Treasury of Thought

Treasury of Thought

TREASURY OF THOUGHT.

An Encyclopedia of Quotations

FROM
ANCIENT AND MODERN AUTHORS.

BY

MATURIN M. BALLOU.

I love to lose myself in other men’s minds. — LAMn.

They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps. — SHAKESPEARE.

Short sentences drawn from a long experience. — CERVANTES!
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SEVENTH EDITION.

BOSTON:
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY.

She Kitersize Press, Cambritae,
1881.


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QUOTATION, SIR, I8 A Goop THING; THERE 1S A COMMUNITY OF MIND IN IT; CLAS-
SICAL QUOTATION IS THE PAROLE OF LITERARY MEN ALL OVER TIE WORLD. —
Samuel Johnson,

HOW MANY OF US HAVE BEEN ATTRACTED TO REASON; FIRST LEARNED TO THINK, TO
DRAW CONCLUSIONS, TO EXTRACT A MORAL FROM THE FOLLIES OF LIFE, BY SOME DAZ
zLinc aPHoORiSM !— Bulwer Lytton.

I HERE PRESENT THEE WITI A HIVE OF BEES, LADEN SOME WITH WAX AND SOME
WITII IONEY. FEAR NOT TO APPROACH! TIIERE ARE NO IORNETS WERE. IF SOME WAN-
TON BEE SHOULD CHANCE TO BUZZ ABOUT THINE EARS, STAND THY GROUND, AND HOLD
THINE IANDS; THERE'IS NONE WILL STING THEDE 1F THOU STRIKE NOT FIRST. IF ANY
DO, SIE HATH HONEY IN HER BAG WILL CURE THEE TOO. — Francis Quarles.

THUS HAVE I, AS WELL AS I COULD, GATHERED A POSEY OF OBSERVATIONS AS THEY
GREW} AND IF SOME RUE AND WORMWOOD BE FOUND AMONG THE SWEET IERBS, THEIR
WHOLESOMENESS WILL MAKE AMENDS FOR THEI} BITTERNESS. ~ Lord Lyttelton.

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PRHFACE.

LET EVERY BOOK-WORM, WIHTEN IN ANY FRAGRANT SCARCE OLD TOME HE DISCOVERS A SEN-
TUNCK, A STORY, AN ILLUSTRATION, THAT DOES HIS HEART GOQD, HASTEN TO GIVE IT.—
‘ Coleridge.

Tue work herewith presented is the offspring of a desultory course of read-
ing, extending through a period of more than twenty years. When, in the
pleasant paths of study, an apothegm or vivid saying has been met with,
bearing the impress of mind and mature thought, illustrating in a concise ,
and significant manner a great truth, or exhibiting some marked phase of
philosophy or peculiar aspect of life, with brief but happy expressions of
familiar things, such gems have been transferred from their original setting
for record and classification. .

The incipient steps in this direction were the natural ones of a thought-
ful reader, such as turned-down leaves and marginal notes, until a curiosity
~ to compare the refined thought of one favorite author or classic authority
with that of another upon the same theme lcd to a series of pencilled
extracts upon various cardinal subjects. Mental research was thus gradually
stimulated to collect from the shores of litcrature such golden sands as,
from their brilliancy and suggestiveness, dazzled both the sense and the im-
agination,

For years this constantly growing collection was solely pursued as a matter
of personal interest, and with no idea of future publication, until its volume
had so increased, and its varicty become so comprehensive, as to attract the
attention of others who were casually aware of its existence. In a literary
point of view, the undersigned claims no merit, save that of an industrions
compiler, whose labor has been its own great reward, in the pleasurable mem-
ories it has aroused of those authors, ancient and modern, with whom so
many delightful hours have been passed.

M. M. B.


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TO
THE PATIENT AND CHEERFUL ASSOCIATE OF MY STUDIES, AFTER MORE THAN
TIUIRTY YEARS OF MAPPY COMPANIONSILP,

THIS VOLUME

IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED.

BY

THE COMPILER.


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A.

ABILITY.
ABSENCE.
ABSTINENCE,
ABUSE.
ACCIDENT.

ACQUIREMENTS.

ACTION.
ACTORS.
ADAPTATION.
ADDRESS.
ADMIRATION.
ADVERSITY.
ADVICE.
AFPFECTATION.
AFFECTION.
AFFLICTION.
AGE.
AGREEABLE.
AORICULTURE,
ALCHEMY.
ALLEGORY.
AMBASSADOR.
AMBITION.
AMERICA,
AMIABILITY.
AMNESTY.
AMUSEMENTS.
ANALOGY.
ANCESTRY.
ANGELS.
ANGER.
ANGLING.
ANTICIPATION.
ANTIQUITY.
ANXIETY.
APOLOGY.
APOTILEGMS.
APPEARANCES.
APPETITE.
APPLAUSE.
APPRECIATION.

ARCHITECTURE.

ARGUMENT,
ARISTOCRACY.
ARMY.
ARROGANCE.
ART.
ARTIFICE
ASKING.
ASPIRATION.
ASSERTION.
ASSOCIATES.
ASSOCIATION.
ASSURANCE.
ASTRONOMY.
ATHEISM.
ATTENTION.
AUSTERITY.
AUTHORITY.
AUTHORS,
AUTUMN.
AVARICE.

AWKWARDNESS.

INDEX OF SUBJECTS.

B.

(BABE.
‘BACHELOR.
BALLADS.
BARGAIN.
BASENESS.
BASHFULNESS.
BATTLE.
BEARD.

BEAU.
BEAUTY.
BEES,
BEGGARS.
BELAVIOR.
BELIEF.
BENEDICTION.
BENEVOLENCE.
BEREAVEMENT.
BIBLE.
BIGOTRY.
BIOGRAPHY.
BIRTH.
BIRTHPLACE.
BLESSEDNESS.
BLOCKHEAD.
BLUNTNESS.
BLUSH.
BLUSTERING.
BOASTING.
BODY.
BOLDNESS.
BONDAGE.
BOOKS.
BORES.
BORROWING.
BOUNTY.
BRAINS.
BRAVERY.
BREVITY,
BRIBERY.
BROTHERHOOD.
BRUTE.
BURLESQUE.
BUSINESS.
BUSYBODY.

Cc.

CALAMITIES.
CALUMNY.
CANDOR.
CANT.

CARI.
CARICATURE,

CASTLES IN THE AIR.

CAUSE.
CAUTION.
CELERITY.
CENSURE.
CEREMONY.
CIIANGE,
CIEANGE,
CILARACTER.
CHARITY.
CUASTITY.

CHEERFULNESS.
CHILDREN.
CHIVALRY.
CHOICE.
CHRIST.
CHRISTIANITY.
CIURCH.
CHURLISIINESS.
CIRCUMSTANCES,
CITIES.
CIVILIZATION.
CLEANLINESS
CLEMENCY.
CLOUDS.

COLOR.
COMFORT.
COMMANDER.
COMMERCE.
COMMON-SENSE.
COMPARISON.
COMPASSION,
COMPENSATION,
COMPLACENCY.
COMPLAINING.
COMPLIMENTS.
CONCEIT.
CONDUCT.
CONFESSION.
CONFIDENCE.
CONSCIENCE.
CONSERVATISM.
CONSISTENCY.
CONSOLATION,
CONSPIRACY.
CONSTANCY.

CONTEMPLATION.

CONTEMPT.
CONTENTMENT.
CONTRADICTION.
CONTRAST.
CONVERSATION.
CONVERSION.
COQUETRY.

-| CORRUPTION,

COUNTRY.
COURAGE.
COURTESY.
COURTIER
COURTSINP.
COVETOUSNESS.
COWARDICE.
COXCOMB.
CREDITOR.
CREDULITY.
CREED.
CRIME.
CRISIS.
CRITICISM.
CRITICS.
CRUELTY.
CULTIVATION.
CUNNING
CURIOSITY.
CURSES.
CUSTOM.
CYNICISM.

D.

DANCING.
DANGER,
DAUGHTER.
DEATII.

DEBT.
DECEIT.
DECENCY.
DECISION.
DEFEAT.
DEFERENCE,
DEFORMITY.
DELAY.
DELICACY.
DELUSION.
DEMOCRACY.
DEPENDENCE.
DESERTS.
DESIRE
DESPAIR,
DESPATCH,
DESVONDENCY.
DESPOTISM.
DESTINY.
DEVOTION.
DEW,

DIET.
DIFFICULTY.
DIFFIDENCE.
DIGNITY.
DILIGENCE,
DIRT. -
DISAPPOINTMENT,
DISCERNMENT.
DISCIPLINE,
DISCONTENT,
DISCOVERY.
DISCRETION,
DISEASE.
DISGUISE.
DISIIONESTY.
DISPLAY.
DISPUTE,
DISSIMULATION.
DISTINCTION.
DISTRUST.
DOCTRINE.
DOGMATISM.
DOMESTIC.
DOUBT.
DRAMA,
DREAMS.
DRESS.
DRUNKENNESS.
DUFLS.
DULNESS,
DUTY.

E.

FBARNESTNESS.
BARTIL.
ECCENTRICITY.
¥CILO.
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x INDEX
EDITOR. FRIENDSHIP,
EDUCATION. FRUGALITY.
EGOTISM,. FUN.
ELEGANCE. FUTURITY.
ELOQUENCE.
EMPIRE. G.
EMPLOYMENT.
EMULATION. GALLANTRY.
ENCOURAGEMENT. GAMBLING.
ENDURANCE. GAYETY.
ENEMIES. GENEROSITY.
ENERGY. GENIUS.
ENJOYMENT. GENTILITY.
ENNUI. GENTLEMAN.
ENTERPRISE.- GENTLENESS.
ENTIFUSIASM. GIBBET. *
ENVY. GIFTS.
EQUALITY. QLADNESS.
EQUANIMITY. GLOOM.
EQUITY. GLORY.
EQUIVOCATION. GLUTTONY.
ERROR. GOD.
ESTEEM, GOD-LIKE.
ESTIMATION. GOLD. -
ETERNITY. GOOD-BREEDING.
ETHICS. GOOD-NATORE.
EVASION. GOODNESS.
EVENING. GOOD-TASTE.
EVIL. GOSPEL.
EVIL-SPEARING. GOSSIP.
EXAGGERATION. GOVERNMENT.
EXAMPLE, GRACE.
EXCELLENCE. GRAMMAR.
‘EXCELSIOR. GRANDEUR.
EXCEPTIONS. GRATITUDE,
EXCESS. GRAVE.
EXCUSE. GRAVITY.
EXERCISE. GREATNESS.
EXPECTATION. GREETING.
EXPEDIENCY. ) GRIEF.
EXPERIENCE, GRUDIBLING.
EXTENUATION. GUILE.
EXTRAVAGANCE. GUILT.
EXTREMES. GUNPOWDER.
EYES. °
Hi.
F. HABIT.
FACE, HAIR,
FACT, ILAND.
FAILURE. HANDSOME.
FAItIT IWAPPINESS.
FALSEHOOD. HARMONY.
FAME ITARVEST.
FAMILIARITY, HASTE.
FANATICISM IATRED.
FANCY. HEAD.
FAREWELL. HEALTH,
FASHION. HEART.
FATE. II[EARTLESSNESS.
FAULTS. HEAVEN.
FEAR. TIEIRS.
FEELINGS. HERALDRY.
FICKLENESS. TIEREAFTER.
FICTION. IERO.
FIDELITY. HEROISM.
FIRMNESS, IISTORY.
FLATTERY. | HOBBY.
FLOWERS. IIOLIDAY.
FOE. TIOLINESS.
FOOLISHNESS. TIOME.
FOOLS. JIOMELINESS.
FOOTSTEPS. ILONESTY.
FOPPERY. HONOR.
FORBEARANCE. ILQPE.
FORCE. TIORSEMANSHIP.
FORETIHOUGHT, HOSPITALITY.
FORGETEOLNESS. HUMANITY.
FORGIVENESS. HOMAN NATURE,
FORTITUDE. HUMILITY.
FORTUNE. HUMOR.
FRAIUTY. HYPOCRISY.
FRANCE.
FRANKNESS. L
FRAUD. .
FREEDOM. IDEAL.
FREE-SPEECH. IDEAS.

OF

SUBJECTS.

IDLENESS.
IGNORANCE.
ILL-NATURE,
ILLS.

ILLUSION,
ILL-WILL.
IMAGINATION.
IMITATION.
IMMODESTY.
IMMORTALITY.
IMPATIENCE.
IMPERFECTION.
IMPOSITION.
DMPOSSIBILITY.
IMPRISONMENT,
IMPROVEMENT.
IMPROVIDENCE.
ISIPUDENCE.
IMPULSE,
INCONSISTENCY.
INCONSTANCY.
INCREDULITY.
INDECISION,
INDEPENDENCE,
INDIFFERENCE.
INDISCRETION.
INDIVIDUALITY.
INDOLENCE.
INDUSTRY.
INFAMY.
INFIDELITY.
INFINITE.
INFLUENCE,
INGRATITUDE.
INHERITANCE,
INJURY.
INJUSTICE,
INNOCENCE
INNOV ATION. ~
INQUISITIVENESS.
INSENSIBILITY.
INSPIRATION,
INSTINCT,
INSTRUCTION.
INSULT.
INTELLECT.
INTELLIGENCE.
INTEMPERANCE.
INTENTIONS,
INTEREST,
INTERFERENCE,
INTOLERANCE.
INTRIGUE.
INTUITION?
INVENTION,
TRONY.
ISOLATION.

J.

JEALOUSY,
JEERING.
JESTING.
JEWELS.
JOY.
JUDGMENT.
JUSTICE.

K.
KINDNESS.
KINGS.
KISSES.
KNAVERY.

‘ KNOWLEDGE.

L.

LABOR.
LANDSCAPE.

‘LANGUAGE.

LAUGHTER.
LAW.
LEARNING.
LEISURE.
LENDING.
LENITY.

LETTERS.
LEVITY.
LIBERALITY.
LIBERTY.
LIBRARY.
LICENSE.
LICENTIOUSNESS.
LIFE.

LIGHT.
LITERATURE.
LOGIC.
LOQUACTTIY.
LOSSES.

MACHINERY.
MAIDENHOOD.
MADNESS.
MAGNANIBIITY.
MAJORITY.
MALICE.
BIAMMION,
MAN.
MANAGEMENT,
MANNERS.
MARTYRS.
MASTER.
MATRIMONY.
MEANNESS.
MEDICINE.
MEDIOCRITY.
MEDITATION.
MEETING.
MELANCILOLY,
MEMORY.
MENDICANTS.
MERCY.
MERIT.
METAPHOR.
METAPHYSICS.
METHOD.
MIDNIGHT.
MIND.
MINORITY.
MIRACLE.
MIRTH.
MISANTHROPY,
MISCHIEF.
MISER.
MISERY.
MISFORTUNE,
MISTAKE.
BIISTRUST.
MOB.
MODERATION.
MODESTY.
MONEY,
MONOMANIA.
MONUMENTS,
MOON.
MOONLIGHT.
DIORALITY.
MORNING.
MOROSENESS.
MORTALITY.
DIOSSES.
MOTHER.
MOTIVE.
MUNIFICENCE.
MURDER,
MUSIC.
MUTABILITY.
MYSTERY.
MYTHOLOGY.

N.

NAME.
NATIONALITY.
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INDEX OF SUBJECTS.

NATURE
NEATNESS,
NECESSITY.
NEGLECT.
NEGRO.
NEUTRALITY.
NEWS,
NICKNAME,
NIGHT.
NOBILITY,
NOISE,
NONSENSE,
NOTILING
NOTORIETY.
NOVELS.
“NOVELTY.

0.
OATHS
OBEDIENCE.
OBESITY.
OBLIGATION.
OBLIVION
OBSCURITY.
OBSERVATION.
ORSTINACY.
ORTUSEN ESS
OCCTIIPATION.
OFFENCE.
OFFICE.
OMNIPOTENCE.
OPINION.
OPPORTUNITY.
OPPOSITION.
OPPRESSION.
ORATORY.
ORDER.
ORIGINALITY.
ORNAMENT.
OSTENTATION.

P.

PAIN.
PAINTING.
PANIC.
PARADISE,
PARD!
PARENT.
PARTING.
PARTY.
PASSION.
PAST.
PATIENCE.
TRIOTISM.

PATRONAGE.
PAYMENT.
PEACE.

PENETRATION.
PERCEPTION.
PERFECTION.
PERSECUTION.
PERSEVERANCE.
PERSUASION.
PERVERSENESS,
PHILANTHROPY.
PHILOSOPILY.
PILYSIC—PHYSICIAN,
PITYSIOGNOMY.
PIETY,

PITY.
PLAGIARISM.
PLEASURE,
POETRY.
POLICY.
POLITENESS,
POLITICS.
POPULACE.
POPULARITY.
POSITION.
POSITIV ENESS.
POSTERITY.

POVERTY.
POWER.
PRAISE.
PRAYER,
PREACHING,
PRECEDENT,
PRECEPT.
PREFERMENT.
PREJUDICE,
PRESENT.

PRESS,
PRETENSION.
PREVENTION.
PRIDE,
PRINCIPLES.
PROCRASTINATION.
PROFANITY.
PROFLIGATE.
PROGRESS,
PROMISE.
PROSPERITY.
PROVERBS.
PROVIDENCE.
PRUDENCE,
PUBLIC.

PUFFING.
PUNCTUALITY.
PUNISIIMENT.
PUNS.

PURITY,

Q.
QUACKS.
QUARRELS.
QUIET.
QUOTATION,

R.
RAGE.
RAIN.
RAINBOW,
RANK,
RAPTURE.
RARITY.
RASIENESS.
READING.
REALITY.
REASON.
REBELLION.
RECIPROCITY.
RECONCILIATION.
RECREATION.
REDEMPTI
REFINEMENT,
REFLECTION.
REFORM.
RELIGION
REMEMBRANCE.
REMORSE.
RENEGADE
RENOWN.
REPARTER.
REPENTANCE.
REPOSE.
RERROACH.
REPROOE.
REPUBLIC,
REPUBLICANISM.
REPUTATION. -
RESENTMENT.
RESERVE.
RESIGNATION.
RESOLUTION.
RESPON IBILITY ,
RESURRECTION,
RETIREMENT,
RETRIBUTION.
REVENGE.
REVERENCE,
REVERY
REVOLUTION,
REWARD.
RITETORIC.
RICHES.

RIDICULE.
RIGOR,
TUVALRY,
LOBBERY,
ROGUE.
ROMANCE.
RUDENESS.
RUINS.
RONOR.

8.

SABBATH,
SACRIFICE.
SADNESS.
SARCASM.
SATIETY.
SATIRE,
SCANDAL.
SCARS.
SCENERY.
SCEPTICISM.
SCIENCE,
SCOLDING.
SCRIPTURES.
SEA,

SEASONS.
SECRECY.
SELF-CONCEIT.
SELF-CONTROL.
SELF-DECFIT.
SELF-DENIAL.
SELF-EX AMINATION.
SELFISIINESS.
SELF-LOVE
SELF-PRAISE.
SELF-RELIANCE.
SELF-RESPECT.
SELF-SAGRIFICK.
SELF-SUFFICIENCY
SELF-WILL.
SENSIBILITY.
SENSITIVENESS.
SENSUALITY.
SENTIMENT.
SENTIMENTALISM.
SEPARATION,
SERVANTS.
SERVITUDE.
SILAKESPEARE.
STIAME.
SICKNESS.
SIGIIT.
SILENCE.
SIMILE.
SIMPLICITY.
SIN.
SINCERITY.
SINGULARITY.
SLANDER,
SLEEP.

SLOTII.

SMILE.
SOCIABILITY.
SOCIETY.
SOLITUDE.
SONG, :
SOPILISTRY.
SORROW.

SOUL.

SOUND.
SPECIALTY.
SPECULATION.
SPEECI.

SPIRE.

SPITE.

SPORT.
SPRING.
STARS.
STATESMAN.
STATION.
STRANGER.
STRENGTH.
STUBRORNESS.
STUDY.
STUPIDITY.
STYLB.

SUBLIMITY.
SUBORDINATION.
SUBTLETY.
SUCCKSS.
SUICIDE,

SUN.

SUNSET.
SUPERFLUITIES.
SUPERSTITION.
SUSPICION.
SURETY.
SWORD.
SYMPATITY,
SYSTEM.

T.

TABLE-TALK.
TACT.
TALENT.
TALKING.
TASTE.
TATTLING,
TAVERN.
TAXES
TEACHING.
TEARS.
TEMPER
TEMPERANCE.
TEMPTATION.
TENDERNESS,
TERROR.
TESTIMONY.
TIIANKS.
TILEFT,
TILEOLOGY.
THEORIES.
TIOQUGIET,
THOUGHTLESSNESS.
TIIREATS.
THUNDER.
TIME.
TIMIDITY.
TITLE.

TOIL.
TOLERATION.
TOMB.
TO-MORROW,
TONGUE.
TRADE.
TRADITION.
TRAGEDY.
TRAVEL.
TREACIIERY.
TREASON.
TREES.
TRIALS,
TRIFLES.
TRIUMPIT.
TROUBLES,
TRUST,
TRUTH.
TWILIGHT.
TYPE,
TYRANNY,

Uz

UGLINESS
UNBELIEF.
UNCERTAINTY.
UNCOUTIINESS.,
UNDERSTANDING.
UNDERTAKING.
UNEASINESS.
UNFAITHFULNESS.
UNFORTUNATE.
UNGRATEPULNESS,
UNHAPPINESS.
UNION.
UNKINDNESS.
UNSRASONABLENESS
USE.

USEFULNESS,
USURER.

UTILITY.


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Vv.

VAGRANT.
VAINGLORY.
VALOR.
VANITY.
VARIETY.
VEGETATION.
VENGEANCE.
VICE.
VICISSITUDES.
VICTORY.
VIGILANCE.
VILLANY

VINDICTIVENESS.

VIOLENCE.
VIRTUE.
VISITS,

INDEX OF SUBJECTS.

VITUPERATION.
VIVACITY.
VOCATION.
VOICE.
VOLITION.

VOLUPTUOUSNESS.

VOWS.
VULGARITY.

Ww.

WALKING.
WANTS.
WAR.
WASTE.
WEAKNESS,
WEALTH.
WEARINESS.

WELCOME.
WELL- DOING.

WICKEDNESS.

WIFE.
WILFULNESS.
WILL.
WILLING.
WILLs.
WIND.
WINE.
WINTER.
WISDOM:
WISHES.
WIT.
WOE.

‘WOMAN.

WONDER.
Woops.

WORDS.

WORK.

WORLD.
WORLDLINESS.
WORSHIP.
WORTH.
WRITING.
WRONG.

YEARNINGS.
YOUTH.

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ENCYCLOPAIDIA

OF QUOTATIONS.

A.

ABILITY.
The art of being able to make a good use
of moderate abilitics wins estcem, and often

confers more reputation than real merit.—
Rochefoucauld.

Men are often capable of greater things than
they perform. They are sent into the world
with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their
full extent.— Walpole.

The force of his own merit makes his way, a
gift that Heaven gives for him.—Shakespeare.

The abilities of a man must fall short on
one side or other, like too scanty a blanket
when you are abed: if you pull it upon your
shoulders, you leave your feet bare; if you
thrust it down upon your feet, your shoulders
are uncovered.—Sir 1. Temple.

The height of ability consists in a thorough
knowledge of the real value of things, and of
the genius of the age we live in.—Rockefoucauld.

An able man shows his spirit by gentle
words and resolute actions; he is neither hot
nor timid.— Chesterfield.

No man’s abilities are so remarkably shin-
ing, as not to stand in need of a proper oppor-
tunity, 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.

ABSENCE.

*T is ever common, that men are merriest
when they are from home.—Shakespeare.

Distance of time and place do generally cure
what they seem to aggravate; and taking leave
of our friends resembles taking leave of the
world, concerning which it hath been often said
that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fidding.

The joy of mecting pays the pangs of ab-
sence; else who could Bear it Rowe,
1

«

All flowers will droop in absence of the sun
that waked their sweets.— Dryden.

What vigor absence adds to love !—Flatman.

I am not sure if the ladies understand the
full value of the influence of absence, nor do I
think it wise to teach it them, lest, like the Cle-
lias and Mandanes of yorc, they should resume
the humor of sending their lovers into banish-
ment. Distance, in truth, produces in idea the
same effect asin real perspective. Objects are
softened, and rounded, and rendered doubly
graceful ; the harsher and more ordinary points
of character are mellowed down, and those by
which it is remembered are the more striking
outlines that mark sublimity, grace, or beauty.

Walter Scott.

Absent in body, but present in spirit —Bible.

_ Absence diminishes moderate passions and
augments great ones, as the wind extinguishes
candles and kindles the fire—Rochefoucauld.

The absent are never without fault, nor the
present without excuse.—Frenklin.

Absence, like death, sets a sea] on the image
of those we have loved; we cannot realize the
intervening changes which time may have ef-
fected.— Goldsmith.

Our souls much farther than onr eyes can
see.—Jfichael Drayton.

I find the attraction of love‘is in an inverse
proportion to the attraction of the Newtonian
philosophy. Every mile-stone that marked my
progress from Clarinda awakened a keener pang
of attachment.—Burns.

Love reckons hours for months, and days for

years; and every little absence is an age.—
Dryden.

Distance sometimes cndears friendship, and
absence swecteneth it.—LHowell.

Give me to drink mandragora, that I might
sleep ont this great gap of time my Antony is
away.— Shakespeare.


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ABSTINENCE.

ABUSE.

What! keep a week away? Seven days and
nights? eightseore cight hours? and lovers’
absent hours, more tedious than the dial cight-
score timés? O weary reckoning !—Shakespeare.

The presence of those whom we love is as a
double life; absence, in its anxious longing and
sense of vacancy, is as a'foretaste of death.—

Airs. Jameson.
ABSTINENCE.

Ah, how much suffering might be spared
sometimes by a single abstinence, by a single
no answered in a firm tone to the voice of
seduction !—Lavater.

To set the mind above the appetites is the
end of abstinence, which one of the fathers
observes to be, not'a virtue, but the .ground-
work of «a virtue. By forbearing to do what
may innocently be done, we may add hourly
new vigor to resolution,.and secure the power
of resistance when pleasure or interest shall
lend their charms to guilt —Johnson.

He who wishes to travel far is careful of his
steed; drink, eat, sleep, and let_us light a fire
which shall continue to burn.—-Racine.

The more a man denies himself, the more he
shall obtain from God.—Zorace.

The whole duty of man is-embraced in the
two principles of abstinence and patience : tem-
perance in prosperity, and courage in adversity.

Seneca.

Always rise from table with an appetite,
and you will never sit down without one.—
William Penn.

Endeavor to have as little to do with thy
affections and passions as thou canst: and
labor to thy power to make thy body content
to go of thy soul’s errands.—Jeremy Taylor.

His life is paralleled even with the stroke
and line of his great justice; he doth with holy
abstinence subdue that in himself which he
spurs on his power to qualify in others.—

Shakespeare.

The stomach listens to no precepts. It
begs and clamors. And yet it is not an obdu-
rate creditor. It is dismissed with a small pay-
ment, if only you give it what you owe, and not
as much as you can.—Seneca.

The temperate are the most éruly luxurious.
By abstaining from most things, it is surprising
how mauy things we enjoy.— Simms.

Let not thy table exeeed the fourth part of
thy revenue: let thy provision be solid, and not
far fetched, fuller of substance than art: be wisely
frugal in thy preparation, and freely cheerful
in thy entertainment: if thy gnests be right, it
is enough; if not, it is too much: too much is
a vanity; enough is a feast.— Quarles.

Ayich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor
a sound body, without exercise and abstinence ;
and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of
poverty —Lenry Home.

Moderation is the silken string running
through the pearl-chain of all virtues.—J’°uller.

Temperance and labor are the two best
physicians of man ; labor sharpens the appetite,
and temperance prevents him from indulging to
excess.— Housseau.

After all, it is continued temperance which
sustains the body for the longest period of time,
and which most surely preserves it free from
sickness.— Wilhelm von Humboldt.

The miser’s cheese is wholesomest.—
Franklin.

When you have learned to nonrish your
body frugally, do not pique yourself upon it,
nor, if you drink water, be suying*upon every
oceasion, “I drink water.” But first consider
how much more frugal are the poor than we,
and how much more patient of hardship.—

Ppictetus,

The defensive virtue abstinence. —errick.

If thou desire to make the best advantage
of the muses, either by reading, to benefit thy-
self, or by writing, others, keep a peaccful soul
in a temperate body: a full belly makes a dull
brain; and a turbulent spirit, a distracted
judgment: the muses starve in a cook’s shop
and a lawyer’s study.— Quarles.

ABUSE.

Abuse is often of service. There is noth-
ing so dangerous to an author as silenee. His
name, like a shattlecock, must be beat back-
ward and forward, or it falls to the ground.—

Johnson.

It is the wit, the policy of sin, to hate those
men we have abused.—Sur WW. Davenant.

There are more people abusive to others
than lie open to abuse themselves; but the hu-
mor goes round, and he that laughs at me
to-day will have somebody to Jaugh at him to-
morrow.—Seneca.

I never yet heard man or woman much
abnsed, that I was not inclined to think the
better of them; and to transfer any suspicion
or dislike to the person who appeared to take
delight in pointing out the defects of ‘a fellow-
creature.—Jane Porter.

Remember that it is not he who gives abuse
or blows who affronts, but the view we take
of these things as insulting. When, therefore,
any one provokes you, be assured that it is
your own opinion which provokes you.—

Epictetus


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ACCIDENT.

ACTION.

There is a time when men will not suffer
bad things because their ancestors have-suflered
worse. ‘There is«a -time when the hoary head
of inveterate abuse will neither draw reverence
nor obtain protection.— Burke.

When certain persons abuse us, let ns ask
ourselves. what description of characters it is
that they admire ; we shall often find this a very
consolatory question.— Colton.

ACCIDENT.
No accidents are so unlucky but that the
prudent may draw some advantage from them ;
nor are there any so lucky but that the im-

prudent may turn to their prejudice— — ~
Rockefoucauld.

As the unthought-on accident is guilty of
what we wildly do, so we profess ourselves to
be:the slaves of chance, iand flies of every wind
that blows.—Shakespeare.

ACQUIREMENTS.

That good sense which nature affords us is
preferable to most of the knowledge that we
cant. acquire.— Comines.

That which we acquire with the most diffi-
culty we retain the longest; as those who have
earned,a fortune‘are usually more careful of it
than those who have inherited one.—Colton.

ACTION,

There is.no action of man in this life which
is not the beginning of so long a chain of con-
sequences, as that no human providence is high
enough to give’us a prospect to the end.—

Thomas of Malmesbury.

Man is an animal that cannot long be left in
safety without occupation; the growth of his
fallow nature is apt to run into weeds.— Hillard.

Wouldst thou know the lawfulness of the
action which thou desirest to undertake, let
thy devotion recommend it to Divine blessing:
if it be lawful, thou shalt perceive thy heart
encouraged by thy prayer; if unlawful, thou
slialt find thy prayer discouraged by thy heart.
That action is not warrantable which either
blushes to beg a blessing, or, having succeeded,
dares not present a-thanksziving.— Quarles.

Action hangs, as it were, “dissolved” in
speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shad-
ow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The
kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of
action you will get from him.— Carlyle.

Speak out in acts; the time for words has
passed, and deeds alone suffice. — IVhittier.

To do an evil action is hase; to do a good
action, without incurring danger, is common
enough; but it is the part of+a good man to do
great and noble deeds, though he risks every-
thing.—L’lutarch,

the voice of iny inmost soul.

‘they may. be good, yet produce no fruit.

A contemplative life has more the appear-
ance of a life of piety than any other; but it is
the Divine plan to bring fuith into activity and
exercise.— Cecil.

All our actions take their lines from the
complexion of the heart;:as landscapes their
yariety from light.— IV. 7. Bacon.

Not alone to know, but to act according to
thy knowledge, is thy. destination, — proclaims
Not. for indolent
contemplation and study of thyself, nor for
brooding over emotions of piety,—uo, for
action was existence given thee; thy actions,
and thy actions alone, determine thy worth.—

Lichte.

The only true method of action iu this world
is to be in it, but not of it— Madame Swetchine.

Man, being essentially active, must find in
activity his joy, as well as his beauty and
glory; and labor, like everything clse that is
good, is its own reward.— IW Aipple.

The only things in which we ean be said
to have any property are our ,actions. Our
thoughts may be bad, yet produce no poison j

ur
riches may be taken away by misfortune, our
reputation by malice, our spirits by calamity, our
health by disease, our fricuds by death. But
our actions must follow us beyond the grave;
with respect to them alone, we cannot say that
we shall carry nothing with us when we dic,
neither that we shall go naked out of the world.—
Colton.

Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or
the industrious to be at leisure. We must be
always doing or suffering. —Zimmermann.

Unselfish and noble acts ‘are the most radi-
ant epochs in the biography of souls. When
wrought in carliest youth, they lie in the mem-
ory of age like the coral islands, green and
sunny, amidst the melancholy waste of ocean.—

Rev. Dr. Thomas.

Life is a short day; but it isa working-day.
Activity may lead to evil; but inactivity cannot
be led to good.—_Zannah More.

Allowing the performance of an honorable
action to be attended with labor, the labor is
soon over, bnt the honor.is immortal; whereas,
should even pleasure wait on the commission
of what is dishonorable, the pleasure is soon
gone, but the dishonor is eternal.—John Stewart.

Our «actions are like the terminations of

verses, which we rhyme as we please.—
Rochefoucauld.

T have lived to know that the secret of hap-

piness is never to allow your‘energies to stag-
nate.—Adam Clarke.


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ACTION.

ACTION.

Be not too tame neither, but let your own
discrction be your tutor; suit the action to the
word, the word to the action; with this special
observance, that you o’erstep not the modesty
of nature.—Shakespeare.

All power appears only in transition. Per-
manent power is stuff.—Vovalis.

Act! the wise ‘are known by their actions;
fume and immortality are ever their attendants.
Mark with deeds the vanishing traces of swift-
rolling time. Let us make happy the circle
around us,—be useful as much as we may.
For that fills up with soft rapture, that dissolves
the dark clouds of the day !—Salis.

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
Shakespeare.

Indolenee 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
human frame.—Haztitt.

It behooves the high for their own sake to do
things worthily.— Ben Jonson.

It is hard to personate and.act a part long;
for where Truth is not at the bottom, Nature
will always be endeavoring to return, and will
peep out and betray herself onc time or other.—

Tillotson.

Strong reasons make strong actions.—
Shakespeare.

The Lord is a God of knowledge, and by
hin actions are weighed.—Bidle.

Man is born for action; he onght to do
something. Work, at cach step, awakens a
sleeping force and roots out error. Who docs

nothing, knows nothing. Rise! to work! Ifj

thy knowledge is real, employ it; wrestle with,
nature ; test the strength of thy theories; see if
they will support the trial ; act !—A/oysius.

Our actions are our own ; their consequences
belong to Heaven.—P. Francis.

“There is nothing so terrible as activity
without insight,” says Goethe. “ I would open
every one of Argus’s hundred cyes before I used

Action is the highest perfection and draw-
ing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and
activity of man’s nature.—South.

Better that we should err in action than
wholly refuse to perform. The stomm is so
much better than the calm, as it deelares the
presence of a living principle. Stagnation is
something worse than death. It is corruption

-also.—Simms.

The flighty purpose never is o’ertook un-
less the deed go with it—Shakespeare.

Let us, if we nuust have great actions, make
our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity,
and the least admits of being inflated with celes-
tial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.—

Emerson,

Activity is the presence of funetion, —~ char-
acter is the record of function. — Greenough.

No man should be so much taken up in the
search of truth, as thereby to neglect the more
necessary duties of active life; for after all is
done, it is action only that gives a truc value
and commendation to virtue.— Cicero.

Active natures are rarely melancholy. Ac-
tivity and melancholy are incompatible.—Bovee.

Do not be afraid becanse the community
teems with excitement. Silence and death are
dreadful. The rush of life, the vigor of earnest
men, the conflict of realities, invigorate, cleanse,
and establish the truth.— Beecher.

Action is cloqnence, and the eyes of the
ignorant more learned than their cars.—
Shakespeare.

The activity of the yonng is like that of rail
cars in motion, — they tear along with noise and
turmoil,'‘and leave peace behind them. The

/quictest nooks, invaded by them, lose their qui-

etude as they pass, and recover it only on their
departure. Time’s best gift to us is serenity.—
Bovee.

Celerity is never more admired than by the
negligent.— Shakespeare.

It is good policy to strike while the iron is
hot ; it is still better to adopt Cromwell’s pro-

one of Briaveus’s hundred hands,” says Lord, cedure, and make the iron hot hy striking.

Bacon. “Look before you leap,” says John
Smith, all over the world.— Whipple.

Our acts make or mar us,—we are the
children of our own deeds.— Victor Hugo.

Remember that in all miseries lamenting

becomes fools, and action, wise folk.—
Sir P. Sidney.

A stirring dwarf we do allowance give before
a sleeping giant.—Shakespeare.

The master-spirit who can rule the storm is
great, but he is much greater who can both
raise and rule it.—. £. Magoon.

How slow the time to the warm sonl, that,
in the very instant it forms, would execute a
great design !—Thomson.

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.— Shakespeare. -


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ACTION. 5

ACTORS.

i

Hast thou not Greek cnough to understand
thus inuch: the end of. man is an action and
not a thought, though it were of the noblest.—

Carlyle.

