of righteousness for us at last.-M.
Henry.
It is better to try to bear the ills we have,
than to anticipate those which may never
come.-Rochefoucauld.
Think of the ills from which you are ex-
empt, and it will aid you to bear patiently
those which now you may suffer. --Cecil.
Philosophy easily triumphs over past and
future illo ; but present ills triumph over
philosophy.--Rochefoucauld.
We trust, that somehow, good will be the
final goal of ill.—Tennyson.
We satisfied ourselves, the other day,
that there was no real ill in life except
severe bodily pain; everything else is the
child of the imagination, and depends on
our thoughts.-All other ills find a remedy
either from time, or inoderation, or strength
of mind.--Mad. Sévigné.
The fear of ill exceeds the ill we fear.
IMAGINATION.-Many have no hap-
pier moments than those that they pass in
solitude, abandoned to their own imagina-
tion, which sometiunes puts sceptres in
their hands or miters on their heads, shifts
the scene of pleasure with endless variety,
bids all the forms of beauty sparkle before
them, and gluts them with every change of
visionary luxury.-Johnson.
We are all of 118 imaginative in some forin
or other, for images are the brood of desire.
- George Eliot.
No man will be found in whose mind airy
notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and
force him to hope or fear beyond the limits
of sober probability.---Johnson.
A vile imagination, once indulged, gets
the key of our minds, and can get in again
very easily, whether we will or no, and can
80 return as to bring seven other spirits
with it more wicked than itself; and what
may follow no one knows.--Spurgeon.
He who has imagination without learning
has wings and no feet.-Jouberi.
IMAGINATION.
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IMITATION
Imagination rules the world.-Napoleon.
Do what he will, he cannot realize half
he conceives.-The glorious vision flies.-
Go where he may, he cannot hope to find
the truth and beauty which are pictured in
his mind.—Roger's.
The soul without imagination is what an
observatory would be without a telescope.-
H. W. Beecher.
The world of reality has its limits; the
world of imagination is boundless.-Not
being able to enlarge the one, let us con-
tract the other; for it is from their differ-
ence that all the evils arise which render
us unhappy.--Rousseau.
Whatever makes the past or future pre-
dominate over the present, exalts us in the
scale of thinking beings.-Johnson.
Thought convinces ; feeling persuades.-
If imagination furnishes the fact with
wings, feeling is the great, stout muscle
which plies them, and lifts him from the
ground.-Thought sees beauty; emotion
feels it.-Theodore Parker.
Imagination, where it is truly creative, is
a faculty, not á quality; its seat is in the
higher reason, and it is efficient only as the
servant of the will.-Imagination, as too
often understood, is mere fantasy—the
image-making power, common to all who
have the gift of dreams.-J. R. Lowell.
Imagination is the ruler of our dreams-
& circumstance that may account for the
peculiar vividness of the impressions they
produce.-Let reason be tho ruler of our
waking thoughts.-- Clulow.
The faculty of imagination is the great
spring of human activity, and the prin-
cipal source of human improvement. As
it delights in presenting to the mind scenes
and characters more perfect than those
which we are acquainted with, it prevents
us from ever being completely satisfied
with our present condition, or with our
past attainments, and engages us
tinually in the pursuit of some untried
enjoyment, or of some ideal excellence.
Destroy this faculty, and the condition of
man will become as stationary as that of
the brutes.-Dugald Stewart.
Imagination disposes of everything; it
crcates beanty, justice, and happiness,
which are everything in this world. -Pas-
cal.
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
Joubert.
Imagination ennobles appetites which in
themselves are low, and spiritualizes acts
which, else, are only animal.-But the
pleasures which begin in the senses only
sensualize.--IT. W. Robertson.
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
doth glance from heaven to earth, from
earth to heaven; and as imagination bodies
forth the forms of things unknown, the
poet's pen turns them to shape, and gives
to airy nothing a local habitation and a
name; such tricks hath strong imagination.
--Shakespeare.
Our griefs, as well as our joys, owe
their strongest colors to our imaginations.
- There is nothing so grievous to be borne
that pondering upon it will not make it
heavier; and there is no pleasure so vivid
that the animation of fancy cannot enliven
it.---Jane Porter.
Solitude is as needful to the imagination
as society is wholesome for the character.-
J. R. Lowell.
An uincommon degree of imagination con-
stitutes poetical genius.—Dugald Stewart.
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are
of imagination all compact.-Shakespeare.
It is the divine attribute of the imagina-
tion, that when the real world is shut out
it can create a world for itself, and with a
nocromantic power can conjure up glorious
shapes and forms, and brilliant visions to
make solitude populous, and irradiate the
gloom of a dungeon.- Washington Irving.
IMITATION.-Man is an imitative crea-
ture, and whoever is foremost leads the
herd. --Schiller.
We imitate only what we believe and ad-
mire.--Willmott.
Insist on yourself ; never imitate. Your
own gift you can present every moment
with the cumulative force of a whole life's
cultivation ; but of the adopted talent of
another, you have only an extemporaneous
half-possession. That which cach can do
best none but his Maker can teach him.-
Emerson.
It is by imitation, far more than by pre-
cept, that we learn everything; and what
we learn thus, we acquire not only more
effectually, bit more pleasantly.—This
forms our manners, our opinions, our lives.
-Burke.
Precepts are useful, but practice and
imitation go far beyond them. Hence the
importance of watching early habits that
they may be free from what is objection-
able.-Knighton.
Imitation belittles.---Bovee.
He who imitates evil always goes beyond
the example that is set; he who imitates
what is good always falls short.-Guicciar-
dini.
It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing
con-
IMMORTALITY.
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IMMORTALITY.
the words, decisions, mien, inventions, and
actions of others.- Lavater.
I hardly know so true a mark of a little
mind as the servile imitation of others.-
Gréville.
Men are so constituted that every one
undertakes what he sees another successful
in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.-
Goethe.
Every kind of imitation speaks the per-
son that imitates inferior to him whom he
imitates, as the copy is to the original.-
South.
Imitators are a servile race.--Fontaine. .
Imitation causes us to leave natural ways
to enter into artificial ones; it therefore
makes slaves.- Vinet.
IMMODESTY.-(See “MODESTY.")
IMMORTALITY.-(See “SOUL.")
Those who hope for no other life are
dead even for this.- Goethe.
The seed dies into a new life, and so does
man.-G. Macdonald.
The thought of being nothing after death
is a burden iusupportable to a virtuous man;
we naturally aim at happiness, and cannot
bear to have it confined to our present
being.-Dryden.
When I consider the wonderful activity
of the mind, so great a memory of what is
past, and such a capacity of penetrating
into the future ; when I behold such a num-
ber of arts and sciences, and such a mul-
titude of discoveries thence arising, I be-
lieve and am firmly persuaded that a nature
which contains so many things within itself
cannot but be immortal.-Cicero.
Those who live in the Lord never see
each other for the last time.-German
Motio.
The spirit of man, which God inspired,
cannot together perish with this corporeal
clod. --Milton
All men's souls are immortal, but the
souls of the righteous are both immortal
and divine.--Socrates.
Nothing more powerfully argues a life
beyond this than the failure of our ideas
Here.—Each gives us only fragments of hu-
manity ; fragments of heart, of mind, of
charity, of love, of virtue.—He who inspires
such thoughts and liopes, will surely give a
sphere for their rcalization.
For the great hereafter I trust in the in-
finite love of God is expressed in the life
and death of our Loril and Saviour Jesus
Christ.-J. (. llolland.
How happens it that the pure and holy
have such firm confidence in the immor-
tality of the soul? Do they not by a deeper
instinct or intuition, recognize theirspiritu-
ality, and feel that they belong more to
spirit than to flesh--more to eternity than
to time?-R. Turnbull.
The belief that we shall never die is the
foundation of our dying well.— Turretin.
Whatsoever that be within us that feels,
thinks, desires, and animates, is something
celestial, divine, and, consequently, imper-
ishable.- Aristotle.
To assure us of the future existence of
the good in a state of glory and blessedness,
and in bodies changed from mortality to
immortality, each of the three great dis-
pensations has had its instance of trans-
ſations from earth to heaven; the patri-
archal, in the person of Enoch; the Jewish,
in the person of Elijah ; and the Christian
in the person of Christ.
What springs from earth dissolves to
earth again, and heaven-born things fly to
their native seat.-Marcus Antoninus.
I feel my immortality o'ersweep all pains,
all tears, all time, all fears; and peal, like
the eternal thunders of the deep, into my
ears this truth-thou livest forever !
Byron.
Seems it strange that thou shouldst live
forever? Is it less strange that thou
shouldst live at all? This is a miracle ;
and that no more.-Young.
Nothing short of an eternity could en-
able men to imagine, think, and feel, and
to express all they have imagined, thought,
and felt.-Immortality, which is the spirit-
ual desire, is the intellectual necessity.--
Bulwer.
We do not believe in immortality because
we have proved it, but, we forever try to
prove it because we believe it.-James Mar-
tineau.
Our dissatisfaction with any other solu-
tion is the blazing evidence of immortality.
-Emerson.
On the imagination God sometimes paints,
by dream and symbol, the likeness of things
to come.- What the foolislı-wise call fa-
naticism, belongs to the same part of us as
hope. - Each is the yearning of the soul for
the great " Beyond,” which attests our im-
mortality.--Bulwer.
How gloomy would be the mansions of
the dead to him who did not know that he
should never die; that what now acts, shall
continue its agency, and what now thinks,
shall think on forever.-Johnson,
'Tis the divinity that stirs within u8 ; 'tis
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IMPATIENCE.
heaven itself that points out an hereafter
and intimates eternity to man.--Addison.
The date of human life is too short to rec-
ompense the cares which attend the most
private condition; therefore it is that our
souls are made, as it were, too big for it,
and extend themselves in the prospect of a
longer existence.-Steele.
Most of those who deny the immortality
of the soul, only maintain this opinion be-
cause they wish it. But in the height of
their sinful pleasures, the truth which stares
them in the face, begins on earth that
pull-
ishment, to the fullness of which they are
doomed 'hereafter.----Jewish Spy.
Can it be? matter immortal? and shall
spirit die ? above the nobler, shall less
nobler rise ? shall man alone, for whom all
else revives, no resurrection know? shall
man alone, imperial man ! be sown in bar-
ren ground, less privileged than grain, on
which he feeds ? - Young.
The old, old fashion-death! Oh, thank
God, all who see it, for that older fashion
yet--of immortality!- Dickens.
We are born for a higher destiny than that
of earth.-There is a realm where the rain-
bow never fades, where the stars will be
spread out before us like islands that slum-
ber on the ocean, and where the beings that
.pass before us like shadows, will stay in our
presence forever.-
Bulwer.
Immortality is the greatness of our
being; the scene for attaining the fullness
and perfection of our existence.-C. Sim-
mons.
We are much better believers in im-
mortality than we can give grounds for.--
The real evidence is too subtle, or is higher
than we can write down in propositious.-
Inzerson.
Without a belief in personal immortality
religion is like an arch resting on one pil-
lar, or like a bridge ending in an abyss.-
Max Müller,
The creator made us to be the image of
his own eternity, and in the desire for im-
mortality we feel we have sure proof of our
capacity for it. --Southey.
Not all the subtilties of metaphysics can
make me doubt a moment of the immor-
tality of the soul, and of a beneficent provi-
dence. I feel it, I believe it, I desire it, I
hope it, and will defend it to my last breath.
-Rousseau.
The dust goes to its place, and man to
his own. It is then I feel my immortality,
-I look through the grave luto heaven.-I
ask no miracle, no proof, no reasoning, for
me.--I ask no risen dust to teach me im-
mortality.--I am conscious of eternal life.
-Theodore Parker.
As often as I hear of some undeserved
wretcheduess, my thoughts rest on that
world where all will be made straight, and
where the labors of sorrow will end in joy.
-Fichte.
The belief of a future state is a trouble-
some check on human passions, and one can
never make libertines tranquil and resolute
without having first made them unbeliev-
ers.--Massillon.
A voice within us speaks that startling
word, " Man, thou shalt never die !” Ce-
lestial voices hymn to our souls ; according
harps, by angel fingers touched, do sound
forth still the song of great immortality.-
Dana.
Taith in the hereafter is as necessary for
the intellectual, as for the moral character ;
and to the man of letters, as well as the
Christian, the present forms but the slight-
est portion of his existence.--Southey.
A man really looking onward to an im-
mortal life, on whatever grounds, exhibits
to us the human soul in an ennobled atti-
tude.- Whewell.
Man only of all earthly creatures, asks,
"Can the dead die forever?"and the in-
stinct that urges the question is God's an-
swer to man, for no instinct is given in
vain.-Bulwer.
Every natural longing has its natural
satisfaction.--If we thirst, God has created
liquids to gratify thirst.--If we are suscep-
tible of attachment, there are beings to
gratify our love.-If we thirst for life and
love eternal, it is likely that there are an
eternal life and an eternal love to satisfy
that craving.-F. W. Robertson.
Immortality is the glorious discovery of
Christianity.--Channing.
The inonuments of the nations are all
protests against nothingness after death ;
80 are statues and inscriptions; 80 is his-
tory.--Lew Wallace.
One short sleep past, we wake eternally,
and death shall be no more.--Donne.
It is immortality, and that alone, which
amid life's pains, abasements, emptiness,
the sul can comfort, elevate, and fill.-
Young.
IMPATIENCE,-Impatience grasps at
all, and admits of no delay, scorning, to
wait God's leisure, and to attend humbly
and dutifully upon the issues of his wise
and just providence. --South.
In all evils which admit a remedy, impa-
tience should be avoided, because it wastes
IMPERFECTION.
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IMPOSSIBILITY.
that time and attention in complaints
which, if properly applied, might remove
the cause.—Johnson.
Impatience turns an ague into a fever, a
fever to the plague, fear into despair, anger
into rage, loss into madness, and sorrow to
amazement.--Jeremy Taylor, .
Peevishness may be considered the
canker of life, that destroys its vigor, and
checks its improvement; that creeps on
with hourly depredations, and taints and
vitiates what it cannot consume.-- Johnson.
I have not so great a struggle with my
vices, great and numerous as they are, as I
have with my impatience. My efforts are
not absolutely useless ; yet I have never
been able to conquer this ferocious wild
beast.-Calvin.
Adversity borrows its sharpest sting from
our impatience.—Bp. Horie.
In that worthiest of all struggles, the
struggle for self-mastery and goodness, we
are far less patient with ourselves than God
is with us.-J. G. Holland.
Impatience dries the blood sooner than
age or sorrow.—Cleon.
Whoever is out of patience is out of pos-
session of his soul.-Men must not turn
bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
Bacon.
Oh! low impatience gains upon the soul,
when the long promised hour of joy draws
near.—How slow the tardy moments seem
then to roll.—M[rs. Tighe.
Such is our impatience, our hatred of pro-
crastination in everything but the amend-
ment of our practices and the adornment
of our nature, one would imagine we were
dragging time along by force, and not he
us.-Landor.
IMPERFECTION.-(See “Taults.")
Imperfection is in some sort essential to
all that we know of life.-Nothing that lives
is, or can be rigidly perfect. The fox-glove
blossom, a third part bud; a third part
past, and a third part in full bloom, is
type of the life of this world.--Ruskin.
He censures God who quarrels with the
imperfections of men.-Burke.
I am too conscious of mine own imper-
fections to rake into and dilate upon the
failings of other men ; and though I carry
always some ill-nature about me, yet it is,
I hope, no more than is in this world neces-
sary for a preservative.—Marvell.
No human face is exactly the same in its
lines on each side ; no leaf is perfect in its
lobes, and no branch in its symmetry.-All
admit irregularity, as they imply change.-
To banish imperfection is to destroy expres-
sion, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.
-All things are better, lovelier, and more
beloved for the imperfections which have
been divinely appointed, that the law of
human life may be effort, and the law of
human judgment may be mercy.-Ruskin.
It is only imperfection that complains of
what is imperfect.—The more perfect we
are, the more gentle and quiet we become
toward the defects of others.-Fénelon.
The fiver the nature, the more flaws will
show through the clearness of it; and it is
a law of this universe that the best things
shall be seldomest seen in their best forms.
Ruskin.
What an absurd thing it is to pass over
all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our
attention on his infirmities.-Addison.
Great men are very apt to have great
faults; and the faults appear the greater
by their contrast with their excellencies.---
c. Simmons.
It is not so much being free from faults
and imperfections as overcoming them
that is an advantage to us; it being with
follies and weaknesses and errors, as with
the weeds of a field, which, if destroyed on
the soil where they grow, enrich and im-
prove it, more. than if they had never.
sprung up there.
IMPERTINENCE.-(See "IMPU-
DENCE" and "INSULT.")
Receive no satisfaction for premeditated
impertinence ; forget it, and forgive it, but
keep inexorably at a distance him who
offered it.-Lavater,
A man has no more right to say an un-
civil thing than to act one ; no more right
to say a rude thing to another than to
knock him down.-Johnson.
He is guilty of impertinence who con-
siders not the circumstances of time, or
engrosses the conversation, or makes him-
self the subject of his discourse, or pays no
regard to the company he is in, -Cicero.
IMPOSSIBILITY.-Few things are im-
possible in themselves.-It is not so much
means, as perseverance, that is wanting to
bring theni to a successful issue.-Roche-
foucauld.
One great difference between a wise man
and a fool is, the former only wishes for
what he may possibly obtain ; the latter
desires impossibilities.-Democritus.
“Impossible!” That is not good French.
- Napoleon.
a
cient will we should always have sufficient
IMPRESSIONS.
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IMPUDENCE.
It is not a lucky word, this same "im- sweep away a mist; but by ascending a
possible”; no good comes of those who little you may often look over it altogether.
have it so often in their mouth.-Carlyle. So it is with our moral improvement; we
Impossible is a word only to be found in
wrestle fiercely with a vicious habit, which
the dictionary of fools.--Napoleon.
would have no hold upon 18 if we ascended
into a higher moral atmosphere.-A. Helps.
Nothing is impossible; there are ways
that lead to everything, and if we had suffi-
It is necessary to try to surpass one's
self always ; this occupation ought to last
mcans. It is often merely for an excuse
as long as life.—Queen Christiana.
that we say things are impossible.-Roche- To hear always, to think always, to learn
foucauld.
always, it is thus that we live truly ; he
'Impossible --never let me hear that who aspires to nothing, and learns nothing,
foolish word again.—Mirabeau.
is not worthy of living.-A. Helps.
If a better system is thine, impart it; if
IMPRESSIONS,The mind unlearns not, make use of mine.-
Horace.
with difficulty what has long been impressed
All of us, who are worth anything, spend
on it. --Seneca.
our manhood in unlearning the follies, or
If you would stand well with a great expiating the mistakes of our youth.
mind, leave him with a favorable impres- Shelley.
sion of yourself; if with a little mind, leave Much of the wisdom of one age, is the
him with a favorable opinion of himself.-
folly of the next.-0. Simmons.
Coleridge.
The least and most imperceptible impres-
IMPROVIDENCE,--(See “ WASTE.")
sions received in our infancy have conse- Waste not, want not; willful waste makes
quences very important and of long dura-
woful want.-Franklin.
tion. It is with these first impressions as
with a river, whose waters we can easily
What maintains one vice, would bring
up two children.--Remember, many a little
turn at its source ; with the same facility
makes a mickle ; and further, beware of
we may turn the minds of children to what
direction we please.—Loch
little expenses ; a small leak will sink a
great ship.-Franklin.
Do not all impressions made in life con-
Hundreds would never have known want,
tinue immortal as the soul itself? May
they not form the picture-gallery, upon
if they had not first known waste.--Spur-
which we shall gaze through the boundless
geon.
ages of eternity ?-Bate.
It has always been more difficult for a
Our first impressions, whether of persons
man to keep than to get, for in the one
or things, have great intluence on all our
case fortune aids, as it often assists injus-
future estimates and opinions.
tice ; but in the other, sense is required.--
Therefore we often see a person deficient
IMPROVEMENT.-Slumber not in the in cleverness, rise in wealth ; and then,
tents of your fathers. The world is ad-
from want of sense, roll head-over-heels to
vancing. Advance with it. --Mazzini.
the bottom.- Basil.
Judge of thiue improvement, not by what
There are men born under that constel-
thou speakest or writest, but by the firm-
lation which maketh them as unapt to en-
ness of thy mind, and the government of rich themselves as they are ready to im-
thy passions and affections. Fuller.
poverish others.-Hoolcer.
People seldom improve when they have How full or how empty our lives, de-
no other model but themselves to copy pends, we say, on Providence. Suppose we
after.—Goldsmith.
say, more or less on improvidence.
Where we cannot invent, we may at
Bovee.
least improve; we may give somewhat of
IMPRUDENCE.-(See “PRUDENCE.")
novelty to that which was old, condensa-
tion to that which was diffuse, perspicuity
IMPUDENCE.-(See “IMPERTI-
to that which was obscure, and currency
NENCE.")
to that which was recondite.-Colton.
A true and genuine impudence is ever
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall the effect of ignorance, without the least
be enlarged; practice what you know, and sense of it.-Steele.
you shall attain to higher knowledge.-
The man who cannot blush, and who has
Arnold.
no feelings of fear, has reached the acme
Infinite toil would not enable you to of impudence.—Menander.
IMPULSE.
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INCONSISTENCY.
He that knows the world will not be bash- There are many times and circumstances
ful; he who knows himself will not be im- in life when “Our strength is, to sit still."
pudent.-C. Simmons.
---Tryon Edwards.
The way to avoid the imputation of in- He that takes time to think and consider
pudence, is, not to be ashamed of what we will act more wisely than he that acts has-
do, but never to do what we ought to be tily and on impulse.-C. Simmons.
ashamed of.- Cicero.
Nature knows no pause in her progress
IMPULSE.-Act upon your impulses,
and development, and attaches her curse
but pray that they may be directed by God.
on all inaction.-Goethe.
-E. Tennent.
Doing nothing with a deal of skill.-
Since the generality of persons act from
Cowper.
impulse much more than from principle, The keenest pangs the wretched find are
men are neither so good nor so bad as we l'apture to the dreary void, -the leafless
are apt to think them.- Hare.
desert of the mind-the waste of feelings
A true history of human events would
unemployed.-Byron.
show that a far larger proportion of our Thoughtful, disciplined, intended inac-
acts are the results of sudden impulses and
tion.-Jolin Randolph.
accident, than of that reason of which wo
so much boast. — Cooper.
INATTENTION.- (Seo "ATTEN-
Our first impulses are good, generous,
TION.”)
heroical; reflection weakens and kills them. INCLINATION.-It is very pleasant to
-L. A. Martin.
follow one's inclinations; but unfortu-
What persons are by starts, they are by' nately, we cannot follow them all: they
nature—you see them at such times off are like the teeth sown by Cadmus-they
their guard.-Habit may restrain vice, and spring up, get in each other's way, and
virtue may be obscured by passion, but in- fight.-L. E. Lancion.
tervals best discover man.-Sterne.
All men that are ruined are ruined on
The first impulse of conscience is apt to the side of their natural propensities.-
be right; the first impulse of appetite or
Burke.
passion is generally wrong.–We should be
A good inclination is but the first rude
faithful to the former, but suspicious of draught of virtue : but the finishing strokes
the latter.-Tryon Edwards.
are from the will ; which, if well disposed,
will, by dogrces perfect; if ill disposed,
IMPURITY.-The man who tells me an
will, by the superinduction of ill habits,
indelicate story, does me an injury.-J.
quickly deface it.-South.
T. Fields.
Almost every one has a predominant in-
An impure man is every good man's
clination, to which his other desires and
enemy.-H. W. Beecher.
affections submit, and which governs him,
INACTIVITY,-(Soo“DELAY.")
though perhaps with some intervals,
through the whole course of his life.
The Commons, faithful to their system,
Hume.
remained in a wise and masterly inactivity. No profit grows where is no pleasure
Mackintosh
taken; in brief, sir, study what you most
If he had sat still, the enemy's army
affect. --Shakespeare.
would have mouldered to nothing.- Clar- God never accepts a good inclination in-
encon.
stead of a good action, where that action
Learning teaches how to carry tliings in may be done ; nay, so much the contrary,
suspense without prejudlice till you resolve. that, if a good inclination be not secondes
- Bacon.
by a good action, the want of that action is
Of Washington it was said, he knew how
made so much the more criminal and inex-
to
cusable.-South.
conquer by delay; and the tactics of
Fabius in harassing the army of Hannibal,
by countermarching and amlinscades, wliile
INCONSISTENCY.-- (See “CONSIST-
avoiding an open conflict, gained him the
INCY.")
name of “Delayer."--Ilaven.
Mutability of temper and inconsistency
In the mean time, our policy is a masterly with ourselves is the greatest weakness of
inactivity.-J. C. Calhoun,
human nature. --Addison2.
The mightiest powers by deepest calms Aconscience enlightened, and yet a heart
are fed.-B. W. Procter.
crratic, make mankind a bundle of mar-
INCONSTANCY.
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INDECISION.
The incredulous are of all men the most
credulous ; they believe the miracles of
Vespasian, in order not to believe those
of Moses. -Pascal.
Nothing is so contemptible as that affec-
tation of wisdom which some display by
universal incredulity.-Goldsmith.
Incredulity robs us of many pleasures,
and gives us nothing in return.-J. R.
Lowell.
Of all the signs of a corrupt heart and a
feeble head, the tendency of incredulity is
the surest.--Real philosophy seeks rather
to solve than to deny.—Bulwer.
A sceptical young man said to Dr. Parr
that he would believe nothing which he
could not understand. "Then," said the
Doctor, "your creed will be the shortest of
any man's I know."--A. Helps.
Some men will believe nothing but what
they can comprehend ; and there are but
few things that such are able to compre-
hend.--Evrenond.
The amplest knowledge has the largest
faith.-Ignorance is always incredulous.---
Willmott.
131
velous incongruities and inconsistencies.-
C. Simmons.
How often in this world are the actions
that we condemn the result of sentiments
that we love, and opinions that we admire.
Mrs. Jameson.
No author ever drew a character con-
sistent to human nature, but he was forced
to ascribe to it many inconsistencies. Bul-
wer.
We are always complaining that our days
are few, and acting as though there would
be no end of them.-Seneca.
Men talk as if they believed in God, but
they live as if they thought there was none :
their vows and promises are no more than
words of course.-L'Estrange.
In religion not to do as thou sayest is to
unsay thy religion in thy deeds, and to
undo thyself by doing -- Venning.
Among the numberless contradictions in
our nature, hardly any is more glaring
than this, between our sensitiveness to the
slightest disgrace which we fancy cast upon
us from without, and our callousness to
what is wrong in ourselves. In truth, they
who are the most sensitive to the one are
often the most callous to the other.
Anon.
Some persons do first, think afterward,
and then repent forever.-Secker.
INCONSTANCY.-Nothing that is not
a real crime makes a man appear so con-
temptible and little in tlic eyes of the world
as inconstancy, especially when it regards
religion or party. "In either of these cases,
though a man perhaps does but his duty in
changing his side, he not only makes him-
self hated by those he left, but is seldom
heartily esteemed by those he comes over
to.Addison.
Clocks will go as they are set; but man,
irregular man, is never constant, never
certain.-Otway.
Inconstancy is but a name to fright poor
lovers from a better choice.- Rutler.
Were man but constant, he were perfect;
that one error fills him with faults ; makes
him run through sins; inconstancy falls off
ere it begins.- Shakespeare.
INCREDULITY.-Incredulity is not
wisdom, but the worst kind of folly. It
is folly, because it canses ignorance and
mistake, with all the consequences of these;
and it is very bad, as being accompanied
with disingenuity, obstinacy, rudeness, un-
charitableness, and the like bad disposi-
tions, from which credulity itself, the
other extreme sort of folly, is exempt.-
Barrow.
INDECISION.-(See “DECISION" and
“RESOLUTION.")
The wavering mind is but a base pos-
session.-Euripides.
In matters of great concern, and which
must be done, there is no surer argument
of a weak mind than irresolution to be
undetermined where the case is plain, and
the necessity urgent. To be always intend-
ing to live a new life, but never to find time
to set about it, this is as if a man should
put off eating, drinking, and sleeping, from
one day and night to another, till he is
starved and destroyed.— Tillotson.
It is a iniserable thing to live in suspense ;
it is the life of a spider.-Swift.
It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune,
to be unable to utter & prompt and decided
"No."-C. Simmons.
There is notbing in the world more piti-
able than an irresolute man, oscillating
between two feelings, who would willingly
unite the two, and wlo does not perceive
that nothing can unite them.-Goethe.
When a man has not a good reason for
doing a thing, he has one good reason for
letting it alone. Thomas Scott.
Nothing can be more destructive to vigor
of action than protracted, anxious fluctua-
tion, through resolutions adopted, rejected,
resumed, and suspended, and nothing
causes a greater expense of feeling.--A man
INDEPENDENCE.
253
INDIFFERENCE.
without decision can nover be said to be-
long to himself; he is as a wave of the sea,
or a feather in the air which every brecze
blows about as it listeth.-Jolin F'osler.
INDEPENDENCE.--It is not the great-
ness of a man's means that makes him in-
dependent, so much as the smallness of his
wants.- Cobbett.
These two things, contradictory as they
may seem, must go together, manly de-
pendence and manly independence, manly
reliance and manly self-reliance.— Words-
worth.
The greatest of all human benefits, that,
at least, without which no other benefit can
be truly enjoyed, is independence.-Parle
Godwin.
Happy the man to whom heaven has
given a morsel of bread without laying him
under the obligation of thanking any other
for it than heaven itself.-Cervantes.
The word independence is united to the
ideas of dignity and virtue; the word de-
pendence, to the ideas of inferiority and
corruption.-J. Bentham.
Independency may be found in compara-
tive as well as in absoluto abundance;
mean where a person contracts his desires
within the limits of his fortune.-Shenstone.
Be and continue poor, young man, while
others around you grow rich by fraud and
disloyalty ; be without place or power,
while others beg their way upward; bear
the pain of disappointed hopes, while others
gain the accomplislıment of theirs by flat-
tery; forego tlie gracions pressure of the
hand for which others criuge and crawl.
Wrap yourself in your own virtue, and
seek a friend and your daily bread. If you
have in such a course grown gray with un-
blonched honor, bless God, and die.—Elcin-
zelmann
Let all your views in life be directed to a
solid, however moderate, independence;
without it no man can be happy, nor even
honest.-Junius.
The moral progression of a people can
scarcely begin till they are independent. —
Martincau.
Go to New England, and visit the do-
mestic firesides, if you would see the secret
of American Independence.--Religion has
made them what tīrey are.--Mosquera.
It should be the lesson of our life to
grow
into a holy. independence of every judg-
ment which has not the sanction of con-
science and of God.-No man can lift up
his head with manly calmness and peace
who is the slave of other men's judgments.
J. W. Alexander,
There is often as much independence in
not being led, as in not being driven.-
Tryon Edwards.
Hail! independence, bail ! heaven's next
best gift to that of life and an immortal
soul ! -Thomson.
INDEXES.--An index is a necessary
implement, without which a large author
is but a labyrinth without a clue to direct
the readers within.-Fuller.
I certainly think the best book in the
world would owe the most to a good index;
and the worst book, if it had in it but a
single good thought, might be kept alive
by it.-
Horace Binney.
Of many large volumes the index is the
best portion and the most useful.-A glance
through the casement gives whatever knowl-
edge of the interior is needful.--An epit-
ome is only a book shortened ; and as a
general rule, the worth increases as the
size lessens. - Willniott.
A book without an index is much like a
compass-box, without the needle, perplex-
ing instead of directive to the point we
would reach.-Anon.
Those authors who are voluminous would
do well, if they would be remembered as
long as possible, not to omit a duty which
authors in general, and especially modern
authors neglect, that of appending to their
works a good index.--Henry Roger's.
Get a thorough insight into the index,
by which the whole book is governed.-
Swift.
I have come to regard a good book as
curtailed of half its value if it has not a
pretty full index.-It is almost impossible
without such a guide to reproduce on dem
mand the most striking thoughts or facts
the book contains, whether for citation or
further consideration.-Horace Binney.
INDIFFERENCE.-Set honor in one
eye, and death in the other, and I will look
on both indifferently.--Shakespeare.
Indifference never wrote great works,
nor thought out striking inventions, nor
reared the solemn architecture that awes
the soul, nor breathed sublime music, nor
painted glorious pictures, nor undertook
heroic philanthropies.-All these grandeurs
are born of enthusiasm, and are done
hcartily.--Anon.
Nothing for preserving the body like
having no heart.-J. P. Senn.
Indifference is the invincible giant of
the world.- Quida,
INDIGESTION,
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INDIVIDUALITY.
INDIGESTION.-(See “HEALTH.")
Old friendships are destroyed by toasted
cheese, and hard salted ment has led to
suicide. Unpleasant feelings of the body
produce correspondent sensations of the
mind, and a great scene of wretcheduess is
sketched out by a morsel of indigestible
and misguided food.-Sidney Smith.
How many serious family quarrels, mar-
riages out of spite, and alterations of wills,
might have been prevented by a gentle close
of blue pill !—What awful instances of
chronic dyspepsia in the characters of
Hamlet and Othello! Banish dyspepsia
and spirituous liquiors from society, and
you have no crime, or at lcast so little that
you would not consider it worth mentiou-
ing.–C. Kingsley.
Dyspepsia is the remorse of a guilty
stomach.--- A. Kerr'.
INDISCRETION.-An indiscreet mau
is more lurtful than an ill-uatured one;
for the latter will only attack his enemies,
and those he wishes ill to; the other in-
jures indifferently both friends and foos.
- -Addison.
Indiscretion and wickedness, bc it known,
are first cousins.--L'Enclos.
For good and evil in our actions moet;
wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.
-Donne.
The generality of men expend the carly
part of their lives in contributing to render
the latter part miserable.--Bruyère.
Iudiscretion, rashness, falsehood, lovity,
and malice produce cach other.-Lavaler.
We waste our best years in distilling the
sweetest flowers of life into potions, which,
after all, do not immortalize, but only in-
toxicate.-Longfellow.
Three things too much, and tliree too
little are pernicions to man ; to speak
much, and know little ; to spend much,
and have little ; to presume much, and be
wortlı little.-Cervantes.
We may outrun by violent swiftness that
which we run at, and lose by overrunning.
--Shakespeare.
Imprudence, silly talk, foolish vanity,
and vain curiosity, are closely allied ; they
are children of one family.-Fontaine.
INDIVIDUALITY. -Every individual
nature has its own beauty.--In every com-
pany, at every fireside, one is struck with
the riches of nature, wlien lie henrs so
many tones, all musical, sees in each per-
son original manners which have a proper
and peculiar charnı, and reacs new expres-
sions of face.--He perceives that naturo
has laid for each the foundations of a divine
building if the soul will build thercon.-
Emerson.
There are men of convictions whose very
faces will light up an era, and there are be-
lieving wonen in whose eyes you may
almost read the whole plan of salvation.
Hields.
Individuality is everywhere to be spared
and respected as the root of everything
good.-Richter.
You are tried alone; alone you pass into
the desert ; alone you are sifted by the
world.-7. W. Robertson.
Every great man is a unique.-The Scipi-
onism of Scipio is precisely that part which
lie could not borrow.--Emerson.
Everything without tells the individual
that he is nothing ; everything within per-
suacles him that he is everything.--X. Dou-
dan.
It was perhaps ordained by Providence,
to hinder us from tyrannizing over one
another, that no individual should be of so
much importance as to cause, by his retire-
ment or death, any chasın in the world.-
Jolinson.
Tho epoch of individuality is concluded,
and it is the duty of reformers to initiate
the epochi of association. Collective man
is omnipotent upon the earth he treads.
Mazzini,
The worth of a state, in the long run, is
the worth of the individuals composing it.
J. S. Mill.
The greatest works are done by the ones.
-The hundreds do not often do much the
companies never; it is the units—the single
individuals, that are the power and the
Inight.--Individual effort is, after all, the
grand thing.–Spurgeon.
Human faculties are common, but that
which converges these faculties into my
identity, separates me from every other
man.-l'hat other man cannot think my
thoughts, speak my words, do my works. –
He cannot have my sins, and I cannot have
bis virtues.-- Giles.
Individuality is everywhere to be spared
and respected as the root of everything
good.-Richter.
We live too much in platoons; we march
by sections ; we do not live in our individu-
ality enough; we are slaves to fashion in
mind and heart, if not to our passions and
appetites.-E. H. Chapin.
The great political controversy of the
ages has reached its end in the recognition
of the individual.—The socialistic party
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would again sink the individual in the gov-
ernment, and make it possible for the gov-
ornment to perpetuate itself and become
absolute.-F. C. Monfort.
If the world is ever conquered for Christ,
it will be by every one doing their own work,
filling their own sphere, holding their own
post, and saying to Jesus, Lord, what wilt
thou have me to do.-Guthrie.
Eacl mind bath its own method.-A true
man never acquires after college rules.
What you have yourself aggregated in a
natural manner surprises and delights when
it is produced. We cannot oversee each
other's secret.-Emerson.
That life only is truly free which rules
and suffices for itself.-Bulwer.
Not armies, not nations, have advanced
the race; but here and there, in the course
of ages, an individual has stood up and
cast his shadow over the world.-E. H.
Chapin.
It is said that if Noah's ark had had to be
built by a company, they would not have
laid the keel yet; and it may be so.—What
is many men's business is nobody's busi-
ness.-The greatest things are accomplisl.cd
by individual men.- --Spurgeon.
INDOLENCE.-(See. “IDLENESS.")
Indolence is the sleep of the mind.
Vauvenargues.
I look upon indolence as a sort of suiciile;
for the man is effectually destroyoil, though
the appetite of the brute may survive.-
Chesterfield.
What is often called indolence is, in fact,
the unconsciou8 consciousness of inca-
pacity.-H. C. Robinson.
Indolence and stupidity are first cousins.
-Rioahºol.
Laziness grows on people ; it begins in
cobwebs, and ends in iron chains.--The
more one has to do the more he is able to
accomplish.
So long as he must fight his way, the
man of genius pushes forward, conquering
and to conquer. But how often is he at
last overcome by a Capua ! Eise and fame
bring sloth and slumber.- Bucion.
Nothing ages like laziness.- Bulwer,
What men want is not talent; it is pur-
pose; in other words, not the power to
achieve, but the will to labor.- Bilwer.
Lives spent in indolence, and therefore
sad.—Cowper.
If you ask me which is the real heredi-
tary sin of human nature, do you imagine I
shall answer pride, or luxury, or ambition,
or egotism? No; I shall say indolence.
Who conquers indolence will conquer all
the rest. Indeed all good principles must
stagnato without mental activity.-Zine-
nermann.
Indolence, mothinks, is an intermediate
state between pleasure and pain, and very
much unbecoming any part of our life after
we are out of the nurse's arms.-Sleele.
Of all our faults, that which we most
readily admit is indolence.--We persuado
ourselves that it cherishes all the peaceful
virtues, and that without destroying the
others it merely suspends their functions.-
Rochefoucauld.
The darkest hour in the history of any
young man is when he sits down to study
how to get money without honestly earning
it.--Horace Greeley.
Indolence is the dry rot of even a good
mind and a good character ; the practical
uselessness of both. It is the waste of what
might be a happy and useful life.- Tryon
Edwards.
INDULGENCE.-Sensual indulgencies
are costly at both ends.-C. Siinmons.
Those who love dainties are likely soon
to be beggars.-Franklin.
Too many wish to be happy before be-
coming wise.-Mad. Necker.
Live only for to-day, and you ruin to-
morrow.-C. Simmons.
INDUSTRY,(See “IDLENESS” and
“INDOLENCE.")
Industrious wisdom often doth prevent
what lazy folly thinks inevitable.
He doth allot for every exercise a several
hour ; for sloth, the nurse of vices and rust
of action is a stranger to him.-Massinger.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.-
Cumberland.
If you have great talents, industry will im-
prove them ; if moderate abilities, industry
will supply their deficiencies. Nothing is
denied to well-directed labor; nothing is
ever to be attained without it. -Sir Joshua
Reynolds.
Sloth makes all things difficult, but in-
dustry all things easy.-Frank:lin.
There is no art or science that is too
difficult for industry to attain to; it is the
gift of tongues, and makes a man under-
stood and valued in all countries, and by
all nations; it is the philosopher's stone,
that turns all metals, and even stones, into
gold, and suffers no want to break into its
dwellings ; it is the northwest passage,
that brings the merchant's ships as soon to
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him as he can desire : in a word, it con-
quers all enemies, and makes fortune itself
pay contribution.- CL
Clarendon.
Like the bee, we should make our in-
dustry our amusement. -Goldsmith.
One loses all the time which he might
employ to better purpose.—Rousseau:
Fortune may find a pot, but your own
industry must make it boil.
In every rank, both great and small, it is
industry that supports us all.—Gay.
God has so made the mind of man that a
peculiar deliciousness resides in the fruits
of personal industry.- Wilberforce.
Industry need not wish, and he that lives
upon hopes will die fasting. There are no
gains without pains. He that hath a trade
hath an estate, and he that hath a calling
hath an office of profit and honor; but then
the trade must be worked at, and the call-
ing followed, or neither the estate nor the
office will enable us to pay our taxes. If
we are industrious, we shall never starve;
for, at the workingman's house hunger
looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the
bailiff or the constable enter, for industry
pays debts, while idleness and neglect in-
crease them, - Franklin.
If you have great talents, industry will
improve them; if but moderate abilities,
industry will supply their deficiencies.-S.
Smiles.
Many are discontented with the name of
idler, who are nevertheless content to do
worse than nothing.-Zimmermann.
There is always hope in a man who actu-
ally and earnestly works.-In idleness alone
is there perpetual despair.-Carlyle.
The celebrated Galen said that employ-
ment was nature's physician.--It is indeed
so important to happiness that indolence is
justly considered the parent of misery.-
Collon.
The more we do, the more we can do ; the
more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
Hazlitt.
Though you may have known clever men
who were indolent, you never knew a great
man who was 80 ; and when I hear a young
man spoken of as giving promise of great
genius, the first question I ask about him
always is, Does he work ?- Ruskin.
Mankind are more indebted to industry
than ingenuity; the gods set up their
favors at a price, and industry is the pur-
chaser.-Addison.
Industry is not only the instrument of
improvement, but the foundation of pleas-
ure. He who is a stranger to it may pos-
sess, but cannot enjoy, for it is labor only
which gives relish to pleasure.--It is the
indispensable condition of possessing a
sound mind in a sound body, and is the
appointed vehicle of every good to man. -
Blair.
Application is the price to be paid for
mental acquisition. To have the harvest
we must sow the seed.-Bailey.
No man is born into the world whose work
is not born with him.-There is always
work, and tools to work with, for those who
will ; and blessed are the borny bands of
toil.-J. R. Lowell.
That man is but of the lower part of the
world who is not brought up to business
and affairs.-Fellham.
A man should inure himself to voluntary
labor, and not give up to indulgence and
pleasuro, as they beget no good constitu-
tion of body nor knowledge of mind.
Socrates.
Industry keeps the body healthy, the
mind cloar, the heart whole, and the purse
full.--0. Simmons.
Excellence is never granted to man, but
as a reward of labor.-It argues, indeed, 110
small strength of mind to persevere in the
habits of industry without the pleasure of
perceiving those advantages, which, like
the band of a clock, while they make hourly
approaches to their point, yet proceed so
slowly as to escape observation.-Sir J.
Reynolds.
Every industrious man, in every lawful
calling, is a useful man.-And one prin-
cipal reason why men are so often useless
is, that they neglect their own profession
or calling, and divide and shift their atten-
tion among_a multiplicity of objects and
pursuits.--
Emmons.
An hour's industry will do more to pro-
duce cheerfulness, suppress evil humors,
and retrieve one's affairs, than a month's
moaning.-It sweetens enjoyments, and
seasons our attainments with a delightful
relish.-- Barrow.
A man who gives his children habits of
industry provides for them better than by
giving them a fortune.- Whately.
Industry hath annexed thereto the fairest
fruits and the richest rewards.-Barrow,
The chiefest action for a man of spirit is
never to be out of action; the soul was
never put into the body to stand still.–J.
Webster.
INFAMY.--(See "SLANDER.")
What grief can there be that time doth
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INFIDELITY.
not make less ?-But infamy, time never
can suppress.--Drayton.
The most infamous are fond of fame
and those who fear not guilt, yet start at
shame.- Churchill.
Infamy is where it is received.-If thou
art a mud wall, it will stick; if marble, it
will rebound.-If thou storm, it is thine ;
if thou contemn it, it is his. Quarles.
INFANCY.-Heaven lies about us in
our infancy.- Wordsworth.
Of all the joys that brighten suffering
earth, what joy is welcomed like a new-
born child ?- Mrs. Norton.
Joy thou bringest, but mixed with tren-
bling; anxious joys, and tender fears ;
pleasing hopes, and mingled sorrows;
smiles of transport dashed with tears. -
Cottle.
They who have lost ar infant are never,
as it were, without an infant child. Their
other children grow up to manhood and
womanhood, and suffer all the changes of
mortality ; but this one is rendered an im-
mortal child, for death has arrested it with
his kindly harshness, and blessed it into an
eternal image of youth and innocence.
Leigh Hunt.
Ere sin could blight, or sorrow fade,
death came with friendly care ; the opening
bud to lieaven conveyed, and bade it blos-
som there.- Coleridge.
A lovely bud, so soft, so fair, called hence
by early doom; just sent to show how
sweet a flower in paradise would bloom.--
Legh Richmond.
Beautiful as is the morning of day, so is
the morning of life.-Fallen though we are,
there remains a purity, modesty, ingenu-
ousuess and tenderness of conscience about
childhood, that looks as if the glory of
Eden yet lingered over it, like the light of
the day on the hill-tops, at even, when the
sun is down.-Guthrie.
The glorified spirit of the infant, is as a
star to guide the mother to its own blissful
clime.-Mrs. Sigourney.
INFIDELITY.-(See.“ UNBELIEF.")
There is but one thing without honor,
smitten with eternal barrenness, inability
to do or to be, -insincerity, unbelief. He
who believes no thing, who believes only
the shows of things, is not in relation with
nature and fact at all.-Carlyle.
Infidelity, indeed, is the root of all sin ;
for did man heartily believe the promises
to obedience, and the threats to disobedi-
ence, they could hardly be so unreasonable
as to forfeit the one or incur the other:-
Barrow.
Faith in God hallows and confirms the
union between parents and children, and
subjects and ruler8. - Infidelity relaxes
every band, and nullifies every blessing.--
Pestalozzi.
When once infidelity can persuade men
that they shall die like beasts, they will
soon be brought to live like beasts also.-
South.
I would rather dwell in the dim fog of
superstition than in air rarefied to nothing
by the air-pump of unbelief, in which the
panting breast expires, vainly and convul-
sively gasping for breath.-Richter.
There is not a single spot between Chris-
tianity and atheism on which a man can
firmly fix his foot.-
Emmons.
If on one side there are fair proofs, and
no pretense of proof on the other, and the
difficulties are more pressing on that side
which is destitute of proof, I desire to know
whether this be not upon the matter as sat-
isfactory to a wise man as a demonstration,
-Tillotson.
The nurse of infidelity is sensuality.--
Cecil.
It is always safe to follow the religious
belief that our mother taught us ; there
never was a mother yet who taught her
child to be an infidel.-H. W. Shaw.
Freethinkers are generally those who
never think at all.–Sierne.
Men always grow vicious before they be-
come unbelievers ; but if you would once
convince profligates by topics drawn from
the view of their own quiet, reputation,
and health, their infidelity would soon drop
off.-Swift.
Infidelity gives nothing in return for
what it takes away.
What, then, is it
worth ? Everything valuable has a com-
pensating power.
Not a blade of grass
that withers, or the ugliest weed that is
flung away to rot or die, but reproduces
something: -Chalmers.
There is one single fact which we may
oppose to all the wit and argument of infi-
delity, namely, that no man ever repented
of being a Christian on his death-bed.-
H. More.
Infidelity is the joint offspring of an ir-
religious temper and unholy speculation,
employed not in examining the evidences
of Christianity, but in detecting the vices
and imperfections of professing Christians.
What can be more foolish than to think
that all this lare fabric of heaven and
earth could come by chance, when all the
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INFLUENCE.
Man may doubt here and there, but man-
kind does not doubt.-The universal con-
science is larger than the individual con-
science, and that constantly comes in to
correct and check our infidelity.-H. R.
Haweis.
Whatever rouses the moral nature,
whether it be danger, or suffering, or the
approach of death, banishes unbelief in a
moment.
skill of art is not able to make an oyster.
Jeremy Taylor.
Take my word for it, it is not prudent
to trust yourself to any man who does not
believe in a God or in a future after death.
-Sir Robert Peel.
Infidelity and Faith look both through
the same perspective-glass, but at contrary
ends. Infidelity looks through the wrong
end of the glass ; and, therefore, sees those
objects near which are afar off, and makes
great things little, - diminishing the great-
est spiritual blessings, and removing far
from us threatened evils. Faith looks at
the right end, and brings the blessings that
are far off close to our eye, and multiplies
God's mercies, which, in the distance, lost
their greatness.--Bp. Hall.
Charles II. bearing Vossius, & free-
thinker, repeating some incredible stories
of the Chinese, turned to those about him
and said, “This learned divine is a very
strange man ; he believes everything but
the Bible."-S. Smiles.
Infidelity grows strong under oppressive
civil rule ; weak under that which is just.
-Christlieb.
They that deny God destroy a man's no-
bility; for certainly man is of kin to the
beasts by his body, and if he is not akin to
God by bis spirit, he is a base and ignoble
creature.-Bacon.
Let any of those who renounce Christi-
anity, write fairly dowu in a book all the
absurdities they believe instead of it, and
they will find it requires more faith to re-
ject Christianity than to embrace it.-
Colton.
Infidelity is one of the false coinages-
a mass of base money that will not pass
current with any heart that loves truly, or
any head that thinks correctly. It is a
fearful blindness of the soul.-Chalmers.
Infidelity reproves nothing that is bad.
It only ridicules and denounces all that is
good. It tears down, but never builds up;
destroys, but never imparts life; attacks
religion, but offers no adequate substitute.
-J. R. Paxton.
Hume took unwearied pains to prove
that nothing could be proved.-Bellamy.
Infidelity is seated in the heart; its
origin is not in the head. It is the wish
that Christianity might not be true, that
leads to an argument to prove it.-C. Sim-
mons.
A man's wickedness sets Christianity
against him before he can have any tempta-
tion to set himself against Christianity.-
8. Davies,
INFLUENCE.-Influence is the exhala-
tion of character.— W. M. Taylor.
We live with other men, and to other
men, not exclusively with, or to ourselves.
We have no intercourse with others that
does not tell on them, as they are all the
while influenciug us.
There is little influence where there is
not great sympathy.-S. I. Prime.
Virtue will catch, as well as vice, by con-
tact; and the public stock of honest manly
principle will daily accumulate. --Burke.
No act falls fruitless; none can tell how
vast its powers may be; nor what results,
enfolded dwell within it silently.
A good man does good merely by living.
-Bulwer.
It is the age that forms the man, not the
man that forms the age. Great minds do
indeed react on the society which has made
them what they are, but they only pay with
interest what they have received.-Macau-
lay.
In families well ordered there is always
one firm, sweet temper, which controls
without seeming to dictate. The Greeks
represented Persuasion as crowned.-Bul-
wer'.
The spirit of a person's life is ever shed-
ding some power, just as a flower is steadily
bestowing fragrance upon the air.-T.
Starr. King.
We cannot think or act but the soul of
some one who has passed before points the
way.--The dead never die.--Bulwer.
A word or a nod from the good, has more
weight than the eloquent speeches of others.
--Plutarch.
The great must submit to the dominion
of prudence and virtue, or none will long
submit to the dominion of the great.--This
is a feudal tenure which they cannot alter.
-Burkce.
The least movement is of importance to
all nature. The entire ocean is affected by
a pebble.--
Pascal.
Others are affected by what I am and say
and do. And these others have also their
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spheres of influence. So that a single act
of mine may spread iu widening circles
through a nation of humanity.--Channing.
Not one false man but does unaccount-
able mischief.-Carlyle.
Ele who wishes to exert a useful influ-
ence must be careful to insult nothing.
Let him not be troubled by what seems ab-
surd, but consecrate his energies to the
creation of what is good. He must not de-
molish, but build. He must raise temples
where mankind may come and partake of
the purest pleasures.-Goethe.
The blossom cannot tell what becomes of
its odor, and no man can tell wliat becomes
of his influence and example, that roll
away from him, and go beyond his ken on
their perilous mission.-H. W. Beecher.
There are nine chances in ten that every
man who goes with me will lose his life in
the undertaking.-But there are times when
dead men are worth more than living ones.
- Old John Brown.
You cannot be buried in obscurity : you
are exposed upon a grand theater to the
view of the world. If your actions are up-
right and benevolent, be assured they will
augment your power and happiness.-
Cyrus.
Let him that would move the world, first
move himself.-Socrates.
Though her (Lady Elizabeth Hastings)
mien carries much more invitation than
command, to behold her is an immediate
check to loose behavior ; to love her was
a liberal education.-Steele.
One of the most melancholy things in the
world is the enormous power for evil of the
dead over the living. There is hardly a
great painter or writer, or a man who had
achieved greatness in any direction, whose
naine has not been used to repress rising
genius.-Hammerton.
Forming characters! Whose ?-our owu,
or others ?-Both.-And in that momentous
fact lies the peril and responsibility of our
existence. Who is sufficient for the
thought?- Elihu Burritt.
Men are won, not so much by being
blamed, as by being encompassed with
love.-Channing.
The words that a father speaks to his
children in the privacy of home are not
heard by the world, but, as in whispering
galleries, they are clearly heard at the end,
and by posterity.-Richter.
Often the elements that move and mola
society, are the results of the sister's coun-
sel, and the mother's prayer.-E. H. Cha-
pin.
Planets do not govern the soul, or guide
the destinies of men, but trifles, lighter
than straws, are levers in the building up
of character.-Tupper.
Good words do more than hard speeches,
as the sunbeams, without any noise, will
make the traveler cast off his cloak, which all
the blustering winds could not do, but only
make him bind it closer to him.-Leighton.
The career of a great man remains an
enduring monument of human energy,
The man dies and disappears, but his
thoughts and acts survive and leave an in-
delible stamp upon his race.-S. Sniles.
There is no action of man in this life
which is not the beginning of so long a
chain of consequences, as that no human
providence can tell what the end will be.---
Thomas of Malmesbury.
Race and temperament go for much in
influencing opinion.--Lady Morgan.
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving
human soul on another.-George Eliot.
Every thought which genius and piety
throw into the world alters the world.-
Emerson.
When a great man dies, for years the
light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths
of men.-Longfellow.
The influence of individual character ex-
tends from generation to generation.-The
world is molded by it.-Macleod.
If you had the seeds of pestilence in your
body you would not have a more active con-
tagion than you have in your tempers,
tastes, and principles,-Simply to be in
this world, whatever you are, is to exert
an influence-an influence too, compared
with which mere language and persuasion
are feeble.-Horace Bushnell.
No man or woman of the bumblest sort
can really be strong, gentle and pure and
good, without the world being better for it,
without somebody being helped and com-
forted by the very existence of that good-
ness.-Phillips Brooks.
Always so act that the immediate motive
of thy will may become a universal rule for
all intelligent beings.-Kant.
Our gifts and attainments are not only
to be light and warmth in our own dwell-
ings, but are also to shine through the
windows into the dark night, to guide and
cheer bewildered travelers on the road.
H. W. Beecher.
To help the young soul, to add energy,
inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful
flame; io redeem defeat by new thought
and firm action, this, though not easy, is
the work of divine men.-Emerson,
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INGRATITUDE.
When men do anything for God, the very
least thing, they never know where it will
end, nor what amount of work it will do for
Him. Love's secret, therefore, is to be
always doing things for God, and not to
mind because they are such very little ones.
-Faber.
We cannot live only for ourselves. A
thousand fibers connect us with our fellow-
men; and along those fibers, as sympathe-
tic threads, our actions run as causes, and
they come back to us as effects.-Melville.
Influence never dies ; every act, emotion,
look and word makes influence tell for good
or evil, happiness or woe, through the long
future of eternity.
The life of a faithful Christian man is a
guide to paradise.—Thos. d Kempis.
INGRATITUDE.- (See “THANKFUL-
NESS.")
He that calls a man ungrateful, sums up
all the evil of which one can be guilty.-
Swift.
He that is ungrateful has no guilt but
one; all other crimes may pass for virtucs
in him.-Young.
If there be a crime of deeper dye than all
the guilty train of human vices, it is in-
gratitude.-Brooke.
Ingratitude is treason to mankind.-
Thomson.
Ingratitude is the abridgment of all
baseness ; a fault never found unattended
with other viciousness.-Fuller.
An ungrateful man is like a hog under a
tree eating acorns, but never looking up to
see where they come from.-Timo. Dexter.
We can be thankful to a friend for a few
acres, or a little money; and yet for the
freedom and command of the whole earth,
and for the great benefits of our being, our
life, health, and reason, we look upon our-
selves as under no obligation.-Seneca.
He that forgets his friend is ungrateful
to him ; but he that forgets his Saviour is
unmerciful to himself.-
Bunyan.
Ingratitude is monstrous; and for the
multitude to be ungrateful, were to make a
monster of the multitude. — Shakespeare.
Brutes leave ingratitude to man.-Colton.
I hate ingratitude more in man than
lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or
any taint of vice, whose strong corruption
inhabits our frail blood.--Shakespeare.
Flints may be melted—we see it daily-
but an ungrateful heart cannot be ; not by
the strongest and noblest flame.--South.
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
to have a thankless child. --Shakespeare.
Not to return one good office for another
is inhuman, but to returu evil for good is
diabolical.-Seneca.
One ungrateful man does an injury to all
who stand in need of aid.---Publius Syrus.
We seldom find people ungrateful as long
as we are in a condition to render them
services.--Rochefoucauld.
We often fancy we suffer from ingrati-
tude, while in reality we suffer from self-
love.--Landor.
There neither is, or ever was, any person
remarkably ungrateful, who was not also
insufferably proud ; nor any one proud,
who was not equally ungrateful.--South.
Ingratitude ! thou marble-hearted fiend,
more hideous when thou showest thee in a
child, than the sea monster.-Shakespeare.
There be three usual causes of ingrati-
tude upon a benefit received-envy, pride,
and covetousness; envy, looking more at
other's benefits than our own ; pride, look-
ing more at ourselves than at the benefit;
covetousness, looking more at what we
would have than at what we have.—Bp.
Hall.
Filialingratitude ! Is it not as this mouth
should tear this band for lifting food to it.
- Shakespeare.
There never was any man so wicked as
not to approve of gratitude and to detest
ingratitude, as the two things in the whole
world, the one to be the most esteemed, and
the other the most abominated.-Seneca.
A grateful dog is better than an un-
grateful man.-Saadi.
Blow, blow, thou winter wind, thou art
not so unkind as man's ingratitude.
Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky, thou dost
not bité so nigh, as benefits forgot.-Shake-
speare.
He who does a kindness to an ungrateful
person, sets his seal to a flint and sows his
seed upon the sand; on the former he
makes no impression, and from the latter
finds no product.--South.
Ungratefulness is the very poison of
manhood.—Sir P. Sidney.
One great cause of our insensibility to
the goodness of our Creator is the very ex-
tensiveness of his bounty.–Paley.
When we would, with utmost detestation,
single some monster from the traitor herd,
'tis but to say ingratitude is his crime.-
Froude.
Nothing more detestable does the earth
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INJUSTICE.
produce than an ungrateful man.-Auso-
nius.
He that doth public good for multitudes,
finds few are truly grateful.—Massinger.
What unthankfulness is it to forget our
consolations, and to look upon matters of
grievance; to think so much upon two or
three crosses as to forget an hundred
blessings.--Sibbs.
How black and base a vice ingratitude
is, may be seen in those vices with which
it is always in combination, pride and
hard-heartedness, or want of compassion.-
South.
INHERITANCE.-What madness is it
for a man to starve himself to enrich his
heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy!
-For his joy at your death will be propor-
tioned to what you leave him.-Seneca.
They who provide much wealth for their
children but neglect to improve them in
virtue, do like those who feed their horses
high, but never train them to be useful.-
Socrates.
Enjoy what thou hast inherited from thy
sires iť thou wouldst really possess it.-
What we employ and use is never an op-
pressive burden; what the moment brings
forth, that only can it profit by.- Goethe.
INJURY,-(See "REVENGE ”and "FOR-
GIVENESS.")
No man is hurt but by himself.—Diogenes.
To willful men, the injuries they them-
selves procure must be their schoolmasters.
-Shakespeare.
No man ever did a designed injury to
another, but at the same time he did a
greater to himself.-Home.
Slight small injuries, and they will be-
come none at all.-Fuller.
Christianity commands us to pass by in-
juries; policy, to let them pass by us.
Franklin.
Rather wink at small injuries, than to be
too forward to avenge them. He that to
destroy a single bee should throw down the
hive, instead of one enemy, would make a
thousand.
It is more easy to forgive the weak who
have injured us, than the powerful whom
we have injured. That conduct will be
continued by our fears, which commenced
in our resentment.--Colton.
In life it is difficult to say who do you the
most mischief-enemies with the worst in-
tentions, or friends with the best.
He who has injured thee was either
stronger or weaker than thee.—If weaker,
spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.-
Seneca.
The public has more interest in the pun-
ishment of an injury than the one who re-
ceives it.-Collon.
The injuries of life, if rightly improved,
will be to us as the strokes of the statuary
on his marble, forming us to a more beau-
tiful shape, and making us fitter to adorn
the heavenly temple.- Cotton Mather.
An injury unanswered, in time grows
weary of itself and dies away in voluntary
remorse. In bad dispositions, capable of no
restraint but fear, it has a different effect
;
the silent digestion of one wrong provokes
a second.-Sterne.
There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the
ghost of an injury.- Alexander Smith.
Nothing can work me damage except
myself.--The harm that I sustain I carry
about with me, and am never a real sufferer
but by my own fault.-St. Bernard.
If men wound you with injuries, meet
them with patience : hasty vords rankle
the wound, soft language dresses it, for-
giveness cures it, and oblivion takes away
the scar. It is more noble by silence to
avoid an injury than by argument to over-
come it.-Beaumont.
As a Christian should do no injuries to
others, so he should forgive the injuries
others do to him.-This is to be like God,
who is a good-giving, and a sin-forgiving
God.- Venning.
The injuries we.do, and those we suffer,
are seldom weighed in the same balance. -
C. Sinanions.
The purpose of an injury is to vex and
trouble me.-Now, nothing can do that to
him that is truly valiant.-Johnson.
If a bee stings you, will you go to the hive
and destroy it? Would not a thousand
come upon you ? If you receive a trifling
injury, do not go about proclaiming it, or
be anxious to avenge it. Let it drop. It is
wisdom to say little respecting the injuries
you may have received. - Anon.
INJUSTICE.-If thou suffer injustice,
console thyself; the true unhappiness is
in doing it.--Deniocritus.
The man who wears injustice by his side,
though powerful millions followed him to
war, combats against the odds--against
high heaven.-Havard.
He who commits injustice is ever made
more wretched than he who suffers it.-
Plato.
No one will dare inaintain that it is better
to do injustice than to bear it.-Aristotle.
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INNOVATION.
Of all injustice, that is the greatest which
goes under the name of law; and of all
sorts of tyranny the forcing of the letter of
the law against the equity, is the most in-
supportable.-L'Estrange.
Injustice arises either from precipitation,
or indolence, or from a mixture of both.
The rapid and slow are seldom just; the
unjust wait either not at all, or wait too
long.–Lavater.
An unjust acquisition is like a barbed
arrow, which must be drawn backward with
horrible anguish, or else will be your de-
struction.-Jeremy Taylor.
Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.
Burke.
Surely they who devour the possessions
of orphans unjustly shall swallow down
nothing but fire into their bellies, and shall
broil in raging flames.-Koran.
Any one entrusted with power will abuse
it if not also animated with the love of truth
and virtue, no matter whether he be a
prince, or one of the people.- La Fontaine.
Did the mass of men know the actual
selfishness and injustice of their rulers, not
a government wonld stand a year.-The
world would foment with revolution.-
Theodore Parker.
Whatever is unjust is contrary to the
divine will; and from this it follows that
no true and abiding happiness can be gained
by those who are unjust.–Stretch.
He that acts unjustly, is the worst rebel
to himself ; and though now ambition's
trumpet and the drum of power may drown
the sound, yet conscience will one day
speak loudly to him.--Favard.
Men endure the losses that befall them
by mere casualty with more patience than
the damages they sustain by injustice.--
Sir W. Raleigh.
INK,My ways are as broad as the
king's high road, and my means lie in an
inkstand.--Southey.
The colored slave that waits upon thy
thought, and sends that thought, without
a voice, to the ends of the earth.--Anon.
Oh, she is fallen into a pit of ink that the
wide sea hath drops too few to wash her
clean again !-Shakespeare,
A drop of ink may make a million think.
- Byron.
Let there be gall enough in thy ink ;
though thou write with a goose-pen, no
matter.- Shakespeare.
INNOCENCE,He is armed without
who is innocent withiu, be this thy screen,
and this thy wall of brass.--Horace.
What is a stronger breastplate than a
heart untainted ?---Shakespeare.
Innocence is but a poor substitute for
experience.-Bulwer. .
There is no courage but in innocence ;
no constancy but in an honest cause. -
Southern
To be innocent is to be not guilty ; but
to be virtuous is to overcome our evil in-
clinations.—Penn.
The innocent seldom find an uneasy pil-
low.-Cowper.
The innocence that feels no risk and is
taught no caution, is more vulnerable than
guilt, and oftener assailed.-N. P. Willis.
O, innocence, the sacred amulet against
all the poisons of infirmity, and all misfor-
tunes, injury, and death. - Chapman.
Against the head which innocence se-
cures, insidious malice aims her darts in
vain ; turned backward by the powerful
breath of heaven.-Johnson.
Innocence and mystery never dwell long
together.—Mad. Necker.
Innocence is like polished armor ; it
adorns and defends.-South.
Unstained thoughts do seldom dream on
evil. - Shakespeare.
Innocence and ignorance are sisters.
But there are noble and vulgar sisters.
Vulgar innocence and ignorance are mortal,
they have pretty faces, but wholly without
expression, and of a transient beauty ; the
noble sisters are immortal, their lofty forms
are unchangeable, and their countenances
are still radiant with the light of paradise.
They dwell in heaven, and visit only the
noblest and most severely tried of mankind.
--Novalis.
There is no man so good, who, vere he to
submit all his thoughts and actions to the
law, would not deserve hanging ten times
in his life.-Montaigne.
The silence, often, of pure innocence
persuades when speaking fails. Shake-
speare.
They that know no evil will suspect none.
-Ben Jonson.
We have not the innocence of Eden; but
by God's help and Christ's example we may
have the victory of Gethsemane.--E. H.
Chapin.
INNOVATION.-A spirit of innovation
is generally the result of a selfish temper
and confined views. People will not look
forward to posterity, who never look back-
ward to their ancestors.-- Burke.
It will always do to change for the better.
-Thomson.
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INSENSIBILITY.
The ridiculous rage for innovation, which
only increases the weight of the chains it
cannot break, shall never fire my blood !
Schiller.
Dislike of innovation proceeds sometimes
from the disgust excited by false humanity,
canting hypocrisy, and silly enthusiasm.
Sydney Smith.
INNS.—There is nothing yet contrived
by man by which so much happiness is pro-
duced as by a good tavern or inn.--Johnson.
Though I am an inn-keeper, thank heaven
I am a Christian.-Cervantes.
He who has not been at a tavern knows
not what a paradise it is.-O holy tavern !
O miraculous tavern !-holy, because no
carking cares are there, nor weariness,
nor pain ; and miraculous, because of the
spits, which, of themselves turn round and
round.--Longfellow.
INQUIRY.-It is a shameful thing to be
weary of inquiry when what we search for
is excellent. --Cicero.
All calm inquiry conducted among those
who have their main principles of judg-
ment in common, leads, if not to an approx-
imation of views, yet, at least, to an in-
crease of sympathy.-T. Arnold.
It is error only, and not truth, that
shrinks from inquiry.-Thomas Paine.
Let not the freedom of inquiry be
shackled. -- If it multiplies contentions
among the wise and virtuous, it exercises
the charity of those who contend.—If it
shakes for a time the belief that is rested
only on prejudice, it finally settles it on the
broader and more solid basis of conviction.
-H. K. White.
Free inquiry, if restrained within due
bounds, and applied to proper subjects, is
a most important privilege of the human
mind ; and if well conducted, is one of the
greatest friends to truth.-But when rea-
son knows neither its office nor its limits,
and when employed on subjects foreign to
its jurisdiction, it then becomes a privilege
dangerous to be exercised. --D'Aubigné.
INQUISITIVENESS.-Inquisitive
people are the funnels of conversation ;
they do not take in anything for their own
use, but merely to pass it to another,
Steele.
In ancient days the most celebrated pre-
cept was, “know thyself”; in modern
times it has been supplanted by the more
fashionable maxim, Know thy neighbor
and everything about him.”-Johnson.
Inquisitiveness or curiosity is a kernel of
the forbidden fruit, which still sticketh in
the throat of a natural man, and sometimes
to the danger of his choking.-Fuller.
An inquisitive man is a creature naturally
very vacant of thought itself, and therefore
forced to apply to foreign assistance.--
Steele.
Shun the inquisitive, for you will be sure
to find him leaky.-Open ears do not keep
conscientiously what has been intrusted to
them, and a word once spoken flies, never
to be recalled.-Horace.
What right have we to pry into the secrets
of others ?--True or false, the tale that is
gabbled to us, what concern is it of ours ?
Bulwer.
The man who is inquisitive into the
secrets of your affairs, with which he has
no concern, should be an object of your
caution.-Men no more desire another's
secrets to conceal them, than they would
another's purse for the pleasure only of
carrying it.-Fielding.
INSANITY,-(See “MADNESS.")
Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.
Emmons.
Those who are insane generally reason
correctly, but they reason from false an-
sumptions and on wrong principles.
Great wits are sure to madness near
allied, and thin partitions do their bounds
divide.-- Dryden.
All power of fancy over reason is a de-
gree of insanity.-Johnson.
Now see that noble and most sovereign
reason, like sweet bells jangled, out of time
and harsh.-Shakespeare.
This wretched brain gave way, and I
became a wreck, at random driven, with-
out one glimpse of reason, or of heaven.-
Moore.
O, judgment, thou art fled to brutish
beasts, and men have lost their reason.-
Shakespeare.
Insane people easily detect the nonsense
of other people.-- John Hallan.
Every sense hath been o'erstrung, and
each frail fibre of the brain sent forth her
thoughts all wild and wide.-Byron.
The difference between an insane man
and a fool, Locke says, is, that a fool from
right principles draws a wrong conclusion,
while an insane person draws a just infer-
ence from false principles.
INSENSIBILITY,-Who can all sense
of others' ills escape, is but a brute, at best,
in human shape, - Juvenal.
A thorough and mature insensibility is
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INSTINCT.
rarely to be acquired but by a steady per-
severance in infamy.--Junius.
There is a calm, viscous insensibility
which will baffle even the gods, and calmly
say, Try all your lightnings here, and see
whether I cannot quench them.-Carlyle.
All feeling of futurity benumbed ; all
Godlike passion for externals quenched ;
all relish of realities expired ; imbruted
every faculty divine; heart buried in the
rubbish of the world.--Young.
It is an alarming state to be past feeling,
especially as to religious truth and duty.
C. Simnions.
INSINCERITY,-(See "SINCERITY.")
It is a shameful and unseemly thing to
think one thing and speak another, but
how odious to write one thing and think
another.--Seneca.
Nothing is more disgraceful than insin-
cerity.- Cicero.
Insincerity in a man's own heart must
make all his enjoyments—all that concerns
him, unreal; so that his whole life must
seem like a merely dramatic representa-
tion.-Hawthorne.
INSPIRATION, -I know the Bible is
inspired, because it finds me at greater
depths of my being than any other book.-
Coleridge.
Inspiration is such a divine superintend-
ence over the books of the Bible as makes
them a trustworthy, infallible and safe
guide concerning the way of salvation.-
Joseph Cook.
There is a deity within us who breathes
that divine fire by which we are animated.
-Ovid.
Poets are the hierophants of an unap-
prehended inspiration; the mirrors of the
gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon
the present. --Shelley.
The inspiration of the sacred Scriptures,
as the very word of God, is manifest by
their majesty, their purity, the consent of
all their parts, by their light and power to
convince and convert sinners, to edify and
comfort believers, and to build them up in
the character that prepares for full salva-
tion.- Boston.
The best evidence that the Bible is
the inspired word of God is to be found
within its covers.It proves itself. ---Charles
Hodge.
Inspiration secures the perfect infalli-
bility of the Scriptures in every part, as a
record of fact and doctrine, both in thought
and verbal expression ; so that, although
they come to us through the instrumen-
tality of the minds, hearts, imaginations,
consciences, and wills of men, they are
nevertheless in the strictest sense the Word
of God.-A. A. Hodge.
INSTABILITY.-He who begins many
things finishes nothing.-C. Sinnons.
A rolling stone can gather no moss.-
Publius Syrus.
Some have at first for wits, then poets
passed ; turned critics next, and proved
plain fools at last.—Pope.
Everything by starts, and nothing long.
--Dryden.
It will be found that they are the weakest-
minded and the hardest-hearted men, that
most love change.-Ruskin.
One principal reason why men are so
often useless is, that they divide and shift
their attention among a multiplicity of ob-
jects and pursuits.- Emmons.
INSTINCT.- There is not, in my
opinion, anything more mysterious in na-
türe than this instinct in animals, which
thus rise above reason, and yet fall infi-
nitely short of it.-Addison.
A goose flies by a chart which the Royal
Geographical Society could not mend.-0.
W. Holmes.
Though reason is progressive, instinct
is stationary. Five thousand years have
added no improvement to the hive of the
bee, or the house of the beaver.-Colton.
The active part of man consists of power-
ful instincts, some of which are gentle and
continuous; others violent and short;
some baser, some nobler, and all necessary.
7. W. Newman.
Beasts, birds, and insects, even to the
minutest and meanest of their kind, act
with the unerring providence of instinct;
man, the while, who possesses a higher
faculty, abuses it, and therefore goes blun-
dering on. They, by their unconscious
and unhesitating obedience to the laws of
nature, fulfill the end of their existence;
he, in willful neglect of the laws of God,
loses sight of the end of his. -Southey.
Improvable reason is the distinction be-
tween man and the animal.-T. Binney.
Honest instinct comes a volunteer, sure
never to overshoot, but just to hit, while
still too wide, or short of human wit.
Pope. .
Who taught the parrot his “Welcome”?
Who tanght the raven in a drought to throw
pebbles into a hollow tree where she espied
water, that the water might rise so as she
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INTEGRITY.
The fruits of the earth do not more ob-
viously require labor and cultivation to
prepare them for our use and subsisi-
ence, than our faculties demand instruc-
tion and regulation in order to qualify us
to become upright and valuable members
of society, useful to others, or happy our-
selves.--Barrow.
might come to it? Who taught the bee to
sail through such a vast sea of air, and to
find the way from a flower in a field to her
hive? Who taught the ant to bite every
grain of corn that she burieth in her hill,
lest it should take root and grow?-Bacon.
Who taught the natives of the field and
wood to shun their poison, and to choose
their food,--prescient, the tides and tem-
pests to withstand; build on the wave, or
arch beneath the sand ?-Pope.
We only listen to those instincts which
are our own, and only give credit to the
evil when it has befallen us.- La Fontaine,
The instinctive feeling of a great people
is often wiser than its wisest men. - -KOS-
suth.
All our progress is an unfolding like the
vegetable bud. You have first an instinct,
then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the
plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the
instinct to the end, though you can render
no reason.—Emerson.
By a divine instinct men's minds distrust
ensuing danger, as by proof we see the
waters swell before a boisterous storm.--
Shakespeare.
The instinct of brutes and insects can be
the effect of nothing else than the wisdom
and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.-
Newton,
Raise reason over instinct as you can;
in this 'tis God directs ; in that 'tis man.-
Pope.
INSTRUCTION.-(See" TEACHING.")
The wise are instructed by reason; or-
dinary minds, by experience ; the stupid,
by necessity; and brutes by instinct.--
Cicero.
A good newspaper and Biblo in every
house, a good schoolhouse in every district,
and a church in every neighborhood, all
appreciated as they deserve, are the chief
support of virtue, morality, civil liberty,
and religion.-Franklin.
Life is but one continual course of in-
struction,-The hand of the parent writes
on the heart of the child the first faint
characters which time deepens into strength
so that nothing can efface them.--R. Hill.
The great business of the moral teacher
is, to make the best moral impressions and
excite the best feelings, by giving the
clearest, fullest and most accurate instruc-
tion as to truth and duty.-C. Simmons,
In moral lessons the understanding must
be addressed before the conscience, and the
conscience before the heart, if we would
make the deepest impressions.--Emmons.
INSULT:-(See "IMPERTINENCE.")
Whatever be the motive of an insult it is
always best to overlook it; for folly scarcely
can deserve resentment, and malice is pun-
ished by neglect.-Johnson.
The way to procure insults is to submit
to them.-A man meets with no more re-
spect than he exacts.--Hazlitt.
Injuries may be atoned for and forgiven ;
but 'insults admit of no compensation ;
they degrade the mind in its own esteem,
and force it to recover its level by revenge.
-Junius.
The greater part of mankind are more
sensitive to contemptuous language, than
to unjust acts ; they can less easily bear in-
sult than wrong.–Plutarch.
There is an insolence which none but
those who themselves deserve contempt can
bestow, and those only who deserve no con-
tempt can bear.-Fielding.
He who puts up with insult invites in-
jury.—Proverb.
The slight that can be conveyed in a
glance, in a gracious smile, in a wave of the
hand, is often the ne plus ultra of art.-—What
insult is so keen or so keenly felt, as the
polite insult which it is impossible to re-
sent ?-Julia Kavanagh,
Oppression is inore easily borne than
insult.-Junius.
It is the nature of some minds to insult
and tyrannize over little people, this being
the means they use to recompense them-
selves for their extreme servility and con-
descension to their superiors.-Slaves and
flatterers exact the same taxes on all below
them which they pay to all above them.
Fielding.
I once met a man who had forgiven an
injury. I hope some day to meet the man
who has forgiven an insult.— Buxton.
Tate never wounds more deeply the gen-
erous heart, than when a blockhead's insult
points the dart.-Johnson.
INTEGRITY.-Integrity without
knowledge is weak and useless.
In all things preserve integrity; and the
consciousness of thine own uprightness will
alleviate the toil of business, soften the
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INTELLECT.
hardness of ill-success and disappointments,
and give thee an humble confidence before
God, when the ingratitude of man, or the
iniquity of the times may rob thee of other
reward.-Paley.
Nothing more completely baffles one who
is full of trick and duplicity, than straight-
forward and simple integrity in another.-
Colton.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity
of your own mind. Absolve you to your-
self, and you shall have the suffrage of the
world.--Emerson.
Give us the man of integrity, on whom
we know we can thoroughly depend ; who
will stand firm when others fail; the friend,
faithful and true ; the adviser, honest
and fearless; the adversary, just and chival-
rous ; such an one is a fragment of the
Rock of Ages.-J. P. Stanley.
Integrity is the first step to true great-
ness.—Men love to praise, but are slow to
practice it.-To maintain it in high places
costs self-denial ; in all places it is liable to
opposition, but its end is glorious, and the
universe will yet do it homage.--0. Sim-
monis.
A man of integrity will never listen to
any plea against conscience. ---Home.
INTELLECT, - Intellect lies behind
genius, which is intellect constructive.---
Intellect is the simple power, anterior to all
action or construction.-
Emerson.
Intellect is brain force.--Schiller.
God has placed no limits to the exercise
of the intellect he has given us, on this side
of the grave.--Bacon.
If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his in-
tellect will grow.-Emerson.
The intellect has only one failing, which,
to be sure, is a very considerable one.-it
has no conscience. Napoleon is the readi-
est instance of this. If his heart bad borne
any proportion to his brain, he had been
one of the greatest men in all history.-
J. R. Lowell.
Every man should use his intellect, pot
as he uses his lamp in the study, only for
his own seeing, but as the lighthouse uses
its lamps, that those afar off on the sea may
see the shining, and learn their way.-
H. W. Beecher.
The education of the intellect is a great
business ; but an unconsecrated intellect
is the saddest sight on which the sun looks
down.--Chadwick.
Brains well prepared are the monuments
where human knowledge is most surely en-
graved.-Rousseau.
A man of intellect is lost unless he unites
to it energy of character. When we have
the lantern of Diogenes we must have his
staff.-Chamfort.
Intellect--the starlight of the brain.
N. P. Willis.
The march of intellect is proceeding at
quick time; and if its progress be not
accompanied by a corresponding improve-
ment in morals and religion, the faster it
proceeds, with the more violence will you
be hurried down the road to ruin.---Southey.
The intellect of the wise is like glass; it
admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
Hare.
I cannot think that any man could ever
tower upward into a very great philosopher
unless he should begin or end with Chris-
tianity.-A great man may, by a rare pos-
sibility, be an infidel. An intellect of the
highest order must build on Christianity.--
De Quincey.
Intellect and industry are never incom-
patible. There is more wisdom, and will
be more benefit, in combining them than
scholars like to believe, or than the common
world imagine ; life has time enough for
both, and its happiness will be increased by
the union.-5. Turner.
Culture of intellect without religion in
the heart, is only civilized barbarism, and
disguised animalism.—Bunsen.
Times of general calamity and confusion
have ever been productive of the greatest
minds. The purest ore is produced from
the hottest furnace, and the brightest
thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest
storm.-Colton.
The eye of the intellect sees in all objects
what it brought with it the means of seeing.
-Carlyle.
Don't despair of a student if he has one
clear idea.Innrons.
Intellect, talent, and genius, like murder,
will out."--C. Simmons.
The commerce of intellect loves distant
shores. The small retail dealer trades only
with his neighbor; when the great mer-
chant trades he links the four quarters of
the globe.--Bulwer.
Men with intellectual light alone may
make advances without moral principle,
but without that moral principle which
gospel faith produces, permanent progress
is impossible.-J. B. Walker.
Great minds react on the society which
has made them what they are; but they
only pay with interest what they have re-
ceived.-Macaulay.
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INTEMPERANCE.
EDGE
While the world lasts, the sun will gild
the mountain-tops before it shines upon
the plain.-Bulwer,
The more we know of any one ground of
knowledge, the further we see into the
general domains of intellect.-Leigh Hunt.
Mind is the great lever of all things ;
human thought is the process by which hu-
man ends are answered.--Daniel Webster.
The men of action are, after all, only the
unconscious instruments of the men of
thought.-Heine.
There never was a man all intellect; but
just in proportion as men become so they
become like lofty mountains, all ice and
snow the higher they rise above the warm
heart of the earth.-E. H. Chapin.
INTELLIGENCE.-(See "KNOWL-
" and “THOUGHT.”)
Intelligence is a luxury, sometimes use-
less, sometimes fatal. It is a torch or fire-
brand according to the use one makes of it.
--Caballero.
If a man empties his purse into his liead,
no one can take it from him.-Franklin,
The higher feelings, when acting in har-
monious combination, and directed by en-
lightened intellect, have a boundless scope
for gratification; their least indulgence is
delightful, and their highest activity is
bliss.- Combe.
It is the mind that makes the body rich;
and as the sun breaks through the darkest
clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest
habit. - Shakespeare.
The superior mau is he who develops,
in harmonious proportions, his moral,
intellectual, and physical nature.--This
should be the end at which men of all classes
should aim, and it is this only which con-
stitutes real greatness.-Jerrold.
Intelligence increases mere physical abil-
ity one half.-The use of the lead abridges
the labor of the hands.-H. W. Beecher.
They who have read about everything
are thought to understand everything, too,
but it is not always so; reading furnishes
the mind only with materials of knowledge;
it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
We are of the ruminating kind, and it is
not enough to cram ourselves with a great
load of collections--we must chew them
over again.-Channing.
Light has spread, and even bayonets
think.-Kossuth.
God multiplies intelligence, which com-
municates itself like fire, infinitely.-Light
a thousand torches at one torch, and the
flame of the latter remains the same.
Joubert.
Some men of a secluded and studious life
have sent forth from their closet or cloister
rays of intellectual light that have agitated
courts and revolutionized kingdoms; like
the moon which, though far removed from
the ocean, and shining upon it with a serene
and sober light, is the chief cause of all
those ebbings and flowings which iuces-
santly disturb that restless world of waters.
Colton.
A man cannot leave a better legacy to
the world than a well-educated family.-
Thomas Scott.
It is no proof of a man's understanding
to be able to confirm whatever he pleases;
but to be able to discern that what is true
is true, and that what is false is false ; this
is the mark and character of intelligence.-
Swedenborg.
We must despise no sort of talents ; they
all have their separate uses and duties; all
have the happiness of man for their object;
they all improve, exalt, and gladden life.--
Sidney Smith.
Human learning, with the blessing of
God upon it, introduces us to divine wis-
dom, and while we study the works of na-
ture, the God of nature will manifest him-
self to us.-
Bp. Horne.
INTEMPERANCE.-(See "DRUNKEN-
and “ WINE.")
I never drink.–I cannot do it on equal
terms with others.-It costs them only one
day ; but it costs me three; the first in sin-
ning, the second in-suffering, and the third
in repenting.-Sterne.
When the cup of any sensual pleasure is
drained to the bottom, there is always poi-
son in the dregs.-Jane Porter.
Wise men mingle mirth with their cares,
as a help either to forget or overcome them 3
but to resort to intoxication for the ease of
one's mind, is to cure melancholy by mad.
--Charron.
He that is a drunkard is qualified for all
vice.- Quarles.
In our world death deputes intemperance
to do the work of age.--Young.
Death having occasion to choose a prime
minister, summoned his illustrious cour-
tiers, and allowed them to present their
claims for the oflice: Fever flushed his
cheeks
eks; Palsy shook his limbs; Dropsy
inflated his
carcass; Gout racked his
joints ; Asthma half strangled himself ;
Stone and Colic pleaded their violence;
Plague, his sudden destructions; and Con-
NESS
liess.
ÎNTEMPERANCË.
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INTENTIONS.
er?
a
sumption his certainty. Then came War,
with stern confidence, alluding to his many
thousands devoured at a meal. Last came
Intemperance, with a face like fire, shout-
ing, “Give way, ye sickly, ferocious band
of pretenders. Am I not your parent?
Does not sagacity trace your origin to me?
My operations ceasing, whence your pow-
The grisly monarch here gave a
smile of approbation, and placed inten-
perance at his right hand, as his favorite
and prime-minister. -Dodsley.
He that tempts me to drink beyond my
measure, civilly invites me to a fever. -
Jeremy Taylor.
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe
than the habit of drinking.- Walter Scott.
Every inordinate cup is unblessed, and
the ingredient is a devil. --Shakespeare.
The drunkard, says Seneca, is a voluntary
madman, and some one has added, 66
necessary fool.”
There is no vice in nature more debas-
ing and destructive to men than intemper-
ance. It robs them of their reason, repuz-
tation, and interest. It renders them unfit
for human society. It degrades them below
the beasts that perish, and justly exposes
them to universal odium and contempt.-
Eminons.
Those men who destroy a healthful con-
stitution of body by intemperance and an
irregular life, do as manifestly kill them-
selves, as those who hang, or poison, or
drown themselves.-Sherlock.
Of all the causes of crime, intemperance
stands out the unapproachable chief.
Noah Davis.
One drinking saloon in a commnnity
means rags and misery for some of its peo-
ple, and sixty thousand saloons in the na-
tion mean rags and misery multiplied sixty
thousand times. Universal happiness and
prosperity cannot exist in the same land
with the saloon any more than peace and
safety can exist in a sheep-fold when the
wolf has entered it.-C. A. Stoddard.
The habit of intemperance by men in
office has occasioned more injury to the
public, and more trouble to me, than all
other causes; and, were I to commence my
administration again, the first question I
would ask respecting a candidate for office,
would be, “Does he use ardent spirits ? "
--Jefferson.
The body, overcharged with the excess of
yesterday, weighs down the mind together
with itself, and fixes to the earth that
ticle of the divine spirit.—Horace.
Touch the goblet no more ; it will make
thy heart sore, to its very corc.--Long-
fellow.
See where the wild-blazing grog shop
appears, there where the red waves of
wretchedness swell ; it burns on the edge
of tempestuous years, the horrible light-
house of hell.-McDonald Clarke.
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.
If we could sweep intemperance out of
the country, there would be hardly poverty.
enough left to give healthy exercise to the
charitable impulses.—Phillips Broolcs.
Intemperance is a dangerous companion.
It throws people off their guard, betrays
them to a great many indecencies, to ruin-
0118 passions, to disadvantages in fortune ;
makes them discover secrets, drive foolish
bargains, engage in gambling, and often
stagger from the tavern to the stews.-
Collon.
In intoxication men betray their real
characters.-So in prosperity there is a no
less honest and truth-revealing intoxication
than in wine.—The varnish of power brings
forth at once the defects and the beauties
of the human portrait. --Bulwer. .
Drunkenness takes away the man, and
leaves only the brute; it dethrones reason
from its seat; stupefies conscience ; ruins
health ; wastes property ; covers the wretch
with rag8 ; 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.
INTENTIONS, (See “HELL," and
INDECISION.")
Good intentions are very mortal and
perishable things ; like very mellow and
choice fruit they are difficult to keep.---C.
Simmons.
The innocence of the intention abates
nothing of the mischief of the example.-
Robert Hall.
Many good purposes and intentions lie in
the churchyard.-Philip Flenry.
The failures of life come from resting in
good intentions, which are in vain unless
carried out in wise action.-C. Simmons.
Right intention is to the actions of a
man what the soul is to the body, or the
root to the tree.---Jeremy Taylor.
If religion might be judged of according
to men's intentions, there would scarcely
be any idolatry in the world.-Bp. Hall.
Hell is paved with good intentions,"
says Johnson.-Better say the way to it is.
par-
INTEREST.
269
IRONY.
God takes men's hearty desires and will,
instead of the deed, where they have not
power to fulfill it; but he never took the
bare deed instead of the will.-Baxter'.
Good intention will no more make a
truth, thau a good mark will make a good
shot.--Spurslowe.
Iu the works of man as in those of nature,
it is the intention which is chiefly worth
studying.–Goethe.
INTEREST.-Interest speaks all lan-
guages, and acts all parts, even that of
disinterestedness itself.-Rochefoucauld.
Interest has the security, though not the
virtue of a principle.-As the world goes,
it is the surest side ; for men daily leave
both relations and religiou to follow it.-
Penn.
How difficult it is to persuade a man to
reason against his interest, though he is
convinced that equity is against him.-
Trusler,
It is more than possible, that those who
have neither character nor honor, may be
wounded in a very tender part, their inter-
est.-Junius.
The virtues and vices are all put in mo-
tion by interest.-Rochefoucauld.
Interest makes some people blind, and
others quick-sighted.-Beaumont.
When interest is at variance with con-
science, any pretence that seems to recon-
cile them satisfies the hollow-hearted.-
Honze.
can be made of nothing; he who has laid
up no materials can produce no combina-
tions.-Sir J. Reynolds.
Invention is a kind of muse, which, being
possessed of the other advantages common
to her sisters, and being, warmed by the
fire of Apollo, is raised higher than the
rest.-Dryden.
A fine invention is nothing more than a
fine deviation from, or enlargement on a
fine niodel.-Imitation, if noble and gen-
eral, insures the best hope of originality.-
Bulwer.
He that invents a machine augments the
power of a man and the well-being of man-
kind.-H. W. Beecher.
The great inventor is one who has walked
forth upon the industrial world, not from
universities, but from hovels; not as clad
in silks and decked with honors, but as
clad in fustian and grimed with soot and
oil.-Isaac Taylor.
It is frivolous to fix pedantically the date
of paxticular inventions. They have all
been invented over and over fifty times.
Man is the arch machine, of which all these
shifts drawn from himself are toy models.
He helps himself on each emergency by
copying or duplicating his own structure,
just so far as the need is.-Emerson.
Where we cannot invent, we may at least
improve ; we may give somewhat of novelty
to that which was old, condensation to that
which was diffuse, perspicuity to that which
was obscure, and currency to that which
was recondite.-Colton.
IRONY.-Irony is to the high-bred what
billingsgate is to the vulgar; and when one
gentleman thinks another gentleman an
ass, he does not say it point-blank; he im-
plies it in the politest terms he can invent.
Bulwer.
Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if
you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.
Lamb.
Irony is an insult conveyed in the form
of a compliment; insinuating the most gall-
ing satire under the phraseology of pane-
gyric ; placing its victim naked on a bed of
briers and thistles, thinly covered with rose-
leaves; adorning his brow with a crown of
gold, which burns into his brain ; teasing
and fretting, and riddling him through and
through, with incessant discharges of hot
shot from a masked battery ; laying bare
the most sensitive and shrinking nerves of .
his mind, and then blandly touching them
with ice, or smilingly pricking them with
needles.-E. P. Whipple.
INTOLERANCE.-Intolerance has
been the curse of every age and state.-S.
Davies.
Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often
as intolerance.-H. W. Beecher.
Whoever attempts to suppress liberty of
conscience finishes some clay by wishing
for the Inquisition.-Simon.
It were better to be of no church than to
be bitter for any.-Penn.
The intolerant man is the real pedant. -
Richter.
The devil loves nothing better than the
intolerance of reformers, and dreads noth-
ing so much as their charity and patience.
-J. R. Lowell.
INVENTION.-Invention is the talent
of youth, as judgment is of age.-Swift.
Invention, strictly speaking, is little
more than a new combination of those im-
ages which have been previously gathered
and deposited in the memory. Nothing
IRRESOLUTION.
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JEALOUSY.
ness.
66
IRRESOLUTION.— (See "INDE-
CISION.")
Irresolution on the schemes of life which
offer themselves to our choice, and incon-
stancy in pursuing them, are the greatest
causes of all our unhappiness.-Addison.
Irresolution frames a thousand horrors,
embodying each.-J. Martyn.
Irresolution is a worse vice than rash-
He that shoots best may sometimes
miss the mark; but he that shoots not at
all can never hit it. Irresolution loosens
all the joints of a state ; like an ague, it
shakes not this nor that limb, but all the
body is at once in a fit. The irresolute
man is lifted from one place to another ; 80
hatcheth nothing, but addles all his actions.
-Feltham.
Like a man to double business bound, I
stand in pause where I shall first begin,
and both neglect. --Shakespeare.
Irresolution is a heavy stone rolled up a
hill by a weak child, and moved a little up
just to fall back again.-W. Rider.
That we would do, we should do when we
would; for this "would " changes, and hath
abatements and delays as many, as there
are tongues, are hands, are accidents ; and
then, this
should is like a spendthrift
sigh, that hurts by easing.-Shakespeare.
J.
JEALOUSY.-Of all the passions, jeal-
ousy is that which exacts the hardest ser-
vice, and pays the bitterest wages. Its
service is, to watch the success of our
enemy; its wages to be sure of it.--Colton.
In jealousy there is more of self-love,
than of love to another.-Rochefoucauld.
Trifles light as air, are to the jealous
confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.
—Shakespeare.
What frenzy dictates, jealousy believes.
-Gay.
Jealousy sees things always with magni-
fying glasses which make little things large,
of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.
Cervantes.
'Tis a monster begot upon itself, born on
itself.--Shakespeare.
Jealousy is the injured lover's hell.—
Millon.
The jealous man poisons his own banquet,
and then eats it.
Jealousy lives upon doubts.-It becomes
madness or ceases entirely as soon as we
pass from doubt to certainty.-Rochefouc-
cauld.
Jealousy is like a polished glass held to the
lips when life is in doubt; if there be
breath it will catch the damp and show it.
-Dryden.
All other passions condescend at times to
accept the inexorable logic of facts ; but
jealousy looks facts straight in the face,
and ignores them utterly, and says she
knows a great deal better than they can tell
her.-A. Helps.
Jealousy is the sister of love, as the devil
is the brother of angels.- Boufflers.
Women detest a jealous man whom they
do not love, but it angers them when a man
they do love is not jealous.-L'Enclos.
A jealous man always finds more than he
looks for.- Mlle. Scudery.
O, Jealousy, thou ugliest fiend of hell!
thy deadly venom preys on my vitals, turns
the healthful bue of my fresh cheek to hag-
gard sallowness, and drinks my spirit up.
H. More.
Jealousy is said to be the offspring of
love ; yet unless the parent makes haste to
strangle the child, the child will not rest
till it has poisoned the parent.-Flare.
Oh, beware of jealousy ; it is the green-
eyed monster, which doth mock the meat
it feeds on.-Shakespeare.
It is with jealousy as with the gout;
when such distempers are in the blood there
is never any security against their breaking
out, and that often on the slightest occa-
sions, and when least suspected.--Fielding.
Yet is there one more cursed than they
all, that canker-worm, that monster, jeal-
ousy, which eats the heart and feeds upon
the gall, turning all love's delight to misery,
through fear of losing his felicity.---Spenser.
All jealousy must be strangled in its
birth, or time will soon make it strong
enough to overcome the truth.-Davenant.
Love may exist without jealousy, al-
though this is rare ; but jealousy may exist
without love, and this is common ; for jeal-
ousy can feed on that which is bitter, no
less than on that which is sweet, and is sus-
tained by pride as often as by affection.
It is said that jealousy is love, but I deny
it; for though it may be procured by love,
as ashes are by fire, yet jealousy extin-
guishes love, as ashes smother the flame.
Margaret of Navarre.
Jealousy is always born with love, but
does not die with it.-Rochefoucaula.
Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of su-
periority, envy our uneasiness under it.-
Shenstone.
JEERING.
271
JESTING.
To doubt is an injury; to suspect a
friend is breach of friendship : jealousy is
a seed sown but in vicious minds; prone
to distrust, because apt to deceive.-G.
Lansdowne.
He who is next heir to supreme power, is
always suspected and hated by him who
actually wields it.- Tacitus.
That anxious torture may I never feel,
which doubtful watches o'er a wandering
heart. Mrs. Tighe.
We are more jealous of frivolous accom-
plishments with brilliant success, than of
The most estimable qualities without. John-
son envied Garrick whom he despised,
and ridiculed Goldsmith, whom he loved.-
Hazlitt.
Jealousy, says Rochefoucauld, is in some
sort rational and just; it aims at the pres-
ervation of a good which we think belongs
to us. It is in this sense that God is said
to be a jealous God, because he is earnestly,
and as it were passionately desirous of our
supreme love, and reverence, and service.
JEERING.-Scoff not at the natural
defects of any which are not in their power
to amend. It is cruel to beat a cripple with
his own crutches !-Fuller.
A sneer is the weapon of the weak.-Like
other weapons of the devil, it is always cun-
ningly ready to our hand, and there is more
poison in the handle than in the point.-
J. R. Lowell.
Jeer not at others upon any occasion.
If they be foolish, God hath denied them
understanding; if they be vicious, you
ought to pity, not revile them ; if deformed,
God framed their bodies; and will you scorn
his workmanship? Are you wiser than
your Creator ? If poor, poverty was de-
signed for a motive to charity, not to con-
tempt; you cannot see what riches they
have within.-South.
Who can refute a sneer?—It is inde-
pendent of proof, reason, argument, or
sense, and may as well be used against
facts and truth, as against falsehood.-C.
Simmons.
JESTING.–Take heed of jesting;
many have been ruined by it. It is hard to
jest, and notsometimes jeer too, which often
sinks deeper than we intended or expected.
-Fuller,
The Arabians have a saying, that it is
not good to jest with God, death, or the
devil; for the first neither can nor will be
mocked ; the second mocks all men one
time or another; and the third puts an
eternal sarcasm on those that are too fa-
miliar with him.-Beaumont.
A good jest in time of misfortune, is food
and drink. It is strength to the arm, di-
gestion to the stomach, and courage to the
heart. A prosperous man can afford to be
melancholy ; but if the miserable are so,
they are worse than dead-it is sure to kill
them.-- Ware.
Laughter should dimple the cheek, not
furrow the brow. A jest should be such
that all shall be able to join in the laugh
which it occasions; but if it bears hard upon
one of the company, like the crack of a
string, it makes a stop in the music.-Fel-
thang.
The jest loses its point when he who
makes it is the first to laugh.-Schiller.
Men ought to find the difference between
saltness and bitterness. Certainly, he that
hath a satirical vein, as he maketh others
afraid of his wit, so he had need be afraid
of other's memory.-Bacon.
It is good to make a jest, but not to make
a trade of jesting.--Fuller.
Jesting when not used upon improper
matter, in an unfit manner, with excessive
measure, at undue season, or to evil pur-
pose, may be allowed. When jesting is so
used as not to defile or discompose the
mind of the speaker, not to wrong or harm
the bearer, not to derogate from any wor-
thy subject of discourse, and not to infringe
decency, disturb peace, or violate any of
the grand duties incumbent on us, such as
piety, charity, justice, and sobriety, it can-
not be condemned.-Barrow.
Wit loses its respect with the good when
seen in company with malice ; and to smile
at the jest which plants a thorn in another's
breast is to become a principal in the mis-
chief.-Sheridan.
Never risk a joke, even the least offensive
in its nature and the most common, with a
person who is not well bred, and possessed
of sense to comprehend it. - Bruyère.
This fellow 's wise enough to play the
fool; and, to do that well, craves a kind of
wit : he must observe their mood on whom
he jests, the quality of persons, and the
time.-Shakespeare.
The jest which is expected is already de-
stroyed.-Johnson.
Beware of biting jests : the more truth
they carry with them, the greater the
wounds that they give ; the greater smarts
they cause, the greater scars they leave be-
hind them.-Lavater.
Wanton jests make fools laugh, and wise
men frown,-?uller. .
JESUIT.
272
JOY.
Raillery is sometimes more insupportable
than wrong; we have a right to resent in-
juries, but it is ridiculous to be angry at a
jest.- Rochefoucauld.
Be not affronted at a jest; if one throw
ever so much salt at theo thou wilt receive
no harm unless thou art raw and ulcerous.
Junius.
He that will lose his friend for a jest de-
serves to die a beggar by the bargain.--
Such let thy jests be, that they may not
grind the credit of thy friend ; and make
not jests so long that thou becomest one.-
Fuller.
Joking often loses a friend, and never
gains an enemy.-C. Simmons.
He who never relaxes into sportiveness is
a wearisome companion ; but beware of
him who jests at everything. Such men
disparage, by some ludicrous association,
all objects which are presented to their
thoughts, and thereby render themselves
incapable of any emotion which can either
elevate or soften; they bring upon their
moral being an influence more withering
than the blasts of the desert.--Southey.
A joker is near akin to a buffoon; and
neither of them is the least related to wit.
Chesterfield.
Yonder he drives ; avoid that furious
beast. If he may have his jest, be never
cares at whose expense; nor friend, nor
patron spares.--Horace.
A jest's prosperity lies in the ear of him
that hears it, never in the tongue of him
that makes it. --Shakespeare.
Too tart jests are not good ; bitter potions
are not for health.-An offensive man is
the devil's bellows, to blow up contention.
--Beaumont.
As for jesting, there be certain things
which ought to be privileged from it, viz.,
religion, matters of state, great persons,
any business of importance, and any case
that deserveth pity.-- Bacon.
Jest not with the two-edged sword of
God's word.-Fuller.
Judge of a jest when you have done
laughing.-W. Lloyd.
JESUIT.-The Society of the Jesuits is
a stvord whose handle is at Rome, and its
point everywhere.-F. Dupin.
When you meet a man believing in the
salutary nature of falsehoods, and the di-
vine authority of things doubtful, and fan-
cying that to serve a good cause he must
call the devil to his aid, there is a follower
of unsaint Ignatius.- Carlyle.
A Jesuit may be briefly described as an
empty suit of clothes with another person
living in them who acts for him, thinks for
him, decides for him, whether he shall be
a prince or a beggar, and moves him about
wheresoever he pleases; who allows him to
exhibit the external aspect of a man, but
leaves him none of the privileges-no lib-
erty, no property, no affections, not even
the power to refuse obedience wheu ordered
to commit the most atrocious of crimes ;
for, the more he outrages his own feelings,
the greater his merits. Obedience to thó
Superior is his only idea of virtue, and in
all other respects he is a mere image.-
Southey.
Not till these late centuries had the hu-
man soul generated the abomination of
Jesuitism, or needed to name it. It has
done such deadly execution on the soul of
man, and wrought such havoc on the ter-
restrial and supernal interests of this world
as to insure to Jesuitism a long memory in
human annals.-Carlyle.
JESUS.-(See “CHRIST.")
JEWS.-The Jew is the pilgrim of com-
merce, trading with every nation and
blending with none.-
with none.-Conybeare.
They are a piece of stubborn antiquity,
compared with which Stonehenge is in its
nonage. They date beyond the Pyramids.
-Lano.
Talk what you will of the Jews, that they
are cursed : they thrive wherever they
come; they are able to oblige the prince
of their country by lending him money ;
none of them beg; they keep together;
and as for their being hated, why Chris-
tians hate one another as much.-Selden.
The Jews are among the aristocracy of
every land. If a literature is called rich in
the possession of a few classic tragedies,
what shall we say to a national tragedy,
lasting for fifteen hundred years, in which
the poets and actors were also the heroes.
-George Eliot.
“Give me,” said Frederick William, of
Prussia, to his chaplain, "give me the
briefest possible proof of the truth of Chris-
tianity.” - The Jews, your majesty," was
the answer.
JOY.-(See “HAPPINESS.")
True joy is a serene and sober motion ;
and they are miserably out that take laugh-
ing for rejoicing; the seat of. it is within,
and there is no cheerfulness like the resolu-
tion of a brave mind that has fortune under
its feet. Seneca.
He that to the best of his power has
secured the final stake, has a perennial
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JUDGMENT.
fountain of joy within him. He is satisfied
from himself. Joy wholly from without is
false, precarious, and short. From with-
out, it may be gathered ; but, like gathered
flowers, though fair and sweet for a season,
it must soon wither and become offensive.
Joy from within is like smelling the rose
on the tree; it is more sweet and fair i
it is lasting; and, I must add, immortal.-
Young.
Man is the merriest, the most joyous of
all the species of creation, -Above and be-
low him all are serious.-Addison.
Joy in this world is like a rainbow, which
in the morning only appears in the west, or
toward the evening sky; but in the latter
hours of day casts its triumphal arch over
the east, or morning sky.-Richter.
It is better that joy should be spread
over all the day in the form of strength,
than that it should be concentrated into
ecstasies, full of danger, and followed by
reactions.- Emerson.
The most profound joy has more of grav-
ity than of gaiety in it.-Montaigne.
He who can conceal his joys is greater
than he who can hide his griefs.-Lavater.
Nature, in zeal for human amity, denies
or damps an undivided joy.-Joy is an ex-
change; it flies monopolies; it calls for
two; rich fruit, heaven planted, never
plucked by one. - Young,
The noblest spirits are those which turn
to heaven, not in the hour of sorrow, but
in that of joy ; like the lark, they wait for
the clouds to disperse, that they may soar
up into their native element.--Richter.
A man would have no pleasure in dis-
covering all the beauties of the universe,
even in heaven itself, unless he had a part-
ner to whom he might communicato his
joys. --Cicero.
When we speak of joy it is not something
we are after, but something that will come
to us when we are after God and duty.
Horace Bushnell.
Joys are our wings ; sorrows our spur8.-
Richter.
The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-
felt joy.-Pope.
True joy is only hope put out of fear.-
Broolce.
We lose the peace of years when we hunt
after the rapture of moments.-Bulwer,
Little joys refresh us constantly, like our
daily bread, and never bring disgust; great
ones, like sugar-bread, refresh us briefly,
and then bring satiety --Richter.
Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we
are not fitted to bear long the burden of
great joys.-- Bovee.
Joy never feasts so high as when the first
course is of misery.--Suclcling.
There is not a joy the world can give like
that it takes away.-Byron.
Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy
is bread and sorrow is medicine.-H. W.
Beecher.
The highest joy to the Christian almost
always comes through suffering. No flower
can bloom in Paradise which is not trans-
planted from Gethsemane. No one can
taste of the fruit of the tree of life, that
has not tasted of the fruits of the tree of
Calvary. The crown is after the cross.
To pursue joy is to lose it. The only way
to get it is to follow steadily the path of
duty, without thinking of joy, and then,
like sleep, it comes most surely unsought,
and we * being in the way," the angel of
God, bright-haired Joy, is sure to meet us.
-A. Maclaren.
We ask God to forgive us for our evil
thoughts and evil temper, but rarely, if
ever, ask him to forgive us for our sadness.
-R. W. Dale.
The very society of joy redoubles it; so
that, while it lights upon my friend it l'e-
bounds upon myself, and the brighter his
candle burns the more easily will it light
mine.-South.
The joy resulting from the diffusion of
blessings to all around us is the purest and
sublimest that can ever enter the human
mind, and can be conceived only by those
who have experienced it. Next to the con-
solations of divine grace, it is the most
sovereign balm to the miseries of life, both
in him who is the object of it, and in him
who exercises it.—Bp. Porteus.
Great joy, especially after a sudden
change of circumstances, is apt to be silent,
and dwells rather in the heart than on the
tongue.-Fielding.
Here below is not the land of happiness ;
it is only the land of toil; and every joy
which comes to us is only to strengthen us
for some greater labor that is to succeed.-
F'ichte.
We can do nothing well without joy, and
a good conscience which is the ground of
joy.-Sibbes.
There is a sweet joy that comes to us
through sorrow.–Spurgeon.
JUDGMENT.-(See “OPINION.")
As the touchstone which tries gold, but
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is not itself tried by gold, such is he who
has the true standard of judgment.- Epic-
tetus.
In forming a judgment, lay your hearts
void of fore-taken opinions ; else, whatso-
ever is done or said will be measured by a
wrong rule ; like them who have the jaun-
dice, to whom everything appeareth yellow.
-Sir P. Sidney.
Men are not to be judged by their looks,
habits, and appearances ; but by the char-
acter of their lives and conversations, and
by their works. It is better to be praised
by one's own works than by the words of
another.-L'Estrange.
Judge thyself with the judgment of sin-
cerity, and thou wilt judge others with the
judgment of charity.-J. Mason.
While actions are always to be judged by
the immutable standard of rightand wrong,
the judgments we pass upon men must be
qualified by considerations of age, country,
station, and other accidental circumstances;
and it will then be found that he who is
most charitable in his judgment is generally
the least unjust.---Southey.
Never be a judge between thy friends in
any matter where both set their hearts
upon the victory. If strangers or enemies
be litigants, whatever side thou favorest,
thou gettest a friend ; but when friends are
the parties thou losest one.-Bp. Taylor.
Judgment is forced upon us by experi-
ence.-Johnson.
The judgment is like a pair of scales, and
evidences like the weights ; but the will
holds the balances in its hand ; and even
a slight jerk will be sufficient, in many
cases, to make the lighter scale appear the
heavier.- Whately.
A man has generally the good or ill
qualities which he attributes to mankind.--
Shenstone.
It is with our judgments as with our
watches : no two go just alike, yet each
believes his own.- Pope.
How little do they see what really is, who
frame their hasty judgment upon that
which seems.Southey.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capa-
ble of doing ; others judge us by what we
have done. -Longfellozo.
Men's judgments are a parcel of their
fortunes ; and things outward do draw the
inward quality after them.-Shakespeare.
The most necessary talent in a man of
conversation, which is what we ordinarily
intend by a gentleman, is a good judgment.
He that has this in perfection is master of
his companion, without letting him see it;
and has the same advantage over men of
other qualifications, as one that can see
would have over a blind man of ten times
his strength.--Steele.
You think it a want of judgment that one
changes his opinion.—Is it a proof that
your scales are bad because they vibrate
with every additional weight that is added
to either side ?--Miss Edgeworth.
It is a maxim received in life that, in
general, we can determine more wisely for
others than for ourselves. The reason of
it is so clear in argument that it hardly
wants the confirmation of experience.
Junius.
Everyono complains of the badness of
his memory, but nobody of his judgment.
-Rochefoucauld.
The wise determine from the gravity of
the case ; the irritable, from sensibility to
oppression; the high-minded, from disdain
and indignation at abusive power in un-
worthy hands.—Burke.
Lynx-eyed to our neighbors, and moles
to ourselves.- La Fontaine.
The seat of knowledge is in the head; of
wisdom, in the heart.-We are sure to judge
wrong if we do not feel right.--Hazliit.
The vulgar mind fancies that good judg-
ment is implied chiefly in the capacity to
censure ; and yet there is no judgment so
exquisite as that which knows properly how
to approve.-Simms.
We do not judge men by what they are in
themselves, but by what they are relatively
to us.Mad. Swetchine.
Fools measure actions after they are done,
by the event; vise men beforehand, by the
rules of reason and right. The former
look to the end to judge of the act. Let
me look to the act, and leave the end to
God.—Bp. Hall.
While I am ready to adopt any well-
grounded opinion, my inmost heart revolts
against receiving the judgments of others
respecting persons, and whenever I have
done so, I have bitterly repented of it.
Niebuhr.
Think wrongly, if you please ; but in all
cases think for yourself.- Lessing.
No man can judge another, because no
man knows himself, for we censure others
but as they disagree from that humor which
we fancy laudable in ourselves, and com-
mend others but for that wherein they seem
to quadrate and consent with us. — Sir
Thomas Browne.
A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule
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JUSTICE.
The criminal law is not founded on the
principle of vengeance; it uses evil only
as the means of preventing greater evil. –
Daniel Webster,
The institution of the jury, if confined to
criminal cases, is always in danger ; but
when once it is introduced into civil pro-
ceedings, it defies the aggressions of time
and of man.--De Tocqueville.
Whenever a jury, through whimsical or
ill-founded scruples, suffer the guilty to
escape, they become respousible for the
augmented danger of the innocent.---Daniel
Webster,
others, may controvert them, scoru them;
but he who has any respect for himself
seems to have renounced the right of think-
ing meanly of others.---Goethe.
In judging of others a man laboreth in
vain, often erretir
, and easily sinneth ; but
in judging and examining himself, he
always laboreth fruitfully. Thomas à
Kenipis.
The contemporary mind may in rare
cases be taken by storm ; but posterity
never. The tribunal of the present is uc-
cessible to influence; that of the future is
incorrupt.-Gladstone.
I mistrust the judgment of every man in
a case in which his own wishes are con-
cerned.-- Wellington.
In our judgment of human transactions,
the law of optics is reversed; we see the
most indistinctly the objects which are
close around us.- Whately.
To judge by the event, is an error all
abuse and all commit; for in every instance,
courage, if crowned with success, is hero-
ism ; if clouded by defeat, temerity.--Col-
ton.
There are some minds like either convex
or concave mirrors, which represent ob-
jects such as they receive them, but they
never receive them as they are.- Joubert.
Human nature is so constituted, that all
see and judge better in the affairs of other
men than in their own.-Terence.
Never forget the day of judgment. Keep
it always in view. Frame every action and
plan with a reference to its unchangiug de-
cisions.
Foolish men imagine that because judg-
ment for an evil thing is delayed, there is
no justice, but only accident here below.
Judgment for an evil thing is many times
delayed some day or two, some century or
two, but it is sure as life, it is suro as death!
- Carlyle.
Human judgment, like Luther's drunken
peasant, when saved from falling on one
side, topples over on the other,--Mazzini.
JURISPRUDENCE.-The law is made
to protect the innocent by punishing the
guilty.-- Daniel Webster.
The point most liable to objection in the
jury system, is the power which any one
or more of the twelve have to starve the
rest into compliance with their opinion ;
so that the verdict may possibly be given
by strength of constitution, not by con-
viction of conscience : and "wretches laug
that jurymen may dine."-Lord Orrery.
JUSTICE.-To be perfectly just is an
attribute of the divine nature ; to be so to
the utmost of our abilities, is the glory oť
man.- Addison.
Judges ought to be more learned than
witty, more reverent than plausible, and
more advised than confident. Above all
things, integrity is their portion and proper
virtue.--Bacon.
If judges would make their decisions
just, they should behold neither plaintiff,
defendant, nor pleader, but only the cause
itself.-B. Livingston.
Justice discards party, friendship, and
kindred, and is therefore represented as
blind.-Addison.
One man's word is no man's word ; we
should quietly hear both sides.--Goethe.
Impartiality is the life of justice, as jus-
tice is of all good government.
Justice is the constant desire and effort
to render to every man his due.—Justinian.
Justice is itself the great standing policy
of civil society; and any departure from it,
under any circumstance, lies under the
suspicion of being no policy at all.—Burke.
Man is unjust, but God is just; and
finally justice triumpbs.-Longfellow.
Justice is as strictly due between neigh-
bor nations, as between neighbor citizens.
A highwayman is as much a robber when
he plunders in a gang, as when single ; and
a nation that makes an unjust war is only
a great gang of robbers.--Franklin.
Justice without wisdom is impossible.-
Froude.
The only way to make the mass of man-
kind see the beauty of justice, is by show-
ing them, in pretty plain terms, the conse-
quence of injustice. ---Sidney Snith.
Be just and fear not; let all the ends thou
aimest at be thy country's, thy God's, and
truth's.—Shalcespeare.
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JUSTICE.
To embarrass justice by a multiplicity of
laws, or hazard it by a confidence in our
judges, are, I grant, the opposite rocks on
which legislative wisdom has ever split; in
one case the client resembles that einperor
who is said to have been suffocated with
the bedclothes, which were only designed
to keep him warm ; in the other, that town
which let the enemy take possession of its
walls, in order to show the world how little
they depended upon aught but courage for
safety.-Goldsmith.
The just, though they hate evil, yet give
men a patient hearing ; hoping that they
will show proofs that they are not evil. -
Sir P. Sidney.
Of mortal justice if thou scorn the rod,
believe and tremble, thou art judged of
God.-Sweetman.
Whenever a separation is made between
liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion,
is safe.-Burke.
All are not just because they do no
wrong ; but he who will not wrong me
when he may, he is truly just.-Cumber-
land.
Justice delayed, is justice denied.- Glad-
stone.
At present we can only reason of the di-
vine justice from what we know of justice
in man.
When we are in other scenes we
may have truer and nobler ideas of it; but
while in this life we can only spcak from
the volume that is laid open before us.-
Pope.
Justice, like lightning, ever should ap-
pear to few men's ruin, but to all men's
fear.--Sweetman.
Justice advances with such languid steps
that crime often escapes from its slowness.
Its tardy and doubtful course causes many
tears to be shed.- Corneille.
Strike if you will, but hear me.-Themis-
tocles.
When Infinite Wisdom established the
rule of right and honesty, He saw to it that
justice should be always the highest expe-
diency,- Wendell Phillips.
What is in conformity with justice should
also be in conformity to the laws.—Socrates.
Justice shines in_smoky cottages, and
honors the pious. Leaving with averted
eyes the gorgeous glare obtained by pol-
luted bands, she is wont to draw nigh to
holiness, not reverencing wealth when
falsely stamped with praise, and assigning
to each deed its righteous doom.-
Æschy-
lus.
God's mill grinds slow but sure.--Herbert.
Mankind are always found prodigal both
of blood and treasure in the maintenance
of public justice.-Hume.
Were he my brother, nay my kingdom's
heir, such neighbor nearness to our sacred
blood should nothing privilege him, nor
partialize the unstooping firmness of my
upright soul.-Shakespeare.
How can a people be free that has not
learned to be just 2-Sieyès.
He who is only just is cruel.-Who on
earth could live were all judged justly ?-
Byron.
Justice and power must be brought
together, so that whatever is just may be
powerful, and whatever is powerful may be
just.-Pascal.
Justice is to give to every man his own.-
Aristotle.
We ought always to deal justly, not only
with those who are just to us, but likewise
to those who endeavor to injure us; and
this, for fear lest by rendering them evil
for evil, we should fall into the same vice.-
Hierocles.
If thou desire rest unto thy soul, be just.
He that doth no injury, fears not to suffer
injury; the unjust mind is always in labor ;
it either practises the evil it hath projected,
or projects to avoid the evil it hath deserved.
-Quarles.
Justice without strength, or strength
without justice — fearful misfortunes !
Joubert.
No obligation to justice does force a man
to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.
A just man does justice to every man and
to everything; and then, if he be also wise,
he knows there is a debt of mercy and com-
passion due to the infirmities of man's na-
ture; and that is to be paid ; and he that
is cruel and ungentle to a sinning person,
and does the worst to him, is in his debt
and is unjust.–Jeremy Taylor.
God gives manhood but one clue to suc-
cess, utter and exact justice; that, he
guarantees, shall be always expediency.-
Wendell Phillips.
Use every man after his desert, and who
should escape whipping ?-Shakespeare.
Justice is the great and simple principle
which is the secret of success in all govern-
ment, as essential to the training of au
infant, as to the control of a mighty nation.
-Sinims,
Justice is the first virtue of those who
command, and stops the complaints of
those who obey.-Diderot.
Justice is the idea of God; the ideal of
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KINDNESS.
men ;
the rule of conduct writ in the na-
ture of mankind.-Theodore Parker.
Justice is the great interest of man on
earth. It is the ligament which holds
civilized beings and civilized nations to-
gether. Wherever her temple stands, and
so long as it is duly honored, there is a
foundation for social security, general hap-
piness, and the improvement and progress
of our race.
And whoever labors on this
edifice with usefulness and distinction, who-
ever clears its foundations, strengthens its
pillars, adorns its entablatures, or contrib-
utes to raise its august dome still higher in
the skies, connects himself, in name, and
fame, and character, with that which is
and must be as durable as the frame of hu-
man society.--Daniel Webster.
He who goes no further than bare justice,
stops at the beginning of virtue.-Blair.
Justice consists in doing no injury to
men ; decency iu giving them no offense.-
Cicero.
Justice is the insurance we have on our
lives and property, and obedience is the
premium we pay for it. Penn.
Justice, when equal scales she holds, is
blind ; nor cruelty, nor mercy, change her
mind; when some escape for that which
others die, mercy to those to these is cruelty.
-Dernani.
The sentiment of justice is so natural,
and so universally acquired by all mankind,
that it seems to be independent of all law,
all party, all religion.-
Voltaire.
Justice is the bread of the nation ; it is
always hungry for it.-Chateaubriand.
An honest man nearly always thinks
justly.-Rousseau.
defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this
way again. -Penn.
Kind looks, kind words, kind acts, and
warm handshakes—these are secondary
means of grace when men are in trouble
and are fighting their unseen battles.-
John Hall.
The best portion of a good man's life is
his little, nameless, unremembered acts of
kindness and of love. Wordsworth.
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness,
making everything in its vicinity freshen
into smiles.-- Washington Irving.
It is good for us to think no grace or
blessing truly ours till we are aware that
God has blessed some one else with it
through us.--Phillips Brooks.
Kindness is a language the dumb can
speak, and the deaf can hear and under-
stand. -Bovee.
The true and noble way to kill a foe, 18
not to kill him ; you, with kindness, may
so change him that he shall cease to be a foe,
and then he's slain.-Aleyn.
He hath a tear for pity, and a hand open
as day for melting charity. --Shakespeare.
You may find people ready enough to do
the Samaritan without the oil and two-
pence.-Sydney Smith.
Paradise is open to all kind hearts.-
Béranger.
Kind words produce their own image in
men's souls ; and a beautiful image it is.
They soothe and quiet and comfort the
hearer. They shame him out of his sour,
morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet.
begun to use kind words in such abun-
dance as they ought to be used.--Pascal.
Each one of us is bound to make the little
circle in which he lives better and happier.
Bound to see that out of that small circle
the widest good may flow. Each may have
fixed in his mind the thought that out of a
single household may flow influences that
shall stimulate the whole commonwealth
and the whole civilized world.-A. P. Stan-
ley.
Kindness in ourselves is the honey that
blunts the sting of unkindness in another.
- Landor.
An effort made for the happiness of others
lifts above ourselves.-L. M. Child.
Ask thyself, daily, to how many ill-
minded persons thou hast shown a kind
disposition.–Marcus Antoninus. .
There will come a time when three words,
uttered with charity and meekness, shall
receive a far more blessed reward, than
three thousand volumes written with dis-
K.
KINDNESS.–Life is made up, not of
great sacrifices or duties, but of little things,
in which smiles, and kindnesses, and small
obligations, given habitually, are what win
and preserve the heart and secure comfort.
-Sir H. Davy.
Kindness is 'the golden chain by which
society is bound together.—Goethe.
The drying up a single tear, has more of
honest fåme, than shedding seas of gore.
Byron.
Kindness in women, not their beauteous
looks, shall win my love. --Shakespeare.
I expect to pass through life but once.-
If therefore, there be any kindness I can
show, or any good thing I can do to any
fellow-being, let me do it now, and not
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KINDNESS.
dainful sharpness of wit. But the manner
of men's writing must not alienate our
hearts from the truth, if it appear they have
the truth.-H. Elookei.
When death, the great reconciler, has
come, it is never our tenderness that we
repent of, but our severity.-George Eliot.
Kindness is the only charm permitted
to the aged ; it is the coquetry of white
hair.-Feuillet.
Sow good services; sweet remembrances
will grow from them.-Mad. de Staël.
To cultivate kindness is a valuable part
of the business of life.-Johnson.
He who confers a favor should at once
forget it, if he is not to show a sordid, un-
generous spirit. To remind a man of a
kindness conferred on him, and to talk of
it, is little different from reproach...-De-
mosthenes.
We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and
kindness about us at little expense.-
Some
of them will fall on good ground, and grow
up into benevolence in the minds of others;
and all of them will bear fruit of happiness
in the bosom whence they spring - Once
blest are all the virtues ; twice blest, some-
times.-- Benthan.
I had rather never receive a kindness,
than never bestow one.--Not to return a
benefit is the greater sin, but not to confer
it, is the earlier. -Seneca.
The one who will be found in trial ca-
pable of great acts of love is ever the one
who is always doing considerate small ones.
--F. W. Robertson.
Kind words prevent a good deal of that
perverseness which rough and imperious
usage often produces in generous minds.---
Locke.
The happiness of life may be greatly in-
creased by small courtesies in which there is
no parade, whose voice is too still to tease,
and which manifest themselves by tender
and affectionate looks, and little kind acts
of attention.--Sterne.
What we do for ours while we have them,
will be precisely what will render their
memory sweet to the heart when we no
longer have them.-7. Godet.
Kind hearts are more than coronets, and
simple faith than Norman blood.--Tenny-
I have sped much by land and sea, and
mingled with much people, but never yet
could find a spot unsunned by human kind-
ness. -Tupper.
What do we live for, if it is not to make
life less difficult to each other? - George
Lliot.
He that will not give some portion of his
ease, his blood, his wealth, for others' good,
is a poor, frozen churl.-Joanna Baillie.
The cheapest of all things is kindness,
its exercise requiring the least possible
trouble and self-sacrifice.-Smiles.
In the intercourse of social life, it is by
little acts of watchful kindness recurring
daily and hourly, by words, tones, ges-
tures, looks, that affection is won and pre-
served.-Sala.
Kindness seems to come with a double
grace and tenderness from the old.-It
seems in them the hoarded and long pu-
rified benevolence of years, as if it had
survived and conquered the baseness and
selfishness of the ordeal it had passed-a8
if the winds which had broken the form,
haci swept in vain across the heart, and the
frosts which had chilled the blood, and
whitened the thin locks, hac no power over
the warm tide of the affections.-- Bulwer,
The last, best fruit which comes to late
perfection, even in the kindliest soul, is
tenderness toward the hard, forbearance
toward the unforbearing, warmth of heart
toward the cold, philanthropy toward the
misanthropic.— Richter.
The kindness of some is too inuch like the
echo, returning the counterpart of what it
receives, not more, and sometimes less.
Bowers.
Half the misery of human life might be
extinguished if men would alleviate the
general curse they lie iinder by mutual
offices of compassion, benevolence, and hu-
manity.-Addison.
Heaven in sunshine will requite the kind.
-Byron.
How easy is it for one benevolent being
to diffuse pleasure around him, and how
truly is a kind heart a fountain of gladness,
making everything in its vicinity to freshen
into smiles.- Washington Irving.
Kindness is wisdom ; there is none in
life but needs it, and may learn.-Bailey.
Since trifles make the sum of human
things, and half our misery from our foi-
bles springs ; since life's best joys consist,
in peace and ease, and few can save or
serve, but all may please ; let the ungentle
spirit learn from thence, a small unkind-
ness is a great offense.--. More.
son.
Win hearts, and you have all men's hands
and purses. – Burleigh.
A word of kindness is seldom spoken in
vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost
as the pearls slipping from a broken string.
-G. D. Prentice.
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KISSES.
are
It is one of the beautiful compensations
of life that no man can sincerely try to help
another, without helping himself.
Both man and womankind belie their
nature when they are not kind.-Bailey.
Make a rule, and pray to God to help you
to keep it, never, if possible, to lie down at
night without being able to say: “I have
made one human being at least a little
wiser, or a little happier, or at least a little
better this day."-Charles Kingsley.
We cannot be just unless we are kind-
hearted.-- Vauvenargues.
KINGS.-Uneasy lies the head that
—
wears a crown.-Shakespeare.
He who reflects attentively upon the
duties of a king, trembles at the sight of
a crowu.-Levis.
Kings, in this chiefly, should imitate
God; their mercy should be above all their
works.-Penn.
One of the strongest natural proofs of
the folly of hereditary right in kings is, that
nature disapproves it; otherwise she would
not so frequently turn it into ridicule by
giving mankind an ass in place of a lion.-
Thomas Paine.
Kings wish to be absolute, and they are
sometimes told that their best way to be-
come so is to make themselves beloved by
the people. This maxim is doubtless at
very admirable one, and in some respects
true ; but unhappily it is laughed at in
court.-Rousseau.
Implements of war and subjugation are
the last arguments to which kiugs resort.-
Patrick Henry.
It is the misfortune of kings that they
scarcely ever do the good they have a mind
to do; and through surprise, and the in-
sinuations of flatterers, they often do the
mischief they never intended. -- Fénelon.
He on whom Heaven confers a sceptre
knows not the weight till he bears it.-Con-
neille.
Kings' titles commonly begin by force,
which time wears off and mellows into
right; and power which in one age is tyr-
anny is ripened in the next to true suc-
cession.-Dryden.
The people are fashioned according to
the example of their king; and edicts are
of less power than the model which his life
exhibits.-Claudian.
Royalty consists not in vain pomp, but in
great virtues.-Agesilaus.
Wise kings generally have wise counsel-
lors; and he must be a wise man himself
who is capable of distinguishing one.
Diogenes.
The king is but a man, as I am; the
violet smells to him as it doth to me
;
the
element shows to him as it doth to me; all
his senses have but human conditions ; his
ceremonies laid by, in his nakedness he
ap-
pears buta man; and though his affections
are higher mounted than ours, yet, when
they stoop, they stoop with the like wing.-
Shakespeare.
Happy the kings whose thrones
founded on their people's hearts.--Ford.
A crown, golden in show, is but a wreath
of thorns, brings danger, troubles, cares,
and sleepless nights, to him who wears å
regal diadem.--Milton.
The example of a vicious prince will cor-
rupt an age, but that of a good one will not
reform it. -Swift.
The king who delegates his power to
other's hands but ill deserves the crown he
wears.-Broolce.
In sovereignty it is a most happy thing
not to be compelled, but so it is a most
miserable thing not to be counselled.-Ben
Jonson,
A sovereign's great example forms a
people; the public breast is noble or vile
as he inspires it.-Mallett.
Princes are never without flatterers to
seduce them; ambition to deprave them;
and desires to corrupt them.-Plato.
All precepts concerning kings are com-
prehended in these : remember thou art a
man; remember thou art God's vicegerent.
-Bacon.
That king will best govern his realm who
reigneth over his people as a father doth
over his children.- Agesilaus.
The kingdom of God is the only absolute
monarchy that is free from despotism.-C.
Simmons.
KISSES.-A kiss from my mother made
me a painter.-- Benjamin West.
A long, long kiss—the kiss of youth and
love.-- Byron.
It is the passion that is in a kiss that
gives to it its sweetness ; it is the affection
in a kiss that sanctifies it.-Bovee.
Kisses are like grains of gold or silver
found upon the ground, of no value thein-
selves, but precious as showing that a mine
is near.-George Villiers.
Stolen kisses are always sweetest.-Leigh
Hunt.
It is as old as the creation, and yet as
young and fresh as ever. It pre-existed,
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still exists, and always will exist. Depend
upon it, Eve learned it in Paradise, and was
taught its beauties, virtues, and varieties
by an angel, there is something so trans-
cendent in it.—Haliburton.
Leave but a kiss in the cup, and I'll not
look for wine.Ben Jonson.
Eden revives in the first kiss of love.-
Byron.
Dear as remembered kisses after death,
Tennyson.
Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one
undying affection—these are love's pretty
ingredients for a kiss.--
Bovee.
And steal immortal kisses from her lips,
which, even in pure and vestal modesty,
still blush as thinking their own kisses sin.
--Shakespeare.
He kissed her and promised. Such
beautiful lips! Man's usual fate--he was
lost upon the coral reefs.- Douglas Jerrold.
That farewell kiss which resembles greet-
ing, that last glance of love which becomes
the sharpest pang of sorrow.-- - George Eliot.
You would think that, if our lips were
made of horn, and stuck out a foot or two
from our faces, kisses at any rate would be
done for. Not so. No creatures kiys each
other so much as birds.-Buxton.
I clasp thy waist; I feel thy bosom's
beat.-, kiss me into faintuess, sweet and
dim.-- Alexander Smith.
And with a velvet lip, print on his brow
such language as tongue hath never spoken.
-Mrs, Sigourney.
There is the kiss of welcome and of part-
ing; the long, lingering, loving, present
one; the stolen, or the mutual one; the
kiss of love, of joy, and of sorrow; the seal
of promise and receipt of fulfilment. Is
it strange, therefore, that a woman is in-
vincible whose armory consists of kisses,
smiles, sighs, and tears ?-Haliburton.
Upon thy cheek I lay this zealous kiss, as
seal to the indenture of my love.- Shake-
speare.
A soft lip would tempt you to eternity of
kissing.-Ben Jonson.
Now by the jealous queen of heaven, that
kiss I carried from thee, dear, my true lip
hath virgin'd it e'er since.- Shakespeare.
I felt the while a pleasing kind of smart ;
the kiss went tingling to my panting heart.
When it was gone, the sense of it did
stay; the sweetness cling'd upon my lips
all day, like drops of honey, loth to fall
away.-Dryden.
Some say kissing is a sin; but if it was
na lawful, lawyers would na allow it; if it
was na holy, ministers would na do it; if
it was na modest, maidens would na take
it; if it was na plenty, puir folk would na
get it.—Burns.
Blush happy maiden, when you feel the
lips that press love's glowing seal.-But as
the slow years darker roll, grown wiser, the
experienced soul will own as dearer far
than they the lips which kiss the tears
away.-Elizabeth Akers.
His kissing is as full of sanctity as the
touch of holy bread.--Shakespeare.
Once he drew, with one long kiss, my
whole soul through my lips.- Tennyson.
Then he kissed me hard, as if he plucked
up kisses by the roots, that grew upon my
lips.-Shakespeare.
KNAVERY(See “CUNNING.")
After long experience in the world, I
afirm, before God, that I never knew a
rogue who was not unhappy.-- Junius.
The worst of all knaves are those who
can mimic their former honesty.-Lavater.
Unluckily the credulity of dupes is as
inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
They never give people possession; but
they always keep them in hope.-Burke.
By fools knaves fatten; every knave finds
a gull.--Zimmerman.
Take heed of an ox before, an ass behind,
and a knave on all sides.-- Old Proverb.
Knaves will thrive where honest plain-
ness knows not how to live. --Shirley.
A very honest man, and a very good un-
derstanding, may be deceived by a knave.
-Junius.
There is nothing seems so like an honest
man as an artful knave.-C. Simmons.
Aknave thinks himself a fool all the time
he is not making a fool of some other per-
son.-Hazlitt.
KNOWLEDGE.-(See “IGNORANCE”
and “WISDOM.")
The first step to knowledge is to know
that we are ignorant. --Cecil.
They who know the most must mourn
the deepest o'er the fatal truth that the tree
of knowledge is not the tree of life.
Every branch of knowledge which a good
man possesses, he may apply to some good
purpose.-C. Buchanan.
The more you practice what you know,
the more shall you know what to practice.
-W. Jenkin.
Accurate knowledge is the basis of cor-
rect opinions; the want of it makes the
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:
opinions of most people of little value.-C.
Simmons.
We know accurately only when we know
little ; with knowledge doubt increases.-
Goethe.
It is not so important to know everything
as to know the exact value of everything,
to appreciate what we learn, and to arrange
what we know.-H. More.
Knowledge is not a couch whereon to
rest a searching and restless spirit; or a
terrace for a wandering mind to walk up
and down with a fair prospect; or a tower
of state for a proud mind to raise itself
upon; or a sort of commanding ground for
strife and contention ;
; or a shop for profit
and sale; but a rich storehouse for the
glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's
estate. --Bacon.
The essence of knowledge is, having it,
to apply it; not having it, to confess your
ignorance.-Confucius.
Ele fancies himself enlightened, because
he sees the deficiencies of others; he is
ignorant, because he has never reflected
on his own.-Bulwer.
He that would make real progress in
knowledge, must dedicate his age as well as
youth, the latter growth as well as the first
fruits, at the altar of truth.--Berkeley.
The expression, “Knowledge is power,"
is used by Lord Bacon; but it had its
origin long before his time, in the saying of
Solomon, that "a wise man is strong ; yea,
a man of knowledge increaseth strength.
Socrates said that a knowledge of our own
ignorance is the first step toward true
knowledge.--And Coleridge said, We can-
not make another comprehend our knowl-
edge until we first comprehend his ignor-
ex-
do their watches, not for display, but for
their own use.
I envy no man that knows more than
myself, but pity them that know less.--Sir
T. Browne.
Every increase of knowledge may pos-
sibly render depravity more depraved, as
well as it may increase the strength of vir-
tue. It is in itself only power; and its
value depends on its application.--Sydney
Smith.
What is not fully understood is not pos-
sessed.---Goethe.
“Know thyself” means this, that you
get acquainted with what you know, and
what you can do.-Menander.
In many things a comprehensive survey
of a subject is the shortest way of getting
at a precise knowledge of a particular di-
vision of it.— Charles Hodge.
Knowledge, like religion, must be
perienced” in order to be known.-E. P.
Whipple.
The sure foundations of the state are
laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and
every sneer at education, at culture, at
book learning, which is the recorded wis-
dom of the experience of mankind, is the
demagogue's sneer at intelligent liberty,
inviting national degeneracy and ruin.
G. W. Curtis.
The desire of knowledge, like the thirst
of riches, increases ever with the acquisi-
tion of it.-Sterne.
The brightest blaze of intelligence is of
incalculably less value than the smallest
spark of charity.-W. Nevins.
The pleasure and delight of knowledge
far surpasseth all other in nature. We see
in all other pleasures there is satiety; and
after they be used, their verdure departeth,
which showeth well that they be but deceits
of pleasure, and not pleasures ; and that it
was the novelty which pleased, not the
quality ; and therefore we see that volup-
tuous mėn turn friars, and ambitious
princes turn melancholy. But of knowl-
edge there is no satiety, but satisfaction
and appetite are perpetually interchange-
able. - Bacon.
It is wise to get knowledge and learning
from every source—from a sot, a pot, a
fool, a winter-mitten, or an old slipper. -
Rabelais.
Reading maketh a full man; conference,
a ready man; histories make men wise;
poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle ; nat-
ural philosophy, deep ; moral philosophy,
grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
-Bacon.
ance.
“Knowledge,” says Bacon, “is power”;
but mere knowledge is not power; it is
only possibility. Action is power; and its
highest manifestation is when it is directed
by knowledge.-T. W. Palmer.
The end of all learning is to know God,
and out of that knowledge to love and imi-
tate him.-Milton.
Knowledge is said to be power; and it is
power in the same sense that wood is fuel.
Wood on fire is fuel. Knowledge on fire is
power. There is no more power in knowl-
edge than there is in the stones or stars,
unless there be a spirit and life in the
knowledge which give it its energy. In
proportion as men have this spiritual power
they become strong in the world.-A. Mac-
kenzie.
The wise carry their knowledge, as they
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What novelty is worth the sweet monot-
ony where everything is known, and loved
because it is known ? - George Eliot.
The seeds of knowledge may be planted in
solitude, but must be cultivated in public.
-Johnson.
Knowledge dwells in heads replete with
thoughts of other men; wisdom, in minds
attentive to their own.- -Cowper.
Whatever our intellectual calling, no
kind of knowledge is antagonistic to it.-
All varieties of knowledge blend with,
harmonize, and enrich the one kind of
knowledge to which we attach our reputa-
tion.-Bulwer.
Knowledge is but folly unless it is guided
by grace.--Herbert.
Mere knowledge is comparatively worth-
less unless digested into practical wisdom
and common sense as applied to the affairs
of life.-Tryon Edwards.
Man is not born to solve the problem of
the universe, but to find out what he has
to do ; and to restrain himself within the
limits of his comprehension.-Goethe.
Knowledge is more than equivalent to
force. The master of mechanics laughs at
strength.-Johnson.
What a man knows should find its expres-
sion in what he does ; the value of superior
knowledge is chiefly in that it leads to a
performing manhood.-Bovee.
There is no knowledge for which so great
a price is paid as a knowledge of the world;
and no one ever became an adept in it ex-
cept at the expense of a hardened and a
wounded heart.--Countess of Blessington.
If you would thoronghly know anything,
teach it to others. — Tryon Edwards.
Real knowledge, like everything else of
value, is not to be obtained easily. It must
be worked for, studied for, thought for,
and, more than all, inust be prayed for.--
T. Arnold.
Most men want knowledge, not for itself,
but for the superiority which knowledge
confers; and the means they employ to se-
cure this superiority are as wrong as the
ultimate object, for no man can ever end
with being superior, who will not begin
with being inferior.---Sydney Smith.
There is nothing makes a man suspect
much, more than to know little; and, there-
fore, men should remedy suspicion by pro-
curing to know more, and not keep their
suspicions in smother.-Bacon.
A grain of real knowledge, of genuine
uncontrollable conviction, will outweigh
a bushel of adroitness; and to produce
persuasion there is one golden principle of
rhetoric not put down in the books—to un-
derstand what you are talking about, -
Seeley.
"Knowledge, without common sense,'
say Lee," is folly; without method, it is
waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism;
without religion, it is death." But with
common sense, it is wisdom; with method,
it is power ; with charity, it is beneficence
with religion, it is virtue and life and
peace,-Farrar.
There is nothing so minute, or incon-
siderable, that I would not rather know it
than not.-Johnson.
It was said of one of the most intelligent
men who ever lived in New England, that
when asked how he came to know so much
about everything, he replied, By constantly
realizing my own ignorance, and never
being afraid or ashamed to ask questions.-
Tryon Edwards.
It is the glorious prerogative of the em-
pire of knowledge, that what it gains it
never loses. On the contrary, it increases
by the multiple of its own power; all its
ends become means; all its attainments
help to new conquests.-
Daniel Webster.
To comprehend a man's life it is neces-
sary to know not merely what he does, but
also what he purposely leaves undone.
There is a limit to the work that can be
got out of a human body or a human brain,
and he is a wise man who wastes no energy
on pursuits for which he is not fitted ; and
he is still wiser who, from among the things
that he can do well, chooses and resolutely
follows the best.-Gladstone.
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowl-
edge is the wing wherewith we fly to
heaven.---Shakespeare.
The love of knowledge in a young mind
is almost a warrant against the infirm ex-
citement of passions and vices.-H. W.
Beecher.
All the knowledge that we mortals can
acquire is not knowledge positive, but
knowledge comparative, and subject to the
errors and passions of humanity. - Bulwer.
In many things it is not well to_say,
“Know thyself”; it is better to say, "Know
others."--Menander.
With the gain of knowledge, connect the
habit of imparting it. This increases men-
tal wealth by putting it in circulation; and
it enhances the value of our knowledge to
ourselves, not only in its depth, confirma-
tion, and readiness for use, but in that ac-
quaintance with human nature, that self-
command, and that reaction of moral train-
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ing upon ourselves, which are above all
price. -Mrs. Sigourney.
Seldom ever was any knowledge given to
keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich
jewel is lost in concealment.—Bp. Hall.
A taste of every sort of knowledge is
necessary to form the mind, and is the only
way to give the understanding its due im-
provement to the full extent of its capacity.
-Locke.
Does your doctor know anything ?-I
don't mean about medicine, but about
things in general ?-Is he a man of informa-
tion and good sense ?-If he does not know
anything but medicine, the chance is that
he does not know much about that.
Knowledge once gained casts a light be-
yond its own immediate boundaries.-
Tyndall.
To know by rote is no knowledge ; it is
only a retention of what is entrusted to the
memory. That which a man truly knows
may be disposed of without regard to the
author, or reference to the book from
whence he had it.—Montaigne.
The knowledge we have acquired ought
not to resemble a great shop without order,
and without an inventory ; we ought to
know what we possess, and be able to make
it serve us in our need.-Leibnitz.
Properly, there is no other knowledge but
that which is got by working : the rest is
yet all a hypothesis of knowledge; a thing
to be argued of in schools ; a thing floating
in the clouds, in endless logic-vortices, till
we try and fix it.-Carlyle.
To know that which before us lies in
daily life, is the prime wisdom ; what is
more is fume, or emptiness, or fond im-
pertinence, and renders us, in things that
most concern, unpracticed and unprepared.
-Milton.
Kuowledge has, in our time, triumphed,
and is triumphing, over prejudice and
over bigotry. The civilized and Christian
world is fast learning the great lesson, that
difference of nation does not imply neces-
sary hostility, and that all contact need
not be war. The whole world is becom-
ing a cominon field for intellect to act in.
Energy of mind, genius, power, whereso-
ever it exists, may speak out in any tongue,
and the world wili hear it.-Daniel Webster.
The more extensive a man's knowledge
of what has been done, the greater will be
his power of knowing what to do.-Dis-
raeli.
The shortest and the surest way of arriv-
ing at real knowledge is to unlearn the les-
sons we have been taught, to remount the
first principles, and take nobody's word
about them.-- Bolingbroke.
Knowledge and wisdom, far from being
one, have oft-times no connection.--Knowl-
edge dwells in heads replete with thoughts
of other men ; wisdom in minds attentive
to their own, Knowledge is proud that he
has learned so much; wisdom is humble
that he knows no more.-Cowper.
That only is true knowledge of God
which regenerates and conforms us to God.
Calvin.
Two persons take trouble in vain, and
use fruitless endeavors,-he who acquires
wealth without enjoying it, and he who is
taught wisdom but does not practice it.
How much soever you may study science,
when you do not act wisely you are igno-
lant. The beast whom they load with
books is not profoundly learned and wise ;
what knoweth his empty skull whether he
carrieth firewood or books?-Saadi.
Even human knowledge is permitted to
approximate in some degree, and on certain
occasions, to that of the Deity, its pure and
primary source; and this assimilation is
never more conspicuous than when it con-
verts evil into the means of producing its
opposite good.-Colton.
Knowledge may not be as a courtesan, for
pleasure and vanity only; or as a bonds-
woman, to acquire and gain for her mas-
ter's use ; but as a spouse, for generation,
fruit, and comfort.--
Bacon.
The profoundly wise do not declaim
against superficial knowledge in others, so
much as the profoundly ignorant; on the
contrary, they would rather assist it with
their advice than overwhelm it with their
contempt; for they know that there was a
period when even a Bacon or a Newton were
superficial, and that he who has a little
knowledge is far more likely to get more
than he that has none.-Colton.
If you have knowledge, let others light
their candles at it.-Fuller.
Nothing in this life, after health and vir-
tue, is more estimable than knowledge,
nor is there anything so easily attained, or
so cheaply purchased, -the labor, only sit-
ting still, and the expense but time, which,
if we do not spend, we cannot save.--
Sterne.
Many of the supposed increasers of knowl-
edge have only given a new name, and often
a worse, to what was well known before.-
Hare.
Knowledge and good parts, managed by
grace, are like the rod in the land of Moses,
-wonder-workers; but they turn to ser-
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pents when they are cast upon the ground,
and are employed in wicked designs.--Ar-
rowsmith.
The learning thou gettest by thine own
observation and experience, is far beyond
that thou gettest bý precept, as the knowl-
edge of a traveler exceeds that which is got
by reading.Thomas d Kempis.
Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a
possession,-a property entirely our own.
A greater vividness and permanency of im-
pression is secured, and facts thus acquired
become registered in the mind in a way
that mere imparted information can never
produce.-Carlyle.
When a king asked Euchid, whether he
could not explain his art to him in a more
compendious manner, he was answered,
that there was no royal way to geometry.
Other things may be seized by might, or
purchased with money ; but knowledge is
to be gained only by study, and study to be
prosecuted only in retirement.-Johnson.
The more we have read, the more we have
learned, and the more we have meditated,
the better conditioned we are to affirm that
we know nothing.- Voltaire.
Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment
is the treasurer of a wise man.-Penn.
'Tis the property of all true knowledge,
especially spiritual, to enlarge the soul by
filling it; to enlarge it without swelling it;
to make it more capable, and more earnest
to know, the more it knows.-Sprat.
How empty learning, and how vain is art,
but as it mends the life and guides the
heart.Young.
Knowledge and timber should not be
much used until they are seasoned.-0.W.
Holures.
Man often acquires just so much knowl-
edge as to discover his ignorance, and at-
tains so much experience as to see and
regret his follies, and then dies.—Clulow.
Knowledge is a comfortable and neces-
sary retreat and shelter for us in advanced
age, and if we do not plant it while young,
it will give us no shade when we grow old.
- Chesterfield.
Your learning, like the lunar beam,
affords light but not heat; it leaves you
undevout, and frozen at heart, while specu-
lation shines.--Young.
Knowledge is the consequence of time,
and multitude of days are fittest to teachi
wisdom.-Collier.
What we know here is very little, but
what we are ignorant of is immense. - La-
place.
Charles V. said that a man who knew four
languages was worth four men; and Alex-
ander the Great so valued learning, that he
used to say he was more indebted to Aris-
totle for giving him knowledge, than to his
father Philip for giving him life.
Every generation enjoys the use of a vast
hoard bequeathed to it by antiquity, and
transmits that hoard, augmented by fresh
acquisitions, to future ages.-Macaulay.
He that sips of many arts, drinks of none.
-Fuller.
Knowledge will not be acquired without
pains and application. It is troublesome
and deep digging for pure waters; but
when once you come to the spring, they
rise up and meet you.--Felton.
The end of all knowledge should be in
virtuous action.—Sir P. Sidney.
Real knowledge, in its progress, is the
forerunner of libérality and enlightened
toleration.-Brougham.
He who calls in the aid of an equal un-
derstanding, doubles his own; and he who
profits by a superior understanding, raises
his powers to a level with the height of the
understanding he unites with.—Burice.
A great deal of knowledge, which is not
capable of making a man wise, has a nat-
ural tendency to make him vain and arro-
gant.--Addison.
Every man of sound brain whom you
meet knows something worth knowing bet-
ter than yourself. A man, on the whole, is
a better preceptor than a book. But what
scholar does rot allow that the dullest book
can suggest to him a new and a sound idea ?
-Bulwer,
A little knowledge leacis the mind from
God. Unripe thinkers use their learning
to authenticate their doubts. While un-
belief has its own dogma, more peremptory
than the inquisitor's, patient meditation
brings the scholar back to humbleness.
He learns that the grandest truths appear
slowly.--Willmott.
It is in knowledge as it is in plants ; if
you mean to use the plant, it is no matter
for the roots ; if you mean it to grow, it
is safer to rest upon roots than upon slips.
-Bacon.
All wish to possess knowledge, but few,
comparatively speaking, are willing to pay
the price.---Juvenal.
Some men think that the gratification of
curiosity is the end of knowledge; some
the love of fame; some the pleasure of dis-
pute; some the necessity of supporting
themselves by their knowledge ; but the
real use of all knowledge is this, that we
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and meu to God thereby are highest raised.
--Spenser.
The word knowledge, strictly employed,
implies three things, viz., truth, proof, and
conviction.- Whately.
Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity,
and power a pageant; but knowledge is
ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in fame,
unlimited in space, and infinite in duration.
In the performance of its sacred offices, it
fears no danger, spares no expense, looks
in the volcano, dives into the ocean, per-
forates the earth, wings its flight into the
skies, explores sea and land, contemplates
the distant, examines the minute, compre-
ltends the great, ascends to the sublime-
no place too remote for its grasp, no height
too exalted for its reach.-
De Witt Clinion.
L,
should dedicate that reason which was
given us by God to the use and advantage
of man.-Bacon.
As soon as a true thought has entered
our mind, it gives a light which makes us
see a crowd of other objects which we have
never perceived before. ---Chateaubriand.
If a man empties his purse into his head,
no one can take it away from him.-An in-
vestment in knowledge always.pays the best.
interest.–Franlclin.
Human learning, with the blessing of God
upon it, introduces us to divine wisdom;
and while we study the works of nature,
the God of nature will manifest himself to
us ; sivce, to a well-tutored mind, “The
heavens declare his glory, and the firma-
ment shewoth his handy work.”—Bp. Florne.
Knowledge always desires increase ; it is
like fire, which must first be kindled by
some external agent, but which will after-
ward propagate itself.-Johnson.
The dangers of knowledge are not to be
compared with the dangers of ignorance.
Man is more likely to miss his way in dark-
ness than in twilight; in twilight than in
full sun.
Whalely.
One part of knowledge consists in being
ignorant of such things as are not worthy
to be known.-Crates.
Imparting knowledge is only lighting
other men's candle at our lamp, without
depriving ourselves of any flame.--Jane
Porter.
The best part of our knowledge is that
which teaches us where knowledge leaves
off and ignorance begins.-0. W. Holines.
Knowledge that terminates in curiosity
and speculation is inferior to that which is
useful; and of all useful knowledge that is
the most so which consists in a due care
and just notion of ourselves.--St. Bernard.
People disparage knowing and the intel-
lectualplife, and urge. doing. I am very
content with knowing, if only I could know.
That is an august entertainment, and would
suflice me a great while. To know a littlo
would be worth the expense of this world.-
Emerson.
Those who come last enter with advan-
tage. They aro born to the wealth of an-
tiquity.-The materials for judging aro
prepared, and the foundations of knowledge
are laid to their hands.--Besides, if the
point was tried by antiquity, antiquity
would lose it, for the present age is really
the oldest, and has the largest experience
to plead. -Collier.
Base-minded they that lack intelligence;
for God himself for wisdom most is praised,
LABOR.-Labor was the primal curse,
but it was softened into mercy, and made
the pledge of cheerful days, and nights
without a groan.-Cowper.
Next to faith in God, is faith in labor.-
Bovee.
Nothing is denied to well-directed labor,
and nothing is ever to be attained without
it.—Sir J. Reynolds.
Without labor nothing prospers.---Sopho-
cles.
Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable
by some talent or other. Yet do not devote
yourself to one branch exclusively. Strivo
to get clcar notions about all. Give up
to
no science entirely, for science is but one.
--Seneca.
The fruit derived from labor is the sweet-
est of all pleasures.-- Vauvenargues.
Labor is the divine law of our existence ;
repose is desertion and suicide.—Mazzini.
A man's best friends are his ten fingers.
-Robert Collyer.
God intends no man to live in this world
without working ; but it seems to me no less
evident that He intends every man to be
happy in his work.-Ruskin.
Men seldom die of hard work ; activity
is God's medicine. The highest genius is
willingness and ability to do hard work.
Any other conception of genius makes it a
doubtful, if not a dangerous possession.-
R. S. MacArthur.
Labor rids us of three great evils—irk-
someness, vice, and poverty.- Voltaire.
Labor is one of the great elements of
society-the great substantial interest on
which we all stand. Not feudal service, or
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predial toil, or the irksome drudgery by
one race of mankind subjected, on account
of their color, to another ; but labor, intel-
ligent, manly, independent, thinking and
acting for itself, earning its own wages, ac-
cumulating those wages into capital, edu-
cating childhood, maintaining worship,
claiming the right of the elective franchise,
and helping to uphold the great fabric of
the State--that is American labor; and
all my sympathies are with it, and my
voice, till I am dumb, will be for it.-Dan-
iel Webster.
From labor, health ; from health, con-
tentment springs.-Beatlie.
Blessed is the man that has found his
work.-One monster there is in the world,
the idle man.-Carlyle.
As steady application to work is the
healthiest training for every individual, so
is it the best discipline of a state. Honor-
able industry alway travels the same road
with enjoyment and duty, and progress
is altogether impossible without it. --S.
Smiles.
It is only by labor that thought can be
made healthy, and only by thonght that
labor can be made happy ; and the two
cannot be separated with impunity.-Rus-
kin.
If you divorce capital from labor, capital
is hoarded, and labor starves. Daniel
Webster.
Labor is rest from the sorrows that greet
us ; from all the petty vexations that meet
us; from the sin-promptings that assail
us; from the world-sirens that lure us to
ill.—I. S. Osgood.
There is a perennial nobleness and even
sacredness in work.-Vere he ever so be-
nighted and forgetful of his high calling,
there is always hope in a man who actually
and earnestly works.—Carlyle.
I find successful exertion is a powerful
means of exhilaration, which discharges
itself in good humor upon others.--Chal-
mer's.
Nature is just toward men. It recom-
penses them for their sufferings; it renders
them laborious, because to the greatest
toils it attaches the greatest rewards.-Mon-
tesquieu.
The true epic of our times is not
and.the man,” but “tools and the man," an
infinitely wider kind of epic.---Carlyle,
The labor and sweat of our brows is so
far from being a curse, that without it our
very bead would not be so great a blessing.
-If it were not for labor, men could neither
cat so much, nor relish so pleasantly, nor
sleep so soundly, nor be so healthful, so
useful, so strong, so patient, so noble, nor
so untempted.-Jereniy Taylor.
You and I toiling for earth, may at the
same time be toiling for heaven, and every
day's work may be a Jacob's ladder reach-
ing up nearer to God.-Theodore Parler.
Work is a great blessing ; after evil came
into the world, it was given as an antidote,
not as a punishment.-A. S. Hardy.
No abilities, however splendid, can com-
mand success without intense labor and per-
severing application.-4. T. Stewart.
Alexander the Great, reflecting on his
friends degenerating into sloth and luxury,
told them that it was a most slavish thing
to luxuriate, and a most royal thing to
labor.--Barrow.
The guard of virtue is labor, and ease her
sleep. -Tasso.
Do what thou dost as if the earth were
heaven, and thy last day the day of judg-
ment.-C. Kingsley.
Labor is life ; from the inmost heart of
the worker rises his God-given force, the
sacred celestial life-essence breathed into
him by Almighty God !--Carlyle.
The pernicious, debilitating tendencies
of bodily pleasure need to be counteracted
by the invigorating exercises of bodily la-
bor ; whereas, bodily labor without bodily
pleasure converts the body into a mere ma-
chine, and brutifies the soul.-
Anon.
The labor of the body relieves us from
the fatigues of the mind; and this it is
which forms the happiness of the poor,
Rochefoucauld.
Gepius begins great works ; labor alone
fiuishes them.-Joubert.
Toil and pleasure, in their nature oppo-
sites, are yet linked together in a kind of
necessary connection.- Livy.
Love, therefore, labor ; if thou shouldst
not want it for food, thou mayest for physic.
It is wholesome to the body and good for
the mind; it prevents the fruit of idleness.
-Penn.
Avoid idleness, and fill up all the spaces
of thy time with severe and useful employ-
ment; for lust easily creeps in at those
emptinesses where the soul is unemployed
and the body is at ease ; for no easy, health-
ful, idle person was ever chaste if he could
be tempted ; but of all employments, bodily
labor is the most useful, and of the greatest
benefit for driving away the Devil.–Jerenry
Taylor.
What men want is not talent, it is pur-
pose ; in other words, not the power to
alms
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achieve, but will to labor. I believe that
labor judiciously and continuously applied
becomes genius.—Bulwer.
There are many ways of being frivolous,
only one way of being intellectually great;
that is honest labor.--Sidney Smith.
Whatever there is of greatness in the
United States, or indeed in any other coun-
try, is due to labor. The laborer is the au-
thor of all greatness and wealth. Without
labor there would be no government, and
no leading class, and nothing to preserve.
-U. S. Grant.
Hard workers are usually honest; in-
dustry lifts them above temptation.-Bovee.
It is to labor and to labor only, that man
owes everything of exchangeable value.
Labor is the talisman that has raised him
from the condition of the savage ; that has
changed the desert and the forest into cul-
tivated fields; that has covered the earth
with cities, and the ocean with ships ; that
has given us plenty, comfort, and elegance,
instead of want, misery, and barbarism.-
J. Macculloch.
The lottery of honest labor, drawn by
time, is the only one whose prizes are worth
taking up and carrying home.-Theodore
Parler.
If we would have anything of benefit,
we must earn it, and earning it become
shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enter-
prising.-H. W. Beecher.
None so little enjoy themselves, and are
such burdens to themselves, as those who
have nothing to do.-Only the active have
the true relish of life.--Jay.
Labor is the great producer of wealth;
it moves all other causes.-Daniel Webster.
Miserable is he who slumbers on in idle-
ness. There is no rest from labor on
earth.–Man is born to work, and he must
work while it is day.-Said a great worker,
“Have I not eternity to rest in ?”—Tyn-
which I make the people are pleased to call
the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor
and thought.-Alexander Hamilton.
No way has been found for making hero-
ism easy, even for the scholar. Labor, iron
labor, is for him. The world was created
as an audience for him ; the atoms of which
it is made are opportunities.-Emerson.
I have no secret of success but hard
work.-E. Turner.
The necessity of labor is a part of the pri-
meval curse ; and all the beauty, or glory,
or dignity pertaining to it, depends on the
ends to which it is the means.-Bristed.
Labor-the expenditure of vital effort in
some form, is the measure, nay, it is the
maker of values.-J. G. Holland.
Nothing is impossible to the man who
can will, and then do; this is the only law
of success.--Mirabeau.
LANGUAGE.-(See * WORDS " and
“SPLECH.")
Language as well as the faculty of speech,
was the immediate gift of God. - Noah
Webster.
Language is the dress of thought.-John-
son.
MCI.
Language is not only the vehicle of
thought, it is a great and efficient instru-
ment in thinking.—Sir E. Davy.
Language is the armory of the human
mind, and at once contains the trophies of
its past and the weapons of its future con-
quests. - Coleridge.
What would the science of language be
without missions.--Ma Muller.
Language is the amber in which a thoir-
sand precious thoughts have been safely
embedded and preserved. It has arrested
ten thousand lightning-flashes of genius,
which, unless thus fixed and arrested, might
have been as bright, but would have also
been as quickly passing and perishing us
the lightning. Words convey the men-
tal treasures of one period to the general-
tions that follow; and laden with this, their
precious freight, they sail safely across
gulfs of time in which empires have suf-
fered shipwreck, and the languages of
common life have sunk into oblivion.-
Trench.
Language most shows a man ; speak that
I may see thee; it springs out of the most
retired and inmost part of us.-Ben Jonson.
The common people do not accurately
adapt their thoughts to objects ; nor,
secondly, do they accurately adapt their
words to their thoughts; they do not mean
There is but one method of success, and
that is hard labor; and a man who will not
pay that price for distinction had better at
once dedicate himself to the pursuit of the
fox.-Sydney Smith.
Excellence in any department can be at-
tained only by the labor of a lifetime; it
is not to be purchased at a lesser price.-
Johnson
Men give me some credit for genius. All
the genius I have lies just in this : When I
have a subject in hand, I study it pro-
foundly. Day and night it is before me.
I explore it in all its bearings. My mind
becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort
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LANGUAGE.
to lie; but, taking no pains to be exact,
they give you very false accounts. A great
part of their language is proverbial; if
anything rocks at all, they say it rocks like
a cradle ; and in this way they go on.-
Johnson.
If the way in which men express their
thoughts is slipshod and mean, it will be
very difficult for their thoughts themselves
to escape being the same. If it is high
flown and bombastic, a character for na-
tional simplicity and truthfulness cannot
long be maintained. - Alford.
The Creator has gifted tho whole uni-
verse with language, but few are the hearts
that can interpretit. Happy those to whom
it is no foreign tongue, acquired imper-
fectly with care and pain, but rather à na-
tive language, learned unconsciously from
the lips of the great mother.-Bulwer.
One great use of words is to hide our
thoughts.- Voltaire.
Charles V. used to say that "the more
languages a man knew, he was so many
more times a man. Each new form of
human speech introduces one into a new
world of thought and life. So in some de-
gree is it in traversing other continents
and mingling with other races.
As a hawk flieth not high with one wing,
even so a man reacheth not to excellence
with one tongue.-Roger Aschan.
A man who is ignorant of foreign lan-
guages is ignorant of his own.-Goethe.
Poetry cannot be translated ; and, there-
fore, it is the poets that preserve the lan-
guages ; for we would not be at the trouble
to learn a language if we could have all
that is written in it just as well in a trans-
lation. But as the beauties of poetry can-
not be preserved in any language except
that in which it was originally written, we
learn the language.-Johnson.
Language is like amber in its efficacy to
circulate the electric spirit of truth, it is
also like amber in embalming and preserv-
ing the relics of ancient wisdom, although
one is not seldom puzzled to decipher its
contents. Sometimes it locks up truths
which were once well known, but which, in
the course of ages, have passed out of sight
and been forgotten. In other cases it holds
the germs of truths, of which, though they
were never plainly discerned, the genius of
its framers caught a glimpse in a happy
moment of divination.-Sala.
To acquire a few tongues is the task of a
few years ; to be eloquent in one is the
labor of a life.
A countryman is as warm in fustian as a
king in velvet, and a truth is as comfortable
in homely language as in fine speech. As
to the way of dishing up the meat, hungry
men leave that to the cook, only. let the
meat be sweet and substantial.—Spurgeon.
The language denotes the man; a coarse
or refined character finds its expression
naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology,
- Bovee.
In the commerce of speech use only coin
of gold and silver.-Joubert.
Language is properly the servant of
thought, but not unfrequently becomes its
master. The conceptions of a feeble writer
are greatly modified by his stylo ; a man of
vigorous powers makes his style bend to
his conceptions-a fact compatible enough
with the acknowledgment of Dryden, that
a rhyme had often helped him to an idea.
Clutow.
Felicity, not fluency of language, is a
merit.-E. P. Whipple.
Thinking cannot be clear till it has had
expression.--We must write, or speak, or
act our thoughts, or they will remain in a
half torpid forn.-Our feelings must have
expression, or they will be as clouds, which,
till they descend in rain, will never bring
up fruit or flower.--So it is with all tho
inward feelings; expression gives them
development. Thought is the blossom;
language the opening bud; action the fruit
behind it.-H. W. Beecher.
In the intercourse of the world people
should not take words as so much genuine
coin of standard metal, but merely as
counters that people play with.—Jerrold.
Language is a solemn thing: it grows
out of life-out of its agonies and ecstasies,
its wants and its weariness.-Every lan-
guage is a temple in which the soul of those
who speak it is enshrined.-0. W. Holmes.
There is no tracing the connection of
ancient nations but by language; therefore
I am always sorry when any language is
lost, for languages are the pedigree of na-
tions.-Johnson.
Thero was speech in their dumbness ; lan-
guage in their very gesture.-Shakespeare.
Language is only the instrument of
science, and words are but the signs of
ideas. - Johnson.
Language was given us that we might
say pleasant things to each other.—Bovee.
Languages, like our bodies, are in a per-
petual flux, and stand in need of recruits
to supply those words which are continually
falling into disuse. Felton.
Words are the leaves of the tree of lan-
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guage, of which, if some fall away, a new
succession takes their place.-French.
LAUGHTER. (See" CHEERFULNESS.")
A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any
market. Lamb.
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.
Even this vein of laughing, as I could
produce out of grave authors, hath often-
times a strong and sinewy force in teaching
and comforting.–Milton.
Laughter is a most healthful exertion ; it
is one of the greatest helps to digestion
with which I am acquainted; and the cus-
tom prevalent among our forefathers, of
exciting it at table by jesters and buffoons,
was founded on true medical principles. -
Hufeland.
I like the laughter that opens the lips and
the heart, that shows at the same time
pearls and the soul. Victor Hugo.
One good, hearty laugh is a bombshell
exploding in the right place, while spleen
and discontent are a gun that kicks over
the man who shoots it off.De Witt Tal-
mage.
Man is the only creature endowed with
the power laughter ; is he not also the
only one that deserves to be laughed at?--
Greville.
Conversation never sits easier than when
we now and then discharge ourselves in a
symphony of laughter ; which may not im-
properly be called the chorus of conversa-
tion.-Steele.
No man who has once heartily and wholly
laughed can be altogether and irreclaimably
depraved.— Carlyle.
Next to a good soul-stirring prayer is a
good laugh, when it is promoted by what
is pure in itself and in its grotesque appli-
cation.--Mutchmore.
O, glorious laughter! thou man-loving
spirit, that for a time doth take the burden
from the weary back, that doth lay salve to
the weary feet, bruised and cut by flints
and shards.-Jerrold.
Laugh if you are wise.--Martial.
I am persuaded that every time a man
smiles, but much more when he laughs, it
adds something to this fragment of life.-
Sterne.
God made both tears and laughter, and
both for kind purposes; for as laughter
enables mirth and surprise to breathe
freely, so tears enable sorrow to vent itself
patiently. Tears hinder sorrow from be-
coming despair and madness.-Leigh Hunt.
Beware of him who hates the laugh of a
child.-Lavater.
If we consider the frequent reliefs we
receive from laughter, and how often it
breaks the gloom which is apt to depress
the mind, one would take care not to grow
too wise for so great a pleasure of life.-
Addison.
The laughter of girls is, and ever was,
among the delightful sounds of earth.-- De
Quincey.
The most utterly lost of all days, is that
in which you have not once laughed.-
Chainfort.
Laughing cheerfulness throws the light
of day on all the paths of life ; the evil fog
of gloom hovers in the distance ; sorrow is
more confusing and distracting than 80-
called giddiness.-Richter.
Though laughter is looked upon by phil-
osophers as the property of reason, the ex-
cess of it has always been considered the
mark of folly.-Addison.
Man could direct his ways by plain rea-
son, and support his life by tasteless food,
but God has given us wit, and flavor, and
brightness, and laughter to enliven the
days of man's pilgrimage, and to charm his
pained steps o'er the burning marle.-Syd-
ney Smith.
The loud laugh, that speaks the vacant
mind.—Goldsmith.
That laughter costs too much which is
purchased by the sacrifice of decency.-
Quintilian.
How much lies in laughter : the cipher
key, wherewith we decipher the whole man!
-Carlyle.
Men show their character in nothing more
clearly than by what they think laughable.
-Goethe.
A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a
joyous heart, for without kindness there
can be no true joy. Carlyle.
The horse-laugh indicates coarseness or
brutality of character.- Lavater.
Alas for the worn and heavy soul, if,
whether in youth or in age, it has outlived
its privilege of spring time and sprightli-
ness.- Hawthorne.
The man wbo cannot laugh is not only fit
for treasons, stratagems, and spoils ; but
his whole life is already a treason and a
stratagem.-Carlyle.
Wrinkle not thy face with too much
an?
What
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laughter, lest thou become ridiculous ; The law is past depth to those who, with-
neither wanton thy heart with too much out heed, do plunge into it. --Shakespeare.
mirth, lest thou become vain ; the suburbs
of folly is vain mirth, and profuseness of
The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science
that smiles in your face while it picks your
laughter is the city of fools. -Quarles.
pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it
Frequent and loud laughter is the char-
is of more use to the professors than the
acteristic of folly and ill manners; it is justice of it.-Macklin.
the manner in which the mob express their
silly joy at silly things, and which they call A mouse-trap : easy to enter but not easy
being merry.-In my mind there is nothing
to get out of.–Balfour.
80 ill-bred as audible laughter.-Chester- Use law and physic only in cases of neces-
field.
sity; they that use them otherwise, abuse
How inevitably does immoderate
themselves into weak bodies and light
laughter end in a sigh !-South.
purses : they are good remedies, bad recre-
Laughing, if loud, ends in a deep sigh;
ations, but ruinous habits.—Quarles.
and all pleasures have a sting in the tail, A natural law is a process, not a power ;
though they carry beauty on the face. it is a method of operation, not an operator.
Jeremy Taylor.
A natural law, without God behind it, is no
No one is more profoundly sad than he
more than a glove without a hand in it.-
who laughs too much.-Richter.
Joseph Cook.
The life that has grown up and developed
To go to law is for two persons to kindle
without laughter, and without the sunny
a fire, at their own cost, to warm others and
brightness which youth justly claims as its singe themselves to cinders; and because
right, lacks bouyancy and elasticity, and
they cannot agree as to what is truth and
becomes heavy and unsympathetic, if not
equity, they will both agree to unplume
harsh and morose.—Mrs. G. S. Reány.
themselves that others may be decorated
with their feathers.-Felthan.
Frequent and loud laughing is the char-
acteristic of folly and ill-manners.--True A law overcharged with severity, like a
wit never made a man laugh.-Chesterfield.
blunderbuss overcharged with powder, will
each of them grow rusty by disuse, and
A good laugh is sunshine in a house.-
neither will be resorted to, from the shock
Thackeray.
and recoil that must inevitably follow their
LAW.—Going to law is losing a cow for explosion.-Colton.
the sake of a cat.-Chinese Proverb.
It is a very easy thing to devise good
To seek the redress of grievances by
the difficulty is to make them effect-
going to law, is like sheep running for ive. The great mistake is that of looking
shelter to a bramble bush.-Dilwyn.
The Jews ruin themselves at their pass-
they can be made so by laws; and conse-
over; the Moors, at their marriages, and quently the greatest art of a politician is to
the Christians, in their lawsuits. - Spanish
render vices serviceable to the cause of
Proverb.
virtue.-Bolingbrolce.
The plaintiff and defendant.in an action Law is never wise but when merciful,
at law, are like two men ducking their but mercy has conditions ; and that which
beads in a bucket, and daring each other is mercy to the myriads, may seem hard to
to remain longest under water. ---Johnson. the one, and that which seems hard to the
These written laws are just like spiders' one, may be mercy when viewed by the eye
webs the small and feeble may be caught
that looks on through eternity.--Bulwer.
and entangled in them, but the rich and Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch
mighty force through and despise them.- small flies, but let wasps and hornets break
Anacharsis.
through.--Swift.
A countryman between two lawyers is Laws are generally found to be nets of
like a fish between two cats.-Franklin. such a texture, as the little creep through
Law is a bottomless pit; it is a cormo- the great break through, and the middle
rant, a harpy that devours everything.– size are alone entangled in.-Shenstone.
Arbuthnot.
Chancery, and certain other law courts,
In law nothing is certain but the expense. seem nothing ; yet, in fact, they are, the
-S. Butler.
worst of them, something: chimneys for
No people were ever better than their the deviltry and contention of men to es-
lawe, though many have been worse.-- cape by.- Carlyle.
Priestly.
The English laws punish vice; the Chi-
laws;
;
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nese laws do more, they reward virtue.-
Goldsmith.
A fish that hangs in the net, like a poor
man's right in the law, will bardly come out
of it.--Shalcespeare.
The laws keep up their credit, not be-
cause they are all just, but because they are
laws. This is the mystical foundation of
their authority.-Montaigne.
A kuowledge of the laws of our country
is an highly useful, and I had almost said
essential, part of liberal and polite educa-
tion.
As the laws are above magistrates, so are
the magistrates above the people : and it
may truly be said, that the magistrate is a
speaking law, and the law a silent magis-
trate.-Cicero.
We have no right to say that the universe
is governed by natural laws, but only that
it is governed according to natural laws.-
Carpenter.
Laws are commanded to hold their tongues
among arms; and tribunals fall to the
ground with the peace they are no longer
able to uphold.-Burke.
The law is the standard and guardian of
our liberty ; it circumscribes and defends
it; but to imagine liberty without a law, is
to imagine every man with his sword in his
hand to destroy him, who is weaker than
himself; and that would be no pleasant
prospect to those who cry out most for
liberty.- Clarendon.
Whoever goes to law, goes into a glass
house, where he understands little or noth-
ing of what he is doing ; where he sees a
small matter blown up into fifty times the
size of its intrinsic contents, and through
which, if he can perceive any other objects,
he perceives them all discolored and dis-
torted. - Skelton.
Law is the embodiment of the moral sen-
timent of the people,-- Blackstone.
True law is right reason conformably to
nature, universal, unchangeable, eternal,
whose commands urge us to duty, and
whose prohibitions restrain us from evil.-
Cicero.
In all governments, there must of neces-
sity be both the law and the sword;
laws
without arms would give us not liberty,
but licentiousness; and arms without laws
would produce not subjection, but slavery.
The law, therefore, should be unto the
sword what the handle is to the hatchet
i
it should direct the stroke and temper the
force.- Colton.
Good laws make it easier to do right and
harder to do wrong.-Gladstone.
The severity of laws often prevents their
execution.-
When the penalty is excessive,
one is often obliged to prefer impunity.-
Montesquieu.
There is no country in the world in which
everything can be provided for by the laws,
or in which political institutions can prove
a substitute for common sense and public
morality.—De Tocqueville.
Of law there can be no less acknowledged
than that her seat is the bosom of God, her
voice the harmony of the world. All things
in heaven and earth do her homage ; the
very least as feeling her care, and the
greatest as not exempt from her power.
Both angels and men, and creatures of what
condition soever, though each in a differ-
ent sort and name, yet all, with one uni-
form consent, admire her as the mother of
their peace and joy.-R. Hooker.
Laws are not invented ; they grow out of
circumstances.-Azarias.
The science of jurisprudence—the pride
of the human intellect, with all its defects,
redundancies, and errors, is the collected
reason of ages, combining the principles of
original justice with the infinite variety of
human concerns.Burle.
Aristotle himself has said, speaking of
the laws of his own country, that jurispru-
dence, or the knowledge of those laws, is
the principal and most perfect branch of
ethics.-Blackstone.
The sparks of all the sciences in the world
are taken up in the ashes of the law.-
Finch.
Law kept, is only law ; law broken is both
law and execution. --Menander.
Laws are always unstable unless they are
founded on the manners of a nation, and
manners are the only durable and resisting
power in a people.-
De Tocqueville.
In effect, to follow, not to force, the pub-
lic inclination, to give a direction, a form,
a techical dress, and a specific sanction, to
the general sense of the community, is the
true end of legislation.--Burke.
Law is a science, which employs in its
theory the noblest faculties of the soul,
and exerts in its practice the cardinal vir-
tues of the heart; a science which is uni-
versal in its use and extent, accommodated
to each individual, yet comprehending the
whole community. - Blackstone.
When laws, customs, or institutions cease
to be beneficial to man, or are contrary to
the will of God, they cease to be obligatory
on us.-Lyman Beecher.
God is a law to men of sense; but pleas-
ure is a law to the fool.- Plato.
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Law that shocks equity is reason's mur-
der.-A. Hill.
The science of legislation is like that of
medicine in one respect, viz. : that it is far
more easy to point out what will do harm,
than what will do good.-Colton.
Laiys are silent in the midst of arms.-
Cicero.
Equity judges with lenity ; laws with ex-
tremity. In all moral cases the reason of
the law is the law. Walter Scott.
So great is the force of laws, and of par-
ticular forms of government, and so little
dependence have they on the humors and
tempers of men, that consequences almost
as general and certain may sometimes be
deduced from them, as any which the mathe-
matical soiences afford us.-Hume.
A prince who falleth out with laws, break-
eth with his best friends. - Saville.
When I hear any man talk of an unalter-
able law, the only effect it produces on me
is to convince me that he is an unalterable
fool.--Sydney Smith.
The best way to get a bad law repealed is
to enforce it strictly.- Lincoln.
The forms of law have always been the
graves of buried liberties.- Tourgee.
Pity is the virtue of the law, and none
but tyrants use it cruelly. --Shakespeare.
The people's safety is the law of God.-
James Otis.
Law and equity are two things that God
hath joined together, but which man bas
put asunder.—Colton.
A law is valuable not because it is law,
but because there is right in it.-H. W.
Beecher,
When the state is most corrupt, then the
laws are most multiplied.---Tacitus.
Law should be like death, which spares
no one.- Montesquieu.
They are the best laws, by which the king
has the greatest prerogative, and the peo-
ple the best liberty.--Bacon.
Laws are the silent assessors of God.-
R. W. Alger.
We should never create by law what can
be accomplished by morality, — Montes-
quieu.
A multitude of laws in a country is like a
great number of physicians, a sign of weak-
ness and malady.- Voltaire.
The greatest of all injustice is that which
goes under the name of law; and of all
sorts of tyranny, the forcing the letter of
the law against the equity is the most in-
supportable.-L'Estrange.
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule
the law.-Goldsmith.
The universal and absolute law is that
natural justice which cannot be written
down, but which appeals to the hearts of
all. Written laws are formulas in which we
endeavor to express as concisely as possible
that which, under such or such determined
circumstances, natural justice demands.--
Victor Cousin.
Consider the reason of the case, for noth-
ing is law that is not reason.-J. Powell.
In civil jurisprudence it too often happens
that there is so much law, that there is no
room for justice, and that the claimant
expires of wrong in the midst of right, as
mariners die of thirst in the midst of water.
Colton.
To make an empire durable, the magis-
trates must obey the laws, and the people
the magistrates. —Solon.
Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.-
Louis XIV.
Alas! how many causes that can plead
well for themselves in the courts of West-
minster, and yet in the general court of
the universe, and free soul of man, have no
word to utter !- Carlyle.
Laws which are in advance of public
sentiment are generally but a dead letter.
Tryon Edwards.
Reason is the life of law; nay, the com-
mon law itself is nothing else but reason.
-Coke.
Let but the public mind once become
thoroughly corrupt, and all attempts to se-
cure property, liberty, or life, by mere
force of laws written on parchment, will be
as vain as to put up printed notices in an
orchard to keep off canker-worms.--
Horace
Man72.
With 18, law is nothing unless close be-
hind it stands a warm, living public opin-
ion. Let that die or grow indifferent, and
statutes are waste paper, lacking all execu-
tive force.- Wendell Phillips.
The good need fear no law ; it is his
safety, and the bad man's awe.—Massinger.
Multitudes of laws are signs, either of
much tyranny in the prince, or much re-
bellious disobedience in the subject.
Marston.
Law is often spoken of as uncertain ; but
the uncertainty is not so much in the law
as in the evidence.-Tryon Edwards.
To embarrass justice by a multiplicity of
laws, or to hazardit by confidence in judges,
are the opposite rocks on which all civil in-
stitutions have been wrecked, and between
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which legislative wisdom has never yet
found an open passage.--Johnson.
As the law dissolves all contracts which
are without a valuable consideration, so a
valuable consideration often dissolves the
law.–Fielding.
There have been many laws made by men
which swerve from honesty, reason, and
the dictates of nature. By the law of arms
he is degraded from all honor who puts up
with an affront; and by the civil law, he
that takes vengeance for it, incurs a capital
punishment; he that seeks redress by law
for an affront is disgraced; and he that
seeks redress not in this way is punished
by the laws.—Montaigne.
We must not make a scarecrow of the
law, setting it up to fear the birds of prey,
and letting it keep one shape till custoin
make it their perch, and not their terror.
Shakespeare.
Possession is eleven points in the law.-
Cibber.
Where law ends, tyranny begins.— Wn.
Pitt,
Laws are the very bulwarks of liberty ;
they define every man's rights, and defend
the individual liberties of all men.-J. G.
Hollund.
Ignorance of the law excuses no man;
not that all men know the law, but because
it is an excuse every man will plead, and no
man can tell how to coufute him.-Selden.
Of all the parts of a law, the most effect-
nal is the vindicatory; for it is but lost
labor to say, “Do this, or avoid that,” un-
less we also declare, “This shall be the con-
sequence of your noncompliance." The
main strength and force of a law consists
in the penalty annexed to it.-
Blackstone.
Every instance of a man's suffering the
penalty of the law, is an instance of the
failure of that penalty in effecting its pur-
pose, which is to deter from transgression.
- Whately.
It is impossible for men even to murder
each other without statutes and maxims,
and an idea of justice and honor.-War has
its laws as well as peace.-Hume.
“I never,” said Voltaire, was luined
but twice-once when I gained a lawsuit,
and once when I lost one."
Penal laws-by which every man's danger
becomes every man's safety, and by which,
though all are restrained, yet all are bene-
fited.—Johnson.
The laws of nature are but the ways in
which the great almighty lawgiver operates;
they have no efficiezcy except as channels
of his will; rightly understood they cannot
but be seen to agree with his written word.
-Tryon Edwards.
The laws of nature are not, as some
modern naturalists seem to suppose, iron
chaius, by which the living God, so to say,
is bound hand and foot, but elastic cords
rather, which he can lengthen or shorten
at his sovereign will.-Philip Schaff.
The absolute justice of the state en-
lightened by the perfect reason of the state,
that is law.-Rufus Choate.
The law of God is what we must do ; the
gospel is what God will give.-Luther.
Laws were made to restrain and punish
the wicked; the wise and good do not need
them as a guide, but only as a shield against
rapine and oppression ; they can live civilly
and orderly, though there were no law in
the world. -Fellhanz.
Laws can discover sin, but not remove it.
- Milton
LAWYERS,--No man can be a sound
lawyer who is not well read in the laws of
Moses.--Fisher Ames.
As to lawyers, their profession is sup-
ported by the indiscriminate defense of
right and wrong.–Junius.
Pettifoggers in law, and empirics in
medicine, whether their patients lose or
save their property or their lives, take care
to be, in either case, equally remunerated ;
they profit by both horns of the dilemma,
and press defeat no less than success into
their service. They hold, from time im-
memorial, the fee simple of a vast estate,
subject to no alienation, diminution, revo-
lution, or tax--the folly and ignorance of
mankind.- Colton.
There is too much reason to apprehend,
that the custom of pleading for any client,
without discrimination of right or wrong,
must lessen the regard due to those impor-
tant distinctions, and deaden the moral
sensibility of the heart.-Percival.
In the habits of legal men every accusa-
tion appears insufficient if they do not
exaggerate it even to calumny. It is thus
that justice itself loses its sanctity and its
respect among men.--Lamartine. .
Accuracy and diligence are inuch more
necessary to a lawyer than great compre-
hension of mind, or brilliancy of talent.
His business is to refine, define, split hairs,
look into authorities, and compare cases.
A man can never gallop over the fields of
law on Pegasus, nor fly across them on the
wing of oratory.-If he would stand on
terra firma, he must descend.--If he would
be a great lawyer, he must first consent to
become a great drudge.---Daniel Webster.
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Adversaries in law strive mightily, but
eat and drink as friends.—Shakespeare.
By birth and interest lawyers belong to
the people; by habit and taste to the asis-
tocracy; and they may be looked upon as
the natural bond and connecting link of
the two great classes of society. They are
attached to public order beyond every
other consideration, and the best security
of public order is authority.-If they prize
the free institutions of their country much,
they value the legality of these institutions
far more.-They are less afraid of tyranny
than of arbitrary power.—De Tocqueville.
Lawyers on opposite sides of a case are
like the two parts of shears ; they cut what
comes between them, but not each other.
Our profession is good if practised in the
spirit of it; it is damnable fraud and in-
iquity when its true spirit is supplied by a
spirit of mischief-making and money-get-
ting.–The love of fame is extinguished ;
every ardent wish for knowledge repressed i
conscience put in jeopardy, and the best
feelings of the heart indurated by the
mean, money-catching, abominable prac-
tises, which cover with disgrace some of
the moderu practitioners of law.—Daniel
Webster.
There is a great deal of law learning that
is dry, dark, cold, revolting—but it is an
old feudal castle, in perfect preservation,
which the legal architect, who aspires to
the first honors of his profession, will cle-
light to explore, and learn all the uses to
whiclı its various parts used to be put; and
he will the better understand, enjoy and
relish the progressive improvements of the
science in modern times.-W. Wirt.
LEARNING.-Learning passes for wis-
dom among those who want both.--Sir W.
Temple.
I have seldom seen much ostentation and
much learning met together. The sun,
rising and declining, inakes long shadows;
and mid-day, when he is highest, none at
all.---Bp. Häll.
Learning is wealth to the poor, an honor
to the rich, an aid to the young, and a sup-
port and comfort to the aged.
He who always seeks more light the more
he finds, and finds more the more he seeks,
is one of the few happy mortals who take
and give in every point of time. The tide
and ebb of giving and receiving is the sum
of human happiness, which he alone enjoys
who always wishes to acquire new knowl-
edge, and always finds it. -Lavater.
The end of learning is to know God, and
out of that knowledge to love him, and to
imitate him, as we may the nearest, by pos-
sessing our souls of true virtue.--Milton.
The true order of learning should be:
first, what is necessary ; second, what is
useful; and third, what is ornamental. To
reverse this arrangement is like beginning
to build at the top of the edifice.—Mrs.
Sigourney.
Learning is like mercury, one of the
most powerful and excellent things in the
world in skillful hands ; in unskillful, the
most mischievous.--Pope.
Learning, like money, may be of so base
a coin as to be utterly void of use; or, if
sterling, may require good management to
make it serve the purposes of sense or hap-
piness. - Shenstone,
He who has no inclination to learn more
will be very apt to think that he knows
enough.—Powell.
Learning, if rightly applied, makes a
young man thinking, attentive, industri-
ous, confident, and wary; and an old man
cheerful and useful. It is an ornament in
prosperity, a refuge in adversity, an enter-
tainment at all times; it cheers in solitude,
and gives moderation and wisdom in all
circuinstances.-- Palmer.
A heap of ill-chosen erudition is but the
luggage of antiquity.- Balzac.
Who can tell whether learning may not
cven weaken invention in a man that has
great advantages from nature and birth;
whether the weight and number of so many
men's thoughts and notions may not sup-
press his own or hinder the motion and
agitation of them, from which all invention
arises ; as heaping on wood, or too many
sticks, or too close together, suppresses,
and sometimes quite extinguishes a little
spark, that would otherwise have grown up
to a noble flame.—Sir W. Tenple.
Much learning shows how little mortals
know ; much wealth, how little worldlings
enjoy.-E. Young.
No man is the wiser for his learning: it
may administer matter to work in, or ob-
jects to work upon ; but wit and wisdom
are born with a man.-Selden.
Learning, though it is useful when we
know how to make a right use of it, yet
considered as in our own power, and to
those who trust to it without seeking a su-
perior guidance, is usually the source of
perplexity, strife, skepticism, and infi-
delity. It is indeed like a sword in a mad-
man's hands, which gives him the more
opportunity of hurting himself than others.
- Tohn Newton.
He that wants good sense is unhappy in
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having learning, for he has thereby only
more ways of exposing himself; and he that
has sense knows that learning is not knowl-
edge, but rather the art of using it.--Sicele.
Learning by study must be won; 'twas
ne'er entailed from sire to son.--Gay.
There are three classes of people in the
world. The first learn from their own ex-
perience these are wise ; the second learn
from the experience of others—these are
the happy; the third neither learn from
their owu experience nor the experience of
others—these are fools.
A man of the best parts and greatest
learning, if he does not know the world by
his own experience and observation, will
be very absurd, and consequently very un-
welcome in company. He may bay very
good things; but they will be probably so
ill-timed, misplaced, or improperly ad-
dressed, that he had much better hold his
tongue.-Chester field.
Learning once made popular is no longer
learning ; it has the appearance of some-
thing which we have bestowed upon 0112-
selves, as the dew appears to rise from the
field which it refreshes.-Johnson.
How empty learning, how vain is art, but
as it mends the life and guides the heart.
- Young.
I observe in all my travels, this custom-
ever to learn something from the informa-
tion of those with whom I confcr, which is
the best school of all others, and to put my
company pon those subjects they are best
able to speak of: for it often falls out, that,
on the contrary, every one will rather choose
to be prating of anotherman's province than
his own, thinking it so much new reputa-
tion acquired.-Montaigne.
I attribute the little I know to my not
having been ashamed to ask for informa-
tion, and to my rule of conversing with all
descriptions of men on those topics that
form their own peculiar professions and
pursuits.-Locke.