Deliberate with caution, but act with decis-
fon; and yield with graciousness, or oppose
with firmness.—Colton.

_ The keen spirit scizes.the prompt occasion ;
makes the thought start into instant action,
and at once: plans and performs, resolves and
executes !—Z/annah Afore.

The firefly only shines when on the wing;
so is it with the mind; when ouce-we rest, we
darken.—Bailey.

Words are good, but there is something
better. The best is not to be explained by
words. The spirit in which we act is the chief
matter. Action can only be understood and
represented by the spirit. No one knows what
he is doing while he is acting rightly, but of
what is wroug we are always conscions.— Goethe.

It is vain to expect any advantage from our
profession of the truth, if we be not sincerely
just and honest in onr actions.—

Archbishop Sharpe.

Men’s actions to futurity appear but as the
events to which they'are conjoined do give them
consequence.—Joanna Baillie.

Thonght and theory must precede all action
that moves to salutary purposes. Yet action is
nobler in itself than either thought or theory.—

Wordsworth.

Every event that a‘man would master must
be monnted on the run, and no man ever caught
the reins of a thought except as it galloped by
him.—Zolines.

Toil, feel, think, hope. A man is snre to
dream cnough before he dies withont making
arrangements for the purpose.—sSterling.

There is no word or action but may be
taken with two hands,—cither with the right
hand of charitable construction, or the sinister
interpretation of malice and suspicion; and
all things do sneceed as they are taken. To
constrne-an evil action well is but a pleasing
and profitable deceit to myself; but to iis-
construe a good thing is -a- treble-wrong, — to
myself, the action, and the author.— Bishop Hall.

What a man knows shonld .find its expres-
sion in what he does. The value of superior
knowledge is chiefly in that it leads to a per-
forming manhood.—Bovee.

Actions rire and sndden do commonly pro-
eeed from fierce necessity, or else from some
oblique desien, which is ‘ashamed to show itself
in the public-road:—Sir WW. Davenant.

. The least movement is of importance to all
nature. ‘The entire ocean is.atteeted by a peb-
ble.—Pascal.

Act well at the moment,-and you have per-
formed a good action to. all eternity.—Lavater.

Just in proportion:as a man becomes good,
divine, Christlike, he passes out of the region
of theorizing, of system-building, and hireling
service, into the region of benceticent activities.
It ts well to think well. It is divine to. act
well.— Horace Mann.

Life is an outward occupation, an actnal

work, in all ranks, and all sitnations.—
Wilhel von IZumboldt.

ACTORS. _ ;

Notwithstanding all that Rousseau has ad-
vanced so very ingeniously upon plays ‘and
players, their profession is, like that of a paint-
er, one of the imitative arts, whose means are
pleasure, and whose end is virtue.— Shenstone.

Comedians are not actors; they are only
imitators of actors. —Zimmermann.

They are the only honest hypocrites. Their
life ‘is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.
The height of their ambition is to be beside them-
selves. To-day kings, to-morrow beggars, it is
only when they -are themselves that they:.are
nothing. Mae up of mimic laughter and tears,
passing from the extreines of joy or woe at the
prompter’s call, they wear the livery of other
men’s fortunes; their very ‘thoughts are “not
their own.— Hazlitt.

There is one way by which a strolling player
may be ever secure of success; that is, in onr
theatrical way of expressing it, to make a great
deal of the character. To speak and act as in
common life is not playing, nor is it what peo-
ple come to see; natural speaking, like sweet
wine, runs glibly over the palate, and scarcely
leaves any taste behind it; but being high in'a
part resembles vinegar, which grates upon the
taste, and one fecls it while he is drinking.—

Goldsmith.

Tt is with some violence to the imagination
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
which they assume npon the stage.—Lamb.

Where they do agree on the stage, their
unanimity is wonderful.— Sheridan.

The actor is in the capacity of a steward to
every living muse, and of an executor to every
departed one: the poct digs up the ore; he sifts
it from the dross, refines‘and purifies it for the
mint; thé actor sets the stamp upon it, and
makes it eurrent in the world.— Cumberland.

They are the abstract, and brief chronicles
of the tine. Shakespeare.


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ADAPTATION. 6

All the world’s a stage, and:all the men and
women merely players; they have their exits
and their entrances, -and one man in his time
plays many parts.— Shakespeare.

The stage is a supplement to the pulpit,
where virtue, according tu Plato’s sublime idea,
moves our love and aftection when made visible
to the eye.—Disraeli.

God is the author, men are only the players.
These grand pieces which are played upon earth
have been composed in heaven.— Balzac.

Let those that play yonr clowns speak no
more than is set down for them.—Shakespeare.

The most difficult character in comedy is that |"

of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that
plays that part.—Cervantes. an .

We that live to please must please to live. —
Tohnson.

In acting, barely to perform the part is not
commendable; but to be the least out is con-
temptible.—<Steele.

. On.-the stage he was natural, simple, affect-
ing; it was only when he was off that he was
acting. —Goldsmith.

ADAPTATION.

To wade in marshes and sea margins is the
destiny of certain birds, and they are so aceu-
rately made for this that they are imprisoncd
in those places. Each animal out of its habitat
would starve. To the physician, cach man,
each woman, is an ainplification of one organ.
A soldier, a locksmith, a bank-clerk, and a
dancer could not exchange functions. And
thus we are victims of adaptation.—merson.

ADDRESS.
Brahma once asked of Force, “Who is
stronger than thou?” She replied, “ Address.”
Victor Huyo.

A man who knows the world will not only
make the most of everything he does know, but
of many things he does not know, and will gain
more credit by his adroit mode of hiding his
ignorance than the pedant by his awkward at-
tempt to exhibit his erudition. —Colton.

Give a boy address and accomplishments,
and yon give him the mastery of palaces and
fortnnes where he goes. He has not the trouble
of earning or owning them; they solicit him to
enter and possess.—Zmerson.

There ista certain artificial polish, a com-
monplace vivacity acquired by perpetually ming-
ling in the beau monde, which, in the commerce
of the world, supplies the place of ‘natural
snavity and good-lnunor, but is purchased at
the expense of all origina] and sterling traits of
character.— Washington Irving.

ADMIRATION.

_ Address makes opportunities ; the want of it
gives them.—Bovee.

ADMIRATION.

It may be laid down as a general rule, that
no woman who hath any great pretensions to
admiration is ever well pleased in a company
where she perceives herself to fill only the sec-
ond place.—Fielding.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion,
that immediately decays upon growing familiar
with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh
discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual
succession of miracles rising up to its view.—

~ Addison.

Those who are formed to-win general admira-
tion are seldom calculated to bestow individual
happiness.—Lady Blessington.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.—
Franklin.

Admiration and moderate contemplation
have a great power to prolong life; for these
detain the spirits upon pleasing subjects, with-
out suffering them to tumultuate andlact disor-
derly. But subtle,-acute, -and severe inquiries
cut short life; for they fatigue and wear out
the spirits. —Byron.

We always love those who admire us, but
we do not always love those whom we admire.—

Rochefoucauld.

There is a wide difference hetween -admira-
tion and love. The sublime, which is the canse
of the former, always dwells on great objects
and terrible; the latter on small ones and pleas-
ing; -we submit to what we admire, bunt we
love what submits to us: in one case we are
forced, in the other we are flattered, into com-
pliance.—Burke.

Amid the most mercenary ages it is but a
secondary sort of admiration that is bestowed
npon magnificence.— Shenstone.

To cultivate sympathy yon must be among
living creatures, and thinking about them ;
and to cultivate admiration, you must be
among beautiful things and looking at them.—

- ~ Ruskin,

There is 2 long and wearisome step between
admiration and imitation —Riedter. ~

The love of admiration leads to fraud, much
more than the love of commendation ; but, on
the other hand, the latter is much more likely
to spoil our good actions by the substitution of
an inferior motive-—Bishop Whately.

Admiration must be continued by that nov-
elty which first produces it; and how minch so-
ever is given, there must always be reason to
imagine that more remains.—Johzson.


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ADVERSITY,

ADVERSITY.

Adversity has ever been considered as the
state in which a man most casily becomes ac-
quainted ‘with himself, particularly being free
from tlatterers.—./ohnson. °

Prosperity is too apt to prevent us from
examining our condnet, but as -adversity leads
us ‘to thik properly of our state, it is most
beneficial. to us.—Joknson.

Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like
the toad, thongh ugly-and venomous, wears yet
a-precious jewel in Its head.— Shakespeare.

The truly great and good, in aftliiction, bear
“a countenanee 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.

Half the.ills:we hoard within our hearts are
ills because we hoard them.— Barry Cornwall.

It is often better to have “a great deal of
harm happen to one than a little; a great deal
may rouse you to remove whut a Jittle will only
accustom you to cndure.—Greville.

How full of briers is this working-day world!
“Shakespeare.

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testa-
ment, adversity is the blessing of the New, which
earrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer
revelation of God’s favor.—Bacon.

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the
only balance to Weigh friends.—Plutarch.

The willow which bends to the tempest often
escapes better than the oak, which resists it; and
so, In_ great calamitics, it sometimes happens
that Hight “and frivolous spirits’ recover their
elasticity. and presence of mind sooner -than
those of a lofticr character.— ]Valter Scott.

Adversity is the trial of principle, ‘Without
it, a man hardly knows whether -he is honest or
not.—fielding.

Men think God is destroying them because
he is'tuning them. The violinist screws up the
key till the tense cord sounds the concert pitch ;
but it is not to break it, but to use it tunefnlly,
that he stretches the string upon the musical
rack.—Beecher. ~

Adversity is the first path to truth.—Byron,

Our dependence upon.God ought to be so
entire-and absolute. that we should ever think
it necessary, in any kind of distress, to have
recourse to human consolations.—

° Thomas & Kempis.

Adversity borrows its sharpest sting from
our impatience.—Dishop Lorne,

7 ADVERSITY.

He that can heroically endure adversity
will bear prosperity with equal greatness of
soul; for the mind that cnunot be dejected by
the former is not likely to be transported with
the latter:— Fielding.

Heaven oft in mercy sites, even when the
blow severest is.— Joanna Baillie,

The brightest crowns that are worn in
heaven have been tried, and sinclted, and pol-
ished, and gloritiel through the furnace of
tribulation. — Chapin. ~

Clouds are the veil behind which the faee
of day coquettishly ides itself, to enhance its
beauty.—Jtichter.

By adversity are wrought the greatest works
of admiration, and-all the fair examples of re-
nown, out of distressiand misery are grown.—

Daniel.

One month in the school of affliction will
teach thee more than the great precepts of Aris-
totle in seven years; for thon canst never judge
rightly of human affairs, unless thou hast first
felt the blows, and found out the deccits of for-
tune—Fuller. ~ .

Adversity has the effect of cliciting talents
which in prosperous circumstances would have
lain dormant.—Jorace.

The gods in bounty work up storms -about
us, that give mankind occasion to éxert their
hidden strength, and throw out into practice
virtues that shan the day, and Hie concealed in
the smooth seasons and the calms of life.—

Addison.

Affliction is the good man’s shining scene ;
prosperity conceals his brightest rays; as night
to stars, woe lustre gives to man.— Young.

For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth.—
Bible.

Tn adversity he spirited and firm, and with
equal prudence lessen your sail when filled with
a too fortunate gale of prosperity. — Horace.

There is strength deep-bedded in onr hearts,
of which we reck but little till the shafts of
heaven have pierced its fragile dwelling. “Must
not earth be rent before her gems are found 7—

Mrs. Hemans.

Through danger safety comes — throngh
trouble rest—.John Afarston.

Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue,
where patience, honor, sweet humanity, calm
fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.—
Afallet.

Much dearér be the things which come
through hard distress. —Spenser.


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Prosperity is‘a‘great teacher ; adversity is a
greater. Possession pampers the mind ; priva-
tion trains and strengthens it—ZZazitt.

He that has no cross deserves no crown.—
Quarles.

Genuine morality is preserved only in the
:school of adversity, and a state of continuous
prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to vir-
tue.— Schiller.

In the wounds our sufferings. plough im-
mortal love sows sovereign seed.—J/ussey.

The winter’s frost must rend the burr of the
nut before the frnit is seen. So adversity tem-
pers the human heart, to discover its real worth.

Balzac.

Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer‘and
be strong.—Longfellow.

Mr. Bettenham said that virtnous men were
like some herbs and spices, that give not out
their swect smell till they be broken or crushed.

Bacon.

Those who have suffered much are like those
who know many languages; they have learned
to understand and be understood by all.—

Mudame Swetchine.

A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its
greatest countenance in its lowest estate.—
Sir P. Sidney.

There are minerals ealled hydrophanous,
which are not transparent till they are im-
mersed in water, when they become go ; .as the
hydrophane, a variety of opal. So it is with
many a Christian. ‘Till the floods of adver-
sity have been poured over him, his character
appears marred and clonded by selfishness'and
worldly influences. But trials clear away the
obscurity, and give distinctness and beauty to
his piety. —Professor Hitchcock.

Let me_embrace these sour adversities, for
wise men say it is the wisest course.—
Shakespeare.

The most affluent may be stripped of all, and
find his worldly comforts, like so many with-
ered leaves, dropping from him.—<Sterxe.

Be that has never known adversity is but
half-acquainted with others, or with himself—
Colton.
ADVICE,
How is it possible to expect that mankind
will take advice when they will not so much as
take warning ?—Swift.

Counsel and conversation is a good second
education, that improves all the virtue and
correets all the vice of the former, and of nature
itselfi— Clarendon.

‘

He that gives good advice builds with one
hand ; he that gives good counsel and example
builds with the:other; but he that gives good
admonition and bad exainple builds with one
hand and pulls down with the other.—Bucon.

He who can advise is sometimes supcrior to
him who can give it.— Von Anebel.

Adviee, as it always gives a temporary ap-
pearance of superiority, can never be very grate-
ful, even when it is most necessary or most
judicious ; bnt, for the same reason, every one
is eager to instruct his neighbors.—J/élinson.

The worst men often give the best advice.—
Bailey.

If to do were as easy as to know what were
good to do, chapels had been churehes, and poor
men’s cottages, princes’ palaces. Itis a good
divine that follows his own instructions: I can
easier teach twenty what were good-to be done,
than be one of the twenty to follow mine own
teaching.—Shakespeure.

Good counsels observed are chains to grace.

uller.

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.

Wait for the season when-to cast good coun-
sels upon subsiding passion. — Shakespeare.

Nothing is less sincere than our manner of
asking and of giving advice. He who asks ad-
vice would seem to have a respectful deference
for the opinion of his friend, whilst yet he onl
aims at getting his own approved of, and his
friend“responsible for his conduct.. On the oth-
er hand, le who gives it repays the confidence
supposed to be placed ia him by a seemingly
disinterested zeal, whilst he seldom means any-
thing by the‘advice he gives but his own inter-
est or reputation —Rochefoucauld.

Let no man value ata little price a virtu-
ous women’s counsel.— George Chapman.

No one was ever the better for advice: in
general, what we called giving advice was prop-
erly taking an occasion to show our own wis-
dom at another’s expense; and to receive advice
was little better than tamely to afford another
the occasion of raising himself a character from
our defects.—Lord Shajtesbury.

Mishaps are mastered by advice disereet, and
counsel mitigates the greatest smart.—Spenser.

When we feel a strong desire to thrust our
advice upon others, it is tisually because we
suspect their weakness ; but we ought rather to
suspect our own.— Colton,


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AFFECTATION.

Advice is offensive, not because it lays us

Do not give to thy friends the most agreea-

open to “unexpected regret, or convicts us of | ble counsels, but the most-advantageous.—

‘any fault which has escaped our notice, but
beciuse it shows us that we are known to
others as well as ourselves ; and the oflicious
monitor is persecuted with hatred, not because
his aceusation is false, but becanse he assumes
the superiority whieh we are not willing to
grant him, and has dared to detect whut we
desire to conce:al.—J/oknson. -

How is it that even castaways can give such
good advice ?—.Vinon de U Enclos.

A man takes contradiction and advice much
more easily than people think, only he will
not bear i¢ when violently given, even though
it be well founded. Hearts are flowers; they
remain open to the softly falling dew, but shut
up in the violent downpour of rain.— Richter.

Let no man presume to give advice to oth-
ers that has not first given good counsel to
himself.— Seneca.

There is as mnch difference between the coun-
se] that a friend giveth and that a man giveth
himself, as there is between the counsel of a
friend and of a flatterer; for there is: no such
flatterer as a man’s self, and there is no such rem-
edy against flattery of a man’s self as the liberty
of'a friend.— Bacon.

It has been well observed that few are better
qualified to give others advice than those who
have taken the least of it themselves.— Goldsmith.

It was the maxim, I think, of Alphonsus of
‘Aragon, that dead counsellors ‘are safest. The
grave puts an end to flattery and artifice, and
the information we receive from books is pure
from interest, fear, and ambition. Dead coun-
sellors are likewise” most instructive, because
they are heard with patience and with rever-
ence.— Johnson.

Admonish your friends privately, but praise
them openly.— Publius Syrus.

The greatest trust between man and man is
the trust of giving counscl— Bacon.

T lay very little stress cither upon asking or
giving advice. Generally speaking, they who
ask advice know what they wish to do, and re-
main firm to their intenticas. A man may al-
low himself to be enlightened on yarions points,
even upon matters of expediency ,and duty ; but,
after all, he mnst determine his course of action
for himself.— Withelm-von Zumboldt.

Remember this: they that will not be conn-
selled cannot be helped. If yon do not hear
Reason, she will rap your knuckles.—Franktin.

There is nearly as much ability requisite to
know how to profit by good advice as to know
how to-act for one’s selfi— Rochefoucauld.

Luckerman.

We ask advice, but we mean approbation. —
Colton.

No man is so foolish but he may give an-
other good counsel sometimes, and no man so
wise but he may cusily err, if he takes no
other counsel than ‘his own. He that’ was
taught only by hinself had a fool for a master:

Ben Sonson.

Men give away. nothing so liberally as their
advice.—Rochefoucauld.

I forget whether advice be among the lost
things which Ariosto says are to be found in the
moon: that and time ought to have been
there.— Swift.

Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need
it most like it least.—/ohnson. °

He who calls in the aid of an equal under-
standing doubles his own ; and he who profits
by a superior understanding raises his powers
to a level with the height of the superior under-
standing he unites with —Burke.

Harsh connsels have no effect ; they are like
hammers which are always repulsed by the
anvil.—Helvetius.

In order to convince it is necessary to speak
with spirit and wit; to advise, i¢ must come
from the heart.—D’ Aguesseau.

Every man, however wise, requires the ad-
yice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of
life —Plautus.

It-would trely be a fine thing if men suffered
themselves to be guided by reason, that they
should -acqniesce in the trne remonstrances ad-
dressed to them by the writings of the learned
‘and the advice of friends. But the greater part
are so disposed that the words which enter by
one ear do incontinently go out of the other,
and begin again by following the custom. The
best teacher one can have is necessity.—

Francois la None.

Even the ablest pilots are willing to receive
‘advice from passengers in tempestuous weather,
. - ° Cicero.

We giveadvice by the bucket, but take it by
the grain.— IV. R. Alger.

AFFECTATION,

Among the numerous stratizems by which
pride endeavors to recommend folly to regard,
there is scarcely one that ects with less success
than affectation, or a perpetual disguise of" the
real character by fictitious appearances.—

Johnson.

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AFFECTION.

Great vices are the proper objects of our de-
testation, smaller faults of our pity, but affecta-
tion appears to be the only true source of the
ridiculous. —F%elding.

We are never made so ridiculous by the
qualities we have, as by those we affect to
have.—Rochefoucauld.

Affectation is certain deformity ; by forming
themselves on fantastic models, the young be-
gin with being ridiculous,-and often end in
being vicious.—Blair.

In all the professions every one affects a
particular look and exterior, in order to appear
what he wishes to be thonght; so that it may
be said the world is made up of appearances.—

Kochefoucauld.

Aficetation is a greater enemy to the face
than the small-pox.— St. Evremond.

* Paltry affectation, strained allusions, and
disgusting finery are .easily attained by those
who choose to wear them; they are but.too fre-
quently the badges of ignorance or of' stupidity,
whenever it would endeavor to please.—

Goldsmith.

Affectation hides three times as many virtues
as Charity docs sins.—fforace Mann.

Affectation is to be always distinguished
from hypocrisy, as being the art of counterteit-
ing those qualities, which we might with inno-
cence and safety, be known to want. Hypocri-
sy is the necessary burden of villany ; affectation
part of the chosen trappings of folly.—./oknson.

Die of a rose in aromatic pain.— Pope.

Affectation proceeds from one of these two
causes, — vanity or hypocrisy; for as vanity
puts us on affecting false characters, in order to
purchase applause ; so hypocrisy sets us on an
endeavor to-avoid censure, by concealing our
vices under an appearance of their opposite vir-
tues.— Fielding.

Affectation in any part of our carriage is
lighting np a candle to see our defects, and nev-
er fails to make us taken notice of, either as
wanting sense or sincerity.—Locke.

All affectation is the vain and ridiculous at-
tempt of poverty to appear rich. Zavater.

‘When Cicero consulted the oracle at Del-
phos, concerning what course of studies he
should pursne, the answer was, “ Follow Na-
ture.” If every one would do this, affectation
would be almost unknown.—J. Beaumont.

Avoid all affectation ‘and singularity. What
is according to nature is best, and what is con-
‘trary to it is always distasteful. Nothing is
gracefnl that is not our own.—Jeremy Collier.

Hearts may be attracted by assumed quali-
ties, but the affections are only to be fixed by
those that are real.—Le AYoy.

_I will not call vanity and affectation twins,
because, more properly, vanity is the mother,
and affectation 1s the darling daughter. Vanity
is the: sin, and affectation 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.—Sir H. Saville.

There is a pleasnre in affecting affectation. —
Lamb.

Affectation naturally counterfeits those ex-
eellences which are placed at the greatest dis-
tanee from possibility of attainment, because,
knowing our own deiects, we eagerly endeavor
to supply them: with artificial exccllence.—

Johnson.

Affectation is as necessary to the mind as
dress is to the body.— Hazlitt.

It is remarkable that great affectation and
great absence of it (unconscionsness) are at
first sight very similar; they-are both apt to
produce singularity.— Bishop Whately.

Affectation discovers sooner what one is
than it makes known what one would fain
appeur to be.—Stanislaus.

AFFECTION.

There is so little to redeem the dry mass of
follies and errors from which the materials of
this life are composed, that anything to love or
to reverence becomes, as it were, the Sabbath for
the mind.— Bulwer Lytton.

Loving souls are’ like panpers. They live on
what is given them.—dJ/adame Swetchine.

How often a new affection makes a new
man! The sordid, cowering soul turns heroic.
The frivolous girl becomes the steadfust martyr
of patience and ministration, trausfigured by
deathless love. The career of bownding im-
pulses turns into an anthem of sacred decds.—

Chapin.

It is sweet to feel by what fine-spun threads
our affections are drawn together.— Sterze.

There are few mortals so insensible that
their affections cannot be gained by mildness,
their confidence by sincerity, their hatred by
seorn or neglect.— Zimmermann.

The poor wren, the most diminutive of birds,
will fight, her yonng ones in her nest, agaiust
the owl.—Shakespeare.

The affection of young ladies is of as rapid
prowth-as Jack’s beanstalk,and reaches up-to
the sky in a night.—TZhackeray.


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Alas?! our young affections rou to waste, or
water but the desert.— Byron.

Universal love is a glove without fingers,
which fits afl hands alike, and none closcly 3 but
true aftection is Jike u glove-with fingers, which
fits one hand only, and sits close to that one.—

Richter.

No decking sets forth anything so much as
-affection.—Sir P, Sidney.

How sacred, how beantiful, is the feeling of af
fection in pure and guileless bosoms! “The proud
may sneer at it, the fashionable may eall it fable,

Our happiness in this world depends on the
affections we areenabled to inspire.— .
. Duchesse de Praslin,
If there is anything that keeps the mind
open to angel’ visits, and repels the ministry of
ill, it is human love !— Wilks.

The heart will commonly govern the head ;
‘and it is certain that 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 aficetions.—Dr. Waterland,

The-aftections are immortal! they are the

the selfish and dissipated may affect to despise it ; | sympathics which unite the ecascless genera-
but the holy passion is surely of heaven, and is , tons.— Bulwer Lytton.

made evil hy the corruptions of those whom it
was sent to bless and to preserve.—Aforduunt.

Our sweetest experiences of affection are
meant to be suggestions of that realm which is

There are moments of mingled sorrow and + the home of the heart.—Beecher,

tenderness, which hallow the caresses of affee-
tion. — Washington Irving.

AFFLICTION.
Affliction is a school of virtue: it corrects

One touch of nature makes the whole world ! levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning. —

kin.— Shakespeare.

Why doth Fate, that often hestows thousands

Atterbury.

The -truth is, when we are under any Afilic-

of souls on a conqneror or tyrant, to be the ;,tion, we are generally troubled with a malicions

sport of his passions, so often deny to the ten-
derest and most feeling hearts one kindred one
on which to lavish their affections? Why fs it

that Love must so often sigh in vain for an/j

object, and Uate never *—Jtiehter,

‘kind of melancholy; we only dwell snd pore

upon the sad -and dark ocgurrences of Provi-
dence, but never take notice of the more benign
and bright ones. Our way in this world is like
a walk under a row of trees, checkered with
light and shade; and heeause we cannot all

Of allearthly mnsie, that which reaches the'palong walk in the sunshine, we therefore per-
farthest’into heaven is the beating of a loving |'verscly fix only upon the darker passages, and

heart.-—Beecher.

so lose all the comfort of our comforts. -We
are like froward children who, if you take one

Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of jof their playthings from than, throw away all

compnision, like tempest-threatened trees, un-
firmly rooted, never spring to timely growth.—
John Ford.

There comes a time when the souls of hnman
beings, women more even than men, begin ‘to
faint for the atmosphere of the affections they
are made to breathe.—JZo/mes.

How cling we! to'a thing our hearts have
nursed !—Jrs. C. Lf. W. sling.

If the deepest and best affections which God
has given us sometimes brood over the: heart
like doves of peace, — they sometisnes suck out
our life-blood Tike yampires.—Mrs, Jameson.

. Ihave given snek, and know how tender it
is to love the bube that milks me.—Shakespeare.

Let the foundation of thy affection be virtue,
then make the building as rich and as glorious
.ag thou canst; if the foundation be beauty or
sycalth, and the building virtue, the fonudation
is too weak for the bnildiug, and it will fall:
happy is he, the palace of whose affection is
founded upon virtue, walled with riches, glazed
with beauty, and roofed with honor. —Quazles,

the rest in spite. —Bishop Lopkins.

As threshing separates the wheat from the
chaff, so docs afiliction purify virtue.— Burton.

God washes the eyes by-tears until they can
behold the invisible land where tears shall come
no more. O love! © affliction! ye are the
guides that show us the way through the great
iniry space where our loved ones walked ; and,
as hounds ‘easily follow the scent hetvre the
dew be risen, so God teaches us, while yet onr
sorrow is wet, to follow on and find our dear
ones in heaven.— Beecher. ~ "

It is from the remembrance of joys we have
lost that the arrows of afiliction are pointed.—
Mackenzie.

It is a great thing, when our Gethsemane
hours come, when the cup of bitterness is pressed
to our lips, and when we pray that it may pass
away, to feel that it is not fate, that it Is not
necessity, but divine love for good ends working
upon us.—- Chapin.

“If you wonld not have affliction visit you
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The cloud which appeared to the prophet
Ezekiel carricd with it winds and storms, but it
was cnvironed with a golden circle, to teach us
that the storms of afiliction, which happen to
God’s' children, are encompassed with bright-
ness and smiling felicity —N. Caussin.

When sorrows come, they come not single
spies, but in battalions.— Shakespeare.

In thy silent wishing, thy voiceless, unut-
tered‘prayer, let the desire be not cherished that
afflictions may not visit thee; for well has Jit
been said, “Such prayers never seem to have
wings. I am willing to be purificd through
sorrow, and to accept it meckly as-a blessing.
I see that alt the clonds are angels’ faces, and
their voices speak harmoniously of the ever-
lasting chime.”—Jfrs. L. AL Child.

Amid my list of blessings infinite stands this
-.the foremost, “ That my heart has bled.” —
‘ Young.

Tears and sorrows and losses are a part
of what must be experienced in this present
state of life: some for our manifest good, and
vall, therefore, it is trusted, for our good con-
cealed ; —for our final and greatest good.—

Letgh Hunt.

v
Affiictions clarify the soul.—Quarfes.

There is an elasticity in the human mind,
capable of bearing much, but which will not
show itself until a certain weight of affliction be
put upon it; its powers may be compared to
those vehicles whose springs are so contrived
that they get on smoothly enongh when leaded,
but jolt confoundedly when they have nothing
to bear.— Colton.

Calamity is man’s true touchstone. —Fletcher.

In a great afftiction there is no light cither
in the stars or in the sun; for when the inward
light is fed with fragrant oil, there can be no
darkness though the sun should go out. But
when, like a sacred lamp in the temple, the
inward light is quenched, there is no light out-
wardly, though‘a thousand suns should preside
in the heavens.— Beecher.

Afilictions sent by Providence melt the con-
stanecy of the noble-minded, but confirm the
obduracy of the vile. The same furnace that
hardens clay liqnefics gold; and _in the strong
manifestations of divine power Pharaoh found
his punishment, but David his pardon.— Colton.

With every anguish of our earthly part the
spirit’s sight grows clearer; this was meant
when Jesus touched the blind man’s lids with
clay.— Lowell.

God afflicts with the mind of a father, and

kills for no other purpose but that he may raise |

again.— South. +

Man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly up-
ward.— Bible.

The very afflictions of onr earthly pilgrimage
are presages of our futnre glory, as shadows
indicate the sun.— Richter.

As the most generous vine, if it is not pruned,
rims out into many superfluous stems, and
grows at last weak and fruitless; so doth
the Lest man, if he be not cut short of his de-
sires and pruned with afflictions. If it be pain-
fal to bleed, it is-worse to wither. Let me be
pruned, that I may grow, rather than be cut up
to burn.— Bishop Hall.

_ Com is cleaned with wind, and the soul
with chastening.— Géorge Herbert.

No chastening for the present scemeth to be
joyous, but gricvous; nevertheless afterward it
yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness
unto them which are exercised thereby.— Bible.

Fairer and more fruitful in spring the vine
becomes from the skilful pruning of the hns-
handinan ; tess pure had been the gums which
the odorous balsam gives if it had uot been cut
by the knife of the Arabian shepherd.—

Aletastasio.

The good are better made by ill, as odors
crushed are sweeter still !—ogers.

No man ever stated his griefs as lightly as
he might. For it is only the finite that has
wrought and suffered; the infinite Hes stretched
in smiling repose.—Emerson.

The loss of a beloved connection awakens
an interest in heaven before unfelt—Bovee.

The great, in affliction, bear a countenance
more princely than they are wont; for it is the
temper of the highest heart, like the palm-
tree, to strive most upward when it is most
burdened.—Sir P. Sidney.

What scem to us but dim funereal tapers
may be heaven’s distant lamps.— Longfellow.

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the
punishment of extraordinary: sins, but some-
times the trial of extraordinary graces

Matthew Henry.

The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is
dark enough.— Carlyle. . ‘
7 a

As they lay copper in aquafortis before they
begin to engrave it, so the Lord usnally pre-
pares us by the searching, softening discipline
of affliction for making a deep, lasting impres-
sion of himself upon our hearts.—J. T. Nottidge.

With the wind of tribulation God separates,
in the floor of the soul, the chaff from the
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Sanctified afllictions'are spiritual promotions.
Matthew Lenry.

God is now spoiling us of what would other-
wise have spoiled us. When God makes the

world too hot for his people to hold, they will:

let it go—T. Powell.

Tlow binnt are all the arrows of thy quiver
in comparison with those of guilt !—Blair.

Afflictions are the medicine of the mind.
If they are not toothsome, let it snffice that they
are whdlesome. It is not required in physic
thatit should please, but heal.— Bishop Henshaw.

*T is a physic that is bitter to sweet end.—
Shakespeare.

There will be no Christian but what will
havea Gethsemane, but every praying Christian
will find that there is no Gethsemane without
its angel !—Rev. T. Binney.

AGE.

There are three classes into which all the
women past seventy years of age, that ever I
knew, were to be divided: 1. That dear old
goul ; 2. That old woman ; 3. That old witch—

Coleridge.

When-a noble life has prepared old age, it
is not the decline that it reveals, but the first
days of immortality.—adame de Staél.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.—
. Joubert.

Can man_be so age-stricken that no faintest
sunshine of his youth inay revisit him once a
year? Itis impossible. The moss on our time-
worn mansion brightens into beauty ; the good
old pastor, who once dwélt here, renewed his
prime and regained his boyhood in the genial
breezes of his nineticth spring. Alas for the
worn and heavy soul, if, whether in youth or
age, it has outlived its privilege of springtime
sprightliness !—Zfaicthorne.

Age. makes us not childish, as some say; it
finds us still true children.— Goethe.

Most long lives resemble those threads of
gossamer, tle nearest approach to nothing un-
meaningly prolonged, séarce visible pathways of
soine worm front his cradle to his grave.—Lowell.

O sir, you are old; nature in you stands on
the very verge of her confine ; you should be ruled
and lel by some diseretion, that_discerns your
state better than you yourself.— Shakespeare.

Age. is rarely despised but when it is con-
temptible.— Johnson.

That which is usually called dotage is not
the weak point of all old men, but ony of such
as are distinguished by their levity —Cicero.

There is'a quict repose and steadiness about
;the happiness of age, ifthe life has been well
spent. Its feebleness is not painful. The ner-
lyous system has lost its-acutenesss. Tven in
i mature years we feel that a burn, a scald, a cut,
tis more tolerable than it was in the sensitive
period of youth —J/azlitt.

Old age is a tyrant, which forbids the pleas-
ures of youth on pain of death.—Rochefoucauld.

Life grows darker-as we go on, till only one
pure light is left shining on it; and that is faith.
Old age, like'solitnde and sorrow, has its revela-
tions.—iifadame Swetchine. . -

Old age likes to dwell in the recollections
of the past, and, mistaking the speedy march of
years, often is inclined to take the prudence of
the winter time for a-fit wisdom of midsummer
days. Manhoed is bent to the passing cares of
the passing moment, and holds so closely to his
cyes the shect of “to-day,” that it screens the
“to-morrow ” from his sight.—Aossuth.

To be happy, we must be trne to nature, and
carry our age along with us. —Z/azlitt.

Winter, which strips the leaves from aronnd
us, makes us sec the distant regiuns they for-
merly concealed ; so does old age rob us of our
enjoyments, only to enlarge ‘the prospect of
eternity before us—Richter.

They say women and music should never
be dated. — Goldsmith.

Old-age is a lease nature only signs as a
particnlar favor, and it may be, to one only in
the space of two or three ages ; and then with a
pass to boot, to carry him through-all the trav-
erses and difficulties she has strewed in the way
of his long carcer.—3Lontaigne.

Crabbed‘age and youth cannot live together.
: . Shakespeare.

If the memory is more flexible in childhood,
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 clearness of the conception of
the thought which we wish to retain.—

‘ . De Bonstetten,

Old age has deformities enough of its own;
do not:add to it the deformity of vice—Cato.

We should provide for onr age, in order.that
our age may have no_urgént wants of this world
to absorb it from the meditation of the next.
It is awful to see the lean hands of _dotage
making’a coffer of the grave !—Bulwer Lytton.

There cannot live a more unhappy creature
than an ill-natured old man, who is neither
capable of receiving pleasures nor sensible of
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AGE.

A_comfortable old age is the reward of a
well-spent youth ; therefore instead of its intro-
ducing dismal and melancholy prospects of
decay, it should give us hopes of eternal youth
in a better world. —Palmer.

For my own part, I had rather be old only
a short time than be old before I really am, 50
tcero.

He who would pass the declining years of
his life with honor and comfort, should when
young, consider that he may one day become
old, and remember, when he is 01d, that he has
once been young.— Addison.

Age, that lessens the enjoyment of life, in-
ereases our desire of living — Goldsmith.

The damps of autumn sink into the leaves
and prepare them for the, necessity of their fall ;
and thus insensibly are we, as years close round
us, detached from our tenacity of life by the
gentle pressure of recorded sorrows.—Landor.

The defects of the mind, like those of thé face,
grow Worse as we grow old.—Rochefoucauld.

Old age is never honored among ns, but only
indulged, as childhood is ; and old men lose.one
of the most precious rights of ian, — that of
being judged by their peers.— Goethe.

Thongh I look old, yet I am strong and
lusty; for in my youth I never did-apply hot
and rebellions liquors in my blood; nor did not
with unbashful forehead woo the means of
weakness and debility; therefore my age. is as
a lusty winter, frosty, but kindly —Shakespeare.

We do not count a man’s years until he has
nothing clse to count.— Emerson.

I think that to have known one good old
man — one man, who, through the chances and
mischances of a long life, has carried his heart
in his hand, like a palm-branch, waving all dis-
cords into peace —helps our faith in God, in
ourselves, and in each other more than many
sermons.—G. JV. Curtis.

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the
happiest creature living. —Stee/e.

Our life much resembles wine: when there
is only a little remaining, it becomes vinegar ;
for all the ills of human nature crowd to old
age as if it were a workshop.—Antiphanes.

Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind,
than it does in the face, and souls are never, or
yery rarely seen, that in growing old do not
smell sour and musty. Man moves all, to-:
-gether, both towards-his perfection and decay.

Montagne.

Thesilver livery of advistd age.— Shakespeare.

It is noticeable how intuitively in age we go
back with strange fondness to all that is fresh
in the earliest dawn of youth. If we never
cared for little children before, we delight to see
them roll in the grass over which we hobble on
crutches. The grandsire turns wearily from his
middle-aged, care-worn son, to listen with infant
langh to the prattle of an infant grandchild.
It is the old who plant young trees ; it is the old
iwho are most saddened by the autumn, and feel

most delight in the returning spring.—
Bulwer Lytton.

_ A-yonthful age is desirable, but-aged youth
is troublesome and grievous.— Chilo.

True wisdom, indeed, springs from the wide
brain which is fed from the deep heart; and it
is only when age warms its withering concep-
tions at the memory of its youthful fire, when it
makes experience serve aspiration, and knowl-
edge ilhumine the diffienlt paths through which
thoughts thread their way into facts, —it is
only then that age becomes broadly and nobly
wwise.— Whipple.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.—
Swift.

The mental powers acquire their full robust-
ness when the cheek loses its rnddy hue, and
the limbs their elastic step; and pale thought
sits on manly brows; and the watchman, as he
walks his rounds, sees the stndent’s lamp burn-
ing far into the silent night—Dr. Guthrie.

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than
a cheerful, kindly, snnshiny old age.—
Mrs. L. Mf. Child.

Last scene of ‘all, that ends this strange,
eventful history, is second childishness, and
mere oblivion ; sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste,
sans everything.— Shakespeare.

The enthusiasm of old men is singularly like
that of infancy.—Gerard de Nerval.

The tendency of old age, say the physiol-
ogists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is
pleasant, to meet with-an old_man avhose opin-
ions are not ossificd —J/. F’. Boyse.

It is difficult to grow old gracefully.—
Madame de Staél.

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 —

Chester field.

Though sinking in decrepit age, he prema-
turely falls whose memory records no_benefit

As we grow old we become more foolish and
more wise.—Rochefoucauld.

conferred on him by man. They only have
lived long who have lived virtuously. —Sheridan.


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Men, like peaches and pears, grow, sweet a
httle while betore they begin to deeay.—/folmes.

Time has laid Ins hand upon my heart
gently, not smiting it; but as a harper lays his
open palm upon his harp, to deaden its vibra-
tions. — Long/ellow.

Years do not make sages; they only make
old men.—.adame Swetchine.

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 mediocrity of;
success.— Bacon.

When men grow virtuous in their old age,
they are merely making a sacrifice to God of
the Devil's leavings.— Swit.

Time’s chariot-wheels make their carriage-
road in the fairest face.— Rochefoucauld.

I feel 1 am growing old for want of some-
body to tell ne that Jam looking‘as young as
ever. Charming falschood! There_is a vast
deal of vital air in loving words.—Landor.

Years steal fire from the mind as vigor from
the limb.— Byron.

Like-a morning dream, life becomes morc”
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.

What folly can be ranker? Like our shad-
ows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.
Young.

Every man desires to live tong ; but no man
would be old.—Swif. °

Age and sufferings had -already marked ont
the first incisions for death, so that he required
bnt little effort to ent her down; for it is with
men as with trees, they are notched long before
felling, that their life-sap may flow out.—Aickter.

We see time’s furrows on another’s brow;
how few themselves, in that just mirror, see !—
Young.}

There is nothing more disgraceful than that
an old man should have nothing to produce as
a proof that he has lived long except his years.

Seneca.

Old men’s lives are lengthened shadows ;
their evening sun falls coldly on the earth, but
the shadows all point to the morning.—fichter

persons fancy they have expe-
eause they have grown old !—
Stanislaus.

How man
rienee simply be

theart beating under fourscore winters.—

Tyenerate old age; and I Jove not the man
who can look without cmotion upon the sunset
of life, when the dusk of evening begins to
gather over the watery cye, and the shadows
of twilight grow. brouder and deeper upon the
understanding. —Lengfellow,

The surest sign of age is loneliness, While
one finds company, in hitnself and his | pursuits,
he cannot be old, whatever his years uay be.—

Alcott.

As sailing into port is a happier thing than
the voyage, so is age happier than youth; that
is, when the voyage from youth is made with
Christ at the helm.—Jtev. /. Pulsford.

It is only necessary to grow old to become
more indulgent. Isce no fault committed that.
I have not committed myself. —Goethe.

Vanity in-an old man is charming. It is a.
proof of an open nature. Eighty winters have
not frozen him up, or taught him coneeal-
ments. In a young person it is simply al-
lowable ; we do not expect him to be above it.

Bouee.

The smile upon the old man’s lip, like the
last rays of the setting sun, pierces the heart
with a sweet and sad emotion. ‘There is still a.
ray, there is still a smile; but they may be the
last.—Afadathe Swetchine.

An aged Christian, with the snow of time
on his head, may remind us that those points
of earth are whitest which are nearest heaiven.—

Chapin.

Tell me what vou find better or more’ hon-
orable than age. Is not wisdom entailed upon
it? Take the pre-eminence of it in everything;
in an old friend, in old wine, in an old pedigree.

Shakerly Marmion.

The clock of his age had struck fifty-cight.—
Cellini.

Natures that have: much.heat, and great and
violent desires and perturbations, are not ripe
for action till they have passed the meridian of
their years.—ucon.

A time there is when like a-thrice-tohl tale
long-rifled life of sweets can yield no.more.—
Young.

of time.—

Meltowed by the stealing hours
- Shakespeare.

Age and youth look upon life from the o
posite ends of the telescopic ; it is exéeedingly
long, — it is exceedingly short.—Beccker.

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old
head on young shoulders, and then a young

Emerson.


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AGRICULTURE.

As we advance in life the circle of our pains
enlarges, while that of our pleasures contracts.
Madame Swetchine.

gain toward earth, is
dull and heavy.—
Shakespeare.

Nature, as it grows a
fashioned for the journey,

Old age was naturally more honored in
times when people could not know much more
than what they had seen.—/oubert.

Few people know how to be old.—
Rochefoucauld.

Old age is not one of the beauties of crea-
tion, but it is one of its harmonies. The law
of contrasts is one of the laws of beanty. Under
the conditions of our climate, shadow gives
light its worth; sternness enhances mildness ;
solemnity, splendor. Varying proportions of
size support and subserve one another.—
Madame Swetchine.

When men once reach their autumn, sickly
joys fall off apace, as yellow leaves from trees.—
Young.

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the light
of a sott moon, silvering over the evening of
life —Richter.

We grizzle every day. I see no need of it.
Whilst we converse with what is above us, we
do not grow old, but grow yonng.— Emerson.

One’s age should be tranquil, as one’s child-
hood should be playful; hard work, at either
extremity of human existence, seems to me out
of place; the morning and the evening should
be alike cool and peaceful; at midday the

sun may burn, and men may labor under it—
Dr Arnold.

At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at
thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.—

Grattan.

Depend upon it, a man never experiences
such pleasure or grief after fourteen years as he
does before, unless in some cases, in his first
love-making, when the sensation is new to him.

Charles Kingsley.

We hope to grow old, yet we fear old age;
that is, we are willing to live, and afraid to die.
Bruyere.

Some one has said of a fine and honorable
old age, that it was the childhood of immor-
tality.—Pindar.

Cautious age suspects the flattering form,
and only credits what experience tells—— Johnson.

Each departed friend is a magnet that at-
tracts us to the next world, and the old man
lives among graves.—Richter.

AGREEABLE.

The character in conversation whieh com-
monly passes for agreeable is made up of civility
and talsehood.— Swift.

The art of being agreeable frequently mis-
earries through the ambition which accompanies
it. Wit, learning, wisdom, —what can more
effectually conduge to the profit and delight of
society? Yet I am sensible that a man may
be too invariably wise, learned, or witty to be
agrecable ; and I take the reason of this to be,
that pleasure cannot be bestowed by the simple
and unmixed exertion of any one faculty or
accomplishment.— Cumberland.

If you wish to appear agreeable in society
you must consent to be taught many things
which you know already.—Zavater.

We may say of agreeableness, as distinct
from beauty, that it consists in a symmetry of
which we know not the rules, and a secret con-
jformity of the features to each other, and to
the air and complexion of the person.—

Rochefoucauld.

Most arts require long study and applica-
ition; but the most useful art of ail, that of
pleasing, requires only the desire.— Chesterfield.

Nature has left every man a capacity of
being agreeahle, though not of shining in com-
pany ; and there are a hundred men sufficiently
qualified for both who, by a very few faults,
that they might correct in half an hour, are not
so much as tolerable.— Swift.

AGRICULTURE.

Agriculture is the most certain source of
strength, wealth, and independence. Commerce
flourishes by circumstances precarions, contin-
gent, transitory, almost as liable to change as
the winds and waves that waft it to our shores.
She may well be termed the-younger sister; for,
in all emergencies, she looks to agriculture,
both for defence and for supply.—Colion.

The first three men in the world were a gar-
dener,-a ploughman, and a grazier ; and if any
man object that the second of these was a mur-
derer, I desire he would consider that as soon
as he was so, he quitted our profession and
turned builder.— Cowley.

In ancient times, the sacred plough employed
the kings, and awful fathers of mankind.—
Thomson.

In the age of acorns, antecedent to Ceres
and the royal plonghman Triptolemus, a single
barley-corn had been of more value to mankind
than ‘all the diamonds that -glowed in the mines
of India.—H. Brooke.

He who would look with contempt upon the
farmer’s pursuit is not worthy the name of a
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AMBITION.

Trade inereases the wealth and glory of al

country ; but its real strength and -stamina sare
to be iooked for among the cultivators of the
land.—Lord Chatham.

He that sows his grain. upon inarble -will
have many a hungry ‘belly before his harvest.
Arbuthnot,

acricultarist is the most- pure and hely ofany
cluss of men; pure, heeause it is the most"!

A man conversing in enrnest, if he watch his
intellectunl yirocesses, will find that’ a inaterial
image,* more or less Jimiinous, arises in his
mind, contemporancous with every thought,

‘which furnishes the vestment of -tle thonght,

Menee, good writing nnd brilliant discourse 1 ure
1
perpetual allegories, — Emerson.

'

| AMBASSADOR.

Inca moral point of view, the life of the}:
‘abroad for the commouwealth:—Sir H, Wotton.

An ambassador is ‘an honest man sent to lie

healthful, and vice can hardly find time tol AMBITION,

contaminate it; and holy, because it brings
the. Deity perpetnally before his view, giving
him thereby the most exalted notions of sn-
preme power, and the most fascinating and
endearing view of moral benignity:—

Lord John Russell. |

The farmers are the founders of civilization.
Daniel Webster.

And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever
cotid make two ears of corn, or two blades of
grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where

mankind, ‘and do mote essential service to his
country, than the whole race of politicians put
together —Swif.

only one grew before, would deserve better al

Command large ficlds, but cultivate. small]
ones.— Virgil.

The frost is God’s plough, which he drivés
throngh every inch of ground in the worid,
opening each elod, and pulverizing the whole.—

Fuller.

“ Agricniture, for-an honorabie and high-
minded man,” says Xenophon, “is the best of
all occnpations and arts by which men procure
the means of Hiving.”—~Aleote.

ALCHEMY.

Alchemy may be compared to the man who
told his sons he had left them gold buried some-
where in his vineyard; where they by digging
found no gold, but by turning up the mould,
ahiont the roots of their vines, procured a plen-!
tifal vintage. So the search and endeavors to !
make gold have brought many usefi inven-
tions.and instructive experiments to light.—

Bacon.

T have ‘always looked npon ‘alchemy in nat-
ural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in di-
vinity,-and te have troubied ‘the world much to
the sane purpose.—Sir WW. Temple.

ALLEGORY.

Allegories, when well chosen, are like so
many tracks of light in & ‘discourse, that make
everything about them clear and beautiful.—

Addison,

Allegory dwells in-a transparent palace.—
Le Mierre.

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You have greatly ventured, but all must do
sq who would greatly win. —Byron.

To be ambitions of truce honor, of the true
glory and perfection of our natures, is the very
“principle and incentive of ‘virtne; but. to be
ambitious of titles, of place, of ceremonial re-
spects and civil pageantry, is as v

Who soars too near the sua, with golden
wings, melts them.— Shakespeare,

It is a true observation of ancient: writers,
that as men are apt to be cast down by adversi-
ty, so they are easily satiated with prosperity,
and that joy and grief produce the same ctleets.
For whenever men are not obliged by necessity
to fight they fight from ambition, which is so
powerful a passion in the iuman breast that
however high we reach we are never satisfied. —

Machiavelli,

Ambition becomes displeasing when it is
once satiated ; there is a renetion ;*and as our
spirit, till our last sigh, is always aiming toward
some object, it falls back on itself, having noth-
ing else on which to rest ;-and having reached
the summit, it longs to descend.— Corneille.

Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals:
we storm heaven itself in our folly: .— Horace.

If not for that of conscience, vet'at least for
ambition’s sake, let us reject ambition, let us dis-
dain that thirst of honor and renown, so low.and
mendicant, that it makes us beg it ‘of all sorts
of people.—.Vontaigne.

The towcring hope of eagle-cyed ambition.
Smollett.

The modesty of certain ambitions persons
consists in hecoming great without making too
much noise; it may be said that they advance
in the world on tiptoe.— loltaire.

When-ambitious nen find an open passage,
they are rather Imsy than dangerons ; and if
well watehed in’ their. procecdings, ‘they will
catch themselves in their own snare, and pre-
pare‘a way for their own destrncnon. — Quarles.

He who surpasses or subdues, mankind must
look down on the hate of those below.—Byron.

naud little as.
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Fling away ambition; by that sin fell the
angels: how can man then, the image of his
Maker, hope to win by it ?—Shukespeare.

Ambition often puts men upon doing the
meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the
same posture with creeping —Suift.

It is the nature of ambition to make men
liars and cheats, and hide the truth in their
breasts, and show, like jugelers, another thing
in their mouths; to ent all friendships and _en-
mnities to the measure of their interest, and to
make a good countenance without the help of a
good will.—Sallust. -

It is by attempting. to reach the top at a
single leap that so much misery is produced in
the world.—Cobbett.

Ambition is;a-lust that is never quenched,
grows more inflamed and madder by enjoy-
ment.— Otway.

Every one has before his eyes an end whieh
he pursues till death ; but for many that end is
a featber which they blow before them im the
air.— Nicoll.

Vauiting ambition, which overleaps itselfi—
Shakespeare.

Say what we will, you may he sure that am-
pition is an error; its wear and tear of heart
are never recompensed,—it steals away the
freshness of life, —it deadens its vivid and
social enjoyments, — it shuts our souls to our
own youth, — and we are old ere we remember
that we have made a fever and a labor of our
raciest years — Bulwer Lytton.

Ambition thinks no face so beautiful as that
which looks from under a crown.—

Sir P. Sidney.
a

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in'a cage, or
squirrels in a chain, ambitions men still climb
and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxi-
ety, but never reach the top.—Burton.

Ambition hath but two steps: the lowest,
blood ; the highest, envy.— Lilly.

There is a native baseness in the ambition
which seeks beyond its desert, that never shows
more conspicuonsly than when, no matter how,
it temporarily gains its object.—Simms.

Ambition is the mind’s immodesty.—
Sir W. Davenant.

A slave has but one master; the ambitious
man has as many masters as there are persons
whose aid may contribute to the advancement
of his fortune.—Brayére.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth
of nobleness proceeds.—Z. D. English.

_ How dost thon wear, and weary out th
day, restless ambition, never at an end !—Danied.

Ambition is frequently the only refnge which
life has left to the denied or mortified affec-
tions. We chide at the grasping eye, the dar-
ing wing, the soul that scems to thirst for
sovereignty only, and know not that the flight
of this ambitious bird has been from a- bosom
or a home that is filled with ashes.—Simms.

The path of glory leads but to the grave.—

Gray.

Wisdom is corrupted by ambition, even
when the quality of the ambition is intellectual.
For ambition, even of this quality, is but-a form
of self-love.—/Zenry Taylor.

What is ambition? Jt is a glorions cheat !
Angels of light walk not so dazzlingly the sap-
phire walls of heaven.— Hillis.

Remarkable places are like the summits of
rocks ; cagles and reptiles only can get there. —
Mudame Necker.

Hard, withering toil only can achieve a
name; and long days and months and years
must be passed im the chase of that bubble, rep-
utation, which, when once grasped, breaks in
your eager clutch into a hundred lesser bubbles,
that soar above you still.—dfitchell.

We frequently pass from love to ambition,
but one seldom returns from ambition to love.—
Rochefoucauld.

Ambition makes the same mistake concern-
ing power that avarice makes concerning
wealth. She begins by accumulating power as
a mean to happiness, and she finishes by con-
tinning to accumulate it as an end.— Colton,

Awbition, like a torrent, never looks back.—
Ben Jonson.

Ambition, that high and glorious passion,
which makes such havoe among the sons of
men, arises from a proud desire of honor and
distinction ; and when the splendid trappings
in whieh it is usually caparisoned are removed,
will be found to consist of the mean materials
of envy, pride, and covetousness.— Burton.

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great
minds are carried ony to extreme, — to be sub-
limely great, or to be nothing.— Southern.

Moderation eannot have the credit of com-
bating and subduing ambition, — they are never
found together. Moderation is the Janguor
and indolence of the soul, as ambition is its
activity and ardor.—Rochefoucauld.

The cheat ambition, eager to espouse do-
minion, courts it with a lying show, and shines
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Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very.
snbstance ‘of theaunbitious is merely the shadow
of a dream. And I hold ambition of so airy
and light a quality, that it is but a shadow’s
shadow.— Shakespeare.

‘Ambition is not a vice of little people.—
«Montaigne.

Ambition is a gilded misery, a seeret poison,
a hidden plague, the engineer of deevit, the
mother of hypocrisy, the parent of envy, the
original of vices, the moth of holiness, the
blinder. of hearts, turning incdicines into mal-
adies, and remedies into diseases. High seats
are never but mneasy, and_crowns are always
stnffed with thorns.—Aev. T. Brooks.

. Take away ambition and vanity, and where
will be yonr heroes-and patriots ?—Seueea.

T begin where most people: end, with a full
convietion of the emptiness of all sorts of ainbi-
tion, and the unsatistactory nature of all human
pleasnres.—Pope.

Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to
the falcon; it-blinds us first, and then compels’,
ns to tower, by reason of our blindness. But
alas! when we, are at the summit of a vain
cambition, we are also at the depth of misery.—

Colton.

It is the constant fanlt and inseparable ill
quality of ambition never to look behind it.—
Seneca.

The shadow, wherescever it passes, leaves
no track behind it; and of the greatest per-
sonages of the world, when they are once dead,
then there remains no more than if they had’
never lived. How many preceding emperors
of the Assyrian monarchy were lords of the
world as well as Alexander! and now we re-
main not only ignorant of their monuments,
hut know not so mnch as their names. And
of the same great Alexander, what: have we at
this day except the vain ‘noise of his fame /—

Jeremy Taylor.

‘Neither love nor ambition, as it has often
been shown, can brook a division of its empire
in the heart.—Boree,

Ambition is a rebel both to the sonl and
reason, and enforces all laws, all conscience ;
treads upon religion, and offers violenee to na-
ture’s selfi— Ben Jonson.

Alas! ambition makes my little less. — Young.

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Ambition is bnt “avarice on. stilts, and
masked. God sometiines sends a,famine, some-
times a pestilence, and sometimes a hero, for the
chastisement of mankind ; none of them Surely
for our adiniration.—Landor.

The ambitions deceive themselves when they
propose an end to their anbition ; for that end,
when attained, becomes a means.—

-  Rochefoucautd.

There is a kind of grandenr and respect
which the meanest.and most insignificant part
of mankind endeayor to procure in thie little
cirele of their friends and aequaintance. ‘The
poorest mechanic, nay, the man who lives upon
common alms, gets him his set of admirers, and
delights in that superiority which he enjoys over
those who are in some respects beneath him,
This ambition, which is natural to the soul of
man, might, methinks, receive a very happy
tnrn; and, if it were rightly directed, contribnte
as innch to a person’s advantage, as i¢ generally
does to his uncasiness and disquict— Addison.

Ambition is like choler, which is a humor
that maketh men active, earnest, fll of alacrity,
and stirring, if it be not stopped; but if ie he
stopped, and cannot have its way, it beeometh
‘fiery, and thereby malign and venomons,—

‘Bacon.

Ambition, like love, can-ahide no lingering ;
and ever urgeth on his own successes, hating
nothing but what may stop them.—

Sir P. Sidney.

We must distinguish hetween felicity and
prosperity ; for prosperity leads often to am-

We should be careful to deserve a good rep-| bition, and ambition to disappointment; the
ntation by doing well; and when that care. is | course is then over, the wheel turns round but
once taken, not to be over anxions abont the | once, while the reaction of goodness and happi-

success. —Jtochester.

Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes,

by keeping themselves always in show, like the | bition till five-and-twenty.

statue of a pubtie place.—Afontaigne.

Blood only serves to wash Ambition’s

hands.— Byron.

ness is perpetual.—Zandor.

One may easily enongh guard: against. am-
It is not-ambition’s
day. —Shenstone.

We shonld reflect that waatever tempts the

ride and vanity of ambitious persons is not so
big as the smallest star which we ‘sec scattered

Ambition is torment enongh for an enemy ; jin disorder and unregarded on the pavement of
for it affords ag much diseontentment in enjoy- | heaven.—/eremy Taylor.

ing as in want, making men Jike poisoned rats,
which, when they have tasted of their hane,
cannot rest till they drink,-and_then can much
less rest till they die.—Biskep ifall.

The tallest trees are most in the power of
the winds, and ambitions men of the blasts of
fortune.— William Penn.


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AMUSEMENTS.

A noble man compares and estimates him-
self by an idea which is higher than himself,
and a mean man by one whieh is lower than
himself. The one produees aspiration; the
othér, ambition. Ambition is the way in which
a vulgar inan aspires.— Beecher.

Ambition! deadly tyrant! inexorable mas-
ter! what alarms, what anxious hours, what
agonies of heart, are the sure portion of thy
gaudy slaves ?—Jfallet

—~

Don Quixote thought he could have made
beautiful bird-eages and tooth-picks if his brain
had not been so full of ideas ot chivalry. Most
people would suceced in small things if they
were not troubled with great ambitions.—

Longfellow.

Ambition is like love, impatient both of
delays and rivals.—Denrham.

Ambition is, of all other, the most contrary
humor to solitude ; and glory and repose'are so
inconsistent that they eannot possibly inhabit
one and the same place; and for so much as
I understand, those have only their arms and
legs disengaged from the crowd, their mind and
hitention remain engaged behind more -than
ever.— Montaigne.

Nothing can be more destructive to ambi-
tion, and the passion for conquest, than the
true system of astronomy. What a poor thing
is even the whole globe in comparison of the ia-
finite extent of nature !—F ontenelle.

Tf love and ambition should be in equal bal-
ance,.and come to jostle with equal foree, I
make no donbt but that the last would win the
prize.—Afontaigne.

Most natures are insolvent; cannot satisfy
their own wants, have an ambition out of all
proportion to their practical force, and so do
lean and beg day-and night continually.—

. Emerson,

It is not for man to rest in absolute con-
tentment. He is born to hopes and aspira-
tions, as the sparks fly upwards, imless he has
brutified his natnre, and quenched the spirit
of immortality, whieh is his portion —Southey.

Where ambition can be so happy as to cover
its enterprises even to the person himself, under
the appearance of principle, it is the most in-
eurable and inflexible of all human passions.—

Hume.
AMERICA.
The home of the homeless all over the earth.
Street.
America, — half-brother of the world !—
Bailey.

America is afortunate country. She grows by
the follies of onr European nations.—Napoleon.

AMIABILITY.

The amiable is a duty most certainly, but
mnst not be exercised at the expense of ‘any
of the virtues. He who seeks to do the amiable
always, can only be successful at the frequent
expense of his manhood.—Simms.

How easy it is to be amiable in the midst of
happiness and success !—Afadame Swetchine.

Amiable people, while they are more liable
to imposition in casual contaet with the world,
yet radiate so mueh of mental sunshine that
they are reflected in a}l appreciative hearts.—

Madame Deluzy.

That constant desire of pleasing, which is
the peculiar qnality of some, may be called the
happiest of all desires in this, that it scarcely
ever fails of attaining its ends, when not dis-
graeed by affectation. —ieding.

AMNESTY.

Amnesty, that noble word, the gennine dic-
tate of wisdom.—schines.

AMUSEMENTS.

They arc to religion like breezes of air to
the flame, — gentle ones will fan it, but strong
ones will put it ont.—Rev. Dr. Thomas.

If those who are the enemies of innocent
amusements had the direction of the world,
they would take away the spring, and yonth,
the former from the year, the latter from human
life. Balzac.

Thé mind ought sometimes to be amused,
that it may the better retnrp to thought, and to
itselfi— Phacdrus.

It is execedingly deleterions to withdraw
the sanetion 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.— Chapin.

There is no sueh sport as sport by sport
o’erthrown.— Shakespeare.

Let the world have their May-games, wakes,
whetsunales, their dancings and eoneerts; their
puppet-shows, hobby, horses, tabors, bagpipes,
halls, barley-breaks,.and whatever sports and
recreations please them best, provided they be

{followed with diseretion.— Burton.

Amnsement allures and deceives us, and
leads us down impereeptibly in thoughtlessness
to the grave.—Pascal.

The habit of dissipating every serious
thought by a sucecssion of agreeable sensa-
tions is as fatal to happiness as to virtue; for
when amusement is uniformly substituted for
ohjects of moral and mental interest, we lose
all that elevates our enjoyments above the seale
of childish pleasures.—Anna Jlaria Porter.


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21

ANCESTRY.

To find recreation in amusements .is not
happiness ; for-this joy'springs trom alitn and
extrinsic sources, sand is therefore dependent
upon und subject te interruption by a thousand
necidents, which way minister inevitable alflic-
tion. —Pascedl.

ANALOGY.

The instincts of the ant,are very unimpor-
tant, Considered as the-ane’s;. but the moment
arny of relation is scen_to extend from it to
man, and the little drndge is seen to be a moni-
tor, a-liede body with a mighty heart, then -all
its habits, even.that said tu be recently observed,
that it never sleeps, become sublime.—Lmerson.

ANCESTRY.

Some decent, regulated pre-eminence, some
preference (not exelusive appropriation) given
to birth, is neither unnatural nor unjust nor
impolitic.—Burke.

Ve who boasts of his lineage boasts of that
which does not properly belong to him.—Sencea.

It is, indeed; a blessing, when the virtues of
noble races are hereditary ;. and do derive.them-
selves from the imitation of virthous ancestors.

Nabb.

Some men by ancestry are only the shadow
of-a inighty name.—Zarcan.

It is:only shallow-minded pretenders who
either make distinguished origin a matter of
personal merit, or obscure origin a matter of
personal reproach. Taunt and scoffing at the
humble condition of carly lite affect nobody in
America but those who are foolish enough
to indulge in them, and they are generally sufti-
ciently punished by the ‘pnblished rebuke. A
man who is not ashamed of himself need not be
ly condition.—Duniel Webster.

ashamed of his

Ttis of no consequence of what parents any
man is born, so that he be a man of merit.—
fforace.

The nobility of the Spencers has been illus-
trated and enriched by ‘the trophies of Marl-
borongh; but I exhort them, to consider the
“ Faerie Queene,” as the most priceless jewel of
their coronet.— Gibbon.

Pride, in boasting of family antiquity, makes
duration stand for merit.— Zimmermann.

Tie that boasts of his ancestors confesses
‘that he has no virtue of his own. No person
ever lived for onr honor; nor onght that to be
reputed ours, which was long before we had a
being ; for what advantage can it be to a, blind
man to know that his parents had good eyes?
Does he see one whit-the better !—Charron.

Philosophy docs not regard pedigree ; she
did not receive Plato as a noble, but she made
him so.—Seneca,

There may be, and there often is, indeed, a
regard for ancestry which nourishes only,a’ weak
pride; €8 there is ‘ilo a care for poxterity,
which only disgnises.an habitual avarice, or hides
the workings of a low and grovelling vanity.
Bat there is also a moral and philosophical re-
spect Jor our wicestors, which elevates the char-
acter aud improves the heart.— Daniel Webster,

If it is fortunate to be of noble ancestry, it
is not less so-to be such ens that people do not
care to be informed whether you are noble or
ignoble.—Bruyére.

We sometimes sce 2 change of expression
in our companion, and say, his father or his
mother comes to the windows of his eyes, and
sontctimes a remote relative. In different hours,

‘imin represents cach of several of his ances-

tors, as if there were seven or cizht of us rolled
up in each man’s skin,— seven or cight an-
cestors at least, — and they constitute the vari-
ety of notes for that new piece of musicewhich
his life is —Zmerson.

It is a shame for 2 man to desire honor
because of his noble progenitors, aud not to
deserve it Ly his own virtue—=St. Chrysostom.

Of all vanities of fopperies, the vanity of
high birth is the greatest. True nobility is de-
rived from virtue, not from birth. ‘Titles, in-
decd, may be purchased, but virtue is the only
coin that makes the bargain valid —Burton.

The pride of ancestry is‘a superstructure of
the most imposing height, but resting on the
most flimsy fonndation. It is ridienlons enongh
to observe the Aanteuwr with which the old nobil-
ity look down on the new. ‘The reason of this
puzzled me alittle, until I began to reflect that
inost titles are respeetable only because they
are old; if new, they would be despised, becanse
all those who now admire the grandeur of the
stream would see nothing but the impurity of
the sonrce.— Colton. .

_ What ean they see in the longest kingly
line in Europe, save that it runs back to a suc-
cessful soldier 7— Walter Scatt-

Title‘and ancestry render a good man more
illustrions, but an ill one more contemptible.
Vice is infamous, thongh in:a prince, and vir-
tue honorable, thongh in.» peasant.—Addéson.

Being well satisfied that, for a man who
thinks himself to be somebody, there.is nothing
more disgraceful than to hold -himself wp as
honored, not on his own account, but for the
sake of his forefuthers. Yet hereditary honors
are a noble and splendid treasure to desecnd-

‘ants. —Pluto.

Pride of origin, whether high or low, springs:
from the sume principle in human miture ; one
is but the positive, the other the negative, pole
ofia single weakuess.— Lowell,


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22

ANCESTRY.

Take the title of nobility which thou hast
received by birth, but endeavor to add to it
another, that both may form a true nobility.
There is between the nobility of thy father and
thine own the same difference which exists be-
tween the nourishment of the evening and of
the morrow. The food of yesterday will not
serve thce for to-day, and will not give thee
strength for the next.—Jamakchari.

Tam no herald to inquire of men’s pedigrees ;
it sufficeth me if I know their virtnes.—
Sir P. Sidney.

It was the saying of a great man, that if we
eould trace our descents, we shonld find ail
slaves to come frum princes, and all princes
from slaves ; and fortune has turned all things
topsy-turvy in a long series of revolutions :
beside, for a man to spend his life in pursuit
of a title, that serves only when he dies to fur-
nish out an epitaph, is below .4 wise man’s
business.— Seneca.

When real nobleness: accompanies that im-
aginary one of birth, the imaginary seems to
mix with real, and beeomes real too.—

Lord Greville.

Though you be sprung in direct line from
Herenles, if you show a low-born meanness,
that long succession of ancestors whom you
disgrace are so many witnesses against you ;
and this grand display of their tarnished glory
but serves to make your ignominy more evi-
dent.— Boileau.

I-am one who finds within me a nobility
that spurns the idle pratings of the great, and
their mean boasts of what their fathers were,
while they themselves are fools effeminate.—

Percival.

The charaeter of the reputed ancestors of
some men has made it possible for their de-
seendants to be vicious in the extreme, without
being degenerate ; and there are some heredi-
tary strokes of character by which a family may
be as clearly distinguished as by the blackest
features of the human face.—/unius.

It is better to be the builder of our own
name than to be indebted by descent for the
proudest gifts known to the books of heraldry.

Hosea Ballou.

Let him speak of his own deeds, and not of
those of his forefathers. High birth is mere
aecident, and not virtue ; for if reason had con-
trolled birth, and given empire only to the
worthy, perhaps Arbaces would have been
Xerxes, and Xerxes Arbaces,—.letastasio.

The generality of princes, if they were
stripped of their purple and cast naked on the
world, would immediately sink to the lowest
rank of society, withont a hope of emerging
from their obscurity. —- Gibbon.

No man is nobler born than another, unless
he is born with better abilities and a more ami-
able disposition. They who make such a
parade with their family pictures and pedigrees,
are, properly speaking, rather to be called not-
ed or notorious than noble persons. I thought
it right to say this much, in order to repel the
insolence of men who depend entirely upon
chanee and accidental eireumstances for distine-
tion, and not at‘all on public services and per-
sonal merit.— Seneca.

A soldier, such as I am, may very well pre-
tend to govern the state when he has known to
defend it. The first who was king was a fortn-
nate soldier. Whoever serves his country well
has no need of ancestors.— Foltaire.

It has long scemed to me that it would be
more honorable to our‘aneestors to praise them
in words less, but in deeds to imitate them
more.——Horace Afann.

By blood a king, in heart a clown.—
Tennyson.

Those who have nothing else to recommend
them to the respect of others but only their
blood, ery it up at a great rate, and have their
mouths perpetually full of it. y
vapor, and you are sure to hear of their families
and relations every third word.— Charron.

Those who depend on the merits of their an-
eestors may be said to search in the roots of the
tree for those frnits which the branches ought to
produce.—Barrow.

In the founders of great families, titles or
attributes of honor are generally correspondent
with the virtues of the person to whom they are
applied ; but in their descendants they are too
often the marks rather of grandeur than of
merit. The stamp and denomination still con-
tinne, but the intrinsic value is frequently lost.

Addison.

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 them-
selves, that which is their pride ought to be
their humiliation.— Colton.

The man who has nothing to boast of but

| his iHustrious aneestry is like a potato, — the

only good belonging to him is underground.—
- Sir Thomas Overbury.

Nobility of birth is like a cipher; it has no
power in itself, like wealth or talent; but it
tells with all the power of a cipher when added
to either of the other two.—J. I. Boyes.

We are very fond of some families! beeduse
they ean be traced beyond the Conquest, whereas
indeed the farther hack, the worse,'as being the
nearer allied to’a race of robbers and thieves.—

: De Foe.

They swell and,


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ANGER.

ANGELS.

He that would be: angry and sin not must

Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth | not be angry with anything but sin.—Sceker.

unseen, both when we sleep and when we wake.
: Milton.

The gnardian angel of life sometimes flies so
high that man cannot see it; but he always is

looking down upon us, sand will soon hover
nearer to us.—WRechler.

They boast ethereal vigor, and are formed
from seeds of heavenly birth_— Virgil.

Compare a Solomon, an Aristotle, or an
Archimedes, to a child that newly begins to
speak, and they do not more transcend such a
one than the -angelical understanding exceeds
theirs, even in its most sublime improvements
and acquisitions.—South.

Angels are bright still, though the brightest
fell. —Shakespeare.

The angels may have wider spheres of ac-
tion, may have nobler forms of duty, but
right with them and with us is one and the
same thing. —Chapin.

We_ are never like angels till our passion
dies.— Thomas Decker. .

Angels and ministers of grace defend ns !—
Shakespeare.
ANGER.
Men often make up in wrath what they want
in reason.— FV. FR. Alger.

Anger is an affected madness, compounded
of pride and folly, and an intention to do com.
monly more mischief than it can bring to pass;
and, without doubt, of all passions which actu-
ally disturb the mind of man, itis most in our
power to extinguish, at least, to suppress and
correct, our-anger.~— Clarendon.

Anger is like a full-hot horse, who being al-
lowed his way, self-mettle tires him.—
Shakespeare.

Anger is like the waves of a troubled sea;
when it is corrected with a. soft reply, as with a
little strand, it retires, arid leaves nothing be-
hind but froth’and shells, — no permanent mis-
chicf—Jeremy Taylor.

s

Anger causes us often to condemn in one
what we approve of in anether.—
Pasquier Quesnel.

Anger is the most impotent passion that ac-
companies the mind of man. It effects nothing
it-goes about; and hurts the man who is pos-
sessed by it more than any other against whom
it is directed.— Clarendon.

He submits himself to be seen through a
microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in
a fit of passion.—Luvater.

To be angry about trifles is mean and child-
ish ; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to
maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice
and temper of devils —Dr. Watts.

To be in anger is inipiety, but who is man
that is not angry ?—Shakespeare.

Are yowangry ? Look’at the child who has
erred, he suspects no trouble, he dream’ of no
harin ; you will borrow something of that inno-
cence, you will feel appeased.— Chateaubriand.

To rule one’s anger is well; to prevent it is
better.—Ldwards.

When anger rushes unrestrained to action,
like a hot steed, it stumbles on its way. The
man of thought strikes decpest and strikes
safely.— Savage.

To be angry is to revenge the fault of others
upon ourselves. —Pope.

He does anger too mnch honor, who calls it
madness, which, being « distemper of the brain,
and a total absence of all reason, is innocent of
‘all the ill etfects it may produce.—Clarendon.

Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.—
Bible.

The elephant is never won by anger; nor
must that man who would reclaim a lion take
him by the teeth —Dryden.