You are to consider that learning is of
great use to society; and though it may not
add to the stock, it is a necessary vehicle to
transmit it to others. Learned men are the
cisterns of knowledge, not the fountain-
head.-Northcote.
Learning makes a man fit company for
himself. - Young.
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither
terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest
of all ; but great cleverness and inuch learn-
ing, if they be accompanied by a bad train-
ing, are a much greater misfortune.- Plalo.
Learning maketh young men temperate,
is the comfort of old age, standing for
wealth with poverty, and serving as an or-
nament to riches.--Cicero.
The chief art of learning, as Locke has
observed, is to attempt but little at a time.
The widest excursions of the mind are
made by short flights frequently repeated ;
the most lofty fabrics of science are formed
by the continued accumulation of single
propositions.-Johnson.
A little learning is a dangerous thing!
drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring;
there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
and drinking largely sobers us again.--
Pope.
Wear your learning, like your watch, in
a private pocket.-Do not pull it out merely
to show that you have one. If asked what
o'clock it is, tell it'; but do not proclaim it
hourly and unasked, like the watchman.-
Chesterfield.
No man can ever lack this mortification
of his vanity, that what he knows is but a
very little in comparison of what he is ig-
norant of. Consider this, and instead of
boasting thy kuowledge of a few things,
confess and be out of countenance for tho
many more which thou dost not understand.
-Thomas à Kempis.
That learning is most requisite which un-
learns evil.-Antisthines.
He is a learned man that understands one
subject; a very learned man who under-
stands Wo.- Emmons.
To be proud of learning, is the greatest
ignorance.---Jeremy Taylor.
We should not ask who is the most learned,
but who is the best learned.-Montaigne.
The great art of learning, is to undertake
but little at a time.-Locke.
He might have been a very clever man by
nature, ut he had laid so many books on
his head that his brain could not move.
Robert Hall.
All other knowledge is hurtful to him who
has not the science of honesty and good
nature.—Montaigne.
The learning and knowledge that we have,
is, at the most, but little compared with
that of which we are ignorant.-Plato.
He who knoweth not what he ought to
know, is a brute beast aniong men ; lie tliat
knoweth no more than he hath need of, is
a mall among bruto beasts ; and he that
knoweth all that may be known, is as a God
among men.--- -Pythagoras.
Voracious learning,often over-feci, digests
not into sense her motley meal. This book-
case, with dark booty almost burst, this
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forager on others' wisdom, leaves her native
farm, her reason, quite untill'a.-Young.
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.
The most learned are often the most nar-
row-minded men.- Hazlitt.
Without controversy, learning doth make
the mind of men gentle, generous, amiable,
and pliant to government; whereas igno-
rance makes them churlish, thwarting, and
mutinous ; and the evidence of time doth
clear this assertion, considering that the
most barbarous, rude, and unlearned times
huve been most subject to tumults, sedi-
tions, and changes. --Bacon.
Learning teaches how to carry things in
suspense, without prejudice, till you re-
solve.- Bacon.
It is easy to learn something about every-
thing, but difficult to learn everything about
anything.-Emmons.
The sweetest and most inoffensive path
of life leads through the avenues of science
and learning; and whoever can either re-
move any obstruction in this way, or open
up any new prospect, ought, so far, to be
esteemed a benefactor to mankind.-Hume.
Seeing much, suffering much, and study-
ing much, are the three pillars of learning.
Disraeli.
It is a little learning, and but a little,
which makes men couclude hastily.-Ex-
perience and humility teach modesty and
fear.-Jeremy Taylor.
Learning is a dangerous weapon, and apt
to wound its master if it be wielded by a
feeble hand, or by one not well acquainted
with its use.-Montaigne.
" A little learning is a dangerous thing,
and yet it is what all must attain before
they can arrive at great learning; it is the
utmost acquisition of those who know the
most in comparison of what they do not
know.- Whately.
Some will never learn anything because
they understand everything too soon.-
Blount.
Till a man can judge whether they be
truths or no, his understanding is but little
improved, and thus ien of much reading,
though greatly learned, but may be little
knowing.-Locke.
Mere learning is only a compiler, and
manages the pen as the compositor picks
out the types-each sets up a book with the
band. -Stone masons collected the dome of
St. Paul's, but Wren huug it in the air. -
Willinott.
Learning gives us a fuller conviction of
the imperfections of our nature ; which one
would think, might dispose us to modesty :
for the more a man knows, the more he dis-
covers his ignorance.--Jeremy Collier.
LEISURE.-The end of labor is to gain
leisure.--Aristotle.
Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to
gain leisure ; and since thou art not sure
of a minute, throw not away an hour.
Leisure is time for doing something useful,
and this leisure the diligent man will ob-
tain, but the lazy man never, for a life of
leisure and a life of laziness are two things.
-Franklin.
Leisure is a beautiful garment, but it
will not do for constant wear. - Anon.
Leisure and solitude are the best effect
of riches, because the mother of thought.
Both are avoided by most rich men, who
seek company and business, which are
signs of being weary of themselves.--Sir
W. Teniple.
There is room enough in human life to
crowd alınost every art and science in it.
If we pass " no day without a line”-visit
no place without the company of a book-
we may with ease fill libraries, or empty
them of their contents. The more we do,
the more we can do ; the more busy we are,
the more leisure we have.--Hazlitt.
“Never less idle than when idle,” was
the motto which the admirable Vittoria
Colonna wronght upon her husband's dress-
ing-gown. And may we not justly regard
our appreciation of leisure as a test of im-
proved character and growing resources ?
Tuckerman.
You cannot give an instance of any man
who is permitted to lay out his own time,
contriving not to have tedious hours.
Johnson.
Leisure is gone; gone where the spinning-
wheels are gone, and the pack-horses, and
the slow wagons, and the peddlers who
brought bargains to the door on sunny
afternoons.-- George Eliot.
In this theater of man's life, it is reserved
only for God and angels to be lookers-on.-
Pythagoras.
I am never less at leisure than when at
leisure, nor less alone than when I am
alone.--Scipio Africanus.
Da of respite are golden days.--South.
Leisure is pain; take off our chariot
wheels and how heavily we drag the load
of life.-It is our curse, like that of Cain ;
made an enemy by your own kindness.If
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it makes us wander earth around to fly that LETTERS.--It is by the benefit of let-
tyrant, thought.— Young.
ters that absent friends are, in a manner,
Leisure for men of business, and busi-
brought together.--Seneca.
ness for men of leisure, would cure many
Letters are those winged messengers that
complaints.-Mrs. Thrále.
can fly from east to west on embassies of
Spare minutes are the gold-dust of time
love.Howell.
;
the portions of life most fruitful in good or
The best time to frame an answer to the
evil; the gaps through which temptations letters of a friend is the moment you re-
enter.
ceive them ; ühen the warmth of friendship
and the intelligence received most forcibly
LENDING.-Neither a borrower nor a
lender be ; for loan oft loses both itself and
co-operate.-Shenstonc.
friend.-Shakespeare.
A letter shows the man it is written to
as well as the man it is written by.- Ches-
If you lend a person money it becomes
terfield.
lost for any purposes of your own. When
you ask for it back again, you find a friend
To write a good love-letter, you ought to
begin without knowing what you mean to
you begin to press still further, either you
say, and to finish withont knowing what
must part with what you have lent, or else
you have written.-Rousseau.
you must lose your friend.-Plautus,
The true character of epistolary style is
Lend not beyond thy ability, nor refuse
playfulnogs and urbanity. --Joubert.
to lend out of thy ability; especially when A profusion of fancies and quotations is
it will help others more than it can hurt out of place in a love-letter.-True feeling
thee. If thy debtor be honest and capable, is always direct, and never deviates into
thou hast thy money again, if not with in- by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.-Bovee.
crease, with praise. If he prove insolvent
do not ruin him to get that which it will
Our thoughts are much alike, but female
not ruin thee to lose ; for thou art but a
correspondence has a charm in it, of which
steward, and another is thy owner, master,
that of the other sex is always devoid.-
Eldon.
and judge.-- Penn.
Whatever you lend, let it be your money,
When the spirits sink too low, the best
cordial is to read over all the letters of one's
and not your name. Money you may get
friends.-Shenstone.
again, and, if not, you may contrive to do
without it; name once lost you cannot get
Let your letter be written as accurately
again, and, if you cannot contrive to do as you are able-I mean as to language,
without it, you had better never have been grainmar, and stops ; but as to the matter
born.-Builwer.
of it the less trouble you give yourself the
better it will be. Letters should be easy
LENITY.-It is only necessary to grow and natural, and convey to the persons to
old to become more indulgent. I see no whom we send just what we should say if
fault committed that I have not committed we were with them.-Chesterfield.
myself.-Goethe.
It is difficult to tell to what end we keep
Lenity will operate with greater force in these old memorials, for their perusal
some instances than rigor.-It is, therefore,
affords, in most cases, but little pleasure.
my first wish to have all my conduct dis-
Many are never looked at again, and yet
tinguished by it.- Washington.
we could not destroy them without a strug-
Lenity is a part of mercy, but she must gle ; others only bring forward evidences
not speak too loud for fear of waking jus- of words broken, hopes chilled, and friend-
tice. -Joubert.
ships gradually dissolved ; of old attach-
When lenity and cruelty play for a king-
ments turned away, and stubborn contra-
diction of all the trusting in futurity, whose
dom, the gentler gamester is the soonest
winner.-Shakespeare.
promise we once clung to. One class alone
of them can call up our best feelings. If
Man may dismiss compassion from his
the almost forgotten memorials of the once
heart, but God will never.-Cowper.
dearly loved and long departed can carry
Never to judge rashly; never to interpret our sympathies away from the cold, hard
the actions of others in an ill-sense, but to present, over intervening years of strug-
compassionate their infirmities, bear their gling and vexatious toil, to that almost
burdens, excuse their weaknesses, and holy period of the gone and past, calling
make up for their defects—to hate their up old thoughts and old affections ; or
imperfections, but love themselves, this is soothing, by one lonely, unsuspected burst
the true spirit of charity.--Caussin.
of tears, overcharged hearts, which have
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long required easing of their burthen,
there is yet enough there is more than
enough-in these old letters, to plead an
excuse for so sacredly preserving them.-
Albert Smith.
LEVELLERS.--Your levellers wish to
level down as far as themselves, but they
cannot bear levelling up to themselves.--
Johnson.
Those who attempt to level never equalize.
In all societies some description must be
uppermost. The levellers, therefore, only
change and pervert the natural order of
things; they load the edifice of society by
setting up in the air what the solidity of
the structure requires to be on the ground.
Burke.
Some persons are always ready to level
those above them down to themselves,
while they are never willing to level those
below them up to their own position. But
he that is under the influence of true
humility will avoid both these extremes.
On the one hand, he will be willing that all
should rise just so far as their diligence
and worth of character entitle them to;
and on the other hand, he will be willinc
that his superiors should be known and
acknowledged in their place, and have ron-
dered to them all the honors that are their
due.-- Jonathan Edwards.
Death and the cross are the two great
levellers; kings and their subjects, masters
and slaves, find a common level in two
places--at the foot of the cross, and in the
silence of the grave.- Colton.
LEVITY,- Levity of behavior is the
bane of all that is good and virtuous.-
Seneca.
In infants, lovity is a prettine88; in men,
a shameful defect; in old age, a monstrous
folly.-Rochefoucauld.
Frivolity, under whatever form it ap-
pears, takes from attention its strength,
from thought its originality, from feeling
its earnestness.-Mad. De Staël.
There is always some levity even in exccl-
lent minds; they have wings to rise, and
also to stay.-Joubert.
A light and trifling mind never takes in
great ideas, and never accomplishes any-
thing great or good.--Sprague.
Between levity and cheerfulness there
a wide distinction; the mind that is most
open to the former is frequently a stranger
to the latter.-Levity may be the offspring
of folly or vice; cheerfulness is the natural
offspring of wisdom and virtue.--Blair.
LIARS.-(See "TALSEHOOD
" and "LY-
ING.")
There is no vice that doth so cover a man
with shame as to be discovered in a lie ; for
as Montaigne saith, "A liar would be brave
toward God, while he is a coward toward
men; for a lie faces God, and shrinks from
man."-Bacon.
All that one gains by falsehood is, not to
be believed when he speaks the truth.-
Aristotle.
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
one.-Pope.
A willful falsehood told is a cripple, not
able to stand by itself without another to
support it. - It is easy to tell a lie, but hard
to tell only one lie.-Fuller.
One ought to have a good memory when
he has told a lie.-Corneille.
Liars--past all shame-80 past all truth.
Shakespcare.
Thou canst not better reward a liar than
in not believing whatever he speaketh.-
Aristippus.
They begin with making falsehood ap-
pear like truth, and end with making truth
itself appear like falsehood.--Shenstone.
I am charmed with many points of the
Turkish law; when proved the authors of
any notorious falsehood, they are burned
on the forehead with a hot iron.- Lady
Montague.
A lie should be trampled on and extin-
guished wherever found.-I am for fumi-
gating the atmosphere when I suspect that
falsehood, like pestilence, breathes around
Carlyle.
This is the liar's: lot; he is accounted a
pest and a nuisance, a person marked out
for infamy and scorn.--South.
Ono lic must be thatched with another,
or it will soon rain through.- Owen.
Thc holl that a lie would keep a man
from, is doubtless the very best place for
him to go to.-G. Macdonald.
Who dares think one thing, and another
ell, my soul detests him as the gates of
'ell.-Pope.
LIBERALITY.-(See“ BENEVOLENCE.'')
Liberality was formerly called honesty,
as if to imply that unless we are liberal we
are not honest, either toward God or man.
Tryon Edwards.
The riches we impart are the only wealth
we shall always retain.-M. Henry.
me.
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like the stagnant pool, in which whatever
flows remains, whatever remains corrupts.
-J. A. James.
Be rather bountiful than expensive; do
good with what thou hast, or it will do theo
no good.-Penn.
By Jove the stranger and the poor are
sent, and what to these we give to Jove is
lent. - Homer.
.
No communications can exhaust genius ;
no gifts impoverish charity.-Lavater.
Proportion thy charity to the strength of
thine estate, lest God in anger proportion
thine estate to the weakness of thy charity.
-Quarles.
Liberality consists rather in giving sea-
sonably than much. - Bruyère.
The office of liberality consists in giving
with judgment. — Cicero.
The way to have nothing to give, is to
give nothing.
He that lays out for God lays up for him-
self.
Be busy in trading, receiving, and giving,
for life is too good to be wasted in living. -
J. Sterling.
Frugality is good, if liberality be joined
with it. The first is leaving off superfluous
expenses ; the last bestowing them to the
benefit of others that need. The first with-
out the last begets covetousness; the last
without the first begets prodigality. Both
together make an excellent temper. Happy
the place where that is found. -Penn.
In defiance of all the torture, the might,
and the malice of the world, the liberal
man will ever be rich ; for God's providence
is his estate, God's wisdom and power his
defense, God's love and favor his reward,
and God's word his security.-Barrow.
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. .
Some are unwisely liberal, and more de-
light to give presents than to pay debts.-
Sir P. Sidney.
What we call liberality is often but the
vanity of giving ; we are more fond of the
ostentation than of the generosity of the
act.-Rochefoucauld.
The liberality of some men is but in-
difference clad in the garb of candor.--
Whately.
Men might be better if we deemed better
of them. The worst way to improve the
world is to condemn it.- Bailey.
'Tis hard to school the heart to be, in
spite of injury and envy, generous still.
Ellison.
One always receiving, never giving, is
LIBERTY,True liberty consists only
in the power of doing what we ought to
will, and in not being constrained to do
what we ought not to will.-Jonathan Ed-
wards.
Reason and virtue alone can bestow lib-
erty.-Shaftesbury.
There is no liberty worth anything which
is not a liberty under lav.-N. J. Burton.
Personal liberty is the paramount essen-
tial to human dignity and human happi-
ness. --Bulwer.
Give me the liberty to know, to think, to
believe, and to utter freely, according to
conscience, above all other liberties.
Milton.
We hold these truths to be self-evident,
that all men are created'equal; that they
are endowed by their Creator with inalien-
able rights ; and that among these are life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.-
Jefferson.
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet as to be
purchased at the price of chains and slavery?
-Forbid it, Almighty God !-I know not
what course others may take, but, as for me,
give me liberty or give me death.-- Patricia
Herry.
In the same proportion that ignorance
and vice prevail in a republic, will the gov-
ernment partake of despotism.--Sprague.
Easier were it to burl the rooted moun-
tain from its base, than force the yoke of
slavery upon men determined to be free.
Southey.
Liberty is to the collective body, what
health is to every individual body. With-
out health no pleasure can be tasted by
man ; without liberty, no happiness can be
enjoyed by society.- Bolingbroke.
The liberty of a people consists in being
governed by laws which they have made
themselves, under whatsoever form it be of
government; the liberty of a private man
is being master of his own time and actions,
as far as may consist with the laws of God,
and of his country.--Cowley.
The only rational liberty is that which is
born of subjection, reared in the fear of
God and love of man, and made courageous
in the defense of a trust, and the prosecu-
tion of a duty.--Simms.
What is life? It is not to stalk about,
and draw fresh air, or gaze upon the sun;
it is to be free.-Addison.
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LIBERTY.
Oh, give me liberty ! for even were para-
dise my prison, still I should long to leap
the crystal walls.—Dryden.
There are two freedoms, the false where
one is free to do what he likes, and the true
where he is free to do what he ought.--
C. Kingsley.
Bad men cannot make good citizens. It
is impossible that a nation of infidels or
idolaters should be a nation of freemen.
It is when a people forget God, that tyrauts
forge their chains. A vitiated state of
morals, a corrupted public conscience, is
incompatible with freedom.
No free government, or the blessings of
liberty can be preserved to any people brit
by a firm adherence to justice, moderation,
temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by a
frequent recurrence to fundamental princi-
ples.-Patrick Henry.
Personal liberty is the right to act with-
out interference within the limits of the
law.-J. Oerter.
It is foolish to strive with what we can-
not avoid ; we are born subjects, and to
obey God is perfect liberty; he that does
this, shall be free, safe, and quiet ; all his
actions shall succeed to his wishes.--Sen-
eca,
If the true spark of religious and civil
liberty be kindled, it will burn. Human
agency cannot extinguish it. Like the
earth's central fire, it may be smothered
for a time; the ocean may overwhelm it;
mountains may press it down ; but its in-
herent and unconquerable force will heave
both the ocean and the land, and at some
time or another, in some place or another,
the volcano will break out and flame to
heaven.-Daniel Webster.
Perfect conformity to the will of God is
the sole sovereign and complete liberty.-
D'Aubigné.
No man can always do just as he chooses
until he always chooses to do God's will ;
and that is heaven. There is no liberty in
wrong-doing. It chains and fetters its vic-
tim as surely as effect follows cause.
Safe popular freedom consists of four
things, the diffusion of liberty, of intelli-
gence, of property, and of conscientious-
ness, and cannot be compounded of any
three out of the four.-Joseph Cook.
Men do things which their fathers wouldl
have deprecated, and then draw about them-
selves a flimsy cordon of sophistry, and talk
about the advance of humanity and liberal
thought, when it is nothing after all but
a preference for individual license.- John
Hall.
False notions of liberty are strangely com-
mon. People talk of it as if it meant the
liberty of doing whatever one likes--where-
as the only liberty that a man, worthy of
the name of man, ought to ask for, is, to
have all restrictions, inward and outward,
removed that prevent his doing what he
ought.-F. W. Robertson.
There is not a truth to be gathered from
history more certain, or more momentous,
than this : that civil liberty cannot long be
separated from religious liberty without
danger, and ultimately without destruction
to both. Wherever religious liberty exists,
it will, first or last, bring in and establish
political liberty. Wherever it is sup-
pressed, the church establishment will,
first or 'last, become the engine of despo-
tism, and overthrow, unless it be itself
overthrown, every vestige of political right.
Story.
If we must accept fate, we are not less
compelled to assert liberty, the significance
of the individual, the grandeur of duty, the
power of character.-We are sure, though
we know not how, that necessity does com-
port with liberty, the individual with the
world, my polarity with the spirit of the
times.- Emers072,
The principle of liberty and equality, if
coupled with were selfishness, will make
men only devils, each trying to be inde-
pendent that he may fight only for his own
interest.-And here is the need of religion
and its power, to bring in the principle of
benevolence and love to men.-John Ran-
dolph.
Christianity is the companion of liberty
in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy,
and the divine source of its claims. De
Tocqueville.
Freo will is not the liberty to do what-
ever one likes, but the power of doing what-
ever one sees ought to be done, even in the
very face of otherwise overwhelming im-
pulse. There lies freedom, indeed. - G.
Macdonald.
The freedom of some is the freedom of
the herd of swine that ran violently down
a steep place into the sea and were drowned.
The only liberty that is valuable, is a lib-
erty connected with order ; that not only ex-
ists with order and virtue, but which cannot
exist at all without them. It inheres in
good and steady government, as in its sub-
stance and vital principle.—Burke.
Liberty is the right of every human crea-
ture, as soon as he breathes the vital air;
and no human law can deprive him of that
right, which he derives from the law of
nature.
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True liberty consists in the privilege of
enjoying our own rights, not in the de-
struction of the rights of others.—Pinckard.
Man's liberty ends, and it ought to end,
when that liberty becomes the curse of his
neighbors.--Farrar.
Liberty is the right to do what the laws
allow; and if a citizen could do what they
forbid, it would be no longer liberty, be-
cause others would have the same powers.
-Montesquieu.
A nation may lose its liberties in a day,
and not miss them in a century.-Montes-
quieu.
If liberty with law is fire on the hearth,
liberty without law is fire on the floor.-
Hillard.
Men are qualified for civil liberty in ex-
act proportion to their disposition to put
chains upon their own appetites ; in pro-
portion as their love of justice is above their
rapacity ; in proportion as their soundness
and sobriety of understanding is above
their vanity and presumption; in propor-
tion as they are more disposed to listen to
the counsels of the wise and good, in pref-
erence to the flattery of knaves. Society
cannot exist unless a controlling power
upon the will and appetite is placed some-
where ; and the less of it there is within,
the more there must be of it without. It is
ordained in the eternal constitution of
things, that men of intemperate habits can-
not be free. Their passions forge their
fetters.--Burke.
Liberty will not descend to a people ; a
people must raise themselves to liberty ; it
is a blessing that must be earned before it
can be enjoyed.- Colton.
Where liberty dwells, there is my country.
-Milton.
A country cannot subsist well without
liberty, nor liberty without virtue.--Rous-
loose : but we ought to suspend our judg-
ment until the first effervescence is a little
subsided, till the liquor is cleared, and
until we see something deeper than the agi-
tation of a troubled and frothy surface. I
must be tolerably sure, before I venture
publicly to congratulate men upon a bless-
ing, that they have really received one.-
Burke.
The human race is in the best condition
when it has the greatest degree of liberty.
-Dante.
Liberty and union, one and inseparable,
now and forever.-
Daniel Webster.
Interwoven is the love of liberty with
every ligament of the heart.- Washington.
The liberty of a people consists in being
governed by laws which they have made
themselves, under whatsoever form it be of
government; the liberty of a private man,
in being master of his own time and actions,
as far as may consist with the laws of God
and of his country.-Cowley.
A Bible and a newspaper in every house,
a good school in every district, all studied
and appreciated as they merit,
-are the
principal support of virtue, morality, and
civil liberty.--Franklin.
The greatest glory of a free-born people,
is to transmit that freedom to their chil-
dren.-Havard.
The spirit of liberty is not, as multitudes
imagine, a jealousy of our own particular
rights, but a respect for the rights of others,
and an unwillingness that any one, whether
high or low, should be wronged or trampled
under foot.-Channing.
Liberty consists in the right which God
has given us, of doing, getting, and enjoy-
ing all the good in our power, according to
the laws of God, of the State, and of our
conscience.—True liberty, therefore, can
never interfere with the duties, rights, and
interests of others.-C. Simmons.
What is liberty without wisdom and with-
out virtue ?—It is the greatest of all possi-
ble evils, for it is folly, vice, and madness,
without tuition or restraint. - Burke.
O liberty, how many crimes are com-
mitted in thy name !-Mad. Roland.
The people never give up their liberties
but under some delusion.-Burke.
The Protestant principle, that “God
alone is Lord of the conscience,” has done
more to give the mind power, and to strike
off its chains, than any principle of mere
secular policy in the most perfect " Bill of
Rights.”—G. Spring.
The love of religious liberty is a stronger
sentiment, when fully excited, than an at-
seau.
Liberty cannot be established without
morality, nor morality without faith.
It is impossible to enslave, mentally or
socially, a Bible-reading people. The princi-
ples of the Bible are the ground-work of
human freedom.-Horace Greeley.
To do what we will, is natural liberty ;
to do what we may consistently with the
interests of the community to which we
belong, is civil liberty, the only liberty to
be desired in a state of civil society.--
Paley.
When I see the spirit of liberty in action,
I see a strong principle at work; and this,
for a while, is all I can possibly know of it.
The wild gas, the fixed air, is plainly broke
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causes.
tachment to civil freedom. Conscience, in
the cause of religion, prepares the mind to
act and to suffer, beyond almost all other
It sometimes gives an impulse so
irresistible, that no fetters of power or of
opinion can withstand it. History instructs
us, that this love of religious liberty, made
up of the clearest sense of right and the
highest conviction of duty, is able to look
the sternest despotism in the face, and, with
means apparently inadequate,' to shake
principalities and powers. -Daniel Webster.
A day, an hour of virtuous liberty is worth
a whole eternity of bondage.--Addison.
The true danger is, when liberty is nib-
bled away, for expedients, and by parts.-
Burke.
He is the freeman whom the truth makes
free, and all are slaves beside. - Cowper.
There is no liberty to men whose passions
are stronger than their religious feelings ;
there is no liberty to men in whom igno-
rance predominates over knowledge ; there
is no liberty to men who know not how to
govern themselves.-H. W. Beecher.
LIBRARIES.-Next to acquiring good
friends, the best acquisition is that of good
books.- Colton.
Libraries are as the shrines where all the
relics of saiuts, full of true virtue, and that
without delusion or imposture, are pre-
served and reposed.-Bacon.
Libraries are the wardrobes of literature,
whence men, properly informed, may bring
forth something for ornament, much for
curiosity, and more for use.--Dyer.
Let us pity those poor rich men who live
barrenly in great bookless houses! Let us
congratulate the poor that, in our day,
books are so cheap that a man may every
year add a hundred volumes to his library
for the price of what his tobacco and beer
would cost him. Among the earliest ambi-
tions to be excited in clerks, workmen, jour-
neymen, and, indeed, among all that are
struggling up from nothing to something,
is that of owning, and constantly adding to
a library of good books. A little library,
growing larger every year, is an honorable
part of a young man's history. It is a
man's duty to have books. A library is not
a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life.
-H. W. Beecher.
What laborious days, what watchings by
the midnight lamp, what rackings of the
brain, what hopes and fears, what long lives
of laborious study, are here sublimized into
print, and condensed into the narrow com-
pass of these surrounding shelves !-Horace
Smith.
The student has his Rome, his Florence,
his whole glowing Italy, within the four
walls of his library. He has in his books
the ruins of an antique world and the
glories of a modern onē.---Longfellow.
What a place to be in is an old library!
It seems as though all the souls of all the
writers that have bequeathed their labors
to these Bodleians were reposing here, as in
some dormitory or middle state. I do not
want to handle, to profane the leaves, their
winding-sheets. I could as soon dislodge a
shade. I seem to inhale learning, walking
amid their foliage ; and the odor of their
old moth-scented coverings is fragrant as
the first bloom of those sciential apples
which grew amid the happy orchard.-
Lamb.
My library was dukedom large enough.-
Shakespeare.
A large library is apt to distract rather
than to instruct the learner ; it is much
better to be confined to a few authors than
to wander at random over many.-Seneca.
Consider what you have in the smallest
chosen library. A company of the wisest
and wittiest men that could be picked out
of all civil countries, in a thousand years,
have set in best order the results of their
learning and wisdom. The men themselves
were hid and inaccessible, solitary, impa-
tient of interruption, fenced by etiquette ;
but the thought which they did not uncover
to their bosom friend is here written out in
transparent words to us, the strangers of
another age.-Emerson.
A great library contains the diary of the
human race.-The great consulting room
of a wise man is a library.-G. Dawson.
What a world of wit is here packed to-
gether !-I know not whether the sight
doth more dismay or comfort me.-It dis-
mays me to think that here is so much I
cannot know; it comforts me to think that
this variety yields so good helps to know
what I should.-Blessed be the memory of
those who have left their blood, their
spirits, their lives, in these precious books,
and have willingly wasted themselves into
these during monuments, to give light unto
others.—Bp. Hall.
The true university of these days is a
collection of books.--Carlyle.
From this slender beginning I have
gradually formed a numerous and select
library, the foundation of all my works,
and the best comfort of my life, both at
home and abroad. Gibbon.
No possession can surpass, or even equal
a good library, to the lover of books. Here
are treasured up for his daily use and de-
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lectation, riches which increase by being
consumed, and pleasures which never cloy.
-J. A. Langford.
A library may be regarded as the solemn
chamber in which a man may take counsel
with all who have been wise, and great, and
good, and glorious among the men that
have gone before him.-G. Dawson.
We enter our studies, and enjoy a society
which we alone can bring together. We
raise no jealousy by conversing with one in
preference to another : we give no offense
to the most illustrious by questioning him
as long as we will, and leaving him as ab-
ruptly. Diversity of opinion l'aises no t12-
mult in our presence ; each interlocutor
stands before us, speaks or is silent, and
we adjourn or decide the business at our
leisure.-Landor.
My books are my tools, and the greater
their variety and perfection the greater
the help to my literary work.Tryon Ed-
wards.
The gloomy recess of an ecclesiastical
library is like a harbor, into which a far-
traveling curiosity has sailed with its
freight, and cast anchor. The ponderous
tomes are bales of the mind's merchandise.
Odors of distant countries and times steal
from the red leaves, the swelling ridges of
vellum, and the titles in tarnished gold.-
Willmott.
LICENTIOUSNESS. Impure
thoughts waken impure feelings, lead to
impure expressions, and beget impure ac-
tions, and these lead to imbecility both of
body and mind, and to the ruin of all that
is noble and pure in character.-C. Sim-
mons.
If you would not step into the harlot's
house, do not go by the harlot's door.-
Secker.
Lewdness is a very broad way to death,
ornamented with artful flowers, and be-
gins to allure and seduce travelers at an
early age.—Parental watchfulness, guard-
ing them from early childhood, should be
diligent to keep them from this way to ruin.
-0. Simmons.
Human brutes, like other beasts, find
snares and poison in the provisions of life,
and are allured by their appetites to their
destruction.-Swift.
LIFE.-Every man's life is a plan of
God.-Horace Bushnell.
One life; a little gleam of time between
two eternities; no second chance for us for-
ever more.-Carlyle.
God gives to every man the virtue, tem-
per, understanding, taste that lifts him
into life, and lets him fall in just the niche
he was ordained to fill.
Remember that life is neither pain nor
pleasure ; it is serious business, to be en-
tered upon with courage and in a spirit of
self-sacrifice. --De Tocqueville.
The shortest life is long enough if it lead
to a better, and the longest life is short if
it do not. - Colton.
We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is
because we have within us the beginning
and the possibility of it.-Phillips Brooks.
We can never see this world in its true
light, unless we consider our life in it as a
state of probation and discipline, & con-
dition through which we are passing to pre-
pare us for another state.-J. W. Alexander.
As no true work since the world began
was ever wasted, so no true life since the
world began has ever failed.- Emerson.
Life has no significance to me save as
the theater in which our powers are devel-
oped and disciplined for use, and made
fruitful in securing our own independence,
and the good of those around us, or as the
scene in which we are fitted for the work and
worship of the world beyond.-J. G. Hol-
land.
We live no more of our time here than
we live well. — Carlyle.
The man who lives in vain, lives worse
than in vain. He who lives to no purpose,
lives to a bad purpose.— W. Nevins.
The truest end of life is to know the life
that never ends.—Penn.
The retrospect of life swarms with lost
opportunities.-Sir H. Taylor.
Life is no idle dream, but a solemn
reality, based on and encompassed by eter-
nity. Find out your work, and stand to it i
the night cometh when no man can work.-
Carlyle.
Virtue, not rolling suns, the mind ma-
tures; that life is long, which answers life's
great end. The time that bears no fruit,
deserves no name; the man of wisdom is
the man of years.- Young.
I would have every one consider that he
is, in this life, only a passenger, and that
he is not to set up his rest here, but to keep
an attentive eye on that state of being to
which he approaches every moment, and
which will be forever fixed and permanent.
This single consideration would be suffi-
cient to extinguish the bitterness of hatred,
the thirst of avarice, and the cruelty of am-
bition.-Addison.
While we are reasoning concerning life,
life is gone; and death, though perhaps
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they receive him differently, yet treats alike
the fool and the philosopher.-Hume.
Life, all life is expenditure; we have it,
but as continually losing it; we have the
use of it, but as continually wasting it.
Suppose a man confined in some fortress,
under the doom to stay there until his
death ; and suppose there is for his use a
dark reservoir of water, to which it is cer-
tain none can ever be added. He knows
that the quantity is not very great; be can-
not penetrate to ascertain how much, but
it may be very little. He has drawn from
it, by means of a fountain, a good while
already, and draws from it every day. But
how would he feel each time of drawing,
and each time of thinking of it? Not as if
he had a perennial spring to go to ; not, "I
have a reservoir, I may be at ease.". No;
but, “I had water yesterday, I have water
to-day; but my having had it, and my
having it to-day, is the very cause I shall
not have it on some day that is approaching.
And at the same time I am compelled to
this fatal expenditure!”. So of our mortal,
transient life! And yet men are very in-
disposed to admit the plain truth that life
is a thing which they are in no other way
possessing than as necessarily consuming;
and that even in this imperfect sense of
possession, it becomes every day less a pos-
session !-John Foster.
The great fact is, that life is a service.
The only question is, “Whom will we
serve?” — Faber.
It is a truth to be remembered, that this
life, which is mortal, is given to 118 that we
may prepare for the life which is immortal.
-De Sales.
Life is before you ; not an earthly life
alone, but an endless life; a thread run-
ning interminably through the work of
eternity.-J. G. Holland.
ur life is like Alpine countries, where
winter is found by the side of summer, and
where it is but a step from a garden to a
glacier.-Richter.
Life is not done, and our Christian char-
acter is not won, so long as God has any-
thing left for us to suffer or to do.-T. W.
Robertson.
It is impossible to live pleasurably with-
out living prudently, and honorably, and
justly; or to live prudently, and honorably,
and justly, without living pleasurably.-
Epicurus.
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn,
good and ill together ; our virtues would be
proud if our faults whipped them not; and
our crimes would despair if they were not
cherished by our virtues.-Shakespeare.
Life is hardly respectable if it has no
generous task, no duties or affections that
constitute a necessity of existence. Every
man's task is his life-preserver.-Emerson.
A useless life is only an early death.--
Goethe.
Why all this toil for the triumphs of an
hour? Young.
Life is rather a state of embryo, a prep-
aration for life; a man is not completely
born till he has passed through death.
Franklin.
Life is a series of surprises. We do not
guess to-day the mood, the pleasure, the
power of to-morrow, when we are building
up our being.--Emerson.
Much as we deplore our condition in life,
nothing would make us more satisfied with
it than the changing of places, for a few
days, with our neighbors.
There is not one life which the Life-giver
ever loses out of His sight; not one which
sins so that He casts it away; not one which
is not so near to Him that whatever touches
it touches Him with sorrow or with joy.--
Phillips Brooks.
We never live; we are always in the ex-
pectation of living.- Voltaire.
He lives long that lives well ; and time
misspent is not lived, but lost. God is
better than his promise if he takes from
him a long lease, and gives him a freehold
of a better value.--Fuller.
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 business ;
then to make up an estate, then to arrive
at honors, then to retire.- Addison.
There appears to exist a greater desire 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.-Zimmer-
mann.
Life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is
laid out in noble action or patient perse-
verance.—Liddon.
Life, like the waters of the seas, freshens
only when it ascends toward beaven,
Richter.
I would so live as if I knew that I re-
ceived my being only for the benefit of
others.–Seneca.
He that embarks in the voyage of life will
always wish to advance rather by the im-
pulse of the wind than the strokes of the
oar; and many founder in their passage,
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while they lie waiting for the gale.-John-
son.
Measure not life by the hopes and enjoy-
ments of this world, but by the preparation
it makes for another ; looking forward to
what you shall be rather than backward to
what you have been.
He is not dead who departs from life with
a bigh and noble fame; but he is dead,
even while living, whose brow is branded
with infamy.--Tiecko.
I am convinced that there is no man that
knows life well, and remembers all the in-
cidents of his past existence, who would ac-
cept it again. --Campbell.
Who would venture upon the journey of
life, if compelled to begin it at the end ?-
Mad. de Maintenon.
How small a portion of our life it is that
we really enjoy! In youth we are looking
forward to things that are to come ; in old
age we are looking backward to things
that are gone past; in manhood, although
we appear indeed to be more occupied in
things that are present, yet even that is too
often absorbed in vague determinations to
be vastly happy on some future day when
we have time.--Colton.
The earnestness of life is the only pass-
port to the satisfaction of life.-Theodore
Parker.
If I could get the ear of every young man
but for one word, it would be this ; make
the most and best of yourself.-There is no
tragedy like a wasted life-a life failing of
its true end, and turned to a false end.-
T. T. Munger.
When I reflect upon what I have seen,
have heard, and have done, I can bardly
persuade myself that all that frivolous hurry
and bustle and pleasure of the world bad
any reality; and I look on what has passed
as one of those wild dreams which opium
occasions, and I by no means wish to re-
peat the nauseous dose for the sake of the
fugitive illusion.--Chesterfield.
We never live, but we ever hope to live.
-Pascal.
Life, according to an Arabic proverb, is
composed of two parts : that which is past
-a dream; and that which is to come-
a wish.
Life is like a beautiful and winding lane,
on either side bright flowers, beautiful but-
terflies, and tempting fruits, which we
scarcely pause to admire and taste, so ea-
ger are we to hasten to an opening which
we imagine will be more beautiful still.
But by degrees, as we advance, the trees
grow bleak, the flowers and butterflies
fail, the fruits disappear, and we find we
have arrived-to reach a desert waste.-
G. A. Sala.
Life is the childhood of our immortality.
Goethe.
Life is thick sown with thorns, and I
know no other remedy than to pass quickly
through them. Tho longer we dwell on
our misfortunes, the greater is their power
to harm us.- Voltaire.
Common senso does not ask an impossi-
ble chessboard, but takes tho one before it
and plays the game.- Wendell Phillips.
The finest lives, in my opinion, are those
who rank in the common model, and with
the human race, but without miracle, with-
out extravagance.—Montaigne.
How great a pity that we should not feel
for what end wo aro born into this world,
till just as we are leaving it.— Walsinghami.
Though I think no man can live well once
but he that could live twice, yet for my own
part, I would not live over my hours past,
or begin again the thread of my days: not
because I have lived them well, but for fear
I should live them worse.-Sir T. Browne.
A man should live with his superiors as
he does with his fire; not too near, lest he
burn; not to far off, lest he freeze.-Dio-
genes.
When I reflect, as I frequently do, upon
the felicity I have enjoyed, I sometimes
say to myself, that, were the offer made me,
I would engage to run again, from begin-
ning to end, the same career of life. All I
would ask, should be the privilege of an au-
thor, to correct in a second edition, certain
errors of the first.-Franklin.
He who increases the endearments of life,
increases at the same time the terrors of
death.--Young.
To complain that life has no joys while
there is a single creature whom we can re-
lieve by our bounty, assist by onr counsels,
or enliven by our presence, is to lament the
loss of that which we possess, and is just as
rational as to die of thirst with the cup in
our hands.-Fitzosborne.
Life, if properly viewed in any aspect, is
great, but mainly great when viewed in its
relation to the world to come. — Albert
Barnes.
Hope writes the poetry of the boy, but
memory that of the man. Man looks for-
ward with smiles, but backward with sighs.
Such is the wise providence of God. The
cup of life is sweetest at the brim, the flavor
is impaired as we drink deeper, and the
dregs are made bitter that we may not
struggle when it is taken from our lips.
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ance
death may
Let us love life and feel the value of it,
that we may fill it with Christ. - A. Monod.
We never think of the main business of
life till a vain repentance minds us of it at
the wrong end.--L'Estrange.
If we do not weigh and consider to what
end this life is given us, and thereupon
order and dispose it right, we do not
number our days in the narrowest and most
limited signification.- Clarendon.
It is an infamy to die and not be missed.
- Carlos Wilcox.
Would you throughout life be up to the
height of your century, always in the prime
of man's reason, without crudeness and
without decline, live habitually, while
young, with persons older, and when old
with persons younger than yourself.-
Bulwer.
Life does not count by years. Some
suffer a lifetime in a day, and so grow ola
between the rising and the setting of the
sun.-Augusta Evans.
The certainty that life cannot be long, and
the probability that it will be shorter than
nature allows, ought to waken every man
to the active prosecution of whatever he is
desirous to perform. It is true that no
diligence can ensure success ;
intercept the swiftest career ; but he who
is cut off in the execution of an honest un-
dertaking, has at least the honor of failing
in his rank, and has fought the battle
though he missed the victory.-Johnson.
The vanity of human life is like a rivulet,
constantly passing away, and yet constantly
coming on.-Pope.
There are two lives to each of us, the life
of our actions, and the life of our minds
and hearts.-History reveals men's deeds
and their outward characters, but not them-
selves.--There is a secret self that has its
own life, unpenetrated and unguessed.-
Bulwer.
We are immortal till our work is done.
Whitefield.
Our life cannot be pronounced happy till
the last scene has closed with resignation
and hope, and in the full prospect of a
blessed immortality beyond the grave.
This little life has its duties that are
great—that are alone great, and that go up
to heaven and down to hell.-Carlyle.
They who are most weary of life, and yet
are most unwilling to die, are such who
have lived to no purpose ; who have rather
breathed than lived. - Clarendon.
Many think themselves to be truly God-
fearing when they call this world a valley
of tears. But I believe they would be more
80, if they called it a happy valley. God is
more pleased with those who think every-
thing right in the world, thau with those
who think nothing right. With so many
thousand joys, is it not black ingratitude
to call the world a place of sorrow and tor-
ment?- Richter.
Life is a quarry, out of which we are to
mold and chisel and complete a character.-
Goethe.
There is nothing in life so irrational, that
good sense and chance may not set it to
rights ; nothing so rational, that folly and
chance may not utterly confound it.-
Goethe.
What a beautiful lesson is taught in these
words of Sterne: “So quickly sometimes
has the wheel of life turned round, that
many a man has lived to enjoy the benefit
of that charity which his own piety pro-
jected.”
The meaning, the value, the truth of life
can be learned only by an actual perform-
of its duties, and truth can be
learned and the soul saved in no other way.
-T. T. Munger.
It is the bounty of nature that we live,
but of philosophy that we live well ; which
is, in truth, a greater benefit than life itself.
-Seneca.
Fleeting as were the dreams of old, re-
membered like a tale that's told, we pass
away.-Longfellow.
The time of life is short ; to spend that
shortness basely, 'twere too long.-shake-
speare.
Bestow thy youth so that thou mayst have
coinfort to remember it, when it hath for-
saken thee, and not sigh and grieve at the
account thereof. Whilst thou art young
thou wilt think it will never have an end i
but behold, the longest day hath his even-
ing, and thou shalt enjoy it but once ; it
never turns again ; 118e it therefore as the
spring-time, which soon departeth, and
wherein thou oughtest to plant and sow all
provisions for a long and happy life.-Sir
W. Raleigh.
We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts,
not breaths; in feelings, not in figures on
the dial ; we should count time by heart-
throbs. He most lives who thinks most,
feels the noblest, acts the best.--Bailey.
There is nothing which must end, to be
valued for its continuance. If hours, days,
months, and years pass away, it is no matter
what hour, day, month, or year we die.
The applause of a good actor is due to him
at whatever scene of the play he makes his
exit. It is thus in the life of a man of
al."
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sense; a short life is suflicient to manifest
himself a man of honor and virtue ; when
he ceases to be such, he has lived too long ;
and while he is such, it is of no consequence
to him how long he shall be so, provided he
is so to his life's end.-Steele.
Life, like every other blessing, derives
its value from its use alone. Not for itself,
but for a nobler end the eternal gave it;
and that end is virtue. Johnson.
Nor love thy life, nor hate ; but what
thou livest, live well; how long or short
permit to heaven.--Milton.
Life is a journey, not a home ; a rond,
not a city of habitation; and the enjoy-
ments and blessings we have are but little
inns on the roadside of life, where we may
be refreshed for a moment, that we may
with new strength press on to the end-to
the rest that remaineth for the people of
God.
'Tis not for man to trifle ; life is brief,
and sin is here. We have no time to sport
away the hours; all must be carnest in a
world like ours. — - -Bonar.
I count all that part of my life lost which
I spent not in communion with God, or in
doing good.-Donne.
The end of a dissolute life is commonly a
desperate death.— Bion.
The truest view of life has always seemed
to me to be that which shows that we are
here not to enjoy, but to learn.-7. W.
Robertson2.
The shortest life is long enough if it lead
to a better, and the longest life is too short
if it do not. Collon.
Nothing but a good life here can fit men
for a better one hereafter.
The truest end of life is to know the life
that never ends.-Penn.
Dost thou love life?-Then do not squan-
der time, for that is the stuff life is macle
of.-Franklin.
That man lives twice who lives the first
lifo well. --Ferrick.
A sacred burden is this life ye bear; look.
on it ; lift it; bear it solemnly; fail not for
sorrow; falter not for sin; but onward,
upward, till the goal ye win.-Frances Ani
Kemble.
The end of life is to be like God, and
the soul following God will be like him.
Socrates.
Thy life is no idle dream, but a solemn
reality; it is thine own, and it is all thou
hast to front eternity with.-Carlyle.
Life's evening will take its character
from the day that preceded it.- Shuttle-
worth.
The creed of the true saint is to make
the most of life, and to make the best of it.
-E. H. Chapin.
Live while you live, the epicure would
say, and seize the pleasures of the passing
day.--Live while you live, the sacred
preacher cries, and give to God each mo-
inent as it flies.-Lord, in my views, let both
united be. I live in pleasure while I live
to thee.-Doddridge.
He that lives to live forever, never fears
dying.-Penn.
No man enjoys the true taste of life, but
he who is ready and willing to quit it.
Seneca.
Live virtuously, my lord, and you can-
not die too soon, nor live too long.-Lady
Russell.
The things for which life is valuable are
the satisfactions which come from the im-
provement of knowledge and the exercise
of piety.--Boyle.
I will govern my life and thoughts as if
the whole world were to see the one and to
read the other, for what does it signify to
make anything a secret to my neighbor,
when to God, who is the searcher of our
hearts, all our privacies are open ?-Seneca.
Our grand business in life is not to see
what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what
lies clearly at hand.--Carlyle.
We wish for more in life rather than
more of it.-- Jean Ingelow.
There is pleasure enough in this life to
make us wish to live, and pain enough to
reconcile us to death when we can live no
longer.
The most we can get out of life is its dis-
cipline for ourselves, and its usefulness for
'others.---Tryon Edwards.
Human life is a constant want, and ought
to be a constant prayer.
Live as with God; and whatever be your
calling, pray for the gift that will perfectly
qualify you in it.-Horace Bushnell.
Life is divided into three terms that
which was, which is, and which will be.
Let us learn from the past to profit by the
present, and from the present to live better
for the future.
Oft in my way have I stood still, though
but a casual passenger, so much I felt the
awfulness of life.- Wordsworth.
Behold eighty-three years passed away!
What cares! what agitation! what anxie-
ties ! whatill-will! what sad complications !
and all vithout other result except great
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:
fatigue of body and mind, and disgust with opposite ends of the telescope ; to the one
regard to the past, and a profound senti- it is exceedingly long, to the other exceed-
ment of discouragement and despair with ingly short.-H. W. Beeche; '.
regard to the future.— Talleyrand.
Man spends his life in reasoning on the
The shaping our own life is our own past, complaining of the present, and trem-
work. It is a thing of beauty, or a thing bling for the future.—Rivarol.
of shame, as we ourselves make it. We lay
Life, like war, is a series of mistakes, and
the corner and add joint to joint, we give he is not the best Christian nor the best
the proportion, we set the finish. It may
general who makes the fewest false steps.
be a thing of beauty and of joy for ever.
Poor mediocrity may secure that, but he is
God forgive us if we pervert our life from
best who wins the most splendid victories by
putting on its appointed glory!- Ware.
the retrieval of mistakes.-F. W. Robertson.
What a death in life it must be-au exist-
With most men life is like backgammon
ence whose sole aim is good eating and
-half skill and half luck.-0. W. Holmes.
drinking, splendid houses and elegant
clothes ? Not that these things are bad in
LICHT,Hail ! holy light, offspring of
moderation—and with something higher
heaven, first born !-Milton.
beyond. But with nothing beyond ?-Mu-
lock.
The first creation of God, in the works of
The greatest results in life are usually
the days, was the light of sense ; the last
attained by simple means and the exercise
was the light of reason; and his Sabbath
of ordinary qualities. These may for the
work, ever since, is the illumination of the
most part be summed up in these two-com-
spirit. -Bacon.
mon sense and perseverance.-Feltham. Before the sun, before the heavens thou
wert, and at the voice of God, as with a
To live is not merely to breathe, it is to mantle didst invest the rising world of
act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, waters dark and deep won from the void
faculties, of all those parts of ourselves and formless infinite. -Milton.
which give us the feeling of existence. The
man who has lived longest is not the man
Light! Nature's resplendent robe; with-
who has counted most years, but he who'
out whose vesting beauty all were wrapt in
has enjoyed life most. Such a one was
gloom.--Thomson.
buried a hundred years old, but he was
Light is the symbol of truth.-J. R.
dead from his birth. He would have gained
Lowell.
by dying young; at least he would have
The eye's light is a noble gift of heaven !
lived till that time.--Rousseau.
All beings live from light; each fair created
To make good use of life, one should thing, the very plants, turn with a joyful
have in youth the experience of advanced transport to the light.---Schiller.
years, and in old age the vigor of youth.-- Light is the shadow of God. -Plato.
Stanislaus.
Moral light is the radiation of the diviner
Live as if you expected to live au hundred
glory,-Dicic.
years, but might die to-morrow.-Ann Lee.
The light of nature, the light of science,
Yet through all, we kuow this tangled
skein is in the hands of One who sees the end
and the light of reason, are but as darkness,
fron the beginning ; he shall yet unravel
compared with the divine light which shines
all.-Alexander Smith.
only from the word of God.--J. K. Lord.
Be such a man, and live such a life, that
Science and art may invent splendid
if every man were such as you, and every
modes of illuminating the apartments of
life a life like yours, this earth would be
the opulent; but these are all poor and
God's Paradise.-Phillips Brooks.
worthless compared with the light which
the sun pour8 freely, impartially, over hill
Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or
and valley, which kindles daily the eastern
duties, but of little things, in which smiles
and western sky; and so the common lights
and kindness, and small obligations given
of reason and conscience and love are of
habitually, are what preserve the heart and
more worth and dignity than the rare en-
secure comfort.—Sir H. Davy.
dowments which give celebrity to a few.-
Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy Channing.
prison, and its only deliverer is death.--. | We should render thanks to God for hav-
What we call life is a journey to death, and
what we call death is a passport to life.-
ing produced this temporal light, which is
the smile of heaven and the joy of the world,
Colton.
spreading it like a cloth of gold over the
Age and youth look upon life from the face of the air and earth, and lighting it as
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a torch, by which we may behold his works.
-Caussin.
Walk boldly and wisely in the light thou
hast; there is a hand above will help thee
on.-Bailey.
Walk in the light and thou shalt see thy
path, though thorny, bright; for God, by
grace, shall dwell in thee, and God himself
is light.-Barton.
LITERATURE,-Literature is a frag-
ment of a fragment;of all that ever hap-
pened, or has been said, but a fraction has
been written, and of this but little is extant.
Goethe.
The literature of an age is but the mir-
ror of its prevalent tendencies.-Nation.
The triumphs of the warrior are bounded
by the narrow theater of his own age ; but
those of a Scott or a Shakespeare will be re-
newed with greater and greater luster in
ages yet unborn, when the victorious chief-
tain shall be forgotten, or shall live only in
the song of the minstrel and the page of the
chronicler.-Prescott.
The literature of a people must spring
from the sense of its nationality; and na-
tionality is impossible without self-respect,
and self-respect is impossible without lib-
erty.-Mrs. Stowe.
A beautiful literature springs from the
depth and fulness of intellectual and moral
life, from an energy of thought and feeling,
to which nothing, as we believe, ministers
80 largely as enlightened religion.-Chan-
ning.
Literature happens to be the only occu-
pation in which wages are not given in pro-
portion to the goodness of the work done.-
Froude.
Literature is a great staff, but a sorry
crutch.— Walter Scott.
When literature is the sole business of
life, it becomes a drudgery. When we are
able to resort to it only at certain bours, it
is a charming relaxation. In my earlier
days I was a banker's clerk, obliged to be
at the desk every day from ten till five
o'clock; and I shall never forget the de-
light with which, on returning home, I used
to read and write during the evening.–
Rogers.
Literary dissipation is no less destructive
of sympathy with the living world, than
sensual dissipation. Mere intellect is as
bard-hearted and as heart-hardening as
mero sense; and the union of the two,
when uncontrolled by the conscience and
without the softening, purifying infiences
of the moral affections, is all that is requi-
site to produce the diabolical ideal of our
nature.-- Anon.
Books only partially represent their au-
thors; the writer is always greater than
his work.-Bovee.
Literature has her quacks no less than
medicine, and they are divided into two
classes; those who have erudition without
genius, and those who have volubility with-
out depth ; we get second-hand sense from
the one, and original nonsense from the
other.-Colton.
In the literature of the world there is not
one popular book which is immoral that
continues to exist two centuries after it is
produced ; for in the heart of nations the
false does not live so long, and the true is
ethical to the end of time.-Bulwer.
If I might control the literature of the
household, I would guarantee the well-being
of the church and state.-Bacon,
He who would understand the real spirit of
literature should not select authors of any
one period alone, but rather go to the foun-
tain head, and trace the little rill as it
courses along down the ages broadening
and deepening into the great ocean of
thought which the men of the present are
exploring.–Garfield.
Inscience, read, by preference, the newest
works ; in literature, the oldest. The clas-
sic literature is always modern.-Bulwer.
A country which has no national litera-
ture, or a literature too insignificant to
force its way abroad, must always be, to its
neighbors at least, in every important
spiritual respect, an unknown and unesti-
mated country.- Carlyle.
The decline of literature indicates the de-
cline of a nation; the two keep pace in their
downward tendency.--Goethe.
I never knew a man of letters ashamed
of his profession.-Thackeray.
The study of literature nourishes youth,
entertains old age, adorns prosperity, 80-
laces adversity, is delightful at home, and
unobtrusive abroad.-Cicero.
Nothing lives in literature but that which
has in it the vitality of creative art; and it
would be safe advice to the young to read
nothing but what is old.-E. P. Whipple.
In literature, to-day, there are plenty of
good masons but few good architects.-
Joubert.
The great standard of literature, as to
purity and exactness of style, is the Bible.
-Blair.
Such superiority do the pursuits of litera-
ture possess above every other occupation,
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that even he who attains but a mediocrity
in them, merits the pre-eminence above
those who excel the most in the common
and vulgar professions.-Hume.
The beaten paths of literature lead safe-
liest to the goal, and the talent pleases us
most which submits to shine with new
gracefulness through old forms.-Nor is the
noblest and most peculiar mind too noble
or peculiar for working by prescribed laws.
--Carlyle.
There, is first, the literature of knowl-
edge ; and, secondly, the literature of
power. The function of the first is, to
teach ; of the second is, to move; the first
is & rudder, the second an oar or a sail.
The first speaks to the mere discursive un-
derstanding ; the second speaks ultimately
to the higher understanding or reason, but
always through affections of pleasure and
sympathy.-De Quincey.
Literary history is the great morgne
where all seek the dead ones whom they love,
or to whom they are related.--Heine.
Let your literary compositions be kept
from the public eye for nine years at least.
Horuce.
The selection of a subject is to the author
what choice of position is to the general,
once skillfully determined, the battle is al-
ready half won. Of a few writers it may
be said, that they are popular in despite of
their subjects—but of a great many more,
that they are popular because of them.-
Bovee.
Other relaxations are peculiar to certain
times, places, and stages of life, but the
study of letters is the nourishment of our
youth, and the joy of our old age. They
throw an additional splendor on prosperity,
and are the resource and consolation of ad-
versity; they delight at home, and are no
embarrassment abroad ; in short, they are
company to us at night, our fellow-travel-
ers on a journey, and attendants in our
rural recesses. Cicero.
There is such a thing as literary fashion,
and prose and verse have been regulateci
by the same caprice that cuts our coats and
cocks our hats.
-Disraeli.
Literature has now become a game in
which the booksellers are the kings; the
critics, the knaves; the public, the pack;
and the poor author, tle mere table or
thing played upon.- Colton. .
Literature is the immortality of speech.
--Schlegel.
LITTLE THINGS.--(See "TRIFLES.")
He that despiseth sınall things, shall fall
by little and little.-Icclesiasticus.
Most of the critical things in life, which
become the starting points of human des-
tiny, are little things. -R. Smith.
Minute events are the hinges on which
magnificent results turn.- In a watch the
smallest link, chain, ratchet, cog, or crank,
is as essential as the main spring itself.
If one fall out the wbole will stand still.
Cumming.
Without mounting by degrees, a man
cannot attain to high things; and the break-
ing of the ladder still casteth a man back,
and maketh the thing wearisome, which was
easy.-Sir P. Sidney.
The power of little things has so often
been noted that we accept it as an axiom,
and yet fail to see, in each beginning, the
possibility of great. events.-F. P. Ed-
wards.
Do little things now ; so shall big things
come to thee by and by asking to be done.
-Persian Proverb.
It is the fixed law of the universe, that
little things are but parts of the great. The
grass does not spring up full grown, by
eruptions : it rises by an increase so noise-
less and gentle, as not to disturban angel's
ear-perhaps to be invisible to an angel's
eye. The rain does not fall in masses, but
in drops, or even in the breath-like moisture
of the fine mist. The planets do not leap
from end to end of their orbits, but inch by
inch, and line by line, it is, that they circle
the heavens. Intellect, feeling, habit, char-
acter, all become what they are through the
influence of little things. And in morals
and religion, it is by little things—by little
influences acting on us, or seemingly little
decisions made by us, that every one of us
is going, not by leaps, yet surely by inches,
either to life or death eternal. -Tryon Ed-
wards.
Gueat results are oft the issue of small
occasions. Providence uses little things
for great issties, and things despised for
ends of everlasting honor.--A. Phelps.
If God gives us but little tasks, let
us be content to do little. It is but
pride and self-will, which says:
" Give
me something great to do; I should en-
joy that; 11t why make me sweep the
dust?"--C. Kingsley.
Many men fail in life, from the want, as
they are too ready to suppose, of those
great occasions wherein they might have
shown their trustworthiness and integrity.
But all such persons should remember, that
in order to try whether a vessel be leaky,
we first prove it with water, before we trust
it with the wine. The more minute and
trivial opportunities of being just and up-
,
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right, are coustantly occurring to every truth lies in a well”; and to carry on the
one; and it is an unimpeachable character metaphor, we may justly say, that logic
in these lesser things that prepares and pro- supplies us with steps whereby we may go
duces those very opportunities of greater down to reach the water.- Watts.
advancement, and of higher confidence,
Logic is the science of the laws of thought
which turn out so rich a harvest, but which
as thought, that is, of the necessary con-
only those are permitted to reap who have
ditions to which thought, in itself con-
previously sovu.- Colton.
sidered, is subject.-Sir W. Hamilton.
The greatest things ever done on earth
Assertion is the logic of ignorance and
have been done by little and little-little
prejudice ; argument, the logic of wisdom
agents, little persons, little things, by every
and truth, Tryon Edwards.
one doing bis own work, filling his own
sphere, holding his own post, and saying,
Logic is a large drawer, containing some
"Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?”
needful instruments, and many more that
Guthrie,
are superfluous.-A wise man will look into
it for two purposes, to avail himself of
The smallest hair throws its shadow..
those instruments that are really useful,
Goethe.
and to admire the ingenuity with which
There is nothing too little for so little a those that are not so are assorted and ar-
creature as man. It is by studying little ranged.-Colton.
things that we attain the great art of having
Logic and rhetoric make men able to con-
as little misery and as much happiness as
tend.-Logic differeth from rhetoric as the
possible.-Johnson,
fist from the palm; the one close, the other
Little things are great to little men. - at large. Bacon.
Goldsmith
Ethics makes one's soul mannerly and
The influences of little things are as real, wise, but logic is the armory of reason,
and as constantly about us, as the air we furnished with all offensive and defensive
breathe, or the light by which we see.
weapons, -Fuller.
These are the small the often invisible
Logic works; metaphysics contemplates.
the almost unthought of strands, which are
--Joubert.
inweaving and twisting by millions, to bind
128 to character—to good or evil here, and
Syllogism is of necessary use, even to the
to heaven or hell hereafter.-- Tryon Ed-
lovers of truth, to show them the fallacies
wards.
that are often concealed in florid, witty, or
involved discourses.--Locke.
Small things are not small if great results
come of them.
Logic is the art of convincing us of some
truth.-Bruyère.
Little things console us, because little
things afflict us.--Pascal.
LOOKS.-(See "Eve" and "FACE.")
Despise not small things, either for evil
Looks are more expressive and reliable
or good, for a look may work thy ruin, or than words; they have a language which
a word create thy wealth.-A spark is a all understand, and language itself is to be
little thing, yet it may kindle the world. -
interpreted by the look as well as tone with
Tupper.
which it is uttered.-Tryon Edwards.
Most persons would succeed in small
Looks kill love, and love by looks re-
things if they were not troubled with great
viveth ; a smile recures the wounding of a
ambitions.- Longfellow.
frown.-Shakespeare.
Their eyes but met, and then were turned
come to thee, by and by, asking to be done.
aside.-It was enough.-That mystic elo-
-Persian Proverb.
quence, unheard, yet visible, is deeply felt,
The power to do great things generally and tells what else were incommunicable.
arises from the willingness to do sipall Derozier,
things.
Features—the great soul's apparent seat.
We blame others for slight things, and --Bryant.
overlook greater in ourselves.-- Thomas à What brutal mischief sits upon his brow!
Kempis.
He may be honest, but he looks damnation.
LOGIC.-Logic and metaphysics make
-Dryden.
use of more tools than all the rest of the A good face is a letter of recommenda-
sciences put together, and they do the least tion, as a good heart is a letter of credit.
work.-Colton.
Builwer.
It was a saying of the ancients, that In his looks appears a wild, distracted
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fierceness ; I can read some dreadful pur-
pose in his face.- Denham.
Cheerful looks make every dish a feast,
and that it is which crowns a welcome.
Mąssinger.
'Tis not my talent to conceal my thoughts,
or carry smiles and sunshine in my face,
when discontent sits heavy at my heart.--
Addison.
Coldness and aversion are in your looks,
and tell no pity is concealed within -
Havard.
His visage seemed to bear a mixture of
uncertain cheerfulness, like hope corrected
by some cautious fear, ---Sewell.
How in the looks does conscious guilt ap-
pear.-Ovid.
O there are looks and tones that dart an
instant sunshine to the heart, as if the
soul that minute caught some treasure it
through life had sought; as if the very lips
and eyes sparkled and spoke before us.-
Moore,
With such ardent eyes he wandered o'er
me, and gazed with such intensity of love,
sending his soul out to me in a look. --
Young.
A sweet attractive kind of grace; a full
assurance given by looks ; continual com-
fort in a face, the lineaments of gospel
books.--Roydon.
LOQUACITY,-(See "SPEECI,"
NOISE," "TALKING.")
A talkative fellow may be compared to
an unbraced drum, which beats a wise man
out of his wits.-Loquacity is ever run-
ning, and almost incurable.-Felthan.
Learn to hold thy tongue; five words
cost Zacharias forty weeks of silence..
Tuller.
Speaking much is a sign of vanity, for he
that is lavish in words is a niggard in deed.
Sir W. Raleigh.
Of a great and wise statesman it is said,
" that he can hold his tongue in ten differ-
ent languages."
Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of noth-
ing; his reasons are as two grains of wheat
hid in two bushels of chaff ; you shall seek
all day ere you find them, and when you
have them they are not worth the search.-
Shakespeare.
Thou may'st esteem a man of many words
and many lies much alike. Fuller.
Nature has given us two ears, two eyes,
and but one tongue, to the end that we
should hear and see more than we speak.-
Socrates.
Those who have few affairs to attend to
are great speakers.--The less men think
the more they talk.-Montesquieu.
Labor to show more wit in discourse than
words, and not to pour out a flood of the
one, when you can hardly wring out of your
brains a drop of the other.-Spencer.
Every absurdity has a champion to de-
fend it, for error is always talkative.--
Goldsmith.
There are braying men in the world as
well as braying asses; for what is loud and
senseless talking and swearing other than
braying.-L'Estrange.
You cram these words into mine ears
against the stomach of my sense.-Shake-
speare.
He loves to hear himself talk, and will
speak more in a minute than he will stand
to in a month. --Shakespeare.
Be always less willing to speak than to
hear; what thou bearest, thou receivest;
what thou speakest thou givest. It is more
glorious to give, but more profitable to re-
ceive.-Quarles.
Many a man's tongue shakes out its mas-
ter's undoing.--Shakespeare.
They only babble who practise not reflec-
tion. I shåll think; and thought is silence.
--Sheridan.
He draweth out the thread of his verbos-
ity finer than the staple of his argument.
Shakespeare.
They always talk who never think, and
who have the least to say.-Prior.
The tongue of a fool is the key of his
counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom bath
in keeping.–Socrates.
No fool can be silent at a feast.-Solon.
Still bis tongue ran on; the less weight
it bore with greater ease; and with its ever-
lasting clack, set all men's ears upon the
rack.-Samuel Butler.
A man that speaks too much, and museth
but little, wasteth his mind in words, and
is counted a fool among men.-Tupper.
LOSSES,-(See "MISFORTUNE.")
We never seem to know what anything
means till we have lost it,—The full sig-
nificance of those words, property, ease,
health-the wealth of meaning that lies in
the fond epithets, parent, child, friend, we
never know till they are taken away ; till
in place of the bright, visible being, comes
the awful and desolate shadow where
nothing is--where we stretch out our hands
in vain, and strain our eyes upon dark and
dismal vacuity.-1. Dewey.
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Humanity may endure the loss of every-
thing; all its possessions may be torn away
without infringing its true dignity-all but
the possibility of improvement.--Fichte.
Of all our losses, those delay doth cause,
are most and heaviest.-By it oft we lose
the richest treasures, knowledge, wealth,
and power, and oft, alas ! the never dying
soul.-The calls of God and duty we intend
to hear, at some convenient season, which
to us may never come.--And thus we madly
waste probation, forfeit heaven, and heed-
less sink to endless death.--Tryon Ed-
wards.
Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, but
cheerily seek how to redress their harms.
-Shakespeare.
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost;
when health is lost, something is lost;
when character is lost, all is lost. — German
Motto.
Losses are comparative, imagination only
makes them of any moment.-Pascal.
What is taken from the fortune, also, may
haply be so much lifted from the soul.' The
greatness of a loss, as the proverb suggests,
is determinable, not so much by what we
have lost, as by what we have left.-Bovee.
LOVE.-It is a beautiful necessity of
our nature to love something.–Jerrold.
The greatest pleasure of life is love.-
Sir W. Tenuple.
There comes a time when the souls of
human beings, women
women more even than
men, begin to faint for the atmosphere of
the affections they are made to breathe.
0. W. Holmes.
All true love is grounded on esteem.-
Buckingham.
The heart of him who truly loves is a
paradise on earth; he has God in himself,
for God is love.-Lamennais.
Love one human being purely and
warmly, and you will love all. —The heart
in this heaven, like the sun in its course,
sees nothing, from the dewdrop to the
ocean, but a mirror which it brightens, and
warms, and fills.-Richter.
Love gives itself ; it is not bought.-
Longfellow.
Love was to his impassioned soul, not a
mere part of its existence, but the whole,
the very life-breath of his heart.-Moore.
We are shaped and fashioned by what we
love.- Goethe.
The poets judged like philosophers when
they feigned love to be blind.-How often
do we see in a woman what our judgment
and taste approve, and yet feel nothing of
love toward her; how often what they
both condemn, and yet feel a great deal. -
Greville,
I am not one of those who do not believe
in love at first sight, but I believe in taking
a second look.-H. Vincent.
Passion may be blind; but to say that
love is, is a libel and a lie.—Nothing is more
sharp-sighted or sensitive than true love,
in discerning, as by an instinct, the feelings
of another.-W. H. Davis.
That is the true season of love, when we
believe that we alone can love, that no one
could ever have loved so before us, and that
no one will love in the same way after us.—
Goethe.
Absence in love is like water upon fire ;
a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.
-Hannah More.
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated
it will flow back and soften and purify the
heart.- Washington Irving.
The plainest man that can convince a
woman that he is really in love with her,
has done more to make her in love with him
than the handsomest man, if he can pro-
duce no such conviction. For the love of
woman is a shoot, not a seed, and flourishes
most vigorously only when ingrafted on
that love which is rooted in the breast of
another.—Colton.
Man's love is of man's life a part; it is
woman's whole existence.—Byron.
Love which is only an episode in the life
of man, is the entire history of woman's
life.--Mad. de Staël.
The soul of woman lives in love.-Mrs.
Sigourney.
Alas! the love of women ! it is known to
be a lovely and a fearful thing ; for all of
theirs upon that die is thrown : and if 'tis
lost, life has no more to bring to them but
mockeries of the past alone. - Byron.
Let grace and goodness be the principal
loadstone of thy affections. For love which
hath ends, will have an end ; whereas that
which is founded on true virtue, will al-
ways continue.--Dryden.
Affections, like the conscience, are rather
to be led than drawn ; and 'tis to be feared,
they that marry where they do not love,
will love where they do not marry.-Fuller.
Love is an image of God, and not a life-
less image, but the living essence of the
divine nature which beams full of all good-
ness.-Luther.
The motto of chivalry is also the motto
of wisdom ; to serve all, but love only one.
-Balzac.
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LOVE.
A man loved by a beautiful and virtuous
woman, carries with him a talisman that
renders him invulnerable ; every one feels
that such a one's life has a higher value
than that of others.-Mad. Dudevant.
I have enjoyed the happiness of the
world ; I have lived and loved.---Schiller.
Nothing more excites to all that is noble
and generous, than virtuous love.- Home.
Man while he loves is never quite de-
praved.-Lamb.
Mutual love, the crown of all our bliss.
-Milton.
It is better to have loved and lost, than
not to love at all. - Tennyson.
It is sweet to feel by what fine spun
threads our affections are drawn together.
--Sterne.
The treasures of the deep are not so pre-
cious as are the concealed comforts of a
man locked up in woman's love.--Mid-
dleton,
Must love be ever treated with profane-
ness as a mere illusion? or with coarseness
as a mere impulse ? or with fear as a mere
disease ? or with shame as a mere weak-
ness? or with levity as a mere accident?
whereas it is a great mystery and a great
necessity, lying at the foundation of human
existence, morality, and happiness,-mys-
terious, universal, inevitable as death.
Harriet Martineau.
Corporeal charms may indeed gain ad-
mirers, but there must be mental ones to
retain them; and Horace had a delicate
feeling of this, when he refused to restrict
the pleasures of the lover merely to his
eyes, but added also those of the ear.
Colton.
As love without esteem is volatile and ca-
pricious, esteem without love is languid
and cold.—Hawkesworth.
The woman that has not touched the
heart of a man, before he leads her to the
altar, has scarcely a chance to charm it
when possession and security turn their
powerful arms against her.-Mrs. Cowley.
Friendship often ends in love, but love
in friendship never.—Colton.
There is nothing holier in this life of
ours than the first consciousness of love-
the first fluttering of its silken wings-the
first rising sound and breath of that wind
which is so soon to sweep through the soul,
to purify or to destroy - Longfellow.
When the heart is still agitated by the
remains of a passion, we are more ready to
receive a new one than when we are en-
tirely cured.-Rochefoucauld.
Love is an egotism of two.—La Salle.
Solid love, whose root is virtue, can no
more die than virtue itself.- Erasmus.
True love's the gift which God hath given,
to man alone beneath the heaven. The
silver link, the silver tie, which heart to
heart, and mind to mind, in body and in
soul can bind.- Walter Scott.
Reason and love oft keep company; it is
most happy when they are made friends.
Shakespeare.
Love never reasons, but profusely gives ;
gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all,
and trembles then lest it has done too little.
-Hannah More.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with
the mind.-Shakespeare.
Casual disagreements have been con-
sidered as springs that give new force to
love; and I believe they are so ; yet as a
spring too frequently or too forcibly used,
remains at the place to which it is drawn
back instead of flying forward, so lovers
will find that disagreements, if they are too
frequent, will at length lose their elasticity
and impel to love no more.-Greville.
Love that has nothing but beauty to keep
it in good health, is short-lived, and apt to
lave ague-fits.---Erasmus.
In loving thou dost well, in passion not,
wherein true love consists not; love refines
the thoughts, and heart enlarges, hath its
seat in reason, and is judicious, is the
scale by which to heavenly love thou mayest
ascend, not sunk in carnal pleasure, for
which cause among the beasts no mate for
thee was found.-Milton.
What is love ?-'Tis not the kiss on
harlot lips—such bliss doth perish even
while cherished.--He only is blest in true
love, who loves for years and loves but one.
-Hunt.
But love is blind, and lovers cannot see
the pretty follies that themselves commit.
-Shakespeare.
It is in love as in war, we are often more
indebted for success to the weakness of the
defence, than to the energy of the attack;
for mere idleness has ruined more women
than passion ; vanity more than idleness,
and credulity more than either.--Colton.
Love is the virtue of women. Mad. Du-
devant.
Love sought is good, but given unsought
is better.- Shakespeare.
The greatest happiness of life is the con-
viction that we are loved, loved for our-
selves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.
- Victor Hugo.
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LOVE.
However dull a woman may be, she will
understand all there is in love ; however
intelligent a man may be, he will never
know but half of it.-Mad. Fée.
It is not decided that women love more
than men, but it is indisputable that they
love better.--Dubay.
Love is the admiration and cherishing of
the amiable qualities of the beloved person,
upon the condition of yourself being the
object of their action. The qualities of
the sexes correspond. The man's courage
is loved by the woman, whose fortitude
again is coveted by the man. His vigorous
intellect is answered by her infallible tact.
Can it be true, as is so constantly affirmel,
that there is no sex in souls? I doubt it
exceedingly.-Coleridge.
As love increases, prudence diminislies.-
Rochefoucaula.
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek
to quench the fire of love with words.-
Shakespeare.
Love covers a multitude of sins. When
a scar cannot be taken away, the next kind
office is to hide it.-Love is never so blind
as when it is to spy faults. It is like the
painter, who, being to draw the picture of
a friend having a blemish in one eye, would
picture only the other side of his face. It
is a noble and great thing to cover the
blemişlies and to excuse the failings of a
friend ; to draw a curtain before his stains,
and to display his perfections ; to bury his
weaknesses in silence, but to proclaim his
virtues upon the house-top.--South.
There is nothing half so sweet in life as
love's young dream.-Moore.
Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is
all abandonment.--Enerson.
The desire to be beloved is ever restless
and unsatisfied; but the love that flows out
upon others is a perpetual well-spring from
on high.-L. M. Child.
Love is love's reward.-Dryden.
No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or
bind so fast, as love can do with a single
thread.-Burton.
If a man loves a woman for her beauty,
does he love her? No; for the small-pox,
which destroys her beauty without killing
her, causes his love to cease.
one loves me for my judgment or my mem-
ory, does he really love me? No; for I
can lose these qualities without ceasing to
be.-Pascal.
Those who yield their souls captive to the
brief intoxication of love, if no higher and
holier feeling mingle with and consecrate
their dream of bliss, will slırink trembling
froin the pangs that attend their waking.--
Schlegel.
A man may be a miser of his wealth ; he
may tie up his talent in a napkin; he may
hug himself in his reputation; but he is
always generous in his love. Love cannot
stay at home; a man cannot keep it to
himself. Like light, it is constantly travel-
ing. A man must spend it, must give it
away.-Macleod.
Love is the loadstone of love.--Mrs. Os-
good.
He who is intoxicated with wine will be
sober again in the course of the night, but
he who is intoxicated by the cup-bearer
will not recover his senses until the day of
judgment.-Saadi.
O love! thine essence is thy purity!
Breathe one unlallowed breath upon thy
flame and it is gone forever, and but leaves
a sullied vase,-its pure light lost in shame.
-L. E. Landon,
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and
embroidered by imagination.- Voltaire.
Take away love, and not physical nature
only, but the heart of the moral world
would be palsied.-Southey.
Young love-making, that gossamer web!
Even the points it clings to--the things
whence its subtle interlacings are swung
--are scarcely perceptible: momentary
touches of finger-tips, meetings of rays from
blue and dark orbs, unfinished phrases,
lightest changes of cheek and lip, faiutest
tremors. The web itself is made of spon-
taneous beliefs and indefinable joys, yearn-
ings of one life toward another, visions
of completeness, indefinite trust.-George
Eliot.
Among all the many kinds of first love,
that which begins in childish companion-
ship is the strongest and most enduring;
when passion comes to unite its force to
long affection, love is at its spring-tide.-
George Eliot.
The true one of youth's love, proving a
faithful help-meet in those years when the
dream of life is over, and we live in its
realities.--Southey.
Love in marriage should be the accom-
plishment of a beautiful dream, and not,
as it too often is, the end.--Kari.
The heart of a woman is never so full of
affection that there does not remain a little
corner for flattery and love.-Mauvaux.
For woman's love-I mean self-love, is
boundless, just like the sea, and sometimes
quite as groundless.-N. P. Willis.
That happy minglement of hearts, where,
changed as chemic compounds are, each
And if any
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pov-
with its own existence parts, to find a new
one, happier far !—Moore.
Our first love, and last love is self-love.
Bovee.
Love reasons without reason.-Shake-
speare,
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 hu-
man joy; it is stealing fire froin heaven.-
Mad. de Girardin.
It seems to me that the coming of love is
like the coming of spring—the date is not
to be reckoned by the calendar. It may be
slow and gradual; it may be quick and
sudden. But in the morning, when we
wake and recognize a change in the world
without, verdure on the trees, blossoms on
the gward, warmth in the sunshine, music in
the air, we say spring has come.-Bulwer.
Love and a cough cannot be hid.--Her-
bert.
Nothing quiclens the perceptions like
genuine love. From the humblest profes-
sional attachment to the most chivalric de-
votion, what keenness of observation is
born under the influence of that feeling
which drives away the obscuring clouds of
selfishness, as the sun consumes the vapor
of the morning.-Tuckerman.
Nuptial love maketh mankind; friendly
love perfecteth it; but wanton love cor-
lupteth and embaseth it.--Bacon.
Where there is room in the heart there is
always roon in the house.—Moore.
A supreme love, a motive that gives a
sublimē rhythm to a woman's life, and ex-
alts habit into partnership with the soul's
highest needs, is not to be had where and
low she wills : to know that high initiation,
she must often tread where it is hard to
tread, and feel the chill air, and watch
through darkness.
ness.-- George Eliot.
Love is the purification of the heart from
self; it strengthens and ennobles the char-
acter, gives a higher motive and a nobler
aim to every action of life, and makes both
man and woman strong, noble, and cour-
ageous; and the power to love truly and
devotedly is the noblest gift with which a
human being can be endowed ; but it is a
sacred fire that must not be burned to
idols.-Miss Jewsbury.
One expresses well only the love he does
not feel.-J. A. Karr.
In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys
is half taken.-Margaret of Valois.
Love is like the moon ; when it does not
increase it decreases.--Ségur.
Love is the most terrible, and also the
most generous of the passions ; it is the
only one that includes in its dreams the
happiness of some one else.-J. A. Karr.
A woman whom we truly love is a religion.
-Emile de Girardin.
It is strange that men will talk of miracles,
revelations, inspiration, and the like, as
things past, while love remains.--Thoreau.
Life is a flower of which love is the honey.
- Victor
Froge.
The maid that loves goes out to sea upon
& shattered plank, and puts her trust in
miracles for safety.-Young.
Love is strongest in pursuit ; friendship
in possession.--Emerson.
Base men, being in love, have then a no-
bility in their natures, more than is native
to them.-Shakespeare.
The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the
cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of hu-
wanity, all lie in that one word “love." . It
is the divine vitality that everywhere pro-
duces and restores life. To each and every
one of us, it gives the power of working
miracles if we will.--Mrs. L. M. Child.
It is astonishing how little one feels poy-
erty when one loves.-Bulwer.
Love reckons hours for months, and days
for years; and every little absence is an
age.-Dryden.
Two things create love, perfection and
usefulness, to which answer, on our part,
admiration and desire; and both these are
ceutered in love.--Jeremy Taylor.
A murderous guilt shows not itself more
soon than love that would seem hid; love's
night is noon. Shakespeare.
A man of sense may love like a madman,
but not as a fool. — Rochefoucauld.
Love lessens woman's delicacy, and in-
creases man's.-Richter.
It is possible that a man can be so
changed by love as hardly to be recognized
as the same person.-Terence.
A youth's love is the more passionate;
virgin love is the more idolatrous.—Hare.
No disguise can long conceal love where
it is, nor feign it where it is not.--Roche-
foucauld.
In matters of love and appetite beware of
surfeits. Nothing contributes so much to
the duration of either as moderation in
their gratification.— Bovee.
As every lord giveth a certain livery to
his servants, love is the very livery of
Christ. Our Saviour, who is the Lord
above all lords, would have his servants
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known by their badge, which is love.- in our opinion ; nay, more, it may enchain
Bp. Latiner.
us when we already love. But her under-
A man's want of beauty is of small ac-
standing is not that which awakens and in-
count if he be not deficient in other ami- flames our passions.—Goethe.
able qualities, for there is no conquest with- The love of a delicate female is always
out the affections, and what mole can be shy and silent. Even when fortunate, she
so blind as a woman in love.- Ninon de scarcely breathes it to herself ; but when
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otherwise, she buries it in the recesses of
There is no permanent love but that her bosom, and there lets it cower and
which has duty for its eldest brother; so
brood among the ruins of her peace.
that if one sleeps the other watches, and Washington Irving.
honor is safe.--Stahl.
In love we rarely think of moral qualities,
All loves should be simply stepping-
and scarcely of intellectual ones.- Tem-
stones to the love of God? So it was with perament and manner alone, with beauty,
me; and blessed be his name for his great
excite love.-Hazlitt.
goodness and mercy.- Plato.
First love is an instinct--at once a gift
Why is it so difficult to love wisely, so
and a sacrifice. Every other is a philos-
easy to love too well?-Miss M. E. Braddon. ophy--a bargain.-A. S. Hardy.
Where love and wisdom drink out of the
He credited her with a number of virtues,
same cup, in this every-day world, it is the
exception.-Mad. Necler.
conversation had given but limited indica-
Love makes obedience lighter than lib-
tions.—But, then, lovers have a proverbial
erty.-R. W. Alger. ·
power of balancing inverted pyramids,
going to sea in sieves, and successfully per-
Love is to the moral nature what the sun forming other kindred feats impossible to
is to the earth.-Balzac.
a faithless and unbelieving gencration.-
One half, the finest half of life, is hidden
L. Malet.
from the man who does not love with pas- Faith, like light, should always be simple
sion.-Beyle.
and unbending; while love, like warmth,
He who, silent, loves to be with us-ho should beam forth on every side, and bend
who loves us in our silence-bas touched one to every necessity of our brethren.-Luther.
of the keys that ravish hearts.--Lavater.
There is a passion of reverence, almost of
It is folly to pretend that one ever pity, mingling with the love of an honest
wholly recovers from a disappointed pas- man for a pure girl, which makes it the
sion. Such wounds always leave a scar. most exquisite, perhaps, of all human senti-
There are faces I can never look upon with- mento.-LMalet.
out emotion ; there are names I can never We love the virtues, but do not fall in
hear spoken without almost starting.---
love with them.—They confirm and nurture
Longfellow.
love, but after middle age they do not give
A woman cannot love & man she feels to it birth.--A. S. Hardy.
be her inferior; love without veneration
I know 10 better augury of a young
and enthusiasm is only friendship.-Mad.
man's future than true filial devotion.
Dudevant.
Very rarely does one go morally wrong,
The heart of a young woman in love is a whose passionate love to his mother is a
golden sanctuary which often enshrines an ruling force in his life, and whose continual
idol of clay.—Limayrac.
desire is to gladden her heart. Next to the
They love least, that let men know their love of God, this is the noblest emotion. I
love. --Shakespeare.
do not remember a single instance of a
Love is an alliance of friendship and
young fellow going to the bad who was
animalism ; if the former predominate it
tenderly devoted to his parents.---Thain
is a passion exalted and refined ; if the
Davidson
latter, gross and sensual.- Colton.
The accents of love are all that is left of
We love a girl for very different things
the language of paradise.—Bulwer.
than understanding. We love her for her We never know how much one loves till
beauty, her youth, her mirth, her confi- we know how much he is willing to endure
dingness, her character, with its faults, and suffer for us; and it is the suffering
caprices, and God knows what other inex- element that measures love. The char-
pressible charms; but we do not love her acters that are great, must, of necessity, be
understanding. Her mind we esteem if it characters that shall be willing, patient,
is brilliant, and it may greatly
elevate her | and strong to endure for others. To hold
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our nature in the willing service of another,
is the divine idea of manhood, of the hu-
man character.-H. W. Beecher.
To love is to place our happiness in the
happiness of another.-Leibnitz.
The reason why lovers are never weary
of one another is this they are always
talking of themselves.—Rochefoucauld.
Oh, let the steps of youth be cautious how
they advance into a dangerous world ; our
duty only can conduct us safe, our passions
are seducers; and of all, the strongest is
love.-Southey.
We attract hearts by the qualities we dis-
play : we retain them by the qualities we
possess..Suard.
Oh, why should man's success remove the
very charms that wake his love ! -Walter
Scott.
Stimulate the heart to love and the mind
to be early accurate, and all other virtuves
will rise of their own accord, and all vices
will be thrown out.- Coleridge.
It is the very essence of love, of noble-
ness, of greatness, to be willing to suffer
for the good of others. -Spence.
A woman is more considerate in affairs
of love than a man; because love is more
the study and business of her life.- Wash-
ington Irving.
Of all the paths lcading to a woman's
love, pity is the straightest.--Beaumont.
Love needs new leaves every summer of
life, as much as your elm-tree, and new
branches to grow broader and wider, and
new flowers to.cover the ground. --Mrs.
Stowe.
Love with old men is as the sun upon the
snow, it dazzles more than it warms them.
--J. P. Senn.
Love's like the measles, all the worse
when it comes late in life. -Jerrold.
The blood of youth burns not with such
excess, as gravity's revolt to wantonness.
-Shalcespeare.
The worst thing an old man can be is a
lover. – Otway.
True love is eternal, infinite, and always
like itself. It is equal and pure, without
violent demonstrations ; it is seen with
white hairs and is always young in the
heart.-Balzac.
Love, and you shall be loved.-All love is
mathematically just, as mucli as the two
sides of an algebraic equation.—Emerson.
Love makes its record in deeper colors
as we grow out of childhood into manhood ;
as the emperors signed their names in
green ink when under age, but when of
age, in purple.-Longfellow.
Young love is a flamo; very pretty, often
very hot ani. fierce, but still only light and
flickering. The love of thic older and dis-
ciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, un-
quenchable.--E. W. Bcecher.
Love sees what no eye sees ; love bears
what no ear hears ; and what never rose in
the heart of man love prepares for its ob-
ject.- Lavater.
If nobody loves you, be sure it is your
own fault.--Doddridge.
With the all toils are sweet; each clime
hath charms ; carth-sea alike our world
within our arms !-Byron.
Love must shun the path where many
rove; one bosom to recline upon, one heart
to be his only one, are quite enough for
love !-Moore.
In peace, love tunes the shepherd's reed;
in war, he mounts the warrior's steed; in
halls, in gay attire is seen ; in hamlets,
dances on the green. Love rules the court,
the camp, the grove, and men below, and
saints above; for love is heaven, aud heaven
is love.- Walter Scott.
Love is the purification of the heart from
self; it strengthens and ennobles the char-
acter ; gives higher motive and nobler aim
to every action of life, and makes both man
and woman strong, noble, and courageous.
-The power to love truly and devotedly is
the noblest gift with which a human being
can be endowed; but it is a sacred fire that
inust not be burned to idols.-Miss Jews-
bury.
It is the duty of men to love even those
who injure them.-Marcus Antoninus.
The first symptom of love in a young man,
is timidity ; in a girl, it is boldness.—Thé
two sexes have a tendency to approach, and
each assumes the qualities of the other.-
Victor Hugo.
True love of our friends should hardly
attach us to the world; for the greater
number of those we have loved most are
gathered into eternity, so that it is but
exile from them that we covet when we
would prolong our stay here on earth.
A father's heart is tender, though the
man's is made of stone. - Young. .
If there is anything better than to bo
loved, it is loving.--Anon.
Certain it is that there is no kind of affec-
tion so purely angelic as the love of a father
to a daughter. He beholds her both with
and without regard to her sex.--In love to
our wives, there is desire; to our sons, there
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is ambition ; but in that to our daughters
there is something which there are no words
to express.--Addison, .
If there be one thing pure, where all be-
side is sullied, and that can endure when
all else passes away--if aught surpassing
human deed, or word, or thought, it is a
mother's love.-Spadara.
The love of man, in his mature years, is
not so much a new emotion, as a revival
and concentration of all his departed af-
fections toward others,--Bulwer.
One hour of love will teach a woman more
of her true relations than all your philoso-
phizing.–Margaret Fuller.
Not father or mother has loved you as
God has, for it was that you might be
happy he gave his only son.--When he
bowed his head in the death hour, love sol-
emnized its triumph; the sacrifice there
was completed. -- Longfellow.
Love, it has been said, flows downward.
The love of parents for their children has
always been far more powerful than that of
children for their parents ; and who among
the sons of men ever loved God with a thou-
sandth part of the love which God has win-
ifested to us ?-Hare.
Two sentiments alone suffice for man,
were he to live the age of the rocks,
love, and the contemplation of the Deity.-
Watts.
Love is the greatest thing that God can
give us, for himself is love; and it is the
greatest thing we can give to God, for it
will also give ourselves, and carry with it
all that is ours. The apostle calls it the
bond of perfection ; it is the old, the new,
and the great commandment, and all the
commandments, for it is the fulfilling of
the lary. It does the work of all tlie other
graces without any instrument but its own
immediate virtue.—Jeremy Taylor.
If thou neglectest thy love to thy neigh-
bor, in vain thou professest thy love to
for by thy love to God, the love to
thy neighbor is begotten, and by the love
to thy neighbor, thy love to God is nour-
ished.-Quarles.
Love is the weapon which Omnipotence
reserved to conquer rebel man when all the
rest had failed. Reason be parries ; fear
he answers blow for blow ; future interest
he meets with present pleasure ; but love
is that sun against whose melting beams the
winter cannot stand. There is not one
human being in a million, nor a thousand
men in all earth's huge quintillion, whose
clay heart is hardened against love. –
Tupper.
Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity;
but, for that reason, it should be most our
care to learn it. -Penn.
It is ever the invisible that is the object
of our profoundest worship. With the
lover it is not the seen but the unseen that
he muses upon.-Bovee.
The true measure of loving God is to love
him without measure.--St. Bernard.
Divine love is a sacred flower, which in
its early bud is happiness, and 'in its full
bloom is heaven.--Hervey.
Love is indeed heaven upon earth; since
heaven above would not be heaven without
for where there is not love, there is fear;
but, “ Perfect love casteth out fear." And
yet we naturally fear most to offend what
we most love.-- Penn.
How shall I do to love ? Believe. Flow
shall I do to believe ? Love.---Leighton.
Humble love, and not proud science,
keeps the door of heaven.--Young.
Love is the crowning grace of humanity,
the holiest right of the soul, the golden
link which binds us to duty and truth, the
redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles
the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal
good.-Petrarch.
They are the true disciples of Christ, not
who know most, but who love most.--Span-
heim.
Did a woman ever love who would not
give all the years of tasteless serenity for
one year, for one month, for one day of
uncalculating delirium of love poured out
upon the man who returned it. C.D.
W(17ner.
If the tender, profound, and sympathiz-
ing love, practised and recommended by
Jesus, were paramount in every heart, the
loftiest and most glorious idea of human
society would be realized, and little be
wanting to make this world a kingdom of
heaven.--Krummacher.
God;
LUCK,-There is no such thing as luck.
It's a fancy name for being always at our
duty, and so sure to be ready when the
good time comes.
Hope nothing from luck, and the proba-
bility is that you will be so prepared, fore-
warned, and forearmed, that all shallow
observers will call you lucky.--Bulwer.
I never knew an early-rising, hard-work-
ing, prudent man, careful of his earnings,
and strictly honest, who complained of
bad luck. A good character, good habits,
and iron industry are impregnable to the
assaults of all the ill-luck that fools ever
dreamed of.-Addison.
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All successful men have agreed in being
causationists; they believed that things
were not by luck, but by law-that there
was not a weak or cracked link in the chain
that joins the first and last of things the
cause and effect.- Emerson.
Ill-luck, is, in nine cases out of ten, the
result of saying pleasure first and duty
second, instead of duty first and pleasure
second.-1. T. Munger.
Luck is ever waiting for something to
turn up. Labor, with keen eyes and strong
will, will turn up something. Luck lies in
bed, and wishes the postman would bring
him the news of a legacy. Labor turns
out at six o'clock, and with busy pen or
ringing hammer lays the foundation of a
competence. Luck whines. Labor whis-
tles. Luck relies on chance.
Labor on
character.- Cobden.
What helps luck is a habit of watching
for opportunities, of having a patient but
restless, mind, of sacrificing one's ease or
vanity, of uniting a love of detail to fore-
sight, and of passing through hard times
bravely and cheerfully.- Victor Cherbuliez.
Pitch a lucky man into the Nilo, says the
Arabian proverb, and lie will come up with
a fish in his mouth.-N. P. Willis.
Never have anything to do with an un-
lucky place, or an unlucky man. I have
seen many clever men, very clever men,
who had not shoes to their feet. I never
act with them. Their advice sounds very
well, but they cannot get on themselves ;
and if they cannot do good to themselves,
how can they do good to me?--Rothschild.
Shallow men believe in luck, believe in
circumstances. It was somebody's name,
or he happened to be there at the time, or
it was so then, and another day it woula
have been otherwise. Strong men believe
in cause and effect. --The man was born to
do it, and his father was born to be the
father of him and of this deed, and by look-
ing narrowly, you shall see there was no
luck in the matter, but it was all a prob-
lem in arithmetic, or an experiment in
chemistry.-Emerson.
Luck" is a very good word if you puta
P before it.--Anon.
Shallow men believe iu luck, wise and
strong men in cause and effect.--Emerson.
There are no chances so unlucky from
which clever people -are not able to reap
some advantage, and none so lucky that the
foolish are not able to turn them to their
own disadvantage.--Rochefoucauld.
Luck generally comes to those who look
after it; and my notion is that it taps, once
in a lifetime, at everybody's door, but if
industry does not open it luck goes away.--
Spurgeon.
LUST.-It is the difference betwixt lust
and love, that this is fixed, that volatile.
Love grows, lust wastes, by enjoyment;
and the reason is, that one springs from a
union of souls, and the other springs from
a union of sense.--Penn.
Capricious, wanton, bold, and brutal
lust is meanly selfish ; when resisted, cruel;
and, like the blast of pestilential winds,
taints the sweet bloom of nature's fairest
forms.--Milton.
It is the grand battle of life to teach lust
the limits of the Divine law-to break it.
into the taste of the bread of heaven.-
J. B. Brown.
Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to
the person, a canker to the mind, a corro-
sive to the conscience, a weakness of the
wit, a besotter of the senses, and, finally, a
mortal bane to all the body.- Pliny.
So long as lust, whether of the world or
the flesh, smells sweet in our nostrils, so
long we are loathsome to God.-- Cotton.
Short is the course of every lawless pleas-
ure; grief, like a shade, on all its footsteps
waits, scarce visible in joy's meridian
height; but downward as its blaze declin-
ing speeds, the dwarfish shadow to a giant
spreads.--Milton.
Lust is a captivity of the reason and an
enraging of the passions. It hinders
business and distracts counsel. It sins
against the body and weakens the soul.---
Jerenry Taylor.
Lust is, of all the frailties of our nature,
what most we ought to fear ; the head-
strong beast rushes along impatient of the
course ; nor hears the rider's call, nor feels
the rein.-Rowe.
An enemy to whom you show kindness
becomes your friend, excepting lust, the
indulgence of which increases its enmity.
-Saadi.
When lust, by unchaste looks, loose ges-
tires, and foul talk, but most by lewd and
lavish acts of sin, lets in defilement to the
inward parts, the soul grows clotted by
contagion, embodies and imbrutes till she
quite lose the divine property of her first
being.-Milton.
Servile inclinations and gross love, the
guilty bent of vicious appetite ; at first a
sin, å horror ev'n in bliss, deprave the
senses and lay waste the man ; passions ir-
regular, and next a loathing, quickly suc-
ceed to dash the wild desire. -Havard.
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I know the very difference that lies
'twixt hallowed love and base unholy lust.
-I know the one is as a golden spur, urg-
ing the spirit to all noble aims; the other
but a foul and miry pit, o'erthrowing it in
inidst of its career.–Fanny Keible Butler.
LUXURY.-Luxury, makes a man so
soft, that it is hard to please him, and easy
to trouble him ; so that his pleasures at last
become his burden. Luxury is a nice mas-
ter, hard to be pleased.-Mackenzie.
Fell luxury ! more perilous to youth than
storms or quicksands, poverty or chains.-
H. More.
I know it is more agreeable to walk upon
carpets than to lie upon dungeon floors ; I
know it is pleasant to have all the comforts
and luxuries of civilization; but he who
cares only for these things is worth no
more than a butterfly, contented and
thoughtless upon a morning flower; and
who ever thought of rearing a tombstone
to a last-summer's butterty? - H. W.
Beecher.
Avarice and luxury, those pests which
have ever been the ruin of every great state.
- Livy.
All luxury corrupts either the morals or
the taste.--Joubert.
Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury, and
its chosen emissaries are the beggared
spendthrift and the impoverished libertine.
- Bancroft.
It was a shrewd saying, whoever said it,
“That the man who first brought ruin on
the Roman people was he who pampered
them by largesses and amusements.”
Plutarch.
On the soft bed of luxury most kingdoms
have expired.—Young.
Unless we are accustomed to them from
early youth, splendid chambers and elegant
furniture bad best be left to people who
neither have nor can have any thoughts.-
Goethe.
You cannot spend money in luxury with-
out doing good to the poor. Nay, you do
more good to them by spending it in luxury
than by giving; you make them exert in-
dustry,
whereas, by giving it, you keep them
idle.-Johnson.
Luxury may possibly contribute to give
bread to the poor ; but if there were no
luxury, there would be no poor. -Home.
Oh brethren, it is sickening work to think
of your cushioned seats, your chants, your
anthems, your choirs, your organs, your
gowns, and your bands, and I know not
what besides, all made to be instruments
of religious luxury, if not of pious dissipa-
tion, while ye need far more to be stirred
up and incited to holy ardor for the propa-
gation of the truth as it is in Jesus. - Spur-
geon.
O luxury! Thou curst of heaven's de-
cree. - Goldsnrith.
Were the labor and capital, now spent on
pernicious luxuries, to be employed in the
intellectual, moral, and religious culture of
the whole people, how immense would be
the gain, in every respect, though for a
short time material products were dimin-
ished. A better age will look back with
wonder and scorn on the misdirected in-
dustry of the present times.-Channing.
Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs,
but competency lives longer. --Shakespeare.
Luxury is the first, second, and third
cause of the ruin of republics. It is the
vampire which soothes us into a fatal
slumber while it sucks the life-blood of our
veins.-Payson.
The more we accommodate ourselves to
plain things, and the less we indulge in
those artificial delights which gratify pride
and luxury, the nearer we approach to a
state of innocency.-M. Henry.
Where necessity ends, curiosity begins;
and no sooner are we supplied with every-
thing that nature can demand, than we
sit down to contrive artificial appetites.
Johnson.
It is a shame that man, that has the seeds
of virtue in him, springing into glory,
should make his soul degenerate with sin,
and slave to luxury; to drown his spirits
in lees of sloth ; to yield up the weak day
to wine, to lust, and banquets.
Whenever vanity and gaiety, a love
of pomp and dress, furniture, equipage,
buildings, great company, expensive di-
versions, and elegant entertainments get
the better of the principles and judgments
of men and women, there is no knowing
where they will stop, nor into what evils,
natural, moral, or political, they will lead
us.—John Adams.
He repents on thorns that sleeps in beds
of roses.- Quarles.
War destroys men, but luxury destroys
mankind ; at once corrupts the body and
the mind.- Crown.
Garrick showed Johnson his fine house,
gardens, statues, pictures, etc., at Hampton
Court.-—"Ah! David, David,” said the
doctor, “these are the things that make
death terrible."--Bate.
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LYINC.-(Seo "FALSEHOOD
and
LIARS.")
After a tongue has once got the knack of
lying, 'tis not to be imagined how impos-
sible almost it is to reclaim it. Whence it
comes to pass that we 800 some men, who
are otherwise very honest, so subject to
this vice.-Montaigne.
He who has not a good memory should
never take upon him the trade of lying.-
Montaigne.
Falsehood and fraud grow up in every
soil, the product of all climes.-Addison.
If a man had the art of second-sight for
seeing lies as they have in Scotland for
seeing spirits, how admirably he might en-
tertain himself by observing the different
shapes, sizes, and colors of those swarms of
lies, which buzz about the heads of some
people, like flies about a horse's ears in
summer ; or those legions hovering every
afternoon so as to darken the air; or over
a club of discontented grandees, and thence
sent down in cargoes, to be scattered at
elections.-Swift.
Lying is a hateful and accursed vice.
Wo have no other tie upon one another,
but our word. If we did but discover the
horror and consequences of it, we should
pursue it with fire and sword, and more
justly than other crimes.—Montaigne.
Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it
will run itself to death. I can work out a
good character much faster than any one
can lie ine out of it.-Lyman Beecher.
White lies are but the ushers to black
ones.-Marryat.
Lies which are told out of arrogance and
ostentation, a man should detect in his
own defense, because he should not bo
triumphed over. Lies which are told out
of malice he should expose, both for his
own sake and that of the rest of mankind,
because every man should rise against a
common enemy ;
but the officious liar,
many have argued, is to be excused, be-
cause it does some man good, and no man
burt.-Sleele.
The most intangible, and therefore the
worst kind of a lie, is a half-truth.--This is
the peculiar device of the "conscientious"
detractor.- Washington Allston.
A lie that is half a truth is ever tho
blackest of lies.— Tennyson.
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle
that fits them all.-O. W. Holmes.
When thou art obliged to speak, be sure
to speak the truth; for equivocation is
half way to lying, and lying is whole way
to hell.-Penn.
The gain of lying is, not to be trusted of
any, nor to be believed when we speak the
truth.-Sir W. Raleigh.
Lying is a certain mark of cowardice,
Southern.
There are people who lie simply for the
sake of lying.--Pascal.
Every brave man shuns, more than death,
the shame of lying.- Corneille.
It is a hard matter for a man to lie all
over, nature having provided king's evi-
dence in almost every member. The hand
will sometimes act as a vane, to show which
way the wind blows, even when every fea-
ture is set the other way; the knees smite
ogether and sound the alarm of fear under
a fierce countenance; the legs shake with
anger, when all above is calm.- Washington
Allston.
Lying is a most disgraceful vice; it first
despises God, and then fears men.-Plu-
tarch.
Every lie, great or small, is the brink of
a precipice, the depth of which nothing but
Omniscience can fathom.-0. Reade.
Lie not, neither to thyself, nor man, nor
God.-It is for cowards to lie.- Herbert.
There is no vice that doth so cover a man
with shame, as to be discovered in a lie
;
for, as Montaigne saith—"A liar would be
brave toward God, while he is a coward
toward men; for a lie faces God, and shrinks
from man.”-Bacon.
Lying is like trying to hide in a fog.-If
you move about you are in danger of bump-
ing your head against the truth. And as
soon as the fog blows away you are gone
anyhow.
Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to
gain any end, or even to deceive their
hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is
partly practice and partly habit.—It re-
quires an effort in them to speak the truth.
Hazlitt.
Half the vices in the world rise out of
cowardice, and one who is afraid of lying
is usually afraid of nothing else.-Froude.
Truth is always consistent with itself,
and needs nothing to help it out; it is
always near at hand, sits upon our lips,
and is ready to drop out before we are
aware; a lie is troublesome, and sets &
man's invention upon the rack, and one
trick necds a great many more to make it
good. It is like building upon a false foun-
dation, which continually stands in need of
props to shore it up, and proves at last
more chargeable than to have raised a sub-
stantial building at first upon a true and
solid foundation.-Addison.
MADNESS.
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A wilful falsehood is a cripple, not able
to stand by itself without another to sup-
port it. It is easy to tell a lie, but hard to
tell only one lie.-Fuller.
As universal a practice as lying is, and
as easy a one as it seems, I do not remem-
ber to have heard three good lies in all my
conversation.-Swift.
When the world has once got hold of a
lie, it is astonishing how hard it is to get it
out of the world. You beat it about the
head, till it seems to have given up the
ghost, and lo! the next day it is as healthy
as ever.- Bulwer.
A lie, though it be killed and dead, can
sting sometimes, like a dead wasp.--Mrs.
Jameson.
Nothing is rarer than a solitary lie ; for
lies breed like toads ; you cannot tell' one
but out it comes with a hundred young
ones on its back.-- Washington Allston.
One lie must be thatched with another,
or it will soon rain through.-- Owen.
A great lie is like a great fish on dry land
it may fret and fling, and make a frightful
bother, but it cannot hurt you. You have
only to keep still and it will die of itself.-
Crabbe.
Let falsehood be a stranger to thy lips;
shame on the policy that first began to
tamper with the heart to hide its thoughts !
and doubly shame on that unrighteous
tongue that sold its honesty, and told a lie !
-Havard.
Falsehoods not only disagree with truths,
but they usually quarrel among themselves.
-Daniel Webster.
One lie engenders another.-Once com-
mitted, the liar has to go on in his course
of lying; it is the penalty of his transgres-
sion.-F. Jacox.
intentional making of work for repentance.
-W. Nevins.
This wretched brain gave way, and I be-
came a wreck at random driven, without
one glimpse of reason or of heaven.--Moore.
Locke says the distinction between a mad-
man and a fool is that a fool is he that from
right principles makes a wrong conclusion ;
but a madman is one who draws a just infer-
ence from false principles. Thus the fool
who cut off the fellow's head that lay asleep,
and hid it, and theu waited to see what
he would say when he awaked and missed
his head-piece, was in the right in the first
thought, that a man would be surprised to
find such an alteration in things since he
fell asleep; but he was a little mistaken to
imagine he could awake at all after his
head was cut off.-Tatler,
How pregnant, sometimes, his replies are;
a happiness that often madness hits on,
which reason and sanity could not so pros-
perously be delivered of!-Shakespeare.
He raves ; his words are loose as heaps
of sand, and scattered wide from sense.
So high he's mounted on his airy throne,
that now the wind has got into his head,
and turns his brains to frenzy.-Dryden.
Great wits are sure to .madness near
allied, and thin partitions do their bounds
divide.-Dryden
MAGNANIMITY. – Magnanimity 18
sufficiently defined by its name ; yet we
may say of it, that it is the good sense of
pride, and the noblest way of acquiring
applause.-Rochefoucauld.
A great mind will neįther give an affronty
nor bear it.-Home.
If you desire to be magnanimous, under-
take nothing rashly, and fear nothing thou
undertakest.--Tear nothing but infamy;
dare anything but injury ; the measure of
magnanimity is to be neither rash nor tim-
orous.—Quarles.
Of all virtues magnanimity is the rarest;
there are a hundred persons of merit for
who willingly acknowledges it in
another.-Hazlitt.
Magnanimity is greatness of soul, exerted
in contemning dangers and difficulties,
in scorning temptations, and in despising
mere earthly pomp and splendor.-Buck.
A brave man knows no malice ; but for-
gets, in peace, the injuries of war, and
gives his direst for a friend's embrace.-
Cowper.
MAGNET.-That trombling vessel of
the pole, the feeling compass, navigation's
soul.- Byron.
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MADNESS:-(See “INSANITY.")
Madness is consistent, which is more than
can be said of poor reason.-
Whatever may
be the ruling passion at the time continues
80 throughout the whole delirium, though
it should last for life. -Our passions and
principles are steady in frenzy, but begin
to shift and waver as we return to reason.
-Slerne,
The insane, for the most part, reason
correctly, but from false principles, while
they do not perceive that their premises
are incorrect. --Tryon Edwards.
The consummation of madness is, to do
what, at the time of doing it, we intend to
be afterward sorry for: the deliberate and
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The obedient steel with living instinct
moves, and veers forever to the pole it
loves.-Darwin.
Instinct with life, it safely, points the
way through trackless seas, which else were
never sailed.
The malignity that never forgets or for-
gives is found only in base and ignoble
natures, whose aims are selfish, and whose
means are indirect, cowardly, and treach-
erous.-G. S. Hillard.
MAIDENHOOD.-Nature has thrown
a veil of modest beauty over maidenhood
and moss roses.--N. P. Willis.
The blushing beauties of a modest maid.
- Dryden.
A maiden never bold; of spirit so still
and quiet, that her motion blushed at her-
self. --Shakespeare.
She had grown in her unstained secluz-
sion, bright and pure as a first opening
lilac when it spreads its clear leaves to the
sweetest dawn of May.-Percival.
A child no more ; a maideu now; a grace-
ful maiden, with a gentle brow, and cheek
tinged lightly, and a dove-like eye; and all
hearts bless her, as she passes by.-Mary
Howitt.
The honor of a maid is her name, and no
legacy is so rich as honesty.--Shakespeare.
No padlock, bolts, or bars can secure a
maiden so well as her own reserve.--Cer-
vantes.
A loving maiden grows unconsciously
more bold.-Richter.
Let the words of a virgin, though in a
good cause, and to as good purpose, be
neither violent, many, nor first, nor last.
It is less shame for her to be lost in a blusl-
ing silence, than to be found in a bold elo-
quence.--Quarles.
MAJORITY.-The voice of the majority
is no proof of justice.--Schiller.
There is one body that knows more than
anybody, and that is everybody.- Talley-
rand.
It never troubles the wolf how many the
sheep may be.- Virgil.
We go by the major vote, and if the ma-
jority are insane, the sane must go to the
hospital.--H. Mann.
One and God make a majority.--Fred-
erick Douglass.
A man in the right, with God on his side,
is in the majority though he be alone.--
H. W. Beecher.
MALEVOLENCE. - Avoid an angry
man for a while; a malevolent one, forever.
Malevolence is misery; it is the mind of
Satan, the great enemy, an outcast from all
joy, and the opponent of all goodness and
happiness.-J. Hamilton.
MALICE.-Malice is the devil's picture.
Lust makes men brutish; malice makes
them devilish-it is mental murder. T.
Watson.
Malice drinks one half of its own poison.
Seneca.
Malice sucks up the greater part of her
own venom, and poisons herself.-Mon-
taigne.
Malice, in its false witness, promotes its
tale with so cunning a confusion, so min-
gles truths with falsehoods, surmises with
certainties, causes of no moment with mat-
ters capital, that the accused can absolutely
neither grant nor deny, plead innocence
nor confess guilt.---Sir P. Sidney.
There is no malice like the malice of the
renegade.—Macaulay.
Wit loses its respect with the good when
seen in company with malice; to smile at
the jest which plants a thorn in another's
breast, is to become a principal in the mis-
chief.-Sheridan.
Malice scorned, puts out itself; but ar-
gued, gives a kind of credit to a false ac-
cubation.--Massinger.
There is no sinall degree of malicious
craft in fixing upon a season to give a mark
of enmity and ill-will ; a word—a look,
which at one time would make no impres-
sion, at another time wounds the heart,
and, like a shaft flying with the wind,
pierces deep, which, with its own natural
force would scarce have reached the object
aimed at.-Sterne.
There is no benefit so large that malig-
nity will not lessen it; none so narrow that
a good interpretation will not enlarge it.---
Seneca.
MAN.-(See “MEN.')
Indisputably a great, good, handsome
man is the first of created things.-C.
Bronte.
The test of every religious, political,
or educational system is the man that it
forms.-Amiel.
A man's ledger does not tell what he is,
or what he is worth.-Count what is in
man, not what is on him, if you would
know what he is worth—whether rich or
poor.-H. W. Beecher.
What a piece of work is man! How noble
in reason! How infinite in faculties !
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In form and moving, how express and ad-
mirable! In action, how like an angel!
In apprehension, how like a god !-Shalce-
speare.
What a chimera is man ! what a confused
chaos! what a subject of contradiction! a
professed judge of all things, and yet a
feeble worm of the earth! the great depos-
itary and guardian of truth, and yet a mere
huddle of uncertainty ! the glory and the
scandal of the universe !--Pascal.
Half dust, half deity, alike unfit to sink
or soar.-Byron.
Man himself is the crowning wonder of
creation ; the study of his nature the no-
blest study the world affords.-Gladstone.
Limited in his nature, infinite in his de-
sires.- Lamartine.
How little man is; yet, in his own mind,
how great! He is lord and master of alí
things, yet scarce can command anything.
He is given a freedom of his will ; but
wherefore? Was it but to torment and
perplex him the more ? How little avails
this freedom, if the objects he is to act
upon be not as much disposed to obey as
he is to command !-Burke.
Men are but children of a larger growth;
our appetites are as apt to change as theirs,
and full as craving, too, and full as vain.-
Dryden.
Men, in general, are but great children.
- Napoleon.
He is of the earth, but his thoughts are
with the stars. Mean and petty his wants
and desires ; yet they serve a soul exalted
with grand, glorious aims --with immortal
longing8,--with thoughts which sweep the
heavens, and wander through eternity. A
pigmy standing on the outward crest of
this small planet, his far-reaching spirit
stretches outward to the infinite, and there
alone finds rest. - Carlyle.
Man is to man all kinds of beasts ; a
fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox,
a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, à
treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.
-Cowley.
It is not what he has, or even what he
does which expresses the worth of a man,
but what he is.Amiel.
How poor, how rich, how abject, how
august, how complicate, how wonderful is
man ! distinguished link in being's endless
chain ! midway from nothing to the Deity !
dim miniature of greatness absolute ! an
heir of glory! a frail child of dust! help-
less immortal ! insect infinite ! a worm ! a
God !-Young.
Since the generality of persons act from
impulse much more than from principle,
men are neither so good nor so bad as we
are apt to think them.-Hare.
Man is the highest product of his own
history. The discoverer finds nothing so
grand or tall as himself, nothing so valu-
able to him. The greatest star is at the
small end of the telescope, the star that is
looking, not looked after nor looked at.--
Theodore Parker.
Men are not to be judged by their looks,
habits, and appearances ; but by the char-
acter of their lives and conversations, and
by their works. 'Tis better that a man's
own works than that another man's words
should praise him.-L'Estrange.
The superior man is he who develops in
harmonious proportions, his moral, intel-
lectual, and physical nature. This should
be the end at which men of all classes
should aim, and it is this only which con-
stitutes real greatness.—Douglas Jerrold.
Man is an animal that makes bargains ;
no other animal does this,-one dog does
not change a bone with another.- Adan
Snith.
Man is an animal that cooks his victuals.
-Burke.
Man is a reasoning rather than a reason-
able animal.- Alexander Hamilton.
Do you know what a man is ? Are not
birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, man-
hood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth,
liberality, and such like, the spice and salt
that season a man ?-Shakespeare.
The record of life runs thus : Man creeps
into childhood, -- bounds into youth,-
sobers into manhood, --softens into age,
- totters into second childhood, and
slumbers into the cradle prepared for him,
-thence to be watched and cared for.
Henry Giles.
No man is so great as mankind.--Theo-
dore Parker.
Every man is a divinity in disguise, a
god playing the fool. It seems as if heaven
had sent its insane angels into our world
as to an asylum. And here they will break
out into their native music, and utter at in-
tervals the words they have heard in hea-
ven ; then the mad fit returns, and they
mope and wallow like dogs !--Emerson.
In my youth I thought of writing a satire
on mankind; but now in my age I think I
should write an apology for them.-- Wal-
pole.
The way of every man is declarative of
the end of every man.- -Cecil.
It is of dangerous consequence to repre-
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sent to man how near he is to the level of
beasts, without showing him at the same
time his greatness. It is likewise danger-
ous to let him see, his greatness without
his meanness. It is more dangerous yet
to leave him ignorant of either ; but very
beneficial that he should be made sensible
of both.Pascal.
Man perfected by society is the best of
all animals ; he is the most terrible of all
when he lives without law, and without
justice.- Aristotle.
Man is greater than a world--than sys-
tems of worlds ; there is more mystery in
the union of soul with the body, than in
the creation of a universe.-Henry Giles.
Show me the man you honor, and I will
know what kind of a man you are, for it
shows me what your ideal of manhood is,
and what kind of a man you long to be.--
Carlyle.
A man is like a bit of Labrador spar,
which has no luster as you turn it in your
hand until you come to a particular angle;
then it shows deep and beautiful colors.-
Emerson.
To despise our own species is the price
we must often pay for a knowledge of it.
Colton.
A man is one whose body has been
trained to be the ready servant of his mind;
whose passions are trained to be the ser-
vants of his will ; who enjoys the beautiful,
loves truth, hates wrong, loves to do good,
and respects others as himself.
Now the basest thought possible concern-
ing man is, that he has no spiritual nature;
and the foolishest misunderstanding of him
possible is, that he has, or should have, no
animal nature. For his nature is nobly
animal, nobly spiritual,- coherently and
irrevocably so ; neither part of it may, but
atits peril, expel, despise, or defy the other.
-Ruskin.
There are but three classes of men, the
retrograde, the stationary, and the pro-
gressive.-
Lavater.
Omit a few of the most abstruise sciences,
and mankind's study of man occupies nearly
the whole field of literature. The burden
of history is what man has been ; of law,
what he does ; of physiology, what he is ;
of ethics, what he ought to be ; of revelat-
tion, what he shall be.- George Finlayson.
The proper study of mankind is man.-
Pope.
Man is to be trained chiefly by studying
and by knowing man.-Gladstone.
It is very sad for a man to inake himself
servant to a single thing ; his manhood all
taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure
of excessive business.--I should not like to
be merely a great doctor, a great lawyer, a
great minister, a great politician.--I should
like to be, also, something of a man.-
Theodore Parker.
To have known one good old man-one
man who, through the chances and mis-
chances of a long life, has carried his heart
in his hand, like a palm branch, waving all
discords into peace--helps our faith in God,
in ourselves, and in each other, more than
many sermons.-G. W. Curtis.
The man who is deserving the name is
the one whose thoughts and exertions are
for others rather than for himself.- Walter
Scott.
The grandeur of man's nature turns to in-
significance all outward distinctions. His
powers of intellect, of conscience, of love,
of knowing God, of perceiving the beauti-
ful, of acting on his own mind, on outward
nature, and on his fellow-creatures-these
are glorious prerogatives.-Channing.
An acorn is not an oak when it is sprouted.
-It must go through long summers and
fierce winters, and endure all that frost,
and snow, and thunder, and storms, and
side-striking winds can bring, before it is
a full grown oak.-So a man is not a man
when he is created; he is only begun.-His
manhood must come with years.--He that
goes through life prosperous, and comes to
his grave without a wrinkle, is not half a
man.-Difficulties are God's errands and
trainers, and only through them can one
come to the fullness of manhood.-H. W.
Beecher.
Whoever considers the study of anatomy,
I believe, will never be an atheist; the
frame of man's body, and coherence of his
parts, being so strange and paradoxical,
that I hold it to be the greatest miracle of
nature.---Lord Herbert.
Careful and thorough intellectual culture
under a constant pressure of conscience
and duty-this is the only way to d com-
plete manhood, and this, only, is completo
education.-S. F. Scovel.
The chief constituents of what we call
manhood, are moral rather than intellec-
tual.-J. S. Kieffer.
That which especially distinguishes a
high order of man from a low order-that
which constitutes human goodness, human
greatness, human nobleness—is surely noi
the degree of enlightenment with which
men pursue their own advantage. But it
is self-forgetfulness; it is self-sacrifice; it
is disregard of personal pleasure, personal
indulgence, personal advantage, remote or
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present, because some other line of conduct
is more right.
It is not by books alone, or chiefly, that
one becomes in all points a man. Study to
do faithfully every duty that comes in your
way. Stand to your post; silently devour
the chagrins of life ; love justice ; control
self; swerve not from truth or right; be a
man of rectitude, decision, conscientious-
ness; one that fears and obeys God, and
exercises benevolence to all; and in all this
you shall possess true manliness.
We seldom contemn mankind till they
have injured us; and when they have, we
seldom do anything but detest them for the
injury.--Bulwer.
Men's weaknesses and faults are known
from their enemies; their virtues and
abilities from their friends ; their customs
and lives from their servants.-Anon.
Man, if he compares himself with all that
he can see, is at the zenith of power ; but
if he compare himself with all that he cau
conceive, he is at the nadir of weakness.
Colton.
Bounded in his nature, infinite in his de-
sires, man is a fallen god who has a recol-
lection of heaven.- Lanzartine.
Man should be ever better than he seem;
and shape his acts, and discipline his
· mind, to walk adorning earth, with hope of
heaven.--Aubrey de Vere.
A man must stand erect, not be kept
erect by others.-Marcus Aurelius.
The way of a superior man is three-fold :
virtuous, he is free from anxieties; wise,
he is free from perplexities; bold, he is free
from fear.-Confucius.
It is an error to suppose that a man be-
longs to himself. No man does. He be-
longs to his wife, or his children, or his
relations, or his creditors, or to society, in
some form or other. He has his body, and
that is all, and even for that he is answer-
able to society. In short, society is the
master and man is the servant, and it is
entirely according as society proves a good
or bad master, whether he turns out a bad
or a good servant.--Sala.
Surely, if all the world was made for man,
then man was made for more than the
world.--Duplessis.
Man! thou pendulum betwixt a smile
and tear.- Byron.
In men this blunder still you find, all
think their little set mankind.-H. More.
Contemporaries appreciate the man
rather than the merit; but posterity will
regard the merit rather than the man.
Colton,
An evil man is clay to God, and was to
the devil; a good man is God's wax, and
Satan's clay.-Bp. Hall.
One cannot always be a hero, but one
can always be a man.-Goethe.
In these two things the greatness of man
consists, to have God so dwelling in us as
to impart his character to us, and to have
him so dwelling in us that we recognize his
presence, and know that we are his, and he
is -ours. The one is salvation: the other
the assurance of it.-F. W. Robertson.
The older I grow and I now stand on the
brink of eternity-the more comes back to
me that sentence in the Catechism which I
learned when a child, and the fuller and
deeper its meaning becomes : “ What is
the chief end of man? To glorify God and
enjoy him forever.”- Carlyle.
Every man is valued in this world as he
shows by his conduct he wishes to be valued.
- Bruyère.
Every man is a volume, if you know how
to read him.-Channing.
To study mankind, is not learning to hate
them; so far from such a malevolent end,
it is learning to bear and live easily with
them.
He is but the counterfeit of a man, who
has not the life of a man.-Shakespeare.
The soul of man createth its own des-
tiny of power; and as the trial is intenser
here, his being hath a nobler strength of
heaven.-N. P. Willis.
The highest manhood resides in disposi-
tion, not in mere intellect.-H. W. Beecher.
I mean to make myself a man, and if I
succeed in that, I shall succeed in every-
thing else.-Garfield.
Who dares do all that may become a man,
and dares no more, he is a man indeed.-
Shakespeare.
There are depths in man that go to the
lowest hell, and heights that reach the
highest heaven, for are not both heaven
and hell made out of him, everlasting mir-
acle and mystery that he is.- Carlyle.
They that deny a God, destroy man's
nobility, for man is of kin to the beasts by
his body, and if he is not of kin to God by
his spirit he is an ignoble creature.-Bacon.
He is the wisest and happiest man, who,
by constant attention of thought discovers
the greatest opportunity of doing good,
and breaks through every opposition that
he may improve these opportunities.--
Doddridge.
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It is not a question how much a man
knows, but what use he makes of what he
kuows ; not a question of what he has ac-
quired, and how he has been trained, but
of what he is, and what he can do.-J. G.
Holland.
Let each mau think himself an act of
God; his mind a thought, his life a breath
of God.-Bailey.
An honest man is the noblest work of
God.—Pope.
When faith is lost, and honor dies, the
man is dead.- Whittier.
The proud man hath no God; the envious
man hath no neighbor ; the angry man hath
not himself. What good, then, in being a
man,
if one has neither himself nor a neigh-
bor nor God.--Bp. Hall.
Governments, religion, property, books,
are nothing but the scaffolding to build
men.-Earth holds up to her master no
fruit like the finished man.-Humboldt.
It is not the situation which makes the
man, but the man who makes the situation.
The slave may be a freeman. The monarch
may be a slave. Situations are noble or
ignoble, as we make them.-F. W. Robert-
son.
The test of every religious, political, or
educational system is the man which it
forms.- Amiel.
MANNERS.-(See "GOOD BREEDING.")
Good manners is the art of making those
people easy with whom we converse ; who-
ever makes the fewest persons uneasy,
is
the best bred man in company.-Swifl.
Good manners are the settled medium of
social, as specie is of cominercial, life ; re-
turns are equally expected from both ; and
people will no more advance their civility
to a bear than their money to a bankrupt.
- Chesterfield.
Manners should bespeak the man, inde-
pendent of fine clothing. The general does
not need a fine coat.-Emerson.
The compliments and ceremonies of our
breeding should recall, however remotely,
the grandeur of our destiny.- Emerson.
Good sense, kindness of heart, and a
proper self-respect are the elements of the
best manners.- Tryon Edwards.
Good manners are the small coin of vir-
tue.- Women of England.
Manners are the shadows of virtues ; the
momentary display of those qualities which
our fellow-creatures love and respect. If
we strive to become, then, what we strive
to appear, mauners may often be rendered
useful guides to the performance of our
duties.-Sydney Smith.
Manners are minor morals.-Paley.
Cultured and fine manners are every-
where a passport to regard.
Good manners are the blossom of good
sense and good feeling. If the law of kind-
ness be written in the heart, it will lead to
that disinterestedness in both great and
little things—that desire to oblige, and
that attention to the gratification of others,
which are the foundation of good manners.
A man, whose great qualities want the
ornament of exterior attractions, is like a
naked mountain with mines of gold, which
will be frequented only till the treasure is
exhausted. - Johnson.
The manner. of saying or of 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, if done harshly and
with an ill will, a stony piece of bread : "It
is necessary for him that is hungry to re-
ceive it, but it almost chokes a man in the
going down."--Seneca.
Defect in manners is usually the defect
of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no
breeding, but of birth.- Emerson.
Grace is to the body, what good sense is
to the mind.-Rochefoucauld.
Manner is everything with some people,
and something with everybody.--Bp. Mid-
dleton.
There is not any benefit so glorious in
itself, but it may yet be exceedingly sweet-
ened and improved by the manner of con-
ferring it. The virtue rests in the intent;
the profit in the judicious application of
the matter ; but the beauty and ornament
of an obligation lies in the manner of it.-
Seneca.
A man ought to carry himself in the
world as an orange tree would if it could
walk up and down in the garden, swinging
perfume from every little censer it holds
up to the air.-H. W. Beecher.
Our manners and customs go for more
in life than our qualities. The price we
pay for our civilization is the fine yet im-
passible differentiation of these.-Howell.
Good breeding carries along with it a
dignity that is respected by the most petu-
lant. Ill breeding invites and authorizes
the familiarity of the most timid.- Chester-
field.
Gond manners and good morals are sworn
friends and fast allies.-Bartol.
Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are
the three great sources of ill manners;
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Manner is one of the greatest engines of
influence ever given to man.
The over-formal often impede, and some-
times frustrate business by a dilatory, te-
dious, circuitous, and fussy way of con-
ducting the simplest transactions. They
have been compared to a dog which cannot
lie down till he has made three circuits
round the spot.— Whately.
Men are like wine ; not good before the
lees of clownishness be settled.-Feltham.
We are to carry manner from the hand
to the heart, to improve a ceremonial
nicety into a substantial duty, and the
modes of civility into the realities of relig-
ion.-South.
Nothing is more reasonable and cheap
than good manners.-Anon.
I could better eat with one who did not
respect the truth or the laws, than with a
sloven and unpresentable person. Moral
qualities rule the world, but at short dis-
tances the senses are despotic.--Emerson.
There is certainly something of exquisite
kindness and thoughtful benevolence in
that rarest of gifts, ---fine breeding.-Bul-
wer.
without some one of these defects, no man
will behave himself ill for want of expe-
rience, or what, in the language of fools,
is called knowing the world.—Swift.
No manners are finer than even the most
awkward manifestations of good will to
others.
Good manners are made up of petty sac-
rifices. --Emerson.
Better were it to be unborn than to be ill
bred.—Sir W. Raleigh.
Simplicity of manner is the last attain-
ment. Men are very long afraid of being
natural, from the dread of being taken for
ordinary.-Jeffrey.
I have seen manners that make a similar
impression with personal beauty, that give
the like exhilaration and refine us like that;
and in memorable experiences they are cer-
tainly better than beauty, and make that
superfluous and ugly. But they must be
marked by fine perception, and must al-
ways show control; you shall not be facile,
apologetic, or leaky, but king over your
word; and every gesture and action shall
indicate power at rest. They must be in-
spired by the good heart. There is no
beautifier of complexion, or form or be-
havior, like the wish to scatter joy, and
not pain, around us.--Emerson.
Striking manners are bad manners.-
Robert Hall.
Good breeding consists in having no par-
ticular mark of any profession, but a gen-
eral elegance of manners.—Johnson.
We perhaps never detect how much of
our social demeanor is made up of artifi-
cial airs, until we see a person who is at
once beautiful and simple ; without the
beauty, we are apt to call simplicity awk-
wardness.—George Eliot.
We cannot always oblige, but we can al-
ways speak obligingly.- Voltaire.
Nature is the best posture-master.-
Enzer son.
Comport thyself in life as at a banquet.
If a plate is offered thee, extend thy hand
and take it moderately ; if it is to be with-
drawn, do not detain it. If it come not to
thy side, make not thy desire loudly known,
but wait patiently till it be offered thee.-
Epictetus.
The person who screams, or uses the su-
perlative degree, or converses with beat,
puts whole drawing-rooms to flight. If
yon wish to be loved, love measure. You
must have genius or a prodigious useful-
ness if you will hide the want of measure.
Emerson.
To be good and disagreeable is high trea-
son against the royalty of virtue. H.
More.
Prepare yourself for the world, as the
athletes 17sed to do for their exercises ; oil
your mind and your manners, to give them
the necessary suppleness and flexibility ;
strength alone will not do.-Chesterfield.
There is a policy in manner. I have
heard one, not inexperienced in the pur-
suit of fame, give it his earnest support, as
being the surest passport to absolute and
brilliant success. Tuckerman.
I don't believe in the goodness of disa-
greeable people.-0. Dewey.
Good manners are a part of good morals i
and it is as much our duty as our interest
to practise both.-Hunter,
Virtue itself offends when coupled with
forbidding manners.--Bp. Middleton.
It is easier to polish the manners than to
reform the heart, to disguise a fault than
to conquer it. He who can venture to ap-
pear as he is, must be what he ought to be,
---a difficult and arduous task, which often
requires the sacrifice of many a darling in-
clination and the exertion of many a pain-
ful effort.-Bowdler.
Unbecoming forwardness oftener pro-
ceeds from ignorance than impudence.---
Gréville.
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There are peculiar ways in men, which
discover what they are, through the most
subtle feints and closest disguise. A black-
head cannot come in, nor go away, nor
sit, nor rise, nor stand, like a man of sense.
- Bruyère.
A company attitude is rarely anybody's
best.-Miss Sedgwick.
How often have I seen the most solid
merit and knowledge neglected, unwelcome,
and even rejected, while flimsy parts, little
knowledge, and less merit, introduced by
the Graces, have been received, cherished,
and admired!_Chesterfield.
One of the most important rules as to
manners is to be for the most part silent as
to yourself. - Say little or nothing about
yourself, whether good, bad, or indifferent :
nothing good, for that is vanity ; nothing
bad, for that is affectation ; nothing indif-
ferent, for that is silly.
What better school for manners than the
company of virtuous women ; where the
mutual endeavor to please must insensibly
polish the mind, where the example of fe-
male softness and modesty must commil-
nicate itself to their admirers, and where
the delicacy of the sex puts every one on
his guard lest be give offence ?-Hume.
Civility costs nothing, and buys every-
thing.-Lady M. W. Montague.
A man's fortune is frequently decided by
his first address. If pleasing, others at
once conclude he has merit, but if un-
graceful, they decide against him.-Ches-
terfield.
I can forgive a crime; it may have some
grand motive; but never an awkwardness.
-Mad. Récanier.
What a rare gift is that of manners !
How difficult to define ; how much more
difficult to impart !-Better for a man to
possess them, than to have wealth, beauty,
or talent; they will more than supply all.
Bulwer.
The true art of being agreeable is to ap-
pear well pleased with all the company, and
rather to seem well entertained with them
than to bring entertainment to them. A
man thus disposed may have not much
learning, nor any wit; but if he has com-
mon sense, and something friendly in his
behavior, it conciliates men's minds more
than the brightest parts without this dis-
position.-Addison.
Those that are good manners at the
court are as ridiculous in the country, as
the behavior of the country is most mock-
able at the court. --Shakespeare.
A man's own manner and character is
what most becomes him.- Cicero.
Knowledge of men and manners, the free-
dom of habitudes, and conversation with
the best company of both sexes, is neces-
sary to the perfection of good manners.
-Dryden.
Good breeding shows itself most, where
to an ordinary eye it appears least.--Ad-
dison.
Wisdom, valor, justice, and learning can-
not keep in countenance a man that is pos-
sessed with these excellences, if he wants
that inferior art of life and behavior called
good breeding.–Steele.
Manners easily and rapidly mature into
morals.-H. Mann.
It is certain that either wise bearing, or
ignorant carriage is caught, as men take
diseases, one from another, therefore let
men take heed of their company.-Shake-
speare.
Manners are the shadows of virtues, the
momentary display of those qualities which
our fellow-creatures love and respect.
Sydney Smith.
The immoral man, who invades another's
property, is justly punished for it; and the
ill bred man, who by his ill manners in-
vades and disturbs the quiet and comforts
of private life, is by common consent as
justly banished society. For my own part,
I really think, next to the consciousness of
doing a good action, that of doing a civil
one is the most pleasing; and the epithet
which I should covet the most, next to that
of Aristides (the Just), would be that of
well bred.--Chesterfield.
An imposing air should always be taken
as an evidence of imposition.-Dignity is
often a veil between us and the real truth
of things.-E. P. Whipple.
Manners are of more importance than
laws. Upon them, in a great measure, the
laws depend. The law can touch us here
and there, now and then. Manners are
what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, ex-
alt or debase, barbarize or refine, by a con-
stant, steady, uniform, insensible opera-
tion, like that of the air we breathe in.
They give their whole form and color to
our lives. According to their quality, they
aid morals, they supply them, or they totally
destroy them.--Burke.
A well bred man is always sociable and
complaisant.—Montaigne.
Manners must adorn knowledge and
smooth its way in the world ; without them
it is like a great rough diamond, very well
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in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for
its intrinsic value ; but most prized when
polished.-Chesterfield.
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 supply the
want of it.-Bulwer,
In conversation use some, but not too
much ceremony; it teaches others to be
courteous, too, Demeanors are commonly
paid back in their own coin.-Fuller.
With virtue, capacity, and good conduct,
one still can be insupportable. The man-
mers, which are neglected as small things,
are often those which decide men for or
against you. A slight attention to them
would have prevented their ill judgments.
--Bruyère.
The society of women is the element of
good manners.-Goethe.
The distinguishing trait of people accus-
tomed to good society is a calm, impertur-
bable quiet which pervades all their actions
and habits, from the greatest to the least.
They eat in quiet, move in quiet, live in
quiet, and lose even their money in quiet;
while low persons cannot take up either
a spoon or an affront without making an
amazing noise about it.-Bulwer.
Nothing, except what flows from the
heart, can render even external manners
truly pleasing.-Blair.
Nothing so much prevents our being nat-
ural as the desire of appearing 80.-Roche-
foucauld.
A man's own good breeding is the best
security against other people's ill manners.
- Chesterfield.
Manners are stronger than laws.-A.
Carlile.
One may not know a man that never
conversed in the world, by his excess of
good breeding. A polite country esquire
shall make you as many bows in half an
hour, as would serve a courtier for a week.
--Addison.
The bappy gift of being agreeable seems
to consist not in one, but in an assemblage
of talents tending to communicate delight;
and how many are there, who, by easy
manners, sweetness of temper, and a variety
of other'undefinable qualities, possess the
power of pleasing without any visible effort,
without the aids of wit, wisdom, or learn-
ing, nay, as it should seem, in their de-
fiance, and this without appearing even to
know that they possess it. Cumberland.
Let thy carriage be friendly, but not
foolishly free; an unwary openness causeth
contempt, but a little reservedness, respect;
and handsome courtesy, kindness.-Fuller.
Fine manners are a stronger bond than
a beautiful face. The former binds; the
latter only attracts.-- Lamartine.
Among well bred people, a mutual defer-
ence is affected; contempt of others dis-
guised ; authority concealed ; attention
given to each in his turn; and an easy
stream of conversation maintained, with-
out vehemence, without interruption, with-
out eagerness for victory, and without any
airs of superiority.--Hume.
Hail! ye small sweet courtesies of life,
for sinooth do ye make the road of it, like
grace and beauty which beget inclinations
to love at first sight; 'tis ye who open the
door and let the stranger in.--Sterne.
Good breeding is the result of much good
sense, some good nature, and a little self-
denial for the sake of others, and with a
view to obtain the same indulgence from
them.- Chesterfield.
Complaisance renders a superior amiable,
an equal agreeable, and an inferior ac-
ceptable. It smoothes distinction, sweetens
conversation, and makes every one in the
company pleased with himself. It produces
good nature and mutual benevolence,
encourages the timorous, soothes the tur-
bulent, humanizes the fierce, and distiu-
guishes a society of civilized persons from
ů confusion of savages.--Addison.
Coolness, and absence of heat and haste,
indicate fine qualities. A gentleman makes
no noise ; a lady is serene.-Emerson.
Bad manners are a species of bad morals;
a conscientious, man will not offend in that
way.-Bovee.
Truth, justice, and reason lose all their
force, and all their luster, when they are
not accompanied with agreeable manners.
-Thomson.
There is a deportment which suits the
figure and talents of each person ; it is
always lost when we quit it to assume that
of another.-Rousseau.
The manner of a vulgar man has freedom
without ease; the manner of a gentleman,
ease without freedom.- Chesterfield.
To be always thinking about your man-
ners is not the way to make them good ; the
very perfection of manners is not to think
about yourself.- Whately.
Undeviating civility to those of inferior
stations, and courtesy to all, are the emana-
tions of a well-educated mind and finely
balanced feelings. There is a certain
blending of dignity with sweetness, not
often exhibited, but always irresistible.-
M[rs. Sigourney.
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One of the most important rules of the
science of mauners is an absolute silence
in regard to yourself.-D. H. Aughey.
There is a probity of manners, as well as
of conscience, and a true Christian will re-
gard in a degree the conventionalities of
society.-S. De Boufflers.
Impure manners prepare the heart for
unclean spirits, and give them the oppor-
tunity they desire.' We have heard of cer-
tain arts to call up the devil, but a man
need only live like the swine, and he will be
sure to have his company.-Jones of Nay-
land.
Adorn yourself with all those graces and
accomplishments which, without solidity,
are frivolous; but without which, solidity
is to it great degree useless.-Chesterfield.
In manners, tranquillity is the supreme
power.-Mad. de Maintenon.
Good manners, which give color to life,
are of greater importance than laws, which
are but one of their manifestations. The
law touches us here and there, but manners
are about us everywhere, pervading society
like the air we breathe. Good manners, as
we call them, are neither more nor less
than good behavior, consisting of courtesy
and kindness.-S. Smiles.
best feelings of his nature are never called.
into action.-Southey.
One of the good things that come of a
true marriage is, that there is one face on
which changes come without your seeing
them ; or rather there is one face which
you can still see the same, through all the
shadows which years have gathered upon
it.-G. Macdonald.
If you would marry suitably, marry your
equal.- Ovid.
Men that marry women very much 81-
perior to themselves, are not so truly hus-
bands to their wives, as they are unawares
made slaves to their portions. —Plutarch.
Take the daughter of a good mother.-
Fuller.
If you would have a good wife, take the
daughter who has been a good daughter.
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding
gown, for qualities that would wear well.–
Goldsmith.
Marriage is not a union merely between
two creatures-it is a union between two
spirits; and the intention of that bond is
to perfect the nature of both, by supple-
menting their deficiencies with the force of
contrast, giving to each sex those excel-
lences in which it is naturally deficient; to
the one, strength of character and firmness
of moral will ; to the other, sympathy,
meekness, tenderness ; and just so solemn
and glorious as these ends are for which
the union was intended, just so terrible are
the consequences if it be perverted and
abused; for there is no earthly relationship
which has so much power to ennoble and to
exalt. There are two rocks, in this world
of ours, on which the soul must either an-
chor or be wrecked--the one is God, and
the other is the sex opposite.-F.W. Robert-
son.
Two persons who have chosen each other
out of all the species, with the design to be
each other's mutual comfort and entertain-
ment, have, in that action, bound them-
selves to be good-humored, affable, discreet,
forgiving, patient, and joyful, with respect
to each other's frailties and perfections, to
the end of their lives. Addison.
When two persons have so good an opin-
ion of each other as to come together for
life, they will not differ in matters of im-
portance, because they think of each other
with respect; and in regard to all things
of consideration that may affect them, they
are prepared for mutual assistance and
relief in such occurrences.
For less occa-
sions, they forin 110 resolutions, but leave
their minds unprepared. - Tatler.
MARRIAGE.-(See "WIFE.”)
No man can either live piously, or die
righteously, without a wife. -Richter.
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.
Marriage is of a date prior to sin itself-
the only relic of paradise that is left us-
a smile of God on the world's innocence,
lingering and playing still upon it.-It was
first celebrated by God himself : and thus
religion blessed her two children, and led
them forth into life to begin its wondrous
history. They learned to love him as the
sealer and interpreter of their love to each
other ; and if they had continued in their
uprightness, life would have been a per-
manent form of wedded worship, a sacred
mystery of spiritual oneness and commu-
nion.-Horace Bushnell.
Never marry but for love ; but see that
thou lovest what is lovely.- Penn.
To be man's tender mate was woman
born, and in obeying nature she best serves
the purposes of heaven.-Schiller.
A man may be cheerful and contented in
celibacy, but I do not think he can ever be
happy; it is an unnatural state, and the
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The bloom or blight of all men's happi-
ness.---Byron.
Take not too short a time, to make a
world-wide bargain in.-Shakespeare.
Married in haste, we repent at leisure.-
Congreve.
Marriage is the strictest tie of perpetual
friendship, and there can be no friendship
without confidence, and no confidence with-
out integrity, and he must expect to be
wretched, who pays to beauty, riches, or
politeness that regard which only virtue
and piety can claim.--Johnson.
The Christian religion, by confining mar-
riage to pairs, and rendering the relation
indissoluble, has by these two things done
more toward the peace, happiness, settle-
ment, and civilization of the world, than by
any other part in this whole scheme of
divino wisdom.—Burle.
That alliance may be said to have a
double tie, where the minds are united as
well as the body, and the union will have
all its strength, when both the links are in
perfection together.-Colton.
The happy minglement of hearts, where,
changed as chemic compounds are, each
with its own existence parts, to find a new
one, happier far.—Moore.
A great proportion of the wretchedness
which has embittered married life, has
originated in a negligence of trifles. Con-
nubial happiness is a thing of too fine a
texture to be handled roughly. It is a sen-
sitive plant, which will not bear even the
touch of unkindness ; & delicate flower,
which indifference will chill and suspicion
blast. It must be watered by the showers
of tender affection, expanded by the cheer-
ing glow of kindness, and guarded by the
impregnable barrier of unshaken confi-
dence. Thus matured, it will bloom with
fragrance in every season of life, and
sweeten even the loneliness of declining
years.-Sprat.
Of all the actions of a man's life, his mar-
riage does least concern other people, yet
of all actions of our life, 'tis most medded
with by other people. -Selden.
The reason why so few marriages aro
happy is because young ladies spend their
time in making nets, not in making cages.
-Swift.
Show me one couple unhappy merely on
account of their limited circumstances,
and I will show you ten who are wretched
from other causes.-Coleridge.
Deceive not thyself by over-expecting
happiness in the married state.—Look not
therein for contentment greater than God
will give, or a creature in this world can
receive, pamely, to be free from all incon-
veniences.—Marriage is not like the hill of
Olympus, wholly clear, without clouds.-
Fuller.
There is no earthly happiness exceeding
that of a reciprocal satisfaction in the con-
jugal state.-H. Giles.
Marriage has in it less of beauty, but more
of safety, than the single life ; it hath not
more ease, but less danger; it is more merry
and more sad ; it is fuller of sorrows and
fuller of joys; it lies under more burdens,
but is supported by all the strengths of love
and charity; and those burdens are delight-
ful. Marriage is the mother of the world,
and preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and
churches, and heaven itself.–Jeremy Tay-
lor.
A person's character is but half formed
till after wedlock.-O. Sinnzons.
Hail wedded love, mysterious law, true
source of human offspring, sole propriety
in Paradise of all things common else.
By thee adulterous lust was driven from
men among the bestial herds to range ; by
thee founded in reason, loyal, just, and
pure, relations dear, and all thé cbarities
of father, son, and brother first were
known.-Milton.
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.-O.
Simmons.
Men are generally more careful of the
breed of their horses and dogs than of
their children.-Penn.
The institution of marriage keeps the
moral world in being, and secures it from
an untimely dissolution. Without it, nat-
ural affection and amiableness would not
exist, domestic education would become
extinct, industry and economy be unknown,
and man would be left to the precarious
existence of the savage. But for this insti-
tution, learning and refinement would ex-
pire, government sink into the gulf of
anarchy; and religion, hunted from earth,
would hasten back to her native heavens.-
T. Dwight.
Oh, friendly to the best pursuits of man,
friendly to thought, to virtue, and to peace,
domestic life in rural leisure passed ! few
know thy value, and few taste thy sweets.
Cowper.
He that hath wife and children, bath
given hostages to fortune ; for they are im-
pediments to great enterprises, either of
virtue or mischief. Certainly wife and
children are a kind of discipline of human-
ity.-Bacon.
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Humble wedlock is far better than proud
virginity.-Augustine.
He that takes a wife, says Franklin, takes
care ; but as Emerson says, marriage has
deep and serious benefits, and great joys.
Men marry to make an end; women to
make a beginning.-A. Dupuy.
When it shall please God to bring thee to
man's estate, use great providence and cir-
cumspection in choosing thy wife. For
from thence will spring all thy future good
or evil; and it is an action of life, like unto
& stratagem of war, wherein a man can err
but once !Sir P. Sidney.
A married man falling into misfortune is
more apt to retrieve his situation in the
world than a single one, chiefly because
his spirits are soothed and retrieved by
domestic endearments, and his self-respect
kept alive by finding that although all
abroad be darkness and humiliation, yet
there is a little world of love at home over
which he is a monarch.-Jeremy Taylor.
The man, at the head of the house, can
mar the pleasure of the household, but he
cannot make it.-That must rest with the
woman, and it is her greatest privilege.-
A. Helps.
In the opinion of the world, marriage
ends all, as it does in a comedy.--The truth
is precisely the reverse ; it begins all..
Mad. Sretchine.
Save the love we pay to heaven, there is
none purer, holier, than that a 'virtuous
woman feels for him she would cleave to
through life. Sisters part from sisters,
brothers from brothers, children from their
parents, but such a woman from the hus-
band of her choice, never !--Knowles.
It is in vain that a man is born fortunate,
if he be unfortunate in his marriage.-
Dacier,
Have ever more care that thou be beloved
of thy wife, rather than thyself besotted on
her; and thou shalt judge of her love by
these two observations : first, if thon per-
ceive she have a care of thy estate, and ex-
ercise herself therein; the other, if she
study to please thee, and be sweet into
thee in conversation, without thy instruc-
tión ; for love needs no teaching nor pre-
cept.-Sir W. Raleigh.
God has set the type of marriage every-
where throughout the creation. -Every
creature seeks its perfection in another.-
The very heavens and earth picture it to
us.-Luther.
One should believe in marriage as in the
immortality of the soul.-Balzac.
As a great part of the uneasiness of
matrimony arises from mere trifles, it would
be wise in every young married man to en-
ter into an agreement with his wife that in
all disputes the party who was most con-
vinced they were right should always sur-
render the victory. By this means both
would be more forward to give up the cause.
-Fielding.
Marriages are best made of dissimilar
material.-Theodore Parker.
Two consorts in heaven are not two, but
one angel.–Swedenborg.
There is no disparity in marriage like un-
suitability of mind and purpose. -Diclcens.
Husbands and wives talk of the cares of
matrimony, and bachelors and spinsters
bear them.-W. Collins.
Remember, that if thou marry for beauty,
thou bindest thyself all thy life for that
which perchance will neither last nor please
thee one year; and when thou hast it, it
will be to thee of no price at all; for the
desire dieth when it is attained, and the
affection perisheth when it is satisfied.-
Sir W. Raleigh.
Hasty marriage seldom proveth well. -
Shakespeare.
They who marry give hostages to the
public that they will not attempt the ruin,
or disturb the peace of it.— Atterbury.
O marriage! marriage! what a curse is
thiue, where hands alone consent, and
hearts abhor !-A. Hill.
Fathers their children and themselves
abuse, that wealth a husband for their
daughters choose.-Shirley.
For any man to match above his rank, is
but to sell his liberty.-Massinger.
But happy they, the happiest of their
kind, whom gentle stars unite ; and in one
fate their hearts, their fortunes, and their
beings blend !- Thomson.
Let still the woman take an elder than
herself ; so wears she to him ; so sways she
level in her husband's heart.-Shakespeare.
Early marriages are permanent morali-
ties ; deferred marriages are temptations
to wickedness.-H. W. Beecher.
Themistocles, being asked whether he
would rather marry his daughter to an in-
digent man of merit, or to a worthless man
of estate, replied, that he should prefer a
man without an estate, to an estate without
aman.
A good wife is like the ivy which beautifies
the building to which it clings, twining its
tendrils more lovingly as time converts the
ancient edifice into a ruin.-Johnson.
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MARRIAGE.
The happiness of married life depends
upon making small sacrifices with readiness
and cheerfulness.--Selden.
When a man and woman are married
their romance ceases and their history com-
mences.-Rochebrune.
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, 80
joined that they canuot be separated ; often
moving in opposite directions, yet always
punishing any one who comes between
them.-Sydney Smith.
Maids want nothing but husbands, and
when they have them, they want every-
thing.-Shakespeare.
Wedlock 's like wine, not properly judged
of till the second glass.-Jerrold.
When we see the avaricious and crafty
taking companions to their tables, and their
beds, without any inquiry but after farms
and money; or the giddy and thoughtless
uniting themselves for life to those
whom
they have only seen by the light of tapers ;
when parents make articles for children
withoutinquiring after their consent; when
some marry for heirs to disappoint their
brothers; and others throw themselves into
the arms of those whom they do not love,
because they have found themselves re-
jected where they were more solicitous to
please ; . when some marry because their
servants cheat them ; some because they
squander their own money ; some because
their houses are pestered with company ;
some because they will live like other
people; and some because they are sick of
themselves, we are not so much inclined to
wonder that marriage is sometimes un-
happy, as that it appears so little loaded
with calamity; and cannot but conclude
that society has something in itself emi-
nently agreeable to human nature, when
we find its pleasures so great, that even the
ill choice of a companion can hardly over-
balance them. Those, therefore, tliat rail
against matrimony, should be informed,
that they are neither to wonder, or repine,
that a contract begun on such principles
has ended in disappointment.--Johnson.
He that marries is like the Doge who was
wedded to the Adriatic. He knows not
what there is in that which he marries :
mayhap treasures and pearls, mayhap mon-
sters and tempests await him.--7. Feine.
Not the marriage of convenience, nor the
marriage of reason, but the marriage of
love.--All other marriage, with vows 80
solemn, with intimacy so close, is but acted
falsehood and varnished sin.-Bulwer.
I believe marriages would in general be
as happy, and often more so, if they were
all made by the Lord Chancellor, upon a
due consideration of the characters and
circumstances, without the parties having
any choice in the matter.-Johnson.
Hanging and wiving go by destiny.-
Shalcespeare.
The married man is like the bee that
fixes his hive, augments the world, benefits
the republic, and by a daily diligence,
without wronging any, profits all ; but he
who contemns wedlock, like a wasp, wan-
ders an offence to the world, lives upon
spoil and rapine, disturbs peace, steals
sweets that are none of his own, and, by
robbing the hives of others, meets misery
as his due reward.-Felthani.
Few natures can preserve through years
the poetry of the first passionate illusion.
That can alone render wedlock the seal
that confirms affection, and not the mock-
iug ceremonial that consecrates its grave.
Bulwer.
A husband is a plaster that cures all the
ills of girlhood.-Molière.
There is more of good nature than of
good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Thoreau.
The love of some men for their wives is
like that of Alfieri for his horse. “My at-
tachment for him," said he, "went so far as
to destroy my peace every time that he had
the least ailment; but my love for him did
not prevent me from fretting and chafing
him whenever he did not wish to go my
way.
."-Bovee.
Only so far as a man is happily married
to himself, is he fit for married life to
another, and for family life generally.-
Novalis.
For a young man to marry a young wo-
man, is of the Lord; for an old man to
marry a young woman, is of man ;
young man to marry an old woman, is of
the devil!
She that hath a vise husband most eu-
tice him to an eternal dearness by the veil
of modesty and the grave robes of chastity,
the ornament of meekness, and the jewels
of faith and charity. She must have no
painting but blushings; her brightness
must be purity, and she must,shine round
about with sweetness and friendship; and
she shall be pleasant while she lives, and
desired when she dies.—Jeremy Taylor.
All the molestations of marriage are
abundantly recompensed with the other
comforts which God bestoweth on them
who make a wise choice of a wife.-
Fuller,
Man and wife are equally concerned to
avoid all offense of each other in the be-
for a
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MARRIAGE. .
liance in house and family ; to her he
should confide the key of his heart and the
lock of his store-room. His honor and his
home are under her protection, his welfare
in her hands. Ponder this! And you, my
sons, be true men of honor, and good fa-
thers of your families. Act in such wise
that your wives respect and love you. And
what more shall I say to you, my children?
Peruse diligently the word of God; that
will guide you out of storm and dead calm,
and bring you safe into port. And as for
the rest-do your best !-Frederika Bre-
mier.
ginning of their conversation. A little
thing can blast an infant blossom.--Jeremy
Taylor.
In the career of female fame, there are
few prizes to be obtained which can vie
with the obscure state of a beloved wife,
or a happy mother.-Jane Porter.
The last word is the most dangerous of
infernal machines, and the husband and
wife should no more fight to get it than
they would struggle for the possession of a
lighted bombshell.--Jerrold.
From my experience, not one in twenty
marries the first love; we build statues of
snow, and weep to see them melt.— Walter
Scott.
Men should keep their eyes wide open
before marriage, and half shut afterward.-
Mad. Scuderi.
A man finds himself seven years older the
day after his marriage.-- Bacon.
Men dream in courtship, but in wedlock
wake. -Pope.
A happy marriage is a new beginning of
life, a new starting point for happiness and
usefulness.-A. P. Stanley.
Celibacy, like the fly in the heart of an
apple, dwells in perpetual sweetness, but
sits alone, and is confined and dies iú sin-
gularity ; but marriage, like the useful bee,
builds a house, and gathers sweetness from
every flower, and labors and unites into so-
cieties and republics, and sends out colo-
nies, and feeds the world with delicacies,
and keeps order, and exercises many vir-
tues, and promotes the interest of mankind,
and is that state of good to which God hath
designed the present constitution of the
world.--Jeremy Taylor.
If you would have the nuptial union last,
let virtue be the bond that ties it fast.-
Rowe.
Marriage is a medicine which acts dif-
ferently on good men and good women.-
She does not love him quite enough--cure,
-marriage. He loves her a little too much
-cure,-marriage.-Charles Reade.
Many a marriage has commenced, like
the morning, red, and perished like a mush-
Wherefore ? Because the married
pair neglected to be as agreeable to each
other after their union as they were before
it. Seek always to please each other, but
in doing so keep heaven in mind. Lavish
not your love to-day, remembering that
marriage has a morrow and again a mor-
Bethink ye, my daughters, what the
word housewife expresses.
The married
woman is her husband's domestic trust.
On her he ought to be able to place his re-
The sanctity of marriage and the family
relation make the corner-stone of our
American society and civilization.---Gar-
field.
The treasures of the deep are not so pre-
cious as are the concealed comforts of a
man locked up in woman's love ; I scent
the air of blessings when I come but near
the house. --T. Middleton.
I know the sum of all that makes a man-
a just man-happy, consists in the well
choosing of his wife ; and then well to dis-
charge it, does require equality of years, of
birth, of fortune.--Massinger.
Marriage enlarges the scene of our hap-
piness aud of our miseries.-A marriage of
love is pleasant-of interest, easy, and
wbere both meet, happy.-A happy mar-
riage has in it all the pleasures of friend-
ship, all the enjoyments of sense and rea-
son, and, indeed, all the sweets of life.-
Addison.
Few of either sex are ever united to their
first love.—Yet married people jog on and
call each other “My dear” and “My dar-
ling," all the same. - Bulver.
Were a man not to marry a second time,
it might be concluded that his first wife
had given him a disgust to marriage ; but
by taking a second wife, he pays the high-
est compliment to the first, by showing that
she made him so happy as a married man,
that he wishes to be so a second time. -
Johnson.
They that marry old people merely in ex-
pectation of burying them, hang themselves
in the hope that some one will come and
cut the halter.-Fuller.
If you wish to ruin yourself, marry a rich
wife.-Michelet.
The kindest and the happiest pair will
find occasion to forbear ; and something,
every day they live, to pity and perhaps
forgive.- Cowper.
As the husband is, the wife is ; if mated
with a clown, the grossness of his nature
room.
rol.
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MASTER.
" the
will have weight to drag thee down.-Ten-
nyson.
An uncertain marriage law is a national
calamity.
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.
What greater thing is there for two hu-
man souls than to feel that they are joined
for life-to strengthen each other in all
labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow,
to minister to each other in all pain, to be
one with each other in silent, unspeakable
memories at the moment of the last part-
ing.- George Eliot.
MARTYRS. It is the cause and not
merely the death that makes the martyrı-
Napoleon.
Christianity has made martyrdom sub-
lime, and sorrow triumphant.-E. H. Cha-
pin.
To die for the truth is not to die merely
for one's faith, or one's country; it is to die
for the world.
Their blood is shed in confirmation of
the noblest claim—the claim to feed upon
immortal truth, to walk with God, and be
divinely free.- Cowper.
He that dies a martyr proves that he was
not a knave, but by no means that he was
not a fool; sinoe the most absurd doctrines
are not without such evidence as martyr-
dom can produce. A martyr, therefore, by
the mere act of suffering, can prove noth-
ing but his own faith.--Colton.
Those who completely sacrifice them-
selves are praised and admired ; that is the
sort of character men like to find in others.
Rahel.
It is admirable to die the victim of one's
faith ; it is sad to die the dupe of one's an-
bition.- Lamartine.
God discovers the martyr and confessor
without the trial of flames and tortures,
and will hereafter entitle many to the re-
ward of actions which they never had the
opportunity of performing.--Addison.
Even in this world they will have their
judgment-day; and their names, which went
down in the dust like a gallant banner trod-
den in the mire, shall rise again all glorious
in the sight of nations.—Mrs. Stowe.
It is more difficult, and calls for higher
energies of soul, to live a martyr than to
die one.--Horace Mann,
For some not to be martyred is a martyr-
dom.-Donne.
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of
the church.-Jerome.
They lived unknown, till persecution
dragged them into fame, and chased them
up to heaven. Their ashes flew no marble
tells us whither. With their names 10
bard enbalms and sanctifies his song : and
history, so warm on meaner themes, is cold
on this.—Cowper.
The way of the world is, to praise dead
saints, and persecute living ones. — N.
Howe.
No language can fitly express the mean-
ness, the baseness, the brutality, with
which the world has ever treated its vic-
tims of one age and boasts of them in the
next. Dante is worshiped at that grave
to wbich he was hurried by persecution.
Milton, in his own day, was
Mr. Milton,
the blind adder, that spit his venon on the.
king's person"; and soon after,
mighty orb of song." These absurd tran-
sitions from hatred to apotheosis, this rec-
ognition just at the moment when it be-
comes a mockery, saddens all intellectual
history.-E. P. Whipple.
Two things are necessary to & modern
martyr,—some to pity, and some to perse-
cute, soine to regret, and some to roast him.
If martyrdom is now on the decline, it is
not because martyrs are less zealous, but
because martyr-mongers are more wise.
Colton.
When we read, we fancy we could be mar-
tyrs; when we come to act, we cannot bear
a provoking word.—Hannah More.
The martyrs to vice far exceed the mar-
tyr8 to virtue, both in endurance and in
number. So blinded are we by our pas-
sions, that we suffer more to be damned
than to be saved.—Hannah More.
O, how much those men are to be valued
who, in the spirit with which the widow
gave up her two mites, have given up them-
selves! How their names sparkle! How
rich their very ashes are ! How they will
count up in heaven !-E. H. Chapin.
Who falls for the love of God, shall rise
a star.-Ben. Jonson.
Fools love the martyrdom of fame.-
Byron.
MASTER.-It is a common law of na-
ture, which no time will ever change, that
superiors shall rule their inferiors.-Dyo-
nysius.
Such it hath been, and shall be, that
many still must labor for the one ; it is na-
ture's doom.-Byron.
It is not only paying wages, and giving
commands, that constitutes a master of a
family; but prudence, equal behavior, with
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MEANS.
a readiness to protect and cherish them, is
what entitles man to that character in their
very hearts and sentiments.--Steele.
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
'If thou art a.master, sometimes be bliud;
if a servant, sometimes be deaf.-Fuller.
We must truly serve those whom we ap-
pear to command; we must bear with their
imperfections, correct them with gentleness
and patience, and lead them in the way to
heaven.-Fénelon.
The measure of a master is his success in
bringing all men round to his opinion
twenty years later.- Emerson.
There is nothing so good to make a llorse
fat, as the eye of his master.-Diogenes.
Such master, such man.-Tusser.
Men, at some time, are masters of their
fates.- Shakespeare.
MATHEMATICS.-Pure mathematics
do remedy and cure many defects in the
wit and faculties of individuals ; for if the
wit be dull, they sharpen it ; if too wander-
ing they fix it ; if too inherent in the sense,
they abstract it.—Bacon.
The study of the mathematics is like
climbing up a steep and craggy mountain ;
when once you reach the top, it fully rec-
ompenses your trouble, by opening a fine,
clear, and extensive prospect.
The study of mathematics cultivates the
l'eason ;
that of the languages, at the same
time, the reason and the taste. The former
gives grasp and power to the mind; the lat-
tior both power and flexibility. The former,
by itself, would prepare us for a state of cer-
tainties, which nowhere exists ; the latter,
for a state of probabilities, which is that
of common life. Each, by itself, does but
an imperfect work : in the union of both,
is the best discipline for the mind, and the
best mental training for the world as it is.
-Tryon Edwards.
If a man's wits be wandering, let him
study the mathematics ; for in demonstra-
tions, if his wit be called away ever so little,
he must begin again.—Johnson.
MAXIMS.-(See PROVERBS
and
" APOTHEGMS.")
Maxims are the condensed good sense of
nations.—Sir J. Mackintosh.
A maxim is a conclusion from obser-
vation of matters of fact, and is merely
speculative ; a principle carries knowledge
within itself, and is prospective.-Cole-
ridge.
Precepts and maxims are of great weight;
and a few useful ones at hand, do more to-
ward a wise and happy life, than whole
volumes of cautions that we know not
where to find.-C. Simmons.
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which
force truth upon our memory.--Diderot.
Precepts or maxims are of great weight;
and a few useful ones at hand do more to-
ward a happy life than whole volumes
that we know not where to find.--Seneca.
The value of a maxim depends on four
things': its intrinsic excellence or the com-
parative correctness of the principle it em-
bodies ; the subject to which it relates ;
the extent of its application ; and the com-
parative ease with which it may be applied
in practice.-Charles Hodge.
Asa malicious censure, craftily wordedand
pronounced with assurance, is apt to pass
with mankind for shrewd wit, so a virulent
maxim in bold expressions, though without
any justness of thought, is readily received
for true philosophy.-Shaftesbury.
Maxims are to the intellect what laws are
to actions ; they do not enlighten, but
guide and direct, and though themselves
blind, are protecting.-Joubert.
It is hard to form a maxim against which
an exception is not ready to start up: as
- where the minister grows rich, the public
is proportionably poor” ; as “in a private
family the steward always thrives the fast-
est when the lord is running out."-Swift.
All maxims have their antagonist max-
ims ; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a
single one being but half a truth.-- W.
Matthews.
I would fain coin wisdom,-mould it, I
mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences,
that can easily be retained and transmitted.
-Joubert.
The two maxims of any great man at
court are, always to keep his countenance,
and never to keep his word.---Swift.
General observations drawn from par-
ticulars are the jewels of knowledge, com-
prehending great store in a little room.-
Locke.
MEANS.—There can be no end without
means : and God furnishes no ineans that
exempt us from the task and duty of join-
ing our own best endeavors. The original
stock, or wild olive tree of our natural pow-
ers, was not given us to be burnt or
blighted, but to be grafted on.—Coleridge.
The end must justify the means.--Prior.
We put things in order ; God does the
rest. Lay an iron bar east and west, it is
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MEDIOCRITY.
it so.
not magnetized. Lay it north and south,
and it is.--Horace Mann.
The means heaven yields must be em-
braced, and not neglected ; else, if heaven
would, and we will not; heaven's offer we
refuse. --Shalcespeare.
Mahomet hearing one of his soldiers say,
“I'll turn my camel loose and trust him to
God," said to him, “Tie your camel, and
then trust him to God.”_And Cromwell's
charge to his soldiers, on the eve of battle,
was,
Trust in Providence, but keep your
powder dry.
Means without God cannot help.-God
without means can, and often doth.-I will
use good means, but not rest in them.--
Bp. Hall,
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
makes ill deeds done !
-Shakespeare.
Some men possess means that are great,
but fritter them away in the execution of
conceptions that are little ; others, who can
form great conceptions, atteinpt to carry
them into execution with little means.
These two descriptions of men might suc-
ceed if united, būt kept asunder, both fail.
It is a rare thing to find a combination of
great ineans and of great conceptions in
ono mind.-Colton.
All ontward means of grace, if separate
from the spirit of God, cannot profit, or
conduce, in any degree, either to the
knowledge or love of God. All outward
things, unless he work in them and by
them, are in vain.-John Wesley.
MEANNESS.-Superior men, and yet
not always virtuous, there have been; but
there never has been a mean man, and at
the same time virtuous.-Confucius.
Whoever is mean in his youth runs a
great risk of becoming a scoundrel in riper
years; meanness leads to villainy with fatal
attraction.-V. Cherbuliez.
I have so great a contempt and detesta-
tion for meanness, that I could sooner
make a friend of one who had committed
murder, than of a person who could be
capable, in any instance, of the former
vice. Under meanness, I comprehend dis-
honesty; under dishonesty, ingratitude ;
under ingratitude, irreligion; and under
this latter, every species of vice and im-
morality. --Sterne.
I have great hope of a wicked man;
slender hope of a mean one. A wicked
man may be converted and become a prom-
inent saint. A mean man ought to be
converted six or seven times, one right after
the other, to give him a fair start and put
him on an equality with a bold, wicked
man.-H. W. Beecher.
To dally much with subjects mean and
low, proves that the mind is weak or makes
-Cowper.
MEDICINE,-(See “PHYSIC.")
Physic is, for the most part, only a sub-
stitute for temperance and exercise.-Ad-
dison.
Medicine has been defined to be the art
or science of amusing a sick man with
frivolous speculations about his disorder,
and of tampering ingeniously, till nature
either kills or cures him.
The disease and its medicine are like two
factions in a besieged town; they tear one
another to pieces, but both unite against
their common enemy, Nature.-Jeffrey.
The poets did well to conjoin music and
medicine, because the office of medicine is
but to tune the curious harp of man's body.
- Bacon.
The bitterness of the potion, and the
abhorrence of the patient are necessary
circumstances to the operation. It must
be something to trouble and disturb the
stomacl that must purge and cure it.-
Montaigne.
The best of all medicines are rest and
fasting.-Franıclin.
We seem ambitious God's whole work to
undo.— With new diseases on ourselves we
war, and with new physic, a worse engine
far.-Donne.
Doctor, no medicine. We are machines
made to live-organized expressly for that
purpose.-Such is our nature. -Do not
counteract the living principle.—Leave it
at liberty to defend itself, and it will do
better than your drugs.- Napoleon.
Over the door of a library in Thebes is
the inscription, “Medicine for the soul.”_
Diodorus Siculus.
MEDIOCRITY,-We meet with few ut-
terly dull and stupid souls ; the sublime
and transcendent are still fewer; the gen-
crality of mankind stand between these
two extremes; the interval is filled with
multitudes of ordinary geniuses, but all
very useful, and the ornaments and sup-
ports of the commonwealth.-Bruyère.
Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily con-
demin everything which is beyond their
range.-Rochefoucauld.
Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either
by the gods or men.-Horace.
Mediocrity is now, as formerly, danger-
ous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but
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MEDITATION.
moments. The heart may give most useful
lessons to the head, and learning wiser
grow without his books.—Cowper.
By meditation I can converse with God,
solace myself on the bosom of the Saviour,
bathe myself in the rivers of divine pleas-
ure, tread the paths of my rest, and view
the mansions of eternity. - Anon.
A man of meditation is happy, not for an
hour or a day, but quite round the circle
of all his years.-Isaac Taylor.
One of the rarest of all acquirements is
the faculty of profitable meditation. Most
human beings, when they fancy they are
meditating, arc,
arc, in fact, doing nothing at
all, and thinking of nothing.-Boyd.
No soul can preserve the bloom and deli-
cacy of its existence without lonely mus-
ings and silent prayer, and the greatness
of this necessity is in proportion to the
greatness of evil.-Farrar.
'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past
hours and ask them what report they bore
to heaven, and how they might have borne
more welcome news.—Young.
Meditation is the nurse of thought, and
thought the food for meditation.-C. Sinz-
mons.
among even the successful writers of prose,
those who rise sensibly above it are the
very rarest exceptions.—Gladstone.
Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of
mediocre people.--Joubert.
Persevering mediocrity is much more
respectable, and unspeakably more useful
than talented inconstancy.-J. Hamilton.
The art of putting into play mediocre
qualities often begets more reputation than
is achieved by true merit.--Rochefoucauld.
Mediocrity can talk ; but it is for genius
to observe. -Disraeli.
The highest order of mind is accused of
folly, as well as the lowest. Nothing is
thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The
majority has established this, and it fixes
its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either
way.-
Pascal.
Nothing in the world is more haughty
than a man of moderate capacity when
once raised to power.- Wessenburg.
The virtue of the soul does not consist
in flying high, but walking orderly ; its
graudeur does not exercise itself in gran-
deur, but in mediocrity.-Montaigne.
There is a mean in all things ; cven vir-
tue itself has stated limits; which not
being strictly observed, it ceases to be vir-
tue.-Horace.
They are as sick that surfeit with too
much, as they that starve with nothing.
It is no mean happiness, therefore, to be
seated in the mean. Superfluity comes
soonest by white hairs, but competency
lives longest.
There are circumstances of peculiar diffi-
culty and danger, where a mediocrity of
talent is the most fatal quality that a man
can possibly possess. Had Charles the
First, and Louis the Sixteenth, been more
wise or more weak, more firm or inore
yielding, in either case they had both of
them saved their heads.- Collon.
There are certain things in which me-
diocrity is not to be endured, such as
poetry, music, painting, public speaking.--
Bruyère.
MEDITATION.-Meditation is the
soul's perspective glass, whereby, in her
long removes, she discerneth God, as if he
were nearer at hand.-Feltham.
Meditation is the life of the soul ; action
is the soul of meditation ; honor is the re-
ward of action: so meditate, that thou
mayst do ; so do, that thou mayst purchase
honor; for which purchase, give God the
glory. -Quarles.
Meditation may think down hours to
Meditation is the tongue of the soul and
the language of our spirit; and our wan-
dering thoughts in prayer are but the neg-
lects of meditation and recessions from
that duty; according as we neglect medita-
tion, so are our prayers imperfect,-medi-
tation being the soul of prayer and the
intention of our spirit.--Jeremy Taylor.
It is easier to go six miles to hear a ser-
mon, than to spend one quarter of an hour
in meditating on it when I come home.
Philip Henry.
It is not hasty reading, but seriously
meditating upon holy and heavenly truths
that makes them prove sweet and profitable
to the soul. It is not the bee's touching on
the flowers that gathers honey, but her
abiding for a time upon them, and drawing
out the sweet. It is not he that leads most,
but he that meditates most on divine
truth, that will prove the choicest, wisest,
strongest Christian.-Bp. Hall.
It is not the number of books you read,
nor the variety of sermons you hear, nor
the amount of religious conversation in
which you mix, but it is the frequency and
earnestness with which you meditate on
these things till the truth in them becomes
your own and part of your being, that en-
sures your growth.-F. W. Robertson.
Reading and conversation may furnish
us with many ideas of men and things, yet
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MELANCHOLY.
it is our own meditation that must form
our judgment.- Watts.
Meditation is that exercise of the mind
by which it.recalls a known truth, as some
kind of creatures do their food, to be ru-
minated upon till all the valuable parts be
extracted. - Bp. Horne.
MEEKNESS.--(Seo “HUMILITY.")
The flower of meekness grows on a stem
of grace.-J. Montgomery.
Selfisb men may possess the earth; it is
the meek only who inherit it from the
Heavenly Father, free from all defile-
mients and perplexities of unrighteous-
ness.- Woolnian.
There will come a time when three words,
uttered with charity and meekness, shall
receive a far more blessed reward than
tlıree thousand volumes written with dis-
dainful sharpness of wit.-R. Hooker.
Meekness is love at school, at the school
of Christ.-It is the disciple learning to
know, and fear, and distrust himself, and
learning of him who is meek and lowly in
heart, and so finding rest to his soul.-J.
Hamilton.
Meekness cannot well be counterfeited.
It is not insensibility, or unmanliness, or
servility ; it does not cringe, or whine. It
is benevolence imitating Christ in pa-
tience, forbearance, and quietness. ---It feels
keenly, but not malignantly; it abounds in
good will, and bears all things.- W. S.
Plumer.
The anger of a meek man is like fire
struck out of steel, hard to be got out, and
when got out, soon gone.-The meek enjoy
almost a perpetual Sabbath.-M. Henry.
Meekness is imperfect if it be not both
active and passive, leading us to subdue
our own passions and resentments, as well
as to bear patiently the passions and resent-
ments of others.--I'oster.
The meek are not those who are never at
all angry, for such are insensible; but
those who, feeling anger, control it, and are
angry only when they ought to be. Meek-
ness excludes revenge, irritability, morbid
sensitiveness, but not self-defence, or a
quiet and steady maintenance of rights. —
Theophylact.
MEETING.--The joy of meeting, not
unmixed with pain.- Longfellow.
Absence, with all its pains, is, by this
charming moment, wiped away. -Thomson.
The joys of meeting pay the pangs of
absence; else who could bear it?--Rowe.
Ab me! the world is full of meetings such
as this,-a thrill, a voiceless challenge and
reply, and sudden partings after !-N. P.
Willis.
In life there are meetings which seem
like a fate.- Owen Meredith.
But here she comes, in the calm harbor
of whose gentle breast, my tempest beaten
soul may safely rest.-0, my heart's joy,
whate'er my sorrows be, they cease and
vanish on beholding thee.-By this one
view all my past pains are paid, and all I
have to come, more easy made.-Dryden.
I have not joyed an hour since you de-
parted, for public miseries, and for private
fears ; but this blest meeting has o'erpaid
them all.-Dryden.
MELANCHOLY.-Melancholy, or low
spirits, is that hysterical passion which
forces unbidden sighs and tears. It falls
upon a contented life, like a drop of ink on
white paper, which is not the less a stain
that it carries no meaning with it.--Lock-
hart,
Melancholy is & fearful gift; what is it
but the telescope of truth, which brings life
near in utter darkness, making the cold
reality too real?-Byron.
Melancholy is a kind of demon that
Launts our island, and often conveys her-
self to us in an easterly wind.--Addison.
The noontide sun is dark, and music dis-
cord, when the heart is low.-Young.
Melancholy spreads itself betwixt heaven
and earth, like envy between man and man,
and is an everlasting mist.--Byron.
Whatever is highest and holiest is tinged
with melancholy. The eye of genius has
always a plaintive expression, and its nat-
ural language is pathog. A prophet is
sadder than other men; and He who was
greater than all prophets was "a man of
sorrows and acquainted with grief.”—Mrs.
L. M. Child.
The spirit of melancholy would often
take its flight from us if only we would take
up the song of praise.-P. B. Power.
I once gave a lady two-and-twenty re-
ceipts against melancholy: one was a bright
fire ; another, to remember all the pleasant
things said to her; another, to keep a box
of sugarplums on the chimney-piece and a
kettle simmering on the hob. I thought
this mere trifling at the moment, but have
in after life discovered how true it is that
these little pleasures often banish melan-
choly better than higher and more exalted
objects; and that no means ought to be
thought too trifling which can oppose it
either in ourselves or in others. -Sydney
Smith.
MEMORY
342
MEMORY.
Melancholy attends the best joys of an
ideal life.-
Margaret Fuller.
There is not a string attuned to mirth
but has its chord of melancholy:-Hood.
It is impious in a good man to be sad.—
Young.
Melancholy sees the worst of things-
things as they might be, and not as they
are.-It looks upon a beautiful face, and
sees but a grinning skull.-Bovee.
Make not a bosom friend of a melan-
choly, sad soul.--He will be sure to ag-
gravate thine adversity and to lessen thy
prosperity.-He goes always heavy loaded,
and thou must bear half.-Fénelon.
You may call it madness--folly ; you shall
not chase my gloom away; there is such a
charm in melancholy, I would not, if I
could, be gay.-Rogers.
People of gloomy, uncheerful imagina-
tions, will discover their natural tinctuie
of mind in all their thoughts, words, and
actions. As the finest wines have often the
taste of the soil, so even the most religious
thoughts often draw something that is
peculiar from the constitution of the mind
in which they arise. When folly or super-
stition strikes in with this natural depravity
of temper, it is not in the power, even of
religion itself, to preserve the character
from appearing highly absurd and ridicu-
lous.-Addison.
My melancholy haunts me everywhere,
and not one kindly gleam pierces the gloom
of my dark thoughts, to give a glimpse of
comfort.-T. Southern.
MEMORY.-Memory is the receptacle
and sheath of all knowledge.-- Cicero.
The memory is a treasurer to whom we
must give funds, if we would draw the
assistance we need.-Rowe.
Memory depends very much on the per-
spicuity, regularity, and order of our
thoughts. Many complain of the want of
memory, when the defect is in their judg-
ment; and others, by grasping at all, re-
tain nothing.-Fuller.
It is a terrible thought, that nothing is
ever forgotten ; that not an oath is ever
uttered that does not continue to vibrate
through all time, in the wide-spreading
current of sound ; that not a prayer is
lisped, that its record is not to be found
stamped on the laws of nature by the in-
delible seal of the Almighty's will. — Cooper.
That memory is the book of judgment,
from some opium experiences of mine, I can
believe. I have, indeed, seen the same thing
asserted in modern books, and accompanied
by a remark which I am convinced is true,
namely: that the dread book. of account,
which the Scriptures speak of is, in fact,
the mind itself of each individual. Of this,
at least, I feel assured—that there is no such
thing as forgetting, possible to the mind;
a thousand accidents may and will inter-
pose a veil between our present conscious-
ness and the secret inscriptions on the
mind ; accidents of the same sort will also
rend away this veil ; but whether veiled or
nuveiled, the inscription remains forever ;
just as the stars seem to withdraw before
the common light of day; whereas, in fact,
we all know that it is the light which is
drawn over them as a veil, and that they
are waiting to be revealed, when the ob-
scuring daylight shall have withdrawn.-
De Quincey.
The secret of a good memory is attention,
and attention to a subject depends upon
our interest in it.-We rarely forget that
which has made a deep impression on our
minds.--Tryon Edwards.
We consider ourselves as defective in
memory, either because we remember less
than we desire, or less than we suppose
others to remember.- Johnson.
No one is likely to remember what is en-
tirely uninteresting to him.-G. Macdonald.
Joy's recollection is no longer joy, while
sorrow's memory is sorrow still.- Byron.
Every one complains of his memory ;
nobody of his judgment.-Rochefoucauld.
The two oftices of memory are collection
and distribution.-Johnson.
Memory is not wisdom ; idiots can by
rote repeat volumes.—Yet what is wisdom
without memory ?- Tupper.
0, Memory, thou bitter-sweet-both a joy
and a scourge.—Mad. De Staël.
If the memory is more flexible in child-
hood, it is more tenacious in mature age ;
if childhood has sometimes the memory of
words, old age has that of things, which
impress themselves according to the clear-
ness of the conception of the thought which
we wish to retain.--Bonstetten.
Memory, the daughter of attention, is the
teeming mother of knowledge.— Tupper.
Memory is the treasure-house of the mind
wherein the monuments thereof are kept
and preserved.--Fuller.
Memory can glean, but never renew.--It
brings us joys faint as is the perfume of the
flowers, faded and dried, of the summer
that is gone.-H.W. Beecher.
The memory of past favors, is like a rain-
bow, bright, vivid, and beautiful, but it
end;
write them, and the bad memory of those
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MEN.
soon fades away.--The memory of injuries What we learn with pleasure we never
is engraved on the heart, and remains for- forget.-- Alfred Mercier.
ever.-Haliburton.
The joys I have possessed are ever mine ;
Memory seldom fails when its office is to out of thy reach, behind eternity, hid in
show us the tombs of our buried hopes.- the sacred treasure of the past, but blest
Lady Blessington.
remembrance brings them hourly back.---
The true art of memory is the art of at-
Dryden.
tention.-Johnson,
Lulled in the countless chambers of the
It is an old saying that we forget nothing.
brain, our thoughts are linked by many a
-As people in fever begin suddenly to talk
hidden chain ; awake but one, and lo, what
the language of their infancy, so we are
myriads rise 5-Pope.
stricken by memory sometimes, and old af- My memory is the thing I forget with.-
fections rush back on us as vivid as in the A child's definition.
time when they were our daily talk, when
As dew to the blossom, and bud to the
their presence gladdened our eyes, when
bee, as the scent to the rose, are those mem-
their accents thrilled in our ears, -when,
ories to me.- Amelia B. Welby.
with passionate tears and grief, we flung
ourselves upon their hopeless corpses.
They teach us to remember ; why do not
Parting is death,--at least, as far as this
they teach us to forget? There is not a
life is concerned. A passion comes to an
man living who has not, some time in his
it is carried off in a coffin, or, weep-
life, admitted that inemory was as much of
ing in a post-chaise ; it drops out of life
a curse as a blessing.--F. A. Durivage.
one way or the other, and the earth-clods The memory has as many moods as the
close over it, and we see it no more. But temper, and shifts its scenery like a dio-
it has been part of our souls,; and it is
- George Eliot.
eternal.—Thackeray.
There is a remembrance of the dead, to
Memory is the cabinet of imagination,
which we turn even from the charms of
the treasury of reason, the registry of
the living. These we would not exchange
conscience, and the council chamber of for the song of pleasure or the bursts of
thought.--Basil.
revelry.- Washington Irving.
How can such deep-imprinted images MEN,--(See “ MAN.")
sleep in us at times, till a word, & sound,
awake them ? - Lessing.
Men are but children, too, though they
Of all the faculties of the mind, memory
have gray hairs; they are only of a larger
size. -Seneca.
is the first that flourishes, and the first that
dies.—Colton.
The real difference between men is
Memory in youth is active and easily im-
energy. A strong will, a settled purpose,
pressible ; in old age it is comparatively
an invincible determination, can accom-
callous to new impressions, but still retains
plish almost anything; and in this lies the
distinction between great men and little
vividly those of earlier years.
men.-Fuller.
A memory without blot or contamination
God divided man into men, that they
must be an exquisite treasure, an inex-
might help each other.--Seneca.
haustible source of pure refreshment.-
Men and statues that are admired in an
Charlotte Bronté.
elevated station, have a very different ef-
Recollection is the only paradise from
fect on us when we approach them : the
which we cannot be turned out.--Richter.
first appear less than we imagined them:
Memory temper's prosperity, mitigates the last, larger.-Rochefoucauld:
adversity, controls youth, and delights old I have visited many countries, and have
age.- Lactantius.
been in cities without number, yet never
Through the shadowy past, like a tomb- did I enter a town which could not produce
searcher, memory ran, lifting each shroud
ten or twelve little great men ; all fancying
that time had cast o'er buried hopes.-
themselves known to the rest of the world,
Moore.
and complimenting each other upon their
extensive reputation.- Goldsmith.
Memory is the friend of wit, but the
treacherous ally of invention ; there are We may judge of men by their conversa-
many books that owe their success to tivo tion toward God, but never by God's dis
things,—the good memory of those who pensations toward them.--R. Palmer.
All great men are in some degree in-
who read them.- Colton.
spired.--Cicero.
rama.
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MERCY.
Great men stand like solitary towers in
the city of God, and secret passages, run-
ning deep beneath external nature, give
their thoughts intercourse with higher in-
telligence, which strengthens and consoles
them, and of which the laborers on the
surface do not even dream.-Longfellow.
It is far easier to know men than to know
man.--Rochefoucauld.
Lives of great men all remind us, we can
make our lives sublime.-Longfellow.
Men are the sport of circumstances, when
the circumstances seem the sport of men.
Byron.
Men, by associating in large masses, as in
camps and cities, improve their talents but
impair their virtues, and strengthen their
minds, but weaken their morals ;
thus a
retrocession in the one, is too often the
price they pay for a refinement of the other.
-Collon.
We do not commonly find men of supe-
rior sense amongst those of the highest
fortune.-Juvenal.
We must love men, ere to us they will
seem worthy of our love.--Shakespeare.
Great men, like great cities, have many
crooked arts and dark alleys in their hearts,
whereby he that knows them may save
himself much time and trouble.
Good men do not always have grace and
favor, lest they should be puffed up, and
grow insolent and proud.—Chrysostom.
droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven
upon the place beneath ; it is twice blessed ;
it blesseth him that gives and him that
takes : 'tis mightiest in the mightiest : it
becomes the throned monarch better than
his crown. Mercy is an attribute to God
himself ; and earthly power doth then show
likest God's, when mercy seasons justice.
Consider this,-that, in the course of jus-
tice, none of us should see salvation : we
do pray for mercy, and that same prayer
doth teach us all to render the deeds of
mercy.-Shakespeare.
Mercy turns her back to the unmerciful.
-Quarles.
A God all mercy, were a God unjust.-
Young.
Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.
-Shakespeare.
Were there but a single mercy appor-
tioned to each moment of our lives, the
sum would rise very high ; but how is our
arithmetic confounded when every minute
has more than we can distinctly number.-
Rowe.
Mercy more becomes a magistrate than
the vindictive wrath which men call justice.
-Longfellow.
We band folks over to God's mercy, and
slow nove ourselves.-George Eliot.
If the end of one mercy were not the be-
ginning of another, we were undone.-
Philip Henry.
He that has tasted the bitterness of sin
fears to commit it; and he that hath felt
the sweetness of mercy will fear to of-
fend it.
Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule.-
Cowper.
Hate shuts her soul when dove-eyed
Mercy pleads.- Charles Sprague.
As freely as the firmament embraces the
world, or the sun pours forth impartially
his beams, so mercy must encircle both
friend and foe.--Schiller.
How would you be, if he, who is the top
of judgment, should but judge you as you
are 2-0, think on that, and mercy then
will breathe within your lips, like man now
made.--Shakespeare.
O God, how beautiful the thought, how
merciful' the blest decree, that grace can
always be found when sought, and nought
shut out the soul from thee.- Eliza Cook.
Who will not mercy unto others show,
how can he mercy ever hope to have ?
Spenser.
Lenity will operate with greater force in
some instances, than rigor.-It is, there-
MERCY,- The greatest attribute of
heaven is mercy.-Beaumont and Fletcher.
We may imitate the Deity in all his moral
attributes, but mercy is the only one in
which we can pretend to equal him.-We
cannot, indeed, give like God, but surely
we may forgive like him.-Sterne.
Wilt thou draw near the nature of the
gods ? Draw near them then in being mer-
ciful : sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
-Shakespeare.
Mercifulness makes us equal to the gods.
- Claudian.
Mercy among the virtues is like the moon
among the stars, -not so sparkling and
vivid as many, but dispensing a calm radi-
ance that hallows the whole. It is the bow
that rests upon the boson of the cloud
when the storm is past. It is the light that
hovers above the judgment-seat.-L. E.
Chapin.
Among the attributes of God, although
they are all equal, mercy shines with even
more brilliancy than justice.-Cervantes.
The quality of mercy is not strained ; it
MERIT.
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METAPHYSICS.
fore, my great wish, to have my whole con-
duct distinguished by it.-Washington.
To sin because mercy abounds is the
devil's logic; he that sins because of God's
mercy, shall have judgment without mercy.
-Mercy is not for them that sin and fear
not, but for them that fear and sin not.-
T. Watson.
Mercy is like the rainbow, which God
hath set in the clouds ; it never shines after
it is night.--If we refuse mercy here, we
shall have justice in eternity. - Jeremy
Taylor.
Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide
the fault I see ; that mercy I to others
show, that mercy show to me.-Pope.
MERIT,Nature creates merit, and for-
tune brings it into play.-- Rochefoucauld.
Real merit of any kind, cannot long be
concealed; it will be discovered, and noth-
ing can depreciate it but a man exhibiting
it himself. It may not always be rewarded
as it ought; but it will always be known.
-Chesterfield.
There is merit without elevation, but
there is no elevation without some merit.-
Rochefoucauld.
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins
the soul.-Pope.
Mere bashfulness without merit, is awk-
ward ; and merit without modesty, inso-
lent. But modest merit has a double claim
to acceptance, and generally meets with as
many patrons as beholders. --Addison.
If you wish your merit to be known, ac-
knowledge that of other people. --Oriental
Proverb.
True merit, like a river, the deeper it is,
the less noise it makes.--Halifax.
There's a proud modesty in merit;
averse from asking, and resolved to pay
ten times the gifts it asks. -Dryden.
Elevation is to merit what dress is to a
handsome person.-Rochefoucauld.
Good actions crown themselves with
lasting bays ; who deserves well, needs not
another's praise.-R. Heath.
The sufficiency of my merit, is to know
that my merit is not sufficient.--Augustine.
Merit is never 80 conspicuous as when
coupled with an obscure origin, just as the
moon never appears so lustrous as when it
emerges from a cloud.-Bovee.
Contemporaries appreciate the manrather
than his merit; posterity will regard the
merit rather than the man.- Colton.
The mark of extraordinary merit is to see
those most envious of it constrained to
praise.-Rochefoucauld.
I am told so many ill things of a man,
and I see so few in him, that I begin to sus-
pect he has a real but troublesome merit,
as being likely to eclipse that of others.-
Bruyère.
The world more frequently recompenses
the appearance of merit, than merit itself.
-Rochefoucauld.
It never occurs to fools that merit and
good fortune are closely united. --Goethe.
The force of his own merit makes his
way, a gift that heaven gives for him.-
Shakespeare.
The art of being able to make a good
use of moderate abilities wins esteem, and
often confers more reputation than real
merit.-- Rochefoucauld.
The best evidence of merit is the cordial
recognition of it whenever and wherever it
may be found.--Bovee.
I will not be concerned at other men's
not knowing me; I will be concerned at
my own want of ability.-Confucius.
O, that estates, degrees, and offices were
not'derived corruptly, and that clear honor
were purchased by the merit of the wearer.
- Shalcespeare.
Among the sons of men how few are
known, who dare be just to merit not their
own Churchill.
We must not judge of a man's merits by
his great qualities, but by the use he makes
of them.-Rochefoucauld.
METAPHYSICS. When he that
speaks, and he to whom he speaks, neither
of them understand what is meant, that is
metaphysics. — Voltaire.
Metaphysicians can unsettle things, but
they can erect nothing. They can pull
down a church, but they cannot build a
hovel.— Cecil.
Metaphysics is the anatomy of the soul.-
De Boufflers.
Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.
-Sterne.
Metaphysicians have been learning their
lesson for the last four thousand years ;
and it is now high time that they should
begin to teach us something. Can any of
the tribe inform us why all the operations
of the mind are carried on with undimin-
ished strength and activity in dreams,
except the judgment, which alone is sus-
pended and dormant ?- Collon.
We have no strict demonstration of any-
thing, except mathematical truths, but by
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MIND.
Every great man exhibits the talent of
organization or construction, whether it be
in a poem, a philosophical system, a policy,
or a strategy.-And without method there
is no organization nor construction.--Bul-
wer'.
Method will teach you to win time.---
Goethe.
Method facilitates every kind of business,
and by making it easy makes it agreeable,
and also successful.-C. Sinunons.
metaphysics. We can have no proof that
is properly demonstrative, of any one posi-
tion relating to the being and nature of
God, his creation of the world, the depend-
ence of all things on him, the nature of
bodies and spirits, the nature of our own
souls, or any of the great truths of morality
and natural religion, but wbat is ieta-
physical.—Jonathan Édwards.
Metaphysicians are whetstones, on which
to sharpen dull intellects.-H. W. Beecher.
If your adversary be ignorant, instruct
him. If he reason erringly, detect his fal-
lacies. But against ingenuity which you
cannot equal, or demonstration which you
cannot disprove, do not, if you would re-
spect yourselves, cry out metaphysics !
METHOD-Dispatch is the life of busi-
ness, and method is the soul of dispatch.
Method and dispatch govern the world.
Method goes far to prevent trouble in
business ; for it makes the task easy, hin-
ders confusion, saves abundance of time,
and instructs those who have business de-
pending, what to do and what to hope.-
Penn,
Be methodical if you would succeed in
business, or in anything.-Have a work for
every moment, and mind the moment's
work. Whatever your calling, master allits
bearings and details, its principles, instru-
inents, and applications.-Method is es-
sential if you would get through your
work easily and with economy of time.-
W. Mathews.
Irregularity and want of method are only
supportable in men of great learning or
genius, who are often too full to be exact,
and therefore choose to throw down their
pearls in heaps before the reader, rather
than be at the pains of stringing them.
Addison.
Method is like packing things in a box
a good packer will get in half as much
again as a bad one.-Cecil.
Methods are the masters of master's.-
Talleyrand.
Marshall thy notions into a handsome
method.--One will carry twice inore weight
packed up in bundles. than when it lies
Happing and hanging about his shoulders.
Fuller.
The shortest way to do many things is to
do only one thing at a time.--Cecil.
Thelfirst idea of method is a progressive
transition from one step to another in any
course.--If in the right course, it will be
the true method; if in the wrong, we can-
not hope to progress.-Coleridge.
MIDNIGHT.-Midnight,--strange mys-
tic hour,—when the veil between the frail
present and the eternal future grows thin.
Mrs. Stowe.
This dead of midnight is the noon of
thought, and wisdoin mounts her zenith
with the stars.-Mrs. Barbauld.
Midnight—that hour of night's black
arch the keystone.—Burns.
Midnight brought on the dusky hour,
friendliest to sleep and silence.—Milton.
Midnight, the outpost of advancing day;
the frontier town and citadel of night; the
water-shed of time, from which the streams
of yesterday and to-morrow take their way,
one to the land of promise and of light-
one to the land of darkness and of dreams.
--Longfellow.
It is now the very witching time of night;
when churchyards yawn, and hell itself
breathes out contagion to this world.-Now
could I drink hot blood, and do such busi-
ness as the bitter day would quake to look
on !-Shakespeare.
The stifled huin of midnight, when traffic
has lain down to rest, and the chariot
wheels of vanity, still rolling here and
there through distant streets, are bearing
her to halls, roofed in and lighted for her;
and only vice and misery, to prowl, or to
moan like night birds, are abroad. --Car-
lyle.
Oh, wild and wondrous midnight, there
is a might in thee to make the charmed
body almost like spirit, and give it some
faint glimpses of immortality.-J. R.
Lowell.
MIND.-(See "SOUL.")
Whatever that be which thinks, under-
stands, wills, and acts, it is something
celestial and divine.-Cicero.
We may doubt the existence of matter,
if we please, and like Berkeley deny it,
without subjecting ourselves to the shame
of a very conclusive confutation ; but there
is this remarkable difference between mat-
ter and mind, that he that doubts the ex-
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MIND.
istence of mind, by doubting proves it.--
Colton.
The more accurately we search into the
human mind, the stronger traces we every-
where find of the wisdom of Him who made
it. ----Burke.
The mind grows narrow in proportion as
the soul grows corrupt.-Rousseau,
The human mind cannot create anything.
It produces nothing until after having
been fertilized by experience and medita-
tion ; its acquisitions are the germs of its
productions.-Buffon.
The mind is but a barren soil ; a soil
which is soon exhausted, and will produce
no crop, or only one, unless it be continually
fertilized and enriched with foreign matter.
-Sir J. Reynolds.
As the fire-fly only shines when on the
wing, so it is with the human mind when
at rest, it darkens.-L. E. Landon.
A mind too vigorous and active, serves
only to consume the body to wbich it is
joined, as the richest jewels are soonest
found to wear their settings,-Goldsmith.
A perfectly just and sound mind is a
rare and invaluable gift. But it is still
more unusual to see such a mind unbiassed
in all its actings. God has given this
soundness of mind but to few: and a very
small number of these few escape the bias
of some predilection perhaps habitually
operating; and none are at all times per-
fectly free. An exquisite watch went
irregularly, though no defect could be dis-
covered in it. At last it was found that
the balance wheel had been near a magnet;
and here was all the mischief. If the
soundest mind be magnetized by any pre-
dilection, it must act irregularly. - Cecil.
There is nothing so elastic as the human
mind. Like imprisoned steam, the more it
is pressed the more it rises to resist the
pressure. The more we are obliged to do
the more we are able to accomplish. - Tryon
Edwards.
The best way to prove the clearness of
our mind, is by showing its faults ; as when
a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom,
it convinces us of the transparency and
purity of the water.–Pope.
What stubbing, plowing, digging, and
harrowing is to land, that thinking, re-
flecting, examining is to the mind. Each
has its proper culture; and as the land that
is suffered to lie waste and wild for a long
time will be overspread with brushwood,
brambles, and thorns, which have neither
use nor beauty, so there will not fail to
sprout up in a neglected, uncultivated
mind, a great number of prejudices and
absurd opinions, which owe their origin
partly to the soil itself, the passions, and
imperfections of the mind of man, and
partly to those seeds which chance to be
scattered in it by every wind of doctrine
which the cunning of statesmen, the singu-
larity of pedants, and the superstition of
fools shall raise. --Berkeley.
Knowledge, wisdom, erudition, arts, and
elegance, what are they, but the mere trap-
pings of the mind, if they do not serve to
increase the happiness of the possessor ?
A mind rightly instituted in the school of
philosophy, acquires at once the stability
of the oak, and the flexibility of the osier.-
Goldsmith.
I find, by experience, that the mind and
the body are more than married, for they
are most intimately united; and when the
one suffers, the other sympathizes.- Ches-
terfield.
A certain degree of solitude seems neces-
sary to the full growth and spread of the
highest mind; and therefore must a very
extensive intercourse with men stifle many
a holy germ, and scare away the gods, who
shun the restless tumult of noisy com-
panies and the discussion of petty interests.
--Novalis.
Prepare yourselves for the great world,
as the athletes used to do for their exer-
cises ; oil your mind and your manners, to
give them the necessary suppleness and
flexibility; strength alone will not do, as
young people are too apt to think.-Ches-
terfield.
A well cultivated mind is made
made up of all
the minds of preceding ages ; it is only the
one single mind educated by all previous
time. Fontenelle.
Mind unemployed is mind unenjoyed. -
Bovee.
Mind is not as merchandise which de-
creaseth in the using, but like to the pas-
sions of men, which rejoice and expand in
exertion.- Tupper.
Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
Pope.
As the soil, however rich it may be, can-
not be productive without culture, so the
mind without cultivation can never pro-
duce good fruit.--Seneca.
He that has no resources of mind, is
more to be pitied than he who is in want of
necessaries for the body ; to be obliged to
beg our daily happiness from others, be-
speaks a more lamentable poverty than that
of him who begs his daily bread.Colton.
If we work marble, it will perish ; if we
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work upon brass, time will efface it; if we
.rear temples, they will crumble into dust;
but if we work upon immortal, minds and
instill into them just principles, we are then
engraving that upon tablets which no time
will efface, but will brighten and brighten
ito all eternity.--Daniel Webster.
The blessing of an active mind, when it
is in a good condition, is, that it not only
employs itself, but is almost sure to be the
means of giving wholesome employment to
others.--Anon.
We find means to cure folly, but none to
reclaim a distorted mind.-Rochefoucauld.
Frivolous curiosity about trifles, and
laborious attention to little objects, which
neither require nor deserve a moment's
thought, lower a man, who from thence is
thonght, and not unjustly, incapable of
greater matters.- Chesterfield.
A truly strong and sound mind is the
mind that can equally embrace great things
and small. I would have a man great in
great things, and elegant in little things.-
Johnson.
To see a man fearless in dangers, un
tainted with lusts, happy in adversity,
composed in a tunult, and laughing at all
those things which are generally either
coveted or feared, all men inust acknowl-
edge that this can be from nothing else but
a beam of divinity that influences a mortal
body.-Seneca.
If thou desirest ease, in the first place
take care of the ease of thy mind; for that
will make all other sufferings easy. But
nothing can support a man whose mind is
wounded.-Fuller.
Intrepidity is an extraordinary strength
of mind, wbich raises it above the troubles,
disorders, and emotions, which the sight of
great perils is calculated to excite; it is by
this strength that heroes maintain thein-
selves in a tranquil state of mind, and pre-
serve the free use of their reason under the
most surprising and terrible circumstances.
--Rochefoucauld.
The finite mind does not require to grasp
the infinitude of truth, but only to go for-
ward from light to light.-P. Bayne.
There are few who need complain of the
narrowness of their minds if they will only
do their best with them.--Hobbes.
Our minds are like our stomachs; they
are whetted by the change of their food,
and variety supplies both with fresh ap-
petite.- Quintilian.
We in vain summon the mind to intense
application, when the body is in a languid
state.--Gallus.
The mind is chameleon-like in one re-
spect, it receives hues from without; but
it is unlike it in another respect, for it re-
tains them.-B. St. John.
It is a great mistake to think anything
too profound or rich for a popular audience.
-No train of thought is too deep or subtle
or grand; but the manner of presenting it
to their untutored minds should be peculiar.
-It should be presented in anecdote, or
sparkling truism, or telling illustration, or
stinging epithet, etc. ; always in some con-
crete form, never in a logical, abstract,
syllogistic shape.--Rufus Choaté.
Hard, rugged, and dull natures of youth
acquit themselves afterward the jewels of
the country, and therefore their dulness at
first is to be borne with, if they be diligent.
That schoolmaster deserves to be beaten
biniself who beats nature in a boy for a
fault. And I question whether all the whip-
ping in the world can make their parts,
which are naturally sluggish, rise one
minute before the hour nature hath ap-
pointed.-Fuller.
Don't despair of a student if he has one
clear idea.-
Ennions.
A wise man is never less alone than when)
he is alone.-Swift.
The idea that there is a want of sympathy
in the mass of the people with an educated
man's mind, is much exaggerated in general
belief.-Any fine thought, or rich expres-
sion is apprehended by the common mind
somehow; vaguely at first; but so almost
any thought is, at first, vaguely and uncer-
tainly apprehended by any but a thoroughly
trained mind.--Rufus Choate.
The defects of the mind, like those of the
face, grow worse as we grow old.-Roche-
foucauld.,
The mind is its own place, and in itself
can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
--Milton.
A weak mind is like a microscope, which
magnifies trifling things, but cannot re-
ceive great ones. --- Chesterfield.
He who cannot contract the sight of his
mind, as well as dilate it, wants a great
talent in life.-Bacon,
The failure of the mind in old age is
often less the result of natural decay, than
of disuse.-
Ambition has ceased to ope-
rate; contentment brings indolence, and
indolence. decay of mental power, ennui,
and sometimes death.-Men have been
known to die, literally speaking, of disease
induced by intellectual vacancy.-Sir B.
Brodie.
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MINISTERS.
My mind to me a kingdom is ; such pres-
ent joys therein I find, that it excels all
other bliss that earth affords.-Chaucer.
Narrow minds think nothing right that is
above their own capacity.-Rochefoucauld.
It is the mind that maketh good or ill,
that maketh wretchi or happy, rich or poor.
--Spenser.
A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do
not easily believe what we cannot see.-
Dryden.
Mental pleasures never clog ;-unlike
those of the body, they are increased by
repetition, approved of by reflection, and
strengthened by enjoyment.--Colton.
The mind ought sometimes to be diverted
that it may return to better thinking.-
Phaedrus.
A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as
well as under adversity.-A strong mind
has two highest tides, when the moon is at
the full, and when there is no moon.-
Hare.
Old minds are like old horses ; you must
exercise them if you wish to keep them in
working order.-John Adans.
Few minds wear out; more rust out.-
Bovee.
The end which at present calls forth our
efforts will be found, when it is once gained,
to be only one of the means to some remoter
end. The natural flights of the human
mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but
from hope to hope. -Johnson.
A mind once cultivated will not lie fallovy
for half an hour.--Bulwer'.
Just as a particular soil wants some one
element to fertilize it, just as the body in
some conditions has a kind of famine for
one special food, so the mind has its wants,
which do not always call for what is best,
but which know themselves and are as per-
emptory as the salt-sick sailor's call for a
lemon or raw potato.--0. W. Holmes.
It is with diseases of the mind as with
diseases of the body, we are half dead be-
fore we understand our disorder, and haif
cured when we do.-Collon.
Mind is the brightness of the body,-
lights it, when strength, its proper but less
subtle fire, begins to fail.-). S. Knowles.
The great business of man is to improve
his mind, and govern his manners ; all
other projects and pursuits, whether in our
power to compass or not, are only amuse-
ments.- Pliny.
The mind itself must, like other things,
sometimes be unbent;' or else it will be
either weakened or broken.-Sir P. Sidney.
Anguish of mind has driven thousands
to suicide; anguish of body, none. This
proves that the health of the mind is of far
more conseqnence to our happiness than
the health of the body, although both are
deserving of much more attention than
either of them receives.com Collon.
Sublime is the dominion of the mind over
the body, that for a time can make flesh
and serve impregnable, and string the
sinews like steel, so that the weak become
so mighty.-Mrs. Slowe.
As the mind must govern the hands, so
in every society the man of intelligence
must direct the man of labor.-Johnson.
A great, a good, and a right mind is a
kind of divinity lodged in fleshi, and may
be the blessing of a slave, as well as of a
prince.-It came from heaven, and to
lieaven it must return; and it is a kind of
heavenly felicity which a pure and virtuous
mind enjoys, in some degree, even on
earth.–Seneca.
MINISTERS.-The Christian ministry
is the worst of all trades, but the best of
all professions.—John Newton.
We ought to judge of preachers, not
only from what they do say, but from what
they do not say.-
Enimons.
In pulpit eloquence, the grand difficulty
is, to give the subject all the dignity it de-
serves without attaching any importance to
ourselves. --Colton.
It requires as much reflection and wis-
dom to know what is not to be put into a
sermon, as what is. Cecil.
"Three things," says Luther, "make a
Divine-prayer, meditation, and trials."
These make a Christian ; but a Christian
minister needs three more, talent, applica-
tion, and acquirements.-C. Simmons.
If a minister takes one step into the
world, his hearers will take two.-Cecil.
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 he should ever come out.-Fuller.
It is very easy to preach, but very hard
to preach well. -No other profession de-
mands half so much mental labor as the
clerical.-- Emmons.
The preaching that comes from the soul,
most works on the soul.-Fuller.
I have heard many great orators, said
Louis XIy. to Massilon, and have been
highly pleased with them; but whenever I
hear you, I go away displeased with my-
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must needs admit the means how things
are perfected. --Shakespeare.
Miracles are the educating expedients of
the early periods of the world. As such
tliey are divinely wise, but after they have
served their purpose as such, it is foolish to
pretend to have them.-H. W. Beecher.
The human body, in its wonderful struc-
ture, is of itself a miracle of divine wisdom
and power.
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self. This is the highest enconium that
could be bestowed on a preacher.--C, Sim-
mons.
If there were not a minister in every
parish, you would quickly find cause to in-
crease the number of constables ; and if
churches were not employed as places to
hear God's law, there would be need of
them to be prisons for law-breakers.-
South.
The minister is to be a real man, a live
man, a true man, a simple man, great in
his love, in his life, in his work, in his sim-
plicity, in his gentleness..John Hall.
The proud he tamed; the peuitent he
cheered ; nor to rebuke the rich offender,
feared ; his preaching much, but more his
practice wrought, a living sermon of the
truths be taught.-Dryden.
The life of a pious minister is visible rhet-
oric.--Hooker.
Men of God have always, from time to
time, walked among men, and made their
commission felt in the heart and soul of
the commonest hearer.--Emerson.
MINORITIES.-Yotes should be
weighed, not counted.--Schiller.
A man that puts himself on the ground
of moral principle, though the whole world
be against him, is mightier than them all;
for the orb of time becomes such a man's
shield, and every step brings him nearer to
the band of omnipotence.-Take ground
for truth, and justice, and rectitude, and
piety, and fight well, and there can be no
question as to the result.-We are to feel
that right is itself a host.-Never be afraid
of minorities, so that minorities are based
on principles.-H. W. Beecher.
This minority is great and formidable.
I do not know whetier, if I aimed at the
total overthrow of a kingdom, I should
wish to be encumbered with a large body
of partisans.—Burke.
The smallest number, with God and
truth on their side, are weightier than thoil-
sands.-C. Simmons.
MIRTH.-(See “CHEERFULNESS and
"ADIUSEMENT.")
Harmless mirth is the best cordial against
the consumption of the spirit ; wherefore
jesting is not unlawful, if it trespasseth
not in quantity, quality, or season.-Fuller'.
There is nothing like fun, is there? I
haven't any myself, but I do like it in
others. We need all the counterweights
we can muster to balance the sad relations
of life. God has made sunny spots in the
heart; why should we excludo the light
from them ?_Haliburton.
Man is the merriest species of the crea-
tion ; all above or below him are serious.-
Addison.
Blessed be mirthfulness; it is God's
medicine-one of the renovators of the
world.--Everybody ought to bathe in it.
Grim care, moroseness, anxiety,--all this
rust of life, ought to be scoured off by the
oil of mirth. It is better than emery.
Every man ought to rub himself with it.
A man without mirth is like a wagon with-
out springs, in which one is caused disa-
greeably to jolt by every pebble over wbich
it runs.-A. W. Beecher.
Trame vour mind to mirth and merri-
ment, which bar a thousand harms and
lengthen life.--Shalespeare.
Merriment is always the effect of a sud-
den impression. The jest which is ex-
pected is already destroyed.--Johnson,
Who cannot make one in the circle of
harmless merriment may be suspected of
pride, hypocrisy, or formality.--Lavater.
Nothing so covers the nerves, so tempers
passion and anger, so cures discontent, so
brings man to such a level, and so creates
such true fellowship, as the divine spirit of
inirth.-H. W. Beecher.
Mirth should be the embroidery of con-
versation, not the web; and wit the orna-
ment of the mind, not the furniture.
I love such mirth as does not make friends
ashamed to look upon one another next
morning; or men, that cannot well bear
it, to repent of the money they spend when
they be warmed with drink; and take this
MIRACLES.-A miracle is a work ex-
ceeding the power of any created agent,
consequently being an effect of the divine
omnipotence. --South.
A miracle I take to be a sensible opera-
tion, which being above the comprehension
of the spectator, and in his opinion con-
trary to the established course of nature,
is taken by him to be divine.--Locke.
Every believer is God's miracle.- Bailey.
Miracles are ceased, and therefore wo
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neighbors only on the side of their defects,
not knowing the art of combining their
virtues with their vices, and of rendering
the imperfections of other people tolerable
by reflecting on his own.-He is more em-
ployed in finding out and punishing the
guilty, than in devising means to re-
form them; and because he thinks his tal-
ents are not sufficiently valued and em-
ployed by his fellow citizens, or rather
because they know his foibles and do not
choose to be subject to his caprices, he
talks of quitting cities, towns, and socie-
ties, and living in dens or deserts.--Saua
noin.
for a rule, you may pick out such times
and such companies, that you may make
yourself merrier for a little than a great
deal of money ; for “it is the company and
not the charge that makes the feast."-
Izaalc Walton.
Gaiety and a light heart, in all virtue and
decorum, are the best medicine for the
young, or rather for all.--Solitude and mel-
ancholy are poison ; they are deadly to all,
and above all to the young.–Talfourd.
Mirthfulness is in the mind, and you
cannot get it out. It is the blessed spirit
that God has set in the mind to dust it, to
.enliven its dark places, and to drive ascet-
icism, like a foul fiend, out of the back-
door. It is just as good, in its place, as
conscience or veneration. Praying can no
more be made a substitute for smiling than
smiling can for praying.-F. W. Beecher.
Cure to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt;
and every grin, so merry, draws one out.-
Wolcott.
What more than mirth would mortals
have ?- The cheerful man is a king.-I.
Bickerstaff.
Fun gives you a forcible hug, and shakes
laughter out of you, whether you will or
no.-Garrick.
MISANTHROPY.-Man delights not
me, .nor woman either. --Shakespeare.
There cannot live a more unhappy crea-
ture than an ill-natured old man, who is
neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor
sensible of doing them to others. -Sir W.
Temple.
Men possessing minds which are morose,
solemn, and inflexible, enjoy, in general,
a greater share of dignity than happiness.
- Bacon.
The opinions of the misanthropical rest
upon this very partial basis, that they
adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of
the worthlessness of all.- Bovee.
Out of the ashes of misanthropy be-
nevolence rises again ; we find many vir-
tues where we had imagined all was vice,
many actions of disinterested friendship
where we had fancied all was calculation
and fraud,-and so gradually, from the two
extremes, we pass to the proper medium ;
and feeling that no human being is wholly
good or wholly base, we learn that true
knowledge of mankind which induces us to
expect little and forgive much. The world
cures alike the optimist and the misan-
thrope.-- Bulwer.
The misanthrope is a man who avoids
society, only to free biinself from the trou-
ble of being useful to it; who considers his
MISCHIEF:-O mischief, thou art swift
to enter in the thoughts of desperate men.
--Shakespeare.
It is difficult to say who do you the most
mischief, enemies with the worst intentions,
or friends with the best.-Bulwer.
The opportunity to do mischief is found
a hundred times a day, and that of doing
good once a year.- Voltaire.
The sower of the seed is assuredly the
author of the whole harvest of mischief.-
Demosthenes.
Few men are so clever as to know all the
mischief they do.-Rochefoucauld.
It shocks me to think how much mischief
almost every man may do, who will but re-
solve to do all he can.-Sterne.
He that may hinder mischief, yet permits
it, is an accessory.--E. A. Freeman.
MISER.-(See "GOLD "and" MONEY.")
The word “miser," so often used as ex-
pressive of one who is grossly covetous and
saving, in its origin signifies one that is
miserable, the very etymology of the word
thus indicating the necessary unhappiness
of the miser spirit.-Tryon Edwards.
The prodigal robs his heir ; the miser
robs himself. -- Bruyère.
The miser is as much in want of that
which he has, as of that which he has not.
- Publius Syrus.
A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an
extravagant man grows poor by seeming
rich.-Shenstone.
A thorough miser must possess consider-
able strength of character to bear the self-
denial imposed by his penuriousness.
Equal sacrifices, endured voluntarily, in a
better cause, would make a saint or a
martyr.- Clulow.
Misers mistake gold for good, whereas it
is only a means of obtaining it. — Rochefou-
cauld.
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Misers have been described as madmen,
who in the midst of abundance banish
every pleasure, and make, from imaginary
wants, real necessities. But very few cor-
respond to this exaggerated picture. In-
stead of this, we find the sober and indus-
trious branded by the vaiu and the idle
with the odious appellation ; men who, by
frugality and labor, raise themselves above
their equals, and contribute their share of
industry to the common stock. Whatever
the vain or the ignorant may say, well were
it for society had we more of this charac-
ter. In general, these close men are found
at last the true benefactors of society.
With an avaricious man we seldom lose in
our dealings, but we too frequently do in
our commerce with prodigality. - Gold-
smith.
Through life's dark road his sordid way
he wends, an incarnation of fat dividends.
-C. Sprague.
How vilely he has lost himself who be-
comes a slave to his servant, and exalts him
to the dignity of his Maker! Gold is the
God, the wife, the friend of the money-
monger of the world.-Penn.
To cure us of our immoderate love of
gain, we should seriously consider low
many goods there are that money will not
purchase, and these the best; and how
many evils there are that money will not
remedy, and these the worst. - Colton.
The miser, starving his brother's body,
starves also his own soul, and at death shall
creep out of his great estate of injustice,
poor and naked and miserable.-Theodoré
Parker,
Money never can be well managed if
sought solely through the greed of money
for its own sake. In all meanness there is a
defect of intellect as well as of heart. And
even the cləverness of avarice is but the
cunning of imbecility.-Bulwer.
A mere madness—to live like a wretch
that he may die rich.-Burton.
The base miser starves amid his store,
broods o'er his gold, and griping still at
more, sits sadly pining, and believes he's
poor.-Dryden.
There is not in nature anything so re-
motely distant from God, or so extremely
opposite to him, as a greedy and griping
niggard.-Baryou.
There is a perpetual frost in the pockets
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 up by the heels, that their money
might run out of their pockets.-Rowland
Hill.
Groan under gold, yet weep for want of
bread.-Young.
MISERY(See “SORROW.")
Twins, even from the birth, are misery
and man.--Homer.
The true recipe for a miserable existence
is to quarrel with Providence. - J. W.
Alexander.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks
himself so.--Sannazaro.
If you wish to be miserable, think about
yourself ; about what you want, what you
like, what respect people ought to pay you,
what people think of you; and then to you
nothing will be pure. You will spoil every-
thing you touch ; you will make sin and
misery for yourself out of everything God
sends you: you will be as wretched as you
choose.-Charles Kingsley.
No scene of life but teems with mortal
woe.- Walter Scott.
Misery so little appertains to our nature,
and happiness so much so, that we lament
over that which has pained 118, but leave
unnoticed that which has rejoiced us
-Richter.
There are a good many real miseries in
life that we cannot help smiling at, but
they are the smiles that make wrinkles and
not dimples.-0. W. Holmes.
Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in
80 many places, and meet us at so many
turns and corners, that what they want in
weight, they make up in number, and ren-
der it less hazardous to stand the fire of
one cannon ball, than a volley composed of
such a shower of bullets.- Colton.
It is often better to have a great deal of
harm happen to one than a little : a great
deil may rouse you to remove what a little
will only accustom you to endure.mGré-
ville.
As small letters hurt the sight, so do
small inatters him that is too much intent
upon them : they vex and stir up anger,
which begets an evil habit in him in refer-
ence to greater affairs. Plutarch.
Misery is caused for the most part, not
by a heavy crush of disaster, but by the
corrosion of less visible evils, which canker
enjoyment, and undermine security. The
visit of an invader is necessarily rare, but
domestic animosities allow no cessation.
Johnson.
Misery acquaints a man with strange bed-
fellows. --Shalcespeare, .
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flict;
Man is 80 great that his greatness ap-
pears even in his consciousness of misery.
A tree does not know itself to be miserable.
It is true that it is misery indeed to know
one's self to be miserable ; but then it is
greatness also. Iu this way all man's mis-
eries go to prove his greatness. They are
the miseries of a mighty potentate, of a de-
throned monarch.--Pascal.
If misery be the effect of virtue, it ought
to be reverenced ; if of ill-fortune, to be
pitied; and if of vice, not to be insulted,
because it is, perhaps, 'itself a punishment
adequate to the crime by which it was pro-
duced; and the humanity of that man can
deserve no panegyric who is capable of
reproaching a criminal in the hands of the
executioner.-- Johnson.
A misery is not to be measured from the
nature of the evil, but from the temper of
the sufferer.-Addison.
The misery of huinan life is made
up
of
large masses, each separated from the other
by certain intervals. One year the death
of a child ; years after, a failure in trade;
after another longer or shorter interval, a
daughter may have married unhappily ; in
all but the singularly unfortunate, the in-.
tegral parts that compose the sun total of
the unhappiness of a man's life are easily
counted and distinctly remembered. - Cole-
ridge.
We should pass on from crime to crime,
heedless and remorseless, if misery did not
stand in our way, and our own pains ad-
monish us of our folly.--Johnson.
Notwithstanding the sight of all the mis-
eries which wring us and threaten our de-
struction, we have still an instinct that we
cannot repress, which elevates us above
our sorrows.-Pascal.
Half the misery in the world comes of
want of courage to speak and to hear the
truth plainly, and in a spirit of love.--Mrs.
Stowe.
MISFORTUNE, - (See "CALAMITY.")
Who hath not known ill-fortune, never
knew himself, or his own virtue.-Mallet.
Misfortune does not always wait on vice;
nor is success the constant guest of virtue.
Havard.
The humor of turning every misfortune
into a judgment, proceeds from wrong no-
tions of religion, which, in its own nature,
produces good will toward men, and puts the
mildest construction upon every accident
that befalls them. In this case, therefore,
it is not religion that sours a man's temper,
but it is his temper that sours his religion.
-Addison.
If all the misfortunes of mankind were
cast into & public stock, in order to be
equally distributed among the whole spe-
cies, those who now think themselves the
most unhappy would prefer the share they
are already possessed of before that which
would fall to them by such a division.
Socrates.
I never knew a man who could not bear
the misfortunes of another perfectly like a
Christian.-Pope.
By struggling with misfortunes, we are
sure to receive some wounds in the con-
but a sure method to come off victo-
rious is by running away.--Goldsmith.
A soul exasperated by its ills, falls out
with everything, with its friend and itself.
-Addison.
Misfortunes are in morals what bitters
are in medicine ; each is, at first, disagree-
able ; but as bitters may correct and
strengthen the stomach, so adversity chas-
tens and ameliorates the disposition.-
Fron the French.
Rats and conquerors must expect 10
mercy in misfortune.- Colton.
Our bravest and best lessons are not
learned through success, but through mis-
adventure.-A. B. Alcott.
Depend upon it, that if a man talks of
his misfortunes there is something in them
that is not disagreeable to him : for where
there is nothing but pure misery, there
never is any mention of it.-Johnson.
He that is down needs fear no fall.-
Bunyan.
Flowers never emit so sweet and strong
a fragrance as before a storm. When &
storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a
sweet-smelling flower.—Richter.
There is a chill air surrounding those
who are down in the world, and people are
glad to get away from them, as from a cold
room.-George Eliot.
Men shut their doors against the setting
sun. ----Shakespeare.
Evil events come from evil causes; and
what we suffer, springs, generally, from
what we have done. -Aristophanes.
It will generally be found that men who
are constantly lamenting their ill luck, are
only reaping the consequences of their own
neglect, mismanagement, and improvi-
dence, or want of application.--S. Smiles.
After all, our worst misfortunes never
happen, and most miseries lie in anticipa
tion. Balzac.
The less ve parade our misfortunes, the
more sympathy we command.–0. Dewey.
MISFORTUNE.
354
MISTAKE.
Most of our misfortunes are more sup-
portable than the comments of our friends
upon them.--Colton.
When misfortunes happen to such as dis-
sent froin us in matters of religion, we call
them judgments; when to those of our own
sect, we call them trials ; when to persons
neither way distinguished, we are content
to attribute them to the settled course of
things.—Shenstone.
Misfortune is never mournful to the soul
that accepts it ; for such do always see that
in every cloud is an angel's face.--Je-
rome.
Every man deems that he has precisely
the trials and temptations which are the
hardest of all others for him to bear ; but
they are so, simply because they are the
very ones he most needs. - Mrs. L. M.
Child.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by
misfortune ; but great minds rise above it.
- Washington Irving.
When I was happy I thought I knew men,
but it was fated that I should know theni
only in misfortune.--Napoleon.
It is seldom that God sends such calami-
ties upon man as men bring upon them-
selves and suffer willingly.-Jeremy Tay-
lor.
Heaven sends us misfortunes as a moral
tonic.- Lady Blessington.
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness
alike. We are never either so wretched or
80 happy as we say we are.–Balzac.
The greatest misfortune of all is, not to
be able to bear misfortune. – Bias.
What Cicero said of men, “that they are
like wines, age souring the bad, and bet-
tering the good," we can say of misfortune,
that it has the same effect upon them.-H.
Richer.
Misfortune sprinkles ashes on the hear
of the man, but falls like dew on the head
of the woman, and brings forth germs of
strength of which she herself had no con-
scious possession.-Anna Cora Mowatt.
Let us be of good cheer, remembering
that the misfortunes hardest to bear are
those which never happen.-J. R. Lowell.
The injuries of life, if rightly improved,
will be to us as the strokes of the statuary
on his marble, forming us to a more beau-
tiful shape, and making us fitter to adoru
the heavenly temple.-Cotton Mather.
Ovid finely compares a man of broken
fortune to å falling column ; the lower it
sinks, the greater weight it is obliged to
sustain.-Goldsmith.
Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast
desert through which rings the voice of
God.-Balzac.
The effect of great and inevitable misfor-
tune is, to elevate those souls which it does
not deprive of all virtue.-Guizot.
We should learn, by reflecting on the mis-
fortunes of others, that there is nothing
singular in those which befall ourselves.
Melmoth.
Of fortune's sharp adversity, the worst
kind of misfortune is this, that a man hath
been in prosperity and it remembers when
it passed is. - Chaucer.
Sorrow's crown of sorrow is remember-
ing happier things.- Tennyson.
MISTAKE,--(See "ERROR.")
Any man may make a mistake, but none
but a fool will continue in it.— Cicero,
No man ever became great or good except
through many and great mistakes.-Glad-
stone.
When you make a mistake, don't look
back at it long. Take the reason of the
thing into your mind, and then look for-
ward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom.
The past cannot be changed. The future
is yet in your power.-Hugh White.
The only people who make no mistakes
are dead people. I saw a man last week
who has not made a mistake for four
thousand years. He was a mummy in the
Egyptian department of the British Mu-
seum.-H. L. Wayland.
It is only an error in judgment to make
a mistake, but it shows infirmity of char-
acter to adhere to it when discovered.
Bovee.
We learn wisdom from failure much more
than from success ; we often discover what
will do, by finding out what will not do;
and probably he who never made a mistake
never made a discovery.-S. Smiles.
Show us the man who never makes a
mistake and we will show a man who never
makes anything. The capacity for occa-
sional blundering is inseparable from the
capacity to bring things to pass. The only
men who are past the danger of making
mistakes are the men who sleep at Green-
vood.-H. L. Wayland.
Some of the best lessons we ever learn
we learn from our mistakes and failures.
The error of the past is the wisdom and
success of the future.- Tryon Edwards.
There are few, very few, that will own
themselves in a mistake, though all the
world see them to be in downright non-
sense.-Swift.
MOB.
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MOB.
.
No persons are more frequently wrong,
than those who will not admit they are
wrong.-Rochefoucauld.
The Providence that watches over the
affairs of men, works out their mistakes, at
times, to a healthier issue than could have
been accomplished by their wisest fore-
thought.-Froude.
The young fancy that their follies are
mistaken by the old for happiness; and the
old fancy that their gravity is mistaken by
the young for wisdom.--Colton.
Exemption from mistake is not the priv-
ilege of mortals ; but when our mistakes
are involuntary, we owe each other every
candid consideration ; and the man who,
on discovering his errors, acknowledges
and corrects them, is scarcely less entitled
to our esteem than if he had not erred.-
J. Pye Smith.
MOB.-(See “POPULACE.”)
A mob is a monster, with heads enough,
but no heart, and little brains.
Every numerous assembly is a mob;
everything there depends on instantaneous
turns.-Cardinal de Reiz.
Get together a hundred or two men,
however sensible they inay be, and you are
very likely to have a mob.-Johnson.
A mob is the scum that rises upmost
when the nation boils.—Dryden.
The mob is a sort of bear ; while your
ring is through its nose, it will even dance
under your cudgel ; but should the ring
slip, and you lose your hold, the brute will
turn and rend you.-Jane Porter.
Inconstant, blind, deserting friends at
need, and duped by foes ; loud and sedi-
tions, when a chief inspired their headlong
fury, but of him deprived, already slaves
that lick'd the scourging hand.-Thomson.
The multitude unawed is insolent; once
seized with fear, contemptible and vain.-
Mallet.
The blind, unwieldy monster, which, at
first, rattles its bones, threatening to swal-
low high and low, the near and distant,
with its gaping jaws, at last stumbles over
a thread.-Schiller.
A crowd always thinks with its sympathy,
never with its reason.-W. R. Alger.
The mob is a monster, with the hands of
Briareus, but the head of Polyphemus,
strong to execute, but blind to perceive.-
Colton.
Mankind in the gross is a gaping monster,
that loves to be deceived, and has seldom
been disappointed.-Mackenzie.
Let there be an entire abstinence from in-
toxicating drinks throughout this country
during the period of a single generation,
and a mob would be as impossible as com-
bustion without oxygen.-
Horace Mann.
These wide-mouthed brutes, that bellow
thus for freedom ; oh! how they run before
the hand of power, flying for shelter into
every brake ! Otway.
There is nothing so little to be expected
or hoped for from this many-headed mon-
ster, when incensed, as humanity and good
nature; it is much more capable of alarm
and fear.-Montaigne.
The many-headed multitude, whom in-
constancy only by accident doth guide to
well-doing !-Who can set confidence there,
where company takes away shame, and
each may lay the fault upon his fellow.-
Sir P. Sidney.
You have many enemies that know not
why they are so, but, like village curs, bark
when their fellows do.-Shakespeare.
License they mean, when they cry liberty.
-Milton.
Human affairs are not so happily ar-
ranged that the best things please the most
men.-It is the proof of a bad cause when
it is applauded by the mob.--Seneca.
You can talk a mob into anything ; its
feelings may be-usually are-on the whole
geuerous and right: but it has no founda-
tion for them, no hold of them ; you may
tease or tickle it into any, at your pleasure ;
it thinks by infection, for the most part,
catching a passion like a cold, and there is
nothing so little that it will not roar itself
wild about, when the fit is on; nothing so
great but it will forget it in an hour, when
the fit is past. But a gentleman's, or a
gentle nation's passions are just, measured,
and continuous.-Ruskin.
A mob is usually a creature of very mys-
terious existence, particularly in a large
city. Where it comes from, or whither it
goes, few men can tell. Assembling and
dispersing with equal suddenness, it is as
difficult to follow to its vario118 sources as
the sea itself; nor does the parallel stop
here, for the ocean is not more fickle and
uncertain, more terrible when roused, more
unreasonable or more cruel.-Dickens.
The blind monster, with uncounted
heads, the still discordant, wavering mul-
titude.-Shakespeare.
It is an easy and vulgar thing to please
the mob, and not a very arduous task to
astonish'them ; but to benefit and improve
them is a work fraught with difficulty, and
teeming with danger. -Colton.
MODERATION.
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MODERATION.
A mob is a society of bodies, voluntarily
bereaving themselves of reason, and tra-
versing its work.–The mob is man, volun-
tarily descending to the nature of the beast.
-Its fit hour of activity is night; its ac-
tions are insane, like its whole constitution.
--Emerson.
When roused to lage the maddening
populace storms, their fury, like a rolling
Alame, bursts forth unquenchable ; but give
its violeuce ways, it speuds itself, and as
its force abates, learns to obey and yields
it to your will.-Euripides.
As a goose is not alarmed by hissing, nor
a sheep by bleating ; so neither be you ter-
rified by the voice of a senseless multitude,
Maxinius.
MODERATION.- Moderation is the
silken string running through the pearl-
chain of all virtues. - Bp. Hall.
The pursuit, even of the best things,
ought to be calm and tranquil.--Cicero.
Moderate desires constitute a character
fitted to acquire all the good which the
world can yield. He who has this char-
acter is prepared, in whatever situation he
is, therewith to be content; has learned the
science of being happy; and possesses the
alchemic stone which changes every metal
into gold.--T. Dwight.
It is certainly a very important lesson, to
learn how to enjoy ordinary things, and to
be able to relish your being, without the
transport of some passion, or the gratifica-
tion of some appetite.-Steele.
There is a German proverb which says
that “Take it easy," and "Live long," are
brothers.--Bovee.
To climb steep hills requires slow pace at
first. - Shakespeare.
Moderation, which cousists in an indif-
ference about little things, and in a pru-
dent and well-proportioned zeal about
things of importance, can proceed from
nothing but true knowledge, which has
its foundation in self-acquaintance.—Lord
Chatham.
To live long it is necessary to live slowly.
-Cicero.
To go beyond the bounds of moderation
is to outrage humanity. The greatness of
the human soul is shown by knowing how
to keep within proper bounds. So far from
greatness consisting in going beyond its
limits, it really consists in keeping within
them.-Pascal.
I knew a wise man who had for a by-
word, when he saw men hasten to a conclu-
sion, “stay a little, that we may come to
the end sooner."- Bacon.
Moderation is the inseparable companion
of wisdom, but with it genius. has not even
a nodding acquaintance.-Colton.
Howsoever varied the courses of our life,
whatsoever the phases of pleasure and am-
bition through which it has swept along,
still, when in memory we would revive the
times that were comparatively the happiest,
those times will be found to have been the
calmest.-Bulwer.
Tranquil pleasures last the longest.
We are not fitted to bear long the burden
of great joys.—Bovee.
I will not be a slave to myself, for it is a
perpetual, a shameful, and the most heavy
of all servitudes; and this end I may gain
by moderate desires.-Seneca.
The true boundary of man is moderation.
-When once we pass that pale, our guard-
ian angel quits his charge of us.-Felthan.
Moderation is the center wherein all phil-
osophies, both human and divine, meet.-
Bp. Hall
Moderation must not claim the merit of
combatting and conquering ambition ; for
they can never exist in the same subject.
Moderation is the languor and sloth of the
soul ; ambition its activity and ardor.-
Rochefoucauld.
Only actions give life strength ; only
moderation gives it a charm.-Richter.
In adversity assume the countenance of
prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the
temper and desires. — Livy.
Everything that exceeds the bounds of
moderation, has an unstable foundation.-
Seneca.
Moderation resembles temperance. We
are not so unwilling to eat more, as afraid
of doing ourselves harm by it.-Rochefou-
cauld.
They are as sick that surfeit with too
much, as they that starve with nothing.
It is no mean happiness, therefore, to be
seated in the mean : surperfluity comes
sooner by white hairs, but competency
lives longer.--Shakespeare.
Leta man take time enough for the most
trivial deed, though it be but the paring of
his nails. The buds swell imperceptibly,
without hurry or confusion, as if the
short spring days were an eternity.-Tho-
reau.
It is a little stream which flows softly,
but it freshens everything along its course.
--Mad. Swetchine.
The superior man wishes to be slow in
his words, and earnest in his conduct.---
Confucius.
MODESTY.
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MODESTY.
The choicest pleasures of life lie within
the ring of moderation.-Tupper.
MODESTY.-The first of all virtues is
innocence; the next is modesty. If we
banish modesty out of the world, she car-
ries away with her half the virtue that is
in it.-Addison.
Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and
is a confession of the deficiency it indicates.
He who undervalues himself, is justly un-
dervalued by others.--Hazlitt.
Modesty is the conscience of the body.-
Balzac.
Modesty is the chastity of merit, the vir-
ginity of noble souls.- Ē. de Girardin. .
There are as many kinds of modesty as
tliere are races. To the English woman it
is a duty; to the French woman a pro-
priety.--Taine.
Modesty and the dew love the shade.
Each shines in the open day, only to be ex-
haled to heaven.-J. P. Senn.
A false modesty is the meanest species of
pride.—Gibbon.
False modesty is the refinement of vanity.
It is a lie.—Bruyère.
A modest person seldom fails to gain the
good will of those he converses with, be-
cause nobody envies a man who does not
appear to be pleased with himself.-Steele.
Make no display of your talents or at-
tainments ; for every one will clearly see,
admire, and acknowledge them, so long as
you cover them with the beautiful veil of
modesty.-
Enimons.
A just and reasonable modesty does not
only recommend eloquence, but sets off
every great talent which a man can be pos-
sessed of. It heightens all the virtues
which it accompanies ; like the shades in
paintings, it raises and rounds every fig-
ure, and makes the colors more beautiful,
thongh not so glaring as they would be
without it. --Addison.
Hasty conclusions are the mark of a fool;
a wise man doubteth; a fool rageth and is
confident; the novice saith, “I am sure
that it is so"; the better learned answers,
“ Peradventure, it may be so ; but, I pray
thee, inqnire." It is a little learning, and
but a little, which makes men conclude
hastily. Experience and humility teach
modesty and fear.--Jeremy Taylor.
Modesty is to merit, as shades to figures
in a picture, giving it strength and beauty.
-Bruyère.
In the modesty of fearful duty, I read as
much as from the rattling tongue of saucy
and audacious eloquence. --Shakespeare.
Modesty in a man is never to be allowed
as a good quality, but a weakness, if it
sup-
presses his virtue, and hides it from the
world, when he has at the same time a mind
to exert himself.- Tatler.
As lamps burn silent, with unconscious
light, so modest ease in beauty shines most
bright; unaiming charms with edge resist-
less fall, and she who means no mischief
does it all.-A. Hill.
Modesty, when she goes, is gone forever.
-Landor.
That modest grace subdued my soul ;
that chastity of look, which seems to hang
& veil of purest light o'er all her beauties. —
Young.
Virtues, like essences, lose their fra-
grance when exposed. They are sensitive
plants, that will not bear too familiar ap-
proaches.-Shenstone.
Let us be careful to distinguish modesty,
which is ever amiable, from l'eserve, which
is only prudent. A man is hated sometimes
for pride, when it was an excess of humility
gave the occasion. --Shenstone.
Modesty is a shining light; it prepares
the mind to receive kuowledge, and the
heart for truth.-Guizot.
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that
is not enriched with nobler virtues.- Gold-
smith.
Modesty is the color of virtue.-Diogenes.
On their own merits modest men are
dumb.-G. Coleman.
Modesty is not only an ornament, but
also a guard to virtue.- Addison.
An egotist will always speak of himself,
either in praise or in censure ; but a mod-
est man ever shuns making himself the
subject of his conversation.-Bruyère.
Modesty makes large amends for the pain
it gives those who labor under it, by the
prejudice it affords every worthy person in
their favor.-Shenstone.
The greatest ornament of an illustrious
life is modesty and humility, which go a
great way in the character even of the
most exalted privces.—Napoleon.
Modesty was designed by Providence as
à guard to virtue, and that it might be
always at hand it is wrought into the
mechanism of the body. It is likewise
proportioned to the occasions of life, and
strongest in youth when passion is so too.—-
Jeremy Collier.
Modesty is the appendage of sobriety,
and is to chastity, to temperance, and to
humility as the fringes are to a garment.-
Jeremy Taylor.
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MONEY.
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MONEY.
Modest expression is a beautiful setting
to the diamond of talent and genius.-E.
H. Chapin.
True modesty avoids everything that is
criminal ; false modesty everything that is
unfashionable.--Addison.
Modesty and humility are the sobriety of
the mind, as temperance and chastity are
of the body.- Whitecote.
Modesty is the citadel of beauty and vir-
tue.-Demades.
Modesty once extinguished knows not
how to return.-Seneca.
You little know what you have done, when
you have first broke the bounds of modesty;
you have set open the door of your fancy to
the devil, so that he can, almost at his
pleasure ever after, represent the same sin-
ful pleasure to you anew: he hath now
access to your fancy to stir up lustful
thoughts and desires, so that when you
should think of your calling, of your God,
or of your soul, your thoughts will be worse
than swinish, upon the filth that is not fit
to be named. If the devil here get in a
foot, he will not easily be got out. - Baxter.
True modesty is a discerning grace, and
only blushes in the proper place, but coun-
terfeit is blind, and skulks through fear,
where 'tis a shame to be ashamed to appear;
humility the parent of the first; the last
by vanity produced and nursed.-Cowper.
The crimson glow of modesty o'erspread
her cheek, and gave new luster to lier
charms.- T. Franklin.
The modest man has everything to gain,
and the arrogant man everything to lose,
for modesty has always to deal with gen-
erosity, and arrogance with envy.-Rivarol.
of crime, where dice, knives, and arsenic
are in constant play.-Emerson.
Money is like manure,
of
very little use
except it be spread.-Bacon.
Money never made a man happy yet, nor
will it. There is nothing in its nature to
produce happiness. The more a man bas,
the more he wants. Instead of its filling a
vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one
want, it doubles and trebles that want an-..
other way. That was a true proverb of the
wise man, rely upon it: "Better is little
with the fear of the Lord, than great treas-
ure, and trouble therewith."-Franklin.
By doing good with his money, a man, as
it were, stamps the image of God upon it,
and makes it pass current for the mer-.
chandise of heaven.--J. Rutledge.
Make all you can, save all you can, give
all you can.-J. Wesley.
Money spent on myself may be a mill-
stone about my neck; money spent on
others may give me wings like the angels.
-R. D. Hitchcocle.
When money represents so many things,
not to love it would be to love nearly
nothing. To forget true needs can be only
a weak moderation : but to know the value
of money and to sacrifice it always, maybe
to duty, maybe even to delicacy,--that is
real virtue. -Senancour.
The philosophy which affects to teach us
a contempt of money does not run very
deep.—Henry Taylor.
He that wants money, means, and con-
tent, is without three good friends.—Shake-
speare.
Meu are seldom more innocently em-
ployed than when they are honestly making
money.--Johnson.
Covetous men need money least, yet
most affect and seek it; prodigals who
need it most, do least regard it.-Theodore
Parker,
No man needs money so much as he who
despises it.-Richter.
To possess money is very well; it may be
a most valuable servant; to be possessed
by it, is to be possessed by a devil, and one
of the meanest and worst kind of devils.-
Tryon Edwards.
It is not money, as is sometimes said, but
the love of money-the excessive, selfish,
covetous love of money, that is the root of
all evil.
It is my opinion that a man's soul may
be buried and perish under a dung-heap,
or in a furrow of the field, just as well as
under a pile of money.-Hawthorne.
MONEY,--Money is a handmaiden, if
thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if
thou knowest not.-Horace.
Put not your trust in money, but put
your money in trust.-0. W. Holmes.
Money is a good servant, but a poor
master.-D. Bouhours.
A wise man should have money in his
head, not in his heart.-Swift.
Make money your god, it will plague you
like the devil.–Fielding.
All love has something of blindness in it,
but the love of money especially.--South.
The value of a dollar is to buy just things ;
a dollar goes on increasing in value with all
the genius and all the virtue of the world.
A dollar in a university is worth more than
a dollar in a jail; in a temperate, schooled,
law-abiding community, than in some sink
MONEY.
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MONOMANIA.
Money is a bottomless sea, in which honor,
conscience, and truth may be drowned.--
Kozlay.
Money is not required to buy one neces-
sity of the soul.- Thoreau.
The covetous man never has money ; tho
prodigal will have none shortly.-Ben Jon-
son.
But for money and the need of it, there
would not be half the friendship in the
world. It is powerful for good if divinely
used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet
as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers
and breeds worms.-G. Macdonald.
To despise money is to dethrone a king.
-Chamfort.
Remember that money is of a prolific,
generating nature. Money can beget
money, and its offspring can beget more,
and so on. Five shillings turned is six;
turned again it is seven ; and so on till it
becomes a hundred pounds. The more
there is of it, the more it produces at every
turning, so that the profits rise quicker
aud quicker. He that murders a crown,
destroys all that it might have produced,
even scores of pounds.-Franklin.
There is a vast difference in one's respect
for the inan who has made himself, and
the man who has only made his money.
Mulock.
Get money to live; then live and use it,
else it is not true that thou hast gotten.-
Surely use alone makes nouey not con-
temptible.—Herbert.
It happens a little unluckily that the per-
sons who have the most infinite contempt
of money are the same that have the
strongest appetite for the pleasures it pro-
cures.-- Shenstone.
All our money has a moral stamp. It is
coined over again in an inward mint. The
uses we put it to, the spirit in which we
spend it, give it a character which is plainly
perceptible to the eye of God.-T. Star'.
King.
Mammon is the largest slave-holder in
the world.-F. Saunders.
Money and time are the heaviest burdens
of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals
are those who have more of either than
they know how to use.-Johnson.
Oh, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
looks handsome in three huudred pounds a
year !- Shakespeare.
If you would know the value of money,
go and try to borrow some ; for he that goes
a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.-Franklin.
Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.- Byron.
Money is the life blood of the nation.
Swift.
Money does all things; for it gives and
it takes away, it makes honest men and
knaves, fools and philosophers; and so on
to the end of the chapter.-L'Estrange.
The avaricious love of gain, which is so
feelingly deplored, appears to us a prin-
ciple which, in able hands, might be guided
to the most salutary purposes. The object
is to encourage the love of labor, which is
best encouraged by the love of money.-
Sydney Smith.
Wealth is a very dangerous inheritance,
unless the inheritor is trained to activé
benevolence.-C. Simmons.
Money has little value to its possessor
unless it also has value to others.-L. Stan-
ford.
Mammon has enriched his thousands,
and has damned his ten thousands.-South.
Gold is the fool's curtain, which hides all
his defects from the world.-Felthanz.
Money does all things for reward.-Some
are pious and honest as long as they tlirive
upon it, but if the devil himself gives
better wages, they soon change their party.
-Seneca.
The use of money is all the advantage
there is in having it.—Franklin.
Money was made not to command our
will, but all our lawful pleasures to fulfill;
shaine and woe to 118, if we our wealth obey
the horse doth with the horseman run
away.-Cowley.
Alexander being asked why he did not
gather and lay up money, said, “For fear,
lest being the keeper thereof, I should be
infected and corrupted.-- Venning.
Our incomes are like our shoes ; if too
small, they gall and pinch us; but if too
large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.
-Coilon.
No blister draws sharper than interest
on money.-It works day and night; in fair
weather and foul.-It gnaws at a man's
substance with invisible teeth.-It binds
industry with its film, as a fly is bound with
a spider's web.-Debt rolls a man over and
over, binding him hand and foot, and let-
ting him hang on the fatal mesh, till the
long-legged interest devour's him.-One
had better make his bed of Canada thistles,
than attempt to lie at ease upon interest.
H. W. Beecher.
MONOMANIA.-Adhesion to one idea
is monomania; to a few it is slavery.-
Bovee,
The man with but one idea in his head,
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is sure to exaggerate that to top-heaviness,
and thus he loses his equilibrium.--A. Hill.
The greatest part of mankind labor
under one delirium or another; and Don
Quixote differed from the rest, not in mad-
ness, but in the species of it.—The cov-
etous, the prodigal, the superstitious, the
libertine, and the coffee-house politician,
are all Quixotes in their several way.-
Fielding.
All mankind are crazy, said a man in the
insane asylum, and I only am sane ; but
they are the majority, and out-voted me,
and so put me here.
MONUMENTS.-Monuments are the
grappling-irons that bind oue generation
to another.-Joubert.
No man who needs a monument ever
ought to have one.- Hawthorne.
If I have done any deed worthy of re-
membrance, that deed will be my monu-
ment.--If not, no monument can preserve
my inemory.- Agesilaus.
They ovly deserve a monument who do
not need one; that is, who have raised
themselves a monument in the minds and
memories of men.- Hazlitt.
Themonument of the greatest man should
be only a bust and a name.-If the name
alone is insufficient to illustrate the bust,
let them both perish.-Landor.
Tombs are the clothes of the dead ; a
grave is but a plain suit; a rich monument
is an embroidered one,---Fuller.
Virtue alone outbuilds the pyramids ;
her monuments shall last when Egypts
fall. - Young.
gion ; but religion is the root without which
morality would die.-C. A. Bartol.
They talk of morals, O, thou bleeding
lamb ! the grand morality is love to thee!
Young.
Morality without religion is only a kind
of dead-reckoning-an endeavor to find our
place on a cloudy sea by measuring the dis-
tance we have run, but without any obser-
vation of the heavenly bodies.-- Longfellow.
The Christian religion is the only one
that puts morality on its proper, and the
right basis, viz: the fear and love of God.
-Johnson.
In the long run, morals without religion,
will wither and die like seed sown upon
stony ground, or among thorns.
The highest morality, if not inspired and
vitalized by religion, is but as the marble
statue, or the sileut corpse, to the living
and perfect man.-S. I. Prime.
Morality, taken as apart from religion,
is but another name for decency in sin.
It is just that negative species of virtue
which consists in not doing what is scan-
dalously depraved and wicked. But there
is no heart of holy principle in it, any more
than there is in the grosser sin.-Horace
Bushnell.
The great mistake of my life has been
that I tried to be moral without faith in
Jesus ; but I have learned that true mo-
rality can only keep pace with trust in
Christ as my Saviour.---Gerrit Smith.
Morality is the vestibule of religion.--..
H. Chapin.
Morality does not make a Christian, yet
no man can be a Christian without it.-
Bp. Wilson,
Religion without morality is a supersti-
tion and a curse, and morality without re-
ligion is impossible.-The only salvation
for man is in the union of the two as
Christianity unites them.-Mar! Hoplins.
Morality is religion in practice ; religion
is morality in principle. - Wardlaw.
The only morality that is clear in its
source, pure in its precepts, and efficacious
in its influence, is the morality of the gos-
pel.--All else, at last, is but idolatry--the
worship of something of man's own crea-
tion, and that, imperfect and feeble like
himself, and wholly insufficient to give him
support and strength. John Sergeant.
Atheistic morality is not impossible, but
it will never answer our purpose. –The mo-
rality that holds the great masses of sinewy
people together must be very firmly rooted
in an honest, downright personal faith and
fear.-R. D. Hitchcock.
MORALITY,-All sects are different,
because they come from men; morality is
everywhere the same, because it comes
from God.- Voltaire.
The morality which is divorced from
godliness, however specious and captiva-
ting to the eye, is superficial and deceptive.
The only morality that is clear in its source,
pure in its precepts, and efficacious in its
influence, is the morality of the gospel.
All else is, at best, but idolatry-tlie wor-
ship of something of man's own creation ;
and that imperfect and feeble, like himself,
and wholly insufficient to give him support
and strength,
Piety and morality are but the same
spirit differently manifested.-Piety is re-
ligion with its face toward God; morality
is religion with its face toward the world.-
Tryon Edwards.
Some would divorce morality from reli-
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Let us with caution indulge the supposi-
tion that morality can be maintained with-
out religion. Reason and experience both
forbid us to expect that national morality
can prevail in exclusion of religious princi-
ple. --- Washington.
To give a man a full knowledge of true
morality, I would send him to no other
book than the New Testament.-Locice.
Meu are not made religious by perform-
ing certain actions which are externally
good, but they must first have righteous
principles, and then they will not fail to
perform virtuous actions.-Luther.
The morality of an action depends upon
the motive from which we act. If I fling
half a crown to a beggar with intention to
break his head, and he picks it up and buys
victuals with it, the physical effect is good ;
but with respect to me, the action is very
wrong.-Johnson.
Where social improvements originate
with the clergy, and where they bear a just
share of the toil, the condition of morals
and manners cannot be very much de-
pressed.--J. Martineau.
They that cry down moral honesty, cry
down that which is a great part of my
religion, my duty toward God, and my
duty toward man. What care I to see a
man run after a sermon, if he cozens and
cheats as soon as he comes home. On the
other side, morality must not be without
religion ; for if so, it may change, as I see
convenience. Religion must govern it.
He that has not religion to govern his
morality, is no better than my mastiff dog ;
so long as you stroke him, and please hiin,
he will play with you as finely as may be ;
he is a very good moral mastiff ; but if you
hurt him, he will fiy in your face, and tear
out your throat.-Selden.
Learn what a people glory in, and you
may learn much of both the theory and
practice of their morals.--J. Martineau.
I restrict myself within bounds in saying,
that, so far as I have observed in this life,
ten men have failed from defect in morals
where one has failed from defect in intel-
lect.-Horace Mann.
The health of a community, is an almost
unfailing index of its morals.-J. Mar-
tineau.
Discourses on morality and reflection
on human nature, are the best means we
can make use of to improve our minds,
gain a true knowledge of ourselves, and
recover our souls out of the vice, ignorance,
and prejudice which naturally cleave to
them.-Addison.
In matters of prudence last thoughts are
best; in matters of morality, first thoughts.
-Robert Hall.
There is no religion without morality, and
no morality without religion.-G. Spring.
Morality without religion is a tree with-
out roots; a stream without any spring to
feed it; a house built on the sand; a
pleasant place to live in till the heavens
grow dark, and the storm begins to beat.-
J. B. Shaw.
The morality of the gospel is the noblest
gift ever bestowed by God on man.-Mon-
tesquieu.
Nothing really immoral is ever perma-
nently popular.—There does not exist in
the literature of the world a single popular
book that is immoral, two centuries after
it is produced; for in the heart of nations
the false does not live so long, and the true
is ethical to the end of time.- Bulvoer.
Heat water to the highest degree, you
cannot make wine of it, it is water still ;
80,
let morality be raised to the highest, it
is nature still ; it is old Adam putin a better
dre88.-T. Watson.
In Christianity there can be no divorce
of religion from morality.—Justification
and sanctification are forever united.-The
heathen notion of religion as something
apart froin moral life, is forever thrust out
of sight by the Gospel.-M. Valentine.
There is no true and abiding morality
that is not founded in religion.-H. W.
Beecher.
Morality, distinguished from and inde-
pendent of Christian faith, is nothing ; but
Christian morality is of the very essence ;
it is the true fruit, the sure testimony, the
faithful companion, the glory and perfec-
tion, yea, the very life and soul of true
Christian faith. Let us beware, that we
do not confound things so different as
worldly and Christian morality ; 28 the
works of the natural man and those of the
disciples of Christ.Bp. Mant.
Morality without religion has no roots.
It becomes a thing of custom, changeable,
transient, and optional.-H. W. Beecher.
There can be no high civility without
a deep morality.--Emerson.
Christian morality assumes to itself no
merit-it sets up no arrogant claim to God's
favor—it pretends not to "open the gates
of heaven"; it is only the handmaid in
conducting the Christian believer in his
road toward them.--Bp. Mant.
Every young man would do well to
remember that all successful
successful business
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stands on the foundation of morality.-H.
W. Beecher.
There is very little virtue in any moral
life which does not grow out of a sound
theology; but there is absolutely no virtue
in any theology which is not productive of
sound moral life.
I have never found a thorough, pervad-
ing, enduring morality but in those who
feared God. +Jacobi.
We deny the doctrine of the ancient
Epicureans, that pleasure is the supreme
good; of Hobbes, that moral rules are only
the work of men's mutual fear; of Paley,
that what is expedient is right, and that
there is no difference among pleasures ex-
cept their intensity and duration, and of
Bentham, that the rules of human action
are to be obtained by counting up the
pleasures which actions produce.-And we
maintain with Plato, that reason has a
natural and rightfal authority over desire
and affection ; with Butler, that there is a
difference of kind in our principles of ac-
tion; and with the general voice of man-
kind, that we must do what is right at
whatever cost of pain and loss.-What we
onight to do, that we should do, and that
we must do, though it bring pain and
loss.-And why? Because it is right.-W.
Whewell.
All moral obligation resolves itself into
the obligation of conformity to the will of
God.- Charles Hodge.
There are many that say, "Give us the
morality of the New Testament; never
mind about the theology." Aye, but you
cannot get the morality without the theol-
ogy, nnless you like to have rootless flowers
and lamps without oil. And if you want to
live as Paul enjoins, you will have to be-
lieve as Paul preaches.
The divorcement of morals and piety is
characteristic of all pagan religions.-D. J.
Burrell.
The true grandeur of humanity is in
moral elevation, sustained, enlightened
and decorated by the intellect of man.-
C. Sumner.
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The silent hours steal on, and flaky dark-
ness breaks within the east. --Shakespeare.
Let your sleep be necessary and healthful,
not idle and expensive of time beyond the
needs and conveniences of nature; and
sometimes be curious to see the preparation
the sun makes when he is coming forth
from his chambers in the east.-Jeremy
Taylor.
The breezy call of incense-breathing
morn.-Gray.
Night is in her wane ; day's early flush
glows like a hectic on her fading cheek,
wasting its beauty.-Longfellow.
Nor is a day lived, if the dawn is left out
of it, with the prospects it opens.-A. B.
Alcott.
I was always an early riser. Happy the
man who is ! Every morning day comes to
him with a virgin's love, full of bloom and
freshness. The youth of nature is con-
tagious, like the gladness of a happy child.
- Bulwer.
Its brightness, mighty divinity! has a
fleeting empire over the day, giving glad-
ness to the fields, color to the flowers ; the
season of the loves ; harmonious hour of
wakening birds.-Calderon.
The cock, that is the trumpet of the
morn, doth with his lofty and shrill-sound-
ing throat awake the god of day.—Shalce-
speare.
I see the spectacle of morning from the
hill-top over against my house, from day-
break to sunrise, with emotions an angel
might share.--The long, slender bars of
cloud float, like fishes, in the sea of crimson
light.-From the earth, as a shore, I look
out into that silent sea.--I seem to partake
its rapid transformations; the active en-
chantinent reaches me, and I dilate and con-
spire with the morning wind.- Emerson.
Look, what envious streaks do lace the
severing clouds in yonder east! Night's
candles are burnt out, and jocund day
stands tip-toe on the misty mountain-tops.
--Shakespeare.
The glad sun, exulting in his might,
comes from the dusky-curtained tents of
night.—Enima C. Embury.
Morn in the white-wake of the morning
star, came furrowing all the Orient iuto
gold.— Tennyson.
Bit mighty nature bounds as from ber
birth : the sun is in the heavens, and life
on earth; flowers in the valley, splendor in
the beam, health on the gale, and freshness
in the stream.-Byron.
The morning itself, few inhabitants of
MORNING.--The morning bour has
gold in its mouth.-Franlclin.
Sweet is the breath of morn ; her rising
sweet with charm of earliest birds.---Milton.
The morning steals upon the night,
inelting the darkness.-Shakespeare.
The morn is up again, the dewy morn,
with breath all incense, and with cheek all
bloom, laughing the clouds away with play-
ful scorn, and glowing into day - Byron.
!
seeo
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cities know anything about. Among all Let the day have a blessed baptism by
our good people, not one in a thousand giving your first waking thoughts into the
sees the sun rise once in a year. They bosom of God.—The first hour of the morn-
know nothing of the morning. Their idea ing is the rudder of the day, — H. W.
of it is that it is that part of the day which Beecher,
comes along after a cup of coffee and a
Morn, like a maiden glancing o'er her
piece of toast. With them, morning is not
pearls, streamed o'er the manna-dew, as
a new issuing of light, a new bursting forth
though the ground were sown with star-
of the sun, a new waking-up of all that has
seed.-P. J. Bailey.
life from a sort of temporary death, to be-
hold again the works of God, the heavens MOROSENESS. There is no mockery
and the earth; it is only a part of the do- like the mockery of that spirit which looks
mestic day, belonging to reading newspa- around in the world and believes that all
pers, answering notes, sending the children is emptiness.-E. H. Chapin.
to school, and giving orders for dinner.
Moroseness is the evening of turbulence.
The first streak of light, the earliest pur-
-Landor.
pling of the east, which the lark springs up
to greet, and the deeper and deeper color-
Men possessing minds which are morose,
ing into orange and red, till at length the
solemn, and inflexible, enjoy, in general, a
greater share of dignity thau of happi-
this they never enjoy, for they never see it.
ness.-Bacon.
I never thought that Adam had much the The morose man takes both narrow and
advantage of us from having seen the world selfish views of life and the world; he is
while it was new. The manifestations of either envious of the happiness of others,
the power of God, like his mercies, are new or denies its existence.-0. Simmons.
every morning" and fresh every moment.
We see as fine risings of the sun as ever
MORTALITY,-(See “DEATH.")
Adam saw; and its risings are as much a
miracle now as they were in his day-and,
All men think all mortal but themselves.
-Young.
I think, a good deal more, because it is now
a part of the miracle, that for thousands To smell a turf of fresh earth is whole-
and thousands of years he has come to his
some for the body; no less are thoughts
appointed time, without the variation of a of mortality cordial to the soul.-Fuller.
millionth part of a second. I know the The good die first; and they whose hearts
morning-I am acquainted with it, and I are dry as summer dust, burn to the socket.
love it. I love it fresh and sweet as it is
Wordsworth.
a daily new creation, breaking forth and
Lo! as the wind is, so is mortal life ; a
calling all that have life and breath and
being to a new adoration, new enjoyments,
moan, a sigh, a sob, or a storm, a strife.
Edwin Arnold.
and new gratitude.--Daniel Webster.
The mortality of mankind is but a part
Now from night's gloom the glorious day of the process of living--a step on the way
breaks forth, and seems to kindle from the to immortality.--Dying, to the good man,
setting stars.-D. K. Lee.
is but a brief sleep, from which he wakes
In saffron-colored mantle, from the tides to the perfection and fullness of life in
of ocean rose the morning to bring light to
eternity.- Tryon Edwards,
gods and men.- -Homer'.
I congratulate you and myself, that life
The morning, pouring everywhere, its
is passing fast away. What a superlatively
golden glory on the air.- Longfellow.
grand and consoling idea is that of death!
Without this radiant idea, life would, to my
Darkness is fled.--Now flowers unfold
view, darken into midnight melancholy.
their beauties to the sun, and blushing,
Oh, the expectation of living here and liv-
kiss the beam he sends to wake them.-
ing thus always, would be indeed a pros-
Sheridan.
pect of overwhelming despair! But thanks
The morning dawns with an unwontech be to that fatal decree that dooms 118 to die,
crimson ; the flowers more odorous seem; and to that Gospel which opens the vision
the garden birds sing louder, and the of an endless life ; and thauks, above all,
laughing sun ascends the gaudy earth with to that Saviour Friend who has promised
an unusual brightness ; all nature smiles, to condicct all the faithful through the sa-
and the whole world is pleased.-D. K. Lee. cred trance of death, into scenes of para-
Night wanes ; the vapors round the moun- dise and everlasting delight !-J. Foster.
tains curled, melt into morn, and light Death is the crown of life ; were it de-
awakes the world.-Byron.
nied, to live would not be life, and even
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fools would wish to die.—Death wounds to Children, look in those eyes, listen to
cure; we fall to rise and reign ; spring from that dear voice, notice the feeling of even a
our fetters ; fasten in the skies. - Young. single touch that is bestowed upou you by
Death is not to the Christian, what it has
that gentle hand! Make much of it while
often been called, "Paying the debt of na-
yet you have that most precious of all good
ture"; it is rather bringing a note to the
gifts, a loving mother. Read the unfathom-
bank to obtain solid gold for it.-—You
able love of those eyes; the kind anxiety of
that tone and look, however slight your
bring a cumbrous body which is nothing
worth, and lay it down, and receive for it,
pain. In after life you may have friends,
from the eternal treasures, liberty, victory,
fond, dear friends, but never will you have
knowledge, and rapture.-J. Foster.
again the inexpressible love and gentleness
lavished upon you, which none but a
Man wants but little, nor that little long.
mother bestows.-Macaulay.
-How soon must he resign his very dust,
which frugal nature lent him for an hour.
The mother's yearning, that completest
- Young.
type of the life in another life which is the
Consider the lilies of the field, whose
essence of real human love, feels the pres-
bloom is brief.--We are as they ; like them
ence of the cherished child even in the base,
degraded man.- - George Eliot.
we fade away, as doth the leaf.- Rossetti.
The future destiny of the child is always
When we see our enemies and friends
the work of the mother.-Napoleon.
gliding away before us, let us not forget
that we are subject to the general law of
The mother in her office holds the key of
mortality, and shall soon be where our the soul ; and she it is who stamps the coin
doom will be fixed forever.-Johnson.
of character, aud makes the being who
would be a savage but for her gentle cares,
The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,
a Christian man! Then crown her queen
and all that beauty, all that wealth e'er
of the world.-old Play.
gave, a wait alike the inevitable hour; the
path of glory leads but to the grave.- If you would reform the world from its
Gray.
errors and vices, begin by enlisting the
mothers.-C. Sinimons.
The fear of death often proves mortal,
and sets people on methods, to save their
Children are what the mothers are ; no
lives, which infallibly destroy them. This is fondest father's fondest care can so fashion
a reflection made upon observing that there the infant's heart, or so shape the life.-
are more thousands killed in a flight, than
Landor.
in a battle ; and may be applied to those All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my
multitudes of imaginary sick persons that angel mother. Lincoln.
break their constitutions by physic, anc? But one thing on earth is better than the
throw themselves into the arms of death,
wife, and that is the mother.-L. Schafer.
by endeavoring to escape it.--Addison.
Unhappy is the man for whom his own
MOTHER.-God could not be every- mother has not made all other mother's
where, and therefore he made mothers.- venerable.-Richter.
Jewish saying.
The dignity, the grandeur, the tender-
There is in all this cold anil hollow world ness, the everlasting and divine signifi-
no fount of deep, strong, deathless love, cance of motherhood.- De Witt Talmage.
save that within a mother's lieart.--Mrs.
All that I am my mother made me.--- John
Hemans.
Quincy Adams.
When Eve was brought unto Adam, he
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of
became filled with the Holy Spirit, and gave
clergy.--Spanish Proverb.
her the most sanctified, the most glorious
of appellations. He called her Eva, that is
The future of society is in the hands of
to say, the Mother of All. He did not style
the mothers. If the world was lost through
her wife, but simply mother,-mother of
woman, she alone can save it.-De Beaufort.
all living creatures. In this consists the No joy in nature is so sublimely affecting
glory and the most precious ornament of as the joy of a mother at the good fortune
woman.-Luther.
of her child.-Richter.
Nature's loving proxy, the watchful moth- It is the general rule, that all superior
er.- Bulwer.
men inherit the elements of superiority
I think it must somewhere be written,
from their mothers.-Michelet.
that the virtues of mother's shall be visited 6 That is wanting," said Napoleon one
on their children, as well as the sins of the day to Madame Campan, "in order that
fathers.--Dickens.
the youth of France be well educated ?'
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“Good mothers," was the reply. The Em-
peror was most forcibly struck with this
ansiver. “Here," said he,"is a system in
one word."-J. S. C. Abbott.
Men are what their mothers made them.
You may as well ask a loom which weaves
buckaback, why it does not make cashmere,
as expect poetry from this engineer, or
a chemical discovery from that jobber.-
Enverson.
The instruction received at the mother's
knee, and the paternal lessons, together
with the pious and sweet souvenirs of the
fireside, are never effaced entirely from
the soul.- Lanennais.
Say to mothers, what a holy charge is
theirs ; with what a kingly power their love
might rule the fountains of the new-born
mind.—Mrs. Sigourney.
I would desire for a friend the son who
never resisted the tears of his mother.-
Lacretelle.
Observe how soon, and to what a degree,
a mother's influence begins to operate!
Her first ministration for her infant is to
enter, as it were, the valley of the shadow
of death, and win its life at the peril of her
own!
How different must an affection
thus founded be from all others !--Mrs.
Sigourney.
If there be aught surpassing human
deed or word or thought, it is a mother's
love !-Marchioness de Spadara.
The babe at first feeds upon the mother's
bosomn, but is always on her heart.-H. W.
Beecher.
A mau never sees all that his mother has
been to him till it's too late to let her know
that he sees it.-W. D. Howells.
A father may turn his back on his child;
brothers and sisters may become inveterate
enemies ; husbands may desert their wives,
and wives their husbands. But a mother's
love endures through all; in good repute,
in bad repute, in the face of the world's
condemnation, a mother still loves on, and
still hopes that her child may turn from his
evil ways, and repent; still she remembers
the infantsmiles that once filled her bosom
with rapture, the merry laugh, the joyful
shout of his childhood, the opening proinise
of his youth; and she can never be brought
to think him all unworthy.- Washington
Irving.
The loss of a mother is always severely
felt: even though her health may in-
capacitate her from taking any active part
in the care of her family, still she is a sweet
rallying-point, around which affection and
obedience, and a thousand tender endeavors
to please, concentrate ; and dreary is the
blank when such a point is withdrawn.-
Lamartine.
Oh, wondrous power! how little under-
stood, entrusted to the mother's mind
alone, to fashion genius, form the soul for
good, inspire a West, or train a Washington.
Mrs. Hale.
The mother's heart is the child's school-
room.--H. W. Beecher.
Stories first heard at a mother's knee are
never wholly forgotten,--a little spring that
never quite dries up in our journey through
scorching years.---Ruffini.
A mother's love is indeed the golden link
that binds youth to age ; and he is still but
a child, however time may have furrowed
his cheek, or silvered his brow, who can yet
recall, with a softened heart, the fond de-
votion, or the gentle chidings, of the best
friend that God ever gives us.—Bovee.
Maternal love! thou word that sums all
bliss.—Pollok.
It is generally admitted, and very fre-
quently proved, that virtue and genius, and
all the natural good qualities which men
possess, are derived from their mothers.-
Hool.
Let France have good mothers, and she
will have good sons.-Napoleon.
What are Raphael's Madonnas but the
shadow of a mother's love, fixed in per-
manent outline forever ?-T. W. Higginson.
If the whole world were put into one
scale, and my mother into the other, the
world would kick the beam.-Lord Lang-
dale.
Happy he with such a mother ! faith in
womankind beats with his blood, and trust
in all things high comes easy to him, and
though he trip and fall, he shall not blind
his soul with clay.- Tennyson.
No language can express the power and
beauty and heroism and majesty of a
mother's love. It shrinks not where man
cowers, and grows stronger where man
faints, and over the wastes of worldly for-
tune sends the radiance of its quenchless
fidelity like a star in heaven.-E. H. Chapin.
Even He that died for us upon the cross,
in the last hour, in the unutterable agony
of death, was mindful of his mother, as if
to teach us that this holy love should be
our last worldly thought, -the last point
of earth from which the soul should take
its flight for heaven.-Longfellow.
My mother's influence in molding my
character was conspicuous. She forced me
to learn daily long chapters of the Bible by
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heart. To that discipline and patient, ac-
curate resolve I owe not only much of my
general power of taking pains, but the best
part of my taste for literature. - Ruskin. .
MOTIVES.-Men are more accountable
for their motives, than for anything else ;
and primarily, worality consists in the
motives, that is in the affections.-Archi-
bald Alexander.
We should often have reason to be
ashamed of our most brilliant actions if
the world could see the motives from which
they spring.--Rochefoucauld.
Motives are better than actions. Men
drift into crime. Of evil they do more than
they contemplate, and of good they con-
template more than they do. Bovee.
In the eye of that Supreme Being to whom
our whole internal frame is uncovered, mo-
tives and dispositions hold the place of ac-
tions.Blair,
The true motives of our actions, like the
real pipes of an organ, are usually con-
cealed ; but the gilded and hollow pretext
is pompously placed in the front for show.
--Colton.
Many actions, like the Rhone, have two
sources : one pure, the other impure.-
Hare.
Acts are nothing except as they are fruits
of a state, except as thoy indicate what the
man is ; words are nothing except as they
express a mind or purpose.-F. D. Maurice.
Though a good inotive cannot sanctify a
bad action, a bad motive will always
vitiate a good action. In common and
trivial matters we may act without motive,
but in momentous ones the most careful
deliberation is wisdom.-W. Jay.
The two great movers of the human mind
are the desire of good, and the fear of evil.
-Johnson.
God made man to go by motives, and he
will not go without them, any more than a
boat without steam, or å balloon without
gas.-H. W. Beecher!
It is motive alone that gives character to
the actions of men.-Bruyère.
It is not the incense, or the offering
which is acceptable to God, but the purity
and devotion of the worshiper.-Seneca.
He that does good for good's sake, seeks
neither praise nor reward, but he is sure of
both in the end.-Penn.
If a man speaks or acts with pure thought,
happiness follows him like a shadow that
never leaves him.-Buddha.
Let the motive be in the deed and not in
the event. Be not one whose motive for
action is the hope of reward.-Kreeshna.
Great actions, the luster of which dazzles
us, are represented by politicians as the
effects of deep design, whereas they are
commonly the effects of caprice and pas-
sion.-Rochefoucauld.
Our best conjectures, as to the true spring
of actions, are very uncertain; the actions
themselves are all we know from history.
That Cæsar was murdered by twenty-four
conspirators, I doubt not; but I very much
doubt whether their love of liberty was the
sole cause.—Chesterfield.
However brilliant an action, it should not
be esteemed great unless the result of a
great and good motive.-Rochefoucauld.
We must not inquire too curiously into
motives. They are apt to become feeble in
the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the
grosser air. We must keep the germinating
graiu away from the light.-George Eliot.
Whatever touches the nerves of motive,
whatever shifts man's moral position, is
mightier than steam, or caloric, or light-
ning.-E. H. Chapin.
The morality of an action depends upon
the motive from which we act.-Johnson.
Motives imply weakness, and the reason-
ing powers imply the existence of evil and
temptation.-Angelic natures would act
from impulse alone.- Coleridge.
The noblest motive is the public good.-
Virgil.
MURDER.–Blood, though it sleep a
time, yet never dies.--Chapman.
One murder makes a villain ; millions, a
hero; numbers sanctify the crime.-Por-
teus.
To murder character is as truly a crime
as to murder the body; the tongue of the
slanderer is brother to the dagger of the
assassin.--Tryon Edwards.
One to destroy, is murder by the law; to
murder thousands takes a specious name-
war's glorious art, and gives immortal fame.
Young.
Every unpunished murder takes away
something from the security of every man's
life.-Daniel Webster.
Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks
to the murderer like the voice of solitude.-
Maturin.
Murder itself is past all expiation the
greatest crime, which nature doth abhor.-
Goffe.
MURMURINA.-Murmur not at the
ills you may suffer, but rather thank God
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for the many mercies and blessings you
have received at his hands,
Murmur at nothing. If our ills are rep-
arable, it is ungrateful; if remediless, it
is vain. A Christian builds his fortune on
a better foundation than stoicism ; he is
pleased with every thing that happens, be-
cause he knows it could not happen if it
did not please God ; and that which pleases
God must be best.-H. L. Wayland.
He who murmurs against his condition,
does not understand it; but he who accepts
of it in peace, will soon learn to compre-
hend it. What one has experienced and
learned in this respect, is always a stage he
has made on his way to heaven.
MUSIC.-Music is the mediator between
the spiritual and the sensual life. Al-
though the spirit be not master of that
which it creates through music, yet it is
blessed in this creation, which, like every
creation of art, is mightier than the artist.
- Beethoven.
Music is the harmonious voice of crea-
tion ; an echo of the invisible world ; one
note of the divine concord which the entire
universe is destined one day to sound.-
Mazzini.
There is something marvelous in music.
I might almost say it is, in itself, a marvel.
Its position is somewhere between the re-
gion of thought and that of phenomena ; a
gliminering meilium between mind and
matter, related to both and yet differing
from either. Spiritual, and yet requiring
rhythm ; material, and yet independent
of
space.-H. Heine.
Music resembles poetry; in each are nu-
merous graces which no methods teach, and
which a master band alone can reach.-
Pope.
Explain it as we may, a martial strain
will urge a man into the front rank of bat-
tle sooner than an argument, and a fine an-
them excite his devotion more certainly
than a logical discourse.—Tuckerman.
All musical people seem to be happy; it
is to them the engrossing pursuit ; almost
the only innocent and unpunished passion.
-Sydney Smith.
Where painting is weakest, namely, in the
expression of the highest moral and spirit-
ual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
Mrs. Stowe.
Music can noble hints impart, engender
fury, kindle love, with unsuspected elo-
quence can move and manage all the man
with secret art.-Addison.
Music, in the best sense, does not require
novelty ; nay, the older it is, and the more
we are accustomed to it, the greater its
effect.-Goethe.
The man that hath not music in himself,
and is not moved with concord of sweet
sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and
spoils ; let no
let no man trust him.-Shalce-
speare.
Music is the fourth great material want
of our nature,-first lood, then raiment,
then shelter, then music.-Bovee.
Music is the art of the prophets, the only
art that can calm the agitations of the soul;
it is one of the most magnificent and de-
lightful presents God has given us.-Luther. .
The highest graces of music flow from
the feelings of the heart.-Lmmons.
Music is the only sensual gratification in
which mankind may indulge to excess with-
ont injury to their moral or religious feel-
ings.- Addison.
Music, once admitted to the soul, be-
comes a sort of spirit, and never dies. It
wanders perturbedly through the halls and
galleries of the memory, and is often heard
again, distinct and living, as when it firsi
displaced the wavelets of the air.-Bulwer.
Preposterous ass! that never read so far
to know the cause why music was ordained !
was it not to refresh the mind of man, after
his studies, or his usual pain?--Shakespeare.
Some of the fathers went so far as to es-
teem the love of music a sign of predestina-
tion, as a thing divine, and reserved for
the felicities of heaven itself.-Sir W. Tenz-
ple.
Among the instrumentalities of love and
peace, surely there can be no sweeter,
softer, more effective voice than that of
gentle peace-breathing music.--Elihu Bur-
ritt.
It calls in my spirits, composed my
thoughts, delights my ear, recreates my
mind, and so not only fits me for after
business, but fills my heart, at the pres-
ent, with pure and useful thoughts ; so
that wben the music sounds the sweetliest
in my ears, truth commonly flows the clear-
est into my mind.-Bp. Beveridge.
Music, of all the liberal arts, has the
greatest influence over the passions, and
is that to which the legislator ought to
give the greatest encouragement.-Napo-
leon.
It is in learning music that many youth-
ful hearts learn to love.-Ricard.
Next to theology I give to music the
highest place and honor. And we see how
David and all the saints have wrought their
godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song.
-Luther,
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state, born of its memory? For what can
wake the soul's strong instinct of another
world like music 2-L. E. Landon.
Let me have music dying, and I seek no
more delight.—Keats.
Music is the language of praise ; and one
of the most essential preparations for
eternity is delight in praising God; a
higher acquirement, I do think, than even
delight and devotedness in prayer.--Chal-
mer's.
.
Music is the only one of the fine arts in
which not only man, but all other animals,
have a common property,-mice and ele-
phants, spiders and birds.-Richter.
Music is a prophecy of what life is to be ;
the rainbow of promise translated ont of
seeing into hearing.---Mrs. L. M. Child.
The lines of poetry, the periods of prose,
and even the texts of Scripture most fre-
quently recollected and quoted, are those
which are felt to be pre-eminently musical.
-Shenstone.
The direct relation of music is not to
ideas, but to emotions—in the works of its
greatest masters, it is more marvelous,
more mysterious than poetry.-H. Giles.
Music is the medicine of the breaking
heart.-A. Hunt.
We love music for the buried hopes, the
garnered memories, the tender feelings it
can summon at a touch.-L. E. Landon.
Music washes away from the soul the
dust of every-day life.- Auerbach.
Music has charms to soothe the savage
breast, to soften rocks, and bend the
knotted oak.-Congreve.
Almost all my tragedies were sketched in
my mind, either in the act of hearing mu-
sic, or a few hours after.-Alfieri.
Music is a discipline, and a mistress of
order and good manners; she makes the
people milder and gentler, more moral and
more reasonable.-Luther.
In the germ, when the first trace of life
begins to stir, music is the nurse of the
soul ; it murmurs in the ear, and the child
sleeps ; the tones are companions of his
dreams, ---they are the world in which he
lives.- Bettina.
Music is one of the fairest and most glo-
rious gifts of God, to which Satan is a bit-
ter enemy, for it removes from the heart
the weight of sorrow, and the fascination
of evil thoughts.-Luther.
Both music and painting add a spirit to
devotion, and elevate the ardor.-Sterne.
Lord, what music hast thou provided for
thy saints in heaven, wheu thou affordest
bad men such music on earth !--Izaalc
Walton.
Music is the child of prayer, the compan-
ion of religion.-Chateaubriand.
The best sort of music is what it should
be-sacred; the next best, the military,
has fallen to the lot of the devil.—Cole-
ridge.
Music moves us, and we know not why:
we feel the tears, but cannot trace their
Is it the language of some other
Through every pulse the music stole,
and held sublime communion with the soul;
wrung from the coyest breast the impris-
oned sigh, and kindled rapture in the
coldest eye.—Montgomery.
When griping grief the heart doth wound,
and doleful dumps the mind oppress, then
music, with her silver sound, with speedy
help doth lend redress.--Shakespeare.
A good ear for music, and a taste for mu-
sic are two very different things which are
often confonnded; and so is comprehend-
ing and enjoying every object of sense and
sentiment.-Gréville.
Music is well said to be the speech of
angels.-Carlyle.
Music wakes the soul, and lifts it high,
and wings it with sublime desires, and fits
it to bespeak the Deity.-Addison.
There is no feeling, except the extremes
of fear and grief, that does not find relief
in music.-George Eliot.
Yea, music is the prophet's art; among
the gifts that God hath sent, one of the
most magnificent.--Longfellow.
The meaning of song goes deep. Who is
there that, in logical words, can express
the effect music bas on 18? A kind of
inarticulate, infathomable speech, which
leads us to the edge of the infinite, and lets
us for moments gaze into that!-Carlyle.
Of all the arts beneath the heaven that
man has found or God has given, none
draws the soul so sweet away, as music's
melting, mystic lay; slight emblem of the
bliss above, it soothes the spirit all to love.
- Hogg.
MUTABILITY,—What shadows we are,
and what shadows we pursue !-- Burke.
Man must be prepared for every event of
life, for there is nothing that is durable.-
Menander.
Mutability is the badge of infirmity.--It
is seldom that a man continues to wish and
design the same thing for two days alike.-
Charron.
In human life there is constant change
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source.
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MYSTERY.
of fortune ; and it is unreasonable to ex-
pect an exemption from the common fate.
Life itself decays, and all things are daily
changing. Plutarch.
Clocks will go as they are set; but man,
irregular man, is never constant, never
certain.-Otway.
The blessings of health and fortune, as
they have a beginning, so they inust also
have an end.-Everything rises but to fall,
and increases but to decay.-Sallust.
When Anaxagoras was told of the death
of his son, he only said, “I knew he was
mortal.” So we in all casualties of life
should say, “I knew my riches were un-
certain, that my friend was but a man.'
Such considerations would soon pacify us,
because all our troubles proceed from their
being unexpected.—
Plutarch.
It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our
calamities and afflictions, that he that loses
anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer
by the loss.--L'Estrange.
All our life goeth like Penelope's web,
and what one hour effects, the next de-
stroy8.-Augustine.
MYSTERY:-Mystery is but another
name for our ignorance; if we were om-
niscient, all would be perfectly plain.-
Tryon Edwards.
A mystery is something of which we
know that it is, though we do not know
how it is.-Joseph Cook.
He had lived long enough to know that
it is unwise to wish everything explained.--
Coningsby.
I do not explain-I only state it; and
this is all we can do with a large proportion
of all the facts and truths that we know.
There is a point, easily reached, where the
simplest facts end in mystery, even as they
begin in it; just as each day lies between
two nights.--R. Turnbull.
While reason is puzzling itself about
mystery, faith is turning it to daily bread,
and feeding on it thankfully in her heart
of hearts.-F. D. Huntington.
Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the
sun; the hand that warned Belshazzar de-
rived its horrifying influence from the
want of a body.-Colton.
Each particle of matter is an immensity;
each leaf a world; each insect an inex-
plicable compendium.-Lavater.
There are more things in heaven and
earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
-Shakespeare.
Like a morning cream, life becomes more
and more bright the longer we live, and the
reason of everything appears more clear.
What has puzzled us before seems less
mysterious, and the crooked paths look
straighter as we approach the end.--Richter.
I do not kuow how the great loving
Father will bring out light at last, but he
knows, and he will do it.-- Livingstone, in
Africa.
I would fain know all that I need, and all
that I may.-I leave God's secrets to him-
self.-It is happy for me that God makes
me of his court, and not of his council.
Bp. Hall.
It is the dim haze of mystery that adds
enchantment to pursuit. --Rivarol.
Happy is the man who is content to tra-
verse this ocean to the haven of rest, with-
out going into the wretched diving-bells of
his own fancies.-There are depths ; but
depths are for God.—Evans.
Speculate not too much on the mysteries
of truth or providence.-The effort to ex-
plain everything, sometimes may endanger
faith.-Many things God reserves to him-
self, and many are reserved for the unfold-
ings of the future life.- Tryon Eduards.
Most men take least notice of what is
plain, as if that was of no use, but puzzle.
their thoughts with those vast depths and
abysses which no human understanding
can fathom.- Bp. Sherlock.
We injure mysteries, which are matters
of faith, by any attempt at explanation, in
order to inake them matters of reason.
Could they be explained, they would cease
to be mysteries ; and it has been well said
that a thing is not necessarily against
reason, because it happens to be above it.-
Colton.
To make anything very terrible, obscurity
seems, in general, to be necessary.- When
we know the full extent of any danger, and
can accustom our eyes to it, a great deal of
the apprehension vanishes.—Burke.
A proper secrecy is the only mystery of
able men; mystery is the only secrecy of
weak and cunning ones. — - Chesterfield.
As defect of strength in us makes some
weights to be immovable, so likewise, defect
of understanding makes some truths to be
mysterious.--Bp. Sherlock.
A religion without mystery must be a
religion without God.
In dwelling on divine mysteries, keep
thy heart humble, thy thoughts reverent,
thy soul holy. Let not philosophy be
ashamed to be confuted, nor logic to be
confounded, nor reason to be surpassed.
What thou canst not prove, approve; what
thou canst not comprehend, believe; wh:t
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thou canst believe, admire and love and
obey. So shall thine ignorance be satisfied
in thy faith, and thy doubt be swallowed
up in thy reverence, and thy faith be as
iütluential as sight. Put out thine own
candle, and then shalt thou see clearly the
sun of righteousness.—Jeremy Taylor.
MYTHOLOGY,Mythology is the re-
ligious sentiment growing will.-Schelling.
Mythology is not religion. It may rather
be regarded as the ancient substitute, the
poetical counterpart for dogmatic theology.
Hare.
The heathen mythology not only was not
true, but it was not even supported as true;
it not only deserved no faith, but it cle-
manded none.— The very pretension to
truth, the very demand of faith, were char-
acteristics of Christianity.-- Whately.
N.
Some men do as much begrudge others &
good name, as they want one themselves;
and perhaps that is the reason of it.
Penn.
A person with a bad name is already half-
langed.- Old Proverb.
One of the greatest artifices the devil
uses to engage men in vice and debauchery,
is to fasten names of contempt on certain
virtues, and thus fill weak souls with a fool-
ish fear of passing for scrupulous, should
they desire to put them in practice.-
Pascal.
A virtuons name is the precious, only
good, for whiclı queens and peasants' wives
must contest together. -Schiller.
A man's name is not like a mantle which
merely hangs about him, and which one
perchance may safely twitch and pull, but
a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the
skin, has grown over him, at which one can-
not take and scrape without injuring the
man himself. Goethe.
Good name, in man or woman, is the im-
mediate jewel of their souls.- Who steals
my purse steals trash ; but he that filches
from me my good name, robs me of that
which not enriches him, and makes me poor
indeed.-Shakespeare.
The honors of a name 'tis just to guard ;
they are a trust but leut us, which we take,
and shonla, in reverence to the donor's
fame, with care transmit them down to
other hands.--Shirley.
Great names debase, instead of raising
those who know not how to use them.-
Rochefoucauld.
A name truly good is the aroma from
virtuous character; it is a spontaneous
emanation from genuine excellence.-Such
a name is not only remembered on earth,
but it is written in heaven.-J. Hamilton.
A good name lost is seldom regained.-
When character is gone, all is gone, and
one of the richest jewels of life is lost for-
ever.-J. Hawes.
No better heritage can a father bequeath
to his children than a good name ; nor is
there in a family any richer heir-loom
than the memory of a noble ancestor.-J.
Hamilton,
NAMES.-(See “REPUTATION.")
A name is a kind of face whereby one is
known.-Fuller. .
With the vulgar and the learned, names
have great weight; the wise use a writ of
inquiry into their legitimacy when they are
advanced as authorities.-Zimmermann.
Who hath not owned, with rapture-smit-
ten frame, the power of grace, the magic
of a naine.-Cowper.
Favor or disappointment has been often
conceded, as the name of the claimant has
affected us ; and the accidental affinity or
coincidence of a name, connected with ridi-
cule or hatred, with pleasure or disgust,
has operated like magic.-Disraeli.
“Names,” says an old maxim,
things.”—They certainly are influences.-
pressions are left and opinions areshaped
by them.–Virtue is disparaged, and vice
countenanced, and so encouraged by them.
The mean and selfish talk of their prudence
and economy; the vain and prond prate
about self-respect; obstinacy is called firm-
ness, and dissipation the enjoyment of life;
seriousness is ridiculed as cant, and strict
morality and integrity, as needless scrupu-
losity; and so mien deceive themselves, and
society is led to look leniently, or with in-
difference, ou what ought to be sharply
condemned.-Tryon Edwards.
Some to the fascination of a name surren-
der judgment hoodwiuked. -Cowper.
What is in a name? That which we call a
lose, by any other name would smell as
sweet. - Shakespeare.
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NATIONS.-A State to prosper, must be
built on foundations of a moral character
i
and this character is the principal element
of its strength and the only guaranty of its
permanence and prosperity.-J. L. Curry.
Individuals may form communities, but
it is institutions alone that can create 4
nation), -Disraeli,
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The best protection of a nation is its
men; towns and cities cannot have a surer
defense than the prowess and virtue of
their inhabitants. --Rabelais.
It is written in God's word, and in all
the history of the race, that nations, if they
live at all, live not by felicity of position,
or soil, or climate, and not by abundancé
of material good, but by the living word of
the living God.–The commandments of
God are the bread of life for the nations.-
R. D. Hitchcock.
Territory is but the body of a nation.
The people who inhabit its hills and valleys
are its soul, its spirit, its life.—Garfield.
No nation can be destroyed while, it pos-
sesses a good home life.-J. G. Holland.
In the youth of a state, arms do flourish;
in the middle age, learning ; anıl then both
of them together for a time; in the declin-
ing age, mechanical arts and merchandise.
-Bacon.
A nation's character is the sum of its
splendid deeds; they constitute one com-
mon patrimony, the nation's inheritance.
They awe foreign powers, they arouse and
animate our own people.—Henry Clay.
National progress is the sum of individual
industry, energy, and uprightness, as na-
tional decay is of individual idleness, sel-
fishness, and vice.-S. Smiles.
The true grandeur of nations is in those
qualities which constitute the true great-
ness of the individual.-C. Sumner.
As for the just and noble idea, that na-
tious, as well as individuals, are parts of
one wondrous whole, it has hardlý passed
the lips or pen of any but religious men
and poets.-It is the one great principle of
the greatest religion which has ever nour-
ished the morals of mankind.-Harriet
Martineau.
NATURE.--Nature is but a name for
an effect whose cause is God.-Cowper.
Nature has perfections, in order to show
that she is the image of God; and de-
fects, to show that she is only his image.-
Pascal.
Nature does not capriciously scatter her
secrets as golden gifts to lazy pets and
luxurious darlings, but imposes tasks when
she presents opportunities, and uplifts him
whom she would inform. The apple that
she drops at the feet of Newton is but a
coy invitation to follow her to the stars.-
E. P. Whipple.
Nature never deserts the wise and
pure ;
no plot so narrow, be but nature there ; no
waste so vacant, but may well employ eachi
faculty of sense, and keep the heart awake
to love and beauty !-- Coleridge.
Nature and revelation are alike God's
books; each may have mysteries, but in
each there are plaiu practical lessons for
every-day duty.- Tryon Edwards.
The man who can really, in living union
of the mind and heart, converse with God
through nature, finds in the material forms
around him, a source of power and happi-
ness inexhaustible, and like the life of
angels. The highest life and glory of man
is to be alive into God; and when this
grandeur of sensibility to him, and this
power of communion with him is carried,
as the habit of the soul, into the forms of
nature, then the walls of our world are as
the gates of heaven.-G. B. Cheever.
Nature knows no panse in progress and
development, and attaches her curse on all
inaction.- Goethe.
Read nature ; nature is a friend to truth;
nature is Christian, preaches to mankind,
and bids dead matter aid us in our creed.-
Young.
Sympathy with nature is a part of the
good man's religion.-F. H. Hedge.
Looks through nature up to nature's
God.-Pope.
Study nature as the countenance of God.
- Charles Kingsley.
Hill and valley, seas and constellations,
are but stereotypes of divine ideas appeal-
ing to, and answered by the living soul of
wan.--E. H. Chapin.
There is a signature of wisdom and power
impressed on the works of God, which evi-
dently distinguishes them from the feeble
imitations of men.-Not only the splendor
of the sun, but the glimmering light of
the glowworm, proclaims his glory.—John
Newton.
Natural objects themselves, even when
they make no claim to beauty, excite the
feelings, and occupy the imagination.
Nature pleases, attracts, delights, merely
because it is nature. We recognize in it
au Infinite Power.- W. Humboldt.
There is no trifling with nature; it is
always truo, grave, and severe; it is always
in the right, and the faults and errors fall
to our share. It defies incompetency, but
reveals its secrets to the competent, the
truthful, and the pure.- Goethe.
Nature is the time-vesture of God that
reveals him to the wise, and hides him from
the foolish.-Carlyle.
Nature is beautiful, always beautiful!
Every little flake of snow is a perfect crys-
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NATURE.
tal, and they fall together as gracefully as
if fairies of the air caught waterdrops and
made them into artificial flowers to garland
the wings of the wind !--Mrs. L. M. Child.
Nature is an Æolian harp, a musical in-
strument, whose tones are the re-echo of
higher strings within us.--Novalis.
What profusion is there in His work !
When trees blossom there is not a single
breastpin, but a whole bosom-full of gems;
and of leaves they have so many suits that
they can throw them away to the winds all
summer long. What unnumbered cathe-
drals has He reared in the forest shades,
vast and grand, full of curious carvings,
and haunted evermore by tremulous music
i
and in the heavens above, how do stars
seem to have flown out of His hand faster
than sparks out of a mighty forge 1-E. W.
Beecher.
Nature and wisdom always say the same.
Juvenal.
The laws of nature are just, but terrible.
There is no weak mercy in them. Cause
and consequence are inseparable and in-
evitable. The elements have no forbear-
ance. The fire burns, the water drowns,
the air consumes, the earth buries. And
perhaps it would be well for our race if the
punishment of crimes against the laws of
man were as inevitable as the punishment
of crimes against the laws of nature, -were
man as unerring in his judgments as na-
ture.—Longfellow.
Nature is commanded by obeying her.-
Bacon.
Nature is the living, visible garment of
God.--Goethe.
In contemplation of created things, by
steps we may ascend to God.-Milton.
A man finds in the productions of nature
an inexhaustible stock of material on which
he can employ himself, without any tempta-
tions to envy or malevolence, and has
always a certain prospect of discovering
new reasons for adoring the sovereign all-
thor of the universe.-Johnson.
The laws of nature are the rules accord-
ing to which effects are produced ; but
there must be a lawgiver-a cause which
operates according to these rules.--The
laws of navigation never steered a ship,
and the law of gravity never moved a planet.
-T. Reid.
Nature is the most thrifty thing in the
orld; she never wastes anything; she
undergoes change, but there's no annihila-
tion—the essence remains.-T. Binney.
The laws of nature are but the thoughts
and agencies of God-the modes in which
he works and carries out the designs of his
providence and will.-- Tryon Edwards.
Nature gives to every time and season
some beauties of its own; and from morn-
ing to night, as from the cradle to the grave,
is but a succession of changes so gentle and
easy that we can scarcely mark their prog-
ress.—Dickens.
In nature, all is managed for the best
with perfect frugality and just reserve,
profuse to none, but bountiful to all ; never
employing on one thing more than enough,
but with exact economy retrenching the
superfluous, and adding force to what is
principal in everything.-- Shaftesbury.
Surely there is something in the un-
ruffled calm of nature that overawes our
little anxieties and doubts : the sight of the
deep-blue sky, and the clustering stars
above, seem to impart a quiet to the mind.
-- Jonathan Edwards.
It is truly a most Christian exercise to
extract a sentiment of piety from the works
and appearances of nature. Our Saviour
expatiates on a flower, and draws from it
the delightful argument of confidence in
God. He gives us to see that taste may be
combined with piety, and that the same
heart may be occupied with all that is
serious in the contemplations of religion,
and be, at the same time, alive to the
charms and loveliness of nature.-Chal-
mer's.
In nature things move violently to their
place, and calmly in their place.--Bacon.
Nature is a frugal mother, and never
gives without measure. When she has
work to do, she qualified men for that and
sends them equipped.-Emerson.
He that follows nature is never out of his
way. Nature is sometimes subdued, but
seldom extinguished.--Bacon.
If we did not take great pains to corrupt
our nature, our nature would never cor-
rupt us.-- Clarendon.
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it;
never desert your own line of talent. Bé
what nature intended you for, and you will
succeed; be anything else and you will be
teu thousand times worse than nothing. -
Sydney Smith.
I follow nature as the surest guide, and
resign myself, with implicit obedience, to
her sacred ordinances. - Cicero.
It were happy if we studied nature more
in natural things; and acted according to
nature, whose rules are few, plain, and
most reasonable.--Penn.
Epicurianism is human nature drunk,
cynicism is human nature mad, and stoi-
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NECESSITY.
forth fruit. Everything is created and con-
ducted by the same Master,-the root, the
branch, the fruits,--the principles, the con-
sequences.-Pascal.
Nature is avariciously frugal; in matter,
it allows no atom to elude its grasp ; in
mind, no thought or feeling to perish. It
gathers up the fragments that nothing be
lost.-David Thonias.
cism is human nature in despair.-S. J.
Wilson.
The ignorant man marvels at the excep-
tional; the wise man marvels at the com-
mon; the greatest wonder of all is the
regularity of nature.-G. D. Boardman.
Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by
the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to
be gazed on in his sphere.— Young.
Nature is man's teacher. She unfolds
her treasures to his search, unseals his eye,
illumes his mind, and purifies his heart ;
an influence breathes from all the sights
and sounds of her existence.—Street.
A poet ought not to pick Nature's pocket.
Let bim borrow, and so borrow as to repay
by the very act of borrowing. 'Examine
nature accurately, but write from recollec-
tion, and trust more to the imagination
than to the memory.- Coleridge.
Nature is the armory of genius. Cities
serve it poorly, books and colleges at sec-
ond hand; the eye craves the spectacle of
the horizon; of mountain, ocean, river and
plain, the clouds and stars ; actual contact
with the eleinents, sympathy with the sea-
sons as they rise and roll.-A. B. Alcott.
Nothing is rich but the inexhaustible
wealth of nature. She shows us only sur-
faces, but she is million fathoms deep.-
Emerson.
Nature hath nothing made so base, but
can read some instruction to the wisest
man.-C. Aleyn.
Nature—a thing which science and art
never appear to see with the same eyes.
If to an artist nature has a soul, why,
80 has a steam-engine. Art gifts with
soul all matter that it contemplates ;
sci-
ence turns all that is already gifted with
soul into matter. Bulwer.
Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of
the One breaks in everywhere.--Emerson.
Nature is no sentimentalist--does not
cosset or pamper us.
We must see that the
world is rough and surly, and will not
mind drowning a man or a woman, but
swallows your ships like a grain of dust.
The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles
your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a
man like an apple. The diseases, the ele-
ments, fortune, gravity, lightning, respect
no persons.-Emerson.
All nature is a vast symbolism ; every
material fact has sheathed within it a
spiritual truth.-E. H. Chapin.
Nature imitates herself. A grain thrown
into good ground brings forth fruit; a
principle thrown into a good mind brings
NECESSITY,-Necessity is the argu-
ment of tyrants : it is the creed of slaves.-
William Pitt.
A people never fairly begins to prosper
till necessity is treading on its heels. The
growing vant of room is one of the sources
of civilization. Population is power, but
it must be a population that, in growing,
is made daily apprehensive of the morrow.
-Sininus.
The best teacher one can have is neces-
sity.-La None.
There is no contending with necessity,
and we should be very tender how we cen-
sure those that submit to it. 'Tis one thing
to be at liberty to do what we will, and
another thing to be tied up to do what we
inust.-L'Estrange.
There is no virtue like necessity.--Shake-
speare.
Necessity is always the first stimulus to
industry, and those who conduct it with
prudence, perseverance, and energy will
rarely fail. Viewed in this light, the neces-
sity of labor is not a chastisement, but a
blessing;-the very root and spring of all
that we call progress in individuals and
civilization in nations.--S. Smiles.
What fate imposes, men must needs
abide ; it boots not to resist both wind
and tide.-Shalcespeare.
Necessity, that great refuge and excuse
for human frailty, breaks through all law;
and he is not to be accounted in fault whose
crime is not the effect of choice, but force.
-Pascal.
And with necessity, the tyrant's plea,
excused his devilish deeds.-Milton.
Necessity of action takes away the fear
of the act, and makes bold resolution the
favorite of fortune.-Quarles.
When God would educate a man He com-
pels him to learn bitter lessons. He sends
him to school to the necessities rather than
to the graces, that, by knowing all suffer-
ing, he may know also tbe eternal consola-
tion. Celia Burleigh.
We cannot conquer fate and necessity,
yet we can yield to them in such a manner
as to be greater than if we could.-Landor.
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NEWS.
Necessity may render a doubtful act in-
nocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy.
-Joubert.
Necessity never made a good bargain.-
Franklin.
It is observed in the golden verses of
Pythagoras, that power is never far from
necessity. The vigor of the human mind
quickly appears when there is no longer any
place for doubt and hesitation, when diffi-
dence is absorbed in the sense of danger,
or overwhelined by some resistless passion.
-Johnson.
What was once to me mere matter of the
fancy, now has grown to be the necessity of
heart and life.-- Tennyson,
Necessity is the mother of invention.-
Farquhar.
The argument of necessity is not only the
tyrant's plea, but the patriot's defense, and
the safety of the state.-James Wilson.
NEGLECT.-(See "PUNCTUALITY.")
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 a little care about a borse-shoe
nail.-Hranklin,
An experienced mother who had brought
up a large family of children with eminent
success, was once asked by a younger one
what she would recommend in the case of
some children who were too anxionsly edu-
cated; and her reply was, “I think, my
dear, a little wholesome neglect."
He that thinks he can afford to be negli-
gent, is not far from being poor.-Johnson.
Negligence is the rust of the son), that
corrodes through all her best resolves.-
Feltham.
The best ground, untilled and neglected,
soonest runs out into rank veeds.-A man
of knowledge that is either negligent or
nuncorrected cannot but grow wild and god-
less.- Bp. Hall.
A wise and salutary neglect.-Burice.
In persons grafted in a serious trust,
negligence is a crime.-Shakespeare.
Self-love is not so vile a sin as self-neg-
lecting.--Shakespeare.
NEUTRALITY.-When a spot of neu-
tral ground is found in heaven, or earth,
or hell, then let neuters take their stand ;
real neuters are nothing, and professed
neuters on religious subjects, are always
false and faithless in reality. - Thomas
Williams.
Neutral men are the devil's allies.-E.
H. Chapin.
Neutrality is no favorite with Providence,
for we are so formed that it is scarcely pos-
sible for us to stand neuter in our hearts,
althouglı we may deem it prudent to ap-
pear so in our actions.- Collon.
Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an
evidence of weakness.- Kossuth.
A wise nouter joins with neither, but
uses both as his honest interest leads him.
-Penn,
Neutrality in things good or evil is both
odious and prejudicial, but in matters of
an indifferent nature, is safe and commend-
able.- Bp. Hall.
The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.
- Burke.
There is in some men a dispassionate
neutrality of mind, which, though it gen-
erally passes for good temper, can neither
gratify nor warm us; it must indeed be
granted that these men can only negatively
offend; but then it should also be remem-
bered that they cannot positively please.-
Gréville.
NEWS.-A map does not exhibit a more
distinct view of the situation and bounda-
ries of every country, than its news does a
picture of the genius and morals of its in-
habitants. --Goldsmith.
Each mind is pressed, and open every
ear, to hear new tidings, though they no
way joy us.-Fairfax.
He comes, the herald of a noisy world,
news from all nations lumbering at his
back; a messenger of grief perhaps to
thousands, and of joy to some. - Cowper.
The news! our morning, noon, and even-
ing cry: day after day repeats it till we
die.-C. Sprague.
News, the manna of a day.-Green.
When ill news comes too late to be ser-
viceable to your neighbor, keep it to your-
self.--Zimmermann.
Ill news is winged with fate, and flies
apace.-Dryden.
News are as welcome as the morning air.
-Chapman.
Though it be honest, it is never good to
bring bad news.-Give to a gracious mes-
sage a host of tongues ; but let ill tidings
tell themselves when they be felt. --Shake-
speare.
Evil news rides post, while good news
bates.Milton.
The first bringer of unwelcome news
hath but a losing office.--Shakespeare.
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NEWSPAPER.
NEWSPAPER,-A newspaper is the
history for one day of the world in which
we live, and with which we are consequently
more concerned than with those which
have passed away, and exist only in re-
membrance.-Bp. Horne.
I read the newspapers to see how God
governs the world. -John Newton.
A newspaper should be the maximum of
information, and the minimum of com-
ment.-- Cobden.
Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the
common people--a greater treasure to them
than uncounted millions of gold.-H. W.
Beecher.
The careful reader of a few good news-
papers can learn more in a year than most
scholar8 do in their great libraries.-F. B.
Sanborn.
Newspapers are the world's cyclopædia
of life; telling us everything from every
quarter of the globe.-They are a univer-
sal whispering gallery for mankind, only
their whispers are sometimes thunders.
Tryon Edwards.
Newspapers should be news-carriers, not
news-makers.-There is truth and enter-
tainment enough to print, without fiction
or falschood, and to publish the latter is
to betray the former. -0. Simmons.
The press is good or evil according to
the character of those who direct it. It is
a mill that grinds all that is put into its
hopper.-Fill the hopper with poisoned
grain and it will grind it to meal, but there
is death in the bread.-Bryant.
In these times we fight for ideas, and
newspapers are our fortresses.-Heine.
The newspaper is the great educator of
the nineteenth century. There is no force
compared with it. It is book, pulpit, plat-
form, forum, all in one. And there is not
an interest-religious, literary, commer-
cial, scientific, agricultural, or mechanical
-that is not within its grasp.
All our
churches, and schools, and colleges, and
asylums, and art galleries feel the quaking
of the printing press.—Talmage.
The follies, vices, and consequent mis-
eries of multitudes, displayed in a news-
paper, are so many admonitions and warn-
ings, so many beacons, continually burning,
to turn others from the rocks on which they
have been shipwrecked. What more pow-
erful dissuasive from suspicion, jealousy,
and anger, than the story of one friend
murrered by another in a duel ? What
caution likely to be more effectual against
gambling and profligacy than the mournful
relation of an execution, or the fate of a
despairiug suicide? What finer lecture on
the necessity of economy than an auction
of estates, houses, and furniture ? Talk
they of morals? There is no need of Hutch-
eson, Smith, or Paley. Only take a news-
paper, and consider it well; read it, and it
will instruct thee.—Bp. Horne.
A journalist is a grumbler, a censurer, a
giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a
tutor of nations. Four hostile newspapers
are more to be feared than a thousand bay-
onets.-Napoleon.
The newspaper press is the people's uni-
versity.-Half the readers of Christendom
read little else.-J. Parton.
Before this century shall run out, jour-
nalism will be the whole press. Mankind
will write their book day by day, hour by
hour, page by page. Thought will spread
abroad with the rapidity of light; instantly
conceived, instantly written, instantly un-
derstood at the extremities of the earth, it
will spread from pole to pole, suddenly burn-
ing with the fervor of soul which made it
burst forth ; it will be the reign of the hu-
man mind in all its plenitude ; it will not
have time to ripen, to accumulate in the
form of a book; the book will arrive too
late; the only book possible from day to
day is a newspaper.-Lanzarline.
Of all the amusements that can possibly
be imagined for a hard-working man, after
a day's toil, or in its intervals, there is noth-
ing like reading an entertaining newspaper.
It relieves his home of its dullness or same-
ness, and transports him to a gayer and
livelier and more diversified and interest-
ing scene. - It accompanies him in his next
day's work, and if the paper be anything
above the very idlest and lightest, it gives
him something to think of besides the me-
chanical drudgery of his every-day occupa-
tion-something he can enjoy while absent,
and look forward with pleasure to return to.
Sir J. Herschell.
The newspaper is one of the foremost
wonders of the modern world. The family
that does not take, and carefully.read, at
least one newspaper, is not living in the
nineteenth century.-J. A. Broadus.
As a mental discipline the reading of
newspapers is hurtful.- What can be worse
for the mind than to think of forty things
in ten minutes.-T. T. Munger.
These papers of the day have uses more
adequate to the purposes of common life
than more pompous and durable volumes.
-Johnson.
This folio of four pages, what is it but a
map of busy life-its fluctuations, and its
vast concerns ? - Cowper.
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NIGHT.
They are the abstract and brief chroni-
cles of the time, to show virtue her own
image ; scorn, her own features ; and the
very age and body of the time, his form and
pressure. --Shakespearo.
Newspapers will ultimately engross all
literature-there will be nothing else pub-
lished but newspapers.- Lamartine.
It seems really as if our newspapers were
busy to spread superstition. Omens and
dreams, and prodigies are recorded, as if
they were worth minding. The increas-
ing fashion for printing wonderful tales of
crimes and accidents is worse than ridic-
ulous, as it corrupts both the public taste
and morals. It multiplies fables and
crimes, and thus makes shocking things
familiar while it withdraws popular atten-
tion from familiar truth, because it is uot
shocking. Surely, extraordinary events
have not the best title to our studious at-
teution. To study nature or man, we
ought to know things that are in the ordi-
nary course, not the unaccountable things
that happen out of it.-Fisher Ames.
NICKNAMES,-A nickname is the
heaviest stone the devil can throw at a man.
-Anon. .
A good name will wear out; & bad one
may be turned ; & nickname lasts forever.
-Žinimermann.
Nicknames stick to people, and the most
ridiculous are the most adhesive.—Halibur-
the fond thought i8 chastened as it springs
and on tbe lip is made holy.-N. P. Willis.
The contemplation of night should lead
to elevating rather than to depressing ideas.
Who can fix his mind on transitory and
earthly things, in presence of those glitter-
ing myriads of worlds ; and who can dread
death or solitude in the midst of this bril-
liant, animated universe, composed of
countless suns and worlds, all full of light
and life and motion ?-Richter.
Night's silent reign had robbed the world
of light, to lend, in lieu, a greater benefit,
repose and sleep, when every mortal whom
care or grief permitted, took their rest.
Thomas May.
Why does the evening, why does the
night, put warmer love in our hearts ?-Is
it the nightly pressure of belplessness ?-
Or is it the exalting separation from the
turmoils of life, that veiling of the world in
which, for the soul, nothing remains but
souls ?-Richter.
Wisdom mounts her zenith with the
stars.--Mrs. Barbauld.
Quiet night, that brings rest to the
laborer, is the outlaw's day, in which he
rises early to do wrong, and when his work
is ended, dares not sleep.—Massinger. .
Darkness has divinity for me; it strikes
thought in ward ; it drives back the soul
to settle on herself, our point supreme !
There lies our theater ; there sits our
judge. Darkness the curtain drops o'er
life's dull scene; 'tis the kind band of
Providence stretched out 'twixt man and
vanity : 'tis reason's reign, and virtue's
too; these tutelary shades are man's asylum
from the tainted throng Night is the
good man's friend, and guardian too; it
no less rescues virtue, than inspires.-
Young.
How absolute, and omnipotent is the
silence of the night! And yet the stillness
seems almost audible.--From all the meas-
ureless depths of air around 118, comes a
half sound, a half whisper, as if we could
hear the crumbling and falling away of
earth and all created things in the great
miracle of nature, decay and reproduction
ever beginning, never ending the gradual
lapse and running of the sand in the great
hour-glass of time.—Longfellow.
Oh, treacherous night! thou lendest thy
ready veil to every treason, and teeming
mischiefs thrive beneath thy shade.-A.
Hill.
Under thy mantle black, there hidden
lie, light-shunning theft, and traitorous
intent, abhorred bloodshed, and vile felony,
shameful deceit, and danger imminent,
ton.
Names alone mock destruction; they
survive the doom of all creation.-Trevano
ion.
There is also an evil name or report,
light, indeed, and easy to raise, but diffi-
cult to carry, and still more difficult to get
rid of. Hesiod.
NIGHT.-The day is done, and dark-
ness falls from the wings of night.--Long-
fellow.
Earth, turning from the sun, brings
night to man.- Young.
In her starry shade of dim and solitary
loveliness, I learn the language of another
world. - Byron.
This sacred shade and solitude, what is
it?-It is the felt presence of the Deity.-
Tew are the faults we flatter when alone:
vice sinks in her allurements, is ungilt, and
looks, like other objects, black by night.---
By night an atheist half believes a God.-
Young.
The night is made for tenderness so still
that the low whisper, scarcely audible, is
heard like music, and so deeply pure that
NOBILITY.
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NOISE.
foul horror, and eke hellish Areriment.-
Spenser.
How sweet and soothing is this hour of
calm! I thank thee, night! for thou hast
chased away these horrid bodements which,
amidst the throng, I could not dissipate :
and with the blessing of thy benign and
quiet influence now will I to my couch,
although to rest is almost wronging such a
night as this.-
Byron.
The worm of conscience is the companion
of the owl.-The light is shunned by sin-
ners and evil spirits only:-Schiller.
NOBILITY.-(See "RANK.")
The original of all men is the same, and
virtue is the only nobility.-Seneca.
Nature's noblemen are everywhere, in
town and out of town, gloved and rough-
handed, rich and poor. -Prejudice against
a lord because he is a lord, is losing the
chance of finding a good fellow, as much as
prejudice against a ploughman because he
is a ploughman.-N. P. Willis.
Nobility should be elective, not heredi-
tary.-Zimmermann.
Talent and worth are the only eternal
grounds of distinction. To these the Al-
mighty has affixed his everlasting patent
of nobility. Knowledge and goodness--
these make degrees in heaven, and they
must be the graduating scale of a true de-
mocracy.-Miss Sedgwick.
Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting
without a gem.Jane Porter.
Whoe'er amid the song of reason, valor,
liberty, and virtue, displays distinguished
merit, is a noble of nature's own creating.
-Thomson.
All nobility, in its beginnings, was some-
body's natural superiority.-Émerson.
I can make a lord, but only the Almighty
can make a gentleman.-James I.
Titles of honor add not to his worth,
who is an honor to his title.---Ford.
If a man be endued with a generous
mind, this is the best kind of nobility.-
Plato.
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the
civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of
polished society. It is indeed one sign of
a liberal and benevolent mind to incline to
it with some sort of partial propensity.-
Burke.
Fishwomen cry noble oysters. They cer-
tainly are full as noble as any family
blazoned out in Collins's peerage. If not
of as ancient an house, of as old a bed at
least. And to show their richness too,
pearls and they are congenial.-Sterne.
He who is lord of himself, and exists
upon his own resources, is a' noble but a
rare being.--Brydges.
It is better to be nobly remembered, than
nobly born.- Ruskin.
No man can ever be noble who thinks
meanly or contemptuously of himself, and
no man can ever be noble who thinks first
and only of himself.-W. H. Dollinger.
The best school of nobility is the imita-
tion of Christ.-F. D. Huntington.
We must have kings, we must have
nobles ;
nature is always providing such in
every society, only let us have the real in-
stead of the titular. In every society,
some are born to rule, and some to advise.
The chief is the chief, all the world over,
only not his cap and plume. It is only dis-
like of the pretender which makes men
sometimes unjust to the true and finished
man.- Emerson.
Nobility is a river that sets with a con-
stant and undeviating current directly into
the great Pacific Ocean of time; but, un-
like all other rivers, it is more grand at its
source than at its termination, Colton.
Virtue is the first title of nobility.-
Molière.
True nobility is derived from virtue, not
from birth.-Title may be purchased, but
virtue is the only coin that makes the bar-
gain valid.-Burton.
It seems to me 'tis only noble to be good.
- Tennyson.
It is not wealth, nor ancestry, but honor-
able conduct and a noble disposition that
make men great. -Ovid.
A fool, indeed, has great need of a title ;
it teaches men to call him count or duke,
and
thus forget his proper name of fool. –
J. Crown.
NOISE, -(See "LOQUACITY" and
'SPEECH.")
It is with narrow-gouled people as with
narrow-necked bottles; the less they have
in them, the more noise they make in pour-
ing it out. -Pope.
Those orators who give us much noise
and many words, but little argument, and
less sense, and who are most loud when
least lucid, should take a lesson from na-
ture. She often gives us lightning without
thunder, but never thunder without light-
ning.
When I was a child I used to think it was
the thunder that killed people ; as I grew
older I found it was only the lightning that
struck, and the noise of thunder was only
noise. - Anon.
NONSENSE.
378
NOVELS.
NONSENSE.-I find that nonsense, at
times, is singularly refreshing.--Talley-
rand.
Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light;
it heightens effect.-F. Saunders.
A little nonsense, now and then, is rel-
ished by the wisest men.- Anon.
A careless song, with a little nonsense in
it, now and then, does not misbecome a
monarch.-Horace Walpole.
Nonsense and noise will oft prevail, when
honor and affection fail.-Lloyd.
Hudibras has defined nonsense, as Cow-
ley does wit, by negatives, Nonsense says
he, is that which is neither true nor false.
These two great properties of nonsense,
which are essential to it, give it such a pecu-
liar advantage over all other writings, that
it is incapable of being either answered or
contradicted. If it affirms anything, you
cannot lay hold of it; or if it denies, you can-
not refute it. In a word, there are greater
depths and obscurities, greater intricacies
and perplexities in an elaborate and well-
written piece of nonsense, than in the inost
abstruse and profound tract of school di-
vinity.-Addison.
To write or talk concerning any subject,
without having previously taken the pains
to understand it, is a breach of the duty
which we owe to ourselves, though it may
be no offence against the laws of the land.
The privilege of talking and even publish-
ing nonsense is necessary in a free state ;
but the more sparingly we make use of it
the better.- Coleridge.
Those who best know human nature will
acknowledge most fully what a strength
light hearted nonsense gives to a hard
working man.
NOVELS.--The habitual indulgence in
such reading, is a silent, ruining mischief.
-Harnah More.
Three-fourths of the popular novels of
the day enfeeble the intellect, impoverish
the imagination, vnlgarize the taste and
style, give false or distorted views of life
and human nature, and, wiich is worst of
all, waste that precious time which should
be given to solid mental improvement.-
Greyson Letters.
Above all things, never let your son tonch
i novel or romance. How delusive, how
destructive are those pictures of consum-
mate bliss ! They teach the youthful to
sigh after beauty and happiness that never
existed ; to despise the little good that for-
tune has mixed in our cup, by expecting
more than she ever gave ; and in general--
take the word of a man who has seen the
world, and studied it more by experience
than by precept-take my word for it, I
say, that such books teach us very little of
the world.- Goldsmith.
To the composition of novels and ro-
mances, nothing is necessary but paper,
pens, aud ink, with the manual capacity of
using them.-Fielding.
Novels are sweet. All people with healthy
literary appetites love them-almost all
women and a vast number of clever, hard-
headed men.
-Judges, bishops, chancel-
lors, mathematicians are notorious novel
readers, as well as young boys and sweet
girls, and their kind and tender mothers.
-Thackeray.
A little grain of the romance is no ill in-
gredient to preserve and exalt the dignity
of human nature, without which it is apt
to degenerate into everything that is sor-
did, vicious, and low.-Swift.
Fiction is a potent agent for good in the
hands of the good; and so it may be a po-
tent agent for evil, according to its charac-
ter and the character of its readers.
We must have books for lecreation and
entertainment, as well as for instruction
and for business; the former are agreeable,
the latter useful, and the human mind re-
quires both. The canon law and the codes
of Justinian shall have due honor and reign
at the universities, but Homer and Virgil
need not therefore be banished. We will
cultivate the olive and the vine, but with-
out eradicating the myrtle and the rose.--
Balzac.
A good novel should be, and generally is,
a magnifying or diminishing glass of life.
It may lessen or enlarge what it reflects,
but the general features of society are faith-
fully reproduced by it. If a man reads
such works with intelligent interest, he may
learn almost as much of the world from his
library as from the clubs and drawing-
rooms of St. James.-Bulwer.
The novel, in its best form, I regard as
one of the most powerful engines of civili-
zation ever invented.--Sir J. Herschel.
It cannot but be injurious to the human
mind never to be called into effort; the
habit of receiving pleasure without any
exertion of thought, by the mere excite-
ment of curiosity and sensibility, may be
justly ranked among the worst effects of
habitual novel reading. Like idle morn-
ing visitor's, the brisk and breathless
perioris hurry in and hurry off in quick
and profitless succession --- each, indeed,
for the moment of its stay preventing the
pain of vacancy, while it indulges the love
of sloth ; but, altogether, they leave the
NOVELS.
379
NOVELTY.
:
mistress of the house-the soul flat and
exhausted, incapable of attending to her
own concerns, and unfitted for the conver-
sation of more rational guests.- Coleridge.
The importance of the romantic element
does not rest upon conjecture. Pleasing
testimonies abound. Hannah More traced
her earliest impressions of virtue to works
of fiction ; and Adam Clarke gives a list of
tales that won his boyish admiration.
Books of entertainment led him to believe
in a spiritual world ; and he felt sure that
he would have been a coward, but for ro-
mances. He declared that he had learned
more of his duty to God, his neighbor, and
himself, from Robinson Crusoe than from
all the books, except the Bible, that were
known to his youth.-Willmott.
Novels may teach us as wholesome a
moral as the pulpit. There are sermons
in stones," in healthy books, and “good in
everything."-Colton.
Writers of novels and romances in gen-
eral bring a double loss on their readers,
they rob them both of their time and
money ; representing men, manners, and
things, that never have been, nor are likely
to be ; either confounding or perverting
history, and truth, intiating the mind, or
committing violence upon the understand-
ing:-Mary Wortley Montague.
Lessons of wisdom have never such power
over us as when they are wrought into the
heart through the groundwork of a story
which engages the passions. Is it that we
are like iron, and must first be heated be-
fore we can be wrought upon ? Or is the
heart so in love with deceit, that where a
true report will not reach it, we must cheat
it with a fable in order to come at the
truth?--Sterne.
Legitimately produced, and truly in-
spired, fiction interprets humanity, informs
the understanding, and quickens the affec-
tions. It reflects ourselves, warns
against prevailing social follies, adds rich
specimens to our cabinets of character,
dramatizes life for the unimaginative, da-
guerreotypes it for the unobservant, mul-
tiplies experience for the isolated or inac-
tive, and cheers age, retirement, and in-
validism with an available and harmless
solace.—Tuckerman.
Novels do not force their readers to sin,
but only instruct them how to sin.-Zim-
merniann.
We gild our medicines with sweets ; why
not clothe truth and morals in pleasant
garments as well ?- Chamfort.
To the romance writers of his time,
Nicole gave the title of public poisoners,
and the same title might well be applied to
a large class of modern novels.
Novel reading tends to destroy a relish
for history, philosophy, and other useful
knowledge. Novels give false notions of
life, which are dangerous and injurious.-
Beattie.
No habitual reader of the common run of
novels can love the Bible or any other book
that demands thought, or inculcates the
serious duties of life. He dwells in a re-
gion of imagination, where he is disgusted
with the plainness and simplicity of truth,
and with the sober realities that demand
his attention as a rational and immortal
being, and an accountable subject of God's
government.
Novels are mean imitations of literature,
and usually the poorest part of it. They de-
vour much precious time, and, what is
worse, have a bad effect upon mind and
morals. Their fanciful, distorted, and ex-
aggerated sketches of life tend to vitiate
and corrupt the taste, and to excite expec-
tations that can never be fulfilled. — Varle.
NOVELTY,-Novelty is the great pa-
rent of pleasure.—South.
It is not only old and early impressions
that deceive us ; the charms of novelty have
the same power.-Pascal.
The earth was made so various, that the
mind of desultory man, studions of change,
and pleased with novelty, might be in-
dulged.--Cowper.
The enormous influence of novelty-the
way in which it quickens observation,
sharpens sensation, and exalts sentiment-
is not half enough taken note of by us, and
is to me a very sorrowful matter. And
yet, if we try to obtain perpetual change,
change itself will become monotonous ; and
then we are reduced to that old despair,
“If water chokes, what will you drink after
it?” The two points of practical wisdom
in the matter are, first, to be content with
as little novelty as possible at a time ; and
secondly, to preserve, as much as possible,
the sources of novelty.--Ruskin.
Such is the nature of novelty that where
anything pleases it becomes doubly agree-
able if new; but if it displeases, it is doubly
displeasing on that very account.-Hume.
Novelty has charms thut our minds can
hardly withstand. The most valuable
things, if they have for a long while ap-
peared among us, do not make any impres-
sion as they are good, but give us a distaste
as they are old. But when the influence of
this fantastical humor is over, the same
men or things will come to be admired
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.
OATHS.
380
OBEDIENCE.
again, by a happy return of our good taste.
— Thackeray.
All, with one consent, praise new-born
gauds, though they are made and molded
of things past.--Shakespeare.
New customs, though they be never so
ridiculous, nay, let them be unmanly, yet
are followed. --Shakespeare.
Curiosity, from its nature, is a very ac-
tive principle; it quickly runs over the
greatest part of its objects, and soon ex-
hansts the variety common to be met with
in nature. Some degree of novelty must
be one of the materials in almost every in-
strument which works upon the mind; and
curiosity blends itself, more or less, with
all our pleasures. --Burke.
Of all the passions that possess mankind,
the love of novelty rules most the mind;
in search of this from realm to realm we
roam, our fleets come fraught with every
folly home.- Foote.
In science, as in common life, we fre-
quently see that a novelty in system, or in
practise, cannot be duly appreciated till
time has sobered the enthusiasm of its ad-
vocates.--Maud.
Before I translated the New Testament
out of the Greek, all longed after it; when
it was done, their longing lasted scarce four
weeks. Then they desired the books of
Moses; when I had translated these, they
had enougu thereof in a short time. After
that, they would have the Psalms; of these
they were soon weary, and desired other
books. So it will be with the book of
Ecclesiastes, wbich they now long for, and
about which I have taken great pains. All
is acceptable until our giddy brains be
satisfied ; afterwards we let familiar things
lie, and seek after nev.-Luther.
Not for all the sun sees, or the close earth
wombs, or the profound sea hides in un-
known fathoms, break thou thine oath.-
Shakespeare.
OBEDIENCE.-The first law that ever
God gave to man, was a law of obedience;
it was a commandment pure and simple,
wherein man had nothing to inquire after
or to dispute, for as much as to obey is the
proper office of a rational soul acknowl-
edging a heavenly superior and benefactor.
From obedience and submission spring
all other virtues, as all sin does from self-
opinion and self-will.—Montaigne.
No principle is more noble, as there is
none more holy, than that of a true obe-
dience.-H. Giles.
No man doth safely rule but he that hath
learned gladly to obey.-Thomas d Kempis.
It is a vain thought to flee from the work
that God appoints us, for the sake of find-
ing a greater blessing, instead of seeking
it where alone it is to be found-in loving
obedience.- George Eliot.
Thirty years of our Lord's life are hidden
in these words of the gospel : “He was
subject unto them.”—Bossuet.
Let the ground of all religious actions
be obedience; examine not why it is com-
manded, but observe it because it is com-
manded. True obedience neither procras-
tinatos nor questions. -Quarles.
Obedience to truth known, is the king's
highway to that which is still beyond us.
Obedience is the mother of success, and
is wedded to safety.- Æschylus.
Let them obey that know not how to rule.
- Shakespeare.
Let thy child's first lesson be obedience,
and the second may be what thou wilt.
Fuller.
Filial obedience is the first and greatest
requisite of a state ; by this we become
good subjects to our rulers, capable of be-
having with just subordination to our
superiors, and grateful dependants on
heaven. By this we become good magis-
trates; for early submission is the truest
lesson to those who would learn to rule.
By this the whole state may be said to re-
semble one family, of which the monarch
is the protector, father, and friend.- Gold-
smith.
Obedience to God is the most infallible
evidence of sincere and supreme love to
him. Emmons.
We are born subjects, and to obey God
is perfect liberty. He that does this shall
be free, safe, and happy.--Seneca.
0.
OATHS.--Nay, but weigh well what
you presume to swear,-Oatlıs are of dread-
ful weight; and if they are false, draw
down damnation.- Overbury.
Rash oaths, whether kept or broken, fre-
quently lead to guilt.-Johnson.
Recognized probity is the surest of all
oaths. -Mad. Necker.
It is a great sin to swear unto a sin, but
greater sin to keep a sinful oath.-Shalce-
speare.
Of all men, a philosopher should be no
swearer ; for an oath, which is the end of
controversies in law, cannot determine any
here, where reason only must decide.---Sir
Thomas Browne.
OBLIGATION.
381
OBSCURITY.
Wicked men obey from fear ; good men,
from love.-Aristotle.
To obey God in some things, and not in
others, shows an unsound heart.-Childlike
obedience moves toward every command of
God, as the needle points where the load-
stone draws.-T. Watson.
Doing the will of God leaves me no time
for disputing about his plans.--G. Mac-
donald.
Obedience is not truly performed by the
body, if the heart is dissatisfied.--Saadi.
One very common error misleadis the
opinion of mankind, that authority is
pleasant, and submission painful. In the
general course of human affairs the very
reverse of this is nearer to the truth.
Command is anxiety; obedience is ease.--
Paley.
How will you find good ? It is not a
thing of choice; it is a river that flows
from the foot of the invisible throne, and
flows by the path of obedience.-George
Eliot.
OBLIGATION.-What do I owe to my
times, to my country, to my neighbors, to
my friends ?-Such are the questions which
a virtuous.man ought often to ask himself.
- Lavater,
Man owes not only his services, but him-
self to God.Secler.
To owe an obligation to a worthy friend,
is a happiness, and can be no disparage-
ment.--Charron.
Obligation is thraldom, and thraldom is
hateful.-Hobbes.
To feel oppressed by obligation is only to
prove that we are incapable of a proper
sentiment of gratitude. -To receive favors
from the unworthy is to admit that our sel-
fishness is superior to our pride.--Simms.
We are always much better pleased to
see those whom we have obliged, than those
who have obliged us.-Rochefoucauld.
It is safer to affront some people than to
oblige them ; for the better a man deserves,
the worse they will speak of him; as if the
professing of open hatred to their bene-
factors were an argument that they lie
' under no obligation to him.-Seneca,
Most men remember obligations, but not
often to be grateful; the proud are made
sour by the remembrance and the vain
silent. --Simms.
We are under solemn obligations to
the children of those who have loved us.-
Poincelot.
It is well known to all great men, that
by conferring an obligation they do not
always procure a friend, but are certain of
creating many enemies.-Fielding.
An extraordinary haste to discharge an
obligation, is a sort of ingratitude.--Roche-
foucauld.
In some there is a kind of graceless
modesty that makes a man ashamed of re-
quiting an obligation, because it is a con-
fession that he has received one. -Seneca.
OBLIVION.-What's past, and what's
to come, is strewed with busks and formless
ruin of oblivion.--Shakespeare.
Oblivion is the flower that grows best on
graves.--George Sand.
In the swallowing gulf of dark forgetful-
ness and deep oblivion.-Shakespeare.
Oblivion is a second death, which great
minds dread more than the first. - De Bouf-
flers.
Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident;
riches take wings; the only certainty is ob-
livion.--Horace Greeley.
Oblivion is the rule, and fame the excep-
tion of humanity.- Rivarol.
How soon men and events are forgotten !
Each generation lives in a different world.
The oblivions of time will be the remi-
niscences of eternity.-0. Simmons.
OBSCURITY --(See "STYLE.")
The obscurity of a writer is generally in
proportion to his incapacity.-
Quintilian.
How many people make themselves ab-
stract to appear profound !--The greatest
part of abstract terms are shadows that
hide a vacuum.--Joubert.
Objects in perfectly discerned take forms
from the hope or fear of the beholder.-
Johnson,
Unintelligible language is a lantern with-
out a light.
Blindness of heart beclouds the under-
standing, conscience, memory, and indeed
all the intellectual powers, and throws a
mischievous obscurity over theological,
moral, and even classical science.-C. Sim-
mons.
There is no defence against reproach but
obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to
greatness, as satires and invectives were an
essential part of a Roman triumph.--Addi-
-
son.
Lost in the dreary shades of dull ob-
scurity.-Shenstone.
Obscurity and innocence, twin sisters,
escape temptations which would piercé
their gossamer armor in contact with the
world.Chamfort.
OBSERVATION.
382
OBSTINACY.
Full many a gem of purest ray serene the
dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear: full
many a fiower is born to blusb unseen, and
waste its sweetness on the desert air.-
Gray.
Thus let me live, unseen, unknown;
thus unlamented let me die ; steal from the
world, and not a stone tell where I lie.-
Pope.
OBSERVATION.--I pity the man who
can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry,
'tis all barren--and so it is, and so is all the
world to him who will not cultivate the
fruits it offers.-Sterne.
A right judgment draws is a profit from
all things we see.--Shakespeare.
Perhaps there is no property in which
men are more distinguished from each
other, than in the various degrees in which
they possess the faculty of observation.
The great herd of mankind pass their lives
in listless inattention and indifference as
to what is going on around them, being
perfectly content to satisfy the mere crav-
ings of nature, while those who are destined
to distinction have a lynx-eyed vigilance
that nothing can escape. You see nothing
of the Paul Pry in them; yet they know
all that is passing, and keep a perfect
reckoning, not only of every interesting
passage, but of all the characters of the age
who have any concern in them.-- William
Wirt.
He alone is an acute observer, who can
observe minutely without being observed.
-Lavater,
It is the close observation of little things
which is the secret of success in business,
in art, in science, and in every pursuit in
life. Human knowledge is but an accumu-
lation of small facts, made by successive
generations of men,—the little bits of
knowledge and experience carefully treas-
ured up and growing at length into a
mighty pyramid.--S. Šmiles.
Observation made in the cloister or in
the desert, will generally be as obscure as
the one and as barren as the other ; but he
that would paint with his pencil must study
originals, and not be over fearful of a little
dust.-Colton.
Each one sees what he carries in his
heart.-Goethe.
Shakespeare says, we are creatures that
look before and after ; the more surprising
that we do not look round a little, and see
what is passing inder our very eyes.-
Carlyle.
To bebold is not necessarily to observe,
and the power of comparing and combining
is only to be obtained by education. It is
much to be regretted that habits of exact ob-
servation are not cultivated in our schools;
to this deficiency may be traced much of
the fallacious reasoning and the false phi-
losophy which prevails.-W. Humboldt.
An observant man, in all his intercourse
with society and the world, constantly and
unperceived marks on every person and
thing the figure expressive of its value, and
therefore, ou meeting that person or thing,
knows iustantly what kind and degree of
attention to give it.-This is to make some-
thing of experience.—John Foster.
General observations drawn from par-
ticulars are the jewels of kuowledge, com-
prehending great store in a little room.-
Locke.
OBSTINACY,An obstinate man does
not hold opinions, but they hold him; for
when be is once possest with an error it is
like a devil, only cast ont with great diffi-
culty. Whatsoever he lays hold on, like a
drowning man, he never loses, though it
do but help to sink him the sooner. His
ignorance is abrupt and inaccessible, im-
preguable both by art and nature, and will
hold out to the last, though it has nothing
but rubbish to defend.-Butler.
Obstinacy is will asserting itself without
being able to justify itself.-It is persist-
ence without a reasonable motive. It is
the tenacity of self-love substituted for that
of reason and conscience.—Amiel.
Obstinacy and contradiction are like a
paper kite : they are only kept up so long
as you pull against them.
Obstinacy is the strength of the weak.
Firmness founded upon principle, upon
truth and right, order and law, duty and
generosity, is the obstinacy of sages.-
Lavater.
Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are
the surest proofs of stupidity.-Barton.
Obstinacy and heat in argument are
8urest proofs of folly. Is there anything
so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contem-
plative, grave, or serious, as an ass ? -- Non-
taigne.
Obstinacy is certainly a great vice; and
in the changeful state of political affairs is
frequently the cause of great mischief. It
.
happens, however, very unfortunately, that
almost the whole line of the great and mis-
culine virtues—constancy, gravity, mag-
nanimity, fortitude, fidelity, and firmness
-are closely allied to this disagreeable
quality, of which you have so just an ab-
horrence: and in their excess, all these
virtues very easily fall into it. -Burke.
OCCUPATION.
383
OCCUPATION.
Obstinacy is ever most positive when it
is most in the wrong.-Mad. Necicer,
Firmness in adherence to truth and duty
is generally inost decided when most intel.
ligent and conscientious, and is sometimes
mistaken fur obstinacy by those who do not
comprehend its nature and motive.- Tryon
Edwards.
Obstinacy and contention are common
qualities, most appearing in, and best be-
coming, a mean and illiterate soul.-Mon-
taigne.
There are few, very few, that will own
themselves in a mistake.-Swift.
The slighter and more inconsistent the
opinions of the obstinate man are, the
faster he holds them, otherwise they would
fall asunder of themselves : for opinions
that are false he holds with more strictness
and assurance than those that are true.--
He is resolved to understand no man's rea-
son but his own, because he finds no man
can understand his but himself. His wits
are like a sack, which the proverb says, is
tied faster before it is full, than when it is ;
and his opinions are like plants that grow
upon rocks, that stick fast, though they
have no rooting. His understanding is
hardened like Pharaoh's heart, and is proof
against all sorts of judgments whatsoever.
-Butler.
OCCUPATION.-(See" TIME.")
Indolence is a delightful but distressing
state ; we must be doing something to be
happy Action is no less necessary than
thought to the instinctive tendencies of
the buinan frame.-Hazlitt.
The great happiness of life, I find, after
all, to consist in the regular discharge
of some mechanical duty.--Schiller.
Every Egyptian was commanded by law
annually to declare by what means he main-
tained himself ; and if he omitted to do it,
or gave no satisfactory account of his way
of living, he was punishable with death.
This law Solon bronght from Egypt to
Athens, where it was inviolably observed as
a most equitable regulation.-Herodotus.
No thoroughly occupied man was ever
yet very miserable.-L. E. Landon.
I have lived to know that the great se-
cret of human happiness is this : never
siffer your energies to stagnate. The old
adage of “ too many irons in the fire,”
veys an abominable lie. You cannot have
too many-poker, tongs, and all-keep them
all going.- Adam Clarice.
It was a maxim with the Jews, “ that he
that did not bring up his son to some honest
calling, brought him up to be a thief."
Temptation rarely comes in working
hours. It is in their leisure time that men
are made or marred.-- W. M. Taylor. .
It is an undoubted truth, that the less
one has to do the less time one finds do it
in. One yawns, one procrastinates, one
can do it when one will, and, therefore, oue
seldom does it all; whereas those who have
a great deal of business, must (to use a vul-
gar expression) buckle to it; and then they
always find time enough to do it in. Ches-
terfield.
He who will not apply himself to busi-
ness, evidently discovers that he means to
get his bread by cheating, stealing, or beg-
ging, or else is wholly void of reason.-
Ischonachus.
Occupation is a necessity to the young.
They love to be busy about something,
however trifling; and if not directed to
some useful employment will soon engage
in something that is evil, thus verifying the
old proverb, " That idleness is the mother
of mischief.
Let parents who hate their offspring rear
them to hate labor and to inherit riches,
and before long they will be stung by every
vice, racked by its poison, and damned by
its penalty.-7. W. Beecher.
Nature has made occupation a necessity
to us ; society makes it a duty; habit may
make it a pleasure.— Capelle.
Most of the trades, professions, and ways
of living among mankind, take their origi-
nal either from the love of pleasure, or the
fear of want. The former, when it becomes
too violent, degenerates into luxury, and
the latter into avarice. --Addison.
We protract the career of time by em-
ployment, we lengthen the duration of our
lives by wise thoughts and useful actions.
Life to him who wishes not to have lived
in vain is thought and action.-Zimmer-
niann.
The prosperity of a people is propor-
tionate to the number of hands and minds
usefully employed. To the community,
sedition is à fever, corruption is a gan-
grene, and idleness is an atrophy. What-
ever body or society wastes more than it
acquires, must gradually decay: and every
being that continues to be fed, and ceases
to labor, takes away something from the
public stock.—Johnson.
The crowning fortune of a man is to be
born with a bias to some pursuit which
finds him in employment and happiness.
--Emerson.
Employment, which Galen calls
ture's physician," is so essential to human
con-
pa-
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happiness that indolence is justly con-
sidered as the mother of misery.--Burton.
You cannot give an instance of any man
who is permitted to lay out his own time,
contriving not to have tedious hours.-
Johnson.
You see men of the most delicate frames
engaged in active and professional pursuits
who really have no time for idleness. Let
them become idle, let them take care of
themselves, let them think of their health,
and they die! The rust rots the steel
which use preserves.—Bulwer.
Occupation is the scythe of time.-Napo-
leon.
Occupation is the necessary basis of all
enjoyment.-Leigh Hunt.
Every base occupation makes one sharp
in its practice, and dull in every other. -
Sir P. Sidney.
Care is a sad disease ; despondency a
sadder, and discontent the saddest of the
three : if we wish to be cured of all these
together, next to seeking the divine sup-
port, the prescription is occupation.
The want of occupation is no less the
plague of society, than of solitude.-Rous-
secu,
The busy have no time for tears.—Byron.
Cheerfulness is the daughter of employ-
ment; and I have kuown a man come home,
in high spirits, from a funeral, merely be-
cause he has had the management of it.
Bp. Horne.
I take it to be a principal rule of life, not
to be too much addicted to any one thing.
- Terence.
Occupation was one of the pleasures of
paradise, and we cannot be happy without
it.-Mrs. Jameson.
Let a man choose what condition he will,
and let him accumulate around him all the
goods and gratifications seemingly calcu-
lated to make him happy in it; if that man
is left at any time without occupation or
amusement, and reflects on what he is, the
meagre, languid felicity of his present lot
will not bear him up. He will turn neces-
sarily to gloomy anticipations of the future;
and unless his occupation calls him out of
himself, he is inevitably wretched.-Pascal.
The highest excellence is seldom attained
in more than one vocation. The roads lead-
ing to distinction in separate pursuits di-
verge, and the nearer we approach the one,
the farther we recede from the other.-
Bovee.
Absence of occupation is not rest; a
mind quite vacant, is a mind distressed.-
Cowper.
OFFENCE.-Who fears to offend takes
the first step to please.---Cibber.
At every trifle scorn to take offence; that
always shows great pride, or little sense.-
Pope.
Offences ought to be pardoned, for few
offend willingly, but only as led by some
excitement.-Hegesippus.
A very small offence may be a just cause
for great resentment; it is often much less
the particular instance which is obnoxious
to us, than the proof it carries with it of
the general tenor and disposition of the
mind from whence it sprung.-Gréville.
When any one has offended me, I try to
raise my soul so high that the offence can-
not reach it.-Descartes.
It is pride which plies the world with so
much harshness and severity. We are as
rigorous to offences as if we had never of-
fended.-Blair.
All is not offence that indiscretion finds,
and dotage terms 80.--Shakespeare.
OFFICE,-(See "AUTHORITY.")
When a king creates an office, Providence
at once creates a fool to buy it.-Colbert.
When impious men bear sway, the post
of honor is a private station.-Shakespeare.
Five things are requisite to a good offi-
cer-ability, clean hands, despatch, pa-
tience, and impartiality.--Penn.
It is the curse of service that preferment
goes by letter and affection, not by the old
gradation where each second stood heir to
the first.-Shakespeare.
High office is like a pyramid ; only two
kinds of animals reach the summit, reptiles
and eagles.-D'Alembert.
If ever this free people, if this govern-
ment itself is ever utterly demoralized, it
will come from this incessant human wrig-
gle and struggle for office, which is but a
way to live without work.- Abraham Lina
coln.
The gratitude of place to expectants is a
lively sense of future favor8.- Walpole.
OLD AGE.-(See "AGE.")
We hope to grow old, yet we fear old age;
that is, we are willing to live, and afraid to
die.—Bruyère.
A comfortable old age is the reward of a
well-spent youth; instead of its introducing
dismal and melancholy prospects of decay,
it should give us hopes of eternal youth in
a better world.-Palmer.
A8 I approve of a youth that has some-
thing of the old man in him, so I am no less
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seem 80.
pleased with an old man that has something
of the youth. He that follows this rule,
may be old in body, but can never be so in
miud.Cicero.
Soine men are born old, and some never
If we keep well and cheerful we
are always young, and at last die in youth,
even when years would count us old.
Tryon Edwards.
Old age has been charged with being in-
sensible to pleasure and to the enjoyments
arising from the gratification of the senses
a most blessed and heavenly effect, truly,
if it eases us of what in youth was the sorest
plague of life.- Cicero.
An old man who has lived in the exercise
of virtue, looking back without a blush on
his past days, and pointing to that better
state where alone he can be perfectly re-
warded, is a figure the most venerable that
can well be imagined.-Mackenzie.
Though every old man has been young,
and every young one hopes to be old, there
seems to be a most unnatural misunder-
standing between those two stages of life.
This unhappy want of commerce arises
from arrogance or exultation in youth, and
irrational despondence or self-pity in age.-
Steele.
There is a peculiar beauty about godly
old age—the beauty of holiness. Husband
and wife who have fought the world side
by side, who have made common stock of
joy or sorrow, and become aged together,
are not unfrequently found curiously alike
in personal appearance, in pitch and tone
of voice, just as twin pebbles on the beach,
exposed to the same tidal influences, are
each other's alter ego.-Alexander Snrith.
Woe to the man who becomes old without
becoming wise ; woe to him if this world
shuts its door without the future having
opened its doors to him,- Tholuck.
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.
When men grow virtuous only in old age,
they are merely making a sacrifice to God
of the devil's leavings.-Swift.
There is not a more repulsive spectacle
than an old man who will not forsake the
world which has already forsaken him.-
Tholuck.
old age is a tyrant who forbids, at the
penalty of life, all the pleasures of youth.-
Rochefoucaula.
Old age is wise for itself, but not for the
community.-It is wise in declining new
enterprises, for it has not the power or the
time to exécute them; wise in shrinking
from difficulty, for it has not the strength
to overcome it; wise
in avoiding danger,
for it lacks the faculty of ready and swift
action by which dangers are parried and
converted into advantages. But this is not
wisdom for mankind at large, by whom
new enterprises must be undertaken,
dangers met, and difficulties surmounted.
Bryant.
To know how to grow old is the master-
work of wisdom, and one of the most diffi-
cult chapters in the great art of living.-
Amiel.
OMNIPOTENCE.-Who guides below
and rules above, the great disposer and the
mighty king ; than he none greater ; next
him none can be, or is, or was ; supreme,
he singly fills the throne.-Horace.
God, veiled in majesty, alone gives light
and life to all; bids the great systems
move, and changing seasons in their turns
advance, uumoved, unchanged himself.-
Somerville.
My faith hath no bed to sleep upon but
omnipotency.-Rutherford.
OMNIPRESENCE.-Yes, thou art ever
present, power divine; not circumscribed by
time, nor fixed by space,
confined to altars,
nor to temples bound.-In wealth, in want,
in freedom, or in chains, in dungeons or
on thrones, the faithful find thee.-
Hannah
More.
Where one is present, God is the second,
and where there are two, God is the third.
-Mahomet.
God is everywhere, the God who framed
mankind to be one mighty family, himself
our father, and the world our home.
Coleridge.
“Tell me," said a heathen philosopher to
a Christian, “where is God.”—“Tirst tell
me," said the other, “where he is not."
God oft descends to visit men, unseen,
and through their habitations walks, to
mark their doing8.-Milton.
OMNISCIENCE, -We cannot too often
think there is a never-sleeping eye, which
reads the heart, and registers our thoughts.
Bacon.
In all thy actions, think God sees thee;
and in all his actions labor to see him.
Quarles.
What can escape the eye of God, all see-
ing, or deceive his heart, omniscient!-
Milton.
OPINION.-(See “JUDGMENT.")
All power, even the most despotic, rests
ultimately on opinion.-Hume.
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A man's opinions are generally. of much
more value than his arguments.--0. W.
Holmes.
I will utter what I believe to-day, if it
should contradict all I said yesterday.--
Wendell Phillips.
There is something among men more
capable of shaking despotic power than
lightning, whirlwind, or earthquake ; that
is, the threatened indignation of the whole
civilized world.—Daniel Webster.
It is more true to say that our opinions
depend upon our lives and habits, than to
say that our lives and habits depend on our
opinions.-F. W. Robertson.
No errors of opinion can possibly be
dangerous in a country where opinion is
left free to grapple with them.-Sinins.
Opinions are stronger than armies.---If
they are founded in truth and justice, they
will, in the end, prevail against the bayonets
of infantry, the fire of artillery, and the
charges of cavalry.--Lord Palmerston.
Opinion is the main thing which does
good or barn in the world. Ît is our falae
opinions of things which ruin us.-
Marcus
Antoninus.
The world is governed much more by
opinion than by laws. It is not the judg-
ment of courts, but the moral judgment of
individuals and masses of men, which is
the chief wall of defence around property
and life. With the progress of society, this
power of opinion is taking the place of arms.
- Channing.
The greater part of men have no opinion,
still fewer an opinion of their own,
well re-
flected and founded upon reason.-Seume.
What I admire in Columbus is not his
having discovered a world, but his having
gone to search for it on the faith of an
opinion.— Turgot.
Our system of thought and opinion, is
often only the history of our heart. Men
do not so much will according to their
reason, as reason according to their will,
Fichte.
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the
world.—Carlyle.
The feeble tremble before opinion, the
foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful
direct it.-Mad. Roland.
As our inclinations, so our opinions.--
Goethe.
Our opinions on all subjects are more
largely formed by our sympathies than by
carefully sifted evidence.
He that never changes his opinions,
never corrects his mistakes, and will never
be wiser on the morrow than he is to-day.
-Tryon Edwards.
Predominant opinions are generally the
opinions of the generation that is vanishing.
-Disraeli.
Conscience, in most men, is but the an-
ticipation of the opinions of others.-Tay-
lor's Statesman.
Public opinion is, with multitudes, a sec-
ond conscience; with some, the only one.
-W. R. Alger.
I do not regret having braved public opin-
ion, when I knew it was wrong and was sure
it would be mercile88.—Horace Greeley.
No liberal man would impute a charge of
unsteadiness to another for having changed
his opinion.- Cicero.
A statesman should follow public opinion
as a coachman follows his horses ; having
firm hold on the reins, and guiding them.
J. C. Hare.
It is common to men to err ; but it is
only a fool that perseveres in his error; a
wise man alters his opinion, a fool never.
Differences of opinion give me but little
concern ; but it is a real pleasure to be
brought into communication with any one
who is in earnest, and who really looks to
God's will as his standard of right and
wrong, and judges of actions according to
their greater or less conformity.--Arnold.
It is the inclination and tendency of the
heart which finally determines the opinions
of the mind.-Luthardt.
To form a correct judgment concerning
the tendency of any doctrine we should
look rather at the forms it bears in the dis-
ciples, than in the teacher, for he only
made it; they are made by it.-J. C. Ilare.
Nothing so obstinately stands in the way
of all sorts of progress, as pride of opinion;
while nothing is so foolish and baseless.-
J. G. Holland.
Public opinion cannot do for virtue what
it does for vice. It is the essence of virtue
to look above opinion. Vice is consistent
with, and very often strengthened by, entire
subserviency to it.
The eyes of other people are the eyes
that ruin 18. If all but myself were blind,
I should want neither fine clothes, fino
houses, nor fine furniture. Franklin.
We never are satisfied with our opinions,
whatever we may pretend, till they are
ratified and confirmed by the suffrages of
the rest of mankind. We dispute and
wrangle forever ; we endeavor to get men
to come to us, when we do not go to them.
-Sir J. Reynolds.
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" That was excellently observed," say I,
when I read a passage in an author, where
his opinion agrees with mine. When we
differ, there I pronounce him to be mis-
taken.-Swift.
The same enthusiasm that dignifies a
butterfly or a medal to the virtuoso and the
antiquary, may convert controversy into
quixotism, and preseut to the deluded im-
agination of the theological knight-errant,
barber's basin as Mambrino's helmet.
The real value of any doctrine can only be
determined by its influence on the conduct
of man, with respect to himself, to his fel-
low-creatures, or to God.-Percival.
Opinions, like showers, are generated in
high places, but they invariably descend
into lower ones, and ultimately flow down
to the people, as rain unto the sea.—Colton.
Opinion is that high and mighty dame
which rules the world, and in the mind
doth frame distastes or likings; for in the
human race, she makes the fancy various
as the face.-J. Howell.
Do not think of knocking out another
person's brains because he differs in opin-
ion from you. It would be as rational to
knock yourself on the head because you
differ from yourself ten years ago.—Horace
Mann.
The masses procure their opinions ready
made in open market.—Colton.
He who has no opinion of his own, but
depends upon the opinion and taste of
others, is a slave. Klopstock.
Social opinion is like a sharp knife.
There are foolish people who regard it only
with terror, and dare not touch or meddle
with it; there are more foolish people, who,
in rashness or defiance, seize it by the blade,
and get cut and mangled for their pains;
and there are wise people, who grasp it dis-
creétly and boldly by the handle, and use
it to carve out their own purposes.-Mrs.
Jameson.
Common opinions often conflict with
common sense ; for reason in most minds
is no match for prejudices, a hydra whose
heads grow faster than they can be cut off.
-E. Wigglesworth.
Wind puffs up empty bladders ; opinion,
fools.-Socrates.
The men of the past bad convictions,
while we moderns have only opinions.-
H. Heine.
Private opinion is weak, but public opin-
ion is almost omnipotent.-H. W. Beecher.
Public opinion is a weak tyrant, com-
pared with our private opinion. What a
man thinks of himself, that it is which de-
termines, or rather indicates his fate.
Thoreau.
A confident expectation that no argument
will be adduced that will change our opin-
ions is very different from a resolution that
none ever shall. We may print but not
stereotype our opinions.- Whately.
To maintain an opinion because it is
thine, and not because it is true, is to pre-
fer thyself above the truth.-- Venning.
Those who never retract their opinions
love themselves more than they love truth.
-Joubert.
There never was in the world two opin-
ions alike, no more than two hairs or two
grains. The most universal quality is
diversity.-Montaigne.
It has been shrewdly said that when
men abuse us, we should suspect ourselves,
and when they praise us, them. It is a
rare instance of virtue to despise censure
which we do not deserve, and still more
rare to despise praise, which we do. But
that integrity that lives only on opinion
would starve without it.-Colton.
The history of human opinion is scarcely
anything more than the history of human
errors.Voltaire.
If a man should register all his opinions
upon love, politics, religion, learning, etc.,
beginning from his youth, and so go on to
old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies
and contradictions would appear at last.
-Swift.
One of the mistakes in the conduct of
human life is, to suppose that other men's
opinions are to make us happy.-Burton.
It is with true opinions which one has
the courage to utter, as with pawns first
advanced on the chessboard ; they may be
beaten, but they have inaugurated a game
which must be won.- Goethe.
He who is master of all opinions can
never be the bigot of any.-W. R. Alger.
The ambitious man grasps at opinion as
necessary to his designs; the vain man
sues for it as & testimony to his merit; the
honest inan demands it as his due ; and
most men consider it as necessary to their
existence.--Beccaria.
Correct opinions, well established on any
subject, are the best preservative against
the seductions of error.-Bp. Mant.
The free expression of opinion, as expe-
rience has taught 18, is the safety-valve of
passion. The noise of the rushing steam,
when it escapes, alarms the timid; but it
is the sign that we are safe. The conces-
sion of reasonable privilege anticipates the
growth of furious appetite.-Gladstone.
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I could never divide myself from any
man upon the difference of opinion, or be
angry with his judgment for not agreeing
in that from which, within a few days,
might dissent myself.-Sir Thomas Browne.
Do not despise the opinion of the world;
you might as well say you do not care for
the light of the sun, because you can use a
candle.
Change of opinion is often only the pro-
gress of sound thought and growing knowl-
edge; and though sometimes regarded as
an inconsistency, it is but the noble incon-
sistency natural 'to a mind ever ready for
growth and expansion of thought, and that
never fears to follow where truth and duty
may lead the way.--Tryon Edwards.
We think very few people sensible, ex-
cept those who are of our opinion.-Roche-
foucauld.
Fly no opinion because it is new, but
strictly search, and after careful view, re-
ject it if false, embrace it if 'tis true.-
Lucretius.
When men first take up an opinion, and
then seek for reasons for it, they must be
contented with such as the absurdity of it
will afford. --South.
No liberal man would impute a charge of
unsteadiness to another for having changed
his opinion.-Cicero.
A man cannot utter two or three sen-
tences without disclosing to intelligent
ears precisely where he stands in life and
thought, whether in the kingdom of the
senses and the understanding, or in that of
ideas and imagination, or in the realm of
intuitions and duty.-Enerson.
It is not only arrogant, but profligate,
for a man to disregard the world's opinion
of himself.--Cicero.
It is easy in the world to live after the
world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to
live after our own; but the great man is he
who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with
perfect sweetness the independence of soli-
tude.- Emerson.
We are too much inclined to underrate
the power of moral influence, the influence
of public opinion, and the influence of the
principles to which great men-the lights
of the world and of the present age—have
given their sanction.--
Daniel Webster.
In all things reason should prevail ; it is
quite another thing to be stiff, than to be
steady in an opinion.-Penn.
As for the differences of opinion izpon
speculative questions, if we wait till they
are reconciled, the action of human affairs
must be suspended forever.—But neither
are we to look for perfection in any one
man, nor for agreement among many.-
Junius.
That the voice of the common people is
the voice of God, is as full of falsehood as
of commonness.-A. Warwick.
Among the best men are diversities of
opinions ; which should no more, in true
reason, breed hatred, than one that loves
black should be angry with him that is
clothed in white; for thoughts are the very
apparel of the mind.--Sir P. Sidney.
Statutes are mere milestones, telling how
far yesterday's thought had travelled ; and
the talk of the sidewalk to-day is the law of
the land.—With us, law is nothing unless
close behind it stands a warm, living public
opinion.- Wendell Phillips. .
Provided we look to and satisfy our con-
sciences, no matter for opinion ; let me
deserve well though I hear ill.--Séneca.
The opinions of men who think are always
growing and changing, like living children.
-Hanrerton.
It is always considered as a piece of im-
pertinence in England, if a man of less
than two or three thousand a year has any
opinions at all upon important subjects.
Sydney Smith.
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.--Joubert.
Error of opinion may be tolerated where
reason is left free to combat it.-Jefferson.
An obstinate man does not hold opinions
they hold him.- Bp. Butler.
OPPORTUNITY.There is a tide in
the affairs of men, which, taken at the
flood, leads on to fortune; omitted, all the
voyage of their life is bound in shallows
and in miseries ; and we must take the cur-
rent when it serves, or lose our ventures.-
Shakespeare.
Chance opportunities make us known to
others, and still more to ourselves.--Roche-
foucauld.
The secret of success in life, is for a man
to be ready for his opportunity when it
comes.--Disraeli.
Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will
never let it go by him.-Bayard Taylor.
Great opportunities come to all, but many
do not know they have met them. The only
preparation to take advantage of them, is
simple, fidelity to what each day brings.-
A. È. Dunning.
Vigilance in watching opportunity ; tact
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aud daring in seizing upon opportunity;
force and persistence in crowding oppor-
tunity to its utmost of possible achievement
—these are the martial virtues which must
command success.- Austin Phelps.
Our opportunities to do good are our
talents.-C. Mather.
For truth and duty it is ever the fitting
time ; who waits until circumstances com-
pletely favor his undertaking, will never
accomplish anything.-Luther.
To choose time is to save time; and an
unseasonable motion is but beating the air.
----Bacon.
If you want to succeed in the world you
must make your own opportunities as you
go on. The man who waits for some seventh
wave to toss him on dry land will find
that the seventh wave is a long time a com-
ing. You can commit no greater folly than
to sit by the roadside until some one comes
along and invites you to ride with him to
wealth or influence.--John B. Gough.
The golden moments in the stream of life
rush past us, and we see nothing but sand ;
the angels come to visit us, and we only
kuow them when they are gone.- George
Eliot.
Next to knowing when to seize an oppor-
tunity, the most important thing in life is
to know when to forego an advantage.-
Disraeli.
Occasion may be the bugle call that sum-
mons an army to battle, but the blast of a
bugle can never make soldiers nor win bat-
tles.-J. A. Garfield.
If sorrow could enter heaven, if a sigh
could be heard there, or a tear roll down
the cheek of a saint in light, it would be
for lost opportunities, for the time spent in
neglect of God which might have been spent
for his glory.--Payson.
There are no times in life when oppor-
tunity, the chance to be and do, gathers so
richly about the soul as when it has to suf-
fer. Then everything depends on whether
the man turns to the lower or the higher
helps. If he resorts to mere expedients
and tricks the opportunity is lost. He
comes out no richer nor greater ; nay, he
comes out harder, poorer, smaller for his
pain. But, if he turns to God, the hour of
suffering is the turning hour of his life.-
Phillips Brooles.
Opportunity has hair in front; behind
she is bald ; if you seize her by the fore-
lock, you may hold her, but, if suffered to
escape, not Jupiter himself can catch her
again.-From the Latin.
The sure way to miss success is to miss
the opportunity.-P. Chasles.
Who makes quick use of the moment, is
a genius of prudence.- Lavater.
Turning, for them who pass, the common
dust of servile opportunity to gold.
Wordsworth.
What is opportunity to the man who can't
use it? An unfecundated egg, which the
waves of time wash away into nonentity.-
George Eliot.
Every one has a fair turn to be as great
as he pleases.—Jeremy Collier.
He who has opportunities to inspect the
sacred moments of elevated minds, and
seizes none, is a son of dulness; but he
who turns those moments into ridicule, will
betray with a kiss, and in embracing, mur-
der.-Lavater.
A philosopher being asked what was the
first thing necessary to win the love of
a woman, answered:
"Opportunity.”-
Moore.
Opportunity, sooner or later, comes to
all who work and wish.—Lord Stanley.
You will never “find” time for anything.
If you want time you must make it. -
Charles Buxton,
No man possesses a genius so command-
ing that he can attain eminence, unless &
subject suited to his talents should present
itself, and an opportunity occur for their
development.- Pliny.
There sometimes wants only a stroke of
fortune to discover numberless latent good
or bad qualities, which would otherwise
have been eternally concealed ; as words
written with a certain liquor appear only
when applied to the fire.-Gréville.
Take all the swift advantage of the hours.
- Shakespeare.
It is common to overlook what is near by
keeping the eye fixed on something remote.
In the same manner present opportunities
are neglected and attainable good is slighted
by minds busied in extensive ranges, and
intent upon future advantages. Life, how-
ever short, is made shorter by waste of
time.-Johnson.
Miss not the occasion; by the forelock
take that subtle power, the never-halting
time.-- Wordsworth.
If we do not watch, we lose our oppor-
tunities ; if we do not make haste, we are
left behind ; our best hours escape us, the
worst are come. The purest part of our
life runs first, and leaves only the dregs at
the bottom; and that time which is
for nothing else we dedicate to virtue, and
good
OPPORTUNITY.
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OPPOSITION.
only propose to begin to live at an age that
very few people arrive at.--Seneca.
There is need of a sprightly and vigilant
soul to discern and to lay hold on favorable
junctures ; a man must look before him,
descry opportunities at a distance, keep his
eye constantly upon them, observe all the
motions they make toward him, make him-
self ready for their approach, and when he
sees his time, lay fast hold, and not let
go again, till he has done his business.-
Charron.
Many do with opportunities as children
do at the seashore; they fill their little
hands with sand, and then let the grains
fall through, one by one, till all are gone.-
T. Jones.
No man possesses a genius so command-
ing that he can attain eminence, unless a
subject suited to his talents should present
itself, and an opportunity occurs for this
development.--Pliny.
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds,
makes deeds ill done !--Shalcespeare.
When heaven half opens its arms, he wlio
is faint-hearted deserves not anything. It
is this want of faith that often keeps heaven
from bestowing its blessings; and even
when they come down, it is apt to send
them away.--Corneille.
To be a great man it is necessary to turn
to account all opportunities.-Rochefou-
cauld.
A wise man will make more opportunities
than he finds.- Bacon.
How often do we sigh for opportunities
of doing good, whilst we neglect the open-
ings of Providence in little things, which
would frequently lead to the accomplish-
ment of most important usefulness -
Crabbe.
The best men are not those who have
waited for chances but who have taken
them; besieged the chance ; conquered the
chance; and made chance the servitor.---
E. H. Chapin.
The public man needs but one patron,
namely, the lucky moment.-- Bulwer.
Opportunity to statesinen, is as the just
degree of heat to chemists; it perfects all
the work.–Suckling.
Do not wait for extraordinary circum-
stances to do good ; try to use ordinary
situations.-Richter.
Genius and great abilities are often want-
ing ; sometimes, only opportunities.—Some
deserve praise for what they have done ;
others for what they would have done.-
Bruyère.
To improve the golden moment of oppor-
tunity and catch the good that is within
our reach, is the great art of life.-Johnson.
A word spoken in season, at the right
moveut, is the matter of ages.-Carlyle.
The May of life blooms only once.-
Schiller.
Who seeks, and will not take when once
'tis offered, shall never find it more.-Shake-
speare.
There is an hour in each man's life ap-
pointed to make his happiness, if then he
seize it.---Beaumont and Fletcher.
Unless a man has trained himself for his
chance, the chance will only make him ri-
diculous. A great occasion is worth to a
man exactly what his antecedents have en-
abler him to make of it.-W. Matthews.
OPPOSITION:-(See “RESOLUTION.")
A certain amount of opposition is a great
help to a man ; it is what he wants and must
have to be good for anything.--Hardship
and opposition are the native soil of man-
hood and self-reliance.—John Neal.
The coldest bodies warm with opposition ;
the hardest sparkle in collision. ---Junius.
He that wrestles with us, strengthens our
nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our an-
tagonist is our helper.--Burke.
Nature is upheld by antagonism.-Pas-
sions, resistance, danger, are educators.
We acquire the strength we have overcome.
- Emerson.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory
in overcoming it; and difficulties are but
the maids of honor to set off the virtue.-
Molière.
It is not the victory that makes the joy of
noble hearts, but the combat.-Montalem-
vert.
The effects of opposition are wonderful.
There are men who rise refreshed on hear-
ing of a threat,-men to whom a crisis
which intimidates and paralyzes the ma-
jority, comes graceful and beloved as a
bridë!--Emerson.
It is not ease but effort,—not facility, but
difficulty, that makes men. There is, per-
laps, no station in.life in which difficulties
have not to be encountered and overcome
before any decided measure of success can
be achieved.--S. Smiles.
A strenuous soul bates cheap success ; it
is the ardor of the assailant that makes the
vigor of the defendant.-Emerson.
Opposition inflames the enthusiast, never
converts him.-Schiller.
OPPRESSION
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ORATORY.
OPPRESSION.-A desire to resist op-
pression is implanted in the nature of man.
Tacitus.
The smallest worm will turn, being trod-
den on; and doves will peck, in safeguard
of their brood.-Shalcespeare.
There is no happiness for him who op-
presses and persecutes ; there can be no
repose for him. For the sighs of the un-
fortunate cry for vengeance to heaven.-
Pestalozzi.
Oppression makes wise men mad; but
the distemper is still the madness of the
wise, which is better than the sobriety of
fools.Burke.
I never could believe that Providence
had sent a few men into the world, ready
booted and spurred to ride, and millions
ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.--
Richard Rumbold.
An extreme rigor is sure to arm every-
thing against it. Burke.
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land;
the great ones eat up the little ones.-
Shakespeare.
When oppression stains the robe of state,
and power's a whip of scorpions in the
hands of heartless knaves, to lash th' o'er-
burthen'd back of honest industry, the
loyal blood will turn to bitterest gall, and
th' o'ercharged heart explode in execra-
tion.-Shee.
The camomile, the more it is trodden on,
the faster it grows.-Shakespeare.
Power exercised with violence has seldom
been of long duration, but temper and
moderation generally produce permanence
in all things.- Seneca.
Oppression is but another name for ir-
responsible power.-W. Pinckney.
ORATORY.-He is the eloquent man
who can treat subjects of an humble nature
with delicacy, lofty things impressively,
and moderate things temperately.-Cicero.
It is the first rule in oratory that a man
must appear such as he would persuade
others to be ; and that can be accomplished
only by the force of his life.- Swift.
Every man should study couciseness in
speaking; it is a sign of ignorance not to
know that long speeches, though they may
please the speaker, are the torture of the
hearer.-Felinam.
List his discourse of war, and you shall
hear a fearful battle rendered you in
music.-Shakespeare.
What too many orators want in depth,
they give you in length.--Montesquieu.
There is no power like that of true ora-
tory. Cæsar controlled men by exciting
their fears; Cicero, by captivating their af-
fections and swaying their passions. The
influence of the one perished with its au-
thor ; that of the other continues to this
day.--Henry Clay.
In oratory, the greatest art is to conceal
art.-Swift.
An orator without judgment is a horse
without a bridle.-Theophrastus.
When the Roman people had listened to
the diffuse and polished discourses of
Cicero, they departed, saying one to anoth-
er, “What a splendid speech our orator has
made !" But when the Athenians heard
Demosthenes, he so filled them with the
subject-matter of his oration that they
quite forgot the orator, and left him at
the finish of his harangue, breathing re-
venge, and exclaiming, "Let us go and
fight against Philip !” —Colton.
Orators are most vehement when they
have the weakest cause, as men get on
horseback when they cannot walk.-Cicero.
The effective public speaker receives
from his audience in vapor, what he pours
back on them in a flood.-Gladstone.
Extemporaneous speaking is, indeed, the
groundwork of the orator's art; prepara-
tion is the last finish, and the most difficult
of all his accomplishments. To learn by
heart as a schoolboy, or to prepare as an
orator, are two things, not only essentially
different, but essentially antagonistic to
each other ; for the work most opposed to
an effective oration is an elegant essay.-
Bulwer.
Eloquence is vehement simplicity.- —
Cecil.
The passions are the only orators that al-
ways succeed. They are, as it were, na-
ture's art of eloquence, fraught with infal-
lible rules. Simplicity, with the aid of the
passions, persuades more than the utmost
eloquence without it.-Rochefoucauld.
Suit the action to the word, the word to
the action ; with this special observance,
that you overstep not the modesty of na-
ture.—Shalcespeare,
It is not by the compositions he learns,
but by the memory of the effects he has
produced that an orator is to be judged.
The language of the heart which comes
from the heart and goes to the heart—is
always simple, graceful, and full of power,
but no art of rhetoric can teach it. It is at
once the easiest and most difficult language,
- difficult, since it needs a heart to speak it;
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ORDER.
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ORIGINALITY.
easy, because its periods though rounded
and full of harmony, are still unstudied.--
Bovee.
An'orator or author is never successful
till he has learned to make his words
smaller than his ideas.- Emerson.
As thought supplies materials for dis-
course, 80 discourse gives precision to
thought as well as often assists in its evo-
lution. The best orators ove half their
inspiration to the music of their own voice.
Yet profundity of ideas is commonly an
impediment to fluency of words. W.B.
Clilor.
In oratory, affectation must be avoided,
it being better for man, by a native and
clear eloquence to express himself, than by
those words which may smell either of the
lamp or the inkhorn.- Lord Herbert.
Oratory, like the drama, abhors lengthi-
ness ; like the drama, it must keep doing.
-Beauties themselves, if they delay or dis-
tract the effect which should be produced
on the audience, become blemishes.-Bul-
wer.
The elegance of the style, and the turn of
the periods make the chief impression upon
the hearers. Most people have ears, but
few have judgment;- tickle those ears, and
depend upon it, you will catclı their judg-
ments such as they are.— Chesterfield.
Oratory is the huffing and blustering
spoiled child of a semi-barbarous age.--The
press is the foe of rhetoric, but the friend
of reason; and the art of declamation bas
been sinking in value from the moment that
speakers were foolish enough to publishi,
and readers wise enough to read.- Colton.
ORDER.-Order is heaven's first lay.-
Pope.
A place for everything, everything in its
place.-Franklin.
Order is the sanity of the mind, the
health of the body, the peace of the city,
the security of the state. As the beams to
& house, as the bones to the body, so is
order to all things.-Southey.
We do not keep the ontward form of
order, where there is deep disorder in the
mind.-- Shakespeare.
He who has no taste for order, will be
often wrong in his judgment, and seldom
considerate or conscientious in his actions.
Lavater.
Have a time and place for everything,
and do everything in its time and place,
and you will not only accomplish more, but
have far more leisure than those who are
always hurrying, as if vainly attempting
to overtake time that had been lost.
Tryon Edwards.
Order is a lovely nymph, the child of
beauty and wisdom; her attendants are
comfort, neatness, and activity ; her abode
is the valley of happiness: she is always to
be found when sought for, and never ap-
pears so lovely as when contrasted with her
opponent, disorder.-Johnson.
Desultoriness may often be the mark of
& full head; connection must proceed from
a thoughtful one.--Danby.
The heavens themselves, the planets, and
this centre, observe degree, priority and
place, insisture, course, proportion, season,
form, office, and custom, in all line of order.
-Shakespeare.
There are persons who are never easy
unless they are putting your books and
papers in order that is according to their
notions of the matter—and hiding things,
lest they should be lost, where neither the
owner nor anybody else can find them. If
anything is left where you want it, it is
called litter. There is a pedantry in house-
wifery, as well as in the gravest concerns.
One complained that whenever his maid-
servant had been in his library, he could
not get comfortably to work again for sey-
eral days.-Hazlitt.
Order means light and peace, inward
liberty and free command over one's self ;
order is power. -Amiel.
Set all things in their own peculiar place,
and know that order is the greatest grace.--
Dryden.
Good order is the foundation of all good
things.--Burlee.
ORIGINALITY,-(See "PLAGIARISM.")
Originality is nothing but judicious imi-
tation.—The most original writers borrowed
one from another. The instruction we
find in books is like fire. We fetch it from
our neighbor's, kindle it at home, commu-
nicate it to others, and it becomes the prop-
erty of all.-- Voltaire.
One couldn't carry on life comfortably
Tithout a little blindness to the fact that
everything has been said better than we
can put it ourselves.- George Eliot.
People are always talking about origin-
but what do they mean? As soon as
we are born, the world begins to work upon
and this goes on to the end. And
after ill, what can we call our own, except
energy, strength, and will? If I could give
an account of all that I owe to great prede-
cessors and contemporaries, there would
ality;
us ;
ORIGINALITY.
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ORNAMENT.
be but a small balance in my favor.-
Goethe.
A well cultivated mind is, so to speak,
made up of all the minds of preceding
ages ; it is only one single mind which has
been educated during all this time.-Fon-
tenelle.
Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.
-T. W. Higginson.
If we can advance propositions both true
and new, these are our own by right of
discovery ; and if we can repeat what is
old, more briefly and brightly than others,
this also becomes our own, by right of con-
quest.-Colton.
The merit of originality is not novelty,
it is sincerity.-The believing man is the
original man; he believes for himself, not
for another.- Carlyle.
They who have light in themselves, will
not revolve as satellites.-Anon.
Every human being is intended to have
a character of his own ; to be what no other
is, and to do what no other can do.-Chan-
ning.
Men of strong minds and who think for
themselves, should not be discouraged on
finding occasionally that some of their best
ideas have been anticipated by former
writers ; they will neither anathematize
others nor despair themselves. They will
rather go on discovering things before dis-
covered, until they are rewarded with a
land hitherto unknown, an empire indis-
putably their own, both by right of conquest
and of discovery.- Colton.
One of the best 118es of originality is, to
say common things in an uncommon way.
He who thinks for himself, and rarely
imitates, is a free man.-Klopstock.
It is better to create than to be learned ;
creating is the true essence of life.-Nie-
buhr.
It is almost impossible for any one who
rends much, and reflects a good deal, to
be able, on every occasion, to determine
whether a thought was another's or his
own.--I have several times quoted sentences
out of my own writings, in aid of my own
arguments, in conversation, thinking that
I was supporting them by some better au-
thority.-Sterne.
Those writers who lie on the watch for
novelty can have little hope of greatness ;
for great things cannot have escaped for-
mer observation.-Johnson.
I would rather be the author of one orig-
inal thought than the conqueror of a hun-
dred battles. Yet moral excellence is so
much superior to intellectual, that I ought
to esteem one virtue more valuable than a
hundred original thoughts.— W. B. Clulow.
If you would create something, you must
be something.- Goethe.
Every man is an original and solitary
character. --None can either understand or
feel the book of his own life like himself.
Cecil.
When will poets learn that a gra88-blade
of their own raising is worth a barrow-
load of flowers from their neighbor's gar-
den 2-J. R. Lowell.
Those who are ambitious of originality,
and aim at it, are necessarily led by others,
since they seek to be different from them.
Whately.
ORNAMENT,Plutarch has a fine ex-
pression, with regard to some woman of
learning, humility and virtue,—that her
ornaments were such as might be pur-
chased without money, and would render
any woman's life both glorious and happy.
-Sterne.
The true ornament of matrons is virtue,
not apparel.-- Justin.
Ornament is but the guiled shore to a
most dangerous sea ; the beauteous scarf
veiling an Indian beauty ; in a word, the
seeming truth which cunning times put on
to entrap the wisest.--Shalcespeare.
All finery is a sign of littleness.- Lavater.
We all originally came from the woods
;
it is hard to eradicate from any of us the
old taste for the tattoo and the war-paint;
and the moment that money gets into our
pockets, it somehow or another breaks out
in ornaments on our person, (without al-
ways giving refinement to our manners.
-Ě. P. Whipple.
Ornaments were invented by modesty .-
Joubert.
Modern education too often covers the
fingers with rings, and at the same time
cuts the sinews at the wrists.-- Sterling.
Excess in apparel is another costly folly.
-The very trimming of the vain world
would clothe all the naked ones. Penn.
Orators and stage-coachmen, when the
one wants argument and the other a coat
of arms, adorn their cause and their coaches
with rhetoric and flower-pots.---Shenstone.
Education, indeed, has made the fond-
ness for fine things next to natural ; the
corals and bells teach infants on the breasts
to be delighted with sound and glitter.-
H. Brooke.
Show is not substance ; realities govern
wise men. Penn.
OSTENTATION.
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OSTENTATION. I have seldom seen
much ostentation and much learning met
together. The sun, rising and decliving,
makes long shadows; at mid-day, when
he is highest, none at all.—Bp. Hali.
An ostentations man will rather relate a
blunder or an absurdity he has committed,
than be debarred from talking of his own
dear person.-Addison.
Where there is much pretension, much
has been borrowed; nature never pretends.
-Lavater.
Whatever is done without ostentation,
and without the people being witnesses of
it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy :
not that the public eye should be entirely
avoided, for good actions desire to be placed
in the light; but notwithstanding this, the
greatest theatre for virtue is conscience.--
Cicero.
Do what good thou canst unknown, and
be not vain of what ought rather to be felt
than seen.-Penn.
Surely half the world must be blind;
they can see nothing unless it glitters.-
Hare.
Ostentation is the signal flag of hypoc-
risy.-The charlatan is verbose and as-
sumptive; the Pharisee is ostentatious,
because he is a hypocrite.-Pride is the
master sin of the devil, and the devil is the
father of lies.-E. H. Chapin.
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
works.--Bp. Hall.
and pleasure. It is for them to point out
what we ought to do, as well as to determine
what we shall do. On the one hand, the
standard of right and wrong ; on the other,
the chain of causes and effects, are fasten-
ed to their throne. Bentham.
Pain and pleasure, like light and dark-
ness, succeed each other; and he only who
knows how to accommodate himself to their
returns, and can wisely extract the good
from the evil, knows how to live.-Sterne.
The same refinement which brings us
new pleasures, exposes us to new pains.-
Bulwer.
There was never yet philosopher that
could endure the toothache patiently, how-
ever they have writ the stylo of gods, and
made a pish at chance and sufferance.
Shakespeare.
The most painful part of our bodily pain
is that which is bodiless or immaterial,
namely our impatience, and the delusion
that it will last forever. --Richter.
A man of pleasure is a man of pains.-
Young.
They talk of short-lived pleasures : be it
80; pain dies as quickly, and lets her weary
prisoner go; the fiercest agonies have
shortest reign.-Bryant.
Pain is the deepest thing we have in our
nature, and union through pain and suf-
fering has always seemed more real and
holy than any other.-Hallanz.
PAINTING.-Painting is silent poetry,
and poetry is a speaking picture.--Šimoni-
des,
A picture is a poem without words,-
Horace.
The love of gain never made a painter,
but it has marred many.-- Washington
Allston.
A room hung with pictures, is a room
hung with thoughts.—Sir Joshua Rey-
nolds.
A picture is an intermediate something
between a thought and a thing.--Coleridge.
Would that we could at once paint with
the eyes !-In the long way from the eye,
through the arm, to the pencil, how much
is lost !- Lessing.
A room with pictures and a room without
pictures, differ nearly as much as a room
with windows and a room without windows ;
for pictures are loopholes of escape to the
soul, leading it to other scenes and spheres,
where the fancy for a moment may revel,
refreshed and delighted. Pictures are con-
Bolers of loneliness, and a relief to the jaded
mind, and windows to the imprisoned
P.
PAIN,Pain is the outcome of sin.-
Buddha.
Pain may be said to follow pleasure, as
its shadow; but the misfortune is, that the
substance belongs to the shadow, and the
emptiness to its cause.- Colton, .
Alas! by some degree of woe we every
bliss must gain; the heart can ne'er a
transport know that never feels a pain.
Lyttleton.
Pain itself is not without its alleviations.
It is seldom both violent and long-con-
tinued; and its pauses and intermissions
become positive pleasures. It has the
power of shedding a satisfaction over in-
tervals of ease, which few enjoyments ex-
ceed.-Paley.
Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches
the luxury of health.-- Tupper.
Nature has placed mankind under the
government of tyo sovereign masters, pain
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PARENTS.
thought; they are books, bistories, and
sermons--which we can read without the
trouble of turning over the leaves.-John
Gilbert,
What a vanity is painting, which attracts
admiration by the resemblance of things
that in the original.we do not admire ! -
Pascal.
Portraits, except of old people whose
features are fixed, rarely give a correct
idea of persons, except to those who have
known them.-- To those they recall the
looks and features.
The best portraits are those in which
there is a slight mixture of caricature.--
Macaulay.
Fain would I Raphael's god-like art re-
hearse, where, from the mingled strength of
shade and light, a new creation rises to my
sight; such heavenly figures from his pen-
cil flow, 80 warm with life his blended col-
ors glow.-Addison.
Style in painting is the same as in writ-
ing, -a
-a power over materials, whether
words or colors, by which conceptions or
sentiments are conveyed.---Sir Joshua Rey-
nolds.