An angry man who suppresses his passions
thinks worse than he speaks; and ‘an angry
man that_ will chide speaks worse than lié
thinks.— Bacon.

To abandon yourself to rage is often to bring
upon yourself the fault of another.—Agapet.

Had I'a careful and pleasant eompanion
that should show me my angry ‘face in a glass,
T should noe at all take it ill; to behold man’s
self so unnaturally disguised and dishonored
will conduce not a little to the impeachment of
canger.— Plutarch.

He that will be angry for anything will be
angry for nothing. —Sadlust.

If anger proceeds from a‘ great canse, it
tnrns to fury; if from a small cause, it is
peevishness ; and so is always either terrible or
ridiculous.— Jeremy Taylor.

Anger is blood, poured and perplexed into
froth ; but malice is the wisdom of our wrath.—
Sir W. Davenant.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts
up his eyes.— Cato.


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4 ANGER.

Anger is a noble infirmity, the generous
failing of the just, the one degree that riseth
above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtne.—

Tupper.

Never anger made good guard for itself—
Shakespeare.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the
grape, shows us to others, but hides us from
onrsclyes, and we injure our own cause, in the
opinion of the world, when we too passionately
and eagerly defend it.—Colton.

Lamentation is the only musician -that al-
ways, like a sereech-owl, alights and sits on the
roof of an angry man.—Plutareh.

Anger is a transient hatred, or at least very
like it —South.

Anger manages everything badly. —Stadius.

Anger and the thirst.of revenge are a kind
of fever; fighting and lawsuits, bleeding, — at
least, an evaenation. The latter occasions a
dissipation of money ; the former, of those fiery
spirits which cause a preternatural fermen-
tation.—Shenstone.

When a man is wrong and won’t admit it,
he always gets angry.— Haliburton.

Angry and choleric men are as ungrateful
and unsociable as thunder and lightning, being
in themselves all storm and tempest; but quiet
and easy natures are like fair weather, welcome
to all.—- Clarendon.

When angry, count ten before you speak ;
if very angry, a hnndred.—Jefferson.

The sun should not set upon our anger,
neither should he rise upon onr confidence.
We'shonld forgive freely, but forget rarely. TI
will not ‘be revenged, and this I owe to my ene-
my; but I will remember, and this T owe to my-
self.— Colton.

Must I give way and room to your rash
choler? Shall I be frighted when a madman
stares —Shukespeare.

Those passionate persons who carry their
heart in their mouth are rather to be pitied than
feared ; their threatenings serving no other pur-
pose than to forearm him that is threatened.—

Fuller.

He-that is slow to anger is better than the
mighty ; and he that ruleth his spirit, than he
that taketh a city.—Bible.

As a conquered rebellion strengthens a gov-
ernment, or as Health is more perfectly estab-
lished by recovery from some diseases ; so anger,
when removed, often gives new life to affec-
tion —Fielding.

Be ye angry, and sin not; therefore all
anger is notsinfnl ; I suppose because’ some de-
grec of it, and upon some occasions, is inevita-
ble. It becomes sinful, or contradicts, however,
the rule of Seripture, when it is conceived upor
slight and inadequate provocation, and when it
continues long.—Paley.

Violence in the voice is often only the death-
rattle of reason in the throat—J. £. Boyes.

Never forget what a man has said to you
when he was angry. If he has charged you
with anything, you had better look it up. An-
ger is a bow that will shoot sometimes where
another feeling will not.—Beecker.

An angry man is again angry with himself
when he returus to reason.— Publius Syrus.

If anger is not restrained, it is frequently
more hurtful to us than the injury that pro-
vokes it.— Seneca.

There is no passion that so much transports
men from their right judgments as anger. No
one would demur upou punishing a judge with
death who should condemn a criminal upon the
account of his own choler; why then should
fathers and pedants he any more allowed to
whip and chastise children in their anger?
It is then no longer correction but revenge.
Chastisement is instead of physic to children ;
and shonkl we suffer a physician who shonld
be animated ‘against and enraged at his pa-
tient ?—Jfontaigne.

Anger has some elaim to indulgence, and
railing is usually a relief to the mind.—Juntus.

Consider how much more you often suffer
from your anger and grief than from those
very things for which you are angry ‘and
grieved. —Afurcus Antoninus.

_ He best keeps from anger who remembers
that God is always looking upon him.—Plato.

When I myself had twice or thrice made a
resohite resistance nnto anger, the like befell me
that did the Thebans; who, having onee foiled
the Dacedemonians (who before that. time-had
held themselves invincible), never after lost so
much as one battle which they fought against
them.— Plutarch. *

Anger begins with folly, andvends with re-
pentance.— Pythagoras.

The round of a passionate man’s life is in
contracting debts in his passion, whieh his
virtue obliges him to pay. He spends his time
in outrage and. acknowledgment, injury and
yeparation.—.Johnson.

Anger is uneasiness or discomposure of the
mind upon the reecipt of any injury, with a
present purpose of revenge.—Locke.


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ANTICIPATION

A lamh, that carries anger as the flint bears
fire;. who, mach enforced, shows'a.hasty spark,
‘and straight is cold -again.—Shukespeare.

Ife injures the absent who contends with an
angry mun.—Publius Syrus.

Think when you are-enragedat any onc,
what wonld probably become yonr sentiments
should he die during the dispute.—Shenstone.

Wise anger. is like fire from the flint; there
is a great ado to bring it ont;-and when it does
come, it is out again Immediately.—

Matthew ITenry.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; anger,
when it is long in coming, is the stronger when
it comes,:and the longer kept. Abused pa-
tience turns to fury.—Quarles. :

ANGLING,

We may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said
of strawberries, “ Donbtless God conld have
made ‘a.better berry, but doubtless God never
did”; and.so, if I might be judge, God never
did make « more calm, quict, innocent recrea-
tion than angling. —Zzaak Walton.

The pleasantest angling is to see the fish
ent with her golden oars the silver stream, and
greedily devour the treacherous bait,

Shakespeare.

Thongh no participator in the joys of more
yehement sport, I have a pleasure that I cannot
reconcile to my ‘abstract notions of the -tender-
ness duc to dumb creatures, in the tranquil ernei-
tty of angling. I canonly. palliate the wanton
destructiveness of my amusement by trying to
assure myself that my pleasure docs not spring
from the success of the treachery I practise to-
ward-a poor little fish, but’ rather from that in-
nocent revelry in the Inxuriance of summer life
which only anglers enjoy to the utmost.—

Bulwer Lytton.

Angling is somewhat like poetry ; men are to
be born so.—/zaak Walton.

ANTICIPATION,

~ The-events we most: desire do-not: happen ;
or, if they ilo, it-is neither ’in_the -time nor in
the cireutustances when they would have given
us extreme pleasnre,—Bruyére,

IIe who foresces calamities suffers them
twice over.— Porteus.

All earthly delights ‘are sweeter in expecta-
tion than enjoyment; but-all spiritual pleasures
more in fruition than expectation.— Feltham.

Suffering itself docs less afflict the senses
than the apprehension of suffeting.—Quéntilian.

All things that"are, are with more spirit
chased than enjoyed.— Shakespeure.

We can but ill: endure, amoug so many sad
realities, to rob anticipation of its pleasaut
visions.—fenry Giles; ~

Men spend their fives in canti¢ipations, in
determining to be vastly happy at. some period
or other, when they hive time. But the present
time has one advantage over every other, it is
our own.— Colton.

Oft -expectation fails, and most oft there
Where most it promises.— Shakespeare.

With every one, the expectation of a misfor-
tune constitutes +a dréadtul. punishment, “Sul
fering then assnimes the-prepertions of the w-
known, which is the soul’s intinite—Badzae.

Things won are doney,joy’s soul lies in the
doing.— Shakespeare.

In all worldly things that a man pnrsiies
with the. greatest eagerness and intention of
mind imaginable, he tinds not half the pleasure
in the actual possession of them;as he proposed
to himself in the expectation. — South.

Nothing is so great-an adv
who make it their business to plc
tation.— Cicere.

rsary to those
S@ as expec-

The pilot who is always dreading a rock or
a tempest innst not.complain if he remain a-
poor fisherman. We-imust at times trust some=
thing to fortune, for fortume has often some
share in what happens.—:fetustasio.

I know that we often -tremble at-an empty
terror ; yet the false fancy brings a real misery.—
Schiller.

There wonld be few-enterprises of great
labor or hazard undertaken, if we had not the
power of magnifying the advantages which we
persuade ourselves to expect from them.—

Johnson,

Thon tremblest hefore anticipated ills, and
still bemoanest what thou never losest.— Goethe.

To despond is to he ungrateful beforehand.
Be not looking for evil. Often thon drainest
the gall of fear while evil is passing by thy
dwelling. — Tepper.

We expéct everything, and are prepared for
nothing. —Madame Swetchine.

Whatever advantage.we snatch heyond acer-
tain portion-allotted. us hy-natnye, is like money
spient- before’ it is due, which, at the time of
regular payment, will be missed and regretted.—

Johnson.

.We part more ‘easily with what we possess,
than “with our expectations of what we wish
for; because expeetation always: goes beyond
enjoyment.—Llenry Lome. .


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ANTIQUITY.

Seer errr rrr

A man’s desires always disappoint him;
for though he mects-with something that gives
him satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers
his expectation. — Rochefoucauld.

There is nothing so wretched or foolish as to
anticipate misfurtunes. What madness is it in
your expecting evil before it arrives ?—Seneca.

What need a man forestall his date of grief,
and run to meet what he would most ayoid ? —
Diilton.

It is expeetation makes a blessing dear ;,
heaven were not heaven if we knew what it
were.—John Suckling.

It is worse to apprehend than to suffer.—
Bruyére.

Things temporal are sweeter in the expecta-
tidn, things eternal are sweeter in the fruition ;
the first shames thy hope, the second crowns it;
it is'a vain journey, whose end affords less pleas-
ure.than the way.— Quarles.

ANTIQUITY.

Consider, for example, and you -will find
that-almost all the transactions in the time of
Vespasian differed little from those of the pres-
ent day. You there find marrying and giving
in marriage, educating children, sickness, death,
war, joyous holidays, traffic, agriculture, flat-
terers, insolent pride, suspicions, laying of
plots, longing for the death of others, news-
mongers, lovers, misers, men canvassing for
the consulship and for the -kingdom; yet all
these passed away, and are nowhere.—

Marcus Antoninus.

Those we call the ancients were really new
in everything.—Pascal,

All those things that are now held to be of
the greatest antiquity were at one time new;
what we to-day hold up by example will rank
hereafter as preeedent.— Tacitus.

Antiquity is a species of aristocraey with
which it is not easy to be on visiting terms.—
Madame Swetchine.

When ancient opinions and rules of life are
takenvaway, the loss cannot possibly be esti-
mated. From that moment we have no com-
pass.to govern us, nor can we know distinctly
to what port to steer.—Burke.

Time’s gradnal touch has mouldered into
beauty many a tower, which when it frowned
with all its battlements was only terrible.—

Alason.

I do by no means advise yon to throw away
your time in ransacking, like a dull-antiquarian,
the minute and unimportant parts of remote
and fabulons times. Let blockheads read what
blockheads wrote.—Chestersiedd.

It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations
are proud of the one, and individuals of the other ,
Wbut if they are nothing within themselves, that
which is their pride ought to be their humilia-
tion.— Cotton.

It is one proof of a good education, and of
true refinemeut of fecling, to respect-antiqnity.—
ALrs. Sigourney.

Antiquity! thon wondrous charm, what art
thou? that, being nothing, art everything!
When thou wert, thou wert not antiquity, —
then thou wert nothing, but hadst a remoter
antiquity, as thou culledst it, to look back to
with blind veneration; thon thyself being to
thyself flat, jejune, modern! What mystery
lurks in this retroversion ? or what half Januses
are we, -that cannot look forward with the
same idolatry with which we forever revert!
The mighty future is as nothing, being every-
thing! ‘The past is everything, being nothing !

‘ Lamb.

The pyramids, doting with age, have forgot-
ten the names of their founders.—Fuller.

A thorough-paced antiquary not only re-
members what all other people have thonght
proper to forget, but he also forgets what all
other people think is proper to remember.—

Colton.

Antiquity! I like its ruins better than its
reconstrnetions.—.Joubert.

Those were good old times, it may be
thought, when baron and peasant feasted to-
gether. But the one could not read, and made
his mark with a sword-pommel, and the other
was held as dear as a favorite dog. Pure and
simple times were those of owr grandfathers,
it may be. Possibly not so pure as we may
think, however, and with a simplicity ingrained
with some bigotry and a good deal of conceit.—

Chapin.

Time consecrates; and what is gray with
age becomes religion.—Sehiller.

What subsists to-day by violence continues
to-morrow by acquiescence, and is perpetuated
by tradition ; till at Jast the hoary abuse shakes
the gray hairs of antiquity at us, and gives
| itself out as the wisdom of ages.—

Edward Everett.

He who professes adherence to the na-
tional religion of England, on the ground that
it is the religion of his fathers,” forgets, as do
the hearers who applauded the sentiment, that,
on this principle, the worship of Thor and
Woden would claim precedence.—

Bishop Whately.

Those old ages are like the landscape that
shows best in purple distance, all verdant and
smooth, and bathed in mellow light.—Chapin.



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ANXIETY,
Generally we obtain very surely and very
speedily what we are not too-anxivus to obtain.
Rousseau.

Anxiety is the poison of human life. It is
the parent of many sins, and of more miseries.
Tu a world where everything is doubtinl, where
yor may be disappuiuted, and be blessed in dis-
appoiitment, what means this restless stir
nid commotion of mind? Can your solicitude
‘alter the canse or unravel the intrigacy of hu-
man events ?—Blair.

Better to be despised for too anxious appre-
hensions than ruined by too confident a secn-
rity. —Burke.

APOLOGY.

No sensible person ever made an apology.—
Emerson.

A very desperate habit; one that is rarely
cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side
ont. Nine times out of ten, the first thing a
min’s companion knows of his short-comings
is from his apology.—JZolmes.

‘Apologies only account for the evil which
they cannot alter.—Disreeli.

APOTHEGMS.

A maxim is the exact and noble expression
of an important and indisputable truth. Sound
maxims are the germs ‘of good; strongly im-
printed in the memory, they nourish the will—

Joubert.

Apothegms-are the most infallible mirror to
represent a man truly what he is.—Plutare/.

We content ourselves to present to think-
ing minds the original seeds from whence
spring vast fields of new thought, that may be
further cultivated, beautified; and cnlarged.—

Chevalier Ramsay.

The genius, wit, and spirit of-a nation are
discovered by their proverbs.—Bacon.

An epigram often flashes light into regions
where Feason shines but dimly. Holmes’ dis-
posed of 4 bigot at once, when he compared his
mind to the pupil of the eye, —the more light
you let into it the more it contracts.— Whipple.

Apothegms are, in history, the same as the
pearls in the sand, or the gold iw the mine.—
Erasmus.

Few of the many wise apotheems which
have been uttered, from the timé of the seven
sages of Greece to that of poor Richard, have
prevented'a single foulish action.—Macaway.

A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops
with one eye, and that eye placed in the back
of his head.— Coleridge.

The excellence of aphorisms consists not so
much in the expression of some rare or abstrase
scutiment, as in the comprehension of some use-
fill truth in few words.—/ukzson.

Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the qnit-
tesscntial extracts of thought and fecline,—
IW. dt. Alger.

A few words worthy to he remembered suf-
fice'to give an iden-of a great mind. There-are
single thoughts that contain the essence of a
whole yoluine, single sentences that have the
leanties of a large work, a simplicity so tin-
ished and so pertect that it equals in merit and
in excellence a large and glorious composition. —

- Joubert.

The little and short sayings of nice and
excellent men are of great value, like the dust
of gold, or the least sparks of diamonds.—

Tillotson.

He may justly be numbered among the
benefactors of mankind who cuntracts the great
rules of lile into-short sentences, that may be
easily impressed on the memory, and taught by
frequent recollection to recur habitually to the
mnind.—/ohuson.

Thonghts take up no room. When they
are right, they afford a portable pleasure, which
one may travel with, without any trouble or
eneumbranee.—Jeremy Collier.

He that Jays down precepts for the govern-
ing of our lives, and moderating our passions,
obliges humanity not only in the present, but
incall future generations —Seneec.

Under the veil of these curions sentences are
hid those germs of morals which the masters
of philosophy have afterwards developed into so
many vojuines.—Pluturch.

The wise men of old have sent most of their
morality down to the stream of time in the light
skiff of apothegin or cpigram ; and the proverbs
of nations, which embody the comuion sense of
nations, haye the brisk concussion of the. most
sparkling wit.— Whipple.

Tam of opimon that there:are no proverbial
sayings whieh are not true, because they are all
sentences drawn from experience itself, who is
the mother of att seiences.— Cervantes.

Abstracts, abridgments, sumuinaries, ete,
have the same use with bnruing-glisses, — to
collect the ditfnsed rays of wit and learning in
authors, and make them poiut with warmth and
quickness bpon the reater’s imagination. —

Ethieal maxims are bandied about as a sort
of current coin of discotirse, and, heiiig never
melted down for use; those that are of base
metal are never detected.— Bishop Whately. ©


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APPETITE.

APPEARANCES.
A man may smile, and smile; and be a vil-
lain. — Shakespeare.

There are no greater wretches in the world
than many of those whom people in general
take to be happy.—Seneca.

By a kind of fashionable discipline, the eye
is taught to brighten, the lip to smile, and the
whole countenance to emanate with the sem-
blance of friendly welcome, while the bosom is
unwarmed by a single spark of genuine kind-
ness and good-will.—'Washington frving.

With gloomy state, and agonizing pomp.—
Johnson.

There is no vice so siinple, but assumes some
mark of virtue on its outward parts.—
Shakespeare.

Surely you will not calenlate any essential
difference trom mere appearanees ; for the light
laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles
over hrackish depths’of sadness, and the serious
look inay be ‘the sober veil that covers a divine
peace. You know that the bosom ean ache be-
neath diamond brooches ; and how nuny blithe
hearts dance under coarse wool !—Chapin.

How litde do they seé what is, who frame
their hasty judgments upon that which seems !—
Southey.

O place! O form! how often dost thon with
thy case, thy habit, wrench awe from tools,-and
tie the wiser sonls to thy false seeming !—

Shakespeare.

* A man of the world must scem to be that he
wishes to be.—Bruyére.

In the condition of men, it frequently hap-,
pens that ericf and anxiety lie hid under the
golden robes of prosperity ; ‘and the gloom of
calamity is-cheered by seeret raciations of hope
jand comfort; as in the works of nature,” the
bog is sometimes covered with flowers, and the
mine concealed in the barren crags.—Johnson.

L.have always observed that to succeed in
the world we mns¢ be foolish in appearance, but
in reality wise.—A/ontesquieu.

Gildcd tombs do worms enfold.— Shakespeare.

A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an
extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.—
° : Shenstone.

In civilized society external advantages
moake us more respected. A man with a good
coat upon 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 yon nothing, for it isa part of a
general system.—Johuson.~

Beware, so long as you live, of Judging men
by their outward appearance.—La Fontaine.

APPETITE.
Reason should direct and appetite obey.—
Cicero,

Onr appetites, of one or another kind, are
excellent spnrs to onr reason, which might
‘otherwise but feebly sct about the great-ends-of
preserving and continuing the species. —Lamd.

Good cheer is no hindrance to a good life-—
Aristippus.

There are so few invalids who-are invaria-
bly and conscientiously untemptable by those
deadly domestic enemies, sweetmeats, pastry,
and gravies, that the usual civilities at‘a meal are
very like being politely assisted to the grave.—

Willis.

Fat paunches have lean pates.—Shakespeare.

These appetites are very humiliating weak-
nesses. That our,grace depends so.largely:npon
animal condition is not qpite flattering to those
who are hyper-spiritual.— Beecher.

Choose rather to punish your appetites than
to be punished by them.—Zyrius Maximus.

Hunger is a cloud out of which falls a rain
of eloquence and knowledge; when the belly is
empty, the body becomes spirit; when itis fnll,
the spirit becomes body.—Saadi.

Animals feed, man eats; the man of intel-
lect alone knows how-to eat.—Brillut Savarin.

The youth who follows his appetites too soon
seizes the enp, before it has received its best
ingredients, and hy anticipating his pleasures,
robs the remaining parts of lite of their share,
so that his eagerness only produces a manhood
of imbecility and an age of pain.— Goldsmith.

Doth not the appetite alter? A man loves
the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in
his age.— Shakespeare.

No man’s body.is as strong as his appetites,
but Heaven has corrected the boundlessness of
his voluptnous desires by stinting his strength
and contracting bis capacities. Tillotson.

Tt is diffienlt to speak to the belly beeanse
it has no ears.—Plutarch.

Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises
from supper, where the appetite is puzzled
with varieties? The body, too, burdened with
yesterday’s excess, weighs down the soul, and
fixes to the earth this particle of the divine
essence.— Horace.

Hunger makes everything sweet except itself,
for want is the teacher of habits.—Antiphanes.



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i

Now good digestion wait on appetite, ‘and
health on both !—Shakespeare.

The lower your seuses are kept, the better
you may govern them. “Appetite ‘and reason
are commonly like two, buckets, — when one is
at thé top, the other is at the bottom. Now of
the two, I had rather the reason-bucket be up-
permost.—Jeremy Collier.

A well-governed appetite 'is-a great part of
liberty. — Seneca.

Appetite is the will’s solicitor, the will is
appetite’s controller.. No. desire is properly
called will, unless where reason and understand-
ing prescribe the thing desired —Z/ooker.

In grief I have always found cating a won-
drous relief.—Afoore.

_ Some men are born to feast, and not to
fight ; whose sluggish minds, even in fair honor’s
field, stilt on their dinner turn.—Joanna Baillie.

The difference between a rich man anda
poor man is this, —the former eats when he
pleases, and the latter when he can get it.—

Sir Walter Raleigh.

For the sake of health, medicines are taken
by weight and measure ; so ought food to be, or
by some similar rule-—Skelton.

APPLAUSE.

A universal applanse is seldom Jess than
two thirds of a scandal —ZEstrange.

Such a noise arose as the shronds make at
sea in a stiff tempest, as loud and to as many
tunes, — hats, cloaks, doublets, I think, flew up ;
‘and had their faces been. loose, this day they
had heen lost.—Shakespeare.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the
end and-aim of weak ones.— Colton.

Flattery. of the verbal kind is gross. In
short, applause is of too coarse a nature to be
swallowed in the gross, though the extraet or
tincture be ever so agreeable.—Shenstone.

The applause of a single human being is of
great consequence.—/ohnson.

.. Neither human applause nor human een-

gure is to be taken as the, test of truth; but

either should sct us upon testing ourselyes.—
Bishop Whately.

When, the million applaud you, seriously
ask yourself what harm you have done; when
they censure you, what good !—Colton.

Applause waits on success: the-fickle multi-
tude, like the light straw that floats along the
stream, glide with the current still, and follow
fortune.—Jrankiin.

A slowness ‘to -applaud betrays:a cold tem-
per or an envious spirit—Z/annak JIfore.

O popular.applause ! what heart of man is
proof agaiust thy sweet, seducing charins 7—
Cowper.

I would applaud thee to the very. echo, that
should applaud again.— Shakespeare.

Praise from the common peopie is generally
false, and rather follows vain persons than vir-
tious ones.— Bacon.

APPRECIATION.

To love one that is great is almost to be:
great one’s self. /udame Necker.

Praise is a debt we owe- unto the-virtues of
others, and due unto our own from all whom
malice hath not made -mutes or envy struek
dumb.—Sir Thomas Browne.

Were she perfect, one would admire her more,
but love her less.— Grattan.

It is very singular how the fact of a man’s
death often seems to, give people-a trucr idea of
his character, whether for good or evil, than
they have ever possessed while he was living
and acting among them.—Zfarethorne.

It is common, to esteem most what is most
unknown.— Tacitus.

Nature and books belong to the eves that
sec them. It depends on the-mood of the man,
whether he shall see the sunset or the fine poem.
There are always sunsets, and there is always
genius; but only a few-honrs so serene. that we
ean relish nature or criticism. The: more or
less depends on structure or temperament.
Temperament is the iron wire on-which the
beads are strung. Of what use is fortune or
talent to a cold and defective nature ?—Lmerson

Men should.allow others’ excellences, to pre-
serve a modest opinion of their own.—Barrow.

To guard the mind against the temptation
of thinking that there are no_ good people, say
to them: “Be suchas you would like to sce
others, and you will find those who resemble
you.” —Bossuet.

To love her (Lady Elizabeth Hastings) was
a liberal education.— Steele.

We must never undervalue any person. The
workman loves not that his work should be
despised in his presence. Now God is present
everywhere, and every person is his work.—

De Sales.

In this world there is one godlike thing, the
essence of all that ever was or ever will he of
godlike in this world, — the veneration donc to
human worth by the hearts of men.— Carlyle.


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APPRECIATION.

You think much too well of me as a man.
No anthor can be as moral as his works, as no
preacher is as pions as his sermons.—Zichter.

Men prize the! thing ungained more than it
is.— Shakespeare.

Despise not any man, and do not spurn any-
thing. For there is no nian that hath not his
hour, nor is there anything that hath not its
place.—Rabbi Ben Azai.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can
never be torn from us.—Goethe.

No good writer was ever long neglected; no
great man overlooked hy men equally great.
Impatience is a proof of inferior strength, and a
destroyer of what little there nay be.—Zandor.

Sometimes a common seene in nature —one
of the common relations of life — will open it-
self to us with a-brightness and pregnaney of
meaning unknown before. Sometimes a thought
of this kind forms an cra-in life. It changes
the whole future course. It is a new ereation.

Channing.

You may fail to shine, in the opinion of
others, both in your conyersation and: actions,
from being superior,-as well-as inferior to them.

Greville.

We commend a horse for his strength, ‘and
sureness of foot, and not for his rich caparisons ;
a greyhound for his share of heels, not for his
fine collar; a hawk for her wing, not for her
jesses and bells. Why, in like manner, do we
not value a man for what is properly his own ?
He has a great train, a beautiful palace, so
much credit, so many thousand pounds a
year, and all these are about him, but not in
him.— Montaigne.

There is no surer mark of the absence of
the highest moral and intellectnal qualities than
a cold reception of excellence.—S. Bailey.

People do not always understand the motives
of sublime conduet, and when they are aston-
ished they are-very apt to think they onght to
be alarmed. The truth is, none are fit judges
of greatness but those who are capable of it.—

Jane Porter.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.—
Thackeray.

Every man stamps his value on himself.
The price we challenge for ourselves is given us,
There docs not live on earth the man, be his
station what it may, that I despise myself com-
pared with him. Man is made great or little
by his own will. —Sciiller.

A man does but faintly relish that felicity,
which costs him nothing ; happy they whom
pain leads to pleasure.—Henry Home.

It is with certain good qualities as with the
senses; those who are entirely deprived of them
ean neither appreciate nor comprehend them.—

Rochefoucauld.

Our companions please us less from the
charms we find in their conversation than from
those they find in ours.— Greville.

In an audience of rough people a generous
sentiment always brings down the house. In
the tumult of war both sides applaud an heroic
deed.—Z. IV. Higginson.

To feel, to feel exquisitely, is the lot of very
many ; it is the charm that lends a. superstitious
joy to fear. But to appreciate belongs to the
few; to one or two alone, here and there, the
blended passion and understanding that consti-
tute in its essenee worship.—Charles Auchester.

We never know a greater eharaeter until
soinething congenial to it has grown up within
ourselves. — Channing.

In proportion as our own mind is enlarged,
we discover a greater number of men of origi-
nality. Commonplace people see no difference
between one man and another.—Pascal.

Contemporaries appreciate the man rather
than the merit; posterity will regard the merit
rather than the man.—Buzton.

The charming landscape which I saw this
morning is indubitably made up of some twenty
or thirty farms. Miller owns this field, Locke
that, and Manning the woodland beyond. But
none of them owns the landscape. There is a
property in the horizon whieh no man has bnt
he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is,
the poet. “This is the best part of these men’s
farms, yet to this their warranty-deeds give no
title —Emerson.

He is incapable of a truly, good action: who
knows not the pleasure in contemplating the
good actions of others.—Lavater.

Whatever the benefits of fortune are, they
yet require a palate fit to relish and taste them ;
itis fruition, and not possession, that renders
us happy.—Lontaigne.

Those who, from the desire of our perfection,
have the keenest eye for our faults generally
compensate for it by taking a higher view of
our merits than we deserve.—J. 2. Boyes.

I pity the man who can travel from Dan to
Beersheba, and ery, ‘“’T is all barren!” And
so it is, and so is all the world to him who will
not cultivate the fruits it offers.—Sterne.

The more enlarged is our own mind, the
igreater number we discover of men of origi-
‘nality. Your commonplace people see no differ.
“ence between one man and another.—Pascal.



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Do not justify all your actions. Do not Greck architecture is the flowering of geom.

appreciate the things as they. touch you_the
nearest, and have not your cyes “always fixed
upon yourself.—Michter,

We are very much what others think of us.
The reception our observations meet with gives
us conrage to proceed or damps our efforts. —

Hazlitt.
ARCHITECTURE,

The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in
stone, subdued by the insatiable demand of har-
mony in man. The mountain of granite blooms
into an eternal flower, with the lightness and
delicate finish as well as the aerial proportions

and perspective of vegetable beauty.—Zmerson. |

A Gothic church is a petrified religion. —
Coleridge.

Architecture is the printing-press of all ages,
and gives a history of the state of the society in
which it was erected, from the crom}ech of the
Druids to those toy-shops of royal bad taste, —
Carlton House and the Brighton Pavilion. The
Tower and Westminster Abbey are glorious
pages in the history of time, and tell the story
of an iron despotism, and the cowardice of un-
limited power.—Lady dforgan. .

The architect must not only understand
drawing, but music.— Vitrartus.

Architecture exhibits the greatest extent of
the difference from nature which may exist in
works of art. It involves all the powers of
desicn, and is sen) pture and painting inclusively.
It shows the greatness”of man, and shonld-at
the same time teach him humility.— Coleridge.

Architecture is frozen music —
Madame deStaél.

In designing a house and gardens, it is hap-
py when there is an opportnnity of maintaining
a subordination of parts; the house so luckily
placed as to exhibit a view of the whole: de-
sign. I have sometimes thought that there was
room for it to resemble an epic or dramatic
poem.—Shenstone.

Houses arc built to live in, more than to
look on ;-therefore let use be preferred before
uniformity except where both may be had.—

Bacon.

An instinctive taste teaches men to build
their churches in flat countries with spire-stee-
pies, which, as they cannot be referred to any
other object, point as with silent finger to the
sky and stars.— Coleridge.

Moller, in his Essay on Architecture, taught
that the building which was fitted accurately to
answer its end would turn’ out to be heantiful,
though beauty had not been intended. I find
the like unity in human structures rather viru-
lent and pervasive.—£merson,

etry.— emerson.

If cities were built by the sound of music,
then some edifices would apptar to be construct-
ed by grave, solemn tones, — others: to have
danced forth to light fantastic airs.—Llawthorne.

ARGUMENT.
In argument similes are like songs in love:

they much describe ; they nothing prove.
Prior.

Some men at the approach of a dispute
neigh like horses. Unless there be an argu-
ment, they think nothing is doing. Some talk-
ers excel in the precision with which they
formulate their thoughts, so that you get from
them someivhat to remember ; others lay criti-
cism asleep by-a charm: Especially women use
words that are not words, — as steps in a dance
are not steps, — but reproduce the genius of that
they speak of ; as the sound of some bells makes
us think of the bell merely, whilst the church-
chimes in-the distance bring the church ‘and its
serious memories before us.—Lmerson, :

He that is not open to conviction is not
qualified for discussion —Bishop Whately.

An academical education, sir, bids me tell
you, that it is necessary to establish the truth
of your first proposition before you presume to
draw inferences from it.— Junius.

Arguments, like children, should he like the
subject that begets them.—T'homas Decker.

Reply with wit to gravity, and with gravity
to wit; make a full concession to your adversa-
ry, and give him every eredit, for those argu-
ments you know you can answer, and slur over
those you feel you cannot; but above all, if he
have the privilege of making his reply take es-
pecial eare that the strongest thing you have to
urge is the last.—Colton.

Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unan-
swerable.—Addison.

T never love those salamanders that are nev-
er well but-when they arein'the fire of conten-
tions. Iwill rather snffer a thousand wrongs
than offer one. I have always found that to
strive with a superior is injurious; with ‘an
equal, doubtful; with an inferior, sordid and

base; with any, full of unquietness.—
Bishop Hall.

Be calm in arguing ;-for fierceness makes
etror a fault, and truth discourtesy.—JZerbert.

Argument, as usually managed, is the worst
sort of conversation ;.as it is generally ii books
the worst sort of reading. —Swift.

Wise men argue causes, and fools decide
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ART.

If thou continnest to take delight in idle
argumentation thou mayest be qualified to com-
bat with the sophists, but will never know how
to live with men.—Socrates.

He who establishes his argument by noise
and command shows that reason is weak.—
Montaigne.

When we would show any one that he is
mistaken, our best course is to observe on what
side he considers the subject, — for his ‘view of
it is generally right on this side, — and.adinit to
him that he is right so far. He will he-Satisfied
with this acknowledgment, that he was not
wrong in his judgment, but only inadvertent in
not Jooking at the whole case.—Pascal.

As the scale of the balance must give way to
the weight that presses it down, so the mind
must of necessity yield to demonstration.—

: : Cicero.

Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long
bow, the force of it depends on the strength of
the hand that draws it. Argument is like an
arrow from a cross-bow, which has equal force
though drawn by a child — Boyle.

Gratuitous violence in argument betrays a
conscious weakness of the cause, and is usual-
ly a signal of despair. /unius.

Tt is an exeellent rule to be ohserved in
all disputes, that men should give soft words and
hard arguments ; that they should not so much
strive to vex as to convinee each other.—

Wilkins.

Nothing is more certain than that much of
the force,-as well as*grace, of arguments or in-
structions depends on their conciseness.— Pope.

In a debate, rather pull-to picecs the argu-
ment of thy antagonist than offer him-any of
thy own; for thus thou wilt fight him im his
own country.—Fielding.

ARISTOCRACY.

Amongst the masses —eyen in revolutions
— aristocracy must ever exist; destroy it in
nobility, and it becomes centred in the rich and
powerful Honses of the Commons. ~ Pull them
down, and it still survives in the master and
foreman of the workshop.— Guizot.

Aristocracy has three successive ages, — the
age of superiorities, the age of privileges, and
the age of vanities; having passcd out of the
first, it degenerates in the second, and dies away
in the third.— Chateaubriand. 7

ARMY,

For the army is a school in which the nig-
gardly become generous, and “the generons
prodigal; and if there are some soldiers misers,
they are a kind of monsters, but very rarely
seen.— Cervantes.

The army is.a good book to open to study
human life. One Jearns there to put his-hand
to everything, to the Jowest and highest things.
The most delicate and rich are forced to see
living nearly everywhere poverty, and to live
with it, and.to measure his morsel_of bread and
draught of water.—Alyred de Vigny.

ARROGANCE,

What_is so hateful to a poor-man‘as the
purse-proud arrogance of a rich one? Let for-
tune shift the scene, and make the poor man
rich, he runs at once into the vice that he de-
claimed against so feclingly ; these are strange
contradictions in.the human character.—

Cumberland,

When men are most snve and arrogant,
they are commonly the most mistaken, and
have then given views to passion, without that
proper deliberation and suspense -which can
alone scenre them from the grossest absurdities.
Hume.

When Diogenes came to Olympia and per-
ceived some Rhocian youths dressed with great
splendor and magnificence, he,said with a smile
of contempt, “ This is.all arrogance.” After-
wards some Lacedemdnians came in his way, as
mean and ‘as sordid in their attire as the dress
of the others was rich, “ This,” said he, ‘is
also arrogance.” — Elian.

Arrogance is the obstruction of wisdom —
. Bion.

A man that loves to be peevish and para-
mount, and to play the sovereign at every turn,
does but blast the blessings of life, and swagger
away his own enjoyments; and not to enlarge
upon the folly, not to mention the injustice of
sucha behavior, it is always the sign of a little,
unbenevolent temper. It is disease and dis-
eredit:all over, and there is no more greatness
in it, than in the swelling of a dropsy

’ eremy Collier.
ART,

That which exists in nature is a something
purely individual and particular, Art, on the
contrary, is essentially destined to manifest the
general.— Schlegel.

In senlpture, did ever anybody call the
Apollo a faney piece? Or say of the Laocotn
how it might be made different? A master-
piece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the
chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal,—

mer son.