The painter who is content with the
praise of the world for what does not sat-
isfy himself, is not an artist, but an arti-
san; for though his reward be only praise,
his pay is that of a mechanic.- Washing-
ton Allston.
The first merit of pictures is the effect
they produce on the mind; and the first
step of a sensible man should be to re-
ceive involuntary impressions from them.
-Pleasure and inspiration first ; &nalysis,
afterward.-H. W. Beecher.
Portrait-painting may be to the painter
what the practical knowledge of the world
is to the poet, provided he considers it as
a school by which he is to acquire the means
of perfection in his art, and not as the ob-
ject of that perfection. -- Burke.
Softness of manner seems to be in paint-
ing what smoothness of syllables is in lan-
guage, affecting the sense of sight or hear-
ing: previous to any correspondent passion.
- Shenstone.
The masters painted for joy, and knew
not that virtue had gone out of them.
They could not paint the like in cold blood.
The masters of English lyric wrote their
songs so. It was a fine efflorescence of fine
power8.-Emerson.
The first degree of proficiency is, in paint-
ing, what grammar is in literature,-a gen-
eral preparation for whatever the student
may afterward choose for more particular
application. The power of drawing, model,
ling, and using colors, is very properly
called the language of the art.-Sir Joshua
Reynolds.
PANIC.-A panic is a sudden desertion
of 18, and a going over to the enemy of
our imagination.-Bovee.
A panic is the stampede of our self-pos-
session. --Rivarol.
PARADISE.-(See "FORGIVENESS.")
Remembrance is the only paradise out of
which we cannot be driven away. Indeed
our first parents were not to be deprived of
it.-Richter,
Every man has a paradise around him
till be sins and the angel of an accusing
conscience drives him from his Eden. And
even then there are holy hours, when this
angel sleeps, and man comes back, and with
the innocent eyes of a child looks into his
lost paradise again-into the broad gates
and rural solitudes of nature.—Longfellow.
If God hath made this world so fair,
where sin and death abound, how beautiful,
beyond compare, will paradise be found !
Montgomery:
PARDON.-(See "FORGIVENESS.")
They who forgive most, shall be most
forgiven.-Bailey.
The man who pardons easily, courts in-
jury.-Corneille.
Nothing in this lost and ruined world
bears the meek impress of the Son of God
so surely as forgiveness.-Alice Cary.
To pardon those absurdities in ourselves
which we cannot suffer in others, is neither
better nor worse than to be more willing to
be fools ourselves than to have others 80.-
Pope.
Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so;
pardon is still the nurse of second woe.-
Shalcespeare.
Pardon others often, thyself never.-
Publius Syrus.
Forgive tliyself little, and others much.
Leighton.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.-Mazzini.
PARENTS.-(See “LOVE.")
Next to God, thy parents.-Penn.
Honor thy parents, those that gave thee
birth, and watched in tenderness thine
earliest days, and trained thee up in youth,
and loved in all. Honor, obey, and love
them ; it shall fill their souls with holy joy,
and shall bring down God's richest blessing
on thee; and in days to come, thy children,
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if they're given, shall honor thee, and fill
thy life with peace.-Tryon Edwards.
The voice of parents is the voice of gods,
for to their children they are heaven's
lieutenants.--Shakespeare.
We never know the love of the parent till
we become parents ourselves.
When we
first bend over the cradle of our own child,
God throws back the temple door, and re-
veals to us the sacredness and mystery of a
father's and a mother's love to ourselves.-
And in later years, when they have gone
from us, there is always a certain sorrow,
that we cannot tell them we have found it
out.-One of the deepest experiences of a
noble nature in reference to the loved ones
that have passed beyond this world, is the
thought of what he might have been to
them, and done for them, if he had known,
while they were living, what he has learned
since they died.-H. W. Beecher.
There is no such penalty for error and
folly as to see one's children suffer for it.
There is no such reward for a well-spent
life as to see one's children well started in
life, owing to their parents' good health,
good principles, fixed character, good
breeding, and in general the whole outfit,
that enables them to fight the battle of life
with success. -- W. G. Sumner.
Parents wonder why the streams are
bitter, when they themselves have poisoned
the fountain.-Locice.
The sacred books of the ancient Persians
say: If you would be holy instruct your
children, because all the good acts they
perform will be imputed to you.-Montes-
quieu.
Sins of the parents may be visited upon
their children, but it is that the sting may
strike back into the parents' hearts.
We speak of educating our children. Do
we know that our children also educate us?
-Mrs. Sigourney.
Parents who wish to train up their chil-
dren in the way they should go, must go in
the way in which they would have their
children go.
The illiberality of parents, in allowance
toward their children, is a harmful error,
and makes them base ; acquaints them with
shifts; makes them sort with mean com-
pany; and makes them surfeit more when
they come to plenty; and therefore the
proof is best when men keep their authority
toward their children, but not their purse.
Bacon.
A suspicious parent makes an artful
child.-Haliburton.
The father and mother of an unnoticed
family, who in their seclusion awaken the
mind of one child to the idea and love of
goodness, who awaken in him a strength
of will to repel temptation, and who send
him out prepared to profit by the conflicts
of life, surpass in influence a Napoleon
breaking the world to his sway.- Channing.
Children wish fathers looked but with
their eyes ; fathers that children with their
judgment looked ; and either may be wrong.
Shakespeare.
When thou art contemplating some base
deed, let the presence of thy infant son act
as a check on thy headlong course to sin.--
Juvenal.
Plato seeing a child do mischief in the
streets, went forth and corrected his father
for it. And this is the pattern of God's
jndicial proceedings, for the visits the iniq-
uities of the fathers upon the children who
imitate them, and the iniquities of the
children upon the fathers who countenance
and indulge them.-J. Kitchen.
When our parents are living we feel that
they stand between us and death ; when
they are gone, we ourselves are in the fore-
front of the battle.
How many hopes and fears, how many
ardent wishes and anxious apprehensions,
are twisted together in the threads that
connect the parent with the child !-S. G.
Goodrich.
Whoever makes his father's heart to
bleed, shall have a child that will revenge
the deed.-F. Randolph.
Unblessed is the son who does not honor
his parents ; but if reverent and obedient
to them, he will receive the same from his
own children.- Euripides.
Parents must give good example and
reverent deportment in the face of their
children. And all those instances of charity
which endear each other-sweetness of con-
versation, affability, frequent admonition
-all significations of love and tenderness,
care and watchfulness, must be expressed
toward children ; that they may look upon
their parents as their friends and patrons,
their defence and sanctuary, their treasure
and their guide.
Partiality in a parent is commonly un-
lucky: for fondlings are in danger to be .
made fools, and the children that are least
cockered make the best and wisest men.-
L'Estrange.
PARTING.-In every parting there is
an image of death.-George Eliot.
I have no parting sigh to give, so take
my parting smile.-L. 7. Landon.
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seven)
- Good-bye" that is, “God be with
you.” Is this your earnest prayer in part-
ing from your friends?
Never part without loving words to think
of during your absence. It may be that
you will not meet again in life.-Richter.
Could we see when and where we are to
meet again, we would be more tender when
we bid our friends good-by.-Ouida.
Adieu! I have too grieved a heart to take
a tedious leave.-Shakespeare.
Let us not unman each other; part at
once; all farewells should be sudden, when
forever.-Byron.
What! gone without a word ? Ay, so
true love should do: it cannot speak; for
truth bath better deeds than words to
grace it.-Shakespeare.
To die and part is a less evil ; but to part
and live, there, there is the torment.
Lansdowne.
Parting and forgetting ?-What faithful
heart can do these 7-Our great thoughts,
our great affections, the truths of our life,
never leave us.-Surely, they cannot be
separate from our consciousness ; will fol-
low it whithersoever that shall go, and are,
of their nature, divine and immortal.
Thackeray.
A chord, stronger or weaker, is snapped
asunder in every parting, and time's busy
fingers are not practised in re-splicing
broken ties. Meet again you may ; will it
be in the same way? with the same sym-
pathies ? with the same sentiments ? Will
the souls, hurrying on in diverse paths,
unite once more, as if the interval had been
a dream ? Rarely, rarely !- Bulwer.
There is such sweet pain in parting, that
I could hang forever on thine arms and look
away my life into thine eyes.- Otway.
Farewell, God knows when we shall meet
again.--I have a faint cold fear thrill
through my veins, that almost freezes up
the heat of life.--Shakespeare.
PARTY,--Party is the madness of many,
for the gain of a few.-Pope.
He knows very little of mankind, who
, expects, by any facts or reasoning, tó con-
vince a determined party-man.-Lavater.
Such is the turbulence of human pas-
sions in party disputes, when victory more
than truth is contended for, that the post
of honor is a private station.- Washington.
Nothing can be proposed so wild or so
absurd as not to find a party, and often a
very large party to espouse it. - Cecil.
One thing I certainly never was made
for, and that is to put principles on and off
at the dictation of a party, as a lackey
changes his livery at his master's command.
-Horace Mann.
Most modern partisans go for what they
regard the
cardinal principles,
namely, the five loaves and two fishes.
The political parties that I would call
great, are those which cling more to prin-
ciples than to consequences ; to general,
and not to special cases ; to ideas, and not
to men.-Such parties are usually distin-
guished by a nobler character, more gener-
ous passions, more genuine convictions,
and a more bold and open conduct than
others.-De Tocqueville.
If we mean to support the liberty and
independence which have cost us so much
blood and treasure to establish, we must
drive far away the demon of party spirit
and local reproach.- Washington.
He that aspires to be the head of a party
will find it more difficult to please his
friends than to perplex his foes. He must
often act from false reasons which are
weak, because he dares not avow the true
teasons which are strong.– Colton.
Men naturally sympathize with the ca-
lamities of individuals; but they are in-
clined to look on a fallen party with con-
tempt rather than with pity.-Macaulay.
People who declare that they belong to
no party certainly do not belong to ours.--
J. P. Senn.
Party standards are the shadows in which
patriotism is buried.--St. Pierre.
The tendency of party-spirit has ever
been to disguise, and propagate, and sup-
port error. - Whately.
Of all kinds of credulity, the most ob-
stinate is that of party-spirit; of men, who,
being numbered, they know not why, in
any party, resign the 18e of their own eyes
and ears, and resolve to believe nothing
that does not favor those whom they pro-
fess to follow.-Johnson.
Men in a party have liberty only for their
motto ; in reality they are greater slaves
than anybody else would care to make them.
-Saville.
Party-spirit is a lying, vociferous, reck-
less spirit, a stranger to candor, willing to
pervert truth, and to use underhand and
dishonest means, so it may gain the victory.
-C. Sinimons.
There is an opinion that parties in free
countries are useful checks upon the ad-
ministration of the government, and serve
to keep alive the spirit of liberty. This,
within certain limits, is probably true. But
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PASSION,
in governments of a popular character, and
purely elective, it is a spirit not to be en-
couraged. From their natural tendency,
there will always be enough of that spirit
for every salutary purpose. And there
being constant danger of excess, the effort
ought to be, by force of public opinion, to
mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be
quenched, it demands a uniforin vigilance
to prevent it bursting into a flame, lest,
instead of warming, it should consume.---
Washington.
PASSION.-(See "Ragu,"_"ANGER.")
Passion may not unfitly be termed the
mob of the man, that commits a riot on his
reason.-- Penn.
Passion is the great mover and spring of
the soul: when men's passions are strong-
est, they may have great and noble effects;
but they are then also apt to fall into the
greatest miscarriages.-Sprat.
The passionato are like men standing on
their heads ; they see all things the wrong
way.-Plato.
A wise man's heart is like a broad bearth
that keeps the coals from burning the
house. Good deeds in this life are coals
raked up in embers, to make a fire next
day.- Overbury.
Men spend their lives in the service of
their passions, instead of employing their
passions in the service of their life.
Steele.
Our passions are like convulsion fits,
which, though they make 118 stronger for
the time, leave us the weaker ever after.–
Swift.
There are moments when our passions
speak and decide for us, and we seem to
stand by and wonder. They carry in them
an inspiration of crime, that in one instant
does the work of long premeditation.-
George Eliot.
The passions are unruly cattle, and there-
fore you must keep them chained up, and
under the government of religion, reason
and prudence. If thus kept under disci-
pline, they are useful servants ; but if you
let them loose and give them head, they
will be your masters, and unruly masters,
and carry you, like wild and unbridled
horses, into & thousand mischiefs and in-
conveniences, besides the great disturb-
ance, disorder and discomposure they will
occasion in your own mind.—Sir M. Hale.
The worst of slaves is he whom passion
rules.Brooke.
The mind by passion driven from its firm
hold, becomes a feather to each wind that
blows.--Shakespeare.
People have a custom of excusing the
enormities of their conduct by talking of
their passions, as if they were under the
control of a blind necessity, and sinned be-
cause they could not help it. Cumberland.
It is the excess and not the nature of our
passions which is perishable. Like the
trees which grow by the tomb of Protesilaus,
the passions flourish till they reach a cer-
tain height, but no sooner is that height
attained than they wither away.—Bulwer.
A vigorous mind is as necessarily accom-
panied with violent passions as a great fire
with great heat.-Burke.
The passions may be humored till they
become our masters, as a horse may be
pampered till he gets the better of his
rider ; but early discipline will prevent
mutiny, and keep the helm in the hands
of reason.-Cumberland.
Passions makes 118 fcel, but never see
clearly.-Montesquieu.
The passions and desires, like the two
twists of a rope, mutually mix one with the
other, and twine inextricably round the
heart; producing good, if moderately in-
dulged; but certain destruction, if suffered
to become inordinate.—Burton.
He submits to be seen through a micro-
scope, who suffers himself to be caught in
a fit of passion.---Lavater.
Passion makes the will lord of the rea-
son.-Shakespeare.
Passions are likened best to floods and
streams: the shallow murmur, but the
deep are dumb.-Sir W. Raleigh.
Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.
-South.
"All the passions," says an old writer,
are such near neighbors, that if one of
them is on fire the others should send for
the buckets." Tlus love and hate being
both passions, the one is never safe from
the spark that sets the other ablaze.
Bulwer.
The passions are at once tempters and
chastisers. As tempters, they come with
garlands of flowers on brows of youth;
as chastisers, they appear with wreaths of
snakes on the forehead of deformity.
They are angels of light in their delusion;
they are fiends of torment in their inflic-
tions.—Henry Giles.
Nothing doth so fool a man as extreme
passion. This doth make them fools which
otherwise are not, and show them to be
fools which are so.—Bp. Hall.
Passion, though a bad regulator, is a
powerful spring.- Enerson.
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The only praiseworthy indifference is an
acquired one; we must feel as well as con-
trol our passions.-Richter,
The brain may devise laws for the blood,
but a hot temper leaps over a cold decree.
-Shalcespeare.
In strong natures, if resistance to temp-
tation is of granite, so the passions that
they admit are of fire.—Bulwer.
In all disputes, so much as there is of
passion, so much there is of nothing to the
purpose; for then reason, like a bad hound,
spends upon a false scent, and forsakes
the question first started. Sir Thonras
Browne.
Almost all men are born with every pas-
sion to some extent, but there is hardly a
man who has not à dominant passion to
which the others are subordinate. Dis-
cover this governing passion in every indi-
vidual ; and when you have found the mas-
ter passion of a man, remember never to
trust to him where that passion is con-
cerned.- Chesterfield.
It is the strong passions which, rescuing
us from sloth, cau alone impart to us that
continuous aid earnest attention necessary
to great intellectual effort.-Helvetius.
The way to conquer men, is by their pas-
sions ; catch but the ruling foible of their
hearts, and all their boasted virtues shrink
before you.-Tolson. .
The passions are the winds that fill the
sails of the vessel.-They sink it at times;
but without them it would be impossible to
make way.-Many things that are danger-
ous here below, are still necessary.- Vol-
taire.
It is the passions of men that both do
and undo everything.–They are the winds
that are necessary to put every thing in mo-
tion, though they often cause storms.-
Fontenelle.
Passion often makes fools of the ablest
men, and able men of the most foolish. -
Rochefoucauld.
The passions and capacities of our nature
are foundations of power, happiness, and
glory ; but if we turn them into occasions
and sources of self-indulgence, the struct-
ure itself falls, and buries everything in
its overwhelming desolation.-G. B. Chee-
and moderated. Even hatred may be a
commendable feeling when it is caused by
a lively love of good. Whatever makes the
passions purer makes them stronger, moro
durable, and more enjoyable.—Joubert.
The passions are the only orators who
never fail to persuade.-They are nature's
art of eloquence, the rules of which never
fail; and the weakest man, moved by pas-
sion, is more eloquent than the strongest
who has none.---Rochefoucauld.
The blossoms of passion, gay and lux-
uriant flowers, are bright and full of fra-
grance, but they beguile us and lead us
astray, and their odor is deadly.--Longfel-
lowo.
In the history of the passions each human
heart is a world in itself; its experience
can profit no others.-Bulwer.
Chastise your pagsions, that they may not
chastise you. No one who is a lover of
money, of pleasure, or of glory, is likewise
a lover of mankind. Riches are not among
the number of things that are good. It is
not poverty that causes sorrow, but covet-
ous desires. Deliver yourself from appe-
tite, and you will be free. · He who is dis-
contented with things present and allotted,
is unskilled in life.- Epictetus.
If we resist our passions, it is more
through their weakness than from our
strength.--Rochefoucauld.
Strong passions are the life of manly vir-
tues. But they need not necessarily be
evil because they are passions, and because
they are strong. They may be likened to
blood horses, that need training and the
curb only, to enable those whom they carry
to achieve the most glorious triumphs.-
Simnus.
He only employs his passion who can
make no use of his reason.Cicero.
Men are not blindly betrayed into cor-
ruption, but abandon themselves to their
passions with their eyes open; and lose the
direction of truth, because they do not
attend to her voice, not because they do not
understand it.-Johnson.
A man is by nothing so much himself, as
by his temper and the character of his pas-
sions and affections. If he loses what is
manly and worthy in these, he is as much
lost to himself, as when he loses his memory
and understanding.--Shaftesbury.
Hold not conference, debate, or reason-
ing with any lust; 'tis but a preparatory
for thy admission of it. The way is at the
very first flatly to deny it.--Fuller.
When passion rules, how rare the hours
that fall to virtue's share.-- Walter Scott,
ver.
The passions act as winds to propel our
vessel, our reason is the pilot that steers
her; without the winds she would not
move; without the pilot she would be lost.
-F. Shulz.
The passions should be purged; all may
become innocent if they are well directed
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Even virtue itself, all perfect as it is,
requires to be inspirited by passion ; for
duties are but coldly performed which are
but philosophically fulfilled.--Mrs. Jame-
son.
What profits us, that we from heaven
derive a soul immortal, and with looks
erect survey the stars, if, like the brutal
kind, we follow where our passions lead the
way ?- Claudian.
In doing good, we are generally cold,
and languid, and sluggish ; and of all
things afraid of being too much in the
right. But the works of malice and in-
justice are quite in another style. They
are finished with a bold masterly hand,
touched as they are with the spirit of those
vehement passions that call forth all our
energies whenever we oppress and perse-
cute. --Burke.
Passion, in its first violence, controls
interest, as the eddy for a while ruus against
the stream.-Johnson.
The passions of mankind are partly pro-
tective, partly beneficent, like the chaff
and grain of the corn, but none without
their use, none without nobleness when
seen in balanced unity with the rest of the
spirit which they are charged to defend.-
Ruskin.
Passion looks not beyond the moment of
its existence.- Better, it says, the kisses of
love to-day, than the felicities of heaven
afar off.- Bovee.
Exalted souls, bave passions in propor-
tion violent, résistless, and tormenting :
they're a tax imposed by nature on pre-
eminence, and fortitude and wisdom must
support them.-Lillo.
Princes rule the people ; and their own
passions rule princes ; but Providence can
overrule the whole, and draw the instru-
ments of his inscrutable purpose from the
vices, no less than from the virtues of
kings.- Colton.
All passions are good or bad, according
to their objects: where the object is ab-
solutely good, there the greatest passion is
too little ; where absolutely evil, there the
least passion is too much ; where indiffer-
ent, there a little is enough.-Quarles.
The passions are like fire, useful in a
thousand ways and dangerous only in one,
through their excess.-
Bovee.
Give me that man that is not passion's
slave, and I will wear hin in my heart's
core, aye, in my heart of bearts. --Shake-
speare.
Alas! too well, too well they know the
pain, the penitence, the woe, that passion
brings down on the best, the wisest, and
the loveliest.-Moore.
Our headstrong passions shut the door of
our souls against God.-Confucius.
As rivers, when they overflow, drown
those grounds and ruin those husbandmen,
which, whilst they flowed calmly betwixt
their banks they fertilized and enriched,
so our passions, when they grow exorbitant
and unruly, destroy those virtues to which
they might be very serviceable whilst kept
within their bounds.- Boyle.
The way to avoid evil is not by maiming
our passions, but by compelling them to
yield their vigor to our moral nature.-
Thus they become, as in the ancient fable,
the harnessed steeds that bear the chariot
of the sun.-H. W. Beecher.
We use up in our passions the stuff that
was given us for happiness.- Joubert.
The passions often engender their
contraries.—Avarice sometimes produces
prodigality, and prodigality, avarice; we
are often resolute from weakness, and dar-
ing from timidity.-Rochefoucauld.
What a mistake to suppose that the pag-
sions are strongest in youth! The passions
are not stronger, but the control over them
is weaker! Tbey are more easily excited,
they are more violent and apparent; but
they have less energy, less durability, less
intense and concentrated power than in
maturer life.—Bulwer.
Happy is he who is engaged in contro-
versy with his own passions, and comes off
superior ; who makes it his' endeavor that
his follies and weaknesses may die before
himself, and who daily meditates on mor-
tality and immortality.--Jortin.
Oh, how the passions, insolent and
strong, bear our weak minds their rapid
course along; make us the maduess of their
will obey; then die, and leave us to our
griefs a prey !— Crabbe.
The passions are like those demons with
which Afrasahiab sailed down the Orus.
Our only safety consists in keeping them
asleep. If they wake, we are lost.—Goethe.
Passion costs me too much to bestow it
on every trifle.-T. Adan.
Many persons in reasoning on the pas-
sions, make a continual appeal to common-
But passion is without common-
sense, and we must frequently discard the
one in speaking of the other. --Hazlitt.
The ruling passion, be it what it will,
the ruling passion conquers reason still.
Pope.
May I govern my passions with absolute
sense.
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sway, and grow wiser and better as life
wears away.- Walter Pope.
PAST.-So sad, so fresh, the days that
are no more. -Tennyson.
The past is the sepulchre of our dead
emotions. Bovee.
No band can make the clock strike for
me the hours that are passed.-Byron.
It is to live twice, when we can enjoy the
recollections of our former life.-Martial.
The true past departs not; no truth or
goodness realized by man ever dies, or can
die ; but all is still here, and, recognized
or not, lives and works through endless
changes.- Carlyle.
I desire no future that will break the tieg
of the past.-George Eliot.
Things without remedy, should be with-
out regard ; what is done, is done. --Shale-
speare.
I know the past, and thence I will essay
to glean a warning for the future, so that
man may profit by his errors, and derivo
experience from his folly.--Shelley.
We ought not to look back unless it is to
derive useful lessons from past errors, and
for the purpose of profiting by dear bought
experience.- Washington.
Nor deem the irrevocable past as wholly
wasted, wholly vain, if rising on its wrecks,
at last' to something nobler we attain.-
Longfellow.
Study the past if you would divine the
future.-Confucius.
Some are so very studious of learning
what was done by the ancients, that they
know not how to live with the moderns.
Penn.
What's gone and past help, should be
past grief.-Shalcespeare.
The admiration bestowed on former times
is the bias of all times ; the golden age
never was the present age.-Home.
Our reverence for the past is just iu pro-
portion to our ignorance of it.--Theodore
Parker.
That past which is so presumptuously
brought forward as a precedent for the
present, was itself founded on some past
that went before it.- Mad. de Staël.
Many are always praising the by-gone
time, for it is natural that the old should
extol the days of their youth ; the weak,
the time of their strength; the sick, the
season of their vigor ; and the disappointed,
the spring-tide of their hopes.-C. Bing-
ham.
It is delightful to transport one's self
into the spirit of the past, to see how a wise
man has thought before us, and to what a
glorious height we have at last reached.-
Goethe.
Age and sorrow have the gift of reading
the future by the sad past.-Farrar.
The past is for us, but the sole terms on
which it can become ours are its subordi-
nation to the present.- Emerson.
PATIENCE.-Everything comes if a
man will only wait.— Tancred.
He that can have patience, can have what
he will.- Franklin.
To know how to wait is the great secret
of success.-De Maistre.
It is not necessary for all men to be great
in action. The greatest and sublimest
power is often simple patience.- Horace
Bushnell.
Patient waiting is often the highest way
of doing God's will.—Collier.
A phlegmatic insensibility is as different
from patience, as a pool from a barbor.
Into the one, indolence naturally sinks us;
but if we arrive at the other it is by en-
countering many an adverse wind and
rough wave, with a more skilful pilot at
the helm than self, and a company under
better command than the passions.---Dil-
wyn.
How poor are they who have not patience!
What wound did ever heal but by degrees.
--Shalespeare.
I have known twenty persevering girls to
one patient one; but it is only the twenty-
first one who can do her work, out and out,
and enjoy it. For patience lies at the root
of all pleasures as well as of all powers.—
Ruslcin.
Patience does not mean indifference.
We may work and trust and wait, but we
ought not to be idle or careless while
waiting.
Life has such hard conditions that every
dear and precious gift, every rare virtue,
every genial endowment, love, hope, joy,
wit, sprightliness, benevolence, must some-
times be put into the crucible to distil the
one elixir-patience.-Gail Hamilton.
Patience is the art of hoping.- Vauven-
argues.
Patience is not passive : on the contrary
it is active; it is concentrated strength.
There is one form of hope which is never
unwise, and which certainly does not di-
minislı with the increase of knowledge. In
that form it changes its name, and we call
it patience.-Buiwer.
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PATIENCE.
Even the best must own that patience
and resignation are the pillars of buman
peace on earth.— Young.
It's easy finding reasons why other folks
should be patient.-- George Eliot.
Enter into the sublime patience of the
Lord. Be charitable in view of it. God
can afford to wait; why cannot we, since
we have Him to fall back upon ? Let
pa-
tience have her perfect work, and bring
forth her celestial fruits.
The two powers which in my opinion
constitute a wise man are those of bearing
and forbearing.--Epictetus.
There's no music in a "rest," but there's
the making of music in it. And people
are always missing that part of the life
melody, always talking of perseverance and
courage and fortitude ; but patience is the
finest and worthiest part of fortitude, and
the rarest, too.--Ruskin.
With patience bear the lot to thee as-
signed, nor think it chance, nor murmur
at the load ; for know what man calls for-
tune, is from God.-Rowe.
Patience is the key of content.-- Ma-
honuet.
He that is patient will persevere ; and he
that perseveres will often have occasion
for, as well as trial of patience.-Tryon
Edwards.
Accustom yourself to that which you
bear ill, and you will bear it well. Seneca.
Our real blessings often appear to 18 in
the shape of pains, losses, and disappoint-
ments ; but let us have patience, and we
soon shall see them in their proper figures.
-Addison.
They also serve who only stand and wait.
--Milton.
There is no great achievement that is not
the result of patient working and waiting.
J. G. Hollünd,
The conflict of patience is such, that
the vanquished is better than the van-
quisher.-
Euripides.
Patience and time do more than strength
or passion.- La Fontaine.
All that I have accomplished, or expect
or hope to accomplish, has been and will
be by that plodding, patient, persevering
process of accretion which builds the ant-
heap, particle by particle, thought by
thought, fact by fact.-Elihu Burritt.
Never think that God's delays are God's
denials. Hold on ; hold fast; hold out.
Patience is genius. --Buffon.
Patience ! why, it is the soul of peace;
of all the virtues, it is nearest kin to hea-
ven ; it makes men look like gods. The
best of men that ever wore earth about him
was & sufferer, ---a soft, meek, patient,
humble, tranquil spirit; the first true gen-
tleman that ever breathed.--- Decicer.
A patient, humble temper gathers bless-
ings that are marred by the peevish, and
overlooked by the aspiring.-E. H. Chapin.
Endurance is the crowning quality, and
patience all the passion of great hearts.-
J. R. Lowell.
That which in mean men we entitle pa-
tience, is pale, cold cowardice in noble
breasts.-Shakespeare.
To bear is to conquer our fate.-Camp
bell.
Bevare the fury of a patient man.-Dry-
den.
If we could have a little patience, we
should escape much mortification ; time
takes away as much as it gives. - Mad. de
Sévigné.
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
-Rousseau.
Patience is 80 like fortitude that she
seems either her sister or her daughter.-
Aristotle.
There is no such thing as preaching pa-
tience into people unless the sermon is so
long that they have to practice it while they
bear. No man can learn patience except
by going out into the burly-burly world,
and taking life just as it blows. Patience
is but lying to and riding out the gale.-
H. W. Beecher.
Patience is the support of weakness ; im-
patience is the ruin of strength.- Colton.
There is no road too long to the man who
advances deliberately and without undue
laste ; no honors too distant to the man
who prepares himself for them with pa-
tience.-Bruyère.
He surely is most in need of another's
patience, who has none of his own.-La-
vater.
Patience strengthens the spirit, sweetens
the temper, stifles anger, extinguishes envy,
subdues pride, bridles the tongue, restrains
the hand, and tramples upon temptations.
-Bp. Horne.
God may not give us the trivial things
we pray for, but that which is far better
patience, and the development of faculties,
and eternity for the use of the powers well
schooled on earth.
Many people consider patience a common-
place virtue, not to say a tame and insipid
one. But rightly appreciated it is grand
and heroic. Without it the strongest char-
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acter has a dangerously weak spot, which
at any moment way be its ruin. With it,
the otherwise weakest has an element of
invincible strength.-Congregationalist.
There are times when God asks nothing
of his children except silence, patience,
and tears.-0. S. Robinson.
A curtain lecture is worth all the sermons
in the world for teaching the virtue of
patience and long suffering.- Washington
Irving.
Trust to God to weave your thread into
the great web, though the pattern shows it
not yet.-G. Macdonald.
Be patient in little things. Learn to
bear the every-day trials and annoyances
of life quietly and calmly, and then, when
unforeseen trouble or calamity comes,
your strength will not forsake you.
There is as much difference between
genuine patience and sullen endurance, as
between the smile of love, and the malicious
gnashing of the teeth.-'W. S. Plumer.
Patience is the courage of the conqueror,
the strength of man against destiny-of
the one against the world, and of the soul
against matter.-Therefore it is the cour-
age of the gospel ; and its importance, in a
social view, and to races and institutions,
cannot be too earnestly inculcated.-Bul-
country itself become a vast and splendid
monument, not of oppression and terror,
but of wisdom, of peace, and of liberty,
upon which the world may gaze with ad-
miration forever.-- Daniel Webster.
National enthusiasm is the great nursery
of genius.- Tuckerman.
Had I a dozen sons,-each in my love
alike.--I had rather lave eleven die nobly
for their country, than one voluptuously
surfeit out of action.--Shakespeare.
There can be no affinity nearer than our
country.-Plato.
Of the whole sum of human life no small
part is that wbich consists of a man's re-
lations to his country, and his feelings con-
cerning it.-Gladstone.
When was public virtue to be found
where private was not? Cau he love the
whole who loves no part? He be a nation's
friend, who is, in truth, the friend of no
mau there? Who slights the charities for
whose dear sake, that country, if at all,
must be beloved 2-Cowper.
The love of country produces good man-
ners; and good manners, love of country.
-The less we satisfy our individual pas-
sions, the more we leave to our general.
Montesquieu.
The proper means of increasing the love
we bear to our native country, is to reside
some time in a foreign one. - Shenstone.
After what I owe to God, nothing should
be more dear or more sacred than the love
and respect I owe to my country.-De
Thou.
Wheno'er our country calls, friends, sons,
and sires should yield their treasure up,
nor own a sense beyond the public safety.
-Brooke.
My country claims me all, claims every
passion ; her liberty henceforth be all my
thought; for her, my life, I'd willingly re-
sign, and say with transport that the gain
was mine.-Martyn.
The patriot's boast, where'er we roam, his
first, best country ever is at home.-Gold-
smith.
Millions for defence, but not one cent for
tribute.-C. 0. Pincicirey.
I do love my country's good with a re-
spect inore tender, more holy and profound
than mine own life.- Shakespeare.
Liberty and union, now and forever, one
and inseparable.--Daniel Webster.
The age of virtuous politics is past, and
we are deep in that of cold pretence.-Pa-
triots are grown too shrewd to be sincere,
and we too wise to trust them.-Cowper.
wer.
Patience is even more rarely manifested
in the intellect than it is in the temper. -
A. Helps.
Patience is power ; with time and pa-
tience the muìberry leaf becomes silk.-
Chinese Proverb.
The sincere and earnest approach of the
Christian to the throne of the Almighty,
teaches the best lesson of patience under
affliction, since wlierefore should we mock
the Deity with supplications, when we in-
sult him by murmuring under his decrees?
Waller Scott.
Steady, patient, persevering thinking,
will generally surniount every obstacle in
the search after truth.- Enimons.
PATRIOTISM.-The noblest motive is
the public good.- Virgil.
Be just and fear not ; let all the ends
thou aimest at, be thy country's, thy God's,
and truth's.-Shakespeare.
He was the bravest citizen of Rome that
did most love and best serve his country;
and he the saint among the Jews who most
loved Zion.- Baxter.
Let our object be our country, our whole
country, and nothing but our country.
And, by the blessing of God, may that
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PEDANTRY.
Our country's welfare is our first concern,
and who promotes that best, best proves
his duty.- Havard.
True patriots all, for be it understood,
we left our country for our country's good.
-George Barrington.
I have learned by much observation, that
nothing will satisfy a patriot but a place.-
Junius.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoun-
drel !-Johnson.
Love of country is one of the loftiest vir-
tues; and so treason against it has been
considered among the most damning sins.
-E. A. Slorrs.
Stirred up with high hopes of living to
be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to
God, and famous to all ages.--Milion.
PEACE.-Peace is the happy, natural
state of man ; war, his corruption, his dis-
grace.-Thomson.
Peace is the evening star of the soul, as
virtue is its sun; and tbe two are never far
apart.—Colton.
Peace is such a precious jewel that I
would give anything for it but truth.-M.
Henry.
'Tis death to me, to be at enmity; I hate
it, and desire all good men's love.--Shake-
speare.
Peace does not dwell in outward things,
but within the soul; we may preserve it in
the midst of the bitterest pain, if our will
remain firm and submissive. Peace in this
life springs from acquiescence, not in an
exemption from suffering.--Fénelon.
Five great enemies to peace inhabit with
us : viz., avarice, ambition, envy, anger,
and pride. If those enemies were to bé
banished, we should infallibly enjoy per-
petual peace.-Petrarch.
If we have not peace within ourselves, it
is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
--Rochefoucauld.
Lovely concord and most sacred peace
doth nourish virtue, and fast friendship
breed.-Spenser.
Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.-
Schiller.
The more quietly and peaceably wo all
get on, the better--the better for ourselves
--the better for our neighbors. In nino
cases out of ten the wisest policy is, if a
man cheats you, quit dealing with him ; if
he is abusive, quit his company; if he
slanders you, take care to live so that no-
body will believe him: no matter who he
is, or how he misuses you, the wisest way
is generally to let him alone; for there is
nothing better than this cool, calm, quiet
way of dealing with the wrongs we meet
with.
Peace is the proper result of the Christian
temper. It is the great kindness which our
religion doth us, that it brings us to a set-
tledness of mind, and a consistency within
ourselves.-Bp. Patrick.
Peace rules the day, where reason rules
the mind.-Collins.
Nothing can bring you peace but your-
self; nothing can bring you peace but the
triumph of principles.---
Emerson.
Peace hath her victories, no less re-
nowned than war.-Milton.
Peace, dear nurse of arts, plenties, and
joyful birth.-Shakespeare.
We love peace, but not peace at any
price.—There is a peace more destructive
of the manhood of living man, than war is
destructive of his body.-Chains are worse
than bayonets.—Jerrold.
To be prepared for war is one of the
most effectual means of preserving peace.
- Washington.
I am a man of peace. God knows how I
love peace. But I hope I shall never be
such a coward as to mistake oppression for
peace.-Kossuth.
A
peace
is of the nature of a conquest;
for then both parties nobly are subdued,
and neither party loser.-Shakespeare.
There are interests by the sacrifice of
which peace is too dearly purchased. One
should never be at peace to the shame of
his own soul to the
violation of his integ-
rity or of his allegiance to God.-E. Ž.
Chapin.
Speak, move, act in peace, as if you
were in prayer. In truth, this is prayer.
Finelon.
No peace was ever won from fate by sub-
terfuge or agreement; no peace is ever in
store for any of us, but that which we shall
win by victory over shame or sin,-victory
over the sin that oppresses, as well as over
that which corrupts.-Ruskin.
The man who consecrates his hours by
vigorous effort, and an honest aim, at once
he draws the sting of life and Death i
he
walks with nature; and her paths are peace.
-Young.
PEDANTRY.- Pedantry crams
heads with learned lumber, and takes out
our brains to make room for it.-Colton.
A well-read fool is the most pestilent of
blockheads ; his learning is a flail which he
knows not how to handle, and with which
Our
pon
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PEOPLE.
he breaks his neighbor's shing as well as and void. As old birds who fly abroad to
his own. Keep a fellow of this description forage for grain, bring it home in their
at arm's length, as you value the integrity beak, without tasting it themselves, to feed
of your bones. --Stanislaus.
their young, 80 our pedants go picking
If a strong attachment to a particular
knowledge here and there, out of several
subject, a total ignorance of every other ;
authors, and hold it at their tongues' end,
an eagerness to introduce that subject
only to distribute it among their pupils. -
upon all occasions, and a confirined håbit
Montaigne.
Pedantry and taste are as inconsistent as
discretion, be the marks of a pedantic gayety and melancholy.---Lavater,
character, as they certainly are, it belongs A man who has been brought up among
to the illiterate as well as the learned ; and books, and is able to talk of nothing else,
St. James's itself may boast of producing is & very indifferent companion, and what
as arrant pedants as were ever sent forth we call a pedant. But we should enlarge
from a college.-B. Thornton.
the title, and give it to every one that does
Pedantry, in the common acceptation of
not know how to think out of his profession
the word, means an absurd ostentation of and particular way of life.--Addison.
learning, and stiffness of phraseology, pro- Pedantry and bigotry are millstones, able
ceeding from a misguided knowledge of
to sink the best book which carries the least
books, and a total ignorance of men.- part of their dead weight. The temper of
Mackenzie.
the pedagogue suits not with the age; and
There is a pedantry in manners, as in all
the world, however it may be taught, will
arts and sciences, and sometimes in trades.
not be tutored.--Shaftesbury.
Pedantry is properly the overrating any
Brimful of learning, see the pedant
kind of knowledge ve pretend to, and if stride, bristling with horrid Greek, and
that kind of knowledge be a trifle in itself, puffed with pride !-A thousand authors he
the pedantry is the greater.-Swift.
in vain has read, and with their maxims
It is not a circumscribed situation so
stuffed his empty head; and thinks that
without Aristotle's rules, reason is blind,
much as a narrow vision that creates ped-
ants ; not having a pet study or science,
and common sense a fool ! Boileau.
but a narrow, vulgar soul, which prevents PEDIGREE.-(See "ANCESTRY.")
a man from seeing all sides and hearing all
things; in short, the intolerant man is the
PEN.-There are only two powers in the
real pedant.-Richter.
world, the sword and the pen ; and in the
The vacant skull of a pedant generally
end the former is always conquered by the
latter.--Napoleon.
furnishes out a throne and temple for van-
ity.-Shenstone.
The strokes of the pen need deliberation,
as much as those of the sword need swift-
Deep versed in books, and shallow in
nes8. Julia Ward Howe.
bimself.-Milton.
Scholars are men of peace; they bear no
As pedantry is an ostentatious obtrusion
of knowledge, in which those who hear us
arms, but their tongues are sharper than
the sword; their pens carry further and
cannot sympathize, it is a fault of which
give a louder report than thunder. I had
soldiers, sailors, sportsmen, gamesters, cul-
rather stand in the shock of a basilisk than
tivators, and all men engaged in a par-
in the fury of a merciless pen.-Sir Thomas
ticular occupation, are quite as guilty as
Browne.
scholars ; but they have the good fortune
to have the vice only of pedantry, while
Oh, nature's noblest gift, my gray goose-
scholars have both the vice and the name
quili?-Byron.
for it too.--S. Smith.
Take away the sword; states can be saved
With loads of learned lumber in his head. without it; bring the pen !-Bulwer.
Pope.
PEOPLE.-What people are depends
Pedantry prides herself on being wrong not a little on who and what their progeni-
by rules ; while common sense is contented tors were.--Ascribe what influences you
to be right without them. The former please to education, examples, habits, etc.,
would rather stumble in following the dead, and after all a great deal depends upon the
than walk upright by the profane assistance breed.-Mills.
of the living.- Colton.
From the time when the exercise of the
We only toil and labor to stuff the intellect became the source of strength and
memory, and in the mean time leave the wealth, every addition to science, every
conscience and understanding unfurnished fresh truth, and every new idea became &
PERCEPTION.
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PERFECTION.
germ of power placed within reach of the
people.De Tocqueville.
There are three kinds of people in the
world, the wills, the won'ts and the can'ts.
The first accomplish everything ; the sec-
ond oppose everything ; the third fail in
everything.--Eclectic Magazine.
The world may be divided into people
that read, people that write, peoplê that
think, and fox-hunter8.--Shenstone.
You may deceive all the people part of
the time, and part of the people all the
time, but not all the people all the time.
Lincoln.
Most people judge others either by the
company they keep, or by their fortune.
Rochefoucauid.
Local assemblies of the people constitute
the strength of free nations.-- Municipal
institutions are to liberty, what primary
schools are to science: they bring it within
the people's reach, and teach them how to
use and enjoy it. A nation may establish
a system of free government, but without
the spirit of municipal institutions it can-
not have the spirit of liberty.-De Tocque-
ville.
PERCEPTION.- Make a point never
80 clear, and it is great odds that a man
whose habits, and the bent of whose mind
lie a contrary way shall be unable to com-
prehend it ;—so weak a thing is reason in
competition with inclination.- Bp. Berle-
ley.
We like to divine others, but do not like
to be divined ourselves.-Rochefoucauld.
Simple creatures, whose thoughts are not
taken up, like those of educated people,
with the care of a.great museum of dead
phrases, are very quick to see the live facts
which are going on about them.--0. W.
Holmes.
Penetration seems a kind of inspiration;
it gives me an idea of prophecy.-Greville.
The heart has eyes that the brain knows
nothing of.-C. H. Parichur'st.
To see what is right, and not do it, is
want of courage, or of principle.-Con-
fucius.
PERFECTION.- Among the other ex-
cellencies of man, this is one, that he can
form the image of perfection much beyond
what he has experience of in himself, and
is not limited in his conception of wisdom
and virtue.--Hume.
Perfection is attained by slow degrees ;
it requires the hand of time.- Voltaire.
To arrive at perfection, a man should
have very sincere friends or inveterate
enemies ; because he would be made sen-
sible of his good or ill conduct, either by
the censures of the one or the admonitions
of the other.—Diogenes.
Bachelor's wives and old maid's children
are always perfect.-Chamfort.
We are what we are; we cannot be truly
other than ourselves. We reach perfec-
tion.not by copying, much less by aiming at
originality, but by constantly and steadily
working out the life which is common to all,
according to the character which God has
given us.
The more perfect the sight is the more
delightful the beautiful object. The more
perfect the appetite, the sweeter the food.
The more musical the ear, the more pleas-
ant the melody. The more perfect the
soul, the more joyous the joys of heaven
and the more glorious that glory.- Baxter.
Perfection consists not in doing extra-
ordinary things, but in doing ordinary
things extraordinarily well. Neglect noth-
ing; the most trivial action may be per-
formed to God.- Angelique Arnauld.
Aim at perfection in everything, though
in most things it is unattainable. How-
ever, they who aim at it, and persevere,
will come much nearer to it than those
whose laziness and despondency make
them give it up as unattainable.- Chester-
field.
The Stoic philosophy insults human na-
ture, and discourages all our attempts, by
enjoining and promising a perfection in
this life, of which we feel ourselves incapa-
ble. The Christian religion shows com-
passion to our weakness, by prescribing to
is only the practical task of aiming con-
tinually at further improvements and ani-
mates our endeavors, by the promise of
divine aid, equal to our trial.
It is reasonable to have perfection in
our eye that we may always advance toward
it, though we know it can never be reached.
-Johnson.
He who boasts of being perfect is perfect
in folly. I never saw a perfect man.
Every rose has its thorns, and every day
its night. Even the sun shows spots, and
the skies are darkened with clouds. And
faults of some kind nestle in every bosom.
- Spurgeon.
If we pretend to have reached either per-
fection or satisfaction, we have degraded
ourselves and our work. God's work only
may express that, but ours may never have
that sentence written upon it,
" Behold it
was very good.”—Ruskin.
Perfection does not exist; to understand
it is the triumph of human intelligence; to
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PERSEVERANCE.
expect to possess it is the most dangerous
kind of madness.-Alfred de Musset.
Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendid-
ly null, dead perfection; no more.--Ten-
nyson.
Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see,
thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor ever
shall be. Pope.
The acorn does not become an oak in a
day; the ripened scholar is not made by a
single lesson ; the well-trained soldier was
not the raw recruit of yesterday ; thore are
always months between the seed-time and
harvest. So the path of the just is like the
shining light, which shineth more and
more unto the perfect day.-R. B. Nichol.
This is the very perfection of a man, to
find out his own imperfection.-Augustine.
He that seeks perfection on earth leaves
nothing new for the saints to find in hea-
ven; as long as men teach, there will be
mistakes in divinity; and as long as they
govern, errors in state.-7. Osborn.
PERSECUTION.-Persecution is not
wrong because it is cruel, but cruel because
it is wrong.- Whately.
The history of persecution is a history of
endeavors to cheat nature, to make water
run uphill, to twist a rope of sand. It
makes no difference whether the actors be
many or one, a tyrant or a mob.--Emerson.
For belief or practice in religion no man
ought to be punished or molested by any
outward force whatever.-Milton.
The resource of bigotry and intolerance,
when convicted of error, is always the
same ; silenced by argument, it endeavors
to silence by persecution, in old times by
fire and sword, in modern days by the
tongue.-C. Sirmions.
Persecution often does in this life, what
the last great day will do completely, sep-
arato the wheat from the tares.
--Milner.
In all places, and in all times, those re-
ligionists who have believed too much, have
been more inclined to violence and perse-
cution than those who have believed too
little.-- Collon.
Wherever you see persecution, there is
more than a probability that truth is on the
persecuted side.—Bp. Latiner.
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of
the church.-Jerome.
The way of the world is, to praise dead
saints, and persecute living ones. - N.
Howe.
Of all persecutions, that of calumny is
the most intolerable. Any other kind of
persecution can affect our outward circum-
stances only, our properties, our lives ; but
this may affect our characters forever.--
Hazlitt.
To banish, imprison, plunder, starve,
hang, and burn men for religion, is not
the gospel of Christ, but the policy of the
devil.-Christ never used anything that
looked like force or violence but once, and
that was to drive bad men out of the tem-
ple, not to drive them in.-Jortin.
There is nothing more unreasonable,
more inconsistent with the rights of human
nature, more contrary to the spirit and
precepts of the Christian religion, more in-
iquitous and unjust, more impolitic, than
persecution.-It is against natural religion,
against revealed religion, and against sound
policy.-Lord Mansfield.
PERSEVERANCE.-The falling drops
at last will wear the stone.-Lucretius.
Great works are performed, not by
strength, but by perseverance. He that
shall walk, with vigor, three hours a day,
will pass, in seven years, a space equal to
the circumference of the globē.-Johnson.
Perseverance is a Roman virtue, that
wins each godlike act, and plucks success
even from the spear-proof crest of rugged
danger.- Havard.
I'm proof against that word failure. I've
seen behind it. The only failure a man
ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the
purpose he sees to be best.--- George Eliot.
If a man has any brains at all, let him
hold on to his calling, and, in the grand
sweep of things, his turn will come at last.
W. McCune.
An enterprise, when fairly once begun,
should not be left till all that ought is won,
- Shakespeare.
Great effects come of industry and pera
severance; for audacity doth almost bind
and mate the weaker sort of minds.--Bacon.
All the performances of human art, at
which we look with praise or wonder, are
instances of the resistless force of persever-
ance : it is by this that the quarry becomes
a pyramid, and that distant countries are
united with canals. If a man was to com-
pare the effect of a single stroke of the
pick-ax, or of one impression of the spade
with the general design and last result, he
would be overwhelmed by the sense of their
disproportion; yet those petty operations,
incessantly continued, in time surmount
the greatest difficulties, and mountains are:
levelled, and oceans bounded, by the slen-
der force of human beings.-Johnson.
Much rain wears the marble.--Shake-
speare.
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PERSEVERANCE.
Perpetual pushing and assurance put a
difficulty out of countenance, and make a
seeming impossibility give way.-Jerenry
Collier.
See first that the design is wise and just:
that ascertained, pursue it resolutely ; do
not for one repulse forego the purpose that
you resolved to effect. --Shakespeare.
Let us only suffer any person to tell us
his story, morning and evening, but for
one twelve-month, and he will become our
master.-Burke.
It is all very well to tell me that a young
man has distinguished himself by a brilliant
first speech. He may go on, or he may be
satisfied with his first triumph; but show
me a young man who has not succeeded at
first, and nevertheless has gone on, and I
will back that young man to do better than
most of those who have succeeded at the
first trial.-C. J. Fox.
Every man who observes vigilantly, and
rosolves steadfastly, grows unconsciously
into genius.-- Bulwer.
Nothing is so hard, but search will find
it out.--Herrick.
No road is too long to the man who
advances deliberately and without undue
haste; and no honors are too distant for
the man who prepares himself for them
with patience. -Bruyère.
The virtue lies in the struggle, not in the
prize.-Milnes.
Perseverance and audacity generally win.
--Mad. Deluzy.
By gnawing through a dyke, even a rat
may drown a nation.-Burke.
I argue not against heaven's hand or will,
nor bate a jot of heart or hope, but still
bear up, and steer right onward.-Milton.
There is no royal road to anything.-One
thing at a time, and all things in succes-
sion. That which grows slowly endures.-
J. G. Holland.
Perseverance, dear my lord, keeps honor
bright. To have none, is to hang quite out
of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental
mockery. --Shakespeare.
It is with many enterprises as with strik-
ing fire ; we do not meet with success
except by reiterated efforts, and often at
the instant when we despaired of success.
--Mad. de Maintenon.
Every noble work is at first impossible.-
Carlyle.
There are two ways of attaining an
important end — force and perseverance.
Force falls to the lot only of the privileged
few, but austere and sustained perseverance
can be practised by the most iusignificant.
Its silent power grows irresistible with
time.--Mad. Swetchine.
The conditions of conquest are always
easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure
awhile, believe always, and never turn
back.-Sinins.
I hold a doctrine, to which I owe not
much, indeed, but all the little I ever had,
namely, that with ordinary talent and
extraordinary perseverance, all things are
attainable.T.F. Buxton.
The nerve that never relaxes, the eye
that never blenches, the thought that never
wanders,—these are the masters of victory.
- Burke.
Hasten slowly, and without losing heart
put your work twenty times upon the anvil.
-Boileau.
Few things are impracticable in them-
selves; and it is for want of application,
rather than of means, that men fail of suc-
ce88.-Rochefoucauld.
Victory belongs to the most pergevering.
Napoleon.
Never despair ; but if you do, work on in
despair.- Burke.
Some men give up their designs when
they have almost reached the goal; while
others, on the contrary, obtain & victory by
exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous
efforts than before.—Polybius.
Hard pounding, gentlemen; but we will
see who can pound the longest. — Wellington
at Waterloo,
Perseverance gives power to weakness,
and opens to poverty the world's wealth.
It spreads fertility over the barren land-
scape, and bids the choicest fruits and
flowers spring up and flourish in the desert
abode of thorns and briers.-S. G. Good-
poich,
In the lexicon of youth, which fate re-
serves for a bright manhood, there is no
such word as fail.-Bulwer.
Even in social life, it is persistency which
attracts confidence more than talents and
accomplishments.-E. P. Whipple.
No rock so hard but that a little wave
may beat admission in a thousand years.---
Tennyson.
Persistent people begin their success
where others end in failure.-Edward Eg-
gleston.
The divine insanity of noble minds, that
never falters nor abates, but labors, en-
dures, and waits, till all that it foresees it
finds, or what it cannot find, creates. -
Longfellow.
PERVERSENESS.
409
PHILOSOPHY.
Whoever perseveres will be crowned.
Herder.
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.
PERVERSENESS.-Some men put me
in mind of half-bred horses, which often
grow worse in proportion as you feed and
exercise them for improvement.-Gréville.
Stiff in opinion ; always in the wrong.-
Dryden.
To willful men, the injuries that they
themselves procure, must be their school-
masters. - Shakespeare.
So remarkably perverse is the nature of
man, that he despises those that court him,
and admires whoever will not bend before
him.-Thucydides.
Somo men, like spaniels, will only fawn
the more when repulsed, but will pay little
heed to a friendly caress.-Abd-el-Kader.
The worst things are the perversions of
good things. Abused intellectual gifts
make the dangerous villain ; abused sen-
sibilities make the accomplished tempter ;
abused affections engender tho keenest of
all misery.--James Mc Cosh.
The strength of the donkey mind lies in
adopting a course inversely as the argu-
ments urged, which, well considered, re-
quires as great a mental force as the direct
sequence.-- George Eliot.
When once a man is determined to be-
lieve, the very absurdity of the doctrine
confirms him in his faith.-Junius.
We have all a propensity to grasp at for-
bidden fruit. From the Latin.
PHILANTHROPY.-It is an old say-
ing, 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.-Cumberland.
Who will not give some portion of his
ease, his blood, his wealth, for others' good,
is a poor, frozen churl.- Joanna Baillie.
Not for himself, but for the world he
lives.-Lucan.
There is no philanthropy equal to that
which the gospel plants in the human
heart. It turns the severest sacrifices for
Christ and humanity into pleasures, and
enriches the soul with impulses and aspira-
tions that grow only in the soil of love.-
Independent.
This is true philanthropy, that buries
not its gold in ostentatious charity, but
builds its hospital in the human heart.
Harley.
Philanthropy, like charity, must begin
at home ; from this centre our sympathies
should extend in an ever widening circle.
Lamb.
Where there is the most love to God,
there will be there the truest and most en-
larged philanthropy.-Southey.
PHILOSOPHY.-To be a philosopher
is not merely to have subtle thoughts ; but
so to love wisdom as to live according to
its dictates.--Thoreau.
Philosophy is the art and law of life, and
it teaches us what to do in all cases, and,
like good marksmen, to hit the white at
any distance.-Seneca.
When men comfort themselves with phil-
osophy, 'tis not because they have got two
or three sentences, but because they have
digested those sentences, and made them
their own : philosophy is nothing but dis-
cretion.-Selden.
Philosophy hath given us several plausi-
ble rules for attaining peace and tran-
quillity of mind, but they fall very much
short of bringing men to it.Tillotson.
To be a husbandman, is but a retreat
from the city ; to be a philosopher, from
the world; or rather a retreat from the
world as it is man's, into the world as it is
God's.- Cowley.
The modern sceptical philosophy consists
in believing everything but the truth, and
exactly in proportion to the want of evi-
dence; in making windows that shut out
the light, and passages that lead to noth-
ing.-Nisbet.
True philosophy invents nothing ; it
merely establishes and describes what is.—
Cousin.
Philosophy can add to our happiness in
no other manner but by diminishing our
misery ; it should not pretend to increase
our present stock, but inake us economists
of what we are possessed of. Happy were
we all born philosophers; all born with a
talent of thus dissipating our own cares by
spreading them upon all mankind.--- Gold-
smith.
The discovery of what is true, and the
practice of that which is good, are the two
most important objects of philosophy.-
Voltaire.
To philosophize in a just sense, is but to
carry good breeding a step higher. For
the accomplishment of breeding is, to learn
PHILOSOPHY.
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PHILOSOPHY.
what is decent in company or beautiful in
arts; and the sum of philosophy is to learn
what is just in society, and beautiful in
nature and the order of the world.-Shaftes-
bury.
Philosophy is the art of living.–Plu-
tarch.
Philosophy consists not in airy schemes
or idle speculations ; the rule and conduct
of all social life is her great province.-
Thomson.
Philosophy triumphs easily over past
and over future evils, but present evils tri-
umph over philosophy.-Rochefoucauld.
Philosophy is a bully that talks very loud,
when the danger is at a distance; but the
moment she is hard pressed by the enemy,
she is not to be found at her post, but leaves
the brunt of the battle to be borne by her
humbler but steadier comrade, religion.-
Colton.
Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.-
Shakespeare.
It is a maxim received among philoso-
phers themselves, from the days of Aristotle
down to those of Sir William Hamilton,
that philosophy ceases where truth is ac-
knowledged.-Bulwer.
It is not a head merely, but a heart and
resolution, which complete the real phil-
osopher. --Shaftesbury.
Philosophy has been called the knowl-
edge of our knowledge; it might more
truly be called the knowledge of our ig-
norance, or in the language of Kant, the
knowledge of the limits of our knowledge.
- Max Müller.
Philosophy is the science which con-
siders truth.--Aristotle.
Christianity is a philosophy of principles
rather than of rules, and 80 is fitted for
universal extension and acceptance.
Tryon Edwards.
Real philosophy seeks rather to solve
than to deny. While we hear, every day,
small
of
the Philosopher's Stone, a more erudite
knowledge is aware that by alchemists the
greatest discoveries in science have been
made, and much which still seems abstruse,
had we the key to the mystic phraseology
they were compelled to adopt, might open
the way to get more noble acquisitions.-
Bulwer,
It is the bounty of nature that we live,
but of philosophy, that we live well ; which
is, in truth, a greater benefit than life
itself.-Seneca.
Philosophy is as far separated from im-
piety as religion is from fanaticism.-
Diderot.
True philosophy is that which makes us
to ourselves and to all about us, better ;
and at the same time, more content, pa-
tient, calm, and more ready for all decent
and pure enjoymen's ---Lavater.
All philosophy lies in two words, sustain
and abstain. --Epictetus.
Philosophy is to poetry, what old age is
to youth; and the stern truths of philoso-
phy are as fatal to the fictions of the one,
as the chilling testimonies of experience
are to the hopes of the other.—Colton.
In wonder all philosophy began ; in won-
der it ends ; and admiration fills up the in-
terspace. But the first is the wonder of
ignorance; the last is the parent of adora-
tion.- Coleridge.
The idea of philosophy is truth; the idea
of religion is life.-- Peter Bayne.
Philosophy is one thing, and Christianity
quite another.-The former seeks to cure
the vices of human nature by working upon
the head ; the latter by educating the
heart.--Both endeavor to lead men to what
is right; but philosophy only explains what
it is right to do, while Christianity under-
takes to make men disposed to do it.-
Ecce Homo,
Philosophy is a proud, sullen detector of
the poverty and misery of man.
turn him from the world with a proud,
sturdy contempt; but it cannot come for-
ward and say, here are rest, grace, pardon,
peace, strength, and consolation. --Cecil.
To study philosophy is nothing but to
prepare one's self to die. - Cicero.
Make philosophy thy journey, theology
thy journey's end : philosophy is a pleas-
ant way, but dangerous to him that either
tires or retires ; in this journey it is safe
neither to loiter nor to rest, till thou hast
attained thy journey's end; he that sits
down a philosopher rises up an atheist.-
Quarles
The ,
part with self-conceit.- Epictetus.
Philosophy, when superficially studied,
excites doubt; when thoroughly explored,
it dispels it.- Bacon.
Philosophy alone makes the mind invin-
cible, and places us out of the reach of
fortune, so that all her arrows fall short of
118.–Seneca.
There are more things in heaven and
earth, Horatio, than are dreamed of in your
philosophy. Shakespeare.
It may
the urities net en chemy, and the dream of the first business of a philosopher is, to
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PHYSIOGNOMY.
Be a philosopher ; but amid all your
philosophy, be still a man.--Hume.
Philosophical studies are beset by one
peril, that a person easily brings himself
to think that he thinks ; and a smattering
of science encourages conceit. Moreover,
the vain man is generally a doubter. It is
Newton who sees himself in a child on the
seashore, and his discoveries in the colored
shells.-Willmott.
Sublime philosophy! thou art the patri-
arch's ladder, reaching heaven and bright
with beckoning angels ; but, alas ! we see
thee, like the patriarch, but in dreams, by
the first step, dull slumbering on the earth.
--Bulwer.
Philosophy, if rightly defined, is nothing
but the love of wisdom.-Cicero.
It is easy for men to write and talk like
philosophers, but to act with wisdom, there
is the rub - Rivarol.
Admiration is the foundation of all phil-
osophy; investigation the progress; and
ignorance the end.--Montaigne.
Philosophy is a goddess, whose head in-
deed is in heaven, but whose feet are upon
earth; she attempts more than she accom-
plishes, and promises more than she per-
forms.- Collon.
Philosophy is of two kinds : that which
relates to conduct, and that which relates
to knowledge. The first teaches us to value
all things at their real worth, to be coil-
tented with little, modest in prosperity,
patient in trouble, equal-minded at all
times. It teaches us our duty to our neigh-
bor and ourselves. But it is he who pos-
sesses both that is the true philosopher.
The more he knows, the more he is de-
sirous of knowing; and get the farther he
advances in knowledge, the better he un-
derstands how little he can attain, and the
more deeply he feels that God alone can
satisfy the infinite desires of an immortal
soul. To understand this is the height and
perfection of philosophy.-Southey.
Philosophy goes no further than prob-
abilities, and in every assertion keeps a
doubt in reserve.--Froude.
The world cannot show us a more exalted
character than that of a truly religious
philosopher, who delights to turn all things
to the glory of God; who, in the objects of
his sight, derives improvement to his mind;
and in the glass of things temporal, sees
the image of things spiritual.-- Venning.
He who seeks philosophy in divinity,
geeks the dead among the living; and he
that seeks divinity in philosophy, seeks the
living among the dead.- Venning.
Every system of philosophy is little in
comparison with Christianity.-Philosophy
may expand our ideas of creation, but it
neither inspires love to the moral character
of the Creator, nor a well-grounded hope
of eternal life.—At most, it can only place
us on the top of Pisgah, and there, like
Moses, we must die ; it gives us no posses-
sion of the good land. - It is the province
of Christianity to add, "All is yours.”—
Anon.
Divine philosophy! by whose pure light,
we first distinguish, then pursue the right;
thy power the breast from every error
frees, and weeds out all its vices by de-
grees.--Gifford.
PHYSIC.-(See "MEDICINE.")
Physic is of little use to a temperate per-
son, for a man's own observation on what
he finds does him good, and what hurts
him, is the best physic to preserve health.
Bacon.
We have not only multiplied diseases,
but we have made them more fatal. Dr.
R. Rush.
Use three physicians: first, Doctor
Quiet; then, Doctor Merryman; and then,
Doctor Diet.
Whoever has lived twenty years ought to
know what is hurtful and what whole-
some to him, and know how to order himself
without physic.--Tiberius.
Every one is a physician or a fool at forty.
-Old Macin.
God heals, and the doctor takes the fee.
- Franklin.
Exercise, temperance, fresh air, and
needful rest are the best of all physicians.
A wise physician, skilled our ills to heal,
is more thau armies to the public weal.-
Pope.
Physicians mend or end us ; but though
in health we sneer, when sick we call them
to attend us, without the least propensity
to jeer.-Byron, .
| PHYSIOGNOMY.—(See “* Face.")
There is nothing truer than physiog-
nomy, taken in connection with manner.
Dickens.
When I see a man with a sour, shrivelea
face, I cannot forbear pitying his wife ;
and when I meet with an open, ingenuous
countenance, I think on the happiness of
his friends, his family, and his relations.-
Addison.
Trust not too much to an enchanting
face.- Virgil.
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PITY.
It is a point of cunning to wait upon him
with whom you speak with your eye, as the
Jesuits give it in precept; for there be
many wise men that have secret hearts and
transparent countenances.-Bacon.
As the language of the face is universal,
so 'tis very comprehensive ; 'tis the short-
hand of the mind, and crowds a great deal
in a little room.-Jeremy Collier.
The features come insensibly to be formed
and assume their slape from the frequent
and habitual expression of certain affec-
tions of the soul. These affections are
marked on the countenance; nothing is
more certain than this; and when they
turn into habits, they must leave on it
durable impressions.-Rousseau,
He who observes the speaker more than
the sound of his words, will seldom meet
with disappointments. ---Lavater.
Spite of Lavater, faces are often great
lies. They are the paper money of society,
for which, on demand, there frequently
proves to be no gold in the human coffer.
F. G. Trafford.
Pickpockets and beggars are the best
practical physiognomists, without having
read a line of Lavater, who, it is notorious,
mistook a philosopher for a highwayman.
Colton.
The distinguishing characters of the face,
and the lineaments of the body, grow more
plain and visible with time and age ; but
the peculiar physiognomy of the mind is
most discernible in children.-Locke.
The countenance may be defined as the
title-page which heralds the contents of
the human volume, but like other title-
pages, it sometimes puzzles, oftep misleads,
and often says nothing to the purpose.
W. Mattheros.
PICTURES.-(See " PAINTING.")
PIETY.-(See "RELIGION.”)
Let us learn upon earth, those things
which can prepare us for heaven.--Jerome.
All is vanity which is not honest, and
there is no solid wisdom but in true piety.
- Evelyn.
True piety hath in it nothing weak,
nothing sad, nothing constrained. It en-
larges the heart; it is simple, free, and
attractive.-Ténelon.
I do not doubt but that genuine piety is
the spring of peace of mind; it enables 178
to bear the sorrows of life, and lessens the
pangs of death : the same cannot be said of
irreligion.-Bruyère.
Our piety must be weak and imperfect
if it do not conquer the fear of death, -
Fénelon.
Piety is a silver chain uniting heaven
and earth, temporal and spiritual, God and
man together. --Caussin.
Piety is the only proper and adequate
relief of decaying man. He that grows old
without religious hopes, as he declines into
imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows
crowding upon him, falls into a gulf of
bottomless misery, in which every reflection
must plunge him deeper and deeper. -
Johnson.
A mind full of piety and knowledge is
always rich: it is a bank that never fails;
it yields a perpetual dividend of happiness.
Among the many strange servilities mis-
taken for pieties one of the least lovely is
that which hopes to flatter God by despising
the world and villifying human nature.-
G. H. Lewes.
Growth in piety will be manifest in more
usefulness and less noise ; more tenderness
of conscience and less scrupulosity ; more
steadfastness, peace, humility ; more resig-
nation under God's chastisements, and
more patience under man's injuries. When
the corn is full in the ear, it bends down
because it is full.
We are surrounded by motives to piety
and devotion, if we would but mind them.
The poor are designed to excite our liber-
ality: the miserable, our pity; the sick,
our assistance; the ignorant, our instruc-
tion; those that are fallen, our helping
hand. In those who are vain, we see the
vanity of the world ; in those who are
wicked, our own frailty. When we see
good men rewarded, it confirms our hope ;
and when evil men are punished, it excites
our fear.-Bp. Wilson.
PITY, Pity is not natural to man.
Children and savages are always cruel.
Pity is acquired and improved by the cul-
tivation of reason. We may have uneasy
sensations from seeing a creature in dis-
tress, without pity; but we have not pity
unless we wish to relieve him. When I
am on my way to dine with a friend, and,
finding it late, bid the coachman 'maké
haste, when he whips his horses I may feel
unpleasantly that the animals are put to
pain, but I do not wish him to desist; no,
sir; I wish him to drive on.—Johnson.
Pity is sworn servant unto love, and this
be sure, wherever it begin to make the way,
it lets the master in.--Daniel.
Pity is akin to love; and every thought
of that soft kind is welcome to my soul.
Southern
PLACE.
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PLAGIARISM.
Pity is the virtue of the law, and none
but tyrants use it cruelly.--Shakespeare.
The truly brave are soft of heart and
eyes, and feel for what their duty bids
thom do.-Byron.
Oh, brother man, fold to thy heart thy
brother ; where pity dwells, the peace of
God is there.- Whittier.
Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe.
- Coleridge.
Pity swells the tide of love.--Young.
Of all the paths that lead to a woman's
love, pity is the straightest. Beaumont
and Fletcher.
Nothing but infinito pity is sufficient for
the infinite pathos of human life.—John
Inglesant.
PLACE.-Where you are is of no mo-
ment, but only what you are doing there. It
is not the place that ennobles you, but you
the place, and this only by doing that
which is great and noble. ---Petrarch.
It is not the place that maketh the person,
but the person that maketh the place hon-
orable.Cicero.
Whatever the place allotted to 118 by
Providence, that for us is the post of honor
and duty. God estimates us not by the
position we are in, but by the way in which
we fill it.--Tryon Edwards.
A true man never frets about his place
in the world, but just slides into it by tho
gravitation of his nature, and swings there
as easily as a star.-E. II. Chapin.
To an honest mind the best perquisites
of a place are the advantages it gives a man
of doing good.--Addison.
He who thinks his place below him, will
certainly be below his place.--Saville.
Tho place is dignified by the doer's deed.
-Shakespeare.
PLAGIARISM. (See "ORIGINALITY.")
Nothing is sillier than this charge of pla-
giarism. There is no sixth commandment
in art. The poet dare help himself wher-
ever be lists—wherever he finds material
suited to his work. He may even appro-
priate entire columns with their carved
capitals, if the temple he thus supports be
a beautiful one. Goethe understood this
very well, and so did Shakespeare before
him.-Heine,
It is not strange that remembered ideas
should often take advantage of the crowd
of thoughts and smuggle themselves in as
original.-Honest thinkers are always steal-
ing unconsciously from each other.-Qur
minds are full of waifs and estrays which
we think our own.-Innocent plagiarism
turns up everywhere.-0. W. Hôlmes.
No earnest thinker is a plagiarist pure
and simple. He will never borrow from
others that which he has not already, more
or less, thought out for himself.-Charles
Kingsley.
Keep your hands from literary picking
and stealing. But if you cannot refrain
from this kind of stealth, abstain from
murdering what you steal. - Toplady.
Plagiarists are always suspicious of being
stolen from.-Coleridge.
It has come to be practically a sort of
rule in literature, that a man, having once
shown himself capable of original writing,
is entitled, thenceforth, to steal from the
writings of others at discretion. Thought
is the property of him who can entertain
it and of him who can adequately place it.
A certain awkwardness marks the use of
borrowed thoughts ; but as soon as we
have learned what to do with them, they
become our own.- Emerson.
Literature is full of coincidences, which
some love to believe are plagiarisms.
There are thoughts always abroad in the
air which it takes inore wit to avoid than
to hit upon.0. W. Holmes.
Horace or Boileau have said such a thing,
before.--I take your word for it, but I said
it as my own; and may I not bave the samo
just thoughts after them, as others may
have after me?-Bruyère.
Plagiarists bave, at least, the merit of
preservation.—Disraeli.
Steal! to be sure they may, and, egad,
serve your best thoughts as gipsies dó
stolen children-disfigure them to make
them pass for their own.---Sheridan.
Most plagiarists, like the drone, have not
the taste to select, the industry to acquire,
nor the skill to improve, but impudently
pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the
hive.-Colton.
All the makers of dictionaries, and all
compilers who do nothing else than repeat
backwards and forwards the opinions, the
errors, the impostures, and the truths al-
ready printed, we may term plagiarists;
but they are honest plagiarists, who do
not arrogate the merit of invention.--Call
them, if you please, book-makers, not all-
thors; rather second-hand dealers than
plagiarists.- Voltaire.
Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed mon-
ey, only show the poverty of the borrower.
- Lady Blessington.
As monarchs have a right to call in the
specie of a state, and raise its value by
PLEASING
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PLEASURE.
their own impression ; so are there certain
prerogative geniuses, who are above pla-
giaries, who cannot be said to steal, but,
from their improvement of a thought,
rather to borrowit, and repay the common-
wealth of letters with interest; and may
more properly be said to adopt than to
kidnap a sentiment, by leaving it heir to
their own fame.-Sterne.
It is a special trick of low cunning to
squeeze out knowledge from a modest man
who is eminent in any science, and then to
use it as legally acquired, and pass the
source in total silence.-Florace Walpole.
Touching plagiarism in general, it is to
be remembered that all inen who have
sense and feeling are being continually
helped'; they are taught by every person
whom they meet and enriched by every-
thing that falls in their way. The greatest
is he who has been oftenest aided ; and, if
the attainments of all human minds could
be traced to their real sources, it would be
found that the world had been laid most
nnder contribution by the men of most
original power, and that every day of their
existence deepened their debt to their race,
while it enlarged their gifts to it.—Ruskin.
If we steal thoughts from the moderns,
it will be cried down as plagiarism ; if from
the ancients, it will be cried up as erudi-
tion. But in this respect every author is a
Spartan, more ashamed of the discovery
than of the depredation.—Colton.
There is a very pretty Eastern tale, of
which the fate of plagiarists often reminds
The slave of a magician saw his mas-
ter wave his wand, and heard him give or-
ders to the spirits who arose at the sun-
mons. The slave stole the wand, and waved
it himself in the air ; but he had not ob-
served that his master used the left hand
for that purpose. The spirits thus irregu-
larly summoned, tore the thief to pieces
instead of obeying his orders.--Macaulay.
Borrowed garments never keep one warm.
A curse goes with them, as with Harry
Gill's blankets. Nor can one get smuggled
goods safely into kingdom come. How
lank and pitiful does one of these gentry
look, after posterity's customs-officers have
had the plucking of him !-J. R. Lowell.
PLEASING,-The art of pleasing con-
sists in being pleased. To be amiable is to
be satisfied with one's self and others.-
Hazlitt.
The happy gift of being agreeable seems
to consist not in one, but in an assemblage
of talents tending to communicate delight;
and how many are there, who, by easy
manners, sweetness of temper, and a vå-
riety of other undefinable qualities, pos-
sess the power of pleasing without any
visible effort, without the aids of wit, wis-
dom, or learning, nay, as it should seem,
in their defiance; and this without appear-
ing even to know that they possess it.---
Cumberland.
Most arts require long study and appli-
cation ; but the most useful art of all, that
of pleasing, requires only the desire.
We all live in the hope of pleasing some-
body; and the pleasure of pleasing ought
to be greatest, and always will be greatest,
when our endeavors are exerted in conse-
quence of our duty.-Johnson.
People who make a point of pleasing
everybody, seldom have a heart for any one.
The love of self is the secret of their desire
to please ; and their temper is generally
fickle and insincere.
If you wish to please people, you must
begin by understanding them. Charles
Reade.
PLEASURE,-(See “HAPPINESS.")
Pleasure must first have the warrant that
it is without sin; then the measure, that it
is without excess.-H. G. J. Adam.
There is little pleasure in the world that
is true and sincere beside the pleasure of
doing our duty and doing good. I am sure
110 other is comparable to this.- Tillotson.
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as
not to injure future ones.-Seneca.
Pleasure, when it is a man's chief pur-
pose, disappoints itself; and the constant
application to it palls the faculty of enjoy-
ing it, and leaves the sense of our inability
for that we wish, with a disrelish of every-
thing else. Thus the intermediate seasons
of the man of pleasure are more heavy than
one would impose upon the vilest criminal.
-Steele.
The seeds of repentance are sown in
youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped
in age by suffering. Colton.
When pleasure rules the life, mind, sen-
sibility, and health shrivel and waste, till
at last, and not tardily, no joy in earth or
heaven can move the worn-out heart to
response.-T. T. Munger.
A man that knows how to mix pleasures
with business, is never entirely possessed
by them; he either quits or resumes them
at his will; and in the use he makes of
them he rather finds a relaxation of mind
than a dangerous charm that might cor-
rupt him.-St. Evreniond.
Fly the pleasure that bites to-inorrow.
Herbert.
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PLEASURE,
The public pleasures of far the greater
part of mankind are counterfeit. Very few
carry their philosophy to places of diver-
sion, or are very careful to analyze their
enjoyments. The general condition of life
is so full of misery, that we are glad to
catch delight without inquiring whence it
comes, or by what power it is bestowed.-
Johnson.
Let your pleasures be taken as Daniel
took his prayer, with his windows open
pleasures which need not cause a single
blush on an ingenuous cheek. Theodore
Parker.
The most delicate, the most sensible of
all pleasures, consists in promoting the
pleasure of others.--Bruyère.
Pleasure is one of tliose commodities
which are sold at a thousand shops, and
bonght by a thousand customers, but of
which nobody ever fairly finds possession.
Either they know not well how to lise, or
the commodity will not keep, for no one
hils ever yet appeared to be satisfied with
luis bargain. It is too subtle for transition,
though sufficiently solid for sale.-Simms.
The worst of enemies are flatterers, and
the worst of flatterers are pleasures.--Bos-
suet.
Would you judge of the lawfulness or
unlawfulness of pleasure, take this rule :
whatever weakens your reason, impairs the
tenderness of your conscience, obscuires
your sense of God, or takes off the relish of
spiritual things ; in short, whatever in-
creases the strength and authority of your
body over your mind, that is sin to you,
however innocent it may be in itself.-
Southey.
A life merely of pleasure, or chiefly of
pleasure, is always a poor and worthless
life, not worth the living ; always unsatis-
factory in its course, always miserable in
its end.-Theodore Parker,
The man of pleasure should more prop-
erly be termed the mau of pain ; like
Diogenes, he purchases repentance at the
highest price, and sells the richest rever-
sion for the poorest reality.- Collon.
A life of pleasure makes even the
strongest mind frivolous at last.-Bulwer.
None has more frequent conversations
with disagreeable self than the man of
pleasure ; bis enthusiasins are but few
and transient; his appetites, like angry
creditors, are continually making fruitless
demands for what he is unable to pay; and
the greater his former pleasures, the more
strong his regret, the more impatient his
expectations. A life of pleasure is, there-
fore, the most upleasing life.-Goldsmith.
Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal: no
one feels, who does not at the same time
give it. To be pleased, oue must please.
What pleases you in others, will in general
please them in you.-Chesterfield.
The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a
good actiou by stealth, and have it found
out by accident.-Lamb.
Centers, or wooden frames are put under
the arches of a bridge, to remain no longer
than till the latter are consolidated, and
then are thrown away or cast into the fire.
Even so, sinful pleasures are the devil's
scaffolding to build a habit upon; and
once formed and fixed, the pleasures are
sent for firewood, and hell begins in this
life.- Coleridge.
Mental pleasures never cloy ; unlike
those of the body, they are increased by
repetition, approved by reflection, and
strengthened by enjoyment.---Colton.
There is no greater fool than he who
deliberately goes searching for pleasures.
Forevery pleasure to which he habituates
himself beyond those which God has put
in the natural course of life, is a new fire
kindled in his boues, which will burn his
life-substance for fuel.-- J. M. Ludlow.
No state can be more destitute than that
of a persou, who, when the delights of
sense forsake him, has no pleasures of the
mind.-Burgh.
If all the year were playing holidays, to
sport would be as tedious as to work : but
when they seldom come, they wished for
come, and nothing pleaseth but rare acci-
dents. --Shakespeare.
Pleasure and pain, beauty and deformity,
good and ill, seemed to me everywhere
interwoven ; and one with another made a
pretty mixture, agreeable enough in the
inain. "Twas the same, I fancied, as in
some of those rich stuffs where the flowers
and ground were oddly put together, with
such irregular work and contrary colors,
as looked ill in the pattern, but natural and
well in the picce.--Shaftesbury.
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.-Blair.
Choose such pleasures as recreate much
and cost little. --Fuller,
Pleasure, like quicksilver, is bright and
coy ; we strive to grasp it with our utmost
skill, still it eludes us, and it glitters still :
if seized at last, compute your mighty
gains; what is it, but rank poison in your
veins ? - Young.
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PLEASURE.
Violent delights have violent ends, and
in their triumph die ; like fire and powder,
which, as they kiss, consume: the sweetest
honey is loathsome in his own deliciousness,
and in the taste confounds the appetite.-
Shakespeare.
Consider pleasures as they depart, not as
they come. - Aristotle.
Look upon pleasures not upon that side
that is next the sun, or where they look
beauteously, that is, as they come toward
you to be enjoyed, for then thoy paint and
smile, and dress themselves up in tinsel,
and glass gems, and counterfeit imagery,
Jeremy Taylor.
Pleasure is very seldom found where it
is sought. Our brightest blazes of glad-
ness are commonly kindled by unexpected
sparks.-Johnson.
All fits of pleasure are balanced by an
equal degree of pain or languor ; 'tis like
spending this year, part of the next year's
revenue.-Swift.
We have not an hour of life in which our
pleasures relish not some pain, our sours,
some sweetness.-Massinger.
Pleasure and revenge have ears more
deaf than adders to the voice of any true
decision. --Shakespeare.
The pursuit in which we cannot ask God's
protection must be criminal : the pleasure
for which we dare not thank him cannot be
innocent.
Worldly and sensual pleasures, for the
most part, are short, false, and deceitful.
Like drunkenness, they revenge the jolly
madness of one hour with the sad repent-
ance of many.
He who spends all his life in sport is like
one who wears nothing but fringes, and
eats nothing but sauces. Richard Fuller.
The purest pleasures lie within the
circle of useful occupation.-Mere pleasure,
sought outside of usefulness, is fraught
with poison.-H. W. Beecher.
Let us be sure that our delights exclude
not the presence of God; we may please
ourselves so long as we do not displease
Him.-T. Adams.
He buys honey too dear who licks it from
thorns, Old Proverb.
We smile at the ignorance of the savage
who,cuts down the tree in order to reach its
fruit; but the same blunder is made by
every person who is over eager and im-
patient in the pursuit of pleasure.- Chan-
ning.
Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like
poisoned bread ; they may satisfy appetite
for the moment, but there is death in them
at the end.- Tryon Edwards.
Mistake not. Those pleasures are not
pleasures that trouble the quiet and tran-
quillity of thy life.--Jeremy Taylor.
If I give way to pleasure, I must also
yield to grief, to poverty, to labor, to am-
bition, to anger until I am torn to pieces
by my misfortunes and my lust.-Seneca.
People should be guarded against temp-
tation to unlawful pleasures by furnishing
them the means of innocent ones. In every
community there must be pleasures, relax-
ations, and means of agreeable excitement
i
and if innocent are not furnished, resort
will be bad to criminal. Man was made to
enjoy as well as labor, and the state of
society should be adapted to this principle
of human nature.-Channing.
The sweetest pleasures are those which
do not exhaust hope.--De Lévis.
All pleasure must be bought at the price
of pain. The differenco between false and
true pleasure is this : for the true, the price
is paid before you enjoy it ; for the false,
after you enjoy it.-John Foster.
To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.
-Charles Buxton.
The pleasures of the world are deceitful ;
they promise more than they give. They
trouble us in seeking them, they do not
satisfy us when possessing them, and they
make us despair in losing them.-Mad. de
Lanibert.
He that is violent in the pursuit of pleas-
ure will not mind turning villain for the
purchase.—Marcus Antoninus.
Pleasure's couch is virtuo's grave.--Duo
ganne.
All worldly pleasure is correspondent to
a like measure of anxiety.--F. Osborn.
In diving to the bottom of pleasures we
bring up more gravel than pearls.-Balzac.
There is no sterner moralist than pleas-
ure.—Byron.
Venture not to the utmost bounds of even
lawful pleasures; the limits of good and
evil join.-Fuller.
What leads to unhappiness, is making
pleasure the chief aim.--Shenstone.
Pleasure is in general, dangerous and
perniciou8 to virtue.--To be able, there-
fore, to furnish pleasure that is harmless
and pure and unalloyed, is as great a power
as man can possess.-Johnson,
The man of pleasure little knows the per-
fect joy he loses for the disappointing grati-
fications which he pursues.-Addison.
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POETRY.
No enjoyment is transitory ; the impres-
sion which it leaves is lasting, and what is
done with diligence and toil imparts to the
spectator a secret force, of which one call-
not say how far the effect may reach.
Goethe.
Often and often to me, and instinctively,
has an innocent pleasure felt like a fore-
taste of infinite delight, an antepast of hea-
ven. Nor can I believe otherwise than that
pure happiness is of a purifying effect
i
like the manna from heaven, no doubt it is
meant to invigorate as well as to gratify.-
Mountford.
He who can at all times sacrifice pleas-
ure to duty approaches sublimity.--La-
vater,
Pleasures, riches, honor, and joy are sure
to have care, disgrace, adversity, and afflic-
tion in their train. There is no pleasure
without pain, 110 joy without sorrow. 0
the folly of expecting lasting felicity in a
vale of tears, or a paradise in a ruined
world! Gotthold.
If the soul be happily disposed, every-
thing becomes capable of affording enter-
tainment, and distress will almost want a
nane. Goldsmith.
Put this restriction on your pleasures ;
be cautious that they injure no being that
lives.--Zimmermann.
Most pleasures, like flowers, when gath-
ered, diē.--Young.
All earthly delights are sweeter in ex-
pectation than enjoyment; but all spiritual
pleasures more in fruition than expecta-
tion.-Felthan.
Pleasure and pain spring not so much
from the nature of things, as from our
manner of considering them. -- Pleasure
especially, is never an invariable effect of
particular circumstances.---Largely that is
pleasure which is thought to be so.-Bovee.
It is sad to think how few our pleasures
really are, and for which we risk eternal
good.-Bailey.
I look upon it as an equal injustice to
loath natural pleasures as to be too much
in love with them.--Montaigne.
What if a body might have all the pleas-
ures in the world for asking? Who would
so unman himself as, by accepting them,
to desert his soul, and become a perpetual
slave to his senses?Seneca.
Though a taste of pleasure may quicken
the relish of life, an unrestrained indul-
gence leads to inevitable destruction.
Dodsley.
The slave of pleasure soon sinks in a kind
of voluptuous dotage; intoxicated with
present delights, and careless of every-
thing else, his days and nights glide away
in luxury or vice, and he has no care, but
to keep thought away : for thought is
troublesome to him, who lives without his
own approbation.--Johnson.
Pleasure is to woman what the sun is to
the flower ; if moderately enjoyed, it beau-
tifies, refreshes and improves ; but if im-
moderately, it withers, deteriorates and
destroys. ---Colton.
POETRY.~ Poetry in the art of sub-
stantiating shadows, and of lending exist-
ence to nothing.-- Burke.
Poetry is music in words : and music is
poetry in sound: both excellent sauce, but
those have lived and died poor, who made
them their meat.-Fuller.
The office of poetry is not to make 178
think accurately, but feel truly.-F. W.
Robertson.
Poetry is the music of thought, con-
veyed to us in the music of language.
Chatfield.
Words become luminous when the poet's
finger has passed over them its phosphor-
escence.-- Joubert.
The greatest poem is not that which is
most skillfully constructed, but that in
which there is the most poetry.-Scherer.
You will find poetry nowhere, unless
you bring some with you.--Joubert.
A poet must needs be before his own age,
to be even with posterity.--J. R. Lowell.
Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his
life, has not been a poet.---Lamartine.
Poetry is not made out of the understand-
ing. The question of common sense is al-
ways : "What is it good for?” a question
which would abolish the rose, and be trium-
phantly answered by the cabbage.--J. R
Lowell.
The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling,
doth glance from heaven to earth, from
earth to heaven ; and, as imagination bod-
ies forth the forms of things unknown,
the poet's pen turns them to shapes, and
gives to airy nothing a local habitation and
à name.--Shakespeare.
Of all kinds of ambition, that which pur-
sues poetical fame is the wildest.-Gold-
smith.
If the grain were separated from the
chaff which fills the works of our national .
poets, what is truly valuable would be to
what is useless in the proportion of a mole-
bill to a mountain.-Burke.
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POETRY.
By poetry we mean the art of employing
words in such a manner as to produce an
illusion on the imagination; the art of do-
ing by means of words, what the painter
does by means of colors.—Macaulay.
Truth shines the brighter clad in verse.--
Pope.
Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of na-
ture, brings back the freshness of youthful
feeling, revives the relish of simple pleas-
ures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm
which warmed the spring-time of our be-
ing, refines youthful love, strengthens our
interest in human nature, by vivid deline-
ations of its tenderest and softest feelings,
and, through the brightness of its prophetic
visions, helps faith to lay hold on the fu-
ture life.-Channing.
Poetry is the sister of sorrow; every man
that suffers and weeps, is a poet; every
tear is a verse ; and every heart a poem.
Andre.
It is a shallow criticism that would define
poetry as confined to literary productions
in rhyme and metre. The written poem is
only poetry talking, and the statue, the
picture, and the musical composition are
poetry acting. Milton and Goethe, at their
desks, were not more truly poets than Phi-
dias with his chisel, Raphael at his easel,
or deaf Beethoven bending over his piano,
inventing and producing strains which he
himself could never hope to hear.- Ruskin.
Poetry, good sir, in my opinion, is like a
tender virgin, very young, and extremely
beautiful, whom divers other virgins-
namely, all the other sciences-make it
their business to enrich, polish, and adorn ;
and to her it belongs to make use of them
all, and on her part to give a lustre to them
all.. Cervantes.
Poetry and consumption are the most
flattering of diseases. --Shenstone.
A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket.
Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay
by the very act of borrowing. Examine
nature accurately, but write from recollec-
tion, and trust more to the imagination
than the memory.--Coleridge.
Poets utter great and wise things which
they do not themselves understand.
Plato.
An artist that works in marble or colors
has them all to himself and his tribe, but
the man who moulds his thoughts in verse
has to employ the materials vulgarized by
everybody's use, and glorify them by his
handling.-0. W. Holmes.
Poetry has been to me its own exceeding
great reward : it has given me the habit of
wishing to discover the good and beautiful
in all that meets and surrounds me.--Cole-
ridge.
There are so many tender and holy
emotions flying about in our inward world,
which, like angels, can never assume the
body of an outward act; so many rich and
lovely flowers spring up which bear no seed,
that it is a happiness poetry was invented,
which receives into its limbus all those in-
corporeal spirits, and the perfume of all
these flowers.-Richter.
Perhaps there are no warmer lovers of
the muse than those who are only permitted
occasionally to gain her favors. The shrine
is more reverently approached by the pil-
grimfrom afar than the familiar worshipper.
Poetry is often most beloved by one whose
daily vocation is amid the bustle of the
world.-Tuckerman.
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-
felt truth. The true poet is very near the
oracle.-E. H. Chapin.
Superstition is the poetry of life, so that
it does not injure the poet to be supersti-
tious.- Goethe.
Some scrap of a childish song hath often
been a truer alms than all the benevolent
societies could give. This is the best mis-
sionary, knowing when she may knock at
the door of the most curmudgeonly hearts,
without being turned away unheard. For
poesy is love's chosen apostle, and the very
almoner of God. She is the home of the
outcast, and the wealth of the needy.-J.
R. Lowell.
You arrive at truth through poetry; I
arrive at poetry through truth.-Joubert.
A8 nightingales feed on glow-worms, so
poets live upon the living light of nature
and beauty.-Bailey.
The poet, whether in prose or verse, the
creator, can only stamp his images forcibly
on the page, in proportion as he has forci-
bly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded
over them.- Builwer.
Poetry is in itself strength and joy,
whether it be crowned by all mankind, or
left alone in its own magic hermitage.-
Sterling.
Poets are never young in one senge.
Their delicate ear hears the far-off whis-
pers of eternity, which coarser souls must
travel toward for scores of years before
their dull sense is touched by them.-0.
W. Holmes.
In poetry, which is all fable, truth still
is the perfection.-Shaftesbury.
Whatever the poets pretend, it is plain
they give immortality to none but them-
.
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POLICY
selves : it is Homer and Virgil we reverence
and admire, not Achilles or Æneas.--Swift.
I have met with most poetry on trunks ;
so that I am apt to consider the trunk-
maker as the sexton of authorship.-Byron.
We have more poets than judges and in-
terpreters of poetry.--It is easier to write
an indifferent poem than to understand a
good one.--Montaigne.
In the hands of genius, the driest stick
becomes an Aaron's rod, and buds and
blossoms out in poetry. Is he a Burns ?
the sight of a mountain daisy unseals the
fountains of his nature, and he embalıns
the “bonny gem” in the beauty of his
spirit. Is he a Wordsworth? at his touch
all nature is instinct with feeling ; the
spirit of beauty springs up in the foot-
steps of his going, and the darkest,
nakedest grave becomes a sunlit bank
empurpled with blossoms of life.--H. N.
Hudson.
Poetry is itself a thing of God. He
made his prophets poets; and the more
we feel of poesie do we become like God
in love and power.–Bailey.
All poets pretend to write for immor-
tality, but the whole tribe lave no objec-
tion to present pay and present praise.
Lord Burleigh is not the only statesman
who has thought one hundred pounds too
much for a song, though sung by Spenser;
although Oliver Goldsmith is the only poet
who ever considered himself to have been
overpaid.---Colton.
How different is the poet from the mystic.
The former uses symbols, knowing they
are symbols ; the latter mistakes them for
realities.-F. W. Robertson.
Poetry is the record of the best and hap-
piest moments of the happiest and best
minds.---Shelley.
Poesy is of so subtle a spirit, that in the
pouring out of one language into another
it will evaporate.--Denham.
Poetry is the art of substituting shad-
Ows, and of lending existence to nothing.-
Burice,
The best of poetry is ever in alliance with
real uncorrupted Christianity; and with
the degeneracy of the one always comes
the decline of the other : for it is to Chris-
tianity that we owe the fullest inspirations
of the celestial spirit of charity. — J. A.
St. John.
The world is full of poetry.—The air is
living with its spirit; and the waves dance
to the music of its melodies, and sparkle
in its brightness.—Percival.
Poetry is most just to its divine origin,
when it administers the comforts and
breathes the thoughts of religion.- Words-
worth.
Poetry is the intellect colored by feel-
ings.-Prof. Wilson.
Thoughts that breathe, and words that
burn.-Gray.
He who finds clevated and lofty pleasure
in the feeling of poetry is a true poet,
though he never composed a line of verse
in his entire lifetime.-Mad. Dudevant.
Poets are all who love and feel great
truths, and tell them.-Bailey.
Poetry is something to make us wiser and
better, by continually revealing those types
of beauty and truth which God has set in
all men's souls.-J. R. Lowell.
Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more
general as well as a more powerful domin-
ion over the passions than the art of paint-
ing.–Burice.
All that is best in the great poets of all
countries, is not what is national in them,
but what'is universal.-Longfellow.
Poetry begotten of passion is ever de-
basing ; poetry born of real heartfulness,
always ennobles and uplifts.-- A. A. Hop-
hins.
Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than
history. - Plato.
One merit of poetry few persons will
deny ; it says more, and in fewer words,
than prose. — Voltaire.
He who, in an enlightened and literary
society, aspires to be a great poet, must first
become a little child.-Macaulay.
They learn in suffering what they teach
in song.-Shelley.
POLICY-Policy consists in serving
God in such a manner as not to offend the
devil.-Fuller.
To manage men one ought to have a
sharp mind in a velvet sheath. - George
Eliot.
A statesman makes the occasion, but
the occasion makes the politician.-G. S.
Hillard.
The devil knew not what he did when he
made man politic ; le crossed himself by it.
-Shakespeare.
A politician, Proteus like, must alter his
face and habit, and like water seem
of the same color that the vessel is that
doth contain it, varying his form with the
chameleon at each object's change.-Ma-
Son.
Let go thy hold when a great wheel runs
down the hill, lost it break thy neck with
POLITENESS.
420
POLITENESS.
practice, and all will be charmed with your
manners.-Mrs. Sigourney.
The polite of every country seem to have
but one character. A gentleman of Sweden
differs but little, except in trifles, from one
of any other country. It is among the
vulgar we are to find those distinctions
which characterize a people.- Goldsmith.
Politeness is like an air-cushion ; there
may be nothing in it, but it eases our jolts
wonderfully.
Politeness is fictitious benevolence. It
supplies the place of it among those who
see each other only in public, or but little.
The want of it never fails to produce some-
thing disagreeable to one or other.---John-
son.
following it ; but the great one that goes
up the hill, let him draw thee after.
Shakespeare.
At court one becomes a sort of human
ant-eater, and learns to catch one's prey
by one's tongue.-Bulver.
Measures, not men, have always been my
mark.- Goldsmith.
Turn him to any cause of policy, the
Gordian knot of it he will unloose, familiar
as his garter.-Shakespeare.
It is not juggling that is to be blamed,
but much juggling ; for the world cannot
be governed without it.—Selden.
By a kind of fashionable discipline, the
eye is taught to brighten, the lip to smile,
and the whole countenance to emanato
with the semblance of friendly welcome,
while the bosom is unwarmed by a single
spark of genuine kindness and good-will.-
Washington Irving.
Were the king at noonday to say, "This
day is night," it would behoove us to reply,
"Lo! there are the moon and seven stars!
--Saadi.
An thou canst not smile as the wind sets,
thou wilt catch cold shortly:-Shakespeare.
A few drops of oil will set the political
machine at work, when a ton of vinegar
would only corrode the wheels and canker
the movements.—Collon.
If thou be strong enough to encounter
with the times, keep thy station ; if not,
shift a foot to gain advantage of the times.
He that acts a beggar to prevent a thief is
never the poorer ; it is a great part of wis-
dom sometimes to seem a fool. —Quarles.
Men must learn now with pity to dis-
pense, for policy sits above conscience.-
Shakespeare.
POLITENESS,-(See GOOD-BREED-
ING” and “MANNERS.")
There is no policy like politeness; and a
good manner is the best thing in the world,
either to get a good name, or supply the
want of it. - Bulwer.
As charity covers a multitude of sins
before God, 80 does politeness before men.
--Gréville.
True politeness is perfect ease and free-
dom. It simply consists in treating others
just as you love to be treated yourself. -
Chesterfield.
“Politeness,” says Witherspoon, "is real
kindness kindly expressed "; an admirable
definition, and so brief that all may easily
remember it. This is the sum and sub-
stance of all true politeness. Put it in
Self-command is the main elegance.-
Emerson.
True politeness requires humility, good
isenge, and benevolence. To think more
highly of ourselves than we ought to think,
destroys its quickening principle.--Mrs.
Sigourney.
Politeness smoothes wrinkles.-Joubert.
Politeness is as natural to delicate natures
as perfume is to flowers. -De Finod.
Discourtesy does not spring merely from
one bad quality, but from several-from
foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is
Que to others, from indolence, from stupid-
ity, from distraction of thought, from con-
tempt of others, from jealousy.-Bruyère.
Politeness is but kind feeling toward
others, acted out in our intercourse with
them. We are always polite to those we
respect and esteem.
Good-breeding is the result of much good
sense, some good nature, and a little self-
denial for the sake of others.--Chesterfield.
Do not press your young children into
book learning ; but teach them politeness,
including the whole circle of charities
which spring from the consciousness of
what is due to their fellow-beings.—Spurz-
heinz.
Politeness is the result of good sense and
good nature. A person possessed of these
qualities, though he has never seen a court,
is truly agreeable; and if without them,
would continue a clown, though he had
been all his lifetime a gentleman usher.-
Goldsmith.
There is no policy like politeness, since a
good manner often succeeds where the best
tongue has failed.-Magoon.
Mutual complaisances, attentions, and
sacrifices of little conveniences, are as
natural an implied compact between civil-
nessed
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POLITENESŚ.
ized people, as protection and obedience play affected in it, if a man seems to say-
are between kings and subjects; whoever, look how condescending and gracious I
in either case, violates that compact, justly am !—whilst he has only the common offices
forfeits all advantages arising from it. of civility to perform, such politeness seems
Chesterfield.
founded in mistake, and this mistake I have
Politeness comes from within, from the
observed frequently to occur in French
heart : but if the forms of politeness are
manners.-Cumberland.
dispensed with, the spirit and the thing To the acquisition of the rare quality of
itself soon die away.-John Hall.
politeness, so much of an enlightened un-
Politeness is good nature regulated by
derstanding is necessary that I cannot but
good sense.--Sidney Smith.
consider every book in every science, which
tends to make us wiser, and of course better
Politeness has been well defined as be-
men, as a treatise on a more enlarged sys-
nevolence in small things.-Macaulay.
tem of politeness.-Monro.
A polite man is one who listens with in-
In all the affairs of life, social as well as
terest to things he knows all about, wher political, courtesies of a small and trivial
they are told him by a person who knows character are the ones which strike deepest
nothing about them.-De Morny.
to the grateful and appreciating heart.-
There is no outward sign of politeness Henry Clay.
which has not a deep, moral reason. Be- Politeness does not always evince good-
havior is a mirror in which every one shows
his own image. There is a politeness of but it gives at least the appearance of these
the heart akin to love, from which springs qualities, and makes man appear outwardly
the easiest politeness of outward behavior. as he should be within.-Bruyère.
Politeness is not always the sign of wis- Politeness is to goodness what words are
dom, but the want of it always leaves room to thought. It tells not only on the man-
for the suspicion of folly.--Landor.
pers, but on the mind and the heart; it
There are two kinds of politeness; one
renders the feelings, the opinions, the
says,
"See how polite I am
the other,
words, moderate and gentle.—Joubert.
“Ì would make you happy."--Tomlinson,
Politeness is a mixture of discretion,
The true effect of genuine politeness
civility, complaisance, and circumspection
spread over all we do and say.–St. Lure-
seems to be rather ease than pleasure.-
mond.
Johnson
The spirit of politeness is a desire to
Bowing, ceremonious, formal compli-
bring about by our words and manners,
ments, stiff civilities, will
be
that others may be pleased with us and
politeness ; that must be easy, natural, un- with themselves.—Montesquieu.
studied ; and what will give this but a
mind 'benevolent and attentive to exert
It is because gold is rare that gilding has
that amiable disposition in trifles to all
been invented, which, without having its
solidity, has all its brilliancy.--Thus, to
you converse and live with ?--Chatham.
replace the kindness we lack, we have
The only true source of politeness is devised politeness, which has all its appear-
consideration,--that vigilant moral sense
ance.- De Levis.
which never loses sight of the rights, the
The wise are polite all the world over ;
claims, and the sensibilities of others. This
fools are polite only at home.-Bacon.
is the one quality, over all others, necessary
to make a gentleman.-Simms.
That politeness which we put on to keep
the assuming and the presumptuous at a
Men, like bullets, go farthest when they
are smoothest.-Richter.
proper distance, will generally succeed.
But it sometimes happens that these ob-
Not to perceive the little weaknesses and trusive characters are on such excellent
the idle but innocent affectations of the terms with themselves, that they put down
company may be allowable as a sort of
this very politeness to the score of their
polite duty. The company will be pleased own great merits and high pretensions,
with you if you do, and most probably will meeting the ooldness of our reserve with a
not be reformed by you if you do not. ridiculous condescension of familiarity, in
Chesterfield.
order to get us at ease with ourselves.-
Politeness is nothing more than an ele-
Colton.
gant and concealed species of flattery, Whoever pays you more court than he is
tending to put the person to whom it is accustomed to pay, either intends to de-
addressed in good-humor and respect with ceive you or finds you necessary to him.
himself: but if there is a parade and dis- Courlenny.
never
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POLITICS.
There are few defects in our nature so
glaring as not to be veiled from observation
by politeness and good-breeding.–Stanis-
laus.
Great talent and success render a man
famous; great merit procures respect;
great learning, veneration ; but politeness
alone ensures love and affection.
To be over-polite is to be rude.-Japanese
Proverb.
POLITICS,-(See “PARTY.")
If ever this free people—if this govern-
ment itself is ever utterly demoralized, it
will come from this incessant human wrig-
gle and struggle for office, which is but a way
to live without work.- Abraham Lincoln.
Politics is the art of being wise for others
-policy of being wise for self.--Bulwer.
There is no gambling like politics.-—Dis-
raeli.
All the great and noble authors of the
ancient world, meant, by the science of
politics, the intelligent comprehension of
man's position, and of all his relations as a
member of a great nation. In this sense,
politics subordinate to themselves every
department of earthly science.-A man
who understands nothing of agriculture,
of trade, of human nature, of past history,
of the principles of law, cannot pretend to
be more than a mere empiric in political
legislation.-F. W. Robertson.
When connected with morality and the
character and interest of a country, politics
is a subject second only to religion in im-
portance.- Charles Hodge.
To let politics become a cesspool, and
then avoid it because it is a cesspool, is a
double crime.-No man should be a par-
tisan in the sense of one who votes for his
party, right or wrong.—Howard Crosby.
Nothing is politically right which is
morally wrong. -- Daniel O'Connell.
Politics, however they make the intellect
active, sagacious, and inventive, within
a certain sphere, generally extinguishi
its thirst for universal truth, paralyse
sentiment and imagination, corrupt the
simplicity of the mind, destroy that con-
fidence in human virtle which lies at the
foundation of philanthropy and generous
sacrifices, and end in cold and prudent
selfishness.— Channing.
It is the misfortune of all miscellaneous
political combinations, that with the purest
motives of their more generous members
are ever mixed the most sordid interests
and the fiercest passions of mean con-
federates.-Bulwer.
How little do politics affect the life, the
moral life of a nation. One single good
book influences the people a vast deal more.
Gladstone.
Responsibility educates, and politics is
but another name for God's way of teaching
the inasses ethics, under the responsibility
of great present interests.- Wendell Phil-
lips.
Politics in practice too often mean all
for party, nothing for the people; all for
policy, nothing for principle; all for office,
nothing for lionor; all for power, nothing
for progress.
There is an infinity of political errors
which, being once adopted, become prin-
ciples. - Abbé Raynal.
The amelioration of the condition of
mankind, and the increase of human hap-
piness ought to be the leading objects of
every political institution, and the aim of
every individual, according to the measure
of his power, in the situation he occupies.-
A. Hamilton.
A politician-one that would circumvent
God. --Shakespeare.
To be a chemist you must study chem-
istry; to be a lawyer or a physician you
must study law or medicine ; but to be a
politician you need only to study your own
interests.--Max O'Reil.
The man who can make two ears of corn,
or two blades of grass, grow on the spot
where only one grew before, would deservo
better of mankind, and render more essen-
tial service to the country, than the whole
l'ace of politicians put together.-Swift.
I hate all bungling as I do sin, but par-
ticularly bungling in politics, which leads
to the misery and ruin of many thousands
and millions of people.-Goethe.
Politics is the science of exigencies.--
Theodore Parker.
Some have said that it is not the business
of private men to meddle with government,
—à bold and dishonest saying, which is fit
to come from no mouth but that of a tyrant
or a slave. To say that private men have
nothing to do with government is to say
that private men have nothing to do with
their own happiness or misery ; that people
ought not to concern themselves whether
they be naked or clothed, fed or starved,
deceived or instructed, protected or de-
stroyed.- Cato.
The politics of courts are so mean that
private people would be ashamed to act in
the same way; all is trick and finesse, to
which the common cause is sacrificed.-
Lord Nelson.
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POPULACE.
0
.
Two kinds of men generally best succeed
in political life : men of 10 principle, but
of great talent; and men of no talent, but
of one principle--that of obedience to their
superiors.
Great political questions stir the deepest
nature of one half the nation, but they pass
far above and over the heads of the other
half.-- Wendell Phillips.
A politician weakly and amiably in the
right, is no match for a politician tena-
ciously and pugnaciously in the wrong.
You cannot, by tying an opinion to a man's
tongue, make him the representative of
that opinion ; and at the close of any battle
for principles, liis name will lo found
peither among the dead, nor the wounded,
but among the missing.-E. P. Whipple.
Real political issues cannot be manufac-
tured by the leaders of parties, and cannot
be evaded by them. They declarc them-
selves, and come out of the depths of that
deep which we call public opinion.—Gar-
field.
I know not where to look for any single
work which is so full of the great principles
of political wisdom, as the laws of Moses
and the history of the kings of Israel and
Judah.-G. Spring.
The violation of party faith, is, of itself,
too common to excite surprise or indig-
nation.—Political friendships are so well
tinderstood that we can hardly pity the
simplicity they deceive.—Junius.
Every political question is becoming a
social question, and every social question
is becoming a religious question.-R. T.
Ely.
A politician thinks of the next election
a statesman of the next generation. A
politician looks for the success of his party ;
à statesman for that of his country.-The
statesman wishes to steer, while the poli-
tician is satisfied to drift.-J.F. Clarke.
Jarring interests of themselves create tlie
according music of a well-mixed state.--
Pope.
For my part, though I liko the investi-
gation of particular questions, I give up
what is called “the science of political
economy.”-There is no such science.-
There are no rules on these subjects, so
fixed and invariable, that their aggregate
constitutes a science.--I have reci ntly run
over twenty volumes, from Adam Smail to
Professor Dew, and from the whole if I
were to pick out with one hand all the mere
truisms, and with the other all the doubtful
propositions, little would be left.- Daniel
Webster.
In politics, merit is rewarded by the pos-
sessor being raised, like a target, to a posi-
ciou to be tired at.- Bovee.
A mercantile deputation from Bordeaux,
being asked by Lonis XIV what should
be done to advance their interests, replied,
Sire, let us alone."
There is no Canaan in politics.--As health
lies in labor, and there is no royal road to
it but through toil, so there is no republi-
can road to safety but in constant distrust.
Wendell Phillips.
The strife of politics tends to unsettle the
calmest understanding, and ulcerate the
most benevolent heart. There are no big-
otries or absurdities too gross for parties
to create or adopt under the stimulus of
political passions.-E. P. Whipple.
There is scarcely anything more hainless
than political or party malice. It is best
to leave it to itself. Opposition and con-
tradiction are the only means of giving it
life or duration. Witherspoon.
POPULACE.-(See " MOB.")
Nothing is so uncertain as the minds of
the multitude.—Leiz.
You common cry of curs ! whose breath
I hate as reek o' the rotten fens, wliose
loves I prize as the dead carcasses of un-
buried men that do corrupt the air.-Shalce-
speare.
There have been many great men that
have flattered the people, who never loved
them; and there may be many that they
have loved, they know not wherefore : so
that, if they love they know not why, they
hate upon no better ground.--Shalcespeare.
What is the people but a herd confused,
a miscellaneous rabble, who extol things
vulgar, and well weigh’d, scarce worth the
praise ? they praise and they admire they
know not what, and know not whom, but
as one leads the other.-Milton.
The multitude which is not brought to
actas unity, is confusion. That unity wliich
has not its origin in the multitude is tyr-
auny.-Pascal,
I will not choose what many meu desire,
because I will not jump with common
spirits, and rank me with the barbarous
multitude.--Shakespeare.
The rabble gather round the man of
news, and listen with their mouths wide
open ; some tell, some hear, some judge of
news, some make it, and be that lies most
lond, is most believed.-Dryden.
The multitude is always in the wrong.–
Roscon171207.
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POPULARITY.
There are occasions when the general be-
lief of the people, even though it be ground-
less, works its effect as sure as truth itself.
Schiller.
The proverbial wisdom of the populace
at gates, on roads, and in markets, instructs
the attentive ear of him who studies inan
more fully than a thousand rules ostentir-
tiously arranged.-Lavater.
This gives force to the strong, that the
multitude bave no habit of self-reliance or
original action.-Emerson.
The public sense is in advance of private
practice.-E. H. Chapin.
POPULARITY. - Popular opinion is
the greatest lie' in the world.-Carlyle.
Whatever is popular deserves attention.
Maclcintosh.
Avoid popularity; it has many snares,
and no real benefit. -- Penn.
A popular man soon becomes more pow-
erful than power itself.
The great secrets of being courted, are,
to shun others and to seem delighted with
yourself.--
Bulwer.
A generous nation is grateful even for
the preservation of its rights, and willingly
extends the respect due to the office of a
good prince into an affection for his per-
son.Junius.
Seek not the favor of the muſtitude ; it
is seldom got by honest and lawful means.
But seek the testimony of the few; and
number uot voices, but weigh them.
Kant.
True popularity is not the popularity
which is followed after, but the popu-
larity which follows after.---Lord Mans-
field.
The vulgar and common esteem is seldom
happy in hitting right; and I am much
mistaken, if, amongst the writings of my
time, the worst are not those which have
most gained the popular applause.- Non-
taigne.
Applause waits on success; the fickle
multitude, like the light straw that floats
along the stream, glides with the current
still, and follows fortune.--Franklin.
Be as far from desiring the popnlar love
as fearful to deserve the popular late ;
ruin dwells in both; the one will hug thee
to death; the other will crush thee to de-
struction : to escape the first, be not am-
bitious; avoid the second, be not sedi-
tious.- Quarles.
Those who are commended by everybody
must be very extraordinary men, or, which
is more probable, very inconsiderable men.
-Gréville.
I put no account on him who esteems
himself just as the popular breath may
chance to raise him.- Goethe.
It is not so difficult a task to plant new
truths as to root out old errors ; for there
is this paradox in men, they run after
that which is new, but are prejudiced in
favor of that which is old.- Colton.
A habitation giddy and unsure hath he
that buildeth on the vulgar heart.-shake-
speare.
The greatness of a popnlar character is
less according to the ratio of his genius
than the synipathy he shows with the prej-
udices and even the absurdities of his
time. Fanatics do not select the cleverest,
but the most fanatical leaders ; as was
evidenced in the choice of Robespierre by
the French Jacobins, and in that of Crom-
well by the English Puritans.---Lamartine.
The common people are but ill judges of
a man's merits ; they are slaves to fame,
and their eyes are dazzled with the pomp
of titles and large retinue. No wonder,
then, that they bestow their honors on
those who least deserve them.--Horace.
Glory is safe when it is deserved; it is
not so with popularity ; one lasts like a
mosaic; the other is effaced like a crayon
drawing.-Boufflers.
As inclination changes, thus ebbs and
flows the unstable tide of public judgment.
-Schiller.
The love of popularity seems little else
than the love of being beloved ; and is only
blamable when a person aims at the affec-
tions of a people by means in appearance
honest, but in their end pernicious and
destructive. --Shenstone.
O popular applause! what heart of man
is proof against thy sweet seducing charms?
The wisest and the best feel urgent need of
all their caution in thy gentlest gales; but
swell'd into a gust—who then, alas! with
all his canvas set, and inexpert, and there-
fore heedless, can withstand thy power ?
Cowper.
The only popularity worth aspiring after,
is the popularity of the heart-the popu-
larity that is won in the bosom of families,
and at the side of death beds.-There is
another,-a high and far sounding popu-
larity, which is, indeed, a most worthless
articlema popularity which with its head
il mong storms, and its feet on treacherous
quicksands, lias nothing to lull the agonies
of its tottering existence but the hosannas
of a drivelling generation.- Chalmers.
POSITION
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POSTERITY.
POSITION.-In general, it is not very
difficult for little minds to attain splendid
situations. It is much more difficult for
great minds to attain the place to which
their merit fully entitles them.--Baron de
Grinin.
The higher we rise, the more isolated we
become;
all elevations are cold. De Bouf-
flers.
A great many men--some comparatively
small men now—if put in the right posi-
tion, would be Luthers and Columbuses.
-E. H. Chapin.
From lowest place, when virtuous things
proceed, the place is dignified by the doer's
deed.-Shakespeare.
POSITIVENESS.-Give me a positive
character, with a positive faith, positive
opinions and positive actions, though fre-
quently in error, rather than a negative
character, with a doubting faith, wavering
opinions, undecided actions and faintness
of heart. Something is better than noth-
ing.-C. Simnions.
Positive views of truth and duty are
those that impress the mind and lead to
action; negation dwells mostly in cavil and
denial.- Whately.
The most positive men are the most cred-
ulous, since they most believe themselves,
and advise most with their falsest flatterer
and worst enemy, their own self-love.-
Pope.
Positiveness is a most absurd foible. If
you are in the right, it lessens your tri-
umph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to
your defeat.-Slerne.
Every one of his opinions appears to him-
self to be written with sunbeams.- Walls.
Positiveness is a good quality for
preachers and orators, because whoever
would obtrude his thoughts and reasons
upon a multitude will convince others the
more, as he appears convinced himself.
-Swift.
POSSESSIONS,--No possessions are
good, but by the good use we make of them ;
without which wealth, power, friends, and
servants, do but help to make our lives
more unhappy.--Sir W. Temple.
It so falls out that what we have we prize
not to the worth whiles we enjoy it; but
being lacked and lost, why then we rack the
value; then we find the virtue that posses-
sion would not show us whiles it was ours.
--Shakespeare.
In life, as in chess, one's own pawns
block one's way. A man's very wealth,
ease, leisure, children, books, which shoulí
help him to win, more often chockmate him.
-Charles Buxton.
Attainment is followed by neglect, and
possession by disgust. The malicious re-
mark of the Greek epigrammatist on mar-
riage may apply to every other course of
life-that its two days of happiness are the
first and the last.-Johnson.
Possession, why more tasteless than
pursuit? Why is a wish far dearer than a
crown? That wish accomplished, why the
grave of bliss? Because, in the great
future buried deep, beyond our plans, lies
all that man with ardor should pursue
Young.
In all wordly things that a man pursues
with the greatest eagerness and intentiou
of mind, he finds not half the pleasure in
the actual possession of them as he pro-
posed to himself in the expectation.--South.
One's own-what a charm there is in the
words ! how long it takes boy and man to
find out their worth ! how fast most of us
hold on to them ! faster and more jealously,
the nearer we are to the general home into
which we can take nothing, but must go
naked as we came into the world. When
shall we learn that he who multiplieth pos-
sessions, multiplieth troubles, and that the
one single use of things which we call our
own, is that they may be his who hath need
of them?-Hughes.
POSTERITY,We are too careless of
posterity, not considering that as they are
so the next generation will be.-Penn.
It is pleasant to observe how free the
present age is in laying taxes on the next.
"Future ages shall talk of this ; they shall
be famous to all posterity"; whereas their
time and thoughts will be taken up about
present things, as ours are now.-Swift.
Posterity preserves only what will pack
into small compass. Jewels are banded
down from age to age ; less portable valu-
ables disappear.—Lord Stanley.
With respect to the authority of great
names, it should be remembered, that he
alone deserves to have any weight or in-
fluence with posterity, who has shown
himself superior to the particular and pre-
dominant error of his own times.-Colton.
I would much rather that posterity should
inquire why no statues were erected to me,
than why they were.-Cato.
of this our ancestors complained, we our-
selves do so, and our posterity will equally
lament, because goodness has vanished
and evil habits prevail, while buman affairs
grow worse and worse, sinking into an
abyss of wickedness.-Seneca.)
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POVERTY.
The drafts which true genius draws upon
posterity, although they may not always be
honored so soon as they are due, are sure
to be paid with compound interest in the
end.-Colton.
If we would amend the world, we should
mend ourselves, and teach our children to
be, not what we are, but what they should
be.-- Penn.
Time will unveil all things to posterity;
it is a chatterer, and speaks to those who
do not question it.—Euripides.
A foreign nation is a contemporaneous
posterity.-A. P. Stanley.
POVERTY.-Poverty is no disgrace to
a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
-Sidney Smith.
Poverty is the wicked man's tempter, the
good man's perdition, the proud man's
curse, the melancholy man's halter.-Bul-
20er.
Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but
only when it comes from idleness, intemper-
ance, extravagance, and folly.-'Plularch,
Who can confess his poverty and look it
in the face, destroys its sting: but a proud
poor man, ho is poor, indeed.-L. E. Lan-
don.
When it is not despicable to be poor, we
wapt fewer things to live in poverty with
satisfaction, than to live magnificently with
riches.-St. Euremond.
Poverty is the sixth sense.--German
Proverb.
Of all the advantages which come to any
young man, I believe it to be demonstrably
true that poverty is the greatest.-J. G.
Holland.
An avoval of poverty is no disgrace to
any man ; to make no effort to escape it is
indeed disgraceful.- Thucydides.
Poverty eclipses the brightest virtues,
and is the very sepulchre of brave designs,
depriving a man of the means to accom-
plish what nature has fitted him for, and
stifling the noblest thoughts in their em-
bryo. Many illustrious souls may be said
to have been dead among the living, or
buried alive in the obscurity of their con-
dition, whose perfections have rendered
them the darlings of Providence, and com-
panions of angels.--Turlish Spyj.
An English judge being asked what con-
tributed most to success at the bar, replied,
“Some succeed by great talent, some by
the influence of friends, some by a miracle,
but the majority by commencing without a
shilling.”
Poverty is uncomfortable, as I can tes-
tify: but nine times out of ten the best
thing that can happen to a young man is
to be tossed overboard and compelled to
sink or swim for himself.--Garfield.
He is not poor that has little, but he that
desires much.-Daniel,
Poverty is very terrible, and sometimes
kills the very soul within us ; but it is the
north wind that lashes men into Vikings ;
it is the soft, luscious, south wind, which
lulls them to lotus dreams.Ouida.
Want is a bitter and a hateful good, be-
cause its virtues are not understood, yet
many things, impossible to thought, have
been by need to full perfection brought;
the daring of the soul proceeds from thence,
sharpness of wit and active diligence;
prudence at once, and fortitude it gives;
and, if in patience taken, mends our lives.
-Dryden.
Poor and content is rich, and rich
enough; but riches endless is as poor as
winter to him that ever fears he shall be
poor.-Shakespeare.
Poverty is not always of the nature of an
affliction or judgment, but is rather merely
a state of life, appointed by God for the
proper trial and exercise of the virtues of
contentment, patience, and resignation
i
and for one man to murmur against God,
because he possesses not the riches he has
given to another, is “the wrath that killeth
the foolish man, and the envy that slayath
the silly one."--Burgh.
He travels safe and not unpleasantly,
who is guarded by poverty and guided by
love.Sir P. Sidney.
In proportion as nations get more cor-
rupt, more disgrace will attach to pov-
erty, and more respect to wealth. There
are two questions that would completely
reverse this order of things : “What keeps
some persons poor? and what has made
some others rich ?" The true answer to
these queries would often make the poor
man more proud of his poverty than the
rich man is of his wealth, and the rich
man more justly ashamed of his wealth,
than the poor man unjustly is of his pov-
erty.- Colton.
A wise man poor is like a sacred book
that's never read ; to himself he lives and
to all else seems dead.-Decker.
Many good qualities are not sufficient to
balance a single want-the want of money.
-Zimmermann.
As pauperism, in distinction from pov-
erty, is dependence on other people for ex-
istence, and not on our own exertions, so
there is a moral pauperism in the man who
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is dependent on others for that support of.
the moral life-self respect.-Bulwer.
Tew save the poor feel for the poor.-L.
E. Landon.
A poor man resembles a fiddler, whose
music, though liked, is not much praised,
because he lives by it; while a gentleman
performer, though the most wretched scra-
per alive, throws the audience into rapture.
Goldsnith.
Only experience can show how salt the
savor is of others' bread, and how sad a
path it is to climb and descend another's
stairs.-Dante.
Poverty possesses this disease, that
through want it teaches man to do evil.
- Turipides.
We should not so much esteem our pov-
erty as a misfortune, were it not that the
world treats it so.-Bovee.
It is the great privilege of poverty to be
happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy
without physic, secure without a guard,
and to obtain from the bounty of nature
what the great and wealthy are compelled
to procure by the help of art.-Johnson.
If poverty is the mother of crimes, want
of sense is the father of them.-Bruyère.
It is only luxury and avarice that make
poverty grievous to us; for it is a very
sinall matter that does our business ; and
when we have provided against cold, hun-
ger, and thirst, all the rest is but vanity
and excess.--Séneca.
Poverty, in large cities, has very different
appearances. It is often concealed in
splendor, and often in extravagance.
It
is the care of a great part of mankind to
conceal their indigence from the rest.
They support themselves by temporary
expedients, and every day is lost in con-
triving for to-morrow.-Johnson.
Want of prudence is too frequently the
want of virtue; nor is there on earth a
more powerful advocate for vice than pov-
erty.--Goldsmith.
Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit
and virtue ; it is hard for an empty bag to
stand upright.-Franklin.
Not to be able to bear poverty is a shamc-
ful thing ; but not to know how to chase it
away by work is a more shameful thing yet.
-Pericles.
To be poor, and seem to be poor, is a cer-
tain way never to rise.-Goldsmith.
The real wants of nature are the meas-
ure of enjoyments, as the foot is the meas-
ure of the shoe. We cau call only the want
of what is necessary, poverty.-St. Clement.
Lord God, I thank thee that thou hast
been pleased to make me a poor and in di-
gent mai pon earth. I have neither
house nor land nor money to leave behind
me.-Luther.
Poverty is only contemptible when it is
felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to
make our poverty respectable is to seem
never to feel it as an evil.--Bovee.
Through tattered clothes small vices do
appear ; robes and furred gowns hide all.
-Shakespeare.
That man is to be accounted poor, of
whatever rank he be, and suffers the pains
of poverty, whose expenses exceed his re-
sources ; and no man is, properly speaking,
poor, but he.-Paley.
He is poor whose expenses exceed his in-
come.-Bruyère.
Poverty palls the most generous spirits ;
it cows industry, and casts resolution itself
into despair.-Addison.
Poverty is, except where there is an act-
ual want of food and raiment, a thing much
more imaginary than real. The shame of
being thought poor is a great and fatal
weakness, though arising in this country
from the fashion of the times themselves.
-Cobbett.
There is nothing keeps longer than a
middling fortune, and nothing melts away
sooner than a great one.-Poverty treads
on the heels of great and unexpected riches.
- Bruyère.
If riches are, as Bacon says, the baggage
("impedimenta ") of virtue, impeding its
onward progress-poverty is famine in its
commissary department, starving it into
weakness for the great conflict of life.-
Tryon Edwards.
If rich, it is easy enough to conceal our
wealth ; but if poor, it is not quite so easy
to conceal our poverty. We shall find that
it is less difficult to hide a thousand guin-
eas than one hole in our coat.-- Colton.
Chill penury weighs down the heart itself;
and though it sometimes be endured with
calinness, it is but the calmness of despair.
Mrs. Jameson.
It would be a considerable consolation to
the poor and discontented, could they but
see the means whereby the wealth they
covet has been acquired, or the misery that
it entails.-Zimmermann.
Poverty is the test of civility and the
touchstone of friendship.-Hazliit.
In one important respect a man is for-
tunate in being poor. His responsibility
to God is so much the less. Bovee.
e
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POWER.
It is not poverty so much as pretence, Poverty is very good in poems, but very
that harasses & ruined man—the struggle bad in the house ; very good in maxims and
between a proud mind and an empty purse, sermons, but very ba
bad iu practical life.
—the keeping up of a hollow show that H. W. Beecher.
must soon come to an end. Have the cour-
The poor are always considered under the
age to appear poor, and you disarm poverty
peculiar care of the gods.—Menander.
of its sharpest sting.–Mrs. Jameson.
Poverty, labor, and calamity are not
POWER,-(See "AUTHORITY.")
without their luxuries, which the rich, the know of nothing sublime which is not
indolent, and the fortunate in vain seek some modification of power..Burke.
for.-Hazlitt.
Even in war moral power is to physical
When we have only a little we should be as three parts out of four.–Napoleon.
satisfied ; for this reason, that those best
The less the power-physical and political
evjoy abundance who are contented with
-of one man over another, the better.
the least; and so the pains of poverty are
But of moral power, that of truth and vir-
removed, simple fare can give a relish
tue, of wisdom and love, of magnanimity
equal to the most expensive luxuries.-
and true religion, there cannot be an ex-
Epicurus.
cess.—This is the guardian of all right; it
The poor are only they who feel poor, makes those on whom it acts, free; it is
and poverty consists in feeling poor.-The
rich, as we reckon them, and among them must fall before it.-Channing.
the very rich, in a true scale would be found
Power, to its last particle, is duty.-John
very indigent and ragged.- Emerson.
Foster.
The extent of poverty in the world is
much exaggerated.
Where is the source of power? The soul
Our sensitiveness
of God is poured into the world through
makes half our poverty ; our fears-anxie-
the thoughts of men. The world stands
ties for ills that never happen a greater
on ideas, and not on iron or cotton; and
part of the other half.- Bovee.
the iron of iron, the fire of fire, the other
Nature makes us poor only when we want and source of all the elements, is moral
necessaries, but custom gives the name of force.- Emerson.
poverty to the want of superfluities.-John-
The greater a man is in power above
others, the more he vught to excel them in
A single solitary philosopher may be virtue. None ought to govern, who is not
great, virtuous, and happy in the depth better than the governed.-Publius Syrus.
of poverty, but not a whole people.
All human power is a compound of time
Iselin.
and patience.–Balzac.
No man is poor who does not think him-
Power and liberty are like heat and
self 80; but if in a full fortune, he with
moisture ; where they are well mixt, every-
impatience desires more, he proclaims his
wants aud his beggarly condition.—Jeremy
thing prospers; where they are single, they
are destructive.-Saville.
Taylor.
The weakest living creature, by concen-
Poverty is the only load which is the
heavier the more loved ones there are to
trating his powers on a single object, can
assist in bearing it.-Richter.
accomplish something. The strongest, by
dispensing his over many, may fail to
There is not such a mighty difference as accomplish anything. The drop, by con-
some men imagine between the poor and tinually falling, bores its passage through
the rich ; in pomp, show, and opinion there the hardest rock. The hasty torrent rushes
is a great deal, but little as to the pleasures over it with hideous uproar, and leaves no
and satisfactions of life ; they enjoy the trace behind.-Carlyle.
same earth and air and heavens ; bunger
Men deride the self-conceit of power,
and thirst make the poor man's meat and
drink as pleasant and relishing as all the
but cringe to its injustice.
varieties which cover the rich man's table ; Power is so characteristically calm, that
and the labor of a poor man is more health- calmness in itself has the aspect of power,
ful, and many times more pleasant, too, and forbearance implies strength. The
than the ease and softness of the rich.- orator who is known to have at his com-
Sherlock.
mand all the weapons of invective is most
formidable when most courteous.-
Bulwer.
The poor and the stranger are sent by
Jove, and what we give to them ye lend to Arbitrary power is the natural object of
him.--Ilomer.
temptation to a prince; as wine or women
Son,
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PRAISE
By moral power we mean the power of a
life and a character, the power of good and
great purposes, the power which comes at
length to reside in a man distinguished in
some course of estimable or great conduct.
-No other power of man compared with
this, and there is no individual who may not
be ineasurably invested with it. Horace
Bushnell.
To kuow the pains of power, we must go
to those who have it; to know its pleasures,
we must go to those who are seeking it.
The pains of power are real; its pleasures
imaginary.--Colton.
PRAISE.-The real satisfaction which
praise can afford, is when what is repeated
aloud agrees with the whispers of con-
science, by showing us that we have not
endeavored to deserve well in vain.-John-
ܕ
Son.
to a young fellow, or a bribe to a judge, or
avarico to old age, or vanity to a woman.“
Swift.
Power acquired by guilt has seldom been
directed to any good end or useful pur-
pose. - Tacitus.
It is an observation no less just than
common, that there is no stronger test of
a man's real character than power and
authority, exciting as they do every pas-
sion, and discovering every latent vice.-
Plutarch.
Nothing destroys authority so much as
the unequal and untimely interchange of
power, pressed too far and relaxed too
much.-Bacon,
Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as
wine the strongest heads. No man is wise
enough, nor good enough, to be trusted
with unlimited power.-Colton.
Power, like the diamond, dazzles the be-
holder, and also the wearer ; it dignifies
meanness; it maguifies littleness; to what
is contemptible, it gives authority; to what
is low, exaltation.- Colton.
Nothing, indeed, but the possession of
some power can with any certainty discover
what at the bottom is the true character of
any man.-Burke.
We have more power than will; and it is
often by way of excuse to ourselves that
we fancy things are impossible.-Rochefou-
cauld.
Justice without power is inefficient;
power without justice is tyranny. Justice
without power is opposed, because there
are always wicked men. Pover without
justice is 800n questioned. Justice and
power must therefore be brought together,
so that whatever is just may be powerful,
and whatever is powerful may be just.“
Pascal.
It is not possible to found a lasting power
upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.-
Demosthenes.
Beware of dissipating your powers ;
strive constantly to concentrate them.
Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees
others doing, but it is sure to repent of
every ill-judged outlay.-Goethe.
Power is ever stealing from the many to
the few. The manna of popular liberty
inust be gathered each day, or it is rotten.
Wendell Phillips.
There is always room for a man of force,
and he makes room for many. Society is a
troop of thinkers, and the best heads
among them take the best places.-Emer-
We are all excited by the love of praise,
and it is the noblest spirits that feel it
inost.-Cicero.
Praise is the best auxiliary to prayer.
He who most bears in mind what has been
done for him by God will be most embold-
ened to ask for fresh gifts from above.--H.
Melvill.
Praise undeserved is satire in disguise.
Broadhurst.
No ashes are lighter than those of in-
cense, and few things burn out sooner.
Landor,
Be not too great a niggard in the com-
mendations of him that professes thy own
quality; if he deserve thy praise, thou
Hast discovered thy judgment; if not, thy
modesty ; honor either returns or reflects
to the giver. Quarles.
What a person praises is perhaps a surer
standard, even, than what he condemns, of
his character, information, and abilities.
No wonder, then, that most people are so
shy of praising anything.--Hare.
Praise is a debt we owe to the virtues of
others, and is due to our own from all
whom malice has not made mutes, or envy
struck dumb.-Sir Thomas Browne.
I should entertain a mean opinion of
myself if all men, or the most part, praised
and admired me; it would prove me to be
somewhat like them.- Landor.
Among the smaller duties of life, I hardly
know any one more important than that of
not praising where praise is not due. Rep-
utation is one of the prizes for which men
contend: it produces more labor and more
talent than twice the wealth of a country
could ever rear up. It is the coin of genius,
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and it is the imperious duty of every man
to bestow it with the most scrupulous
justice and the wisest economy.-Sydney
Smith.
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its
value only to its scarcity. It becomes
cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no
longer raise expectation or animate enter-
prise.—Johnson.
It is not be that searches for praise that
finds it.-Rivarol.
Praise follows truth afar off, and only
overtakes her at the grave; plausibility
clings to her skirts and holds her back till
then.-J. R. Lowell.
It is a great happiness to be praised of
them who are most praiseworthy.-Sir P.
Sidney.
Words of praise, indeed, are almost as
necessary to warm a child into a congenial
life as acts of kindness and affection.
Judicious praise is to children what the
sun is to flowers. --Bovee. .
Praise is but virtue's shadow ; who courts
her, doth more the hand-maid, than the
dame admire.-Heath.
Praise in the beginning is agreeable
enough, and we receive it as a favor ; but
when it comes in great quantities, we re-
gard it only as a debt, which nothing but
our merit could extort.-Goldsmith.
Those who are greedy of praise prove
that they are poor in merit.- Plutarch.
Praise is the reflection doth from virtue
rise ; its fair encomiums do virtue raise to
higher acts.-Aleyn.
The villain's censure is extorted praise.—
Pope.
The most agreeable recompense which
we can receive for things which we have
done is to see them known, to have them
applauded with praises which honor us.—
Molière.
Praise is sometimes a good thing for the
diffident and despondent. It teaches them
properly to rely on the kindness of others.
-L. L. Landon.
How a little praise warms out of a man
the good that is in him, as the sneer of
contempt which he feels is unjust chills the
ardor to excel.-Bulwer.
Expect not praise without envy until you
are dead. Honors bestowed on the illus-
trious dead have in them 10 admixture of
envy; for the living pity the dead ; and
pity and envy, like oil and vinegar, as-
similate not. Colton.
Damn with faint praise.- Pope.
Desert being the essential condition of
praise, there can be no reality in the one
without the other.-- Washington Allston.
One good deed, dying tongueless, slaugh-
ters a thousand waiting upon that. Our
praises are our wages.--Shakespeare.
There is not a person we employ who
does not, like ourselves, desire recognition,
praise, gentleness, forbearance, patience.
H. W. Beecher.
Praise never gives us much pleasure un-
less it coucur with our own opinion, and
extol us for those qualities in which we
chiefly excel.--Hure.
Every one that has been long dead has
a due proportion of praise allotted him, in
which, whilst he lived, his friends were too
profuse and his enemies too sparing.-
Addison.
The love of praise, howe'er conceal'a by
art, reigns more or less, and glows in
every heart: the proud, to gain it, toils on
toils endure, the modest shun it but to
make it sure.-Young.
Praise not people to their faces, to the
end that they may pay thee in the same
coin. This is so thin a cobweb, that it
may with little difficulty be seen through
'tis rarely strong enough to catch flies of
any considerable magnitude.-Fuller.
Allow no man to be so free with you as to
praise you to your face. Your vanity by
this means will want its food. At the same
time your passion for esteem will be more
fully gratified ; men will praise you in their
actions: where you now receive one com-
pliment, you will then receive twenty civili-
ties.-Steele.
Half uttered praise is to the curious
mind, as to the eye half veiled beauty is
more precious than the whole.-J. Baillie.
Praise of the wise and good ! it is a meed
for which I would long years of toil en-
which many a peril, many a grief
would cure.--Brydges.
Praise has different effects, according to
the mind it meets with ; it makes a wise
man modest, but a fool more arrogant,
turning his weak brain giddy - Feltham.
True praise is frequently the lot of the
humble ; false praise is always confined to
the great.-Fome.
We are not fond of praising, and never
praise any one except from interested mo-
tives. Praise is a clever, concealed, and
delicate flattery, which gratifies in different
ways the giver and the receiver. The one
takes it as a recompense of his merit, and
the other bestows it to display his equity
and discernment.---Rochefoucauld.
dure;
1.5l0ans,
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PRAYER.
One of the most essential preparations his own praises speaks ill of himself, and
for eternity is delight in praising God; a much derogates from his true deserts. It
þigher acquirement, I do think, than even is worthy of blame to affect commendation,
delight and devotedness in prayer.-Chal- Arthur Warwiclc.
mers.
A truly worthy man should avoid naming
They are the most frivolous and super- himself; Christian piety annihilates the
ficial of mankind, who can be much de- worldly me; worldly civility hides and sup-
lighted with that praise which they them-
presses it.--Pascal.
selves know to be altogether unmerited.- Praise, more divine than prayer ; prayer
Adam Smith.
points our ready path to heaven; praise is
As the Greek said, many men know how already there. - Young.
to flatter ; few know to praise.- Wendell
Phillips.
PRAYER.-Prayer is a sincere, sensi-
It is no flattery to give a friend a due
ble, affectionate pouring out of the soul to
character ; for commendation is as much
God, through Christ, in the strength and
the duty of a friend as reprehension.--Plu-
assistance of the Spirit, for such things as
God has promised.-Bunyan.
tarch.
The praises of others may be of use in
Prayer is not overcoming God's reluc-
teaching us, not what we are, but what we
tance; it is laying hold of His highest wil-
ought to be.-Hare.
lingness.--Trench.
Praise no man too liberally before his
The body of our prayer is the sum of our
face, nor censure him too lavishly behind
duty; and as we must ask of God whatso-
his back : the one savors of flattery ; the
ever we need, so we must watch and labor
other of malice ; and both are reprehensi-
for all that we ask.-Jerenry Taylor.
ble: the true way to advance another's Heaven is never deaf but when man's
virtue is to follow it; and the best means heart is dumb.-Quarles.
to cry down another's vice is to decline it.
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are
-Quarles.
moments when, whatever be the attitude
We should not be too niggardly in our of the body, the soul is on its knees.-
praise, for men will do more to support a Victor Hugo.
Character than to raise one.-- -Colton,
Let not him who prays, suffer his tongue
It takes a great deal of grace to be able to outstrip his heart; nor presume to carry
to bear praise. Censure seldom does 118 a message to the throne of grace, while
much hurt. A man struggles up against that stays behind.-South.
slander, and the discouragement which
Every good and holy desire, though it
comes of it may not be an unmixed evil;
lack the form, hath in itself the substance
but praise soon suggests pride, and is there-
and force of a prayer with God, who re-
fore not an unmixed good.-Spurgeon.
Whenever you commend, add your rea- sighings of the heart.-Hooler.
song for doing so ; it is this which dis-
Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestuess;
tinguishes the approbation of a man of not the definition of helplessness, but the
sense from the flattery of sycopbants and feeling of it; not figures of speech, but
admiration of fools.-Steele.
earnestness of soul.-H. More.
The more you speak of yourself, the more The prayer that begins with trustfulness,
you are likely to lie.—Zimmermann. and passes on into waiting, will always ená
Think not those faithful who praise all
in thankfulness, triumph, and praise.
thy words and actions, but those who kindly
A. Maclaren.
reprove thy faults. --Socrates.
I believe I should have been swept away
There's not one wise man among twenty
by the flood of French infidelity, if it had
will praise himself.-Shakespeare.
not been for one thing, the remembrance
of the time when my sainted mother used
His praise is lost who waits. till all com-
mend. -Pope.
to make me kneel by her side, taking my
little hands in hers, and caused me to re-
Praising what is lost makes the remem- peat the Lord's Prayer.—John Randolph.
brance dear.-Shakespeare.
I know no blessing so small as to be rea-
I will not much commend others to them- sonably expected without prayer, nor any
selves, I will not at all commend myself to
80 great but may be attained by it. --South.
others. So to praise any to their faces is a I have been driven many times to my
kind of flattery, but to praise myself to knees by the overwhelming conviction that
any is the height of folly. He that boasts Į had nowhere else to go, My own wisdom,
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PRAYER.
and that of all about me, seemed insuffi-
cient for the day.- Abraham Lincoln.
A prayer in its simplest definition is
merely a wish turned God-ward.-Phillips
Brooks.
Holy, humble, penitent, believing, ear-
nest, persevering prayer is never lost; it
always prevails to the accomplishment of
the thiug sought, or that with which the
suppliant will be better satisfied in the
end, according to the superior wisdom of
his heavenly father, in which he trusts.-
Weeks.
God's way of answering the Christian's
prayer for more patience, experience, hope,
and love, often is to put him into the fur-
nace of affliction.-Cecil.
Our prayers should be for blessings in
general, for God knows best what is good
for us. ----Socrates.
Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also
work for it.-Jeremy Taylor.
Prayer is as much the instinct of my
nature as a Christian, as it is a duty en-
joined by the command of God. It is my
language of worship, as a man; of depend-
ence, as a creature; of submission, as a
subject; of confession, as a sinner; of
thankfulness, as the recipient of mercies ;
of supplication, as a needy being.-Tryon
Edroards.
God dwells far off from us, but prayer
brings him down to our earth, and links
his power with our efforts.---Mad. de Gas-
parin.
I have lived to thank God that all my
prayers have not been answered.-Jean
Ingelow.
I desire no other evidence of the truth
of Christianity, than the Lord's prayer.-
Mad. de Staël.
The fewer words the better prayer. -
Luther.
Good prayers never come creeping home.
I am sure I shall receive either what I
ask, or what I should ask.-Bp. Hall.
Prayer and provender hinder no man's
journey.-oid Proverb.
He who runs from God in the morning
will scarcely find Him the rest of the day.
-Bunyan.
Trouble and perplexity drive me to
prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity
and trouble. -Melanchthon.
Practise in life whatever you pray for,
and God will give it to you more abun-
dantly.- Pusey.
Prayer covers the whole of a man's life.
There is no thought, feeling, yearning, or
desire, however low, trifling, or vulgar we
may deem it, which, if it affects our real
interest or happiness, we may not lay be-
fore God and be sure of his sympathy.
His nature is such that our often coming
does not tire him. The whole burden of
the whole life of every man may be rolled
on to God and not weary him, though it
has wearied the man.-H. W. Beecher.
The end of our prayers is often gained
by an answer very different from what we
expect. “Lord, what wilt thou have me to
do?" was the question of Paul; and a large
part of the answer was, “I will show him
how great things he must suffer."— Tryon
Edwards.
Any heart turned God-ward, feels more
joy in one short hour of prayer, than e'er
was raised by all the feasts on earth since
its foundation.--Bailey.
Mount upward, heaven is won by prayer ;
be sober, for thou art not there!
We, ignorant of ourselves, beg often our
own harins, which the vise powers deny us
for our good ; so we find profit by losing of
our prayers.—Shakespeare.
The deepest wishes of the heart find
expression in secret prayer.-Geo. E. Rees.
Prayer ardent opens heaven, lets down a
stream of glory on the consecrated hour of
man, in audience with the Deity ; who wor-
ships the great God, that instant joins the
first in heaven, and gets his foot on hell.
Young.
We should pray with as much earnestness
as those who expect everything from God
and should act with as much energy as
those who expect everything from them-
selves.- Colton.
Our prayer and God's mercy are like two
buckets in a well; while the one ascends,
the other descends.-Hoplins.
A good man's prayers will from the
deepest dungeon climb heaven's height, and
bring a blessing down.---Joanna Baillie.
If you cannot pray over a thing, and
cannot ask God to bless you in it, don't do
that thing. A secret that you would keep
from God is a secret that you should keep
from your own heart.
Open thy heart to God, if he be there,
the outspread world will be thy book of
prayer. - Tholuck,
I have been benefited by praying for
others ; for by making an errand to God
for them I have gotten something for my-
self.--Rutherford.
Prayer is the preface to the book of
Christian living ; the text of the new life
son.
prayer to God doth not change him, but fits
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sermon; the girding on of the armor for thing he pleaseth thereon, this is the last,
battle; the pilgrim's preparation for his the greatest achievement of the Christian's
journey. It must be supplemented by ac- warfare on earth.-Coleridge.
tion or it amounts to nothing.-4. Phelps.
Let our prayers, like the ancient sacri-
All the duties of religion are eminently fices, ascend morning and evening. Let
solemn and venerable in the eyes of chil- our days begin and end with God. - Chan-
dren. But none will so strongly prove the ning.
sincerity of the parent; none so powerfully
God is infinitely great in himself; we
awaken the reverence of the child ; none
should recognize it in humble adoration :
80 happily recommend the instruction he
always good; we should acknowledge it by
receives, as family devotions, particularly grateful thanksgiving: we have constant
those in which petitions for the children
need of his blessings; it becomes us to ask
occupy a distinguished place.--T. Dwight.
them at his hand.-Tryon Edwards.
The only instance of praying to saints,
More things are wrought by prayer than
mentioned in the Bible, is that of the rich
the world dreams of. What are men better
man in torment calling upon Abraham ;
than sheep or goats, that nourish a blind
and let it be remembered, that it was life within the brain, if, knowing God, they
practised only by a lost soul and without
lift no hands of prayer both for themselves
success.-Cecil.
and those who call them friends !—Tenny-
In the morning, prayer is the key that
opens to us the treasure of God's mercies
The best answer to all objections urged
and blessings; in the evening, it is the key
against prayer is the fact that man cannot
that shuts us up under his protection and help praying; for we may be sure that
safeguard.
that which is so spontaneous and ine-
Prayer, as the first, second, and third radicable in human nature has its fitting
element of the Christian life, should open, objects and methods in the arrangements
prolong, and conclude each day. The first of a boundless Providence.-E. H. Chapin.
act of the soul in early morning should be He prayeth best who loveth best.—Cole-
a draught at the heavenly fountain. It
hoidge.
will sweeten the taste for the day. A few
Faith builds in the dungeon and the
moments with God at that calm and tran-
lazarhouse its sublimest shrines; and up,
quil season, are of more value than much
fine gold. And if you tarry long so sweetly
through roofs of stone, that shut out the
at the throne, you will come out of the
eye of heaven, ascends the ladder where
closet as the high priest of Israel came from
the angels glide to and fro-prayer.-Bul-
the awful ministry at the altar of incense,
wer.
suffused all over with the heavenly fra-
“Prayer," says St. Jerome,"is a groan.”
grance of that communion.-H. W. Beecher, Ah! our groans are prayers as well. The
Leave not off praying to God: for either
very cry of distress is an involuntary appeal
to that invisible Power whose aid the soul
praying will make thec leave off sinning;
invokes.-Mad. Swetchine.
or continuing in sin will make thee desist
from praying.-Filler.
Prayer among men is supposed a means
to change the person to whom we pray; but
As my greatest business is for God, to
serve him, so my daily business is with
us to receive the things prayed for.--Stil-
God, to ask him for strength to do it.
lingfleet.
It is as natural and reasonable for a de-
The greatest prayer is patience.-Bud-
pendent creature to apply to its Creator for
aha.
what it needs, as for a child to solicit the
aid of a parent who is believed to have the
Each time thou wishest to decide upon
disposition and ability to bestow what it
performing some enterprise, raise the eyes
needs.–Archibald Alexander.
to heaven, pray God to bless thy project;
if thou canst make that prayer, accomplish
The Lord's Prayer contains the sum thy work.-Leopold Schefer.
total of religion and morals.- Wellington.
The first petition that we are to make to
'Tis heaven alone that is given away ; it Almighty God is for a good conscience, the
is only God may be had for the asking.- next for health of mind, and then of body.
J. R. Lowell.
-Seneca.
To pray as God would have us, with all So weak is man, so ignorant and blind,
the heart and strength and reason and will, that did not God sometimes withbold in
and to believe that God will listen to our mercy what we ask, we should be ruined at
voice through Christ, and verily do the our own request. Hannah More.
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whilst thou canst hardly get out a few
broken words. Hence thou art ready to
accuse thyself and admire him, as if the
gilding of the key made it open the door
the better.-Gurnall.
It is good for us to keep some account of
our prayers, that we may not unsay them
in our practice.-M. Henry.
To him who hearkens to the gods, the
gods give ear.-Homer.
God denies a Christian nothing but with
a design to give him something better.-
Cecil.
If you would have God hear you when
you pray, you must hear him when he
speaks.—He stops his ears against the
prayers of those who stop their ears against
his laws.
God hears no more than the heart speaks ;
and if the heart be dumb, God will cer-
tainly be deaf.-T. Brooks.
In prayer it is better to have a heart with-
out words, than words without a heart.
Bunyan.
The Ediles among the Romans had their
doors always standing open, that all who
had petitions might have free access to
them. The door of heaven is always open
for the prayers of God's people.-T. Wat-
Human life is a constant want, and ought
to be a constant prayer.-S. Osgood.
No man can hinder. our private addresses
to God ; every man can build a chapel in
his breast, himself the priest, his heart the
sacrifice, and the earth he treads on, the
altar.-Jeremy Taylor.
The simple heart that freely asks in love,
obtains.-
Whittier.
Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of
the soul into the unfound infinite ? No
nan ever prayed heartily without learning
something.- Emerson.
Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul
flies to heaven, and meditation the eye
wherewith we see God.- Ambrose.
Trouble and perplexity drive me to
prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity
and trouble.-Fénelon.
“Never think that God's delays are God's
denials." — True prayer always receives
what it asks, or something better.—Tryon
Eduards.
I never was deeply interested in any sub-
juct, I never prayed sincerely for any
thing, but it came. At some time, no mat-
ter at how distant a day, somehow, in some
shape-probably the last I should'devise-
it came.-A. Judson.
Remember, whatever warrant you have
for praying, you have the same warrant to
believe your prayers will be answered.----
J. Phillips.
If one draw near to God with praise and
prayer even half a cubit foot, God will go
twenty leagues to meet him.-E. Arnola.
What men usually ask for when they
pray to God is, that two and two may not
make four.-Russian Proverb.
Every prayer that is really such-that is,
which flows from the inward necessity of
the soul-God answers.— Olshausen.
As well might we expect vegetation to
spring from the earth without the sunshine
and the dew, as the Christian to unfold his
grace and advance in his course withont
patient, persevering, ardent prayer. – J.
Abbott.
The Lord's Prayer is not, as some fancy,
the easiest, the most natural of all devout
utterances. It may be committed to mem-
ory quickly, but it is slowly learned by
heart.-Maurice.
No man prays in faith who thinks he
knows better than God; or who, not know-
ing, wishes that his ignorance may over-
rule God's wisdom.
Sometimes, perhaps, thou hearest anoth-
cr pray with much freedom and fluency,
son.
When we pray for any virtue, we should
cultivate the virtue as well as pray for it ;
the form of your prayer should be the rule
of your life ; every petition to God is a
precept to man. Look not, therefore, upon
your prayers as a method of good and sal-
vation only, but as a perpetual monition of
duty. By what we require of God we see
what he requires of us.--Jeremy Taylor.
He who prays as bo ought will endeavor
to live as he prays.-- Owen.
We need not perplex ourselves as to the
precise mode in which prayer is answered.
It is enough for us to know and feel that
it is the most natural, the most powerful,
and the most elevated expression of our
thoughts and wishes in all great emergen-
cies. -A. P. Stanley.
Premeditation of thought and brevity of
expression are the great ingredients of that
reverence that is required to a pious and
acceptable prayer.--South.
The best and sweetest flowers of paradise
God gives to his people when they are on
their knees.-Prayer is the gate of heaven
the key to let us into paradise.-T.
Brooks.
Lord Ashley, before he charged at the
battle of Edge Hill, made this short prayer :
logic of your prayers, how methodical they
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-_-0 Lord! Thou knowest how busy I petition, that by 80 excellent an authority
must be this day ; if I forget Thee, do not we may know what it is lawful to beg of
Thou forget me.
God.-Jeremy Taylor.
Prayer without watching is hypocrisy ; To a certain extent, God gives to the
and watching without prayer is presump- prayerful control of Himself, and becomes
tion.-- W. Jay.
their willing agent; and when the tinie
The greater thy business is, by so much comes when all mysteries are solved, and
the more thou hast need to pray for God's
the record of all lives is truthfully revealed,
good-speed and blessing upon it, seeing it it will probably be seen that not those who
is certain nothing can prosper without his
astonished the world with their own powers,
blessing. The time spent in prayer never
but those who quietly, through prayer, used
hinders, but furthers and prospers a man's God's power, were the ones who made the
journey and business: therefore, though,
world move forward.-E. P. Roe.
thy haste be never so much, or thy busi- Pray to God, at the beginning of all
ness never so great, yet go not about it, thy works, that so thou mayest bring them
nor out of thy doors, till thou hast prayed. all to a good ending. --Xenophon.
-Bp. Bayley.
PREACHING.-Though we live in a
Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against
reading age and in a reading community,
all temptations.-Bernard.
yet the preaching of the Gospel is the form
True prayer never comes weeping home : in which human agency has been and still
I am sure that I shall get either what I ask, is most efficaciously employed for the
or what I ought to have asked.-Leighton. spiritual improvement of men.-Daniel
Prayer crowns God with the honor and Webster.
glory due to his name, and God crowns A strong and faithful pulpit is no mean
prayer with assurance and comfort.--The
safeguard of a nation's life. -John Fall.
most praying souls are the most assured
souls. -T. Brooks.
The object of preaching, is, constantly
to remind mankind of what they are con-
Blessed be God, I not only begin praying stantly forgetting; not to supply the defects
when I kneel down, but I do not leave off of human intelligence, but to fortify the
praying when I rise up.-T. Adam.
feebleness of human resolutions; to recall
Never was faithful prayer lost.--Some mankind from the by-paths where they
prayers have a longer voyage than others, turn into that broad path of salvation
but then they return with their richer lad- which all know, but few tread.-Sidney
ing at last, so that the praying soul is a
Smith.
gainer by waiting for an answer. --Gurnall. Send your audience away with a desire
The Christian will find his parentheses for for, and au impulse toward spiritual im-
prayer even in the busiest hours of life.- provement, or your preaching will be a
Cecil.
failure.--Goulburn.
God looks not at the oratory of your It requires as much reflection and wis-
prayers, how elegant they may be ; nor at dom to know what is not to be put into a
the geometry of your prayers, how long sermon, as what is.-Cecil.
they may be; nor at the arithmetic of your The Christian ministry is the worst of all
prayers, how many they may be ; not at trades, but the best of all professions. —
John Newton.
may be ; but the sincerity of them he looks
Men of God have always, from time to
at.-T. Brooks.
time, walked among men, and made their
They never sought in vain that sought commission felt in the heart and soul of the
the Lord aright.- Burns.
commouest bearer.- Emerson.
The Lord's Prayer, for a succession of For years I have attended the ministra-
solemn thoughts, for fixing the attention tions of the house of God on the Sabbath,
upon a few great points, for suitableness to and though ny pursuits are literary, I tell
every condition, for sufficiency for con- you I have received, through all these
ciseness without obscurity, for the weight years, more intellectual nourishment and
and real importance of its petition, is with- stimulus from the pulpit, than from all
out an equal or a rival.--Paley.
other sources combined.-J. G. Holland.
The Lord's Prayer is short and mysteri- It is not a minister's wisdom but his
ous, and, like the treasures of the Spirit, conviction which imparts itself to others.
full of wisdom and latent senses : it is not Nothing gives life but life. Real flame
improper to draw forth those excellencies alone kindles other flame; this was the
which are intended and signified by every power of the apostles; “We believe and
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therefore speak.” Firm faith in what they
spoke, that was the basis of the apostles'
strength.-F. W. Robertson,
A popular preacher once said of his
pulpit efforts, "I always roar when I have
nothing to say."
A preacher should have the skill to
teach the unlearned simply, roundy, and
plainly; for teaching is of more importance
than exhorting.-Luther.
I don't like those mighty fine preachers
who round off their sentences so beauti-
fully that they are sure to roll off the sinner's
conscience.-Rowland Hill.
As the great test of medical practice is
that it heals the patient, so the great test
of preaching is that it converts and builds
up the hearers.-H, L. Wayland.
That is not the best sermon which makes
the hearers go away talking to one another,
and praising the speaker, but which makes
them go away thoughtful and serious, and
hastening to be alone.-Bp. Burnet.
I would have every minister of the Gospel
address his audience with the zeal of a
friend, with the generous energy of a
father, and with the exuberant affection of
a mother.-Ferielon.
The preacher should be positive, but not
dogmatic ; earnest, but not denunciatory;
tender, but not sentimental; scholarly, but
not pedantic; simple, but not common-
place; impassioned, but yet graceful;
popular, but not vulgar. Believing with
all his heart in the reality and deadly
power of sin, in the peril of the ungodly,
and in the Gospel as the only adequate
remedy for a ruined race, he should try to
inake his fellow-men believe the same; and
by his tremendous earnestness, by the con-
tagion of his own faith, he would succeed.
Reasons are the pillars of the fabric of a
sermou, but similitudes are the windows
which give the best light. The faithful
minister avoids such stories as may suggest
bad thoughts to the auditors, and will not
use a light comparison to make thereof a
grave application, for fear lest his poison
go further than his antidote.-Fuller.
Some plague the people with too long
sermons; for the faculty of listening is a
tender thing, and soon becomes weary and
satiated. --Luther.
To preach more than half an hour, a
man should be an angel himself or have
angels for hearers.- Whitefield.
The meanness of the earthen vessel which
conveys to others the Gospel treasure, takes
nothing from the value of the treasure.
dying band may sign a deed of gift of incal-
culable value. A shepherd's boy may point
out the way to a philosopher. A beggar
may be the bearer of an invaluable present.
-Cecil.
Many a meandering discourse one hears,
in which the preacher aims at nothing,
and-hits it. Whately.
Grant that I may never rack a Scripture
simile beyond the true intent thereof, lest,
instead of sucking milk, I squeeze blood
out of it.-Fuller.
Let your sermon grow out of your text,
and aim only to develop and impress its
thought.-Of a discourse that did not do
this it was once wittily said, "If the text
had the small-pox, the sermon would never
catch it."— Tryon Edwards.
I love a serious preacher, who speaks for
my sake and not for his own; who seeks
my salvation, and not his own vainglory.
He best deserves to be heard who uses
speech only to clothe his thoughts, and his
thoughts only to promote truth and virtue.
Nothing is more detestable than a professed
declaimer, who retails his discourses as a
quack does his medicine. --Massillon.
The life of a pious minister is visible
rhetoric.-Hooker.
He who the sword of heaven will bear,
should be as holy as severe.--Shakespeare.
It was said of one who preached very
well, and lived very ill, “that when he was
out of the pulpit it was pity he should ever
go into it; and when he was in the pulpit,
it was pity he should ever come out of it."
-Fuller.
The world looks at ministers out of the
pulpit to kuow what they mean when in it.
Cecil.
The defects of a preacher are soon spied.
Let him be endued with ten virtues, and
have but one fault, and that one fault will
eclipse and darken all his virtues and gifts,
so evil is the world in these times.-Luther.
It is a good divine that follows his own
instructions.-Shakespeare.
In pulpit eloquence, the grand difficulty
lies here; to give the subject all the dignity
it so fully deserves, without attaching any
importance to ourselves. The Christian
messenger cannot think too highly of his
Prince, or too humbly of himself.--Colton.
All things with which we deal preach to
What is a farm but a mute Gospel ?
The chaff and the wheat, weeds and plants,
blight, rain, insects, sun,-it is a sacred
emblem from the first furrow of spring to
the last stack which the snow of winter
overtakes in the fields.- Emerson.
us.
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It is in vain for the preacher to hope to
please all alike. Let a man stand with his
face in what direction he will, he must
necessarily turn his back on one-half of the
world. —Anon.
A good discourse is that from which one
can take nothing without taking the life.-
Fénelon.
Oh, that our prelates would be as diligent
to sow the corn of good doctrine, as Satan
is to sow cockle and darnel.-Latimer.
Pulpit discourses have insensibly dwin-
dled from speaking to reading ; a practice
of itself sufficient to stifle every germ of
eloquence.-Sydney Smith.
A minister, without boldness, is like a
smooth file, a knife without an edge, a sen-
tinel that is afraid to let off his
gun.
If
men will be bold in sin, ministers must be
bola to reprove.-Gurnall.
Evil ministers of good things, says
Hooker, are like torches, a light to others,
but not to themselves; or, as Cox says, like
Noah's carpenters, building an ark for
others, while they themselves are not saved
by it.
The pulpit is the clergyman's parade ;
the parish is his field of active service.
Southey.
I preached as never sure to preach again,
and as a dying man to dying men.-Baxter.
First, in your sermons, use your logic,
and then your rhetoric ; rhetoric without
logic is like a tree with leaves and blossoms,
but no root.-Selden.
To preach practical sermons, as they are
called, that is sermons upon 'virtues and
vices, without inculcating those great
Scripture truths of redemption which alone
can incite and enable us to forsake sin and
follow righteousness, is but to put together
the wheels, and set the hands of the watch,
forgetting the spring which is to make
them all move.- Bp. Horne,
My grand point in preaching is to break
the hard heart, and to heal the broken one.
-John Newton.
Of Bradford's preaching, Foxe says,
“Sharply be opened and reproved sin;
sweetlýhe preached Christ crucified; pithily
he impugned heresy and error; and ear-
nestly he persuaded to a godly life.”
To love to preach is one thing—to love
those to whom we preach, quite another.
Cecil.
No sermon is of any value, or likely to be
useful, which has not the three R's in it;
ruin by the fall, redemption by Christ, and
regeneration by the Holy Spirit.--My aina
in every sermon, is loudly to call sinners,
to quicken saints, and to be made a blessing
to all.-Ryland.
Genius is not essential to good preaching,
but a live man is.-A Phelps.
The world is dying for want, not of good
preaching, but of good hearing. - G. D.
Boardman.
PRECEDENT.-A precedent embalms
a principle.--Disraeli.
The lawless science of the law, that code-
legs myriad of precedent, that wilderness
of single instances.- Tennyson.
One precedent creates another.— They
soon accumulate, and constitute law.
What yesterday was fact, to-day is doctrine.
-Examples are supposed to justify the
most dangerous measures ; and where they
do not suit exactly, the defect is supplied
by analogy.-Junius.
Precedents are the band and disgrace of
legislation. They are not wanted to jus-
tify right measures, and are absolutely in-
sufficient to excuse wrong ones. They can
only be useful to heralds, dancing-masters,
and gentlemen ushers.-Sterne.
PRECEPT.- The practices of good
men are more subject to error than their
speculations. I will, then, honor good ex-
amples, but endeavor to live according to
good precepts.--Bp. Hall.
· He that lays down precepts for the gov-
ernment of our lives and moderating our
passions, obliges human nature not only in
the present but in all succeeding genera-
tions.–Seneca.
Too many follow example rather than
precept; but it is safer to learn rather from
precept than example.—Many a wise teache
er does not follow his own teaching ; for it
is easier to say, do this, than to do it. If
then I see good doctrine with an evil life,
though I pity the last, I will follow the first
-Good sayings belong to all ; evil actions
only to their authors.- Warwick.
Most precepts that are given are so gen-
eral that they cannot be applied, except by
an exercise of as much discretion as would
be sufficient to frame them.-- Whately.
Precepts are the rules by which we
ought to square our lives. When they are
contracted into sentences, they strike the
affections; whereas admonition is only
blowing of the coal. -Seneca.
It was observed of the Jesuits, that they
constantly inculcated a thorough contempt
of worldly things in their doctrines, but
eagerly grasped at them in their lives.
They were wise in their generation, for
they cried down worldly things, because
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they wanted to obtain them, and cried up
spiritual things, because they wanted to
dispose of them.-Colton.
If to do were as easy as to know what
were good to do, chapels had been churches,
and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
It is a good divine that follows his own in-
structions ; I can easier teach twenty what
were good to be done, than be one of the
twenty to follow mine owu teaching.
Shakespeare.
Nothing is more unjust, however com-
mon, than to charge with hypocrisy him
that expresses zeal for those virtues which
he neglects to practise ; since he may be
incerely convinced of the advantages of
conquering his passions, without having
yet obtained the victory; as a inan may be
confident of the advantages of & voyage or
a journey, without having courage or in-
dustry to undertake it, and may honestly
recommend to others those attempts which
he neglects himself.--Johnson.
PREFACE.--A preface, Being the en-
trance of a book, should invite by its
beauty. An elegant porch announces the
splendor of the interior.—Disraeli.
A good preface is as essential to put the
reader into good humor, as a good pro-
logue is to a play, or a fine symphony to an
opera, containing something analogous to
the work itself, so that we may feel its
want as a desire not elsewhere to be grati-
fied. The Italians call the preface the
sauce of the book ;" and, if well-seasoned,
it creates an appetite in the reader to de-
vour the book itself. Disraeli.
There's no want of meat, sir ; portly and
curious viands are prepared to please all
kinds of appetites. ---Massinger.
Reader, now I send thee, like a bee, to
gather honey out of flowers and weeds ;
every garden is furnished with either, and
80 is ours. Read and meditate.-H. Smith.
Go, little book ; God send thee good
passage, and specially let this be thy pray-
er, unto them all that thee will read or
hear, where thou art wrong, after their
help to call, thee to correct in any part, or
all. - Chaucer.
PREJUDICE, - He that is possessed
with a prejudice is possessed with a devil,
and one of the worst kind of devils, for it
shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruin-
ou8 error.— Tryon Edwards.
Prejudice is a mist, which, in our jour-
ney through the world, often dims the
brightest, and obscures the best of all the
good and glorious objects that meet us on
our way.---Tales of Passions.
He who knows only his own side of the
case knows little of that.-J. Stuart Mill.
Prejudice may be considered as a con-
tinual false medium of viewing things, for
prejudiced persons not only never speak
well, but also never think well of those
whom they dislike, and the whole charac-
ter and conduct is considered with an eye.
to that particular thing which offends
them.-Bp. Butler.
Prejudice, which sees what it pleases,
cannot see what is plain.-Aubrey de Vere.
Never try to reason the prejudice out of
a man.-It was not reasoned into him, and
cannot be reasoned out.-Sydney Smith.
All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.--
Pope.
Prejudice is the reason of fools.- Vol-
taire.
Ignorance is less remote from the truth
than prejudice. ---Diderot.
There is nothing stronger than human
prejudice. A crazy sentimentalism, like
that of Peter the Hermit, hurled half of
Europe upou Asia, and changed the desti-
nies of kingdoms.- Wendell
Phillips. .
Reasoning against a prejudice is like
fighting against a shadow; it exhausts the
reasoner, without visibly affecting the pre-
judice. Argument cannot do the work of
instruction any more than blows can take
the place of sunlight.-Charles Mildnay.
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
Hazlitt.
The prejudices of ignorance are more
easily removed than the prejudices of in-
terest; the first are all blindly adopted, the
second willfully preferred.-Bancroft.
The confirmed prejudices of a thought-
ful life, are as hard to change as the con-
firmed habits of an indolent life: and as
some must trifle away age, because they
trified away youth, others must labor on
in a maze of error, because they have wan-
dered there too long to find their way out.
-- Bolingbroke.
Beware of prejudices. They are like rats,
and men's minds are like traps ; prejudi-
ces get in easily, but it is doubtful if they
ever get out.
There is nothing respecting which a man
may be so long unconscious, as of the ex-
tent and strength of his prejudices.
Opinions grounded on prejudice are
always sustained with the greatest violence.
- Jeffrey.
The prejudiced and obstinate man does
not so much hold opinions, as his opinions
hold him.- Tryon Edwards.
-Goldoni.
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When the judgment is weak the prejudice the more we cherish them. We are afraid
is strong.-O'Hara.
to put men to live and trade each on his
Every one is forward to complain of the
own private stock of reason, because we
prejudices that mislead other men and suspect that this stock in each man is small,
parties, as if he were free, and had none of
and that the individuals would do better to
his own. What now is the cure? No other
avail themselves of the general bank and
but this, that every man should let alone
capital of nations and of ages.-Burke.
others' prejudices and examine his own.- Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to
Locke.
determine the heart.--Zimmermann.
Prejudice and self-sufficiency, naturally No wise man can have a contempt for
proceed from inexperience of the world, the prejudices of others; and 'he should
and ignorance of mankind.-Addison, even stand in a certain awe of his own, as
Even when we fancy we have grown
if they were aged parents and monitors.
wiser, it is only, it may be, that new prej- They may in the end prove wiser than he.
udices have displaced old ones.- Bovee.
-Hazlitt.
In forming a judgment, lay your hearts National antipathy is the basest, because
void of foretaken opinions ; else, whatso- the most illiberal and illiterate of all prej-
ever is done or said, will be measured by a udices.-Jane Porter,
wrong rule : like them who have the jaun- Because a total eclipse of the sun is above
dice, to whom everything appeareth yellow. my own head, I will not therefore insist
Sir P. Sidney.
that there must be an eclipse in America
Some prejudices are to the mind what the also; and because snowflakes fall before
atmosphere is to the body; we cannot feel my own nose, I need not believe that the
without the one, nor breathe without the Gold Coast is also showed up.-Richter.
other.-Gréville.
Prejudices, it is well known, are most
Every period of life has its peculiar prej- difficult to eradicate from the heart whose
udices ; whoever saw old age that did not soil has never been loosened or fertilized
applaud the past, and condemn the present by education; they grow there, firm as
times ?-Montaigne.
weeds among rocks.-Charlotte Brontë.
Prejudices may be intense, but their To lay aside all prejudice, is to lay aside
lives are limited.—To discover when they all principles.--He who is destitute of prin-
are dead and to bury them, is an important ciples is governed by whims.--Jacobi.
matter, and no unseemly tears should be
When we destroy an old prejudice we
shed at their funerals.
have need of a new virtue.- Mad. de Staël.
Human nature is so constituted, that all
None are too wise to be mistaken, but
see, and judge better, in the affairs of
few are so visely just as to acknowledge
other men, than in their own.- Terence.
and correct their mistakes, and especially
He that never leaves his own country is the mistakes of prejudice.--Barrow.
Prejudices are what rule the vulgar
To divest one's self of some prejudices, crowd.- Voltaire.
would be like taking off the skin to feel the
Moral prejudices are the stop-gaps of
better.-Gréville.
virtue; and as is the case with other stop-
Prejudice is the conjuror of imaginary gaps, it is often more difficult to get either
wrongs, strangling truth, overpowering out or in through them, than through any
reason, making strong men weak and weak other part of the fence.—Hare.
men weaker. God give us the large- A man who thinks he is guarding himself
hearted charity which beareth all things,
against prejudices by resisting the author-
believeth all things, hopeth all things, en-
ity of others, leaves open every avenue to
dureth all things," which
" thinketh no
singularity, vanity, self-conceit, obstinacy,
evil !”—Macduf.
and many other vices, all tending to warp
Prejudice is a mist, which in our journey the judgment, and prevent the natural
through the world often dims the brightest operation of his faculties. We are not
and obscures the best of all the good and satisfied with our own opinions, whatever
glorious objects that meet us on our way.- we may pretend, till they are ratified and
Shaftesbury.
confirmed by suffrage of the rest of man-
Instead of casting away our old prej-
kind. We dispute and wrangle forever ;
udices, we cherish them to a very consider-
we endeavor to get men to come to us when
able degree, and, more shame to ourselves,
we do not go to them.--Sir Joshua Reynolds.
we cherish' them because they are prej- Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass
udices ; and the longer they have lasted i itself off for reason. -Hazlitt.
PRESENT.
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PRESENT.
.
We may
The great obstacle to progress is prej-
udice. Bovee.
In whatever mind prejudice dwells, it
acts, in relation to truth, as alkali does in
relation to acids, neutralizing its power.-
Arguments the most cogent, discourses the
most powerful, can be neutralized at once
by some prejudice in the mind.---Thomas.
Prejudice squints when it looks, and lies
when it talks.-Duchess de Abrantes.
When prejudices arise from a generous
though mistaken source, they are hugged
closer to the bosom ; and the kindest and
most compassionate patures feel a pleasure
in fostering a blind and unjust resentment.
-Erskine.
Opinions adopted and approved by the
wise and good in the past, usually have a
solid foundation, and though adherence to
them is sometimes counted as prejudice,
they are not to be lightly disapproved or
laid aside.
Men are often warned against old prej-
udices : I would rather warn them against
new conceits. The novelty of an opinion,
on most moral subjects, is a presuinption
against it. Generally speaking, it is only
the half-thinker, who in matters concerning
the feelings and ancestral opinions of men,
stumbles on new conclusions. The true
philosopher searches out something else-
tlie propriety of the feeling, the wisdom of
the opinion, the deep and living roots of
whatever is fair and enduring. For on
such points, our first and third thoughts
will be apt to coincide.
PRESENT --(See "TIME")
Every man's life lies within the present;
for the past is spent and done with, and the
future in uncertain.-Marcus Antoninus,
Devote each day to the object then in
time, and every evening will find something
done.- Goethe.
Live this day as if it were the last.-Bp.
Kerr.
If I am faithful to the duties of the
present, God will provide for the future.--
Bedell.
Let us enjoy the fugitive hour. Man has
no harbor, time has no shore, it rushes on
and carries us with it.-Lamartine.
Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport
of the over-mastering present.--Schiller.
Since Time is not a person we can over-
take when he is gone, let us bonor him
with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while
he is passing.- Goethe.
Busy not yourself in looking forward to
the events of to-morrow, but those of the
days which Providence may assign you
neglect not to turn to advantage.-Horace.
Enjoy the blessings of this day, if God
sends them; and the evils bear patiently
and sweetly; for only this day is ours; we
are dead to yesterday, and not born to-
morrow.--Jeremy Taylor.
Try to be happy in this very present mo-
ment; and put not off being so to a time
to come : as thongh that time should be of
another make from this, which is already
come, and is ours.-Fuller.
In the midst of hopes and cares, of ap-
prehensions and of disquietudo, regard
every day that dawns upon you as if it was
to be your last; then superadded hours, to
the enjoyment of which you had not looked
forward, will prove an acceptable boon.--
Horace.
Men spend their lives in anticipations, in
determining to be vastly happy at some
period when they have time. But the
present time has one advantage over every
other-it is our own. Past opportunities
are gone, future are not come.
lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay
in a stock of wine ; but if we defer the
tasting of them too long, we shall find that
both are soured by age.-Colton.
Do to-day's duty, fight to-day's tempta-
tion ; do not weaken and distract yourself
by looking forward to things you cannot
see, and could not understand if you saw
them.-Charles Kingsley.
Abridge your hopes in proportion to the
shortness of the span of human life ; for
while we converse, the hours, as if envious
of our pleasure, fly away : enjoy therefore
the present time, and trust not too much
to what to-morrow may produce. ---Horace.
Look upon every day as the whole of life,
not merely as a section; and enjoy and inn-
prove the present without wishing, through
haste, to rush on to another.-Richter.
To eternity itself there is no other han-
dle than the present moment.
Let any man examine his thoughts, and
he will find them ever occupied with the
past or the future. We scarcely think at
all of the present; or if we do, it is only to
borrow the light which it gives for regu-
lating the future. The present is never
our object; the past and the present we
use as means; the future only is our end.
Thus, we never live, we only hope to live.
--Pascal.
Duty and to-day are ours, results and
futurity belong to God.-Horace Greeley.
Every day is a gift I receive from Hea-
ven ; let us enjoy to-day that which it be-
PRESS.
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PRETENSION.
stows on me. It belongs not more to the
young than to me, and to-morrow belongs
to no one.-Mancroix.
We think very little of time present;
we anticipate the future, as being too slow,
and with a view to hasten it onward, we
recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone.
We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander
through the hours which are not here, re-
gardless only of the moment that is actu-
ally our own.-Pascal.
Each present joy or sorrow seems the
chief. Shakespeare.
The future is purchased by the present.
-Johnson.
PRESS.-The press is the foe of rhet-
oric, but the friend of reason.—Colton.
What gunpowder did for war, the print-
ing-press has done for the mind; the
statesman is no longer clad in the steel of
special education, but every reading man
is his judge.- Wendell Phillips.
In former days superstitious rites were
used to exorcise evil spirits ; but in our
times the same object is attained, and be-
yond comparison more effectually, by the
common newspaper. Before this talisman,
ghosts, vampires, witches, and all their
kindred tribes are driven from the land,
never to return again. The touch of "holy
water," is not so intolerable to them as the
smell of printing ink.-J. Benthan.
When the press is the echo of sages and
reformers, it works well; when it is the
echo of turbulent cynics, it merely feeds
political excitement.-Lamartine.
If by the liberty of the press, we under-
stand merely the liberty of discussing the
propriety of public measures and political
opinions, let us have as much of it as you
please ; but, if it means the liberty of af-
fronting, calumniating, and defaming one
another, I own myself willing to part with
my share of it whenever our legislators
shall please to alter the law; and shall
cheerfully consent to exchange my liberty
of abusing others for the privilege of not
being abused myself.-- Franklin.
An enslaved press is doubly fatal ; it
not only takes away the true light, for in
that case we might stand still, but it sets
up à false one that decoys us to our de-
struction.- Colton.
This country is not priest-ridden, but
press-ridden.- Longfellow.
The liberty of the press is a blessing
when we are inclined to write against
others, and a calamity when we find our-
selves overborne by the multitude of our
assailants.- Johnson.
The invention of printing added a new
element of power to the race. From that
hour the brain and not the arm, the thinker
and not the soldier, books and not kings,
were to rule the world ; and weapons,
forged in the mind, keen-edged and bright-
er than the sunbeam, were to supplant the
sword and the battle-ax.-E. P. Whipple.
The Reformation was cradled in the
printing-press, and established by no other
instrument.--Agnes Strickland.
Let it be impressed upon your minds,
let it be instilled into your children, that
the liberty of the press is the palladium of
all the civil, political, and religious rights.
-Junius.
Much has been accomplished ; more than
people are aware—80 gradual has been the
advance. How noiseless is the growth of
corn! Watch it night and day for a week,
and you will never see it growing ; but re-
turn after two months, and you will find it
all whitening for the harvest. Such, and
so imperceptible in the stages of their mo-
tion are the victories of the press.-
De
Quincey.
The press is not only free, it is powerful.
That power is ours. It is the proudest
that man can enjoy. It was not grauted
by monarchs ; it was not gained for us by
aristocracies; but it sprang from the peo-
ple, and, with an importal instinct, it has
always worked for the people.-Disraeli.
PRETENSION.--He who gives him-
self airs of importance exhibits the cre-
dentials of impotence.-Lavater.
It is no disgrace not to be able to do
everything ; but to undertake or pretend
to do what you are not inade for, is not
only shameful, but extremely troublesome
and vexatious. —Plutarch.
The desire of appearing clever often pre-
vents our becoming so.- Rochefoucauld.
Who makes the fairest show, means most
deceit. ----Shakespeare.
We are only vulnerable and ridiculous
through our pretensions.—Mad. de Girar-
din.
There is a false modesty, which is vanity;
a false glory, which is levity; a false grand-
eur, which is meanness; a false virtue,
which is hypocrisy, and a false wisdom,
which is prudery.-
Bruyère.
When you see a man with a great deal of
religion displayed in his shop window, you
may depend upon it he keeps a very small
stock of it within.-Spurgeon.
The more honesty a man has, the less he
affects the air of a saint.-Lavater.
PREVENTION.
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PRIDE.
Hearts may be attracted by assumed
qualities, but the affections are not to be
fixed but by those that are real.-De Moy.
The higher the character or rank, the
less the pretence, because there is less to
pretend to.—Bulwer.
True glory strikes root, and even extends
itself ;
all false pretensions fall as do flow-
ers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting.
Cicero.
The more accomplished way of using
books at present, is to serve them as some
do lords-learn their titles, and then boast
of their acquaintance.-Swift.
Where there is much pretension, much
has been borrowed ; nature never pretends.
-Lavater.
As a general rule, people who flagrantly
pretend to anything are the reverse of that
which they pretend to. A man who sets
up for a saint is sure to be a sinner, and a
man who boasts that he is a sinner is sure
to have some feeble, maudlin, snivelling bit
of saintship about him which is enough to
make him a humbug.-Bulwer.
Pretences go a great way with men that
take fair words and magisterial looks for
current payment.-L'Estrange.
PREVENTION, - Prevention is the
best bridle.-Feltham.
Laws act after crimes have been com-
mitted; prevention goes before them both.
-Zimmermann.
Who would not give a trifle to prevent
what he would give a thousand worlds to
cure ?--Young.
Preventives of evil are far better than
remedies ; cheaper and easier of applica-
tion, and surer in result.-Tryon Edwards.
PRIDE.-Pride the first peer and presi-
dent of hell.-Defoe.
'Tis the most nonsensical thing in the
world for a man to be proud, since 'tis in
the meanest wretch's power to mortify him.
How uneasy have I seen my Lord All-Pride
in the park, when the company turned their
eyes from him and his gaudy equipage !-
I. B. Brown.
Pride brake the angels in heaven, and
spoils all the heads we find cracked here.-
Osborn.
Pride, like the magnet, constantly points
to one object, self; but unlike the magnet,
it has no attractive pole, but at all points
repels.-Colton.
Pride is to the character, like the attic to
the house--the highest part, and generally
the most empty.
Pride is increased by ignorance ; those
assume the most who know the least. — Gay.
Though Diogenes lived in a tub, there
might have been, for aught I know, as
much pride under his rags, as in the fine-
spun garments of the divine Plato.-Swift.
The seat of pride is in the heart, and
only there; and if it be not there, it is
neither in the look, nor in the clothes.
Lord Clarendon.
If a proud man makes me keep my dis-
tance, the comfort is that he keeps his at
the same time.-Swift.
As thou desirest the love of God and
man, beware of pride. It is a tumor in the
mind, that breaks and ruins all thine ac-
tions ; a worm in thy treasury, that eats
and ruins thine estate. It loves no man,
and is beloved of none; it disparages an-
other's virtues by detraction, and thine
own by vainglory. It is the friend of the
flatterer, the mother of envy, the nurse of
fury, the sin of devils, the devil of man-
kind. It hates superiors, scorns inferiors,
and owns no equal. In short, till thou hate
it, God hates thee.
Pride defeats its own end, by bringing
the man who seeks esteem and reverence
into contempt.-Bolingbroke.
We hear much of a decent pride, a be-
coming pride, a noble pride, a laudable
pride. Can that be decent, of which we
ought to be ashamed? Can that be be-
coming, of which God has set forth the
deformity? Can that be noble which God
resists and is determined to abase ? Can
that be laudable, which God calls abomin-
able?--Cecil.
Pride is seldom delicate ; it will please
itself with very mean advantages.-John-
son.
I have been more and more convinced,
the more I think of it, that, in general, pride
is at the bottom of all great mistakes. All
the other passions do occasional good; but
whenever pride puts in its word, everything
goes wrong; and what it might really be
desirable to do, quietly and innocently,
it is mortally dangerous to do proudly.-
Ruskin.
Pride, like laudanum and other poison-
ous medicines, is beneficial in small, though
injurious in large, quantities. No man who
is not pleased with himself, even in a per-
sonal sense, can please others.-Frederick
Saunders.
Pride may be allowed to this or that
degree, else a man cannot keep up his dig-
nity. In gluttony there must be eating,
in drunkenness there must be drinking;
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PRIDE.
'tis not the eating, and 'tis not the drinking
that must be blamed, but the excess.
So
in pride.-Selden.
Pride, as it is compounded of the vanity
and ill nature that dispose men to admire
themselves, and contemn other men, re-
tains its vigor longer than any other vice,
and rarely expires but with life itself.
Without the sovereign influence of God's
grace, men very rarely put off all the trap-
pings of their pride till they who are about
them put on their winding-sheet.- Claren-
don.
Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines
every man to find in others, and to over-
look in himself.-Johnson.
Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a
great deal more saucy. When you have
bought one fine thing, you must buy ten
more, that your appearance may be all of a
piece; but it is easier to suppress the first
desire than to satisfy all that follow it. -
Franclin.
He that is proud eats up himself; pride
is his glass, his trumpet, his chronicle; and
whatever praises itself but in the deed, de-
vours the deed in the praise.--Shalcespeare.
6. Pride was not made for man"; a con-
scious sense of guilt and folly, and their
consequence, destroys the claim, and to
beholders tells, here nothing but the shape
of inanhood dwells.- Waller.
Pride, like ambition, is sometimes virtu-
ous and sometimes vicious, according to
the character in which it is found, and the
object to which it is directed. As & prin-
ciple, it is the parent of almost every virtue
and 'every vice-everything that pleases
and displeases in mankind; and as the
effects are so very different, nothing is
more easy than to discover, even to our-
selves, whether the pride that produces
them is virtuous or vicious: the first object
of virtuous pride is rectitude, and the next
independence.—Gréville.
Of all the causes which conspire to blind
man's erring judgment, and mislead the
mind, what the weak head with strongest
bias rules, is pride-that never failing vice
of fools.-Pope.
There is a diabolical trio existing in the
natural man, implacable, inextinguishable,
co-operative and consentaneous, pride,
envy, and hate ; pride that makes 118 fancy
we deserve all the goods that others pos-
sess; envy that some should be admired
while we are overlooked ; and hate, because
all that is bestowed on others, diminishes
the sum we think due to ourselves.- Colton.
If a man has a right to be proud of any-
thing, it is of a good action done as it ought
to be, without any base interest lurking at
the bottom of it.-Sterne.
We mortals, men and women, devour
iany a disappointment between breakfast
and dinner-time; keep back the tears and
look a little pale about the lips, and in
answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing !"
Pride helps 18; and pride is not a bad
thing when it only urges us to hide our
own hurts—not to hurt others.-George
Eliot.
There is this paradox in pride—it makes
some men ridiculous, but prevents others
from becoming so. -Colton.
Men are sometimes accused of pride
merely because their accusers would be
proud themselves if they were in their
places.-Shenstone.
Of all marvellous things, perhaps there
is nothing that angels behold with such
supreme astonishment as a proud man.-
Colton.
I frankly confess I have a respect for
family pride.--If it be a prejudice, it is
prejudice in its most picturesque shape.--
.But I hold it is connected with some of the
noblest feelings in our nature.--L. E. Lan-
don.
Pride is the master sin of the devil.-E.
H. Chapin.
There is a certain noble pride, through
which merits shine brighter than through
modesty.-Richter.
As Plato entertained some friends in a
room where there was a couch richly orna-
mented, Diogenes came in very dirty, as
visual, and getting upon the couch, and
trampling on it, said, "I trample upon the
pride of Plato." Plato mildly answered,
*But with greater pride, Diogenes !"-
Erasmus.
None have more pride than those who
dream that they have none.
labor against vainglory till you conceive
that you are humble, and the fond conceit
of your humility will prove to be pride in
full bloom.-Spurgeon.
The mind of a proud man is like a mush-
room, which starts up in a night: his
business is first to forget himself, and then
his friends.-South.
A proud 'man never shows his pride 80
much as when he is civil.-Gréville.
There is no greater pride than in seeking
to bumiliate ourselves beyond measure ;
and sometimes there is no truer humility
than to attempt great works for God.-st.
Cyran.
To be proud of learning is the greatest
ignorance.—Bp. Taylor.
You may
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PRIDE.
Fride is never more offensive than when
it condescends to be civil; whereas vanity,
whenever it forgets itself, naturally as-
sumes good humor.-Cumberland.
Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined
with poverty, and supped with infamy.-
Franklin.
Infidelity, alas! is not always built upon
doubt, for this is diffident, nor philosophy
always upon wisdom, for this is meek; but
pride is neither.- Colton. .
The proud never have friends; not in
prosperity, for then they know nobody;
and not in adversity, for then nobody
knows them.
Pride is not the heritage of man ; hu-
mility should dwell with frailty, and atone
for ignorance, error, and imperfection.-
Sydney Smith
To be proud and inaccessible is to be
timid and weak.—Massillon.
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.
Pride is the common forerunner of a fall.
It was the devil's sin, and the devil's ruin;
and has been, ever since, the devil's strata-
gem, who, like an expert wrestler, usually
gives a man & lift before he gives him &
throw.-South.
Pride often defeats its own end, by bring-
ing the man who seeks esteem and rever-
ence, into contempt.--Bolingbroke.
The proud are ever most provoked by
pride.- Cowper.
We rise in glory as we sink in pride.-
Young.
A beggar's rags may cover as much pride
as an alderman's gown.--Spurgeon.
Pride counterbalances all our miseries,
for it either bides them, or if it discloses
them, boasts of that disclosure. Pride has
such a thorough possession of 18, even in
the midst of our iniseries and faults, that
we are prepared to sacrifice life with joy, if
it may but be talked of.--Pascal.
Nature has given us pride to spare us the
pain of being conscious of our imperfec-
tions.--Rochefoucauld.
We have some cases of the pride of
learning, but a multitude of the pride of
ignorance.- W. M. Taylor.
To acknowledge our faults when we are
blamed is modesty; to discover them to one's
friends, in ingenuousness, is confidence ;
but to preach them to all the world, if one
does not take care, is pride.-Confucius.
This life will not admit of equality ; but
surely that man who thinks he derives
consequence and respect from keeping
others at a distance, is as base-minded as
the coward:who shuns the enemy from the
fear of an attack.-Goethe.
Haughty people seem to me to have, like
the dwarfs, the statures of a child and the
face of a man.-Joubert.
When pride and presumption walk be-
fore, shame and loss follow very closely.
Louis the Eleventh.
Pride fills the world with harshness and
severity ; we are rigorous to offences as if
we had never offended.-Blair.
The disesteem and contempt of others is
inseparable from pride. It is hardly pos-
sible to overvalue ourselves but by under-
valuing our neighbors.- Clarendon.
You who are ashamed of your poverty,
and blush for your calling, are a snob; as
are you who boast of your pedigree, or are
proud of your wealth.-Thackeray.
O world, how apt the poor are to be
proud !--Shakespeare.
Deep is the sea, and deep is hell, but
pride mineth deeper ; it is coiled as a
poisonous worm about the foundations of
the soul.- Tupper.
It is with nations as with individuals,
those who know the least of others think
the highest of themselves; for the whole
family of pride and ignorance are incestu-
018, and mutually beget each other.
Colton,
In beginning the world, if you don't
wish to get chafed' at every turn, fold up
your pride carefully, and put it under lock
and key, and only let it out to air on grand
occasions.-It is a garment all stiff brocade
outside, and all grating sackcloth on the
side next to the skin.--Even kings do not
wear the dalmaticuni except at à corona-
tion.-Bulwer,
There are proud men of so much delicacy
that it almost conceals their pride, and per-
fectly excuses it.-Landor.
Pride, which inspires us with so much
envy, serves also to moderate it. ---Roche-
foucauld.
A proud man is seldom a grateful man,
for he never thinks he gets as much as he
deserves.-H. W. Beecher.
Pride either finds a desert or makes one;
submission cannot tame its ferocity, nor
satiety fill its voracity, and it requires very
costly food-its keeper's happiness.- Col-
ton.
Pride is the ape of charity, in show not
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seven
much unlike, but somewhat fuller of action.
They are two parallels, never but asunder ;
charity feeds the poor, so does pride ; char-
ity builds an hospital, so does pride. In
this they differ : charity gives her glory to
God ; pride takes her glory from man.-
Quarles.
The infinitely little have a pride infinitely
great. — Voltaire.
John Bunyan had a great dread of spirit-
ual pride ; and once, after he had preached
a very fine sermon, and his friends crowded
round to shake him by the hand, while they
expressed the utmost admiration of his
eloquence, he interrupted them, saying:
Ay! you need not remind me of that,
for the Devil told me of it before I was out
of the pulpit !”-Southey. .
In pride, unreasoning pride, our error
lies ; all quit their sphere, and rush into
the skies ; pride still is aiming at the blest
abodes; men would be angels ; angels
would be gods.--Pope.
Pride, the most dangerous of all faults,
proceeds from want of sense, or want of
thought.-Dillon.
The devil did grin, for his darling sin is
pride that apes humility.—Coleridge.
It is oftener from pride, than from want
of understanding that we oppose the opin-
ions adopted by the world. We find the
first places are taken in a good cause, and
are unwilling to come in as second.-Roche-
foucauld.
Pride thrust Nebuchadnezzar out of men's
society, Saul out of his kingdom, Adam out
of paradise, Haman out of court, and Lu-
cifer out of heaven.-T. Adanı.
Let me give you the history of pride in
three small chapters. The beginning of
pride was in heaven. The continuance of
pride is on earth. The end of pride is in
hell. This history shows how unprofitable
it is.—R. Newton.
The change we personally experience
from time to time, we obstinately deny to
our principles.--Zimmermann.
Principle is a passion for truth and right.
-Hazlitt.
A principle is one thing; a maxim or
rule is another.—A principle requires liber-
ality ; a rule says, one tenth."—A princi-
ple says, “forgive”; a rule defines 17
times." -F. W. Robertson.
Expedients are for the hour; principles
for the ageş.--H. W. Beecher.
The principles now implanted in thy bo-
som will grow, and one day reach matu-
rity; and in that maturity thou wilt find
thy heaven or thy hell.—Thomas.
Many men do not allow their principles
to take root, but pull them up every now
and then, as children do the flowers they
have planted, to see if they are growing.–
Longfellow.
Always vote for a principle, though you
vote alone, and you may cherish the sweet
reflection that your vote is never lost.-
John Quincy Adams.
Principles, like troops of the line, are
undisturbed, and stand fast.-Richter.
Principles last forever ; but special rules
pass away with the things and conditions
to which they refer:-Seeley.
I have all reverence for principles which
grow out of sentiments ; but as to senti-
ments which grow out of principles, you
shall scarcely build a house of cards there-
on.---Jacobi.
The restless mind of man cannot but
press a principle to the real limit of its ap-
plication, even though centuries should
intervene between the premises and the
conclusion.- Liddon.
The value of a principle is the number of
things it will explain ; and there is no
good theory of a disease which does not at
once suggest a cure.—Emerson.
PROCRASTINATION.- (See “DE-
LAY.")
By the streets of "by and by," one ar-
rives at the house of “never."— Cervantes.
When a fool has made up his mind the
market has gone by.--Spanish Proverb.
Never put off till to-morrow that which
you can do to-day.-Franklin.
Never do to-day what you can put off till
to-morrow.-Delay may give clearer light
as to what is best to be done.-Aaron Burr.
Undue procrastination indicates that a
man does not see his way clearly; undue
precipitation, that he does not see it at all.
PRINCIPLES,-Our principles are the
springs of our actions ; our actions, the
springs of our happiness or misery. Too
much care, therefore, cannot be taken in
forming our principles.-Skelton.
What is the essence and the life of char-
acter? Principle, integrity, independence,
or, as one of our great old writers has it,
“That inbred loyalty unto virtue which can
serve her without a livery."-Bulwer.
Better be poisoned in one's blood, than
to be poisoned in one's principles.
He who merely knows right principles is
not equal to him who loves them.-Con-
fucius.
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Waste no vain words on the consumed
time, but take the instant by the forward
top; for
for on man's best resolved, best urged
decrees, the inaudible and viewless foot of
time steals, ere he can effect. --Shakespeare.
We pass our life in deliberation, and we
die upon it.- Quesnel.
Procrastination says, “The next advan-
tage we will take thoroughly." --Shake-
speare.
He who prorogues the honesty of to-day
till to-morrow, will probably prorogue his
to-morrows to 'eternity.--Lavater.
Indulge in procrastination, and in time
you will come to this, that because a thing
ought to be done, therefore you can't do it.
Charles Buxton.
The man who procrastinates struggles
with ruin.-Hesiod.
How mankind defers from day to day the
best it can do, and the most beautiful things
it can enjoy, without thinking that every
day may be the last one, and that lost time
is lost eternity Max Müller,
There is, by God's grace, an immeasur-
able distance between late and too late.-
Mad. Swetchine.
To be always intending to live a new life,
but never to find time to set about it; this
is as if a man should put off eating and
drinking and sleeping from one day and
night to another, till he is starved and de-
stroyed.--Tillotson.
Faith in to-morrow, instead of Christ, is
Satan's nurse for man's perdition.-G. B.
Cheever.
Be wise to-day ; 'tis madness to defer ;
next day the fatal precedent will plead;
till wisdom is push'd out of life.
Young.
That we would do, we should do when we
would ; for this would changes, and hath
abatements and delays as many, as there
are tongues, are hands, are accidents; and
then this should is like a spendthrift sigh,
that hurts by easing.–Shakespeare.
Unbappy he who does his work adjourn,
and to to-morrow would the search delay :
his lazy morrow will be like to-day.-Per-
sius.
To-morrow is the day when idler8 work,
and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold
on heaven.
Procrastination is the thief of time ; year
after year it steals, till all are fled, and to
the mercies of a moment leaves the vast
concerns of an eternal state. At thirty,
man suspects himself a fool; knows it 11.7.
farty, and reforms his plan; at fifty chides i
his infainous delay, pushes his prudent
purpose to resolve ; in all the magnanimity
of thought, resolves, and re-resolves, then
dies the same.- -Young.
Delay not till to-morrow to be wise ; to-
morrow's sun to thee may never rise. -
Congreve.
Is not ho imprudent, who, seeing the
tide making toward him apace, will sleep
till the sea overwhelms him?- Tillotson.
To-morrow! It is a period nowhere to
be found in all the hoary registers of time,
unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar. -
Wisdom disclaims the word, nor holds
society with those who own it.—Colton.
PRODIGALITY.-The gains of prod-
igals are like fig-trees growing on a
precipice : for these, none are better but
kites and crow8; for those, only harlots
and flatterers.-Socrates.
The prodigal robs his heir, the miser
robs himself. The middle way is, justice
to ourselves and others.- Bruyère.
We never find the Scriptures commending
any prodigal but one, and him only for
ceasing to be so.-His prodigality brought
him to the swine and their trough, and
from imitating their sensuality, by a nat-
ural consequence, to take up with their
diet too.—South.
Let us not be too prodigal when we are
young, nor too parsimonious when we are
old. Otherwise we shall fall into the com-
mon error of those, who, when they had
the power to enjoy, had not the prudence
to acquire ; and when they had the pru-
dence to acquire, had no longer the power
to enjoy.Colton.
When I see a young profligate squander-
ing his fortune in bagnios, or at the gaming-
table, I cannot help looking on him as
hastening his own death, and in a manner
digging his own grave.- Goldsmith.
The difference between the covetous man
and the prodigal, is, that the former never
bas money, and the latter will have none
shortly.-Ben Jonson.
Prodigality and dissipation, at last bring
a man to the want of the necessaries of life ;
he falls into poverty, misery, and abject
disgrace; so that even his acquaintances,
fearful of being obliged to restore to him
what he has squandered, fly from him as a
debtor from his creditors, and he is left
abandoned by all the world.- Volney.
The injury of prodigality leads to this,
that he that will not economize will have to
agonize.-Confucius.
l'rodigality is the devil's steward and
thus on,
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purse-bearer, ministering to all sorts of
vice; and it is hard, if not impossible, for
a prodigal person to be guilty of no other
vice but prodigality. For men generally
are prodigal because they are first in-
temperate, luxurious, or ambitious. And
these, we know, are vices too costly to be
kept and maintained at an easy rate; they
must have large pensions, and be fed with
both hands, though the man that feeds
them starves for his pains.--South.
PROFANITY.-Of all the dark cata-
logue of sins, there is not one inore vile and
execrable than profaneness. It commonly
does, and loves to cluster with other sins;
and he who can look up and insult his
Maker to his face, needs. but little improve-
ment in guilt to make him a finished devil.
-S. H. Cox.
It chills my blood to hear the blest
Supreme rudely appealed to on each trifling
theme.—Maintain your rank, vulgarity de-
spise.—To swear is neither brave, polite,
nor wise.-Cowper.
Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.—
Shakespeare.
Profanity is both an unreasonable and
an unmanly sin, a violation alike of good
taste and good morals ; an offence against
both man and God.-Some sins are pro-
ductive of temporary profit or pleasure ;
but profaneness is productive of nothing
unless it be shame on earth, and damna-
tion in bell. It is the most gratuitous of
all kinds of wickedness-a sort of
a sort of pepper-
corn acknowledgment of the sovereignty of
the devil over those who indulge it. ---Tryon
Edroards.
The foolish and wicked practice of pro-
fane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean
and low, that every person of sense and
character detests and despises it.- Wasl-
ington.
The devil tempts men through their an-
bition, their cupidity or their appetite,
until he comes to the profan. swearer,
whom he catches without any bait or re-
ward.-Horace Mann.
Profit or pleasure there is none in
swearing, nor anything in men's natural
tempers to incite them to it. For though
some men 'pour out oaths 80 freely, as if
they came naturally from them, yet surely
no man is born of a swearing constitution.
-Tillotson.
If you wish to fit yourself for the dark
world of woe, it will be time enough to
learn its language after you have prepared
for it, by more decent sing than profane-
ness.- John Todd.
Blasphemous words betray the vain fool-
ishness of the speaker.--Sir P. Sidney,
Common swearing, if it have any serious
meaning at all, argues in man a perpetual
distrust of his own reputation, and is an
acknowledgment that he thinks his bare
word not to be worthy of credit. And it is
so far from adorving and filling a man's
discourse, that it makes it look swollen and
bloated, and more bold and blustering than
becomes persons of genteel and good breed-
ing.- Tillotson.
Nothing is a greater, or more fearful
sacrilege than to prostitute the great name
of God
to the petulancy of an idle tongue.
Jeremy Taylor.
Swearing is properly a superfluity of
naughtiness, and can only be considered as
a sort of pepper-corn sent, in acknowledg-
ment of the devil's right of superiority.-
Robert Hall.
Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who
indulges in it is no gentleman.-I care not
what his stamp may be in society, or what
clothes he wears, or what culture he boasts.
--Despite all his refinement, the light and
habitual taking of God's name in vain, be-
trays a coarse and brutal will. — E. H.
Chapin.
Profanity never did any man the least
good. No man is the richer, or happier,
or wiser, for it. It commends no one to
any society. It is disgusting to the re-
fined ; abominable to the good ; insulting
to those with whom we associate ; degrad-
ing to the mind; unprofitable, needless,
and injurious to society.
PROGRESS,MAll that is human must
retrograde if it do not advance.--Gibbon.
A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.
Take in the ideas of the day, drain off
those of yesterday. As to the morrow,
time enough to consider it when it becomes
to-day.-Bulwer.
The moral law of the universe is progress.
Every generation that passes idly over the
earth without adding to that progress re-
mains uninscribed upon the register of
humanity, and the succeeding generation
tramples its ashes as dust.-Mazzini.
Progress is the activity of to-day and the
assurance of to-morrow.-Emerson.
True conservatism is substantial pro-
gress ; it holds fast what is true and good
in order to advance in both. To cast
away the old is not of necessity to obtain
the new.-To reject anything that is valu-
able, lessens the power of gaining more.
That a thing is new does not of course
commend ; that it is old does not discredit.
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The test question is, “Is it true or good ?”
-Tryon Edwards.
The wisest man may be wiser to-day than
he was yesterday, and to-morrow than he
is to-day. Total freedom from change
would imply total freedom from error ;
but this is the prerogative of Omniscience
alone.-Colton.
That past which is so presumptuously
brought forward as a precedent for the
present, was itself founded on some past
that went before it.-Mad. de Staël.
Two principles govern the moral and in-
tellectual world. One is perpetual prog-
ress, the other the necessary limitations to
that progress. If the former alone pre-
vailed, there would be nothing steadfast
and durable on earth, and the whole of
social life would be the sport of winds
and waves. If the latter had exclusive
sway, or even if it obtained a mischievous
preponderancy, every thing would petrify
or rot. The best ages of the world are
those in which these two principles are the
most equally balanced. In such ages every
enlightened man ought to adopt both prin-
ciples, and with one hand develop what he
can, with the other restrain aud uphold
what he ought.-Gentz.
Who are they that would have all man-
kind look backward instead of forward, and
regulate their conduct by things that have
been done ? those who are the most igno-
rant as to all things that are doing. Bacon
said, time is the greatest of innovators;
he might also have said the greatest of im-
proverg.—Colton.
Every age has its problem, by solving
which, humanity is helped forward.-H.
Heine.
Men of great genius and large heart sow
the seeds of a new degree of progress in
the world, but they bear fruit only after
many years.-Mazzini.
It is curious to note the old sea-margins
of human thought. Each subsiding cen-
tury reveals some new mystery; we build
where monsters used to hide themselves.-
Longfellov.
The world is full of hopeful analogies
and handsome dubious eggs called possi-
bilities.-George Eliot.
Revolutions never go backwards.--Emer-
dom, moulding together the great myste-
rious incorporation of the human race, the
whole, at one time, is never old, or middle-
aged, or young, but moves on through
the varied tenor of perpetual decay, fall,
renovation, and progression.-Burke.
The grandest of all laws is the law of
progressive development.--Under it, in the
wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as
they grow older, and societies better.--
Bovee.
He that is good, will infallibly become
better, and he that is bad, will as certainly
become worse ; for vice, virtue, and time,
are three things that never stand still.
Colton.
Intercourse is the soul of progress.-
Buxton.
He is only advancing in life, whose heart
is getting softer, his blood warmer, his
brain quicker, and his spirit entering into
living peace.- Ruskin.
The individual and the race are always
moving; and as we drift into new latitudes
new lights open in the heavens more im-
mediately over us.-E. H. Chapin.
Every step of progress which the world
has made has been from scaffold to scaf-
fold, and from stake to state. - Wendell
Phillips.
Intellectually, as well as politically, the
direction of all true progress is toward
greater freedom, and along an endless suc-
cession of ideas.- Bovee.
The true law of the race is progress
and development.-Whenever civilization
pauses in the march of conquest, it is
overthrown by the barbarian.-Sinims.
If a man is not rising upward to be an
angel, depend upon it, he is sinking down-
ward to be a devil.-He cannot stop at the
bcast.-Coleridge.
I am suffocated and lost when I have not
the bright feeling of progression.-Mar-
garet Fuller.
If virtue promises happiness, prosperity
and peace, then progress in virtùe is
Tess in each of these ; for to whatever
point the perfection of anything brings
us, progress is always an approach toward
it. -Epictetus.
All our progress is an unfolding, like the
vegetable bud.--You have first an instinct,
then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the
plant has root, bud, and fruit.--Trust the
instinct to the end, though you can render
no reason.- Emerson.
We are never present with, but always
beyond ourselves. --Fear, desire, and hope
son.
We ought not to be over-anxious to en-
courage innovation, in cases of doubtful
improvement, for an old system must erer
have two advantages over a new one ; it is
established and it is understood.- Colton.
By the disposition of a stupendous wis-
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tre still pushing us on toward the future.
-Montaigne.
Some falls are means the happier to rise.
--Shakespeare.
Mankind never loses any good thing,
physical, intellectual, or moral, till it finds
a better, and then the loss is a gain. No
steps backward, is the rule of human his-
tory. What is gained by one man is in-
vested in all men, and is a permanent in-
vestment for all time. Theodore Parker.
Society moves slowly toward civilization,
but when we compare epochs half a cen-
tury or even quarter of a century apart,
we perceive many signs that progress is
made.--Mrs. L. M. Child.
Westward the course of empire takes its
way.-Bp. Bericeley.
“ Can any good come out of Nazareth ?'
- This is always the question of the wise-
acres and knowing ones.—But the good,
the new, comes from exactly that quarter
whence it is not looked for, and is always
something different from what is expected.
Everything new is received with con-
tempt, for it begins in obscurity. It be-
comes a power unobserved.–Feuerbach.
The art of nations is cumulative, just as
science and history are ; the work of living
men not superseding but building itself on
the work of the past.—Ruslcin.
By a peculiar prerogative, not only each
individual is making daily advances iu the
sciences, and may make advances in mo-
rality, but all mankind together are making
a continual progress in proportion as the
universe grows older ; so that the whole
human race, during the course of so many
ages, may be considered as one man, who
never ceases to live and learn.-Pascal.
The world owes all its onward impulses
to men ill at ease. The happy man inevit-
ably confines himself within ancient limits.
Hawthorne.
Progress is the real cure for an overesti-
mate of ourselves.-G. Macdonald.
Progress is the law of life ; man is not
inan as yet.- Robert Browning.
Generations are as the days of toilsome
mankind.-
What the father has made, the
son can make and enjoy, but he has also
work of his own appointed to him.-Thus
all things wax and roll onwards--arts, es-
tablishments, opinions; nothing is ever
completed, but completing.-Carlyle.
Nature knows no pause in progress and
development, and attaches her curse on all
inaction.- Goethe.
Works of true merit are seldom very
popular in their own day; for knowledge
is on the march, and men of genius are the
videttes that are far in advance of their
comrades. They are not with them, but
before them; not in the camp, but beyond
it.-- Colton.
The mind naturally makes progress, and
the will naturally clings to objects, so that
for want of right objects, it will attach it-
self to wrong ones.-Pascal.
Progress-the onward stride of God.-
Victor Hugo.
The books which once we valued more
than the apple of the eye, we have quite
exhausted. What is that but saying that
we have come up with the point of view
which the universal mind took through the
eyes of one scribe; we have been that
man, and have passed on.-Emerson.
Let us labor for that larger comprehen-
sion of truth, and that more thorough re-
pudiation of error, which shall make the
history of mankind a series of ascending
developments.-H. Mann.
All the grand agencies which the prog-
ress of mankind evolves are the aggregate
result of countless wills, each of which,
thinking merely of its own end, and per-
haps fully gaining it, is at the same time
enlisted by Providence in the secret ser-
vice of the world.---James Martineau.
We should so live and labor in our time
that what came to us as seed may go to the
next generation as blossom, and what came
to us as blossom may go to them as fruit.
-This is what we mean by progress.-H.
W. Beecher.
We cannot believe that the church of
God is already possessed of all that light
which God intends to give it; nor that all
Satan's lurking-places have already been
found out.—Jonathan Edwards.
If God reveal anything to you by any
other instrument, be as ready to receive it
as ever you were to receive any truth by
my ministry; for I am verily persuaded
the Lord has more truth yet to break forth
out of his holy word.—John Robinson.
All growth that is not toward God, is
growing to decay.-G. Macdonald.
I find the great thing in this world is not
so much where we stand, as in what di-
rection we are moving. – Oliver Wendell
Folnies.
PROMISE.—He who promises runs in
debt. – Talmud.
It is easy to promise, and alas ! how easy
to forget !--A. de Musset.
Unclaimed promises are like uncashed
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cheques ; they will keep us from bank-
ruptcy, but not from want.-Havergal.
I had rather do and not promise, than
promise and not do.-A. Warwick.
We promise according to our hopes, but
perform according to our selfishness and
our fears.Rochefoucauld.
He who is most slow in making a promise
is the most faithful in its performance.-
Rousseau.
An acre of performance is worth the
whole world of promise. --Howell.
A mind conscious of integrity scorns to
say more than it means to perform.-Burns.
Magnificent promises are always to be
suspected. Theodore Parker.
Every brave man is a man of his word.
---Corneille.
Thou oughtest to be nice, even to super-
stition, in keeping thy promises, and
therefore equally cautious in making them,
-Fuller.
In religion not to do as thou sayest, is to
unsay thy religion in thy deeds, and to
undo thyself by doing.– Venning.
Every divine promise is built upon four
pillar8 : God's justice or holiness, which
will not suffer Him to deceive ; His grace
or goodness, which will not suffer him to
forget; His truth, which will not suffer
Him to change ; and His power, which
makes him able to accomplish.-Salter.
PROMPTNESS. — Promptness is the
soul of business.- Chesterfield.
Deliberate with caution, but act with de-
cision and promptness.--Colton.
The keen spirit seizes the prompt occa-
sion ; makes the thought start into instant
action, and at once plans and performs,
resolves, and executes !-Hannah More.
Let's take the instant by the forward
top; for we are old, and on our quickest
decrees, the inaudible and noiseless foot of
time steals ere we can effect them.-Shailce-
speare.
“How," said one to Sir W. Raleigh, of
whom it was said he “could toil terribly,
-“how do you accomplish so much, and
in so short à time?" “When I have any-
thing to do, I go and do it," was the reply.
Celerity is never more admired than by
the negligent.-Shakespeare.
Promptitude is not only a duty, but is
also a part of good manners ; it is favorable
to fortune, reputation, influence, and use-
fulness; a little attention and energy will
form the habit, so as to make it easy and
delightful.-C. Simmons.
If it were done when it is done, then it
were well it were done quickly.—Shake-
speare.
Know the true value of time ; snatch,
seize, and enjoy every moment of it.-Nó
idleness, no delay, no procrastination ;
never put off till to-morrow what you can
do to-day.-Chesterfield.
PROPERTY,-Property is dear to men
not only for the sensual pleasure it can
afford, but also because it is the bulwark
of all they hold dearest on earth, and above
all else, because it is the safeguard of
those they love most against misery and
all physical distress.-W. G. Suniner.
A great object is always answered, when-
ever any property is transferred from
hands that are not fit for that property to
those that are.—Burke.
The accumulation of property is no
guarantee of the development of character,
but the development of character, or of
any other good whatever, is impossible
without property.-W. G. Sumner.
The invectives against capital in the
hands of those who have it, are double-
faced, and when turned about are nothing
but demands for capital in the hands of
those who have it not, in order that they
may do with it just what those who have it
are now doing with it.— W. G. Sumner.
Property left to a child may soon be lost i
but the inheritance of virtue-a good name,
an unblemished reputation-will abide for-
ever. If those who are toiling for wealth
to leave their children, would but take half
the pains to secure for them virtuous habits,
how much more serviceable would they be.
The largest property may be wrested from
a child, but virtue will stand by him to the
last.
PROSPERITY.--All sunshine makes
the desert.-Arab Proverb.
Everything in the world may be endured,
except continual prosperity.- Goethe.
Prosperity is the touchstone of virtue
i
for it is less difficult to bear misfortunes,
than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.-
Tacitus.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mari-
ner; neither do uninterrupted prosperity
and success qualify men for usefulness and
happiness.
If adversity hath killed his thousands,
prosperity hath killed his ten thousands;
therefore adversity is to be preferred.
The one deceives, the other instructs; the
one is miserably happy, the other happily
miserable; and therefore many philoso-
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phers have voluntarily sought adversity
and commend it in their precepts.- Burlon.
Take care to be an economist in prosper-
ity: there is no fear of your being one in
adversity.--Zimmermann.
Prosperity's right hand is industry, and
her left hand is frugality.
That fortitude which has encountered
no dangers, that prudence which has sur-
mounted no difficulties, that integrity
which has been attacked by no temptation,
can at best be considered but as gold not
yet brought to the test, of which therefore
the true value cannot be assigned.-John-
Son2.
Oh, how portentous is prosperity ! how,
comet-like, it threatens while it shines.
Young.
Prosperity has this property, it puffs up
narrow souls, makes them imagine them-
selves high and mighty, and looks down
upon the world with contempt; but a truly
noble and resolved spirit appears greatest
in distress, and then becomes more bright
and conspicuous.--Plutarch.
Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear
them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly
cautious, lest destruction come remorseless
on him, and he fall unpitied.--Sophocles.
Prosperity too often has the same effect
on its possessor, that a calm at sea has on
the Dutch mariner, who frequently, it is
said, in these circumstances, ties up the
l'udder, gets drunk, and goes to sleep.-Bp.
Horne.
In prosperity prepare for a change; in
adversity hope for one.-Burgh.
The virtue of prosperity is temperance,
but the virtue of adversity is fortitude;
and the last is the more sublime attainment.
- Bacon.
The good things which belong to prosper-
ity may be wished; but the good things
which belong to adversity are to be ad-
mired.–Seneca.
As full ears load and lay down corn, so
does too much fortune bend and break the
mind. It deserves to be considered, too, ils
another disadvantage, that affliction moves
pity, and reconciles our very enemies, but
prosperity provokes envy, and loses us our
very friends.-Charron.
As riches and favor forsake a man, we
discover him to be a fool, but nobody could
find it out in his prosperity.-Bruyère.
No man is prosperous whose immortality
is forfeited.-No man is rich to whom the
grave brings eternal bankruptcy.--No man
is happy upon whose path there rests but a
momentary glimmer of light, shining out
between clouds that are closing over him
in darkness forever.-H. W. Beecher.
A weak mind sinks under prosperity as
well as under adversity.-A strong and
deep one has two highest tides, when the
moon is at full, and when there is no moon.
-Hare.
To rejoice in the prosperity of another is
to partake of it.-W. Austin.
Many are not able to suffer and endure
prosperity ; it is like the light of the sun
to a weak eye, glorious, indeed, in itself,
but not proportioned to such an instru-
ment.-Jeremy Taylor.
There is a glare about worldly success
which is very apt to dazzle men's eyes.-
Flare.
Greatness stands upon a precipice, and
if prosperity carries à man ever so little
beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes
him to pieces.- Seneca.
Watch lest prosperity destroy generosity.
-H. W. Beecher.
What Anacharsis said of the vine may
aptly enough be said of prosperity. She
bears the three grapes of drunkenness,
pleasure, and sorrow; and happy is it if
the last can cure the mischief which the
former work. When afflictions fail to have
their due effect, the case is desperate.-
Bolingbroke.
He that swells in prosperity will be sure
to shrink in adversity.- Colton.
One is never more on trial than in the
moment of excessive good fortune.-Lew
Wallace.
So use prosperity, that adversity may not
abuse thee: if in the one, security admits
no fears, in the other, despair will afford
no hopes ; be that in prosperity can foretell
a danger can in adversity foresee deliver-
ance. -Quarles.
To bring the best human qualities to any-
thing like perfection, to fill them with the
sweet juices of courtesy and charity, pros-
perity, or, at all events, a moderate amount
of it, is required,-just as sunshine is
needed for the ripening of peaches and
apricots.- Alexander Smith.
It is the bright day that brings forth the
adder, and that craves wary walking.-
Shakespeare.
Prosperity is the touchstone of virtue:
it is less difficult to bear misfortunes
than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.--
Tacitus.
Prosperity, alas! is often but another
name for pride.-Mrs. Sigourney.
There is ever a certain languor attending
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the fulness of prosperity. When the heart
has no more to wish, it yawns over its pos-
sessions, and the energy of the soul goes
out like a flame that has no more to de-
vour.-Young.
They who lie soft and warm in a rich
estate seldom come to heat themselves at
the altar.-South.
While prosperous you can number many
friends, but when the storm comes you are
left alone.-Ovid.
The mind that is much elevated and in-
solent with prosperity, and cast down by
adversity, is generally abject and base.
Epicurus.
Nothing is harder to direct than a man in
prosperity ; nothing more easily managed
than one in adversity.–Plutarch.
PROTESTANTISM.- Protestantism
makes the relation of a man to the Church
to depend upon his relation to Christ;
Romanism makes the relation of a man to
Christ to depend on his relation to the
Church.-Schleiermacher.
There is no liberty in Romanism, for its
principle is domination and subjection.-
There is none in atheism, for it denies God
and the world to come. It leaves us with
no faith except in ourselves, limited to
earthly wants, and with no motives but our
appetites and passions, whose slaves we
thus become.-
Protestantism is our only
escape from Romanism; and it will be
found to be our only escape from atheism.
-Deliver us from both, for they are our
worst enemies.-Paul Bonchard.
Some one quoting the hackneyed sar-
casm, that “between Protestantism and
Romanism there is but a paper wall,” the
reply was, " True, but the whole Bible is
printed on it.”
Protestantism is Christianity reasserting
its simplicity and purity, divesting itself
of the burdens and corruptions imposed by
man, renouncing mere human authority,
and asgerting the supremacy of our Lord
Jesus Christ.-It is Christianity discarding
the traditions and commandments of men,
declaring the paramount authority of the
inspired word of God, and rejectiug every-
thing not enjoined by the sanctions of
Christ himself.
Four centuries ago, Protestantism hac
not an existence as an organized power.
.
Today it leads the world. The intel-
ligence, the wealth, the force of arms, the
morality, the civilization is with the Prot-
estant nations.-H. L. Wayland.
The German Protestant declared, “I
have rights as against the church'; the
Puritan Protestant, "I have rights as
against the government"; the Independent,
or American Protestant, "I have rights as
against civil governments, church govern-
ments, and all mankind. These God gave
me, and I will reserve." These were the
three great strides which landed on Ply-
mouth
Rock.-H. W. Beecher.
PROVERB$.-The wisdom of many,
and the wit of one.-Lord John Russell.
Jewels five words long, that on the
stretched forefinger of all time sparkle for-
ever.— Tennysor.
Proverbs are the literature of reason, or
the statements of absolute truth, without
qualification. Like the sacred books of
each nation, they are the sanctuary of its
intuitions.--Emerson.
Proverbs are somewhat analogous to
those medical formulas which, being in
frcquent use, are kept ready made up in
the chemists' shops, and which often save
the framing of a distinct prescription.
Whatcly.
The genius, wit, and spirit of a nation
are discovered in its proverbs.-Bacon.
Proverbs are but rules, and rules do not
create character.—They prescribe conduct,
but do not furnish a full and proper mo-
tive.—They are usually but half truths,
and seldom contain the principle of the
action they teach.-T. T. Munger,
Short sentences drawn from long experi-
ences. --Cervantes.
Sense, brevity, and point are the ele-
ments of a good proverb.—Tryon Edwards,
The study of proverbs may be more in-
structive and comprehensive than the most
elaborate scheme of philosophy.—Mother-
well.
The proverbial wisdom of the populace
in the street, on the roads, and in the
markets, instructs the ear of him who
studies man more fully than a thousand
rules ostentatiously displayed.--Lavater.
We frequently fall into error and folly,
not because the true principles of action
are not known, but because for a time they
are not remembered; he may, therefore,
justly be numbered among the benefactors
of mankind who contracts the great rules
of life into short sentences that may early
be impressed on the memory, and taught
by frequent recollection to occur habitually
to the mind.-Johnson.
Proverbs were anterior to books, and
formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in
the earliest ages were the unwritten laws
of morality.- Disraeli.
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PROVIDENCE.
Proverbs are the condensed wisdom of
long experience, in brief, epigrammatic
form, easily remembered and always ready
for use.--They are the alphabet of morals ;
and are commonly prudential watchwords
and warnings, and so lean toward a selfish
view of life.-T. T. Munger.
The wisdom of nations lies in their proy-
erbs, which are brief and pithy. Collect
and learu 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. Penn.
Proverbs may be said to be the abridg-
ments of wisdom.-Joubert.
The proverb condenses the meaning and
power of a thousand words into one short
and simple sentence, and it is the more
effective because it carries so much force in
80 compact a form.-D. March.
If you hear a wise sentence or an apt
phrase, commit it to your memory.-Sir
Henry Sidney.
Few maxiins are true from every point
of view.- Vauvenargues.
Proverbs, it has well been said, should be
sold in pairs, a single one being but half a
truth.-W. Mathews.
I am of opinion that there are no pro-
verbial sayings which are not true, because
they are all sentences drawn from experi-
ence itself, who is the mother of all sciences.
-Cervantes.
Simple words, short maxims, homely
truths, old sayings, are the masters of the
world. In them is the hiding of the power
that forms the character, controls conduct,
and makes individuals and nations what
they are. Great reformations, great rev-
olutions in society, great eras in human
progress and improvement, start from good
words, right words, sound words, spoken in
the fitting time, and finding their way to
human hearts as easily as the birds find
their homes.-D. March.
Proverbs were bright shafts in the Greek
and Latin quivers.-
Disraeli.
The Scripture vouches Solomon for the
visest of men; and his proverbs prove him
The seven wise men of Greece, 80
famous for their wisdom all the world over,
acquired all that fame each of them by a
single sentence, consisting of two or three
words.-South.
The benefit of proverbs, or maxims, is
that they separate those who act on prin-
ciple from those who act on impulse ; and
they lead to promptness and decision
in acting.–Their value depends on four
things : do they embody correct principles ;
are they on important subjects; what is
the extent, and what the ease of their ap-
plication ?-Tryon Edwards.
Books and proverbs receive their chief
value from the stamp and esteem of ages
through which they have passed.-Sir W.
Temple.
Proverbs are in the world of thought
what gold coin is in the world of business-
great value in small compass, and erually
current among all people. Sometimes the
proverb may be false, the coin counterfeit,
but in both cases the false proves the value
of the true.-D. March.
Proverbs are the cream of a nation's
thought.-Anon.
PROVIDENCE,-(See "ATHEISM.")
There's a divinity that shapes our ends,
rough hew them how we will. --Shakespeare.
Providence is like a curious piece of arras,
made up of thousands of shreds, which
single we know not what to make of, but
put together they present us with a beauti-
ful history. Flavel.
To doubt the providence of God is pres-
ently to wax impatient with his commands.
-Edward Garrett.
To the dim and bewildered vision of
humanity, God's care is more evident in
some instances than in others; and upon
such instances men seize, and call them
providences. It is well that they can; but
it would be gloriously better if they could
believe that the whole matter is one grand
providence.-G. Macdonala.
The longer I live, the more faith I have
in Providence, and the less faith in my in-
terpretation of Providence.-J. Day.
Everything that happens in the world is
part of a great plan of God running through
all time.-H. W. Beecher.
In the huge mass of evil as it rolls and
swells, there is ever some good working
toward deliverance and triumph.—Carlyle.
Every blade of grass in the field is meas-
ured; the green cups and the colored
crowns of every flower
every flower are curiously
counted; the stars of the firmament wheel
in cunningly calculated orbits ; even the
storms have their laws.--Blailcie.
Resignation and faith behold God in the
smallest hair that falls ; and the happiest
life is that of him who has bound together
all the affairs of life, great and small, and
intrusted them to God.-J. W. Alexander.
What mockeries are our most firm re-
solves.-To will is ours, but not to execute.
We map our future like some unknown
80.
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PRUDENCE.
rock;
coast, and say here is a harbor, there a -and wherever a man walks faithfully in
the one we will attain, the other the ways that God has marked out for
shun, and we do neither ; some chance gale him, providence, as the Christian says,-
springs up, and bears us far o'er some un- luck, as the heathen says, will be on that
fathomed sea.-L. E. Landon.
man's side. - In the long run you will find
The longer I live, the more convincing
that God's providence is in favor of those
proof's I see of this truth, that God governs
that keep his laws, and against those that
in the affairs of man ; and if a sparrow can-
break them.-H. W. Beecher.
not fall to the ground without his notice, is A cockle-fish may as soon crowd the
it probable that an empire can rise without ocean into its narrow shell, as vain man
his aid?-Franklin.
ever_comprehend the decrees of God.
By going a few minutes sooner or later,
Bp. Beveridge.
by stopping to speak with a friend on the Happy the man who sees a God employed
corner, by meeting this man or that, or by in all the good and ill that checker life.-
turning down this street instead of the Cowper.
other, we may let slip some impending evil, He who is truly religious finds a provi-
by which the whole current of our lives dence not more truly in the history of the
would have been changed. There is no pos- world, than in his own personal and family
sible solution in the dark enigma but the
history. The rainbow which bangs a
one word, “ Providence.”—Longfellow. splendid circle in the heights of heaven,
Providence is a greater mystery than is also formed by the same sun in the
revelation. The state of the world is more dew-drop of the lowly flower.-Richter.
humiliating to our reason than the doc- ! God hangs the greatest weights upon
trines of the Gospel. A reflecting Christian the smallest wires. -Bacon.
sees more to excite his astonishment, and
to exercise his faith, in the state of things
To make our reliance upon providence
between Temple Bar and St. Paul's, than in
both pious and rational, we should prepare
what he reads from Genesis to Revelations.
all things with the same care, diligence,
-Cecil.
and activity, as if there were no such thing
as providence for us to depend upon; and
Who finds not Providence all good and
then, when we have done all this, we should
wise, alike in what it gives and what de-
as wholly and humbly rely upon it, as if
nies ?-Pope.
we had made no preparation at all.
I once asked a hermit in Italy how he South.
could venture to live alone, in a single cot- We must follow, not force providence.-
tage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from Shakespeare.
any habitation? He replied, that Provi-
dence was his next-door neighbor.---Sterne.
God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
-Sterne.
All nature is but art, unknown to thee;
all chance, direction which thou canst not
God's plans, like lilies pure and white
unfold.We must not tear the close-shut
see ; all discord, harmony not understood ;
all partial evil, universal good.-Pope.
leaves apart.-—Time will reveal the calyxes
of gold.-M. R. Smith.
We are not to lead events, but follow
them.--Epictetus.
The providence that watches over the
affairs of men, works out of their mistakes,
Either all is chance, and being but
at times, a healthier issue than could have
chance is of no consequence, or God rules
been accomplished by their own wisest
the world, and all is well.- Whatever be-
forethought. --Froude.
falls is just and right, and therefore not
unendurable.-
Andrew Lang.
Our Lord God doeth work like a printer,
who setteth the letters backward; we see
Duties are ours ; events are God's.—This
and feel well His setting, but we shall see
removes an infinite burden from the shoul-
ders of a miserable, tempted, dying creature.
the print yonder-in the life to come.---
Luther.
On this consideration only can he se-
curely lay down his head and close his
PRUDENCE.--There is no amount of
eyes. — Cecil.
praise which is not heaped on prudence ;
He that will watch providences, shall yet there is not the most insignificant event
never want providences to watch.-Flavel.
of which it can make us sure.
.-Rochefou-
cauld.
Some one has said that in war providence
is on the side of the strongest regiments. Too many, through want of prudence,
And I have noticed that providence is on are golden apprentices, silver journeymen,
the side of clear heads and honest hearts ; and copper masters.- Whitefield.
PRUDENCE.
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PUBLIC.
ures
;
Men of sense often learn from their ene-
mies. Prudence is the best safeguard.
This principle cannot be learned from a
friend, but an enemy extorts it immedi-
ately. It is from their foes, not their
friends, that cities learn the lesson of build-
ing high walls and ships of war. And this
lesson saves their children, their homes,
and their properties.- Aristophanes.
Franklin left behind him more maxims
than any of his countrymen, and prudence
is the pivot on which they turn. A.
Rhodes.
If the prudence of reserve and decorum
dictates silence in some circumstances, in
others prudence of a highér order, may
justify us in speaking our thoughts.
Burkce.
Let prudence always attend your pleas-
it is the way to enjoy the sweets of
them, and not be afraid of the conse-
quences.
Prudence is the necessary ingredient in
all the virtues, without which they de-
generate into folly and excess. - Jeremy
Collier.
Want of prudence is too frequently the
want of virtue ; nor is there on earth &
more powerful advocate for vice than
pop-
erty.-Goldsmith.
The one prudence in life is concentra-
tion ; the one evil is dissipation.-Emerson.
There is nothing more imprudent than
excessive prudence.--Colton.
No other protection is wanting, provided
you are under the guidance of prudence,
Juvenal.
The bounds of a man's knowledge are
easily concealed if he has but prudence. —
Goldsmith.
The richest endowments of the mind are
temperance, prudence, and fortitude. Pru-
dence is a universal virtue, which enters
into the composition of all the rest; and
where she is not, fortitude loses its name
and nature.- Voltaire.
Prudence is a quality incompatible with
vice, and can never be effectively enlisted
in its cause. Burke.
The rules of prudence, in general, like
the laws of the stone tables, are for the
most part prohibitive.—Thou shalt not, is
their characteristic formula ; and it is an
especial part of Christian prudence that it
should be so.—Coleridge.
Prudence is a duty which we owe our-
selves, and if we will be so much our own
enemies as to neglect it, we are not to won-
der if the world is deficient in discharging
their duty to us; for when a man lays the
foundation of his own ruin, others too often
are apt to build upon it.-Fielding.
The prudence of the best heads is often
defeated by the tenderness of the best of
hearts.-Fielding:
Those who, in the confidence of superior
capacities or attainments, neglect the com-
mon maxims. of life, should be reminded
that nothing will supply the want of pru-
dence; but thatnegligence andirregularity,
long continued, will make knowledge use-
less, wit ridiculous, and genius contempti-
ble.-Johnson.
Prudent men Jock up their motives, let-
ting only their familiars have a key to their
hearts as to their garden.-Shenstone.
Aristotle is praised for naming fortitude
as the first of the virtues; but he might,
with propriety, have placed prudence be-
fore it, since without prudence fortitude
is madness.-S. G. Goodrich.
Prudence is a conformity to the rules of
reason, truth, and decency, at all times
and in all circumstances. It differs frora
wisdom only in degree ; wisdom being
nothing but a more consummate habit of
prudence; and prudence a lower degree or
weaker habit of wisdom.-J. Mason.
PUBLIC.-Private opinion is weak, but
public opinion is almost omnipotent.-A
single snow-flake—who cares for that?
But a whole day of snow-flakes, drifting
over everything, obliterating landmarks,
and gathering on the mountains to crash
in avalanches—who does not care for that?
:-H. W. Beecher.
The public is wiser than the wisest critic.
-Bancroft.
Public sentiment ought to signify the
common march of good men's thoughts,
and should be but a road, marked plain,
that all may know the way to travel. -But
too often it is employed as a bribe to stop
free-thinking, an intimidation to check
free-acting, a bauble to lure approbation,
or a threatened fool's cap with which to
terrify it.-H. W. Beecher.
In a free and republican government,
you cannot restrain the voice of the multi-
tude. Every man will speak as he thinks,
or, more properly, without thinking, and
consequently will judge of effects without
attending to their causes.- Washington.
The public wishes itself to be managed
like a woman ; one must say nothing to it
except what it likes to hear.-Goethe.
Very few public men but look upon the
public as their debtors and their prey; 80
much for their pride and honesty.--Zima
mermann.
PUNCTUALITY.
456
PUNISHMENT.
ton was,
That is, in a great degree, true of all
men, which was said of the Athenians, that
they were like sheep, of which a flock is
more easily driven than a single one.-
Whately.
Zeal for the public good is the character-
istic of a man of honor and a gentleman,
and must take the place of pleasures, prof-
its, and all other private gratifications.-
Steele.
Each man in his sphere, however nar-
row or extended, will find that his fellow-
men weigh his character and his abilities
often, and unconsciously stamp him with
their estimate : and that the average le-
sultant of these frequent estimates is just.
-E. Pierrepont.
Public sentiment is a battery which pro-
tects the city behind it, but sweeps with
destruction all in the plain before it. It
powerfully restrains men from doing wrong;
but when they have done wrong, sets itself
as powerfully against them. H. W.
Beecher.
Every man who loves his country, or
wishes well to the best interests of society,
will show himself a decided friend not only
of morality and the laws, but of religious
institutions, and honorably bear his part
in supporting them.-J. Hawes.
Public opinion, or public sentiment, is
able to sustain, or to pull down any law of
the commonwealth.-0. Simmons.
PUNCTUALITY.-I could never think
well of a man's intellectual or moral char-
acter, if he was habitually unfaithful to his
appointments.-Emmons.
Method is the very hinge of business;
and there is no method without punctu-
ality.-Cecil.
I have always been a quarter of an hour
before
my time, and it has made a man of
me.—Lord Nelson.
Appointments once made, become debts.
If I have made an appointment with you,
I owe you punctuality ; I have no right to
throw away your time, if I do my own.-
Cecil.
Want of punctuality is a want of virtue.
-J. M. Mason.
I give it as my deliberate and solemn
conviction that the individual who is ha-
bitually tardy in meeting an appointment,
will never be respected or successful in
life.-W. Fisk.
Every child should be taught to pay all
his debts, and to fulfil all his contracts,
exactly in manner, completely in value,
punctually at the time. Everything he
has borrowed, he should be obliged to re-
turn uninjured at the time specified, and
everything belonging to others which he
has lost, he should be required to replace.
Dwight.
Better be three hours too soon than one
minute too late.-Shakespeare.
When a secretary of Washington, ex-
cusing himself for being late, said that his
watch was too slow, the reply of Washing-
“You must get a new watch, or I
must get a new secretary.”
It is of no use running ; to set out be-
times is the main point.-Fontaine.
Strict punctuality is, perhaps, the cheap-
est virtue which can give force to an other-
wise utterly insignificant character.-J. F.
Boyes.
Nothing inspires confidence in a business
man sooner than punctuality, nor is there
any habit which sooner saps his reputation
than that of being always behind time.-
W. Mathews.
Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of
business, and the graceful courtesy of
princes. -Bulwer.
The most indispensable qualification of
a cook is punctuality. The same must be
said of guests.-B. Savarin.
“Better late than never,” is not half so
good a maxim as - Better never late."
PUNISHMENT.-The whole of life
and experience goes to show, that right or
Wrong doing, whether as to the physical or
the spiritual nature, is sure in the end to
meet its appropriate reward or punishment.
Penalties may be delayed, but they are
sure to come.-H. W. Beecher.
It is as expedient that a wicked man be
punished as that a sick man be cured by a
pliysician ; for all chastisement is a kind
of medicine. -Plato.
Punishment is lame, but it comes.-
Herbert.
The certainty of punishment, even more
than its severity, is the preventive of crime.
-Tryon Edwards.
One man meets an infamous punishment
for that crime which confers a diadem
upon another.- Juvenal.
The work of eradicating crimes is not by
making punishment familiar, but formi-
dable.-Goldsmith.
Don't let us rejoice in punishment, even
when the hand of God alone inflicts it. The
best of us are but poor wretches just saved
from shipwreck. Can we feel anything but
awe nnd pity when we see a fellow-passenger
swallowed by the waves ? - George Eliot.
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457
PURITY.
If punishment makes not the will supple
it hardens the offender.-Loclce.
Wickedness, when properly punished, is
disgraceful only to the offender ; unpun-
ished, it is disgraceful to the whole com-
munity.-C. Simmons.
The public have more interest in the
punishment of an injury than he who re-
ceives it.-Cato.
The punishment of criminals should be
of use; when a mau is hanged he is good
for nothing.- Voltaire.
We do not aim to correct the man we
hang; we correct and warn others by lim.
-Montaigne.
The object of punishment is three-fold :
for just retribution ; for the protection of
society; for the reformation of the offender.
Tryon Edwards.
Jails and prisons are the complement of
schools ; 80 many less as you have of the
latter, so many more you must have of the
former.-Horace Mann.
Punishment is justice for the unjust. --
Augustine.
Even legal punishments lose all appear-
ance of justice, when too strictly inflicted
on men compelled by the last extremity of
distress to incur them.--Junius.
There are dreadful punishments enacted
against thieves; but it were much better
to make such good provisions that every
man might be put in a method how to live,
and so be preserved from the fatal necessity
of stealing and dying for it.-Moore,
The seeds of our punishment are sown at
the same time we commit the sin.-Hesiod.
To make punishments efficacious, two
things are necessary ; they must never be.
disproportioned to the offence, and they
must be certain.-Sinens.
The very worst use to which you can put a
man, says Wilkes, is to hang him; but the
hanging is not to make the man useful, but
to punish his crime and protect society.-
C. Simmons.
We will not punish a man because he
hath offended, but that he may offend no
more ; nor does punishment ever look to
the past, but to the future ; for it is not
the result of passion, but that the same
thing may be guarded against in time to
come.- Seneca.
Faults of the head are punished in this
world ; those of the heart in another ; but
as most of our vices are compound, so is
their punishment.--Colton.
There is no future pang can deal that
justice on the self-condemned, that he
deals on his own soul.--Byron.
God is on the side of virtue ; for whoever
dreads punishment suffers it, and whoever
deserves it dreads it.--Colton.
It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the
right knowledge of when correction is
necessary, and when grace doth most avail.
--Sir P. Sidney.
There is no greater punishment than
that of being abandoned to one's self.
Quesnel.
Crime and punishment grow out of one
stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsus-
pected, ripens within the flower of the
pleasure that concealed it.-Emerson.
The object of punishment is the preven-
tion of evil; it can never be made impul-
sive to good.—Horace Mann.
Never was the voice of conscience silenced
without retribution.--Mrs. Jameson.
The exposition of future punishment in
God's word is not to be regarded as a threat,
but as a merciful declaration.--If in the
ocean of life, over which we are bound to
eternity, there are these rocks and shoals,
it is no cruelty to chart them down; it is
an eminent and prominent mercy.-6. W.
Beecher.
The existence of future punishment and
everlasting destruction is an evidence of
the goodness, the justice, and the wisdom
of God: of goodness, in that it is a motive
to prevent sin and turn men from evil; of
justice, in that it is the righteous doom of
irreclaimable sinners; and of wisdom, in
that God can thus make the penalty of sin
a motive to deter from sin.-J. B. Walker.
PURITY, I pray thee, O God, that I
may be beautiful within.-Socrates.
The chaste mind, like a polished plane,
may admit foul thoughts, without receiving
their tincture.-Sterne.
There's nothing ill can dwell in such a
temple ; if the ill spirit have so fair a
house, good things will strive to dwell with
it.-Shakespeare.
Make my breast transparent as pure
crystal, that the world, jealous of me, may
see the foulest thought my heart does hold.
-- Buckingham.
Evil into the mind of God or man, may
come and go, and yet, if unapproved, still
without sin.-Milton.
By the ancients, courage was regarded as
practically the main part of virtue : by 118,
though I hope we are not less brave, purity
is so regarded now. Courage, however
PURPOSE.
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QUALITIES.
kindled, is fanned by the breath of man :
purity lives and derives its life solely from
the Spirit of God.-Hare.
PURPOSE.-(See "ENERGY.")
The secret of success is constancy to pur-
pose.—Disraeli.
The flighty purpose never is o’ertook un-
less the deed go with it.-Shakespeare.
Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed.
Who does the best his circumstance allows,
does well, acts nobly; angels could no
more.--Young.
Man proposes, but God disposes.-
Thomas à Kempis.
It is better by a noble boldness to run
the risk of being subject to half of the evils
we anticipate, than to remain in cowardly
listlessness for fear of what may happen.-
Herodotus.
It is the old lesson–a worthy purpose,
patient energy for its accomplishment, á
resoluteness undaunted by dificulties, and
then success.-W. M. Punshon.
There is no road to success but through
a clear strong purpose.-Nothing can take
its place.-A purpose underlies character,
culture, position, attainment of every sort.
T. T. Munger.
A man with a half-volition goes back-
wards and forwards, and makes no way on
the smoothest road; a man with a whole
volition advances on the roughest, and will
reach his purpose, if there be even a little
wisdom in it. — Carlyle.
The man without a purpose is like a ship
without a rudder-& waif, a nothing, a no
Have a purpose in life, and, having
it, throw such strength of mind and muscle
into your work as God has given you.“
Carlyle.
PURSUIT,-I take it to be a principal
rule of life, not to be too much addicted to
one thing.- Terence.
The fruit that can fall without shaking,
indeed is too mellow for me. -Lady Mon-
tague.
There are many things that are thorns to
our hopes until we have attained them, and
envenomed arrows to our hearts when we
have.- Colton.
The rapture of pursuing is the prize the
vanquished gain. -Longfellow.
The sceptre is held with a firmer grasp ;
the empire has a wider boundary. We are
all the slaves of quackery in one shape or
another. One portion of our being is al-
ways playing the successful quack to the
other. --- Carlyle.
He who attempts to make others believe
in means which he himself despises, is a
puffer ; he who makes use of more means
than he knows to be necessary, is a quack ;
and he who ascribes to those means a greater
efficacy than his own experience warrants,
is an impostor.–Lavater.
Pettifoggers in law and quacks in medi-
cine have held from time immemorial the
fee simple of a vast estate, subject to no
alienation, diminution, revolution, nor tax
-the folly and ignorance of mankind.-
Colton.
Nothing more strikingly betrays the cre-
dulity of mankind than medicine. Quack-
ery is a thing universal, and universally
successful. In this case it is literally
true that no imposition is too great for the
credulity of men.-Thoreau.
Out, you impostors ; quack-calving,
cheating mountebanks; your skill is to
make sound men sick, and sick men to
kill.—Massinger.
From powerful causes spring the empir-
ic's gains.-- Man's. love of life, his weak-
ness and his pains—these first induce him
the vile trash to try, then lend his name
that others too may buy.- Crabbe.
Quackery has no such friend as credulity.
-0. Simmons.
That science is worse than useless which
does not point to the great end of our
being.--Therefore literary, scientific, and
theological quacks have done immense
mischief in human society.-Thacher.
Said a clever quack to an educated phy-
sician, “How many of the passing multi-
tude, do you suppose, appreciate the value
of science, or understand the impositions
of quackery ? "_"Not more than one in
ten,” was the answer.—"Well," said the
quack, "you may have the one, and I'll
have the nine.
We affect to laugh at the folly of those
who put faith in nostrums, but are willing
to try ourselves whether there is any truth
in them.-Hazlitt.
QUALITIES.-Wood burns because it
has the proper stuff in it; and a man be-
comes famous because he has the proper
stuff in him.- Goethe.
We should not judge of a man's merits
by his great qualities, but by the use he
makes of them.-Rochefoucauld.
man.
Q.
QUACKERY.-Heroes have gone out,
quacks have come in ; the reign of quacks
has not ended with the nineteenth century.
QUARRELS.
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QUIET.
and
Our good qualities often expose us to
hatred and persecution more than our bad
aations. "Persecuted for righteousness'
sake," describes the condition of at least
sonie in this world.
Hearts may be attracted by assumed
qualities, but the affections are only to be
fixed by those which are real.--De Moy.
It is not enough to have great qualities,
we must also have the management of
them.-Rochefoucauld.
Good nature and even ness of temper,
will give you an easy companion for life;
virtue and good sense an agreeable friend;
love and constancy a good wife or busband.
--Spectator.
QUARRELS. – I consider your very
testy and quarrelsome people as I do a
loaded gun, which may, by accident, at any
time, go off and kill people.-Shenstone.
Quarrels would never last long if the
fault was only on one side.- Rochefoucauld.
Beware of entrance to a quarrel ; but,
being in, bear it that the opposer may be-
ware of thee.-Shakespeare.
He that blows the coals in quarrels he
has nothing to do with, has no right to com-
plain if the sparks fly in his face.-Frank-
lin.
In most quarrels there is a fault on both
sides. A quarrel may be compared to a
spark, which cannot be produced without
à flint as well as steel. Either of them
may hammer on wood forever ; 110 fire will
follow.Colton.
Jars concealed are half reconciled; but
if generally known, it is a double task to
stop the breach at home and men's mouths
abroad. Huller'.
Coarse kindness is, at least, better than
coarse anger; and in all private quarrels
the duller nature is triumphant by reason
of its dullness.- George Eliot.
The quarrels of lovers are like summer
storms. Everything is more beautiful
when they have passed.-Mad. Neclcer.
The hatred of those who are the most
nearly connected, is the most inveterate.-
Tacitus.
If you cannot avoid a quarrel with a
blackguard, let your lawyer manage it
rather than yourself. No man sweeps his
own chimney, but employs a chimney-
sweeper who has no objection to dirty
work because it is his trade.-Colton.
In a false quarrel there is no true valor.
-Shakespeare.
Two things, well considered, would pre-
vent many quarrels ; first to have it well
ascertained whether we are not disputing
about terms rather than things;
secondly, to examine whether that on
which we differ is worth contending about.
--Colton.
One should not quarrel with a dog with-
out a reason sufficient to vindicate one
through all the courts of morality.-Gold-
smith.
When worthy men fall out, only one of
them may be faulty at first; but if the
strife continue long, both commonly be-
come guilty.-Fuller.
Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel
just, and he but naked, though locked up in
steel, whose conscience with injustice is
corrupted.--Shakespeare.
QUESTION.-Judge of a man by his
questions rather than by his answers.-
Voltaire.
How do you know so much about every-
thing?—was asked of a very wise and in-
telligent man; and the answer was,
never being afraid or ashamed to ask ques-
tions as to anything of which I was igno-
rant."
A child can ask a thousand questions
that the wisest man cannot answer.--J.
Abbott.
There are innumerable questions to
which the inquisitive mind can, in this
state, receive no answer : Why do you
and I exist ? Why was this world created ?
And, since it was to be
created, why was it
not created sooner ?-Johnson.
is By
QUIET,-What sweet delight a quiet
life affords.-- Drummond.
I pray you bear me henceforth from the
noise and rumor of the field, where I may
think the remnant of niy thoughts in peace,
and part this body and my soul with .con-
templation and devout desires. - Shake-
speare.
The heart that is to be filled to the brim
with holy joy must be held still.—Bowes.
The grandest operations, both in nature
and grace, are the most silent and imper-
ceptible. - The shallow brook babbles in
its passage and is beard by every one ; but
the coming on of the seasons is silent and
unseen.--The storm rages and alarms, but
its fury is soon exhausted, and its effects
are. but partial and soon remedied; but
the dew, though gentle and unheard, is
immense in quantity, and is the very life
of large portions of the earth.–And these
are pictures of the operations of graco in
the church and in the soul.-Cecil.
QUOTATIONS.
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QUOTATIONS.
My notions of life are much the same as
they are about travelling; there is a good
deal of amusement on the road, but, after
all, one wants to be at rest.--Southey.
Stillness of person and steadiness of fea-
tures are signal marks of good breeding. -
Vulgar persons can't sit still, or, at least,
they must work their limbs or features.-
0. W. Holmes,
I have often said that all the misfortunes
of men spring from their not knowing how
to live quietly at home, in their own rooms.
-Pascal.
QUOTATIONS.- Quotation, sir, is a
good thing; there is a community of mind
in it: classical quotation is the parole of
literary men all over the world. - Johnson.
An apt quotation is as good as an origi-
nal remark.--Proverb.
The obscurest sayings of the truly great
are often those which contain the germ of
the profoundest and most useful truths.
Mazzini.
Quotation is the highest compliment you
can pay to an author.-Johnson.
In quoting of books, quote such authors
as are usually read; others you may read
for your own satisfaction, but do not name
them.--Selden.
The man wbose book is filled with quota-
tions, has been said to creep along the
shore of authors, as if he were afraid to
trust himself to the free compass of reason-
ing. I would rather defend such authors
by a different allusion, and ask whether
honey is the worse for being gathered from
many flowers.
It is the beauty and independent worth
of the citations, far more than their appro-
priateness, which have made Johnson's
Dictionary popular even as a reading-book.
-- Coleridge.
If these little sparks of holy fire thus
heaped up together do not give life to your
prepared and already enkindled spirit, yet
they will sometimes help to entertain a
thought, to actuate a passion, to employ
and hallow a fancy.-Jeremy Taylor.
Next to the originator of a good sentence
is the first quoter of it.-Emerson.
To select well among old things is almost
equal to inventing new ones.-Trublet.
Why are not more gems from our great
authors scattered over the country? Great
books are not in everybody's reach; and
though it is better to know them thoroughly
than to know them only here and there,
yet it is a good work to give a little to those
who have neither time nor means to get
more. Let every bookworm, when in any
fragrant, scarce old tome he discovers a
sentence, a story, an illustration, that does
his heart good, basten to give it. - Coleridge.
A couplet of verse, & period of prose, may
cling to the rock of ages as a shell that sur-
vives a deluge.—Bulwer.
Selected thoughts depend for their flavor
upon the terseness of their expression, for
thoughts are grains of sugar or salt, that
must be melted in a drop of water.-J. P.
Senn.
A verse may find him who a sermon flies.
-Herbert.
The proverb answers where the sermon
fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more
execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder
idly exploded in the air.-Simuns.
Have at you with a proverb.-Shake-
speare.
The wise men of old have sent most of
their morality down the stream of time in
the light skiff of apothegm or epigram.-
L. P.Whipple.
A thing is never too often repeated which
is never sufficiently learned.--Seneca.
He presents me with what is always an
acceptable gift who brings me news of a
great thought before unknown. He eu-
riches me without in poverishing himself.-
Bovee.
Full of wise says and modern instances.
---Shakespeare.
To appreciate and use correctly a valu-
able maxim, requires & genius, a vital
appropriating exercise of mind closely
allied to that wbich first created it.-W. R.
Alger.
Abstracts, abridgments, summaries, etc.,
have the same use as burning glasses, to
collect the diffused rays of wit and learning
in authors, and make them point with
warmth and qnickness upon the reader's
imagination.-Swift.
A great man quotes bravely, and will not
draw on bis invention when his memory
serves him with a word as good.- What he
quotes he fills with his own voice and
humor, and the whole cyclopedia of his
table-talk is presently believed to be his
own.--Emerson.
The multiplicity of facts and writings is
become so great that everything must soon
be reduced to extracts.-- Voltaire.
Particles of science are often very widely
scattered, and writers of extensive coni-
prehension have incidental remarks upon
topics remote from the principal subject,
which are often more valuable than former
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QUOTATIONS.
treatises, and which are not known because those who make them practically useful to
not promised in the title. He that collects the world. Vauvenargues.
these is very laudably employed, as he
facilitates the progress of others, and by
The art of quotation requires more deli-
cacy in the practice than those conceive
making that easy of attainment which is
already written, may give some adventur-
who can see nothing more in a quotation
than an extract.-Disraeli.
ous mind leisure for new thoughts and
original designs.--Johnson.
The adventitious beauty of poetry may
I pluck up the goodlisome herbs of sen-
be felt in the greater delight with a verse
tences by pruning, eat them by reading,
given in happy quotation than in the poem.
-Emerson.
digest them by musing, and lay them up at
length in the high seat of memory by I quote others only the better to express
gathering them together ; that so, having myself.-Montaigne.
tasted their sweetness, I may the less per- Whoever reads only to transcribe or quote
ceive the bitterness of life.- Queen Eliza- shining remarks without entering into the
beth.
genius and spirit of the author, will be apt
When we would prepare the mind by a to be misled out of a regular way of think-
forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a ing, and the product of all this will be
symphony preluding on the chords those found to be a manifest incoherent piece of
tones we are about to harmonize.- Disraeli. patchwork.--Swift.
He that recalls the attention of mankind Iam buta gatherer and disposer of other
to any part of learning which time has left men's stuff.- Wasson.
behind it, may be truly said to advance the
A good thought is a great boon for which
literature of his own age.--Johnson.
God is first to be thanked; next, he who
Whatever we may say against collec- is the first to utter it; and then in a lesser
tions, which present authors in a disjointed but still a considerable degree, the friend
form, they nevertheless bring about many who is the first to quote it to us.--
Bovee.
excellent results. We are not always so The wisdom of the wise and the expe-
composed, so full of wisdom, that we are
able to take in at once the whole scope of a
rience of ages may be preserved by quota-
tion.-Disraeli.
work according to its merits. Do we not
mark in a book passages which seem to bave
To quote copiously and well requires
a direct reference to ourselves? Young
taste, judgment and erudition, a feeling
people especially, who have failed in ac-
for the beautiful, an appreciation of the
quiring a complete cultivation of mind, are
noble, and a sense of the profound. Bovee.
roused in a praiseworthy way by brilliant By necessity, by proclivity, and by de-
passages.- Goethe.
light, we quote.- We quote not only books
I have somewhere seen it observed that and proverbs, but arts, sciences, religion,
we should make the same use of a book customs, and law8; nay, we quote temples
that the bee does of a flower ; she steals, and houses, tables and chairs by imitation.
sweets from it, but does not injure it. Emerson.
Colton,
With just enough of learning to mis-
Luminous quotations atone, by their quote.- Byron.
interest, for the dullness of an inferior
Our best thoughts come from others.-
book, and add to the value of a superior Enrer son.
work by the variety which they lend to its
style and treatment.-Bovee.
In literature, quotation is good only when
the writer whom I follow goes my way, and,
There is no less invention in aptly ap- being better mounted than I, gives me a
plying a thought found in a book, than in
cast, as we say ; but if I like the gay equi-
being the first author of the thought.-
page so well as to go out of my road, I had
Bayle.
better have gone afoot.-Emerson.
We ought never to be afraid to repeat an
Every quotation contributes something
ancient truth, when we feel that we can
to the stability or enlargement of the lan-
make it more striking by a neater turn, or
.
bring it alongside of another truth, which
guage.--Johnson,
may make it clearer, and thereby accumu-
Fine words !-I wonder where you stole
late evidence. It belongs to the inventive
them.--Swift.
faculty to see clearly the relative state of I have only made a nosegay of culled
things, and to be able to place them in con- flowers, and have brought nothing of my
nection ; but the discoveries of ages gone own but the thread that ties them together.
by belong less to their first authors than to -Montaigne.
RAGE.
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RAINBOW
R.
Above all things, raillery decline ; it is
in ablest bands a dangerous tool, but never
RAGE.-(See “ 'ANGER," and "Pas- fails to wound the medaliug fool.-Stilling-
BION.”)
fleet.
In rage deaf as the sea ; hasty as fire.—
Good humor is the best shield against
Shakespeare.
the darts of satirical raillery.-C. Simmons.
When passion is on the throne, reason is If nettled by severe raillery, conceal the
out of doors.-M. Henry.
sting if you would escape a repetition of
the evil.
Oppose not rage while rage is in its force,
but give it way a while and let it waste.- Good-natured raillery is the sauce of civil
Shakespeare.
entertainment, and without some such
When transported by rage, it is best to
tincture of urbanity, good humor falters.
observe its effects on those who deliver
-L'Estrange.
themselves up to the same passion.--Plu- We cannot learn raillery ; that must be
tarch.
a gift of nature; and I esteem him happy
Rage is essentially vulgar, and never
who does not wish to acquire it. The char-
more vulgar than when it proceeds from
acter of sarcasm is dangerous ; although
mortified pride, disappointed ambition, or
this quality makes those laugh whom it
thwarted wilfulness.-H. Coleridge.
does not wound, it, nevertheless, never
procures esteem. - Ocenstiern.
'Tis in my head ; 'tis in my heart; 'tis
everywhere; it rages like a madness, and RAIN.-How singular, and yet how sim-
I most wonder how my reason holds.
ple, the philosophy of rain !-Who but the
Otway.
Omniscient one could have devised such an
admirable arrangement for watering the
RAILLERY.-(See “SARCASM.")
earth !- Ure.
Raillery is sometimes more insupportable
The kind refresher of the summer heats.
than wrong; because we bave a right to -Thomson.
resent injuries, but it is ridiculous to be
How beautiful is the rain ! After the
angry at a jest.-Rochefoucauld.
dust and heat, in the broad and fiery street,
As nothing is more provoking to some and in the narrow lane; how beautiful is
tempers than raillery, a prudent person
the rain !- Longfellow.
will not always be satirically witty where
Dashing in big drops on the narrow pane,
he can, but only where he may without of-
and making mournful music for the mind,
fence. For he will consider that the finest
I hear the singing of the frequent rain.
stroke of raillery is but a witticism ; aud W. H. Burleigh.
that there is hardly any person so mean,
whose good will is not preferable to the
The daily showers rejoice the thirsty
pleasure of a horse-laugh.-Burgh.
earth, and bless the flowery buds.—Prior.
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor
The clouds consign their treasures to the
of one's wit against one's good nature.-
fields, and softly shaking on the dimpled
Montesquieu.
pool prelusive drops, let all their moisture
flow, in large effusion, o'er the freshened
The raillery which is consistent with world.-Thonson.
good breeding is a gentle animadversion
on some foible, which, while it raises the
The rain is playing its soft pleasant tune
laugh in the rest of the company, doth not
fitfully on the skylight, and the shade of
put the persou rallied out of countenance,
the fast-flying clouds passes with delicate
or expose him to shame or contempt. On
change across my book.-N. P. Willis.
the contrary, the jest should be so delicate
Clouds dissolved the thirsty ground sup-
that the object of it should be capable of ply.-Roscommon.
joining in the mirth it occasions.-Fielding. Vexed sailors curse the rain for which
Raillery and wit were never made to an- poor shepherds prayed in vain.- Waller.
swer our inquiries after truth, and to de-
RAINBOW,That gracious thing,
termine a question of rational controversy,
made up of tears and light. - Coleridge.
though they may be sometimes serviceable
to expose to contempt those inconsistent
So shines the setting sun on adverse
follies which have been first abundantly
skies, and paints a rainbow on the storm.
refuted by argument: they serve indee
Watts.
only to cover nonsense with shame, when Look upon the rainbow and praise him
reason has first proved it to be mere non- that made it.-Very beautiful it is in the
sense.- Watts.
brightness thereof : it compasseth the heav-
RANK.
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READING
ens about with a glorious circle, and the
bands of the Most High have bended it.
Ecclesiasticus.
Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life :
the evening beam that smiles the clouds
away, and tints to-morrow with prophetic
ray.Byron.
Lo! in the dark east, expanded high,
the rainbow brightens to the setting sun.
Beattie.
O, beautiful rainbow, all woven of light!
heaven surely is open 'when thou dost ap-
pear, and bending above thee the angels
draw near, and sing "The rainbow-the
rainbow; the smile of God is here!”.
Mrs. Hale.
Hung on the shower that fronts the
golden west, the rainbow bursts, like
magic, on mine eyes, in hues of ancient
promise there imprest, frail in its date,
eternal in its meaning.-C. T. Turner,
Faithful to its sacred page, heaven still
rebuilds thy span, nor lets the type grow
pale with age, that first spoke peace to
man.- Canıpbell.
That arc of light, born of the shower and
colored by the sun, which spans the heav-
ens !-J. C. Prince.
That smiling, daughter of the storm.-
Colton.
their purple and cast naked on the world,
would immediately sink to the lowest rank
of society, without a hope of emerging from
their obscurity.--Gibbon.
Rank is a great beautifier.-Bulwer.
If it were ever allowable to forget what
is due to superiority of rank, it would be
when the privileged themselves remember
it.-Mad. Swetchine.
Of the king's creation you may be ; but
he who makes a count ne'er made a man.
-Southern.
I weigh the man, not his title ; 'tis not
the king's stamp can make the metal better.
Wycherly.
The rank is but the guinea's stamp; the
man's the gold for all that.-Burns.
RASHNESS, – Some act first, think
afterward, and then repent forever.-C.
Simnions.
Rashness is the faithful but unhappy
parent of misfortune.-Fuller.
None are rash when they are not seen by
anybody. Stanislaus.
As sloth seldom bringeth actions to good
birth, 80 hasty rashness always makes
them abortive ere they are well formed.
A. Warwick.
Haste and rashness are storms and tem-
pests, breaking, and wrecking business :
but nimbleness is a full, fair wind, blowing
it with speed to the haven.-Fuller.
Rashness is the characteristic of ardent
youth, and prudence that of mellowed age. .
Cicero.
Rashness and haste make all things in-
secure.-Denham.
We may outrun by violent swiftness that
which we run at, and lose by overrunning.
-Shakespeare.
Cotton Mather used to say there was a
gentleman mentioned in the nineteenth
cliapter of Acts, to whom he was more
deeply indebted than almost any other
person. And that was the town clerk of
Īphesus, whose counsel was to do nothing
rashly. Upon any proposal of consequence
it was usual with him to say, “Let us first
consult with the town clerk of Ephesus.
What mischief, trouble, and sorrow would
be avoided in the world were the people
more in the habit of consulting this gentle-
:
RANK.-(See “NOBILITY.")
To be vain of one's rank or place, is to
show that one is below it. --Stanislaus.
Distinction of rank is necessary for the
economy of the world, and was never called
in question but by barbarians and enthu-
siasts.-Rowe.
There are no persons more solicitous
about the preservation of rauk, than those
who have no rank at all.-Shenstone.
Quality and title have such allurements
that hundreds are ready to give up all their
own importance, to cringe, to flatter, to
look litble, and to pall every pleasure in
constraint, merely to be among the great,
though without the least hopes of improv-
ing by their understanding or sharing their
generosity: they might be happy among
their equals, but those are despised for
company where they are despised in turn.
-Göldsmith.
Every error of the mind is the more con-
spicuous, and culpable, in proportion to
the rank of the person who commits it.
Juvenal.
Rank and riches are chains of gold, but
still chains.—Ruffini.
The generality of princes, it stripped of
man.
READING.-(See " Books.")
Reading serves for delight, for ornament,
for ability. The crafty contemn it; the
simple admire it; the wise usejt.-Bacon,
READING.
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READING.
Always have a book at hand, in the par-
lor, on the table, for the family; a book of
condensed thought and striking anecdote,
of sound maxims and truthful apothegins.
It will impress on your own mind a th012-
sand valuable suggestions, and teach your
children a thousand lessons of truth and
duty. Such a book is a casket of jewels for
your houshehold.—Tryon Edwards.
Get a habit, a passion for reading ; 1100
flying from book to book, with the squeam-
ish caprice of a literary epicure ; but read
systematically, closely, thoughtfully, ana-
lyzing every subject as you go along, and
laying it up carefully and safely in your
memory. It is only by this mode that your
information will be at the same time exten-
sive, accurate, and useful.-W. Wirt.
You may glean knowledge by reading,
but you must separate the chaff from the
wheat by thinking.
Much reading, like a too great repletion,
stops up, through a course of diverse,
sometimes contrary opinions, the access of
a nearer, newer, and quicker invention of
your own. -Osborn.
The pleasure of reading without appli-
cation is a dangerous pleasure. Useless
books we should lay aside, and make all
possible good use of those from which we
may reap some fruit.-Foster.
When in reading we meet with any
maxim that may be of use, we should take
it for our own, and make an immediate
application of it, as we would of the advice
of a friend whom we have purposely con-
sulted.--Colton.
One of the amusements of idleness is
reading without the fatigue of close atten-
tion, and the world, therefore, swarms with
writers whose wish is not to be studied but
to be read.-Johnson.
There are four kinds of readers. The
first is like the hour-glass; and their read-
ing being as the sand, it runs in and runs
out, and leaves not a vestige behind. A
second is like the sponge, which imbibes
everything, and returns it in nearly the
same state, only a little dirtier. A third is
like a jelly-bag, allowing all that is pure to
pass away, and retaining only the refuse
and dregs. And the fourth is like the
slaves in the diamond mines of Golconda,
who, casting aside all that is worthless,
retain only pure gems.-Coleridge.
No entertainment is so cheap as reacı-
ing, nor any pleasure so lasting. -Lady M.
W. Montague.
It is well to read everything of some-
thing, and something of everything.–
Brougham,
If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns
of all the kingdoms of Europe, were laid at
my feet in exchange for my love of reading,
I would spurn them all.-Fénelon.
The foundation of knowledge must be
laid by reading. General principles must
be had from books, which, however, must
be brought to the test of real life. In con-
versation you never get a system. What iş
said upon a subject is to be gathered from
a hundred people. The parts of a truth,
which a man gets thus, are at such a dis-
tance from each other, that he never attains
to a full view.--Johnson.
Happy is he who has laid up in his youth,
and held fast in all fortune, a genuine
and passionate love for reading.–Rufus
Choate.
A man of ability, for the chief of his
reading, should select such works as he
feels are beyond his own power to have
produced. What can other books do for
him but waste his time or augment his
vanity ?-J. Foster.
Some read books only with a view to find
fault, while others read only to be taught:
the former are like venomous spiders, ex-
tracting a poisonous quality, where the
latter, like the bees, sip out & sweet and
profitable juice.—L'Estrange.
It is manifest that all government of
action is to be gotten by knowledge, and
knowledge, best, by gathering many knowl-
edges, which is reading.–Sir P. Sidney.
Think as well as read, and when you .
read. Yield not your minds to the passive
impressions which others may make upon
them. Hear what they have to say ; but
examine it, weigh it, and judge for your-
selves. This will enable you to make a
right use of books—to use them as helpers,
not as guides to your understanding; as
counsellors, not as dictators of what you
are to think and believe.— Tryon Edwards.
Reading maketh a full man; conference
a ready man; and writing an exact man;
and, therefore, if a man write little, he had
need have a great memory; if he confer
little, he had need have a present wit; and
if he read little, he had need bave much
cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
-Bacon.
For general improvement, a man should
read whatever his immediate inclination
prompts him to; though if he has a science
to learn, he must regularly and resolutely
advance. What we read with inclination
nakes a stronger impression. If we read
without inclination, half the mind is em-
ployed in fixing the attention, so there is
but half to be employed on what we read.
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If a man begins to read in the middle of a
book, and feels an inclination to go on, let
him not quit it to go to the beginning. He
may perhaps not feel again the inclination.
-Johnson.
What blockheads are those wise persons,
who think it necessary that a child shoulá
comprehend everything it reads.-Southey.
By reading, we enjoy the dead; by
conversation, the living and by contem-
plation, ourselves. Reading enriches the
memory; conversation polishes the wit;
and contemplation improves the judgment.
Of these, reading is the most important, as
it furnishes both the others.-Colton.
The love of reading enables a man to
exchange the wearisome hours of life,
which come to every one, for hours of de-
light.-Montesquieui.
Read, and refine your appetite ; learn to
live upon instruction ; feast your mind and
mortify your flesh; read, and take your
nourishment in at your eyes, shut up your
mouth, and chew the cud of understanding.
--Congreve.
Deep verged in books, but shallow in
himself. --Milton.
They that have read about everything
are thought to understand everytbing too ;
but it is not always 80. Reading furnishes
the mind only with the materials of knowl-
edge; it is thinking that makes what we
read ours. We are of the ruminating kind,
and it is not enough to cram ourselves with
a great load of collections. Unless ve chew
them over again, they will not give us
strength and nourishment.-Channing.
Force yourself to reflect on what you
read, paragraph by paragraph.—Coleridge.
Read not to contradict and confute, nor
to believe and take for granted, nor to find
talk and discourse, but to weigh and con-
sider. Some books are to be tasted, others
to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed
and digested ; that is, some books are to be
read only in parts; others to be read, but
not curiously; and some few to be read
wholly, and with diligence and attention.-
Bacon.
We should accustom the mind to keep
the best company by introducing it only to
the best books.-Sydney Smith.
It is wholesome and bracing for the mind
to have its faculties kept on the stretch.
It is like the effect of a walk in Switzerland,
upon the body. Reading an essay of Bel-
con's for instance, or a chapter of Aristotle,
or of Butler, if it be well and thoughtfully
read, is much like climbing up a hill, and
inay do one the same sort of good. Set the
tortoise to run against the hare, and even
if he does not overtake it, he will do more
than ever he did previously—more than
he would ever have thought himself capa-
ble of doing. Set the hare to run with the
tortoise, he falls asleep.—Guesses at Truth.
Exceedingly well read and profited in
strange concealments.---Shakespeare.
He picked something, valuable out of
everything he read.---Pliny.
No man can read with profit that which
he cannot learn to read with pleasure. If
I do not find in a book something which I
am looking for, or am ready to receive,
then the book is no book for me however,
much it may be for another man.--Noah
Porter.
Multifarious reading weakens the mind
more than doing nothing, for it becomes a
necessity, at last, like smoking: and is an
excuse for the mind to lie dormant whilst
thought is poured in, and runs through, a
clear stream over unproductive gravel, on
which not even mosses grow. It is the
idlest of all idleness, and leaves more of
impotency than any other.-F. W. Robert-
son.
Had I read as much as others, I had re-
mained as ignorant as they.--Hobbes.
We may read, and read, and read again,
and still find something new, something to
please, and something to instruct.-Hardis.
If I were to pray for a taste which should
stand me under every variety of circum-
stances, and be a source of happiness and
cheerfulness to me through life, and a
shield against its ills, however things might
go amiss and the world frown upon me, it
would be a taste for reading. Give a man
this taste, and the means of gratifying it,
and you can hardly fail of making him
happy. You make him a denizen of all
nations, a contemporary of all ages.-Sir
J. Herschel
A page digested is better than a volume
hurriedly read.-Macaulay.
How well he is read to reason against
reading. --Shakespeare.
In science, read, by preference, the new-
est works ; in literature the oldest. The
classic literature is always modern. New
books revive and redecorate old ideas; old
books suggest and invigorate new ideas.
Bulwer.
We should be as careful of the books we
read, as of the company we keep. The
dead very often have more power than the
living. - Tryon Edwards.
Never read a book through merely be-
cause you have begun it.— Witherspoon.
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There are three classes of readers : some
enjoy without judgment; others judge
without enjoyment; and some there are
who judge while they enjoy, and enjoy
while they judge. The latter class repro-
duces the work of art on which it is en-
gaged. - Its numbers are very small.-
Goethe.
Thou mayest as well expect to grow
stronger by always eating as wiser by al-
ways reading. Too much overcharges na-
ture, and turns more into disease than
nourishment. It is thought and digestion
which make books serviceable, and give
health and vigor to the mind.-Fuller.
Leibnitz has obtained this fruit from his
great reading, that he has a mind better
exercised for receiving all sorts of ideas,
more susceptible of all forms, more access-
ible to that which is new and even opposed
to him, more indulgent to human weakness,
more disposed to favorable interpretations,
and more industrious to find them.-Fon-
tenelle,
One ought to read just as inclination
takes him, for what he reads as a task will
do him little good.--Johnson.
The man whom neither riches nor luxury
nor grandeur can render happy may, with
a book in his hand, forget all his troubles
under the friendly shade of every tree, and
may experience pleasures as infinite as
they are varied, as pure as they are lasting,
as lively as they are unfading, and as com-
patible with every public duty as they are
contributory to private happiness.--Zim-
I read hard, or not at all; never skimming,
and never turning aside to merely inviting
books; and Plato, Aristotle, Butler, Thucy-
dides, Jonathan Edwards, have passed,
like the iron atoms of the blood, into my
mental constitution.-F. W. Robertson.
One may as well be asleep as to read for
anything but to improve his mind and
morals, and regulate his conduct.--Sterne.
A discursive student is almost certain to
fall into bad company. Homes of enter-
tainment, scientific and romantic, are al-
ways open to a man who is trying to escape
from his thoughts. But a shelter from the
tempest is dearly bought in the house of
the plague. Ten minutes with a French
novel or a German rationalist have sent a
reader away with a fever for life.- Will-
mott.
When I take up a book I have read be-
fore I know what to expect; and the satis-
faction is not lessened by being anticipated,
I shake hands with and look the old tried
and valued friend in the face, compare
notes, and chat the hour away.- Hazlitt.
One must be rich in thought and charac-
ter to owe nothing to books, though prepa-
ration is necessary to profitable reading;
and the less reading is better than more :
-book-struck men are of all readers least
wise, however knowing or learned.-A. B.
Alcott.
Insist on reading the great books, on
marking the great events of the world.
Then the little books can take care of them-
selves, and the trivial incidents of passing
politics and diplomacy may perish with the
using.-A. P. Stanley.
Reading furnishes the mind only with
materials of knowledge ; it is thinking
makes what we read ours. So far as we
apprehend and see the connection of ideas,
so far it is ours; without that it is so much
loose matter floating in our brain.-Locke.
One must be an inventor to read well.-
As the proverb says, "He that would bring
home the wealth of the Indies must carry
out the wealth of the Indies.-- There is
creative reading as well as creative writing.
-When the mind is braced by labor and
invention, the page of whatever book we
read becomes luminous with manifold allu-
sion. Every sentence is doubly significant,
and the sense of our author is as broad as
the world.- Emerson.
Imprint the beauties of authors upon
your imagination, and their good morals
upon your heart.-C. Simmons.
Reading without purpose is sauntering,
not exercise. More is got from one book
on which the thought settles for a definite
mermann.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every
day, if it is but a single sentence.- If you
gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make
itself felt at the end of the year.-H. Mann.
The mind should be accustomed to make
wise reflections, and draw curious conclu-
sions as it goes along; the habit of which
made Pliny the Younger affirm that he
never read a book so bad but he drew some
profit from it.-Slerne.
There is a gentle, hnt perfectly irresist-
ible coercion in a habit of reading well di-
rected, over the whole tenor of a man's
character and conduct, which is not the
least effectual because it works insensibly
and because it is really the last thing he
dreams of.-Sir John Herschel.
By reading a man does, as it were, ante-
date his life, and make himself contempo-
rary with past ages.-Jeremy Collier.
Every reader if he has a strong mind,
reads himself into the book, and amalga-
mates his thoughts with those of the anz-
thor.-Goethe.
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end in knowledge, than from libraries
skimmed over by a wandering eye. A cot-
tage flower gives honey to the bee, a king's
garden none to the butterfly.—Bulwer.
When there is no recreation or business
for thee abroad, thou mayst then have a
company of honest old fellows, in leatheru
jackets, in thy study, which may find thee
excellent divertisement at home.-Fuller.
By conversing with the mighty dead we
imbibe sentiment with knowledge. We
become strongly attached to those who
can no longer either hurt or serve us, ex-
cept through the influence which they exert
over the mind. We feel the presence of
that power which gives immortality to hu-
man thoughts and actions, and catch the
flame of enthusiasm from all nations and
ages.-Hazlitt.
Read not books alone, but men, and
amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find
anything questionable there, use the com-
inentary of a severe friend, rather than the
gloss of a sweet-lipped flatterer; there is
more profit in a distasteful truth than in
deceitful sweetness.—Quarles.
What is twice read is commonly better
remembered than what is transcribed.-
Johnson.
Tew are sufficiently sensible of the im-
portance of that economy in reading which
selects, almost exclusively, the very first
order of books.-Why should a man, except
for some special reason, read an inferior
book at the very time he might be reading
one of the highest order.- John Foster.
'It is not what people eat, but what they
digest, that makes them strong. It is not
what they gain, but what they save, that
inakes them rich. It is not what they read,
but what they remember, that makes them
learned
I read for three things : first, to know
what the world has done during the last
twenty-four hours, and is about to do to-
say; second, for the knowledge that I
specially want in my work ; and third, for
what will bring my mind into a proper
mood.-H. W. Beecher.
The average person cannot overread
without peril of mental plethora, any more
than he can overfeed with impunity. Lit-
erary dissipation is as weakening in its
effects as dissipation of any other kind.-
H. C. Trumbull.
Read much, but not many works.—Sir
W. Hamillon.
To read without reflecting, is like eating
without digesting.-Burice.
The man who is fond of books is usually
a man of lofty thought, and of elevated
opinions.—Dawson.
If we encountered a man of rare intellect
we should ask him what books he read.-
Emerson.
The first time I read an excellent work,
it is to me just as if I had gained a new
friend ; and when I read over a book I bave
perused before, it resembles the meeting
with an old one.-Goldsmith.
Reading should be in proportion to
thinking, and thinkiug in proportion to
reading. Emmons.
Some read to think, these are rare; some
to write, these are common; some to talk,
and these are the great majority.—The first
page of au author not unfrequently suffices
all the purposes of this latter class, of whom
it has been said, they treat books, as some
do lords, inform themselves of their titles,
and then boast of an intimate acquaintance.
- Colton.
Read, read, sirrah, and refine your ap-
petite; learn to live upon instruction ;
feast your mind and mortify your flesh.
Read and take your nourishment in at your
eyes ; shut up your mouth, and chew the
cud of understanding.--Congreve.
REASON.- Reason is the glory of hu-
man nature, and one of the chief eminences
whereby we are raised above the beasts, in
this lower world.---Watts.
There are few things reason can discover
with so much certainty and ease as its own
insufficiency.---Jeremy Collier.
Reason cannot show itself more reason-
able, than to cease reasoning on things
above reason.-Sir P. Sidney.
Polished steel will not shine in the dark.
No more can reason, however refined or
cultivated, shine efficaciously, but as it re-
flects the light of divine truth shed from
heaven.-John Foster.
This noble faculty was certainly given to
man to be a guide in religion as well as in
other things. He possesses no other means
by which he can form a judgment on any
subject or assent to any truth, and it would
be no more absurd to talk of seeing without
eyes, than of knowing anything without
reason.-A. Alexander.
He is next to the gods whom reason, and
not passion, impels.-Claudian.
Reason ! how many eyes hast thou to see
evils, and how dim, nay blind, thou art in
preventing then.-Sir P. Sidney.
Reason and faith resemble the two sons
of the patriarch ; reason is the first born,
but faith inherits the blessing.- Culverwell.
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The authority of reason is far more im-
perious than that of a master; for he who
disobeys the one is unhappy, but he who
disobeys the other is a fool.--Pascal.
All reasoning is retrospect; it consists in
the application of facts and principles pre-
viously known. This shows the very great
importance of knowledge, especially of that
kind called experience.-J. Foster.
Never reason from what you do not know.
If you do, you will soon believe what is ut-
terly against reason.-Ranısay.
Whatever is against right reason, no
faith can oblige us to believe. For though
reason is not the positive and affirmative
measure of our faith, and our faith ought
to be larger than our reason, and take
something into her heart that reason can
never take into her eye, yet in all our creed
there can be nothing against our reason.
If reason justly contradicts an opinion, it
is not of the household of faith. --Jeremy
Taylor.
Reasoning implies doubt and uncer-
tainty; and therefore God does not reason.
Lord Chatham, in his speeches, did not
reason; he struck, as by intuition, directly
on the results of reasoning--as a cannon
shot strikes the mark without your seeing
its course through the air as it moves to-
ward its object.-J. Foster.
If it is dangerous to be convinced, it is
dangerous to listen, for our reason is so
much of a machine, that it will not always
be able to resist when the ear is perpetually
assailed.-Mackenzie.
What men want of reason for their
opinions, they usually supply and make up
in prejudice or wilfulness.—Tillotson.
It is not the province of reason to origi-
nate Divine truth; nor to sit in judgment
on truth which is revealed ; reason is not
the legislator, to determine what the laws
ought to be ; but the judge, to decide and
act upon what they are. Like the eye, it
does not create the objects of its own
vision, or the light by which it sees them,
but is rightly employed in observing ob-
jects which God has created, by the light
which He causes to shine. Its proper prov-
ince is, to settle the questions whether
whether God has spoken, what he has
spoken, and how it all applies to our faith
and conduct. Its use in philosophy and
religion is precisely the same; as in the
former, existing facts, so in the latter,
revealed truths are the only proper objects
of its study; and in each, the only safe
method of investigation is inductive.--
Tryon Edwards.
Reasons are the pillars of the fabric of a
discourse, but similitudes are the windows
which give the best light.-Fuller.
It is useless to attempt to reason a man
out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
--Swift.
What or how can we reason but from
what we know ?-Pope.
Philosophers have done wisely when they
have told us to cultivate our reason rather
than our feelings, for reason reconciles us
to the daily things of existence; our feel-
ings teach us to yearn after the far, the
difficult, the unseen.-Bulwer.
He that will not reason is a bigot; he
that cannot reason is a fool ; and he that
dares not reason is a slave.—Sir W. Drum-
niond.
Sound and sufficient reason falls, after
all, to the share of but few men, and those
few men exert their influence in silence.
Goethe.
Reason can no more influence the wil,
and operate as a motive, than the eyes
which show a man his road can enable him
to move from place to place, or than a ship
provided with a compass can sail without a
wind.- Whately.
Reason is like the sun, of which the light
is constant, uniform, and lasting ; fancy,
a meteor of bright, but transitory lustre,
irregular in its motion, and delusive in its
direction.—Johnson.
The soundest argument will produce no
more conviction in an empty head, than the
most superficial declamation ; à feather
and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a
vacuum.—Colton.
There is not so much difference in men's
ideas of elementary truth, as is generally
thought. A greater difference lies in their
power of reasoning from these truths.-
Emmons,
It has been my object and unquenched
desire, to kindle young minds, and to guard
them against the temptations of scorners,
by showing that the scheme of Christianity,
though not discoverable by human reason,
is yet in accordance with it ; that link fol-
lows link by necessary consequence ; that
religion passes out of the ken of reason
only where the eye of reason has reached
its own horizon; and that faith is then but
its continuation ; even as the day softens
away into the sweet twilight, and twilight,
hushed and breathless, steals into the dark-
ness.-Coleridge.
The province of reason in matters of re-
ligion, is the same as that of the eye in ref-
erence to the external world : not to create
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objects ; nor to sit in judgment on the pro-
priety of their existence, but simply to dis-
cern them just as they are.—Tryon Ed-
wards.
No doctrine can be a proper object of our
faith which it is not more reasonable to re-
ceive than to reject.-A. Alexander,
Revelation may not need the help of rea-
son, but man does, even when in possession
of revelation. Reason is the candle in the
man's hand which enables him to see what
revelation is.-Sininis.
To reason correctly from a false
principle,
is the perfection of sophistry.-
Emmons.
Revelation is a telescope kindly given us,
through which reason should look up to the
heavens.
Good reasons must, of force, give place
to better.—Shakespeare.
The voice of reason is more to be re-
garded than the bent of any present in-
clination ; since inclination will at length
come over to reason, though we can never
force reason to comply with inclination.-
Addison
Neither great poverty nor great riches
will hear reason.Fielding.
When a man has not a good reason for
doing a thing, he has one good reason for
letting it alone.- Walter Scott.
Wise men are instructed by reason ; men
of less understanding, by experience ; the
most ignorant, by necessity; and beasts
by nature.— Cicero.
We are afraid to put men to live and
trade each on his own private stock of
reason ; because we suspect that this stock
in each man is small, and that the individ-
uals would do better to avail themselves of
the general bank and capital of nations and
of ages. Burke.
He is not a reasonable man who by
chance stumbles upon reason, but he who
derives it from knowledge, from discern-
ment, and from taste.---Rochefoucauld.
Reason is our intellectual eye, and like
the bodily eye it needs light to see ; and to
see clearly and far it needs the light of
When my reason is afloat, my faith can-
not long remain in suspense, and I believe
in God as firmly as in any other truth
whatever ; in short, a thousand motives
draw me to the consolatory side, and add
the weight of hope to the equilibrium of
reason.-Rousseau.
keason is the director of man's will, dis-
covering, in action what is good, for the
laws of well-doing are the dictates of right
reason.-Hooker.
An idle reason lessens the weight of the
good ones you gave before.-Swift.
He that speaketh against his own reason
speaks against his own conscience, and
therefore it is certain that no man serves
God with a good conscience who serves
him against his reason.--Jeremy Taylor,
Human reason is like a drunken man on
horseback ; set it up on one side, and it
tumbles over on the other.-Luther.
How often do we contradict the right
rules of reason in the course of our lives !
Reason itself is true and just, but the rea-
son of every particular man' is weak and
wavering, perpetually swayed and turned
by his interests, his passions, and his vices.
-Swift.
Your giving a reason for it will not make
it right. —You may have a reason why two
and two should make five, but they will still
make but four.-Johnson.
The weakness of human reason appears
more evidently in those who know it not,
than in those who know it.-Pascal.
The heart has reasons that reason does
not understand.-- Bossuet.
There are few things reason can discover
with so much certainty and ease as its own
insufficiency.- Collier.
He is next to the gods whom reason and
not passion impels.- Claudian.
Here is the manliness of manhood that a
man has a good reason for what he does,
and has a will in doing it.--- A. Maclaren.
He that takes away reason to make way
for revelation puts out the light of both,
and does much the same as if he would per-
suade a man to put out his eyes the better
to receive the remote light of an invisible
star by a telescope.- Locke.
The way to subject all things to thyself
is to subject thyself to reason. Thou shalt
govern many if reason govern thee.-
Vouldst thou be the monarch of a little
world ?-command thyself.--Quarles.
Faith evermore looks upward and de-
scries objects remote; but reason can dis-
cover things only near, and sees nothing
that is above her.- Quarles.
heaven.
Strong reasons make strong actions.-
Shakespeare.
Wouldst thou subject all things to thy-
self ? — Subject thyself to thy reason.-
Seneca.
There are those who never reason on
what they should do, but on what they have
done; as if reason had her eyes behind,
and could only see backward.— Fielding.
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How can finite grasp infinity ?- Dryden.
Let us not dream that reason can ever
be popular. Passions, emotions, may be
made popular, but reason remains ever the
property of the few.- Goethe.
If reasons were as plenty as blackberries
I would give no man a reason upon coin-
pulsion.-Shakespeare.
We can only reason from what is ; we
can reason on actualities, but not on pos-
sibilities. -Bolingbroke.
I have no other but a woman's reason ; I
think hiin 8o, because I think him 80.-
Shakespeare.
Reason is progressive; instinct is com-
plete; swift instinct leaps ; slow reason
feebly climbs.—Young.
Sure Ho that made us with such large
discourse, looking before and after, gave
us not that capability and godlike reason
to rust in us unused.---Shakespeare.
God, who has given the Bible, has also
given us our reason with which to ex-
amine and understand it; and we are
guilty before Him if we bury this talent
in the earth and hide our Lord's money.
-J. F. Clarke.
REBELLION.Rebellion against ty-
rants is obedience to God.- Franklin.
There is little hope of equity wuere re-
bellion reigns.—Sir P. Sidney.
This word " rebellion” it had froze
them up, as fish are in a pond.--Shalce-
speare.
Men seldom, or rather never for a length
of time, and deliberately, rebel against
anything that does not deserve rebelling
against.-Carlyle.
RECKLESSNESS.-Who falls from
all he knows of bliss, cares little into what
aby88.- Byron.
I am one whom the vile blows and buffets
of the world have so incensed that I am
reckless what I do to spite the world.-
Shakespeare.
Beware of desperate steps ; the darkest
day, live till tomorrow, will have passed
away.- Cowper.
RECOMPENSE.--Recompense injury
with justice, and unkindness with kindness.
-Confucius.
There never was a person who did any-
thing worth doing that did not receive
more than he gave.-H. W. Beecher.
Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule.-
Cowper.
Forever from the hand that takes one
blessing from us, others fall; and soon or
late, our Father makes his perfect recom-
pense to all.— Whittier.
RECREATION.-(See" AMUSEMENT,
and "MIRTH.")
The bow cannot possibly always stand
bent, nor can human nature or human
frailty subsist without some lawful recre-
ation.--Cervantes.
Men cannot labor on always. They must
have recreation. And if they have it not
from healthful sources, they will be very
likely to take it from poisoned fountains.-
Or, if they have pleasures, which, though
innocent, are forbidden by the maxims of
public morality, their very pleasures are
liable to become poisoned fountains.-0.
Dewey.
Make thy recreation servant to thy busi-
ness,
lest thou become a slave to thy recre-
ation.—Quarles.
Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue
but moody and dull inelincholy, kinsman
to grim and comfortless despair; and at
their heels, a huge infectious troop of pale
distemperatures and foes to life. --Shale-
speare.
Recreation is not being idle; it is easing
the wearied part by change of occupation.
To re-create strength, rest. To re-create
mind, repose. To re-create cheerfulness;
hope in God, or change the object of atten-
tion to one more elevated and worthy of
thought. -0. Simmons.
He that will make a good use of any part
of his life must allow a large part of it to
recreation.- Locke.
Amusements are to virtue, like breezes
of air to the flame; gentle ones will fan it,
but strong ones will put it out.-Thomas.
Diversions are the most properly applied
to ease and relieve those who are too much
employed. Those that are idle have no
need of them, and yet they, above all
others, give themselves up to them. To
unbend our thoughts, when they are too
much stretched by our cares, is not more
natural than it is necessary; but to turn
our whole life into a holiday, is not only
ridiculous, but destroyeth pleasure instead
of promoting it.—Saville.
Recreation is intended to the mind as
whetting is to the scythe, to sharpen the
edge of it, which otherwise would grow
dull and blunt. He, therefore, that spends
his whole time in recreation is ever whet-
ting, never mowing ; bis grass may grow
and' his steed starve. As, contrarily, he
that always toils and never recreates, is
ever' mowing, never whetting ; laboring
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into its glories look. The saints and eldors
round the throne, old in the years of
heaven, examine it perpetually.- Pollok.
Christ is redemption to us, only as he
actually redeems and delivers our nature
from sin. If he is not the law and spring
of a new spirit of life, he is nothing to us.
"As many as are led by the Spirit of God,
they are the sons of God,"--as many; no
more.- Horace Bushnell.
By Christ's purchasing redemption, two
things are intended : his satisfaction and
his merit; the one pays our debt, and so
satisfies; the other procures our title, and
80 merits. The satisfaction of Christ is to
free us from misery; the merit of Christ is
to purchase happiness for us.-Jonathan
Eduards.
The whole system, the whole structure of
man and of the world, is moulded to be the
theatre of the redemption of the sinner.
Not in Eden, but on Calvary and in
heaven, which is the child of Calvary, we
see realized the whole idea of God.-1. B.
Brow72.
much to little purpose ; as good no scythe
as no edge.—Bp. Hall.
Recreation is not the highest kind of
enjoyment, but in its time and place is
quite as proper as prayer.-5. I. Prime.
RECTITUDE.-The great high-road of
human welfare lies along the highway of
steadfast well-doing, and they who are the
most persistent, and work in the truest
spirit, will invariably be the most success-
ful.-S. Smiles.
If you would convince a man that he
does wrong, do right. Men will believe
what they see. Let them see.
Let them see.-Thoreau.
No man can do right unless he is good,
wise, and strong. What wonder we fail?
Charles Buxton.
Nothing more completely baffles ono who
is full of trick and duplicity, than straight-
forward and simple integrity in another.-
Colton.
In all things preserve integrity, and the
consciousness of thine own uprightness
will alleviate the toil of business, soften
the hardness of ill-success and disappoint-
ment, and give theo an humble confidence
before God wben the ingratitude of men,
or the iniquity of the times may rob thee
of other reward.-Paley.
A straight line is the shortest in morals
as in mathematics.-Maria Edgeworth.
The man who is so conscious of the recti-
tude of his intentions as to be willing to
open his bosom to the inspection of the
world, is in possession of one of the strong-
est pillars of a decided character. The
course of such a man will be firm and
steady, because he has nothing to fear from
the world, and is sure of the approbation
and support of Heaven.-W. Wirt.
REDEMPTION.-Underneath all the
arches of Bible history, throughout the
whole grand temple of the Scriptures,
these two voices over echo, man is ruined;
man is redeemed.-C. D. Foss.
The work of redemption is the most glori-
ous of all the works of God; it will forever
remain the grand mirror to reflect the
brightest beams of the divine glory.-
Emnions.
And now, without redemption, all man-
kind must have been lost, adjudged to
death and hell by doom severe. -Milton.
Alas! alas! why, all the souls that
were, were forfeit once; and He that
might the vantage best have took, found
out the remedy.--Shakespeare.
Redemption is the science and the song
of all eternity. Archangels, day and night,
REFINEMENT.-Refinement is the
lifting of one's self upwards from the
merely sensual, the effort of the soul to
etherealize the common wants and uses of
life.--H. W. Beecher.
That alone can be called true refinement
which elevates the soul of man, purifying
the manners by improving the intellect. -
Coleridge.
Too great refinement is false delicacy,
and true delicacy is solid refinement.-
Rochefoucauld.
If refined sense and exalted sense be not
so useful as common sense, their rarity,
their novelty, and the nobleness of their
objects make some compensation, and ren-
der them the admiration of mankind; as
gold, though less serviceable than iron,
acquires from its scarcity a value which is
much superior.-Hume.
Whenever education and refinement
grow away from the common people, they
are growing toward selfishness, which is
the monster evil of the world. That is
true cultivation which gives us sympathy
with every form of human life, and enables
us to work most successfully for its ad-
vancement. Refinement that carries us
away from our fellow-men is not God's re-
finement.-H. W. Beecher.
There is no reason why the brown hand
of labor should not bola Thomson as well
as the sickle. Ornamental reading shelters
and even strengthens the growth of what
is merely useful. A cornfield never returns
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a poorer crop because a few wild-flowers
bloom in the hedge. The refinement of
the poor is the triumph of Christian civili-
zation.- Willniott.
Far better, and more cheerfully, I could
dispense with some part of the downright
necessaries of life, than with certain cir-
cumstances of elegance and propriety in
the daily habits of using them. De Quincey.
Ages of ignorance and simplicity are
thought to be ages of purity. But the
direct contrary I believe to be the case.
Rude periods have that grossness of man-
ners which is as unfriendly to virtue as
luxury itself. Men are less ashamed as
they are less polished.— Warton.
It is in refinement and elegance that the
civilized man differs from the savage.-
Johnson.
Men who walk on tiptoe all through life,
holding up their skirts for fear they shalí
touch their fellows-who are delicate and
refined in feeling, and who ring all the
bells of taste high up in their own belfry
where no one else can hear them, these
dainty fools are the greatest sinners of all,
for they use their higher faculties to serve
the devil with.-H. W. Beecher.
Refinement creates beauty everywhere.
It is the grossness of the spectator that dis-
covers anything like grossness in the ob-
ject.—Hazlitt.
True delicacy, as true generosity, is more
wounded by an act of offence from itself,
than to itself.-Gréville.
has saved me from many an act of folly.
It is wonderful what a different view we
take of the same event four-and-twenty
hours afterit has happened.-Sydney Smith.
A soul without reflection, like a pile with-
out inhabitant, to ruin runs.- -Young.
They only babble who practise not re-
flection.-I shall think ; and thought is
silence.-Sheridan.
There is one art of which every man
should be a master the art of reflection.
-If you are not a thinking man, to what
purpose are you a man at all?- Coleridge.
Evil is wrought by want of thought as
well as by want of heart.--Hood.
Sum up at night what thou hast done by
day, and in the morning what thou hast to
do.-Dress and undress thy sonl; nark
the decay and growth of it. If with thy
watch, that too be down, then wind up
both ; since we shall be most surely judged,
make thine accounts agree.- Herbert.
A wise man reflects before he speaks.-
A fool speaks, and then reflects on what he
has uttered. --Trench Proverb.
Think twice before you speak, or act once,
and you will speak or act the more wisely
for it. Franklin.
Every man deeply engaged in business,
if all regard to another state be not extin-
guished, must have the conviction, it not
the resolution of one who, being asked
whether he retired from the army in dis-
gust, answered, “that he laid down his
commission for no other reason, but because
there ought to be some time for sober re-
flection between the life of a soldier and
his death." --Johnson.
REFLECTION.-He that will not re-
flect is a ruined man.-Old Proverb.
Knowledge is acquired by study and ob-
servation, but wisdom cometh by opportu-
nity of leisure ; the ripest thought comes
from the mind which is not always on the
stretch, but fed, at times, by a wise passive-
ness.-W. Mathews.
Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving
out wholesome fragrance ; but revery is
the same flower, when rank and running
to seed.---Tupper.
The advice of a scholar, whose piles of
learning were set on fire by imagination,
is never to be forgotten. Proportion an
hour's reflection to an hour's reading, and
80 dispirit the book into the student.-
Willmott.
The reflections on a day well spent fur-
nish us with joys more pleasing than ten
thousand triumphs.—Thonias d Kempis.
We are told, “Let not the sun go down
on your wrath," but I would add, never
act or write till it has done so. This rule
REFORM.-He who reforms himself,
has done much toward reforming others;
and one reason why the world is not re-
formed, is, because each would have others
make a beginning, and never thinks of him-
self doing it.-T. Adams.
Ono vicious habit each year rooted out,
in time might make the worst man good.-
Franklin.
Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety
the rich.-Tacitus.
It is easier to enrich ourselves with a
thousand virtues, than to correct ourselves
of a single fault.-Bruyère.
What you dislike in another, take care to
correct in yourself.-Sprat.
The true reformer is the seminal re-
former, not the radical. And this is the
way the Sower, who went forth to sow his
seed, did really reform the world, without
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el
making any open assault to uproot what
was already existing.–Guesses at Truth.
Many hope the tree may be felled that
they may gather chips by the fall.–Fuller.
Charles Fox said that restorations were
the most bloody of all revolutions ; and he
might have added that reformations are
the best mode of preventing the necessity
of either.-Colton.
He who reforms himself, has done more
toward reforming the public, than a crowd
of noisy, impotent patriots. — Lavater.
Reform like charity must begin at home.
-Once well at home, it will radiate out-
ward, irrepressible, into all that we touch
and handle, speak and work, ever kindling
new light by incalculable contagion, spread-
ing in geometric ratio, far and wide, doing
only good wherever it spreads, and not
evil.-Carlyle.
How important, often, is the pain of
guilt, as a stimulant to amendment and
reformation.-J. Foster,
He that has energy enough to root out a
vice, should go further, and try to plant a
virtue in its place; otherwise he will have
his labor to renew.-A strong soil that has
produced weeds may be made to produce
wheat.-Colton.
How dangerous to defer those momen-
tous reformations which the conscience is
solemnly preaching to the heart. If they
are neglected, the difficulty and indispo-
sition are increasing every month. The
mind is receding, degree after degree, from
the warm and hopeful zone ; till at last, it
enter the arctic circle, and become fixed in
relentless and eternal'ice.-J. Foster.
Long is the way and hard, that out of
hell leads up to light.-Milton.
The great fundamental principle of the
Reformation was the 'individual responsi-
bility of the human soul to its Makor and
Judge.-T. W. Chambers.
We are reformers in spring and summer ;
in autumn and winter we stand by the old
--reformers in the morning, conservatives
at night. Reform is affirmative, conserva-
tism is negative; conservatism goes for
comfort, reform for truth.-Emerson.
Conscious remorse and anguish must be
felt, to curb desire, to break the stubborn
will, and work a second nature in the soul.
Rowe.
They say best men are moulded out of
faults, and, for the most, become much
more the better for being a little bad !
Shakespeare.
Reformation is a work of time.
Ana-
tional taste, however wrong it may be,
cannot be totally changed at once ; we
must yield a little to the prepossession
which has taken hold on the mind, and we
may then bring people to adopt what would
offend them, if endeavored to be intro-
duced by violence.-Sir J. Reynolds.
It is well known what strange work there
has been in the world, under the name and
pretence of reformation ; how often it has
turned out to be, in reality, deformation ;
or, at best, a tinkering sort of business,
where, while one hole has been mended,
two have been made.-Bp. Forne.
It has been the fate of all bold adventur-
and reformers, to be esteemed insane.
-G. B. Cheever.
There is a boldness, a spirit of daring, in
religious reformers, not to be measured by
the general rules which control men's pur-
poses and actions.—Daniel Webster.
When error is confuted, vice reproved,
and hypocrisy exposed, some are sure to
complain of uncourteousness, uncharitable-
ness, and an unchristian spirit. Such men
would have been loud in their complaints,
and bitter in their censure, of the prophets
and apostles, and would have doubted the
personal piety, and ultimate salvation, of
Luther, and Knox, and Whitefield.--Anon.
Mere outward reformation differs as
much from regeneration as white-washing
an old rotten house differs from pulling it
down and building a new one in its place.
- Toplady.
What lasting progress was ever made in
social reformation, except when every step
was ensured by appeals to the understand-
ing and the will ?- W. Mathews.
Public reformers had need first practice
on their own hearts that which they pro-
pose to try on others.-Charles I.
The true social reformer is the faithful
preacher of the gospel, and the only organi-
zation truly potent for the perfection of
society is the Christian church.-Seelye.
There was a time when it was not the
fashion for public men to say, “Show me a
proved abuse, and I will do my best to cor-
rect it.”—Times are changed.-Men now
Show me a practical improvement,
and that improvement I will do my best to
realize."--Palmerston.
The true reformer will not only hate evil,
but will earnestly endeavor to fill its place
with good.-C. Simmons.
To reform a man, you must begin with
his grandmother.- Victor Hugo.
say,
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RELIGION.-Whatever definitions men
have given of religion, I find none so accu-
rately descriptive of it as this : that it is
such a belief of the Bible as maintains a
living influence on the heart and life.-
Cecil.
Religion, in its purity, is not so much
a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a
temper, leading to the pursuit of all that is
high and holy. Its foundation is faith ; its
action, works; its temper, holiness; its
aim, obedience to God in improvement of
self and benevolence to men.
men.-- Tryon
Edwards.
The religion of Christ reaches and
changes the heart, which no other religion
does. -Howells.
Love God, and he will dwell with you.
Obey God, and he will reveal to you the
truth of his deepest teachings.-Robertson.
Christianity is the good man's text; his
life is the illustration. How admirable is
that religion, which, while it seems to have
in view only the felicity of another world,
is at the same time the highest happiness
of this.-Montesquieu.
Indisputably the believers in the gospel
have a great advantage over all others, for
this simple reason, that, if true, they will
have their reward 'hereafter ; and if there
be no hereafter, they can but be with the
infidel in his eternal sleep, having had
the assistance of an exalted hope through
life, without subsequent disappointment.--
Byron.
The sum and substance of the prepara-
tion needed for a coming eternity is, that
you believe what the Bible tells you, and
do what the Bible bids you.--Chalmers.
Take away God and religion, and men
live to no purpose, without proposing any
worthy and considerable end of life to
themselves.-Tillotson.
Those who make religion to consist in
the contempt of this world and its enjoy-
ments, are under a very fatal and danger-
ous mistake. As life is the gift of heaven,
it is religion to enjoy it. He, therefore,
who can be happy in himself, and who con-
tributes all in his power toward the happi-
ness of others, answers most effectually the
ends of his creation, is an honor to his
nature, and a pattern to mankind.-Addi-
The contemplation of the Divine Being,
and the exercise of virtue, are in their
nature so far from excluding all gladness
of heart, that they are perpetual sources of
it. In a word, the true spirit of religion
cheers as well as composes the soul. It
banishes, indeed, all lovity of behavior, all
vicious and dissolute mirth, but in ex-
change fills the mind with a perpetual
serenity, uninterrupted cheerfulness, and
an habitual inclination to please others as
well as to be pleased in itself.-Spectator.
If we were to be hired to religion, it is
able to outbid the corrupted world with all
it can offer us, being so much richer of the
two in everything where reason is admitted
to be a judge of the value.- Halifax.
True religion shows its influence in every
part of our conduct; it is like the sap of a
living tree, which penetrates the most dis-
tant boughs.
What Dr. Arnold said about the class of
young men who professed their sentimental
admiration of virtue, applies well to older
persons : " Commend me to those who not
only love God, but who also hate the devil."
All humble, meek, merciful, just, pious,
and devont souls are everywhere of one
religion, and when death has taken off the
mask, they will know one another, thongh
the divers liveries they wear make them
strangers.--
Penn.
The pious man and the atheist always
talk of religion; the one of what he loves,
and the other of what he fears.--Montes-
quieu.
A ritual religion is generally light and
gay, not serious in its spirit; all religions.
being so, which cast responsibility into
outward'observances.-Martineau.
Whether religion be true or false, it must
be necessarily granted to be the only wise
principle and safe hypothesis for a man
to live and die by.-Tillotson.
No sciences are better attested than the
religion of the Bible.-Sir Isaac Newton.
If it were only the exercise of the body,
the moving of the lips, the bending of the
knee, men would as commonly step to
heaven as they go to visit a friend: but to
separate our thoughts and affections from
the world, to draw forth all our graces,
and
engage each in its proper object, and to
hold them to it till the work prospers in
our hands, this, this is the difficulty. --Bax-
ter,
Men will wrangle for religion ; write for
it; fight for it ; die for it; anything but
live for it.-Colton.
What a lovely bridge between old age
son.
The joy of religion is an exorcist to the
mind; it expels the demons of carnal mirth
and madness.-Cecil.
True religion and virtue give a cheerful
and happy turn to the mind; admit of all
true pleasures, and even procure for us the
highest.-Addison.
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with it in our necessity, and to seek the
world before it, and give God what the
flesh can spare.
Thus differeth the re-
ligion of serious Christians and of carnal,
worldly hypocrites.--Baxter.
A man who puts aside his religion be-
cause he is going into society, is like one
taking off his shoes because he is about to
walk upon thorns.-Cecil.
Too many persons seem to use their re-
ligion as a diver does his bell, to venture
down into the depths of worldliness with
safety, and there grope for pearls, with
just so much of heaven's air as will keep
them from suffocating, and no more; and
some,
alas ! as at times is the case with the
diver, are suffocated in the experiment.-
G. B. Cheever.
“Let them learn first,” says Paul, “ to
show piety at home.” Religion should be-
gin in the family. The holiest sanctuary
is home. The family altar is more vener-
able than that of the cathedral. The edu-
cation of the soul for eternity should begin
and bo carried on at the fireside.
If family religion were duly attended
to and properly discharged, I think the
preaching of the Word would not be the
common instrument of conversion.— Bax-
tere.
and childhood is religion! How instinc-
tively the world begins with prayer and
worship on entering life, and how instinc-
tively, on quitting life, the old man turns
back to prayer and worship, putting him-
self again side by side with the little child.
Bulwer.
Religion is so far from barring men any
innocent pleasure, or comfort of human
life, that it purifies the pleasures of it, and
ren'ders thein more grateful and generous ;
and besides this, it brings mighty pleasures
of its own, those of a glorious hope, a
serene mind, a calm and undisturbed con-
science, which do far out-relish the most
studied and artificial luxuries.-Shirler
If you are not right toward God, you can
never be so toward man; and this is for-
ever true, whether wits and rakes allow it
or not.-Lord Chathan to his Nephew.
Never trust anybody not of sound re-
ligion, for he that is false to God can never
be true to man.--Lord Burleigh.
The religion of a sinner stands on two
pillars ; namely, what Christ did for us in
the flesh, and what he performs in us by
his Spirit. Most errors arise from an at-
tempt to separate these two.-Cecil. .
If it be the characteristic of a worldly man
that he desecrates what is holy, it should
be of the Christian to consecrate what is
secular, and to recognize a present and
presiding divinity in all things. --Chalmers.
If a man is not rising upward to be an
angel, depend upon it, he is sinking down-
ward to be a devil. He cannot stop at the
beast. The most savage of men are not
beasts ; they are worse, a great deal worse.
- Coleridge.
The faith that only reaches to the head,
will never sanctify the heart. Knowledge,
withont experience, will no more sanctify,
than painted fire will burn, or the sight of
water cleanse. It may do good to others,
as the knowledge of Noah's carpenters was
useful to him, while they perished in the
flood.--S. H. Cox.
Philosophy can do notbing which re-
ligion cannot do better than she; and relig-
ion can do a great many other things which
philosophy cannot do at all.--Rousseau.
It is one thing to take God and heaven
for your portion, as believers do, and
another thing to be desirous of it as a l'e-
serve, when you can keep the world no
longer. It is one thing to submit to
heaven, as a lesser evil than hell ; and
another thing to desire it as a greater good
than earth. It is one thing to lay up
treasures and hopes in heaven, and seek it
first; and another thing to be contented
The moral virtues, without religion, are
but cold, lifeless, and insipid ; it is only
religion which opens the mind to great
conceptions, fills it with the most sublime
ideas, and warms the soul with more than
sensual pleasures.-Addison.
I have lived long enough to know what
I did not at one time believe that no
society can be upheld in happiness and
honor without the sentiment of religion.-
Laplace.
Political and professional fame cannot
last forever, but a conscience void of of-
fence before God and man is an inherit-
ance for eternity. Religion, therefore, is
a necessary, an indispensable element in
any great human character. There is no
living without it. Religion is the tie that
connects man with his Creator, and holds
him to his throne. If that tie is sundered
or broken, he floats away a worthless atom
in the universe, its proper attractions all
gone, its destiny thwarted, and its whole
future nothing but darkness, desolation,
and death. A man with no sense of re-
ligious duty is he whom the Scriptures
describe in so terse but terrific a manner,
as " living without hope and without God
in the world,” Such a man is out of his
proper being, out of the circle of all his
duties, out of the circle of all his happi-
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ness, and away, far, far away, from the
purposes of his creation.--Daniel Webster.
It was an admirable and true saying of
Plutarch,
That a city may as well be
built in the air, as a commonwealth or
kingdom be either constituted or preserved
without the support of religion." Porteus.
Independent of its connection with human
destiny hereafter, I believe the fate of a re-
publican government is indissolubly bound
up with the fate of the Christian religion,
and that a people who reject its only faith
will find themselves the slaves of their own
evil passions or of arbitary power.-Lewis
Cass.
The great comprehensive truths, written
in letters of living light on every page of
our history, are these : Human happiness
has no perfect security but freedom; free-
dom, none but virtue ; virtue, none but
knowledge; and neither freedom nor vir-
tue has any vigor or immortal hope ex-
cept in the principles of the Christian
faith and in the sanctions of the Christian
religion.-Quincy.
We know, and, what is better, we feel in-
wardly, that religion is the basis of civil
society, and the source of all good and of
all comfort.—Burke.
The Christian religion is one that diffuses
among the people a pure, benevolent, and
universal system of ethics, adapted to every
condition of life, and recommended as the
will and reason of the Supreme Deity, and
enforced by sanctions of eternal punish-
ment.-Gibbon.
True religion is the foundation of society,
the basis on which all true civil govern-
ment rests, and from which power derives
its authority, laws their efficacy, and both
their sanction. If it is once shaken by
contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable
or lasting.--Burke.
Religion is equally the basis of private
virtue and public faith ; of the happiness
of the individual and the prosperity of the
nation.-W. Barrow.
Of all the dispositions and habits which
lead to political prosperity, religion and
morality are indispensable supports. In
vain would that man claim the tribute of
patriotism, who should labor to subvert
these great pillars of human happiness,
these firmest props of the duties of men
and citizens. And let us with caution in-
dulge the supposition that morality can be
maintained without religion. Whatever
may be conceded to the influence of refined
education on minds of peculiar structure,
reason and experience both forbid us to
expect that national morality can prevail
in exclusion of religious principles.— Wash-
ington.
If religious books are not widely circu-
lated among the masses in this country,
and the people do not become religious, I
do not know what is to become of us as a
nation.-Daniel Webster.
The religion of the gospel has power, im-
mense power, over mankind; direct and
indirect, positive and negative, restraining
and aggressive. Civilization, law, order,
morality, the family, all that elevates wo-
man, or blesses society, or gives peace to
the nations, all these are the fruits of
Christianity, the full power of which, even
for this worla, could never be appreciated
till it should be taken away.-Tryon Ed-
wards.
It was religion, which, by teaching men
their near relation to God, awakened in
them the consciousness of their importance
as individuals. It was the struggle for re-
ligious rights, which opened their eyes to
all their rights. It was resistance to re-
ligious usurpation which led men to with-
stand political oppression. It was religious
discussion which roused the minds of all
classes to free and vigorous thought. It
was religion which armed the martyr and
patriot in England against arbitrary power;
which braced the spirits of our fathers
against the perils of the ocean and wilder-
ness, and sent thein to found here the freest
and most equal state on earth.-Channing.
We live in the midst of blessings till we
are utterly insensible to their greatness,
and of the source from whence they flow.
We speak of our civilization, our arts, our
freedom, our laws, and forget entirely how
large a share is due to Christianity. Blot
Christianity out of the page of man's his-
tory, and what would his laws have been—
what his civilization ? Christianity is
mixed up with our very being and our
daily life ; there is not a familiar object
around us which does not wear a different
aspect because the light of Christian love is
on it-not a law which does not owe its
truth and gentleness to Christianity-not
a custom which cannot be traced, in all its
holy healthful parts, to the gospel.—Sir A.
Parl.
If I could choose what of all things would
be at the same time the most delightful and
useful to me, I should prefer a firm relig-
ious belief to every other blessing; for
this makes life a discipline of goodness ;
creates new hopes when all earthly ones
vanish ; throws over the decay of existence
the most gorgeous of all lights ; awakens
life even in death; makes even torture and
shame the ladder of ascent to paradise i
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and far above all combinations of earthly
hopes, calls up the most delightful visions
of the future, the security of everlasting
joys, where the sensualist and the sceptic
view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and
despair.—Sir H. Davy.
Should a man happen to err in supposing
the Christian religion to be true, he could
not be a loser by the mistake. But how
irreparable is his loss, and how inexpressi-
ble his danger, who should err in supposing
it to be false. --Pascal.
It is a great dishonor to religion to im-
agine that it is an enemy to mirth and
cheerfulness, and a severe exacter of peni-
sive looks and solemn faces.-Walter Scott.
It is no good reason for a man's religion
that he was born and brought up in it; for
then a Turk would have as much reason
to be a Turk as a Christian a Christian.-
Chillingworth.
I have known what the enjoyments and
advantages of this life are, and wbat the
more refined pleasures which learning and
intellectual power can bestow; and with all
the experience that more than threescore
years can give, I, now, on the eve of my
departure, declare to you that health is å
great blessing,--competence, obtained by
honorable industry, a great blessing, -and
a great blessing it is to have kind, faithful,
and loving friends and relatives; but that
the greatest of all blessings, as it is the
most ennobling of all privileges, is to be
indeed a Christian.—Coleridge.
God to love and serve, with all our pow-
ers—with all our heart, and soul, and mind,
and strength ; and as ourselves, to love
our neighbor, this is religion ; this cloth
God demand, and only this can bear the
test of conscience here-hereafter of the
judgment.
The task and triumph of religion is to
make men and nations true and just and
upright in all their dealings, and to bring
all law as well as all conduct into subjec-
tion and conformity to the law of God.-H.
J. Van Dyke.
When religion is made a science there is
nothing more intricate ; when it is made
a duty, there is nothing more easy.
If we make religion our business, God
will make it our blessedness. - H. G. J.
Adan.
As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of
whom you particularly desire, I think the
system of morals and his religion, as he
left them to us, is the best the world ever
saw, or is likely to see.-Franlclin.
Religion, cultivated to the absolute neg-
lect of science, would produce a reign of
superstitiorr, tyranny, and barbarism like
that which covered Europe in the dark
ages of the church. Science, cultivated
to the utter neglect of religion, would pro-
duce a reign of infidelity, impiety, and sen-
suality. The two interests united, correct
and perfect each other.--C. W. Shields.
Religion would not have enemies, if it
were not an enemy to their vices. --Mas-
sillon.
Religion presents few difficulties to the
humble; many to the proud ; insuperable
ones to the vain.-Hare.
Religion cannot pass away. The burn-
ing of a little straw may hide the stars of
the sky, but the stars are there, and will
reappear.-Carlyle.
When men cease to be faithful to God, he
who expects to find them so to each other
will be much disappointed.—Bp. Horne.
It will cost something to be religious :
it will cost more to be not so.-J. Mason.
Religion does what philosophy could
never do.—It shows the equal dealings of
heaven to the happy and the unhappy, and
levels all human enjoyments to nearly the
same standard. It offers to both rich and
poor the same happiness hereafter, and
equal hopes to aspire after it. - Goldsmith.
The writers against religion, while they
oppose every system, are wisely careful
never to set up any of their own.-Burle.
True religion extends alike to the intel-
lect and the heart. Intellect is in vain if
it lead not to emotion, and emotion is vain
if not enlightened by intellect; and both are
vain if not guided by truth and leading to
duty.- Tryon Edwards.
Place not thy amendment only in increas-
ing thy devotion, but in bettering thy life.
It is the damning hypocrisy of this age
that it slights all good morality, and spends
its zeal in matters of ceremony, and a form
of godliness without the power of it. Ful-
ler.
Depend upon it religion is, in its essence,
the most gentlemanly thing in the world.
It will alone gentilize, if unmixed with
cant; and I know nothing else that will,
alone.- Coleridge.
The Christian is the highest style of man.
-Young.
Culture of intellect, without religion in
the heart, is only civilized barbarism and
disguised animalism.—Bunsen.
He that is a good man is three-quarters
of his way toward the being a good Chris-
tian, wheresoever he lives, or whatsoever
he is called.- South,
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causes
Of all the dispositions and habits which you will find your practice confirming your
lead to political prosperity, religion and faith.—The better you become through
morality are indispensable supporters.-A faith, the more confirmed and satisfied will
volume conld not trace all their connec- you be both in belief and conduct.— Tryon
tions with private and public felicity.- Edwards.
Washington.
Our ancestors founded their system of
Measure not men by Sundays, without government on morality and religious sen-
regarding what they do all the week after. timent. Moral habits, they believed, can-
Fuller.
not be trusted on any other foundation
A life that will bear the inspection of
than religious principle ; nor any govern-
men and of God, is the only certificate of ment be secure, which is not supported by
true religion.-Johnson.
moral habits. Whatever makes meu good
The loss of popular respect for religion
Christians, makes them good citizens.-
Daniel Webster'.
is the dry rot of social institutions. The
idea of God as the Creator and Father of There are few signs in a soul's state more
all mankind is in the moral world, what alarming than that of religious indiffer-
gravitation is in the natural ; it holds all
ence ; that is, the spirit of thinking all
together and
them to revolve religions equally true, the real meaning of
around a common center. Take this away,
which is, that all religions are equally false.
and men drop apart; there no such thing
-F. W. Robertson,
as collective humanity, but only separate Religious opportunities are like the books
molecules, with no more cohesion than so of the sibyl, more and more valuable, the
inany grains of sand.-H. M. Field.
fewer there are that remain.-Tryon Ed-
Every condition of life has its perils and
wards.
its advantages ; and the office of religion Look out for a people entirely void of
is, not to change that in which Providence religion, and if you find them at all, be as-
has placed us, but to strengthen and sanc- sured they are but a few degrees removed
tify our hearts that we may resist the temp- from the brutes.-Humne.
tations, and improve the opportunities of If we traverse the world, it is possible to
blessings presented to 118.-G. W. Bethune. find cities without walls, without letters,
The head truly enlightened will presently without kings, without wealth, without
have a wonderfulinfluence in purifying the coin, without schools and theatres ; but a
heart; and the heart really affected with
city without a temple, or that practiseth
goodness, will much conduce to the direct- not worship, prayer, and the like, no one
ing of the head.--Sprat.
ever saw. Plutarch.
Religion is the best armor in the world, You may discover tribes of men without
but the worst cloak.- John Newton.
policy, or laws, or cities, or any of the arts
Let your religion be seen. Lamps do not
of life ; but nowhere will you find them
talk, but they do shine. A lighthouse
without some form of religion.—Blair.
sounds no drum, it beats no gong; yet, True religion carries health and strength
far over the waters, its friendly light is into the soul.-It regulates all thing8 ; sub-
seen by the mariner.-T. L. Cuyler.
ordinates all things to their just positions ;
If our religion is not true, we are bound
withdraws from meu no faculty ; ties up
to change it, if it is true, we are bound to
no power ; extinguishes no instinct ; im-
propagate it. Whately.
prisons no part of the mind, but only regn-
lates and directs.--Religion is only another
By living according to the rules of reli-
word for the right use of a man's whole
gion a man becomes the wisest, the best,
self, instead of a use that is wrong and ru-
and the happiest creature that he is capa-
inous. It puts men into connection with
ble of being.-Honesty, industry, the em-
God; it brings them into harmonious re-
ploying of time well, a constant sobriety,
lations to their fellow-men; it gives them
an undefiled purity, with continual seren-
direction for the achievement of duty ; it
ity, are the best preservatives, too, of
life and health, so that take man as an
opens to them the coming world, and in-
spires them with ardent desires for it; it
individual, religion is his guard, his per-
makes them love whatever is good, and
fection, his beauty, and his glory.-This
abhor whatever is bad; it inspires rever-
will make him a light in the world, shining
ence, obedience, and love toward God; it
brightly, and enlightening many round
about him.- Bp. Burnet.
inculcates justice, mercy, and benevolence
toward men; it éndows us with courage,
Be faithful in carrying out the great with patience, with contentment; it com-
principles of Christianity in conduct, and i mands industry, frugality, and hospitality;
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it enjoins honesty, truthfulness, upright-
ness, simplicity, and integrity; and that
men, in their ignorance and weakness,
may feel the importance of virtue and true
piety, it reveals the immortality of man's
nature, the glory of the heavenly state,
and the sympathy of God with the strug-
gles of human life ; and above all, it sets
before men,
in a perfect pattern, the ex-
ample of Christ, who was tempted in all
points like as we are, and yet without sin,
teaching us both by precept and by his
example to be like him.-H. W. Beecher,
It is the property of the religious spirit
to be the most refining of all influeuces.-
No external advantages, no culture of the
tastes, no habit of command, no association
with the elegant or even depth of affection
can bestow that delicacy and that grand-
eur of bearing which belong only to the
mind accustomed to celestial conversation.
Enver son.
Our religion is one that dares to be un-
derstood ; that offers itself to the search of
the inquisitive, and to the inspection of
the severest and most awakened reason.
For being secure of her substantial truth
and purity, she knows that for her to be
seen and looked into is to be embraced
and admired, as there needs no greater
argument for men to love the light than to
see it.-Johnson.
The religions we count false, may, for a
time, have had their use; being, in their
origin, faint, though misunderstood echoes
of an early divine revelation, and also as
Emerson says,
" affirmations of the con-
science, correcting the evil customs of their
times."--Tryon Edwards.
The noblest charities, the best fruits of
learning, the richest discoveries, the best
institutions of law and justice, every great-
est thing the world has seen, represents,
more or less directly, the fruitfulness and
creativeness of religión.- Horace Bushnell.
It has been said that true religion will
make a man a more thorough gentleman
than all the courts in Europe. And it is
true that you may see simple laboring men
as thorough gentlemen as any duke, simply
because they have learned to fear God;
and, fearing him, to restrain themselves,
which is the very root and essence of all
good breeding.–C. Kingsley.
There is something in religion, when
rightly apprehended, that is masculine and
grand. It removes those little desires
which are the constant hectic of a fool."
-Cecil.
If you take religion as a guide you shall
find it also a friend ; a joy in prosperity, a
comfort in adversity, peace to the con-
science, strength for duty, hope for the
future, and endless blessedness in the end.
- Tryon Edwards.
I would give nothing for that man's re-
ligion, whose very dog and cat are not the
better for it.-
Rowland Hill,
While men believe in the possibilities of
children being religious, they are largely
failiug to make them so, because they are
offering them not a child's but a man's
religioul--men's forms of truth and men's
forms of experience.-Philips Brooks.
Religion is the final centre of repose ;
the goal to which all things tend ; apart
from which man is a shadow, his very ex-
istence a riddle, and the stupendous scenes
of nature which surround him as unmean-
ing as the leaves which the sibyl scattered
in the wind.- Robert Hall.
What I want is, not to possess religion,
but to have a religion that shall possess me.
- Charles Kingsley.
Nothing exposes religion more to the re-
proach of its enemies than the worldliness
and hard-heartedness of its professors.-
M. Henry.
Religion is intended for both worlds, and
right living for this is the best preparation
for the next.-Character is decisive of des-
tiny.- Tryon Edwards.
If we think of religion only as a means of
escaping what we call the wrath to come,
we shall not escape it; we are under the
burden of death, if we care only for our-
selves.-Froude.
The only impregnable citadel of virtue is
religion ; for there is no bulwark of mere
morality, which some temptation may not
overtop or undermine and destroy.-Jane
Porter.
Religious contention is the devil's har-
vest.-Fontaine.
No man's religion ever survives his
morals.-South.
All belief that does not render us more
happy, more free, more loving, more active,
more calm, is, Í fear, an erroneous and
superstitious belief.-Lavater.
The best perfection of a religious man is
to do common things in a perfect manner.
--Bonaventura.
There are those to whom a sense of
religion has come in storm and tempest;
there are those whom it has summoned
amid scenes of revelry and idle vanity;
there are those, too, who have heard its
"still small voice" amid rural leisure and
placid retirement. But perhaps the knowl-
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edge which causeth not to err is most
frequently impressed upon the mind dur-
ing the season of affliction.- Walter Scott.
Religion finds the love of happiness and
the principles of duty separated in us; and
its mission-its masterpiece is, to reunite
them.-- Vinet.
Unless we place our religion and our
treasure in the same thing religion will
always be sacrificed.-
Epictetus.
The call to religion is not a call to be
better than your fellows, but to be better
than yourself.-H. W. Beecher.
Religion is not a dogma, not an emotion,
but a service.-Our redemption is not of
the head alone, nor of the heart alone, but
pre-eminently of the life, as the only infal-
ſible criterion of what we really are. -Not
belief, not emotion, but obedience is the
test. Mere belief would make religiou a
mere theology.-Mere emotion would make
it a mere excitement.--While the true
divine of it is a life, begotten of grace in
the depths of the human soul, subduing to
Christ all the powers of the heart and life,
and incarnating itself in patient, steady,
sturdy service in doing the will of God.-
R. D. Hitchcock.
The word of God proves the truth of
religion; the corruption of man, its neces-
sity ; government, its advantages.--Stanis-
laus.
If men are so wicked with religion, what
would they be without it !-Franklin.
When the religion of the Bible is looked
upon as a science, it may seem intricate
and mysterious, but when received as a
statement of truth and a guide to duty, it
is plain to the understanding, and most
reasonable in all its requirements.— Tryon
Edwards.
The religion that makes the purest and
happiest homes will always be the best for
any country: --If Christianity does that, it
is the best of all religions.
Anything that makes religion a second
object makes it no object. He who offers
to God a second place offers him no place.
-Ruskin.
See how powerful religion is : it com-
mands the heart, it commands the vitals.
Morality comes with a pruning-knife, and
cuts off all sproutings, all wild luxuriances ;
but religion lays the axe to the root of the
tree. Morality looks that the skin of the
apple be fair ; but religion searcheth to the
Very core.- - Culverwell.
The main object of the Gospel is not
only, as Pascal says,
"to establish two
principles--the corruption of nature, and
redemption by Christ," but to lead men to
turn from the former and accept the latter.
- Tryon Edwards.
When I was young, I was sure of many
things; now there are only two things
of which I am sure: one is, that I am a
miserable sinner; and the other, that Christ
is an all-sufficient Saviour.-He is well
taught who learns these two lessons.—John
Neroton.
Religion is as necessary to reason
reason is to religion. The one cannot exist
without the other. A reasoning being
would lose his reason, in attempting to
account for the great phenomena of nature,
had he not a Supreme Being to refer to;
and well has it been said, that if there had
been no God, mankind would have been
obliged to imagine one.- Washington.
If we subject everything to reason, our
religion will have nothing mysterious or
supernatural; if we violate
the principles of
reason, our religion will be absurd and
ridiculous.-Pascal.
Over all the movements of life religion
scatters her favors, but reserves the
choicest, her divine blessing, for the last
hour.- Logan.
Nothing can be hostile to religion which
is agreeable to justice.- Gladstone.
What we veed in religion, is not new
light, but new sight; not new paths, but
new strength to walk in the old ones; not
new duties, but new strength from on high
to fulfill those that are plain before us.-
Tryon Edwards.
I extend the circle of religion very widely.
-Many inen fear and love God, and have
a sincere desire to serve him, whose views
of religious truth are very imperfect, and
in some points utterly false.-But may not
many such persons have a state of heart
acceptable before God ?- Cecil.
Religion, if it be true, is central truth;
and all knowledge which is not gathered
round it, and quickened and illuminated
by it, is hardly worthy the name.- -Chan-
ning.
All the principles which religion teaches,
and all the habits which it forms, are favor-
able to strength of mind. It will be found
that whatever purifies, also fortifies the
heart.-Blair.
True religion teaches us to reverence
what is under us, to recognize humility,
poverty, wretchedness, suffering, aná
death, as things divine.-- Goethe.
The flower of youth never appears more
beautiful than when it bends toward the
sun of righteousness.---M. Henry.
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The bible represents religion, not as the
latest fruit of life, but as the whole of it-
beginning, middle, and end; it is simply
right living.-H. W. Beecher.
Religion belongs to every day; to the
place of business as much as to the church.
-H. W. Beecher.
There are but two religions, -Christian-
ity and paganism, the worship of God and
idolatry. A third between these is not
possible. Where idolatry ends, there Chris-
tianity begins; and where idolatry begins,
there Christianity ends.-Jacobi.
Many would like religion as a sort of
lightniug rod to their houses, to ward off,
by and by, the bolts of divine wrath.-H.
W. Beecher.
The external part of religion is doubtless
of little value in comparison with the inter-
nal; and so is the cask in comparison with
the wine contained in it; but if the cask
be staved in, the wine must perish.-Bp.
Horne.
Where true religion has prevented one
crime, false religions have afforded a pre-
text for a thousand.- Colton.
Religion is the fear and love of God ; its
demonstration is good works; and faith is
the root of both, for without faith we can-
not please God ; nor can we fear and love
what we do not believe.- Penn.
I have taken much pains to know every-
thing that is esteemed worth knowing
amongst men ; but with all my reading,
nothing now remains to comfort me at the
close of this life but this passage of St. Paul:
"It is a faithful saying, and worthy of all
acceptation, that Jesus Christ came into
the world to save sinners." To this I
cleave, and herein do I find rest.---Selden.
Religion is the answer to that cry of rea-
son which nothing can silence ; that aspi-
ration of the soul which no created thing
can meet; of that want of the heart which
all creation cannot supply -I. T. Hecker.
A religion that never suffices to govern a
man,
will never suffice to save him.-That
which does not distinguish him from a sin-
ful world, will never distinguish him from
a perishing world.—John Howe.
Know that without star or angel for
their guide, they who worship God shall
find him.--Humble love, and not proud
reason keeps the door of heaven. - Love
finds admission where proud science fails.
— Young.
I have now disposed of all my property
to my family.-There is one thing more I
wish I could give them, and that is the
Christian religion. If they had that, and
I had not given them oue shilling, they
would have been rich, and if they had not
that, and I had given them all the world,
they would be poor.-Patrick Henry.
The body of all true religion consists in
obedience to the will of God, in a confidence
in his declarations, and an imitation of his
perfections.--Burkce.
It is only religion, the great bond of love
aud duty to God, that makes any existence
valuable or even tolerable.—Horace Bush-
nell.
The heathen mythology not only was not
true, but was not even supported as true
i
it not only deserved no faith, but it de-
manded none. The very pretension to
truth, the very demand of faith, were
characteristic distinctions of Christianity.
- Whately.
You have no security for a man who has
no religious principle.- Cobden.
Religion's home is in the conscience.-
Its watchword is the word "ought.”—Its
highest joy is in doing God's will.-T. L.
Cuyler.
The religion of some people is con-
strained, like the cold bath when used, not
for pleasure, but from necessity for health,
into which one goes with reluctance, and
is glad when able to get out. —But re-
ligion to the true believer is like water to
a fish; it is his element; he lives in it,
and could not live out of it.-John Newton.
Religion consists not so much in joyous
feelings as in constant devotedness to God,
and laying ourselves out for the good of
others.-Stewart.
Inward religion, without the outward
show of it, is like a tree without fruit,
useless; and the outward show of religion,
without inward sincerity, is like a tree with-
out heart, lifeless.- Venning.
There never was law, or sect, or opinion
did so magnify goodness as the Christian
religion doth.-Bacon.
None but God can satisfy the longings of
the immortal soul ; as the heart was made
for him, he only can fill it.-Trench,
My principles in respect of religious in-
terest are two,-one is, that the Church
shall not meddle with politics, and the gov-
ernment shall not meddle with religion.-
Kossuth.
If your whole life is guided by religion,
the hearts of others may be touched by this
mute language, and may open to the re-
ception of that spirit which dwells in you.
-Schleiermacher.
Recollection is the life of religion. The
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Christian wants to know no new thing, but
to have his heart elevated more above the
world by secluding himself from it as much
as his duties will allow, that religion may
effect its great end by bringing its sub-
lime hopes and prospects into more steady
action on the mind. — Cecil.
An every-day religion-one that loves
the duties of our coramon walk ; one that
makes an honest man ; one that accom-
plishes an intellectual and moral growth
in the subject; one that works in all
weather, and improves all opportunities,
will best and most healthily promote tho
growth of a church and the power of the
Gospel.—Horace Bushnell.
REMEMBRANCE.--(See "MEMORY.")
Remembrance is the only paradise out
of which we cannot be driven away.-Rich-
justice on the self-condemned, he deals on
his own soul.-Byron.
Remorse is a man's dread prerogative,
and is the natural accompaniment of his
constitution as a knowing, voluntary agent,
left in trust with his own welfare and that
of others. Remorse, if we exclude the no-
tion of responsibility, is an enigma in hu-
man nature never to be explained.--Isaac
Taylor.
Conscious remorse and anguish must be
felt, to curb desire, to break the stubborn
will, and work a second nature in the soul,
ere virtue can regain the place she lost.
Rowe.
The fruition of what is unlawfnl must be
followed by remorse. The core sticks in
the throat after the apple is eaten, and the
sated appetite loathes the interdicted pleas-
ure for which innocence was bartered.
Jane Porter.
I am afraid to think what I have done ;
look on it again I dare not.-Shakespeare.
Think not that guilt requires the burn-
ing torches of the furies to agitate and tor-
ment it.-Frauds, crimes, remembrances
of the past and terrors of the future, these
are the domestic furies that are ever pres-
ent to the minds of the impiou8.— Cicero.
Remorse not only turns God against us,
but turns us against ourselves, and makes
the soul like the scorpion in the fire, which
stings itself to death. --Thomas.
Remorse is the consciousness of doing
wrong with no sense of love ; penitence the
same consciousness with the feeling of sor-
row and tenderness added.-F. W. Robert-
tere.
son.
Remembered joys are never past ; at
once the fountain, stream, and sea, they
were, they are, they yet shall be.-J. Mont-
gomery.
Sorrows remembered sweeten present
joy.-Pollok.
The world does not require so much to
be informed as reminded. - Hannah More.
Praising what is lost makes the remem-
brance dear.--Shakespeare.
Of joy8 departed, not to return, how pain-
ful the remembrance.---Robert Blair.
The sweet remembrance of the just shali
flourish when he sleeps in dust.-Tate and
Brady.
The greatest comfort of my old age, and
that which gives me the highest satisfac-
tion, is the pleasing remembrance of the
many benefits and friendly offices I have
done to others.--Cato.
Pleasure is the flower that fades; remem-
brance is the lasting perfume.--Boufflers.
Remembrances last longer than present
realities; I have preserved blossoms for
many years, but never fruits.-Richter.
Every one can remember that which has
interested himself.–Plautus.
I cannot but remember such things were,
that were most precious to me. - -Shale-
speare.
REMORSE.-(See “GUILT.")
Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.-
Bulwer.
Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase
are fruits of innocence and blessedness.-
Bryant.
There is no future pang can deal that
To be left alone, and face to face with my
own crime, had been just retribution.
Longfellow.
This is the bitterest of all, to wear the
yoke of our own wrong-doing.-G. Eliot.
There is no man that is to himself know-
ingly guilty and that carries guilt about
him, but receives a sting into his soul.-
Tillotson.
Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can
find a fiercor torment than a guilty mind.
-- Dryden.
It is not just when a villair,ous act has
been committed that it torments us ; it is
when we think of it afterward, f r the re-
membrance of it lasts forever. — Rousseau.
Remorse is beholding heaven and feeling
hell.-Moore.
REPARTEE.-The impromptu reply
is the touchstone of the man of wit.
Molière.
REPENTANCE.
483
REPENTANCE.
Repartee is perfect, when it effects its
purpose with a double edge. Repartee is
the highest order of wit, as it bespeaks the
coolest yet quickest exercise of genius at a
moment when the passions are roused.
Colton.
I think I never knew an instance of great
quickness of parts being joined with great
solidity. The most rapid rivers are seldom
or never deep.-Shenstone.
REPENTANCE.-Of all acts of man re-
pentance is the most divine.-The greatest
of all faults is to be conscious of none.--
Carlyle.
True repentance consists in the heart
being broken for sin and broken from siu.
Some often repent, yet never reform ; they
resemble a man travelling in a dangerous
path, who frequently starts and stops, but
never turns back,- Thornton.
To do so no more is the truest repent-
ance.-Luther.
Mere sorrow, which weeps and sits still,
is not repentance.-Repentance is sorrow
converted into action ; into a movement
toward a new and better life.-M. R. Vin-
cent.
True repentance is to cease from sinning.
-Ambrose.
Repentance is not only grief on account
of this or that particular act; it is a deep-
seated sorrow on account of the discrepancy
between the outward acts of the vill and
that ideal which is presented to the con-
science in the new Adam—the typical-the
Christian man.-
1.-Martensen.
There are two kinds of repentance: one
is that of Judas, the other that of Peter ;
the one is ice broken, the other ice melted.
Repentance unto life will be repentance in
the life.- Wni. Nevins.
The best part of repentance is little sin-
ning.- Arabian Proverb.
Right actions for the future are the best
apologies for wrong ones in the past-the
best evidence of regret for them that we
can offer, or the world receive.-Tryon
Edwards.
Blest tears of soul-felt penitenco, in
whose benign, redeeming flow, is felt the
first, the only sense of guiltless joy that
guilt can know.-Moore.
Repentance is a hearty sorrow for our
past misdeeds, and a sincere resolution and
endeavor, to the utmost of our power, to
conform all our actions to the law of God.
It does not consist in one single act of
sorrow, but in doing works meet for repeut-
ance ; in a sincere obedience to the law of
Christ for the remainder of our lives.-
Locke.
Repentance, without amendment, is like
continually pumping without mending the
leak.--Dilwyn.
He that waits for repentance, waits for
that which cannot be had as long as it is
waited for. It is absurd for a man to wait
for that which he himself has to do.- Wm.
Nevins.
God hath promised pardon to him that
repenteth, but he hath not promised re-
pentance to him that sinneth. -- Anselin.
There is a greater depravity in not re-
penting of sin when it has been committed,
than in committing it at first. To deny, as
Peter did, is bad; but not to weep bitterly,
as he did, when we have denied, is worse. —
Payson.
True repentance hates the sin, and not
merely the penalty; and it hates the sin
most of all because it has discovered and
felt God's love.-W. M. Taylor.
It is one thing to mourn for sin because
it exposes us to hell, and another to mourn
for it because it is an infinite evil; one
thing to mourn for it because it is injurious
to ourselves, and another to mourn for it
because it is wrong and offensive to God.-
It is one thing to be terrified; another, to
be humbled.-G. Spring.
Repentance may begin instantly, but
reforination often requires a sphere of
years.-H. W. Beecher.
Repentance, to be of any avail, must
work a change of heart and conduct.-
T. L. Cuyler.
The slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient
it produce amendment, and the greatest
insufficient if it do not. - Colton.
Repentance hath a purifying power, and
every tear is of a cleansing virtue ; but
these penitential clouds must be still kept
reopping; one shower will not suffice; for
repentance is not one single action, but a
course, -South.
Late repentance is seldom true, but true
repentance is never too late.-R. Venning.
A true repentance shuns the evil itself,
more than the external suffering or tho
shame.- Shakespeare.
The golden key that opens the palace of
eternity.-Milton.
Repentance is the heart's sorrow, and a
clear life ensuing.--Shakespeare.
Our greatest glory consists not in never
falling, but in rising every time we may
fall.-Goldsmith.
.
that ever God gave to men, that they may
REPENTANCE.
484
REPOSE.
True repentance has a double aspect; need of repentance, and therefore it is
looks upon things past with a weeping eye, necessary in the hour of death too; but he
and upon the future with a watchful eye. - who hath constantly exercised himself in
South.
it iu his health and vigor, will do it with
The vain regret that steals above the
less pain in his sickness and weakness; and
wreck of squandered hours.- Whillier.
he who hath practised it all his life, will do
All of us who are worth anything spend
it with more ease and less perplexity in the
hour of his death.-Johnson.
our manhood in unlearning the follies,
or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
Whatever stress some may lay upon it, a
Shelley.
death-bed repentance is but a weak and
Before God can deliver us we must un-
slender plank to trust our all upon.-Sterne.
deceive ourselves.-Augustine.
Death-bed repentance is burning the
If you would be good, first believe you
candle of life in the service of the devil,
are bad.-Lpictetus.
then blowing the snuff in the face of heaven.
-Lorenzo Dow.
What is past is past.-There is a future
left to all men who have the virtue to re- There is one case of death-bed repent-
pent, and the energy to atone.-Bulwer'. ance recorded, that of the penitent thief,
You cannot repent too soon, because you
that none should despair ; and only one
do not know how soon it may be too late.-
that none should presume.-Augustine.
Fuller.
Great is the difference betwixt a man's
Place not thine amendment only in being frightened at, and humbled for his
increasing_thy devotion, but in bettering
sins. Fuller,
thy life.-Fuller.
Sorrow for having done amiss is fruitless
As it is never too soon to be good, so it is
if it issue not in doing so no more.-- Bp.
never too late to amend ; I will, therefore,
Horne.
neither neglect the time present, nor de-
REPOSE. (See “REST.")
spair of the time past." If I had been
sooner good, I might perhaps have been Our foster-nurse of nature is repose.
better; if I am longer bad, I shall, I am Shakespeare.
sure, be worse.- Arthur Warwick.
If we find not repose in ourselves, it is
It is never too late with us, so long as we in vain to seek it elsewhere.- From the
are aware of our faults and bear them im- French.
patiently.-Jacobi.
Repose is agreeable to the human mind;
He who seeks repentance for the past, and decision is repose. A man has made
should woo the angel virtue for the future. up his opinions ; he does not choose to be
-Bulwer,
disturbed ; and he is much more thankful
When the soul has laid down its faults at
to the man who confirms him in his errors,
the feet of God, it feels as though it had
and leaves him alone, than he is to the
wing8.-E. Guérin.
man who refutes him, or who instructs
him at the expense of his tranquillity.-
Repentance is the relinquishment of any
Sydney Smith.
practice from the conviction that it has
offended God.-Sorrow, fear, and anxiety
These should be hours for necessities,
are properly not parts, but adjuncts of
not for delights; times to repair our nature
repentance, yet they are too closely con-
with comforting repose, and not for us to
nected with it to be separated.—Addison.
waste.--Shakespeare.
It is the greatest and dearest blessing
There is no mortal truly wise and rest-
less at once; wisdom is the repose of
repent; and therefore to deny or to delay
minds.-Lavater.
it is to refuse health when brought by the Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of
skill of the physician--to refuse liberty the gentleman-repose in energy,
The
offered to us by our gracious Lord.—Bp. Greek battle pieces are calm; the heroes,
Taylor.
in whatever violent actions engaged, retain
It is a common error, and the greater
a serene aspect.-
Emerson.
and more mischievous for being so com- Have you known how to compose your
mon, to believe that repentance best manner's ? You have done a great deal
becomes and most concerns dying men. more than he who has composed books.
Indeed, what is necessary every hour of Have you kuown how to take repose? You
· our life is necessary in the hour of death have done more than he who has taken cit-
too, and as long as one lives he will have ies and empires.---Montaigne.
REPROOF.
485
REPUBLIC.
Repose without stagnation is the state
most favorable to happiness.
6. The great
felicity of life,” says Seneca, “is to be with-
out perturbations.”—Bovee.
REPROOF,-Reproof should not ex-
haust its powers upon petty failings ; let it
watch diligently against the incursions of
vice, and leave foppery and futility to die
of themselves,
Rebuke not in anger, or with severity;
hard words are like hailstones in summer,
beating down and destroying what they
would nourish were they
were they melted into
drops.
Reprove not, in their wrath, excited men
good counsel comes all out of season then ;
but when their fury is appeased and past,
they will perceive their faults, and mend at
last. When he is cool and calm, then utter
it.—Randolph.
Confront improper conduct, not by re-
taliation, but by example.-J. Foster.
When the most insignificant person tells
us we are in error, we should listen, and
examine ourselves, and see if it is so. To
believe it possible we may be in error, is
the first step toward getting out of it.
He who, when called upon to speak a
disagreeable truth, tells it boldly and has
done, is both bolder and milder than be
who nibbles in a low voice, and never ceases
nibbling.–Lavater.
Before thou reprehend another, take
heed thou art not culpable in what thou
goest about to reprehend. He that cleanses
a blot with blotted fingers makes a greater
blur.—Quarles.
I never was fit to say a word to a sinner,
except when I had a broken heart myself ;
when I was subdued and melted into peni-
tence, and felt as though I had just re-
ceived pardon for my own soul, and when
my heart was full of tenderness and pity.-
Payson.
Reproof is a medicine like mercury or
opium ; if it be improperly administered,
it will do harm instead of good.—Horace
Мапп. .
Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word ;
the sting of a reproach is the truth of it.-
Shakespeare.
Whenever anything is spoken against
you that is not true, do not pass by or de-
spise it because it is false ; but forth with
examine yourself, and consider what you
have said or done that may administer a
just occasion of reproof.-Plutarch.
No reproach is like that we clothe in a
smile, and present with a bow.-Bulwer.
Reprove thy friend privately ; commend
him publicly.–Solon.
Aversion from reproof is not wise. It is
a mark of a little mind. A great man can
afford to lose ; a little, insignificant fellow
is afraid of being snuffed out. — Cecil.
Few love to hear the sins they love to act.
-Shalcespeare.
The silent upbraiding of the eye is the
very poetry of reproach ; it speaks at once
to the imagination.--Mrs. Balfour.
Better a little chiding than a great deal
of heartbreak.-Shakespeare.
He had such a gentle method of reprov-
ing their faults that they were not so much
afraid as ashamed to repeat them.-Atter-
bury.
Chide him for faults, and do it reverently
when you perceive his blood inclined to
mirth. ---Shakespeare.
The reproof of a good man resembles ful-
ler's earth; it not only removes the spots
from our character, but it rubs off when
it is dry. Williamson.
I will chide no breather in the world but
myself, against whom I know most faults.
-Shakespeare.
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.- Venning:
The most difficult province in friendship
is the letting a man see his faults and er-
rors, which should if possible be so con-
trived that he may see our advice is given
him, not so much to please ourselves as for
his own advantage. The reproofs, there-
fore, of a friend should always be strictly
just, and not too frequent.-Budgell.
REPUBLIC.-At twenty, every one is
republican.- Lamartine.
Though I admire republican principles
in theory, yet I am afraid the practice
may be too perfect for human nature. We
tried a republic last century and it failed.
Let our enemies try next. I hate political
experiments.- Walpole.
Republics come to an end by luxurious
habits ; monarchies by poverty.-Montes-
quieu. .
It is the weakness and danger of repub-
lics, that the vices as well as virtues of the
people are represented in their legislation.
-Mrs. Mary H. Hunt.
Republicanism is not the phantom of a
deluded imagination.- On the contrary,
under no form of government are laws bet-
ter supported, liberty and property better
REPUTATION.
486
REPUTATION.
A reputation for good judgment, fair
dealing, truth, and rectitude, is itself a
fortune.-H. W. Beecher,
Good will, like a good name, is got by
many actions, and lost by one.--Jeffrey.
One may be better than his reputation,
but never better than his principles.-
Latena.
Reputation is but the synonym of
popil-
larity ; dependent on suffrage, to be in-
creased or diminished at the will of the
voters.- Washington Allston.
The blaze of reputation cannot be blown
out, but it often dies in the socket.-John-
son.
secured, or happiness more effectually dis-
pensed to mankind.- Washington.
Equal and exact justice to all; peace,
commerce and honest friendship with all
nations, and entangling alliances with
none ; the support of State governments
in all their rights, as the most competent
administration of our domestic concerns,
are the surest bulwarks against anti-repub-
lican tendencies.-Jefferson.
REPUTATION.-(See “NAME.”)
Reputation is what men and women think
of us ; character is what God and angels
know of us.-Paine.
Regard your good name as the richest
jewel you can possibly be possessed of-for
credit is like fire ; when once you have
kindled it you may easily preserve it, but
if you ouce extinguish it, you will find it
an arduous task to rekindle it again.
The way to gain a good reputation, is, to
endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
-Socrates.
A proper self-regard becomes improper
as soon as we begin to value reputation
more than real character.-Morning Star.
The two most precions things this side
the grave are our reputation and our life.
But it is to be lamented that the most con-
temptible whisper may deprive us of the
one, and the weakest weapon of the other.
A wise man, therefore, will be more aus-
ious to deserve a fair name than to possess
it, and this will teach him so to live, as not
to be afraid to die.-Colton.
See that your character is right, and in
the long run your reputation will be right.
The purest treasure mortal times afford
is spotless reputation ; that away, men are
but gilded loam or painted clay.--Shake-
speare.
A fair reputation is a plant delicate in
its nature, and by no means rapid in its
growth. It will not shoot up in a night,
like the gourd of the prophet, but like that
gourd, it may perish in a night.–Jeremy
Taylor.
Reputation, reputation, reputation! Oh,
I have lost my reputation! I have lost the
immortal part of myself ; and what remains
is bestial.--Shakespeare.
The reputationof a man is like hisshadow,
gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmý
in its proportions when it follows. – Talley-
rand.
Whatever ignominy or disgrace we have
incurred, it is almost always in our power
to re-establish our reputation. Roche-
foucauld.
Who swerves from innocence, who makes
divorce of that serene companion, a good
name, recovers not his loss; but walks with
shame, with doubt, with fear, and haply
with remorse.- Wordsworth,
My name and memory I leave to men'g.
charitable speeches, to foreign nations, and
to the next age.-Bacon.
In all the affairs of this world, so much
reputation is, in reality, so much power.-
Tillotson.
We should be careful to deserve a good
reputation by doing well ; and when that
care is once taken, not to be over-anxious
about the success.-Rochester.
There are two modes of establishing our
reputation : to be praised by honest men,
and to be abused by rogues.-It is best,
however, to secure the former, because it
will invariably be accompanied by the latter.
Colton.
Reputation is sometimes as wide as the
horizon, when character is but the point of
a needle.-Character is what one really is ;
reputation what others believe him to be.
-H. W. Beecher.
Nothing is so uncertain as general repu-
tation.--A man injures me from humor,
Passion, or interest; hates me because he
has injured me; and speaks ill of me be-
.cause he hates me.--Fome.
He that tears away a man's good name
tears his flesh from his bones, and by let-
ting him live gives him only a cruel oppor-
tunity of feeling his misery, of burying his
better part and surviving himself. -South.
Some men's reputation seems like seed-
wheat, which thrives best when brought
from a distance.- Whately.
A man's reputation is not in his own
keeping, but lies at the mercy of the prof-
ligacy of others. - Calumny requires no
proof.--Hazlitt.
RESENTMENT.
487
RESIGNATION.
Reputation is an idle and most false im-
position, oft got without merit, and lost
without deserving.-Shalcespeare.
No man was ever written out of reputa-
tion but by himself.--Monk.
Associate with men of good quality, if
you esteem your own reputation; it is
better to be alone than in bad company.
- Washington.
A reputation once broken may possibly
be repaired, but the world will always keep
their eyes on the spot where the crack was.
Garments that have once one rent in
them are subject to be torn on every nail,
and glasses that are once cracked are soon
broken.-Such is man's good name when
once tainted with just reproach.-Bp. Hall.
There are few persons of greater worth
than their reputation ; but how many are
there whose worth is far short of their
reputation !-Stanislaus.
Reputation is rarely proportioned to vir-
tue. -We have seen a thousand people es-
teemed, either for the merit they had not
yet attained or for what they no longer
possessed.—Evremond.
When a man has once forfeited the repu-
tation of his integrity, he is set fast; noth-
ing will then serve his turn, neither truth
nor falsehood.-Tillotson.
A good name is properly that reputation
of virtue which every man may challenge
as his right and due in the opinion of
others, till he has made forfeit of it by the
viciousness of his actions.-South.
An honest reputation is within the reach
of all ; they obtain it by social virtues and
doing their duty.--This kind of reputation,
though neither brilliant nor startling, is
often the most conducive to happiness.-
Duclos.
O! reputation, dearer far than life, thou
precious balsam, lovely, sweet of smell,
whose cordial drops once spilt by some rash
hand, not all thy owner's care, nor the re-
penting toil of the rude spiller, ever can
collect to its first purity and native sweet-
ness.-Sir W. Raleigh.
RESENTMENT. - Resentment is a
union of sorrow with malignity ; & com-
bination of a passion which all endeavor to
avoid with a passion which all concur to
detest.-Johnson.
Resentment is, in every stage of the pas-
sion, painful, but it is not disagreeable,
unless in excess.-Home.
There is a spirit of resistance implanted
by the Deity in the breast of man, propor-
tioned to the size of the wrongs he is
destined to endure.-C. J. Fox.
Resentment seems to have been given us
by nature for defence, and for defence
only ; it is the safeguard of justice, and
the security of innocence.-Adam Srnith.
RESERVE.-A reserved man is in con-
tinual conflict with the social part of his
nature, and even grudges himself the
laugh into which he is sometimes betrayed.
Shenstone,
Persons extremely reserved are like old
enamelled watches, which had painted
covers that hindered your seeing wliat
o'clock it was. - Walpole.
Soine reserve is a debt to prudence, as
freedom and simplicity of conversation is a
debt to good nature.- Shenstone.
Reserve may be pride fortified in ice;
dignity is worth reposing on truth.-W.R.
Alger.
Reserve is no more essentially connected
with understanding, than a church organ
with devotion, or wine with good nature.-
Shenstone.
There is nothing more allied to the
barbarous and savage character than sul-
lenness, concealment, and reserve.--Parl
Godwin.
Reserve is the truest expression of re-
spect toward those who are its objects.--
De Quincey.
There would not be any absolute neces-
sity for reserve if the world were honest;
yet even then it would prove expedient.
For, in order to attain any degree of def-
erence, it seems necessary that people
should'imagine you have more accomplish-
ments than you discover.-Shenstone.
RESIGNATION.-Resignation is put-
ting God between ourselves and
troubles.-Mad. Swetchine.
Resignation is the courage of Christian
sorrow.- Vinet.
“My will, not thine, be done,” turned
paradise into a desert. Thy will, not
mine, be done," turned the desert into
a'paradise, and made Gethsemane the gate
of heaven.-Pressense.
Let God do with me what He will, any-
thing He will; and, whatever it be, it will
be either heaven itself, or some beginning
of it.--Mountford.
O Lord, I do most cheerfully commit all
unto Thee.-Fénelon.
Trust in God, as Moses did, let the way
be ever so dark; and it shall come to pass
that your life at last shall surpass even
your longing. Not, it may be, iû the line
of that longing, that shall be as it pleaseth
our
all
If it be his pleasure that you should act ai
RESIGNATION.
488
RESOLUTION.
God; but the glory is as sure as the grace, All we have is the Almighty's, and shall
and the most ancient heavens are not more not God have his own when he calls for it?
sure than that.--Robert Collyer.
-Penn.
Vulgar minds refuse to crouch beneath There is but one way to tranquillity of
their load; the brave bear theirs without mind and happiness, and that is to account
repining.-Thomson.
no external things thine own, but to com-
All the precepts of Christianity agree to
mit all to God.--Epictetus.
teach and command us to moderate our Every man has his chain and clog, only
passions, to temper our affections toward it is looser and lighter to one than to an-
;
other; and he is more at ease who takes it
possession, and patient under the loss when- up and carries it than he who drags it.-
ever he that gave shall see fit to take away. Seneca.
--Sir W. Temple.
Whate'er my doom, it cannot be unhappy,
How calmly do those glide through all, for God has given me the boon of resigua-
even the roughest events, who can but tion.- Wilson.
make a right estimate of the happiness as Demand not that events should happen
well as the virtue of a governable will,
as you wish, but wish them to happen as
resigned to the will of God.-It was a philo-
they do, and you will go on well.—Epictetus.
sophical maxin, that a wise moral man
could not be injured, or miserable. But it
RESOLUTION.-(See “PURPOSE,"
is much more true of him who has that
divine wisdom of Christian resignation,
"PERSEVERANCE," and "OPPOSITION.")
which twines and enwraps all his choices
He who is firm and resolute in will
with God's; and is neither at the pains 110r
moulds the world to himself.- Goethe. .
the hazards of his own election, but is Good resolutions are a pleasant crop to
secure, unless omniscience can be deceived
sow.-The seed springs up so readily, and
and omnipotence defeated, that he shall
the blossoms open so soon with such a brave
have what is really best for him.-Palmer,
show, especially at first. But when the
Remember you are but an actor in a time of flowers has passed, what as to the
drama of such sort as the author chooses. fruit?-L, Malet.
The block of granite which is an obstacle
poor man, see that you act it well; or a
in the pathway of the weak, becomes a step-
cripple, or a ruler, or a private citizen.
ping-stone in the pathway of the strong. -
For this is your business, to act well the Carlyle.
given part; but to choose it belongs to
another.- Epictetus.
To think we are able is almost to be so;
to determine upon attainment is frequently
It is a higher exhibition of Christian
attainment itself; earnest resolution has
manliness to be able to bear trouble than
often seemed to have about it almost a
to get rid of it.---H. W. Beecher.
savor of omnipotence.-8. Smiles.
We cannot conquer fate and necessity, The nerve which never relaxes—the eye
yet we can yield to them in such a manner
which never blanches—the thought which
as to be greater than if we could.-Landor.
never wanders—the purpose that never
It were no virtue to bear calamities if we wavers—these are the masters of victory.--
do not feel them.-Mad. Necker.
Anon.
No clond can overshadow a true Christian Experience teacheth that resolution is a
but his faith will discern a rainbow upon sole help in need.-Shakespeare.
it.- Bp. Horne.
If we have need of a strong will in order
It is not where we have gathered up our to do good, it is still more necessary for 118
brightest hopes, that the dawn of happiness in order not to do evil.-Mole.
breaks. It is not where we have glanced
A good inclination is but the first rude
our eye with affright, that we find the
dranght of virtue, but the finishing strokes
deadliest gloom. What should this teach
are from the will, which, if well disposed,
us ? To bow to the great and only source of
will by degrees perfect it, or if ill disposed
light, and live humbly and with confiding
will quickly deface it.-South.
resignation.---Goethe.
Resolution," says John Foster, “is om-
Submission to God is the only balm that
nipotent."-He that resolves upon any
can heal the wounds he gives.-- Enimons.
great and good end, has, by that very res-
Thy way, not mine, O Lord, however olution, scaled the chief barrier to it. He
dark it be; lead me by thine own hand ; will find such resolution removing difficul-
choose out the path for me.-H. Bonar. ties, searching out or making means, giv-
RESPONSIBILITY.
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REST.
ing courage for despondency, and strength
' for weakness, and like the star to the wise
men of old, ever guiding him nearer and
nearer to perfection.-Tryon Edwards.
But little is accomplished, because but
little is vigorously attempted; and but
little is attempted, because difficulties are
magnified. A timorously cautiouz8 spirit,
so far from acting with resolution, will
never think itself in possession of the pre-
liminaries for acting at all. Perhaps per-
severance has been the radical principle of
every truly great character.-J. Foster.
Do not, for one repulse, forego the pur-
pose that you resolved to effect. Shalce-
speare.
A good intention clothes itself with
power.- Emerson.
If we are but fixed and resolute-bent on
high and holy ends, we shall find means to
them on every side, and at every moment;
and even obstacles and opposition will
but make us "like the fabled spectre-ships,
which sail the fastest in the very teeth of
the wind."-Tryon Edwards.
Be stirring as the time, be fire with fire,
threaten the threatener, and out-face the
brow of bragging horror ; so shall inferior.
eyes, that borrow their behaviors from the
great, grow great by your example and put
on the dauntless spirit of resolution.
Shakespeare.
You may be whatever you resolve to be.
-Determine to be something in the world,
and you will be something.--"I cannot,
never accomplished anything; "I will try,'
has wrought wonders.-J. Hawes.
There is no impossibility to him who
stands prepared to conquer every hazard.
The fearful are the failing.--Sarah J.
Hale.
Either I will find a way, or I will make
one.--Sir P. Sidney.
RESPONSIBILITY. - The most im-
portant thought I ever had was that of my
individual responsibility to God.--Daniel
Webster.
Responsibility educates.- Wendell Phil-
lips.
All men, if they work not as in the great
taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and
work unhappily for themselves and for
you.-Carlyle.
Nothing keeps alive the sense of the un-
worthiness of a life going to waste like the
thought of God's watchful eye. Nor is
there anything to tone up the honesty of
men like the remembrance of personal ac-
countability.-Monday Club Sermons.
The feeling of a direct responsibility of
the individual to God is almost wholly a
creation of Protestanism. John Stuart
Mill.
If the master takes no account of his ser-
vants, they will make small account of him,
and care not what they spend, who are
never brought to an audit. -Fuller.
Every human being has a work to carry
on within, duties to perform abroad, influ-
ences to 'exert, which are peculiarly his,
and which no conscience but his own can
teach.-Channing.
Much misconstruction and bitterness are
spared to him who thinks naturally upon
what he owes to others rather than what
he ought to expect from them. – Mad.
Guizot.
Responsibility walks hand in hand with
capacity and power.-J. G. Holland.
Responsibility is measured, not by the
amount of injury resulting from wrong
action, but by the distinctness with which
conscience has the opportunity of distin-
guishing between the right and the wrong.
-F. W. Robertson.
Sin with the multitude, and your re-
sponsibility and guilt are as great and as
truly personal, as if you alone had done the
wrong.–Tryon Edwards.
The assurance that this is a state of pro-
bation, should give vigor to virtue and
solemnity to truth. Every hour assumes a
fearful responsibility when we view it as
the culturer of an immortal barvest.-Mrs.
Sigourney.
a
REST,-Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
- Plutarch.
Absence of occupation is not rest;
mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.-
Cowper.
True rest is not that of torpor, but that
of harmony ; it is not refusing the struggle,
but conquering in it; not resting from
duty, but finding rest in it.-F. W. Robert-
SON.
Some seek bread ; and some seek wealth
and ease ; and some seek fame, but all are
seeking rest.-Langbridge.
Certainly work is not always required of
a man. There is such a thing as a sacred
idleness-the cultivation of which is now
fearfully neglected.---G. Macdonald.
Rest is valuable only so far as it is a con-
trast. Pursued as an end, it becomes a
most pitiable condition.-D. Swing.
Too much rest itself becomes a pain. -
Homer.
RESTLESSNESS.
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RETIREMENT.
All work and no rest takes the spring and
bound out of the most vigorous life.—Time
spent in judicious resting is not time
wasted, but time gained.-M. B. Grier.
Rest is not quitting the busy career; rest
is the fitting of self to its sphere. – J.
Dwight.
Alternate rest and labor long endure.-
Ovid.
There are pauses amidst study, and even
pauses of seeming idleness, in which a pro-
cess goes on which may be likened to the di-
gestion of food. In those seasons of repose,
the powers are gathering their strength for
new efforts ; as land which lies fallow re-
covers itself for tillage.-J. W. Alexander.
Rest unto our souls !-t is all we want-
the end of all our wishes and pursuits : we
seek for it in titles, in riches and pleasures
-climb up after it by ambition,-come
down again and stoop for it by avarice,--
try all extremes ; nor is it till after many
miserable experiments, that we are con-
vinced, at last, we have been seeking every-
where for it but where there is a prospect
of finding it; and that is, within our-
selves, in a meek and lowly disposition of
heart.--Sterne.
To will what God doth will, is the only
science that gives us rest.-Longfellow.
RESTLESSNESS."Tis plain there is
not in nature a point of stability to be
found; everything either ascends or de-
clines: when wars are ended abroad, sedi-
tion begins at home; and when men are
freed from fighting for necessity, they
quarrel through ambition.
The mind is found most acute and most
uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, in-
deed, a species of sagacity—a passive sa-
gacity. Fools are never uneasy.-- Goethe.
A restless mind, like a rolling stone, gath-
ers nothing but dirt and mire. Little or
no good will cleave to it; and it is sure to
leave peace and quietness behind it.—Bal-
guy.
Always driven toward new shores, or car-
ried hence without hope of return, shall we
never, on the ocean of age, cast anchor for
even a day?-Lamartine.
RESURRECTION. Our Lord has
written the promise of the resurrection,
not in books alone, but in every leaf in
spring-time.-Luther.
The diamond that shines in the Saviour's
crown shall beam in unquenched beauty, at
last, on the forehead of every human soul,
risen through grace to the immortality of
heaven.
RETIREMENT.-To judge rightly of
our own worth we should retire from the
world so as to see both its pleasures and
pains in their proper light and dimensions
-thus taking the heart from off this world
and its allurements, which so dishonor the
understanding as to turn the wisest of men
into fools and children.-Sterne.
He whom God hath gifted with the love
of retirement, possesses, as it were, an
extra sense. --Bulwer.
Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds
tongues in trees, books in the running
brooks, sermons in stones, and good in
everything.-Shakespeare.
Let me often to these solitudes retire,
and in their presence reassure my feeble
virtue.-Bryant.
A man who can retire from the world to
geek entertainment in his closet, has a
thousand advantages of which other people
have no idea.--He is master of his own
company and pleasures, and can command
either the one or the other according to
his circumstances or temper. All pature
is ready for his view, and all ages appear
at his call. He can transport himself to
the most distant regions, and enjoy the
best and politest company that ever the
world afforded.-Hibernicus's Letters.
Depart from the highway, and transplant
thyself in some enclosed ground; for it is
hard for a tree that stands by the wayside
to keep its fruit until it be ripe.-Chrysos-
tom.
Nature I'll court in her sequestered
haunts, by mountain, meadow, streamlet,
grove, or cell; where the poised lark his
evening ditty chaunts, ' and health, and
peace, and contemplation dwell.–Sniollett.
Before you think of retiring from the
world, be sure you are fit for retirement;
in order to which it is necessary that you
have a mind so composed by prudence,
reason, and religion, that it may bear being
looked'into; a turn to rural life, and a love
for study.-- Burgh.;
Don't think of retiring from the worla
until the world will be sorry that you retire.
I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or
laziness drives into a corner, and who does
nothing when he is there but sit and growl.
Let him come out as I do, and bark.
Johnson.
A foundation of good sense, and a culti-
vation of learning, are required to give a
seasoning to retirement, and make us taste
its blessings.—Dryden.
How use doth breed a habit in a man !
this shadowy desert, unfrequented woods,
RETRIBUTION.
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REVENGE.
I better brook than flourishing peopled
towns.---Shakespeare.
RETRIBUTION --Retribution is one
of the grand principles in the divine ad-
ministration of human affairs ; & requital
is imperceptible only to the wilfully uuob-:
servant. There is everywhere the working
of the everlasting law of requital: man al-
ways gets as he gives.-J. Foster.
God is a sure paymaster. He may not
pay at the end of every week, or month, or
year, but remember He pays in the end.
Anne of Austria.
Life resembles the banquet of Damocles ;
the sword is ever suspended. — Voltaire.
Old age seizes upon an ill-spent youth,
like fire upon a rotten house.--It was rotten
before, and must have fallen of itself, so
that it is only one ruin anticipating another.
--South.
The more pure and righteous a moral
being is, the more squarely must he an-
tagonize, the more intensely must he hate,
the more surely must he punish impurity
and unrighteousness. Volcanic fire inside
the globe, and forked lightning outside of
it, are faint emblems of holy wrath.- When
a thoroughly bad man stands revealed only
lightning is logical.--He that sows the
wind ought to reap the whirlwind.-R. D.
Hitchcock.
Man never fastened one end of a chain
around the neck of his brother, that God
did not fasten the other end round the neck
of the oppressor.-Lamarline.
"One soweth and another reapeth" is a
verity that applies to evil as well as good.-
George Eliot.
Nemesis is lame, but she is of colossal
stature; and sometimes, while lor sword is
not yet unsheathed, she stretches out her
huge left arm and grasps her victim. The
mighty hand is invisible, but the victim tot-
ters under the dire clutch.--- George Eliot.
God's mill grinds slow but sure.- Herbert.
The blind and cowardly spirit of evil is
forever telling you that evil things are
pardonable, and you shall not die for them ;
and that good things are impossible, and
you need not live for them. And, if you
believe these things, you will find some
day, to your cost, that they are untrue.
Ruslcin.
A man advanced in years, who thinks fit
to look back upon his former life, and call
that only life which was passed with satis-
faction and enjoyinent, will find himself
very young, if not in his infancy.--Steele.
From the sad years of life we sometimes
do short hours, yea, minutes strike, keen,
blissful, bright, never to be forgotten;
which, through the dreary gloom of time
o'erpast, shine like fair sunny spots on a
wild waste.-- Joanna Baillie.
Of no day can the retrospect cause pain
to a good man, nor has one passed away
which he is unwilling to remember : the
period of his life seems prolonged by his
good acts; and we may be said to live twice,
when we can reflect with pleasure on the
days that are gone.-Martial.
He possesses dominion over himself, and
is happy, who can every day say, "I have
lived." To-morrow the heavenly Father
may either involve the world in dark clouds,
or cheer it with clear sunshine; he will not,
however, render ineffectual' the things
which have already taken place.- Horace.
To look back to antiquity is one thing;
to
go
back to it another. If we look back
to it, it should be as those who are running
a race, only to press forward the faster, and
to leave the beaten way still further behind.
--Colton.
REVENGE.-(See “INJURY," and
"TORGIVENESS.")
Revenge is a common passion ; it is the
sin of the uninstructed. The savage deems
it noble; but the religion of Christ, which
is the sublime civilizer, emphatically con-
demns it. Why? Because religion ever
seeks to ennoble man; and nothing so de-
bases him as revenge.-Bulwer.
Revenge is the abject pleasure of an ab-
ject mind.-Juvenal.
It is a work of prudence to prevent iu-
jury, and of a great mind, when done, not
to l'evenge it. He that hath revenge in his
power, and does not use it, is the great
man ; it is for low and vulgar spirits to
transport themselves with vengeance. To
endure injuries with a brave mind is one
half the conquest.
By taking revenge, a man is but even
with his enemy; but in passing over it, he
is superior.-Bacon.
Revenge is like a boomerang. Although
for a time it flies in the direction in which
it is hurled, it takes a sudden curve, and,
returning, hits your own head the heaviest
blow of all,
A spirit of revenge is the very spirit of
RETROSPECTION.-Often a retro-
spect delights the mind.--Dante.
The thought of our past years in me
doth breed perpetual benediction. -- Words-
2001th.
REVERENCE.
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REVÈRIE.
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the devil; than which nothing makes a
man more like him, and nothing can be
more opposite to the temper Christianity
was designed to promote. If your revenge
be not satisfied, it will give you torment
now; if it be, it will give you greater here-
after. None is a greater self-tormentor
than a malicious and revengeful man, who
turns the poison of his own temper in upon
himself.-J. M. Mason.
He that studieth revenge keepeth his
own wounds green, which otherwise would
heal and do well.-Bacon.
Revenge, at first, though sweet, bitter,
ere long, back on itself recoils.-Milton.
Dare not usurp thy maker's place by
giving way to wrath-wrath that goes forth
in vengeance ; " vengeance is mine, I will
repay, saith the Lord."-C. Simmons.
The best manner of avenging ourselves
is by not resembling him who has injured
us.-Jane Porter.
Revenge has ears more deaf than adders
to the voice of any true decision.-Shake-
speare.
If you are affronted it is better to pass it
by in silence, or with a jest, though with
some dishonor, than to endeavor revenge.
- If you can keep reason above passion,
that and watchfulness will be your best
defenders.-Newton.
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which,
the more a man's nature runs to, the more
ought law to weed it out. - Bacon.
Revenge is barren of itself ; itself is the
dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is
murder; its satiety despair.-Schiller.
Revenge is an act of passion ; vengeance
of justice.-Injuries are revenged ; crimes
are avenged. ---Joubert.
In revenge a man is but even with his
enemies ; but it is a princely thing to par-
don, for Solonion saith, “It is the glory of
a man to pass over a transgression.- Bacon..
To revenge is no valor, but to bear.-
Shakespeare.
Hath any wronged thee? Be bravely
revenged. -Slight it, and the work is be-
gun; forgive it, and it is finished.- He is
below himself that is not above any injury.
Quarles.
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
that it do singe thyself.--Shakespeare.
who bas right views of the divine greatness
and holiness, and of his own character in
the sight of God.-C. Simmons.
The Turks carefully collect every scrap
of paper that comes in their way, because
the name of God may be written thereon.-
Richter.
We treat God with irreverence by banish-
ing him from our thoughts, not by referring
to his will on slight occasions. - Ruskin.
The soul of the Christian religion is
reverence.-Goethe.
Reverence is an ennobling sentiment; it
is felt to be degrading only by the vulgar
mind, which would escape the sense of its
own littleness by elevating itself into an
antagonist of what is above it. He that
has no pleasure in looking up is not fit so
much as to look down.- Washington Allston.
Rather let my head stoop to the block,
than these knees bow to any save to the
God of heaven.-- Shakespeare.
Boyle, it is said, never mentioned the
name of God without a visible and reverent
pause in his discourse.
While it is undesirable that any man
should receive what he has not examined,
a far more frequent danger is that of flip-
pant irreverence.--Goethe.
Reverence is one of the signs of strength;
irreverence one of the surest indications of
weakness.—No man will rise high who jeers
at sacred things. The fine loyalties of life
must be reverenced or they will be fore-
sworn in the day of trial.
REVERIE.-Reverie is when ideas float
in our mind without reflection or regard of
the understanding.–Locke.
Reverie, which is thought in its nebulous
state, borders closely upon the land of
sleep, by which it is bounded as by a natu-
ral frontier. Victor Hugo.
Sit in reverie, and watch the changing
color of the waves that break upon the
idle seashore of the mind.—Longfellow.
Do anything innocent rather than give
yourself up to reverie. I can speak on this
point from experience; for at one period
of my life, I was a dreamer and castle-
builder. Visions of the distant and future
took the place of present duty and activity.
I spent hours in reverie. The body suf-
fered as much as the mind. The imagina-
tion threatened to inflame the passions,
and I found, if I meant to be virtuous, I
must disiniss my musings. The co
The conflict
was a hard one ; but I resolved, prayed,
resisted, sought refuge in occupation, and
at length triumphed. - Channing.
REVERENCE.-The majesty of God
revere ; fear him, and you have nothing
else to fear.–Fordyce.
Reverence is the very first element of
religion ; it cannot but be felt by every one
REVOLUTION.
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REVOLUTION.
To lose one's self in reverie, one must be
either very happy, or very unhappy.-Rev-
erie is the child of extremes.-Rivarol.
Both mind and heart, when given up to
reverie and dreaminess, have a thousand
avenues open for the entrance of evil.-C.
Simmons.
Few habits are more injurious than mus-
ing, which differs from thinking as pacing
one's chamber does from walking abroad.
The mind learns nothing, and is not
strengthened, but weakened, returning
perpetually over the same bárren track.
Where the thoughts are sombre, the evil is
doubly great, and not only time and vigor
are squandered, but melancholy becomes
fixed. It is really a disease, and the ques-
tion how it should be treated is one of the
most important in anthropology.-J. W.
Alexander.
In that sweet mood when pleasant
thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind.
- Wordsworth.
There is no self-delusion more fatal than
that which makes the conscience dreamy
with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while
the life is grovelling and sensual.-J. R.
Lowell.
the people will be proportioned to the op-
pression and degradation under which they
have been accustomed to live.--Macaulay.
Revolutions are not made, they come.
A revolution is as natural a growth as an
oak. It comes out of the past. Its founda-
tions are laid far back.- Wendell Phillips.
Times and occasions and provocations
will teach their own lessous. But with
or without right, a revolution will be the
very last resource of the thinking and the
good.- Burke.
Let them call it mischief; when it's past
and prospered, it will be virtue.-Ben Jon-
son.
REVOLUTION. Revolution is the
larva of civilization.— Victor Hugo.
Political convulsions, like geological up-
heavings, usher in new epochs of the world's
progress.- Wendell Phillips.
Great revolutions are the work rather of
principles than of bayonets, and are
achieved first in the moral, and after-
ward in the material sphere.—Mazzini.
Revolutions begin in the best heads, and
run steadily down to the populace.—Met-
ternich.
Too long denial of guaranteed right is
sure to lead to revolution-bloody revolu-
tion, where suffering must fall upon the in-
nocent as well as the guilty.-U. S. Grant.
Nothing has ever remained of any revolu-
tion but what was ripe in the conscience of
the masses.-Ledru Rollin.
All experience hath shown that mankind
are more disposed to suffer, while evils are
sufferable, than to right themselves by
abolishing the forms to which they are
accustomed.--Jefferson.
We deplore the outrages which accom-
pany revolutions. But the more violent
the outrages, the more assured we feel that
a revolution was necessary! The violence
of these ontrages will always be propor-
tioned to the ferocity and ignorance of the
people : and the ferocity and ignorance of
The working of revolutions misleads me
no more ; it is as necessary to our race as
its waves to the stream, that it may not be
a stagnant marsh. Ever renewed in its
forms, the genius of humanity blossoms.-
Herder.
It is far more easy to pull down than to
build up, and to destroy than to preserve.
Revolutions have on this account been
falsely supposed to be fertile of great tal-
ent; as the dregs rise to the top during a
fermentation, and the lightest things are
carried highest by the whirlwind.—Colton.
The best security against revolution is
in constant correction of abuses and the
introduction of needed improvements. It
is the neglect of timely repair that makes
rebuilding necessary. — whately.
The surest way to prevent seditions is to
take away the matter of them; for if there
be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence
the spark shall come that shall set it on
fire. -- Bacon.
Revolutions are like the most noxious
dung-heaps, which bring into life the 10-
blest vegetables.-Napoleon.
Those who give the first shock to a state
are naturally the first to be overwhelmed
in its ruin. The fruits of public commo-
tion are seldom enjoyed by the man who
was the first to set it a-going ; he only
troubles the water for another's net.
Montaigne.
Who does more earnestly long for a
change than he who is uneasy in his pres-
ent circumstances ? And who run to create
confusions with so desperate a boldness, as
those who having nothing to lose, hope to
gain by them?-Sir T. More.
The whirlpool of the hour engulfs the
growth of centuries !-Pause ere ye rive
with strength of fever, things embedded
long in social being.—You will uproot no
form, with which the thoughts and habits
of weak mortals have long been twined,
REWARD.
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RICHES.
portion, either greater than the life, or
less ; but instruction is to be given by show-
ing them what they naturally are.
A man
is to be cheated into passion, but reasoned
into truth.-Dryden.
All the arts of rhetoric, besides order and
clearness, are for nothing else but to in-
sinuate wrong ideas, move the passions,
and thereby mislead the judgment. Locke.
without the bleeding rent of thousand ties
which to the common heart of nature link
it.-Wrenched, perchance you'll mock a
clumsy relic of forgotten days, while you
have scattered in the dust, unseen, a thou-
sand living crystals.- Talfourd, .
REWARD.-He who wishes to secure
the good of others, has already secured his
own.-Confucius.
Every duty brings its peculiar delight,
every denial its appropriate compensation,
every thought its recompense, every cross
its crown; pay goes with performance as
effect with cause. Meauness overreacles
itself; vice vitiates whoever indulges in it;
the wicked wrong their own souls ; gener-
osity greatens ; virtue exalts ; charity
transfigures ; and holiness is the essence
of angelhood. God does not require us to
live on credit; he pays us what we earn as
we earn it, good or evil, heaven or hell, ac-
cording to our choice. — Charles Mildmay.
Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds,
and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.
- Congreve.
He who sows, even with tears, the pre-
cious seed of faith, hope, and love, shall
doubtless come again with joy, bringing
hig sheaves with him, because it is the very
nature of that seed to yield a joyful liar-
vest.-Cecil.
It is the amends of a short and trouble-
some life, that doing good and suffering ill
entitles man to a longer and better.-- Penn.
RHETORIC.-Rhetoric is nothing but
reason well dressed, and argument put in
order.—Jeremy Collier.
The best rules of rhetoric are, to speak
intelligently ; speak from the heart; have
something to say ; say it; and stop when
you've done.--Tryon Edwards.
There is truth and beauty in rhetoric ;
but it oftener serves ill turns than good
ones. -Penn.
Mere rhetoric in serious discourses, is
like flowers in coru, pleasing to those who
look only for amusement, but prejudicial to
him who would reap profit from it. --Swift.
Rhetoric without logic, is like a tree with
leaves and blossoms, but no root; yet more
are taken with rhetoric than logic, because
they are caught with fine expressions
when they understand not reason.-Selden.
All a rhetorician's rules teach nothing
but to name his tools.-Samuel Butler,
The florid, elevated, and figurative way
is for the passions ; for love and hatred,
fear and anger, are begotten in the soul by
showing their objects out of their true pro-
RICHES.—(See "WEALTH.")
He is rich whose income is more than
his expenses ; and he is poor whose ex-
penses exceed his income. - Bruyère.
Riches are not an end of life, but an in-
strument of life.-H. W. Beecher.
I cannot call riches by a better name
than the "baggage of virtue; the Roman
word is better, "impediment." For as the
baggage is to an army, so are riches to vir-
tue. It cannot be spared or left behind,
and yet it hindereth the march ; yea, and
the care of it sometimes loseth or disturb-
eth the victory. Of great riches there is
no real use, except in the distribution; the
rest is but conceit.-- Bacon.
My riches consist not in the extent of my
possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.
-J. Brotherton.
Riches exclude only one inconvenience,
and that is poverty.--Johnson.
The pride of dying rich raises the loudest
laugh in hell.-John Foster.
He hath riches sufficient, who hath
enough to be charitable.-Sir T. Browne.
Agur said, "Give me neither poverty nor
riches"; aná this will ever be the prayer of
the wise. Our incomes should be like our
shoes : if too small, they will gall and pinch
118, but if too large, they will cause us to
stumble and to trip. But wealth, after all,
is a relative thing, since he that has little,
and wants less, is richer than he that has
much, but wants more. True contentment
depends not upon what we have ; a tub
was large enough for Diogenes, but a world
was too little for Alexander.- Colton.