It is not so much in buying pictures, as in
being pictures, that you can encourage a-noble
school. The best patronage of art is net that
which seeks for the pleasures of sentiment in a
vague ideality, nor for beauty of form in a marble
image, but that which educates your children
into living heroes, and binds down the flights
and the fondnesses of the heart into practical
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There is no more potent antidote to low sen- Art employs. method for the symmetrical
suality than the adoration of the “beantiful. formation of beauty, as science employs it for
“All the higher arts of design are essentially the logical exposition of truth; but the ine
chaste without respect to the object. ‘Ehey chanical process is, in the last, ever kept visibly
jnuify the thoughts as tragedy purifies the.pas- distinet, while in the first it escapes from sight
sions. .‘Pheir accidental cffeets dre net worth -amid the shows of color and the curves uf grace.—
consideration, — there are souls to whom even Bulwer Lytton.
atyestal is not haly.— Schlegel. ——

He that sips of many arts drinks of none. —
Whatis art? Nature concentrated —Balzae. fuller,

It is only with the best judges that the No man can thoroughly master more than
highest works of art would lose none of their one art or science. The world has never seen
honor by being seen in-their rudiments,— 7a pertect painter. What would it h uviuiled

J. £. Boyes.” for Raphael to have aimed at Titian’s culor-
ing, or for Titian to have imitated Raphael’s

Every common dauber writes rasca] and vil- drawing, but to have diverted each from the
lain under his pictures, because the pictures true bent of his natural genius, and to have
themselves have neither character nor resem- made cach sensible of his.own deficiencies, with-
blance. But the works of-a master require no out any probability of supplying them—//aclitt.
index. lis features and coloring are taken —
from nature. The impression they make is Many persons feel art, some understand
immediate and uniform; nor is it possible to it; but few both feel and understand it. —L/ lard.
mistake his characters.— Junius.

; ' —_— Art, not less cloquently than literature,

The perfection of art is to conceal‘art.— teaches her children to venerate the single eye.

Quintilian. Remember Matsys. | His representations of

—_ imiser-lite are “breathing. A forleited bond

Winckelmann wished to live with-a work of twinkles in the hard smile. But follow him to

artas atriend. The saying is true of pen and: an altarpiece. His Apostle has canght a stray

pencil. Fresh lustre shoots from Lyeidas ina tint from his usurer. Features of exquisite

twenticth perusal. The portraits of Clarendon beanty are seen and loved; but the old nature

are mellowed by every year of refleetion.— of avarice frets under the glow of devotion.

Willmott. | Pathos staggers on the edge of faree.— Willmott.

Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport We speak of profane arts, but there are

of every breath of folly.—Zazlite. none properly such; every art is holy in it
self, it is the son of eternal light.—Zegner.

The names of great painters are like pass-
ing bells; in the name of Velasquez, you hear; Art is a jealons mistress, and, if'a man have
sounded the fall of Spain; in the name of ja genins for painting, poetry, music, architec-
Titian, that of Venice; in the name of Leo-/ ture, or philosophy,.he makes a bad husband,
nardy, that of Milan; in the name of Raphael, , and an il provider, and should be wise in sca-
that of Rome. And there is profound jnstice son, and not fetter himself with duties which
in this; for in proportion to the nebleness of , will imbitter his days, and spoil him for his
the power is the guilt of its use for purposes proper work.—£ merson.
yaiu or vile; and hitherto the greater the art, | —
the more surely has it been used, and used} The highest problem of any art is to cause
solely, for the decoration of pride, or the pro- by appearauce the illusion of a higher reality. —
voking of sensuality. askin. “Goethe.

Art, as fur as it has ability, follows. naturé, All the arts, which have a tendeney to raise
as a pupil imitates his master: thus your art’ manin the scate of being, havea certain cominon
must be, as it were, Gou’s grandchild.—Dante. , bond of union, and are connected, if I may be

— | allowed to say so, by blood-relationship with

Art is the effort of man to‘express.the ideas one another.— Cicero.
which nature suggests to him of a power above —
nature, whether that power be within the re- A work of art is said to be perfect in propor-
cesses of his own being, or in the Great First: tion as it docs not remind the spectater of the
Cause of which nature, like himself, is but the process by which it was created. —7nekerman.
effect. —Bulwer Lytton. —

—— Moral beanty is the basis of all true beauty.
The only kind of sublimity which a painter This foundation is somewhat covered and veiled
or. sculptor should ‘aim. at is to express by in nature. Art brings it ont,and gives it more
certain jiroportions'and positions of limbs and !-transparent forms. It is here that nrt, when it
features that strength and dignity of mind, aud; knows well its power and resources, engages 1
vigor and activity of body, which cnables men ja struggle with nature in whieh it may have the
to conceive and execute great actions. —Burke, “advantage. Victor Cousin.
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Those critics who, in modern times, have
the most thoughtfully analyzed the laws of
esthetic beauty, concur in maintaining that the
real truthfulness of all works of imagination —
sculpture, painting, written fiction — 1s so purely
in the imagination, that the artist never seeks
to represent the positive truth, but the idealized
image of a truth.— Bulwer Lytton.

The artist belongs to his work, not the
work to the artist.—/Vovalis. .

Art is the microscope of the mind, which
sharpens the wit us the other does the sight;
and converts every object into a little universe
in itself. Art may be said to draw aside the
veil from nature. To those who ‘are perfectly
unskilled in the practice, unimbued with the
principles of art, most objects present only a
confused mass.—Lazlitt.

I think sculpture and painting have an effect
to teach us manners, and abolish hurry.—
Emerson,

I once asked a distinguished artist what
place he gave to labor in art. “Labor,” he in.
effect said, “is the beginning, the middle, and
the end of art.” Turning then tosanother—
“ And you,” I inquired, “what do you consid-
er as the great force in art?” “Love,” he
replied. In their two answers I found but one
truth.—Bovee.

Ah! 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.

Art is & severe business; most serious when
employed in grand and sacred objects. The
artist stands higher than art, higher than the
object. He uses art for his purposes, and deals
with the object after his own fashion.—Goethe.

The great artist is the slave of his ideal.—
Bovee.

The refining influence is the study of art,
which is the science of beauty; and J find that
every man values every scrap of knowledge in
art, every observation of his own in it, every
hint he has caught from another. For the laws
of beauty are the beauty of beauty, and give
the mind the same or a higher joy than the
sight of it gives the senses. The study of art
is of high value to the growth of the intellect.—

Emerson.

The learned understand the reason of the
art, the unlearned feel the pleasure.—Quiatilian.

Art docs not imitate nature, but it founds
itself on the study of nature,— takes from na-
ture the selections which best accord with its
own intention, and then bestows on them that
which natnre does not possess, viz. the mind
and the soul of man.—Bulwer Lytton.

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ART.

Art neither belongs to religion nor to ethics;
but, like these, it brings us nearer to the Intinite,
one of the forms of which it manifests to us.
God is the source of -all beauty, as of all truth,
of all religion, of all morality. The most ex-
alted object, therefore, of art is to reveal in its
own manner the sentiment of the Infinite —

Victor Cousin.

It is-the end of art to inoculate men with the
love of nature.— Beecher.

The mother of useful-arts is necessity ; that
of the fine arts is luxury. For father the for-
mer has intellect; the latter genius, which it-
self is a kind of luxury.— Schopenhauer.

The true work of ‘art is but a shadow of the
divine perfection.—iichael Angelo.

Since T have known God in a saving man-
ner, painting, poetry, and music have had charms
unknown to me before. I have received what I
suppose isa taste for them, or religion has refined
my mind.and made it susceptible of impressions
from the sublime and beautiful. O, how religion
secures the heightened enjoyment of those pleas-
ures which keep so many from God, by their
becoming a sonrce of pride !—LHenry ‘Martyn.

The first essential to success in the art you
practise is respect for the art itself.—
Bulwer Lytton.

What a conception of art must those theo-
rists have who exclude portraits from the proper
province of the fine arts! It is exactly as if we
denied that to be poetry in which the poet cel-
ebrates the woman he really loves. Portraiture
is the basis and the touchstone of historic paint-
ing.—Schlegel.

The flitting sunbeam has been grasped -and
made to do man’s bidding in place of the paint-
er’s pencil. And although Franklin tamed the
lightning, yet not until yesterday has its instan-
taneous flash been made the vehicle of lan-
guage; thus in the transmission of thought, an-
nihilating space'and time.—Professor Robinson.

Art is based on ‘a strong sentiment of relig-
ion, —on a profound and mighty earnestness ;
hence it is so prone to co-operate with religion.

Goethe.

Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving.
Aaron Aull.

Remember always, in painting as in elo-
quence, the greater your strength, the quieter
will be your manner, and the fewer your words ;
and in painting, as in all the arts and acts of
life, the secret of hieh snecess will be found, not
in a fretful and various excellence, but in a quiet
singleness of justly chosen aim.—uskin.

An amateur may not be an artist, though an
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Al things are artificial; for nature is the
‘art of God.— Sir Thomas Browne.

Excellence in art is to be attained only by
active effort, and not by passive iinpressions ;

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ARTIFICE.

This is an-art which does mend nature, —
change it rather; but the art itself’ is nature.
Shakespeare,

Many young painters would never have

by ‘the manly overcoming “of difficulties, by | taken their pencils in hand il they could have

patient struggle against adverse circumst:
hy the thritty use of moderate opportunities.
The great artists were not rocked and dandled
into eminence, bnt they attained to it by that
course of ‘labor and discipline which no man
need go to Rome or Paris or London to enter
npon.—//illard.

Art needs solitude. or misery or passion.
Lukewarmt zephyrs wilt it. It is a rock-flower
flourishing by stormy blasts and in stony soil.—

Alex. Dumas.

The inglorious arts of peace.—
Andrew Marvell.

The misfortune in the state is, that nobody
ean enjoy life in peace, but that everybody must
govern; and in art, that nebody will enjoy what
has been produced, but that every one wants to
reproduce on his own aecsunt.— Goethe.

An artist has more.than two eyes. —
Haliburton.

All men are in some degree impressed by
the face of the world; some men even to
dclight. ‘This love of heauty is taste.’ Others
have the same love in sneh excess that, not con-
tertt with admiring, they seek to embody it in
new forms. ‘The creation of beauty is:art.—

Emerson.

A trne artist shonld put a generons deceit on
the spectators, and effect the noblest designs by
easy methods.— Burke.

The summit charms us, the steps to it do
not; with the heights before our eyes, we like to
linger in the plain. It is only a part of art that
ean be tanght; but the artist needs the whole.
He who is only half instrneted speaks mnch and
is always wrong ; who knows it wholly is content
with acting and speaks seldom or late.—Goethe.

The highest art is artlessness.—
FA, Durivage.

Whatever may he the means, or whatever
the more immediate end of any kind of art,
all of it that is good agrees in this, that it is the
expression of one soul talking to another, and
is precious according to the greatness of the
soul that utters it.—Ruskin:

In art, to express the infinite one should sug-
gest infinitely more than is expressed.— Goethe.

Artists will sometimes sperk of Rome with
disparagement or indifference while it is before
them; but no artist ever lived ia Rome and then
left it, without sighing to return. —J/illard.

e, felt, known, and understood, carly enough, what

really produced a master like Raphacl.— Goethe.

The object of art is to crystallize emotion
into thought, and then to fix it in form.—
Frangois Delsarte.

The power, whether of painter or poct, to
deseribe rightly what he calls an ideal thing
depends upon its being to him not an ideal but
‘a real thing. “No man ever did or ever will work
well, but either from actnal sight or sight of
faith.— Ruskin.

In the fine arts, as in many other things,

we know well only what we have not learned.—
Cham/ort.

The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot
be the object of the arts. Insion on a ground
of truth, —that is the secret of the fine arts. —

Joubert.

In old times men used their powers of paint-
ing to show the objects of faith; in later times
they used the objects of faith that they might
show their powers of painting.—fuskin.

The enemy of art is the enemy of nature;
art is nothiug. but the highest. sagacity ‘and
exertions of human nature; and what nature
will he honor who honors not-the human !—

Larater.

The highest art is always the most religious ;
and the greatest artist is always a devont man.
A seoffing Raphael or Michael Angelo is not
conceivable.— Blackie.

In the-art of design, color is to form what
yerse is to prose,—a- more harmonious and
Inminous vehicle of the thonght.—

Afrs, Jameson.

The painter is, as to the exeention of his
work, a mechanic ; but as to his conception, his
spirit, and design, he is hardly below even the
poet in liberal art.—Steee.

ARTIFICE.
Artifice. is allowed to deceive a rival; we
may employ everything against our enemics,—
Richelieu.

The ordinary employment of artifice is the
mark of a petty mind; and i¢ almost always
happens that he who uses it to cover himself in
one place uncovers himself in another.

' Rochefoucauld.

To know to dissemble is the knowledge of
kings.— Richelieu, .


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ASSOCIATES. .

Nature is mighty. Artis mighty. Artifice
is weak. For nature is the work of a mightier
power than man. Art is the work of man un-
der the guidance and inspiration of a mightier
power. Artifice is the work of mere man, in
the imbecility of his mimic understanding.—

. Hlare.
ASKING.

I am prejudiced in favor of him who can
solicit boldly, without impudence, — he has faith
in humanity, he has fuith in himself. No one
who is not acenstomed to give grandly can ask
nobly and with boldness.—Lavater.

ASPIRATION,

There is not a heart but has its moments of
longing, _ yearning for something better, no-
bler, holicr than it knows now.—Beecher.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be,
that in some sense we are. The mere aspira-
tion, by changing the frame of the mind, for the
moment realizes itself. Avrs. Jameson.

Man onght always to have something which
he prefers to life; otherwise life itself will appear
to him tiresome and void.—Seume.

Aspirations after the holy, — the only aspi-
ration in which the human soul can be assured
that it will never mect with disappointment.—

Maria JL Intosh.

Too low they build who build bencath the
stars.— Young.

O that I had wings like a dove !—Bible.

We learn to treasure what is above this
earth; we long for revelation, which nowhere
burns more purely and more beautifully than in
the New Pestument.— Goethe.

ASSERTION,

It is an impndent kind of sorcery, to attempt
to blind ns with the smoke, without convincing
us that the fire has existed.—.Junius.

Assertion, unsupported by fact, is nugatory ;
surmise and general abuse, in however elegant
language, onght not to pass for proofs.— Junius.

ASSOCIATES.

It is expedient to have an acquaintance with
those who have lovked into the world; who
know men, understand business, and ean give
you good intelligence and good advice when
they are wanted — Bishop Lorne. .

He that walketh with wise men shall be
wise; but_a companion of fools shall be de-
stroyed.— Bible.

He who comes from the kitchen smells of
its smoke; he who adheres to a sect has some-
thing of its cant; the college air pursues the
stndent, and dry inhumanity him who herds
with literary pedants.—Lavater.

if men wish to be held in esteem, they must
associate with those only who!are estimable.—
Bruyere.

Might I give counsel to any young hearer,
I would say to him, Try to frequent the com-
pany of. your betters. In books and life is
the most wholesome society; Iearn to admire
rightly ; the great pleasure of life is that. Note
whit the great men ‘admired,— they admired
great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and
worship meanly.—Thackeray.

You may depend upon it that he is a good
man whose Intimate friends are all good.—
Lavater.

Associate with men of good judgment; for
judgment is found in conversation. And we
make another man’s judgment ours by frequent-
ing his company.—Fuller.

Choose the company of your superiors,
whenever you can have it; that is the right and

true pride.— Chesterjield. \

Be not deceived : evil communications cor-
rupt good manners.— Bible.

When we live habitually with the wicked,
we become necessarily either their victim or
their disciple; when we associate, on the con-
trary, with virtnous men, we form ourselves in
imitation of their virtues, or, at least, lose every
day something of our fanlts.—<Ayapet.

No man can be provident of his time, who
is not prudent in the choice of his company.—
‘ Jeremy Tuylor.

A frequent intercourse and intimate connec-
tion between two persons make them so like,
that not only their dispositions are moulded
like each other, but their very face and tone of
voice contract a certain analogy.—Luvater.

No man ean possibly improve in any com-
pany for which he has not respect enongh to
be nnder some degree of restraint.— Chesterfield,

Company, villanons company, hath been
the spoil of ne.— Shakespeare.

What is companionship where nothing that
improves the intellect is communicated, and
where the larger heart contracts itself to the
model and dimension of the smaller ?—Landor.

In all societies, it is advisable to asséciate if
possible with the highest; not that the highest
are always the best, but because, if disgusted
there, we can at any time descend; but if we
begin with the lowest, to ascend is Impossible.—

Colton.

Tt is mect that noble minds keep ever with
their likes; for who so firm, that cannot be
seduced ?—Shakespeare.


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ASTRONOMY.

. No company is. far preferable to lad, be-
cause we-ure more apt.to eatch the vices of
others than their virtues, ‘as disease is fur more
contagious than health.— Colton.

Even -a high dome ‘and the expansive in-
terior of a cathedral have a sensible eiflect upon
manners. I have heard that sti? people lose
some of their awkwardness under high ceilings.

_ Lvmerson.
_ ‘Phere-are like to be short graces where the
devil plays host —Lamb. How we delight to build ont recollections
- upon some hasis of reality, —~ a place, a country,
Bad company is like.a nail driven into-a i local habitation !, how the events of life, as we
post, which,. after the first, and second blow, #look back upon them, lave grown into the well-
may be drawn ont with litte difliculty; but! remembered background of the places where
being once driven up to the head, the pincers | they fell upon us! Here is some suum garden
camot take hold to draw it out, bit which} or summer tanec, beautificd and canonized for-
can only he done by the destruction of the ever with the flvod of a’great joy ; and here ure

wool, St, Augustine.

It is best to be with those in time that we
hope to be with in cternity.—Fuller.

Nothing is more deeply punished than the
neglect of the afinities by which alone society
should be. formed, ‘and the insane levity of
choosing assoviates by others’ eyes.—Emerson,

A companion that feasts the company with
wit and mirth, and Icaves out the sin which is
usually mixed with them, he is the man ;-and
let me tell you, good company and good dis-
course are the very sinews of virtue. —

zuak Walton.

Costly followers are not to be liked; lest
while aman maketh his train longer, he make
his wings shorter.— Bacon.

~ Constant companionship is not enjoyable,
any more than constant cating. We sit too

long at the table of friendship, when we outsit:

our:appetites tur each other's thoughts.—Dovee,

The company in. which you will improve
most will be least expensive to yon.—
Washington.

We gain. nothing by being with such as
ourselves. We encourage one another in meti-
ocrity. I am always longing to be with men
more excellent than myselli—Lamb.

It is good discretion not to make too much
of any man at the first; hecanse one cannot
hold out that proportion.— Bacon.

It is certain that either wise bearing or,
ignorant carriage is caught, as men take
diseases, one of another; therefore let men
take heed of their company.—Shakespeure.

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ASSOCIATION. _

‘Association is the delight of the heart, not
less than of poctry., Alison observes that an
autumn. sunset, with its crimson clouds, glim-
meriig trunks of trees, and wavering tintsmpon
the grass, secms searecly-eapable of einbellish-
macnt. But if in this calm and beautiful glow

dim aid silent places, — rooms always shadowed
and dark to us, whatever they may be to others,
— where distress or death came once,-and. since
then dweils forevermore.— Washington Irving.

I have only to take up this, or this, to ood
my brain with memories.—Vadame Deluzy.

There is no man who has not some interest-
ing associations with particular scenes, or airs,
or books, and who does not feel their beauty or
sublimity enhanced to him by such connections.
Sir A. Alison.

He whose heart is not excited upon the.spot
which a martyr has sanctified by lis sufferings,
or at the grave of one who has largely benefited
mankind, must be more inferior to the multi-
tude in his moral, than he can possibly be
raised above them in his intellectual nature.—
Southey.

That man is little to be envied whose patri-
otism would not gain force upon the plain of
Marathon, or whose piety wonld not grow
ASSURANCE.

warmer among the ruins of Iona.—Johnson.

Immoterate assurance is perfect licentious-
ness.—-Shenstone.

Assurance and intrepidity, under the white
banner of sceming modesty, clear the way to
merit that would otherwise be. discouraged by
difficultics.— Chesterfield.

Assurance never failed to get admission into
| the houses of the great.—Jleure.  -
ASTRONOMY.
| Astronomy is one of the sublimest ficlds of
himan investigation. The mind that grmsps
| its facts and principles receives something of the

enlargement and grandeur belonging to the
science itself. It is a quickener of devotion.—
Horace Mann.

Astronomy is the science of the harmony of
infiniteexpanse.—Lord John Russell.

The contemplation of celestial things will

the chime of a distant bell steal over- the: fields, ' make a man both’-speak and think more sub-
the bosom. heaves with the sensation that Dante limely;and magnificently when he descends to
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AUTHORITY.

The narrow sectarian cannot read! astron-
omy with impunity. The creeds-of his church
shrivel like dried leaves at the door of the obser-
vatory.—Emerson. ’

An.undevout astronomer is mad.— Young.

ATHEISM. ;

There is no being eloquent for atheism. In
that exhansted receiver the mind cannot use its
wings, — the elearest proof that it is out of its
element.—LZare.

Settle it, therefore, in your minds, as a maxim
nevér to be effaced or forgotten, that atheism is
an inhuman, bloody, ferucions system, equally
hostile to every useful restraint, and to every
virtuous affection; that leaving nothing above
us to excite awe, nor round us to awaken ten-
derness, it wages war with heaven and earth:
its first object is to dethrone God, its next to
destroy man.—Robert Hall.

No atheist,‘as snch, can be a true friend, an
affectionate relation, or a loyal subject.—
Bentley.

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.

The great atheists are, indeed, the hypocrites,
which are ever handling holy things, but
withont feeling ; so as they must need be cau-
terized in the end.— Bacon.

The owlet atheism, sailing on obscene wings
across the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and
shuts them close, and, hooting at the glorions
sun in heaven, cries out, “ Where Is it ?”” —

Coleridge.

A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to
atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s
minds about to religion. — Bacon.

T shonld like to see a man sober in his habits,
moderate, chaste, just in his dealings, assert that
there is no God; he wonld speak at least with-
out interested motives; but such a man is not
to be found.—Bruyere.

Atheism is rather in the life than in the
heart of man.—Bacon.

One wonld fancy that the zealots in atheism
would be exempt from the single fanlt which
scems to grow out of the imprudent fervor of
religion. But so it is, that irreligion is propa-
gated with as mnceh fierceness and contention,
wrath and indignation, as if the safety of man-
kind depended upon it.— Addison.

The statements of atheists ought to be per-
fectly clear of donbt. Now it is not perfectly
clear that the soul is material —Pascal.

The three great apostles of practical atheism,
that make converts without persecuting, and
retain them without preaching, are wealth,
health, and power.— Colton.

Thank Heaven, tht female heart is unten-
antable by athcismu.—Zforace Mana,

Atheism is the result of ignoranceand pride,
of strong sense and fecble reasons, of good eat-
ing 'and ill-living. It is the plague of society,
the corrupter of manuers,‘and the underminer
of property.—Jeremy Collier.

By night an atheist half believes a God.—
Young.

Atheism is a system which can conmunicate
neither warmth nor illumination, except from
those fagots which your mistaken zeal has
lighted up for its destrnction.— Colton.

An atheist’s laugh is a poor exchange for
Deity, offended.— Burns.

Supposing all the great points of atheism
were formed into a kind of ereed, I would fain
ask whether it would not require an infinite
greater measure of faith than any set of articles
which they so violently oppose.—Addison.

The fool hath said ia his heart, There is no
God. They are corrupt ; they have done abom-
inable works.— Bible.

The footprint of the savage traced in the
sand is sufficient to attest the presence of man
to the atheist who will not recognize God,
whose hand is impressed upon the entire uni-
verse.—Llugh Miller.

There are few men so obstinate in their
atheism whom a pressing danger will not re-
duce to an acknowledgment of the divine power.

Plato.
ATTENTION.

Attention makes the genins; all learning,
fancy, and science depend upon it. Newton
traced back his discoveries to its unwearied
employment. It builds bridges, opens new
worlds, and heals diseases; without it taste is
useless, and the beauties of literature are unob-
served.— IWVillmott.

AUSTERITY.

Manners more reserved and harsh, less com-
plaisant and frank, only serve to give a false
idea of piety to the people of the world, who
are already but too much prejudiced against it,
and who believe that we cannot serve God but
by amelancholy and austere life. Let us go on

‘our way in the simplicity of our hearts, with

the peace and joy that are the frnits of the
Holy Spirit.—#enelon.

AUTHORITY.
Nothing is more gratifving. to the mind of
man than power or duminion.— Addison.


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Though Authority be a stubborn bear, yet
he is oft led by: the nose with gold.
Shakespeare.

Meek young men grow up in libraries, he-
lieving it “their | duty to accept the views which
Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given ;
forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were
only young men in libraries when they wrote
these books.—merson.

Authority, thongh it err. like others, hath
yet a kind of medicine in itself, that skins the
vice of the top.—Shakespeare.

There is nothing sooner overthrows a weak
head than opition of anthority ; like too strong
a liquor for a frail glass.— Sir Pz Sidney.

Man, proud man! dressed in a little brief
authority 5 most ignorant of what he’s most
assured, his glassy essence, —like au angry ape
plays such fantaste tricks hefore high heaven
as wake the angels weep.— Shakespeare.

AUTHORS.

People may be taken in once, who imagine
that an author is greater in private life than
other men.—Johnson.

Professed anthors who overestimate their
vocation are too full of themselves to be agree-
able companions. The demands of their ego-
tism are inveterate. They secm to be incapable |
of that abandon which is the requisite condition

af social pleasnre ; and bent upon winning a |,

tribute of admiration, or some huit which they}
ean tnrn to the account of pen-craft, there is
seldom in their company any of the Aclightful |

nnconscionsness which harmonizes a cirele.- 4.

Tuckerman.

Nature’s chief materia is writing well. —
Sheffield, f Duke of Buckingham.

There is no author so poor who cannot be
of some service, if only for a witness of his
time.— Claude Fauchet.

The success of many works is found in the,
relation between the mediocrity of the authors’
ideas and that of the ideas of the public.—

Chamfort. |

Authors are the vanguard in the march of.
mind, the inteltectnal backwoodsinen, reclaim |
ing from the idle wilderness new territories for
thé thought-and activity of their happier breth-
ren.—Carlyle.

It is quite as much of a trade to make a
book as to, make a clock. It requires more
than mere-genius to be an anthor.—Druyeére.

Our writings are so many dishes, our readers
guests, our books like beauty; tliat whicli one
admires another rejects ; so are we approved as
men’s fincies are inclined. — Burton.

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AUTHORS.

One hates an author that is all author; fel-
lows in foolseap uniform turned up with ink.—
. 1 Byron.

‘ Whoever has set his whole heart upon book-
making had better be songht in his works, for
it is only the lees of his cup of life which ha
offers, in person, to the warm lips of his fellows.
Luckerman.

The motives and purposes of authors are not
always so pure.and high as, in the enthusiasin
of youth, we sometimes imagine.—Longsellow.

The: wonderful fortune of some writers de-
Indes and leads to misery a great number of
young people. _Ft cannot be too often repeated
that it is dangerous to enter upon a career of
letters without some other means of living. An
illustrious author has said in these times, “ Lit-
erature must not be leant on-as upon a crutch ;
it is lithe more than @ stick. J. Petit, Senn.

The familiar writer is apt to be his own
satirist. Out of his own mouth is he judged.—
Whipple.

The faults of a brilliant writer are never
dangerous on the long run; a thousand people
read his work who would read no other ; in-
quiry is directed to each of his doctrines ; it is
soon discovered what is sound and what is
false; the sonnd become maxims,-and the false
beacons.—Bulwer Lytton.

The two most engaging powers of an author
are to make new things familiar, and familiar

things new.— 7 "hackeray.

Those authors into whose hands nature has
placed a magic wand, with which they no soon-
er touch us than we forget the unhappiness in
life, than the darkness Teaw es our soul, and wo
are reconciled to existence, should be placed
among the benefactors of the human race.—

Diderot.

A man is, I susgect, but of a second-rate
order whos¢ genius is not immeasurably above
his works.—Bulwer Lytton.

Tt is a doubt whether mankind are most in-
debted to those who, like Bacon and Butler,
dig the gold from the mine of literature, or to
those, who, like Paley, purify it, stump it, fix its
real value, and give it currency “and utility. —

Colton.

We write from aspiration and antagonism,
as well as from experience. We paint those
qualities which we do not possess.—/smerson.

None -bat an author knows au author’s
cares. — Cowper.

To have invented that character (Fielding’s
Amelia), is not-only a trinmph of art, but it is

ha good action. — Thackeray.


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AUTHORS.

I believe that there is much less difference
between the anthor ‘and his works than is cur-
rently supposed ; it is usually in the physical
appearance of the writer, —his manners, his
mien, his extcrior,— that he falls short of the
ideal a reasonable inan forms of him — rarely
in his mind.—Bulwer Lytton.

The anthors who affect contempt for a name
in the world put their names to the: books
which they invite the world’to read.— Cicero.

Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of
@ country arises from its anthors. But then
that is only.as they are oracles of wisdom ; un-
less they teach virtue, they are more worthy of
a halter than of the laurcl.—Jane Porter.

Nothing is so beneficial to-a young author

‘as the advice of a man whose judgment stands
constitutionally at the freezing-point.—

Douglas Jerrold:

That:an author’s work.is the mirror of his
mind is a position that has led to very false
conclusions. If Satan himself were to write a
book it would be in praise of virtue, because the
.good would purchase it for use, and the bad for
ostentation.— Colton.

Authors, like coins, grow dear Jas they grow
old.— Pope.

To write well is to think well, to feel well,
and to render well; it is to possess at once in-
tellect, soul, and taste—Bujfon.

We may observe in humorous authors that
the fits they chiefly ridicule have often a like-
ness in themselves. Cervantes had much of the
knight-crrant in him; Sir George Etherege was
anconsciously the Fopling Flutter of his own
satire; Goldsmith was the same hero to cham-
bermaids, and coward to ladies that he has im-
mortalized in his ‘charming comedy; and the
antiquarian frivolities of Jonathan Oldbuck
had their resemblance in Jonathan Oldbuck’s
creator.—Bulwer Lytton.

He who purposes to be an anthor should
first be a student.—Dryden.

Never write on a subject without having
first read yourself full on it; and never read on
a subject till you have thought yourself hungry
on it.—Richter.

A writer who attempts to live on the manu-
facture of his imagination is continually coquet-
ting with starvation.— Whipple.

There are three difficultics in authorship, —
to write anything worth the publishing, to find
honest men to publish it, and to get sensible
men to read it.—Colton.

Young authors give their brains much exer-
cise and little feod.—foubert.

There is infinite pathos in unsuccessful an-
thorship.. The book that perishes unread is
the deaf inute of literature.—Holmes.

It is in vain a daving author thinks of attain-
ing to the heights of Parnassus if he does not
fee] the ‘secret influence of heaven and if his
uatal star has not formed him to be a poet.—

Boilean.

Never write anything that does not give you
great pleasure; emotion is casily propagated
\'from the writer to the reader.—Joubert.

Certain I am that, every author who has
written a book with earnest forethought and
fondly cherished designs will beat testimony to
the fact that much which he meant to convey
has never been guessed at in any review of his
work; and many a delicate beauty of thought,
on which he principally valued himself, remains,
like the statue of Isis, an innage of truth from
which no hand lifts the veil— Bulwer Lytton.

_ _Of.all unfortunate men one of the unhappicst
isa middling author endowed with too lively a
sensibility for criticisin.— Disraeli.

How kind the “ Critical Notices ” — where
small authorship comes to pick up chips of
praise, fragrant, sugary, and sappy — always
‘are to them! Well, life would be nothing with-
out paper ercdit and other fictions ; so let them
pass current.—Z7olmes.

Friend, howsoever thon camest by this book;
I will assure thee thon wert least in my thoughts
when I writ it— Bunyan.

This is the highest miracle of genius, that
things which are not should be as thongh they
j were, that the imaginations of one mind should
become the persona} recollections of another.—

Alacaulay.

Clear writers, like clear fountains, do not
seem so deep as they-are: the turbid look the
most profound.—Landor.

O thon who art able to write a book, which
once in the two centuries or oftener there is a
man gifted to do, envy not him whom they
name city-builder, and inexpressibly pity him
whom they name conqueror or city-burner.—

Carlyle.

So idleZare dull readers, and so industrious
are dull’ authors, that puffed nonsense bids fair
to blow unputfed sense wholly out of the fice

otton.

The triumphs of the warrior are bounded
by the narrow theatre of his own age; but those
of a Scott or a Shakespeare will be renewed with
greater and greater lustre in ages yet unborn,
when the victorions chieftain shall be forgotten,
or shall live only in the song of the minstrel
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AUTUMN.

The little mind who loves itself, will write
and think with the vale:
will be bravely eccentric, and scorn the beaten
road, from universal benevolence.— Goldsmith.

There is nothing more dreadfil to an au-
thor than neglect; compared with which, re-
proach. hatred, "and opposition are names of

This is the magnanimity of anthorship,

ry; but the great mind j when a writer having a tepic presented to him,

fruitful of beauties for commun minds, waives

‘his privilege, aud trusts to the judicions few for

understanding the reason of his abstinence. —
Lamb,

Wonld a-writer know how to behave him-

hppiness; yet this worst, this meanest fate, | self with rekttion to posterity? Let him con-

every onc who dares to write has reason to fear.— , sider in old books what hie finds that he is

Johuson. | to know, and what omissions he most laments.—

Byery fool describes in these bright days
his wondrous journey to some forcign court,

and spawns his quarto, and demands your | droll.

praise.— Byron.

Swift.

Be very careful how yon tell an author he is
Ten to one he will hate you; and if
he does, be sure he can do you a mischief, and
very probably, will, “Say you cried over his

From the moment one scts up for an-anthor, | romance or hts verses, and he will Jove you and

one must be treated as eeremoniously, that is as; send you a copy.

You can Idugh over that as

unfaithfully, “as a king’s favorite or a king.”— | much as you like, ~ in private.—Lfolmes.

ope.

To expect an author to talk as he writes is

I have observed that vulgar readers almost | ridienlous ; or even i he did you would find
always lose their veneration for the writings | fanlt with him-as a pedant.—J/uzlitt.

of the genius with whom they have had per-
sonal intercourse.—Sir Egerton Brydyes.

For popular purposes, at least, the aim of
literary artists should be similar to that of

There is a natural disposition with us to! Rubens in his kurdscapes, of which, without

judge an anthor’s personal character by the
character of his works. We find it difficult to
understand the common antithesis of-a-good
writer and a bad man.— Whipple.

Satire lies respecting literary men during
their life, and eulogy does so after their death._—
. Voliaire.

Authorship is, according to the spirit in
which it is pursned, an infamy, a pastime, a
day-labor, a handicraft, ‘an art, a scicnce, a vir-
tue.— Schlegel.

Peacé be with the sont of that charitable
and ¢onrteons author, who, for the common
benefit of his fetlow-anthors, introduecd the
ingenious way of miscellancon$ writing !—

Shaftesbury.

The wickedness of a loose or profane author,
in his writings, is more atrocious than that of
the giddy libertine or drunken ravisher ; not,
only -beeanse it extends its effects wider (as a:
pestilence that taints the air is more destructive’
than poison infased ina dranght), bnt because
it is committed with cool deliberation.—

Johnson.

One writer excels at a plan or a title-page;
another works ‘away at the body of the book,

vand a tinrd is a dab hand at an index.—
Goldsmith.

Spero Speroni explains admirably how ‘an
author who writes v
often obsenre to his readers.

to the expression, and the reader from the ¢x-
pression to the thought.”—Chav/fort.

neglecting the minor traits or finishing, he was
chiefly solivitons to present the lending effect, or
what we may call the inspiration.—

W. B. Clulow.

No fathers or mothers think their own chil-
dren ugly; and this selfleecit is yet stronger
with respect to the offspring of the mind.—

Cervantes.

Every author, indeed, who really influences
the mind,-who plants in it thonghts aud senti-
ments which take root and grow, communicates
hi’ character. Error and immorality, — two
words for one thing, for error is the iumorality
of the intellect, and immorality the error of the
heart, —these escape from’ him if they are in
him;‘and pass into the recipient mind through
subtle avenues invisible to consciousness.—

Whipple.

The most original modern “authors are not

80 beeanse they advance what is new, but sim-
-ply becanse they know how to put what they
have to say as if it had never been said before.—
~ Gecthe.

A man of letters is often a man with two
natures, — one # book nature, the other a hu-
inan nature. These often chtsh sadly.—

- Whipple.
AUTUMN.
A moral character is attached to autumnal

scenes; the leaves falling like our the
flowers fading like our hours, the clends fleet.

elearly_for himself is{ing like onr ilInsions, the Hght diminishing
“Ft is,’ he says,/ like onr intelligence, the sun growing
“because the author proceeds from the thonght'! like our affections, the rivers becoming

colder
frozen
like our lives, — all bear scerct relations to our

destinies.— Chateaubriand.~


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AVARICE.

All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn,
led yellow Autumn, wreathed with nodding
corn.— Burns.

As fall the light autumnal leaves, one still
the other following, till the bough strews all its
honors.—Dante.

Antumn nodding o’er the yellow plain.—
Z homson.

Who is there who, at this season, does not
fecl his mind impressed with a sentiment of
melancholy ¢ or who is able to resist that cur-
rent of thought, which, from such appearances
of decay, so naturally leads him-to. the ‘solemn
imagination of that inevitable fate which is to
bring on alike the decay of life, of empire, and
of nature itself ?—Sir A. Alison.

Wild is the imusic of autnmnal winds
amongst the faded woods.— Wordsworth.

The year growing ancient, not yet on sum-
mer’s death, nor on the birth of trembling win-
ter.— Shakespeare.

However constant the visitations of sickness
and hereavement, the fall of the year is most
thickly strewn with the fall of ‘human life.
Everywhere the spirit of some sad power seems
to direct the time; it hides from us the blac
heavens, it makes the green wave turbid; it
walks throngh the fields, and lays the damp
ungathered harvest low; it eries out in the
night wind and the shrill hail; it steals the
summer bloom from the infant cheek ; it makes
eld age shiver to the heart; it goes to the
churchyard, and chooses many a grave.—

James sMartineau.