Plenty and indigence depend upon the
opinion every one has of them; and riches,
like glory or health, have no more beauty
or pleasure, than their possessor is pleased
to lend them.-Montaigne.
The larger the income, the harder it is
to live within it.- Whately.
Believe not much them that seem to de-
spise riches, for they despise them who de-
spair of them; and none are worse than
they when riches come to them.-Bacon.
A man that hoards up riches and enjoys
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them not, is like an ass that carries gold
and eats thistles.
Misery assails riches, as lightning does
the highest towers ; or as a tree that is
heavy laden with fruit breaks its own
boughs, so do riches destroy the virtue of
their possessor.--Burton.
If thou art rich, then show the greatness
of thy fortune ; or what is better, the great-
ness of thy soul, in the meekness of thy
conversation; condescend to men of low
estate, support the distressed, and patron-
ize the neglected. Be great.--Sterne.
Of all the riches that we hug, of all the
pleasures we enjoy, we can carry no more
out of this world than out of a dream.
Bonnell.
Be not penny-wise ; riches have wing8;
sometimes they fly away of themselves,
and sometimes they must be set flying to
bring in more.— Bacon.
To value riches is not to be covetous.
They are the gift of God, and, like every
gift of his, good in themselves, and capa-
ble of a good use. But to over-value riches,
to give them a place in the heart which.Goá
did not design them to fill, this is covet-
ousness.-H. L. Wayland.
To have what we want is riches, but to
be able to do without is power.-G. Mac-
donald.
Riches, though they may reward virtue,
cannot cause it.-He is much more noble
who deserves a benefit than he who bestows
one.-Feltham.
Public sentiment will come to be, that
the man who dies rich dies disgraced.-
Andrew Carnegie.
Riches are valuable at all times and to
all men, because they always purchase
pleasures such as men are accustomed to
and desire : nor can anything restrain or
regulate the love of money but a sense of
honor and virtue, which, if not equal at
all times, will naturally abound most in
ages of knowledge and refinement. —Hume.
Every man is rich or poor, according to
the proportion between his desires and en-
joyments. Of riches as of everything else,
the hope is more than the enjoyment.
While we consider them as the means to
be used at some future time for the attain-
ment of felicity, ardor after them secures
us from weariness of ourselves; but no
sooner do we sit down to enjoy our acqui-
sitions than we find them insufficient to fill
up the vacuities of life.—Johnson.
The rich are the real outcasts of society,
and special missions should be organized
for them.-
Norman Macleod.
A man who succeeds to his father's repu-
tation must be greater than him, to be
considered as great; but he that succeeds
to his father's riches, will have to encoun-
ter no such deduction. The popular opin-
ion adds to our means, but diminishes our
merits ; and it is not an unsafe rule to be-
lieve less than you hear with respect to a
man's fortune, and more than you hear
with respect to his fame.-Colton.
There are two things needed in these
days ; first, for rich men to find out how
poor men live; and second, for poor men
to know how rich men work.-E. Atlcinson.
The sons of the rich, the educated dar-
lings of wealthy families, are nowhere.-All
their gifts were only so many fatal temp-
tations, and they themselves are forgotten,
like bad copies of good pictures.-J. W.
Forney.
A fortune is usually the greatest of mis-
fortunes to children. It takes the muscles
out of the limbs, the brain out of the head,
and virtue out of the heart.
In this world, it is not what we take up,
but what we give up, that makes us rich.-
H. W. Beecher.
If I have but enough for myself and fam-
ily, I am steward only for myself and them;
if I have more, I am but a steward of that
abundance for others.--Herbert.
I have a rich neighbor that is always so
busy that he has no leisure to laugh ; the
whole business of his life is to get money,
more money, that he may still get more.
He considers not that it is not in the power
of riches to make a man happy; for it was
wisely said that “there be as many mis-
eries beyond riches as on this side of them."
- Izaal: Walton.
( One cause, which is not always observed,
of the insufficiency of riches, is that they
very seldom make their owner rich.-John-
son.
do so.
Riches without charity are nothing worth.
They are a blessing only to him who makes
them a blessing to others.--Fielding.
If the search for riches were sure to be
successful, though I should become a groom
with a whip in my hand to get them, I will
As the search may not be success-
ful, I will follow after that which I love.-
Confucius.
He is richest who is content with the
least, for content is the wealth of nature.
-Socrates.
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that
enjoys it.- Franklin.
No man can tell whether he is rich or
poor by turning to his ledger.-It is the
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heart that makes a man rich.-He is rich
according to what he is, not according to
what he has.-H. W. Beecher.
“If I were rich," says one, “I would—”
Illusion !We often hold firmer to the last
crown we have amassed than to the first
which we gained.-J. P. Senn.
Man was born to be rich, or grows richi
by the use of his faculties, by the union of
thought with nature. Property is an in-
tellectual production. The game requires
coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and
patience in the players. Cultivated labor
drives out brute labor.- Emerson.
An eager pursuit of fortune is incon-
sistent with a severe devotion to truth.
The heart must grow tranquil before the
thought can become searching.-Bovee.
Riches are apt to betray a man into arro-
gance. --Addison.
Satiety comes of riches, and contuma-
ciousness of satiety.--Solon.
The use we make of our fortune deter-
mines as to its sufficiency.-A little is
enough if used wisely, and too much if
expended foolishly.-- Bovee.
Riches are the pettiest and least worthy
gifts which God can give a man.
What are
they to God's Word, to bodily gifts, such as
beauty and health, or to the gifts of the
mind, such as understanding, skill, wis-
dom! Yet men toil for them day and
night, and take no rest. Therefore God
commonly gives riches to foolish people to
whom he gives nothing else.-Luther.
Worldly riches are like nuts; many
clothes are torn in getting them, many a
tooth broke in cracking them, but never a
belly filled with eating them.–Venning.
If thou art rich, thou art poor ; for, like
an ass, whose back with ingots bows, thou
bearest thy heavy riches but a journey, and
death unloads thee.—Shakespeare.
There is no less merit in keeping what
we have got, than in first acquiring it.
Chance has something to do with the one,
while the other will always be the effect of
skill.-Ovid.
Much learning shows how little mortals
know; much wealth, how little worldlings
can enjoy.--Young.
Riches do not delight us so much withi
their possession, as torment us with their
loss. ----Gregory.
Some of God's noblest sons, I think, will
be selected from those that know how to
take wealth, with all its temptations, and
maintain godliness therewith. It is hard
to be a saint standing in a golden niche,
H. W. Beecher.
Never respect men merely for their
riches, but rather for their philanthropy;
we do not value the sun for its height, but
for its use. --Bailey.
The greatest and the most amiable privi-
lege which the rich enjoy over the poor is
that which they exercise the least,--the
privilege of making others happy.- Collon.
Riches should be admitted into our
houses, but not into our hearts; we may
take them into our possession, but not into
our affections.-Charron.
Riches, honors, and pleasures are the
sweets which destroy the mind's appetite
for heavenly food ; poverty, disgrace, and
pain are the bitters which restore it. —Bp.
Horne.
Every man is rich or poor according to
the proportion between his desires and
his
enjoyments.—Johnson.
Wouldst thou multiply thy riches ?--
diminish them wisely.-Or wouldst thou
make thine estate entire ?-divide it charit-
ably.-Seeds that are scattered increase ;
but hoarded up they perish.--Quarles.
Riches amassed in haste will diminish,
but those collected by little and little will
multiply.-Goethe.
I take him to be the only rich man that
lives upon what he has, owes nothing, and
is contented; for there is no determinate
sum of money, nor quantity of estate that
can denote a man rich, since no man is
truly rich that has not so much as perfectly
satiates his desire of having more ; for the
desire of more is want, and want is poverty.
-Howe.
We see how much a man has, and there-
fore we envy him ; did we see how little he
enjoys, we should rather pity him.--Seed.
A great estate is a great disadvantage to
those who do not know how to use it, for
nothing is more common than to see
wealthy persons live scandalously and mis-
erably ; riches do theu no service in order
to virtue and happiness ; it is precept and
principle, not an estate, that makes a man
good for something.–Marcus Antoninus.
If a rich man is proud of his wealth, he
should not be praised until it is known how
he employs it.-Socrates.
There is a burden of care in getting
riches ; fear in keeping them; temptation
in using them; guilt in abusing them ;
sorrow in losing them; and a burden of
account at last to be given concerning
them.-M. Henry.
As riches and favor forsake a man we
discover him to be a fool, but nobody could
find it out in his prosperity.-Bruyère.
minds and ungenerous tempers. A young
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Nothing is so hard for those who abound far that the truth is only remembered and
in riches as to conceive how others can be repeated for the sake of the ridicule.-
in want.-Swift.
Chesterfield.
A rich man, of cultivated tastes, with Ridicule is the weapon most feared by
every right to gratify them, knowing enthusiasts of every description; from its
enough of sorrow to humble his heart
predominance over such minds it often
toward God, and soften it toward his neigh- checks what is absurd, but fully as often
bor-gifted with not only the power but smothers that which is noble. — Walter
will to do good, and having lived long Scott.
enough to reap the fruits of an honorable
youth in a calm old age--such a man, in
Ridicule, which chiefly arises from pride,
spite of his riches, is not unlikely to enter
& selfish passion, is but at besta gross pleas-
the kingdom of heaven.-Mulocic.
ure, too rough an entertainment for those
who are highly polished and refined.-
We are so vain as to set the highest value Hone.
upon those things to which nature has
Reason is the test of ridicule--not ridi-
assigned the lowest place. What can be
cule the test of truth.–Bp. Warburton.
more coarse and rude in the mine than the
precious metals, or more slavish and dirty Ridicule is a weak weapon when levelled
than the people that dig and work them? at strong minds, but common men are cow-
And yet they defile our minds more than ards and dread an empty laugh.---Tupper.
our bodies, and make the possessor fouler
than the artificer of them. Rich men, in
If there be any one habit which more
than another is the dry-rot of all that is
fine, are only the greater slaves.---Seneca.
high and generous in youth, it is the habit
He who recognizes no higher logic than of ridicule.-L. E. Landon.
that of the shilling may become a very rich
man, and yet remain a very poor creature,
Ridicule is generally made use of to
for riches are no proof of moral worth, and
laugh men out of virtue and good sense,
their glitter often serves only to draw
by attacking everything praiseworthy in
attention to the worthlessness of their
human life. -Addison.
pos-
sessor, as the glowworm's light reveals the
Betray mean terror of ridicule, thou
grub.-S. Smiles.
shalt find fools enough to mock thee ; but
RIDICULE.-Ridicule is the first and
answer thou their language with contempt,
last argument of fools.-C. Simmons.
and the scoffers will lick thy feet.--Tupper.
The talent of turning men into ridicule,
Learn from the earliest days to inure
and exposing to laughter those one con- your principles against the perils of ridi-
verses with, is the gratification of little cule : you can no more exercise your rea-
son if you live in the constant dread of
man with this cast of mind cuts himself oft laughter, than you can enjoy your life if
from all manner of improvement.-Addison. you are in the constant terror of death.-
Your sayer of smart things has a bad
Sydney Smith.
heart.-Pascal.
Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away.
Ridicule may be the evidence of wit or
-- Byron.
bitterness and may gratify a little mind,
It is said that ridicule is the test of truth;
or an ungenerous temper, but it is no test but it is never applied except when we wish
of reason or truth. Thyon Edwards.
to deceive ourselves—when if we cannot
Man learns more readily and remembers
exclude the light, we would fain draw the
more willingly. what excites his ridicule
curtain before it. The sheer springs out
than what deserves esteem and respect.-
of the wish to deny ; and wretched must
Horace.
that state of mind be, that wishes to take
refuge in doubt.-L. E. Landon.
He who brings ridicule to bear against
truth finds in his hand a bladewithout a hilt. It was the saying of an ancient sage that
The most sparkling and pointed flame of
humor was the only test of gravity, and
wit flickers and expires against the incom- gravity of humor ; for a subject that would
bustible walls of her sanctuary.-Landor.
not bear raillery was suspicious, and a jest
that would not bear a serious examination
It has been said that ridicule is the best
test of truth, for that it will not stick where
was certainly false wit.-Shaftesbury.
it is not just. I deny it. A truth viewed Vices, when ridiculed, first lose the hor-
in a certain light, and attacked in certain ror they ought to raise, grow by degrees
words, by men of wit and humor, may, and approved, and almost aim at praise. —
often doth, become ridiculous, at least so Whitehead.
RIGHT.
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ROMANCE.
is done in rivalship; or nobly, which is done
in pride.- Ruskin.
It is the privilege of posterity to set mat-
ters right between those antagonists who,
by their rivalry for greatuess, divided a
whole age.- Addison.
In ambition, as in love, the successful
can afford to be indulgent toward their
rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful
to recognize the merit that vainly aspired
to it.:-- Bovee.
ROGUERY.-After long experience of
the world, I atfirm before God, that I never
knew a rogue wlio was not uuhappy.-
Junius.
Rogues are always found out in some
way.-Whoever is a wolf will act as a
wolf ; that is the most certain of all things.
- Fontaine.
Make yourself an honest man, and then
you may be sure that there is one rascal
less in the world.- Carlyle.
A rogue is a roundabout fool.- Coleridge.
RIGHT.-Whatever is physiologically
right, is morally right; and whatever is
physiologically wrong is morally wrong.
Maric Hopkins.
Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be
right, he will daily grow more and more
right. It is at the bottom of the condition
on which all men have to cultivate them-
selves.-Carlyle.
I would rather be right than be presi-
dent.--Henry Clay.
Let us have faith that right makes might,
and in that faith, let us to the end, dare to
do our duty, as we understand it. - Lincoln.
Nothing but the right can ever be ex-
pedient, since that can never be true ex-
pediency which would sacrifice a greater
good to a less.-- Whately.
No man has a right to do as he pleases,
except when he pleases to do right.--c.
Siminons.
There is no right without a parallel duty,
no liberty without the supremacy of the
law, no high destiny without earnest per-
severance, no greatuess without self-denial.
-Lieber.
The fears of one class of men are not the
measure of the rights of another.-Ban-
croft.
Would you be exempt fron uneasiness;
do nothing you know or even suspect is
wrong. Would you enjoy the purest pleas-
ure; do everything in your power which you
believe is right.--Rules of Life.
All men are endowed by their Creator
with inalienable rights ; among these are
life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
-Jefferson.
One of the grandest things in having
rights is, that though they are your rights
you may give them up.-G. Macdonald .
There is no credit in knowing how to
spell, but positive disgrace in being ig-
norant on that point. So there can be no
credit in doing riglit, while it is infamous
to do wrong.-G. F. Train.
Right is might, and ever was, and ever
shall be 80.-Holiness, meekness, patience,
humility, self-denial, and self-sacrifice,
faith, love,-each is might, and every gift
of the spirit is might.-Hare.
Never, with the Bible in our hands, can
we deny rights to another, which, under
the same circumstances, we would claim
for ourselves.-G. Spring.
ROMANCE.-(See “Novels.")
Romance is the poetry of literature.
Mad. Necker,
Lessons of wisdom have never such power
over us as when they are wrought into the
heart through the groundwork of a story
which engages the passions.-Sterne,
The habitual indulgence in such reading
is a silent, ruining mischief. Hannah
More.
In this commonplace world every one is
said to be romantic who either admires a
fine thing or does one.--Pope.
Romance has been elegantly defined as
the offspring of fiction and love.-Disraeli.
In the meanest hut is a romance, if you
but knew the hearts there.
arts there.— Van Ense.
I despair of ever receiving the same de-
gree of pleasure from the most exalted per-
formances of genius which I felt in child-
hood from pieces which my present judg-
ment regards as trifing and contemptible.
-Burke.
To the romance writers, and compara-
tively decorous dramatists of his own time,
Nicolé gave the title of public poisoners.
Fiction may be more instructive than
real history; but the vast rout of romances
and novels, as they are, do incalculable
mischief. I wish we could collect all to-
gether, and make one vast fire of them. I
should exult to see the smoke of them as-
cend, like that of Sodom and Gomorrah :
the judgment would be as just.-J. Foster.
RIVALRY,-Two stars keep not their
motion in one sphere.--Shakespeare.
Nothing is ever done beautifully which
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SABBATH.
RUINS.—The legendary tablets of the
past.— Walter Scott.
Black-letter record of the ages.—Diderot.
I do love these ancient ruins.We never
tread upon them but we set our foot upon
some reverend history.—John Webster'.
Cicero was not so eloquent as thou, thou
nameless column with the buried base.-
Byron.
Mile-stones on the road of time.-Cham-
fort.
Historic records of the past, but each,
also, an index of the world's progress.
RUMOR.-He that easily believes ru-
mors has the principle within him to aug-
ment rumors.--It is strange to see the rav-
enous appetite with which some devourers
of character and happiness fix upon the
sides of the innocent and unfortunate.-
Jane Porter.
Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.
- Shakespeare.
Rumor was the messenger of defamation,
anıl so swift, that none could be first to tell
an evil tale.—Pollok.
Curse the tongue whence slanderous ru-
mor, like the adder's drop, distils her venom,
withering friendship's faith, turning love's
favor.-Hillhouse.
The flying rumors gathered as they rolled,
and all who told it added something new,
and all who heard it made enlargement too ;
in every ear it spreads, on every tongue it
grew.-Pope.
On rumor's tongues continual slanders
ride.-Shakespeare.
How violently do rumors blow the sails
of popular judgments !-How can one dis-
cern between the truth and truth-likeness,
between shows and substance. Sir P.
Sidney.
Rumor is a pipe blown by sumises, jeal-
ousies, conjectures, and of so easy and
plain a stop, that the blunt monster with
uncounted heads, the still discordant wav-
ering multitude can play upon it. -Shalie-
speare.
The Sabbath is the link between the
paradise which has passed away, and the
paradise which is yet to come.— Wylie.
Sunday is the golden clasp that binds to-
gether the volume of the week.-Longfellow.
He that remembers not to keep the
Christian Sabbath at the beginning of the
week, will be in danger of forgetting, be-
fore the end of the week, that he is a Chris-
tian.-L. Turner.
Where there is no Christian Sabbath,
there is no Christian morality ; and with-
out this, free iustitutions cannot long be
sustained.--McLean.
The longer I live the more highly do I
estimate the Christian Sabbath, and the
more grateful do I feel to those who im-
press its importance on the community.
Daniel Webster.
I never knew one man or woman who
steadily avoided the house of prayer and
public worship on the Lord's day, who did
not come to grief, and bring other people
to grief. Bellows.
I am no fanatic, I hope, as to Sunday ;
but as I look abroad over the map of popu-
lar freedom in the world, it does not seem
to mo accidental that Switzerland, Scot-
land, England, and the United States—the
countries which best observe Sunday-con-
stitute almost the entire map of safo popu-
lar government.-Joseph Coolc.
The streams of religion run deeper or
shallower, as the banks of the Sabbath are
kept up or neglected. A preacher in Hol-
land called the Sabbath 6 God's dyke,
shutting out an ocean of evils.”—Calcott.
To say nothing of the divine law, on mere
worldly grounds it is plain that nothing is
more conducive to the health, intelligence,
comfort, and independence of the working
classes, and to our prosperity as a people,
than our Christian American Sabbath.
Tryon Edwards.
A world without a Sabbath would be like a
man without a smile, like a summer with-
out flowers, and like a homestead without
a garden. It is the joyous day of the
whole week.-H. W. Beecher.
Sunday, that day so tedious to the triflers
of earth, so full of beautiful repose, of
calmness and strength for the earnest and
heavenly-minded.-Maria McIntosh.
Sunday is the common people's great
Liberty day, and they are bound to see to
it that work does not come into it.-H. W.
Beecher.
Without a Sabbath, no worship ; without
worship, no religion ; and without religion,
uo permanent freedom.--Montaleinbert.
S.
SABBATH.--Perpetual memory of the
Maker's rest.–Bp. Mant.
The Sunday is the core of our civiliza-
tion, dedicated to thought and reverence.
It invites to the noblest solitude and to
the noblest society.--Emerson.
He who ordained the Sabbath loves the
poor.-J. R. Lowell.
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SADNESS.
O what a blessing is Sunday, interposed
between the waves of worldly business like
the divine path of the Israelites through
the sea! There is nothing in which I
would advise you to be more strictly cou-
scieu tious than in keeping the Sabbath day
holy. I can truly declare that to me the
Sabbath has been invaluable.- Wilberforce.
The green oasis, the little grassy meadow
in the wilderness, where, after the week-
days' journey, the pilgrim halts for re-
freshment and repoße.-C. Reade.
Break down Sunday, close the churches,
open the bars and the theatres on that day,
and where would values be?-What was
real estate worth in Sodom ?-H. L. Way-
land.
To that in men which is secular and ani-
mal, Sunday says, "Rest"; to that which
is intellectual, moral, and social, "Grow.”
-H. W. Beecher.
The keeping of one day in seven holy, as
a time of relaxation and refreshment as
well as public worship, is of inestimable
benefit to a state, considered merely as a
civil institution.-Blackstone.
A holiday Sabbath is the ally of despot-
ism.--Hallam.
I have found, by long and sound expe-
rience, that the due observance of the Sab-
bath day, and of the duties of it, have been
of singular comfort and advantage to me.
The observance of the day hath ever had
joined to it a blessing on the rest of my
time, and the week so begun hath been
blessed and prosperous to me, - Sir. M.
Hale.
I feel as if God had, by giving the Sab-
bath, given fifty-two springs in every year.
---S. T. Coleridge.
It would be as difficult to take an inven-
tory of the benefits the world receives from
the sunshine as to enumerate the blessings
we derive from the Christian Sabbath.
H. D. Ganse.
I think the world of to-day would go mad,
just frenzied with strain and pressure,
but for the blessed institution of Sunday.
-Brooke Herford.
He that would prepare for heaven must
honor the Sabbath upon earth.-D. Wil-
son.
Sunday is like a stile between the fields
of toil, where we can kneel and pray, or sit
and meditate. - Longfellow.
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 week.--Dickens.
A corruption of morals usually follows
a profanation of the Sabbath.-Blackstone.
There are many persons who look on
Sunday as a sponge to wipe out the sins of
the week.-H. W. Beecher.
The law of the Sabbath is the keystone of
the arch of public morals ; take it away,
and the whole fabric falls.
The Sabbath is God's special present to
the workingman, and one of its chief ob-
jects is to prolong his life, and preserve
efficient his working tone.-The savings
bank of human existence is the weekly
Sabbath.--Blaikie.
I never knew a man escape failures, in
either mind or body, who worked seven
days in a week.-Sir Robert Peel.
Through the week we go down into the
valleys of care and shadow.-Our Sabbaths
should be hills of light and joy in God's
presence; and so as time rolls by we shall
go on from mountain top to inountain top,
till at last we catch the glory of the gate,
and enter in to go no more out forever.
H. W. Beecher.
If the Sunday had not been observed as
a day of rest during the last three centuries,
I have not the slightest doubt that we
should have been at this moment a poorer
people and less civilized.-Macaulay.
Hail, hallowed day, that binds a yoke on
vice, gives rest to toil, proclaims God's
holy truth, blesses the family, secures the
state, prospers communities, nations exalts,
pours life and light on earth, and points
the way to heaven !- Tryon Edwards.
God’s altar stands from Sunday to Sun-
day, and the seventh day is no more for
religion than any other it is for rest.
The whole seven are for religion, and one
of them for rest, for instruction, for social
worship, for gaining strength for the other
six.-H. W. Beecher.
SACRIFICE,-We can offer up much
in the large, but to make sacrifices in little
things is what we are seldom equal to.--
-Goethe.
Our virtues are dearer to us the more we
have had to suffer for them. It is the same
with our children. All profound affection
admits a sacrifice.- Vauvenargues.
Self-preservation is the first law of na-
ture; self-sacrifice the highest rule of grace.
SADNESS.--What signifies sadness; a
man grows lean upon it.-Mackenzie.
A feeling of sadness that is not akin to
pain, resembles sorrow only as the mist
resembles rain.- Longfellow.
SADNESS.
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SARCASM.
It was a saying of Aristotle, that all I wonder many times that ever a child of
noble-minded men are inclined to sadness. God should have a sad heart, considering
It is not merely the feeling that their lot is what, the Lord is preparing for him.-
a hard one which oppresses them ; it is Rutherford.
something more-it is their inward sym-
It is quite deplorable to see how many
pathy and consciousness of participation rational creatures mistake suffering for
in the sufferings of the human race to
sanctity, and think a sad face and a gloomy
which they belong.–Guesses at Truth.
habit of mind propitious offerings to that
He whose days in wilful woe are worn, the Deity whose works are all light and lustre
grace of his Creator doth despise, that will and harmony and loveliness.- Lady Mon-
not use his gifts for thankless niggardise.- gan.
Spenser.
"Tis impious in a good man to be sad.-
By sadness you destroy the divine image Young.
in your soul. God is joy. All nature re- Of all the sad words of tongue or pen,
joices in him, and would you be sad? A true
the saddest are these : “It might have
joy makes the heart fear God.—Lonbez.
been."—Whittier.
We ask God to forgive us for our evil Gloom and sadness are poison to us, the
thoughts and evil temper, but rarely, if
origin of hysterics, which is a disease of
ever, ask him to forgive us for our sadness.
the imagination caused by vexation, and
Joy is regarded as a happy accident of the
supported by fear.--Sévigné.
Christian life, an ornament and a luxury
rather than a duty.-R. W. Dale.
SAINTS.-A true saint is a divine land-
Ah, this beautiful world! Indeed, I scape or picture, where all the rare beauties
know not what to think of it. Sometimes
of Christ are lively portrayed and drawn
it is all gladness and sunshine, and heaven forth.-He hath the same spirit, the same
itself lies not far off ; and then it suddenly . judgment, the same will with Christ.-T.
changes and is dark and sorrowful, and the Watson.
clouds shut out the day. In the lives of
Some rivers, as historians tell us, pass
the saddest of us there are bright days
through others without mingling with
when we feel as if we could take the great
them; just so should a saint pass through
world in our arms. Then come the gloomy.
this world.— Venning.
hours, when all without and within is dis-
mal, cold, and dark. Believe me, every
When we think of saints we are apt to
heart has its secret sorrows, which the
think of very pale, still persons, who are
world knows not; and oftentimes we call a
all the while wishing they weren't alive,
man cold when he is only sad.-Longfellow.
and all that. My ideal of a saint is a
brown woman, with red arms, who gets up
The deep undertone of the world is sad-
early in the morning and goes to work for
ness-a solemn bass, occurring at measured
others--who stands the brunt of household
intervals and heard through all other tones.
work, and who bears with children that she
Ultimately, all the strains of this world's
did not bear. That is my saint. Rather a
music resolve themselves into that tone;
and I believe that, rightly felt, the cross,
busy, bustling saint, but she is a saint.
People say of her, “What a homely, good
and the cross alone, interprets the mournful
creature she is.” To my mind that is more
mystery of life, the sorrow of the Highest-
complimentary than to have the pope put
the Lord of Life,-the result of error and
her in the calendar.-H. W. Beecher.
sin, but ultimately remedial, purifying and
exalting.-F. W. Robertson.
A saint is a man of convictions, who has
been dead a hundred years, canonized now,
Take my word for it, the saddest thing
but cannonaded wbile living.-H. L. Way-
under the sky is a soul incapable of sad-
land.
ness.-Countess de Gasparin.
The saints are God's jewels, highly
“Keep aloof from sadness," says an Ice-
esteemed by and dear to him ; they are &
landic writer," for sadness is a sickness of
the soul.” Life has, indeed, many ills, but
royal diadem in his hand.-M. Henry.
the mind that views every object in its
The elect are whosoever will, and the non-
most cheering aspect, and every doubtful
elect, whosoever won't.--H. W. Beecher.
dispensation as replete with latent good,
bears within itself a powerful and per-
SARCASM.-Sarcasm is the language
petual antidote.
antidote. The gloomy soul aggra-
of the devil; for which reason I have long
vates misfortune, while a cheerful smile since as good as renounced it. --Carlyle.
often dispels those mists that portend a Sarcasm poisons reproof.-E. Wiggles-
storm.-Mrs. Sigourney.
worth.
SATIETY.
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SATIRE.
With pleasure drugged, he almost longed
for woe.-Byron.
There is no sense of weariness like that
which closes a day of eager and uninter-
mitted pursuit of pleasure.—The apple is
eaten and the core sticks in the throat.-
Expectation has given way to ennui, and
appetite to satiety.--Bovee.
Pleasure, when it is a man's chief pur-
pose, disappoints itself; and constant
application to it palls the faculty of enjoy-
ing it, and leaves the sense of our inability
for what we wish, with a disrelish of every-
thing else. The intermediate seasons of
the man of pleasure are more heavy than
one would impose upon the vilest criminal.
--Sleele.
A sneer is the weapon of the weak. Like
other devil's weapons, it is always cun-
ningly ready to our hand, and there is
more poison in the handle than in the
point. --J. R. Lowell.
At the best, sarcasms, bitter irony,
scathing wit, are a sort of sword-play of
the mind. You pink your adversary, and
he is forthwith dead; and then you deserve
to be hung for it.— Bovee.
He that cometh to seek after knowledge
with a mind to scorn and censure shall be
sure to find matter for his humor, but none
for his instruction.--Bacon.
The arrows of sarcasm are barbed with
contempt. It is the sheer in the satire or
ridicule that galls and wounds.-W. Glad-
den.
A true sarcasm is like a swordstick-it
appears, at first sight, to be much more
innocent than it really is, till, all of a sud-
den, there leaps something out of it-sharp
and deadly and incisive-- which makes you
tremble and recoil. -Sydney Smith.
SATIETY.-Satiety comes of too fre-
quent repetition; and he who will not give
himself leisure to be thirsty can never find
the true pleasure of drinking.-Montaigne.
The sweetest honey is loathsome in its
own deliciousness, and in the taste con-
founds the appetite.-Shalcespeare.
With much we surfeit; plenty makes us
poor.-Drayton.
Some are cursed with the fulness of
satiety: and how can they bear the ills of
life, when its very pleasures fatigue them ?
-Colton.
The flower that we do not pluck is the
only one that never loses its beauty or its
fragrance.-W.R.: Alger.
The most voluptuous and loose person
breathing, were he tied to follow his hawks
and his hounds, his dice and his courtships
every day, would find it the greatest tor-
ment and calamity. that could befall him ;
he would fly to the mines and galleys for
his recreation.-South.
A surfeit of the sweetest things the
deepest loathing to the stomach brings.-
Shakespeare.
To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof
little more than a little is by much too
much.--Shakespeare.
Attainment is followed by neglect, pos-
session by disgust, and the malicious re-
mark of the Greek epigrammatist on mar-
riage, may be applied to many another
course of life, that its two days of happi-
ness are the first and the last.-Johnson.
SATIRE.-Satire is a sort of glass,
wherein beholders generally discover every-
body's face but their own; which is the
chief reason for the reception it meets in
the world, and that so very few are offended
with it.-Swift.
Satire should not be like & saw, but a
sword; it should cut, and not mangle.
Satire is a composition of salt and mer-
cury; and it depends upon the different
mixture and preparation of those ingre-
dients, that it comes out a noble medicine,
or a rank poison.-Jefrey.
Lampoons and satires, that are written
with wit and spirit, are like poisoned darts,
which not only inflict a wound, but make
it incurable.--Addison.
Satires and lampoons on particular peo-
ple circulate more by giving copies in con-
fidence to the friends of the parties, than
by printing them.-Sheridan.
A satirist of true genius, who is warmed
by a generous indignation of vice, and
whose censures are conducted by candor
and truth, merits the applause of every
friend to virtue. He is a sort of supple-
ment to the legislative authority of his
country, assisting the unavoidable defects
of all legal institutions for the regulation
of manners, and striking terror, even where
the divine prohibitions themselves are held
in contempt.-- Crousaz.
Satire should, like a polished razor. keen,
wound with a touch that is scarcely felt or
seen.-Lady M. W. Montague.
No sword bites so fiercely as an evil
tongue.--Sir P. Sidney.
A satire should expose nothing but what
is corrigible, and should make a due dis-
crimination between those that are, and
those that are not the proper objects of it.
-Addison.
SATIRE.
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SCANDAL.
Cause
In fashionable circles, satire which at-
tacks the fault rather than the person, is
unwelcome ; while that which attacks the
person and spares the fault is always ac-
ceptable.-- Richter.
A little wit and a great deal of ill nature
will furnish a man for satire ; but the great-
est instance and value of wit is to commend
well.-Tillotson.
Satire ! thou shining supplement of pub-
lic laws.--Young.
By satire kept in awe, they shrink from
ridicule, though not from law.-Byron.
To lash the vices of a guilty age.
Churchill.
Of a bitter satirist-Swift, forinstance-i
might be said, that the person or thing on
which his satire fell shrivelled up as if the
devil had spit on it.--Hawthorne.
It is as hard to satirize well a man of dis-
tinguished vices, as to praise well a man of
distinguished virtues.-Swift.
Satirical writers and talkers are not half
80 clever as they think themselves, or as
they are thought to be. They do winnow
the corn, it is true, but it is to feed on the
chaff.-It requires talent and generosity to
find out talent and generosity in others,
but only self-conceit and malice are needed
to discover or imagine faults.—Sharpe. .
Arrows of satire, feathered with wit, and
wielded with sense, fly home to their mark.
-0. Simmons.
Of satires I think as Epictetus did : “If
evil be said of thee, and if it be true, cor-
rect thyself ; if it be a lie, laugh at it." By
dint of time and experience I have learned
to be a good post-horse ; I go through my
appointed daily stage, and care not for the
curs who bark at me along the road.--
Frederick the Great.
It is much easier for an ill-uatured, than
for a good-natured man to be witty ; but
the most gifted men are the least addicted
to depreciate either friends or foes.--Your
shrewd, sly, wit-speaking fellow is gen-
erally a shallow personage, and frequently
he is as venomous and false when he flat-
ters as when he reviles.-Sharp.
As men neither fear nor respect what has
been made contemptible, all honor to him
who makes oppression laughable as well as
detestable.--Armies cannot protect it then;
and walls that bave remained impenetrable
to cannon have fallen before a roar of
laughter or a hiss of contempt. E. P.
Whipple.
We smile at the satire expended upon the
follies of others, but we forget to weep at
our own.-Mad. Necker.
In the present state of the world it is
difficult not to write lampoons.- Juvenal.
The most annoying of all public reform-
ers is the personal satirist. Though he
may be considered by some few as a useful
member of society, yet he is only ranked
with the hangman, whom we tolerate be-
he executes the judgment we
abhor to do ourselves, and avoid with a
natural detestation of his office. The pen
of the one and the cord of the other are
inseparable in our minds.-Jane Porter,
Viewed in its happiest form satire has
one defect which seems to be incurable,
its uniformity of censure. Bitterness
scarcely admits those fine transitions which
make the harmony of a composition. Aqua-
fortis bites a plate all over alike. The
satirist is met by the difficulty of the etcher.
-Willmott.
Curst be the verge how well so'er it flow,
that tends to make one worthy man my foe,
gives virtue scandal, innocence & fear, or
from the soft-eyed virgin steals a tear.-
Pope. .
The end of satire is the amendment of
vices by correction, and he who writes hon-
estly is no more an enemy to the offender,
than the physician is to the patient when
he prescribes harsh remedies.--Dryden.
If satire charms, strike faults, but spare
the man.- -Young.
SCANDAL.-(See "SLANDER.")
Believe that story false that ought not
to be true.----Sheridan,
Number among your worst enemies the
hawker of malicious rumors and unex-
plored anecdote.--Lavater.
Scandal is a never-failing vehicle for dizi-
The true-born Englishnan had died
silently among the grocers and trunk-ia-
kers, if the libeller had not helped off the
poet.-I. B. Brown.
“No one," says Jerome, “loves to tell a
tale of scandal except to him who loves to
bear it." Learn, then, to rebuke and
check the detracting tongue by showing
that you do not listen to it with pleasure.
Never make your ear the grave of another's
good name.
Many a wretch has rid on a hurdle who
bas done much less mischief than utterers
of forged tales, coiners of scandal, and
clippers of reputation.-Sheridan.
Without the consent of the world, a scan-
dal doth not go deep ; it is only a slight
stroke upon the injured party, and return-
eth with the greater force upon those that
gave it. --Saville.
ness.
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SCANDAL
504,
SCEPTICISM.
How large a portion of chastity is sent
out of the world by distant hints,-nodded
away and cruelly winked into suspicion,
by the envy of those who are past all temp-
tation of it themselves. How often does
the reputation of a helpless creature bleed
by a report which the party propagating it
beholds with pity, and is sorry for it, and
hopes it may not be true, but in the mean-
time gives it her pass, that at least it may
have fair play in the world,-to be believed
or not, according to the charity of those
into whose hands it shall happen to fall. —
Sterne.
The tale-bearer and thetale-hearer should
be both hanged up, back to back, one by
the tongue, the other by the ear.--South,
If there is any person to whom you feel
dislike, that is the person of whom you
ought never to speak. --Cecil.
Great numbers of moderately good peo-
ple think it fine to talk scandal; they re-
gard it as a sort of evidence of their own
goodness.-F. W. Faber.
The improbability of a malicious story
serves to help forward the currency of it,
because it increases the scandal. So that,
in such instances, the world is like the one
who said he believed some things because
they were absurd and impossible.--Sterne.
Scandal breeds hatred; hatred begets
division ; division makes faction, and fac-
tion brings ruin.---Quarles.
If bours did not hang heavy what would
become of scandal?- Bancroft.
I never listen to calumnies, because, if
they are untrue, I run the risk of being
deceived, and if they are true, of hating
persons not worth thinking about.-Mon-
tesquieu.
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.
-Sheridan.
Scandal is the sport of its authors, the
dread of fools, and the contempt of the
wise.W.B. Clulow.
In scandal, as in robbery, the receiver is
always as bad as the thief.-- Chesterfield.
There is a lust in a man, no charm can
tame, of loudly publishing his neighbor's
shame
; on eagle's vings immortal scan-
dals fly, while virtuous actions are but born
and die.-Harvey.
A cruel story runs on wheels, and every
hand oils the wheels as they run.- George
Eliot.
As to people saying a few idle words
about us, we must not mind that, any more
than the old church steeple minds the rooks
cawing about it, - George Eliot.
Praise undeserved is scandal in disguise.
- Pope.
The greatest scandal waits on greatest
state...
Shakespeare.
SCEPTICISM. Scepticism is slow
guicide.-Emerson.
The great trouble with the scepticism of
the age is, that it is not thorough enough.
-It questions everything but its own foun-
dations.-J. M. Gibson,
Free thinkers are generally those who
never think at all.--Sterne.
Sceptics are generally ready to believe
anything provided it is only sufficiently
improbable; it is at matters of fact that
such people stumble.-- Von Knebel.
I know not any crime so great a man
could contrive to commit, as poisoning the
sources of eternal truth.- Johnson.
I would rather dwell in the dim fog of
superstitiou, than in air rarified to nothing
by the air-pump of unbelief; in which the
panting breast expires, vainly and con-
vulsively gasping for breath.-Richter.
Men are ready to believe everything when
they believe nothing.–They have diviners
when they cease to have prophets ; witch-
craft when they cease to have religious
ceremonies ; and they open the caves of
sorcery when they shut the temples of the
Lord. - Chateaubriand.
The sceptic, in a vain attempt to be wise
beyond what is permitted to man, plunges
into & darkness more deplorable, and a
blindness more incurable than that of the
common herd, whom he despises, and would
fain instruct. When he plunges into the
depths of infidelity, like the miser who
leaps from the shipwreck, he will find that
the treasures he bears about him will only
sink him the deeper in the abyss.--Colton.
Imperfect knowledge is the parent of
doubt: thorough and honest research dis-
pels it.-Tryon Edwards.
Scepticism has never founded empires,
established principles, or changed the
world's heart.-The great doers in history
have always been men of faith.- E. .
Chapin. .
The sceptical writers are a set whose busi-
ness it is to prick holes in the fabric of
knowledge wherever it is weak and faulty;
and when these places are properly re-
paired, the whole building becomes more
firm and solid than it was before.—-Reid.
SCHOLARSHIP.
505
SCIENCE.
The criterion of a scholar's utility is the
number and value of the truths he has cir-
culated, and the minds he has awakened.-
Coleridge.
There is no royal road to learning.-Only
by diligence in study and persevering effort
can one become a scholar.
this age.
The prejudices of sceptics, are surpassed
only by their ignorance.- Coleridge.
When once infidelity can persunde men
that they shall die like beasts, they will
soon be brought to live like beasts also.-
South.
A foe to God was ne'er true friend to
man.-Young.
The sceptic, oft, at the believer sneers,
calling his faith credulity. And yet'tis hé
that's credulous ; for he believes against
both evidence and reason.- -Williams.
Just as fast as we live all that we believe,
we shall believe more than we live.-Wé
cannot deal untruthfully by ourselves at
one point, and then expect to win truth for
ourselves at another point. - C. H. Parl-
hurst.
Scepticisin is often only excessive credu-
lity; "the simple believeth every word."
SCHOLARSHIP, -Let the soldier be
abroad if he will ; he can do nothing in
There is another personage
abroad, --& person less imposing, -in the
eyes of some, perhaps, insignificant. The
schoolmaster is abroad ; and I trust to him,
armed with his primer, against the soldier
in full military array.-Broughan.
Costly apparatus and spendid cabinets
have no magical power to make scholars.
In all circumstances, as a man is, under
God, the master of his own fortune, so is
he the maker of his own mind. The Cre-
ator has so constituted the human intel-
lect that it can only grow by its own action ;
and by its own action and free will, it will
certainly and necessarily grow. Every
man must, therefore, educate himself.
His book and teacher are but lielps; the
work is his. A man is not educated until
he has the ability to summon, in an emerg-
ency, all his mental powers in vigorous
exercise to effect its proposed object.
It is not the man who has seen most,
or read most, who can do this; such a
one is in danger of being borne down,
like a beast of burden, by an overloaded
mass of other men's thoughts. Nor is it
the man who can boast of native vigor and
capacity. The greatest of all warriors in
the siege of Troy had not the pre-eminence
because nature had given strength and he
carried the largest bow, but because self-
discipline had taught him how to bend it.
-Daniel Webster.
More is learned in a public than in a pri-
vate school from emulation : there is the
collision of mind with mind, or the radi-
ation of many minds pointing to one centre.
-Johnson.
SCIENCE.-Science is the topography
of ignorance.-O. W. Holmes.
True science, which is the knowledge of
facts, and true philosophy, which is the
knowledge of principles, are always allied
to true religion, which is the harmony of
the soul with both facts and principles.
The highest reach of human science is
the recognition of human ignorance.--Sir
W. Hamilton,
False interpretation of the Bible has
often clashed with science, as false science
has with true interpretation, but true sci-
ence is the natural ally of religion, for both
are from God.- Tryon Edwards.
Science is a first rate piece of furniture
for a man's upper chamber, if he has com-
mon sense on the ground floor. But if a
man hasn't got plenty of good common
sense, the niore science he has the worse
for his patient.-0. W. Holmes.
In science, reason is the guide ; in poetry,
taste. The object of the one is truth, which
is uniform and indivisible; the object of
the other is beauty, which is multiform and
varied. - Colton.
Let us not fear that the issues of natural
science shall be scepticism or anarchy.-
Through all God's works there runs a beau-
tiful harmony.—The remotest truth in his
universe is linked to that which lies nearest
the throne.-E. H. Chapin.
As knowledge advances, science ceases
to scoff at religion ; and religion ceases to
frown on science. The hour of mockery
by the one, and of reproof by the other, is
passing away. Henceforth, they will dwell
together in unity and good-will. They will
mutually illustrate the wisdom, power, and
grace of God. Science will adorn and en-
rich religion ; and religion will ennoble
and sanctify science.
Science-in other words, knowledgemis
not the enemy of religion ; for, if so, then
religion would mean ignorance ; but it is
often the antagonist of school-divinity.--
0. W. Holmes.
Science ever has been, and ever must be,
the safeguard of religion.--Sir David
Breroster.
Human science is an uncertain gue88.-
Prior.
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SCIENCE.
506
SCIENCE.
It has been said that science is opposed
to, and in conflict with revelation. But the
history of the former shows that the greater
its progress, and the more accurate its inves-
tigations and results, the more plainly it is
seen not only not to clash with the latter,
but in all things to confirm it. The very
sciences from which objections have been
brought against religion have, by their own
progress, removed those objections, and in
the end furnished full confirmation of the
inspired Word of God. --Tryon Edwards.
Twin-sister of natural and revealed re-
ligion, and of heavenly birth, science will
never belie her celestial origin, nor cease
to sympathize with all that emanates from
the same pure home. Human ignorance
and prejudice may for a time seem to have
divorved what God has joined together ;
but human ignorance and prejudice shali
at length pass a way, and then science and
religiou shall be seen blending their parti-
colored rays into one beautiful bow of light,
linking heaven to earth and earth to heaven.
-R. D. Hitchcock.
It was an admirable reply of a converted
astronomer, who, when interrogated con-
cerning his comparative estimate of relig-
ion and the science he had formerly idol-
ized, answered, “I am now bound for
heaven, and I take the stars in iny way.
Science when well-digested is nothing
but good sense and reason.--Stanislaus.
Learning is the dictionary, but sense the
grammar of science.--Sterne.
The sciences are of a sociable disposition,
and flourish best in the neigliborhood of
each other ; nor is there any branch of
learning but may be helped and improved
by assistance drawn from other arts.
- Blackstone.
Science surpasses the old miracles of
mythology.- Emerson.
Art and science have their meeting point
in method.-Bulwer.
In my investigation of natural science, I
have always found that whenever I can
meet with anything in the Bible on my
subject, it always affords me a firm plat-
form on which to stand.--Lieut. Maury.
I will frankly tell you that my experience
in prolonged scientific investigations con-
vinces me that a belief in God--a God who
is behind and within the chaos of vanish-
ing points of human knowledge-adds a
wonderful stimulus to the man who at-
tempts to penetrate into the regions of the
unknown.- Agassiz.
The person who thinks there can be any
real conflict between science and religion
must be either very young in science or
very ignorant in religion.-Prof. Henry.
Science is but a mere heap of facts, not
a golden chain of truths, if we refuse to
link it to the throne of God.-F. P. Cobbe.
Every great scientific truth goes through
three stages. First, people say it conflicts
with the Bible. Next they say it had been
discovered before.-Lastly, they say they
always believed it. - Agassiz.
There are hosts of men, of the profound-
est thought, who find nothing in the dis-
closures of science to shake their faith in
the eternal virtues of reason and religion.
- George Ripley.
God pity the man of science who believes
in nothing but what he can prove by scien-
tific methods ; for it over a human being
needed divine pity he does.-Dr. J. G. Hol-
land.
The study of science teaches young men
to think, while study of the classics teaches
them to express thought.-J. S. Mill.
What is the true end and aim of science
but the discovery of the ultimate power-
a seeking after God through the study of
his ways ? — W. H. Furness.
Science cannot determine origin, and so
cannot determine destiny. As it presents
only a sectional view of creation, it gives
only a sectional view of everything in cre-
ation.-T. T. Munger.
Nothing tends so much to the corruption
of science as to suffer it to stagnate ; these
waters must be troubled before they can
exert their virtues.-Burke,
It is certain that a serious attention to
the sciences and liberal arts softens and
humanizes the temper, and cherishes those
fine emotions in which true virtue and
honor consist. It very rarely happens that
a man of taste and learning is not, at least,
an honest man, whatever frailties may at-
tend him.-Hunze.
When man seized the loadstone of science,
the loadstar of superstition vanished in the
clouds.-W. R. Alger.
Science is nothing but trained and or-
ganized common sense, differing from the
latter only as a veteran may from a raw
recruit, and its methods differ from thoge
of common sense, only as the guardsman's
cut and thrust differ from the manner in
which a savage wields his club.—Huxley.
What are the sciences but maps of uni-
versal laws; and universal laws but the
channels of universal power; and univer-
sal power but the outgoings of a supreme
universal mind ?- E. Thomson.
SEA.
507
SECRECY.
Our abiding belief is, that just as the
workmen in the tunnel of St. Gothard,
working from either end, niet at last, to
shake hands, in the very central root of the
mountain, so the students of nature and the
students of Christianity will get join hands
in the unity of reason and faith, in the
heart of their deepest mysteries.-L. Moss.
Believe in God, and bid all knowledge
God-speed ; sooner or later the full har-
mony will reveal itself, and the discords
and contradictions disappear.
There can be no real conflict between
science and the Bible-between nature
and the Scriptures-the two books of the
Great Author. Both are revelations made
by him to man ; the earlier telling of God-
made harmonies coming up from the deep
past, and rising to their height when man
appeared ; the later teaching man's rela-
tions to his Maker, and speaking of loftier
harmonies in the eternal future.--Prof.
Dana.
Science is but the statement of truth
found out.
Godless science reads nature only as
Milton's daughters did Hebrew, riglıtly syl-
labling the sentences, but utterly ignorant
of the meaning.–Coley.
If the God of revelation is most appropri-
ately worshipped in the temple of religion,
the God of nature may be equally honored
in the temple of science. Even from its
lofty minarets the philosopher may sum-
mon the faithful to prayer, and the priest
and sage exchange altars without the com-
promise of faith or knowledge.—Sir David
Brewster.
Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps
away, with every new perception, our in-
fantile catechisms, and necessitates a faith
commensurate with the grander orbits and
universal laws which it discloses. ---Emer-
the character of a great natural power,
which renews its strength, and, without
reference to joy or sorrow, follows eternal
laws which are imposed by a higher power.
- W. Huniboldt.
Surely oak and threefold brass sur-
rounded bis heart who first trusted a frail
vessel to the merciless ocean.--Horace.
He that will learn to pray, let him go to
sea.--Herbert.
The ocean's surfy, slow, deep, mellow
voice is full of mystery and awe, moaning
over the dead it holds in its bosom, or lull-
ing them to unbroken slumbers in the
chambers of its vasty depths.- Haliburton.
There is society where none intrudes, by
the deep sea, and music in its roar.--Byron.
Whoever commands the sea, commands
the trade, whoever commands the trade of
the world, commands the riches of the
world, and consequently the world itself.
--Sir W. Raleigh.
Thou glorious mirror, where the Al-
mighty's form glasses itself in tempests :
in all time, calm or convulsed-in breeze,
or gale, or storm, icing the pole, or in the
torrid clime dark-heaving ;— boundless,
endless, and sublime—the image of eter-
nity—the throne of the invisible, even from
out thy slime the monsters of the deep are
made; each zone obeys thee; thou goest
foith, dread, fathomless, alone.- Byron.
Mystery of waters, never slumbering sea !
impassioned orator, with lips sublime,
whose waves are arguments to prove a
God.-R. Montgomery.
SECRECY. Secrecy has been well
termed the soul of all great designs. Per-
haps more has been effected by concealing
our own intentions, than by discovering
those of our enemy. But great men suc-
ceed in both.-Colton.
A proper secrecy is only the mystery of
able men ; mystery is the only secrecy of
weak and cunning ones. --Chesterfield.
What is mine, even to my life, is hers I
love ; but the secret of my friend is not
mine.-Sir P. Sidney.
Two may keep counsel, putting one away.
-Shakespeare.
Talkers and futile persons, are commonly
vain and credulous withal; for he that
talketh what he knoweth, will also talk what
he kuoveth not; therefore set it down,
that a habit of secrecy is both politic and
moral.-Bacon.
Secrets are so seldom kept, that it may
be with some reason doubted, whether
the quality of retention be generally be-
son.
SCRIPTURES.-(See " BIBLE.")
SEA.—Praise the sea, but keep on the
land.--Herbert.
Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean
roll, ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in
vain ; man marks the earth with ruin-his
control stops with the shore ; upon the
watery plain the wrecks are all thy deed, nor
doth remain a shadow of man's ravage, save
his own, when, for a moment like a drop of
rain, he sinks into thy depthis with bub-
bling groan, without å grave, unknell'a,
uncoffin'd, and unknown.-Byron.
The sea has been called deceitful and
treacherous, but there lies in this trait only
SECRECY.
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SECRECY.
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stowed, and whether a secret has not some
subtilo volatility by which it escapes im-
perceptibility, at the smallest vent, or some
power of fermentation, by which it expands
itself, so as to burst the heart that will not
give it way.--Johnson.
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 it. But
women and young men are very apt to tell
what secrets they know, from the vanity of
having been trusted. Trust none of these
whenever you can help it.-Chesterfield.
He who trusts secrets to a servant makes
him his master—Dryden.
To tell our own secrets is generally folly,
but that folly is without guilt; to com-
municate those with which we are in-
trusted is always treachery, and treachery
for the most part combined with folly.--
Johnson.
Trust no secrets to a friend, which, if re-
ported, would bring infamy.-Thales.
Washington, having been asked br an
officer on the morning of a battle, what
were his plans for the day, replied in a
whisper, Can you keep a secret? On being
answered in the affirmative, the general
added-80 can I.
He deserves small trust who is not privy
counsellor to himself.-Ford.
I have play'd the fool, the gross fool, to
believe the bosom of a friend would hold a
secret mine owu could not contain.-Mas-
singer.
How can we expect another to keep our
secret if we cannot keep it ourselves ?-
Rochefoucauld.
The truly wise man should have no
keeper of his secret but himself.-Guizot.
Who shall be true to us, when we are so
uusecret to ourselves ?--Shalcespeare.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them
are dead.-Franlilin.
It is said that he or she who admits the
possession of a secret, has already half re-
vealed it.--It is a great deal gained toward
the acquisition of a treasure, to know ex-
actly where it is.-Simms.
Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.-
Jeremy Taylor.
Nothing is so oppressive as a secret.-It
is difficult for ladies to keep it long; and I
know, in this matter, a good number of
men who are women.-Fontaine,
When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of
the man who has intrusted it.-Bruyère.
A secret is too little for one, enough for
two, and too much for three.--Howell.
Secrecy is best taught by commencing
with ourselves.--Chanifort.
He that discovers himself till he hath
made himself master of his desires, lays
himself open to his own ruin, and makes
himself a prisoner to his own tongue.-
Quarles.
I will govern my life and my thoughts as
if all the world were to see the one and to
read the other; for what does it signify to
make anything a secret to my neighbor,
when to God all our privacies are open ?-
Seneca.
A resolution that is communicated is no
longer within thy power; thy intentions
become now the plaything of chance; he
who would have his commands certainly
carried out must take men by surprise.
Goethe.
A secret in his mouth is like a wild bird
put into a cage; whose door no sooner
opens, but it is out.-Ben Johnson.
He was a wise fellow, and had good dis-
cretion, that, being bid to ask what he
would of the king, desired he might know
none of his secrets.-Shalcespeare.
To keep your secret is wisdom; but to
expect others to keep it is folly. – 0. W.
Holmes.
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.-- Bruyère.
Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice
or roguery is not far off.-Johnson.
Fire that is closest kept burns most of
all.-Shakespeare.
Secrecy is for the happy; misery, hope-
less misery needs no veil ; under a thou-
sand suns it dares act openly.-Schiller.
People addicted to secrecy are so with-
out knowing why; they are not so for
cause, but for secrecy's sake.—Hazlitt.
Secrets with girls, like guns with boys,
are never valued till they make a noise.
Crabbe.
Never confide your secrets to paper ; it
is like throwing a stone in the air, you do
not know where it may fall.— Calderon.
Thou hast betrayed thy secret as a bird
betrays her nest, by striving to conceal it.
~Longfellow.
What thou seest speak of with caution.”
Solon,
'Tis in my memory locked, and you your-
self shall keep the key of it.- Shakespeare.
I vow and protest there's more plague
than pleasure with a secret.-Colman.
SECTS.
509
SELF-CONCEIT.
Self-approbation, when founded in truth
and a good conscience, is a source of some
of the purest joys known to man.-C. Sim-
nons.
Be displeased with what thou art, if thou
desirest to attain to what thou art not;
for where thou hast pleased thyself, there
thou abidest, and if thou sayest I have
enough, thou perishest.-Augustine.
Trust him not with your secrets, who,
when left alone in your room, turns over
your papers.-Lavater.
Conceal thy domestic ills.--Thales.
When two friends part they should lock
up one another's secrets, and interchange
their keys.-Feltham.
There is as much responsibility in in-
parting your own secrets, as in keeping
those of your neighbor.-Darley.
None are so fond of secrets as those who
do not mean to keep them. Such persons
covet secrets as spendthrifts do money, for
the purpose of circulation.-Colton.
SECTS.-Sects and Christians that de-
sire to be known by the undue prominence
of doing some single feature of Christian-
ity, are imperfect just in proportion to the
distinctness of their peculiarities. The
power of Christian truth is in its unity and
sympathy, and not in the saliency or bril-
liancy of any of its special doctrines. The
spirit of Christ is the great essential truth.
-H. W. Beecher.
The effective strength of sects is not to
be ascertained merely by counting heads.
-Macaulay.
It is written, that the coat of our Saviour
was without seam; whence some would
infer, that there should be no division in
the church of Christ. It should be so in-
deed ; yet seams in the same cloth neither
hurt the garment, nor misbecome it, and
not only seams, but schisms will be while
men are fallible.--Millon.
I do not want the walls of separation
between different orders of Christians to
be destroyed, but only lowered, that we
may shake hands a little easier over them.
- Rowland Hill.
SELF-APPROBATION,-We follow
the world in approving others; we go far
before it in approving ourselves.- Colton.
A man's first care should be to avoid the
reproaches of his own heart; his next, to
escape the censures of the world. If the
last interferes with the former, it ought to
be entirely neglected ; but otherwise there
cannot be a greater satisfaction to an hon-
est mind, than to see those approbations
which it gives itself, seconded by the ap-
plauses of the public. A man is more sure
of his conduct, when the verdict which he
passes upon his own behavior is thus war-
l'anted and confirmed by the opinion of all
that know him.- Addison.
One self-approving hour whole years
outweighs of stupid starers, and of loud
huzzas.—Pope.
SELF-CONCEIT.-He who gives him-
self airs of importance, exhibits the creden-
tials of impotence.--Lavater.
The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit,
than seven men who can render a reason.
He who has 10 inclination to learn more,
will be very apt to think that he knows
enough. Nor is it wonderful that he
should pride himself in the abundance
of his wisdom, with whom every wavering
thought, every half-formed imagination,
passes for å fixed and substantial truth.
Obstinacy also, which makes him unable to
discover his mistakes, makes him believe
himself unable to commit them.-- Powell.
There are few people who are more often
in the wrong than those who cannot endure
to be thought so. :-Rochefoucauld.
All men who know not where to look for
truth save in the narrow well of self, will
find their own image at the bottom and
mistake it for what they are seeking.–J.
R. Lowell.
The weakest spot in every man, is where
he thinks himself to be the wisest.-n2-
nons.
Conceited men are & harmless kind of
creatures, who, by their overweening self-
respect, relieve others from the duty of re-
specting them at all.-H. W. Beecher.
Of all the follies incident to youth, there
are uone which blast their prospects, or
render them more contemptible, than self-
conceit, presumption, and obstinacy. By
checking progress in improvement, they fix
one in long immaturity, and produce irre-
parable mischief.--Blair.
He that fancies himself very enlightened,
because he sees the deficiencies of others,
may be very ignorant, because he has not
studied his own.-Bulwer.
I look upon the too good opinion that
man has of himself as the nursing mother
of all false opinions, both public and pri-
vate.--Montaigne,
When a person feels disposed to overesti-
mate his own importance, let him remember
that mankind got along very well before
his birth, and that in all probability they
will get along very well after his death.
SELF-CONCEIT.
510
SELF-CONTROL.
A wise man knows his own ignorance; a
fool thinks he knows everything.-C. Sim-
mons,
The proportion of those who think is ex-
tremely small; yet every individual flatters
himself that he is one of the number.- Col.
ton.
Wo are very apt to be full of ourselves,
instead of Him that made what we so much
value, and but for whom we have no rea-
son tó value ourselves. For we have noth-
ing that we can call our own, no, not our-
selves ; for we are all but tenants, and at
will too, of the great Lord of ourselves, and
of this great farm, the world that we live
upon.-Penn.
In one thing men of all ages are alike :
they have believed obstiuately in them-
selves.-Jacobi.
Self-conceit is a weighty quality, and
will sometimes bring down the scale when
there is nothing else in it. It maguifies a
fault beyond proportion, and swells every
omission into an outrage.-Jerenry Collier.
The less a man thinks or knows about
his virtues the better we like him.- Emer-
son.
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 silver
clasps, or a man by his vast estate, errs.
-Quarles.
Many men spend their lives in gazing at
their own shadows, and so dwindle away
into shadows thereof.-Hare.
Even dress is apt to inflame a man's
opinion of himself.-Home.
Whenever nature leaves a hole in a per-
son's mind, she generally plasters it over
with a thick coat of self-conceit.- Longfel-
low.
In the same degree that we overrate our-
selves, we shall underrate others; for in-
justice allowed at home is not likely to be
corrected abroad.- Washington Allston.
Wouldest thou not be thought a fool in
another's conceit, be not wise in thy own :
he that trusts to his own wisdom, proclaims
his own folly : he is truly wise, and shall
appear so, that hath folly enough to be
thought not worldly wise, or wisdom
enough to see his own folly.--Quarles.
He who is always his own counsellor,
will often have a fool for his client.-Hun-
ter,
Oftentimes nothing profits more than
self-esteem, grounded on what is just and
rigat.--Milton.
SELF-CONTROL, If you would learn
self-mastery, begin by yielding yourself to
the One Great Master.-Lobstein.
Conquer thyself. Till thou hast done
this, thou art but a slave ; for it is almost
as well to be subjected to another's appe-
tite as to thive own.-Burton.
The command of one's self is the greatest
empire a man can aspire unto, and conse-
quently, to be subject to our own passions
is the most grievous slavery. He who best
governs himself is best fitted to govern
others.
He who reigns within himself and rules
his passions, desires, and fears, is more
than a king.-Milton.
For want of self-lestraint many men are
engaged all their lives in fighting with dif-
ficulties of their own making, and render-
ing success impossible by their own cross-
grained ungentleness ; whilst others, it
may be much less gifted, make their way
and achieve success by simple patience,
equanimity, and self-control. - Sniles.
Self-government is, indeed, the noblest
rule on earth ; the object of a loftier am-
bition than the possession of crowns or
sceptres. The truest conquest is where
the soul is bringing every thought into
captivity to the obedience of Christ. The
monarch of his own mind is the only real
potentate.--- Caird.
The man whom Heaven appoints to gov-
ern others, should himself first learn to
bend his passions to the sway of reason.
-Thomson.
To rule self and subdue our passions is
the more praiseworthy because so few kuow
how to do it.-Guiccardini.
Every temptation that is resisted, every
noble aspiration that is encouraged, every
sinful thought that is repressed, every bit-
ter word that is withheld, adds its little
item to the impetus of that great move-
ment which is bearing humanity onward
toward a richer life and higher character.
-Fiske.
Most powerful is he who has himself in
his own power.–Seneca.
A father inquires whether his boy can
construe Homer, or understand Horace i
but how seldom does he ask, or examine,
or think whether he can restrain his pas-
sions:-whether he is grateful, generous,
humane, compassionate, just, and benevo-
lent.--Lady Hervey.
What is the best government ? — That
which teaches us to govern ourselves. -
Goethe,
SELF-CONTROL.
511
SELF-DECEPTION.
He that lays down precepts for governing
our lives and moderating our passions,
bliges humanity not only in the present
but for all future generations.-Seneca.
Those who can command themselves,
command others.-Hazlitt.
More dear in the sight of God and His
angels than any other conquest is the con-
quest of self.-A. P. Stanley.
Let not any one say that he cannot gov-
ern his passions, nor hinder them from
breaking out and carrying him to action ;
for what he can do before a prince or a
great man, he can do alone, or in the pres-
ence of God if he will.--Locke.
Self-control is promoted by humility.
Pride is a fruitful source of uneasiness.
It keeps the mind in disquiet. Humility
is the antidote to this evil.--Mrs. Sigour-
ney.
I will have a care of being a slave to my-
self, for it is a perpetual, à shameful, and
the heaviest of all servitudes ; and this may
be done by uncontrolled desires.--Seneca.
The constancy of sages is nothing but
the art of locking up their agitation in their
hearts.--Rochefoucauld.
One of the most important, but one of the
most difficult things for a powerful mind is,
to be its own master. A pond may lie quiet
in a plain; but a lake wants mountains to
compass and hold it in.--Addison.
He who would govern others should first
be master of himself.-Massinger.
He is a fool who cannot be angry; but
he is a wise man who will not.-old Prov-
erb.
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.
Real glory springs from the silent con-
quest of ourselves; without that the con-
queror is only the first slave.-Thomson,
No conflict is so severe as his who labors
to subdue himself.- Thomas a Kempis.
Do you want to know the man against
whom you have most reason to guard
yourself? Your looking-glass will give you
à very fair likeness of his face.- Whately.
Over the times thou hast no power.-To
redeem a world gunk in dishonesty has not
been given thee. Solely over one man
therein thou hast a quite absolute, uncon-
trollable power.-Him redeem and make
honest.-Carlyle.
No man is free who cannot command
himself.–Pythagoras.
It is the man who is cool and collected,
who is master of his countenance, his voice,
his actions, his gestures, of every part,
who can work upon others at his pleasure.
-Diderot.
Wouldst thou have thy flesh obey thy
spirit? Then let thy spirit obey thy God.
Thou must be governed, that thou may'st
govern.-Augustine.
Better conquest never canst thou make,
than warn thy constant and thy nobler
parts against giddy, loose suggestions.-
Shakespeare.
Who to himself is law, no law doth need.
--Chapman.
When Alexander had subdued the world,
and wept that none were left to dispute his
arms, his tears were an involuntary tribute
to a monarchy that he knew not, man's
empire over himself.-- Jane Porter.
No one who cannot master himself is
worthy to rule, and only he can rule.
Goethe.
May I govern my passions with absolute
sway, and grow wiser and better as life
wears away.- Watts.
The most precious of all possessions, is
power over ourselves ; power to withstand
trial, to bear suffering, to front danger;
power over pleasure and pain ; power to
follow our convictions, however resisted
by menace and gcorn ; the power of calm
reliance in scenes of darkness and storms.
He that has not a mastery over his inclina-
tions; be that knows not how to resist the
importunity of present pleasure or pain,
for the sake of what reason tells him is fit
to be done, wants the true principle of
virtue and industry, and is in danger of
never being good for anything.-Locke.
SELF-DECEPTION. – No man
ever so much deceived by another, as by
himself.--Gréville.
It many times falls out, that we deem
ourselves much deceived in others, because
we first deceived ourselves.- Si P. Sid-
ney.
Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's
self, for what we wish we readily believe ;
but such expectations are often inconsist-
ent with the reality of things.-Demosthe-
was
nes,
The coward reckons himself cautious ;
the miser thinks himself frugal.-Home.
Every man is his own greatest dupe.--
W. R. Alger.
Who has deceived thee so often as thy-
self ?-Franklin,
SELF-DENIAL.
512
SELF-DENIAL.
The greatest of fools is he who imposes
on himself, and in his greatest concerns
thinks he knows that which he has least
studied, and of which he is profoundly ig-
norant.-Shaftesbury.
The first and worst of all frauds is to
cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.
Bailey.
From the beginning of the world to this
day there never was any great villainy
acted by men but it was in the strength of
some great fallacy put upon their minds
by a false representation of evil for good,
or good for evil.--South.
To be deceived by our enemies or be-
trayed by our friends is insupportable ;
yet by ourselves we are often content to be
so treated.-Rochefoucauld.
We cheat ourselves in order to enjoy a
quiet conscience, without possessing virtue.
-Lambert.
Many a man has a kind of kaleidoscope,
where the broken bits of glass are his own
merits and fortunes ; and they fall into
harmonious arrangements and delight him,
often most mischievously, and to his ulti-
mate detriment; but they are a present
pleasure.-A. Helps.
SELF-DENIAL.-The worst education
which teaches self-denial, is better than the
best which teaches everything else and not
that.-
Sterling.
Every personal consideration that we
allow, costs us heavenly state. We sell the
thrones of angels for a short and turbulent
pleasure.-Emerson.
Teach self-denial, and make its practice
pleasurable, and you create for the world
à destiny more sublime than ever issued
from the brain of the wildest dreamer.-
Walter Scott.
Shall we call ourselves benevolent, when
the gifts we bestow do not cost us a single
privation ?- Degerando.
The secret of all success is to know how
to deny yourself.-Prove that you can con-
trol yourself, and you are an educated
man; and without this all other education
is good for nothing.
To you self-denial may only mean weari-
ness, restraint, ennui ; but it means, also,
love, perfection, sanctification.
Of all sorts of earthly good the price is
self-denial.-The lower must be sacrificed
for the greater ; the coarder give place to
the finer.-Every step of our progress to-
ward success is a sacrifice. We gain by
losing ; grow by dwindling ; live by dying.
-R. D. Hitchcock,
'Tis much the doctrine of the times that
men should not please themselves, but deny
themselves everything they take delight in ;
not look upon beauty, wear no good clothes,
eat no good meat, etc., which seems the
greatest accusation that can be upon the
Maker of all good things. If they are not
to be used, wby did God make them ?-
Selden.
The more a man denies himself, the more
he shall obtain from God.-Horáce.
There never did, and never will exist any-
thing, permanently noble and excellent in
the character which is a stranger to the
exercise of resolute self-denial.- Walter
Scott.
When you give, take to yourself no credit
for generosity, unless you deny yourself
something in order that you may give.--
Henry Taylor.
Self-abnegation, that rare virtue, that
good men preach and good women prac-
tice,-0. W. Holmes.
In vain do they talk of happiness who
never subdued an impulse iu obedience to
a principle.--He who never sacrificed a
present to a future good, or a personal to
à general one, can speak of happiness only
as the blind speak of color.-H. Mann.
Self-denial is an excellent guard of virtue,
for it is safer and wiser to abate somewhat
of our lawful enjoyments than to gratify
our desires to the utmost of what is per-
mitted, lest the bent of nature toward pleas-
ure liurry us further.-Townson,
He is one of the noblest conquerors who
carries on a successful warfare against his
own appetites and passions, and has them
under wise and full control.-Tryon Ed-
wards.
One secret act of self-denial, one sacrifice
of inclination to duty, is worth all the mere
good thoughts, warm feelings, passionate
prayers in which idle people indulge them-
selves.-J. H. Newman.
Self-denial does not belong to religion as
characteristic of it; it belongs to human
life. The lower nature must always be de-
nied when you are trying to rise to a higher
sphere.-It is no more necessary to be self-
denying to be a Christian, than it is to be
an artist, or an honest man, or a man at all
in distinction from a brute. Of all joyous
experiences there are none like those which
spring from true religion.-H. W. Beecher.
Whoever will labor to get rid of self, to
deny himself according to the instructions
of Christ, strikes at once at the root of
every evil, and finds the germ of every
good.-Fenelon.
SELF-EXAMINATION.
513
SELF-EXAMINATION.
They that deny themselves for Christ,
shall enjoy themselves in Christ.-J. M.
Mason.
One never knows himself till he has de-
nied himself.—The altar of sacrifice is the
touchstone of character.-0. P. Gifford.
Sacrifice alone, bare and unrelieved, is
ghastly, unnatural, and dead; but self-
sacrifice, illuminated by love, is warmth
and life, it is the death of Christ, the life
of God, and the blessedness and only
proper life of man.--F. W. Robertson,
Contempt of all outward things that
come in competition with duty fulfils the
ideal of human greatness.—It is sanctioned
by conscience, that universal and eternal
lawgiver, whose chief principle is, that
everything must be yielded up for right.
-Channing.
That which especially distinguishes ahigh
order of man from a lower, and which
constitutes human goodness and noble-
ness, is self-forgetfulness, self-sacrifice,
the disregard of personal pleasure, per-
sonal indulgence, personal advantage, re-
mote or present, because some other lino
of conduct is more right.-J. A. Froude.
The first lesson iu Christ's school is self-
denial.----M. Henry.
Self-denial is the result of a calm, delib-
erate, invincible attachment to the highest
good, flowing forth in the voluntary renun-
ciation of everything inconsistent with the
glory of God or the good of our fellow-men.
-G. Spring.
The very act of faith by which we re-
ceive Christ is an act of utter renunciation
of self and all its works, as a ground of
salvation.—It is really a denial of self, and
a grounding of arms in the last citadel into
which it can be driven, and is, in its princi-
ple, inclusive of every subsequent act of
self-denial by which sin is forsaken or over-
come.—Mark Hopkins.
Self-denial is indispensable to a strong
character, and the loftiest kind thereof
comes only of a religious stock—from con-
sciousness of obligation and dependence on
God.--Theodore Parker.
Brave conquerors ! for so you are, that
war against your own affections and the
huge army of the world's desires.-Shake-
speare.
Self-denial is a kind of holy association
with God; and by making him your part-
ner interests him in all your happiness.-
Boyle.
shalt thou be thy greatest friend.--Jeremy
Taylor.
The superior man will watch over himself
when he is alone. He examines his heart
that there may be nothing wrong there,
and that he may have no cause of dissatis-
faction with himself.-Confucius.
We should every night call ourselves to
an account: What infirmity have I mas-
tered to-day? what passion opposed? what
temptation resisted? what virtue acquired ?
Our vices will abate of themselves if they
be brought every day to the shrift.--Seneca.
Think not rightly to examine yourself by
looking only to your own inner motives and
feelings, which are the hardest of all things
to analyze if looked at in the abstract, and
apart from outward actions. But ask, "Do
I believe all that God teaches, and endeavor
to do all that God commands ?” For in
this is the evidence of true love to him.-
Tryon Edwards.
It belongs to every large nature, when it
is not under the immediate power of some
strong unquestioning emotion, to suspect
itself, and doubt the truth of its own im-
pressions, conscious of possibilities beyond
its own horizon.-George Eliot.
In self-examination, take no account of
yourself by your thoughts and resolutions
in the days of religion and solemnity, but
examine how it is with you in the days of
ordinary conversation and in the circum-
stances of secular employment. ---Jeremy
Taylor.
Let not sleep fall upon thy eyes till thou
hast thrice reviewed the transactions of the
past day. Where have I turned aside from
rectitude ? What have I been doing?
What have I loft undone, which I ought to
have done? Begin thus from the first act,
and proceed ; and, in conclusion, at the ill
which thou hast done, be troubled, and
rejoice for the good.-Pythagoras.
If any speak ill of thee, fly home to thy
own conscience and examine thy heart.
If thou art guilty, it is a just correction;
if not guilty, it is a fair instruction.-Her-
bert.
Never lose sight of this important truth,
that no one can be truly great until he has
gained a knowledge of himself, a knowl-
which can only be acquired by occasional
retirement.--Zimmermann.
If thou seest anything in thyself which
may make thee proud, look a little further
and thou shalt find enough to humble thee;
if thou be wise, view the peacock's feathers
with his feet, and weigh thy best parts with
thy imperfections.-Quarles,
SELF-EXAMINATION.-Observe thy-
self as thy greatest enemy would do, so
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SELF-IMPROVEMENT.
I will chide no breather in the world but
myself, against whom I know most faults.
--Shakespeare.
When you descant on the faults of others,
consider whether you be not guilty of the
same. To gain knowledge of ourselves, the
best way is to convert the imperfections of
others into a mirror for discovering our
own.— Home.
I study myself more than any other sub-
ject; it is my metaphysic, and my physic.
-Montaigne.
Inspect the neighborhood of thy life ;
every shelf, every nook of thine abode. -
Richter.
Never let us be discouraged with our-
selves. It is not when we are conscious of
our faults that we are the most wicked ; on
the contrary, we are less so. We see by a
brighter light; and let us remember for
our consolation, that we never perceive our
sins till we begin to cure them.-Fénelon.
Though not always called upon to con-
demn ourselves, it is always safe to suspect
ourselves.- Whately.
It is pretty safe to presume that about
all the glaring effects or petty weaknesses
which we are looking for in others may be
found in ourselves, with a little careful in-
vestigation.
Go to your bogom, knock there and ask
your heart what it doth know that is like
my brother's fault; if it confess a natural
guiltiness, sucb as his is, let it not sound
a thought upon your tongue against my
brother.--Shakespeare.
How shall we learn to know ourselves ?
By reflection ? Never ; but only through
action. Strive to do thy duty; then shalt
thou know what is in thee.- Goethe. .
In order to judge of the inside of others,
study your own; for men in general are
very much alike, and though one has one
prevailing passion, and another has
another, yet their operations are much
the same; and whatever engages or dis-
gusts, pleases, or offends you in others
will engage, disgust, please, or offend
others in you.-- Chesterfield.
Of all exercises there are none of 80
much importance, or so immediately our
concern, as those which let us into the
knowledge of our own nature. Others
may exercise the understanding or amuse
the imagination ; but these only can im-
prove the heart and form the human mind
to wisdom.—Bp. Warburton.
worldly passions, which fortifies the heart
with virtuous principles, which enlightens
the mind with useful knowledge, and fur-
nishes to it matter of enjoyment from with-
in itself, is of more consequence to real
felicity than all the provisions which we
can make of the goods of fortune.--Blair.
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 dis-
trust one's own opinions, and value others.
that deserve it.-Šir W. Temple.
Self-inspection-the best cure for self-
esteem.
By all means sometimes be alone; salute
thyself ; see what thy soul doth wear ; dare
to look in thy chest, and tumble up and
down what thou findest there.-- Words-
worth.
You will find that the mere resolve not to
be useless, and the honest desire to help
other people, will, in the quickest and deli-
catest ways, improve yourself.--Ruskin.
Is it asked, how can the laboring man
find time for self-culture? I answer, that
an earnest purpose finds time, or makes it.
It seizes on spare moments, and turns frag-
ments to golden account. A man who fol-
lows his calling with industry and spirit,
and uses his earnings economically, will al-
ways have some portion of the day at com-
mand. And it is astonishing how fruitful
of improvement a short season becomes,
when eagerly seized and faithfully used.
It has often been observed, that those who
have the most time at their disposal profit
by it the least. A single hour in the day,
steadily given to the study of some inter-
esting subject, brings unexpected accumu-
lations of knowledge.-Channing.
“Know thyself," said the old philoso-
phy.—"Improve thyself," saith the new.-
Our great object in time is not to waste our
passious and gifts on the things external
that we must leave behind, but that we cul-
tivate within us all that we can carry into
the eternal progress beyond.-Bulwer.
Be always displeased at what thou art,
if thou desire to attain to what thou art
not; for where thou hast pleased thyself
there thou abidest..-Quarles.
It is a very serious duty, perhaps of all
duties the most serious, to look into one's
own character and conduct, and accurately
read one's own heart. It is virtually look-
ing into eternity, and all its vast and solemn
realities, which must appear delightful or
awful, according as the heart appears to be
conformed or not conformed to God.--Em-
SELF-IMPROVEMENT,-That disci-
pline which corrects the eagerness of
mons.
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SELFISHNESS.
People seldom improve, when they have
no other model but themselves to copy
after.-Goldsmith.
Each year, one vicious habit rooted out
in time ought to make the worst man good.
Franıclin.
By these things examine thyself. By
whose rules am I acting; in whose name ;
in whose strength ; in whose glory?
What faith, humility, self-denial, and love
of God and to man have there been in all
my actions ?--J. Mason.
By undue and overstrained self-inspec-
tion the mind is apt to become morbid and
depressed, and to breed scruples, which
tease and harass without producing any
real fruit. The man becomes a valetudi-
narian in religion, full of himself, bis
symptoms, his ailments, the delicacy of his
moral health ; and valetudinarians are
always a plague, not only to themselves,
but to everybody connected with them.
-Goulaburn.
When a tradesman is about to weigh bis
goods, he first of all looks to his scales and
sees that his weights are right.
for all wise, or safe, or profitable self-ex-
amination, we are not to look to frames, or
feelings, or to the conduct of others, but to
God's word, which is the only true stand-
ard of decision.— Tryon Edwards.
And so.
The essence of true nobility is neglect of
self. Let the thought of self pass in, and the
beauty of a great action is gone like the
bloom from a soiled flower.-J.A, Froude.
The virtues are lost in self-interest as
rivers are in the sea.—Rochefoucauld.
There are some tempers wrought up by
habitual selfishness to an utter insensibil-
ity of what becomes of the fortunes of
their fellow-creatures, as if they were not
partakers of the same nature or had no lot
or connection at all with the species.-
Sterne.
He who makes an idol of his self-in-
terest, will ofteu make a inartyr of his in-
tegrity.
Those who are most disinterested, and
have the least of selfishness, have best ma-
terials for being happy.--Mrs. Sigourney.
There are too many who reverse both
the principles and the practice of the apos-
tle; they become all things to all men, not
to serve others, but themselves ; and they
try all things only to hold fast that which
is bad.-Colton.
So long as we are full of self we are
shocked at the faults of others. Let us
think often of our own sins, and we shall
be lenient to the sins of others.--Fénelon.
It is astonishing how well men wear when
they think of no one but themselves.-
Bulwer.
Our gifts and attainments are not only
to be light and warmth in our own dwell-
ings, but are to shine through the window,
into the dark night, to guide and cheer
bewildered travellers on the road.-H. W.
Beecher.
The selfish man suffers more from his
selfishness than he from whom that selfish-
ness withholds some important benefit.
Emerson.
Sordid selfishness doth contract and nar-
row our benevolence, and cause us, like
serpents, to infold ourselves within our-
selves, and to turn out our stings to all the
world besides.- Waller Scott.
Whenever education and refinement
grow
away from the common people, they are
growing toward selfishness, which is the
monster evil of the world.-H. W. Beecher.
Selfishness is the root and source of all
natural and moral evils.-
Ennions.
Supreme and abiding self-love is a very
dwarfish affection, but a giant evil.
Tlie very heart and root of sin is an inde-
pendent spirit.-We erect the idol self, and
not only wish others to worship, but wor-
ship it ourselves.-Cecil.
SELFISHNESS,-Selfishness is that de-
testable vice which no one will forgive in
others, and no one is without in himself.
-H. W. Beecher.
One thiug is clear to me, that no indul-
gence of passion destroys the spiritual na-
ture so much as respectable selfishness.-
G. Macdonald.
A man is called selfish, not for pursuing
his own good, but for neglecting his neigh-
bor's.- Whately.
He who lives only to benefit himself con-
fers on the world a benefit when he dies.-
Tertullian.
Show me the man who would go to
heaven alone, and I will show you one
who will never be admitted there.-Fel-
thanr.
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How much that the world calls selfishness
is only generosity with narrow walls
too exclusive solicitude to maintain a wife
in luxury, or make one's children rich.-
T. W. Figginson.
Our infinite obligations to God do not
fill our hearts half as much as a petty un-
easiness of our own; nor his infinite per-
fections as much as our smallest wants.
Hannah More.
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SELF-KNOWLEDGE.
Heroism, magnanimity, and self-denial,
in all instances in which they do not spring
from a principle of religion, are but
splendid altars on which we sacrifice one
kind of self-love to another.--Colton.
It is very natural for a young friend and
a young lover to think the persons they
love have nothing to do but to please them.
- Pope.
It is not truth, justice, liberty, that men
seek; they seek only themselves.--And oh,
that they knew how to seek themselves
aright!-Jacobi.
That household god, a man's own self.
Flavel.
Some people think that all the world
should share their misfortunes, though they
do not share in the sufferings of any one
else.-A. Poincelot.
The world is governed only by self-in-
terest.-Schiller.
Milton has carefully marked, in his
Satan, the intense selfisliness which would
rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.-
Coleridge.
Self-interest, that leprosy of the age,
attacks us from infancy, and we are startled
to observe little heads calculate before
knowing how to reflect. ---Mad. Girardin.
As a man goes down in self, he goes up
in God.-G. B. Cheever.
Beware of no man more than of yourself ;
we carry our worst enemies within us.
Spurgeon.
We are too much haunted by ourselves,
projecting the central shadow of self on
everything around 18.–And then comes
the Gospel to rescue us from this selfish-
ness.-Redemption is this, to forget self in
God.-7. W. Robertson.
Deliver me, O Lord, from that evil man,
myself.-T. Brooks.
Think about yourself, about what you
vant, what you like, what respect people
ought to pay you, what people think of
you, and then to you nothing will be pure.
May God keep our hearts pure from that
selfishness which is the root of all sin.--C.
Kingsley.
Selfishness is a vice utterly at variance
with the happiness of him who harbors it,
and as such, condemned by self-love.--Sir.
J. Mackintosh.
Where all are selfish, the sage is no better
than the fool, and only rather more danger-
ous.-Froude.
Though selfishness hath defiled the whole
man, yet sensual pleasure is the chief part
of its interest, and, therefore, by the senses
it commonly works; and these are the
doors and windows by which iniquity en-
tereth into the soul.--Baxter.
Did any man, at his death, ever regret
his conflicts with himself, his victories
over appetite, his scorn of impure pleasure,
or his sufferings for righteousness sake ?-
Channing.
I would tear out my own heart if it had
no better disposition than to love only
myself, and laugh at all my neighbors.-
Pope.
SELF-KNOWLEDGE. – Self-knowl-
edge is that acquaintance with ourselves
which shows us what we are, and what we
ought to be, in order to our living com-
fortably and usefully here, and happily
hereafter.-J. Mason.
Of all knowledge the wise and good seek
most to know themselves.-Shalcespeare.
The first step to self-knowledge is self-
distrust. Nor can we attain to any kind of
knowledge, except by a like process.
“Know thyself," was counted one of the
oracles of the Greeks. It was inscribed as
one of their three great precepts, in letters
of gold, on the temple at Delphos, and
regarded as divine.
To reach perfection, we must be made
sensible of our failings, either by the ad-
monitions of friends, or the invectives of
enemies.-Diogenes.
There is one knowledge which it is every
man's duty and interest to acquire, namely,
self-knowledge. Else to what end was man
alone, of all animals, endued by the Creator
with the faculty of self-consciousness?
The precept, “Know yourself," was not
solely intended to obviate the pride of man-
kind; but likewise that we might under-
stand our own worth.—Cicero.
He that knows himself, knows others;
and he that is ignorant of himself, could
not write a very profound lecture on other
men's heads.Cölton.
No one who has not a complete knowledge
of himself will ever have a true under-
standing of another.-Novalis.
The highest and most profitable learning
is the knowledge of ourselves. To have a
low opinion of our own merits, and to think
highly of others, is an evidence of wisdom.
All men are frail, but thou shouldst reckon
none so frail as thyself.- Thomas a Kempis.
Absalom, who was a fool, wished himself
a judge; Solomon, who was a wise man,
trembles at the undertaking, and suspects
his own fitness for it. The more knowing
and considerate men are, the better they
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SELF-LOVE.
are acquainted with their owu weakness,
and the more jealous of themselves.M.
Henry.
Self-knowledge is best learned, not by
contemplation, but action.-Strive to do
your duty, and you will soon discover of
what stuff you are made.-- Goethe.
Common and lamentable is our mental
self-ignorance, that men ignore their intel-
lectual faculties, their only self-culture
consisting in the care of their bodies.-Like
the rich fool in the parable, they think
only of the stomach, even when they ad-
dress their words to the soul. — C. Wads-
worth.
The first step to improvement, whether
mental, moral, or religious, is to know our-
selves-our weaknesses, errors, deficien-
cies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we
may overcome and turn from them all.-
Tryon Edwards.
Au humble knowledge of thyself is a
surer way to God than a deep search after
learning.
- Thomas d Kempis.
The height of all philosophy is to know
thyself ; and the end of this knowledge is
to know God. Know thyself, that thou
mayest know God; and know God, that
thou mayest love him and be like him. . In
the one thou art initiated into wisdom;
and in the other perfected in it. - Quarles.
Nothing will make us so charitable and
tender to the faults of others, as, by self-
examination, thoroughly to know our own.
-Fénelon.
'Tis greatly wise to talk with our own
hearts, and ask them how we stand toward
God and heaven; where we have failed ;
and how we may avoid failure in future;
how grow wise and good; how others bless,
and be ourselves approved, by God, and
conscience, and our fellow-men.
Man, know thyself; all wisdom centres
there.—Young.
Sum up at night what thou hast done by
day, and in the morning what thou hast to
do; dress and undress thy soul; mark the
decay or growth of it. If with thy watch,
that too be down, then wind up both.
Since thou shalt be most surely judged,
make thine accounts agree.--Herbert.
Trust not yourself, but your defects to
know, make use of every friend and every
foe.--- Pope.
Other men's sins are before our eyes ;
our own are behind our back.- Seneca.
No man ever made an ill figure who un-
derstood his own talents, nor a good one,
who mistook them.-Swift.
Learn God, and thou shalt know thyself.
-Tupper.
The most difficult thing in life is to know
yourself.- Thales.
Our own opiniou of ourselves should be
lower than that formed by others, for we
have a better chance at our imperfections.
-Thomas à Kempis.
SELF-LOVE.-Of all mankind each
loves himself the best.-Terence.
There are different kinds of self-love.
As an instinct, it is desirable and im-
portant. As a modification of true benev-
olence, it is commendable. But as an
idolatrous affection, it is censurable.-C.
Simmons.
The greatest of all flatterers is self-love.
-Rochefoucauld.
Self-love is the most delicate and the
most tenacious of our sentiments : a inero
nothing will wound it, but nothing can
kill it.
The shadow of the sun is largest, when
his beams are lowest. On the contrary, we
are always least when we make ourselves
the greatest.
In all time self-love has blinded the
wisest.— Villefre.
The most amiable people are those
who least wound the self-love of others.
Bruyère.
A man who loves only himself and his
pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked
even from principle.- Vauvenargues.
All other love is extinguished by self-
love ; beneficence, humanity, justice, and
philosophy sink under it.- Epicurus.
By a happy contradiction, no system of
philosophy gives such a base view of human
nature as that which is founded on self-
love. So sure is self-love to degrado what-
ever it touches.—Hare.
Those whohave affirmed self-love to be the
basis of all our sentiments and actions are
much in the right. There is no occasion
to deinonstrate that men have a face; as
little need is there of proving to them that
they are actuated by self-love.- Voltaire.
It is this unquiet self-love that renders
us so sensitive. "The sick man, who sleeps
ill, thinks the night long. We exaggerate,
from cowardice, all the evils which we en-
counter ; they are great, but our sensibility
increases them.-Fénelon.
Self-love is an instrument useful but
dangerous ; it often wounds the hand which
makes ise of it, and seldom does good with-
out doing harm.--Rousseau.
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SELF-RELIANCE.
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Our self-love is ever ready to revolt from
our better judgment, and join the enemy
within.-Steele.
Self-love is not so vile a sin as self-neg-
lecting.--Shakespeare.
The cause of all the blunders committed
by man arises from excessive self-love.
He who intends to be a great man ought to
love neither himself nor his own things,
but only what is just, whether it happeus
to be done by himself or by another.-
Plato.
Love thyself last.—Shakespeare.
Most actions, good or bad, may be re-
solved into the love of ourselves ; but the
self-love of some men inclines them to
please others, and the self-love of others is
wholly employed in pleasing themselves.
This makes the great distinction between
virtue and vice.-Swift.
Offended self-loveneverforgives.— Vigée.
It is falling in love with our own mistaken
ideas that makes fools and beggars of half
mankind.-Young.
Self-love leads men of narrow minds to
measure all mankind by their own capacity.
Jane Porter.
There are wounds of self-love which one
does not confess to one's dearest friends.
-J. P. Senn.
Self-love is, in almost all men, such an
over-weight that they are incredulous of a
man's habitual preference of the general
good to his own; but when they see it
proved by sacrifices of ease, wealth, rank,
and of life itself, there is no limit to their
admiration.- Errerson.
Self-love, as it happens to be well or ill
conducted, constitutes virtue and vice.-
Rochefoucauld.
Self-love is a cup without any bottom;
you might pour all the great lakes into it,
and never fill it up.-0. W. Holmes.
Self-love is too apt to draw some conso-
lation even from so bitter a source as the
calamities of others.-The sting of our pains
is diminished by the assurance that they
are common to all; and from feelings
equally egotistical, it unfortunately hap-
pens that the zest and relish of our pleas-
ures is heightened by the contrary consid-
eration, namely, that they are confined to
ourselves. This conviction it is that tickles
the palate of the epicure, that inflames the
ardor of the lover, that lends to ambition
her ladder, and extracts the thorus from a
crown.-Colton.
Self-love is the instrument of our preser-
vation ; it resembles the provision for the
perpetuity of mankind—it is necessary, it
is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we
must possess it.- Voltaire.
SELF-PRAISE.-There is not one wise
man among twenty will praise himself.-
Shakespeare.
Say nothing of yourself, either good, bad,
or indifferent; nothing good, for that is
vanity ; nothing bad, for that is affecta- .
tion ; nothing indifferent, for that is silly.
It is equally a mistake to hold one's self
too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.-
Goethe.
We acknowledge that we should not talk
of our wives; but we seem not to know
that we should talk still less of ourselves.-
Rochefoucauld.
A man's praises have very musical and
charming accents in the mouth of another,
but sound very flat and untunable in his
own.-Xenophon.
Self-praise occasionally succeeds with ig-
norant and credulous persons ; very seldom
with those who have much knowledge of
the world. He who can make a discerning
mind think more highly of him for what
he says of himself, must be a person of un-
usual ability and address.-G. W. Hervey.
A man's accusations of himself are always
believed ; his praises of self never.--Mon-
taigne.
SELF-RELIANCE, -Help thyself, and
God will help thee.--Herbert.
If you would have a faithful servant, and
one that you like, serve yourself.-Frank-
lin.
Men throw themselves on foreign assist-
ances to spare their own, which, after all,
are the only certain and sufficient ones.
Montaigne.
They can conquer who believe they can.
- Virgil.
Great is the strength of an individual
soul, true to its high trust; mighty is it,
even to the redemption of a world.-Mrs.
L. M. Child.
Let every eye negotiate for itself, and
trust no agent. - Shakespeare.
Look well into thyself ; there is a source
of strength which will always spring up if
thou wilt always look there.-M. Antoninus.
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie,
which we ascribe to Heaven.-Shakespeare.
No external advantages can supply the
place of self-reliance.-The force of one's
being, if it has any force, must come from
within.—No one can safely imitate another;
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SELF-RESPECT.
Providence has done, and I am persuaded
is disposed to do, a great deal for us ; but
we are not to forget the fable of Jupiter
and the countryman.- Washington.
In life, as in whist, hope nothing from the
way cards may be dealt to you. Play the
cards, whatever they be, to the best of your
skill. --Bulwer.
The human mind, in proportion as it is
deprived of external resources, sedulously
labors to find within itself the means of
happiness, learns to rely with confidence
on its own exertions, and gains with
greater certainty the power of being happy.
-Zinnermann.
It is impossible you should take true root
but by the fair weather that you make your-
self ; it is needful that you frame the season
for your own harvest. --Shakespeare.
God helps those that help themselves.-
Franklin.
A man that only translates, shall never
be a poet; nor a painter, that only copies ;
nor a swimmer, that swims always with
bladders : so people that trust wholly to
others' charity, and without industry of
their own, will always be poor.--Sir w.
Temple.
nor by following in the footsteps of another
can be ever gain distinction or enjoy pros-
perity.--R. W. Clark.
I have ever held it a maxim, never to do
through another what it was possible for
me to do myself.-Montesquieu.
God gives every bird its food, but ho
does not throw it into the nest.-J. G.
Holland.
Self-distrust is the cause of most of our
failures. In the assurance of strength
there is strength; and they are the weak-
est, however strong, who have no faith in
themselves or their powers.—Bovee. .
Time and I against any two.-Philip II.
The best lightning-rod for your protec-
tection is your own spine.-Emerson.
The spirit of self-help is the root of all
genuine growth in the individual; and,
exhibited in the lives of many, it consti-
tutes the true source of national vigor and
strength. Help from without is often en-
feebling in its effects, but help from within
invariably invigorates.--S. Smiles.
Doubt whom you will, but never doubt
yourself. Bovee.
A person under the firm persuasion that
he can command resources virtually has
them.-- Livy.
The supreme fall of falls is this, the first
doubt of one's self.- Countess de Gasparin.
Trust in God, but keep your powder
dry.- Cronwell.
"Give me a standing place,” said Archi-
medes, and I will move the world”-
Goethe has changed the postulate into the
precept. "Make good thy standing place,
and move the world."-S. Smiles.
Men seem neither to understand their
riches nor their strength.-Of the former
they believe greater things than they
should ; of the latter, less.-
Bacon.
We must not calculate on the weather,
or on fortune, but upon God and ourselves.
-He may fail us in the gratification of our
wishes, but never in the encounter with
our exigencies.--Simms.
The man who cannot enjoy his own nat-
ural gifts in silence, and find his reward in
the exercise of them, will generally find
himself badly off.-Goethe.
The man who makes everything that
leads to happiness depend upon himself,
and not upon other men, has adopted the
very best plan for living happily. This is
the man of moderation, the
man of manly
character and of wisdom.–Plato.
Welcome evermore to gods and men is the
self-helping man,-Emerson.
SELF-RESPECT.-- When thou hast
profited so much that thou respectest thy-
self, thou mayest let go thy tutor. Seneca.
Every one stamps his own value on him-
self.-The price we challenge for ourselves
is given us.-Man is made great or little by
his own will.-Schiller.
Have not too low thoughts of thyself.
The confidence a man hath of his being
pleasantiu his demeanor is a means whereby
he infallibly cometh to be such.-Burton.
It has been said that self-respect is the
gate of heaven, and the most cursory obser-
vation shows that a degree of reserve adds
vastly to the latent force of character.
Tuckerman.
Who will adhere to him that abandons
himself ?—Sir P. Sidney.
The pious and just honoring of ourselves
may be thought the fountain-head from
whence every laudable and worthy enter-
prise issues forth.-Milton.
It may be no less dangerous to claim, on
certain occasions, too little than too much.
There is something captivating in spirit
and intrepidity, to which we often yield as
to a resistless power ; 201 can he reason-
ably expect the confidence of others who .
too apparently distrusts himself.-Johnson.
Above all things, reverence yourself.-
Pythagoras.
SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS.
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SENSE.
Be noble-minded! Our own heart, and
not other men's opinions of us, forms our
true honor.-Schiller.
To have a respect for ourselves guides
our morals; and to have a deference for
others governs our manners.--Sterne, .
I care not so much what I am in the
opinion of others as what I am in my own ;
I would be rich of myself and not by bor-
rowing.--Montaigne.
Self-respect, that corner-stone of all
virtue.—Sir John Herschel.
Self-respect is the noblest garment with
which a man may clothe himself, the most
elevating feeling with which the mind can
be inspired. One of Pythagoras's wisest
maxims is that in which he enjoins the
pupil to " reverence himself."--S. Sniiles.
No more important duty can be urged
upon those who are entering the great
theatre of life than simple loyalty to their
best convictions.-L. EI. Chapin.
The reverence of man's self, is, next to
religion, the chiefest bridle of all vices.
Bacon,
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-con-
trol, these three alone lead life to sovereign
power.-- Tennyson.
One self-approving hour whole years out-
weighs.--Pope.
sequence whether he be a pagan idolater,
or a proud, ignorant Pharisee.--I know not
which of the two is most distant from the
kingdom of God.-J. Milner.
That which of all things unfits man for
the reception of Christ as a Saviour, is not
gross profligacy and outward, vehement
transgression, but it is self-complacency,
fatal self-righteousness and self-sufficiency.
-A. Maclaren.
To trust one's own righteousness, is like
seeking shelter under one's own shadow. -
We may stoop to the ground, and the lower
we bend, the shadow is beneath us still.-
But if we flee to the shadow of a great rock,
or a wide-spreading tree, then we find
shelter from the noon-day sun.- - Chinese
Preacher,
SELF-RULE:-(See “ WILL," "SELF-
CONTROL.”)
SELF-WILL.-Self-will is so ardent and
active, that it will break & world to pieces,
to make a stool to sit on.-Cecil.
Self-will is the source and spring of all
that envy, malice, bitterness of spirit, mal-
contentedness and impatience, and of all
tliose dark passions, those inordinate de-
sires and lusts, that reign in the hearts and
lives of wicked men.-J. Smith.
Lawless are they that make their wills
their law.-Shakespeare.
An obstinate, ungovernable self-suffi-
ciency plainly points out to us that state
of imperfect maturity at which the graceful
levity of youth is lost and the solidity of
experience not yet acquired.-- Junius.
SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS. Let us
pray God that he would root out of our
hearts everything of our own planting and
set out there, with his own hand, the tree
of life bearing all manner of fruits.--7-
nelon.
Regret not that which is past; and trust
not to thine own righteousness.--St. An-
thony.
No man can quench his thirst with sand,
or with water from the Dead Sea; so no
man can find rest froin his own character,
however good, or from his owu acts, how-
ever religious.- Bonar.
You can always tell when a man is a great
way from God--when he is always talking
about himself, how good he is. – D. L.
Moody.
If there be ground for you to trust in
your own righteousness, then, all that
Christ did to purchase salvation, and all
that God did to prepare the way for it is
in vain.-Jonathan I dwards.
Self-righteousness is the devil's master-
piece to make us think well of ourselves.
T. Adam.
While a man rests on his own merits for
acceptance with God, it is of little con-
SENSE.-(See “ COMMON SENSE.")
Of plain, sound sense, life's current coin
is made.- Young.
I have long thought, that the different
abilities of men, wbich we call wisdom or
prudence for the conduct of public affairs
or private life, grow directly ont of that
little grain of good sense which they bring
with them into the world ; and that the de-
fect of it in men comes from some want in
their conception or birth.—Sir W. Temple.
Success in business is due to adminis-
tration ; and capacity in administration is
due to that faculty, power, or quality called
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common sense.
Good sense, which only is the gift of
Heaven, and though no science, fairly worth
the reven.-Pope.
Nothing is useless to the man of sense ;
he turns everything to account.-La Fono
taine,
SENSIBILITY.
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SENSUALITY.
SENSIBILITY:-(See " FEELINGS.")
Too much sensibility creates unhappi-
ness ; too much insensibility leads to crime.
-Talleyrand.
Fine sensibilities are like woodbines, de-
lightful luxuries of beauty to twine round
a solid, upright stem of understanding;
but very poor things, if, unsustained by
strength, they are left to creep along the
ground.—John Foster.
The heart that is soonest awake to the
flowers, is always the first to be touched
with the thorns.--Moore.
Sensibility would be a good portress, if
she had but one hand ; with her right she
opens the door to pleasure, but with her
left to pain.--Colton,
Where virtue is, sensibility is its orna-
ment and becoming attire ; but it, and all
the amiable qualities may become, and too
often have become the panders of vice, and
the instruments of seduction.—Coleridge.
Sensibility is the power of woman.-la-
vater.
Dearly bought the hidden treasure, finer
feelings can bestow; chords that vibrate
sweetest pleasure, thrill the deepest notes
of woe.-Burns.
Men's feelings are always purest and
inost glowing in the hour of meeting and
of farewell ; like the glaciers, which are
transparent and rosy-hued only at sunrise
and sunset, but throughout the day are
gray and cold.-Richter,
Laughter and tears are meant to turn the
wheels of the same machinery of sensi-
bility ; one is wind-power, and the other
water-power ; that is all.-0. W. Holmes.
It is with feeling as with religion, if a
man really have any, he will have none to
speak of.-H. N. Hudson.
The period of tender sensibilities looks
to a period of active character, for the
formation of which the sensibilities are
given and the requisite excitements pro-
vided, after which they pass from the form
of mere sensibilities into habits and fixtures
of feeling and action.-Character is made
up, first of passive, afterward of active
emotions.-G. B. Cheever.
Sensibility is neither good nor evil in
itself, but in its application. Under the
influence of Christian principle it makes
saints and martyrs ; ill-directed, or uncon-
trolled, it is a snare, and the source of
every temptation.-H. More.
SENSITIVENESS. - Sensitiveness is
closely allied to egotism.-Indeed excessivo
sensitiveness is only another name for
morbid self-consciousness.-The cure for
it is to make more of our objects, and less
of ourselves.- Bovee.
There are moments when petty slights
are harder to bear than even a serious
injury. Men have died of the festering of
agnat-bite.-Cecil Danby.
Quick sensitiveness is inseparable from
a ready understanding.--Addison.
That chastity of bonor which felt a stain
like a wound. - Burke.
SENSUALITY.-Sensuality is the grave
of the soul.-Channing.
Ho that lives in the kingdom of sense,
shall die in the kingdom of sorrow.–Baxter.
If sensuality were happiness, beasts were
happier than men ; but human felicity is
lodged in the soul, not in the flesh. Seneca.
If sensuality be our only happiness, we
ought to envy the brutes ; for instinct is a
surer, shorter, safer guide to such happi-
ness than reason.-Colton.
Though selfishness hath defiled the whole
man, yet sensual pleasure is the chief part
of its interest, and therefore by the senses
it commonly works, and these are the
doors and the windows by which iniquity
entereth into the soul.Baxter.
I have never known a man who was
sensual in his youth, who was high-minded
when old.--Charles Sumner.
Those wretches who never have experi-
enced the sweets of wisdom and virtue,
but spend all their time in revels and de-
bauches, sink downward day after day, and
make their whole life one continued series
of errors. They taste no real or substantial
pleasure ; but, resembling so many brutes,
with eyes always fixed on the earth, and
intent upon their loaden tables, they pam-
per themselves in luxury and excess.-
Plato.
What is a man, if his chief good, and
market of his time, be but to sleep, and
feed ? a beast, no more.--Shakespeare.
What if one might have all the pleasures
of the world for the asking ?—Who would
so unman himself as by accepting them
to desert his soul and become a perpetual
slave to his senses ?-Seneca.
Sordid and infamous sensuality, the
most dreadful evil that issued from the
box of Pandora, corrupts the entire heart
and eradicates every virtue.--Fénelon.
The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a
dead soul.-- Bovee.
All sensuality is one, though it takes
many forms, as all purity is one. It is the
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SENTIMENT.
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SERVANTS.
game whether a man eat, or drink, or co-
habit, or sleep sensually. They are but
one appetite, and we only need to see a
person do any one of these things to know
how great a sensualist he is.--Thoreau.
Sin the mother, and shame the daughter
of lewdness.—Sir P. Sidney.
A youth of sensuality and intemperance
delivers over a worn-out body to old age.--
Cicero.
When the cup of any sensual pleasure is
drained to the bottom, there is always
poison in the dregs.-Jane Porter.
SENTIMENT.-Sentiment is intellec-
tualized emotion ; emotion precipitated, as
it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.-
Sentiment has a kind of divine alchemy,
rendering grief itself the source of ten-
derest thoughts and far-reaching desires,
which the sufferer cherishes as sacred
treasures.- Talfourd.
Sentiment and principle are often mis-
taken for each other, though, in fact, they
widely differ.-Sentiment is the virtue of
ideas ; principle the virtue of action.-
Sentiment has its seat in the head ; prin-
ciple, in the heart. Sentiment suggests
fine harangues and subtle distinctions ;
principle conceives just notions, and per-
forms good actions in consequence of them.
Sentiment refines away the simplicity of
truth, and the plainness of piety; and
"gives us virtue in words, and vice in
deeds.' Sentiment may be called the
Athenian who knew what was right; and
principle, the Lacedemonian who practised
it.--Blair.
A general loftiness of sentiment, inde-
pendence of men, consciousness of good
intentions, self-oblivion in great objects,
clear views of futurity, thoughts of the
blessed companionship of saints and angels,
trust in God as the friend of truth and
virtue-these are the states of mind in
which I should live.-Channing.
Cure the drunkard, heal the insane,
mollify the homicide, civilize the Pawnee,
but what lessons can be devised for the
debaucher of sentiment?Emerson.
SERVANTS.-If the master takes no
account of his servants, they will make
small account of him, and care not what
they spend, as they are never brought to
an audit.-Fuller.
Be not too familiar with thy servants ; at
first it may beget love, but in the end 'twill
breed contempt.-Fuller.
Command thy servant advisably with
few plain words, fully, freely, and posi-
tively, with a grave countenance, and
settled carriage : These will procure obedi-
ence, gain respect, and maintain authority.
-Fuller.
Be not served with kinsmen, or friends,
or men en treated to stay ; for they expect
much, and do little ; nor with such as are
amorous, for their heads are intoxicated;
and keep rather too few, than one too many.
-Lord Burleigh.
Let thy servants be such as thou mayest
command, and entertain none about thee
but those to whom' thou givest wages ; for
those that will serve thee
without thy hire
will cost thee treble as much as they that
know thy fare.—Sir Walter Raleigh.
If thou employest plain men, and canst
find such as are commonly honest, they
will work faithfully, and report fairly.
Cunning men will, for their own credit,
adventure without command; and from
thy business derive credit to themselves.-
Tuller.
I have been formerly so silly as to hope
that every servant I had might be made a
friend; but I am now convinced that the
nature of servitude generally bears a con-
trary tendency.—People's characters are to
be chiefly collected from their education
and place in life ; birth itself does but
little. - Shenstone.
'Tis better that thou be rather something
sparing, than very liberal, to even a good
servant; for as he grows full, be inclines
either to be idle, or to leave thee: and
if he should at any time murmur, thou
mayest govern him by a seasonable reward.
-Fuller.
We become willing servants to the good
by the bonds their virtues lay upon us.-
Sir P. Sidney.
If thou hast a loitering servant, send him
of thy errand just before his dinner.
Fuller,
Expect not more from servants than is
just; reward them well if they observe
their trust; nor with thein pride or cruelty
invade, since God and nature them our
brothers made.-
Denham.
Reward a good servant well, and rather
get quit of a bad one than disquiet thyself
with him.-Fuller.
If you treat with courtesy your equal
who is privileged to resentan impertinence,
how much more cautious should you be to
your dependants, from whom you demand
à respectful demeanor.-Chambers,
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SICKNESS.
SEXES.--No improvement that takes
place in either of the sexes, can be con-
fined to itself ; each is a universal mirror
to each ; and the respective refinement of
the one, will be in reciprocal proportion to
the polish of the other.--Colton.
A person who despises or undervalues,
or neglects the opposite sex, will soon need
humanizing. What God hath joined to-
gether, let no man put asunder:--C. Sim-
mons.
The sexes werc made for each other, and
only in the wise and loving union of the
two is the fulness of health and duty and
happiness to be expected.-W. Hall.
For contemplation be, and valor formed ;
for softness she, and sweet attractive grace ;
he for God only, she for God in him.-
Milton.
SHAME, - While shame keeps watch
virtue is not wholly extinguished from the
heart, nor will moderation be utterly exiled
from the mind of tyrants.—Burle.
I regard that man as lost, who has lost
his sense of shame.--Plautus.
Nothing is truly infamous but that which
is wicked, and therefore shaine can never
disturb an innocent and virtuous mind.--
Sherlock.
It is the guilt, not the scaffold, which con-
stitutes the shame.-Corneille.
Blush not now, said a distinguished
Italian to his young relative whom he met
coming out of a haunt of vice; the time to
have blushed was when you went in.
Shame may restrain what law does not
prohibit.- Seneca.
Shame is a great restraint upon sinners
at first, but that soon falls off : and when
men have once lost their innocence, their
modesty is not like to be long troublesome
to them. For impudence comes on with
vice, and grows up with it. Lesser vices
do not banish all shame and modesty ; but
great and abominable crimes harden men's
foreheads, and make thein shaineless.
When men have the heart to do a very
bad thing, they seldom want the face to
bear it out.-Tillotson.
Those who fear not guilt, yet start at
shame.- Churchill.
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I
often wonder to see them not ashamed.---
Swift.
Of all evils to the generous, shame is the
most deadly pang.-Thomson .
Honor and shame from no condition
rise : act well your part--there all the
bonor lies.- Pope.
Shame is nature's hasty conscience.
Maria Edgeworth.
Be assured thatwhen once a woman begins
to be ashamed of what she ought not to be
ashamed of, she will not be ashamed of
what she ought.-- Livy.
Mortifications are often more painful
than real calamities.-Goldsmith.
SICKNESS.-Sickness is the vengeance
of nature for the violation of her laws.
C. Simnions.
Sickness and disease are in weak minds
the sources of melancholy; but that which
is painful to the body, may be profitable to
the soul. Sickness, the mother of mod-
esty, puts us in mind of our mortality, and
while we drive on heedlessly in the full
career of wordly pomp and jollity, kindly
brings us to a proper sense of our duty and
destiny.- Burion.
In sickness let me not so much say, am I
getting better of my pain ? as am I getting
better for it?-Shakespeare.
Of all the know-nothing persons in this
world, commend us to the man who has
never known a day's illness.” He is a
moral dunce, one who has lost the greatest
lesson in life ; who has skipped the finest
lecture in that great school of humanity,
the sick-chamber.-Hood.
Few spirits are made better by the pain
and languor of sickness ; as few great pil-
grims become eminent saints.-Thomas à
Kempis.
It is in sickness that we most feel the
need of that sympathy which shows how
much we are dependent upon one another
for our comfort, and even necessities.
Thus disease, opening our eyes to the reali-
ties of life,' is an indirect blessing.-H.
Ballou.
In sickness the soul begins to dress her-
self for immortality. And first sbe unties
the strings of vanity that made her upper
garments cleave to the world and sit uneasy.
-Jerenry Taylor.
When a man is laboring under the pain
of any distemper, it is then that he recol-
lects there is a God, and that he himself is
but a man.
No mortal is then the object
of his envy, his admiration, or his con-
tempt ; and, having no malice to gratify,
the tales of slander excite him not.- Pliny.
Sickness is a sort of early old age; it
teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.
--Pope.
As in the body, so in the soul ; they are
oft most desperately sick who are least sen-
sible of their disease, while he that fears
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SILENCE.
each wound as mortal, seeks a timely cure,
and is healed.--A. Warwick.
SILENCE.- (See “TONGUE," and
"SPEECH.")
He can never speak well, who knows not
how to hold his peace.-Plutarch.
True silence is the rest of the mind, and
is to the spirit what sleep is to the body,
nourishment and refreshment. It is a
great virtue ; it covers folly, keeps secrets,
avoids disputes, and prevents sin.--Penn.
Some men envelop themselves in such an
impenetrable cloak of silence, that the
tongue will afford us no symptoms of the
mind. Such taciturnity, indeed, is wise
if they are fools, but foolish if they are
wise ; and the only method to form a judg-
ment of these mutes, is narrowly to observe
when, where, and how they smilo.
Silence is the safest course for any man
to adopt who distrusts himself.---Rochefou-
cauld.
Euripides was vont to say that silence
was an answer to a wise man; but we seem
to have greater occasion for it in our deal-
ing with fools and unreasonable persons ;
for men of breeding and sense will be satis-
fied with reason and fair words. Plutarch.
Silence is the understanding of fools,
and one of the virtues of the wise. Boi-
leau.
Of all virtues, Zeuo made choice of
silence; for by it, said he, I hear other
men's imperfections, and conceal my own.
-Rule of Life.
A man's profundity may keep him from
opening on a first interview, and his cali-
tion on a second ; but I should suspect bis
emptiness, if he carried on his reserve to a
third.—Colton.
I do know of those that therefore only
are reputed wise, for saying nothing. -
Shakespeare.
Silence is a virtue in those who are defi-
cient in understanding.-Bouhours.
If the prudence of reserve and decorum
dictates silence in some circunstances, in
others prudence of a higher order may
justify us in speaking our thoughts.
Burke.
The silence, often, of pure innocence,
persuades when speaking fails.--Shake-
speare.
Silence is the highest wisdom of a fool as
speech is the greatest trial of a wise man.-
If thou wouldst be known as wise, let tliy
words show thee so; if thou doubt thy
words, let thy silence feigu thee so.-
It
is not a greater point of wisdom to dis-
cover knowledge than to hide ignorance.-
Quarles.
Silence, when nothing need be said, is
the eloquence of discretion.--Bovee.
Speech is great, but silence is greater.-
Carlyle.
The silence of the place was like a sleep,
so full of rest it seemed.-Longfellow,
Silence is the perfectest herald of joy; I
were but little happy if I could say how
much.-Shakespeare.
He who, silent, loves to be with us, and
who loves us in our silence, has touched one
of the keys that ravish hearts.--Lavater.
A good word is an easy obligation ; but
not to speak ill requires only our silence,
which costs us nothing.-Tillotson.
The temple of our purest thoughts is
silence.—Mrs. S. J. Hale.
Let us be silent that we may hear the
whispers of the gods.-Emerson.
It is the wisc head that makes the still
tongue.-W. J. Lucas.
This is such a serious world that we
should never speak at all unless we have
something to say.-Carlyle.
Silence in woman is like speech in men ;
deny it who can.-Ben Jonson.
Most men speak when they do not know
how to be silent. He is wise who knows
when to liold his peace. Tie your tongue,
lest it be wanton and luxuriate; keep it
within the banks ; a rapidly flowing river
soon collects mud.- Ambrose.
Fellows who have no tongues are often
all eyes and ears.-- Haliburton.
There are three kinds of silence. Silence
from words is good, because inordinato
speaking tends to evil. Silence, or rest
from desires and passions is still better,
because it promotes quietness of spirit.
But the best of all is silence from unneces-
sary and wandering thoughts, because
that is essential to internal recollection,
and because it lays a foundation for a
proper reputation and for silence in other
respects.-Mad. Guyon.
A silent man is easily reputed wise. The
unknown is always wonderful. A man
who suffers none to see him in the common
jostle and undress of life easily gathers
l'ound him a mysterious veil of unknown
sanctity, and men honor him for a saint.-
F. W. Robertson.
What a strange power there is in silence !
How many resolutions are formed, how
many sublime couquests effected, during
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SILENCE.
that pause when the lips are closed, and
the soul secretly feels the eye of her Maker
upon her !--They are the strong ones of
earth who know how to keep silence when
it is a pain and grief unto them, and who
give time to their own souls to wax strong
against temptation.--Emerson.
Silence is the ornament and safeguard
of the ignorant.
Silence is the safest response for all the
contradiction that arises from imperti-
nence, vulgarity, or envy.--Zimmerniann.
The main reason why silence is so
efficacious an element of repute is, first,
because of that magnification which pro-
verbially belongs to the unknown; and,
secondly, because silence provokes no
mau's envy, and wounds no man's self-
love.-Bulwer.
Silence in times of suffering is the best.
- Dryden.
Speech is often barren ; but silence also
does not necessarily brood over a full nest.
Your still fowl, blinking at you without
remark, may all the while be sitting on one
addled nest-egg; and when it takes to
cackling, will have nothing to announce
but that adaled delusion.- George Eliol.
The unspoken word never does harm.-
Kossuth.
Silence and reserve suggest latent power.
What some men think has more effect than
what others say.- Chesterfield.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man
as silence ; if he were sensible of this ho
would not be ignorant.--Saadi.
If you would pass for more than your
value, say little. It is easier to look wise
than to talk wisely.
Learn to hold thy tongue.-Five words
cost Zacharias forty weeks of silence.
Fuller,
As we must render an account of every
idle word, so we must of our idle silence.-
Ambrose.
Silence is the ecstatic bliss of souls, that
by intelligence converse.- -Otway.
I spake no word; inferior joys live but
by utterance ; rapture is born dumb.-H.
Neele.
Silence is the element in which great
things fashion themselves together ; that
at length they may emerge, full-formed
and majestic, into the delight of life, which
they are thenceforth to rule.-Carlyle.
The more a man desirous to pass at a
value above his worth, and can, by dig-
nified silence, contrast with the garrulity
of trivial minds, the more will the world
give him credit for the wealth he does not
possess.- Bulwer.
A judicious silence is always better than
truth spoken without charity.--De Sales.
Silence is a figure of speech, unanswer-
able, short, cold, but terribly severe.-
Theodore Parler.
A judicious reticence is hard to learn,
but it is one of the great lessons of life.-
Chesterfield.
If thou desire to be held wise, be so wiso
as to hold thy tongue.- Quarles.
There is a silence, the child of love,
which expresses everything, and proclains
more loudly than the tongue is able to do.
- Alfieri.
A person that would secure to himself
great deference will, perhaps, gain his
point by silence as effectually as by any-
thing he can say.--Shenstone.
He knows, not how to speak who cannot
be silent; still less how to act with vigor
and decision. Who bastens to the end is
silent; loudness is impotence.- Lavater.
I like better for one to say some foolish
thing upon important matters than to be
silent. "That becomes the subject of dis-
cussion and dispute, and the truth is dis-
covered.--Diderot.
As men of sense and genius gay much in
few words, so on the other hand the weak
and foolish speak much and say little.—
Rochefoucauld.
Talkers and futile persons are commonly
vain and credulous withal, for he that
talketh what he knoweth will also talk what
he knoweth not; therefore set it down that
a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.
-Bacon.
Blessed is the man who, having nothing
to say, abstains from giving wordy evi-
dence of the fact.-George Eliot.
If any man think it a small matter to
bridle his tongue, he is much mistaken ;
for it is a point to be silent when occasion
requires, and better than to speak, though
never so well.-- Plutarch.
Of a distinguished general it was said
that "he could hold his tongue in ten
languages."
It is only reason that teaches silence ;
the heart teaches us to speak.-Richter.
It is better either to be silent, or to say
things of more value than silence. Sooner
throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or
useless word ; and do not say a little in
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A
many words, but a great deal in a few.-
Pythagoras.
None preaches better than the ant, and
she says nothing.-Franklin.
I think the first virtue is to restrain the
tongue; he approaches nearest to the gods
who knows how to be silent, even though
he is in the right. --Cato.
If a word be worth one shekel, silence is
worth two.-Rabbi Ben Azai.
Silence is one of the great arts of con-
versation, as allowed by Cicero himself,
who says "there is not only an art, but an
eloquence in it.” A well-bred woman may
easily and effectually promote the most
useful and elegant conversation without
speaking a word.-The modes of speech
are scarcely more variable than the modes
of silence.-Blair.
Silence never shows itself to so great an
advantage as when it is made the reply to
calumny and defamation.-Addison.
SIMPLICITY.-In character, in man-
ners, in style, in all things, the supreme
excellence is simplicity.-Longfellow.
When a man is made wholly of the dove,
without the least grain of the serpent in
his composition, he becomes ridiculous in
many circumstances, and often discredits
his best actions.-Addison.
Simplicity, of all things, is the hardest
to be copied.-Steele.
He is of a free and open nature that
thinks all men honest who but seem to be
80, and will as tenderly be led by the nose
as asses aro.--Shakespeare.
Goodness and simplicity are indissolubly
united.--The bad are the most sophisti-
cated, all the world over, and the good the
least.-H. Martineau.
Nothing is more simple than greatness;
indeed, to be simple is to be great.-Emer-
son.
Whose nature is so far from doing harms
that he suspects none.
--Shakespeare.
Simplicity of character is the natural
result of profound thought.-- Hazlitt.
The most agreeable of all companions is a
simple, frank man, without any high pre-
tensions to an oppressive greatness-one
who loves life, and understands the use of
it; obliging alike at all hours; above all,
of a golden temper, and steadfast as an an-
chor. For such an one we gladly exchange
the greatest genius, the most brilliant wit,
the profoundest thinker.-Lessing.
Purity and simplicity are the two wings
with which man soars above the earth and
all temporary nature.--Simplicity is in the
intention ; purity in the affection : sim-
plicity turns to God; purity unites with
and enjoys him.-Thomās à Kempis.
When thought is too weak to be simply
expressed, it is a clear proof that it should
be rejected.- Vauvanargues.
The greatest truths are the simplest ; and
so are the greatest men.-Fare.
A childlike mind, in its simplicity, prac-
tices that science of good to which the wise
may be blind.-Schiller.
If ourlove were but more simple, we should
take Him at his word, and our lives would
be all sunshine in the sweetness of the
Lord.-Faber.
Elegance of language may not be in the
power of all of us ; but simplicity and
straightforwardness are. Write much as
you would speak; speak as you think. If
with your inferiors, speak no coarser than
usual ; if with your superiors, no finer.
Be what you say ; and, within the rules of
prudence, say what you are.-Alford.
Upright simplicity is the deepest wisdom,
and perverse craft the merest shallowness.
-Barrow.
Simplicity is Nature's first step, and the
last of Art.-P. J. Bailey.
There is a majesty in simplicity which is
far above the quaintness of wit.—Pope.
SIN.-Sin is, essentially, a departure
, a
from God.-Luther.
Sin is any want of conformity unto, or
transgression of the law of God.-Shorter
Catechism.
He that falls into sin is a man, that
grieves at it is a saint, that boasteth of it
is a devil ; yet some glory in that shame,
counting the stains of sin the best complex-
ion of their souls.-Fuller.
The recognition of sin is the beginning
of salvation.-Luther.
Sin is first pleasing, then it grows easy,
then delightful, then frequent, then habit-
nal, then confirmed ; then the man is im-
penitent, then he is obstinate, then he is
resolved never to repent, and then he is
ruined.-Leighton.
All the sin that has darkened human life
and saddened human history began in be-
lieving a falsehood : all the power of Chris-
tianity to make men holy is associated with
believing truth.-J. A. Broadus.
If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness
thou must never gratify it.—No man is
compelled to evil; only his consent makes
it his.-It is no sin to be tempted ; it is to
yield and be overcome.-Penn.
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SIN.
He who sins against men may fear dis-
covery ; but he who sins against God, is
sure of it.-Jones.
Few love to hear the sins they love to act.
--Shakespeare.
The worst effect of sin is within, and is
manifest not in poverty, and pain, and
bodily defacement, but in the discrowned
faculties, the unworthy love, the low ideal,
the brutalized and enslaved spirit.-E. H.
Chapin.
Our sins, like our shadows when day is
in its glory, scarce appear ; toward evening,
how great and monstrous they are !-Sucic-
ling.
Sin is never at a stay ; if we do not re-
treat from it, we shall advance in it; and
the further on we go, the more we have to
come back.-Barrow.
Use sin as it will use you ; sparo it not,
for it will not spare you ; it is your mur-
derer, and the murderer of the world : use
it, therefore, as a murderer should be
used. Kill it before it kills you. You love
not death; love not the cause of death.-
Baxter,
Respectable sin is, in principle, the
mother of all basest crime. Follow it to
the bitter end, and there is ignominy as
well as guilt eternal.—Horace Bushnell.
If you would be free from sin, fly temp-
tation : he that does not endeavor to avoid
the one cannot expect Providence to pro-
tect him from the other. If the first sparks
of ill were quenched, there would be no
flame; for how can he kill, that dares not
be angry; or be an adulterer in act, who
does not transgress in thought; or be per-
jured, that fearg an oath ; or defraud, that
does not allow himself to covet?-Palmer.
The deadliest sin were the consciousness
of no sin.-Carlyle.
Most sins begin at the eyes ; by them
commonly, Satan creeps into the heart :
that man can never be in safety that hath
not covenanted with his eyes.
The wages that sin bargains for with the
sinner, are life, pleasure, and profit; but
the wages it pays him, are death, torment,
and destruction. To understand the false-
hood and deceit of sin, we must compare
its promises and payments together.-
South.
When we think of death, a thousand sins,
which we have trodden as worms beneath
our feet, rise up against us as flaming ser-
pents.- Walter Scott.
I fear nothing but doing wrong.--Slerne.
A8 sins proceed they ever multiply ; and
like figures in arithmetic, the last stands
for more than all that went before it.—Sir
T. Browne.
Guilt, though it may attain temporal
splendor, can never confer real happiness.
The evident consequences of our crimes
long survive their commission, and, like
the ghosts of the murdered, forever haunt
the steps of the malefactor.- Walter Scott.
It is as supreme a folly to talk of a little
sin as it would be to talk of a small deca-
logue that forbids it, or a diminutive God
that hates it, or a shallow hell that will
punish it.--. S. Robinson.
No man becomes fully evil at once ; but
suggestion bringeth on indulgence; indul-
gence, delight; delight, consent; consent,
endeavor ; endeavor, practice; practice,
custom ; custom, excuse; excuse, defence ;
defence, obstinacy; obstinacy, boasting;
boasting, a seared conscience and a repro-
bate mind.
Sin may open bright as the morning, but
it will end dark as night. - Talmage.
Bad men hate sin through fear of punish-
ment; good men hate sin through their
love of virtue.--Juvenal.
What is human sin but the abuse of hu-
man appetites, of human passions, of hu-
man faculties, 'in themselves all innocent ?
-R. D. Hitchcock.
The course of evil begins so slowly, and
from such slight source, an infant's hand
might stem the breach with clay ; but let
the stream get deeper, and philosophy, aye,
and religion too, shall strive in vain, to turn
the headlong current.
There are some sins which are more
justly to be denominated surprises than in-
fidelities. To such the world should be
lenient, as, doubtless, Heaven is forgiving.
-Massillon.
There is no sin we can be tempted to com-
mit, but we shall find a greater satisfaction
in resisting than in committing.
We are saved from nothing if we are not
saved from sin. Little sins are pioneers of
hell.—Howell.
There are three things which the true
Christian desires in respect to sin : Justifi-
cation, that it may not condemn ; sanctifi-
cation, that it may not reign ; and glorifi-
cation, that it may not be. — Cecil.
He that hath slight thoughts of sin never
had great thoughts of God.- Owen.
There is a vast difference between sins of
infirmity and those of presumption, as vast
as between inadvertency and deliberation.
South,
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SINCERITY.
Every gross act of sin is much the same
thing to the conscience that a great blow is
to the head ; it stuns and bereaves it of all
use of its senses for a time.-South.
Whatever disunites man from God dis-
unites man from man.-Burke.
It is not only what we do, but also what
we do not do, for which we are accountable.
---Molière.
No sin is small. It is against an infinite
God, and
may have consequences immeas-
urable.—No grain of sand is small in the
mechanism of a watch.-Jeremy Taylor.
Every sin is a mistake, as well as a wrong ;
and the epitaph for the sinner is, “Thou
fool!”-A. Maclaren.
If I were sure God would pardon me, and
men would not know my sin, yet I should
be ashamed to sin, because of its essential
baseness.--Plato.
The sin that now rises to your memory
as your bosom sin, let this be first of all
withstood and mastered.-Oppose it in-
stantly by a detestation of it, by a firm will
to conquer it, by reflection, by reason, by
prayer.
- Channing.
How immense appear to us the sins that
we have not committed.-Mad. Necker.
Sin is to be overcome, not so much by
direct opposition to it as by cultivating
opposite principles. Would you kill the
weeds in your garden, plant it with good
seed ; if the ground be well occupied
there will be less need of the hoe. --A.
Fuller.
There is more bitterness in sin's ending
than there ever was sweetness in its acting.
-If you see nothing but good in its com-
mission, you will suffer only woe in its con-
clusion.-Dyer.
Sins are like circles in the water when au
stone is thrown into it; one produces
another.—When anger was in Cain's heart,
murder was not far off.-Philip Henry.
If I grapple with sin in my own strength,
the devil knows he may go to sleep.-E. G.
J. Adams.
I could not live in peace if I put the
shadow of a wilful sin between myself and
God.-George Eliot.
Man-like it is, to fall into sin ; fiend-like
it is, to dwell therein ; Christ-like it is, for
sin 'to grieve; God-like it is, all sin to
leave.-Longfellow.
There is no fool equal to the sinner, who
every moment ventures his soul. - Tillotson.
Sins of the mind have less infamy than
those of the body, but not less malignity.-
Whichcote.
It is not true that there are no enjoy-
ments in the ways of sin ; there are, many
and various.—But the great and radical
defect of them all is, that they are transi-
tory and unsubstantial, at war with reason
and conscience, and always leave a sting
behind. We are hungry, and they offer
u8 bread ; but it is poisoned bread. We
are thirsty, and they offer us drink; but it
is from deadly fountains. They may and
often do satisfy us for the moment; but it is
death in the end. It is only the bread of
heaven and the water of life that can so
satisfy that we shall hunger 110 more and
thirst no more forever.—Tryon Edwards.
SINCERITY,Sincerity is to speak as
ve think, to do as we pretend and profess,
to perform what we promise, and really to
be what we would seem and appear to be.-
Tillotson.
Sincerity is the face of the soul, as dis-
simulation is the mask.-S. Dubay.
Sincerity, a deep, genuine, heart-felt
sincerity is a trait of true and noble man-
hood.
Inward sincerity will of course influence
the outward deportment; where the one is
wanting, there is great reason to suspect
the absence of the other.-Sterne,
Sincerity is the indispensable ground of
all conscientiousness, and by consequence
of all heartfelt religion.-Kant.
Sincerity is no test of truth-no evidence
of correctness of conduct.—You may take
poison sincerely believing it the needed
medicine, but will it save your life ?- Tryon
Edwards.
Sincerity, thou first of virtues, let no
mortal leave thy onward path, although
the earth should gape, and from the gulf
of hell destruction rise, to take dissimula-
tion's winding way.-Home.
The shortest and surest way to live with
honor in the world, is to be in reality what
we would appear to be ; all human virtues
increase and strengthen themselves by the
practice and experience of them.--Socrates.
Sincerity is like travelling on a plain,
beaten road, which commonly brings a
sooner to his
to his journey's end than
by-ways, in which men often lose them-
selves.- Tillotson.
The whole faculties of man must be ex-
erted in order to call forth noble energies ;
and he who is not earnestly sincere lives in
but half his being, self-mutilated, self-
paralyzed. - Coleridge.
His words are bonds, his oaths are ora-
cles ; his love sincere, his thoughts im-
maculate ; his tears, pure messengers sent
man
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from his heart; his heart as far from fraud,
as heaven from earth.-Shakespeare.
Sincerity and truth are the basis of every
virtue.---Confucius.
It is often said it is no matter what a man
believes if he is only sincere. But let a
man sincerely believe that seod planted
without ploughing is as good as with; that
January is as favorable for seed-sowing as
April ; and that cockle seed will produce as
good & harvest as wheat, and is it so?-
H. W. Beecher.
You know I say just what I think, and
nothing more nor less.-I cannot say one
thing and mean another.-Longfellow.
SINGULARITY.-Let those who would
affect singularity with success, first deter-
mine to be very virtuous, and they will be
sure to be very singular. --Colton.
He who would be singular in his apparel
had need have something superlative to
balance that affectation.--Feltham.
Singularity is laudable, when in contra-
diction to a multitude, 'it adheres to the
dictates of morality and honor. In con-
cerns of this kind it is to be looked upon as
heroic bravery, in which a man leaves the
species only as he soars above it. --Addison.
SLANDER.-(See "SCANDAL, REPU-
TATION.")
Slander is a vice that strikes a double
blow, wounding both him that commits,
and him against whom it is committed.
Saurin.
Believe nothing against another, but on
good authority; nor report what may hurt
another, unless it be a greater hurt to some
other to conceal it.-Penn.
The worthiest people are the most in-
jured by slander, as it is the best fruit
which the birds have been pecking at.-
Swift.
Slander is the revenge of a coward, and
dissimulation his defence.—Johnson.
When will talkers refrain from evil-speak-
ing? When listeners refrain from evil-
hearing.-Hare.
Diogenes being asked, “What is that
beast, the bite of which is the most danger-
ous ?” replied, “Of wild beasts, the bite
of a slanderer; and of tame beasts, that of
the flatterer.'
Plato, hearing that some asserted he was
a very bad man, said, "I shall take care so
to live that nobody will believe them.”—
Guardian.
Slander as often comes from vanity as
from malice.
Slanderers are like flies, that pass all
over a man's good parts to light only on
his sores.—Rule of Life.
No one is safe from slander. The best
way is to pay no attention to it, but live in
innocence and let the world talk.-Molière.
Who stabs my name would stab my per-
son, too, did not the hangman's axe lie in
the way.-Crown.
The slanderer inflicts wrong by calum-
niating the absent; and he who gives credit
to the calumny before he knows its truth,
is equally guilty.-Ferodotus.
No might nor greatness can censure es-
cape ; back-wounding calumny the whitest
virtue strikes ; what king so strong, can
tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue ?-
Shalcespeare.
The slanderer and the assassin differ
only in the weapon they use ; with the one
it is the dagger, with the other the tongue.
-The former is worse than the latter, for
the last only kills the body, while the other
murders the reputation and peace.- Tryon
Edwards.
Slander, whose edge is sharper than the
sword; whose tongue outvenoms all the
worms of Nile; whose breath rides on the
posting winds, and doth belie all corners
of the world. Shakespeare.
Divines do rightly infer from the sixth
commandment, that scandalizing one's
neighbor with false and malicious reports,
whereby I vex his spirit, and consequently
impair his health, is a degree of murder.
Sir W. Raleigh.
Slugs crawl and crawl over our cab-
bages, like the world's slander over a good
name. You may kill them, it is true, but
there is the slime.Douglas Jerrold.
A slanderer felt an adder bite his side :
What followed from the bite? The serpent
died.
Curst be the tongue, whence slanderous
l'umor, like the adder's drop distils her
venom, withering friendship's faith, turn-
ing love's favor.-Hillhouse.
Slander meets no regard from noble
minds; only the base believe what the base
only utter.— Bellers.
There would not be so many open mouths
if there were not so many open ears.—Bp.
Hall.
The man that dares traduce because he
can with safety to himself, is not a man.-
Cowper.
He, who would free from malice pass his
days, must live obscure, and never merit
praise.—Gay.
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SLAVERY.
Oh! many a shaft, at random sent, finds
mark the archer little meant; and many a
word, at random spoken, may soothe or
wound a heart that's broken.- Walter Scott.
Done to death by slanderous tongues.-
Shakespeare.
It is commonly unnecessary to refute
slander and calumny, except by persever-
ance in well doing ; they are sparks, which,
if you do not fan them, will soon go out.
If evil be said of thee, and it is true, cor-
rect it; if it be a lie, laugh at it.
That thou art blamed, shall not be thy
defect; for slander's mark was ever yet the
fair ; so thou be good, slander doth but
approve thy worth the greater.-Shake-
speare.
Next to the slanderer, we detest the
bearer of the slander to our ears.-M. H.
Catherwood.
Life would be a perpetual flea-hunt if a
man were obliged to run down all the
innuendoes, inveracities, insinuations, and
suspicions which are uttered against him.
-H. W. Beecher.
The surest method against scandal is to
live it down by perseverance in well-doing.
-Boerhaave.
If slander be a snake, it is a winged one.
It flies as well as creeps.--Douglas Jerrold.
How frequently are the honesty and in-
tegrity of a man disposed of by a smile or
shrug! How many good and generous
actions have been sunk into oblivion by a
distrustful look, or stamped with the im-
putation of bad motives, by a mysterious
and seasonable whisper !-Sterne.
There is nothing which wings its flight
80 swiftly as calumny, nothing which is
uttered with more ease ; nothing is listened
to with more readiness, nothing dispersed
more widely.Cicero.
The slander of some people is as great a
l'ecommendation as the praise of others.--
Fielding.
Listen not to a tale-bearer or slanderer,
for he tells thee nothing out of good will ;
but as he discovereth of the secrets of others,
so he will of thine in turn.--Socrates.
Calumny would soon starve and die of
itself if nobody took it in and gave it
lodging.-Leighton.
If any speak ill of thee, flee home to thy
own conscience, and examine thy heart: if
thou be guilty, it is a just correction ; if
not guilty, it is a fair instruction : make
use of both; so shalt thou distil honey ont
of gall, and out of an open enemy create a
secret friend.- Quarles,
When the tongue of slander stings thee,
let this be thy comfort,—they are not the
worst fruits on which the wasps alight.-
Burger.
Close thine ear against him that shall
open his mouth secretly against another.
If thou receivest not liis words, they fly
back and wound the reporter. If thou
dost receive them, they fly forward, and
wound the receiver.-Lavater.
The way to check slander is to despise it;
attempt to overtake and refuto it, and it
will outrun you.-4. Dunas.
If any one tells you a person speaks ill of
you, do not make excuse about what is
said, but answer : “He was ignorant of
my other faults else he would not have
mentioned these alone."
"-Epictetus.
There is nobody so weak of invention
that he cannot make up some little stories
to vilify his enemy.--Addison.
Have patience awhile ; slanders are not
long-lived.--Truth is the child of time;
ere long she shall appear to vindicate thee.
-Kant.
Slander cannot make the subject of it
either better or worse. It may represent
us in a false light, or place a likeness of us
in a bad one, but we are always the same.
Not so the slanderer, for calumny always
makes the calumniator worse, but the
calumniated never.-Colton.
We cannot control the evil tongues of
others, but a good life enables us to despise
them.-Cato.
SLAVERY,- Whatever makes man a
slave takes half his worth away.-Pope.
Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, slav-
ery, thou art a bitter draught. --Sterne.
That execrable sum of all villainies com-
monly called the slave-trade.-J. Wesley.
Corrupted freemen are the worst of
slaves.- Garrick,
Here lies the evil of slavery: its whips,
imprisonments, and even the horrors of
the middle passage, are not to be named,
in comparison with the extinction of the
proper consciousness of a human being-
with the degradation of a man into a brute.
-Channing.
There is a law above all human enact-
ments, written upon the heart by the finger
of God; and while men despise fraud, and
loathe rapine, and abhor blood, they shall
reject with indignation the wild and guilty
phantasy, that man can hold property in
man.-Brougham.
Slavery is a system of the most complete
injustice.-Plato.
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SLAVERY.
Every man has a property in his own
person; this nobody has a right to but
himself.-Locke.
Natural liberty is the gift of the benef-
icent Creator of the whole human race.-
Alexander Hamilton.
Slavery is a system of outrage and rob-
bery.-Socrates.
Slavery is an atrocious debasement of
human nature.-Franlclin.
Slavery is a state so improper, so de-
grading, so ruinous to the feelings and
capacities of human nature, that it ought
not to be suffered to exist.-Burke.
Slavery is not only opposed to all the
principles of morality, but, as it appears to
me, is pregnant with appaling and inevi-
table danger to the Republic.-Humboldt.
I envy neither the heart nor the head of
that man from the North, who rises here
in Congress to defend slavery from prin-
ciple.—John Randolph.
We have found that this evil, slavery,
has preyed upon the very vitals of the
Union, and has been prejudicial to all
the States in which it has existed.—Janies
Monroe.
The abolition of domestic slavery is the
greatest object of desire in these colonies,
where it was unhappily introduced in their
infant state.—Thos. Jefferson.
I can only say that there is not a man
living who wishes more sincerely than I do
to see a plan adopted for the abolition of
slavery. - Washington.
Not only does the Christian religion, but
Nature herself, cry out against the state of
slavery.--Pope Leo X.
It is injustice to permit slavery to remain
for a single hour.- William Pitt.
Slavery is contrary to the fundamental
law of all societies.-Montesquieu.
Slavery in all its forms, in all its degrees,
is a violation of divine law, and a degrada-
tion of huinan nature.-Brissot.
Those are men-stealers who abduct, keep,
sell, or buy slaves or freemen.-Grotius.
Where slavery is, there liberty cannot
and where liberty is, there slavery
cannot be.- Charles Summer.
It is observed by Homer that a man loses
half his virtue the day he becomes a slave ;
he might have added, with truth, that he
is likely to lose more than half when he be-
comes a slave-master.- Whately.
We can apply to slavery no worse name
than its own. Men have always shrunk
instinctively from this state, as the most de-
graded. No punishment, save death, has
been more dreaded ; and, to avoid it, death
has often been endured. Slavery virtually
dissolves the domestic relations. It rup-
tures the most sacred ties upon earth. It
violates home. It lacerates best affections ;
produces and gives license to cruelty; com-
pels the master systematically to degrade
the mind of the slave; and to resist that
improvement which is the design and end
of the Creator.-Millions may rise up and
tell me that the slave suffer's little from
cruelty. I know too much of human na-
ture, human history, and human passion,
to believe them.--Channing.
Those who carry on the traffic in human
flesh and blood ; those who steal a person
in order to sell him into bondage ; or those
who buy such stolen men or women; or the
nations who legalize or connive at such
traffic ; all these are men-stealers, and God
classes' them with the most flagitious of
mortals.-Adan Clarice.
The whole commerce between master and
slave is a perpetual exercise of the most
boisterous passions ; the most unremitting
despotism on the one part, and degrading
subinission on the other. The man must
be a prodigy who can retain his manners
and morals undepraved by such circum-
stances. The hour of emancipation must
come ; but whether it will be brought on
by the generous energies of our own minds,
or by the bloody scenes of St. Domingo, is
a leaf of our history not yet turned over.
The Almighty has no attribute which can
take sides with us in such a contest.-Jef-
ferson.
From my earliest youth I have regarded
slavery as a great moral and political evil.
-I think it unjust, repugnant to the nat-
ural equality of mankind, founded only in
superior power ; a standing and permanent
conquest by the stronger over the weaker.
All pretence of defending it on the ground
of different races, I have ever condemned,
and have even said that if the black race is
weaker, that is a reason against and not for
its subjection and oppression.-In a relig-
ious point of view, I have ever regarded and
spoken of it, not as subject to any express
denunciation, either in the Old Testament
or the New, but as opposed to the whole
spirit of the gospel, and to the teachings
of Jesus Christ. -The religion of Christ is
a religion of kindness, justice, and broth-
erly love :--but slavery is not kindly affec-
tionate ; it does not seek another's and not
its own; it does not let the oppressed go
free; it is but a continual act of oppression.
—Daniel Webster.
No one is a slave whose will is free,
Tyrius Marimus,
be;
SLEEP.
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SLOTH.
SLEEP,-(See “BED.")
Our foster-nurse of nature is repose.-
Shakespeare.
Blessings on him who first invented sleep.
-It covers a man all over, thoughts and
all, like a cloak.--It is meat for the hungry,
drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and
cold for the hot. It makes the shepherd
equal to the monarch, and the fool to the
wise.-There is but one evil in it, and that
is that it resembles death, since between a
dead man and a sleeping man there is but
little difference.- Cervantes.
“Sleep is so like death,” says Sir Thomas
Browne that I dare not trust myself to it
without prayer.” They both, when they
seize the body, leave the soul at liberty ;
and wise is he that remembers of both, that
they can be made safe and happy only by
virtue.-Sir W. Temple.
Sleep, to the homeless thou art home
the friendless find in thee a friend.- Eben-
ezer. Elliott.
Sleep, that knits up the ravell’d sleeve
of care ; the death of each day's life, sore
labor's bath ; balm of hurt minds; great
nature's second course ; chief nourisher in
life's feast.- Shakespeare.
Sleep is pain's easiest salve, and doth
fulfil all offices of death, except to kill.-
Donne.
Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy
slėep ; he, like the world, his ready visit
pays whcro fortune smiles-the wi'etched
he forsakes. - Young.
When tir'd with vain rotations of the
day, sleep winds us up for the succeeding
dawn.-Young.
In thee oppressors soothe their angry
brow ; in thee, th' oppress'd forget tyran-
nic pow'r; in thee, the wretch condemn'a
is equal to his judge; and the sad lover to
his cruel fair; nay, all the shining glories
men pursue, when thou art wanted, are but
empty noiso.Steele.
Sleep, the antechamber of the grave.-
Richter.
One hour's sleep before midnight, is
worth two after.-
Fielding.
Downy sleep, death's counterfeit. --Shake-
speare.
Put off thy cares with thy clothes, so
shall thy rest strengthen thy labor; and so
shall thy labor sweeten thy rest. —Quarles.
God gives sleep to the bad, in order that
the good may be undisturbed.-Saadi.
When one turns over in bed, it is time to
turn out.— Wellington.
Weariness can gnore upon the flint, when
restive sloth finds the down pillow hard.
Shalcespeare.
Leave your bed upon the first desertion
of sleep; it being ill for the eyes to read
lying, and worse for the mind to be idle
i
since the head during that laziness is com-
monly a cage for unclean thoughts.-F.
Osborn.
It is a shame when the church itself is a
cemetery, where the living sleep above the
ground, as the dead do beneath.–Fuller.
Sleep, the type of death, is also, like that
which it typifies, restricted to the earth.
It flies from hell, and is excluded from
heaven.-Colton.
Sleep, thou repose of all things; thou
gentlest of the deities ; thou peace of the
mind, from which care flies; who dost
soothe the hearts of men wearied with the
toils of the day, and refittest them for labor.
Ovid.
It is a delicious moment, certainly, that
of being well nestled in bed and feeling that
you shall drop gently to sleep. The good
is to come, not past; the limbs are tired
enough to render the remaining in one pos-
ture delightful; the labor of the day is
gone. A gentle failure of the perceptions
creeps over you; the spirit of conscious-
ness disengages itself once more, and with
slow and bushing degrees, like a mother
detaching her hand from that of a sleeping
child, the mind seems to have a balmy lid
closing over it, like the eye-it is closed-
the mysterious spirit has gone to take its
airy rounds.-Leigh Hunt.
SLOTH. --Sloth, like rust, consumes
faster than labor wears, while the key often
used is always bright.-Franklin.
Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes,
has also smothered many virtues. — Colton.
Flee sloth, for the indolence of the soul
is the decay of the body.-Cato.
Sloth makes all things difficult, but in-
dustry all easy; and he that riseth late
must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake
his business at night; while laziness travels
so slowly that poverty soon overtakes bim.
-Franklin.
Sloth is torpidity of the mental faculties ;
the sluggard is a living iusensible.--Zim-
mermann.
Many are idly busy.-Domitian was busy,
but then it was in catching flies.—Jeremy
Taylor
Excess is not the only thing that breaks
up
both health and enjoyment; many are
brought into a very ill and languishing
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a
A disagreeable smile distorts the lines of
beauty, and is more repulsive than a frown.
Lavater'.
A face that cannot smile is like a bud
that cannot blossom which dries up on the
stalk.-H. W. Beecher“.
habit of body by mere sloth, which is both
great sin, and the cause of many more.-
South.
Sloth never arrived at the attainment of
a good wish.—Cervantes.
SMILES.- A smile is the whisper of a
laugh.-- Child's Definition.
A face that cannot smile is never good.-
Martial.
Smiles from reason flow, to brute denied,
and are of love the food.-Milton.
A woman has two smiles that an angel
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.-Haliburton.
Those happiest smiles that played on her
ripe lips seemed not to know what guests
were in her eyes, which parted thence
as pearls from diamonds dropped.--Shake-
speare.
A smile is the color which love wears,
and cheerfulness, and joy—these three. It
is the light in the window of the face, by
which the heart signifies to father, hub-
band, or friend, that it is at home and
waiting.-H. W. Beecher.
What a sight there is in that word
"smile!" it changes like a chameleon.
There is a vacant smile, a cold smile, a
smile of hate, a satiric smile, an affected
smile ; but, above all, a smile of love.-
Haliburton.
A beautiful smile is to the female coun-
tenance what the sunbeam is to the land-
scape: it embellishes an inferior face, and
redeems an ugly one.—Lavater.
Something of a person's character may
be discovered by observing how he smiles.
---Some people never smile; they only grin.
- Bovee.
There are many kinds of smiles, each
having a distinct character. Some an-
nounce goodness and sweetness, others
betray sarcasm, bitterness, and pride;
some soften the countenance by their lan-
guishing tenderness, others brighten by
their spiritual vivacity.-Lavater.
Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob,
who are only pleased with silly things; for
true wit or good sense never excited a
laugh since the creation of the world. A
man of party and fashion, therefore, is
only seen to smile, but never heard' to
laugh.-Chesterfield.
Laughter is day, and sobriety is night;
a smile is the twilight that hovers gently
between both, more bewitching than either.
-H. W. Beecher.
SNEERING, The habit of sneering
marks the egotist, the fool, or the knave,
or all three.- Lavater.
There was a laughing devil in his sneer,
which raised emotions both of rage and
fear; and where his frown of hatred darkly
fell, hope withering fled, and mercy sighed
farewell.—Byron.
The most insignificant people are the
most apt to sneer at others. They are
safe from reprisals, and have no hope of
rising in their own esteem but by lowering
their neighbors.-- Hazlitt.
What would the nightingale care if the
toad despised her singing ? She would
still sing on, and leave the cold toad to his
dark shadows. And what care I for the
sneers of men who grovel upon earth? I
will -still sing on in the ear and bosom of
God.-H. W. Beecher.
A sneer is often the sign of heartless
malignity.--Lavater.
SNOBS.—He who forgets his own
friends meanly to follow after those of a
higher degree is a snob.-Thackeray.
Snobs in high places assume great airs,
and are pretentions in all they do, and the
higher their elevation, the more conspiciz-
ous is the incongruity of their position.-
$. Smiles.
A snob is one who is always pretending
to be something better-especially richer
or more fashionable than others.- Thack-
eray.
SOBRIETY.-Modesty and humility
are the sobriety of the mind; temperance
and chastity are the sobriety of the body.-
Winchcote.
SOCIETY,-Man is a social animal,
formed to please and enjoy in society.-
Montesquieu.
Society is the offspring of leisure ; and
to acquire this forms the only rational
motive for accumulating wealth, notwith-
standing the cant that prevails on the
subject of labor.–Tuckerman.
Man, in society, is like a flower blown in
its native bud. It is there only that his
faculties, expanded in full bloom, shine
out, there only reach their proper use.-
Cowper.
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We take our colors, chameleon-like, from
each other.-Chamfort.
There are four varieties in society; the
lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools.
The fools are the happiest.-Taine.
Society is a wall of very strong masonry,
as it now stands; it may be sapped in the
course of a thousand years, but stormed in
a day-no! You dash your head against
it--you scatter your brains, and you dis-
lodge a stone. Society smiles in scorn,
effaces the stain, and replaces the stone.-
Bulwer.
The code of society is stronger with some
persons than that of Sinai; and many a
man who would not scruple to thrust his
fingers in his neighbor's pocket, would:
forego pens rather than use his knife as a
shovel.-J. R. Lowell.
Society is composed of two great classes :
those who have more dinners than appetite,
and those who have more appetite than
dinners.— Chamfort.
Society is now one polished horde, formed
of two mighty tribes, the bores and bored.
-Byron.
Society undergoes continual changes ; it
is barbarous, it is civilized, it is Christian-
ized, it is rich, it is scientific ; but this
change is not ainelioration. For every-
thing that is given something is taken.
Society acquires new arts, and loses old
instincts. The civilized man has built a
coach, but has lost the use of his feet; he
has a fine Geneva watch, but cannot tell
the hour by the sun.-Emerson.
We are more sociable, and get on better
with people by the heart than the intellect.
Bruyère.
Men would not live long in society if they
were not the dupes of each other.-Roche-
foucauld.
Society is like a lawn, where every rough-
ness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated,
and where the eye is delighted by the smil-
ing verdure of a velvet surface. He, how-
ever, who would study nature in its vild-
ness and variety, must plunge into the
forest, must explore the glen, must stem the
torrent, and dare the precipice.- Washing-
ton Irving.
Society is the atmosphere of souls; and
we necessarily imbibe from it something
which is either infectious or healthful.-
Bp. Hall.
Besides the general infusion of wit to
heighten civility, the direct splendor of
intellectual power is ever welcome in fine
society, as the costliest addition to its rule
and its credit.-Emerson.
There is a sort of economy in Providence
that one shall excel where another is de-
fective, in order to make them more useful
to each other, and mix them in society. -
Addison.
It is certain that either wise bearing or
ignorant carriage is caught, as men take
diseases, one from another: therefore, let
all take heed as to the society in which they
mingle, for in a little while they will be
like it. -Rule of Life.
We are all a kind of chameleons, taking
our hue-the hue of our moral character,
from those who are about us.- Loclce.
To attain excellence in society, an assem-
blage of qualifications is requisite : dis-
ciplined intellect, to think clearly, and to
clothe thought with propriety and ele-
gance; knowledge of human nature, to suit
subject to character ; true politeness, to
prevent giving pain ; a deep sense of mor-
ality, to preserve the dignity of speech;
and a spirit of benevolence, to neutralize
its asperities, and sanctify its powers.-
Mrs. Sigourney.
Hail, social life ! into thy pleasing
bounds I come to pay the common stock,
my share of service, and, in glad return,
to taste thy comforts, thy protected joy8.-
Thorison.
Disagreeing in little things and agreeing
in great ones is what forms and keeps up a
commerce of society and friendship among
reasonable men, and among unreasonable
men breaks it.
The history of any private family, how-
ever humble, conld it be fully related for
five or six generations, would illustrate the
state and progress of society better than
the most elaborate dissertation.-Southey.
There exists a strict relation between
the class of power and the exclusive and
polished circles. The last are always filled,
or filling from the first. Fashion, though
in a strange way, represents all manly vir-
tue. It is virtue gone to seed; a kind of
posthumous honor; a hall of the past.
Great men are not commonly in its balls :
they are absent in the field: they are
working, not triumphing. Fashion is made
up of their children.---Emerson.
Society is no comfort to one not sociable.
Shakespeare.
From social intercourse are derived some
of the highest enjoyments of life ; where
there is a free interchange of sentiments
the mind acquires new ideas, and by a fre-
quent exercise of its powers, the under-
standing gains fresh vigor.--Addison.
The secret of success in society is a cer-
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tain heartiness and sympathy. A man who
is 2200 happy in company, cannot find any
word in his memory that will fit the occa-
sion; all his information is a little imperti-
nent. A man who is happy there, finds in
every turn of the conversation occasions
for the introduction of what he has to say.
The favorites of society are able men, and
of more spirit than wit, who have no un-
comfortable egotism, but who exactly fill
the hour and the company, contented and
contenting.-Emerson.
Without good company all dainties lose
their true relish, and like painted grapes,
are only seen, not tasted.-Massinger.
It is not good or safe for man to be alone.
A good heart wants something to be kind
to ; and the best parts of our blood, and
the purest of our spirits suffer most under
the destitution.--Sterne,
Evil company, beside that it blemisheth
our reputation, and makes us think evil
though we be good, also inclines us insen-
sibly to ill, and works in us, if not an ap-
probation, yet a less dislike to those sins to
which our eyes and ears are thus continu-
ally inured. For this reason, by the grace
of God, I will ever shun it. I may have a
bad acquaintance ; but I will never have a
wicked companion.-Bp. Hall.
I cannot be certain not to meet with evil
company, but I will be careful not to keep
with evil company, and if my companion
cannot make me better, nor I him good, I
will rather leave him ill than he shall make
me worse.- Arthur Warwick.
Every man depends on the quantity of
sense, wit, or good manners be brings into
society for the reception he meets with in
it.--Hazlitt.
No company is preferable to bad, because
we are more apt to catch the vices of others
than their virtues, as disease is far more
contagious than health.-Colton.
Too elevated qualities often unfit a man
for society. We do not go to market with
ingots, but with silver and small change.-
Chamfort.
Society--the only field where the sexes
have ever met on terms of equality, the
arena where character is formed and stud-
ied, the cradle and the realni of public
opinion, the crucible of ideas, the world's
university, at once a school and a theatre,
the spur and the crown of ambition, the
tribunal which unmasks pretension and
stamps real merit, the power that gives
government leave to be, and outruns the
lazy church in fixing the moral sense.-
Wendell Phillips
There is no security in evil society, where
the good are often made worse, the bad
seldom better.-Birds of a feather use to
flock together._Such commonly doth their
conversation make us as they are with
whom we use to converse.-Arthur War.
wick.
Christian society is like a bundle of
sticks laid together, whereof one kindles
another. Solitary men have fewest provo-
cations to evil, but, again, fewest incita-
tions to good. So much as doing good is
better than not doing evil will I account
Christian good-fellowship better than an
hermitish and melancholy solitariness.
Bp. Hall.
It is in the middle classes of society that
all the finest feeling, and the most amiable
propensities of our nature do principally
flourish and abound. For the good opinion
of our fellow-men is the strongest, though
not the purest motive to virtue. The pri-
vations of poverty render us too cold and
callous, and the privileges of property too
arrogant and consequential, to feel ; the
first places us beneath the influence of
opinion-the second, above it.--Colton.
Society, if good, is a better refiner of the
spirits tban ordinary books.-F. Osborn.
Reject the society of the vicious; shun
the agreeable infidel and the accomplished
profligate. Lay it down as a fixed rule,
that no brilliancy of connection, no allure-
ment of rank or fashion, no agreeableness,
no wit or flattery, shall tempt you to asso-
ciate with profligate or openly irreligious
men.-Gresley.
Society has only one law, and that is cus-
tom.-Even religion is socially powerful
only so far as it has custom on its side.-
Hamerton.
What an argument in favor of social
connections is the observation that, by
communicating our grief we have less,
and by communicating our pleasures we
have more.-Greville.
Let him who expects one class of society
to prosper in the highest degree, while the
other is in distress, try whether one sido
of his face can smile while the other is
pinched.-Fuller.
Socialism is only a blind yearning after
liberty and equality. It is the unsteady
and brilliant dream of an earthly republio
which can be realized only in the true
Church of God.-F. D. Huntington.
SOLDIER.-A soldier seeking the bubs
ble reputation even in the cannon's mouth,
-Shakespeare.
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Policy goes beyond strength, and con-
trivance before action; hence it is that
direction is left to the commander, and
execution to the soldier, who is not to ask
Why? but to do what he is commanded.
Xenophon.
Soldiers are the only caruiverous animals
that live in a gregarious state.-Zimmer-
mann.
Soldiers that carry their lives in their
hands, should carry the grace of God in
their hearts.-Baxter.
A soldier, & mere tool, a kind of human
sword in a fiend's hand ; the other is mas-
ter-mover of this warlike puppet.- Byron.
Ignorance, poverty, and vanity make
many soliers, - Zinimermann.
Dost thou know the fate of soldiers ?
They are but ambition's tools, to cut a way
to ber unlawful ends.-And when they are
worn, hacked, hewa with constant service,
thrown aside, to rust in peace and rot in
hospitals.-Southern.
Without a home must the soldier go, a
changeful wanderer, and can warm bimself
at no home-lit hearth.--Schiller.
Soldiers looked at as they ought to be
are to the world as poppies to cornfields.
Douglas Jerrold.
SOLITUDE.-A wise man is never less
alone than when he is alone.-Swift.
If the mind loves solitude, it has thereby
acquired a loftier character, and it becomes
still more noble when the taste is indulged
in.-W. Humboldt.
It had been hard to have put more truth
and untruth together in a few words than
in that speech, “Whosoever is delighted
with solitude is either a wild beast or a
god."-Bacon.
It has been said that he who retires to
solitude is either a beast or an angel; the
censure is too severe, and the praise un-
merited: the discontented being, who re-
tires from society, is generally some good-
natured man, who has begun his life with-
out experience, and knew not how to gain
it in his intercourse with mankind.-Gold-
smith.
Those beings only are fit for solitude,
who like nobody, and are liked by nobody.
--Zinimermann.
That which happens to the soil when it
ceases to be cultivated, happens to man
himself when he foolishly forsakes society
for solitude ; the brambles grow up in his
desert heart.- Rivarol.
In solitude the mind gains strength, and
learns to lean upon itself ; in the world it
seeks or accepts of a few treacherous sup-
ports--the feigned compassion of one, the
flattery of a second, the civilities of a third,
the friendship of a fourth; they all de-
ceive, and bring the mind back to retire-
ment, reflection, and books.-Sterne.
No doubt solitude is wholesome, but so
is abstinence after a surfeit. The true life
of man is in society.—Simms.
Conversation enriches the understand-
ing, but solitude is the school of genius.-
Gibbon.
Living a good deal alone will, I believe,
correct me of my faults ; for a man can do
without his own approbation in society,
but he must make great exertions to gain
it when he lives alone. Without it I am
convinced solitude is not to be endured.-
Sydney Smith.
An entire life of solitude contradicts the
purpose of our being, since death itself is
scarcely an idea of more terror.-- Burke.
Half the pleasure of solitude comes from
having with us some friend to whom we
can say how sweet solitude is.-W. Jay.
Solitude is a good school, but the world
is the best theatre; the institution is best
there, but the practice here; the wilder-
ness hath the advantage of discipline, and
society opportunities of perfection.
Jeremy Taylor.
Leisure and solitude are the best effect
of riches, because mother of thought.
Both are avoided by most rich men, who
seek company and business; which are
signs of their being weary of themselves.
Sir. W. Tenple.
Solitude is not measured by the miles of
space that intervene between a man and
his fellows. The really diligent student in
one of the crowded hives of a college is as
solitary as a dervis in the desert.-Thoreau.
If from society we learn to live, it is
solitude should teach us how to die.
Byron.
One hour of thoughtful solitude may
nerve the heart for days of conflict-gird-
ing upits armor to meet the most insidious
foe. -Percival.
Solitude is the audience chamber of God.
-L. E. Landon.
Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a
grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie,
where all good qualities grow sick and die.
--Cowper.
Amid the crowd, the hum, the shock of
inen, to hear, to see, to feel, and to possess,
and roam along, the world's tired denizen,
with none to bless us, none whom we can
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bles8 ; this is to be alone ; this, this is sol-
itude.—Byron.
Those are never alone who are accom-
panied by noble thoughts.—Sir P. Sidney.
Solitude is dangerous to reason without
being favorable to virtue. Pleasures of
some sort are necessary to the intellectual
as to the corporal health, and those who
resist gayety will be likely for the most
part to fall a sacrifice to appetite.--The
golitary person is certainly luxurious, prob-
ably superstitious, and possibly mad. The
mind stagnates for want of employment,
and is extinguished like a candle in foul
air.-Johnson,
To be exempt from the passions with
which others are tormented, is the only
pleasing solitude.-Addison.
Solitude has but one disadvantage; it is
apt to give one too high an opinion of one's
seif. In the world we are sure to be often
reminded of every known or supposed de-
fect we may have.- Byron.
Through the wide world he only is alone
who lives not for another.-Rogers.
It is easy, in the world, to live after the
world's opinion; it is easy, in solitude, to
live after your own ; but the great man is
he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps
with perfect sweetness the independence
of solitude.—Emerson.
The love of retirement has in all ages ad-
hered closely to those minds which have
been most enlarged by knowledge, or ele-
vated by genius. Those who enjoyed every-
thing generally supposed to confer happi-
ness have been forced to seek it in the shades
of privacy.-Johnson.
Solitude is one of the highest enjoyments
of which our nature is susceptible. It is
also, when too long continued, capable of
being made the most severe, indescribable,
unen durable source of anguish.—Deloreine.
Solitude is sometimes best society, and
gliort retirement urges sweet return.
Milton.
Oh ! lost to virtue, lost to manly thought,
lost to the noble sallies of the soul, who
think it solitude to be alone. Young.
Solitude bears the same relation to the
mind that sleep does to the body. It af-
fords it the necessary opportunities for re-
pose and recovery.--Simms.
How sweet, how passing sweet, is soli-
tude ! but grant me still a friend in my
retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is
sweet.-Cowper.
O sacred solitude ! divine retreat! choice
of the prudent ! envy of the great! by thy
pure stream, or in thy waving shade, we
court fair wisdom.-Young.
Solitude shows us what we should be ;
society shows us what we are.-Cecil.
We ought not to isolate ourselves, for
we cannot remain in a state of isolation,
Social intercourse makes us the more able
to bear with ourselves and with others.
Goethe.
I love to be alone. I never found the
companion that was so companionable as
solitude. --Thoreau.
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods ;
there is a rapture on the lonely shore ;
there is society, where none intrudes, by
the deep sea, and music in its roar.
Byron.
Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, ia
to genius the stern friend, the cold, obscure
shelter where moult the wings which will
bear it farther than suns and stars. He
who would inspire and lead his lace must
be defended from traveling with the souls
of other men, from living, breathing, read-
ing, and writing in the daily, time-worn
yoke of their opinions.—Emerson.
Solitude cherishes great virtues and de-
stroys little ones.-Sydney Smith.
In solitude, where we are least alone.-
Byron.
What would a man do if he were com-
pelled to live always in the sultry heat of
society, and could never better himself in
cool solitude ? --Hawthorne.
Unsociable humors are contracted in
solitude, which will, in the end, not fail of
corrupting the understanding as well as
the manners, and of utterly disqualifying
a man for the satisfactions and duties of
life. Men must be taken as they are, and
we neither make them or ourselves better
by flying from or quarrelling with them.-
Burle.
In the world a man lives in his own ago;
in solitude in all ages.— W. Mathews.
Converse with men makes sharp the
glittering wit, but God to man doth speak
in solitude.-J. S. Blacície.
Until I truly loved I was alone.-Mrs.
Norton.
This sacred shade and solitude, what is
it? It is the felt presence of the Deity.-
Few are the faults we flatter when alone.-
By night an atheist half believes a God.
-Young.
Solitude and company may be allowed to
take their turns: the one creates in us the
love of mankind, the other that of our-
selves ; solitude relieves us when we are
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sick of company, and conversation when
we are weary of being alone, so that the
one cures the other. There is no nian so
miserable as he that is at a loss how to use
his time.-Seneca.
SONG:-(See “BALLADS.")
A careless song, with a little nonsense in
it now and then, does not misbecome a
monarch.-Horace Walpole.
A song will outlive all sermons in the
memory.-H. Giles.
Little dew-drops of celestial melody.-
Carlyle.
It was his nature to blossom into song,
as it is a tree's to leaf itself in April.-
Alexander Smith.
The best days of the church have always
been its singing days.-T. L. Cuyler.
SOPHISTRY.The age of chivalry is
gone; that of sophisters, economists, and
calculators has succeeded.-Burke.
Sophistry is like a window curtain-it
pleases as an ornament, but its true use is
to keep out the light.
Sophistry, like poison, is at once detected
and pauseated, when presented to us in a
concentrated form; but a falacy which,
when stated barely in a few sentences,
would not deceive a child, may deceive half
the world, if diluted in a quarto volume.--
Whately.
Some men weave their sophistry till their
own reason is entangled.-Johnson.
To reason justly from a false principle is
the perfection of sophistry, which it is
more difficult to expose than to refute false
reasoning.--The proper way to expose its
errors is to show that just and conclusive
reasonings have been built on some false or
absurd principle.-mmons.
The juggle of sophistry consists, for the
most part, in using a word in one sense in
the premises, and in another sense in the
conclusion.- Coleridge.
SORROW.-On the sands of life sor-
row treads heavily, and leaves a print time
cannot wash away.-H. Neele.
Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul
which every new idea contributes in its
passage to scour away. It is the putre-
faction of stagnant life, and is remedied
by exercise and motion.—Johnson.
Sorrow breaks season, and reposing
hours ; makes the night morning, and the
noontide night.—Shakespeare.
Never morning wore to evening, but
bome heart did break.--Tennyson.
The deeper the sorrow the less tongue it
has.- Talnud. .
To forecast our sorrows is only to in-
crease the suffering without increasing our
strength to bear them.-Many of life's
noblest enterprises might never have been
undertaken if all the difficulties and de-
fects could be foreseen.-T. L. Cuyler.
The happiest, sweetest, tenderest homes
are not those where there has been no
sorrow, but those which have been over-
shadowed with grief, and where Christ's
comfort was accepted. The very memory
of the sorrow is a gentle benediction that
broods ever over the household, like the
silence that comes after prayer. There is
a blessing sent from God in every burden
of sorrow.-J. R. Miller,
Sorrows are our best educators. A man
can see further through a tear than a tele-
scope.
Grief should be the instructor of the
wise ; sorrow is knowledge; they who
know the most must mourn the deepest o'er
the fatal truth,—the tree of knowledge is
not that of life.- Byron.
With sorrow comes experience, and that
cruel knowledge of life which teaches us to
guard against our hopes.-E. Gaboriau.
It is the veiled angel of sorrow who
plucks away one thing and another that
bound us here in ease and security, and,
in the vanishing of these dear objects, in-
dicates the true home of our affections and
our peace.-E. H. Chapin.
The path of sorrow, and that path alone,
leads to the land where sorrow is unknown;
no traveller ever reached that blessed abode
who found not thorns and briers in his
road.-Cowper.
Wherever souls are being tried and
ripened, in whatever commonplace and
homely way, there God is hewing out the
pillars for His temple. Phillips Brooks.
Earth hath no sorrow that heaven cannot
heal.-Moore.
The mind profits by the wreck of every
passion, and we may measure our road to
wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.
- Bulwer.
Sorrow preys upon its solitude, and
nothing more diverts it from its sad visions
of the other world, than calling it at
moments back to this. The busy have no
time for tears.- Byron.
Give sorrow.words : the grief, that does
not speak, whispers the o'erfraught heart,
and bids it break.-Shakespeare.
He that hath so many and great causes
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SORROW.
:
of joy, and yet is in love with sorrow
and peevishness, deserves to starve in the
midst of plenty, and to want comfort while
he is encircled with blessings.-Jeremy
Taylor.
Sorrow is the handmaid of God, not of
Satan.-She would lead us, as she did the
Psalmist, to say, “Who will show us any
good?” that after having said this we may
also say with him, “Lord, lift thou the
light of thy countenance upon us."--A. S.
Hardy.
Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp
sustaining ; though woe be heavy, yet it
seldom sleeps, and they who watch, see
time how slow'it creeps.-Shakespeare.
He that hath pity on-another man's sor-
row shall be free from it himself; and he
that delighteth in, and scorneth the misery
of another shall one time or other fall into
it himself.-- Sir W. Raleigh.
The man who has learned to triumph
over sorrow wears his miseries as though
they were sacred fillets upon his brow, and
nothing is so admirable as a man bravely
wretched.–Seneca.
The violence of sorrow is not at the first
to be striven withal; being, like a mighty
beast, sooner tamed with following than
overthrown by withstanding.-Sir P. Sid-
ney.
Sorrows remembered sweeten present
joy.-Pollolc.
One can never be the judge of another's
grief. That which is a sorrow to one, to
another is joy. Let us not dispute with
any one concerning the reality of his suf-
ferings; it is with sorrows as with coun-
tries-each man has his own.- Chateau-
briand
Whole years of joy glide unperceived
away, while sorrow counts the minutes as
they pass.- Havard.
Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts ;
yet if men encourage melancholy too much,
they become no better than beasts.-Cer-
vantes.
An excess of sorrow is as foolislı as pro-
fuse laughter ; while, on the other hand,
not to mourn at all is insensibility.-
Seneca.
Our sorrows are like thunder-clouds,
which seem black in the distance, but
grow lighter as they approach.-Richter.
One sorror never comes but brings an
heir that inay succeed as his inheritor.-
Shalcespeare.
Thou canst not tell how rich a dowry
sorrow gives the soul, how firm a faith and
eagle sight of God.-Alford.
Out of suffering have emerged the strong-
est souls ; the most massive characters are
seaned with scars ; martyrs have put on
their coronation robes glittering with fire,
and through their tears have the sorrow-
ful first seen the gates of heaven.-E. E.
Chapin.
We tell our triumphs to the crowd, but our
own hearts are the sole confidants of our
sorrows.- Bulwer.
The deeper the sorrow the less tongue it
hath.-Talnud.
Social sorrow loses half its pain.—John-
son.
If grief is to be mitigated, it must either
wear itself out, or be shared.-Mad. Swet-
chine.
Time will do much for sorrow; pride,
perhaps, more.--Hoffman.
The sorrow which calls for help and com-
fort is not the greatest, nor does it come
from the depths of the heart.-W. Hum-
boldt.
Sorrow is sin's echo, and as the echo an-
swers the voice best where there are broken
walls and ruined buildings to return it, so
is sorrow when reverberated by a broken,
ruined heart.--Philip Henry.
Even by means of our sorrows we belong
to the eternal plan.-W. Funboldt.
Take all sorrow out of life, and you take
away all richness, and depth, and tender-
Sorrow is the furnace that melts
selfish hearts together in love.
The capacity of sorrow belongs to our
grandeur; and the loftiest of our race are
those who have had the profoundest griefs
because they have had the profoundest
sympathies. — Henry Giles. .
Sorrow is Mount Sinai, if one will but go
UP
and talk with God face to face.-H. W.
Beecher.
Sorrows gather around great souls as
storms do around mountains ; but, like
them, they break the storm and purify the
air of the plain beneath them.-Richter'.
Most of the beatitudes which infinite
compassion pronounced, have the sorrow
of earth for their subject, but the joys of
heaven for their completion.-H. More.
We may learn from children how large a
part of onr grievances is imaginary. But
the pain is just as real.- Bovee.
Every noble crown is, and on earth will
ever be a crown of thorns.-Carlyle.
Sorrows humanize our race ; tears are
the showers that fertilize the world. Owen
Meredith.
ness.
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nance.
Light griefs do speak, while sorrow's
tongue is bound.-Seneca.
A small sorrow distracts; a great one
makes us collected.--Richter.
Sorrows are often like clouds, which,
though black when they are passing over
us, when they are past, become as if they
were the garments of God, thrown off in
purple and gold along the sky.-- H. W.
Beecher.
Has it never occurred to us, when sur-
rounded by sorrows, that they may be sent
to us only for our instruction, as we darken
the eyes of birds when we wish them to
sing r-Richter.
Sorrow is our John the Baptist, clad in
grim garments, with rough arms, a son of
the wilderness, baptizing us with bitter
tears, preaching repentance; and behind
him comes the gracious, affectionate, heal-
ing Lord, speaking peace and joy to the
soul.-F. 'D. Huntington.
Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in
the oratorio of our blessedness. -- A. J.
Gordon.
Sorrow is not an accident, occurring now
and then. It is the woof which is woven
into the warp of life, and he who has not
discerned the divine sacredness of sorrow,
and the profound meaning which is con-
cealed in pain, has yet to learn what life is.
The cross, manifested as the necessity of
the highest life, alone interprets it.-F.W.
Robertson.
Alas! by some degree of woe, we every
bliss must gain ; the heart can ne'er a
transport know that never feels a pain.---
Lytlleton.
The sorrows of a noble soul are as May
frosts, which precede the milder seasons ;
but the sorrows of a hardened, lost soul,
are as the autumn frosts, which foretell but
the coming of winter.---Richter.
SOUL.-(See "IMMORTALITY.")
What is mind? No matter.
No matter. What is
matter? Never mind. What is the soul?
It is immaterial.-Hood.
Whatever that be which thinks, which
understands, which wills, which acts, it is
something celestial and divine, and on that
account must necessarily be eternal.--
Cicero.
Either we have an immortal soul, or we
have not. If we have not, we are beasts ;
the first and wisest of beasts it may be ;
but still beasts. We only differ in degree,
and not in kind ; just as the elephant differs
from the slug. But by the concession of
the materialists, we are not of the same kind
as beasts; and this also we say from our
own consciousness. Therefore, methinks,
it must be the possession of a soul within
us that makes the difference.- Coleridge.
The problem of restoring to the world
original and eternal beauty is solved by
the redemption of the soul. -Emerson.
The soul, of origin divine, God's glorious
image, freed from clay, in heaven's
eternal
sphere shall shine, a star of day !—The sun
is but a spark of fire, a transient meteor in
the sky; the soul immortal as its sire, shall
never die.-Montgomery.
The soul on earth is an immortal guest,
compelled to starve at an unreal feast; á
pilgrim panting for the rest to come ; an
exile, anxious for his native home. H.
More.
The intellect of man sits visibly enthroned
upon his forehead and in his eye, and the
heart of man is written upon his counte-
But the soul reveals itself in the
voice only, as God revealed Himself to the
prophet of old in the still small voice, and
in the voice from the burning bush.-Long-
fellow.
The soul, considered with its Creator, is
like one of those mathematical lines that
may draw nearer to another for all eternity
without a possibility of touching it; and can
there be a thought so transporting as to
consider ourselves in these perpetual ap-
proaches to Him, who is not only the stand-
ard of perfection, but of happiness ?-Ad-
dison.
I consider the soul of man as the ruin of
a glorious pile of buildings; where, amidst
great heaps of rubbish, you meet with noble
fragments of sculpture, broken pillars and
obelisks, and a magnificence in confusion.
-Steele.
The human soul is like a bird that is born
in a cage. Nothing can deprive it of its
natural longings, or obliterate the myste-
rious remembrance of its heritage.- Epes
Sargent.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how
much it can feel ; its poverty by how little.
- W. R. Alger.
Heaven-born, the soul a heavenward
course must hold ; beyond the world she
soars ; the wise man, I affirm, can find no
rest in that which perishes, nor will he lend
his heart to aught that doth on time de-
pend.--Michael Angelo.
Had I no other proof of the immortality
of the soul than the oppression or the just
and the triumph of the wicked in this
world, this alone would prevent my having
the least doubt of it. So shocking a dis-
ject to error than their theories and specu-
SOUL.,
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SPECULATION.
cord amidst a general harmony of things SOUND.-There is in souls a sympathy
would make me naturally look for a cause ; with sounds, and as the wind is pitched
I should say to myself we do not cease to the ear is pleased with melting airs or
exist with this life ; everything reassumes martial, brisk or grave; some chord in
its order after death.-Rousseau.
unison with what we hear is touched within
Little, indeed, does it concern us in this us, and the heart replies.—Cowper.
our mortal stage, to inquire whence the Undescribed sounds, that come a-swoon-
spirit hath come ; but of what infinite con- ing over hollow grounds, and wither
cern is the consideration whither it is going. drearily on barren moors.-
Keats.
Surely such consideration demands the
How deep is the magic of sound may be
study of a life.--Southey.
learned by breaking some sweet verses into
The body, that is but dust; the soul, it prose. The operation has been compared
is a bud of eternity.-N. Culverwell.
to gathering dew-drops, which shine like
Where are Shakespeare's imagination, jewels upon the flower, but run into water
Bacon's learning, Galileo's dream? Where in the hand. The elements remain, but
is the sweet fancy of Sidney, the airy spirit the sparkle is gone.- Willmott.
of Fletcher, and Milton's thought severe? Stern winter loves a dirge-like sound.-
Methinks such things should not die and
Wordsworth.
dissipate, when a hair can live for cen-
turies, and a brick of Egypt will last three
Not rural sights alone, but rural sounds
thousand years. I am content to believe
exhilarate the spirits, and restore the tone
that the mind of man survives, somehow
of languid nature. Mighty winds, that
or other, his clay.-Barry Cornwall.
sweep the skirts of some far-spreading
wood of ancient growth, make music not
It seems to me as if not only the form
unlike the dash of ocean on his winding
but the soul of man was made to walk
shore, and lull the spirit while they fill the
erect and look upon the stars.—Bulwer.
mind.—Cowper.
To look upon the soul as going on from
Verse sweetens toil, however rude the
strength to strength, to consider that she
sound.--Gifford.
is to shine forever with new accessions of
The sound must seem an echo to the
glory, and brighten to all eternity ; that
she will be still adding virtue to virtue,
sense.—Pope.
and knowledge to knowledge,-carries in
SPECIALTY,-A man is like a bit of
it something wonderfully agreeable to that
ambition which is natural to the mind of
Labrador spar, which has no lustre as you
turn it in your hand until you come to a
man.-Addison.
particular angle; then it shows deep and
The mind is never right but when it is beautiful colors. There is no adaptation
at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven
or universal applicability in men, but each
even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged
has his special talent, and the mastery of
of its natural corruptions, and taken up successful men consists in adroitly keeping
with divine thoughts and contemplations, themselves where and when that turu shall
- Seneca.
be oftenest to be practised.- Emerson.
I am fully convinced that the soul is
No one can exist in society without some
indestructible, and that its activity will
specialty. Eighty years ago it was only
continue through eternity. It is like the
necessary to be well dressed and amiable ;
sun, which, to our eyes, seems to set in
to-day a man of this kind would be too
night; but it has in reality only gone to
diffuse its light elsewhere.- Goethe.
much like the garçons at the cafés.—Taine.
Let every one ascertain his special busi-
Everything here, but the soul of man, is
a passing shadow. -The only enduring sub-
ness or calling, and then stick to it, if he
would be successful.--Franklin.
stance is within. When shall we awake
to the sublime greatness, the perils, the SPECULATION.-Many brilliant spec-
accountableness, and the glorious destinies ulations are but shining soap bubbles,
of the immortal'soul ?- Channing.
which turn to nothing as you gaze at them.
The saddest of all failures is that of a The besetting evil of our age is the
soul, with its capabilities and possibilities, temptation to squander and dilute thought
failing of life everlasting, and entering on on a thousand different lines of inquiry.-
that night of death upon which no morning Sir John Herschel.
ever dawns.--Herrick Johnson.
The practices of good men are more sub-
Life is the soul's nursery-its training
place for the destinies of eternity.--Thacic- lations.-I will then honor good examples,
eray.
but I will live by good precepts.
SPEECH.
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SPEECH.
A wise man was he who counselled that
speculation should have free course, and
look fearlessly toward all the thirty-two
points of the compass, whithersoever and
howsoever it listed.-Carlyle.
Conjecture as to things useful is good;
but conjecture as to what it would be use-
less to know, such as whether men over
went upon all-fours, is very idle.-Johnson.
SPEECH. - (See “TONGUE" and
"TALKING.”)
Speech is a faculty given to man to con-
ceal his thoughts.— Talleyrand.
A superior man is modest in his speech,
but exceeds in his actions.-Confucius.
According to Solomon, life and death are
in the power of the tongue ; and as Eu-
ripides truly affirmeth, every unbridled
tongue in the end shall find itself unfor-
tunate ; in all that ever I observed I ever
found that men's fortunes are oftener
made by their tongues than by their vir-
tues, and more men's fortunes overthrown
thereby, also, than by their vices.-Sir
Walter Raleigh.
Speeches cannot be made long enough
for the speakers, nor short enough for the
hearers. -Perry.
It is usually said by grammarians, that
the use of language is to express our wants
and desires ; but men who know the world
hold that he who best knows how to keep
his necessities private, is the most likely
person to have them redressed; and that
the true use of speech is not so much to
express our wants as to conceal them.-
Goldsmith.
There is a wide difference between speak-
ing to deceive, and being silent to be im-
penetrable.- Vollaire.
Never is the deep, strong voice of man,
or the low; sweet voice of woman, finei
than in the earnest but mellow tones of
familiar speech, richer than the richest
music, which are a delight while they are
heard, which linger still upon the car ini
softened echoes, and which, when they
have ceased, come, long after, back to
memory, like the murmurs of a distant
hymn.-Henry Giles.
Half the sorrows of women would be
averted if they could repress the speech
they know to be useless-nay, the speech
they have resolved not to utter.-George
Eliot.
The common fluency of speech in many
men, and most women, is owing to a
scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words ;
for whoever is a master of lauguage and
has a mind full of ideas, will be apt in
speaking to hesitate upon the choice of
both; whereas common speakers have only
one set of ideas, and one set of words to
clothe them in; and these are always ready
at the mouth; so people come faster out of
a church when it is almost empty, than
when a crowd is at the door.-Swift.
It was justly said by Themistocles that
speech is like tapestry unfolded, where the
imagery appears distinct; but thoughts,
like tapestry in the bale, where the figures
are rolled up together. -Bacon.
Sheridan once said of some speech, in
his acute, sarcastic way, that“ it contained
a great deal both of what was new and
what was true ; but that what was new was
not true, and what was true was not new.'
Hazlitt.
There are three things that ought to be
considered before some things are spoken,
-the manner, the place, and the time.-
Southey.
Nothing is more silly than the pleasure
some people take in "speaking their
minds. A man of this make will say a
rude thing, for the mere pleasure of saying
it, when an opposite behavior, full as in-
nócent, might have preserved' his friend,
or made his fortune.- Steele.
A printed speech is like a dried flower :
the substance, indeed, is there, but the
color is faded and the perfume gone.-
Lorain.
A sentence well couched takes both the
sense and the understanding.- I love not
those cart-rope speeches that are longer
than the memory of man can measure. -
Feltham.
Never rise to speak till you have some-
thing to say; and when you have said it,
- Witherspoon.
We seldom repent of speaking little, very
often of speaking too much; a vulgar and
trite maxiin, which all the world knows,
but which all the world does not practise.-
Bruyère.
Such as thy words are, such will thine
affections be esteemed ; and such as thine
affections, will be thy deeds; and such as
thy decds will be thy life.---Socrates.
A constant governance of our speech,
according to duty and reason, is a high
instance and a special argument of a thor-
oughly sincere and solid goodness.--Bar-
cease.
70W.
Think all you speak, but speak not all
you think.–Thoughts are your own ; your
words are so no more.-Delany.
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STARS.
Speech is silvern, silence is golden;
speech is human, silence is divine.-Ger-
man Provery.
Discretion of speech is more than elo-
quence; and to speak agreeably to him
with whom we deal is more than to speak
in good words, or in good order.- Bacon.
Speak but little and well if you would be
esteemed a man of merit.-Trench.
As a vessel is known by the sound,
whether it be cracked or not, so men are
proved by their speeches whether they be
wise or foolish.-Demosthenes.
There are three things to aim at in
public speaking; first to get into your
subject, then to get your subject into your-
self, and lastly, to get your subject into
your hearers.-Bp. Gregg.
A good speech is a good thing, but the
verdict is the thing.-Daniel O'Connell.
SPIRIT.-Spirit is now a very fashion-
able word ; to act with spirit, to speak with
spirit, means only to act rashly, and to talk
indiscreetly. An able man shows his spirit
by gentle words and resolute actions ; he
is neither hot nor timid.— Chesterfield.
He that loseth wealth, loseth much ; he
that loseth friends, loseth more ; but he
that loseth his spirits loseth all. -- Spanish
Maxim.
A man of a right spirit is not a man of nar-
row and private views, but is greatly inter-
ested and concerned for the good of the
community to which he belongs, and par-
ticularly of the city or village in which he
resides, and for the true welfare of the so-
ciety of which he is a member.-Jonathan
Edwards.
It is impossible that an ill-natured man
can have a public spirit; for how should he
love ten thousand men, who never loved
one ?
High spirit in man is like a sword, which,
though worn to annoy his enemies, yet is
often troublesome to his friends : he can
hardly wear it so inoffensively but it is apt
to incommode one or other of the company :
it is more properly a loaded pistol, which
accident alone may fire and kill one.--
Shenstone.
He hath a poor spirit who is not planted
above petty wrongs.-Feltham.
SPRING.--Winter, lingering, chills the
lap of May.- Goldsmith.
Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the
laughing soil.--Heber.
So then the year is repeating its old story
again. We are come once more, thank God!
to its most charming chapter. The violets
and the Mayflowers are as its inscriptions or
vignettes. It always makes a pleasant im-
pression on us, when we open again at these
pages of the book of life. - Goethe.
Stately spring! whose robe-folds are
valleys, whose breast-bouquet is gardens,
and whose blush is a vernal evening.-
Richter.
If spring came but once in a century, in-
stead of once a year, or burst forth with the
sound of an earthquake, and not in silence,
what wonder and expectation there would
be in all hearts to behold the miraculous
change! But now the silent succession
suggests nothing but necessity. To most
men only the cessation of the miracle would
be miraculous, and the perpetual exercise
of God's power seems less wonderful than
its withdrawal would be.- Longfellow.
Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses,
a box where sweets compacted lie.—Her-
bert.
Wide flush the fields; the softening air
is balı; echo the mountains round; the
forest smiles ; and every sense, and every
heart is joy.-Thomson.
Sweet daughter of a rough and stormy
sire, hoar winter's blooming child, delight-
ful spring.-Mrs. Barbauld.
Ye may trace my step o'er the wakening
earth, by the winds which tell of the vio-
let's birth.-Mrs. Hemans.
Fair-handed spring unbosoms every
grace.-Thomson.
Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the
trees, rocked in the cradle of the western
breeze.-Cowper.
STARS.-Ye stars, that are the poetry
of heaven !-- Byron.
When I gaze into the stars, they look
down upon me with pity from their serene
and silent spaces, like eyes glistening with
tears over the little lot of man. Thousands
of generations, all as noisy as our owi),
have been swallowed up by time, and there
remains no record of them any more. Yet
Arcturus and Orion, Sirius and Pleiades,
are still shining in their courses, clear and
young, as when the shepherd first noted
them in the plain of Shivar ! Carlyle.
If the stars should appear one night in a
thousand years, how would men believe
and adore ; and preserve for many gener-
ations the remembrance of the city of God
which had been shown ! But every night
come out these envoys of beauty, and light
the universe with their admonishing smile.
Emerson,
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Silent, one by one, in the infinite mea-
dows of heaven, blossomed the lovely stars.
the forget-me-nots of angels.-Longfellow.
The gems of heaven, that gild night's
sable throne.-Dryden.
What are ye orbs? The words of God?
the Scriptures of the skies ?-Bailey.
Look up, and behold the eternal fields of
light that lie round about the throne of
God. Had no star ever appeared in the
heavens, to man there would have been no
heavens, and he would have laid himself
down to his last sleep, in a spirit of anguish,
as upon a gloomy earth vaulted over by a
material arch-solid and impervious.--
Carlyle.
The stars are mansions built by na-
ture's hand, and, haply, there the spirits of
the blest dwell, clothed in radiance, their
immortal rest. -- Wordsworth.
The stars hang bright above, silent, as if
they watched the sleeping earth. Cole-
ridge.
A star is beautiful ; it affords pleasure,
not from what it is to do, or to give, but
simply by being what it is. It befits the
heavens ; it has congruity with the mighty
space in which it dwells. It has repose ;
no force disturbs its eternal peace. It has
freedom; no obstruction lies between it
and infinity.–Carlyle.
The sentinel stars set their watch in the
sky.-Campbell.
O powers illimitable ! it is but the outer
hem of God's great mantle, our poor stars
do gem.--Ruslin.
There they stand, the innumerable stars,
shining in order like a living hymn, writ-
ten in light.-N. P. Willis.
One sun by day; by night ten thousand
shine, and light us deep into the deity.--
How boundless in magnificence and might !
--Stars teach as well as sline, and every
student of the night inspire; the elder
scripture writ by God's own hand, authen-
tic, uncorrupt by man.--Young.
The evening star, love's harbinger, ap-
peared.--Milton.
I am as constant as the northern star
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of whose true, fixed, and resting quality
there is no fellow in the firmament. Shale-
speare.
These preachers of beauty, which liglit
the world with their admonishing smile.-
Enzer son.
STATE.-That state is best ordered
where the wicked liave no command, and
the good have.- Pittacus.
What constitutes a state ? Not high
raised battlement, or labored mound, thick
wall, or moated gate ; not cities, proud
with spires and turrets crowned, nor bays
and broad-armed ports, where, laughing at
the storm, rich üavies ride, nor starred
and spangled courts. - No !- men, high-
minded men, with powers as far above all
brutes endowed as beasts excel cold rocks
and brambles ; men, who their duties know,
but know their rights, and knowing dare
maintain these constitute a state.-Sir W.
Jones,
In a free country there is much clamor
with little suffering : in a despotic state
there is little complaint but much suffering.
Caruot.
A state to prosper, must be built on
foundations of a moral character, and this
character is the principal element of its
strength, and the only guaranty of its per-
manence and prosperity.--J. L. M. Curry.
STATESMANSHIP,-True statesman-
ship is the art of changing a nation from
what it is into what it ought to be.-W.R.
Alger.
The worth of a state, in the long run,
is
the worth of the individuals composing it.
--J. Stuart Mill.
Honest statesmanship is the wise em-
ployment of individual meannesses for the
public good.—Lincoln.
The great difference between the real
statesman and the pretender is, that the
one sees into the future, while the other
regards only the present; the one lives by
the day, and acts on expediency; the other
acts on enduring principles and for iminor-
tality,- Burke.
The true genius that conducts a state is
he, who doing nothing himself, causes
everything to be done; he contrives, he
invents, he foresees the future ; be reflects
on what is past; he distributes and propor-
tions things ; he makes early preparations ;
he incessantly arms himself to struggle
against fortune, as a swimmer against a
rapid stream of water; he is attentive
night and day, that he may leave nothing
to chance. Fénelon.
If I had wished to raise up & race of
statesmen higher than politicians, ani-
mated not by greed or "selfishness, by
policy or party, I would familiarize the
boys of the land with the characters of
the Bible.-John Hall.
What morality requires, true statesman-
ship should accept. --Burke.
Statesman, vet friend to truth ! of soul
sincere, in action faithful, and in honor
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clear, who broke no promise, served no
private end, who gain'd 10 title, and who
Iost no friend ; ennobled by himself, by all
approved, praised, wept, and honored.-
Pope.
The three great ends for a statesman are,
security to possessors, facility to acquirers,
and liberty and hope to the people. --Cole-
ridge.
A statesman, we are told, should follow
public opinion ; doubtless--as a coachman
follows his horses, having firm hold on the
reins, and guiding them.--Hare.
It is curious that we pay statesmen for
what they say, not for what they do, and
judge of them from what they do, not
from what they say.-Hence they have one
code of maxims for profession, and another
for practice, and make up their consciences
as the Neapolitans do their beds, with one
set of furniture for show, and another for
use. -Colton,
STATION - Our distinctions do not lio
in the places we occupy, but in the grace
and dignity with which we fill them.-
Sinims.
Eminent stations make great men more
great, and little ones less. -Bruyère.
They that stand high have many blasts to
shake them.--Shalcespeare.
Bacon has compared those who move in
higher spheres to those heavenly bodies in
the firmanent, which have much admira-
tion, but little rest; and it is not necessary
to invest a wise man with power, to con-
vince him that it is a garment bedizzened
with gold, which dazzles the beholder by
its splendor, but oppresses the wearer by
its weight.--Colton.
Men and statues that are admired in an
elevated situation, have a very different
effect on us when we approach them; the
first appear less than we imagined them, ,
the last bigger.- Greville.
How happy the station which every mo-
ment furnishes opportunities of doing good
to thousands !-How dangerous that which
every moment exposes to the injuring of
millions !Bruyère.
He who thinks his place below him will
certainly be below his place.-Saville.
Whatever the place allotted us by prov-
idence, that is for us the post of honor and
duty.--God estimates us not by the position
we are in, but by the way in which we fill
it.-Tryon Edwards.
The place should not honor the man, but
the man the place.-
Agesilaus.
If God, says Cecil, were to send two
angels, one to rule an empire, and the
other to sweep its streets, each would feel
that his placo was the place of duty and
honor, and would be satisfied with it.
A true man never frets about his place
in the world, but just slides into it by the
gravitation of his nature, and swings there
as easily as a star.-E. H. Chapin.
Men in great places are thrice servants :
servants of the sovereign or state, servants
of fame, and servants of business ; 80 as
they have no freedom, neither in their
persons, in their actions, or in their times.
Bacon.
True dignity is never gained by place,
and never lost when honors are withdrawn.
-Massinger.
If any man is rich and powerful he comes
under the law of God by which the higher
branches must take the burnings of the
sun, and shade those that are lower ; by
which the tall trees must protect the weak
plants beneath them.-H. W. Beecher.
Whom the grandeur of his office elevates
over other men will soon find that the first
hour of his new dignity is the last of his
independence.- Aguesseau.
Every man whom chance alone has, by
some accident, made a public character,
hardly ever fails of becoming, in a short
time, a ridiculous private one.--Cardinal
de Reiz.
STEWARDSHIP.-It is a dark sign
when the owner is seen to be growing poor,
and his steward is found to be growing rich.
-Spencer.
Our children, relations, friends, honors,
houses, lands, and endowments, the goods
of nature and fortune, nay, even of grace
itself, are only lent. It is our misfortune,
and our sin, to fancy they are given. We
start, therefore, and are angry when the
loan is called in. We think ourselves mas-
ters, when we are only stewards, and forget
that to each of us it will one day be said,
"Give an account of thy stewardship.'
Bp. Horne.
As to all that we have and are, we are
but stewards of the Most High God.-On
all our possessions, on our time, and tal-
ents, and influence, and property, he has
written, Occupy for me, and till I shall
come."-To obey his instructions and serve
him faithfully, is the true test of obedience
and discipleship.-C. Simmons.
There is no portion of our time that is
our time, and the rest God's ; there is no
portion of money that is our money, and
the rest God's money. It is all His ; He
made it all, givos it all, and He has simply
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trusted it to us for His service. A servant
has two purses, the master's and his own,
but we have only one.--Monod.
STOICISM,-There are two ways of
escaping from suffering; the one by rising
above the causes of conflict, the other by
sinking below them.-The one is the relig-
ious method; the other is the vulgar,
worldly method.--The one is Christian
elevation; the other is stoicism.-H. W.
Beecher.
'Tis pride, rank pride, and haughtiness
of soul; I think the Romans call it stoi-
cism.-Addison.
To feel for none is the true social art of
the world's stoics-men without a heart.-
Byron.
A soul that pity touched but never shook ;
trained, from his cradle, the fierce extremes
of good and ill to brook ; impassive, fearing
but the shame of fear, a stoic of the woods,
a man without a fear.-Campbell.
STORY-TELLING. -Story-telling is
subject to two unavoidable defects-fre-
quent repetition and being soon exhausted ;
so that whoever values this gift in himself,
has need of a good memory, and ought
frequently to shift his company.-Swift.
Stories now, to suit a public taste, must
be half epigram, half pleasant vice.-J. R.
Lowell.
No story is the same to us after the lapse
of time: or rather we who read it are
110 longer the same interpreter8.- George
Eliot.
I cannot tell how the truth may be ; I
say the tale as it was said to me.- Walter
Scott.
A story should, to please, at least seem
true, be apropos, well told, concise, and
new; and whensoe'er it deviates from these
rules, the wise will sleep, and leave ap-
plause to fools.-Stillingfleet.
STRENGTH.-Oh! it is excellent to
have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous
to use it like a giant.----Shakespeare.
Strength, wanting judgment and policy
to rule, overturneth itself.-Horace.
The exhibition of real strength is never
grotesque. Distortion is the agony of weak-
ness. It is the dislocated mind whose move-
ments are spasmodic.-- Willmott.
Strength alone knows conflict; weakness
is below even defeat, and is born van-
quished.-Mad. Swetchine.
Although men are accused of not knowing
their own weakness, yet perhaps a few know
their own strength. It is in men as in
soils, where sometimes there is a vein of
gold which the owner kuows not of.--Swift.
Strength is born in the deep silence of
long-suffering hearts not amidst joy.-
Mrs. Henans.
What is strength without a double share
of wisdom? Vast, unwieldy, burthensome,
proudly secure, yet liable to fall by weakest
subtleties ; strength's not made to rule,
but to subserve, where wisdom bears com-
mand.-Milton.
STUDY,-(See “KNOWLEDGE.”)
There are more men ennobled by study
than by nature.- Cicero.
The love of study, a passion which de-
rives great vigor from enjoyment, supplies
each day, each hour, with a perpetual
round of independent and rational plea-
sure.-Gibbon.
He that studies only men, will get the
body of knowledge without the soul; and
he that studies only books, the soul with-
out the body. He that to what he sees,
adds observation, and to what he reads,
reflection, is in the right road to knowl-
edge, provided that in scrutinizing the
hearts of others, he neglects not his own.-
Colton.
A few books, well studied, and thor-
oughly digested, nourish the understanding
more than hundreds but gargled in the
mouth, as ordinary students use.--F. Os-
born
As there is a partiality to opinions, which
is apt to mislead the understanding, so
there is also a partiality to studies, which
is prejudicial to knowledge.- Loclce.
When a king asked Euclid whether he
could not explain his art to him in a more
compendious manner? he was answered,
that there was no royal way to geometry.
Other things may be seized by might, or
purchased with money, but knowledge is
to be gained only by study, and study to
be prosecuted only in retirement.-John-
son.
Our delight in any particular study, art,
or science rises and improves in proportion
to the application which we bestow upon it.
Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes
at length an entertainment.--Addison.
As land is improved by sowing it with
various seeds, so is the mind by exercising
it with different studies.—Melnoth.
You are to come to your study as to the
table, with a sharp appetite, whereby that
which you read may the better digest. He
that has no stomach to his book will very
hardly thrive upon it.-Earl of Bedford.
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Mankind have a great aversion to intel-
lectual labor, but, even supposing knowl-
edge to be easily attainable, more people
would be content to be ignorant than would
take eveu a little trouble to acquire it. -
Johnson.
Studies teach not their own use; that is
a wisdom without them and above them,
won by observation.-Bacon.
If you devote your time to study, you
will avoid all the irksomeness of this life,
nor will you long for the approach of night,
being tired of the day ; nor will you be a
burden to yourself, nor your society insup-
portable to others. -Seneca.
There is no study that is not capable of
delighting us after a little application to it.
-Pope.
They are not the best students who are
most dependent on books. What can be
got out of them is at best only material ; a
man must build his house for himself.
G. Macdonald.
Desultory studies are erased from the
mind as easily as pencil marks ; classified
studies are retained like durable ink.
Cooper.
The man who has acquired the habit of
study, though for only one hour every day
in the year, and keeps to the one thing
studied till it is mastered, will be startled
to sce the progress he has made at the end
of a twelvemonth.-Bulwer.
Since I began to ask God's blessing on
my studies, I have done more in one week
than I have done in a whole year before.-
Payson.
Whatever study tends neither directly
nor indirectly to make us better men and
citizens is at best but a specious and in-
gevious sort of idleness, and the knowledge
we acquire by it only a creditable kind of
ignorance, nothing more.-- Bolingbroke.
As the turning of logs will make a dull
fire burn, so change of studies will a dull
brain.-- Longfellow.
I study much, and the more I study the
oftener I go back to those first principles
which are so simple that childhood itself
can lisp them.-Mad. Swetchine.
A boy will learn more true wisdom in a
public school in a year than by a private
education in five. It is not from masters,
but from their equals that youth learn å
knowledge of the world.-- Goldsmith.
Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable
by some one talent.-Yet do not devote
yourself to one branch exclusively.-Strive
to get clear notions about all.-Give up no
science entirely, for all science is one.-
Seneca.
The understanding is more relieved by
change of study than by total inactivity. -
W. B. Clulow.
There is an unspeakable pleasure attend-
ing the life of a voluntary student.-Gold-
smith.
The love of study, a passion which derives
fresh vigor from enjoyment, supplies each
day and hour with a perpetual source of
independent and rational pleasure. Gib-
von.
The more we study the more we discover
our ignorance.-Shelley.
Studies serve for delight, for ornament,
and for ability. Their chief use for de-
light is in privateness and retiring; for
ornament is in discourse ; and ability is in
the judgment and disposition of business.
For expert men can execute, and, perhaps,
judge of particulars, one by one; but the
general counsels and the plots and mar-
shalling of affairs come best from those
that are learned.-Bacon.
To the man who studies to gain a thor-
ough insight into science, books and study
are merely the steps of the ladder by which
he climbs to the summit; as soon as a step
has been advanced he leaves it behind.
The majority of mankind, however, who
study to fill their memory with facts do not
use the steps of the ladder to mount up-
ward, but take them off aud lay them on
their shoulders in order that they may
take them along, delighting in the weight
of the burden they are carrying.-They
ever remain below because they carry what
should carry them.--Schopenhaufer.
It is a great mistake of many ardent
students that they trust too much to their
books, and do not draw from their own
resources—forgetting that of all sophists
our own reason is that which abuses us
least.-Rousseau.
Impatience of study is the mental disease
of the present generation.-Johnson.
STYLE,--Style may be defined, "proper
words in proper places."-Swift.
Style is the dress of thoughts; let them
be ever so just, if your style is homely,
coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as
much disadvantage, and be as ill received,
as your person, though ever so well pro-
portioned, would be if dressed in rags, dirt,
and tatters.— Chesterfield.
The style shows the man. Whether in
speaking or writing, a gentleman is always
known by his style.-From the Latin.
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nes8.
Style is only the frame to hold our
thoughts. It is like the sash of a window,
if heavy it will obscure the light. The ob-
ject is to have as little sasb as will hold the
light, that we may not think of the former,
but have the latter.- Enimons.
Obscurity in writing is commonly a
proof of darkness in the mind ; the greatest
learning is to be seen in the greatest plain-
Willcins.
A sentence well couched takes both the
sense and the understanding.-Feltham.
If a man really has an idea he can com-
municate it; and if he has a clear one, he
will communicate it clearly.-
Enimons.
With many readers, brilliancy of style
passes for affluence of thought, they mis-
take buttercups in the grass for immensur-
able gold mines under ground.--Longfel-
low.
Generally speaking, an author's style is
a faithful copy of his mind. If you would
write a lucid style, let there first be light
in your own mind; and if you would write
a grand style, you ought to have a grand
character. - Goethe.
If I am ever obscure in my expressions,
do not fancy that therefore I am deep. If
I were really deep, all the world would un-
derstand, though they might not appre-
ciate. The perfectly popular style is the
perfectly scientific one. To me an obscur-
ity is a reason for suspecting a fallacy.-
Charles Kingsley.
Style is the gossamer on which the seeds
of truth float through the world.-Bancroft.
The lively phraseology of Montesquieu
was the result of long meditation. His
words, as light as wings, bear on them
grave reflections.-Joubert.
Style is a man's. own; it is a part of his
nature.—Buffon.
Intense study of the Bible will keep any
man from being vulgar in point of style.
Coleridge.
Style is the intimate and inseparable
fact of the personality of the writer-it is
the verbal body of the man's moral and
mental life-it holds his emotions and ex-
periences, is charged with his sensations,
and is, in simplest words, his manifesta-
tions refined and polished by bis artistic
faculty. Only men of peculiar or strong
personality attain a style which distin-
guishes them, and imposes itself as a model
upon the groping and undecided or form-
less writers whose work does not make
models, but only imitates them.
Any style formed in imitation of some
model must be affected and straight-laced.
E. P. Whipple.
A man's style is nearly as much a part
of himself as his face, or figure, or the
throbbing of his pulse ; in short, as any
part of his being which is subjected to the
action of his will.-Irénelon.
A pure style in writing results from the
rejection of everything superfluous.—Mad.
Necker.
He who thinks much says but little in
proportion to his thoughts. He selects
that language which will convey his ideas
in the most explicit and direct manner.
He tries to compress as much thought as
possible into a few words. On the con-
trary, the man who talks everlastingly and
promiscuously, who seems to have an ex-
haustless magazine of sound, crowds so
many words into his thoughts that he
always obscures, and very frequently con-
ceals them.- Washington Irving.
Whoever wishes to attain an English
style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant
but not ostentatious, must give his days
and nights to the volumes of Addison. -
Johnson.
The least degree of ambiguity, which
leaves the mind in suspense as to the mean-
ing, ought to be avoided with the greatest
care. --Blair.
In composing, think much more of your
matter than your manner. Spirit, grace,
and dignity of manner are of great im-
portance, both to the speaker and writer ;
but of infinitely more importance are the
weight and worth of matter.-W. Wirt.
The obscurity of a writer is generally in
proportion to his incapacity.- Quintilian.
The unaffected of every country nearly
resemble each other, and a page of Con-
fucius and Tillotson bave scarce any
material difference: Paltry affectation,
strained allusions, and disgusting finery
are easily attained by those who choose to
wear them; they are but too frequently
the badges of ignorance or of stupidity,
whenever it would endeavor to ploase.
Goldsmith.
A copious manner of expression gives
strength and weight to our ideas, which
frequently make impression upon the mind,
as iron does upon solid bodies, rather by
repeated strokes than a single blow.-Mei-
nroth.
Those who make antitheses by forcing
the sense are like men who make false
windows for the sake of symmetry. Their
rule is not to speak justly, but to make
accurate figures.
-Pascal.
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Whatever is pure is also simple ; it does
pot keep the eye on itself. The observer
forgets the window in the landscape it
displays.-A fine style gives the view of
fancy—of its figures, its trees, its palaces
without a spot. - Willmot.
Clear writers, like clear fountains, do
not seem so deep as they are ; the turbid
looks most profound.-Landor.
An era is fast approaching when no
writer will be read by the majority, except
those that can effect that for bales of manu-
script that the hydrostatic screw performs
for bales of cotton, by condensing into a
period what before occupied a page.-
Cotta.
A great writer possesses, so to speak, an
individual and unchangeable style, which
does not permit him easily to preserve the
anonymous.- Voltaire.
There is a certain majesty in plainness ;
as the proclamation of a prince never frisks
it in tropes or fine conceits, in numerous
and well-turned periods, but commands in
sober natural expressions.-South.
To have good sense and ability to express
it are the most essential and necessary
qualities in companions. When thoughts
rise in 118 fit to utter among familiar
friends, there needs but very little care in
clothing them.--Steele.
Propriety of thought and propriety of
diction are commonly found together. Ob-
scurity and affectation are the two greatest
faults of style.-Macaulay.
He who would reproach an author for
obscurity should look into his own mind to
see whether it is quite clear there. In the
dusk the plainest writing is illegible.-
Goethe,
Words in prose ought to express the in-
tended meaning; if they attract atteiſtion
to themselves, it is a fault; in the very best
styles you read page after page without
noticing the medium.- Coleridge.
Long sentences in a short composition
are like large rooms in a little house.--
Shenstone.
In what he leaves unsaid I discover a
master of style.--Schiller.
Perspicuity is the frame-work of pro-
found thoughts.- Vauvenargues.
When we meet with a natural style we
are surprised and delighted, for wc ex-
pected to find an author, and have found a
man,-Pascal.
When you doubt between words, use the
plainest, the commonest, the most idio-
matic.-Eschew fine words as you would
rouge, and love simple ones as you would
native roses on your cheek.—Hare.
Every good writer has much idiom; it is
the life and spirit of language.--Landor.
I hate a style that is wholly flat and
regular, that glides along like an eel, and
never rises to what one can call an in-
equality.-Shenstone.
The old prose writers wrote as if they
were speaking to an audience; among us,
prose is invariably written for the eye
alone.—Niebuhr.
Nothing is so difficult as the apparent
ease of a clear and flowing style. Those
graces which, from their presumed facility,
encourage all to attempt to imitate them,
are usually the most inimitable.- Colton.
Antithesis may be the blossom of wit,
but it will never arrive at maturity unless
sound sense be the trunk, and truth the
root.—Colton.
If the way in which men express their
thoughts is slipshod and mean, it will be
very difficult for their thoughts themselves
to escape being the same.-Alford.
To write in a genuine familiar or truly
English style is to write as any one would
speak in common conversation, who had a
thorough command and choice of words,
or who could discourse with ease, force,
and perspicuity, setting aside all pedantic
and oratorical flourishes.--Hazlitt.
It is equally true of the pen as the pencil,
that what is drawn from life and the heart
alone bears the impress of immortality.-
Tuckerman.
Obscurity and affectation are the two
great faults of style. Obscurity of expres-
sion generally springs from confusion of
ideas; and the same wish to dazzle, at any
cost, which produces affectation in the
manner of a writer, is likely to produce
sophistry in his reasoning.-Macaulay.
Perhaps that is nearly the perfection of
good writing which effects that for knowl-
edge which the lense effects for the sun-
beam when it condenses its brightness in
order to increase its force.- Collon.
SUBLIMITY.-Sublimity is Hebrew by
birth.-Coleridge.
The sublime and the ridiculous are often
so nearly related that it is difficult to class
them separately. One step above the sub-
lime makes the ridiculous, and one step
above the ridiculous makes the sublime
again.---Thomas Paine.
The sublimest thonghts are conceived by
the intellect when it is excited by pious
emotion.-W. Nevins.
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One source of sublimity is infinity.-
Burke,
The sublime is the temple-step of re-
ligion, as the stars are of immeasurable
space. When what is mighty appears in
nature, - & storm, thunder, the starry
firmament, death, --then utter the word
"God” before the child. A great misfor-
tune, a great blessing; a great crime, a
noble action are building sites for a child's
church.-Richter.
From the sublime to the ridiculous there
is but one step.--Napoleon.
"The sublime," says Longinus, " is often
nothing but the echo or image of magnan-
imity"; and where this quality appears in
any one, even though a syllable be not ut-
tered, it excites our applause and admira-
tion.—Hune.
Nothing so effectually deadens the taste
of the sublime as that which is light and
radiant. --Burke.
The sublime, when it is introduced at a
seasonable moment, has often carried all
before it with the rapidity of lightning,
and shown at a glance the mighty power
of genius.---Longinus.
The truly sublime is always easy, and
always natural.—Burke.
SUBMISSION,—To will what God doth
will, that is the only science that gives us
any rest.----Malesherbes.
As thou wilt; what thou wilt; when thou
wilt.-- Thomas a Kempis.
Submission is the footprint of faith in
the pathway of sorrow.
To-morrow !—I dare not ask ; I know not
what is best : God hath already said what
shall betide.-- Longfellow.
Study the singular benefits and acvant-
ages of a will resigned and melted into the
will of God. Such a spirit hath a continual
Sabbath within itself, and its thoughts are
established and at rest.-Flavel.
That is best which God sends ; it was his
will ; it is mine.-0. Meredith.
Give what thou canst, without thee we
are poor, and with thee rich, take what
thou wilt away.-
- Corper.
God of the just, Thou gav'st the bitter
cup. I bow to thy behest, and drink it up.
-71. K. White.
To do or not to do; to have, or not to
have, I leave to thee ; thy only will be done
in me; all my requests are lost in one,
"Father, thy will be done!"-C. Wesley.
In the many adversities and trials of life
it is often hard to say." Thy will be done."
But why not say it? God ever does only
what is right and wise and best; what is
prompted by a father's love, and what to
his children will work out their highest
good.-Payson.
"O father! not my will, but thine be
done”; be this our charm, mellowing
earth's griefs and joys, that we may cling
forever to thy heart, in perfect rest.
Keble.
God is too great to be withstood, too
just to do wrong, too good to delight in
any one's misery-We ought, therefore,
quietly to submit to his dispensations as the
very best.–Bp. Wilson.
The strength of a man consists in finding
out the way God is going, and going in
that way too.-H. W. Beecher.
But peace! I must not quartel with the
will of highest dispensation, which, haply,
hath ends above my reach to know. -
Milton.
Submission to God is the only balın that
can heal the wounds he gives us. Em-
mons.
The highest attainment, as well as enjoy-
ment of the spiritual life, is to be able at
all times and in all things to say, " Thy will
be done."— Tryon Edwards.
Patience, says another, is an excellent
remedy for grief, but submission to the
hand of him that sends it is a far better.
C. Simmons.
SUBTLETY,-(See “ CUNNING.")
Subtlety may deceive you; integrity
never will.-Cromwell.
Subtlety will sometimes give safety, no
less than strength ; and minuteness has
sometimes escaped, where magnitude would
have been crushed. The little animal that
kills, the boa is formidable chiefly from its
insignificance, which is incompressible by
the folds of its antagonist.- Colton.
This is the fruit of craft, that he that
shoots up high, looks for the shaft, and finds
it in his own forehead. Middleton.
Cunning is the.dwarf of wisdom.-W. R.
Alger.
Cunning pays no regard to virtue, and
is but the Tory mimic.of wisdom.-- Boling-
broke.
SUCCESS.Success in life is a matter
not so much of talent or opportunity as of
concentration and perseverance. C.W.
Wendte.
Mere success is one of the worst argu-
ments in the world of a good carise, and the
most improper to satisfy conscience : and
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SUCCESS.
Success.
yet in the issue it is the most successful of
all other arguments, and does in a very odd,
but effectual, way, satisfy the consciences
of a great many men, by showing them
their interest. — Tillotson.
Moderation is commonly firm, and firm-
ness is commonly successful.-johnson.
The road to success is not to be run upon
by seven-leagued boots. Step by step,
little by little, bit by bit—that is the way
to wealth, that is the way to wisdom, that
is the way to glory.
to glory. Pounds are the sons,
not of pounds, but of pence.--Charles
Buxton.
He that would make sure of success
should keep his passion cool, and his ex-
pectation low.–Jeremy Collier.
The man who succeeds above his fellows
is the one who, early in life, clearly dis-
cerns his object, and towards that object
habitually directs his power8. Even genius
itself is but fine observation strengthened
by fixity of purpose. Every man who ob-
serves vigilantly and resolves steadfastly
grows unconsciously into genius.—Bulwer.
Nothing can seem foul to those that win.
--Shakespeare.
All the proud virtue of this vaunting
world fawns on success and power, however
acquired.-Thomson.
Success is full of promise till men get it,
and then it is as a last year's nest, from
which the bird has flown.-H. W. Beecher.
In most things success depends on know-
ing how long it takes to succeed.-Montes-
quieu.
Everybody finds out, sooner or later, that
all success worth having is founded on
Christian rules of conduct.-H. M. Field.
Success soon palls. The joyous time is
when the breeze first strikes your sails,
and the waters rustle under your bows.-
Charles Buxton.
Success at first doth many times undo
men at last.- Venning.
Success has a great tendency to conceal
and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.
-Demosthenes.
The greatest results in life are usually
attained by simple means and the exercise
of ordinary qualities. These may for the
most part be summed in these two-com-
mon sense and perseverance.-Feltham.
To know a man, observe how he wins his
object, rather than how he loses it; for
when we fail, our pride supports ; when we
succeed, it betrays us.-- -Colton.
The surest way not to fail is to determine
to succeed.--Sheridan.
To become an able and successful man in
any profession, three things are necessary,
nature, study, and practice.
Not what men do worthily, but what they
do successfully, is what history makes haste
to record.-H. W. Beecher.
The great high-road of human welfare
lies along the old highway of steadfast well-
doing; and they who are the most persist-
ent, and work in the truest spirit, will in-
variably be the most successful ; success
treads on the heels of every right effort.
S. Smiles.
He that has never known adversity, is but
half acquainted with others, or with him-
self. Constant success shows us but one
side of the world. For, as it surrounds us
with friends, who will tell us only our merits,
so it silences those enemies from whom
alone we can learn our defects.--Colton.
It is guccess that colors all in life : suc-
cess makes fools admired, makes villains
honest : all the proud virtue of this vaunt-
ing world fawns on success and power,
howe'er acquired.-Thomson.
People judge, for the most part, by the
Let a man show all the good con-
duct that is possible, if the event does not
answer, ill fortune passes for a fault, and
is justified by a very few persons.-Evre-
mond.
Success serves men as a pedestal; it
makes them look larger, if reflection does
not measure them.-Joubert.
Had I miscarried, I had been a villain ;
for men judge actions always by events ;
but when we manage by a just foresight,
success is prudence, and possession right.
-Higgons.
Nothing succeeds so well as success. —
Talleyrand.
Success produces confidence ; confidence
relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the
reputation which accuracy had raised.-
Jonson.
Let them mall it mischief; when it is
past and prospered, it will be virtue.-Ben
Jonson.
It is not in mortals to command success,
but we will do more, we will deserve it. -
Addison.
Had I succeeded well, I had been
reckoned among the wise ; our minds are
so disposed to judge from the event.- Eu-
ripides.
F things are impracticable in them-
selves, and it is for want of application,
rather than of means, that men fail of suc-
cess.-Rochefoucauld.
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SUFFERING,
Applause waits on success ;: the fickle
multitude, like the light straw that floats
along the stream, glide with the current
still, and follow fortune.- Franklin.
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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.
The men who are always fortunate can-
not easily have a great reverence for vir-
tue.--Cicero.
The talent of success is nothing more
than doing what you can do well, and doing
well whatever you do without a thought of
fame. If it comes at all it will come be-
cause it is deserved, not because it is sought
after.-Longfellow.
Success makes success, as money makes
money.-Chamfort.
The thinking part of mankind do not
form their judgment from events; and
their estimate will ever attach equal glory
to those actions which deserve success and
those which have been crowned with it.—
- Washington.
Didst thou never hear that things ill got
had ever bad success ?--Shalcespeare.
To character and success, two things,
contradictory as they may seem, must go
together-humble dependence and manly
independence; humble dependence on God,
and manly reliance on self.-- Wordsworth. .
The path of success in business is invari-
ably the path of common-sense. Notwith-
standing all that is said about "lucky hits,"
the best kind of success in every man's life
is not that which comes by accident. The
only “good time coming” we are justified
in hoping for is that which we are capable
of making for ourselves.--S. Smiles.
One line, a line fraught with instruction,
includes the secret of Lord Kenyon's final
success--he was prudent, he was patient,
and he persevered.-G. Townsend.
"I confess," says & thoughtful writer,
" that increasing years bring with them
an increasing respect for men who do not
succeed in life, as those words arc com-
monly used." Ill success sometimes arises
from a conscience too sensitive, a taste too
fastidious, a self-forgetfulness too roman-
tic, a modesty too retiring.-G. A. Sala.
There is a glare about worldly success,
which is very apt to dazzle men's eyes.
Hare.
The secret of success lies in embracing
every opportunity of seeking high and
right ends, and in never forgetting that
golden rule of the catechism, "of doing
your duty in that station of life to which it
shall please God to call you." -- Wellington.
Who shall tax successful villainy, or call
the rising traitor to account?- Havard.
SUFFERING.
AFFLICTION,
"SORROW.")
Suffering comes to us through and from
our whole nature. It cannot be winked
out of sight or be thrust into a subordinate
place in the picture of human life. It is
the chief burden of history; the solemn
theme of one of the highest departments
of literature—the tragic drama. It gives
to fictions their deep interest; it wails
through much of our poetry. A large part
of human vocations are intended to shut
up some of its avenues. It has left traces
on every human countenance. over which
years have passed. It is to not a few the
most vivid recollection of life.- Channing.
Suffering well borne is better than suf-
fering removed. No flower can bloom in
paradise which is not transplanted from
Gethsemane.-H. W. Beecher.
The light of the world would go out, and
despair would darken every home if it were
not for some who have learned to suffer
and be strong.-D. March.
There is no good accomplished but
through the medium of somebody's suffer-
ing.-No great thought was ever born, no
great principle wrought out, but by 'toil
and trouble and suffering.--No great truth
was ever applied to the cause of morals in
the world, but through suffering propor-
tionate to the good that it effected.-God
measures the magnitude of blessings by
the sufferings we are willing to bear for the
sake of obtaining them.-H. W. Beecher.
Not being untutored in suffering, . I
learn to pity those in affliction.— Virgil.
Out of suffering have emerged the
strongest souls.--The most massive char-
acters are seamed with scars.—Martyrs
have put on their coronation robes glitter-
ing with fire; and through their tears have
the sorrowful first seen the gate of heaven.
--E. H, Chapin.
To love all mankind a cheerful state of
being is required ; but to see into man-
kind, into life, and still more into ourselves,
suffering is requisite.-Richter.
Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer
and be strong. -Longfellow.
Suffering is the surest means of making
us truthful to ourselves.-Sismondi.
God washes the eyes by tears until they
can behold the invisible land where tears
sliall come no more.-H. W. Beecher.
SUICIDE.
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SUNRISE.
Night brings out stars, as sorrow shows
us truths.--Bailey.
We need to suffer that we may learn to
pity.--L. E. Landon.
Forgiveness is rarely perfect except in
the breasts of those who have suffered.
SUICIDE.When all the blandishments
of life are gone the coward sneaks to death ;
the brave lives on.--Martial.
Against self-slaughter there is a pro-
hibition 8o. divine that cravens my weak
hand.-Shakespeare.
Self-murder, that infernal crime, which
all the gods level their thunder at !-Fane.
O deaf to nature and to Heaven's com-
mand, against thyself to lift the murdering
hand !-Oh, damned despair, to shun the
living light, and plunge thy guilty soul in
endless night !- Lucretius.
There are some vile and contemptible
men who, allowing themselves to be.con-
quered by misfortune, seek a refuge in
death.-Agathon.
Suicide is a crime the most revolting to
the feelings; nor does any reason suggest
itself to our understanding by which it can
be justified. It certainly originates in that
species of fear which we denominate pol-
troonery. For what claim can that man
have to courage who trembles at the frowns
of fortunes? True heroism consists in
being superior to the ills of life in whatever
shape they may challenge him to combat.
Napoleon.
He is not valiant that cares to die ; but
he that boldly bears calamity.-Massinger.
Suicide sometimes proceeds from coward-
ice, but not always; for cowardice some-
times prevents it; since as many live
because they are afraid to die, as die because
they are afraid to live.- Colion.
I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide ;
for the man is efficiently destroyed, though
the appetite of the brute may survive.--
Chesterfield.
The miserablest day we live there is many
a better thing to do than die.--Darley.
What a folly it is to dread the thought
of throwing away life at once, and yet have
no regard to throwing it away by parcels
and piecemeal ?-John Howe.
Men would not be so hasty to abandon
the world either as monks or as suicides,
did they but see the jewels of wisdom and
faith which are scattered so plentifully
along its paths; and lacking which no soul
can come again from beyond the grave to
gather.-Mountford.
Those men who destroy a healthful con-
stitution of body by intemperance as mani-
festly kill themselves as those who hang, or
poison, or drown themselves. Sherlock.
The dread of something after death puz-
zles the will, and makes us rather bear the
ills we have, than fly to others that we
know not of.—Shakespeare.
To die in order to avoid anything that is
evil and disagreeable, is not the part of a
brave man, but of a coward; for it is
cowardice to shun the trials and crosses of
life, not undergoing death because it is
honorable, but to avoid evil.–Aristotle.
SUNDAY:-(See "SABBATH.")
SUN.—That orbed continent, the fire
that severs day from night.- Shakespeare.
The glorious gun,—the centre and soul of
our system,—the lamp that lights it,-the
fire that heats it,—the magnet that guides
and controls it ;-—the fountain of color,
which gives its azure to the sky, its verd-
ure to the fields, its rainbow-hues to the
gay world of flowers, and the purple light
of love to the marble cheek of youth and
beauty.--Sir David Brewster.
The sun-god's crest upon his azure shield,
the heavens. --Bailey.
The sun does not shine for a few trees
and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
--So God sits, effulgent, in heaven, not for
a favored few, but for the universe of life,
and there is no creature so poor or low
that he may not look up with childlike con-
fidence, and say, “My father ! thou art
mine."-H. W. Beecher.
The golden sun, in splendor likest heaven,
dispenses light from far ; days, months,
and years, toward his all-cheering lamp
turn their swift motions, or are turned by
his magnetic beam that warms the uni-
verse,
-Milton.
Tairest of lights above! thou sun whose
beams adorn the spheres, and with un-
wearied swiftness move, to form the circle
of our years. - Watts.
Thou earliest minister of the Almighty,
who chose thee for his shadow; thou chief
star, centre of many stars, thou dost rise,
and shine, and set in glory !— Byron.
Sunbeam of summer, what is like thee,
hope of the wilderness, joy of the sea ! -
One thing like thee to mortals is given,
the faith touching all things with hues of
heaven !—Mrs. Hemans.
SUNRISE.-Yonder comes the powerful
King of day, rejoicing in the East. —Thom-
son.
SUNSET.
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SUPERSTITION.
And lo! in a flash of crimson splendor,
with blazing, scarlet clouds running before
his chariot and heralding his majestic ap-
proach, God's sun rises upon the world.-
Thackeray.
See! the sun himself ! on wings of glory
up the East he springs.-Angel of light,
who from the time the heavens began their
march sublime, bath, first of all the starry
choir, trod in his maker's steps of fire.
Moore.
As a giant strong, a bridegroom gay, the
sun comes through the gates of day, and
hurls his beams o'er the proud hills-
stream of glory and a flood of day.-
Broome.
SUNSET.-The sun, when he from
noon declines, and with abated heat less
fiercely shines ; seems to grow milder as he
goes away.-Dryden.
The Zenith spreads its canopy of sap-
phire, and the West has a magnificent
array of clouds, and as the breeze plays
on them they assume the forms of moun-
tains, castled cliffs and hills, and shadowy
glens, and groves, and beetling rocks, and
some in golden masses float, and others
have edges of burning crimson.-Never
from the birth of time were scattered o'er
the glowing sky more splendid colorings.-
Carrington.
The death-bed of a day, how beautiful!-
Bailey.
The West is crimson with retiring day,
and the North gleams with its own native
light.-J. H. Bryant.
His rays are all gold, and his beauties
are best, as painting the skies he sinks
down in the West, and foretells a bright
rising again.- Watts.
Sunsets in themselves are generally 812-
perior to sunrises; and with the sunset we
appreciate images drawn from departed
peace, and faded glory.--Hillard.
More joyful eyes look at the setting, than
at the rising sun.-Burdens are laid down
by the poor, whom the sun consoles more
than the rich.-I yearn toward him when
he sets, not when he rises.-Richter.
The weary sun hath made a golden set;
and by the light track of his fiery car, gives
token of a goodly day to-morrow.--Shake-
speare.
SUPERFLUITIES.–What man in his
right senses, that has wherewithal to live
free, would make himself a slave for super-
fluities? What does that man want who
has enough? Or what is he the better for
abundance that can never be satisfied ?
L'Estrange.
Were the superfluities of a nation valued,
and made a perpetual tax or benevolence,
there would be more almshouses than
poor,
more schools than scholars, and enough to
spare for government beside.—Penn.
Our superfluities should give way to our
brother's conveniences, and our conven-
iences, to our brother's necessities ; yea,
even our necessities should give way to
their extremity for the supplying of them.
Venning.
Superfluity creates necessity, and neces-
sity superfluity. Take care to be an econ-
omist in prosperity: there is no fear of
your being one in adversity. — Zimmer-
272.cnn.
There are, while human miseries abound,
a thousand ways
to waste superfluous wealth,
without one fool or flatterer at your board,
without one hour of sickness or disgust.
Armstrong.
Manage as we may, misery and suffering
will always cleave to the border of super-
fluity.-jacobi.
Wherever desirable superfluities are im-
ported, industry is excited, and thereby
plenty is produced. Were only necessa-
ries permitted to be purchased, men wonld
work no more than was necessary for that
purpose. -- Franklin.
He who accustoms himself to buy super-
fluities, may be obliged, ere long, to sell
his necessities.-C. Siminions.
SUPERSTITION.-Superstitions are,
for the most part, but the shadows of great
truths.—Tryon Edwards.
Religion worships God, while supersti-
tion profanes that worship.--Seneca.
By superstitions I mean all hypocritical
arts of appeasing God and procuring his
favor without obeying his laws, or reform-
ing our sins : infinite such superstitions
have been invented by heathens, by Jews,
by Christians themselves, especially by the
Church of Rome, which abounds with them.
- Sherlock.
Superstition is but the fear of belief, re-
ligion is the confidence and trust.
The greatest burden in the world is su-
perstition, not only of ceremonies in the
church, but of imaginary and scarecrow
sins at home.-Milton.
Superstition always inspires bitterness ;
religion, grandeur of mind. The super-
stitious man raises beings inferior to him-
self to deities.- Lavater.
Superstition is a senseless fear of God;
religion the intelligent and pious worship
of the deity.- Cicero.
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SURETYSHIP.
Superstition is the only religion of which
base souls are capable. --Joubert.
We are all tattooed in our cradles with
the beliefs of our tribe ; the record may
seein superficial, but it is indelible. You
cannot educate a man wholly out of the
superstitious fears which were implanted
in his imagination, no matter how utterly
his reason may reject them.-0. W. Holmes.
The child taught to believe any occur-
rence a good or evil omen, or any day of
the week lucky, hath a wide inroad made
upon the soundness of his understanding.
- Watts.
The less we know as to things that can
be done, the less sceptical are we as to things
that cannot. Hence it is that sailors and
gamblers, though not remarkable for their
devotion, are even proverbial for their $12-
perstition ; the solution of this phenom-
enon is, that both these descriptions of
men have so much to do with things beyond
all possibility of being reduced either to
rule or to reason, the winds and the waves,
and the decisions of the dice-box.
They that are against superstition, often-
times run into it on the wrong side. If I
wear all colors but black, then I am super-
stitious in not wearing black.-Selden.
Open biographical volumes wherever you
please, and the man who has no faith in
religion is the one who hath faith in a
nightmare and ghosts.—Bulwer'.
It is of such stuff that superstitions are
commonly made ; an intense feeling about
ourselves which makes the evening star
shine at 118 with a threat, and the blessing
of a beggar encourage 118. And supersti-
tions carry consequences which often verify
their hope or their foreboding.-George
Eliot.
It were better to have no opinion of God
at all than such an opinion as is unworthy
of him, for the one is unbelief, and the
other is contumely.-Superstition is the re-
proach of the deity.
A peasant can no more help believing in
a traditional superstition than a horse can
help trembling when he sees a camel.-
George Eliot.
Superstition is the poetry of life. It is
inherent in man's nature ; and when we
think it is wholly eradicated, it takes re-
fuge in the strangest holes and corners,
whence it peeps out all at once, as soon as
it can do it with safety. ---Goethe.
Superstition is not, as has been defined,
an excess of religious feeling, but a misdi-
rection of it, an exhausting of it on vanities
of man's devising.- Whately.
Superstition renders a man a fool, and
scepticism makes him mad.–Fielding.
There is a superstition in avoiding super-
stition, when men think they do best if
they go farthest from the superstition,-
by which means they often take away the
good as well as the bad.-Bacon.
Look how the world's poor people are
amazed at apparitions, signs, and prodi-
gies !-Shalcespeare.
Liberal minds are open to conviction.
Liberal doctrines are capable of improve-
ment. There are proselytes from atheism ;
but none from superstition.--Junius.
As it addeth deformity to an ape to be so
like a man, so the similitude of superstition
to religion makes it the more deformed.-
Bacon.
That the corruption of the best thing
produces the worst, is grown into a maxim,
and is commonly proved, among other in-
stances, by the pernicious effects of super-
stition and enthusiasm, the corruptions of
true religion.-Hume.
I think we cannot too strongly attack
superstition, which is the disturber of so-
ciety ; nor too highly respect genuine re-
ligion, which is the support of it.-Rous-
seau.
Weakness, fear, melancholy, together
with ignorance, are the true sources of
superstition. Hope, pride, presumption, a
warm indignation, together with ignorance,
are the true sources of enthusiasm.-Hume.
The master of superstition is the people,
and in all superstition wise men follow
fools. --Bacon2.
SURETYSKIP --He that would be mas-
ter of his own, must not be bound for
anothier.--Franklin.
Beware of suretyship for thy best friend.
He that payeth another man's debt seeketh
his own decay. But if thou canst not
otherwise choose, rather lend thy money
thyself upon good bonds, although thou
borrow it; 80 shalt thou secure thyself,
and pleasure thy friend.- Burleigh.
If thou be bound for a stranger, thou art
{ fool ; if for a merchant, thou puttest thy
estate to learn to swim ; if for a lawyer, he
will find an evasion by a syllable or a word ;
if for a poor man, thou must pay it thyself;
if for a rich man, he needs not; therefore,
from suretyship, as from a manslayer or
enchanter, bless thyself ; for the best re-
turn will be this-if thon force him for
whom thou art bound to pay it himself he
will become thy enemy; if thou pay it thy-
self, thou wilt become a beggar.-Sir W.
Raleigh.
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SUSPICION.
He who is surety is never sure himself. Suspicion is no less an enemy to virtue
Take advice, and never be security for than to happiness. He that is already cor-
more than you are quite willing to lose. rupt is naturally suspicious, and he that
Remember the word of the wise man: “He becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
that is surety for a stranger shall smart for -Johnson.
it ; and he that hateth suretyship is sure. To be suspicious is to invite treachery.-
-Spurgeon.
Voltaire.
Endorsing character is hazardous ; en-
There is no rule more invariable than
dorsing credit, presumptuous. C. Sim-
that we are paid for our suspicions by find-
nions.
ing what we suspect.-Thoreau.
Such as are betrayed by their easy nature
Don't seem to be on the lookout for
to be ordinary security for their friends
leave so little to themselves, as their liberty
crows, else
you'll set other people watching.
-George Čliot.
remains ever after arbitrary at the will of
Discreet
others ; experience having recorded of
and well-founded suspicion
avoids a multitude of evils, which cre-
many, whom their fathers had left elbow-
l'oom enough, that by suretyship they have
dulity brings upon itself. We ought al-
expired in a dungeon.-F. Osborn.
ways to be suspicious enough to avoid all
If any friend desire thee to be his surety,
improper and forbidden trust in man, or
.-C
give him a part of what thou hast to spare ;
if he press thez further, he is not thy friend Never put much confidence in such as
at all, for friendship rather chooseth harın
put no confidence in others. A man prone
to itself than offereth it.--Sir W. Raleigh.
to suspect evil is mostly looking in his
neighbor for what he sees in himself. As
SUSPENSE.-Of all the conditions to
to the pure all things are pure, even so to
which the heart is subject, suspense is one
the impure all things are impure.---Fare.
that most gnaws and cankers into the
frame. One little month of suspense, when Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind :
it involves death, we are told by an eye-
the thief doth fear each bush an officer.
witness, is sufficient to plough fixed lines Shalcespeare.
and furrows in a convict of five-and-twenty, Suspicion is far more apt to be wrong
-sufficient to dash the brown hair with than right; oftener unjust than just. It
gray, and to bleach the gray to white.- is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy
Bulwer.
to happiness.-H. Baillou.
It is a miserable thing to live in sus- At the gate which suspicion enters, love
pense : it is the life of a spider.--Swift.
and coufidence go out.
But not long; for in the tedious minutes' He that lives in perpetual suspicion lives
exquisite interval--I'm on the rack ; for
the life of a sentinel never relieved, whose
sure the greatest evil man can know bears business it is to look out for and expect an
no proportion to this dread suspense.- enemy, which is an evil not very far short
Trorde.
of perishing by him.-Young.
The suspense-the fearful, acute sus- The virtue of a covard is suspicion.-
pense, of standing idly by while the life of
Herbert.
one we dearly love is trembling in the bal-
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion.-
ance; the racking thoughts that crowd
W. R. Alger.
upon the mind, and make the heart beat
violently, and the breath come thick ; the Suspicion is the poison of true friendship.
desperate anxiety "to be doing some-
-Augustine.
thing” to relieve the pain or lessen the There is nothing makes a man suspect
danger which we have no power to alleviate; much, more than to know little, and there-
and the sinking of soul which the sad sense fore men should remedy suspicion by pro-
of our helplessness produces,-what tor-
curing to know more, and not keep their
tures can equal these, and what reflections
suspicions in smother.- Bacon.
or efforts can, in the full tide and fever of
the time, allay them.-Dickens.
One of the principal ingredients in the
Uncertainty ! fell demon of our fears !
happiness of childhood is freedom from
The human soul that can support despair,
suspicion-why may it not be combined
with a more extensive intercourse with
supports not thee.-Mallet.
mankind? A disposition to dwell on the
SUSPICION, – Always to think the bright side of character is like gold to its
worst, I have ever found to be the mark of possessor ; but to imagine more evil than
a mean spirit and a base soul.-—Boling- meets the eye, betrays affinity for it.--Mrs.
broke.
Sigourney.
SWEARING
557
SYMPATHY.
Whose own hard dealings teach them,
suspect the thoughts of others. — Shalce
speare.
Surmise is the gossamer that malice blows
on fair reputations, the corroding dew that
destroys the choice blossoms. Surmise is
primarily the squint of suſpicion, and sus-
picion is established before it is confirmed.
- Zinimermann.
Open suspecting of others comes of se-
cretly condemning ourselves.--Sir P. Sid-
ney.
Suspicions amongst thoughts are like the
bats amongst birds, they ever fly by twi-
light : certainly they are to be repressed,
or at least well guarded, for they cloud the
mind, lose friends, check business, dispose
kings to tyranny, husbands to jealousy, and
wise men to irresolution and melancholy :
they are defects, not in the heart, but in
the brain.--Bacon.
Undue suspicion is more abject baseness
even than the guilt suspected.-A. Hill.
It is hardly possible to suspect another
without having in one's self the seeds of
the baseness the other is accused of.-Stan-
islaus.
A noble brother, whose nature is so far
from doing harms, that he suspects none,
--Shakespeare.
SWEARINQ.-(See “PROFANITY.' )
SYMPATHY.Next to love, sympathy
is the divinest passion of the human heart.
- Burke.
To rejoice in another's prosperity, is to
give content to your own lot; to mitigate
another's grief, is to alleviate or dispel your
Owu. -Tryon Edwards.
One of the greatest of all mental pleas-
ures is to have our thoughts often divined
i
ever entered into with sympathy.-L. E.
Landon.
Shame on those hearts of stone, that can-
not melt in soft adoption of another's sor-
row !-A. Hill.
No radiant pearl, which crested fortune
wears, po gem, that twinkling hangs from
beauty's ears ; not the bright stars, which
night's blue arch adorn ; nor rising sun,
that gilds the vernal morn; shine with
such lustre as the tear that flows down vir-
tue's manly cheek for others' woes.-Dar-
win.
More helpful than all wisdom or counsel
is one draught of simple human pity that
will not forsake us.-Ġeorge Eliot.
The generous heart should scorn a pleas-
ure which gives others pain.-Thomson.
There is a kind of sympathy in souls that
fits them for each other; and we may be
assured when we see two persons engaged
in the warmths of a mutual affection, that
there are certain qualities in both their
minds which bear a resemblance to one
another.--Steele.
To commiserate is sometimes more than
to give, for money is external to a man's
self, but he who bestows compassion com-
municates his own soul.-Mountford.
The only true knowledge of our fellow-
man is that which enables us to feel with
him—which gives us a fine ear for the
heart-pulses that are beating under the
mere clothes of circunstance and opinion..
-George Eliot.
With a soul that ever felt the sting of
sorrow, sorrow is a sacred thing.– Cowper.
Sympathy is the first great lesson which
man should learn. It will be ill for him if
he proceeds no farther; if his emotions are
but excited to roll back on his heart, and
to be fostered in luxurious quiet. But un-
less he learns to feel for things in which he
has no personal interest, he can achieve
nothing generous or noble.—Talfourd.
Our sympathy is never very deep unless
founded on our own feelings.We pity,
but do not enter into the grief which we
have never felt.-L. E. Landon.
Open your hearts to sympathy, but close
them to despondency. The flower which
opens to receive the light of day shuts
against rain.
Let us cherish sympathy. It prepares
the mind for receiving the impressions of
virtnie; and without it there can be no true
politeness. Nothing is more odious than
that insensibility which wraps a man up
in
himself and his own concerns, and prevents
his being moved with either the joys or the
sorrows of another.- Beattie.
All sympathy not consistent with ac-
knowledged virtue is but disguised selfish-
ness.-Coleridge.
Sympathy wanting, all is wanting.-Per-
sonal magnetism is the conductor of the
sacred spark that puts us in human com-
inunion, and gives us to company, conver-
sation, and ourselves.-A. B. Alcott.
It is a lively spark of nobleness to de-
scend in nost favor to one when he is
lowest in affliction.—Sir P. Sidney.
It is an eternal truth in the political as
well as the mystical body, that " where one
member suffers, all the members suffer
with it."-Junius.
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of
distant misery.–Gibbon.
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558
TALENT.
A helping word to one in trouble is often
like a switch on a railroad-track-an inch
between wreck and smooth-rolling prosper-
ity.-H. W. Beecher.
Public feeling now is apt to side with the
persecuted, and our modern martyr is full
as likely to be smothered with roses as with
coals.-E. H. Chapin.
It may, indeed, be said that sympathy
exists in all minds, as Faraday has dis-
covered that magnetism exists in all metals;
but a certain temperature is required to
develop the hidden property, whether in
the metal or the mind.- Bulwer.
Every man rejoices twice when he has a
partner of his joy; a friend shares my sor-
row and makes it but a moiety, but he
swells my joy and makes it double.—Jerenzy
Taylor.
The more sympathies we gain or awaken
for what is beautiful, by so much deeper
will be our synıpathy for that which is most
beautiful, the human soul.-J. R. Lowell.
It is certain my belief gains quite in-
finitely the very moment I can convince
another mind thereof.-- Novalis.
The capacity of sorrow belongs to our
grandeur, and the loftiest of our race are
those who have had the profoundest sym-
pathies, because they have had the pro-
foundest sorrows.- Henry Giles.
Happy is the inan who has that in liis
soul which acts upon the dejected as April
airs upon violet roots. Gifts from the
hand are silver and gold, but the heart
gives that which neither silver nor gold
can buy. To be full of goodness, full of
cheerfulness, full of sympathy, full of
helpful hope, causes a man to carry bless-
ings of which he is himself as unconscious
as a lamp is of its owu shiuing. Such a
ono. moves on human life as stars move
on dark seas to bewildered mariners ; as
the sun wheels, bringing all the season
with him from the south.-H. W. Beecher.
The world has no sympathy with any but
positive griefs ; it will pity you for what
you lose, but never for what you lack.
Uad. Swetchine.
He that sympathizes in all the happiness
of others, perhaps himself enjoys the safest
happiness, and he that is warned by the
folly of others has perhaps attained the
soundest wisdom.- Colton.
Grief is a stone that bears one down, but
two bear it lightly.-W. Hauff.
TACT.-A little tact and wise manage-
ment may often evade resistance, and carry
a point, where direct force might be in
vain. - Anon.
A tact which surpassed the tact of her
sex as much as the tact of her sex surpasses
the tact of our8.-Macaulay.
Never join with your friend when he
abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one
is to be sold, and the other to be buried.-
Collon.
Tact comes as much from goodness of
heart as from fineness of taste.- Endymion.
A quick and sound judgment, good com-
mon sense, kind feeling, and an instinctive
perception of character, in these are the
elements of what is called tact, which has
so much to do with acceptability and suc-
cess in life.-C. Sinimons.
Talent is power; tact is skill.
Talent is wealth ; tact is ready money.-
Talent makes the world wonder that it gets
on no faster; tact excites astonishment
that it gets on so fast.-And the secret is
that it makes no false steps, loses no time i
takes all hints, and, by keeping its eye on
the weathercock, it is able to take advan-
tage of every wind that blows.--W. P.
Scargill.
I have known some men possessed of
good qualities which were very serviceable
to others, but useless to themselves, like a
sundial on the front of a house, to inform
the neighbors and passengers, but not the
owner within.-Swift.
Men may have the gifts both of talent
and of wit, but unless they have also
prudence and judgment to dictate when,
where, and the how those gifts are to be
exerted, the possessors of them will con-
quer only where nothing is to be gained,
and be defeated where everything is to be
lost; they will be outdone by men of less
brilliant, but more convertible qualifica-
tions, and whose strength, in one point, is
not counterbalanced by any disproportion
in another:- Colton.
Tact is one of the first mental virtues,
the absence of which is often fatal to the
best of talents ; it supplies the place of
many talents.-Sinims.
Talent is something, but tact is every-
thing. Talent is serious, sober, grave, and
respectable ; tact is all that, and more too.
It is not a seventh sense, but is the life of
all the five. It is the open eye, the quick
car, the judging taste, the keen smell, and
the lively touch ; it is the interpreter of all
riddles, the surmounter of all difficulties,
the remover of all obstacles.-W. P. Scar-
gill.
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TALENT:-(See “ CHARACTER.")
Meu of talent are men for occasions.
TALENT.
559
TALKING.
Talents of the bighest order, and such as
are calculated to command universal ad-
miration, may exist apart from wisdom.-
Robert Hall.
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Talent is the capacity of doing anything
that depends on application and industry;
it is a voluntary power, while genius is in-
voluntary.-Hazlitt.
As to great and commanding talents,
they are the gift of Providence in some
way unknown to us. They rise where they
are least expected. They fail when every-
thing seems disposed to produce them, or
at least to call them forth.--BurIce.
Talent, lying in the understanding, is
often inherited; genius, being the action
of reason or imagination, rarely or never.--
Coleridge.
Whatever you are from nature, keep to
it; never desert your own line of talent.
Be what nature intended you for, and you
will succeed; be anything else, and you
will be ten thousand times worse than
nothing !-Sydney Smith.
Great talents, such as honor, virtue,
learning, and parts, are above the general-
ity of the world, who neither possess them
themselves, nor judge of them rightly in
others; but all people are judges of the
lesser talents, such as civility, affability,
and an obliging, agreeable address and
manner, because they feel the good effects
of them, as making society easy and pleas-
ing.- Chesterfield.
Nature has concealed at the bottom of
our minds talents and abilities of which we
are not aware. The passions alone bave
the privilege of bringing them to light, and
of giving us sometimes views more certain
and more perfect than art could possibly
produce.-Rochefoucauld.
Great offices will have great talents, and
God gives to every man the virtue, temper,
understanding, taste, that lifts him into
life, and lets him fall just in the niche le
was ordained to fill.— Cowper.
It always seemed to me a sort of clever
stupidity only to have one sort of talent,
like a carrier-pigeon. --George Eliot.
Talents, angel bright, if wanting worth,
are shining instruments in false ambition's
hand, to render faults illustrious, and give
infamy renown.— Young.
Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned,
must be obscure and unostentatious.—Lady
Blessington.
Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a
show. Talent working with joy in the
cause of universal truth lifts the possessor
to now power as a benefactor.-Emerson.
Talents, to strike the eye of posterity,
should be concentrated. Rays, powerless
while they are scattered, burn in a poiut.-
Willmott.
TALKING. - (See “LOQUACITY and
SPEECH.")
It has been well observed, that the tongue
discovers the state of the mind no less than
that of the body ; but, in either case, before
the philosopher or the physician can judge,
the patient must open his mouth.--Colton.
The tongue of a fool is the key of his
counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom
hath in keeping.-Socrates.
As it is the characteristic of great wits
to say much in few words, so it is of small
wits to talk much and say nothing.--Roche-
foucauld.
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.- Chesterfield.
The lover and physician are both popular
from the same cause. We talk to them
only of ourselves. That, I daresay, was
the origin of confession-egotism under
the name of religion.-L. E. Landon.
He that cannot refrain from much speak-
ing is like a city without walls; therefore
if thou observest this rule in all assemblies
thou shalt seldom err ; restrain thy choler,
hearken much, and speak little, for the
tongue is the instrument of the greatest
good and greatest evil that is done in the
world.--Sir W. Raleigh.
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 sub-
sequent occasion.-Johnson.
I know a lady that loves talking so inces-
gantly, she won't give an echo fair play ;
she has that everlasting rotation of tongue
that an echo must wait till she dies before
it can catch her last words !--Congreve.
They think too little who talk too much.
-Dryden.
When I think of_talking, it is of course
with a woman. For talking at its best
being an inspiration, it wants a corre-
sponding divine quality of receptiveness,
and where will you find this but in a wo-
man ?-0. W. İfolmes.
Such as thy words are, such will thy af-
fections be esteemed; and such will thy
deeds as thy affections, and such thy life
as thy deeds.-Socrates,
TALKING
560
TALKING.
Talkers are no good doers.—Shakespeare.
They talk most who have the least to say.
-Prior.
Those who have but little business to at-
tend to, are great talkers. The less men
think, the more they talk.-Montesquicu.
If you light upon an impertinent talker,
that sticks to you like a burr, deal freely
with him, break off the discourse, and pur-
sue your business.-
Plutarch.
Words learned by rote a parrot may re-
hearse ; but talking is not always to con-
verse ; not more distinct from harmony
divine, the constant creaking of a country
sign.-Cowper.
Speaking much is a sign of vanity; for
he that is lavish in words, is a niggard in
deed.-Sir W. Raleigh.
There are braying men in the world as
well as braying asses ; for, what's loud and
senseless talking and swearing, any other
than braying.--L'Estrange.
A wise man reflects before he speaks ;
a fool speaks, and then reflects on what he
has uttered.--Delile.
Talkative people who wish to be loved
are hated; when they desire to please,
they bore ; when they think they are ad-
mired, they are laughed at; they injure
their friends, benefit their enemies, and
ruin themselves.— Plutarch.
Great talkers are like leaky vessels ;
everything runs out of them. C. Sinz-
7720ns.
A civil guest will no more talk all, than
eat all the feast. Herbert.
Wise men talk because they have some-
thing to say ; fools, because they would
like to say something.
As empty vessels make the loudest sound,
80 they that have least wit are the greatest
babblers. -Plato.
The talkative listen to no one, for they
are ever speaking.–And the first evil that
attends those who know not how to be si-
lent, is, that they hear nothing.- Plutarch.
A talkative person runs himself into great
inconveniences by babbling out his own
and other's secrets.-Ray.
Many a man's tongue shakes out his mas-
ter's undoing.-Shakespeare.
We often say things because we can say
them well, rather than because they are
sound and reasonable.--Landor.
There are many who talk on from igno-
rance rather than from knowledge, and
who find the former an inexhaustible fund
of conversation.-Hazlitt.
Let your words be few, especially when
your betters, or strangers, or men of more
experience, or understanding, are in the
place, for in so doing you do yourself at
once two great mischiefs ; first, you betray,
and discover your own weakness and folly ;
and next, you rob yourself of that oppor-
tunity which you might otherwise have to
gain wisdom and experience, by hearing
those that you silence by your imperti-
nent talking.--Sir M. Hale.
Does a man speak foolishly ?-suffer him
gladly, for you are wise. Does he speak
erroneously ?-stop such a man's mouth
with sound words that cannot be gainsaid.
Does he speak truly ?-rejoice in the truth.
-Cronowell.
Brisk talkers are usually slow thinkers.
There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be
dreaded'than a communicative man having
nothing to communicate. If you are civil
to the voluble they will abuse your patience;
if brusque, your character. ----Swift.
There is the same difference between the
tougues of some, as between the hour and
the minute band ; one goes ten times as
fast, and the other signifies ten times as
much.-Sidney Smith.
The common fluency of speech in many
men, and most women,
st women, is owing to a
scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words,
for whoever is a master of language and
has a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in
speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of his
words.-Swift.
If thy words be too luxuriant, confine
them, lest they confine thee.He that
thinks he can never speak enough, may
easily speak too much.-A full tongue and
an empty brain are seldom parted.
Quarles.
What a spendthrift he is of his tongue.-
Shakespeare.
Cautiously avoid speaking of the domes-
tic affairs either of yourself, or of other
people.-Yours are nothing to them but
tedious gossip; and theirs are nothing to
you.— Chesterfield.
One learns taciturnity best among those
who have none, and loquacity among the
taciturn.-Richter.
The man who talks everlastingly and
promiscuously, and who seems to have an
exhaustless magazine of sound, crowds so
many words into his thoughts, that he al-
ways obscures, and very frequently con-
ceals them.- Washington Irving.
It is a sad thing when men have neither
the wit to speak well, nor judgment to hold
their tongues.--Bruyère.
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561
TATTLING.
Great knowledge, if it be without vanity,
is the most severe bridle of the tongue.
For so have I heard, that all the noises and
prating of the pool, the croaking of frogs
and toads, are hushed and appeased upon
the bringing upon them the light of a can-
dle or torch. Every beam of reason and
ray of knowledge checks the dissolution of
the tongue.-Jeremy Taylor.
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 together upon nothing.--Addison.
The more ideas a man has the fewer
words he takes to express them. Wise men
never talk to make time ; they talk to save
it.-- Uncle Esek.
It is for the most part in our skill in
manners, and in the observances of time
and place and of decency in general, that
what is called taste consists ; and which is
in reality no other than a more refined
judgment. The cause of a wrong taste is
à defect of judgment.—Burkce.
Talk what you will of taste, you will find
two of a face as soon as two of a mind.-
Pope.
Good taste is the flower of good sense.—
A. Poincelot.
Delicacy of taste is favorable to love and
friendship, by confining our choice to few
people, and making us indifferent to the
company and conversation of the greater
part of men.-Hume.
A truly elegant taste is generally accom-
panied with excellency of heart.-Fielding.
Bad taste is a species of bad morals.-
Bovee.
A fastidious taste is like a squeamish
appetite ; the one has its origin in some
disease of the mind, as the other has in
soine ailment of the stomach.--Southey.
Taste is often one of the aspects of
fashion. Folly borrows its mask, and
walks out with wisdom arm in arm. Like
virtues of greater dignity, it is assumed.-
Willnzott.
Taste is not stationary. It grows every
day, and is improved by cultivation, as a
good tempor is refined by religion.- Will-
mott.
Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of
the judgment.-Rousseau.
Taste depends upon those finer emotions
which make the organization of the soul.-
Sir J. Reynolds.
I think I may define taste to be that
faculty of the soul which discerns the
beauties of an author with pleasure, and
the imperfections with dislike.-Addison.
TATTLING. (See “GOSSIP.")
I have ever heard it said that spies and
tale-bearers have done more mischief in
this world than poisoned bowl or the assas-
sin's dagger. --Schiller.
Be careful that you believe not hastily
strange news and strange stories; and be
much more careful that you do not report
them, though at the second hand; for if it
prove an untruth it brings an imputation
of levity upon him that reports it, and
possibly some disadvantage to others.--Sir
Matthew Hale.
The tongue is the worst part of a bad
servant.-Juvenal.
TASTE.-May not taste be compared
to that exquisite sense of the bee, which
instantly discovers and extracts the quint-
essence of every flower, and disregards all
the rest of it?-Gréville.
Taste, if it mean anything but a paltry
connoisseurship, must mean a general sus-
ceptibility to truth and nobleness, a sense
to discern, and a heart to love and rever-
ence all beauty, order, goodness, whereso-
ever, or in whatsoever forms and accom-
paniments, they are to be seen. This
surely implies, as its chief condition, a
finely-gifted mind, purified into harmony
with itself, into keenness and justness of
vision ; above all, kindled into love and
generous admiration.- Carlyle.
Taste and elegance, though they are.
reckoned only among the smaller and
secondary morals, yet are .of no mean im-
portance in the regulation of life. A moral
taste is not of force to turn vice into vir-
tue: but it recommends virtue, with some-
thing like the blandishments of pleasure.-
Burke.
When the taste is purified, the morals
are not easily corrupted.
Whatever injures the body, the morals,
or the mind, will lessen or vitiate taste ;
thus, disorders of the body and violent
passions of the mind, will do this, and so
will also excessive care or covetousness ;
but above all, a habit of intemperance and
keeping low company will greatly deprave
that which was once a good taste. - Osborne.
Delicacy of taste has the same effect as
delicacy of passion ; it enlarges the sphere
both of our happiness and misery, and
makes us sensible to pain as well as pleas-
ures, which escape the rest of mankind.-
Hume.
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562
TEACHING.
Fire and sword are but slow engines of
destruction in comparison with the bab-
bler.- Steele.
Said Plautus, who was one of the wits of
his time, “I would have tale-bearers and
tale-hearers punished the one hanging by
the tongue, the other by the ears.
Were
his will a law, many a tattling gossip would
have her vowels turned to mutes, and be
justly tongue-tied.-A. Warwick.
Gossip is always a personal confession
either of malice or imbecility; it is a low,
frivolous, and too often a dirty business.
There are neighborhoods where it rages
like a pest; churches are split in pieces by
it, and neighbors made enemies for life.
Let the young avoid or cure it while they
may.-J. G. Holland.
The thoughtless tattling tongue often
murders the peace, and blights the good
name of others, as surely and wickedly as
if inflamed by malice.-0. Simmons.
The excessive pleasure we feel in talking
of ourselves, ought to make us apprehen-
sive that we afford little to our hearers.-
Rochefoucauld.
I may hear a tale with delight, and per-
haps smile at an innocent jest, but I will
not jest, nor joy at a tale disgracing an
innocent person.-A. Warwick.
Taxation without representation is in-
justice and oppression.—It brought on the
American Revolution, and gave birth to a
free and mighty nation.
Taxing is an easy business.--Any pro-
jector can contrive new impositions ; any
bungler can add to the old; but is it alto-
gether wise to have no other bounds to
your in positions than the
patience of those
who are to bear them ?-Burke.
Kings ought to shear, not skin their
sheep.—Herriclc.
As the general rule in constitutional
states liberty is a compensation for the
heaviness of taxation, and in despotic
states the equivalent for liberty is the light-
ness of taxation.-Montesquieu.
TEACHING.-(See “EDUCATION.")
I am indebted to my father for living,
but to my teacher for living well.-Alex-
ander of Macedon.
Scratch the green rind of a sapling, or
wantonly twist it in the soil, and a scarred
or crooked oak will tell of the act for cen-
turies to come. So it is with the teachings
of youth, which make impressions on the
mind and heart that are to last forever.
The highest function of the teacher con-
sists not so much in imparting knowledge
as in stimulating the pupil in its love and
pursuit.
To know how to suggest is the art of
teaching.- Amiel.
The true aim of every one who aspires to
be a teacher should be, not to impart his
own opinions, but to kiudle minds.-F. W.
Robertson
Of what unspeakable importance is her
education who pre-occupies the unwritten
page of being; who produces impres-
sions which only death can obliterate, and
mingles with the cradle-dream what shall
be read in eternity !--Mrs. Sigourney.
In the education of children there is
nothing like alluring the interest and
affection; otherwise you only make so
many assés laden with books.-Montaigne.
Whatever you would have your children
become, strive to exhibit in your own lives
and conversation.-Mrs. Sigourney.
A wisely chosen illustration is almost
essential to fasten the truth upon the
ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford
to neglect this part of his preparation.-
Howard Crosby.
Thoroughly to teach another is the best
way to learn for yourself.— Tryon Ed-
wards.
TAXES,-Taxes are the sinews of the
state.-Cicero.
Millions for defence; not a cent for
tribute.-C. C. Pinckney.
The taxes are indeed very heavy, and if
those laid by the government were the only
ones we had to pay, we might more easily
discharge them; but we have many others,
and much more grievous to some of us.
We are taxed twice as much by our idle-
ness, three times as much by our pride,
and four times as much by our folly ;
from these taxes the commissioners cannot
ease or deliver us by allowing an abate-
ment.- Franklin.
What a benefit would the government
render to itself, and to every city, village,
and hamlet in the States, if it would tax
whiskey and rum almost to the point of
prohibition ! Was it Bonaparte who said
that he found vices very good patriots ?
“He got five millions from the love of
brandy, and he should be glad to know
which of the virtues would pay him as
much.” Tobacco and opium have broad
backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of
armies, if you choose to make them pay
high for such joy as they give, and such
harm as they do.- Emerson.
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TEARS.
Teachers should be held in the highest
honor. They are the allies of legislators ;
they have agency in the prevention of
crime; they aid in regulating the atmos-
phere, whose incessant action and pressure
cause the life-blood to circulate, and to
return pure and healthful to the licart of
the nation.-Mrs. Sigourney.
The one exclusive sign of a thorough
knowledge is the power of teaching.–Aris-
totle.
Delightful task, to rear the tender
thought, to teach the young idea how to
shoot, to pour fresh instruction over the
mind, to breathe the enlivening spirit, and
to fix the generous purpose in the glowing
heart.--Thomson.
The secret of successful teaching is to
ceach accurately, thoroughly, and ear-
nestly; this will impart interest to instruc-
tions, and awaken attention to them. All
sciences, in their nature or connections,
are replete wit'a interest, if teachers prop-
erly illustrate and impress their truths in
a pleasing, earnest manner.-C. Simmons.
The teacher who is attempting to teach
without inspiring the pupil with a closire
to learn is hammering on cold iron.-H.
Mann.
Those who educate children well are
more to be honored than even their parents,
for these only give them life, thosc thc art
of living well.- Aristotle.
Be understood in thy teaching, and in-
struct to thc measure of capacity.- Pre-
cepts and rules are repulsive to a child, but
happy illustration wins him.- Tupper.
Do not train boys to learning by force
and harshness ; Duit direct them to it by
what amuses their rinds, so that you may
be the better able to discover with accuracy
the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
Plato.
The best teacher is the one who suggests
rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his
listener with the wish to teach himself.
Bulwer.
The method of teaching which approaches
most nearly to the method of investigation,
is incomparably the best ; since, not con-
tent with serving up a few barren and
lifeless truths, it leads to the stock on
which they grew.-Burke.
If ever I am a teacher, it will be to learn
more than to teach.-Mad. Deluzy.
If, in instructing a child, you are vexed
withí it for want of adroitness, try, if you
have never tried before, to write with your
left hand, and then remember that a child
is all left hand.-J. F. Boyse,
To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm
is the sure way to teach easily and success-
fully.-Tryon Edwards.
A good schoolmaster minces his precepts
for children to swallow, banging clogs on
the nimbleness of his own soul, that his
scholars inay go along with him.-Fuller.
Improvement depends far less upon
length of tasks and hours of application
than is supposed. Children can take in
but a little each day; they are like vases
with a narrow neck ; you may pour little
or pour much, but much will not enter at
a time.--Michelet.
A tutor should not be continually thun-
dering instruction into the ears of his pupil,
as if he were pouring it through a funnel,
but induce bim to think, to distinguish,
and to find out things for himself ; some-
timcs opening the way, at other times leav-
ing it for him to open ; and so accommo-
dato his precepts to the capacity of his
pupil.--Montaigne.
It would be a great advantage to some
schoolmasters if they would steal two hours
a day from their pupils, and give their own
minds the benefit of the robbery.-J. F.
Boyse.
Count it one of the highest virtues upon
earth to educate faithfully the children of
others, which so few, and scarcely any, do
their own.-Luther.
He that governs well, leads the blind ;
but he that teaches, gives him eyes ; and it
is glorious to be a sub-worker to grace, in
freeing it from some of the inconveniences
of original sin.-South.
To know how to suggest is the great art
of teaching.- Amiel.
TEARS.--There is a sacredness in tears.
They are not the mark of weakness, but of
power. They speak more eloquently than
ten thousand tongues. They are the mes-
sengers of overwhelming grief, of deep
contrition, and of unspeakable love.
Washington Irving.
Tears are the safety-valves of the heart
when too much pressure is laid on it.-
Albert Smith.
Tcars are sometimes the happiest smiles
of love.-Stendhal.
Love is loveliest when embalmed in tears.
- Walter Scott.
I would hardly change the sorrowful
words of the poets for their glad ones.-
Tears dampen the strings of the lyre, but
they grow the more tender for it, and ring
even the clearer and more ravishingly for
it.-J. R. Lowell.
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TEARS.
6. He
"I al-
The bitterest tears shed over graves are
for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
"She never knew how I loved her :"
never knew what he was to me ;
tays meant to make more of our friend-
ship." Such words are the poisoned all-
rows which cruel death shoots backward
at us from the sepulchre.—Mrs. Stowe.
A smile is ever the most bright and beanz-
tiful with a tear upon it. What is the
dawn without its dew?-The tear, by the
smile, is made precious above the smile
itself.-Landor.
Tears, idle tears, I know not what they
mean,-tears from the depth of some divine
despair rise in the heart, and gather in the
eyes, in looking on the happy autumn fields,
and thinking of days that are no more.
Tennyson.
Weep for love, but not for anger ; a cold
rain will never bring flowers.Duncan,
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.-Bovee:
God washes the eyes by tears until they
can behold the invisible land where tears
shall como no more. O love ! O affliction !
ye are the guides that show us the way
through the great airy space where our
loved ones walked ; and, as hounds easily
follow the scent before the dew be risen,
80 God teaches us, while yet our sorrow is
wet, to follow on and find our dear ones in
heaven.-H. W. Beecher.
There is a certain pleasure in weeping;
grief finds in tears both a satisfaction and
a cure.- Ovid.
O, banish the tears of children! Con-
tinual rains upon the blossoms are hurtful.
Richter.
The tear that is wiped with a little ad-
dress may be followed, perhaps, by a smile.
--Cowper.
Blest tears of soul-felt penitence.
Moore.
All my mother came into mine eyes, and
gave me up to tears.--Shakespeare.
A penitent's tear is an undeniable am-
bassador, and never returns from the
throne of grace unsatisfied.--Spencer.
The tears which flow, and the honors that
are paid, when the founders of the repub-
lic die, give hope that the republic itself
may be immortal.-Daniel Webster.
My plenteous joys, vanton in fullness,
seek to hide themselves in drops of sorrow.
- Shakespeare.
Hide not thy tears ; veep boldly, and be
proud to give the flowing virtue manly
way; it is nature's mark to know an honest
licart by.-A. Hill.
Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smiles.
- Campbell.
The graceful tear that streams for other's
Tyoes.-A. Kenside.
God made both tears and laughter, and
both for kind purposes ; for as laughter
enables mirth and surprise to breathe
freely, so 'tears enable sorrow to vent itself
patiently. Tears hinder sorrow from be-
coming despair and madness; and laughter
is one of the very privileges of reason,
being confined to the human species.
Leigh Hunt.
All the rarest hues of human life take
radiance and are rainbowed out in tears.-
Massey.
There ought to be more tears of peni-
tence over our neglects of Christ, more
tears of sympathy with the afflicted, and
more tears of joy over the infinite good
things which Jesus brings to us.-T. L.
Cuyler.
Of all the portions of life it is in the two
twilights, childhood and age, that tears fall
with the most frequency; like the dew at
dawn and eve.-W. R. Alger.
Scorn the proud man that is ashamed to
weep.--Young.
Tears hinder sorrow from becoming de-
spair.-Leigh Hunt,
Those tender tears that humanize the
soul.- Thonison.
Heaven and God are best discerned
through tears; scarcely perhaps are dis-
cerned at all without them. The constant
association of prayer with the hour of be-
reavement and the scenes of death suffice
to show this.--James Martineau.
The tear of joy is a pearl of the first wa-
ter ; the mourning tear, only of the second.
--Richter.
Tears are often the telescope through
which men see far into heaven.-H. W.
Beecher.
Some tears belong to us because we are
unfortunate : others because we are hu-
mane : many because we are mortal.-But
most are caused by our being unwise.--It
is these last, only, that of necessity pro-
duce more.-Leigh Hunt.
What would women do if they could not
cry ? — What poor, defenceless creatures
they would be.-Jerrold.
Tears are the softening showers which
cause the seed of heaven to spring up in
the human heart.-Walter Scott.
Shame on those breasts of stone that can-
not melt in soft adoption of another's sor-
row.-A Hill.
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TEMPER.
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Every tear of sorrow sown by the right-
eous springs up a pearl.-M. Henry.
What a hell of witchcraft lies in the small
orb of one particular tear !--Shakespeare.
Pride dries the tears of anger and vexa-
tion ; humility, those of grief. The one is
indignant that we should suffer: the other
calms us by the reminder that we deserve
nothing else.--Mad. Swetchine.
Repentance bath a purifying power, and
every tear is of a cleansing virtue, but
these penitential clouds must be still kept
dropping ; one shower will not suffice ; for
repentance is not one single action but a
course.South.
TEMPER.-(See “GOOD NATURE.")
Good temper, like a sunny day, sheds a
brightness over everything; it is the sweet-
ener of toil and the soother of disquietude.
Washington Irving.
The happiness and misery of men depend
no less on temper than fortune.-Roche-
foucauld.
Through certain humors or passions, and
from temper merely, a man may be com-
pletely miserable, let his outward circum-
stances be ever so fortunate.-Shaftesbury.
Inviolable fidelity, good-humor, and.com-
placency of temper, outlive all the charms
of a fine face, and make the decays of it in-
visible.—Tatler.
If a man has a quarrelsome temper, let
him alone. The world will soon find him
employment. He will soon meet with some
one stronger than himself, who will repay
him better than you can. A man may fight
duels all his life, if he is disposed to quar-
rel. - Cecil.
Men who have had a great deal of expe-
rience learn not to lose their temper8.
V. Cherbuliez.
Those who are surly and imperions to
their inferiors are generally humble, flat-
tering, and cringing to their superiors.-
Fuller.
Courtesy of temper, when it is used to
veil churlishness of deed, is but a knight's
gircle around the breast of a base clown.
Walter Scott.
It is an unhappy, and yet I fear a true
reflection, that they who have uncommon
easiness and softness of temper have sel-
dom very noble and nice sensations of soul.
Greville.
A tart temper never mellows with age;
and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool
that grows keener with constant use.-
Washington Irving.
A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its
greatest countenance in its lowest estate.
-Sir P. Sidney.
I have often thought that it required as
much grace to keep the apostle Péter from
knocking a man down in the street as to
make the apostle John look like an angel.-
J. M. Mason.
Too many have no idea of the subjection
of their temper to the influence of religion,
and yet what is changed if the temper is
not? If a mau is as passionate, malicious,
resentful, sullen, moody, or morose after
bis conversion as before it, what is he con-
verted from or to ?--John Angell James.
The perverse temper of children is too
often corrected with the rod, when the
cause lies in fact in a diseased state of
body.
More than half the difficulties of the
world would be allayed or removed by the
exhibition of good temper.-
Arthur Helps.
Temper, if ungoverned, governs the
whole man:-Shaftesbury.
A cheerful temper, joined with inno-
cence, will make beauty attractive, knowl-
edge delightful, and wit good-natured. It
will lighten sickness, poverty, and afflic-
tion ; convert ignorance into an amiable
simplicity, and render deformity itself
agreeable.- Addison.
The difficult part of good temper consists
in forbearance, and accommodation to the
ill-humor of others.-Empson.
Of all bad things by which mankind are
curst, their own bad temper8 surely are the
worst.-Cumberland.
An attribute so precious, that it becomes
a virtue, is a gentle and constant equality
of temper. What an unutterable charm
does it give to the society of the man who
possesses it! How is it possible to avoid
loving him whom we always find with
serenity on his brow, and a smile on his
countenance !-Bp. Stanley.
A man who cannot command his temper
should not think of being a man of busi-
ness.---Chesterfield.
Good temper is the most contented, the
most comfortable state of the soul, the
greatest happiness both for those who pos-
sess it, and for those who feel its influence.
With “gentleness” in his own character,
"comfort" in his house, and “good tem-
per" in his wife, the earthly felicity of man
is complete.
Bad temper is its own scourge. Few
things are more bitter than to feel bitter.
A man's venom poisons himself more than
his victim.-Charles Buxton.
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TEMPERANCE.
If religion does nothing for your temper
it has done nothing for your soul.— Clayton.
Unsociable tempers are contracted in
solitude, which will in the end not fail of
corrupting the understanding as well as
the manners, and of utterly disqualifying
å man for the satisfactions and duties of
life. Men must be taken as they are, and
we neither make them nor ourselves better
by flying from or quarrelling with them.-
Burke.
Temperament is but the atmosphere of
character, while its groundwork in nature
is fixed and unchangeable.-Arthur Helps.
TEMPERANCE.-(See “DRINKING"
and - DRUNKENNESS.")
Temperance is the lawful gratification
of a natural and healthy appetite.-J. B.
Gough.
I have four good reasons for being an
abstainer--my head is clearer, my health is
better, my heart is lighter, and my purse
is heavier.-Guthrie.
I dare not drink for my own sake, I
ought not to drink for my neighbor's sake.
T. L. Cuyler.
The temperate are the most truly luxu-
rious. By abstaining from most things, it
is surprising how many things we enjoy.-
Simnis.
Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal
in the barrel, flour in the tub, .money in
the purse, credit in the country, content-
ment in the house, clothes on the children,
vigor in the body, intelligence in the
brain, and spirit in the whole constitution.
-Franclin.
Temperance and labor are the two best
physicians; the one sharpens the appetite
the other prevents indulgence to excess.-
Rousseau.
Temperance is a bridle of gold, and he
that can use it aright is liker a God than a
man ; for as it will transform a beast to a
man again, so it will make a man a God.-
Burton.
Temperance, that virtue without pride,
and fortune without envy, that gives vigor
of frame and tranquility of mind; the best
guardian of youth and support of old age,
the precept of reason as well as religion,
the physician of the soul as well as the
body, the tutelar goddess of health, and
universal medicine of life. -Sir W. Temple.
Physic is of little use to a temperate per-
son, for a man's own observation on what
he finds does him good, and what hurts
him, is the best physic to preserve health.
Bacon.
Except thou desire to hasten thine end,
take this for a general rule, that thou never
add any artificial heat to thy body by wine
or spice, until thou find that time hath
decayed thy natural heat; and the sooner
thou beginnest to help Nature, the sooner
she will forsake thee, and leave thee to
trust altogether to Art.-Sir W. Raleigh.
'Tis to thy rules, O temperance, that we
owe all pleasures that from health and
strength can flow, vigor of body, purity of
mind, unclouded reason, sentiment refined.
Chandler.
Temperance to be a virtue must be free
and not forced. Virtue may be defended,
as vice may be withstood by a statute, but
no virtue is or can be created by a law, any
more than by a battering ram a temple or
obelisk can be reared.-Bartol.
He who would keep himself to himself
should imitate the dumb animals, and drink
water.—Bulwer.
If you wish to keep the mind clear and
the body liealthy, abstain from all fer-
mented liquors.-Sydney Smith.
I consider the temperance cause the
fonndation of all social and political re-
form.-Cobden.
If temperance prevails, then education
can prevail; if temperance fails, then edu-
cation must fail.--Horace Mann.
Fools! not to know how health and tem-
perance bless the rustic swain, while luxury
destroys her pampered train.--Hesiod.
Against diseases here, the strongest fence
is the defensive virtue, abstinence.
Drinking water neither makes a man
sick, nor in debt, nor his wife & widow.--
John Neal.
Though I look old, yet I am strong and
lusty, for in my youth I never did apply
hot and rebellious liquors in my blood.
Shakespeare.
Every inordinate cup is unblessed, and
the ingredient is the devil.--Shakespeare.
Temperance keeps the senses clear and
unembarrassed. It appears with life in the
face, and decorum in tbe person; it gives
you the command of your head, secures
your health, and preserves you in a con-
dition for business.-Jerenry Collier.
Oh, temperance, thou fortune without
envy; thou universal medicine of life, that
clears the head and cleanses the blood,
eases the stomach, strengthens the nerves,
and perfects digestion.-Sir W. Temple.
Above all, let the poor bang, up the
amulet of temperance in their homes.
Horace Mann.
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TEMPTATION.
If thou well observe the rule of not too
much, by temperance taught, in what thou
eatest and drinkest, seeking from thence
due nourishment, not gluttonous delight,
till many years over thy head return, so
mayst thou live, till, like ripe fruit, thou
drop into thy mother's lap, or be with ease
gathered, not harshly plucked, in death
mature.-Milton.
Great men should drink with harness on
their throats.--Shakespeare.
The receipts of cookery aro swelled to a
volume, but a good stoniach excels them
all; to which nothing contributes more
than industry and temperance. -Penn.
Temperance is reason's girdle, and pas-
sion's bride, the strength of the soul, and
the foundation of virtue.--Jereniy Taylor.
If it is a small sacrifice to you to discon-
tinue the use of wine, do it for the sake of
others ; if a great sacrifice, do it for your
own.-S. J. May.
Temperance is to the body what religion
is to the soul, the foundation and source
of health and strength and peace.--Tryon
Edwards.
The smaller the drink the clearer the
head and the cooler the blood, which are
great benefits in temper and business.-
Penn.
Temperance gives nature her full play,
and enables her to exert herself in all her
force and vigor.-Addison.
Temperance is corporal piety; it is the
preservation of divine order in the body.-
Theodore Parker.
TEMPTATION.-Temptations are
file which rub off much of the rust of our
self-confidence.-Fénelon.
If we keep ourselves from opportunities,
God will keep us from sin.
No man is matriculated to the art of
life till he has been well tempted.-- George
Eliot.
To pray against temptations, and yet to
rush into occasions, is to thrust your
fingers into the fire, and then pray they
might not be burnt. -Secker.
It is one thing to be tempted, another
thing to fall.--Shakespeare.
God is better served in resisting a temp-
tation to evil than in many formal prayers.
-Penn.
Do all that you can to stand, and then
fear lest you may fall, and by the grace of
God you are safe.-Thyon Edwards.
Temptation is the fire that brings up the
scum of the heart.- Boston.
If there were no evil in ourselves there
could be no temptation from without, for
nothing evil could seem pleasant.-F. M.
Crawford.
Bearing up against temptations and pre-
vailing over thein is the very thing wherein
the whole life of religion consists. It is
the trial which God puts upon us in this
world, by which we are to make evidence
of our love and obedience to him, and of
our fitness to be made members of his
kingdom.-Samuel Clarke.
Every temptation is great or small ac-
cording as the man is.-Jereny Taylor.
The devil tempts us not. It is we teinpt
him, beckoning his skill with opportunity.
- George Eliot.
To resist temptation once is not a
sufficient proof of honesty. If a servant,
indeed, were to resist the continued temp-
tation of silver lying in a window, when he
is sure his master does not know how much
there is of it, he would give a strong proof
of honesty. But this is a proof to which
you have no right to put a man. You
know there is a certain degree of tempta-
tion which will overcome any virtue. Now,
in so far as you approach temptation to a
man, you do him an injury; and, if he is
overcome, you share his guilt.-Johnson.
After listening to thousands of prayers
for pardon to offenders, I can hardly recall
a case where I did not feel that I might
have fallen as my fellow-man has done, if
I had been subjected to the same demoral-
izing influences and pressed by the same
temptations.- Horatio Seymour.
Opportunity often makes the thief.
Lie in the lap of sin, and not mean
harm? It is hypocrisy against the devil :
They that mean virtuously, and yet do so,
the devil their virtue tempts, and they
tempt heaven.-Shakespeare.
Learn to say “No”; it will be of more
use to you than to be able to read Latin.-
Spurgeon.
Temptations, when we meet them at first,
are as the lion that roared upon Samson;
but if we overcome them, the next time
we see them we shall find a nest of honey
within them.-- Bunyan.
Every moment of resistance to tempta-
tion is a victory.-Faber.
To realize God's presence is the one
sovereign remedy against temptation.-
Fenelon.
Occasions of adversity best discover how
great virtue or strength each one hath.-
For occasions do not make a man frail, but
show what he is.- Thomas a Kempis.
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TEMPTATION. ,
Temptation is a fearful word. It indi-
cates the beginning of a possible series
of infinite evils. It is the ringing of an
alarm bell, whose melancholy sounds may
reverberate through eternity. Like the
sudden, sharp cry of “Fire!" under our
windows by night, it should rouse us to
instantaneous action, and brace every
muscle to its highest tension.--Horace
Mann.
Most confidence has still most cause to
doubt.-Dryden.
Temptation in the line of duty God has
provided for; but for temptation sought
and coveted, God has no provision.-G. E.
Rees.
It is a most fearful fact to think of, that
in every heart there is some secret spring
that would be weak at the touch of temp-
tation, and that is liable to be assailed.
Fearful, and yet salutary to think of, for
the thought may serve to keep our moral
nature braced. It warns us that we can
never stand at ease, or lie down in the field
of life, without sentinels of watchfulness
and camp-fires of prayer.-E. H. Chapin.
When devils will their blackest sins put
on, they do suggest at first with heavenly
shows.-Shakespeare.
Temptations without imply desires with-
in; men ought not to say, "How power-
fully the devil tempts," but "How strongly
I am tempted."-Ħ. W. Beecher.
Better shun the bait than struggle in the
snare.-- Dryden.
To be like Christ in this world we must,
more or less, be the subjects of temptation.
But He instantly and successfully resisted
temptation, so that though teripted, He
without sin." We also, to carry out
the Christian character, must resist, to
complete victory, all the temptations with
which we may be assailed.-J. Bate.
He who has no mind to trade with the
devil, should be so wise as to keep away
from his shop.-South.
As the Sandwich Islander believes that
the strength and valor of the enemy he kills
passes into himself, so we gain the strength
of the temptations we resist.—Emerson.
I see the devil's hook, and yet cannot
help nibbling at his bait.-M. Adams.
Some temptations come to the industri-
ous, but all temptations attack the idle.-
Spurgeon.
The time for reasoning is before we have
approached near enough to the forbidden
firit to look at it and admire.--Margaret
Percival.
When a man resists sin on human mo-
tives only, he will not hold out long.--Bp.
Wilson.
To attempt to resist temptation, to aban-
don our bad habits, and to control our
dominant passions in our own unaided
strength, is like attempting to check by a
spider's thread the progress of a ship borne
along before wind and tide.- Waugh.
It is the bright day that brings forth the
adder, and that craves wary walking.-
Shakespeare.
That fortitude which has encountered no
dangers, that prudence which has sur-
mounted no difficulties, that integrity
which has been attacked by no tempta-
tion, can at best be considered but as gold
not yet brought to the test, of which, there-
fore, the true value cannot be assigned.-
Johnson.
When the flesh presents thee with de-
lights, then present thyself with dangers ;
where the world possesses thee with vain
hopes, there possess thyself with true fear;
wlien the devil brings thee oil, bring thou
vinegar. The way to be safe is never to be
secure.~Quarles.
If you take temptations into account,
who is to say that he is better than his
neighbor ?- Thackeray.
St. Augustine teaches that there is in
each man a Serpent, an Eve, and an Adam.
Our senses and natural propensities are
the Serpent; the excitable desire is Eve;
and the reason is the Adam. Our nature
tempts us perpetually ; criminal desire is
often excited ; but sin is not completed till
reason consents.-Pascal.
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
makes deeds ill done!--Shakespeare.
No one can ask honestly or hope fully to
be delivered from temptation unless he
has himself honestly and firmly determined
to do the best he can to keep out of it.
Rusicin.
A vacantmind invites dangerous inmates,
as a deserted mansion tempts wandering
outcasts to enter and take up their abode
in its desolate apartments.-- Éilliard.
Iew men have virtue to withstand the
bighest bidder.- Washington.
Sometimes we are devils ourselves, when
we will tempt the frailty of our powers,
presuming on their changeful potency.-
Shakespeare.
The temptation is not here, where you
are reading about it or praying about it.
It is down in your shop, anong bales and
boxes, ten-penny nails, and sand-paper.
-E. I. Chapin.
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TENDERNESS.
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THANKFULNESS.
Tenderness is the repose of passion.-
Joubert.
The qạiet tenderness of Chaucer-where
you almost seem to hear the hot tears fall-
ing, and the simple choking words sobbed
out.-J. R. Lowell.
Speak the truth by all means ; be bold
and fearless in your rebuke of error, and in
your keener rebuke of wrong doing ; but
be human, and loving, and gentle, and
brotherly the while.-W. M. Punshon,
No place, no company, no age, no person
is temptation-free ; let no man' boast that
he was never tempted, let him not be high-
minded, but fear, for he may be surprised
in that very instance wherein be boasteth
that he was never tempted at all.—Spencer.
God chooses that men should be tried,
but let a man beware of tempting his neigh-
bor. God knows how and how inuch, and
where and when. Man is his brother's
keeper, and must keep him according to
his knowledge.-G. Macdonald.
Do not give dalliance too much the rein ;
the strongest oaths are straw to the fire in
the blood.
--Shalcespeare.
No degree of temptation justifies any de-
gree of sin.-N. P. Willis.
The difference between those whom the
world esteems as good and those whom it
condemns as bad, is in many cases little
else than that the former have been better
sheltered from temptation.-Hare.
Most dangerous is that temptation that
doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.---
Shakespeare.
When I cannot be forced, I am fooled out
of my integrity. He cannot constrain if I
do not consent. If I do but keep posses-
sion, all the posse of hell cannot violently
eject me ; but I am cast out when I cow-
ardly surrender to his summons. Thus
there needs no more to be my undoing but
myself.-Fuller,
The absence of temptation is the absence
of virtue.-Goethe.
TENDERNESS.- Atender-hearted and
compassionate disposition, which inclines
men to pity and feel for the misfortunes of
others, and which is, even for its own sake,
incapable of involving any man in ruin and
misery, is of all tempers of mind the most
amiable; and though it seldom receives
much honor, is worthy of the highest. —
Fielding.
Tenderness, without a capacity of reliev-
ing, only makes the man who feels it more
wretched than the object which sues for
assistance.-Goldsmith.
When death, the great reconciler, has
come, it is never our tenderness that we re-
pent of, but our severity.-George Eliot.
Tenderness is the repose of love.--Ri-
varol.
The less tenderness a man bas in his
nature the more be requires of others.--
Rahel.
There never was any heart truly great
and generous that was not also tender and
compassionate.--South.
TERROR,(See " SUPERSTITION.")
THANKFULNESS, - (See “GRATI-
TUDE.”)
God has two dwelling8 : one in heaven,
and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
Izaak Walton.
Many favors which God gives us ravel
out for want of hemming through our
unthankfulness; for though prayer pur-
chases blessings, giving praise keeps the
quiet possession of them. -Fuller.
The worship most acceptable to God,
comes from a thankful and cheerful heart.
Plutarch.
God's goodness hath been great to thee.
--Let never day nor night unhallowed pa88
but still remember what the Lord hath
done.-Shakespeare.
Wouldst thou first pause to thank thy
God for every pleasure, for mourning over
griefs thou wouldst not find the leisure.--
Ruckert.
The private and personal blessings we
enjoy, the blessings of immunity, safe-
guard, liberty, and integrity, deserve the
thanksgiving of a whole life. -Jeremy Tay-
lor,
Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble
mind is the soil out of which thanks natur-
ally grow.--A proud man is seldom a grate-
ful man, for ħe never thinks he gets as
much as he deserves.--H. W. Beecher.
If one should give me a dish of sand,
and tell me there were particles of iron in
it, I might look for them with my eyes, and
search for them with my clumsy fingers,
and be unable to detect them; but let me
take a magnet and sweep through it, and
how would it draw to itself the almost
invisible particles by the mere power of
attraction. The unthankful heart, like
my finger in the sand, discovers no mer-
cies; but let the thankful heart sweep
through the day, and as the magnet finds
the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some
heavenly blessings, only the iron in God's
sand is gold !-H. W. Beecher.
cident to the average theatre, the influence
THEFT.
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THEOLOGY.
When thankfulness o'erflows the swelling If the theatre is ever to be a school of
heart, and breathes in free and uncor- morals, we may well say of it what Hamlet
rupted praise for benefits received, propi- says of its acting, “ Reform it altogether."
tious Heaven takes such acknowledgment
Coming away from a modern play, as out
as fragrant incense, and doubles all its
of the reeking, noxious theatre where it is
blessings.—Lillo.
acted, is, to many, like quitting a moral
Or any ill escaped, or good attained, let hell-a very ingenious, elegant, amusing
n8 remember still Heaven chalked the way hell, but nevertheless as black as Avernus,
that brought us thither.-Shakespeare. and'into which the descent is quite as easy.
Best of all is it to preserve everything in a
-Miss Mulock.
pure, still heart, and let there be for evory It is remarkable how virtuous and gener-
pulsé a thanksgiving, and for every breath ously disposed every one is at a play. We
a song.-Gesner.
uniformly applaud what is right, and
condemn what is wrong, when it costs us
THEFT:-(See “DISHONESTY.")
nothing but the sentiment.--Hazlitt.
There is so much of the glare and grief
THEATRES.- Although it is said of of life connected with the stage, that it
plays that they teach morality, and of the fills me with most solemn thoughts.--Henry
stage that it is the mirror of human life, Giles.
these assertions are mere declamations, There is that in theatrical representation
and have no foundation in truth and ex-
which awakens whatever romance belongs
perience.—Sir John Harolins.
to our character.--The magic lights, the
The idea that the theatre is managed in pomp of scene, the fair, false, exciting life
accordance with pure morals is a vain im- that is detailed before us, crowding into
agination. Those who build and manage some three short hours all our most busy
theatres do so with the view of a good ambition could desire-all these appeals to
investment and profitable employment. our senses are not made in vain. Our taste
They know the taste of their customers. for castle-building and visions deepeus
They must either conform to these tastes, or upon us, and we chew a mental opium
lose money by opposing them. A theatre which stagnates the other faculties, but
conducted on such principles as would wakes that of the ideal.-Bulwer.
make it safe to the morals of youth would How much is it to be wished that the
not pay its proprietor.-W. Arnot.
celebration of nature and of God were in-
The theatre was, from the very first, the trusted to none but men of noble minds. -
favorite haunt of sin, though honest Goethe.
men--some very lionest, vise, and worthy Aside from the moral contamination in-
men--maintained it might be turned to
good account; and so, perhaps, it might,
intellectually is degrading. Its lessons are
but never was; from first to last it was an
morbid, distorted, and superficial; they
evil place.-Pollok.
do not mirror life.-T. T. Munger.
There should be one theatre where ve
The claim of the theatre as a school of
might take our young daughters without
morals is false ; not because it is immoral,
tainting their fresh souls by images of but because it cannot, from its own nature,
wickedness, or worse, putting it in such be a teacher of morals. The abuses that
pleasant and pathetic shape that they mis- have clustered about it are enormous. In
take it for virtue.--Miss Mulock.
evil days it sinks to the bottom of the scale
I do not hesitate for a moment to pro- of decency, and in best days it hardly rises
nounce the theatre to be one of the broadest to the average.-T. T. Munger.
avenues that lead to destruction : fascinat-
THEOLOGY.-The theological systems
ing, no doubt it is, but on that acconnt the
more delusive and the more dangerous.
of men and schools are always determined
Vice in every form lives, and moves, and
by the character of their ideal of Christ,
has its being in the purlieus of the theatre.
the great central fact of the Christian sys-
tem.-J. G. Holland.
Light and darkness are not more opposed
to each other than the Bible and the play-
All my theology is reduced to this nar-
book. If the one be good, the other must
row compass,
"Jesus Christ came into the
be evil. The only way to justify the stage,
world to save sinners."--Archibald Alex-
as it is, as it has ever been, as it is ever
ander.
likely to be, is to condemn the Bible None but a theology that came out of
the same individual cannot defend both.- eternity can carry you and me safely to
Hannah More.
and through eternity.-T. L. Cuyler.
THEORIES.
571
THOUGHT.
Theology is but the science of mind ap-
plied to God. As schools change, theology
must necessarily change. Truth is ever-
lasting, but our ideas of truth are not.
Theology is but our ideas of truth classified
and arranged.--H. W. Beecher.
We cau no more have exact religious
thinking without theology, than exact
mensuration and astronomny without math-
ematics, or exact iron-making without
chemistry.-John Ball.
What makes a Christian is not the theol-
ogy we have in our heads, but the faith and
love we have in our hearts. We must, in-
deed, have a clear statement of truth in
orderly propositions, that is, a system of
dogmas, to have anything to trust to at all.
There can be no faith in an unseen person
but through the medium of thoughts con-
cerning him, and these thoughts put into
words are a creed.
A theology at war with the laws of physi-
cal nature would be a battle of no doubtful
issue. The laws of our spiritual nature
give still less chance of success to the sys-
tem which would thwart or stay them.-
Channing.
The way to begin a Christian life is not
to study theology.-Piety before theology.
Right living will produce right thinking.-
Theologies are well in their place, but re-
pentance and love must come before all
other experiences.-E. W. Beecher.
The best theology is rather a divine life
than a divine knowledge.--Jeremy Taylor.
Of all the qualities a theologian must
possess, a devotional spirit is the chieť.-
For the soul is larger than the mind, and
the religious emotions lay hold on the
truths to which they are related, on many
sides at once.-A powerful understanding,
on the other hand, seizes on single points,
and however enlarged in its own sphere, is
never safe from its narrowness of view.
As the grave grows nearer my theology
is growing strangely simple, and it begins
and ends with Christ as the only Saviour
of the lost.--Bp. Whipple.
THEORIES,-To despise theory is to
have the excessively vain pretension to do
without knowing what one does, and to
speak without knowing what one says.-
Fontenelle.
Thoughts are but dreams till their effects
be tried.-Shakespeare.
Conjecture as to things 119eful, is good;
but conjecture as to what it would be use-
less to know, is very idle.--Jolinson.
Theory is the guide to practice, and
practice the ratification and life of theory.
The theory that can absorb the greatest
number of facts, and persist in doing so,
generation after generation, through all
changes of opinion and detail, is the one
that must rule all observation. John
Weiss.
It is much easier to design than to per-
form. A man proposes his schemes of life
in a state of abstraction and disengagement,
exempt from the enticements of hope, thie
solicitations of affection, the importuni-
ties of appetite, or the depressions of fear,
and is in the same state with him that
teaches upon land the art of navigation, to
whom the sea is always smooth, and the
wind always prosperous.—Johnson.
Most men take least notice of what is
plain, as if that were of no use ; but puzzle
their thoughts, and lose themselves in
those vast depths and abysses which no
human understanding can fathom.-Sher-
loclc.
THOUGHT.-In the end, thought rules
the world. There are times when impulses
and passions are more powerful, but they
soon expend themselves; while mind, act-
ing constantly, is ever ready to drive them
back and work when their energy is ex-
hausted.-J. McCosh.
Thinking is the talking of the soul with
itself._Plato.
All grand thoughts come from the heart.
- Vauvenargues.
The great thinker is seldom a disputant.
He answers other men's arguments by
stating the truth as he sees it.-D. March.
They are never alone who are accompa-
nied by noble thoughts.—Sir P. Sidney.
Garner up pleasant thoughts in your
mind, for pleasant thoughts make pleasant
lives. Willcins.
The greatest events of an age are its best
thoughts. Thought finds its way into ac-
tion.-Boice.
Those who have finished by making all
others think with them, have usually been
those who began by daring to think for
themselves.- Colton.
In matters of conscience first thoughts
are best; in matters of prudence last
thoughts are best.- Robert Hall.
Spiritual force is stronger than mate-
rial; thoughts rule the world.--Emerson.
The pleasantest things in the world are
pleasant thoughts, and the greatest art in
life is to have as many of them as possible.
To have thought far too little, we shall
find in the review of life, among our capi-
tal faults.-J. Foster.
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THOUGHT.
572
THOUGHT.
Temples have their sacred images ; and
we see what influence they have always had
over a great part of mankind; but, in
truth, the ideas and images in men's minds
are the invisible powers that constantly
govern them ; and to these they all pay
universally a ready submission.-
Jonathan
Edroards.
Thinking, not growth, makes manhood.
Accustom yourself, therefore, to thinking.
Set yourself to understand whatever you
see or read. To join thinking with read-
ing is one of the first maxims, and one of
the easiest operations.-Isaac Taylor.
Thought is the property of those only
who can entertain it.- Emerson.
There are very few original thinkers in
the world, or ever have been ; the greatest
part of those who are called philosophers,
have adopted the opinions of some who
went before them, and so having chosen
their respective guides, they maintain with
zeal what they have thus imbibed.—Dugald
Stewart.
Thinkers are scarce as gold; but he,
whose thoughts embrace all their subject,
who pursues it uninterruptedly and fear-
less of consequences, is a diamond of enor-
mous size.- Lavater.
We may divide thinkers into those who
think for themselves, and those who think
through others.-The latter are the rule,
and the former the exception.-The first
are original thinkers in a double sense, and
egotists in the noblest meaning of the word.
It is from them only that the world learns
wisdom. For only the light which we have
kindled in ourselves can illuminate others.
-Schopenhauer.
The key to every man is his thought.
Sturdy and defying though he look, he has
a helm which he obeys, which is the idea
after which all his facts are classified. He
can only be reformed by showing him a new
idea which commands his own. -Emerson.
The sober second thought of the people
is seldom wrong.-M. Van Buren.
The happiness of your life depends upon
the quality of your thoughts, therefore
guard accordingly; and take care that you
entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue
and reasonable nature.-Marcus Antoni-
What we are afraid to do before men, we
should be afraid to think before God.
Bad thoughts are worse enemies than
lions and tigers ; for we can keep out of
the way of wild beasts, but bad thoughts
win their way everywhere. The cup that
is full will hold no more ; keep your hearts
full of good thoughts, that bad thoughts
may find no room to enter.
Every one must see and feel, that bad
thoughts quickly ripen into bad actions ;
and that, if the latter only are forbidden,
and the former left free, all morality will
soon be at an end.--Bp. Porteus.
Man being made a reasonable, and so a
thinking creature, there is nothing more
worthy of his being, than the right direc-
tion and employment of his thoughts, since
upon this depend both his usefulness to
the public, and his own present and future
benefit in all respects.--Penn.
Thought engenders thought. Place one
idea upon paper, another will follow it, and
still another, until you have written a page.
You cannot fathom your mind. It is a well
of thought which has no bottom. The
more you draw from it, the more clear and
fruitful will it be. If you neglect to think
yourself, and use other people's thoughts,
giving them utterance only, you will never
know what you are capable of. At first
your ideas may come out in lumps, homely
and shapeless ; but no matter ; time and
perseverance will arrange and polish them.
Learn to think, and you will learn to write ;
the more you think, the better you will ex-
press your ideas.-G. A. Sala.
Great men are they who see that spirit-
ual is stronger than any material force-
that thoughts rule the world.—Emerson.
All truly wise thoughts have been thought
already thousands of times ; but to make
them truly ours, we must think them over
again honestly, till they take root in our
personal experience.-Ġoethe.
Second thoughts they say are best. —
Shakespeare.
Our thoughts are ours, their ends none
of our own.-Shakespeare.
Thoughts come into our minds by ave-
nues which are left open, and thoughts go
out of our minds through avenues which
we never voluntarily opened.- Emerson.
Guard well thy thoughts ; our thoughts
are heard in Heaven.--Young..
A thought is often original, though you
have uttered it a hundred times. It has
come to you over a new route, by a new
and express train of association. -0. W.
Holmes,
NUS.
If, instead of a gem or even a flower, we
could cast the gift of a lovely thought into
the heart of a friend, that would be giving
as the angels give.-G. Macdonald.
The rich are too indolent, the poor too
weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of
thinking.- Cowper.
THOUGHT.
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THOUGHT.
A thinking man is the worst enemy the
Prince of Darkness can have ; every time
such an one announces himself, I doubt
not there l'uns a shudder through the
nether empire ; and new emissaries are
trained with new tactics, to, if possible,
entrap and hoodwink and handcuff him.-
Carlyle.
A man might frame, and let loose a star,
to roll in its orbit, and yet not have done
80 memorable a thing before God, as he
who lets go a golden-orbed thought to roll
through the generations of time.-H. W.
Beecher.
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for
tears.-- Wordsworth.
All that a man does outwardly is but the
expression and completion of his inward
thought. To work effectually, he must
think clearly ; to act nobly, he must think
nobly. Intellectual force is a principal
element of the soul's life, and should be
proposed by every man as the principal end
of his being.-Channing.
The greatest events of an age are its best
thoughts. It is the nature of thought to
find its way into action.-Bovee.
Learning without thought is labor lost ;
thought without learning is perilous.---
Confucius.
Mankind have a great aversion to intel-
lectual labor ; but even supposing knowl-
edge to be easily attainable, more people
would be content to be ignorant than
would take even a little trouble to acquire
it.-Johnson,
Fullyto understand a grand and beautiful
thought requires, perhaps, as much time as
to conceive it.-Joubert.
Though an inheritance of acres may be
bequeathed, an inheritance of knowledge
and wisdom cannot. The wealthy mau may
pay others for doing his work for him, but
it is impossible to get his thinking done
for him by another, or to purchase any
kind of self-culture.-S. Smiles.
Earnest men never think in vain though
their thoughts may be errors.-Bulwer.
I have asked several men what passes in
their minds when they are thinking, and I
could never find any man who could think
for two minutes together. Everybody has
seemed to admit that it was a perpetual
deviation from a particular path, and a
perpetual return to it; which, imperfect as
the operation is, is the only method in which
we can operate with our minds to carry on
any process of thought.--Sydney Smith.
Thoughts, even more than overt acts,
reveal character.-W. S. Plumer,
A vivid thought brings the power to paint
it; and in proportion to the depth of its
source is the force of its projection.-
Emerson.
Good thoughts are blessed guests, and
should be heartily welcomed, well fed, and
much sought after. Like rose leaves, they
give out a sweet smell if laid up in the jar
of memory.-Spurgeon.
"Give me," said Herder to his son, as he
lay in the parched weariness of his last ill-
ness, "give me a great thought, that I may
quicken myself with it."- Richter.
Our thoughts are epochs in our lives; all
else is but as a journal of the winds that
blow while we are here.-Thoreau.
The busiest of living agents are certain
dead men's thonghts; they are forever in-
fluencing the opinions and destinies of
men.-Bovee. .
Secret study, silent thought, is, after all,
the mightiest agent in human' affairs.--
Channing.
When God lets loose a great thinker on
this planet, then all things are at risk.--
There is not a piece of science, but its flank
may be turned to-morrow; nor any literary
reputation, nor the so-called eternal names
of fame, that may not be revised and con-
demned.-Emerson.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts ;
to believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Disraeli.
It is the hardest thing in the world to be
a good thinker without being a good self-
examiner.-Shaftesbury.
The walls of rude minds are scrawled all
over with facts, with thoughts. They shall
one day bring a lantern and read the in-
scriptions.-Emerson.
Thought means life, since those who do
not think do not live in any high or real
sense. Thinking nakes the man.-A. B.
Alcott.
Thought is the seed of action ; but action
is as much its second form as thought is its
first. It rises in thought, to the end that
it may be uttered and acted. Always in
proportion to the depth of its sense does it
knock importunately at the gates of the
soul, to bę spoken, to be done.-Emerson.
A thought embodied and embrained in
fit words walks the earth a living being:-
E. P. Whipple.
It is the habitual thought that frames
itself into our life. It affects us even more
than our intimate social relations do. Our
confidential friends bave not so much to
do in shaping our lives as thoughts have
which we harbor.-J. W. Teal.
THOUGHT.
574
THREATS.
Unless a man can link his written
thoughts with the everlasting wants of
men, so that they shall draw from them as
from wells, there is no more immortality
to the thoughts and feelings of the soul
than to the muscles and the bones.-H. W.
Beecher.
There is no thought in any mind, but it
quickly tends to convert itself into a power,
and organizes a huge instrumentality of
means.-Emerson.
Every great originating mind produces
in some way a change in society ; every
great originating mind, whose exercise is
controlled by duty, effects a beneficial
change. This effect may be immediate,
may be remote. A nation may be in a
tumult to-day for a thought which the
timid Erasmus placidly penned in his
study more than two centuries ago.-E. P.
Whipple.
It is thought that has aroused my intel-
lect from its slumbers, and which has given
lustre to virtue, and dignity to truth; and
it is by those examples which have inflamed
my soul with the love of goodness, and not
by means of sculptured marble, that I hold
communion with Shakespeare and Milton,
with Johnson and Burke, with Howard and
Wilberforce.-7. Wayland.
A man would do well to carry a pencil in
his pocket, and write down the thoughts
of the moment. Those that come unsought
for are commonly the most valuable, and
should be secured, because they seldom
return.-Bacon.
Alas, we make a ladder of our thoughts,
where angels step, but sleep ourselves at
the foot; our high resolves look down upon
our slumbering acts.-L. E. Landon.
Thinking leads man to knowledge. He
may see and hear, and read and learn what-
ever he pleases, iind as much as he pleases;
he will never know anything of it, except
that which he has thought over, that which
by thinking he has made the property of
his own mind. Is it then saying too much
if I say that inan, by thinking only, be-
comes truly man Take away thought
from man's life, and what remains ?--Pes-
talozzi.
An arrow may fly through the air and
leave no trace ; but an ill thought leaves a
trail like a serpent.
The old thoughts never die; immortal
dreams outlive their dreamers and are ours
for aye ; no thought once formed and ut-
tered ever can expire.—Mackay.
Be able to command the thoughts of
others, as well as your own ; the more poll
know, the more you may both know and do.
When a nation gives birth to a man who
is able to produce a great thought, another
is born who is able to understand and ad-
mire it.-Joubert.
Some people study all their life, and at
their death they have learned everything
except to think.-Domergue.
It is much easier to think right without
doing right, than to do right without
thinking right. Just thoughts may, and
often do, fail of producing just deeds; but
just deeds are sure to beget just thoughts.
The clearest understanding can do little in
purifying an impure heart, the strongest
Iittle in straightening a crooked one. You
cannot reason or talk an Augean stable
into cleanliness. A single day's work
would make more progress in such a task
than a century's words.-Hare.
Nothing is so practical as thought; our
view of life moulds our life; our view of
God moulds our souls, and the clearer and
richer the spiritual world to us, the more
spiritual and heavenly, that is the more
practical and loving, the more full of high
aims and lowly services will our lives be.
There are soft moments even to des-
peradoes. God does not, all at once, aban-
don even them.-Cecil.
Some people pass through life soberly
and religiously enough, without knowing
why, or reasoning about it, but, from force
of habit merely, go to heaven like fools.
-Sterne.
Thought is deeper than speech ; feeling
deeper than thought; souls to souls can
never teach what to themselves was taught.
-Cranch.
The men of action are, after all, only the
unconscious instruments of the inen of
thought.Pleime.
Nothing is comparable to the pleasure
of an active and prevailing thought-a
thought prevailing over the difficulty and
obscurity of the object, and refreshing the
soul with new discoveries and inages of
things; and thereby extending the bounds
of apprehension, and as it were enlarging
the territories of reason.--South.
THREATS.-The man who threatens
the world is always ridiculous ; for the
world can easily go on without him, and,
in a short time, will cease to miss him.
Johnson.
I consider it a mark of great prudence in
a man to abstain from threats or any con-
temptuous expressions, for neither of these
weaken the enemy, but the one makes him
more cantious, and the other excites his
hittrel, and a desire to revenge himself.-
Machiavelli.
which you might not
TIME.
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TIME.
Those that are the loudest in their threats Keep forever in view the momentous
are the weakest in the execution of them. value of life ; aim at its worthiest use-its
Colton.
sublimest end ; spurn, with disdain, those
foolish trities and frivolous vanities, which
TIME.-(Seo “OCOUPATION.")
80 often consume life, as the locusts did
As every thread of gold is valuable, so is Egypt; and devote yourself, with the ardor
every moment of time.-J. Mason.
of a passion, to attain the most divine im-
Time is the chrysalis of eternity.--Rich- provements of the human soul. In short,
tere.
hold yourself in preparation to make the
To choose time is to save time.-Bacon.
transition to another life, whenever you
shall be claimed by the Lord of the world.
If time be of all things the most precious, -J. Foster.
wasting time must be the greatest prodig-
ality, since lost time is never found again;
There is a time to be born, and a time to
and what we call time enough always proves
die, says Solomon, and it is the memento
little enough. Let us then up and be
of a truly wise man; but there is an inter-
doiug, and doing to the purpose ; so by
val between these two times of infinite
diligence shall we do more with less per-
importance.- Richmond.
plexity.- Franklin.
Our yesterdays follow us ; they constitute
The great rule of moral conduct is, next
our life, and they give character and force
to God, to respect time.- Lavater.
and meaning to our present deeds.--Joseph
Parler.
Spend your time in nothing which you
The bell strikes one. We take no note
know must be repented of; in nothing on
of time, but from its loss. To give it then
of God; in nothing which you could not
a tongue is wise in man. As if an angel
review with a quiet conscience on your
spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard
dying bed ; in nothing which you might
aright, it is the knell of my departed hours.
Where are they? With the years beyond
not safely and properly be found doing if
death should surprise you in the act.-
the flood. It is the signal that demands des-
Baxter.
patch; how much is to be done !- Young.
Time is lent us to be laid out in God's
No preacher is listened to but time;
which gives us the same train and turn of
service, and we cannot be too diligent in
it, if we consider that time is precious,
thought that elder people have tried in
vain to put into our heads.-Swift.
short, passing, uncertain, irrevocable when
gone, and that for which we must be ac-
Youth is not rich in time, it may be poor ;
countable.
part with it as with money, sparing ; pay
There is no saying shocks me so much as
no moment, but in purchase of its worth ;
that which I hear very often, “that a man
and what it's worth, ask death-beds; they
does not know how to pass his tine." It
can tell. - Young.
would have been but ill-spoken by Methu-
Time! the corrector where our judg- saleb in the nine hundred and sixty-ninth
ments err; the test of truth, and love ; the
year of his life.-Cowley.
sole philosopher, for all beside are sophists.
- Byron.
Time is the greatest of all tyrants. As
we go on toward age, he taxes our health,
Time will bring to light whatever is hid-
limbs, faculties, strength, and features. —
den; it will conceal and cover up what is J. Foster.
now shining with the greatest splendor.
The hours of a wise man are lengthened
Horace.
by his ideas, as those of a fool are by his
Time will discover everything to poster-
passions. The time of the one is long,
ity ; it is a babbler, and speaks even when
because he does not know what to do with
no question is put. - Euripides.
it; so is that of the other, because he
Make use of time if thou lovest eternity; distinguishes every moment of it with use-
yesterday cannot be recalled ; to-morrow ful or amusing thoughts; or, in other
cannot be assured ; only to-day is thine, words, because the one is always wishing
which if thou procrastinate, thou losest; it away, and the other always enjoying it.
and which lost is lost forever. One to-day Addison.
is worth two to-morrows.—Quarles.
Much may be done in those little shreds
Time is painted with a lock before, and and patches of time, which every day pro-
bald behind, signifying thereby tha duces, and which most men throw away,
inust take time by the forelock, for when but which nevertheless will make at the
it is once passed there is no recalling it.- end of it no small deduction from the life
Swift.
of man.- Colton.
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TIME.
Hours have wings and fly up to the
author of time and carry news of our usage.
All our prayers cannot entreat one of them
either to return or slacken its pace. The
misspents of every minute are a new record
against us in heaven. Sure if we thought
thus we would dismiss them with better
reports, and not suffer them to fly away
empty, or laden with dangerous intel-
ligence. How happy is it when they carry
up not only the messago but the fruits of
good, and stay with the Ancient of Days
to speak for us before his glorious throne.
Milton.
“Improve your opportunities," said
Bonaparte to a school of young men,
"every hour lost now is a chance of future
misfortune."
Remember that time is money. He that
can earn ten shillings a day by his labor,
and goes abroad or sits idle one half of that
day, though he spends but sixpence during
his diversion or idleness, ought not to
reckon that tbe only expense; he has really
spent, or rather thrown away, five shillings
besides.-Franklin.
Minutes, hours, days, weeks, and years,
passed over to the end they were created
would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave.
Shakespeare.
Time hurries on with a resistless, upre-
mitting stream, yet treads more soft than
e'er did midnight thief that slides his hand
under the miser's pillow, and carries off
bis prize.--Blair.
An Italian philosopher said that "time
was bis estate?; an estate indeed which will
produce nothing without cultivation, but
will always abundantly repay the labors of
industry, and generally satisfy the most
extensive desires, if no part of it be suf-
fered to lie waste by negligence, to be over-
run with noxious plants, or laid out for
show rather than for use.—Johnson.
As nothing truly valuable can be attained
without industry, so there can be no per-
severing industry without a deep sense of
the value of time.-Mrs. Sigourney.
At the last great day it will probably ap-
pear that the very idle man, who hath
never employed himself, may be in little
better condition than he who hath been
worst employed ; then idleness shall be de-
clared to be a species of wickedness, and
doing nothing to be the activity of a beast.
Clarendon.
Those who know the value of time use it
in preparation for eternity.-Dugnet.
Time, with all its celerity, moves slowly
on to him whose whole enployment is to
watch its flight.-Johnson,
Time is the measure of business as money
is of wares; and business is bought at a
dear hand where there is small despatch.
The Spartans and Spaniards have been
noted to be of small despatch, and hence
the maxim, “Let my death come from
Spain"; for then it will be long in coming.
-Bacon.
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
that 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,
The end crowns all, and that old com-
mon arbitrator, time, will one day end it.-
Shakespeare.
Time hath often cured the wound which
reason failed to heal.–Seneca.
Though we do nothing, time keeps his
constant pace, and flies as fast in idleness
as in employment. An hour of vice is as
long as an hour of virtue. But the differ-
ence which follows upon good actions is
infinite from that of ill ones. The good,
though it diminish our time here, lays up
a pleasure for eternity, and will recom-
pense what it takes away with a plentiful
return at last. When we trade with virtue
we do but buy pleasure with expense of
time. Felthanz.
Time, the cradle of hope, but the grave
of ambition, is the stern corrector of fools,
but the salutary counsellor of the wise,
bringing all they dread to the one, and all
they desire to the other ; it warns us with
a voice that even the sagest discredit too
long, and the silliest believe too late. Wis-
dom walks before it, opportunity with it,
and repentance behind it; he that has
made it his friend will have little to fear
from his enemies, but he that has made it
his enemy will have little to hope from his
friends.- Colton.
Time is the warp of life ; oh tell the
young, the fair, the gay, to weave it well.
It is notorious that joy and grief can
hasten and delay time. Locke is of opin-
ion that a man in great misery may so far
lose his measure as to think a minute an
hour; or in joy make an hour a minute.-
Tatler.
The quarter of an hour before dinner
is the worst suitors can choose.--Zimmer-
mian.
Nay, dally not with time, the wise man's
treasure though fools are lavish of it. -The
fatal fisher hooks our souls, while we waste
moments. -Old Play.
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TIME.
The laboring man and the artificer knows
what every hour of his time is worth, and
parts not with it but for the full value :
they are only noblemen and gentlemen,
who should know best how to use it, that
think it only fit to be cast away; and their
not knowing how to set a true value upon
this, is the true cause of the wrong esti-
mate they make of all other things. — Clar-
endon.
What a folly to dread the thought of
throwing away life at once, and yet have
no regard to throwing
it away by parcels
and piecemeal. --John Howe.
The same object seen from the three dif-
ferent points of view—the past, the pres-
ent, and the future-often exhibits three
different faces to us; like those sign-boards
over shop doors, which represent the face
of a lion as we approach, of a man when we
are in front, and of an 'ass when we have
passed.-Longfellow.
It is better to be doing the most insig-
nificant thing than to reckon even a half-
hour insignificant.-- Goethe.
He lives long that lives well, and time
misspent is not lived, but lost.-Fuller.
We always have time enough, if we will
but use it aright.-Goethe.
A man that is young in years may be old
in hours, if he has lost no time.-Bacon.
Be avaricious of time; do not give any
moment without receiving it in value; only
allow the hours to go from you with as
much regret as you give to your gold ; do
not allow a single day to pass without
increasing the treasure of your knowledge
and virtue.—Letourneux.
Time well employed is Satan's deadliest
foe; it leaves no opening for the lurking
fiend...0. Wilcox.
There are no fragments 80 precions as
those of time, and none are so heedlessly
lost by people who cannot make a moment,
and yet can waste years.- Montgomery.
As if you could kill time without injuring
eternity !-Thoreau.
Lost, yesterday, somewhere between siin-
rise and sunset, two golden hours, each set
with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is
offered, for they are gone forever !—Mrs.
Sigourney.
Nothing lies on our hands with such un-
easiness as time. Wretched and thought-
less creatures! In the only place where
covetousness were a virtue we turn prodi-
gals.--Addison.
Oh time! the beautifier of the dead ;
adorner of the ruin ; comforter and only
healer when the heart hath bled.
Time is the most undefinable yet para-
doxical of things; the past is gone, the fu-
ture has not come, and the present becomes
the past even while we attempt to define it,
and, like the flash of the lightning, at once
exists and expires.- Colton.
God, who is liberal in all his other gifts,
shows us, by the wise economy of his prov-
idence, how circumspect we ought to be in
the management of our time, for he never
gives us two moments together.–Fénelon.
All my possessions for a moment of time.
Last words of-Queen Elizabeth.
What a solemn and striking admonition
to youth is that inscribed on the dial at All
Souls, Oxford,-periunt et imputantur, -
the hours perish, and are laid to our charge;
for time, like life, can never be recalled.-
S. Smiles.
I wasted time, and now doth time waste
me.
--Shakespeare.
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry,
lost knowledge by study, lost health by
temperance or medicine, but lost time is
gone forever.-S. Smiles.
Each moment, as it passes, is the meet-
ing place of two eternities.
What I most value next to eternity, is
time.-Mad. Swetchine.
There is not a single moment in life that
we can afford to lose.—Goulbury
Pastime is a word that should never be
used but in a bad sense ; it is vile to say a
thing is agreeable, because it helps to pass
the time away. Sherstone.
What is time?—The shadow on the dial,
the striking of the clock, the running of
the sand, day and night, summer and win-
ter, months, years, centuries—these are but
the arbitrary and outward signs--the meas-
ure of time, not time itself. Time is the
life of the soul.-Longfellow.
Spare moments are the gold dust of time ;
of all the portions of our life, the spare
minutes are the most fruitful in good or
evil. They are gaps through which temp-
tations find easiest access to the garden of
the soul.
Those that dare lose a day, are danger-
ously prodigal : those that dare misspend
it, are desperate.--Bp. Hall.
Dost thou love life ? then do not squan-
der time, for that is the stuff life is made
of.-Franclin.
Time was, is past; thou canst not it re-
call : time is, thou hast; employ the por-
tion small; time future, is not; and may
never be : time present, is the only time for
thee,
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TOLERATION.
Lost wealth may be restored by industry,
--the wreck of health regained by temper-
ance, - forgotten knowledge restored by
study,--alienated friendship smoothed into
forgetfulness,-even forfeited reputation
won by penitence and virtue. But who
ever looked upon his vanished hours, -re-
called his slighted years, --stamped them
with wisdom,-or effaced from Heaven's
record the fearful blot of wasted time ?-
Mrs. Sigourney.
We sleep, but the loom of life never stops,
and the pattern which was weaving when
the sun went down is weaving when it
comes up in the morning.--H. W. Beecher.
The greatest loss of time is delay and ex-
pectation, which depend upon the future.
We let go the present, which we have in
our power, and look forward to that which
depends upon chance,--and so relinquish a
certainty for an uncertainty.–Seneca.
Time is what we want most, but what
alas ! we use worst.-Penn.
A man's time, when well husbanded, is
like a cultivated field, of which a few acres
produces more of what is useful to life, than
extensive provinces, even of the richest
soil, when overrun with weeds and bram-
bles.-Hume.
All that time is lost which might be better
employed.-Rousseau.
Time is cried out upon as a great thief ;
it is people's own fault. Use him well, and
you will get from his hand more than he
will ever take from yours.--Miss Wetherell.
Well arranged time is the surest mark of
a well arranged mind. ---Pitman.
Observe a method in the distribution of
your time. Every hour will then know its
proper employment, and no time will be
fost. Idleness will be shut out at every
avenue, and with her, that numerous body
of vices, that make up her train.--Bp.
Horne.
Count that day lost, whose slow descend-
ing sun views from thine hand no worthy
action done.-Young.
Know the true value of time; snatch,
seize, and enjoy every moment of it.-Nó
idleness ; no laziness ; no procrastination;
-never put off till to-morrow what you can
do to-day.- Chesterfield.
TIMIDITY.-(See “DIFFIDENCE.")
TITLES.–Titles, instead of exalting,
debase those who act not up to them.-
Rochefoucauld.
The wise sometimes condescend to accept
of titles ; but none but a fool would imagine
them of any real importance. We ought
to depend upon intrinsic merit, and not on
the slender helps of a title.- Goldsmith.
The three highest titles that can be given
a man are those of a martyr, hero, saint.-
Gladstone.
Titles, indeed, may be purchased : but
virtue is the only coin that makes the bar-
gain valid.—Burton.
Titles of honor are like the impressions
on coin, which add no value to gold and
silver, but only render brass current.
Sterne.
It is not titles that reflect honor on men,
but men on their titles.-Machiavelli.
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.
Of the king's creation you may be ; but
he who makes a count never made a man.
-Southern.
Titles of honor add not to his worth, who
is himself an honor to his title.-John Ford.
Virtue is the first title of nobility.--
Molière.
How impious is the title of “sacred ma-
jesty "applied to a worm, who, in the midst
of his splendor, is crumbling into dust !
Thomas Paine.
Where there is no difference in men's
worths, titles are all jests.--Beaumont and
Fletcher,
A fool, indeed, has great need of a title ;
it teaches men to call him count and duke,
and to forget his proper name of fool.
J. Crown.
Man" is a name of honor for a king ;
additions take away from each chief thing.
Chapman.
TOIL,-(See “LABOR.")
TOLERATION.-The tolerance of all
religions is a law of nature, stamped on the
hearts of all men.
Voltaire.
Be thankful that your lot has fallen on
times when, though there may be many
evil tongues and exasperated spirits, there
are none who have fire and fagot at com-
mand.--Southey.
Toleration is a good thing in its place ;
but you cannot tolerate what will not toler-
ate you, and is trying to cut your throat.
Froude.
There are those who believe something,
and therefore will tolerate nothing; and
on the other hand, those who tolerate every-
thing, because they believe nothing.--R.
Browning
TO-MORROW.
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TONGUE.
Among the best men are diversities of
opinion, which should no more, in true
reason, breed hatred, than one that loves
black should be angry with him that is
clothed in white; for thoughts are the very
apparel of the mind.--Sir P. Sidney.
How it is possible to imagine that a re-
ligion breathing the spirit of mercy and
benevolence, teaching the forgiveness of
injuries, the exercise of charity, and the
return of good for evil, can be so perverted
as to breathe the spirit of slaughter and
persecution, of discord and vengeance, for
differences of opinion, is a most unaccount-
able and extraordinary phenomenon. Still
more extraordinary, that it should be the
doctrine, not of base and wicked men
merely, seeking to cover up their owu mis-
deeds, but of good men, seeking the way of
salvation with uprightness of heart and
purpose. It affords a melancholy proof of
the infirmity of human judgment, and
teaches a lesson of humility from which
spiritual pride may learn meekness, and
spiritual zeal a moderating wisdom.
Story.
We anticipate a time when the love of
truth shall have come up to our love of
liberty, and men shall be cordially tolerant
and earnest believers both at once.-Phil-
lips Brook
Tolerance comes with age; I see no fault
committed that I myself could not have
committed at some time or other.-- Goethe.
Religious liberty, according to both
Locke and Montesquieu, may and does
require intolerance of an intolerant relig-
ion; and the very spirit of peace and gen-
tileness may require war to be waged by the
state against an aggressive religion.-Con-
nelly.
It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a
crime to be intolerant.-Shelley.
Error tolerates, truth condemus.-Ca-
ballero.
The responsibility of tolerance lies with
those who have the wider vision.-George
Eliot.
It is the natural feeling of most persons
that charity is founded upon the uncer-
tainty of truth. I believe it is founded on
the certainty of truth.-Maurice.
TO-MORROW.-(See “DELAY.”)
TONGUE.-(See “SILENCE," and
The chameleon, who is said to feed upon
nothing butair, bas of all animals the nim-
blest tongue.---Swift.
When we advance a little into life, we
find that the tongie of man creates nearly
all the mischief of the world. -- Paxton
Hood.
The cure of an evil tongue must be done
at the heart. The weights and wheels are
there, and the clock strikes according to
their motion. A guileful heart makes a
guileful tongue and lips. It is the work-
house where is the forge of deceits and
slanders ; and the tongue is only the outer
shop where they are vended, and the door
of it. Such ware as is made within, such,
and no other, can come out. --Leighton.
The Chinese have a saying, that an un-
lucky word dropped from the tongue, cau-
not be brought back again by a coach and
six horses.- Goldsmith.
There are but ten precepts of the law of
God, and two of them, so far as concerns
the outward organ and vent of the sins
there forbidden, are bestowed on the tongue,
as though it was ready to fly out both
against God and man, if not thus bridled.
Leighton.
The tongue of a fool is the key of his
counsel which, in a wise man, wisdom hath
in keeping.–Socrates.
It is observed in the course of worldly
things, that men's fortunes are oftener
inade by their tongues than by their vir-
tues; and more men's fortunes overthrown
thereby than by their vices.—Sir W. Ra-
leigh.
Give not thy tongue too great liberty,
lest it take thee prisoner. A word un-
spoken is, like the sword in the scabbard,
thine. If vented, thy sword is in another's
hand. If thou desire to be held wise, be
so wise as to hold thy tongue.- Quarles.
Open your mouth and purse cautiously ;
and your stock of wealth and reputation
shall, at least in repute, be great.--Zim-
inerniann.
A wound from a tongue is worse than a
wound from a sword ; for the latter affects
only the body, the former the spirit.-
Pythagoras.
Scholars are men of peace; they bear no
arms, but their tongues are sharper than a
l'a.zor ; their pens carry further, and give a
louder report than thunder. I had rather
stand in the shock of a basilisk, than in the
fury of a merciless pen.--Sir T. Browne.
The tongue is but three inches long, yet
it can kill a man six feet high.-Japanese
Proverb.
"SPEECH.")
The tongue is, at the same time, the best
part of man, and his worst: with good
government, none is more useful ; without
it, none is more mischievous.- anacharsis.
TRADE.
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TRAGEDY.
A tart temper never mellows with age;
and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool
that grows keener and sharper with con-
stant use.-- Washington Irving.
There are manymen whose tongues might
govern multitudes if they could govern their
tongues.-G. D. Prentice.
If thou desire to be wise, be so wise as to
hold thy tongue.-Lavater.
A fool's heart is in his tongue ; but a wise
man's tongue is in his heart.--Quarles.
By examining the tongue, physicians
find out the diseases of the body ; and
philosophers, the diseases of the mind and
heart.–Justin.
In the use of the tongue God hath dis-
tinguished us from beasts, and by the well
or ill using it we are distinguished from
one another; and therefore, though silence
be innocent as death, yet it is rather the
state of death than life.-Jeremy Taylor.
No sword bites so fiercely as an evil
tougue.- Sir P. Sidney.
No one will tell a tale of scandal, except
to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then,
to check and rebuke the detracting tongue,
by showing that you do not listen to it but
with displeasure.-Jerome.
We cannot control the evil tongues of
others ; but a good life enables us to dis-
regard them.-Cato.
It is a great misfortune, not to have
sense enough to speak well, and judgment
enough to speak little.
Of a learned and distinguished, but very
cautious general, it was said, is that he
could be silent in ten languages."
This I always religiously observed, as a
rule, says one, never to chide my husband
before company, nor to prattle abroad of
miscarriages at home. . What passes be-
tween two people is much easier made up
than when once it has taken air.- Erasmus.
If wisdom's ways you widely seek, five
things observe with care: of whom you
speak, to whom you speak, and how, and
when, and where.
Beware the tongue that's set on fire of
hell, and flames in slander, falsehood, per-
jury, in malice, idle-talking, thoughtless
tales ; speak not too much, nor without
thought; let truth in all things small or
great, dwell on thy lips. Remember, God
hath said, “He that in word offends not, is
a perfect man; while he that bridles not
his tongue deceives himself and shows his
faith in vain!"
TRADE.-He that hath a trade hath an
estate ; and he that hath a calling hath a
place of profit and honor. A ploughman
on his legs is higher than a gentleman on
his knees.-Franklin.
There is nothing so useful to man in
general, nor 80 beneficial to particular
societies and individuals, as trade. This
is that alma mater, at whose plentiful
breast all mankind are nourished.--Field-
ing.
Two of a trade seldom agree.-Ray's
Proverbs.
In transactions of trade it is not to be
supposed that, as in gaming, what one
party gains the other must necessarily
Iose. The gain to each may be equal. If
A. has more corn than he can consume, but
wants cattle; and B. has more cattle, but
wants corn ; exchange is gain to each;
thereby the common stock of comforts in
life is increased.-Franklin.
There is a Spanish proverb, that one who
would grow rich must buy of those who go
to be executed, as not caring how cheap
they sell ; and sell to those who go to be
married, as not caring how dear they buy.
Fuller.
TRADITION.- What an enormous mag-
nificr is tradition! How a thing grows in
the human memory and in the human im-
agination, when love, worship, and all that
lies in the human heart, is there to encour-
age it. — Carlyle.
Tradition, as held by the Romanists, is
subordinate to Scripture and dependent on
it, about as some parasite plants are on the
tree that supports them. The former cling
to the latter, and rest upon it; then grad-
ually overspread it with their own foliage,
till, by little and little, they weaken, and
then smother it.- Whately.
Tradition is an important help to his-
tory, but its statements should be carefully
scrutinized before we rely on them.--Ad-
dison.
To follow imperfect, uncertain, or cor-
rupted traditions, in order to avoid erring
in our own judgment, is but to exchange
one danger for another.- Whately.
I am well satisfied that if you let in but
one little finger of tradition, you will have
in the whole monster-horns and tail and
all.-T. Arnold.
TRAGEDY.-Tragedy has the great
moral defect of giving too much impor-
tance to life and death.-Chamfort.
Tragedy warms the soul, elevates the
heart, and can and ought to create heroes.
In this sense, perhaps, France owes a part
of her great actions to Corneille.- Na-
poleon.
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The world is a comedy to those who
think; a tragedy to those who feel.-Horace
Walpole.
The pleasure arising from an extraor-
dinary agitation of the mind is frequently
so great as to stifle humanity; hence arises
the entertainment of the common people
at executions, and of the better sort at
tragedies.--Du Bois.
TRAVEL. All travel has its advantages.
If the traveller visits better countries, he
may learn to improve his own; and if for-
tune carries him to worse, he may learn to
enjoy his own.--Johnson.
Travel is the frivolous part of serious
lives, and the serious part of frivolous
ones.--Mad. Swetchine,
Only that travelling is good which reveals
to me the value of home, and enables me to
enjoy it better.-Thoreau.
It is not fit that every man should travel;
it makes a wise man better, and a fool
worse. Feltham.
As the Spanish proverb says, He who
would bring home the wealth of the Indies,
must carry the wealth of the Indies with
him "-80 it is in travelling; a man must
carry knowledge with him, if he would
bring home knowledge.—Johnson.
Some are found to travel with no other
intent than that of understanding and
collecting pictures, studying seals, and
describing statues ; on they travel from
this cabinet of curiosities to that gallery of
pictures ; waste the prime of life in wonder ;
skilful in pictures ; ignorant in men; yet
impossible to be reclaimed, because their
follies take shelter under the names of
delicacy and taste.-Goldsmith.
One telling Socrates that such an one
was nothing improved by his travels, “I
very well believe it,” said he, "for he took
himself along with him.”--Montaigne.
Men may change their climate, but they
cannot change their nature.--A man that
goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself
into common sense. --Addison.
Usually speaking, the worst bred person
in company is a young traveller just re-
turned from abroad.-Swift.
To be a good traveller argues one no
ordinary philosopher.—A sweet landscape
must sometimes atone for an indifferent
supper, and an interesting ruin charm
away the remembrance of a hard bed.-
Tuckerman
Those who visit foreign nations, but as-
sociate only with their own countrymen,
change their climate, but not their cus-
toms. —They see new meridians, but the
same men; and with heads as empty as
their pockets, return home with travelled
bodies, but untravelled minds.- Colton.
Travel gives a character of experience to
our knowledge, and brings the figures on
the tablet of memory into strong relief.-
Tuckerηιαη. .
The use of travelling is to regulate iin-
agination by reality, and, instead of think-
ing how things may be, to see them as they
are.--Johnson.
Of dead kingdoms I recall the soul, sit-
ting amid their ruins.-N. P. Willis.
The bee, though it finds every rose has a
thorn, comes back loaded with honey from
his rambles, and why should not other
tourists do the same.-Haliburton.
To see the world is to judge the judges.-
Joubert.
Rather see the wonders of the world
abroad than, living dully sluggardized at
home, wear out thy youth with shapeless
idleness.-Shakespeare.
The proper means of increasing the love
we bear to our native country is to reside
some time in a foreign one.-Shenstone. .
Know most of the rooms of thy native
country before thou goest over the thresh-
old thereof.-Fuller, .
The travelled mind is the catholic mind,
educated out of exclusiveness and egotism.
A. B. Alcott.
He travels safe, and not unpleasantly,
who is guarded by poverty, and guided by
love.-Sir P. Sidney.
He who never leaves his own country is
full of prejudices.-Goldoni.
The world is a great book, of which they
who never stir from home read only a page.
-Augustine.
A pilgrimage is an admirable remedy for
over-fastidiousness and sickly refinement.
-Tuckerman.
They, and they only, advantage them-
selves by travel, who, well fraught with
the experience of what their own country
affords, carry ever with the large and
thriving talents, and careful observation.
F. Osborn.
A traveller without observation is a bird
without wing8.-Saadi.
Railway travelling is not travelling at
all; it is merely being sent to a place, and
very little different from becoming a parcel.
-Ruskin.
Nothing tends so much to enlarge the
mind as travelling, that is, making visits
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to other towns, cities, or countries beside
those in which we were born and educated.
- Watts,
Peregrinations charm our senses with
such unspeakable and sweet variety, that
some count him unhappy that never trav-
elled—& kind of prisoner, and pity his
case, that, from his cradle to his old age,
he beholds the same, and still the same.
Burton.
It is but to be able to say that they have
been to such a place, or have seen such a
thing, that, more than any real taste for it,
induces the majority of the world to incur
the trouble and fatigue of travelling.–
Marryatt.
Our object in travelling should be, not to
gratify curiosity, and seek mere temporary
amusement, but to learn, and to venerate,
to improve the understanding and the
heart. -- Gresley.
There is nothing that a man can less
afford to leave at home than his conscience
or his good habits ; for it is not to be
denied that travel is, in its immediate cir-
cumstances, unfavorable to habits of self-
discipline, regulation of thought, sobriety
of conduct, and dignity of character. In-
deed, one of the great lessons of travel is
the discovery how much our virtues owe to
the support of constant occupation, to the
influence of public opinion, and to the
force of habit; a discovery very dangerous,
if it proceed from an actual yielding to
temptations resisted at home, and not from
a consciousness of increased power put
forth in withstanding them.-Packe.
TREACHERY. It is time to fear when
tyrants seem to kiss.--Shakespeare.
Of all the vices to which human nature
is subject, treachery is the most infamous
and detestable, being compounded of fraud,
cowardice, and revenge. The greatest
wrongs will not justify it, as it destroys
those principles of mutual confidence and
security by which only society can subsist.
-L. M. Stretch.
There is no traitor like him whose do-
mestic treason plants the poniard within
the breast that trusted to his truth.-Byron.
In general, treachery, though at first
sufficiently cautious, yet in the end betrays
itself.-Livy.
Men are oftener treacherous through
weakness than design.-Rochefoucauld.
To resent injuries under the disguise of
friendship and benevolence, argues a de-
generacy at which common humanity and
justice must blush.-L. M. Stretch.
TREASON.-Treason pleases, but not
the traitor.-Cervantes.
The man was noble; but with his last at-
tempt he wiped it out; betrayed his coun-
try; and his name remains to the ensuing
age abhorred.---Shalcespeare.
Treason doth never prosper ; for if it
prosper, none dale call it treason.-Sir J.
Harrington.
In the clear mind of virtue treason can
find no hiding place.--Sir P. Sidney. .
Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of
confidence. --Burke.
Though those who are betrayed do feel
the treason sharply, yet the traitor stands
in worse case of woe. Shakespeare.
Is there not some chosen curse, some
hidden thunder in the stores of heaven,
red with uncomnion wrath, to blast the
man who owes his greatness to his coun-
try's ruin!-Addison.
Cæsar had his Brutus ; Charles the First,
his Cromwell ; and George the Third-
(" Treason !" cried the Speaker)--may prof-
it by their example. If this be treason,
make the most of it.-Patrick Henry.
The man who pauses on the paths of
treason halts on a quicksand; the first
step engulf's him.-4.* Fill.
A traitor is good fruit to hang from the
boughs of the tree of liberty. - H. W.
Beecher.
Treason and murder are ever kept to-
gether, as two yoke-devils, sworn to either's
purpose.—Shakespeare.
Where trust is greatest, there treason is
in its most horrid shape.-Dryden.
TRIALS.-(See “AFFLICTION.")
The best people need afflictions for trial
of their virtue. How can we exercise the
grace of contentment, if all things succeed
well; or that of forgiveness, if we have no
enemies. -Tillotson.
It is not right that we should remain
without pain or grief, under the afflictions
that befall us, like angels who are above
the sentiments of our nature. Neither
is it riglit that we should indulge grief
without consolation, like heathen who have
110 sentiments of grace. But we ought
both to mourn and to be comforted like
Christians. The consolations of grace
should rise superior to the feelings of na-
ture, so that grace may not only dwell in,
but be victorious over us.-Pascal.
It was a beautiful and striking reply,
given by one in affliction, who, when asked
how it was that he bore it so well, replied,
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-"It lightens the stroke, I find, to draw
near to Him who handles the rod." -Thyon
Edwards.
Every man deems that he has precisely
the trials and temptations which are the
hardest of all for him to bear ; but they
are so, because they are the very ones he
needs.-Richter.
We are always in the forge, or on the
anvil ; by trials God is shaping 118 for
higher things.-H. W. Beecher.
There is a sanctity in suffering when
meekly born. Our duty, though set about
by thorns, may still be made a staff, sup-
porting even wbile it tortures. Cast it
away, and, like the prophet's rod, it changes
to a snake.-Jerrota.
Reckon any matter of trial to thee among
thy gains.--T. Adams.
Trials are medicines which our gracious
and wise physician prescribes, because we
need them; and he proportions the fre-
quency and weight of them to what the
case requires. Let us trust in his skill,
and thank him for his prescription.-John
Newton.
Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity
the great.-- Pliny the Younger'.
God hath many sharp-cutting instru-
ments and rough files for the polishing of
his jewels; and those he especially loves,
and means to make the most resplendent,
he hath oftenest his tools upon.-Leighton.
When a founder has cast a bell he does
not presently fix it in the steeple, but tries
it with his hanımer, and beats it on every
side to see if there be any flaw in it. So
Christ doth not, presently after he has con-
verted a man, convey him to heaven ; but
suffers him first to be beaten upon by many
temptations, and then exalts him to his
crown.-Cecil.
The hardest trial of the heart is, whether
it can bear a rival's failure without triumph.
-Ailcin.
The cloud which appeared to the pro-
phet Ezekiel carried with it winds and
storms, but it was environed with a golden
circle ; so the storms of affliction which
happen to God's children, are encompassed
with brightness and smiling felicity.-N.
Caussin.
God often lays the sum of his amazing
providences in very dismal affictions ; ag
the limner first puts on the dusky colors,
on which he intends to draw the portrai-
ture of some illustrious beauty.-Charnock.
A truly virtuonis person is like good metal,
the more he is fired, the more he is fined;
the more he is opposed, the more he is ap-
proved. Wrongs may well try him and
touch him, but they cannot imprint on him
aliy false stamp.-Richelieu.
Every man will have his own criterion in
forming his judgment of others. I depend
very much on the effect of affliction. I
consider how a man comes out of the
furnace ; gold will lie for a month in the
furnace without losing a grain.-Cecil.
As the musician straineth his strings,
and yet he breaketh none of them but mak-
eth thereby a sweeter melody and better
concord; so God, through affliction, makes
his own better unto the fruition and enjoy-
ing of the life to come.-Cawdrey.
God had one Son on earth without sin,
but never one without suffering.- Augus-
tine.
The brightest crowns that are worn in
heaven have been tried, and smelted, and
polished, and glorified through the fur-
naces of tribulation.--E. H. Chapin.
God often afflicts his people to bring
them nearer and keep them nearer to him-
self, to make earth less attractive and
heaven more desirable.
Under the shadow of earthly disappoint-
ment, all unconsciously to ourselves, our
Divine Redeemer is walking by our side.-
E. H. Chapin.
Blessed be the discipline that makes me
reach out to a closer union with Jesus !-
Blessed be the dews of the spirit that keep
my leaf ever green !-Blessed be the trials
which shake down the ripe golden fruits
from the branches.-T. L. Cuyler.
Great trials seem to be a necessary prep-
aration for great duties.-E. Thomson.
In the time of Jesus, the mount of trans-
figuration was on the way to the cross.--In
our day the cross is on the way to the
mount of transfiguration. If you would
be on the mountain, you must consent to
pass over the road to it.-H. C. Trumbull.
It is the easiest thing in the world to
obey God when he commands us to do what
we like, and to trust him when the path is
all sunshine. The real victory of faith is
to trust God in the dark, and through the
dark.-T. L. Cuyler.
Life has no smooth road for any of us ;
and in the bracing atmosphere of a high
aim the very roughness stimulates the
climber to steadier steps, till the legend,
orer steep ways to the stars" fulfils itself.
-W. C. Doane,
There are many trials in life which do
not seem to come from unwisdom or folly ;
they are silver arrows shot from the bow
of God, and fixed inextricably in the quiver-
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upon it.
ing heart.--They are to be borze.-They
were not meant, like snow or water, to melt
as soon as they strike; but the moment an
ill can be patiently borne it is disarmed of
its poison, though not of its pain.-H. W.
Beecher,
As in nature, and in the arts, so in grace ;
it is rough treatment that gives souls, as
well as stones, their lustre. - The more the
diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles,
and in what seems hard dealing God has
no end in view but to perfect our graces.
He sends tribulations, but tells 178 their piir-
pose, that “ tribulation worketh patience,
and patience experience, and experience
hope."- Guthrie.
Outward attacks and troubles rather fix
than unsettle the Christian, as tempests
from without only serve to root the oak
more firmly in the ground.-H. More.
The surest way to know our gold is to
look upon it and examine it in God's fur-
nace, where he tries it that we may see
what it is. If we have a mind to know
whether a building stands strong or no, we
inust look upon it when the wind blows.
If we would know whether a staff be strong,
or a rotten, broken reed, we must observe
it when it is leared on and weight is borne
If we would weigh ourselves
justly we must weigh ourselves in God's
scales that he makes use of to weigh 18.-
Jonathan Edwards.
It is trial that proves one thing weak and
another strong.--A house built on the sand
is in fair weather just as good as if builded
on a rock.-A cobweb is as good as the
mightiest cable when there is no strain
upon it.-H. W. Beecher.
As sure as ever God puts his children in
the furnace, he will be in the furnace with
them.-Spurgeon.
Among my list of blessings infinite stands
this the foremost, that my heart has bled.
Young.
There are no crown-wearers in heaven
that were not cross-bearers here below.-
Spurgeon.
TRIFLES.-(See “LITTLE THINGS.")
Trifles make perfection, but perfection
itself is no trifle. -Michael Angelo.
There is nothing insignificant-nothing.
- Coleridge.
Nothing is more unworthy of a wise man,
or ought to trouble him more, than to have
allowed more time for trifling, and useless
things, than they deserved.- Plato.
He that has “a spirit of detail” will do
better in life than many who figured beyond
him in the university. Such an one is
minute and particular.—He adjusts trifles ;
and these trifles compose most of the busi-
ness and happiness of life.-Great events
happen seldom, and affect few; trities
happen every moment to everybody; and
though one occurrence of them adds little
to the happiness or misery of life, yet the
sum total of their continual repetition is of
the highest consequence.—Daniel Webster.
There are no trifles in the moral universe
of God. Speak but one true word to-day,
and it shall go ringing ou through the ages.
-W. M. Punshon.
It is in those acts which we call trivialities
that the seeds of joy are forever wasted.-
George Eliot
He who esteems trifles for themselves is
a triler ; he who esteems them for the con-
clusions to be drawn from them, or the
advantage to which they can be put, is a
philosopher.-Bulwer.
One kernel is felt in a hogshead ; one
drop of water helps to swell the ocean i a
spark of fire helps to give light to the
world. None are too small, too feeble, too
poor to be of service. Think of this and
act. Life is no trifle.
A life devoted to trifles, not only takes
away the inclination, but the capacity for
higher pursuits. The truths of Christian-
ity have scarcely more influence on a
frivolous than on a profligate character.--
Hannah More.
Think naught a trifle, though it small
appear; sands make the mountain, mo-
ments make the year, and trifles, life.
Your care to trifles give, else you may die
ere you have learned to live.-Young.
Johnson well says, "He who waits to do
a great deal of good at once will never
do anything." Life is made up of little
things. It is very rarely that an occasion
is offered for doing a great deal at once.
True greatness consists in being great in
little things.-C. Simmons.
There is a kind of latent omniscience
not only in every man, but in every par-
ticle.-Emerson.
Delade not yourself with the notion that
you may be untrue and uncertain in trifles
and in important things the contrary.
Trifles make up existence, and give the
meastie by which to try 18; and the fearful
power of habit, after a time, suffers not the
best will to ripen into action.-C. M. von
Weber.
The chains which cramp us most are
those which weigh on us least.-Mad.
Swetchine.
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Trifles make the sum of human things,
and half our misery from our foibles
springs.-H. More.
Trifles discover character more than ac-
tions of seeming importance ; what one is
in little things he is also in great.
Small causes are sufficient to make a man
uneasy when great ones are not in the way.
For want of a block he will stumble at a
straw.-Swift.
The great moments of life are but mo-
ments like the others. Your doom is
spoken in a word or two. A single look
froin the eyes, a mere pressure of the hand,
may decide it; or of the lips, though they
cannot speak.-Thackeray.
Those who give too much attention to
trifling things become generally incapable
of great ones.-Rochefoucauld.
Trifles we should let not plague us only,
but also gratify us; we should seize not
their poison-bags only, but their honey-
bags also.--Richter.
Those who place their affections at first
on trifles for amusement, will find these
become at last their most serious concerns.
- Goldsmith.
As it would be great folly to shoe horses,
as Nero did, with gold, so it is to spend
time in trifles.--J. Mason.
Whoever shall review his life will find
that the whole tenor of his conduct has
been determined by some accident of no
apparent moment. -Johnson.
The power of duly appreciating little
things belongs to a great mind; a narrow-
minded man has it not, for to him they are
great things.- Whately.
Trifles discover a character more than
actions of importance. In regard to the
former, & person is off his guard, and
thinks it not material to use disguise. It
is no imperfect hint toward the discovery
of a man's character to say he looks as
though you might be certain of finding a
pin upon his sleeve.-Shenstone.
There is no real elevation of mind in a
contempt of little things. It is, on the
contrary, from too narrow views that we
consider those things of little importance,
which have, in fact, such extensive con-
sequences.-Fénelon.
There is a care for trifles which proceeds
from love of conscience, and is most holy;
and a care for trifles which comes of idle-
ness and frivolity, and is most base.
Rusicin.
Great mcrit, or great failings, will make
you respected or despised ; but trifles, little
attentions, mere nothings, either done or
neglected, will make you either liked or
disliked in the general run of the world.-
Chesterfield.
A stray hair, by its continued irritation,
may give more annoyance than a smart
blow.-J. R. Lowell.
If the nose of Cleopatra had been a little
shorter it would have changed the history
of the world.-Pascal.
Men are led by trifles.-Napoleon.
A grain of sand leads to the fall of a
mountain when the moment has come for
the mountain to fall.-- Ernest Renan.
Frivolous curiosity about trifles, and
laborious attentions to little objects which
neither require nor deserve a moment's
thought, lower a man, who from thence is
thought, and not unjustly, incapable of
greater inatter8.- Chesterfield.
The creation of a thousand forests is in
one acorn.--Emerson.
The mind of the greatest man on earth
is not so independent of circumstances as
not to feel inconvenienced by the merest
buzzing noise about him ; it does not need
the report of a cannon to disturb his
thonghts. The creaking of a vane or a
pully is quite enough. Do not wonder that
he reasons ill just now; a fly is buzzing by
it is quite enough to unfit him for
giving good counsel.--Pascal.
A little and a little, collected together,
become a great deal; the heap in the barn
consists of single grains, and drop and
drop make the inundation.-Saadi.
Think nothing too little ; seek for the
cross in the daily incidents of life, look for
the cross in everything. Nothing is too
little which relates to man's salvation, nor
is there anything too little in which either
to please God or to serve Satan.-Pusey.
TROUBLE.-( See ANXIETY,
FLICTION," and "TRIALS.")
Men are born to trouble at first, and are
exercised in it all their days.—There is a
cry at the beginning of life and a groan at
the end of it. - Arnot.
When troubles come from God, then
naught behoves like patience; but for
troubles wrought of men, patience is hard
-I tell you it is hard.-Jean Ingelow.
Would you tonch a nettle without being
sting by it; take hold of it stoutly. Do
the same to other annoyances, and hardly
will anything annoy you.-Hare.
If all men were to bring their miseries
together in one place, most would be glad
to take each his own home again rather
bis ear;
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than take a portion out of the common
stock.- Solon.
It is a kind and wise arrangement of Prov-
idence that weaves our sorrows into the
elements of character ; and that all the
disappointments, and conflicts, and afflic-
tions of life may, if rightly used, becoine
the means of improvement, and create in
us the sinews of strength.Trouble is a
marvellons mortifier of pride, and an ef-
fectual restrainer of self-will. Difficulties
string up the energies to loftier effort, and
intensity is gained from repression. By
sorrow the temper is mellowed and the
feeling is refined. When suffering has
broken up the soil, and made the furrows
soft, there can be implanted the hardy vir-
tues which outbrave the storm. In short,
trial is God's glorious alchemy, by which
the dross is left in the crucible, the baser
metals are transmuted, and the character
is enriched with gold.-- W. M. Punshon.
The little troubles and worries of life,
so many of which we meet, may be as
stumbling blocks in our way, or we may
make them stepping-stones to a noble char-
acter and to Heaven.
Troubles are often the tools by which
God fashions us for better things.-E. W.
Beecher.
If the sun of God's countenance shine
upon me, I may well be content to be wet
with the rain of affliction.--Bp. Hall.
Never borrow trouble. If the evil is not
to come, it is useless, and so much waste ;
if it is to come, best keep all your strength
to meet it.-Tryon Edwards.
When thou hast truly thanked the Lord
for every blessing sent, but little time will
then remain for murmur or lament.
Outward attacks and troubles rather fix
than unsettle the Christian, as tempests
from without only serve to root the oak
faster ; while an inward canker will grad-
ually rot and decay it.-Hannah More.
Tribulation will not hurt you, unless it
does-what, alas ! it too often does—unless
it hardens you, and makes you sour and
narrow and sceptical.-E. H. Chapin.
It is not the will of God to give us more
tronbles than will bring us to live by faith
on him; he loves us too well to give us a
moment of uneasiness but for our good.-
Romaine.
Troubles are usually the brooms and
shovels that smoothe the road to a good
man's fortune ; and many a man curses
the rain that falls upon his head, and knows
not that it brings abundance to drive away
hunger.-Basil.
Men's happiness springs mainly from
moderate troubles, which afford the mind
a healthful stimulus, and are followed by a
reaction which produces a cheerful flow
of spirits.-E. Wigglesworth.
The true way of softening one's troubles
is to solace those of others. Mad. de Main-
tenon.
If you tell your troubles to God, you put
them into the grave; they will never rise
again when you have committed them to
him. If you roll your burden anywhere
else, it will roll back again, like the stone
oľ Sisyphus.--- Spurgeon.
Instead of cares, burdens, and troubles
being soº many misfortunes, they are the
influences by which God means to develop
every element of our being, and polish it,
and make it meet for his kingdom.-A. W.
Beecher.
It is distrust of God, to be troubled about
what is to come; impatience against God,
to be troubled with what is present; and
anger at God, to be troubled for what is
past.—Bp. Patrick.
Heart troubles in God's husbandry are
not wounds, but the putting in of the
spade before planting the seeds.-H. W.
Beecher.
Trouble is the next best thing to enjoy-
ment;
there is no fate in the world so hor-
rible as to have no share in either its joys
or sorrows.--Longfellow.
When Anaxagoras was told of the death
of his son, he only said—"I knew he was
mortal.' So we in all casualties of life
should say, I knew my riches were uncer-
tain ; that my friend was but a man. Such
considerations would soon pacify us, be-
cause all our troubles proceed from their
being unexpected.-Plutarch.
Set about doing good to somebody. Put
on your hat, and go and visit the sick and
poor of your neighborhood ; inquire into
their circumstances, and minister to their
wants. Seek out the desolate, and afflicted,
and oppressed, and tell them of the consola-
tions of religion. I have often tried this
method, and have always found it the best
medicine for a heavy heart.—Howard.
There are many troubles which you can-
not cure by the Bible and the hymn book,
but which you can cure by a good perspira-
tion and a breath of fresh air.
-H. W.
Beecher.
Sorrow comes soon enough without de-
spondency; it does a man no good to carry
around a lightning-rod to attract trouble.
Anon.
Perhaps when the light of heaven shows
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is clearly the pitfalls and dangers of the
earth road that led to the heavenly city,
our sweetest songs of gratitude will be not
for the troubles we have conquered, but
for those we have escaped.-Barr.
The true way of softening one's troubles
is to solace those of others.- Mad. de Main-
tenon.
In all troublous events we may find com-
fort, though it be only in the negative ad-
mission that things might have been worse.
-Barr.
TRUISMS.-Half the noblest passages
in poetry are truisms; but these truismis
are the great truths of humanity; and he
is the true poet who draws them from their
fountains in elemental purity, and gives us
to drink.-L. E. Landon.
Deny first-truths, and reasoning is void.
If an opponent denies theni, we can only
add : " Be not as the horse and the mule,
who have no understanding." C. Sim-
mons.
Never reason from what you do not know.
-Ramsay.
Fundamental truths should be both clear
and familiar truths ; self-evident truths
are a solid foundation for reasoning.-C.
Simmons,
Tako special care that thou never trust
any friend or servant with any matter that
may endanger thine estate ; for so shult
thou make thyself a bond-slave to him that
thou trustest, and leave thyself always to
his mercy.-Sir W. Raleigh.
We trust as we love, and where we love.
-If we love Christ much, surely we shall
trust him much.-T. Broolcs.
Trust in God does not supersede the em-
ployment of prudent means on our part.
To expect God's protection while we do
nothing is not to honor but to tempt prop-
idence.—Quesnel.
Look at that beautiful butterfly, and
learn from it to trust in God. One might
wonder where it could live in tempestuous
nights, in the whirlwind, or in the stormy
day ; but I have noticed it is safe and dry
under the broad leaf while rivers have been
flooded, and the mountain oaks torn up
from their roots.—Jeremy Taylor.
How calmly may we commit ourselves to
the hands of him who bears up the world.-
Richter.
I have never committed the least matter
to God, that I have not had reason for in-
finite praise.-Anna Shipton.
An undivided heart, which worships God
alone, and trusts him as it should, is
raised above all anxiety for earthly wants.
-Geikie.
Trust God for great things; with your
five loaves and two fishes, he will show you
a way to feed thousands. --Horace Bushnell.
To trust God when we have securities
in our iron chest is easy, but not thank-
worthy ; but to depend on hinn for what
we cannot see, as it is more hard for man
to do, so it is more acceptable to God.
Felthan.
We do not trust God, but tempt him,
when our expectations slacken our exer-
tions.-M. Henry.
He that taketh his own cares upon him-
self loads himself in vain with an uneasy
burden. I will cast all my cares on God:
he hath bidden me; they cannot burden
him.-Bp. Hall.
TRUTH.-(See "ERROR.")
Truth is the foundation of all knowledge
and the cement of all societies.-Dryden.
There is no fit search after truth whichi
does not, first of all, begin to live the truth
which it knows.-Fiorace Bushnell.
Statistics I can prove anything by
statistics-except the truth.-George Cano
ning.
TRUST.-To be trusted is a greater
compliment than to be loved. - I. Mac-
donald.
The soul and spirit that animates and
keeps up society is mutual trust.--South.
I think that we may safely trust a good
deal more than we do. We may waive just
so much care of ourselves as we honestly
bestow elsewhere.-Thoreau.
The man who trusts men vill make fewer
mistakes than he who distrusts them.-
Cavour.
Trust God where you cannot trace him.
Do not try to penetrate the cloud he brings
over you; rather look to the bow that is on
it. The mystery is God's ; the promise is
yours.-Macduff.
Trust not any man with thy life, credit,
or estate. For it is mere folly for a mari
to enthrall himself to his friend, as though,
occasion being offered, he might not be-
come an enemy.- Burleigh.
Trust him little who praises all, him less
who censures all, and hii least who is indif-
ferent about all.-Lavater.
If thou be subject to any great vanity or
ill, then therein trust no man; for every
man's folly ought to be his greatest secret.
-Sir W. Raleigh.
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The proselyting spirit is inseparable from
the love of truth, for it is only the effort to
win others to our way of thinking.–G.
Forster.
One of the sublimest things in the world
is plain truth.-Bulwer,
What we have in us of the image of God
is the love of truth and justice.-Demos-
thenes.
Truth is the object of our understanding,
as good is of our will ; and the understand-
ing can no more be delighted with a lie
than the will can choose an apparent evil.
-Dryden.
General, abstract truth is the most pre-
cious of all blessings; without it man is
blind, it is the eye of reason.-Rousseau.
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.- Whately.
Truth, whether in or out of fashion, is the
measure of knowledge, and the business
of the understanding; whatsoever is beside
that, however authorized by consent, or
recommended by rarity, is nothing but
ignorance, or something worse.-Locke.
The greatest homage we can pay to truth
is to use it.-Emerson.
All truth undone becomes unreal; "he
that doeth his will shall know," says Jesus.
--F.W. Robertson.
Truth can hardly be expected to adapt
herself to the crooked policy and wily
sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth,
like light, travels only in straight lines.
Colton.
Truth and love are two of the most
powerful things in the world ; and when
they both go together they cannot easily
be withstood.–Cudworth.
Every violation of truth is a stab at the
health of human society.-
Emerson.
There is no progress in fundamental
truth.-We may grow in knowledge of its
meaning, and in the modes of its applica-
tion, but its great principles will forever be
the same.-W. Radcliffe.
Truth lies in character. Christ did not
simply speak the truth; he was truth;
truth, through and through ; for truth is a
thing not of words, but of life and being.–
Robertson.
We must not let go manifest truths be-
cause we cannot answer all questions about
them.-Jeremy Collier.
Christianity knows no truth which is not
the child of love and the parent of duty.-
Phillips Brooks.
Truth without charity is often intolerant
and even persecuting, as charity without
truth is weak in concession and untrust-
worthy in judgment.--But charity, loyal to
truth and rejoicing in it, has the wisdom of
the serpent with the harmlessness of the
dove.-J. Swartz.
Much of the glory and sublimity of truth
is connected with its mystery.-To under-
stand everything we must be as God.-
Tryon Edwards.
The grand character of truth is its cap-
ability of enduring the test of universal
experience, and coming unchanged out of
every possible form of fair discussion.-Sir
John Herschel
Religious truth, touch what points of it
you will, has always to do with the being
and government of God, and is, of course,
illimitable in its reach.-R. D. Hitchcock.
Iu the discovery of truth, in the develop-
ment of man's mental powers and priv-
ileges, each generation has its assigned
part; and it is for us to endeavour to per-
form our portion of this perpetual task of
our species.- Whewell.
To restore a common-place truth to its
first uncoinmon lustre you need only trans-
late it into action. But to do this you must
have reflected on its truth.-- Coleridge.
The finest and noblest ground on which
people can live is truth : the real with the
real; a ground on which nothing is as-
sumed.- Evierson.
A truth that one does not understand
becomes an error.--Desbarolles.
What a man sees only in his best mo-
Inents as truth is truth in all moments.-
Joseph Coolc.
Keep one thing forever in view-the
truth; and if you do this, though it may
seem to lead you away from the opinions
of men, it will assuredly conduct you to
the throne of God. Forace Mann.
A charitable untruth, an uncharitable
truth, and an unwise management of truth
or love, are all to be carefully avoided of
him that would go with a right foot in the
narrow way.—Bp. Hall.
If a thousand old beliefs were ruined in
our march to truth we must still march on.
-Stopford A. Brooke.
It is the special privilege of truth always
to grow on candid minds.-Scrivener.
Falsehood is in a hurry; it may be at
any moment detected and punished; truth
is calm, serene ; its judgment is on high ;
its king cometh out of the chambers of
eternity.---Joseph Parker.
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Our recognition and apprehension of the
highest truth is essentially an affair of the
heart, far more than of the head.-J. S.
Kieffer.
You need not tell all the truth, unless to
those who have a right to know it all. But
let all you tell be truth.-Horace Mann.
It is wondrous how, the truer we become,
the more unerringly we know the ring of
truth, can discern whether a man be true
or not, and can fasten at once upon the
rising lie in word and look and dissembling
act-wondrous how the charity of Christ
in the heart perceives every aberration
from charity in others, in ungentle thought
or slanderous tone.--F. W. Robertson.
It is easier to find a score of men wise
enough to discover the truth than to find
one intrepid enough, in the face of opposi-
tion, to stand up for it.
No one truth is rightly held till it is
clearly conceived and stated, and no single
truth is adequately comprehended till it is
viewed in harmonious relations to all the
other truths of the systein of which Christ
is the centre.-A. A. Hodge.
It is not so difficult a task to plant new
truths as to root out old errors, for there
is this paradoxin men : they run after that
which is new, but are prejudiced in favor
of that which is old.
A truth that is merely acquired from
others only clings to us as a limb added to
the body, or as a false tooth, or a wax nose.
A truth we have acquired by our own men-
tal exertions, is like our natural limbs,
which really belong to us. This is exactly
the difference between an original thinker
and the mere learned man.--Schopen-
hauer.
Truth spoken before its time may be not
only hurtful, but even unlawful.--Jukes.
The withholding of truth is sometimes
a worse deception than a direct misstate-
ment.
There is an idiom in truth which false-
hood never can imitate.-Lord Napier.
It is easier to perceive error than to find
truth, for the former lies on the surface
and is easily seen, while the latter lies in
the depth, where few are willing to search
for it.-Goethe.
Truth does not do as much good in the
world, as its counterfeit does mischief.
Rochefoucauld.
When two truths seem directly opposed
to each other, we must not question either,
but remember there is a third-God—who
reserves to himself the right to harmonize
them.-Mad. Swetchine.
Truth comes to us with a slow and doubt
ful step ; measuring the ground she treads
ou, and forever turning her curious eye, to
see that all is right behind ; and with a
keen survey choosing her onward path.
Percival.
Truth is not only violated by falsehood;
it may be equally outraged by silence.--
Annien.
No truth so sublime but it may be seen
to be trivial to-morrow in the light of new
thoughts.--Emerson.
If the world goes against truth, then
Athanasius goes against the world.-Atha-
nasius.
Truth is the gravitation principle of the
universe, by which it is supported, and in
which it inberes.-W. M. Evarts.
Truth is by its very nature intolerant,
exclusive, for every truth is the denial of
its opposing error.-Luthardt.
The deepest truths are the simplest and
the most common.-F. W. Robertson.
Without seeking, truth cannot be known
at all. It can neither be declared from
pulpits, nor set down in articles, nor in
any
Wise prepared and sold in packages ready for
use. Truth must be ground for every man
by himself out of its husk, with such help as
he can get, indeed, but not without stern
labor of his own.--Ruskin.
If it is the truth what does it matter who
says it.-Anon.
'Truth is as much a matter of experience
as of speculation. An honest man will
generally find it.-To know it, one must
feel it; above all, must live in it. -Then it
becomes vital to his spirit-a part of his
being.--R. Turnbull.
There are two peculiarities in the truths
of religion : a divine beauty which renders
them lovely, and a holy majesty which
makes them venerable.--And there are two
peculiarities in errors : an impiety which
renders them horrible, and an impertinence
which lenders them ridiculous.-Pascal.
Truth is always consistent with itself,
and needs nothing to help it out; it is al-
ways 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 ono
trick needs a great many more of the same
kind to make it good.- Tillotson.
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth
when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect
freedom must be allowed ; nor has any one
who is apt to be angry when he hears the
truth, any cause to wonder that he does
not hear it.-Tacitus.
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Truth, like beauty, varies in its fashions,
and is best recommended by different
dresses to different minds; and he that
recalls the attention of mankind to any
part of learning which time has left bebind
it, may be truly said to advance the litera-
ture of his own age.-Johnson.
When a man has no design but to speak
plain truth, he may say a great deal in a
very narrow compass. Steele.
There is nothing," says Plato, “
so de-
lightful as the hearing or the speaking of
truth”_-for this reason there is no con-
versation so agreeable as that of the man of
integrity, who hears without any intention
to betray, and speaks without any inten-
tion to deceive. --Sherlock.
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.
The most natural beauty in the world is
honesty and moral truth; for all beauty is
truth. True features make the beauty of
a face; and true proportions the beauty of
architecture; as true measures that of har-
mony and wusic, In poetry, which is all
fable, truth still is the perfection.--Shaftes-
bury.
Some modern zealots appear to have no
better knowledge of truth, nor better man-
ner of judging it, than by counting noses.
---Swifi.
He that finds truth, without loving her,
is like a bat; which, though it have eyes to
discern that there is a sun, yet hath so evil
eyes, that it cannot delight in the sun.-
Sir P. Sidney.
It is curious to observe how the naturo
of truth may be changed by the garb it
wcars ; softened to the admonition of
friendship, or soured into the severity of
reproof; yet this severity may be useful to
some tempers: it somewhat resembles a
file, disagreeable in its operation, but hard
metal may be the brighter for it.--Mac-
kenzie.
All extremes are error. The reverse of
error is not truth, but error still. Truth
lies between extremes.-Cecil.
"Truth," it has been well said, “is the
property of no individual, but is the treas-
ure of all men. The nobler the truth or
sentiment, the less import the question of
authorship.” The larger and deeper the
historical basis of our religious conception,
the less will it be exposed to ruin "wher
the rain descends, and the floods come, and
the winds blow.-A. P. Stanley.
As Thales measured the pyramids from
their shadows, so we may measure the
height and antiquity of the truth, by the
extent of its corruptions.— Stillingflect.
Truth is to be sought only by slow and
painful progress. Error is, in its nature,
flippant and compendious; it hops with
airy and fastidious levity over proofs and
arguments, and perches upon assertion,
which it calls conclusion.- Curran.
Truthi will be uppermost, one time or the
other, like cork, though kept down in the
water.- Sir W. Temple.
He that would make a real progress in
kuowledge, must dedicate his age as well as
youth, the latter growth as well as the first
fruits, on the altar of truth.-Berkeley.
There are two things, cheap and common
enough when separated, but as costly in
value as irresistible in power when com-
bined-truth and novelty. Their union is
like that of steam and fire, which nothing
can overcome. · But the moral earthquake,
unlike the natural, while it convulses the
nations, reforms them too.--Colton.
The study of truth is perpetually joined
with the love of virtue; for there's no vir-
tue which derives not its original from
truth; as, on the contrary, there is no vice
which has not its beginning from a lie.
Truth is the foundation of all knowledge,
and the cement of all societies.- Casaubon.
There are many who say more than the
truth on some occasions, and balance the
account with their consciences by saying
less than the truth on others. But they are
in both instances, as fraudulent as he would
be that exacted more than his due from
his debtors, and paid less than their que
to his creditors.--Colton.
To thine own self be true, and it must
follow, as the night the day, thou canst
not then be false to any man. — - Shake-
speaire.
It has always been the subtlety of grand
deceivers, to graft their greatest errors on
some material truths, thus to make them
pass unnoticed by those who look more at
the root than at the fruits. Their most
destructive principles have ever been
founded on some necessary and import-
aut truths.-Stillingfleet.
He that is habituated to deceptions and
artificialities in trifles, will try in vain to
be true in matters of importance ; for truth
is a thing of habit rather than of will. You
cannot in any given case by any sudden
and single effort will to be true if the liabit
of your life has been insincere.-F. W.
Robertson.
What
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It is better to hold back a truth than to expedient not to utter the whole truth, the
speak it ungraciously.—De Sales.
interests of science never : for in this field
Truth is the handmaid of justice ; free-
we have much more to fear from the defi-
dom is its child; peace its companion ;
ciency of truth, than from its abundance.
safety walks in its steps; victory follows in
- Colton.
its train.-It is the brightest emanation I have seldom known any one who de-
from the gospel-it is the attribute of God. serted truth in trifles, that could be trusted
-Sydney Smith.
in matters of importance. -Paley.
You may carry truth as far as you like, Accustom your children to a strict atten-
and it will always be truth. Truth is like tion to truth, even in the most minute par-
those crystals which, when split up into the
ticulars. If a thing happened at one win-
smallest possible fragments, still retain dow, and they, when relating it, say that
their natural form. You may break truth it happened at another, do not let it pass,
in pieces, you may do what you like with it, but instantly check them; you do not
and it is truth throughout; but error is di-
know where deviations from truth will end.
verse with itself. You can see its falsehood - Johnson.
even in its own light.--Spurgeon.
We find but few historians who have been
Do the truth you know, and you shall diligeut enough in their search for truth
;
learn the truth you need to know.-G.
it is their common method to take on trust
Macdonald.
which means a falsehood once received
If a crooked stick is before us, you need
from & famed writer becomes traditional
not explain how crooked it is. Lay a
to posterity.--Dryden.
straight one down by the side of it, and
the work is well done. Preach the truth,
The greatest friend of truth is time ; her
and error will stand abashed in its presence.
greatest enemy is prejudice; and her con-
--Spurgeon.
stant companion is humility.- Colton.
The first and last thing which is required
No bad man ever wished that his breast
of genius is the love of truth.—Goethe.
was made of glass, or that others could read
his thoughts. But the misery is, that the
The only thing I have any satisfaction
duplicities, the temptations, and the in-
in, as respects myself, is the consciousness
firmities that surround us, have rendered
I have that I love the truth, and above all
the truth, and nothing but the truth, as
things, have desired to know it.--Horace
hazardous and contraband a commodity as
Bushnell.
a man can possibly deal in.-Colton.
There is small chance of truth at the
Truth is established by investigation and,
goal, where there is not a childlike humility delay ; falsehood prospers by precipitaucy.
at the starting post.—Coleridge.
-Tacitus.
Truth only asks a fair chance ; if it can-
Receiving a new truth is adding a new
not conquer then, it is not truth.-F. Way-
sense.--Liebig.
land.
Seven years of silent inquiry are needful
Truth provokes those it does not convert.
for a man to learn the truth, but fourteen
-Bp. Wilson.
in order to learn how to make it known to
If any one will tell me how truth may be his fellowmen.-Plato.
spoken without offending some, I will spare Of all duties, the love of truth, with faith
no labor to learn the art of it.-Bp. Horne.
and constancy in it, ranks first and high-
It is strange but true ; for truth is always est. To love God and to love truth are one
strange, stranger than fiction.-
Byron. and the same.-- Silvio Pellico.
Truth does not consist in minute accu- As has been finely expressed, “Principle
racy of detail, but in conveying a right im- is a passion for truth," And as an earlier
pression; and there are vague ways of and homelier writer hath it, “The truths
speaking that are truer than strict facts We believe in are the pillars of our world.”—
would be. When the Psalmist said, “Riv- Bulwer.
ers of water run down mine eyes, because
He who seeks truth should be of no coun-
men keep not thy law,” he did not state the
try.-- Voltaire.
fact, but he stated a truth deeper than fact,
and truer.-Alford.
He that opposes his ownjudgment against
the consent of the times ought to be backed
Truth is only developed in the hour of
with unanswerable truths; and he that has
need ; time, and not man, discovers it.-
Bonald.
truth on his side is a fool, as well as a cow-
ard, if he is afraid to own it because of
The interests of society often render it other men's opinions. -De Foe.
TRUTH
592
TWILIGHT.
Truth is the most powerful thing in the
world, since even fiction itself must be goy-
erned by it, and can only please by its re-
semblance. --Shaftesbury.
The confusion and undesigned inaccu-
racy so often to be observed in conversation,
especially in that of uneducated persons,
proves that truth needs to be cultivated as
a talent, as well as recommended as a
virtue.-Mrs. Fry.
Truths of all others the most awful and
interesting are too often considered as so
true that they lose all thepower of truth, and
lie bed-ridden in the dormitory of the soul,
side by side with the most despised and ex-
ploded errors.-Coleridge.
Truth is 'so great a perfection, that if
God would render himself visible to men,
he would choose light for his body and truth
for his soul.-Pythagoras.
As one may bring himself to believe al-
most any thing he is inclined to believe, it
makes all the difference whether we begin
or end with the inquiry, “What is truth?"
- Whately.
Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.
.
- Luther.
Dare to be true ; nothing can need a lie ;
a fault which needs it most grows two
thereby.-Herbert.
It is perilous to separate thinking rightly,
from acting rightly. He is already half
false who speculates on truth and does not
do it.—The penalty paid by him who spec-
ulates on truth without doing it, is, that by
degrees the very truth he holds becomes a
falsehood.-F. W. Robertson.
Truth is always congruous and agrees
with itself ; every truth in the universe
agrees with all others.-Daniel Webster.
Error always addresses the passions and
prejudices : truth scorns such mean in-
trigue, and only addresses the understand-
ing and the conscience.--Azel Backus.
We must never throw away a bushel of
truth because it happens to contain a few
grains of chaff ; on the contrary, we may
sometimes profitably receive a bushel of
chaff for the few grains of truth it may
contain.-4. P. Stanley.
The way of truth is like a great road. It
is not difficult to know it. The evil is only
that men will not seek it.Meneius.
I have always found that the honest
truth of our own mind has a certain at-
traction for every other mind that loves
truth honestly.-Carlyle.
Men must love the truth before they
thoroughly believe it. --South,
There are three parts in truth: first, the
inquiry, which is the wooing of it; sec-
ondly, the knowledge of it, which is the
presence of it; and thirdly, the belief,
which is the enjoyment of it.-Bacon.
According to Democritus, truth lies at
the bottom of a well, the water of which
serves as a mirror in which objects may be
reflected.—I have heard, however, that
some philosophers, in seeking for truth, to
pay homage to her, have seen their own
image and adored it instead.-Richter.
While you live, tell truth and shame the
devil.-Shakespeare.
Search for the truth is the noblest occu-
pation of man; its publication is a duty.-.
Mad. de Staël.
Truth crushed to earth will rise again;
the eternal years of God are hers; but
error wounded writhes in pain, and dies
amid her worshippers.—Bryant.
We must not let go manifest truths bem
cause we cannot answer all questions about
them.–Jeremy Collier.
Stick to the old truths and the old paths,
and learn their divineness by sick beds,
and in every-day work, and do not darken
your mind with intellectual puzzles, which
may breed disbelief, but can never breed
vital religion or practical usefulness.-C.
Kingsley.
Seize upon truth, wherever it is found,
amongst your friends, amongst your foes,
on Christian or on heathen ground; the
flower's divine where'er it grows.- Watts.
TWILIGHT.-The day is done; and
slowly from the scene the stooping sun up-
gathers his spent shafts, and puts them
back into his golden quiver !-Longfellow.
Softly the evening came. The sun from
the western horizon, like a magician, ex-
tended his golden wand o'er the landscape.
-Longfellow.
The weary sun hath made a golden set,
and, by the bright track of his fiery car,
gives token of a goodly day to-morrow.--
Shakespeare.
Oh, how beautiful is the summer night,
which is not night, but a sunless, yet un-
clouded, day, descending upon earth with
dews, and shadows, and refreshing cool-
ness! How beautiful the long mild twi-
light, which, like a silver clasp, unites
to-day with yesterday! How beautiful the
silent hour, when morning and evening
thus sit together, hand in hand, beneath
the starless sky of midnight !-- Longfellow.
Twilight gray bath in her sober livery all
things clad.-Milton.
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UNBELIEF.
What heart has not acknowledged the
influence of this hour, the sweet and sooth-
ing hour of twilight-the hour of love-the
hour of adoration—the hour of rest-when
we think of those we love, only to regret
that we have not loved them more dearly ;
when we remember our enemies only to
forgive them.-Longfellow.
Nature hath appointed the twilight, as a
bridge, to pass us out of night into day.-
Fuller.
Twilight hour! whose mantle is the
drapery of dreams, and who hast ever been
in poetry life's holy time; thou who wert
wont to steal upon us, as thy sandals were
of dew! how sadly comes the rustle of thy
step in the decaying seasons of the year ! -
N. P. Willis.
How lovely are the portals of the night,
when stars come out to watch the daylight
die !.T. Cole.
Parting day dies like the dolphin, whom
each pang imbues with a new color as it
gasps away, the last still loveliest, till 'tis
gone, and all is gray.-Byron.
It is worthy of observation that the most
imperious masters over their own servants
are at the same time the most abject slaves
to the servants of other masters. ----Seneca.
Tyrants and oppressors, when living, are
the terror of mankind ; but when dead,
they are the objects of general contempt
and scorn.
The death of Nero was cele-
brated by the Romans with bonfires and
plays ; birds ate the naked flesh of Pompey;
Alexander lay unburied thirty days ; but a
useful and holy life is generally closed by
an honorable and lamented death.-Anon.
A tyrant never tasteth of true friendship,
nor of perfect liberty.-Diogenes.
Tyrants forego all respect for humanity
in proportion as they are sunk beneath it.
Taught to believe themselves of a different
species, they really become so, lose their
participation with their kind, and in mim-
icking the god dwindle into the brute.-
Hazlitt.
A king ruleth as he ought; a tyrant as
he lists; a king to the profit of all, a tyrant
only to please a few.--- Aristotle.
Tyranny absolves all faith; and who
invades our rights can never be but an
usurper.- Broole.
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when
subjects are rebels from principle.—Burice.
Tyranny is far the worst of treasons.-
The prince who neglects or violates his
trust is more a brigand than the robber-
chief.—Byron.
Of all the evils that infest a state, a
tyrant is the greatest; his sole will com-
mands the laws, and lords it over them.
Euripides.
And with necessity, the tyrant's plea,
excused his devilish deeds.-
Milton.
That sovereign is a tyrant who knows
10 law but his own caprice.- Voltaire.
Where law ends, tyranny begins.— Wil-
liam Pitt, the Elder.
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
-Franklin.
Necessity is the argument of tyrants ; it
is the creed of slaves.-- William Pitt, the
Younger.
TYRANNY.-Tyranny and anarchy are
never far asunder.-J. Benthan.
Free governments have committed more
flagrant acts of tyranny than the most per-
fectly despotic governments we have ever
known.- Burke.
Every wanton and causeless restraint of
the will of the subject, whether practised
by a monarch, a nobility, or a popular
assembly, is a degree of tyranny.-Black-
stone.
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.-
Burke.
Hardness ever of hardness is the mother.
Shakespeare.
Power, unless managed with gentleness
and discretion, does but make a man the
more hated; no intervals of good humor,
no starts of bounty, will atone for tyranny
and oppression.--Jeremy Collier.
Tyranny is always weakness.-J. R.
Lowell.
Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the
life, of those who wish to be feared rather
than to be loved.-Cornelius Nepos.
There is a natural and necessary pro-
gression, from the extreme of anarchy to
the extreme of tyranny; and arbitrary
power is most easily established on the
ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.-
Washington.
Tyranny sways, not as it hath power, but
as it is suffered.--Shalcespeare.
U.
UNBELIEF.-(See “INFIDELITY.”)
Narrowness is the mother of unbelief.
Obtain a broad outlook if you would agree
with God in your philosophy and be able
to transmit God's own thought into your
life.-Joseph Coolc.
UNBELIEF,
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UNCERTAINTY
All unbelief is the belief of a lie.-H.
Bonar.