The melancholy days are come, the saddest
of the year.— Bryant.

The teeming autumn, big with rich increase,

bearing the wanton burden of the prime.—
Shakespeare.
AVARICE.

The lust of avarice has so totally seized
upon mankind “that their wealth seems rather
to possess them than they possess their wealth.—

Pliny.

We are at best but stewards of what we
falsel¥ call our own; yet avarice is so insati-
able that it is not in the power of liberality to
content it.—Seneca. ;

This avarice sticks deeper ; grows with more
pernicious root than summer-seeding Inst.—
Shakespeare.

Objects close to the eye shnt out much
larger objects on the horizon; and splendors
born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So
& man sometimes covers up the entire disc of
eternity with a dollar, and quenches transcen-
dent glories with a little shining dust.— Chapin.

It is surely very narrow policy that supposes
money to be the chief good.— Johnson.

Had covetous men, as the fable goes of
Briarens, each of them one hundred hands,
they would all of them be employed in grasp-
ing and gathering, and hardly one of them in
giving or laying out, but all in receiving, and
none in restoring; a thing in itself so mon-
strous, that nothing in nature besides is like it,
except it be death and the grave,— the only
things I know which are always carrying off
the spoils of the world, and never making res-
titution. For otherwise all the parts of the
universe, as they borrow of one another, so
they still pay-what they borrow, and that by so
just and well-balanced an equality that their
payments always:keep pace with their receipts.—

Dryden.

Avarice is more opposite to economy than
liberality.— Rochefoucauld.

Many have been ruined by their fortunes;
many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune.
To obtain it, the great have become little, and
the little great.—Ziminermann.

How quickly nature falls into revolt when
gold becomes her object !— Shakespeare.

There are two considerations which always
imbitter the heart of an avaricious man, — the
one is a perpetual thirst after more riches,
the other the prospect of leaving what he has
already acquired.—Fielding. .

A captive fettered at the oar of gain.—
“alconer.

He who is always in a hurry to be wealthy
and immersed in the study of angmenting his
fortune, has lost the arms of reason and de-
serted the post of virtue.—Z/orace. :

Avarice increases with the increasing pile of
gold.—Juvenal.

Some men are called sagacious, merely on
account of their avarice; whereas a child can
clench its fist the moment it is born —Shenstone.

Poverty is in want of much, but avarice of
everything.—Publius Syrus.

Parsimony is enough to make the master of
the golden mines as poor-as he that has noth-
ing; for aman may be, brought to « morsel of
bread by parsimony as well as profusion — ,

Henry Lome,

Avarice is the miser’s dream, as fame 1s the
poct’s.—iZaclitt.

Because men believe not Providence, there-
fore they do so greedily serape and hoard.
They do not believe any reward for charity,
therefore they will part with nothing —Barrow.


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AVARICE.

Tt may be remarked, for the comfort of hon-
est poverty, that avarice reigns imost in those
who have but few ggod qualities to recommend
them. ‘This isa weed that will grow only in,a
barren soil.—Z//aghes.

Study rather to fill your mind than«your
collers; " knowing that, gold and silver were
originally mingted with dirt, until avarice or
“ambition parted them.—Seneca.

For the love of money is the root ofall evil.
Bible.

When a miser contents himself with giving
nothing, and saving what he has got, and is.in
other respects guilty of no injustice, le is, per-
haps, of all bad men the least injurions to
sovicty; the evil he dues is properly nothing
more than the omissiun of the good he might
do. If, of all the vices, avarice is the most
generally detested, it is the effect of an avidity
common to all men; it is because men hate
those from whom they can expect nothing.
The greedy misers rail at sordid misers.—

JTelvetius.

To be thankful for what we grasp excecding ,

our proportion, is to add hypocrisy to injustice.
Lamb.

The objects of avarice and ambition differ
only in their greatness. A miser is as furious
about a halfpenny, as the man of: ambition
abont the conquest of a kingdom.—Adam Smith.

O cursed hunger of pernicious gold!—Dryden.

Avarice, in old age, is foolish ;'for what
ean be more absurd than to inerease our pro-
visions for the road, the nearer weapproach to
our journey’s end }—Cicero.

Avarice is the most opposite of all charac-
ters to that of God Almighty, whose alone it
is to give and not reveive.— Shenstone.

The avarice of the miser may be termed the
grand sepulchre of all his other passions, as
they suce ely decay. But unlike other
tombs, it is enlarged by repletion and strength-
éned by age.—Colton.

The avaricious man is like the barren, sandy
ground of the desert, which sucks in all the rain
nnd dews with greediness, but yields no frnitfnl
herbs or plants for the benefit of others.—Zeno.

O eursed Inst of gold! when for thy sake
the fool throws up his interest in both worlds,
— first starved in this, then damned in that to
eome.— Blair,

The character of covetousness is what a
man generally acquires more through ‘some
Aiggardliness or ill grace in little and incon-

AWKWARDNESS.

A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse.
A very few pounds n year would ease aman of
the scandal of uvarice.—Swit,

extreme avarice almost-always mnkes imis-
takes. There is no passion that oftencr misses
its abu; nor on whieh the present has so much

influence, in prejudice of the futare.—
Rochefoucauld.

To me ‘avarice seems not.so much a-vice. as
a deplorable piece of madness.—~
Sir Thomas Browne.

avarice has ruined more men than prodi-
gality, and the. blindest -thongh tles of ex-
penditure has not destroyed so many fortunes
as the calculating but insatiable lust of aeeumn-
lation.—Culton.

Avarice is insatiable and is always pushing
on for more. —L’ Lstraage.

Avarice begets more vices than Priam did
children, and hike Priam survives them all. It
starves its keeper to surleit those who wish him
dead, and inakes him submit to more mortifi-
cations to lose heaven than the martyr under-
goes to gain it.— Colton.

In plain trnth, it is not want, bnt rather
abundance, that creates avarice.—Afontaigue.

Ayvarice often produces opposite effects ; there

is an infinite number of people who sacrifice “ull

their property to donbtfal and distant expecta-

tions ; others despise great future advantages to
obtain present interests of a trifling nature.—

- Rochefoucauld.

It is one of the worst effeets of prosperity to
make @ man a Vortex instead of a fountain; so
that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to
draw in.—Beecher.

Poverty wants some, Inxury many, and ay-
arice all things.—Cowley.

Avarice is a uniform and_ tractable viee;
other intellectual distempers are different in dif-
ferent eoustitutions of mind. Tat which soothes
the pride of one will offend the pride of anoth-
er; but to the favor of the covetous bring
money, and nothing is denied.— Johnson.

Avarice is to the intellect what sensuality is
to the inorals.—2/rs. ./ameson.

All the good things of this world are no
further good tous than as they are of nse; and
whatever we may hep up to give to others, we
enjoy only as mach as we can use, and no more.
= De Foe.
AWKWARDNESS.

Awkwardness is:a more real disadvantage
than i¢ is generally thonght to be; it often

siderable things, than in expenses of any von-j occasions ridicule, it always lessens dignity.—

sequence.— Pope,

Chesterfield.


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BABE. a A man mnattached and without wife, if he
_ At fs well for us that we are born babies in have‘any genius at all, may raise himself above
intellect. Could we inderstand half what

mothers say and do to their infants, we should
be filled with a conceit of our own importance,
which wonld render us insupportable through
life. Happy the buy whose mother is tired of
talking nonsense to him before he is old cnough
to know the sense of it—fare.

A babe is a mother’s anchor.— Beecher.

A babe in a house is a well-spring of pleas-
ure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting-
place for innocence on earth, a link between
angels ‘and men.— Tupper.

The coarsest father gains a new impulse to
labor from the moment of his baby’s birth; he
scarecly sees it when awake, and yet-it is with
him all the time. Every stroke he strikes is for
his child. New social aims, new moral mo-
tives, come vagucly up tu him.—Z. JV. Higginson.

A sweet new blossom of humanity, fresh
fallen from God’s own home to flower on carth.—
Gerald Massey.

Welcome to the parents -the pny struggler,
strong in his weakness, his little arms more ir-
yexistible than the soldier’s, his lips touched
with persuasion which Chatham and Pericles in
manhood had not. His unaflected lamentations
wheu he lifts up his voice on high, or, more
beautifid, the sobbing child, — the fice all liquid
gricf, as he tries to swallow his vexation, —
soften all hearts to pity’and to mirthful and
clamorous compassion.— Emerson.

Fragile beginnings of a mighty end.—

° ~ ° id Mrs. Norton.

Those who have lost an infant.are never, as
it were, without an infant child. “Their other
children grow up to manhood and womanhood,
and suffer al] the changes of mortality; but
this one alone is rendered an immortal child;
for death has arrested it with his kindly harsh-
ness, and blessed it into an eternal image of
youth and innocence.—Leigh fZunt.

+ Good Christian people, here lies for you-an
inestimable loan;— take all heed thereof, in
all carefulness employ it;— with high recom-
pense, or else with heavy penalty will it one
day be required back,—-Carlyle.

Of all the joys that brighten suffering earth,

what joy is welcomed like a new-born child 2—
: Mrs. Norton.
BACHELOR.

T have no wife or children, good or bad, to pro-
vide for: a mere spectator of other men’s fortunes
and adventures, and how they play their parts ;
which, methinks, are diversely presented unto me,
as from a common theatre or scene.— Burton.

his original position, may mingle with the
world of fashion, and hold himself on a level
with the highest; this is less casy for him who
is engaged; it seems as if marriage put the
whole world in their proper rank.—Bruyére.

BALLADS.

Voeal portraits of the national mind. —
Lamb.

A well-composed song strikes the mind -and
softens the feclings, and produces a greater
effect than a moral work, which convinces our
yeason, but does not warin our feelings, nor
effect the slightest-altcration in our habits.— ~

Napoleon.

Give me the writing of the ballads, and you
make-the Jaws.— Fletcher of Saltoun.  ~

Ballads.are the gypsy childen of song, born
under green hedgerows, in the leafy lanes and
by-paths of literature, in the genial summer-
time.— Longfellow.

BARGAIN.

I will give thrice so mutch Jand to any-well-
deserving friend; but in the way of bargain,
mark ine, I will cavil on the ninth part of a
hair— Shakespeare.

BASENESS.

Every base occupation makes one sharp in
its practice; and dull in every other.—
Sir P. Sidney.

There is a law of neutralization of forces,
which hinders bodies from sinking beyond a
certain depth in the sea; but in the ocean of
baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sink-
ing.— Lowell.

Some kinds of baseness are nobly undergone.
Shakespeare.

BASHFULNESS.
Conceit not so high a notion of any as to
be bashful and impotent in their presence.—
Fuller,

As those that pul] down private houses ad-
joining to the temples of the gods prop up such
parts as are contignous to them, so, in under-
mining bashfnlness, due regard is to be had to
adjacent modesty, good-nature, and humanity.

Plutarch.

The bashful virgin’s sidelong look of love.-
Goldsmith.

Bashfulness is more frequently connected
with good sense than we find assurance ; and
impudence, on the other hand, is often the mere
effect of downright stupidity.—Shenstone.


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BEAUTY.

There ‘are two distinct sorts of what we call
bashfilness ; this, the awkwardness ofa booby,
which a few steps in the world will convert into
the pertness of a coxcomb; that, a conscions-
ness which the most delicate feclings produce,
‘and the most extensive knowledge cannot al-
ways remove.—JMJackenzie.

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a
reproach to old-age.—A risiotle.

Nor do we accept as genuine the person not
characterized by this blushing bashfulness, this
youthfulness of heart, this sensibility to the sen-
timent of snavity-and self-respect. Modesty is
bred of sclf-reverenee. Fine manners are the
mantle of fair minds. None are truly great
without this ornament.—Alcott.

Mere: bashfniness without merit is awk-

wardness.— Addison.

We must prune it with care, so as only to
remove the redundant branches, and not injure
the stem, which has its root in the gencrous
sensitiveness to shame.—Plutarch.

BATTLE,
The next dreadful thing to a battle lost is a
battle won.—Duke of Wellington.

The cannons have their bowels full of wrath ;
and ready mounted are they to spit forth their
iron indiguation against your walls.—

Shakespeare.

As well the soldier cdicth who standeth still,
as he that gives the bravest onset.—

Sir P. Sidney.

The fame of a battle-field grows with its
years ; Napoleon storming the Bridge of Lodi,
and Wellington surveying the towers of Sala-
manea, ‘affect ns with fainter emotions than
Bentus reading in his tent at Philippi, or Rich-
‘ard bearing down with the Enghsh_ chivalry
upon the white armies of Saladin.— Willmott.

Troops of heroes undistinguished dic.—
Addison.

It was a goodly sight to see_the-embattled
pomp, as with the step of statcliness the barbed

A beard like-an-artichoke, with dry shriv-
elled jaws.—Sheridan.

Ti has no bush below; inarry a litde wool,
as much as an unripe peach doth wear; just
enough to speak him drawing towards a man.—

Suckling.

Beard was never the true standard of brains.
fuller.

Ambiguons things that ape goats in their
visage, women in their shape.—Byron.

BEAU.
A bean is everything of a woman but the
sex, and nothing of a man beside it.—/Yelding.

BEAUTY.

Like other beantifn) things in this world, its
end (that of a shaft} is to be beantitnl; and, in
proportion to its beauty, it receives permission
to be otherwise useless. We do not blaine em-
cralds and rubies because we cannot make them
into heads of hammers.—Auskin.

How goodness heightens beauty !|—
: Hannah More.

There is scarcely a single‘ joy or sorrow
within the experience of onr fellow-creatures
which we have not tasted; yet the belicf in the
good and beautiful has never forsaken us. It
has been medicine to us in sickness, richness in
poverty, and the best part of all that ever de-
lighted us in health and success.—Leigh LZunt.

Beanty is worse than wine, it intoxicates
both the holder and the beholder.— Zimmermann.

Beauty is a fairy ; sometimes she hides her-
self in a flower-cup, or under a leaf, or creeps
into the old ivy, and plays hide-and-seek with
the sunbeams, or hannts some ruined spot, or
laughs out of a bright young face.—G. A. Sala.

Beauty is like an almanac; if it last'a year
itis well —Rev. T. Adams.

Gaze-not on beanty too much, lest it blast
thee; nor too long, lest it blind thee; nor too
near, lest it burn thee. If thon like it, it de-
eeives thee ; ifithon love it, it disturbs thee; if

steeds came on, to see the pennons rolling their | thou hnnt after it, it destroys thee. If virtue

long waves before the gale; and banners, broad
and bright, tossing their blazonry.—Southey.

When Greeks joined Greeks, then was the
tug of war. The labored battle sweat and con-
quest bled.—D. A. Lee.

BEARD.
He that hath a beard is more than a youth;
and he that hath none is less than a-man.—
; Shakespeare.

Such a beard as youth gone out had left in
ashes.— Tennyson.

‘accompany it, it is the heart’s paradise; if vice

associate it, itis the soul’s purgatory. It is the

wise man’s bonfire, and the fool’s furnace.—
Quarles.

In days of yore nothing was holy but the
beautiful.—Schiller.

Sometimes there‘are living beings in nature
as beautiful as in romance. Reality surpasses
imagination; and we see breathing, brighten-
ing, and moving before our eyes sights dearer
to our hearts than any we ever beheld in the
land of sleep.—Jane Austen.


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BEAUTY.

The rose is fair, bnt fairer we it deem for
that sweet odor which doth in it live
Shakespeare.

Beanty in a modest woman is like fire ata
distance, or like a sharp sword; neither doth
the one burn, nor the other wound those that
come not too near them.— Cervantes.

That is the best part of beauty which a pic-
ture cannot express.— Bacon.

Beauty has so many charms, one knows not
how to speak ‘against it; and when it happens
that a graccful figure is the habitation of a vir-
tuous soul, when the beauty of the face speaks
out the modesty and humility of the mind, and
the justness of the proportion raiscs our thonghts
up to the heart and wisdom of the great Creator,
something may be allowed it, ~ and something
to the embellishinents which set it off; and yet,
when the whole apology is read, it will be
found at last that beanty, like truth, never is so
glorious as when it goes the plainest.— Sterne.

The fringe of the garment of the Lord.—
- Bailey.

There is no more potent antidote to low sen-
suality than the adoration of beauty. All the
higher arts of design are essentially chaste,
without respect of the object. They pnvify the
thoughts, as tragedy, according to Aristotle,
purifies the passions.—Schicyel.

The very beautiful rarely love at all. Those
precious images are placed above the reach of
the passions —Landor.

Beauty is as summer fruits, which are easy

to corrupt afd cannot Iast; and for the most

art it makes a dissolute youth, and an age a

ittle out of countenance; but if it ight well, it
makes virtues shine and vice bblush-—-Bacon,

In the forming of female friendships beauty
seldom recommends one woman to another.—
Fielding.

Every good picture is the best of sermons
and lectures. The sense informs the soul.
‘Whatever you have, have beauty.—

Sydney Smith.

The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
Bovee.

O, it is the saddest of all things that even
one human soul should dimly perceive the
beauty that is ever around us, “a perpetual
benediction!” Nature, that great missionary
of the Most High, preaches to us forever in ‘all
tones of love, and writes truth in all colors, on
manzscripts illuminated with stars and flowers.

Mrs. L. M. Child.

Beanty can afford to laugh at distinctions ;
it is itself the greatest distinction —Bovee.

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BEAUTY.

Beauty is no local deity, like the Greek and
Roman gods, but omnipresent.—Bartol.

In the true mythology, Love is an immortal
child, and Beauty Jeads him as a guide; nor can
we express a deeper sense than when we say,
Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.—

E'merson.

Lovely sweetness is the noblest power of
woman, and is fur fitter to prevail by parley
than by battle —Sir P. Sidney.

A flower that dies when first it begins to bud.
Shakespeare.

No man receives the true culture of a man
in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not
cherished ; and I know of no condition’ in life
from which it should be excluded. Of all lux-
uries this is cheapest and the most at hand;
and it seems to me to Le the most important to
those conditions where coarse labor tends to

give a grossness to the mind.—Chauning. .

Might but the sense of moral evil be as
strong in me.as is my delight in external beanty !

. Dr, Arnold.

To cultivate the sense of the beantiful is but
one, and the most effectual, of the ways of culti-
vating an appreciation of the Divine goodness.

' Bovee.

Beauty issthe purgation of superfluities.—
Michael Angelo.

As amber attracts a straw, so does beauty
admiration, which only lasts while the warmth
coutinues ; but virtue, wisdom, goodness, and
real worth, like the loadstone, never lose their
power, These are the true graces, which, as
Homer feigns, are linked and tied hand in hand,
because it is by their influence that human
hearts are so firmly united to each other.—

Burton.

Beauty can give an edge to the Dluntest
sword.—Sir P. Sidney.

The beautiful is a manifestation of secret
laws of nature, which, but for this appearance,
had been forever conccaled from us.— Goethe.

Beauty is an all-pervading presence. It un-
folds.to the numberless flowers of the spring, it
waves in the branches of the trees and the green
blades of ’grass; it haunts the depths of the
earth and the sca, and gleams out in the hues
of the shell and the precious stone. And not
only these minute objects, but the ocean, the
‘mountains, the clouds, the heavens, the stars,
the rising and setting sun, all overflow with
beauty.—Channing—

A beautiful woman is the hell of the soul,
the purgatory of the purse, and the paradise of
the eyes.—Fontenelle.


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‘ BEAUTY.

In life, as in, art, the beautifinl moves in
enrves.— Bulwer Lytton, *

Beauty, like truth and justice, lives within
us; like virtue, and like ioral law, it is a com-
panion of the soul.—Baneroft.

Even virtue is more fair when it appears in
a beautiful person.— Firgd.

The useful enconrages itself; for the multi-
tade produce it, und no one can dispense with
it: the beautiful must be encouraged; for few
can set it forth,and many uced it.— Goethe.

There is nothing that makes its way more
directly to the soul than beauty.—aAddison.

The most natural beauty in the world is
honesty and moral truth. Tor all beauty is
truth, True features make the beanty of a
face, and tne proportions the beauty of archi-
tecture ;-ns true measures that of harmony-and
music.—Shaflesbury.

Beauty, — the fading rainbow’s pride.—
Halleck.

Beauty is a witch, against whose charms
faith melteth into blood.— Shakespeare.

The perception of the beautiful is gradnal,
and not‘a lightning. revelation ; it requires not
only time, but some study.— Ruffini.

The good is always beautiful, the beautiful
is good !— Whittier.

Tt was avery proper answer to him: who
‘asked why: any man should be delighted with
beauty, that it was a question that none’ but-a
blind man could ask ; since any beautiful object
doth so inch attract the sight of all men, that
it is in no man’s power not to be pleased with it.

Clarendon.

Rare is the union of beauty and virtne.—
Juvenal.

_That which ts striking and beautifnl is not
always good, but that which is good is always
beantiful.—Ninon de U’ Lnelos.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the

Infinite. —Banerof. ; .

As Congreve says, there is in true beauty
something which -vulgar souls cannot admire ;
so can no dirt or rags hide this something from
those souls which are not of the vulgar stamp.—

Fielding.

Beanty too rich for use, for earth too dear.—
Shakespeare.

What place is so rngged and so homely that
there is no beauty, if you only have a sensibility
to beauty ?—Beecher. °

Beauty is truth, truth beauty, — that is.all ye
know on earth, and all ye uced to know.—Keats.

To make the cunning artless, tame the rude,
subdue the haughty, shake the undaunted son ;
ye’, puta bridle in the lion’s mouth, and lead
him forth as a domestic cnr, these are the tri-
umphs of atl-powerlal beauty.—/ounna Baillie.

The-essence-of the beautiful is unity in va-
riety —endelssohn.

Beantifinl as sweet ! and young as beautifal |
and softas young} and gay-as solt! fand inno-
cent-as gay !— Young.

Beauty draws us with a single hair.—Pope.

Beauty is the true prerogative of women,
‘and so peeniiarly their own, that our sex, though
naturally requiring another sort of feature, is
never in its lustre but when puerile and beard-
less, confused and mixed with theirs. — "

Montaigne.

.

Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty
from the eternal.—Dante.

Tf the nose of Cleopatra had been a: little
shorter, it would haye changed the history of
the world.—Paseal.

Thus was beanty sent from EIeayen, the love-
ly ministress of truth and good in this dark
world.—Akenside.

The common foible of women who have
been handsome: is to forget that they are no
longer so.— Rochefoucauld.

For beauty is the bait which with delight
doth man allure, for to enlarge his kind.—
Spenser.

Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue.
Every natnral-action is graceful. Every heroic
‘act is also decent, and causes the phice and the
bystanders to shine.—£merson. .

To give pain is the tyranny, — to make hap-
py, the true empire of beanty.—Sicele.

How much wit, good-nature, indulgences,
how many good offices and civilities, are required
among friends to accomplish in some years
what a lovely face or a tine hand does in a
minute !—Bruyére.

Whatever beanty may be, it has for its basis
order, and for its essence unity —Futher André.

Unity and simplicity are the two truc sources
of beauty.” Supreme beanty resides in God.—
Winekelimnann.

Beauty attracts us men, but if, like an armed
magnet, it is pointed with gold or silver beside, it
attracts with tenfold power.—Ztichler:


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BEAUTY.

Affect not to despise beauty, no one is freed
from its dominion ; but regard it not«a pearl of
price, it is flecting as the bow in the clouds.—

; Tupper.

Could beauty have better commerce than
with honesty ¢—Shakespeare.

Methinks a being that is beautiful becometh
more so as it looks on beanty, the eternal beauty
of undying things.— Byron.

All orators are dumb when beauty pleadeth,
° Shakespeare.

Beauty is only truly irresistible when it
shows us something less transitory than itself,
when it makes us dream of that which charms
life beyond the fugitive moment which scduces
us; it is necessary for the soul to feel it when
the senses have perecived it.
wearies; the more it admires, the more it is
exalted.—ALadame de Krudener.

Trust not too much to an enchanting face.—
Virgil.

Every trait of beauty may be referred to
some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity,
modesty, and heroism.—Si. Pierre.

Beauty is bought by judgment of the eye,
not uttered by base sale of chapmen’s tongues.
Shakespeare.

An Indian philosopher, being asked what
were, according to his opinion, the two most
beautifui things in the universe, answered: The
starry heavens above our heads, and the feeling
of duty in our hearts.—Bossuet.

Beauty’s tears are lovelier than her smiles.—
Campbell.

Where the mouth is sweet and the eyes in-
telligent, there is always the look of beanty, with
a right heart—Leigh Hunt.

The soul, by an instinct stronger than rea-
son, ever associates beanty with truth.—
Tuckerman.

The divine right of beauty is the only divine
right 2 man can acknowledge, and a pretty wo-
man the only tyrant he is not authorized to re-
sist.— Junius.

Beauty ! thou pretty plaything! dear deceit!
Blair.

The sense of beauty is intuitive, and beauty
itself is all that inspires pleasure without, and
aloof from, and even contrarily to interest-— -

Coleridge.

If thou marry beanty, thon bindest thyself
all thy life for that which, perchance, will nei-
ther last nor please thee one year.—Raleigh.

The soul never |

| Loveliness needs not the foreign aid of orna-
ment; but is, when unadorned, adorned the
| most.— Thomson.

Beauty lives with kindness.— Shakespeare.

Beauty is a great gift of Heaven; not for
the purpose of female vanity, but a great gift
for one who loves, and wishes to be beloved. —

Miss Edgeworth.

Beauty is such a flecting blossom, how can
. wisdom rely upon its momentary delight ?—
Seneca.

The first distinction’ among men, and the
first consideration that gave one precedence over
another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty,
| Montaigne.

Exquisite heanty resides with God. Unity
‘and simplicity, joined together in different or-
gans, are the principal sources of beauty. It
jyesides in the good, the honest, and in the use-
jful to the highest physical and intellectual de-
gree.— Vinkelman.

+: Love that has nothing but heanty to keep it
in good health is short-lived, and apt to have
‘ague fits —Lvasmus.

Beanty is a short-lived tyranny.—Socrates.

No woman can be handsome by the force of
features alone, any more than she can be witty
only by the help of specch.— Hughes.

Beauty provoketh thieves sooner_than gold.
Shakespeare.

Beauty of form affects the mind, but then it
must be understood that it is not the mere shell
that we admire; we are attracted by the idea
that this shell is only a beautiful case adjusted
to the shape and ‘value of a still more beautiful
pear] within. The perfection of outward loveli-
ness is the soul shining through its crystalline
covering.—Jane Porter.

We call comeliness a mischance in the first
respect, which belongs principally to the face.—
Montaigne.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.—Aeats.

A beantiful form is better than +a beautiful
face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or
pictures ; it is the finest of the fine arts.—

Emerson.

There is no excellent beauty withont some
strangeness in the proportion —Bacon.

The criterion of trne beauty is that it in-
creases on examination ; if false, that it lessens.
There is something, therefore, in truc beauty
that corresponds with right reason, and is not
i merely the ereation of fancy.—Lord Greville.



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BEAUTY.

Is beauty vain because it will fade? Then
are earth’s green robe and heaven’s light vain.

Few have borne unconsciously the spell of
loveliness.— IVhittier.

Every year of my life I grow more convinced
that it is the wisest and best to tix our attention
on the benutiful and the good, and dwell as
little as possible on the evil and the'talse.—Ceedl.

Oesser taught me that the ideal of beauty is
simplicity and tranquillity.— Goethe.

Beanty is-a transitory flower ; even while it
lasts it palls on the roving sense when held too
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near, or dwelling there too long.—Jeffrey.

How intoxicating is the triumph of beauty,
and how right it is to name it-queen of the ani
yerse!) Tiow many courtiers, how many slaves,
have sulnitted to it! But, alas! why must it
be that what flatters our senses almost ‘always
deceives our sonls ?—Afadame de Surin.

Tt is seldom the ease that beautiful persons
are otherwise of great virtue.—Bacon.

That is true beauty which has not only a
snbstance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must
intimately know, justly to appreciate.— Colton.

The contemplation of beauty in nature, in
art, in literatnre, in human character, diffuses
through our being a soothing and subtle joy, by
which the heart’s anxions and aching cares are
softly smiled away.— JVhipple.

O human heanty, what a dream art thou,
that we should cast our life and hopes away on
thee!—Barry Corawall.

Beauty is a dangerons property,.tending to
corrupt the mind of the wife, thongh it soon
loses its influence over the husband. A figure
agreeable and eugaging, which inspires affec-
tion, without the ebricty of love, is a much safer
choice.—Henry [Tome.

Beauty is a frail good.— Ovid.

By cultivating the heautiful, we seatter the
seeds of heavenly flowers; by doing good, we
foster those already belonging to humanity.—

Howard.

In all things that live there are certain ir-
regularities and deficiencies which are not only
signs of life, but sources of heanty. No human
face is exactly the same in its lines on each side,
no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its
syminetry.— Ruskin.

Something of the severe hath always been
appertaining to order and to-grace; and the
beanty that is not too liberal is songht the most
~ardéntly, and loved the longest.—Landor.

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Naught under heaven so strongly doth allure
the sense of man, and all bis mind possess, as

Pierpont.\ beauty’s love-bait— Spenser.

It is the eternal law, that first in beanty
should be first in might.—Aeats.

The humin heart yearns for the beantiful in
all ranks of life. The beautifnl things that
God inakes are his gift to all alike. £ know
there are inany of the poor who have fine feeling
and i keen sense of the beautiful, which rnsts
out and dics because they are too hard pressed
to procure it uny gratification.—afrs. Stowe.

.Around that, neck what dross are gold and
pearl !— Young.

Ife who cannot see the beantifnl side is a
bad painter, a bad friend, a_bad lover; he can-
not lift his mind and his heart so high as good-
ness.— Joubert.

Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover,
fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.—
Addison.

Nothing is arbitrary, nothing is insulated in
beauty. It depends forever ou the necessary
and the useful. The plumage of the bird, the
mimic plumage of the insect, has a reason
for its rich colors in the constitution of the
animal. Fitness is so inseparable an. aecompa-
niment of beauty, that it has been taken for it.

Emerson.

The dower of great beanty has always been
misfortune, since happiness and beauty do not
agree together.— Ca Meron.

Beauty is an_exquisite flower, and its per-
fume is virtue.— Ruffini.

‘An agreeable figure and winning manner,
which inspire affection without love, are always
"new. Beauty loses its relish, the graces never ;
ufter the longest acquaintance, they are no less
agreeable than at first—JZenry Home.

Liking is not always the child of beauty ;
but whatsoever is liked, to the liker is beautiful.
Sir P. Sidney.

There should he, methinks,-as little merit in
loving a woman for her beanty as in loving a
man for his prosperity ; both being equally sub-
jeet to change.—Pope.

0, how much niore doth beauty beauteous
seem, hy that sweet ornament which truth doth
give !—Shakespeare.

We cannot approach beauty. Its nature is
like opaline dove’s-neck lustres, hovering «and
evanescent. Terein it resembles the most ex-
cellent.things, which all have this rainbow char-
acter, defying all attempts at appropriation and
use.—Emerson.


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BELIEF.

It is only through the morning gate of
the beantiful that you can penetrate into the
realm of knowledge. That which we feel
here as beauty, we shall one day know as truth —

Schiller.

Whatever is beautiful is also profitable.—
Willmott.

There is a certain period of the soul-culture
when it begins to interfere with -some of the
characters of typical beauty belonging to the
bodily frame, the stirring of the intellect wearing
down the flesh, and the moral enthusiasm burn-
ing its way out ‘to heaven, through the emaci-
ation of the earthen vessel; and there is, in-
this indication of subduing the mortal by the
immortal part, an ideal glory of perhaps a
purer and higher range than that of the more
perfect material form. We conccive, I think,
more nobly of the weak presence of Paul than
of the fair and ruddy countenance of David.—

Ruskin.

Beauty is a possession not our own.—Bion.

The beautiful are never desolate, but some
one always loves them.—Bailey.

Beauty hath no lustre save when it gleameth
throngh the crystal web that purity’s fine fin-
gers weave for it-—Adaturin.

BEES.

So work the honey-bees, — creatures that, by
a rule in nature, teach the art of order to a peo-
pled kingdom.—Shakespeare.

The little alms-men of spring bowers.—
Keats.

Many-colored, sunshine-loving, spring-beto-
kening bee! Yellow bee, so mad for love of
éarly-blooming flowers !—Professor Wilson.

BEGGARS.

When beggars die there are no comets seen.
Shakespeare.

In every civilized society there is found a
race of men who retain the instincts of the ab-
original cannibal, and live npon their fellow-
men asa natural food. These interesting but
formidable hipeds, having canght their victim,
invariably select one part of his body on which
to fasten their relentless grinders. The part
thus selected is peculiarly susceptible, provi-
dence having made it alive to the least nib-
ble; itis situated just above the hip joint; it
is protected by a tegument of exquisite fibre,
vulgarly called the breeches pocket.—

Bulwer Lytton.

Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.—
Colton.

The true beggar is the only king above all
comparison.—Lessing.

When paupers evince any consciousness of
neglect, they are instantly spurned; if they:
complain this time of a scanty dole, the next
they will have none. Though our donations
are made to please ourselves, we insist upon
those who receive our alms being ‘pleased with
them.—Zimmer mann.

BEHAVIOR.

_ Levity of behavior is the bane of all that
is good and virtnons.—Seneca. ~

Oddities and singularities of behavior may
attend genins ;-when they do, they are its mis-
fortunes and its blemishes. The man of true
genius will be ashamed of them; at least he
will never affect to distingnish himself by whim-
sical peculiarities —Sir, JV. Temple.

I have known men disagreeably forward
from their shyness —Arnold.

What is becoming is honorable, and what
is honorable is becoming.—Tully. -

Any man shall speak the better when he

‘knows what others have said, aud sometimes

the conscionsness of his inward knowledge
gives a confidence to his outward behavior,
which of all other is the best thing to grace a
man in his carriage.—Feltham.

Behavior is a mirror in which every one
shows his image.— Goethe.

BELIEF.

Men willingly believe what they wish to be
true.—Casar.

Iam not afraid of those tender and scrupv-
lous consciences, who are ever cantious of pro-
fessing and believing too much; if they are
sincerely in the wrong, I forgive their errors,
and -respect their integrity. The men I am
afraid of are the men who believe everything,
subscribe to everything, and vote for everything.

Bishop Shipley.

The want of belief is a defect which onght
to be concealed where it cannot be overcome.—

There are thyee means of believing, —by
inspiration; by reason, and by custom. Chris-
tianity, which is the only rational ‘institution,
does yet admit none for its sons who do not
believe by inspiration.—Pascal.

You do not believe, you only believe that
you believe.— Coleridge.

When, in your last hour (think of this),-all
faculty in the broken spirit shall fade away,
and sink into inanity, — imagination, thought,
effort, enjoyment, — then -will the flower of be-
lief, which blossoms even in the night, remain
to refresh yon with its fragrance in the last
darkness.— Richter.


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BENEDICTION,

BENE VOLENCE.

Te is a singular fuet that most men of action
iucline to the theory of fatalism, -while the
greater part-of men of thought believe in provi-
denet.— Balzac.

BENEDICTION.
The best wishes that can be forged in your
thoughts be servants to yon — Shakespeare.

The benediction of these covering heavens
tall on your heads like dew !—Shakespeare.

RENEVOLENCE. .

To feel much for others and little for our-
selves; to restrain onr selfish, and to indulge
ont benevolent affcetions, constitute the perfec-
tion of human nature.—Adam Smith. ~ .

Doing good is the only certainly happy ac-
tion of a man’s life—Sir P. Sidney!

He that does good to another docs good also
to himself, not only in the consequence, but in
the very act ; for the conscionsness of well-doing
is in itself ample reward.—Seneca.

When my friends ar@ one-eyed, I look at
their profile —Jonbert.

A life of passionate: gratifieation is not to
be compared with a life of active benevolence.
God has so constituted onr nature that a man
cannot be happy unless he is, or thinks he is, &
means of good. Judging from our own experi-
ence, we cannot conceive of a picture of more
unutterable wretchedness than is furnished by
one-who knows that he is wholly useless in the
world.—Rev, Erskine Mason.

Good deeds in this life are coals raked up in
embers, to make a fire next day.—
Sir LT. Overbury,

The disposition to give a enp of cold water
toa disciple is a far nobler property than the 4
finest intellect. Satan has a fine intellect, but
not the image of God.—Z/owell.

Better to expose ourselves to ingratitude
than fail in assisting the unfortunate.
Du Coeur.

Thy love shal] chant itself its own beatitudes,
after its own life working. <A’ child-kiss, set
on thy sighing lips, shall make thee glad; n
poor man, served hy thee, shall make thee rich ;
a rich man, helped by thee, shall make .thee
strong; thon shalt be served thyself by every
sense of service whieh thou rendcrest.—

£. B. Browning.

Liheratity consists less in giving profusely
than in giving judiciously. — Brayére.

When thou seest thine encmy in tronble,
enrl net thy-whiskers iu contempt; for in every
bone there is marrow, and within every jacket
there is a min,—Saadi.

There is nothing that requires so striet an
economy ws our benevolence, We should hnus-
band our means-as dhe agriculturist his manure,
which, if he spread over too large a superficies,
prodnees no crop, — if over too sinall a surface,
exuberates in rankness and in weeds.—Colton.

Men resemble the gods in nothing so much
as in doing good to their fellow-creatures.—
Cicero.

It is canother’s fault if he be ungratefil, but
it is mine if Ido not.give. To find one thank-
ful man I will oblige a great many that are not
so.— Seneca.