No man is an unbeliever, but because he
will be so ; and every man is not an un-
believer, because the grace of God conquers
some, changes their wills, and binds them
to Christ.-Charnock,
Disbelief in futurity loosens in a great
measure the ties of morality, and may be
for that reason pernicious to the peace of
civil society.-Hume.
One day when D'Alembert and Condorcet
were dining with Voltaire, they proposed to
converse on atheism; but Voltaire stopped
then at once. "Wait," said he, till
my servants have withdrawn; I do not
wish to have my throat cut to-night."
G. B. Cheever.
In all unbelief there are these two things :
a good opinion of one's self, and a bad
opinion of God.-H. Bonar.
There is but one thing without honor,
smitten with eternal barrenness, inability
to do or to be, and that is unbelief. He
who believes nothing, who believes only the
shows of things, is not in relation with
nature and fact at all.- Carlyle.
Flow deeply rooted must unbelief bo in
our hearts, when we are surprised to find
our prayers answered, instead of feeling
sure that they will be so, if they are only
offered up in faith, and in accordance with
the will of God!- Fare.
When Dr. Johnson was asked why so
many literary men were infidels, he replied,
“Because they are ignorant of the Bible.
Were they truly acquainted with its con-
tents, they must acknowledge it to be from
God. And the truth of the remark is con-
firmed by the fact that some of the most
distinguished advocates of Christianity
took up the Bible to oppose, but ended by
believing and defending it.-W. R. Wii-
liams.
Unbelief, in distinction from disbelief,
is a confession of ignorance where honest
inquiry might easily find the truth.-
"Agnostic” is but the Greek for "igno-
ramus."— Tryon Edwards. .
In the hands of unbelief half-truths are
macle to do the work of whole falsehoods.--
The sowing of doubts is the sowing of
dragon's teeth, which erelong will sprout
into armed and hostile men.-7. F.
Burr.
You think you are too intelligent to be-
lieve in God. I am not like you.-Not
every one who wishes to be is an atheist.
Napoleon.
It is intelligence that discovers intel-
ligence in the universe ; and a great mind
is better capable than a small one of seeing
God in his works.---Thiers.
Unbelief does nothing but darken and
destroy. It makes the world a moral des-
ert, where no divine footsteps are heard,
where no angels ascend and descend, where
no living hand adorns the fields, feeds
the birds of heaven, or regulates events.-
Krunmacher.
"I seem," says Húme, “affrighted and
confounded with the solitude in which I
am placed by my philosophy. When I look
abroad, on every side I see dispute, con-
tradiction, distraction. When I turn my
eye inward, I find nothing but doubt and
ignorance. Where am I? or what am I?
From what cause do I derive my existence ?
To what condition shall I return? I am
confounded with questions. I begin to
fancy myself in a most deplorablo con-
dition, environed with darkness on every
side." What a confession of the wretched-
ness of unbelief !-C. Sinimons.
Profound minds are the most likely to
think lightly of the resources of human
reason, and it is the superficial thinker
who is generally strongest in every kind of
unbelief.—Sir H. Davy.
I know of no condition worse than that
of the man who has little or no light on the
supreme religions questions, and who, at
the same time, is making no effort to come
to the light.-E. F. Burr.
Unbelief is criminal because it is a moral
act, an act of the whole nature.—Belief or
unbelief is a test of a man's whole spiritual
condition, because it is the whole being,
affections, will, conscience, as well as the
understanding, which are concerned in it.
- A. Maclaren.
Oh, yo infidel philosophers, teach me
how to find joy in sorrow, strength in
weakness, and light in darkest days; how
to bear buffeting and scorn ; how to wel-
come death, and to pass through it into the
sphere of life, and this not for me only, but
for the whole world that groans and travails
in pain; and till you can do this, speak not
to me of a better revelation than the Bible.
-H. W. Beecher.
Better that they had ne'er been born
who read to doubt, or read to scorn.-
Walter Scott.
There is no strength in unbelief.--Even
the unbelief of what is false is no source of
might.-It is the truth shining from behind
that gives the strength to disbelieve.-6.
Macdonald.
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מו
UNCERTAINTY,-All that lies be-
UNDERSTANDING.
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UNHAPPINESS.
tween the cradle and the grave is uncertain.
Seneca.
Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears!
The human soul, that can support despair,
supports not thee. Mallet.
A bitter and perplexed, “What shall I
do ?” is worse to man than worst necessity.
- Coleridge.
The torment of suspense is very great;
and as soon as the wavering, perplexed
mind begins to determine, be the deter-
mination which way soever, it will find
itself at ease.-South.
What Shakespeare says of doubts is
equally true of vacillation and uncertainty
of purpose;
" that they make us lose the
good we oft might win by fearing to at-
tempt.”—C. Simmons.
UNDERSTANDING. It is a common
fault never to be satisfied with our fortune,
nor dissatisfied with our understanding.
Rochefoucauld.
The eye of the understanding is like the
eye of the sense ; for as you may see great
objects through small crannies or holes, 80
you may see great axioms of nature through
small and contemptible instances. --Bacon.
True fortitude of understanding consists
in not suffering what we do kuow to be dis-
turbed by what we do not know.-Paley.
The defects of the understanding, like
those of the face, grow worse as wo grow
old.-Rochefoucauld.
It is the same with understanding as
with eyes ; to a certain size and make just
so much light is necessary, and no more.
Whatever is beyond, brings darkness and
confusion.-Shaftesbury.
The improvement of the understanding
is for two ends; first, our own iucrease of
knowledge ; secondly, to enable us to de-
liver that knowledge to others.--Locke.
A man of understanding finds less diffi-
culty in submitting to a wrong-headed
fellow, than in attempting to set him right.
-Rochefoucauld.
It is not the eye that sees the beauty of
the heaven, nor the ear that hears the
sweetness of music or the glad tidings of a
prosperous occurrence, but the soul, that
perceives all the relishes of sensual and
intellectual perfections; and the more
noble and excellent the soul is, the greater
and more savory are its perceptions.-
Jeremy Taylor.
The light of the understanding humility
kindleth, and pride covereth.-Quarles.
He who calls in the aid of an equal un-
derstanding doubles his own ; and he who
profits of a superior understanding raises
bis powers to a level with the height of the
superior understanding he unites with.-
Burle.
I know no evil so great as the abuse of
the understanding, and yet there is no one
vice more common.--Steele.
I hold myself indebted to any one from
whose enlightened understanding another
ray of knowledge communicates to mine.-
Really to inform the mind is to correct and
enlarge the heart.-Junius.
No one knows what strength of parts he
has till he has tried them. And of the un-
derstanding one may most truly say, that
its force is generally greater than it thinks
till it is put to it. -Therefore the proper
remedy is, to set the mind to work, and
apply the thoughts vigorously to the 'busi-
ness, for it holds in the struggles of the
mind, as in those of war, that to think we
shall conquer is to conquer.-Locke.
UNHAPPINESS.-(See “HAPPINESS.")
It is better not to be than be unhappy.--
Dryden.
They who have never known prosperity,
can hardly be said to be unhappy ; it is
from the remembrance of joys we have lost,
that the arrows of affliction are pointed.
Mackenzie.
We degrade life by our follies and vices,
and then complain that the unhappiness
which is only their accompaniment is in-
herent in the constitution of things.
Bovee.
The most unhappy of all men is he who
believes himself to be so.-Home.
A perverse temper, and a discontented,
fretful disposition, wherever they prevail,
render any state of life unhappy.-- Cicero.
Man's unhappiness comes of his great-
ness; it is because there is an infinite in
him, which, with all his cunning, he can-
not quite biury under the finite.- Carlyle.
If we cannot live so as to be happy, let
us at least live so as to deserve it.- T'itche.
In this world of resemblances, we are
content with personating happiness ; to
feel it is an art beyond us.-- Mackenzie.
Oh, how bitter a thing it is to look into
happiness through another man's eyes ! -
Shakespeare.
As the ivy twines around the oak, so do
misery and misfortune encompass the hap-
piness of man. Felicity, pureand unalloyed,
is not a plant of earthly growth;
dens are the skies. Burton,
her gar-
UNION, AND UNITY.
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USEFULNESS.
Hardly a man, whatever his circum-
stances and situation, but if you get his
confidence, will tell you that he is not
happy. It is however certain that all men
are not unhappy in the same degree, though
by these accounts we might almost be
tempted to think so. Is not this to be ac-
counted for, by supposing that all men
measure the bappiness they possess by the
happiness they desire, or think they de-
serve?-Greville.
What is earthly happiness ? that phan-
tom of which we hear so much and see so
little ; whose promises are constantly given
and constantly broken, but as constantly
believed ; that cheats us with the sound
instead of the substance, and with the blos-
som instead of the fruit.Colton.
Perfect happiness, I believe, was never
intended by the Deity to be the lot of one
of his creatures in this world ; but that he
has very much put in our power the near-
ness of our approaches to it is what I have
steadfastly believed.-- Jefferson.
We never enjoy perfect happiness ; our
most fortunate successes are mingled with
sadness ; some anxieties always perplex the
reality of our satisfaction.-Corneille.
UNION, AND UNITY.-Men's hearts
ought not to be set against one another,
but set with one another, and all against
evil only.-Carlyle.
By imiting we stand ; by dividing we
fall.-John Dickinson.
Union does everything when it is perfect.
-It satisfies desires, simplifies needs, fore-
sees the wishes, and becomes a constant
fortune.-Senancour.
The number two hath, by the heathen,
been accounted accurst, because it was the
first departure from unity.-J. Trapp.
The multitude which does not reduce
itself to unity, is confusion ; the unity
which does not depend upon the multitude,
is tyranny.-Pascal.
The union of Christians to Christ, their
common head, and by means of the influ-
ence they derive from him, one to another,
may be illustrated by the loaclstone. It
not only attracts the particles of iron to
itself by the magnetic virtue, but by this
virtue it unites them one to another.-
Cecil.
The great unity which true science, seeks
is found only by beginning with our knowl-
edge of God, and coming down from him
along the stream of causation to every fact
and event that affects us. -Howard Crosby.
What science calls the unity and uni-
formity of nature, truth calls the fidelity
of God.-Martineau.
UNKINDNESS, - More hearts pine
away in secret anguish for unkindness
from those who should be their comforters,
than for any other calamity in life.--Young.
Hard unkindness mocks the tear it forced
to flow.- Gray.
Unkind language is sure to produce the
fruits of unkindness, that is, suffering in
the bosom of others. -Bentham.
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove
unkind. - Shakespeare.
He who has once stood beside the grave,
to look back upon the companionship which
has been forever closed, feeling how im-
potent there is the wild love, or the keen
sorrow, to give one instant's pleasure to the
pulseless heart, or atone in the lowest meas-
ure to the departed spirit for the hour of
unkindness, will scarcely for the future in-
cur that debt to the heart which can only
be discharged to the dust.— Ruskin.
As unkindness has no remedy at law, let
its avoidance be with you a point of honor.
-H. Ballou.
She hath tied sharp-toothed unkindness,
a vulture here.-Shakespeare.
USEFULNESS,-(See "BENEVO-
LENCE ;" and “GOODNESS."))
Nothing in this world is so good as use-
fulness. It binds your fellow-creatures to
you, and you to them; it tends to the im-
provement of your own character and gives
you a real importance in society, much be-
yond what any artificial station can bestow.
B. C. Brodie.
The world's idea of greatness has been
that he is greatest who best succeeds in
using his fellow-men for the furtherance
of his own ends.-Christianity holds him
the greatest who is himself most useful to
others.-P. H. Hoge.
There is but one virtue—the eternal sac-
rifice of self.- George Sand.
Have I done anything for society? I
have then done more for myself. Let that
question and truth be always present to
thy mind, and work without cessation.---
Simms.
Think that day lost, whose low descend-
ing sun, views from thy hand no worthy
action done.-Anon.
In the school of Pythagoras it was a
point of discipline, that if annong the pro-
bationers, there were any who grew weary
of studying to be useful, and returned to
an idle life, they were to regard them as
USEFULNESS.
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VAIN-GLORY.
dead ; and, upon their departing, to per-
form their obsequies, and raise them tombs
with inscriptions, to warn others of the
like mortality, and quicken them to refine
their souls above that wretched state.
Addison.
The useful and the beautiful are never
separated.-Periander.
Doing good is the only certainly happy
action of a man's life.-Sir P, Sidney.
All the good things of this world are no
further good than as they are of use; and
whatever we may heap up to give to others,
we enjoy only as much as we can make use-
ful to ourselves and others, and no more.-
Defoe.
Knowest thou not, thou canst not move
a step on this earth without finding some
duty to be done, and that every man is use-
ful to his kind, by the very fact of his ex-
istence ?— Carlyle,
The maelstrom attracts more notice than
the quiet fountain ; a comet draws more
attention than the steady star. But it is
better to be the fountain than the mael-
strom, and the star than comet, following
out the sphere and orbit of quiet useful-
ness in which God places us.—John Hall.
On the day of his death, in his eightieth
year, Elliott, "the Apostle of the Indians,
was found teaching an Indian child at his
bed-side. “Why not rest froin your labors
now?" asked a friend. "Because,
plied the venerable man, “I have prayed
God to render me useful in my sphere, and
he has heard my prayers ; for now that I
can no longer preach, he leaves me strength
enough to teach this poor child the alpha-
bet."J. Chaplin.
We live in a world which is full of misery
and ignorance, and the plain duty of each
and all of us is to try to make the little cor-
ner he can influence somewhat less miser-
able and somewhat less ignorant than it
was before he entered it.-Huxley.
How often do we sigh for opportunities
of doing good, while we neglect the open-
ings of Providence in little things, which
would frequently lead to the accomplish-
ment of most important usefulness. Good
is done by degrees. However small in pro-
portion the benefit which follows individ-
nal attempts to do good, a great deal may
thus be accomplished by perseverance,
even in the midst of discouragements and
disappointments.-Crabbe.
Thousands of men breathe, move, and
live ; pass off the stage of life and are heard
of no more. Why? They did not a par-
ticle of good in the world ; none were blest
by them, none could point to them as the
instrument of their redemption ; their light
went out in darkness, and they were not
remembered more than the insects of yes-
terday. Will you thus live and die, O man
immortal ? Live for something. — Chal-
mers.
Amid life's quests there seems but worthy
one, to do men good.-Bailey.
I never knew a man that was bad, fit for
any service that was good. There was al-
ways some disqualifying ingredient mixing
with the compound, and spoiling it. The
accomplishment of anything good is a
physical impossibility in such a man. He
could not if he would, and it is not more
certain that he would not if he could, do a
good and virtuous action.-Burke.
Try to make at least one person happy
every day, and then in ten years you may
have made three thousand, six hundred
and fifty persons happy, or brightened a
small town by your contribution to the
fund of general enjoyment.--Sydney Smith.
Of the Earl of Shaftesbury it was said,
that "his long and perfect lifo had no day
misspent, and no hour without some deed
of loving-kindness to others.
USURER.-A money-lender. He serves
you in the present tense ; he lends you in
the conditional mood; keeps you in the
subjunctive ; and ruins you in the future !
- Addison.
He was a man versed in the world, as
pilot in his compass ; the needle pointed
ever to that interest which was his load-
star ; and he spread his sails with vantage
to the gale of others' passions.—Ben Jonson.
Go not to a covetons old man, with any
request, too soon in the morning, before
he hath taken in that day's prey ; for his
covetousness is up before him, and he be-
fore thee, and he is in ill humor ; but stay
till the afternoon, till he be satiated upon
some borrower.-Fuller.
re-
V.
VAGRANT.-Beware of those who are
homeless by choice! You have no hold on
a human being whose affections are with-
out a tap-root !-Southey.
He that has a home, and a family, has
given hostages to the community for good
citizenship, but he that has no such con-
necting interests, is exposed to temptation,
to idleness, and in danger of becoming
useless, if not a burden aud a nuisance in
society.--Johnson.
VAIN-GLORY.--Vain-glorious men are
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VALOR.
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the scorn of the wise, the admiration of
fools, the idols of parasites, and the slaves
of their own vaunts.-- Bacon.
The vain-glory of this world is a deceitful
sweetness, à fruitless labor, & perpetual
fear, a dangerous honor ; her beginning is
without Providence, and her end not without
repentance.—Quarles.
That tumor of a man, the vain-glorious
Alexander, used to make his boast that
never any man went beyond biin in bene-
fits; and yet he lived to see a poor fellow
in a tub, to whom there was nothing that
he could give, and from whom there was
nothing that he could take away.--Seneca.
Some intermixture of vain-glorious tem-
per8 puts life into business, and makes a fit
composition in grand enterprises and haz-
ardous undertakings. For men of solid
and sober natures have more of the ballast
than the sail.-Bacon.
VALENTINE.-Hail to thy returning
festival, old Bishop Valentine! Great is
thy name in the rūbric. Like unto thee,
assuredly, there is no other mitred father
in the calendar.--Land.
The fourteenth of February is a day sa-
cred to St. Valentine! It was a very odil
notion, alluded to by Shakespeare, that on
this day birds begin to couple ; hence, per-
haps, arose the custom of sending on this
day letters containing professions of love
and affection.—Noah Webster.
fears is desperate ; be that fears always is
a coward: he is the true valiant man that
dares nothing but what he may, and fears
nothing but what he ought. - Quarles.
Fear to do base and unworthy things is
valor ; if they be done to us, to suffer them
is also valor. - Ben Jonson.
I love the man that is modestly valiant,
that stirs not till he most needs, and then
to purpose.—A continued patience I com-
mend not.--Feltham.
There is no love-broker in the world can
more prevail in man's commendation with
woman, than report of valor.--Shakespeare.
The mean of true valor lies between the
extremes of cowardice and rashness.-Cer-
vantes.
When valor preys on reason, it eats the
sword it fights with.--Shakespeare.
The estimate and valor of a man consists
in the heart and in the vill; there his true
honor lies. Valor is stability, not of arms
and legs, but of courage and the soul ; it
does not lie in the valor of our horse, nor
of our arms, but in ourselves. He that
falls obstinate in his courage, if his legs
fail him, fights upon his knees. -- Mon-
taigne.
True valor, on virtue founded strong,
meets all events alike.- Mallet.
Valor employ'd in an ill quarrel, turns to
cowardice; and virtue then puts on foul
vice's vizor.—Massinger.
True valor lies in the mind, the never-
yielding purpose; nor owns the blind award
of giddy fortune.-Thomson.
Valor would cease to be a virtue if there
were 110 injustice.- Agesilaus.
The love of glory, the fear of shame, the
design of making a fortune, the desire of
rendering life easy and agreeable, and the
humor of pulling down other people, are
often the causes of that valor so celebrated
ainoug men.-Rochefoucauld.
It is said of untrue valors, that some
men's valors are in the eyes of them that
look on.-Bacon.
It is a brave act of valor to contemn
death ; but where life is more terrible than
death it is then the truest valor to dare to
live.-Sir Thomas Browne.
Whatever comes out of despair cannot
bear the title of valor, which should be
lifted up to such a height, that holding all
things under itself, it should be able to
maintain its greatness, even in the midst
of miseries.—Sir. P. Sidney.
Valor hath its bounds, as well as other
VALOR.-The truly valiant dare every-
thing except doing any other body an in-
jury.-Sir P. Sidney.
Valor gives awe, and promises protection
to those who want heart or strength to de-
fend themselves. This makes the authority
of men among women, and that of a master
buck in a numerous herd.--Sir W. Temple.
How strangely high endeavors may be
blessed, where piety and valor jointly go.--
Dryden.
No man can answer for his own valor or
courage, till he has been in danger.--Roche-
foucauld.
The better part of valor is discretion.-
Shakespeare.
Those who believe that the praises which
arise from valor are superior to those which
proceed from any other virtues have not
considered.--Dryden.
Dare to do your duty always ; this is the
height of true valor,-0. Simmons.
If thou desire to be truly valiant, fear to
do any injury; he that fears to do evil is
always afraid to suffer evil; he that never
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VANITY.
virtues, which once transgressed, the next
step is into the territories of vice, so that,
hy having too large a proportion of this
heroic virtue, unless a man be very perfect
in its limits, which, on the confines, are
very hard to discern, he may, unawares,
run into temerity, obstinacy, and folly.--
Montaigne.
VANITY,-Every man has just as much
vanity as he wants understanding.-Pope.
The most violent passions have their in-
termissions ; vanity alone gives us no res-
pite.-Rochefoucauld.
Extinguish vanity in the mind, and you
naturally retrench the little superfluities
of garniture and equipage. The blossoms
will fall of themselves when the root that
nourishes them is destroyed.-Steele.
Vanity is the poison of agreeableness ;
yet as poison, when properly applied, has
a salutary effect in medicine, so has vanity
in the commerce and society of the world.
-Greville.
Take away from mankind their vanity
and their ambition, and there would be
but few claiming to be heroes or patriots.-
Seneca.
The general cry is against ingratitude,
but the complaint is misplaced, it should
be against vanity; none but direct villains
are capable of wilful ingratitude ; but al-
most everybody is capable of thinking he
hath done more than another deserves,
while the other thinks he hath received
less than he deserves.-Pope.
An egotist will always speak of himself,
either in praise or in censure ; but a mod-
est man ever shuns making himself the
subject of his conversation.-Bruyère.
Nothing is so credulous as vanity, or 80
ignorant of what becomes itself. - Shale-
speare,
I will not call 'vanity and affectation
twins, because, more properly, vanity is
the mother, and affectation is the darling
daughter ; vanity is the sin, and affecta-
tion is the punishment; the first may be
called the root of self-love, the other the
fruit. Vanity is never at its full growth
till it spreadeth into affectation, and then
it is complete.-Saville.
It is our
own vanity that makes the
vanity of others intolerable to us.-Roche-
foucauld.
Pride and vanity are forever spoken of
side by side ; and many suppose that they
are merely different shades of the same
feeling. Yet, so far are they from being
akin, they can hardly find room in the
same breast. A proud man will not stoop
to be vain ; a vaini mau is so busy in bowing
and wriggling to catch fair words from
others, that he can never lift up his head
into pride.- Anon.
The strongest passions allow us some
rest, but vanity keeps us perpetually in
motion. What a dust do I raise ! says the
fly upon a coach-wheel. And at wbat a
rate do I drive! says the fly upon the
horse's back.-Swift.
When men will not be reasoned out of a
vanity, they must be ridiculed out of it.-
L'Estrange.
Vanity makes us do more things against
inclination than reason.-Rochefoucauld.
They who do speak ill of themselves, do
80 mostly as the surest way of proving how
modest and candid they are.- Anon.
Vanity keeps persons in favor with them-
selves, who are out of favor with all others.
- Shakespeare.
Of all our infirmities, vanity is the dearest
to us; a man will starve his other vices to
keep that alive.-Fran/lin.
Ladies of fashion starve their happiness
to feed their vanity, and their love to feed
their pride.-Colton.
Offended vanity is the great separator in
social life.-- A. Helps.
Pride is never more offensive than when
it condescends to be civil; whereas vanity,
whenever it forgets itself, naturally as-
sumes good-humor.-Cumberland.
If you cannot inspire a woman with love
of you, fill her above the brim with love of
herself; all that runs over will be yours.-
Colton.
The vainest woman is never thoroughly
conscious of her beauty till she is loved by
the man who sets her own passion vibrating
in return.-George Eliot.
Vanity is the quicksand of reason.-
George Sand.
It is vanity which makes the rake at
twenty, the worldly man at forty, and the
retired man at sixty. We are apt to think
that best in general for which we find our-
selves best fitted in particular.- Pope.
Our vanities differ as our noses do; all
conceit is not the same conceit, but varies
in correspondence with the mental make
in which one of us differs from another.
George Eliot.
Great mischiefs happen more often
from folly, meanness, and vanity, than
from the greater sins of avarice and am-
bition.-Burke.
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VANITY.
Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, con-
suming means soon preys upon itself.-
Shakespeare.
O Vanity, how little is thy force acknowl-
edged, or thy operations discerned! How
wantonly dost thou deceive mankind, under
different disguises !-Sometimes thou dost
wear the face of pity ; sometimes of gen-
erosity; nay, thou hast the assurance to
put on those glorious ornaments which
belong only to heroic virtue.-Fielding.
In a vain man, the smallest spark may
kindle into the greatest flame, because the
materials are always prepared for it.-
Hume.
It is difficult to divest one's self of vanity;
because impossible to divest one's self of
self-love.-Florace Walpole.
Vanity is the foundation of the most
ridiculous and contemptible vices—the
vices of affectation and common lying.-
Adam Smith.
Guard against that vanity which courts
a compliment, or is fed by it.-Chalmers.
Vanity is the fruit of ignorance. It
thrives most in subterranean places, never
reached by the air of heaven and the light
of the sun.-Ross.
I give vanity fair quarter wherever I
meet with it, being persuaded that it is
often productive of good to its possessor
and to others within the sphere of its
action; and therefore in many cases it
would not be altogether absurd if a man
were to thank God for his vanity, among
the other comforts of his life.-- Franklin.
A golden mind stoops not to shows of
dross.-Shakespeare.
People who are very vain are usually
equally susceptible ; and they who feel one
thing acutely, will so feel another.—Bulwer.
Vanity is so anchored in the heart of man
that a soldier, sutler, cook, street porter,
vapor and wish to have their admirers; and
philosophers even wish the same. Those
who write against it wish to have the glory
of having written well; and those who read
it wish to have the glory of having read
well ; and I, who write this, have perhaps
this desire;
and perhaps those who will
read this.-Pascal.
Virtue would not go far if vanity did not
keep it company.-- Rochefoucauld.
Vanity, indeed, is the very antidote to
conceit; for while the former makes us all
nerve to the opinion of others, the latter is
perfectly satisfied with its opinion of itself.
-Bulvoer.
Alas for human nature, that the wounds
of vanity should smart and bleed so much
longer than the wounds of affection !
Macaulay.
It was prettily devised of Æsop that the
fly sat upon the axletree of the chariot-
wheel, and said, “What a dust do I raise !"
So are there some vain persons that, what-
soever goeth alone or moveth upon greater
means, if they have never so little hand in
it, they think it is they that carry it.-
Bacon.
Vanity indeed is a venial error; for it
usually carries its own punishment with it.
-Junius.
There is no vice or folly that requires so
much nicety and skill to manage as vanity ;
nor any which by ill management makes
so contemptible a figure.-Swift.
Every man's vanity ought to be his
greatest shame, and every man's folly
ought to be his greatest secret.- Quarles.
Charms which, like flowers, lie on the
surface and always glitter, easily produce
vanity; hence women, wits, players, sol-
diers, are vain, owing to their presence,
figure, and dress. On the contrary, other
excellences, which lie down deep like
gold, and are discovered with difficulty
strength, profoundness of intellect, moral-
ity-leave their possessor8 modest and
proud.-Richter,
Every occasion will catch the senses of
the vain man, and with that bridle and
saddle you may ride him.-Sir P. Sidney.
We are so presumptuous that we wish to
be known to all the world, even to those
who come after us; and we are so vain that
the esteem of five or six persons imme-
diately around us is enough to amuse and
satisfy us.--Pascal.
When we are conscious of the least com-
parative merit in ourselves, we should take
as much care to conceal the value we get
upon it as if it were a real defect; to be
elated or vain upon it is showing your
money before people in want.-- Cibber.
Scarcely have I ever heard or read the in-
troductory phrase, “I may say without
vanity,” but some 'striking and character-
istic instance of vanity has immediately
followed.-Franklin.
There is more jealousy between rival
wits than rival beauties, for vanity has
But in both cases there must be
pretensions, or there will be no jealousy.-
Colton.
Vanity may be likened to the smooth-
skinned and velvet-footed mouse, nibbling
about forever in expectation of a crumb;
while self-esteem is too apt to take the
no sex.
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VARIETY.
likeness of the huge butcher's dog, who
carries off your steaks, and growls at you
as he goes.-Simms.
There is much money given to be laughed
at, though the purchasers don't know it
i
witness A.'s fine horse, and B.'s fine house.
-Franklin
Vanity is a strong temptation to lying;
it makes people magnify their merit, over-
flourish their family, and tell strange
stories of their interest and acquaintance.
-Jeremy Collier.
Every one at the bottom of his heart
cherishes vanity ; even the toad thinks him-
self good-looking-rather tawny perhaps,
but look at his eye!”- Wilson.
Vanity makes men ridiculous, pride
odious, and ambition terrible.-Steele.
Tell me not of the pain of falsehood to
the slandered! There is nothing so ago-
nizing to the fine skin of vanity as the ap-
plication of a rough truth.--Bulwer.
To be a man's own fool is bad enough ;
but the vain man is everybody's.- Penn.
Were not vanity a principle of absolute
levity, some men would carry enough with
them, every day, to crush an elephant.-
Whelpley.
He whose ruling passion is the love of
praise, is a slave to every one who has a
tongue for flattery or calumny.
Vanity is as illat ease under indifference,
as tenderness is onder the love which it
cannot return.- George Eliot.
Those who live on vanity, must, not un-
reasonably, expect to die of mortification.
-Mrs. Ellis.
Pride makes us esteem ourselves; vanity
to desire the esteem of others.-It is just
to say, as Swift has done, that a proud man
is too proud to be vain.---Blair.
There is no folly of which a man who is
not a fool cannot get rid except vanity ; of
this nothing cures a man except experience
of its bad consequences, if indeed anything
can cure it.—Rousseau.
Vanity is the weakness of the ambitious
man, which exposes him to the secret scorn
and derision of those he converses with, and
ruins the character he is so industrious to
advance by it.--Addison.
A vain man can never be altogether rude.
-Desirous as he is of pleasing, he fashions
his manners after those of others.-Goethe.
When a man has no longer any concep-
tion of excellence above his own, his voyage
is done; he is dead ; dead in the trespasses
and sins of blear-eyed vanity. - H. W.
Beecher.
She neglects her heart who studies her
glass.-Lavater.
Vanity is as advantageous to a govern-
ment, as pride is dangerous.-Montesquieu.
There is no restraining men's tongues or
pens when charged with a little vanity.--
Washington.
Never expect justice from a vain man ; if
he has the negative magnanimity not to
disparage you, it is the most you can ex-
pect.- Washington Allston.
Vanity is so closely allied to virtue, and
to love the fame of laudable actions ap-
proaches so near the love of laudable ac-
tions for their own sake, that these passions
are more capable of mixture than any other
kinds of affection ; and it is almost impossi-
ble to have the latter without some degree
of the former.- Hume.
If vanity does not entirely overthrow the
virtues, at least it makes them all totter.-
Rochefoucauld.
There is no arena in which vanity dis-
plays itself under such a variety of forms
as in conversation.-Pascal.
There's none so homely but loves a look-
ing-glass.—South,
VARIETY,-Variety is the very spice of
life, that gives it all its flavor.--Cowper.
I take it to be a principal rule of life, not
to be too much addicted to any one thing.
Terence.
Order in variety we see; though all things
differ, all agree.--Pope.
The most delightful pleasures cloy with-
out variety. Publius Syrus.
The earth was made so various, that the
mind of desultory man, studious of change,
and pleased with novelty, might be in-
dulged.-Cowper.
As land is improved by sowing it with
various seeds, 80 is the mind by exercising
it with different studies.- Pliny.
Variety's the source of joy below, from
which still fresh revolving pleasures flow;
in books and love, the mind one end pur-
sues, and only change the expiring flame
renews.-Gay.
How nature delights and amuses us by
varying even the character of insects ; the
ill-nature of the wasp, the sluggishness of
the drone, the volatility of the butterfly,
the slyness of the bug !--Sydney Smith.
Variety alone gives joy; the sweetest
meats the soonest cloy.- Prior.
Countless the various species of mankind;
countless the shades that separate mind
VENGEANCE.
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VİCE.
from mind ; no general object of desire is
kuown ; each has his will, and each pur-
sues his own.-Gifford.
Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced
with variety.- Bacon.
Variety of mere nothings gives more
pleasure than, uniformity of somethiug.-
Richter.
VENGEANCE.-(See " REVENGE.")
If you have committed iniquity, you
must expect to suffer ; for vengeance with
its sacred light shines upon you.-Sophocles.
Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep
silence.--Alfieri.
Is it to be thought unreasonable that the
people, in atonement for the wrongs of a
century, demanded the vengeance of a
single day?- Robespierre.
Vengeance has no foresight.-Napoleon.
VERBOSITY,-(See "TALKING ;" and
"LANGUAGE.”)
Words, words, unere words; no matter
from the heart. — Shalcespeare.
Redundancy of language is never found
with deep reflection. Verbiage may indi-
cate observation, but not thinking. He
who thinks much, says but little in pro-
portion to his thoughts. He selects that
language which will convey his ideas in
the most explicit and direct manner. He
tries to compress as much thought as pos-
sible into a few words. On the contrary,
the man who talks everlastingly and pro-
miscuously, who seems to have an exhaust-
less magazine of sound, crowds so many
words into his thoughts that he always ob-
scures, and very frequently conceals them.
- Washington Irving.
He dra veth out the thread of his ver-
bosity finer than the staple of his argu-
ment.--Shakespeare.
An era is fast approaching, when no
writer will be read by the majority, except
those that can effect that for bales of manil-
script that the hydrostatic screw performs
for bales of cotton, by condensing that
matter into a period that before occupied a
page. -Cotta.
VICE.-No vassalage is so ignoble, no
servitude 80 miserable, as that of vice;
mines and galleys, mills and dungeons, are
words of ease compared to the service of
sin; therefore, the bringing sinners to re-
pentance, is so noble, so tempting a design,
that it drew even God himself from heaven
to prosecute it.- Baxter.
Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but
virtue consoles us even in our pains.-
Colton.
This is the essential evil of vice, that it
debases & man.-E. H. Chapin.
I lay it down as a sacred maxim, that
every man is wretched in proportiou to his
vices ;
and affirm that the noblest orna-
ment of a young, generous mind, and the
surest source of pleasure, profit, and repu-
tation, in life, is an unreserved acceptance
of virtue.
The willing contemplation of vice is vice.
-Arabian Proverb.
He that has energy enough in his consti-
tution to root out å vice, should go a little
farther, and try to plant a virtue in its
place, otherwise he will have his labor to
renew; a strong soil that has produced
weeds, may be made to produce wheat
with far less difficulty than it would cost to
make it produce nothing.– Colton.
The martyrs to vice far exceed the mar-
tyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in
number. So blinded are we to our pas-
sions, that we suffer more to insure perdi-
tion than salvation. Religion does not
forbid the rational enjoyments of life as
sternly as avarice forbids them. She does
not require such sacrifices of ease as am-
bition; or such renunciation of quiet as
pride. She does not murder sleep like dis-
sipation; or health like intemperance; or
scatter wealth like extravagance or gam-
bling. She does not embitter life like dis-
cord: or shorten it like duelling; or har-
row it like revenge. She does not impose
more vigilance than suspicion ; more anx-
iety than selfishness; or half as many
mortifications as vanity!-Hannah More.
The good make a better bargain, and the
bad a worse, than is usually supposed ; for
the rewards of the one, and the punish-
ments of the other not unfrequently begin
on this side of the grave ; for vice has more
martyrs than virtue; and it often happens
that men suffer more to be damned than
to be saved.- Colton,
One vice voi'n out makes us wiser than
fifty tutors.-Bulwer. .
It is only in some corner of the brain
which we leave empty that vice cannot ob-
tain a lodging. When she knocks at your
door be able to say: "No room for your
ladyship ; pass on. -Bulwer.
The only safety is to fear and be ashamed
of vice in its beginnings, and for its own
sake, not because our indulgence is made
public. “Blush not now," said an Italian
nobleman to his young relative, whom he
met issuing from a haunt of vice; "you
should have blushed when you went in."
VICE.
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VICE.
As to the general design of providence,
the two extremes of vice may serve to keep
up the balance of things. When we speak
against one capital vice, we ought to speak
against its opposite ; the middle betwixt
both is the point for virtue.-Pope.
In actions of life, who seeth not the
filthiness of evil wanteth a great foil to
perceive the beauty of virtue. -Sir P. Sid-
ney.
Virtue will catch as well as vice by con-
tact; and the public stock of honest, manly
principle will“ daily accumulate. We are
not too nicely to scrutinize motives as long
as action is irreproachable. It is enough
to deal out its infainy to convicted guilt
and declared apostasy.--Burle.
We do not despise all those who have
vices, but we do despise all those who have
not a single virtue.- Rochefoucauld.
Great examples to virtue, or to vice, are
not so productive of imitation as might at
first sight be supposed. There are hun-
dreds that want energy, for one that wants
ambition ; and sloth has prevented as many
vices in some minds as virtue in others.
Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life,
and in that stagnant abyss, the most salu-
tary things produce no good, the most
noxious no evil. Vice, indeed, abstractedly
considered, may be, and often is, engen-
dered in idleness, but the moment it
becomes efficiently vice, it must quit its
cradle and cease to be idle.-Colton.
Vice repeated is like the wandering wind;
blows dust in others' eyes, to spread itself.
--Shakespeare.
Bad passions become more odious in
proportion as the motives to them are
weakened ; and gratuitous vice cannot be
too indignantly exposed to reprehension.
No man ever arrived suddenly at the
summit of vice.-Juvenal.
Wige men will apply their remedies to
vices, not to names ; to the causes of evil
which are permanent, not the occasional
organs by which they act, and the transi-
tory modes in which they appear.--Burke.
Why is there no man who confesses his
vices? It is because he has not yet laid
them aside. It is a waking man only who
can tell his dreams.-Seneca.
Experience tells 11s that each man most
keenly and unerringly detects in others
the vice with which he is inost familiar
himself.-F. W. Robertson.
Society is the atmosphere of souls; and
we necessarily imbibe from it something
which is either infectious or salubrious.
The society of virtuous persons is enjoyed
beyond their company, while vice carries a
sting into solitude. The society or com-
pany you keep is both the indication of
your character and the former of it. In
vicious society you will feel your reverence
for tlie dictates of conscience wear off, and
that name at which angels bow and devils
tremble, you will hear contemned and
abused. The Bible will supply materials
for unmeaning jest or impious buffoonery;
the consequence of this will be a practical
deviation from virtue, the principles will
become sapped, the fences of conscience
broken down; and when debauchery has
corrupted the character a total inversion
will take place, and the sinner will glory in
his shame. - Robert Hall.
What maintains one vice would bring up
two children.- Franklin.
When Mandeville maintained that private
vices were public benefits, he did not cal-
culate the widely destructive influence of
bad example. To affirm that a vicious man
is only his own enemy is about as wise as
to affirm that a virtuous man is only his
own friend.-Colton.
When our vices have left us we flatter
ourselves that we have left them.-Roche-
foucauld.
A society composed of none but the
wicked could not exist; it contains within
itself the seeds of its own destruction, and,
without a flood, would be swept away from
the earth by the deluge of its own iniquity.
The moral cement of all society is virtue ;
it unites and preserves, while vice separates
and destroys. The good may well be
termed the salt of the earth, for where
there is no integrity there can be no con-
fidence; and where there is no confidence
there can be no unanimity.-Colton.
The vicious man lives at random, and
acts by chance, for he that walks by no rule
can carry on no settled or steady design.-
Tillotson.
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien as
to be hated needs but to be seen ; yet seen
too oft, familiar with her face, we first
endure, then pity, then embrace.—Pope.
One sin doth proroke another.-Shake-
speare.
Many & man's vices have at first been
nothing worse than good qualities run wild.
-Hare.
The hatred of the vicious will do you less
harm than their conversation.-Bentley.
But when to mischief mortals bend their
will, how soon they find fit instruments of
ill ! - Pope.
I know no friends more faithful and
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VICE.
more inseparable than hard-heartedness
and pride, humility and love, lies and im-
pudence.Labater”.
Men often abstain from the grosser vices
as too coarse and common for their ap-
petites, while the vices that are frosted and
ornamented are served up to them as del-
icacies.-H. W: Beecher.
Vice is the bane of a republic, and saps
the foundations of liberty.-If our indus-
try, economy, temperance, justice, and
public faith, are once extinguished by the
opposite vices, our boasted constitution,
which is built on the pillars of virtue, must
necessarily fall.-
Emmons.
Vice loses half its evil by losing all its
grossness.- Burke.
The gods are just, and of our pleasant
vices make instruments to plague us.-
Shakespeare.
Vice can deceive under the shadow and
guise of virtue.-Juvenal.
Vice incapacitates a man from all public
duty; it withers the powers of his under-
standing, and makes his mind paralytic.-
Burke.
There is no vice so simple but assumes
somo mark of virtue on its outward parts.
---Shakespeare.
Vice always leads, however fair at first,
to wilds of woe.-Thomson.
Beware of the beginnings of vice.--Do
not delude yourself with the belief that it
can be argued against in the presence of
the exciting cause.-Nothing but actual
flight can save you.--B. R. Haydon.
The end of a dissolute life is, most com-
monly, a desperate death.--Bion.
Our pleasant vices are made the whip to
scourge us.-Shakespeare.
Vices and frailties correct each other,
like acids and alkalies. If each vicious
man had but one vice, I do not know how
the world could go on. Whately.
People do not persist in their vices be-
cause they are not weary of them, but.
because they cannot leave them off. It is
the nature of vice to leave us no resource
but in itself.-Hazlitt.
Crimes sometimes shock us too much ;
vices almost always too little.--Hare.
Virtue seems to be nothing more than a
motion consonant to the system of things;
were a planet to fly from its orbit it would
represent a vicious man.--Shenstone.
What we call vice in our neighbor may
be nothing less than a crude virtue. To
him who knows nothing more of precious
stones than he can learn from a daily con-
templation of his breastpin, a diamond in
the mine must be a very uncompromising
sort of stone.-Simms.
The vicious obey their passions as slaves
do their masters.—Diogenes.
A few vices are sufficient to darken many
virtues. Plutarch.
Vice is but a nurse of agonies.--Sir P.
Sidney.
To attack vices in the abstract, without
touching persons, may be safe fighting,
but it is fighting with shadows.-Junius.
Vices are as truly contrary to each other
as to virtue.-Fuller.
Vices that are familiar we pardon, and
only new ones do we reprehend.Publius
Syrus.
The martyrs to vice far exceed the mar-
tyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in
number. So blinded are we by our pag-
sions that we suffer more to be damned
than to be saved.-Colton.
The most fearful characteristic of vice is
its irresistible fascination-the ease with
which it sweeps away resolution, and wins
a man to forget his momentary outlook,
and his throb of penitence, in the embrace
of indulgence.-E. H. Chapin.
Vices are contagious, and there is no
trusting the well and sick together.-
Seneca.
Let thy vices die before thee.-Franklin.
Vices are often habits rather than pas-
sions.-Rivarol.
Say everything for vice which you can,
magnify any pleasures as much as you
please, but don't believe you have any
sccret for sending on quicker the sluggish
blood, and for refreshing the faded nerve.
-Sydney Smith.
Vice—that digs her own voluptuous tomb.
- Byron.
The vices operate like age ; bringing on
disease before its time, and in the prime of
youth they leave the character broken and
exhausted.-Junius.
There are vices which have no hold upon
us, but in connection with others, and
which, when you cut down the trunk, fall
like the branches. Pascal.
Every age and nation has certain charac-
teristic vices, which prevail almost univer-
sally, which scarcely any person scruples to
avow, and which even rigid moralists but
faintly censure. Succeeding generations
change the fashion of their morals with the
fashion of their hats and their coaches;
VICISSITUDES.
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VIOLENCE.
He who surpasses or subdues mankind
must look down on the hate of those below.
- Byron.
Victory or Westminster Abbey.--Nelson.
Victory may be honorable to the arms,
but shameful to the counsels of the nation.
-Bolingbrolce.
VIGILANCE.-It is the enemy who
keeps the sentinel watchful.—Mad. Swet-
chine.
Better three hours too soon, than one
minute too late.--Shakespeare.
He is most free from danger, who, even
when safe, is on his guard.-Publius Syrus.
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
---Jefferson,
take some other kind of wickedness under
their patronage, and wonder at the de-
pravity of their ancestors.--Macaulay.
VICISSITUDES.--Misfortune does not
always wait on vice, nor is success the con-
stant guest of virtue.- Hazard.
Such are the vicissitudes of the world,
through all its parts, that day and niglat,
labor and rest, hurry and retirement, en-
dear each other. Such are the changes
that keep the mind in action; we desire,
we pursue, we obtain, we are satiated; we
desire something else, and begin a new pur-
suit.—Johnson.
But yesterday the word of Cæsar might
have stood against the world ; now lies he
there, and none so poor to do him rever-
ence.—Shalcespeare.
The most affluent may be stripped of all,
and find his worldly comforts, like so many
withered leaves, dropping from him.
Sterne.
Happy the man who can endure the high-
est and the lowest fortune. He who has
endured such vicissitudes with equanimity
has deprived misfortune of its power.
Seneca.
Vicissitude of fortune which spares
neither man nor the proudest of his works,
but buries empires and cities in a commorí
grave.--Gibbon.
Sometimes the brightest day hath a cloud,
and summer evermore succeeds barren
winter with its wrathful, nipping cold.-
So cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.
Shalcespeare.
VILLAINY,-The most stormy ebulli-
tions of passion, from blaspheny to mur-
der, are less terrific than one single act of
cool villainy; a still rabies is more danger-
ous than the paroxysms of a fever. Fear
the boisterous savage of passion less than
the sedately grivning villain.-Lavater.
It is the masterpiece of villainy to smoothe
the brow, and so outface suspicion.
Howard.
The evil you teach me I will execute, and
it shall go hard but I will better the in-
struction. --Shakespeare.
Villainy, when detected, never gives up,
but boldly adds impudence to imposture.
-Goldsmith.
Villainy that is vigilant will be an over-
match for virtue, if she slumber at her
post. ---Colton.
One murder made the villain ; millions
the hero.-Princes were privileged to kill,
and numbers sanctified the crime. — Bp.
Porteus.
VICTORY, – Victories that are easy
are cheap.-Those only are worth having
which come as the result of hard fighting.
-H. W. Beecher.
The smile of God is victory.- Whittier.
Pursue not a victory too far. He hath
conquered well that hath made his enemy
fly; thou mayest beat him to a desperate
resistance, which may ruin thee.- Herbert.
In victory the hero seeks the glory, not
the prey.-Sir P. Sidney.
It is the contest that delights us, not the
victory. We are pleased with the combat
of animals, but not with the victor tearing
the vanquished. What is sought for is the
crisis of victory, and the instant it comes,
it brings satiety.--Pascal.
A victory is twice itself when the achiever
brings home full numbers.--Shalcespeare.
Who overcomes by force bath overcome
but half his foe.-Milton,
VIOLENCE.-Violent fires soon burn
out themselves, small showers last long,
but sudden storms are short; he tires be-
times that spurs too fast.Shalcespeare.
Violence ever defeats its own ends.
Where you cannot drive you can always
persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a
good-natured smile can work wonders and
accomplish miracles. There is a secret
pride in every human heart that revolts at
tyranny. You may order and drive an in-
dividual, but you cannot make him respect
you.—Hazlitt
.
Nothing good ever comes of violence.-
Luther.
Violent delights have violent ends, –
Shakespeare,
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The violence done us by others is often
less painful than that which we do to our-
selves.-Rochefoucauld.
Nothing violent, oft have I heard tell,
can be permanent. - Marlowe.
Vehemence without feeling is but rant.-
H. Lewes.
VIRTUE,To be innocent is to be not
guilty ; but to be virtuous is to overcome
our evil feelings and intentions.—Penn.
It is the edge and temper of the blade
that make a good sword, not the richness
of the scabbard; and so it is not money or
possessions that make man considerable,
but his virtue.-Seneca.
There_is a nobility without heraldry.
Though I want the advantage of a noble
birth, said Marius, yet my actions afford
me a greater one ; and they who upbraid
me with it, are guilty of an extreme injus-
tice in not permitting me to value myself
upon my own virtue, as much as they value
themselves upon the virtue of others.--
Sallust.
That virtue which requires to be ever
guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.-
Goldsmith.
A great deal of virtue, at least the out-
ward appearance of it, is not so much from
any fixed principle, as the terror of what
the world will say, and the liberty it will
take upon the occasions we shall give.-
Sterne.
Virtue is its own reward, and brings with
it the truest and highest pleasure ; but if
we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we
are selfish, not religious, and will never
gain the pleasure, because we can never
have the virtue. Newman.
Virtue is an angel ; but she is a blind
one, and must ask of knowledge to show
her the pathway that leads to her goal.
Mere knowledge, on the other hand, like a
Swiss mercenary, is ready to combat either
in the ranks of sin or under the banners of
righteousness ready to forge cannon-
balls or to print New Testaments, to navi-
gate a corsair's vessel or a missionary ship.
Horace Mann.
All bow to virtue, and then walk away.
- De Finod.
Virtue I love, without austerity ; pleas-
ure, without effeminacy; and life, without
fearing its end.–St. Everemond.
Were there but one virtuous inan in the
world, he would hold up his head with con-
fidence and honor; he would shame the
world, and not the world him.--South.
There is but one pursuit in life which it
is in the power of all to follow, and of all
to attain. It is subject to no disappoint-
ments, since he that perseveres makes
every difficulty an advancement, and every
conquest. a victory; and this is the pursuit
of virtue. Sincerely to aspire after virtue
is to gain her; and zealously to labor after
her ways is to receive them.- Colton.
To be able under all circumstances to
practise five things constitutes perfect vir-
tue ; these five are gravity, generosity of
soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
Confucius.
The great slight the men of wit who havo
nothing but wit; the inen of wit despise
the great who have nothing but greatness;
the good man pities them both, if with
greatness or wit, they have not virtuo.--
Bruyère.
I willingly confess that it likes ine better
when I find virtue in a fair lodging than
when I am bound to seek it in an ill-favored
creature.-Sir P. Sidney.
We rarely like the virtues we have not.-
Shakespeare.
Virtue without talent is a coat of mail
without a sword ; it may indeed defend the
wearer, but will not enable him to protect
his friend. - Colton.
Nothing is more unjust, however com-
mon, than to charge with hypocrisy him
that expresses zeal for those virtues which
he neglects to practise ; since he may be
sincerely convinced of the advantages of
conquering his passions without having yet
obtained the victory, as a man may be con-
fident of the advantages of a voyage or a
journey, without having courage or indus-
try to undertake it, and may honestly
recommend to others those attempts which
he neglects himself.- Johnson.
It would not be easy, even for an un-
believer, to find a better translation of the
rule of virtue from the abstract into the
concrete, than to endeavor so to live that
Christ would approve our life.-- John Stuart
Mill.
Wealth is a weak anchor, and glory can-
not support a man; this is the law of God,
that virtue only is firm, and cannot be
shaken by a tempest.–Pythagoras.
No man can purchase his virtue too dear,
for it is the only thing whose value must
ever increase with the price it has cost us.
Our integrity is never worth so much as
when we have parted with our all to keep
it.—Colton.
Every man is ready to give in a long
catalogue of those virtues and good quali-
ties he expects to find in the person of a
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friend ; but very few of us are careful to
cultivate them in ourselves.-Addison.
I am no herald to inquire of men's pedi-
grees ; it sufficeth me if I know their vir-
tues. --Sir P. Sidney.
Every condition of life, if attended with
virtue, is undisturbed and delightful; but
when vice is intermixed, it renders even
things that appear sumptuous and magni-
ficent, distasteful and uneasy to the pos-
sessor.- Plutarch.
Ho that is good will infallibly become
better, and he that is bad will as certainly
become worse ; for vice, virtue, and time,
are three things that never stand still.-
Colton.
He who thinks no man above him but
for his virtue, and none below him but for
his vice, can never be obsequious or assum-
ing in a wrong place, but will frequently
emulate men in rank below him, and pity
those above him.-Tatler.
Never expecting to find perfection in
men, in my commerce with my contem-
poraries I have found much human virtue.
I have seen not a little public spirit; a real
subordination of interest to duty; and a
decent and regulated sensibility to honest
fame and reputation. The age unquestion-
ably produces daring profligates and in-
sidious hypocrites. What then? Am I not
to avail myself of whatever good is to be
found in the world because of the mixture
of evil that will always be in it? The
smallness of the quantity in currency only
heightens the value. They who raise sus-
picions on the good, on account of the
behavior of ill men, are of the party of the
latter.--Burke.
The most virtuous of all men, says Plato,
is he that contents himself with being
virtuous without seeking to appear so.-
Fénelon.
Many who have tasted all the pleasures
of sin have forsaken it and come over to
virtue; but there are few, if any, who
having tried the sweets of virtue could
ever be drawn off from it, or find in their
hearts to fall back to their former course.--
Jeffrey.
Every virtue gives a man a degree of
felicity in some kind; honesty gives a man
a good report; justice, estimation ; pru-
dence, respect; courtesy and liberality,
affection; temperance gives health; for-
titude, a quiet mind, not to be moved by
any adversity.- Walsingham.
Virtue is so delightful, whenever it is per-
ceived, that men have found it their interest
to cultivate manners, which are, in fact,
the appearances of certain virtues ; and
now we are come to love the sign better
than the thing signified, and to prefer
manners without virtue, to virtue without
manners.----Sydney Smith.
By what causes has so inconsiderable a
beginning, as that of the colonies of New
England, under such formidable, and ap-
parently almost insurmountable difficulties,
resulted, in so brief a period, in such
mighty consequences ?. They are to be
found in the high moral and intellectual
qualities of the pilgrims: their faith,
piety, and confident trust in a superin-
tending Providence ; their stern virtues ;
their patriotic love of liberty and order;
their devotion to learning i and their
indomitable courage and perseverance.
These are the causes which surmounted
every obstacle, and which have led to such
mighty results.-John C. Calhoun.
The virtue of a man ought to be measured
not by his extraordinary exertions, but by
his every-day conduct. -- Pascal.
What the world calls virtue is a name
and a dream without Christ. The founda-
tion of all human excellence must be laid
deep in the blood of the Redeemer's cross
and in the power of his resurrection.-17.
W. Robertson.
'Virtue consists in doing our duty in the
various relations we sustain to ourselves,
to our fellow-men, and to God, as it is
made known by reason, revelation, and
Providence.-A. Alexander.
We are apt to mistake our vocation in
looking out of the way for occasions to
exercise great and rare virtues, and step-
ping over the ordinary ones which lie
directly in the road before us.
When we
read we fancy we could be martyrs ; when
we come to act we find we cannot bear a
provoking word.-H. More.
I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered
virtue, inexercised and unbreathed, that
never sallies out and sees her adversary.
The virtue that knows not the utinost that
vice promises to her followers, and rejects
it, is but a blank virtue, not & pure.-
Milton.
Virtue is the dictate of reason, or the
remains of the divine light, by which men
are made beneficent and beneficial to each
other. Religion proceeds from the same
end, and the good of mankind so entirely
depends upon these two, that no people
ever enjoyed anything worth desiring that
was not the product of them.-Algernon
Sidney.
There are two things that declare, as
that eternal throne must be on the lat fills
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with a voice from heaven, that he that fills morality which some temptation may not
side of overtop, or undermine and destroy.--Sir
virtue, and that which he befriends must P, Sidney.
finally prosper and prevail. The first is
Virtue is not to be considered in the
that the bad are never completely happy
light of mere innocence, or abstaining
and at ease, although possessed of every- from harm; but as the exertion of our
thing that this world can bestow; and that
faculties in doing good.- Bp: Butler.
the good are never completely miserable,
No virtue can be real that has not been
although deprived of everything that this
world can take away. The second is that
tried. The gold in the crucible alone is
we are so framed and constituted that the perfect; the loadstone tests the steel, and
most vicious cannot but pay a secret though
The diamond is tried by the diamond, while
unwilling homage to virtue, inasmuch as metals gleam the brighter in the furnace.
- Calderon,
the worst men cannot bring themselves
thoroughly to esteem a bad man, although The virtues, like the Muses, are always
he may be their dearest friend, nor can seen in groups. A good principle was
they thoroughly despise a good man, al- never found solitary in any breast.-- Jane
though he may be their bitterest enemy.- Porter.
Colton.
On every occasion in which virtue is ex-
Virtue is certainly the most noble and ercised, if something is not added to hap-
secure possession a man can have. Beauty piness, something is taken away from anx-
is worn out by time or impaired by sick- iety.–Benthan.
ne88—riches lead youth rather to destruc- Content not thyself that thou art virtu-
tion than welfare, and without prudence ous in the general ; for one link being
are soon lavished away ; while virtue alone, wanting, the chain is defective. Perhaps
the only good that is ever durable, al- thou art rather innocent than virtuous,
ways remains with the person that has and owest more to thy constitution than to
once entertained her. She is preferable thy religion.-Penn.
both to wealth and a noble extraction.-
I would be virtuous for my own sake,
Savage.
though nobody were to know it; as I would
Keep thy spirit pure from worldly
be clean for my own sake, though nobody
taint by the repellent strength of virtue. were to see me.-Shaftesbury.
-Bailey.
Virtue has many preachers, but few mar-
If he does really think there is no dis-
tyrs.--Helvetius.
tinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, Do not be troubled because you have not
when he leaves our house let us count our great virtues. God made a million spears
spoons.—Johnson.
of grass where he made one tree. "The
Virtue by calculation is the virtue of
earth is fringed and carpeted, not with
vice.--Joubert.
forests, but with grasses. Only have enough
of littlé virtues and common fidelities, and
If you can be well without health, you you need not mourn because you are
may be happy without virtue.- Burke. neither a hero nor a saint.-H. W. Beecher.
Our virtues would be proud if our faults They who disbelieve in virture because
whipped them not; and our crimes would man has never been found perfect, might
despair if they were not cherished by our as reasonably deny the sun because it is
virtues.--Shalcespeare.
not always noon.- Hare.
When men grow virtuous in old age they
Beware of making your moral staples
are merely making an offering to God of consist of the negative virtues.-It is good
the devil's leavings.-Swift.
to abstain, and to teach others to abstain,
from all that is sinful or hurtful.-But
Guilt, though it may attain temporal
splendor, can never confer real happiness ;
making a business of it leads to emaciation
the evil consequences of our crimes long
of character unless one feeds largely on the
survive their commission, and, like the
more nutritious diet of active benevolence.
-0. W. Holmes.
ghosts of the murdered, forever haunt the
steps of the malefactor ; while the paths of It is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and
virtue, though seldom those of worldly imitation of virtue, when we are led to the
greatness, are always those of pleasantness performance of duty by pleasure as its rec-
and peace.- Walter Scott.
ompense.-- Cicero.
The only impregnable citadel of virtue A large part of virtue consists in good
is religion ; for there is no bulwark of mere habits. - Paley.
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VOICE.
The virtue of Paganism was strength;
the virtue of Christianity is obedience.
Hare.
Many new years you may see, but happy
ones you cannot see without deserving
them. These virtue, honor, and knowl-
edge alone can merit, alone can produce.
Chesterfield.
Virtue is uniform and fixed, because she
looks for approbation only from Him who
is the same yesterday, to-day, and forever.
-
Colton.
Virtues go ever in troops ; so thick that
sometimes some are hid in the crowd,
which yet are virtues though they appear
not.-Bp. Hall.
Certainly, virtue is like precious odors,
most fragrant when they are incensed or
crushed; for prosperity doth best discover
vice, but adversity doth best discover vir-
tue. Bacon.
Live virtuously, and you cannot die too
soon, nor live too long.-Lady Russell.
Blessed is the memory of those who have
kept themselves unspotted from the world!
Yet more blessed and more dear the mem-
ory of those who have kept themselves un-
spotted in the world !--Mrs. Jameson.
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it
we have always to combat with ourselves.
-Rousseau.
Hast thou virtue? Acquire also the
graces and beauties of virtue.-Franklin.
Virtue is that perfect good which is the
complement of a happy life; the only im-
mortal thing that belongs to mortality.-
Seneca.
While shame keeps its watch virtue is
not wholly extinguished in the heart.
Burke.
Good company and good discourse are
the very sinews of virtue.-Izaal Walton.
No state of virtue is complete save as it
is won by a conflict with evil, and fortified
by the struggles of a resolute and even
bitter experience.- Horace Bushnell.
Perfect virtue is to do unwitnessed what
we should be capable of doing before all
the world.-Rochefoucauld.
Virtue is the habitual sense of right, and
the habitual courage to act up to that sense
of right, combined with benevolent sympa-
thies, and the charity which thinketh no
evil. The union of the highest conscience
and highest sympathy fulfils my 'notion of
virtue. Mrs. Jameson.
Our life is short, but to expand that span
to vast eternity, is virtue's work.-shake-
speare.
It has ever been my experience that folks
who have no vices have very few virtues.
---Lincoln.
Virtue, not rolling suns, the mind ma-
tures; that life is long which answers life's
great end.--Young.
This is the law of God, that virtue only
is firm, and cannot be shaken by a tempest.
Pythagoras.
VISITORS.–Visits are for the most
part neither more nor less than inventions
for discharging upon our neighbors some-
what of our own unendurable weight.
Nicole.
Visitors are insatiable devourers of time,
and fit only for those who, if they did not
visit, would do nothing.–Cowper.
Uuwelcome are the loiterer, who makes
appointinents he never keeps ; the con-
sulter, who asks advice he never follows
the boaster, who seeks for praise he does
not merit; the complainer, who whines
only to be pitied ; the talker, who talks
only because he loves to talk always; the
profane and obscene jester, whose words
defile ; the drunkard, whose insanity has
got the better of his reason; and the to-
bacco-chewer and smoker, who poisons the
atmosphere and nauseates others.
VIVACITY, I do not dislike extreme
vivacity in children ; but would see enough
of it to make an animated character, when
the violence of animal spirits shall subside
in time. It is easier to restrain excess
than to quicken stupidity. Gravity in
childhood may become stupidity in old age.
- Mrs. Sigourney.
Vivacity in youth is often mistaken for
genius, and solidity for dulness.
Extreme volatile and sprightly tempers
seem inconsistent with any great 'enjoy-
ment. There is too much time wasted in
the mere transition from one object to an-
other. Noroom for those deep impressions
which are made only by the duration of an
idea, and are quite requisite to any strong
sensation, either of pleasure or of pain.
The bee to collect honey, or the spider to
gather poison, must abide some time upon
the weed or flower. They whose fluids are
mere sal volatile seem rather cheerful than
happy men.-Shenstone.
The vivacity which augments with years
is not far from folly.-Rochefoucauld.
VOICE.--How wonderful is the human
voice !--It is indeed the organ of the soul.
The intellect of man sits enthroned, visibly,
on his forehead and in his eye, and the
heart of man is written on his countenance,
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VULGARITY.
woman! When it speaks it ravishes all
senses.--Massinger.
Thy voice is celestial melody.-Longfel-
low.
but the soul reveals itself in the voice only.
-Longfellow.
Her voice was ever soft, gentle, and low,
an excellent thing in woman.-Shalcespeare.
His voice attention still as midnight
draws—his voice more gentle than the
summer's breeze.-Dryden.
The sweetest of all sounds is that of the
voice of the woman we love.--Bruyère.
How often the spell of beauty is rudely
broken by coarse, loud talking! How
often you are irresistibly drawn to a plain,
unassuming woman, whose soft, silverý
tones render her positively attractive. In
the social circle how pleasant it is to hear
a woman talk in that low key which always
characterizes the true lady. In the sanc-
tuary of home how such a voice soothes
the fretful cbild and cheers the weary hus-
band !--Lamb.
The influence of temper upon tone de-
serves much consideration. In the voice
there is no deception ; it is, to many, the
index of the mind, denoting moral qualities;
and it may be remarked that the low, soft
tones of gentle and amiable beings, what-
ever their musical endowments may be,
seldom fail to please ; besides which the
singing of ladies indicates the cultivation
of their taste.—Mordaunt.
There is no index of character so sure as
the voice.—Tancred.
When those we have loved have long
vanished from the earth, then will the be-
loved voice.come back and bring with it
all our old tears and the disconsolate heart
that sheds them.-Richter.
Her voice is soft; not shrill and like the
lark's, but tenderer, graver, almost hoarse
at times! As though the earnestness of
love prevailed and quelled all shriller music.
- Barry Cornwall.
A lovely countenance is the fairest of all
sights, and the sweetest harmony is the
sound of the voice of her whom we love.-
Bruyère.
To a nice ear the quality of a voice is
singularly affecting. Its depth seems to
be allied to feeling ; at least the contralto
notes alone give an adequate sense of
pathos. They are born near the heart.
Tuckerman.
The tones of human voices are mightier
than strings or brass to move the soul.-
Klopstock.
There is in the voice of a menaced man,
who calls you, something imperious which
subdues and commands.-M. de Martignac.
How sweetly sounds the voice of a good
VOLUPTUOUSNESS.– The volup-
tuous and effeminate are never brave; they
have no courage in time of danger.-
Féne-
lon.
Voluptuousness, like justice, is blind;
but that is the only resemblance between
them.- Pascal.
The rich and luxurious may claim an
exclusive right to those pleasures which
are capable of being purchased by pelf, in
which the mind has no enjoyment, and
which only afford a temporary relief to
languor by steeping the senses in forgetful-
ness ; but in the precious pleasures of the
intellect, so easily accessible by all man-
kind, the great have no exclusive privilege ;
for such enjoyments are only to be procured
by our own industry.--Zimmermann,
VOWS.-Make no vows to perform this
or that; it shows no great strength, and
makes thee ride behind thyself.--Fuller.
The gods are deaf to hot and peevish
vows ; they are polluted offerings, more
abhorred than spotted livers in the sacri-
fice.--Shakespeare.
Lovers' vows seem sweet in every whis.
pered word.—Byron.
Unheedfulvow8 may heedfully be broken.
—Shakespeare.
Hasty resolutions are of the nature of
vows, and to be equally avoided.--Penn
Men's vows are women's traitors — Shake-
speare.
The vows that woman makes to her fond
lover are only fit to be written on air, or on
the swiftly passing stream.-Catullus.
Those mouth-made vows which break
themselves in swearing.-Shakespeare.
VULGARITY,-To endeavor to work
upon the vulgar with fine sense is like
attempting to hew blocks with a razor.-
Pope.
Be true to your own highest convictions.
Intimations from our own souls of some-
thing more perfect than others teach, if
faithfully followed, give us a consciousness
of spiritual force and progress never expe-
rienced by the vulgar of high life, or low
life, who march as they are drilled to the
step of their times.— Channing.
The vulgarity of inanimate things re-
quires time to get accustomed to; but
living, breathing, bustling, plotting, plan-
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WANTS.
ing man knows of certain ancients, far
gone in years, who have staved off in-
firmities and dissolution by earnest walk-
ing-hale fellows, close upon ninety, but
brisk as boys.--Dickens.
ning, human vulgarity is a species of moral
ipecacuanha enough to destroy any con-
fort.-Carlyle.
Disorder in a drawing-room is vulgar;
in an antiquary's study, not; the black
battle-stain on a soldier's face is not vul-
gar, but the dirty face of a housemaid is.--
Rusiin.
Be thou familiar, but by no means vul-
gar.-Shakespeare.
W.
WAG.-A wag is in. the last order even
of pretenders to wit and humor.-Generally
he has his mind prepared to receive some
occasion of merriment, but is of himself
too empty to draw any out of his own
thoughts, and therefore he laughs at the
next thing he meets, not because it is
ridiculous, but because he is under the
necessity of laughing.-Steele.
One of the most silly and contemptible
of men is the professed wag, whose great
aim in life is to raise a laugh which might
better be against himself than at his ill-
timed jokes.
WAGERS,-Fools for arguments use
wagers.-Butler.
Most men, until by losing rendered
sager, will back their opinions by a wager.
- Byron
WAITING.–They also serve who only
stand and wait.-Milton.
Wayworn, pressed with toils and strife,
we are waiting, hoping, watching, praying,
till we reach the gates of life.-Ray Palmer'.
Beautiful is the activity that works for
good, and the stillness that waits for good;
blessed the self-sacrifice of the one, and the
self-forgetfulness of the other.-R. Collyer.
It is the slowest pulsation which is the
most vital. The hero will then know how
to wait as well as to make baste. All
good abides with him who waiteth wisely.-
Thoreau.
WANTS.-It is not from nature, but
from education and habits, that our wants
are chiefly derived.–Fielding.
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 real wants they will
come in search of you. He that buys what
he does not want, will soon want what he
cannot buy.--- Collon.
Hundreds would never have known want
if they had not at first known waste.-
Spurgeon.
I do not understand those to be poor and
in want, who are vagabonds and beggars,
but such as are old and cannot travel, such
poor widows and fatherless children as are
ordered to be relieved, and the poor ten-
ants that travail to pay their rents and are,
driven to poverty by mischance, and not)
by riot or careless expenses ; on such have
thou compassion, and God will bless theo
for it.—Sir W. Raleigh.
Wants awaken intellect. To gratify them
disciplines intellect. The keener the want,
the lustier the growth.- Wendell Phillips.
Great wants proceed from great wealth,
but they are undutiful children, for they
sink wealth down to poverty.--Home.
The fewer our wants, the nearer we re-
semble the gods.-Socrates.
The wants of women are an unknown
quantity.-4. Rhodes.
Of all the enemies of idleness, want is the
most formidable. Want always struggles
against idleness ; but want herself is often
overcoine, and every hour shows some who
had rather live in ease than in plenty.-
Johnson.
How few are our real wants !-How easy
it is to satisfy them !-Our imaginary ones
are boundless and insatiable.
He can feel no little wants who is in pur-
suit of grandeur.-Lavater.
Tomen pressed by their wants all change
is ever welcome.-Ben Jonson.
If any one say that he has seen a just
man in want of bread, I answer that it was
in some place where there was no other
just man.-St. Clement. .
The relief that is afforded to mere want,
as want, tends to increase that want.-
Whately.
WALKING.-The art of walking is at
once suggestive of the dignity of man.-
Progressive motion alone implies power,
but in almost every other instance it seems
à power gained at the expense of self-pos-
session.---Tuckerman.
If you are for a merry jaunt I will try
for once who can foot it farthest.-Dryden.
The sum of the whole is this: walk and
le happy; walk and be healthy. The best
way to lengthen out our days is to walk
steadily and with a purpose. --The wander-
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Choose rather to want legs, than to have
more.- Thomas d Kempis.
Human life is a constant want and ought
to be a constant prayer.-S. Osgood.
Every one is poorer in proportion as he
has more wants, and counts not what he
has, but wishes only for what he has not.
-Manilius.
The stoical scheme of supplying our
wants by lopping off our desires, is like
cutting off our feet when we vant shoes.-
Swift.
WAR.-War! that mad game the world
so loves to play.-Swift.
He who makes war his profession cannot
be otherwise than vicious. - War makes
thieves, and peace brings them to the gal-
lows.-Machiavelli.
There never was a good war, or a bad
peace.--Franklin.
When wars do come, they fall upon the
many, the producing class, who are the
sufferers.-U. S. Grant.
A great war leaves the country with three
armies-an army of cripples, an army of
mourners, and an army of thieves.-Ger-
man Proverb.
If war has its chivalry and its pageantry,
it has also its hideousness and its demoniac
Bullets respect not beauty. They
tear out the eye, and shatter the jaw, and
rend the cheek.-J. S. C. Abbott.
The practices of war are so hateful to
God, that were not his mercies infinite, it
were in vain for those of that profession to
hope for any portion of them.---Sir W. Ra-
leigh.
War is the business of barbarians.-Na-
poleon.
Men who have nice notions of religion
have no business to be soldiers. — Welling-
ton.
War is a profession by which a man can-
not live honorably ; an employment by
which the soldier, if he would reap any
profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious,
and cruel.---Machiavelli.
I am of opinion that, unless you could
bray Christianity in a mortar, and mould
it into a new paste, there is no possibility
of a holy war. -Bacon.
All the talk of history is of nothing al-
most but fighting and killing, and the
honor and renown which are bestowed on
conquerors, who, for the most part, are
mere butchers of mankind, mislead grow-
ing youth, who, by these means, come to
think slaughter the most laudable business
of mankind, and the most heroic of virtues.
Locke.
The greatest curse that can be entailed
on mankind is a state of war. All the atro-
cious crimes committed in years of peace, ,
all that is spent in peace by the secret
corruptions, or by the thoughtless extrav-
agance of nations, are mere trifles com-
pared with the gigantic evils which stalk
over this world in a state of war. God
is forgotten in war; every principle of
Christianity is trampled upon. Sydney
Snrith.
War is nothing less than a temporary re-
peal of the principles of virtue. It is a
system out of which almost all the virtues
are excluded, and in which nearly all the
vices are included.-Robert Hall.
The chief evil of war is more evil. War
is the concentration of all human crimes.
Here is its distinguishing, accursed brand.
Under its standard gather violence, malig-
nity, rage, fraud, perfidy, rapacity, and
lust. If it only slew man, it would do little.
It turns man into a beast of prey.- Chan-
ning.
Who has ever told the evils and the curses
and the crimes of war? Who can describe
the horrors of the carnage of battle? Who
can portray the fiendish passions which
reign there! If there is anything in which
earth, more than any other, resembles hell,
it is its wars.--Albert Barnes.
We cannot make a more lively repre-
sentation and emblem to ourselves of hell,
than by the view of a kingdom in war.
Clarendon.
War is an instrument entirely inefficient
toward redressing wrong ; and multiplies,
instead of indemnifying losses.-- Jefferson.
Of all the evils to public liberty, war is
perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it
comprises and develops every other. War
is the parent of armies ; from these pro-
ceed debts and taxes. And armies, and
debts, and taxes, are the known instru-
ments for bringing the many under the do-
minion of the few. In war, too, the discre-
tionary power of the executive is extended ;
its influence in dealing out offices, honors,
and emoluments is multiplied ; and all the
means of seducing the minds are added to
those of subduing the force of the people!
No nation could preserve its freedom in the
midst of continual warfare. -Madison.
Take my word for it, if you had seen but
one day of war, you would pray to Al-
mighty God that you might never see such
a thing again.- Wellington.
Although a soldier by profession, I have
never felt any sort of fondness for war,
woe.
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suie,
and I have never advocated it except as a
means of peace.-U. S. Grant.
Great warriors, like great earthquakes,
are principally remembered for the mis-
chief they have done.—Bovee.
Rash, fruitless war, from wanton glory
waged, is only splendid murder.-Thomson.
A wise ruler would rather preserve peace
than gain a victory ; because he knows that
even the most successful war leaves nations
generally more poor, and always more prof-
ligate, than it found them. There are real
evils that cannot be brought into a list
of indemnities, and the demoralizing in-
fluence of war is not amongst the least of
them.-Colton,
The next dreadful thing to a battle lost
is a battle won.- Wellington.
War kills men, and men deplore the loss ;
but war also crushes bad principles and
tyrants, and so saves societies.-Colton.
The feast of vultures, and the waste of
life.-Byron.
I abhor bloodshed, and every species of
terror erected into a system, as remedies
equally ferocious, unjust, and inefficacious
against evils that can only be cured by the
diffusion of liberal ideas.-Mazzini.
As long as mankind shall continue to be-
stow more liberal applause on their de-
stroyers than on their benefactors, the
thirst of military glory will ever be the vice
of exalted characters.--Gibbon.
War suspends the rules of moral obliga-
tion, and what is long suspended is in dan-
ger of being totally abrogated. Civil wars
strike deepest of all into the manners of
the people. They vitiate their politics ;
they corrupt their morals; they pervert
even the natural taste and relish of equity
and justice. By teaching us to consider
our fellow-creatures in an hostile light, the
whole body of our nation becomes gradu-
ally less dear to us. The very names of
affection and kindred, which were the bond
of charity whilst we agreed, become new
incentives to hatred and rage, when the
communion of our country is dissolved.-
Burke.
War is the sink of all injustice.--Fielding.
Wars are to the body politic what drams
are to the individual. There are times
when they may prevent a sudden death,
but if frequently resorted to, or long per-
sisted in, they heighten the energies only
to hasten dissolution.--Colton.
Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.-
Lamartine.
The fate of war is to be exalted in the
morning, and low enough at night! There
is but one step from triumph to ruin.--
Napoleon.
Woe to the man that first did teach the
cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and
make way to the living spirit. — Spenser.
Even in war, moral power is to physical
as three parts out of four.–Napoleon.
Let the gulled fool the toils of war pur-
where bleed the many to enrich the
few.-Shenstone.
In disarming Peter, Christ disarmed
every soldier.-Tertullian.
The little thefts and petty mischiefs are
interrupted by the laws ; yet if a mischief
become public and great, acted by princes,
and effected by armies, and robberies be
done by whole fleets, it is virtue, it is glory.
-Jerenry Taylor.
Give me the money that has been spent
in war, and I will purchase every foot of
land upon the globe. I will clothe every
man, woman, and child in an attire of
which kings and queens would be proud.
I will build a school-house on every hill-
side and in every valley over the whole
earth; I will build an academy in every
town, and endow it; a college in every State,
and fill it with able professors ; I will crowu
every hill with a place of worship, conse-
crated to the promulgation of the Gospel
of peace ; I will support in every pulpit an
able teacher of righteousness, so that on
every Sabbath the chime on one hill should
answer to the chime on another round the
earth's wide circumference; and the voice
of prayer, and the song of praise, should
ascend like a universal holocaust to heaven.
Henry Richard.
War is a game, which, were their subjects
wise, kings would not play at. - Cowper.
The patriot should never speak of war,
but as the ruin of nations, the philan-
thiopist, but as the ruin of men ; the
Christian, but as in utter and irreconci-
lable conflict with the principles and teach-
ings of the Prince of Peace : and all, with
horror and loathing, as the very spirit of a
darker world, seeking to anticipate perdi-
tion in this. — Tryon Edwards.
Cannon and fire-arms are cruel and dam-
nable machines. I believe them to have
been the direct suggestion of the Devil.
Against the flying ball no valor avails ; the
soldier is dead ere he sees the means of his
destruction. If Adam had seen in a vision
the horrible instruments his children were
to invent, he would have died of grief.-
Luther.
Even in a righteous cause force is a fear-
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ful thing ; God only helps wleu man can
help no more.-Schiller.
The foolish part of mankind will make
wars from time to time with each other,
not having sense enough otherwise to settle
their difficulties.
Every war involves a greater or less re-
lapse into barbarism. War, indeed, in its
details, is the essence of inhumanity. It
dehumanizes. It may save the state, but it
destroys the citizen.- Bovee.
War is the most reckless and prodigal
waster of time, property, life, of the happi-
ness of families, and the prosperity of na-
tions, the world has ever known. It is the
destroyer of commerce, the hot-bed of vice,
the nursery of inteniperance, the school of
profaneness, the violator of the Sabbath,
the promoter of cruelty, the pander of lust,
the ruin of morality, the despiser of the
decalogue, the contemner of God, the whole-
sale butcher of men, the antagonist of the
Gospel, the grief of angels, the joy of
devils ! It has done more to make the
world one vast Golgotha, to people earth
and people bell, than any other forin of sin
under which earth has ever groaned and
suffered, and over which angels ever
wept.
War ought never to be accepted, until it
is forced upon us by the hand of necessity.
-Sir P. Sidney.
If Europe shall ever be ruined it will be
by its warriors.-Montesquieu.
War is one of the greatest plagnies that
can afflict humanity ; it destroys religion,
it destroys states, it destroys families.
Any scourge, in fact, is preferable to it.
Famine and pestilence become as nothing
in comparison with it. Pestilence is the
least evil of the three, and therefore David
chose it, willing rather to fall into the
hands of God than into those of pitiless
man.-Luther.
The arms are fair, when the intent of
bearing them is just.--Shakespeare.
No person can draw in its true colors
the portait of war. It is all extreme, all
horrible, all devilish. It is a sight suffi-
ciently odions and repulsive, to see two
men quarrel and fight, even without any
intention of killing ; but when thousands,
on each side, meet for the known purpose
of killing each other — to see them, by
thousands, dashed in pieces by cannon-
balls and grape-shot, pierced by musket-
bullets, cut down by swords, transfixed
by bayonets, crushed by carriages, and
trampled by horses—to hear their groans
and cries, their curses and execrations—to
sce them rushing on with fury, or retreat-""
ing with precipitation and despair-pre-
sents a scene which cannot be reached by
tongue, pen, or pencil.— Whelpley.
O war! thou son of hell, whom angry
henvens do make their minister, to throw
hot coals of vengeance.-Shakespeare.
War will never yield but to the principles
of universal justice and love, and these
have no sure root but in the religion of
Jesus Christ.-Channing.
To be prepared for war is one of the most
effectual ways of preserving peace.--Wash-
ington.
Success in war, like charity in religion,
covers a multitude of sins.-Napier.
Dress it as we may, feather it, daub it
with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering
songs about it, what is war, nine times out
of ten, but murder in uniform ?- Douglas
Jerrold.
Laws are commanded to hold their
tongnes among arms, and tribunals fall to
the ground with the peace they are no
longer able to uphold.-Burke.
War, which society draws upon itself, is
but organized barbarism, an inheritance
of the savage state, however disguised or
ornamented.-Louis Napoleon.
I abominate war as unchristian. I hold
it to be the greatest of human crimes, and
to involve all others—violence, blood, rap-
ine, fraud-everything that can deform
the character, alter the nature, and debase
the name of man.-Lord Brougham.
Peace is the happy natural state of man;
war is corruption and disgrace.---Thomson.
War, even in the best state of an army,
with all the alleviations of courtesy and
honor, with all the correctives of morality
and religion, is nevertheless so great an
Mad wars destroy in one year the works
of many years of peace.-Franklin.
War is honorable in those who do their
native rights maintain ; in those whose
swords an iron barrier are between the
lawless spoiler and the veak: but is in
those who draw the offensive blade for added
power or gain, sordid and despicable as
meanest office of the worldly churl.-Jo-
anna Baillie.
One to destroy is murder by the law ;
to murder thousands takes a specious name
and gives immortal fame.-Young.
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evil, that to engage in it without a clear
necessity is a crinie of the blackest dye.
When the necessity is clear, it tlien be-
comes a crime to shrink from it.--Southey.
It is only necessary to make war with
five things : with the maladies of the body,
the ignorances of the mind, with the pas-
sions of the body, with the seditions of the
city, and the discords of families.--Py-
thagoras.
The life of states is like that of men.
The latter have the right of killing in self-
defence, the former to make ward for their
own preservation.-Montesquieu.
IWASTE.-Waste not the smallest thing
created, for grains of sand make moun-
tains, and atomies infinity. Waste not the
smallest time in imbecile infirmity, for
well thou knowest that seconds form eter-
nity.-E. Knight.
Waste cannot be accurately told, though
we are sensible how destructive it is.
Economy, on the one hand, by which a
certain income is made to maintain a man
genteelly; and waste, on the other, by
which on the same income another man
lives shabbily, cannot be defined. It is &
very nice thing; as one man wears his coat
out much sooner than another, we cannot
tell how.-- Johnson,
Waste not, want not. Wilful waste
makes woful want.
It has always been more difficult for a
man to keep than to get ; for, in the one
case, fortune aids, but in the other, sense
is required. Therefore, we often see a
person deficient in cleverness rise to
wealth ; and then, from want of sense,
roll
head over heels to the bottom.-Basil.
WEAKNESS,-The weakest spot with
mankind is where they fancy themselves
most wise.-C. Simmons.
To excuse our faults on the ground of
our weakness is to quiet our tears at the
expense of our hopes.
To be weak is miserable, doing or suffer-
ing.-Milton.
Few men have done more barm than
those who have been thought to be able to
do the least; and there cannot be a greater
error than to believe a man whom we see
qualified with too mean parts to do good,
to be, therefore, incapable of doing hurt.
There is a supply of malice, of pride, of
industry, and even of folly, in the weakest,
when he sets his heart upon it, that makes
a strange progress in wickedness.-Clar-
endon.
The strength of man sinks in the hour
of trial : but there doth live a power that
to the battle girdeth the weak.- Joanna
Baillie.
Weakness is thy excuse, and I believe it ;
weakness to resist Philistian gold; what
murderer, what traitor, parricide, incestu-
ous, sacrilegious, but may plead it? All
wickedness is weakness.-Milton.
Never mind what a man's virtues are ;
waste no time in learning them. Fasten at
once on his infirmities.-Bulwer.
The weak may be joked out of anything
but their weakness.-Zimmermann.
In all our weaknesses we have one ele-
ment of strength if we recognize it.-Here,
as in other things, knowledge of danger is
often the best means of safety.-E. P. Roe.
Some of our weaknesses are born in us,
others are the result of education ; it is a
question which of the two gives us most
trouble.- Goethe.
Men are in general so tricky, so envious,
and so cruel, that when we find one who
is only weak, we are happy.- Voltaire.
Delusion and weakness produce not one
mischief the less, because they are univer-
sal. Burke.
The more weakness, the more falsehood ;
strength goes straight ; every cannon-ball
that has in it hollows and holes goes
crooked. Weaklings must lie.--Richter.
Weaknesses, 80 called, are nothing more
nor less than vice iu disguise !--Lavater.
Weakness has its hidden resources, as
well as strength. There is a degree of
folly and meanness which we cannot calcu-
late upon, and by which we are as much
liable to be foiled as by the greatest ability
or courage.--Hazlitt.
WATCHFULNESS. – Wise distrust
and constant watchfulness are the parents
of safety.
A soul without watchfulness is, like a
city without walls, exposed to the inroads
of all its enemies.-Secker.
We ought not to be careless and indiffer-
ent about the future. But as there are
goods in life possible to be obtained, and
evils capable of being avoided, so
should provide ourselves with proper
means to obtain the one and escape the
other. Watchfulness and industry are
natural virtues, and recommended to 118 by
the conduct even of brute creatures. If
we neglect our own interest, we deserve
the calamities which come upon us; and
have no reason to hope for tho compassion
of others, when we take no care of our-
selves.-Bp. Conybeare.
we
Abundance is a blessing to the
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WEALTH.
The weak soul, within itself unblest, latter will bring you lasting remorse, —
leans for all pleasure on another's breast. Chilo.
-Goldsmith.
Barring some piece of luck I have seen
but few men get rich rapidly except by
WEALTH.-(See "RICHES.")
means that would make them writhe to
The wealth of man is the number of have known in public.- Warner.
things which he loves and blesses, which Men pursue riches under the idea that
he is loved and blessed by.-Carlylé.
their possession will set them at ease and
Worldly wealth is the devil's bait; and
above the world. But the law of associa-
those whose minds feed upon riches, recede
tion often makes those who begin by loving
in general from real happiness, in propor-
gold as a servant, finish by becoming its
tion as their stores increase ; as the moon,
slaves ; and independence without wealtlı
when she is fullest of light, is farthest from
is at least as common as wealth without
the sun,-Burton.
independence.--Colton.
Seek not proud wealth ; but such as thou The acquisition of wealth is a work of
mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute great labor; its possession a wource of con-
cheerfully, and leave contentedly, yet have tinual fear; its logs, of excessive grief.
not any abstract or friarly contempt of it.
Froin the Latin.
-Bacon.
The pulpit and the press have many
Wealth is like a viper, which is harmless commonplaces denouncing the thirst for
if a man knows how to take hold of it; but wealth ; but if men should take these mor-
if he does not, it will twine round his hand
alists at their word, and leave off aiming
and bite him.-St. Clement.
to be rich, the moralists would rush to re-
The way to wealth is as plain as the way
kindle, at all hazards, this love of power in
to market. It depends chiefly on two
the people lest civilization should be un-
done.-Emerson.
words, industry and frugality ; that is,
waste neither time nor money, but make An accession of wealth is a dangerous
the best use of both. Without industry predicament for a man. At first he is
and frugality, nothing will do ; and with stunned if the accession be sudden, and is
them, everything.--Franidlin.
very humble and very grateful. Then he
Wealth is not of necessity a curse, nor
begins to speak a little louder, people think
poverty a blessing.--Wholesome and easy him more sensible, and soon he thinks
abundance is better than either extreme;
himself so.-Cecil.
better for our manhood that we have There are not a few who believe in no
enough for daily comfort; enough for cul- God but Mammon, no devil but the ab-
ture, for hospitality, for Christian charity. sence of gold, no dainnation but being
More than this may or may not be a poor, and no hell but an empty purse ; and
blessing.–Certainly it can be a blessing not a few of their descendants are living
only by being accepted as a trust.-R. D. still.-South.
Aitchcock,
Those who obtain riches by labor, care,
In the age of acorns, a single barley-corn and watching, know their value. Those
had been of more value to mankind than all who impart them to sustain and extend
the diamonds in the mines of India.
knowledge, virtue, and religion, know their
Our wealth is often a snare to ourselves,
Those who lose thein by accident or
and always a temptation to others.- Colton. fraud know their vanity. And those who
The million covet wealth, but how fev
experience the difficulties and dangers of
dream of its perils ! Few are aware of the
preserving them know their perplexities.-
C. Simmons.
extent to which it ministers to the baser
passions of our nature; of the selfisliness Gold is worse poison to men's souls,
it engenders ; the arrogance which it feeds; doing more murders in this loathsome
the self-security which it inspires ; the
world, than any mortal drug.--Shakespeare.
damage which it does to all the nobler feel- He is richest who is content with the
ings and holier aspirations of the heart ! least, for content is the wealth of nature.
Neale.
Socrates.
The greatest huumbing in the world is the People who are arrogant on account of
idea that money can make a man happy. I their wealth are about equal to the Lap-
never had any satisfaction with mine until landers, who measure a man's worth by the
I began to do good with it.--0. Pratt. munbo of his reindeer.-Frederika Bremer.
gain; the former vexes you for a time; the use of riches in discretion lies ; learn this,
use.
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ye men of wealth-a heavy purse in a fool's
pocket is a heavy curse. Cumberland.
There is no security against the perils of
wealth except in becoming rich toward
God.--0. Simmons.
If you would take your possessions into
the life to come, convert them into good
deeds.
He that will not permit his wealth to do
any good to others while he is living, pre-
vents 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.
As riches and favor' forsake a man we
discover him to be a fool, but nobody could
find it out in his prosperity.—Bruyère.
The gratification of wealth is not found
in mere possession or in lavish expenditure,
but in its wise application.-Cervantes.
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that
enjoys it.-Franklin.
Money and time are the heaviest burdens
of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals
are those who have more of either than
they know how to use.—Johnson.
That plenty should produce either covet-
ousness or prodigality is a perversion of
providence, and yet the generality of meu
are the worse for their riches.-Penn.
To whom can riches give repute, or trust,
content, or pleasure, but the good and just?
-Pope.
Many a beggar at the cross-way, or gray-
haired shepherd on the plain, hath more
of the end of all wealth than hundreds who
multiply the meang.-- Tupper.
Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it
means power, leisuire, and liberty.-J. R.
Lowell.
Can wealth give happiness? look round
and see-what gay distress! what splendid
misery !--whatever fortune lavishly can
pour, the mind annihilates, and calls for
mole.
What real good does an addition to a
fortune, already sufficient, procure? Not
any. Could the great man, by having his
fortune increased, increase also his appe-
tites, then precedence might be attended
with real enjoyment.-- Goldsmith.
Leisure and solitude are the best effect
of riches, because the mother of thought.
Both are avoided by most rich men, who
seek company and business, which are
signs of being weary of themselves.-Sir
W. Temple.
If thou art rich thou art poor; for, like
an ass, whose back with ingots bows, thou
bearest thy heavy riches but a journey,
and death unloads thee.-Shakespeare.
There is no society, however free and
democratic, where wealth will not create
an aristocracy.--Bulwer,
In proportion as nations become more
corrupt, more disgrace will attach to pov-
erty and more respect to wealth.- Colton.
Though hereditary wealth, and the rank
which goes with it, are too much idolized
by creeping sycophants and the blind ab-
ject admirers of power, they are too rashly
slighted in shallow speculations of the petu-
lant, assuming, short-sighted coxcombs of
philosophy. Some decent regulated pre-
eminence, some preference given to birth,
is neither unnatūral, unjust, nor impolitic.
Riches are gotten with pain, kept with
care, and lost with grief. The cares of
riches lie heavier upon a good man than
the inconveniences of an honest poverty.-
L'Estrange.
Wealth, after all, is a relative thing, since
be that has little, and wants less, is richer
than he that has much, and wants more..
Colton.
The greatest and the most amiable priv-
ilege which the rich enjoy over the poor
is that which they exercise the least-tho
privilege of making them happy.--Colton.
Wealth is nothing in itself; it is not
useful but when it departs from us; its
value is found only in that which it can pur-
chase. As to corporeal enjoyment, money
can neither open new avenues of pleasure,
nor block up the passages of anguish. Dis-
ease and infirmity still continue to torture
and enfeeble, perhaps exasperated by lux-
ury, or promoted by softness. With respect
to the mind, it has rarely been observed
that wealth contributes much to quicken
the discernment or elevate the imagination,
but may, by hiring flattery, or laying
diligence asleep, confirm error and harden
stupidity.-Johnson.
When I caution you against becoming a
miser, I do not therefore advise you to be-
come a prodigal or a spendthrift.-Horace.
It is poor encouragement to toil through
life to amass a fortune to ruin your chil-
dren. In nine cases out of ten, a large
fortune is the greatest curse which could
be bequeathed to the young and inexperi-
enced.
Let 178 not envy some men their accumu-
lated riches; their burden would be too
heavy for us; we could not sacrifice, as
they do, health, quiet, honor, and con-
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science, to obtain them: it is to pay so
dear for them that the bargain is a loss.-
Bruyère.
The secret of making money is saving it.
It is not what a man earng—not the amount
of his income, but the relation of his ex-
penditures to his receipts, that determines
his poverty or wealth.
It is only when the rich are sick that
they fully feel the impotence of wealth.—
Colton.
The consideration of the small addition
often made by wealth to the happiness of
the possessor may check the desire and
prevent the insatiability which sometimes
attends it.
Gross and vulgar minds will always pay
ą higher respect to wealth than to talent;
for wealth, although it be a far less efficient
source of power than talent, happens to be
far more intelligible.-Colton.
He is a great simpleton who imagines
that the chief power of wealth is to supply
wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a
hundred it creates more wants than it sup-
plies.
Excessive wealth is neither glory nor
happiness. There is in a fortune a golden
mean which is the appropriate region of
virtue and intelligence. Be content with
that; and if the horn of plenty overflow,
let its droppings fall upon your fellow-men;
let them fall like the droppings of honey
in the wilderness to cheer the faint and
weary pilgrim.-W. Wirt.
Whosoever shall look heedfully upon
those who are eminent for their riches will
not think their condition such as that he
should hazard his quiet, and much less his
virtue, to obtain it; for all that great
wealth generally gives above a moderate
fortune is inore room for the freaks of
caprice, and more privilege for ignorance
and vice, a quicker succession of flatterers,
and a larger circle of voluptuousness.
It is far more easy to acquire a fortune
like a knave than to expend it like a gentle-
man.--Colton.
The wealth of a state consists not in
great treasures, solid walls, fair palaces,
weapons, and armor ; but its best and
noblest wealth, and its truest safety, is in
having learned, wise, honorable, and well-
educated citizens.
Wealth consists not in having great pos-
sessions, but in having few wants.—Epicu-
Very few men acquire wealth in such a
manner as to receive pleasure from it. As
long as there is the enthusiasm of the chase
they enjoy it. But when they begin to
look around and think of settling down,
they find that that part by which joy enters
in, is dead in them.-They have spent their
lives in beaping up colossal piles of treas-
ure, which stand at the end, like the pyra-
mids in the desert, holding only the dust of
things.-H. W. Beecher.
Less coin, less care ; to know how to dis-
pense with wealth is to possess it. --Rey-
nolds.
Wealth is not acquired, as many persons
suppose, by fortunate speculations and
splendid enterprises, but by the daily prac-
tice of industry, frugality, and economy.
He who relies upon these means will rarely
be found destitute, and he who relies upon
any other, will generally become bankrupt.
Francis Wayland.
It requires a great deal of boldness and a
great deal of caution to make a great for-
tune ; and when you have gotit, it requires
ten times as much wit to keep it.Roths-
child.
To acquire wealth is difficult, to preserve
it more difficult, but to spend it wisely
most difficult of all.-E. P. Day.
A great fortune is a great servitude.-
Seneca.
When a man dies, the people ask, "what
property has he left behind him?" 'But the
angels, as they bend over his grave, inquire,
"what good deeds hast thou sent on before
thee?" Mahomet.
Wherever there is excessive wealth, there
is also in its train excessive poverty, as
where the sun is highest, the shade is deep-
est.-Landor.
A statistician says a man stands sixteen
chances to be killed by lightning to one of
being worth a million of inoney.
Wealth hath never given happiness, but
often hastened misery ; enough hath never
caused misery, but often quickened happi-
- Tupper.
If thou desire to purchase honor with thy
wealth, consider first how that wealth be-
caine 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 virtues deserve it; so shall thy hon-
or be safer, better, and cheaper.—Quarles.
Wealth has seldom been the portion and
never the mark to discover good people ;
but God, who disposeth of all things wisely,
hath denied it to many whose minds he has
enriched with the greater blessings of
ness.
7US.
The most brilliant fortunes are often not
worth the littleness required to gain them.
- Rochefoucauld.
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knowledge and virtue, as the fairer testi-
monies of his love to mankind.--Izaal
Walton.
What a man does with his wealth depends
upon his idea of happiness. Those who
draw prizes in life are apt to spend taste-
lessly, if not viciously ; not knowing that
it requires as much talent to spend as to
make.-E. P. Whipple.
Wealth has now all the respect paid to it
which is due only to virtue and to talent,
but we can see what estimate God places
upon it, since he often bestows it on the
meanest and most unworthy of all his
creatures.-Swift.
Many men want wealth, not a compe-
tence merely, but a five-story competence,
and religion they would like as a sort of
lightning-rod to their houses, to ward off,
by and by, the bolts of divine wrath.-H.
W. Beecher.
Excess of wealth is cause of covetous-
ness.-Marlowe.
Much learning shows how little mortals
know; much wealth, how little worldlings
can enjoy.--Young.
The world is coming, more and more, to
the belief that superfluous wealth is a pub-
lic trust.Hewitt.
A man who possesses wealth possesses
power, but it is a power to do evil as well
as good.-8. S. Roe.
WELCOME.-A tableful of welcome
makes scarce
one dainty dish.--Shake-
speare.
'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will
mark our coming, and look brighter when
we come.—Byron.
Small cheer and great welcome make a
merry feast.--Shalcespeare.
Welcome as happy tidings after fears.-
Otray.
Welcome ever smiles, and farewell goes
out sighing.--Shakespeare.
Welcome as kindly showers to the long
parched earth.-Dryden.
Welcome the coming, speed the going
guest. - Pope.
epics, so only' it be honest work, done to
thine own approbation, it shall earn a re-
ward to the senses, as well as to the
thought. The reward of a thing well done,
is to have done it.-- Emerson.
Let no man be sorry he has done good,
because others have done evil! If a mani
has acted right, he has done well, though
alone ; if wrong, the sanction of all man-
kind will not justify him.-Fielding.
Constant activity in doing good, and en-
deavoring to make others happy, is one of
the surest ways of making ourselves 8o.
WICKEDNESS.--(See “SIN.")
The disposition to do an evil deed is, of
itself, a terrible punishment of the deed it
does.-C. Mildmay.
Wickedness' may well be compared to a
bottomless pit, into which it is easier to
keep one's self from falling, than, being
fallen, to give one's self any stay from fall-
ing infinitely.—Sir P. Sidney.
They are the same beams that shine and
enlighten which are apt to scorch too ; and
it is impossible for a man engaged in any
wicked way, to have a clear understanding
of it, and a quiet mind in it altogether.-
South.
Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent ar-
chitect of misery, and shame, accompanied
with terror, commotion, remorse, and end-
less perturbation.--Plutarch.
To those persons who have vomited out
of their souls all remnants of goodness,
there rests a certain pride in evil ; and
having else no shadow of glory left them,
they glory to be constant in iniquity.-Sir
P. Sidney.
Bias, one of the seven wise men, being in
a storm with wicked men, who cried might-
ily to God, “Hold your tongues," said he,
"it were better he knew not you were
here."
The happiness of the wicked passes away
like a torrent.–Racine.
The hatred of the wicked is only rotised
the more from the impossibility of finding
any just grounds on which it can rest;
and the very consciousness of their own
injustice is only a grievance the more
against him who is the object of it.-Rous-
seau.
WELL-DOING.-It is not so much
matter what is done, as how it is done, that
God minds.-Not how much, but how well.
It is the well-doing that meets with the
well-done.- Venning.
Work, every hour, paid or unpaid ; see
only that thou work and thou canst not
escape thy reward. Whether thy work be
fine or coarse, planting corn, or writing
It is a man's own dishonesty, his crimes,
his wickedness, and barefaced assurance,
that takes away from him soundness of
mind; these are the furies, these the flames
and firebrands, of the wicked. - Cicero.
To see and listen to the wicked is al-
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ready the beginning of wickedness.-Con-
fucius.
What rein can hola licentioris wickedness,
when down the hill he holds his fierco ca-
reer ?-Shakespeare.
Well does Heaven take care that no man
secures happiness by crime.--Alfieri.
There is no man suddenly either excel-
lently good or extremely wicked ; but grows
so, either as he holds himself up in virtue,
or lets himself slide to viciousness.-Sir P.
Sidney.
Combinations of wickedness would over-
whelm the world, by the advantage which
licentious principles afford, did not those
who have long practised perfidy grow faith-
less to each other.-Johnson.
If weakness may excuse, what murderer,
what traitor, parricide, incestuous, sacrile-
gious, but may plead it? All wickedness
is weakness; that plea, therefore, with God
or man will gain thee no remission.
Milton.
If the wicked flourish, and thou suffer,
be not discouraged ; they are fatted for
destruction, thou art dieted for health.-
Fuller.
Was ever any wicked man free from the
stings of a guilty conscience-from a se-
cret dread of the divine displeasure, and
of the vengeance of another worla?
Tillotson.
Wickedness may prosper for a while, but
in the long run he that sets all knaves at
work will pay them.--L'Estrange.
No wickedness proceeds on any grounds
of reason.- Livy.
There is a method in man's wickedness ;
it grows up by degrees. Beaumont and
Fletcher.
The sure way to wickedness is always
through wickedness.— Seneca.
There is wickedness in the intention of
wickedness, even though it be not perpe-
trated in the act.- Cicero.
I will undertake to explain to any one
the final condemnation of the wicked, if he
will explain to me the existence of the
wicked-if he will explain why God does
not cause all those to die in the cradle of
whom he foresees that, when they grow up,
they will lead a sinful life.- Whately.
WIFE.-(See "MARRIAGE.")
A good wife is heaven's last, best gift to
man,-his gem of many virtues, his casket
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 soft-
est pillow of his cares. -- Jeremy Taylor.
There is one name which I can never
utter without a reverence due to the re-
ligion which binds. earth to heaven-a name
which to men should be the symbol of life
cheered, beautified, exalted and hallowed
-and that is the name of wife.-Bulwer.
Sole partner, and sole part of all my
joys, dearer thyself than all.-Milton.
A faithful wife becomes the truest and
tenderest friend, the balm of comfort, and
the source of joy; through every various
turn of life the same.-Savage.
There is nothing upon this earth that
can be compared with the faithful attach-
ment of a wife; no creature who, for the
object of her love, is so indomitable, 80
persevering, so ready to suffer and 'die.
Under the most depressing circumstances,
woman's weaknesses become a mighty
power ; her timidity becomes fearless cour-
age; all her shrinking and sinking passes
away ; and her spirit acquires the firmness
of marble - adamantine firmness - when
circumstances drive her to put forth all her
energy and the inspiration of her affections.
- Daniel Webster.
A wife's a man's best piece ; who till he
marries, wants making up : she is the shrine
to which nature doth send us forth on pil-
grimage ; she is the good man's paradise,
and the bad's first step to heaven, a treas-
ure which, who wants, cannot be trusted to
posterity, nor pay his own debts : she's a
golden sentence writ by our Maker, which
the angels may discourse of, only men know
how to use, and none but devils violate. -
Shirley.
A light wife doth make a heavy husband.
-Shakespeare.
It very seldom happens that a man is
slow enough in assuming the character of
a husband, or a woman quick enough in
condescending to that of a wife.- Addison.
When a young woman behaves to her
parents in a manner particularly tender
and respectful, from principle as well as
nature, there is nothing good and gentle
that may not be expected from her in what-
ever condition she is placed. Of this I am
80 thoroughly persuaded, that, were I to
advise any friend of mine as to his choice
of a wife, I know not whether my first coun-
sel would not be, "Look out for one dis-
tinguished by her attention and sweetness
to her parents.”—Fordyce.
She is adorned amply, that in her hus-
band's eye looks lovely—the truest mirror
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that an honest wife can see her beauty in.
-J. Tobin.
First get an absolute conquest over thy-
self, and then thou wilt easily govern thy
wife.-Fuller'.
No man knows what the wife of his bo-
som is—what a ministering angel she is,
until he has gone with her through the fiery
trials of this world.- Washington Irving.
Her pleasures are in the happiness of her
family.-Rousseau.
A good wife makes the cares of the world
sit easy, and adds a sweetness to its pleas-
ures : she is a man's best companion in
prosperity, and his best if not only friend
in adversity; the most careful preserver
of his health, and the kindest attendant
on his sickness ; a faithful adviser in dis-
tress, a comforter in affliction, and a dis-
creet manager of all his doméstic affairs.
-L. M. Stretch.
A wife is essential to great longevity; she
is the receptacle of half a man's cares, and
two-thirds of his ill-humor.-Chas. Reade.
If you would have a good wife marry one
who has been a good daughter.
The good wife is none of our dainty
dames, who love to appear in a variety of
suits every day new ; as if a gown, like a
stratagem in war, were to be used but once.
But our good wife sets up a sail according
the keel of her husband's estate ; and, if
of high parentage, she doth not so remem-
ber what she was by birth, that she forgets
what she is by match.-Fuller.
Unhappy is the man for whom his own
wife has not made all other women sacred.
You are my true and honorable wife, as
dear to me, as are the ruddy drops that
visit my sad heart.--Shakespeare.
O woman! when the good man of the
house may return, when the heat and bur-
den of the day is past, do not let him at
such time, when he is weary with toil and
jaded by discouragement, find upon his
coming that the foot which should lasten
to meet him is wandering at a distance,
that. the soft hand which should wipe the
sweat from his brow is knocking at the
door of other houses.- Washington Irving.
Hanging and viving go by destiny.--
Shakespeare.
Without our hopes, without our fears,
without the home that plighted love en-
dears, without the smiles from plighted
beauty won, oh! what were man ?-a world
without a sun.---Campbell.
When it shall please God to bring thee
to man's estate, use great providence and
circumspection in choosing thy wife. For
from thence will spring all thy future good
or evil, and it is an action of life like unto
a stratagein of war, wherein a man can err
but once.-Sir P. Sidney.
The wife when danger or dishonor lurks,
safest and seemiliest by her husband stays,
who guards her, or with her the worst en-
dures.-Milton.
Nothing can be more touching than to
behold a soft and tender female, who has
been all weakness and dependence, and
alive to every trivial roughness while tread-
ing the prosperous paths of life, suddenly
rising in mental force to be the conforter
and supporter of her husband under mis-
fortune, and abiding with unshrinking
firmness the bitterest blast of adversity. -
Washington Irving.
A woman in a siugle state may be happy,
or may be miserable, but most happy, and
most miserable, these are epithets applica-
ble only to the wife. -Coleridge.
In the election of a wife, as in a project
of war, to err but once is to be undone
forever.-
Middleton.
Why man, she is mine own; and I as
rich in having such a jewel, as twenty seas
if all their sands were pearl, the water nec-
tar, and the rocks pure gold.-Shakespeare.
Of earthly goods, the best is a good wife ;
a bad, the bitterest curse of human life.-
Simonides.
Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life
i
the evening beam that smiles the clouds
away, and tints to-morrow with prophetic
ray.-Byron.
The sum of all that makes a just man
happy consists in the well choosing of his
wife. --Massinger.
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding-
gown, for qualities that would wear well.
Goldsmith.
For a wife take the daughter of a good
mother.-Fuller,
To be a man in a true sense is, in the
first place and above all things to have a
wife. -Michelet.
My dear, my better half.- Sir P. Sidney.
The highest gift and favor of God is a
pious, kind, godly, and domestic wife, with
whom thou mayest live peaceably, and to
whom thou mayest intrust all thy posses-
sions, yea, thy body and thy life.-Luther.
No man can live piously or die right-
eously without a wife.-Richter.
The death of a man's wife is like cutting
down an ancient oak that has long shaded
the family mansion. Henceforth the glare
to
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of the world, with its cares and vicissitudes,
falls upon the widower's heart, and there
is nothing to break their force, or shield
him from the full weight of misfortune.
It is as if his right hand were withered; as
if one wing of his angel was broken, and
every movement that he made brought him
to the ground. His eyes are dimmed and
glassy, and when the film of death falls
over him, he misses those accustomed tones
which might have smoothed his passage to
the grave.—Lamartine.
Across the threshold led, and every tear
kissed off as soon as shed, his house sbo
enters, there to be a light shining within
when all without is night; a giardian-
angel o'er his life presiding, doubling his
pleasure, and his cares dividing !-Rogers.
Heaven will not be heaven to me if I do
not meet my wife there.- Andrew Jackson.
Even in the happiest choice, where favor-
ing heaven has equal love and easy fortune
given, think not, the husband gained, that
all is done ; the prize of happiness must
still be won; and, oft, the careless find it
to their cost, the lover in the husband may
be lost; the graces might, alone, his heart
allure; they and the virtues, meeting,
must secure.-Lyttleton.
The good wife commandeth her husband,
in any equal matter, by constantly obeying
him.
ourselves to be swept along as by a torrent.
You need but will, and it is done ; but if
you relax your efforts you will be ruined ;
for ruin and recovery are both from within.
-Epictetus.
The will of man is by his reason swayed.
-Shakespeare.
God made thee perfect, not immutable;
and good he made thee, but to persevere
he left it in thy power; ordained thy will
by nature free, not over-ruled by fate in-
extricable, or strict necessity.-Milton,
To commit the execution of a purpose to
one who disapproves of the plan of it is to
employ but one-third of the man; his
heart and his head are against you, you
have commanded only his hands.- Collon,
We have more power than will; and it is
only to exculpate ourselves that we often
say that things are impracticable.-Roche-
foucauld.
Whatever the will commands the whole
man must do ; the empire of the will over
all the faculties being absolutely over-rul-
ing and despotic.-South.
There is nothing good or evil save in the
will.- Epictetus.
In the moral world there is nothing im-
possible if we can bring a thorough will to
do it..Man can do everything with him-
self, but he must not attempt to do too
much with others.-- W. Humboldt.
He who has a firm will molds the world
to himself.- Goethe.
Calmness of will is a sign of grandeur.
The vulgar, far from hiding their will, blab
their wishes. A single spark of occasion
discharges the child of passions into a
thousand crackers of desire.--Lavater.
The saddest failures in life are those
that come from not putting forth the power
and will to succeed.-E. P. Whipple.
The general of a large army may be de-
feated, but you cannot defeat the deter-
mined mind of a peasant.-Confucius.
It is the will that makes the action good
or bad.--Herrick,
We cannot be held to what is beyond our
strength and means; for at times the
accomplishment and execution may not be
in our power, and indeed there is nothing
really in our own power except the will : on
this are necessarily based and founded all
the principles that regulate the duty of
man.-Montaigne.
Every man stamps his value on himself.
The price we challenge for ourselves is
given us by others.--Man is made great or
little by his own will.-Schiller.
WILL.-(See “SELF-WILL.")
He wants wit who wants l'esolved will.
Shakespeare.
Great souls have wills ; feeble ones have
only wishes.- Chinese Proverb.
At twenty years of age the will reigns;
at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judg-
ment.--Gratian.
The highest obedience in the spiritual
life is to be able always, and in all things,
to say, "Not my will, but thine be done."
Tryon Edwards.
Remember that your will is likely to be
crossed every day, and be prepared for it
by asking only for God's will.
Prescribe no positive laws to thy will;
for thou mayest be forced to-morrow to
drink the same water thou despisest to-day.
--Fuller,
No action will be considered blameless,
unless the will was 80, for by the will the
act was dictated.-Seneca.
In the schools of the wrestling master,
when a boy falls lie is bidden to get up
again, and to go on wrestling day by day
till he has acqnired strength ; and we must
do the same, and not after one failure suffer
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abound in small acts of duty, and he will,
by and by, find them the joyous habit of
his soul.-F. W. Robertson.
Study the singular benefits and advan-
tages of a will resigned and melted into
the will of God.-Such a spirit bath a
continual sabbath within itself, and the
thoughts are established and at rest.--
Flavel.
People do not lack strength; they lack
will. - Victor Hugo.
A good inclination is but the first rude
draft of virtue; the finishing strokes are
from the will, which, if well-disposed, will
by degrees perfect, or if ill-disposed will
by the superinduction of evil habits quickly
deface it.
--South.
The despotism of will in ideas is styled
plan, project, character, obstinacy; its
despotism in' desires is called passion.-
Rivarol.
If the will, which is the law of our nat-
ure, were withdrawn from our memory,
fancy, understanding, and reason, no other
hell for a spiritual being could equal what
we should then feel from the anarchy of
our powers. It would be conscious mad-
ness-a horrid thought !--Milton.
To deny the freedom of the will is to
make morality impossible.--Froude.
In idle wishes fools supinely stay ; be
there a will and wisdom finds a way.-
Crabbe.
“My will, and not thine be done,”
turned paradise into a desert.-"Not my
will, but thine be done,” turned the desert
into paradise, and made Gethsemane the
gate of heaven.-Pressense.
If we make God's will our law, then God's
promise shall be our support and comfort,
and we shall find every burden light, and
every duty a joy.--Trjon Edwards.
All the grand agencies which the pro-
gress of mankind evolves are the aggregate
result of countless wills, each of which,
thinking merely of its own end, and per-
haps fully gaining it, is at the same time
enlisted by Providence in the secret service
of the world.-Janies Martineau,
"I will” is no word for man. There is
a far diviner one, “I ought."-Bow pas-
sion to reason, reason to conscience, and
conscience to God, and then be as resolute
and determined as you choose.—Maclaren.
Do God's will as if it were thy will, and
he will accomplish thy will as if it were his
own.-Rabbi Gamaliel.
To will what God wills is the only science
that gives us rest.---Longfellow.
Let a man begin with an earnest “I
ought," and if he perseveres, by God's
grace he will end in the free blessedness
of “I will." Let him force himself to
WILLS.-There are two things in which
men, in other things wise enough, do usu-
ally miscarry; in putting off the making
of their wills and their repentance till it
be too late.l'illotson.
He that defers his charity until he is
dead is, if a man weighs it rightly, rather
liberal of another man's goods than his
own.-Bacon.
Those who give not till they die show
that they would not then if they could keep
it any longer.-Bp. Hall.
What you leave at your death let it be
without controversy, else the lawyers will
be your heirs.-F. Osborn.
Generosity during life is a very different
thing from generosity in the hour of death;
one proceeds from genuine liberality and
benevolence; the other from pride or fear,
or from the fact that you cannot take your
money with you to the other world.
You 'give me nothing during your life,
but you promise to provide for me at your
death. If you are not a fool, you know
what you make me wish for.--
Martial.
What thou givest after thy death, remem-
ber that thou givest it to a stranger, and
most times to an enemy; for he that shall
marry thy wife will despise thee, thy
memory, and thine, and shall possess the
quiet of thy labors, the fruit which thou
hast planted, enjoy thy love, and spend
with joy and ease what thou hast spared
and gotten with care and travail.--Sir W.
Raleigh.
Posthumous charities are the very essence
of selfishness, when bequeathed by those
who, when alive, would part with nothing.
Colton.
If rich men would remember that shrouds
have no pockets, they would, while living,
share their wealth with their children,
and give for the good of others, and 80
know the highest pleasure wealth can give.
-Tryon Edwards,
It is but a mean and miserly spirit that
for a lifetime keeps wealth only to self, and
so leaves children to the struggles of the
world without the help that might aid them
to comfort and success.
WIND.-The gentle wind, a sweet and
passionate wooer, kisses the blushing leaf.
--Longfellow.
A wailing, rushing sound, which shook
the walls as though a giant's hand were on
them ; then ạ hoarse roar, as if the sea
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had risen; then such a whirl and tumult
that the air seemed mad ; and then, with a
lengthened howl, the waves of wind swept
on. -Dickens.
Perhaps the wind wails so in winter for
the summer's dead; and all sad sounds are
nature's funeral cries for what has been
and is not. George Eliot.
God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
-Sterne.
Ill blows the wind that profits nobody.-
Shakespeare.
Thou vind! which art the unseen simil-
itude of God the Spirit, his most sweet and
mightiest sign.-Bailey.
There's a strange music in the stirring
wind.-Bowles.
The sobbing wind is fierce and strong;
its cry is like a human wail.--Susan Cool-
idge.
Seas are the fields of combat for the
winds, but when they sweep along some
flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and
their rage is lost. --Dryden.
WINE.-(See "DRINKING.")
A vine bears three grapes, the first of
pleasure, the second of drunkenness, and
the third of repentance.-Anacharsis.
Wine heightens indifference into love,
love into jealousy, and jealousy into mad-
It often turns the good-natured man
into an idiot, and the choleric into an as-
sassin. It gives bitterness to resentment,
it makes vanity insupportable, and displays
every little spot of the soul in its utmost
deformity.-
Addison,
Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
Fielding.
As fermenting in a vessel works up to
the top whatever it has in the bottom,
80 wine, in those who have drunk beyond
measure, vents the most inward secrets.--
Montaigne.
There is a devil in every berry of the
grape.-Koran.
The first glass for myself; the second for
my friends ; the third for good humor ;
and the fourth for mine enemies. --Sir W.
Temple.
What stores of sentiment in that butt
of raciest Sherry! What a fund of pensive
thought! What suggestions for delicious
remembrance ! What'aids to reflection
in that Hock of a century old! What spark-
ling fancies, whirling and foaming, from a
stout body of thought in that full and ripe
Champagne! What mild and serene pħi-
losophy in that Burgundy, ready to shed
"its sunset glow" on society and nature !
- Talfourd.
Wine maketh the hand quivering, the
eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams,
a stinking breath in the morning, and an
utter forgetfulness of all things. -Pliny.
Wine has drowned more than the sea.-
Publius Syrus.
Polished brass is the mirror of the body
and wine of the mind.-- Æschylus.
Wine is a turn-coat; first, a friend ;
then, a deceiver ; then, an enemy.-old
Proverb.
Wine is a noble, generous liquor, and we
should be humbly thankful for it; but, as I
remember, water was made before it.-John
Eliot.
O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou
hast no name to be known by, let us call
thee-Devil! Oh, that men should put an
enemy to their mouths, to steal away their
brains! that we should, with joy, revel,
pleasure, and applause, transform ourselves
into beasts !-Shakespeare.
The conscious water saw its God, and
blushed.-- Crashaw.
Wine is like anger, for it makes us strong,
blind and impatient, and it leads us wrong ;
the strength is quickly lost; ve feel the
error long.-- Crabb.
Wine invents nothing ; it only tattles.
It lets out all secrets.-Schiller.
Ah! sly deceiver ; handed o'er and o'er,
yet still believed ; exulting o'er the wreck
of sober vows !-Armstrong.
ness.
WISDOM.-(See "KNOWLEDGE.”)
Common-sense in an uncommon degree
is what the world calls wisdom.- Coleridge.
What we call wisdom is the result of all
the wisdom of past ages.-Our best insti-
tutions are like young trees growing upon
the roots of the old trunks that have
crumbled away.-H. W. Beecher.
Wisdom is the name God gives to re-
ligion, so telling the world what it will
hardly believe, that the two great things
which so engross the desire and designs of
both the nobler and ignobler sort of man-
kind, are to be found in religion, viz.: wis-
dom and pleasure, and that the former is
the direct way to the latter, as religion is
to both.-South.
The Delphic oracle said I was the wisest
of all the Greeks. It is because that I
alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know
nothing.-Socrates.
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He is wise who knows the sources of
knowledge—who knows who has written
and where it is to be found.-A. A. Hodge.
There is one person that is wiser than
anybody, and that is everybody.- Talley-
rand.
Wisdom for a man's self is, in many
branches thereof, a depraved thing; it is
the wisdom of rats, that will be sure to
leave a house some time before it fall ; it is
the wisdom of the fox, that thrusts out the
badger who digged and made room for him ;
it is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed
tears when they would devour.-
Bacon.
Very few men are wise by their own
sel, or learned by their own teaching;
for he that was only taught by himself had
a fool to his master.-Ben Jonson.
You read of but one wise man, and all
that he knew was—that he knew nothing.
-Congreve.
What is it to be wise ?_'Tis but to know
how little can be known to see all others'
faults and feel our own.-Pope.
Much wisdom often goes with fewest
words.-Sophocles.
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge.
To know is not to be wise. Many men
know a
a great deal, and are all the
greater fools for it. There is no fool so
great a fool as a knowing fool. But to
know how to use knowledge is to have wis-
dom.-Spurgeon.
The wise man is but a clever infant,
spelling letters from a hieroglyphical pro-
phetic book, the lexicon of which lies in
eternity.-Carlyle.
It may be said, almost without qualifica-
tion, that true wisdom consists in the ready
and' accurate perception of analogics.
Without the former quality, knowledge of
the past is uninstructive; without the
latter, it is deceptive.- Whately.
Wisdom is to the mind what health is to
the body.--Rochefoucauld.
In an active life is sown the seed of vis-
dom ; but he who reflects not never reaps ;
has no barvest from it, but carries the
burden of age without the wages of expe-
rience ; nor knows himself old, but from
his infirmities, the parish register, and the
contempt of mankind. And age, if it has
not esteem, has nothing.--Young.
Our chief wisdom consists in knowing
our follies and faults, that we may correct
them.
True wisdom is a thing very extraordi-
nary. Happy are they that have it: and
next to them, not the many that think they
have it, but the few that are sensible of
their own defects and imperfections, and
kuow that they have it not. Tillotsoni.
It is as great a point of wisdom to hide ig-
norance as to discover knowledge, to know
what we do not know, as what we do.
God gives men wisdom as he gives them
gold ; his treasure house is not the wint,
but the mine.
A wise man's day is worth a fool's life.-
Arabic.
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. - J.
Mason.
It is too often seen, that the wiser men
are about the things of this world, the less
wise they are about the things of the next.-
Gibson.
Noman can be wise on an empty stomach.
George Eliot.
Among mortals second thoughts are
wisest.–Euripides.
Human wisdom makes as ill use of her
talent when she exercises it in rescinding
from the number and sweetness of those
pleasures that are naturally our due, as she
employs it favorably and well in artificially
disguising and tricking out the ills of life
to alleviate the sense of them.-Montaigne.
The first consideration a wise man fixeth
upon is the great end of his creation ; what
it is, and wherein it consists; the next is
of the most proper means to that end.--
Walker.
The wise man endeavors to shine in him-
self; the fool to outshine others. The first
is humbled by the sense of his own in-
firmities, the last is lifted up by the dis-
covery of those which he observes in other
men. The wise man considers what he
wants, and the fool what he abounds in.
The wise man is happy when he gains his
own approbation, and the fool when he
recommends himself to the applause of
those about him.-Addison.
A wise man looks upon men as he does
on horses; all their caparisons of title,
wealth, and place, he considers but as har-
ness.-Cecil.
The wisdom of the ignorant somewhat
resembles the instinct of animals; it is
diffused only in a very narrow sphere, but
within the circle it acts with vigor, uni-
formity, and success.--Goldsmith.
The proverbial wisdom of the populace
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at gates, on roads, and in markets, in-
structs him who studies man more fully
than a thousand rules ostentatiously ar-
ranged.-Lavater.
There are but two classes of the wise ;
the men who serve God because they have
found him, and the men who seek him
because they have found him not. All
others may say, “Is there not a lie in my
right hand ?"-Cecil.
The wise man does three things : be
abandons the world before it abandous
him; prepares his sepulchre before enter-
ing it; and does all with the design of
pleasing God before entering into his pres-
ence.
When a man is made up wholly of the
dove, without the least grain of the serpent
in his composition, he becomes ridiculous
in many circumstances of life, and very
often discredits his best actions.-Addison.
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that
will not be so forever ; no man to be happy
but he that needs 110 other happiness than
what he has within himself; no man to be
great or powerful that is not master of
himself.-Seneca.
We ought not to judge of men's merits
by their qualifications, but by the use they
make of them.-Charron.
Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly
leaves the worst for the day when it comes.
-Cecil.
No man is the wiser for his learning; it
may administer natter to work in, or ob-
jects to work upon; but wit and wisdom
are born with a man.-Selden.
The wisest man is generally he who
thinks himself the least 80.-Boileau.
He that thinks himself the wisest is
generally the greatest fool.—Colton.
It is more easy to be wise for others than
for ourselves.-Rochefoucauld.
The intellect of the wise is like glass ; it
admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
-Hare.
Living in an age of extraordinary events
and revolutions, I have learned from
thence this truth, which I desire might be
communicated to posterity: that all is
vanity which is not honest, and that there
is 10 solid wisdom but in real piety.-
Evelyn.
The strongest symptom of wisdom in
man is his being sensible of his own follies.
--Rochefoucauld.
Wisdom does not show itself so much in
precept as in life-in firmness of mind and
a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do
as well as to talk ; and to make our words
and actions all of a color.- Seneca.
The wise man walks with God, surveys
far on the endless line of life ; values his
soul, thinks of eternity ; both worlds con-
siders, and provides for both ; with reason's
eye his passions guards ; abstains from
evil ; lives on hope-on hope, the fruit of
faith ; looks upward, purifies his soul,
expands his wings, and mounts into the
sky; passes the sun, and gains his Father's
house, and drinks with angels from the
fount of bliss.-Pollok.
Perfect wisdom bath four parts, viz.,
wisdom, the principle of doing things
aright; justice, the principle of doing
things equally in public and private ; for-
titude, the principle of not flying danger,
but meeting it; and temperance, the prin-
ciple of subduing desires and living mo-
derately.-Plato.
True wisdom is to know what is best
worth knowing, and to do what is best
worth doing.-
Elumphrey.
Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as talk,
and to make our words and actions all of á
color.–Seneca.
He who learns the rules of wisdom with-
out conforming to them in his life is like a
man who ploughs in his field but does not
80W.-Saadi.
Wisdom without innocency is knavery ;
innocence without wisdom is foolery ; be
therefore as wise as serpents and innocent
as doves.
The subtilty of the serpent in-
structs the innocency of the dove; the
innocency of the dove corrects the subtilty
of the serpent. What God hath joined
together let not man separate.-Quarles.
The wisdom of one generation will be the
folly of the next.-Priestley.
The wise man is also the just, the pious,
the upright, the man who walks in the way
of truth. The fear of the Lord, which is
the beginning of wisdom, consists in a
complete devotion to God.— Zochler.
The two powers which in my opinion
constitute a wise man are those of bearing
and forbearing.-
Epictetus.
If wisdom were conferred with this pro-
viso, that I must keep it to myself and not
communicate it to others, I would have
none of it.- Seneca.
The first point of wisdom is to discern
that which is false ; the second, to know
that which is true.--Lactantius.
Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop
than when we soar. - Wordsworth.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those
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things living which are to be desired when I could write down twenty cases wherein
dying.-Jeremy Taylor.
I wished that God had done otherwise than
A man's wisdom is his best friend ; folly
he did, but which I now see, if I had had
his worst enemy.—Sir W. Temple.
my own way, would have led to extensive
mischief.-Cecil.
In seeking wisdom thou art wise ; in
imagining that thou hast attained it thou Happy the man who early learns the
art a fool.-Rabbi Ben-Azai.
wide chasm that lies between his wishes
Human wisdom is the aggregate of all
and his powers !-Goethe.
human experience, constantly accumulat-
Wishes are the parents of large families,
but the children are generally inefficient
.
and useless.—They are the source of idle
and vaiu dreams, and of air castles which
To know that which before us lies in
have no solid foundation.--The idle wislı
daily life is the prime wisdom.-Milton.
sends one on a vain journey from which he
Let me be ignorant, and in nothing good, gains nothing but mental emptiness and
but graciously to know I am no better; thus discontent with his lot, and it may be,
wisdom wishes to appear most bright when some rebukes of conscience, if it is sharp
it doth tax itself.-Shakespeare.
enough to see his folly.--Anon.
WISHES.-(See “DESIRE.")
What we ardently wish we soon believe.
-Young.
Wishing--the constant hectic of the fool.
-Young.
Men's thoughts are much according to
their inclination.-Bacon.
The apparently irreconcilable dissimilar-
ity between our wishes and our means,
Why wish for more ?-Wishing of all em-
between our hearts and this world, remains
ployments is the worst.—Young.
a riddle.-Richter.
Our wishes are the true touchstone of
our estate ; such as we wish to be we are.
I respect the man who knows distinctly
what he wishes. The greater part of all
Worldly hearts affect earthly things; spir-
the mischief in the world arises from the
itual, divine. We cannot better know what
fact that men do not sufficiently under-
we are than by what we would be.-Bp.
Hall.
stand their own aims. They have under-
taken to build a tower, and spend no more
WIT.-(See "HUMOR.")
labor on the foundation than would be ne-
cessary to erect a hut.—Goethe.
Wit consists in assembling, and putting
Wishes run over in loquacio118 impo-
together with quickness, ideas in which can
tence; will presses on with laconic energy.
be found resemblance and congruity, by
-Lavater.
which to make up pleasant pictures and
agreeable visions in the fancy.-Locice.
Every wish is like a prayer with God. —
E. B. Browning.
Wit is not leveled so much at the muscles
as at
It is a fearful mistake to believe that
the heart; and the latter will some-
because our wishes are not accomplished
times smile when there is not a single
they can do no harm.-Gertrude.
wrinkle on the cheek.-Lyttleton.
Wishes are, at least, the easy pleasures
Wit is brushwood ; judgment, timber ;
the one gives the greatest flame, and the
other yields the most durable heat; and
To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the
both meeting make the best fire.- Over-
first step toward doing.–But if we do not
lung.
wish to do a thing it becomes impossible.
Wit is proper and commendable when it
It is probable that God punishes the
enlightens the intellect by good sense, con-
wrong wish as truly as he does the actual
veyed in jocular expression ; when it in-
performance ; for what is performance but
frivges neither on religion, charity, and
a wish perfected with power; and what is
a wish but a desire wanting opportunity of
justice, nor on peace ; when it maintains
good humor, sweetens conversation, and
action ; a desire sticking in the birth, and
makes the endearments of society more
miscarrying for lack of strength and favor-
captivating ; when it exposes what is vile
able circumstances to bring it into the
and base to contempt; when it reclaims
world.-South.
the vicious, and laughs them into virtue ;
There is nothing more properly the when it answers what is below refutation
;
language of the heart than a wish. It is when it replies to obloquy; when it coun-
the thirst and egress of it, after some terbalances the fashion of error and vice,
wanted, but desired object. --South.
playing off their own weapons of ridicule
of the poor.
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against them; when it adorns truth ; when
it follows great examples ; when it is not
used upon subjects improper for it, or in
& manner unbecoming, in measure intem-
perate, at an undue season, or to a danger-
ous end.-Barrow.
Less judgment than wit, is more sail
than ballast. Yet it must be confessed,
that wit gives an edge to sense, and recom-
mends it extremely.—Penn.
Let your wit rather serve you for a buck-
ler to defend yourself, by a handsome re-
ply, than the sword to wound others,
though with never go facetious a reproach,
remembering that a word cuts deeper than
a sharper weapon, and the wound it makes
is longer curing.- Osborn.
Be rather wise than witty, for much wit
hath commonly much froth, and it is hard"
to jest and not sometimes jeer too, which
many times sinks deeper than was intended
or expected, and what was designed for
mirth ends in sadness.-0. Trenchild.
Where judgment has wit to express it,
there is the best orator.--Penn.
Some people seem born with a head in
which the thin partition that divides great
wit from folly is wanting.--Southey.
Wit loses its respect with the good, when
seen in company with malice; and to smile
at the jest which places a thorn in another's
breast, is to become a principal in the mis-
chief.-Sheridan,
To place wit above sense is to place 811-
perfluity above utility.-Mad. de Mainte-
say much in few words, 80 small wits seem
to have the gift of speaking much and say-
ing nothing.--Rochefoucauld.
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the
food.- Hazlitt.
The impromptu reply is precisely the
touchstone of the man of wit. --Molière.
Genuine and innocent wit is surely the
flavor of the mind. Man could not direct
his way by plain reason, and support his
life by tasteless food ; but God has given
us wit, and flavor, and brightness, and
laughter, and perfumes, to enliven the
days of man's pilgrimage, and to charm his
pained steps over the burning marl.-Syd-
ney Smith.
It is by vivacity and wit that man shines
in company ; but trite jokes and loud
laughter reduce him to a buffoon.- Ches-
terfield.
Perpetual aiming at wit is a very bad part
of conversation. It is done to support a
character; it generally fails ; it is a sort
of insult to the company, and a restraint
upon the speaker.--Swift.
Though wit be very useful, yet unless &
wise man has the keeping of it, that knows
when, where, and how to apply it, it is like
wild-fire, that runs hissing about, and
blows up everything that comes in its way.
- Walter Scott.
I like that wit whose fittest symbol
is the playful pinch which a father gives
to the cheek of his roguish boy or the pre-
tended bite which a mother prints upon
the tempting, snowy shoulder of her babe.
-D. G. Mitchell.
He who has provoked the shaft of wit,
cannot complain that he smarts from it. -
Johnson.
There are heads sometimes so little, that
there is no room for wit, sometimes so long
that there is no wit for so much room.--
Fuller.
WOMAN.-A beautiful and chaste wo-
man is the perfect workmanship of God,
the true glory of angels, the rare mira-
cle of earth, and the sole wonder of the
world.--Hermes.
The finest compliment that can be paid
to a woman of sense is to address her as
such.
Next to God we are indebted to women,
first for life itself, and then for making it
worth having.-Bovee.
Contact with a high-minded woman is
good for the life of any man.--Henry Vin-
cent.
Women have more strength in their looks,
non,
Punning is a conceit arising from the
use of two words that agree in the sound,
but differ in the sense. The only way,
therefore, to try a piece of wit, is to trans-
late it into a different language; if it bears
the test, you may pronounce it true ; but
if it vanishes in the experiment, you may
conclude it to have been a pun.-Addison.
Wit should be used as a shield for de-
fence rather than as a sword to wound oth-
ers.-Fuller.
Witticisms are never agreeable when
they are injurious to others.
Wit is the most rascally, contemptible,
beggarly thing on the face of the earth.
Murphy.
When wit transgresses decency, it de-
generates into insolence and impiety.-
Tillotson.
Great wits to madness sure are near al-
lied, and thin partitions do their bounds
divide.-Dryden.
As it is the characteristic of great wits to
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than we have in our laws; and more power
by their tears, than we have by our argu-
ments.--Saville,
Kindness in women, not their beauteous
looks, shall win my love. - Shakespeare.
O woman! in our hours of ease, uncer-
tain, coy, and hard to please, and variable
as the shade, by the light quivering aspen
made; when pain and anguish wring the
brow, a ministering angel thou. Walter
Scott.
There is nothing by which I have through
life more profited, than by the just obser-
vations, the good opinions, and sincere and
gentle encouragement of amiable and sen-
sible women.-Sir S. Romilly.
He is no true mau who ever treats
women with anything but the profoundest
respect. She is no true woman who can-
not inspire and does not take care to en-
force this. Any real rivalry of the sexes
is the sheerest folly and most unnatural
nonsense.
God has placed the genius of women in
their hearts ; because the works of this
genius are always works of love.—Lamar-
tine.
There is one in the world who feels for
him who is sad a keener pang than he feels
for himself ; there is one to whom reflected
joy is better than that which comes direct;
there is one who rejoices in another's
honor, more than in any which is one's
own; there is one on whom another's tran-
scendent excellence sheds no beam but
that of delight; there is one who hides
another's infirmities more faithfully than
one's own; there is one who loses all sense
of self in the sentiment of kindness, tender-
ness, and devotion to another ; that one is
woman.- Washington Irving.
There is a woman at the beginning of all
great things.—Lamartine.
There is something still more to be
dreaded than a Jesuit and that is a Jesuit-
ess.—Eugène Sue.
Women never truly command, till they
have given their promise to obey ; and
they are never in more danger of being
made slaves, than when the men are at
their feet.-Farquhar.
Men at most differ as heaven and earth
but women, worst and best, as heaveu and
hell.---Tennyson.
To the disgrace of men it is seen, that
there are women both more wise to judge
what evil is expected, and more constant
to bear it when it is happened.--Sir P.
Sidney.
The buckling on of the knight's armor
by his lady's hand was not a mere caprice
of romantic fashion. It is the type of an
eternal truth that the soul's armor is never
well set to the heart unless & woman's
hand has braced it, and it is only when she
braces it loosely that the honor of manhood
fails.--Ruskin.
A good and true woman is said to re-
semble a Cremona fiddle-age but increases
its worth and sweetens its tone.-0. W.
Holmes.
The single woman's part in life may be a
noble one; she may elevate herself and
help others, but her's must always be a
second place. She is never fulfilling the
part nature intended her to fulfil; but the
wife and mother is the crowned queen.
Mrs. H. R. Haweis,
The most dangerous acquaintance a mar-
ried woman can make is the female confi-
dante.--Mad. Deluzy.
Contact with a high-minded woman is
good for the life of any man.--Henry Vin-
cent.
A handsome woman is a jewel ; a good
woman is a treasure. --Saadi.
Nearly every folly committed by woman
is born of the stupidity or evil influence of
man,-Michelet.
The dignity of woman consists in being
unknown to the world.-Her glory is the
esteem of her husband; her pleasure the
happiness of her family.-Rousseau.
Cliristianity has lifted woman to a new
place in the world.–And just in proportion
as Christianity has sway, will she rise to a
higher dignity in human life. What she
has now, and all she shall have of privi-
leges and true honor, she owes to that gos-
pel which took those qualities which had
been counted weak and unworthy, and
gave them a divine glory in Christ. —Her-
Mick Johnson.
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.
"Woman !" With that word,_life's
dearest hopes and memories come. Truth,
beauty, love, in her adored, and earth's
lost paradise restored, in the green bower
of home.-Halleclc.
The greater part of what women write
about women is mere sycophancy to man.
-Mad. de Staël.
The world is the book of women. What-
ever knowledge they may possess is more
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commonly acquired by observation than by
reading. - Rousseau.
A woman's greatest glory is to be little
talked about by men, whether for good or
ill.-Pericles.
A woman's heart, like the moon, is al-
ways changing, but there is always a man
in it.-Punch.
Woman is quick to recognize genius, and
to listen when wisdom speaks.--She may
chatter in the presence of fools, but knows
and appreciates
the value of earnest, sen-
sible men.-C. H. Dall.
The intuitions of women are better and
readier than those of men ; her quick de-
cisions without conscious reasons, are fre-
quently far superior to a man's most care-
ful deductions.-W. Ailcman.
The deepest tenderness a woman can
show to a man, is to help him to do his
duty.-Mulock.
It is only the nature of their education
that puts a woman at such disadvantage,
and keeps up the notion that they are our
inferiors in ability.--The best sources of
knowledge are shut off from them, and the
surprise is that they manage to keep so
abreast of us as they do.-Story.
All men who avoid female society have
cull perceptions and are stupid, or else
have gross tastes, and revolt against what
is pure. - Thackeray.
No one knows like a woman how to say
things which are at once gentle and deep.
- Victor Hugo.
There can be po higher ambition for a
Christian woman than to be a faithful
wife and a happy and influential mother.
It is the place which God has given woman,
and she who fills it well, is as honorable
and honored as the most illustrious man
can be.-C. A. Stoddard.
A woman has this quality in common
with the angels, that those who suffer be-
long to her. -Balzac.
Women famed for their valor, their skill
in politics, or their learning, leave the
duties of their own sex, in order to invade
the privileges of ours. I can no more par-
don a fair one for endeavoring to wield
the club of Hercules, than I could a man
for endeavoring to twirl her distaff.-Gold-
smrith.
Women for the most part do not love us.
They do not choose a man because they
love him, but because it pleases them to be
loved by him. They love love of all things
in the world, but there are very few men
whom they love personally.-Alphonse
Karr.
Women are the poetry of the world in
the same sense as the stars are the poetry
of heaven. Clear, light-giving, liarmo-
nious, they are the terrestrial planets
that rule the destinies of mankind.-
Hargrave.
Women are ever in extremes ; they are
either better or worse than men.-Bruyère.
One reason why women are forbidden to
preach the gospel, is, that they would per-
suade without argument and reprove with-
out giving offence.---J. Newton.
0, what makes women lovely? Virtue,
faith, and gentleness in suffering; an en-
durance through scorn or trial; these call
beauty forth, give it the stamp celestial,
and admit it to sisterhood with angels.-
Brent.
Woman is like the reed which bends to
every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.
- Whately.
Woman was taken out of man; not out of
his head to top him, nor out of his feet to
be trampled underfoot; but out of his
side to be equal to him, under his arm to
be protected, and near his heart to be
loved.-M. Henry.
Women are the books, the arts, the acad-
emies, that show, contain, and nourish all
the world.-Shakespeare,
I have often had occasion to remark the
fortitude with which women sustain the
most overwhelming reverses of fortune.
Those disasters which break down the
spirit of a man and prostrate him in the
dust seem to call forth all the energies of
the softer sex, and give such intrepidity
and elevation to their character, that at
times it approaches to sublimity.- Wash-
ington Irving.
'Tis beauty, that doth oft make women
proud ; 'tis virtue, that doth make them
most admired ; 'tis modesty, that makes
them seem divino.-Shakespeare.
Women govern us; let us try to render
them more perfect. The more they are
enlightened, so much the more we shall
be. On the cultivation of the minds of
women, depends the wisdom of man.-
Sheridan.
Virtue, modesty, and truth are the guar-
dian angels of woman..
Women that are the least bashful are
not unfrequently the most modest; and
we are never more deceived than when we
would infer any laxity of principle from
that freedom of demeanor which often
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arises from a total ignorance of vice.- Col- action toward them, and respect is mis-
ton.
taken by them for neglect or want of love.
Men are women's playthings ; woman is
- Addison,
the devil's.-- Victor Hugo.
I have observed among all nations that
For silence and a chaste reserve is wo- the women ornament themselves more than
man's genuine praise, and to remain quiet the men ; that wherever found, they are
within the house.-Euripides.
the same kind, civil, obliging, humane,
There 18 not on earth a more merciless
tender beings; that they are ever inclined
exacter of love from others than a thor-
to be gay and cheerful, timorous and mod-
oughly selfish woman; and the more un-
est. They do not hesitate, like man, to
lovely she grows, the more jealously and
perform an hospitable or generous action;
scrupulously she exacts love to the utter-
not haughty or arrogant, nor supercilious,
but full of courtesy and fond of society ;
most farthing.-Mrs. Stowe.
industrious, economical, ingenuous, more
The best woman has always somewhat of
liable in general to err than man, but in
a man's strength; and the noblest man of
general, also, more virtuous, and perform-
a woman's gentlenes8.-Miss Mulock.
ing more good actions, than he. I never
Woman is the Sunday of man ; not his addressed myself in the language of de-
repose only, but his joy; the salt of his cency and friendship to a woman, whether
life.-Michelet.
civilized or savage, without receiving a de-
Women see through and through each
cent and friendly answer. If hungry, dry,
other; and often we most admire her whom
cold, wet, or sick, woman has ever been
they most scorn,-Charles Buxton.
friendly to me, and uniformly so; and, to
The modest virgin, the prudent wife, or
add to this virtue, so worthy of the appella-
tion of benevolence, these actions have
the careful matron are much more service-
able in life than petticotted philosophers,
been performed in so free and so kind a
manner, that if I was dry I drank the sweet
blustering heroines, or virago queens. She
draught, and if hungry, ate the coarse mor-
who makes her husband and her children
sel, with a double relish.---Ledyard.
happy, who reclaims the one from vice,
and trains up the other to virtue, is a much A woman's whole life is a history of the
greater character than ladies described in affections. The heart is her world; it is
romance, whose whole occupation is to
there her ambition strives for empire ; it
murder mankind with shafts from their
is there ber ambition seeks for hidden
quiver or their eyes.-Goldsmith.
treasures. She sends forth her sympathies
on adventure ; she embarks her whole soul
The honor of woman is badly guarded
in the trafic of affection ; and if ship-
when it is guarded by keys and spies. No
wrecked-her case is hopeless-for it is
woman is honest who does not wish to be.
-A. Dupuy.
bankruptcy of the heart. Washington
Irving.
Pretty women without religion are like
flowers without perfume.-H. Heine.
To a gentleman every woman is a lady in
right of her sex.-Bulwer.
The happiest women, like the happiest
nations, have no history.-George Eliot.
The woman's cause is man's; they rise
or fall together, dwarfed or godlike, bond
A fair test and measure of civilization, is
or free.
the influence of good women.--Emerson.
Whatever may be the laws and customs
'Tis thine to curb the passions maddning of a country, the women of it decide the
sway, and wipe the mourner's bitter tear morals.-Free or subjugated they reign be-
away : 'tis thine to soothe, when hope itself cause they hold possession of our passions.
has filed, and cheer with angel's smile the And their influence is more or less salu-
sufferer's bed : to give to earth its charm, tary according to the degree of esteem
to life its zest, one only task-to bless, and which is granted them. It is the law of
to be blest.-Grahame.
eternal justice that man cannot degrade
I have found that the men who are really
women without himself falling into degra-
the most fond of the ladies--who cherish
dation; and he cannot raise them without
for them the highest respect-are seldom
himself becoming better.— A. Marten.
the most popular with the sex. Men of Discretion and good-nature have been
great assurance, whose tongues are lightly always looked upon as the distinguishing
hung-who make words supply the places ornaments of female conversation. The
of ideas, and place compliment in the room woman whose price is above rubies, has
of sentiment-are their favorites. A due no particular in the character given of her
respect for women leads to respectful by the wise man, more endearing than that
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"she openeth her mouth with wisdom, and
in her tongue is the law of kindness."-
Freeholder.
Most females will forgive a liberty, rather
than a slight; and if any woman were to
hang a man for stealing her picture, al-
though it were set in gold, it would be a
new case in law ; but if he carried off the
setting, and left the portrait, I would not
answer for his safety. -Collon.
A woman too often reasons from her
heart; hence two-thirds of her mistakes
and her troubles.-Bulwer.
Recreation or pleasure is to a woman
what the sun is to the flower; if moderately
enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and im-
proves ; if immoderately, it withers, de-
teriorates, and destroys. But the duties
of domestic life, exercised, as they must be,
in retirement, and calling forth all the sen-
sibilities of the female, are, perhaps, as
necessary to the full development of her
charms, as the shades and shadows are to
the rose; confirining its beauty, and in-
creasing its fragrance.-Colton.
The society of women is the element of
good manners.- Goethe.
As the vine which has long twined its
graceful foliage about the oak, and been
lifted by it in sunsbine, will, when the hardy
plant is rifted by the thunderbolt, cling
round it with its caressing tendrils, and
bind up its shattered boughs, so is it beau-
tifully ordered by Providence that woman,
who is the mere dependent and ornament
of man in his happier hours, should be his
stay and solace when smitten with sudden
calamity; winding herself into the rugged
recesses of his nature, tenderly supporting
the drooping head and binding up the
broken heart. Washington Irving.
The foundation of domestic happiness
is faith in the virtue of woman.-Landor.
Oh, if the loving, closed heart of a good
woman should open before a man, how
much controlled " tenderness, how many
veiled sacrifices and dumb virtues, would
he see reposing therein ! --Richter.
All a woman has to do in this world is
contained within the duties of a daughter,
a sister, a wife, and a mother.--Steele.
The brain women never interest us like
the heart women ; white roses please less
than red.-0. W. Holines.
When I see the elaborate study and inge-
nuity displayed by women in the pursuit
of trifles, I feel no doubt of their capacity
for the inost herculean undertakings. –
Julia Ward Howe.
How many women are boru too finely or-
ganized in sense and soul for the highway
they must walk with feet unshod! Life is
adjusted to the wants of the stronger sex.
There are plenty of torrents to be crossed
in its journey; but their stepping-stones
are measured by the strides of men, and
pot of women.-O. W. Holmes.
O woman ! in ordinary cases so mere a
mortal, how in the great and rare events of
life dost thou swell into the angel !-- Bul-
wer'.
Woman's honor is nice as ermine, will
not bear & soil.-Dryden.
No amount of preaching, exhortation,
sympathy, benevolence, will render the
condition of our working-women what it
should be so long as the kitchen and the
needle are substantially their only resour-
ces.--Horace Greeley.
To feel, to love, to suffer, to devote her-
self will always be the text of the life of a
woman.--Balzac, .
Most men like in women what is most op-
posite their own characters._Fielding.
I have often thought that the nature of
women was inferior to that of men in gen-
eral, but superior in particular.---Lord Grev-
ille.
Let a woman once give you a task, and
you are hers, heart and soul; all your care
and trouble lend new charms to her, for
whose sake they were taken. To rescue,
to revenge, to instruct or protect a woman
is all the same as to love her.-Richter.
If thou wouldst please the ladies, thou
must endeavor to make them pleased with
themselves.-Fuller,
Women do act their part when they do
make their ordered houses know them.--
Sheridan Knowles.
Woman--last at the cross, and earliest
at the grave.-E. S. Barrett.
Women have more heart and more im-
agination than men.-Lamartine.
O woman! lovely woman! Nature made
thee to temper man ; we had been brutes
without you. Angels are painted fair, to
look like you ; there is in you all that we
believe of heaven --amazing brightness,
purity, and truth, eternal joy, and ever-
lasting love.-Otway.
She is not made to be the admiration of
all, but the happiness of one.—Burle.
Even the most refined and polished of
men seldom conceal any of the sacrifices
they make, or what it costs to make them.
This is reserved for women, and is one of
the many proofs they give' of their supe-
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riority in all matters of affection and deli-
cacy.-- Willmott.
The errors of women spring, almost al-
ways, from their faith in the good, or their
confidence in the true.- Balzac.
Win and wear her if you can.-She is
the most delightful of God's creatures-
Heaven's best gift-man's joy and pride in
prosperity, and his support and comfort in
affliction.-Shelley.
Women wish to be loved without a why
or a wherefore--not because they are pretty
or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intel-
ligent, but because they are themselves.-
Amiel.
Women are self-denying and uncandid;
men are self-indulgent and outspoken;
and this is the key to a thousand double
misunderstandings, for good women are
just as stupid in misunderstanding men as
good men are in misunderstanding women.
Charles Reade.
Women do not transgress the bounds of
decorum so often as men; but when they
do they go greater lengths.- Colton.
All the reasonings of men are not worth
one sentiment of women.- Voltaire.
A handsome woman who has the qualities
of an agreeable man is the most delicious
society in the world. She unites the merit
of both sexes. Caprice is in women the
antidote to beauty.—Bruyère.
Women's thoughts are ever turned upon
appearing amiable to the other sex; they
talk and move and smile with a design upon
118 ; every feature of their faces, every part
of their dress, is filled with snares and
allurements. There would be no such
animals as prudes or coquettes in the world
were there not such an animal as man.-
-Addison.
The surest way to win the regard of a
sensible woman is to treat her intellect
with deferential respect—to talk to her as
a thinking being.
A woman may be ugly, ill-shaped, wicked,
ignorant, silly, and stupid, but hardly ever
ridiculous.-Louis Desnoyers.
Let men say what they will ; according
to the experience I have learned, I require
in married women the economical virtue
above all other virtues.-Fuller.
If we would know the political and moral
condition of a state, we must ask what rank
women hold in it. Their influence em-
braces the whole of life.- A. Marten.
A man without religion is to be pitied,
but a Godless woman is a horror above all
things.—Miss Evans.
Women have more good sense than men.
They have fewer pretensions, are less im-
plicated in theories, and judge of objects
more from their immediate and involun-
tary impressions on the mind, and there-
fore more truly and naturally.—Hazlitt.
A woman's lot is made for her by the
love she accepts.-George Eliot.
Maids must be wives and mothers to
fulfil the entire and holiest end of woman's
being.-Mrs. Kemble.
He is a fool who thinks by force or skill
to turn the current of a woman's will.
Samuel Tuke.
Men have sight; women insight.- Victor
Hugo.
A man only begins to know women as he
grows old; and for my part, my idea of
their cleverness rises every day.-Thack-
eray.
The future of society is in the hands of
mothers; if the world was lost through
woman she alone can save it.-Beaufort.
Earth has nothing more tender than a
woman's heart when it is the abode of
piety.-Luther.
Most of their faults women owe to us,
while we are indebted to them for most of
our better qualities.-C. Lemesle.
She is no true woman for whom every
man may not find it in his heart to have a
certain gracious and holy and honorable
love; and she is not a woman who returns
110 love, and asks no protection.-Bartol.
The test of civilization is the estimate of
woman.-G. W. Curtis.
The Christian religion alone contem-
plates the conjugal union in the order of
nature; it is the only religion which pre-
sents woman to man as a companion ;
every other abandons her to him as a
slave. To religion alone do women owe
the liberty they enjoy ; and from the liberty
of women that of nations has flowed, ac-
companied with the proscription of many
inhuman usages diffused over other parts
of the world, such as slavery, seraglios,
and eunuchs. —Pierre.
Some are so uncharitable as to think all
women bad, and others are so credulous
as to believe they are all good. All will
grant her corporeal frame more wonderful
and more beautiful than man's. And can
we think God would put a worse soul into
a better body?-Feltham.
Honor to women! they twine and weave
the roses of heaven into the life of man ; it
is they that unite us in the fascinating
bonds of love; and, concealed in the modest
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veil of the graces, they cherish carefully
the external fire of delicate feeling with
holy hands.--Schiller.
Purity of heart is the noblest inheritance,
and love the fairest ornament of women.-
M. Claudius.
Love, which is only an episode in the
life of a man, is the entire history of
woman's life.--Mad. de Staël.
Frequently, when doubtful how to act in
matters of importance, I have received
more useful advice from women than from
men.- Women have the understanding of
the heart, which is better than that of the
head.-Roger's.
WONDER.--All wonder is the effect of
novelty on ignorance.-Johnson.
The man who cannot wonder; who does
not habitually wonder and worship, is but
a pair of spectacles behind which there is
no eye.- Carlyle.
It was through the feeling of wonder
that men now and at first began to philos-
ophize.- Aristotle.
In wonder all philosophy began, in won-
der it ends, and admiration fills up the
interspace; but the first wonder is the off-
spring of ignorance, the last is the parent
of adoration.—Coleridge.
Wonder is involuntary praise.—Young.
Wonder, connected with a principle of
rational curiosity, is the source of all
knowledge and discovery, and it is a prin-
ciple even of piety; but wonder which
ends in wonder, and is satisfied with ton-
der, is the quality of an idiot.---Horsley.
“Wonder," says Aristotle, “is the first
cause of philosophy." This is quite as true
in the progress of the individual as in that
of the concrete mind; and the constant
aim of philosophy is to destroy its parent.
-Bulwer.
WORDS.-Words are the counters of
wise men, and the money of fools.- Lobbes.
Words should be employed as the means,
not as the end ; language is the instrument,
conviction is the work.-Sir J. Reynolds.
Volatility of words is carelessness in
actions; words are the wings of actions.-
Lavater.
The knowledge of words is the gate of
scholarship.- Wilson.
What you keep by you, you may change
and mend; but words, once spoken, can
never be recalled. - Roscommon.
Words are both better and worse than
thoughts ; they express them, and add to
them; they give them power for good or
evil; they start them on an endless flight,
for instruction and comfort and blessing,
or for injury and sorrow and ruin,-Tryon
Edwards.
No man has a prosperity so high or firm,
but that two or three words can dishearten
it; and there is no calamity which right
words will not begin to redress. -Emerson.
Not in books only, nor yet in oral dis-
course, but often also in words there are
boundless stores of moral and historic
truth, and no less of passion and imagina-
tion laid up, from which lessons of infinite
worth may be derived.- Whately.
Seest thou a man that is hasty in his
words? there is more hope of a fool than
of him.-Solonon,
I would rather speak the truth to ten
men than blandishments and lying to a
million.-Try it, ye who think there is
nothing in it ; try what it is to speak with
God behind you-to speak so as to be only
the arrow in the bow which the Almighty
draws.-H. W. Beecher.
Words are like leaves; and where they
most abound, much fruit of sense beneath
is rarely found.-Pope.
Bad words are as influential as the plague
and the pestilence. They have wrought
more evil than battle, murder, and sudden
death. They creep through the ear into
the heart, call up all its bad passions, and
tempt it to break God's commandments.
A few bad words got into the ear of the
mother of mankind; and they led her on to
eat the forbidden fruit, and thus to bring
death into the world.-G. Mogridge.
A good word is an easy obligation ; but
not to speak ill requires only our silence,
which costs us nothing.–Tillotson.
You may tame the wild beast; the con-
flagration of the forest will cease when all
the timber and the dry wood are consumed ;
but you cannot arrest the progress of that
cruel word which you uttered carelessly
yesterday or this morning.-F. W. Robert-
son.
When words are scarce they're seldom
spent in vain.-Shalcespeare.
Words may be either servants or masters.
If the former they may safely guide us in
the way of truth.-If the latter they in-
toxicate the brain and lead into swamps of
thought where there is no solid footing.
Among the sources of those innumerable
calamities which from age to age have
overwhelmed mankind, may be reckoned
as one of the principal, the abuse of words.
-Bp. Horne.
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"The last word " is the most dangerous
of infernal machines; and husband and
wife should no more fight to get it than
they would struggle for the possession of a
lighted bomb-shell.—Douglas Jerrold.
Good words do more than hard speeches,
as the sunbeams without any noise will
make the traveller cast off his cloak, which
all the blustering winds could not do, but
only make him bind it closer to him.-
Leighton.
Words are but the signs and counters of
knowledge, and their currency should be
strictly regulated by the capital which they
represent. - Colton.
There are words which sever hearts more
than sharp swords; there are words the
point of which sting the heart through the
course of a whole life.- Frederika Bremer'.
He who seldom speaks, and with one
calm well-timed word can 'strike dumb the
loquacious, is a genius or a hero.--Lavater.
Some so speak in exaggerations and
superlatives that we need to make a large
discount from their statements before we
can come at their real meaning.--Tryon
Edwards.
Such as thy words are, such will thy af-
fections be esteemed ; and such will thy
deeds be as thy affections ; and such thy
life as thy deeds.--Socrates.
Learn the value of a man's words and
expressions, and you know him. Each
man bas a measure of his own for every-
thing ; this he offers you inadvertently in
his words. He who has & superlative for
everything wants a measure for the great
or small.--Lavater.
Words, when written, crystallize history;
their very structure gives permanence to
the unchangeable past.
Men suppose their reason has command
over their words ; still it happens that
words in return exercise authority on rea-
son.--Bacon.
A man cannot speak but he judges and
reveals himself.-With his will, or against
his will, he draws his portrait to the eye of
others by every word.—Every opinion re-
acts on him who utters it.- Enerson.
It makes a great difference in the force
of a sentence whether a man be behind it
or no.-Emerson.
It is with a word as with an arrow-once
let it loose and it does not return.- Abd-el-
Kader.
It is a kind of good deed to say well; and
yet words are no deeds. --Shakespeare.
If you do not wish a man to do a thing,
you had better get him to talk about it
;
for the more men talk, the more likely they
are to do nothing else.- Carlyle.
Words are things ; and a small drop of
ink, falling like dew upon a thought, pro-
duces that which makes thousands, perhaps
millions, think.--Byron.
Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
--Dryden.
A word unspoken is a sword in the scab-
bard ; a word uttered is a sword in anoth-
er's hand.- Quarles.
Syllables govern the world.- Coke.
Words are not essential to the existence
of thought--only to its expression,-- Dri-
gald Stewart.
We should be as careful of our words as
of our actions, and as far from speaking ill
as from doing ill.— Cicero.
Immodest wordø admit of no defence ;
for vant of decency is want of sense. -
Roscommon.
He that uses many words for explaining
any subject, doth, like the cuttle-fish, hide
himself in his own ink.-Ray.
Beware how you allow words to pass for
more than they are worth, and bear in
mind what alteration is sometimes pro-
duced in their current value by the course
of time.---Southey.
It is as easy to call back a stone thrown
from the hand, as to call back the word
that is spoken.—Menander.
Cast forth thy act, thy word, into the
ever-living, ever-working universe ; it is a
scerl-grain that cannot die ; unnoticed to-
day, it will be found flourishing as a ban-
yan grove, perhaps, alas, as a hemlock
forest, after a thousand years.-Carlyle.
WORK,- (See “LABOR.")
Set it down as a fact to which there are
no exceptions, that we must labor for all
that we have, and that nothing is worth
possessing, or offering to others, which
costs us nothing.--John Todd.
A Christian's spirituality will depend as
much upon his work as his work upon his
spirituality.--Chalmers.
The modern majesty consists in work.
What a man can do is his greatest orna-
ment, and he always consults his dignity
by doing it.— Carlyle.
T'he law of nature is, that a certain quan-
tity of work is necessary to produce a cer-
tain quantity of good of any kind whatever.
If you want knowledge, you must toil for
it ; if food, you must toil for it; and if
pleasure, you must toil for it.-Ruskin.
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To do our work well, or to be careless in
doing it, are as much different, as working
hard is from being idle.-Ischonachus.
Men who have a balf-a-dozen irons in the
fire are not the men to go crazy. It is the
man of voluntary or compelled leisure who
mopes, and pines, and thinks himself into
the madhouse or the grave. Motion is all
nature's law. Action is man's salvation,
physical and mental. He only is truly
wise who lays himself out to work till
life's latest hour, and that is the man who
will live the longest and live to the most
purpose.--Anon.
Never mind where you work; let your
care be for the work itself. Spurgeon.
Physical work promotes the circulation
of the blood, opens the pores of the skin,
gives tone to the respiratory organs, helps
the functions of digestion, strengthens the
muscles, adds suppleness to the joints, en-
livens the senses, quickens the nerves,
regulates the passions, and tends to build
up the general constitution. Mental and
moral work clears the understanding, em-
powers the will, keens the perception,
awakens the conscience, informs the judg-
ment, enlarges the memory, rectifies the
affections. In one word, the tendency of
work is to promote and sustain the mental
and physical organization in an uninter-
rupted action of health, until it shall be
broken up and dissolved'in death. Man is
kept in life by work, and dies either be-
cause he will not or because he cannot
work.-Bate.
We enjoy ourselves only in our work-in
our doing, and our best doing is our best
enjoyment.Jacobi.
The latest Gospel in this world is, know
tly work and do it. i Know thyself !”
long enough has that poor "self" of thine
tormented thee; thou wilt never get to
"know" it! Think it not thy business,
this of knowing thyself ; thou art an un-
knowable individual ; know what thou
canst work at and work at it like a Hercu-
les! That will be thy better plan.-Car-
lyle.
St. Edmund of Canterbury was right
when he said to somebody, “Work as
though you would live forever ; but live as
though you would die to-day."
Man must work. That is certain as the
But he may work grudgingly or he
may work gratefully ; he may work as a
man, or he may work as a machine. There
is no work so rude, that he may not exalt
it; 10 work so impassive, that he may not
breathe a soul into it; no work so dull that
he may not enliven it.--Henry Giles.
The force, the mass of character, mind,
heart or soul that a man can put into any
work, is the most important factor in that
work.-A. P. Peabody.
The moment a man can really do his
work, he becomes speechless about it; all
words are idle to him ; all theories. Does
& bird need to theorize about building its
nest, or boast of it when built ? All good
work is essentially done that way; without
hesitation ; without difficulty ; without
boasting.-Ruskin.
All men, if they work not as in the great
taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, work un-
happily for themselves and you.- Carlyle.
Work is as much a necessity to man as
eating and sleeping.-Even those who do
nothing that can be called work still
imagine they are doing something.--The
world has not a man who is an idler in his
own eyes.-- W. Hunboldt.
A nation's welfare depends on its ability
to master the world ; that on its power of
work ; and that on its power of thought.-
Theodore Parker.
Not alone to know, but to act according
to thy knowledge, is thy destination, pro-
claims the voice of thy inmost soul. Not
for indolent contemplation and study of
thyself, nor for brooding over emotions of
piety~no, for action was existence given
thee; thy actions, and thy actions alone,
determine thy worth.--Fichte.
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God which we call the world.-Bulwer.
The only true method of action in this
world is to be in it, but not of it.-Mad.
Swetchine.
He that will often place this world and
the next before him, and look steadfastly
at both, will find the latter constantly
growing greater, and the former less to
bis view.
Knowledge of the world is dearly bought
if at the price of moral purity.-E. Wiggles-
worth.
This world is a dream within a dream i
and as we grow older, each step is an awak-
ening. The youth awakes, as he thinks,
from childhood ; the full-grown man de-
spises the pursuits of youth as visionary ;
and the old man looks on manhood as a
feverish dream. Death the last sleep?
No! it is the last and final awakening !--
Walter Scott.
It is a beautiful and a blessed world
we live in, and while life lasts, to lose
the enjoyment of it is a sin.-A. W.
Chambers.
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Is The heavens and the earth alike speak of
God, and the great uztural world is but
another Bible, which clasps and binds the
written one; for nature and grace are one
-grace the heart of the flower, and nature
its surrounding petals.---H. W. Beecher. .
The world is God's epistle to mankind
his thoughts are flashing upon us from
every direction. Plato.
Trust not the world, for it never payeth
what it promiseth.-Augustine.
“The world,” is a conventional phrase,
which being interpreted, signifies all the
rascality in it.—Diclcens.
The only fence against the world is a
thorough knowledge of it.—Locke.
A soul disengaged from the world is a
heavenly one ; and then are we ready for
heaven when our heart is there before us.
-John Newton.
There are many that despise half the
world; but if there be any that despise the
whole of it, it is because the other half de-
spises them.-Colton.
The gratitude of the world is but the
expectation of future favors ; its happiness,
a hard heart and good digestion.- Wal-
pole.
All the world's ends, arrangements,
changes, disappointments, hopes, and
fears, are without meaning, if not seen
and estimated by eternity !—Tryon Ed-
wards,
Hell is God's justice ; heaven is his love;
earth, his long-suffering.
We may despise the world, but we cannot
do without it. --Baron Wesenberg.
The great see the world at one end by
flattery, the little at the other end by Beg-
lect; the meanness which both discover is
the same ; but how different, alas! are the
mediums through which it is seen ?-Grev-
ille.
You have too much respect upon the
world: they lose it that do buy it with
much care. -Shakespeare.
The world is seldom what it seems ; to
man, who dimly sees, realities appear as
dreams, and dreams realities.—Moore.
Thou must content thyself to see the
world imperfect as it is. Thou wilt never
have any quiet if thou vexest thyself be-
cause thou canst not bring mankind to
that exact notion of things and rule of life
which thou hast formed in thy own mind.
--Fuller.
The world is a comedy to those who think,
a tragedy to those who feel.-Horace Wal-
pole.
The world is made up, for the most part,
of fools or knaves, both irreconcilable
foes to truth: the first being slaves to a
blind credulity, which we may properly
call bigotry: the last too jealous of that
power they have usurped over the folly and
ignorance of the others, which the estab-
lishment of the empire of reason would
destroy.-Buckingham.
Contact with the world either breaks or
hardens the heart.-Chamfort.
We may be pretty certain that persons
whom all the world treats ill deserve the
treatment they get. The world is a look-
ing-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 ; and so let all young per-
sons take their choice.-Thackeray.
The life of the mere votary of the world
is, of all others, the most uncomfortable ;
for that which is his god doth not always
favor him, and that which should be,
never.
The unrest of this weary world is its un-
voiced cry after God.-Munger. .
I have run the silly rounds of pleasure,
and have done with them all. I have en-
joyed all the pleasures of the world, and
I appraise them at their real worth,
which is in truth very low; those who
have only seen their outside always over-
rate them, but I have been behind the
scenes, I have seen all the coarse pulleys
and dirty ropes which move the gaudy ma-
chines, and I have seen and smelt the tal-
low candles which illuminate the whole
decoration, to the astonishment and admi-
ration of the ignoraut audience. When I
reflect on what I have seen, what I have
heard, and what I have done, I can hardly
persuade myself that all that frivolous
hurry and bustle of pleasure in the world
had any reality ; but I look upon all that
is passed as one of those romantic dreams
which opium commonly occasions, and I
do by no means desire to repeat the nau-
seous dose.- Chesterfield.
A clear stream reflects all the objects on
its shore, but is unsullied by them; so it
should be with our hearts; they should
show the effect of all earthly objects, but
remain uustained by any.
All worldly things are so much without
us, and so subject to variety and uncer-
tainty, that they do not make us when they
come, nor mend us while they stay, nor
undo 18 when they are taken away.
To understand the world is wiser than to
condemn it. To study the world is better
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It is not this earth, nor the men who in-
habit'it, nor the sphere of our legitimate
activity, that we may not love ; but the way
in wbich the love is given, which consti-
tutes worldliness.-7. W. Robertson.
There is such a thing as a worldly, and
such a thing as an unworldly spirit.-And
according as we partake of the one or the
other, the savor of our lives is ordinary,
commonplace, poor, and base, or elevating,
invigorating, useful, noble, holy.--A. P.
Stanley.
Buying, possessing, accumulating, this is
not worldliness.-But doing this in the love
of it, with no love to God paramount,
doing it so that thoughts of God and eter-
nity are an intrusion-doing it so that one's
spirit is secularized in doing it-this is
worldliness.-Herrick Johnson.
Supposing men were to live forever in
this world, I cannot see how it is possible
for them to do more toward their estab-
lishment here than they do now.-Bruyère.
me.
than to shun it. To use the world is no-
bler than to abuse it. To make the world
better, lovelier, and happier, is the noblest
work of man or woman.
He who imagines he can do without the
world deceives himself much ; but he who
fancies the world cannot do without lim is
still more mistaken.-Rochefoucauld.
The world is a country which nobody
ever yet knew by description ; one must
travel through it one's self to be acquainted
with it. The scholar, wlio in the dust of
his closet talks or vrites of the world, knows
no more of it than that orator did of war,
who endeavored to instruct Hannibal in it.
-Chesterfield.
A good man and a wise man may at tiines
be angry with the world, at times grieved
for it; but be sure no man was ever dis-
contented with the world who did his duty
in it.--Southey.
Crates threw his gold into the sea, say-
ing, “I will destroy thee, lest thou destroy
If men do not put the love of the
world to death, the love of the world will
put them to death.-Venning.
Oh, what a glory doth this world put on,
for him who with a fervent heart goes
forth under the bright and glorious sky,
and looks on duties well performed, and
days well spent.—Longfellow.
The created world is but a small paren-
thesis in eternity, and a short interposition
for a time, between sucli a state of duration
as was before it, and may be after it.
Sir Thomas Browne.
A man that depends on the riches and
honors of this world, forgetting God and
the welfare of his soul, is like a little child
that holds a fair apple in the hand, of
agreeable exterior, promising goodness,
but that within is rotton and full of worms.
What is meant by a "knowledge of the
world” is simply an acquaintance with the
infirmities of men.--Diclcens.
The world is God's workshop for making
men.-H. W. Beecher.
God hath not taken all that pains in form-
ing, framing, furnishing, and adorning
this world, that they who were made by
him to live in it, should despise it ; it will
be well enough if they do not love it so im-
moderately as to prefer it before him who
made it. Clarendon.
It would be most lamentable if the good
things of this world were rendered either
more valuable or more lasting ; for, despic-
able as they already are, too many are found
eager to purchase them, even at the price
of their souls !--Colton,
WORSHIP, We should worship as
though the Deity were present. If my
mind is not engaged in my worship, it is as
though I worshipped not. - Confucius.
The tongue blessing God without the
heart is but a tinkling cyınbal ; the heart
blessing God without the tongue is sweet
but still music, both in concert make their
liarmony, which fills and delights heaven
and earth.— Venning.
I have never known a man, who habitu-
ally and on principle absented himself
from the public worship of God, who did
not sooner or later bring sorrow upon him-
self or his family.-Bellows.
The dullest observer must be sensible of
the order and serenity prevalent in those
households where the occasional exerciso
of a beautiful form of worship in the morn-
ing gives, as it were, the key-note to every
temper for the day, and attunes every spirit
to harmony.- Washington Irving.
A church-going people
are apt to be a law-
abiding people.-7. Â. Paric.
It is for the sake of man, not of God, that
worship and prayers are required ; that
man may be made better, that he may
be confirmed in a proper sense of his de-
pendent state, and acquire those pious and
virtuous dispositions in which his highest
improvement consists.-Blair.
First worship God; he that forgets to
pray, bids not himself good-morrow or
good-day.--T. Randolph.
What greater calainity can fall upon a
nation than the loss of worship.-Carlyle.
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My words fly up, my thoughts remain
below : words, without thoughts, never to
heaven go.--Shake
Shakespeare.
It is an axiom of the Christian faith that
the mode of worship must correspond to
the essence of God, which is spiritual ; and
the feeling of the worshipper must corre-
spond to the character of God, which is pa-
ternal.-J. P. Thompson.
WORTH.-Worth begets in base minds,
envy; in great souls, emulation.--Fielding.
The difficulty is not so great to die for a
friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
-Home.
Worth makes the man, and want of it the
fellow.--Pope.
Real worth requires no interpreter ; its
every-day deeds form its blazonry.- Chan-
fort.
True worth is inevitably discovered by
the expression of the face, as its opposite
is sure to be represented there. The hu-
man face is nature's tablet; the truth is
surely written thereon.--Lavater.
Many a man who now lacks shoe-leather
would wear golden spurs if knighthood
were the reward of worth.-Jerrold.
WRITING.-Setting dowu in writing is
a lasting memory.-Fielding.
An era is fast approaching when no
writer will be read by the majority, save
and except those who can effect for bales
of manuscript what the hydrostatic screw
performs for bales of cotton-by condens-
ing into a period what before occupied a
page.-Cotter.
The habit of committing our thoughts to
writing is a powerful means of expanding
the mind, and producing a logical and
systematic arrangement of our views and
opinions. It is this which gives the writer
a vast superiority, as to the accuracy and
extent of his conceptions, over the mere
talker. No one can ever hope to know the
principles of any art or science thoroughly
who does not write as well as read upon the
subject.—Blaikie.
The ability to write in tolerably good
English stands, in point of merit, about on
a par with personal cleanliness. The man
who has it may deserve little praise. The
man who is without it should not show
himself in public.
Writing, after all, is a cold and coarse
interpreter of thought. How much of the
imagination, how much of the intellect,
evaporates and is lost while we seek to em-
body it in words !-Bulwer,
Every great and original writer, in pro-
portion as he is great or original, must
himself create the taste by which he is to
be relished.- Wordsworth.
Thoughts come maimed and plucked of
plumage from the lips, which, from the
pen, in the silence of your own leisure and
study, would be born with far more beauty.
-Lady Blessington.
To write well is at once to think well, to
feel rightly, and to render properly ; it is
to have, at the same time, mind, soul,
and taste.-
Buffon.
A man with a clear head, a good heart,
and an honest understanding, will always
write well; it is owing either to a muddy
head, an evil heart, or a sophisticated in-
tellect, that men write badly, and sin either
against reason, or goodness, or sincerity.-
Southey.
Shew me a man's hand-writing, and I
will tell you his character.—Shenstone.
If you would write to any purpose you
must be perfectly free from within. Give
yourself the natural rein ; think on 10
pattern, no patron, no paper, no press, no
public ; think on nothing, but follow your
impulses. Give yourself as you are-what
you are, and how you see it. Bring out
what you have. If you have nothing, be
an honest beggar rather than a respectable
thief.- Emerson.
A man who writes well writes not as
others write, but as he himself writes ; it
is often in speaking badly that he speaks
well.-Montesquieu.
It is a singular truth that, though a man
may shake off national habits, accent,
manner of thinking, style of dress--though
he may become perfectly identified with
another nation, and speak its language
well, perhaps better than his own—yet
never can he succeed in changing his
hand-writing to a foreign style.- Disraeli.
The writer does the most who gives his
reader the most knowledge, and takes from
him the least time.
Brevity is in writing what charity is to
all the other virtues. Righteousness is
worth nothing without the one, nor author-
ship without the other. -Sydney Snith.
WRONG. No fallacy can hide wrong,
no subterfuge cover it so shrewdly but that
the All-Seeing One will discover and punish
it.-Rivarol.
A noble part of every true life is to learn
to undo what has been wrongly done.
A man should never be ashamed to own
he has been in the wrong, which is but
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saying in other words that he is wiser to-
day than he was yesterday.-- Pope.
There is no sort of wrong deed of which
a man can bear the punishment alone ; you
can't isolate yourself and say that the evil
that is in you shall not spread. Men's
lives are as thoroughly blended with each
other as the air they breathe ; evil spreads
as necessarily as disease.-George Eliot.
We make ourselves more injuries than
are offered to us; they many times pass
for wrongs in our own thoughts, that were
never meant so by the heart of him that
speaketh. The apprehension of wrong
hurts more than the sharpest part of the
wrong done.-Feltham. .
Be not familiar with the idea of wrong,
for sin in fancy mothers many an ugly fact.
To revenge a wrong is easy, usual, and
natural, and, as the world thinks, savors of
nobleness of mind; but religion teaches
the contrary, and tells us it is better to
neglect than to requite it.-J. Beaumont.
It is vain to trust in wrong; as much of
evil, so much of logs, is the formula of
human history. Theodore Parker.
To persist in doing wrong extenuates not
the wrong, but makes it much more heavy.
--Shakespeare.
My soul is sick with every day's report of
wrong and outrage with which earth is
filled. -Cowper.
There are few people who are more often
in the wrong than those who cannot endure
to be 80.-Rochefoucauld.
Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.
-Landor,
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it,
and happier to be sometimes cheated than
not to trust.-Johnson.
There is a time in the lives of most of
us when, despondent of all joy in an earthly
future, and tortured by conflicts between
inclination and duty, we transfer all the
passion and fervor of our troubled souls to
enthusiastic yearnings for the divine love,
looking to its mercy, and taking thencé
the only hopes that can cheer-the only
strength that can sustain us. Bulwer.
YOUTH.-Youth is the gay and pleasant
spring of life, when joy is stirring in the
dancing blood, and nature calls 118 with it
thousand songs to share her general feast.
Ridgeway.
Youth is the period of building up in
habits, and hopes, and faiths.- Not an
hour but is trembling with destinies ; not
a moment, once passed, of which the ap-
pointed work can ever be done again, or
the neglected blow struck on the cold iron.
Ruslcin.
Youth is the opportunity to do something
and to become somebody.-T. T. Munger.
Youth is the season of hope, enterprise,
and energy, to a nation as well as an in-
dividual.-W. R. Willianis.
Tell me what are the prevailing senti-
ments that occupy the minds of your young
men, and I will tell you what is to be the
character of the next generation.-Burke.
Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in
the way; the land of joy lies all before his
eyes. —Butler.
Consider what heavy responsibility lies
upon you in your youth, to determine
among realities, by what you will be de-
lighted, and, among imaginations, by
whose you will be led.Rusičin.
Young men are as apt to think themselves
vise enough, as drunken men are to think
themselves sober enough. They look upon
spirit to be a much better thing than ex-
perience, which they call coldness. They
are but half mistaken; for though spirit
without experience is dangerous, experi-
ence without spirit is languid and ineffect-
ive.-Chesterfield.
The strength and safety of a community
consist in the virtue and intelligence of
its youth, especially of its young men.-J.
Hawes.
The follies of youth become the vices of
manhood and the disgrace of old age.
The retrospect of youth is often like
visiting the grave of a friend whom we
have injured, and are prevented by his
death from the possibility of making rep-
aration.-L. E. Landon.
The greatest part of mankind employ
Y.
YEARNINGS.-Ere yet we yearn for
what is out of our reach, we are still in the
cradle. When wearied out with our yearn-
ings, desire again falls asleep--we are on
the death-bed.-Bulwer.
So it is that men sigh on, not knowing
what the soul wants, but only that it needs
something.–Our yearnings are homesick-
nesses for heaven.–Our sighings are sigh-
ings for God, just as children that cry
themselves asleep away from home, and
sob in their slumber, not knowing that
they sob for their parents. The soul's
inarticulate moanings are the affections
yearning for the Infinite, and having no
one to tell them what it is that ails them.
H. W. Beecher.
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their first years to make their last miser-
able.- Bruyère.
Sad, indeed, is the spectacle of the youth
idling away the spring-time of his exist-
ence, and not only losing the sweet benefit
of time, but wasting, in the formation of
evil habits, those hours in which he might
clothe himself with angel-like perfection.
Reckless youth makes rueful age.--
Moore.
Bestow thy youth so that thou mayest
have comfort to remember it when it hath
forsaken thee, and not sigh and grieve
at the account thereof. While thou art
young thou wilt think it will never have
an end; but the longest day hath its even-
ing, and thou shalt enjoy it but once; it
never turns again; use it therefore as the
spring-time, which soon departeth, and
wherein thou oughtest to plant and sow all
provisions for a long and happy life.- Sir
W. Raleigh.
The excesses of our yonth are drafts
upon our old age, payable with interest,
about thirty years after date.-Colton2.
He who cares only for himself in youth
will be a very niggard in manhood, and a
wretched miser in old age.-J. Hawes.
Youth changes its inclinations through
heat of blood; old age perseveres in them
through the power of habit.-Rochefou-
cauld.
Youthful rashness skips like a hare over
the meshes of good counsel. - Shakespeare.
If a young man is loose in his principles
and habits ; if he lives without plan and
without object, spending his time in idle-
ness and pleasure, there is more hope of a
fool than of him.-J. Hawes.
He who spends his younger days in dis-
sipation is mortgaging himself to disease
and poverty, two inexorable creditors, who
are certain to foreclose at last and take
possession of the premises.
Youth is beautiful. Its friendship is pre-
cious. The intercourse with it is a purify-
ing release from the worn and stained
hardness of older life.-N. P. Willis.
In the morning of our days, when the
senses are unworn and tender, when the
whole man is awake in every part, and the
gloss of novelty is fresh upon all the objects
that surround us, how lively at that time
are our sensations, but how false and in-
accurate the judgments we form of things!
--Burke.
Yonth is a continual intoxication ; it is
the fever of reason.-Rochefoucauld.
As I approve of a youth that has some-
thing of the old man in him, so I am no
less pleased with an old man that has some-
thing of the youth. He that follows this
rule may be old in body, but can never be
so in mind.--Cicero.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.-
Schiller.
Every period of life has its pecnliar
temptations and dangers. But youth is
the time when we are the most likely to be
ensnared. This, pre-eminently, is the
forming, fixing period, the spring season
of disposition and habit; and it is during
this season, more than any other, that the
character assumes its permanent shape
and color, and the young are wont to take
their course for time and for eternity.--J.
Hawes.
Youth no less becomes the light and
careless livery that it wears, than settled
age his sables and his weeds, importing
health and graveness. --Shakespeare.
In general, a man in his younger years
does not easily cast off a certain complacent
self-conceit, which principally shows itself
in despising what he has himself been a
little time before.—Goethe, .
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in
spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it
in autumn.--Hare.
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 dis-
trust one's own opinions, and value others'
that deserve it.--Sir W. Teniple.
The heart of youth is reached through
the senses; the senses of age are reached
through the heart.-- Bretonne.
It is not easy to surronud life with any
circumstances in which youth will not be
delightful ; and I am afraid that, whether
married or unmarried, we shall find the
vesture of terrestrial existence more heavy
and cumbrous the longer it is worn.-Steele.
The golden age never leaves the world ;
it exists still, and shall exist, till love,
health, and poetry, are no more-but only
for the young.--Bulwer.
I love the acquaintance of young people;
because, in the first place, I do not like to
think myself growing old. In the next
place, young acquaintances must last
longest, if they do last; and then young
men have more virtue than old men; they
have more generous sentiments in every
respect.-Johnson.
Youth, enthusiasm, and tenderness are
like the days of spring. Instead of com-
plaining, oh, my heart, of their brief dura-
tion, try to enjoy them.-Ruckert.
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My salad days, when I was green-in judg-
ment.--Shakespeare.
At almost every step in life we meet with
Foung men from whom we anticipate won-
derful things, but of whom, aftor careful
inquiry, we never hear another word.
Like certain chintzes, 'calicoes, and ging-
hams, they show finely on their first new-
ness, but cannot stand the sun and rain,
and assume a very sober aspect after
washing-clay.-Ilawthorne.
It is a truth but too well known, that
rashness attends youth, as prudence does
old age.- Cicero.
In the species with which we are best ac-
qnainted, namely, our own, I am far, even
as an observer of human life, from think-
ing that youth is its happiest season, much
less the only happy one. --Paley.
Youth, when thought is speech and
speech is truth.- Walter Scott.
Youth is not the age of pleasure ; ve
then expect too much, and we are therefore
exposed to daily disappointinents and mor-
tifications. When we are a little older, and
have brought down our wishes to our ex-
perience, then we become calm and begin
to enjoy ourselves.—Lord Liverpool.
Like virgin parchment, capable of any
inscription. Massinger.
Oh, the joy of young ideas painted on the
mind, in the warm, glowing colors fancy
spreads on objects not yet known, when all
is new and all is lovely !-Hannah More.
The fairest flower in the garden of cre-
ation is a young mind, offering and unfold-
ing itself to the influence of divine wiscom,
as the heliotrope turns its sweet blossoms
to the sun.-J. E. Sniith.
The self-conceit of the young is the great
source of those dangers to which they are
exposed.-Blair.
The youth of the soul is everlasting, and
eternity is youth.--Richter.
The morning ot life is like the dawn of
day, full of purity, of imagery, and har-
mony.- - Chateaubriand.
Which of us that is thirty years old has
not bad his Pompeii? Deep under ashes
lies the life of youth--the careless sport,
the pleasure and passion, the darling joy.
Thackeray.
Hard are lifa's early steps; and but that
youth is buoyant, confident, and strong in
hope, men would belold its threshold and
despair.-L. E. Landon. .
Girls we love for what they are ; young
men for what they promise to be.-Goethe.
It is with youth as with plants, from the
first fruits they bear we learn what may be
expected in future.-Demophilus.
Death is dreadful, but in the first spring-
tide of youth to be snatched forcibly from
the bauquet to which the individual haş -
but just sat down is peculiarly appalling.
-Walter Scott.
Youth ever thinks that good whose good-
ness or evil be sees not. Sir P. Sidney.
There are no more pitiable objects in the
world-and we see them too often in our
large cities—than youths who are men only
in the follies and vices of manhood. They
know everything that is not worth know-
ing, but of learning, culture, true art, and
pure religion they know nothing.-C. A.
Stoddard.
I have often thought what a melancholy
world this would be without children, and
what an inluman world without the aged.
- Coleridge.
Youth is not like a new garment, which we
can keep fresh and fair by wearing spar-
ingly. Youth, while we have it, we must
wear daily, and it will fast wear 'away.-J.
Foster.
Youths will never live to age unless they
keep themselves in breath by exercise, and
in heart by joyfulness. Too much think-
ing doth consume the spirits ; and oft it
falls out, that while one thinks too much of
doing, be fails to do the effect of his think-
ing.–Sir P. Sidney.
Happy season of virtuous youth, when
shame is still an impassable barrier, and
the sacred air-cities of hope have not
shrunk into the mean clay hamlets of real-
ity; and man, by his nature, is yet infinite
and free.-Carlyle.
Youth is not rich in time; it may be
poor ; part with it, as with money, spar-
ingly ; pay no moment of it but in purchase
of its worth ; and what its worth, ask
death-beds--they can tell.—Young.
The destiny of any nation, at any given
time, depends on the opinions of its young
men under five-and-twenty.—Goethe.
There is no funeral so sad to follow as
the funeral of our own youth, which we
have been pampering with fond desires,
ambitious hopes, and all the bright berries
that hang in poisonous clusters over the
path of life.-Landor.
If the spring puts forth no blossoms. in
summer there will be no beauty, and in
autumn no fruit. So if youth be trifled
away without improvement, manhood will
be contemptible, and old age miserable.
Blair.
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The remembrance of youth is but a sigh.'
-drabian Proverb.
While young, hoard up a great stock of
knowledge; though in that season of dissi-
pation you may not have occasion to spend
much of it, yet a time will come when you
will need it to maintain you.- Chesterfield.
When we are out of sympathy with the
young, then I think our work in this world
is over.-G. Macdonald.
When will young and inexperienced
men learn caution and distrust of them-
selves. --Burke.
It must be an industrious youth that
provides against age; he that fools
away the one, must either beg or starve in
the other.-
Estrange.
Youth is to all the glad season of life, but
often only by what it hopes, not by whatit
attains or escapes.- Carlyle.
I would not waste my spring of youth
in idle dalliance ; I would plant rich seeds,
to blossom in my manhood, and bear fruit
when I am old.-Hillhouse.
Z.
ZEAL.-Nothing can be fairer or more
noble than the holy ferror of true meal.-
Molière.
Zeal is the fire of love, active icz duty-
burning as it flies. - Williaris.
Zeal and duty are not siow; but on oc-
casion's firelock watchful wait.- Milton.
If our zeal were true and genuine, we
should be more angry with a siuner than
with a heretic.- dddison.
Experience shows that success is due less
to ability than to zeal. The winner is he
who gives himself to his work, body and
soul. Charles Buxton.
People give the name of zeal to their pro-
pensity to mischief and violence, though it
is not the cause, but their interest that in-
flames them.-Montaigne.
The frenzy of nations is the statesman-
ship of fate. --Bulwer.
I like men who are temperate and mode-
rate in everything. An excessive zeal for
that which is good, though it may not be
offensive to me, at all events raises iny
wonder. and leaves me in a difficulty how I
should call it.—Montaigne.
Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated,
when it encroaches upon the rights of
others.—Queskel.
All true zeal for God is a zeal also for love,
mercy, and goodness.-P. E. Thompson.
A zealous sool without meekness, is like
a ship in a storm, in danger of wrecks. A
meek soul without zeal, is like a ship in a
calm, that moves not so fast as it ought.-
J. M. Mason.
Zeal without knowledge is like expedition
to a man in the dark.-John Newton.
Zeal for the public good is the character-
istic of a man of honor and a gentleman,
and must take place of pleasures, profits,
and all other private gratifications." Who-
ever wants this motive, is an open enemy,
or an inglorious neuter to mankind, in
proportion to the misapplied advantages
with which nature and fortune have blessed
him.-Steele.
Zeal without knowledge is like fire with-
out a grate to contain it; like a sword with-
out a hilt to wield it by ; like a high-bred
horse without a bridle to guide him. It
speaks without thinking, acts without plan-
ning, seeks to accomplish a good end with-
out the adoption of becoming means.-
Bate.
False zeal may rise as high as true, and
indeed much higher; because it is ex-
tremely apt to estimate its object above its
intrinsic and comparative importance.
Besides, when a totally selfish heart is
avasoned into zeal, there is nothing in it
to stem the tide of affections, which all
unite and harmonize in the ardent pursuit
of a selfish end. True zeal is a strong,
steady, uniform, benevolent affection ; but
false zeal is a strong, desultory, boisterous,
selfish passion.--Emmons.
Whether zeal or moderation be the point
we aim at, let us keep fire out of the one,
and frost out of the other.-Addison.
Zealous men are ever displaying to you
the strength of their belief, while judicious
men are showing you the grounds of it. -
Shensione.
It is the living, present apprehension of
God that makes the Christian zealot, as it
made the Jewish. It is the admixture of
ignoble, selfish, narrow or confused notions
with that apprehension, which degrades
and debases that zeal, and in the end de-
stroys it.-R. E. Thompson.
When we see
an eager assailant of
wrongs, a special reformer, we feel like
asking him. That right have you, sir, to
your one virtue ? Is virtue piecemeal ?-
Emerson.
I have never known a trader in philan-
thropy who was not wrong in his head or
heart, somewhere or other. ~Coleridge.
'Tis a zealot's faith that blasts the
shrines of the false god, but builds 20
temple to the true.--Sydney Dobell.
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Zealots have an idol, to which they con-
secrate themselves high-priests, and deem
it holy work to offer sacrifices of whatever
is most precious.-Hawthorne.
For virtue's self may too much zeal be
had ; the worst of madness is a saint run
mad.-Pope.
Violent zeal even for truth has a hundred
to one odds to be either petulancy, ambi-
tion, or pride.-Swift.
Nothing hath wrought more prejudice to
religion, or brought more disparagement
upon truth, than boisterous and unseason-
able zeal.-Barrow.
To be furious in religion is to be irre-
ligously religious.—Penn.
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