_ Benevolenee and feeling ennoble the most
trifling actions. —Thackeray.

Rich people who are covetous are like the
cypress-tree, — they may appear well, but are
fruitless; so rich persons have the means to be
generous, yet some:are not so, but they should
consider they are only trustees for what they
possess, and should show their wealth to he

more in doing good than merely in having it.—
Bishop Hall.

Our hands we open of our own free will,
and the good flies, which we ean never recall.—
Goethe.

Nothing is so wholesome, nothing does so
much for people’s looks, as a little interchange
of the small coin of benevolence.—Ruffiad.

Never did any soul do good but it came
readier to do the same again, with more enjoy-
ment. Never was love or gratitude or bounty
practised but with increasing joy, which made
the practiser still more in love with the fair act.

Shaflesbury.

For his bounty, there was no winter in it;
an autumn it was, that grew the more by reap-
ing.—Shakespeare.

The opportunity of making happy is more
searee than we imagine; the pnnishment of
missing it is, never to meet with it’ again ; and
the use we make of it levves us an cternal senti-
ment of satisfaction or repentance.—Ztousseau.

There is no nse of money equal to that of
beneficence; here the enjoyment grows on re-
flection.—Jfackenze.

There do remain dispersed in the soi} of hu-
man nature divers sceds of goodness, of benig-
nity, of ingenuity, which, being cherished, ex-
cited, and quickened by-good culture, do, by
common experience, thrnst out. flowers very
lovely, and yield fruits very pleasant of virtue
and goodness.— Barrow.

Doubtless that is the best charity which,
Nilus-like, hath the several streams thercof seen,
but the fountain conccaled.—Rev. T. Gouge.


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BIBLE.

There cannot be a more glorious object in
ereation than a human being replete with be-
nevolence, meditating in what manner he might
render himself most aeeeptable to his Creator
by doing most good to his ereatures.—Frelding.

The office of liberality consisteth in giving
with judgment.— Cicero.

No sincere desire of doing good need make
an enemy of a single human being; that phi-
lanthropy has surely a flaw in it-whiech cannot
sympathize with the oppressor equally as with
the oppressed.—Lowell.

The lower a man descends in his love, the
higher he lifts his lite— V7”. 2. Alger.

He is good that does good to others. If he
suffers for the good he dves, he is better still ;
and if he suffers from them to whom he did
good, he is 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 heroism coiplete.—

Bruyére.

We should do good whenever we can, and
do kindness at all times, for at all times we ean.
Joubert.

Time is short, your obligations are infinite.
Are your houses regulated, your children in-
structed, the afilicted relieved, the poor visited,
the work of piety accomplished ?—Lussilfon.

You are so to put forth the power that God
has given you; yom are so to give, and sacrifice
to give, as to earn the enlogium pronounced on
the woman, “She hath done what she could.”
Do it now. It is not a safe thing to leave a
generous feeling to the cooling influences of a
cold world. If you intend to do a mean thing,
wait till to-morrow; if you are to do a noble
thing, do it now, —now !—Rev. Dr. Guthrie.

Rare benevolence, the minister of God.—
Carlyle.

There is seareely a man who is not conscions
of the benefits which his own mind has received
from the performance of single acts of benevo-
lence. How strange that so few of us try a
conrse of the same medicine !—J. F’. Boyes.

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a
good action by stealth, and to have it found out
by aecident—Zamb.

My God, grant that my bounty may be a
clear.and transparent river, flowing from pure
charity, and uncontaminated by self-love, ambi-
tion, or interest. Thanks are dune not to me,
but thee, from whom all J possess is derived.
And what are the paltry gifts for which my
neighbor forgets to thank me, compared with
the immense blessings for which I have so often
forgotten to be grateful to thee !—Gotthold.

_ A beneficent person is like a fountain water-
ing the earth, and spreading fertility; it is,
therefore, more delightful and more honorable
to give than receive. —£picurus.

Good, the more communicated, more abua-
dant grows.—Afilton.

The difference of the degrees in whieh the
individuals of a great community enjoy the
good things of life has been a theme of declara-
tion and discontent in all ages; and it is doubt-
less onr paramount duty, in every state of
society, to alleviate the pressure of the parely
evil part of this distribution, as much as possi-
ble, and, by all the means we ean devise, secure
the lower links in the chain of society from
dragging in dishonor and wretchedncss.—

Herschel.

Benevolence is -allied to few vices; selfish-
ness to fewer virtues.—Henry Home.

The true source of cheerfulness is benevo-
lence. The pursuits of mankind are commonly
frigid and contemptible, and the mistake comes,
at last, to be detected. But virtue is a charm
that never fades. The son] that perpetually
overflows with kindness and sympathy will al-
ways be cheerful. Purke Godwin.

BEREAVEMENT.

There is this pleasure in being bereaved, —
the thonght that time, which sadly overcometh
all things, can alone restore the separated, and
bring the mutually beloved together. Time,
which plants the furrow and sows the seed of
death, stands, to the faithful spirit, a messenger
of light at that mysterious wicket-gate from
whence we step and enter upon the vast un-
known.— IV. G. Clark.

BIBLE.
Intense study of the Bible will keep any
man from being vulgar in point of style—
. Coleridge.

T will answer for it, the longer yon 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 am of the opinion that the Bible contains
more true snblimity, more exquisite beauty,
more pure morality, more important history,
and finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than
ean be collected from all other books, in what-
ever age or language they have been written.—

Sir William Jones.

As the moon, though darkened with spots,
gives us a much -greater light than_ the stars
that seem all luminons, so do the Seriptures af-
ford more light than the brightest human au-
thors. In them the ignorant may learn all
requisite knowledge,'and the most knowing may
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BIBLE.

Men cannot be well cdueated withont the
Bible. It. onght; therefore,. to held the chief
placé-in every situation of learning thronghout
Christendom ; sand Ido not know of a higher

In morality there are books enough written
wboth by ancient and modern philosophers, but
ithe morality of the Gospel doth'so‘exceed then
all, that to.give a.man n fnll knowledse of trne

service that.could ‘be rendered to this republic j morality, I shall send him te no other bouk than
than the bringing about this desirable result.—{ the New Testament.—Locke.

Dr. Nott.

There never wns found, in any age of the

world, either religion or law that did so highly + of

exalt the public goodsas the Bible-—Bacon.

How admirable and beantifil is the simplici-
ty of the Evangelists !. /Phey never speak Injn-
nously of the enemies.of Jesus Chnist, of his
judges, nor of his exceutioners. They report
the facts without n single reflection. They
comment ueither on their ‘Master’s anitdness
when he was* smitten, nor on his constancy in
the hour of his iynominious death, which they
thus describe: “ And they erncified Jesns.”—

Racine.

The Bible.is a window in this prison of hoje
through which we look into eternity.—Dwight.

The Bible goes equally to the cottage of the
plain man and the palace of the king. , It is
woven into literature, and it colors the talk of
the street. The bark of the merchant cannot
sail to sea withou it. No ship of war goes to
the conflict bnt the Bible is there. It enters
men’s closets ; mingling in all grief and cheerful-
ness of life. —Theodore Parker.

A Bible-and a newspaper in. every house, a

The Bible is a precious storchouse, and the
Magna Charta of a Christian. ‘There he reads
his Heavenly Father’s love,-and of his dying
Satiour’s legacies. There he sees a map of his
travels through the wilderness, aud:a landscape,
too, of Canaun.— Berridge.

.. The Bible is the most betrashed book in the
world. Coming to it throngh commenturies is
much like looking at a landscape throngh gar-
ret windows, over which .generations of unnio-
tested spiders have spun their webs.— Beecher.

I use the Scriptures, not as an arsenal to be
resorted to only for arms and weapons, but as a
matehless temple, where I delight to contem-
plate the beauty, the symmetry, and the magnifi-
cence of the structure, and to increase my awe
and excite my devotion to the Deity there
preachedfandsadored.— Boyle.

The Scriptures teach us the best way of
living, the noblest way of suffering, and the
most comfortable way of dying.—Flavel.

Many will say “T can find God without the
help of the Bible, or church, or minister.”
Very well. Do so if yon can. The Ferry
Company would feel no jealousy of a man who

good school in every district, — all studied andy should prefer to.swim to New York. Let him
appreciated as they merit, —are the principal’ do so if he is able, and we will talk about it on

support of virtue, morality, and civil Hiberty.—
Franklin.

So far as I ever observed God’s dealings
with my soul, the flights of preachers sometimes
entertained me, but it was Scripture expressions
which did penetrate my heart, and in a way. pe-
euliar to themselves.—J. Brown of Lladdington.

Scholars may quote Plato in stndies, but thé
hearts of millions shall quote the Bible at their
daily toil, and. draw strength from its inspira-
tion, as the meadows draw it from the brook.—

Conway.

What is the Bible in your honse? It is not
the Old ‘Festament, it is not the New Testa-
ment, it is not the Gaspel: according to Mat-
thew or Mark or Luke or Juhn; it is the Gos-
pel according to William, it is the Gospel
according to Mary, itis the Guspel according
to Henry and Janes, it is the Gospel according
to your name. You write your own Bible.—

Beecher.

It is a belicf in the Bible, the frnits of deep
meditation, which has served me as the guide of
my moral-and literary life. I have found it’a
capital safely invested, and richly productive of
interest.— Goethe.

the other shore; but probably trying te swim
‘would be the thing that would bring him
quickest to the boat. So God would have no
jealousy of a man’s .going to heaven without
the aid of the Bible, or church, or minister; but
let him try to do so, and it will be the surest
way to bring him back to them for assistance.—

Beecher.

As the profoundest philosophy of ancient
Rome and Greece lighted her taper at Israel’s
saltar, so the sweetest Strains of the pagan muse
were swept from harps attuned on Zion’s hill._—

Bishop Thomson.

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.—Afiiton.

A man may read the figure on the dial, but
he ernuot tell how the day goes unless the sun
shines on the dial; we may read the Bible over,
bnt we cannot Jearn to purpose till the Spirit of
God shine into our hearts.—fev. T. Watson.

The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise,
the symbol of youth, and ends with the ever-
lasting kingdom, with the holy city. The his-
tory of every man should be a Bible —Novelis.

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BIRTH.

The pure and noble, the graceful and dig-
nified, simplicity of language is nowhere in such
perfection as in the Scriptures and Homer.
The whole book of Job, with regard both to
sublimity of thought and morality, exceeds,
beyond all comparison, the most noble parts of
Homer.—Pope.

Every leaf is a spacious plain; every line a
flowing brook ; every period a lofty monntain.—
Hervey.
BIGOTRY.
Bigotry murders religion, to frighten fools
with her ghost.— Cotton.

Show me the man who would go to heaven
alone if he could, and in that man I will show
you one who will never be admitted into heav-
en.—Feltham.

A man who stole the livery of the court of
heaven to serve the devil in—Pollok.

There is no tariff so injurious as that with
which sectarian bigotry guards its commodities.
It dwarfs the soul by shutting out truths from
other continents of thought, and checks the cir-
culation of its own.— Chapin.

BIOGRAPHY.

Biography is the home aspect of history.—
Willmott.

As it often happens that the best men are
but little known, and consequently cannot ex-
tend the nsefulness of their examples a great
way, the biographer*is of great utility, as, by
communicating such valuable ‘patterns to the
world, he may perhaps do a more extensive
service to mankind than the person whose life
originally afforded the pattern. —/ieding.

_ Alife that is worth writing at all is worth
writing minutely.—Longfellow.

Biography, especially the biography of the
great and good, who have risen by their own
exertions from poverty and obseurity to emi-
nence and usefulness, is an inspiring ‘and en-
hobling stndy. Its direet tendency is to repro=
duee the excellence it records.—Horace Mann.

In reading the life of any great man you
savill always, in the course of his history, chance
npon some obscure individual who, on some
partienlar occasions, was greater than he whose
life you are reading.—Colton.

There is properly no history, only biogra-
phy.—Emerson.

My advice is, to consult the lives of other
men as we wonld ‘@ looking-glass, and from
thence fetch examples for our own imitation. —

Terence.

One anecdote of a man is worth a volume of
biography. Channing.

Biography admonishes pride, when it dis-
plays Salmasius, the champion of kings, shiver-
ing- under the eye and scourge of his wife; or
bids us stand ‘at thedoor of Milton’s academy,
and hear the scream and the ferule wp stairs.
Tt steals on_the poet and the premier in their
undress, — Cowley in dressing-gown and slip-
pers, and Ceeil with his treasurer’s robe on the
chair.— Willmott.

Biography is the most universally pleasant,
universally profitable, of all reading.— Carlyle.

Of all stndies, the most delightful and the
most usefitl is biography. The seeds of great
events lie near the surface; historians dclve too
deep for them. No _ history was ever true.
Lives I have read which, if they were not, had
the appearance, the interest, and the utility of
truth.—Landor.

BIRTH.

What is birth to a man if it shall be a
stain to his dead ancestors to have left sueh an
offspring ?—Sir P. Sidney.

Verily, I swear, it is better to be lowly born,
and range with humble livers in eontent, than
to be perked up in a glistering gricf, and wear
a golden sorrow.—Shakespeare. -

Every anniversary of a birthday is the dis-
pelling of a dream.— Zschokke.

A noble birth and fortune, thongh 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. _—

Our birth is nothing but our death begun,
as tapers waste that instant they take fire.—
. ° Young.

Custom forms us all; our thoughts, our
morals, our most- fixed belief, are consequences
of onr place of birth.—Aaron Hill. .

High birth is a gift of fortune which should
never challenge esteem towards those who’ re-
ceive it, since it costs them ‘neither stndy nor
labor. —Bruyére. ~

The birth of a child is the imprisonment of
a soul.— Simms.

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Called to the throne by the voice of the
People, my maxim has always been, A career
open to talent without distinction of birth. It
is this system of equality for’ which the Euro-
pean oligarchy detests me.—Napoleon.

Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained,
outlords succession’s phlegm, and needs no an-
cestors.—Aaron Hill,

Iwas born so high, onr aerie buildeth in the
cedar’s top, ‘and dallies with the: wind, «and
scorns the sun.— Shakespeare.


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BIRTHPLACE. .

Whatever strengthens our local-attachments
is favoruble both to individnal and national
character. Our home, onr_ birthplace, our
native land,—think for a while. what the vir-
tues are’ which~arise ont of the feelings con-
nected with these words, amd if you have any
intelleetnal eyes, you will then perceive the
connection between topoxraphy- and patriotism,

Southey. |

Those who wish to forget painful thoughts
do well to absent themselves tor a. while from
the ties aud objects that recall them ;" but we
can be said only to fulfil ow destiny in the
place that gave us birth —Luctitt.

BLESSEDNESS.

Trne ‘hlesseduess consisteth in a good life
and a happy death.—Solon.

Nothing raises the price of a blessing like
its removal; whereas it was its. continuance
which shonld have taught us its value. here
are three requisitions to the proper enjoyment
of earthly blessings, —a thankfat reflection on
the goodness of the Giver, a deep sense of ont
unworthiness, 2 recollection of the wacertainty
of long possessing them. The first would make
us grateful; the second, humble; und the third,
moderate. —LHannah More.

Blessedness is ‘a whole eternity older than
damnuation.— Richter.

Blessings we enjoy dnily; and for most
of them, beednse they be so common, most men
forget to pay their praises; but let not us,
because it is a sacrifice so pleasing to Him that
made the sun and us,‘and still protects us, aud
gives us flowers and showers and meat and
content.—dzeak Walton.

The wise man starts and trembles at the
perils of a bliss.— Young.

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.

And let me tell you that every misery I
miss is a new blessing.—/zauk Walton.

It is too. generally true that all that is re-
quired to make men unmindfal what they owe
to God for any blessing is that they should re-
ceive that blessing often enough, ‘and regularly
enough.— Bishop Whately. .

He alone is blessed who never was born.—
. Prior.
BLOCKHEAD.
A blockhead cannot come in, nor go-away,
Nor sit, nor rise, nor stand, like a-man of-sense.
Bruyere.

Heaven .and earth fight in vain against o
dunce !—Schiller, °

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BLUSH.

There, never was any arty, faction, sect, or
cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant
were not the most violent; forn bee is not a
busier animal than v blockhead. —Pope.

BLUNTNESS.
Me speaks home; you may relish him more

in the soldier than in the scholar.— Shakespeare.

BLUSH.

The heart’s meteors tilting in the face—
Shakespeare:

They teach us-to dance; O-that they could
teach us to blush, did it cost a guinea a‘glow !+.
Madame Daluzy.

The bold defiance of-a woman is the certain
sign of her shame, — when she_has onee ccased
to blush, it is because she has too much to
blush for.—Talleyrand.

The man that blushes is not quite a brute.—
Young.

How beautifil your reproof has made your
daughter! That crimson hue and silver tears
beeome her better than any ornainent of gotd
and pearls. These may hang on the neck of a
wanton, but those ave never seen disconnected
with moral purity. A fall-blown rose, be-
sprinkled with the purest dew, is not so beantifut
as this child blushing beneath her parent’s dis-
pleasure, and shedding tears of sorrow for her
tault. A blush is the sign which natmre hangs
out to show where chastity and honor dwell.—

Gottheld.

Give me the eloquent cheek, where blushes
burn and dic.—Afrs. Osgood.

Bid the cheek be ready with a blush, modest
as Morning’ when she coldly eyes the youthful
Pheebus.— Shakespeare.

_.Men blush less for their erimes than for their
weaknesses'and vanity. —Bruyere.

O, call not to this aged cheek the little blood
which should keep warm iny heart !—Dryden.

Blushing is the livery of virtne, though it
may sometimes proceed from guilt ;- so it holds
true of poverty, that itis the attendant of vir-
tue, though sometimes it may proceed from
mismanagement and‘aceident.—-Bacon.

It is better for a young man to blush than
to turn pale.— Cato, .

From every blush that kindles in thy cheeks
ten thousand little loves ind graces spring to
revel in the roses.— Howe.

The hue given hack by the clouds from the
reflected rays of the sun or the parple morn,
such was the countenance of Diana when she
was discovered unclothed.—Oerrd.


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BODY.

What means, alas! that blood which flushes
guilty in your face ?—Dryden.

The blush is nature’s alarm at the approach
of sin, and her testimony to the dignity of
virtue —Fuller.

Like the last beam of evening thrown ona
white cloud, just seen and gone.— Walter Scott.

Though looks ‘and words, by the strong
mastery of his practised will, are overruled, the
monnting blood betrays an inipulse in its seeret
spring too deep for his control.— Southey.

Bike the faint streaks of light broke Joose
from darkness, and dawning into blnshes.—
Dryden.

To such as boasting show their sears a mock
is due.—Shakespeare.

Commonly they use their feet for defence,
wEose tongue is their weapon.— Sir P. Sidney.

Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when
he boasted, “The less you speak of your great-
ness, the more I shall think of if’ Mirrors
are the accompaniments of dandies, not heroes.
The men of history were not perpetually look-
ing in the glass to make sure of their own size.
{ Absorbed in their work they didit, and did it
so well that the wondering world saw them to
be great, and labelled them accordingly.—

Rev. §. Coley.

Who knows himself a braggart, let him fear
this; for it will come to pass that every brag-

Troubled blood through his pale face was gart shall be found an ass.—Shakespeare.

seen to come -and go, with tidings from his|

heart, as it a running messenger had been.—
Spenser.

The ineonvenience or the beauty of the blush,
whieh is the greater ?—Afadame Necker.

BLUSTERING.
+ A-killing tongue, and a quiet sword.—
" Shakespeare.

It is with narrow-sonled people as+with nar-
row-necked bottles; the less they have in them,
the more noise they make in pouring it ont—

Pope.

The Devil may be bullied, but not the Deity.
W. R. Alger.

Those that-are the loudest in their threats
are the weakest in the execution of them. In
springing a mine, that which has done the most
extensive mischief makes the. smallest report;
and again, if we consider the effect of lightning,
it is probable that he that is killed by it hears
no noise; but the thunderclap which follows,
and whieh most alarms the ignorant, is the
surest proof of their safety.— Colton.

The empty vessel makes the greatest sound.
Shakespeare.

A. brave man is sometimes a desperado 3 +a
bully is always a coward.— Haliburton.

BOASTING.
Where there is mneh pretension, much has

been borrowed ; nature never pretends.—
Lavater.

There is this benefit in brag, that the
speaker is unconsciously expressing his own
ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it ‘all
out, and hold him to it—merson.

A gentleman that loves to hear himself talk,
and will speak more in a minute than he will
stand to in a mouth.— Shakespeare.

The honor is overpaid when he that did the
act is eommentator.—Shirley.

What art thon? Have not I an arm as big
as thine? ,a+ heart as big? Thy words, I grant,
are bigger, for I wear not my dagger in my
mouth.— Shakespeare.

Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.
oung.

One man affirms that he has rode post a
hundred miles in six hours: probably it is a lie;
but supposing it to be true, what then? Why,
he is a very good post-boy ; that is all. Another
asserts, and probably not withont oaths, that he
has drunk six or cight bottles of wine at a sit-
ting; out of charity I will believe him a liar;
for, if I do not, I must think him a beast.—

Chesterfield,

We wound our modesty, and make foul the
clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves
we publish them.— Shakespeare.

Men of real merit, and whose noble and
glorions deeds we are ready to acknowledge,
are yet not to be endured when they vaunt
their own aetions.—-dschines.

Conecit, more rich in matter than in words,
brags of his substance, not of ornament; they
are but beggars that can euunt their worth.—

Shakespeare.

Boasting and bravado may exist in the
breast even of the coward, if he is snceessful
through a mere Incky hit; but 2 just contempt
of an enemy can alone arise in those who feel
that they are superior to their opponent by the
prudence of their measures. — Thucydides.

BODY.

What! know ye not that yonr body is the
temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you,
which ye have of God; and ye are not your
own ?— Bible.


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BOOKS.

These Hmbs, whence had we them ? — this
stormy force; this life-blood, with its burning
passion? They are dust and shadow, — a
shadow-system gathered round our me; where-
in, through some moments or years, the divine
essence is to be revealed in the tlesh.— Carlyle.

Every physician knows, thongh metaphy-
sicians know fittle about it, that the laws which
govern the animal machine-are’as certain and
invariable as those which guide the planetary
system, and are as Hittke within the control of
the human being who is subject to them.—

Priestley.

Onr body is a well-set clock, which keeps
good time; but if it be too much or indisereetly
tampered with, the alarum runs out before the
hour.— Bishop Hall.

God made the human body, and it is by far
the most exquisite and wonderful organization
which has come to us from the Divine hand.
It is a stndy for one’s whole life. If an unde-
Yout astronomer is mad, an undevout physiolo-
gist is still madder.—Beecher.

BOLDNESS.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.—
Pope.

It deserves to be considered that boldness is
ever blind, for it sees not dangers and incon-
veniences. Whenee it is bad in council though
good in executiog. The right use of bold per-
sous, therefore, is that they never command in
chief, but serve as seconds, under the direction
of others. For in couneil itis good to see dan-
gers, and in execution not to see them unless
they are very great.—Dacon.

Fortune befriends the bold.— Dryden.

Carried away by the irresistible influence
which is always exercised over men’s minds by
whold resolution in critical circtunstanees.—

Guizot.

We make way for the man who boldly
pushes past us.—Bovee.

BONDAGE.
Bondage is hoarse, and may not speak alond.
hakespeare.

A bond is necessary to complete onr being,
only we must be careful that the bond does not
become bondage. —Jfrs. Jameson.

BOOKS,

After the pleasure of possessing books there is
hardly anything more pleasant than that of speak-
ing of them, and of communicating to the public
the innocent richness of thanght which we have
acquired by the culture of letters.—Nodier.

We are-as Hable to be corrupted by books as
by companious.—fedding. .

If I were to pray for a taste which would
stand by me under cvery ‘variety of eireum-
stances, and be a source of happiness and cheer-
fuluess to me through life, and a shield agaist
its ills, however things might go amiss, and the
world frown upon inc, it would be a taste for
reading.—Jferschel.

It is in books the chief of all perfections to
be plain and bricfi—Butler.

The books which help you most are those
which make yon think the most. The haritest
way of learning is by easy reading: but a great
book that comes from. great thinker, —it is :a
ship of thought, deep freighted with trnth and
with beauty.— Theodore Parker.

Great books, like large skulls, have often
the least brains.—IV7. Br Clulow.

When a book raises your spirit, and inspires
yon with noble and courageous feelings, seck
for no other rule"to judge the work by; it is
good, and made by a good workman. —Bruyére.

Next to acquiring good friends, the best ac-
quisition is that of good Looks.— Colton. ,

Books, says Lord Bacon, ean never teach
us the use of books; the stndent must learn by
commerce with mankind to reduce his specula-
tions to practice.” No man should think so
highly of himsclf as to think he can receive but
little light from hooks ; no one so meanly, as to
helieve he can discover nothing brt what is to
be learned from theii.—Johnson.

Books, like friends, should be few, and well
chosen.—Joineviana.

Many readers jndge of the power of ‘a book
by the shock it gives their feelings, — as some
savage tribes determine the power of their mns-
kets by their recoil; that being considered best
which fairly prostrates the purchaser.—

Longfellow.

A book is the only immortality:—
Rufus Choate.

Many books belong to sunshine, and should
be read out of doors. Clover, violets, and hedge
roses hreathe from their leaves ; they re: most
lovable in. cool tanes, along field paths, or upon
stiles overhung by hawthorn, while. the black-
bird pipes, and the nightingale bathes its brown
feathers in the twilight copse.— Wilmott.

It istalways casy to shut-a book, but not
quite so easy to get rid ofa lettered coxcomh. —
Colton.

In looking around me secking for miscrable
resources against the heaviness of time, I open
a book, and I say to myself, as the cat to the
fox : I have only one good turn, but I need no
other.—Madame Necker.


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BOOKS.

A good book is the best of friends, — the
same to-day-and forever.— Tupper.

The silent power of books is a great power
in the world ; and there is a joy i reading them
which those alone can know who read them
with desire and enthnsiasm. Silent, passive, !
‘and noiseless thongh they be, they may yct sct!
in action countless multitudes, and change -the
order of nations.—Zenry Giles.

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Learning hath. gained most by those books
by which printers have lost —Fuller.

The diffusion of these silent teachers —
books —throngh the whole community is to
work greater efleets than artillery, machinery,
and legislation. Its peaceful agency is to su-
ersede stormy revolutions. Tlic culture which
it is to spread, whilst an wnspeakable good to
the individual, is also to become the stability of
nations. —Channing.

Books:are embalmed minds.—Bovee.

Books are faithful repositories, which may
be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they
are opened’ again, will again impart their in-
structiun. Memory, once interrupted, is not to
be recalled; written learning is a fixed Jumi-
nary, which, after the clond that had hidden ir
has passed away, is again bright in its proper
station. Tradition is but-a, meteor, which, if
it once falls, cannot be rckindled.—J/ohnson.

Every great book is an aetion, and every
great action is a book.—Lauther.

A man ought to inquire and find ont what
he really and truly has au appetite for; what
suits’ his constitution; and that, doctors tell
him, is the very thing he ought to have in gen-
eral. And so with books.—Carlyle.

Every man is-a'volume if you know how to
vead him.— Channing.

Books, of which the principles are diseased
or deformed, must be kept on the shelf of the
scholar, as the man of science preserves mon-
sters in glasses. They belong to the study of
the mind’s morbid anatomy, and onght to be
accurately labelled. Voltaire will stil] be a
wit; notwithstanding he is a scoffer; and we
may admire the brilliant spots.and eyes of the
viper, if we acknowledge its venom and call it a
reptile.— Wilhnott.

Come, my best friends, my books! and lead
me on.— Cowley.

Most books fail, not so mueh from a want
of ability in their authors, as from an absence
in their productions of a thorough development
of their ability. —Bovee.

Rooks, — lighthouses erected in the great
sea, of time.— Whipple.

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BOOKS.

A book should be himinous, but not volu-
minous.—Bovee.

Let ns consider how-great a commodity of
doctrine. exists in books; how easily, how se-
eretly, how safely they expose the nakedness of
tuunan_ignorance without putting it to shame.
These are the masters who instruet us without
rods and ferules, without hard words and anger,
without clothes or money. If you approach
them, they-are not asleep; if investigating you
interrogate them, they ‘conceal nothing ; if you
mistake them, they never grumble; if you are
ignorant, they cannot laugh at you.—

Richard de Bury.

Books are the immortal sons dcifying their
sires.—Plato.

To divert myself froma troublesome faney,
it is but to run to my books; they presently fix
me to them, and drive the other ont of my
thoughts, and dé not mutiny to see that I have
only recourse to them for want of other more
real, natural, and lively conveniences; they
always receive me with the same -kindness.—

Montaigne.

One must be rich in thought and character
to owe nothing to books, though preparation is
necessary to profitable reading ; and the less
reading 1s Letter than more ; — book-struek men
are of all readers least wise, however knowing
or learned.— Alcott.

God be thanked for book8. They are the
voices of the distant and the dead, and make us
heirs of the spiritnal life of past ages.—

Channing.

The greatest pleasure in life is that of read-
ing while we are young. I have had as much
of this pleasure perhaps as any one.—Haclitt.

Without books God is silent, justiee dor-
mant, natural science ‘at a stand, philosophy
lame, letters dumb, and_all things involved in
Cimmerian darkness.~Bartholin.

Books are the'trne metempsychosis, — they
are the symbol and presage of immortality.
The dead men are scattered, -and none shall
find them. Behold they are here! they do but
sleep.— Beecher.

Many books owe their snecess to the good
memories of their anthors and the bad memories
of their readers.—Colton.

Mankind are creatures of books, as well as
of other circumstances ; and such they eternally
remain, — proofs, that the race is a noble and be-
lieving race, and capable of whatever books ean
stimulate.—Leigh unt.

How many books there are whose reputa-
tion is made that would not obtain it were it
now to make !-—/oubert.


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BOOKS.

In comparing men and books, one must al-
ways remeniber this important distinction, —
thnt one can put-the books down at any time.
As Macaulay says, “Plato is never sullen,
Cervantes is never petulant, Demosthenes nev-
er comes: unseasonably, Dante never stays too
long.” — Willis. .

Books are a languid pleasure.—.lontaigne.

Plays-and romanees sell as well as books
of devotion, but with this difference, — more
people read the former than buy them, ‘and
more buy the latter than read them.—

L. Hughes.

+
Some books are drenched sands, on which

a great soul’s wealth lies all in heaps, like a‘

wrecked argosy.—Alexander Smith.

The worth of a book is a matter of expressed
juices.—Bovee.

Books are a guide in youth, and an enter-
tainment for age. They support us under soli-
tide, 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

assions, and Jay our disappointments asleep.
When we are weary of the living, we may re-
pair to the dead, who have nothing of peevish-

ness, pride, or design in their conversation.—
Jeremy Collier.

He hath never fed of the dainties that are
bred in a book.—Shukespeare.

A. book becomes 4 mirror, with the author’s
face shining over it. Talent only gives an im-
perfect image, —the broken glimmer of a coun-
tenance. But the features of genius remain
unruffled. Time guards the shadow. Beauty,
the spiritual Venus, — whose children.are the
Tassos, the Spensers, the Bacons, — breathes the
magic of her love, and fixes the face forever.—

Willmott.

Some books are to. be tasted, others-to be
swallowed, and some few to be. chewed ‘and. di-
-gested.— Bacon.

Good books-are to the young mind what
the warming sun and the refreshing” rain of
spring are to the seeds which have lain dormant
in the frosts of winter. They, are more, for
they may save from that which is worse than
death, as well as bless with that which is better
than life.—Zforuce ‘Mann. ~

Books are not seldom talismans and spells.—
Jowper. ||

Books are not absolutely dead things, but do
eontaina potency of life in them to be as active
as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay,
they do preserve, as in‘a-vial, the purest efficacy

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and extraction of that living intellect that bred,
them.— Mitton.

BOOKS.

He that will have no books but those that

lare scarce evinces.about as correcta taste in

literature as he would do in friendship who

would have no friends bnt those whom ‘all
the rest of the world have sent to Coventry.—

Colton.

The last thing that We discover in writing a

book is to know what to put at the beginning —

Pascal.

Books, as Dryden has aptly termed them,
are spectacles to read nature. /Eschylus and
Aristotle, Shakespeare and Bacon, are pricsts
who preach and exponnd the mysteries of man
and the universe. ‘They teach us to understand
and feel what we see, to decipher and syllable
the hicroglyphics of the senses.—Hare.

Those faithful mirrors, which reflect to our

mind the minds of sages and heroes.— Gibbon.
. pa

Books are the best of things, well used ;
abused;among the worst. What is the right
usé? What is the one end, which all means go
to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire.
I had better never sce a book than to be warped
by its attraction elean out of my own orbit, and
made a satellite instead of a system.—Lmerson.

Without grace no book can live, and with
it the poorest may have its life prolonged.—

‘orace. Walpole.

Knowledge of books is-like that sort of lan-
tern which hides him who carries it, and serves
only to pass through secret and gloomy paths
of his own ; but in the possession of a man of
business it is*as a torch in the hand of one
who is willing and able to show those who
are bewildered the way which leads to their
prosperity and welfare.—Steele.

There was-a time when the world acted upon
books. Now books act upon the world.—
Joubert.
Of many large volumes the-index is the best
portion and the usefallest. A glance through
the casement gives whatever knowledge of the
interior is needful. An epitome is only a book
shortened; and, as ‘a general rule, the worth
inereases-as the size lessens.— Willmott.

Yon shall see a beautiful quarto page, where
a neat rivulet of text shal] meander throngh.a
meadow of thargin.— Sheridan. ,

Men love better books which please them
than those which instruct. Since their ennui
troubles them more than their ignorance, they
prefer being amused to being informed.—

LT’ Abbé Dubois.

Those who are conversant with books well
know how often they mislead us.when we’ have
not 2 living-monitor at hand to assist us in com
paring practice with theory. —Junius.


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BOOKS.

Thon mayst 4s well expect to grow stronger
by always eating as wiser by always reading,
‘Yoo much overcharges nature, and turns more
into disease than nonrishment. It ‘is thought
‘and digestion which makes books serviceable,
and gives health and vigor to the mind —

Fuller.

The quantity of books in a library is often a
cloud of witnesses of the ignorance of the
owner.— Oxenstiern.

Many a-man lives a bnrden upon the earth ;
but a good book is the precious life-blood of a
master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on
purpose for'a life beyond life.—ALilton.

A book may be compared to the life of your
neighbor. If it be good, it cannot last too
long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early —

Hi. Brooke.

Some new books it is necessary to read, —
part for the information they contain, and
others in order to acquaint one’s self with the
state of literature in the age tn which one lives ;
but I would rather read too few than too many.
Lord Dudley.

Many books reqnire no thought from those
who read them, and for a simple reason, — they
made no such demand upon thosc who wrote
them.— Colton.

Books, to judicious compilers, are useful, —
to particular arts and professions absolutely ne-
cexsary, —to men of real science they arc tools ;
but more are tools to them.—Johnson,

Worthy books are not companions, they
are solitndes ; we lose ourselves in them, and ‘all
onr cares.— Bailey. . .

There are persons who flatter themselves
thatthe size of their works will make them im-
mortal. They pile up reluctant quarto upon
solid folio, as if their Inhors, because they are
gigantic, could contend with truth and heaven!

Junius,

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value
from the stamp and esteem of ages through
which they have passed.—Sir W. Temple.

Do not believe that a book is good, if in
reading it thou dost not become more contented
with thy existence, if it does not rouse up in
thee most. generous feelings. —Lavater.

He who loves not books before he comes to
thirty years of age will hardly love them
enough afterwards to understand them.—

- Clarendon.

Books: are the true levellers. They give to
all who faithtally use them the society, the
spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our
race.— Channing.

“We ought to reverence books, to look at
them as useful and mighty things. If they are
good and true, whether they are about religion
or politics, farming, trade, or medicine, they are
the message of Christ, the maker of all things,
the teacher of all truth —fev. C. Avngsley.

A book may be'as great a thing as a battle —
Disraeli.

It is with books as with women, where a
certain plainness of manner and of dress is
more engaging than that glare of paint and airs
and apparel which may dazzle the eye, but
reaches not the affections.—Hume.

There is no book so poor that it would not
be a prodigy if wholly made by a single man.—
Johnson.

The past but lives in words; a thonsand
ages were blank if books had not evoked their
ghosts, and kept the pale, nnbodied shades to
warn us from fleshless lips.— Bulwer Lytton.

Books that you may carry to the fire, and
hold readily in your hand, are the most useful
after all.—Johnson.

Books are the Jegacics that genins leaves to
mankind, to be delivered down from generation
to generation, as presents to the posterity of
those that are yet unborn.—Addison.

When self-interest inclines a man to print,
he should consider that the purchaser expects a
pennyworth for his penny, and has reason to
asperse his honesty if he finds himself deceived. —

Shenstone.

There is a kind of physiognomy in the titles
of books no less than in the faces of men, by
which a skilfel observer will-as well know what
to expeet from the one as the other.—Butler,

A first book has some of the sweetness of a
first love. The music of the soul passes into it.
The unspotted eye illuminates it. Defects are
nnobserved ; sometimes they grow even pleasing
from their connection with an object that is
dear, like the oblique eye in the girl to whom
the philosopher was attached. Later surprises
will amuse, and deeper sympathics may cheer
us, but the charm loses its freshness, and the
tenderness some of the balm.— ]Villmott.”

It ts books that teach us to refine our pleas-
ures when young, and which, having so tanght
us, enable ns to reeall them with satisfaction
when old.—Leigh Lunt.

Our favorites are few; since only what rises
from the heart reaches it, being caught and
enrried on the tongues of men wheresoever love
and letters journey.— Alcott.

The colleges, whilst they provide us -with
libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I
thiuk no chair is so much wanted.—Zmerson.


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BRAVERY.

BORES.

There are some kinds of men who cannot
pass their time alone; they are the flails of oceu-
pied people.—.V. de Bonald.

The secret of making one’s self tiresome is
not to know when to stop.—J'oltaire.

Tlicre‘are few wild beasts more to be dread-
ed than a cominunieative man having nothing
to communi ente,—Boree.

O, he is as.tedions as is a tired horse, a: rail-
ing wife; worse than a smoky house |! —
Shakespeare.

It is to be hoped that, with all the modern
improvements,~a mode willbe discovered of
getting rid of bores; for it is too bad that a
poor wretch can be punished for stealing your

ocket-handkerehicf or gloves, and that no pun-
ishhent can be inflicted on those” who steal
your time, and with i¢ your temper and pa-
tience, as well as the bright thoughts that
might have entered into your mind (like the
Irishman who lost the fortune before he had got
it), but were frightened away by the bore.—
Byron.

We are almost always wearied in the com-
pany of persons with whom we.-are not permit-
ted to be weary.—Rochefoucauld.

He will steal himself into a man’s favor,
and for'a week escape a great deal of discoy-
eries; bunt when you find him ont, yon have
hin ever after.—Shakespeare.

A tedions person is one a man would leap a
steeple from.—Ben Jonson.

BORROWING.

The borrower runs in his own debt.—
Emerson.

Neither a borrower nora 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.

Charles Lamb, tired of lending his. books,
threatened to chain Wordsworth’s poems to his
shelves, adding, “For of those who borrow,
some read slow; some mean to read, but- don’t
read; and some neither read nor mean to read,
bit borrow, to leave you-an opinion of their
sagacity. I inust do my” moncy-borrowing
friends the justice to say, that there is nothing
of this caprice or wantonness of alicnation in
them. When they borrow my moncy, they
never fail to make use of it.”—Zalfourd.

The reason why borrowed books are so sel-
dom returned. to their owners is that it is much
easier to retain the books than’what is in them.

. Montaigne.

He that would have a short. Lent let him
borrow money to he repaid at Kaster.— Franklin,

No remedy against this consumption of the
purse ; borrowing “only lingers’ and lingers it
out, but the disease is incnrable.— Shakespeare.

BOUNTY.

The snperfluons blossoms ona fruit-tree,are
meant to symbolize the large way God loves to
do pleasant things.— Beecher.

From bounty issues power.—Akenside.

BRAINS.

The brain is the palest of all the internal
organs, and the heart the reddest. Whatever
comes from the brain carries the hue of -the
place it came from, and whatever comes from
the heart carries the heat and color of its birth-
place.—LZolmes.

When God endowed human beings with
brains, he did not intend to guarantee them.—
Montesquieu.

There are brains so large that they uncon-
scionsly swamp all individualities which come
in contact or.too near, and brains so sinall that
they cannot.take: in the conception oftany other
individuality as a whole, only in part or parts.—

Mfrs, Jameson.
BRAVERY.

No man can be brave who considers pain to
be the greatest-evil of life; nor temperate, who
considers pleasure to be the highest good.—

Cicero.

A truc knight is fuller of gay bravery in the
midst than in the beginning of danger.—
. ‘Sir P. Siducy.

At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery
that-appears in.the world there lurks a miser-
able cowardice. “Men will face powder and stecl

because they cannot fice public opinion.—
Chapin.

The best hearts, Trim, are ever the bravest,
replied iny uncle Toby.— Sterne.

_ Cato the elder, when somebody was praising
a man for his foolhardy bravery, said “that

‘ there was an essential difference between a.real-

ly brave man and one-who had merely a con-
tempt for life.”—Plutarch.

That is “a valiant flea that dares eat his
breakfast on the lip of a lion ! Shakespeare.

The brave man is not he who feels no fear,
for that were stupid and. irrational; but he
whose noble’soul its fear subdues, and bravely
dares the danger which it-shrinks from.—

Joanna Baillie.

Who bravely dares: must sometiines risk a
fall.—Smollett.


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BREVITY.

———

_ .A brave man is clear in his discourse, and
keeps close to truth.— Aristotle.

_ Brevity is the body and soul of wit. Itis
wit ‘itself, for it alone isolates sufficiently for
contrasts ; because redundancy or diffuseness

Nature often enshrines gallant and noble | produces no distinctions.—Richter.

hearts in weak bosoms, — oftenest, God bless

her! in female breasts.—Dickens.

None but the brave deserve the fair.—
Dryden.

_ When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be
brief Horace.

It is the work of faney to enlarge, but of
fudgment to shorten and contract; -and_there-

The bravery founded upon the hope of recom- | jore this must be as far above .the other as

pense, upon the fear of: punishment, upon the ex-

perience of success, upon rage, upon ignorance of

dangers, is common bravery, and docs not merit
the name. True bravery proposes a just end,
measures the dangers, and, if itis necessary, the
affront, with coldness.—/rancis fa None.

BREVITY.

Genuine good taste consists in saying much
in a few words, in choosing among our
thonghts, in having some order and arrange-
ment in what-we relate, in speaking with com-
posure.—Lenelon.

It is execllent discipline for an author to
feel that he must say all he has to say in the
fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to
skip them; and in the plainest possible words,
or his reader will certainly misunderstand them.
Generally, also, a downright fact: may be told in
a plain way; and we want downright facts at
present more than anything else.— Ruskin.

Brevity is the soul of «wit, and tediousness
the limbs and outward flonrishes.—Shakespeare.

These are my thoughts;—I might have
spmn them out toa greater length, but_I think
a little plot of ground thick sown ‘is better than
a great field which for the most part of it fies
fallow.—Bishop Norris.

When aman has no design but to speak
plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very
narrow compass.—<sSteele.

And there is one rare strange virtue in their
speeches, the secret of their mastery, — they are
short.— Halleck.

Brevity is the best recommendation of a
-speech, not only-in the ease of“a’senator, but in
that, too, of an orator.—Cicero. ,

Brevity in writing is what charity is to all
other virtues, — righteousness is nothing without

' the one, nor authorship without the other.—
Sydney Smith.

Talk to the.point, and stop when yon have
reached it. The faculty some possess of mak-
ing one idea cover a quire of paper is not good
for much. Be comprehensive in all you say or
write. To fill a volume upon nothing is a
credit to nobody; though Lord Chesterfield
wrote a' very clever poem upon nothing. —

John Neal.

i judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than

faney or ibnagination.—South.

The one prudenee in life is concentration.—
Evnnerson.

Rather-to excite your judgment briefly than
to inform it tediously.—Bacon.

A parsimony of swords prodigal of sense.—~
Disraeli.

_ 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.

Brevity is a.great praise of eloquence. —
Cicero.

It is not a great Xerxes army of words, but
‘a compact Greck ten thousand that march safely
down to posterity.—ZLowedl.

Aiming at brevity, I become obseure.—
Horace.
BRIBERY.
Judges and senates have been bought for
gold.—Pope.

Petitions, not sweetened with gold, are but
unsavory and oft refused; or, if received, are
pocketed, not read.—Afasstnger.

And sell the mighty space of our large hon-
ors for so much trash as may be grasped thus ?
Shakespeare.

The universe would not be rich enough to
buy the vote of an honest man.—St. Gregory.

BROTHERHOOD,
Man, man, is thy brother, and thy father is
God.—Lamartine. -

The era of Christianity, — peace, brother-
hood, ‘the Golden Rule as*applied to govern-
mental matters—is yet to come, and when it
comes, then, and then only, will the future of
nations he sure.—Aossuth.

Infinite is the help man can yield to man.
Carlyle.

We-are.members of one great body. Nature
planted in us a mutual love, and fitted us for a
social life. We must consider that we were
born for the good of the whole.—Seneca.


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BUSINESS.

‘We must love men, ere to us they will seem
«worthy of our love.— Shakespeare.

The race of mankind would perish, did they |do hy being rocked in a cradle.

cease to aid cach other.
the mother binds the child’s head till

Business in a certain sort of men isa: mark
of understanding, and they are honored for it.
Their souls seck repose-in agitation, -as children
They may

From the time that} pronounce themselves as serviceable to. their
the | friends as tronblesome to themselves.

No one

moment that some kind assistant wipes the | distributes his moncy-to others, bnt every one

death-damp from the brow of the dying, we
cannot exist withont mntnal help. All, there-
fore, that need aid have a right.to ask it from
their fellow-mortuls; no one who holds the
power of granting can refuse it without gnilt.—

Walter Scott.

—.Be kindly affectioned one.to another with
brotherly love; in -honor preferring one ‘an-
other.— Bible.

Nature has inclined us to love men.— Cicero.

However wretched a fellow-mortal, may be,
he is still a member of our common species.—
Seneca.

To live is not to live for one’s sclf alone; Iet
us help one another.—.enauder.

If we love one another, nothing, in truth,
can harm ‘us, ‘whatever mischances may’ hap-
pen.—Longfellow.

The mniverse is but onc great city, full of be-
loved ones, divine and human, by nature en-
deared to cach other.—£pictetus. 7

Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the
universal brotherhooil which binds together all
meu under the common father of nature.—

. ~ Quintilian.
BRUTE.

A singular fact, that, when man is -a brute,
he is the most sensual and loathsome of all
brutes.—Lawthorne.

Notwithstanding that natural love in brates
is much more violent and intense than in ration-
al ereatures, Providence has taken care that it
should be no longer troublesome to the parent
than itis 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.

BURLESQUE.

What caricature is in painting, burlesque is
in writing; and in the same manner the conic
writer and painter correlate to each other ; as
in the former, the painter seems to have the
advantage, so it is in the latter infinitely on the
side of the writer. For the monstrous is mach
easicr to paint than describe, and the ridiculous
to describe than paint.—/ielding.

BUSINESS.

Formerly, when great fortunes were only
made in war, war was a business; but now,
when great fortunes are only made by business,
business is war.—DBovee.

therein distributes lis time and his life. There
is nothing of which we are so prodigal as of
those two things, of which to be thrifty would
bé both commendable and useful.—Jfontaigne.
A man who cannot mind his own business
is not.fit to be trusted with the king’s.—Saville,

Success in business is seldom. owing to wn-
common talents or original power which is
untractable and self-wilted, but to the greatest
degree of commonplace eapacity.—Lazlit.

To business that we love, we tise betime
and go to it with delight.—Shukespeare.

Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps,
than yeritable saints and martyrs, are consnm-
mate men of business. A:man, to be excellent :
in this way, requires a great -knowledge of
character, with that exquisite tact which feels
unerringly-the right snoment when to act. A
discreet rapidity must pervade all the move-
ments of his thought and action. He mnst be
singularly free from vanity, and is generally
found to be an enthusiast who has the art’ to
conecal his enthusiasm.— Helps.

The Christian must not only mind Heaven,
hut attend to his daily calling. © Like the pilot
who, while his eye is fixed upon the star, keeps
his hand upon the helm.—fev. 7. Watson.

Every man has business and desire, such as
it is—Shakespeare.

‘To men addicted to delights, business is an in-
terruption ; to such as are cold to delights, busi-
ness Is an entertainment. For which reason it
was said to one who commended a.dulbman for
his application, “ No thanks to him; if he had
no business he would have nothing to do.”—

Steele.

The old proverb about having too many
irons in the fire is'an abominable old lic.
Have all in, shovel, tongs, and poker.—

Adaw Clarke.

It is very sad for a man to make himself
servant to a thing, his manhooll all taken ont
of him by the hydrantic pressure of ‘excessive

business. I shonld not like to be merely a great
doctor, a great lawyer, a-great minister, a great

politician, — I should like to be also something
ofa man.—Theodore Parker

—_ '

Men of great jiarts are often unfortunate in
the management of public business beeanse they
fare apt to go ont of the common road by the
quickness of their imagination. —Suyft.


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64

4

CALUMNY.

Call on a business man at business times
only, and on business; transact your business
and go about your business, in order to give
him time to finish his business.—

Duke of Wellington.

Stick to your legitimate business, Do not
go into ontside operations. Few men have
brains enough for more than one business. To
dabble in stocks, to put a few thousand dollars
into a mine, and a few more into a mannfactory,
and a few more into an invention, is enongh to
ruin any man. Be content with fair returns.
Do not become greedy. Do not think that men
are happy in proportion as they are rich, and
therefore do not aim too high. Be content with
moderate wealth. Make friends. A time will
come when all the money in the world will not
he worth to you so much as one good stanch
friend.— Beecher.

I do not give, but Jend myself to business.—
Seneca.

The great secret both of health and snecess-
ful industry is the absolute yielding np of one’s
consciousness to the business and diversion of
the hour, — never permitting the one to in-
fringe in the least degree upon the other.—

Sismondi.

There are in business three things necessary,
— knowledge, temper, and time.—reltham.

BUSYBODY.

They Icarn to be idle, wandering about from’
house to honse; and not only idle, but tattlers
also, and busybodies, speaking things which
they onght not.—Bible.

A person who is too nice an observer of the
business of the’ crowd, like one who is too
curions in observing the Inbor of the bees, will
often be stung for his curiosity.—Pope.

In private life I never knew any one inter-
fere with other people’s disputes, but that he
heartily repented of it.—Zord Carlisle.

Always ocenpied with others’ duties, never
with our own, alas ! —Joubert.

He is a treacherous supplanter. and under-
miner of the peace of all families and societies.
This being a maxim of an unfailing truth, that
nobody ever pries into another man’s eoncerns
but with adesign to do, or to be able to do him
a mischief.— South.

His tongue, like the tail of Samson’s foxes,
carries firebrands, and is enough to set the whole
field of the world on a flame. Himself begins
table-talk of his neighbor at another’s board, to
whom he bears the first news, and adjures him
to conceal the reporter; whose eholcric answer
he returns to his first. host, enlarged with a
second edition ; so as it used to be done in the
fight of unwilling mastiffs, he claps each on
the side apart, and provokes them to an eager
conflict.— Bishop Hall.

Hare you so much leisure from your own
business that you ean take care of other peo-
ple’s that does not at all belong to you ?—

Terence.

A person who constantly meddles to no pur-
pose means to do harm, and is not sorry to find
he has suceeeded.— Hazlitt.

©.

CALAMITIES.

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.

Know, he that foretells his own calamity,
and makes events before they come, twice over
doth endure the pains of evil destiny.—

Sw W. Davenant.

It is only from the belief of the goodness
and wisdom of a Supreme Being that our
calamities can be borne in that manner which
becomes a man.—Jfackenzte.

Calamity is man’s true touchstone.—
Beaumont and Fletcher.
CALUMNY.
His ealumny is not only the greatest benefit
a rogue can confer on us, but the only service
he will perform for nothing.—Lavater.

Be thon as chaste as ice, as pure as snow,
thon shalt not escape calumny.— Shakespeare.

Like the tiger,-that seldom desists from pur-
suing man after having once preyed upon
lnman flesh, the reader who has once gratified
his appetite with calumny makes ever after the
most agreeable feast upon murdered reputation !

Coldsmith,

T never listen to calumnies, because if they
are witrne I run the risk of being deceived, and
if they be true, of hating persons not worth
thinking about.—Afontesquieu.

Calumniators are those who have neither
good hearts nor good understandings. We
ought not to think ill of any one till we have
palpable proof; and even then we should not
expose them to others.—Colton.

Calumny will sear virtue itself: these shrugs,
these hums and ha’s.—Shakespeare.


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CANT.

Who stabs my name would stab my person

To persevere in one’s duty and to be silent

too, did not the hangman’s wxe lie in the way.— | is the hest answer to ealumny.— Washington.

Crown.
Calumuy is .a.monstrous vice; for, where
parties indulge in.it, there! are,always two that
are actively engaged in doing wrong, and one
who is subject to injury. The calmnniator
inflicts wrong by slandering the absent; he
who gives credit to the ealumny before he has
investigated the trnth is equally implicated.
The person traduced is doubly injured, — first
by him who propagates, and secondly by him
who credits, the ealuimy.—Jferodotus.
Back-wounding calumny the whitest virtue,
strikes.— Shakespeare.

Close thine ear against him that shall open
his mouth secretly against auother: if thon
reecive not his words, they fly back and wound
the reporter; if thon receive them, they flee
forward and Wound the receiver.— Quarles.

There are calumnies against which even in-
nocence loses courage.— Napoleon.

It is like the Greek fire used in ancient war-
fare, which burnt unquenched beneath the water ;
or like the weeds which, when you have extir-
pated them in one place, ave sprouting forth
.vigorously in another spot, -at the distance of
many hundred yards; or, to use the metaphor
of St. James, it is like the wheel which catches
fireias it goes, and burns with fiercer conflagra-
tion as its own speed incresses.—

F. TW. Robertson.

Calumny is only the noise of madmen.—
Diogenes.

Calumny is like the wasp which worries-you,
and which it is not best to try to get rid of
unless you are sure of slaying it; for otherwise
it returns to the charge more furious than cver.

Chamfort.

Iam beholden to Cahimny, that she hath
so endeavored and taken pains to belie ine. Tt
shall make me set a surer guard on myself,fand
keep a better watch upon my actions.—

Ben Jonson.

The eclebrated Boerhaave, who lad many
enemies; used to say that he never thonght it
necessary to repeat their calumnies. “ They
are sparks,” said he, “which, if you do not
blow them, will go out of themselves.” — Disraeli.

Those who ought to be secure from calumny
are generally those who avoid it least.—
Stanislaus.

He that lends an easy and credulous ear to
calumny is either a man of very ill morals or
has no more sense and understanding than a
child.—Menander. .

5

The pure in heart are slow to credit calum-
nies, because they hardly comprehend what
motives can be inducements to the -alleged
evimes.—June Porter.

Cutting honest throats by whispers. —
7
§Valter Scott,
CANDOR.
I can promise to be candid, but I cannot
promise to be impartial.— Goethe.

‘Fine speeches are the instrnments of knaves
or fools that use them, when they want good

) sense; but honesty needs no disguise nor orna-

ment: be plain.—Oteay.

Candor is the brightest gem of criticism.—
’ Disraeli.

He who, when called npon to speak a disa-
gyeeable truth, tells"it boldly and has done, is
both bolder and milder than he who uibbles in
a low voice, and never ceases nibbling. —

Lavater.

It is-great, itis manly, to disdain disguise ;
it shows our spirit, or it proves our streugth.—
Young.

J hold it cowardice to rest mistrustful where
a noble heart hath pawned an open hand in sign
of love.—Shakespeure.

A man should never be ashamed to own he
has heen inthe wrong, which is but saying, in
other words, tliat he is wiser to-day than he was
yesterday.— Pope.

Making my breast transparent as pure crys-
tal, that the world, jealous of me, may see the
foulest thought my heart doth hold.—

Buckinghum.
CANT.

Is not cant the materia prima of the Devil,
from which all falsehoods, imbecilities, abomi-
nations, body themselves; from which no true
thing can come? For cant is itself properly a
donble-distilled lie, the second power of a lie—

Carlyle.

Those people are often the least worldly on
whom they who make the loudest boast of their
unworldliness seek basely to affix that oppro-
brions epithet. For they walk the world with
a heart pure-as it is cheerful; they are, by that
unpretending purity, saved from infection ; -as
there ave as many fair“and healthy faces to be
seen in the smoke and ‘stir of cities as in the
rural wilds, so also are there as many fair and
houlthy spirits.—-Professor SVilson.

Cant-is the voluntary overcharging or pro-
longiition of a real sentiment; hypocrisy is the
setting up:2 pretension to a feeling you never
had and have no wish for.—Hazlitt.

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CASTLES.

CARE.

All cares appear as large again as they are,
owing to their emptiness and darkness ; it is so
with the grave.——Hichter.

Second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes,
come easily off and on.—Dickens.

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 upon the
Lord ; but even when they attempt it, they do
not fail to catch them up again, and think it
meritorious to walk burdened.—Beecher.

Care keeps his wateh in every old man’s eye.
Shakespeare.

Quick is the succession of human events ;
the cares of to-day are seldom the cares of to-
morrow ; and when we lie down at night we
may safely say to most of our troubles, Ye
have done your worst, and we shal] meet no
more.— Cowper.

Our cares-are the mothers, not only of our
charities and virtues, but of our best joys and
most cheering. and enduring pleasures— Simms.

Care, admitted as guest, quickly turns to be
master.— Bovee.

Care seeks out wrinkled brows and hollow
eyes, and builds himself caves to abide in them.
Beaumont and Fletcher.

Care is no cure, but rather corrosive for
things that are not to be remedied. — Shakespeare.

Cares are often more difficult to throw off
than sorrows ; the latter die with time, the for-
mer grow upon it.—Richier,

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.

O polished perturbation! golden care that
keepest the ports of slumber open wide to many
a watchful night !—Shakespeare.

CARICATURE.
Nothing conveys a more inaccurate idea of
a whole truth than a part of a truth so promi-
nently brought forth as to throw the other
parts into shadow. This is the art of caricature ;
and by the happy _use of that art you might
caricature the Apollo Belvidere.
Bulwer Lytton.

The only good copies are those which point
out the ridicule of bad originals.—
Rochefoucauld.

The great moral satirist, Hogarth, was once
drawiug in a room where many of his friends
were assembled, and among them my mother.
She was then a very young woman. <As she
stood by Hogarth, she expressed a wish to
learn to draw caricature. ‘Alas; young lady,”
said Hogarth, “it is not a faculty to be envied!
Take my advice, and never draw caricature;
by the long practice of it, I have lost the enjoy-
ment of bheanty. I never sec a face but dis-
torted ; I never have the satisfaction to behold
the human face divine.” ‘We may suppose that
such language from Hogarth would come with
great effect; his manner was very earnest, and
the confession is well deserving of remembrance.

Bishop Sandford.

A farce is that in poetry which grotesque
(earicature) is in painting. The persons and
actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the
manners false, that is, inconsistent -with the
characters of mankind ; and grotesque painting
is the just resemblance of this.—Dryden.

CASTLES IN THE AIR.

Charming Alnaschar visions! it is the hap-
py privilege of youth to construct you.—
Thackeray.

If you have built castles in the air, your
work need not be lost; that is where they
should be. Now put the foundations under
them.— Thoreau.

A sigh can shatter a castle in the air.—
W. R. Alger.

Happy season of virtnous youth, when
shame is stil! an impassable barrier, and the
sacred air-cities of hope have not shrunk into
the mean clay hamlets of reality; and man, by
his nature, is yet infinite and free— Carlyle.

Leave glory to great folks. Ah, eastles in
thetair cost a vast deal to keep up ! —
Bulwer Lytton.

In all assemblies, though you wedge them
ever so close, we may observe this peculiar prop-
erty, that over their heads there js room enough ;
but how to reach it is the difficult point. ‘To
this end the philosopher’s way in all ages has
been by erecting certain edifices in the air.—

No tribute is laid on castles in the air.—
Churchill.

Ever building, building to the clouds, still
building higher, and never reflecting that the
poor narrow basis cannot sustain the giddy tot-
tering column.— Schiller.

Thus we build on the ice, thus We write on
the waves of the sea; the waves roaring pass
away, the ice melts, and‘away goes our palace,
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CAUSE.
I would seck unto God, and unto God would
Tcomimit my cause.— ible.

Small causes are sufficient to make a man
uneasy, when great ones are not in the way;
for want of & blotk, he will stumble at a straw.

God befriend us, as our cause is just ! —
Shakespeare.

A noble canse doth ease much ‘a grievous
case. —Sir P. Sidney.

CAUTION.

Man’s cantion often into danger turns, and
his guard falling ernshes him to death.— Young.

Pitchers have ears.— Shakespeare.

The bird alighteth not on the spread net
when it beholds another bird in the snare.
Take warning by the misfortunes of others,
that others may not take example from you.—

: Saadi.

Allis to be feared where all is to be lost.—
Byron.

When you have need of a.needle, you move
your tingers delieately, with a wise caution.
se the same precaution with the inevitable
duluess of life; give attention; keep yourself
from imprudent precipitation ; and do not tdke
it by the point.—Zance.

When clouds are scen, wise men put on
their cloaks.— Shakespeare.

Open your month and purse cautiously, an
your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at
least in repute, be great.—Zimmermann.

It isa good thing to learn cantion by the
misfortunes of others.—Publius Syrus. "

CELERITY,
“There is a medium between velocity and tor-
nity ; the Italians say it is not necessary to
‘be a stag, but we ought not to be a tortoise.—
Disraeli.

There is no seerecy comparable to celerity,
like the motion of-a bullet in the air which flieth
so swift, it ontruns the eye—Bacon.

CENSURE.
Censure is the tax-a man pays to the public
for being eminent.— Swift.

Horace appears in, good-humor while he
censures, and therefore his censure has the more
weight, as supposed to proceed from judgment,
not from passion.— Young. .

The readiest and surest way to get rid of
censure is to correct ourselves. —Demosthenes.

The censure of those that are opposite to us
is the nicest commendation that can be viven us.
. St. Evremond.

To arrive at perfection, 2 man shonld have
very sineere friends, or inveterate cnemies ; be-
cause he would b2 made seusible of his good or
ill conduct cither by the censures of the one or
the admonitions of the others.—Diogenes.

The villain’s censure is extorted praise. —
Pope.

Theré ‘are but three ways for a man to re-
venge himself of the censure of the world, — to
despise it, to return the Itke, or to endeavor to
live so as to avoid it; the first of these is usually
pretended, the last is almost impossible, the
universal practice is for the second.— Suv.

The death of censure 1s the death of genius.
Stnuus.

It is a folly for an eminent man to think of
escaping censure, and & weakness to be atfected
with it. All the illustrious persons of antiqui-
ty, and indeed of every age in the world, have
passed through this fiery perseentiun. There is
no defence against reproach but obscurity ; it is
a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires
aud invectives were an essential part of a Ro-
man triumph.— Addison.

Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer
censure which is useful to them to praise which
deceives them.—Rochefoucauld. .

Plutarch tells ns of an idle. and effeminate
Etrurian who found fault with the manner
in which Themistocles had conducted a recent
campaign. “ What,” said the hero in reply,
“have you, too, something to say about war,
who are like the fish that has a sword, but no
heart?” He is always the severest censor on
the merits of others who has the least worth of
his own.—E. L. Magoon.

Tt 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. —ZZume.

Some men’s censures are like the blasts of
rams’ horns before: the walls of Jericho; all a
man’s fame they lay level at one struke, when
all they go upon is only conceit, without any
certain basis —J. Beaumont.

CEREMONY.
When love begins to sicken and decay it
useth an enforced ceremony.—Shakespeare.

If we use no ceremony towards others, we
shall be treated withont any. People are soon
tired of paying trifling attentions to those who
receive them with coldness, ‘and return them
with neglect.—Haalitt.


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CHANCE.

It is superstition to repose our eonfidence in
forms and ceremonies; but not to submit to
them is pride.—Paseal.

Mankind are fond of inventing certain sol-
emn and sounding expressions which appear to
convey much, and in reality mean little; words
thatare the proxies of absent thoughts, and,
like other proxies, add nothing to atgument,
while they turn the scales of decision.— Shelley.

To dispense with ceremony is the most deli-
cate mode of conferring a compliment.—
Bulwer Lytton,

All ceremonies are in themselves very silly
things, but yet a man of the world should know
them. They are the ontworks of manners and
decency, which would be too often broken in
upon if it were not for that defence which keeps
the encmy at a proper distance.—Chesterfield.

Ceremonies are different in every country ;
but true politeness is everywhere the same.—
Goldsmith.

Ceremony was but devised at first to set a
gloss on famt deeds, — hollow welcomes, recant-
ing goodness, sorry ¢’er ir is shown ; but where
there i$ true friendship there needs none.—

Shakespeare.

Of what use are forms, seeing that at times
they are empty? Of the sane use as barrels,
which at times are empty too.—Hare.

Truth and ceremony are two things.—
Marcus Antoninus.

T do not love much ecremony ; suits in love
should not, like suits in law, be rocked from
term to term.—Siurley.

O ceremony, show me but thy worth! art
thou anght else but place, degree, and form,
ereating fear and awe in other men 7—

: Shakespeare.

As ceremony is the invention of wise men to
keep fools ata distance, so good breeding is an
expedient to make fools and wise men equals.—

Steele.

No ashes are lighter than those of incense,
and few things burn out sooner.—LZandor.

Everything that tends to emancipate us from |

external restraint without adding to our own

power of self-government is misehievous.—
Goethe.

- Ceremony is necessary as the outwork and
defence of manners.— Chesterfield.

Ceremony keeps up things ; it is like a peany
glass to a rich spirit, or some excellent water ;
without it the water were spilt, and the spirit
lost.— Selden.

There are ceremonious bows that throw you
to a greater distance than the wrong end of any
telescope.—Ruffini, .

CHANCE.

There is no doubt such a thing as chance,
but I see no reason why Providence should not
make use of it.— Simms.

Chance is a’ term we apply to events to de-
note that they happen without any necessary or
foreknown cause. When we say a thing hap-
pens by chance, we mean no more than that its
cause is unknown to us, and not, as some vain-
ly imagine, that chanee itself can be the cause
of anything.—C. Buck.

There are chords in the human heart —
strange varying strings — which are only struck
by accident; which will remain mute and sense-
less to appeals the most passionate and earnest,
and respond at last to the slightest casual touch.
In the most insensible or childish minds there
is some train of reflection which art can seldom
Yead or skill «assist, but which will reveal itself,
as great truths have done, by chance, and when
the discoverer has the plainest and simplest end
in view.—Dickens.

Chance is but the psendonyme of God for
those particular eases which he does not choose
to subseribe openly with his own sign-manual.—

Coleridge.

Surely no man can reflect, without wonder,
upon the vicissitudes of human life arising from
causes in the highest degree accidental and tri-
fling. If you trace the necessary concatenation
of human events a ‘very little way back, you
may perhaps discover that a person’s very going
in or ont of a door has been the means of color-
ing with misery or happiness the remaining cur-
rent of his life—Lord Greville.

The mines of knowledge are oft laid bare
through the forked hazel wand of chance.—
Tupper.
=
Chanee never writ a legible book ; chance
never built a fair house; chanee never drew a
neat picture; it never did any of these things,
nor ever will; nor can it be without absurdity
supposed able to do them; which yet arc works
yery gross and rude, very easy and feasible, as
it were, in comparison to the produetion of a
flower or a tree.— Burrow.
Chance corrects ns of many faults that rea-
son would not know how to correct.—
Rochefoucauld.

Chance is always powerful; let your hook
always be cast. Ina pool where yon Jeast ex-
péet it there will be a fish Ovid.

There is no such thing as chance; and what
scems to us merest aceident springs from the
deepest source of destiny.—Schiller.


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CHARACTER.

The generality of men have, like plants, la-
tent properties, which chance brings to light.—
Rochefoucauld.

Many shining actions owe their success to
chance thongh the ‘general or statesman ‘runs
away with the applause.—IZeny Lome.

Be not too presumptnously sure in-any busi-
ness for things of this world depend upon such
a train of nnseen chances that if it were in
man’s hands to set the tables, yet is he not cer-
tain to win the game.— George Lferbert.

How often‘events, by chance, and unexpect-
edly, come. to pass, which you had not dared
even to hope for ! —Terence.

CHANGE.
The world is a scene of changes, and to be
constant in nature were inconstancy. — Cowley.

We do not know cither unalloyed happiness
or unmitigated misfortune. Everything in this
world is a tangled yarn ; we taste nothing in its
purity, we do not remain two moments in the
sane state. Our affections, as well ‘as bodies,
are in a perpetual flux.—Rousseau.

What I possess I would gladly retain ;
change amuses the mind, yet scareely profits.—
- Goethe.

Naught may endure but mutability .—
. Shelley.
Perfection is immutable. But for things im-
perfect, change is the way to perfect them. It
-gets the name of wilfulness when it will not adinit
of a lawful change to the better. Therefore
constancy without knowledge cannot be always
good. Tn things ill itis not virtuc, but an abso-
Inte viec.—-Feltham.

In the same brook none ever bathed him
twice; to the same life none ever twice awoke.
Young.

All things human change.—Tennyson.

CHARACTER.

To know'a people’s character, we must see
it at its homes, and look chiefly.to the *humbler
abodes, where that portion of the people dwells
which makes the broad basis of the national
prosperity.—A‘ossuth,

There are beauties of character which, like
the night-blooming Cereus, are closed against
the ghire and turbulence of every-day life, and
bloom only in shade and solitude, and beneath
the quiet stars.— Tuckerman.

_ Should‘any man tell yon that a mountain
had changed its place, you are at liberty to
doubt it if you think fit; but if any one tells
you that a man has changed his character, do
not believe it—AZahomet. — ~ i

The craft with which the world is made runs
also into the mind and character of meu. No
man is qnite sane; each has & vein of folly in
his composition, a stight determination of blood
to the head, to make sure of holding him hard
to some one point which Nature las taken to
heart.— Emerson.

Character is very much a matter of health.—
Bovee.

Some characters are like some bodies in
chemistry ; very good, perhaps, in themselves,
yet fly off and refuse the least conjunction with
each other.—Lord Greville,

Actions, looks, words, steps, form the alpha-
bet by which you may spell character.—
. Lavater.

Character is always known. Thefts never
enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will
speak out of stone walls. The least ‘admixture
of ta lie — for example, the taint of vanity, any
attempt to make a good impression, a favorable
appearance — will instantly vitiate the effect.
But speak the truth, and all nature and all spir-
its help you with unexpected furtherance —

Emerson.

Circumstances form the character; but, like
petrifying matters, they harden while they
form.—Landor.

Instead of saying that man is the creature of
cireumstance, it would be nearer the mark to
say that man is the architect of circumstance.
It is character which builds an existence out
of circumstance. Our strength is measured by
onr plastic power. From the same materials
one man builds palaces, ‘another hovels; one
warehouses, another villas; bricks and mortar
are mortar and bricks, until the architect can
make them something else.—Carlyle.

Character is a perfectly educated will._—
. Novalis,

People of gloomy, uncheerful imaginations,
or of cnvions, malignant tempers, whatever
kind of life they‘are engaged in, will discover
their natural tincture of mind in all their
thoughts, words, ‘and ‘actions. As the finest
wines have often the taste of the soil, so even
the most religions thoughts often draw some-
thing that is particular from the constitution of
the mind in which they arise —<Addison.

All men are alike in their lower natures ; it
is m their higher characters that they differ —

Bovee.

Never get a reputation fora small perfection
if yon are trying for fame in a lofticr area, The
world can only judge by generals, and it sees
that those who pay considerable attention to
minuti« seldom pave their minds oceupicd with
great things.—Bulwer Lytton.


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CHARACTER.

The effect of characteris always to command
consideration. We sport and toy and langh
with men or women:who have none, but we
never confide in therm.— Simms.

Some men, like pictures, are fitter for a cor-
ner than a full light Seneca.

Duke Chartres used to boast that no man
conld have less real value for character than
himself, yet he wonld gladly give twenty thon-
sand pounds for a good one, because he conld
immediately make double that sum by means of
it.— Colton.

The great hope of society is individual char-
-acter.— Channing.

Ordinary people regard a man of a certain
force and inflexibility of character as they do a
lion. They look at him with a-sort of wonder,
perhaps they admire him; but they will on no
account house with him.—MWerkel.

Weakness of character is the only defect which
cannot be amended.—Kochefoucauld.

The two most precious things this side the
grave are our reputation and our life. But it is
to be lamented that the moSt contemptible whis-
per may deprive us of the one, and the weakest
weapon of the other.— Colton.

Give me the character and I will forecast the
event. Character, it has in substance been said,
is “ victory organized.”—Bovee.

The only equitable manner, in my opinion,
of judging the character of a man is to exam-
ine if there are personal calenlations in his con-
duct; if there are not, we may blame his man-
ner of judging, but we are not the less bound to
esteem him.— Madame de Staél.

There are peculiar ways in men, which dis-
cover what they: are through the most subtle
feints and close disguises.— Bruyere.

Aman is known to his dog by the smell,
to his tailor by the coat, to his friend by the
smile; each of these know. bim, but how little
or how much depends on the dignity of the in-
telligence. That which is truly and indeed
characteristic of the man is known only to God.

Ruskin.

It is a quick and soft touch of many strings,
all shutting up in one musical close ; it is wit’s
descant on any plain song.—Sir 7. Overbury.

We are sometimes as different from ourselves
as we are from others.— Rochefoucauld.

Exch man forms his duty according to his
predominant characteristic ; the stern require an
‘avenging judge ; the gentle, a forgiving father.
Just so the pygmies declared that Jove himself
was a pygmy.—Bulwer Lytton.

Characters never change. Opinions alter, —
characters are only developed.—Disraeli.

A good character is, in all cases, the fruit of
personal exertion. It is not inherited from par-
ents, itis not created by external advantages,
it 1s no necessary appendage of birth, wealth,
talents, or station; but it is the result of one’s
own endeavors.—iawes.

Best men are moulded out of fanlts.—
Shakespeare.

Joy and grief decide character. What ex-
alts prosperity? what imbitters grief? what
leaves us indifferent? what interests ns? As
the interest of man, so his God,—‘s his God,
so he.—Lavater.

This is that which we call character, — a re-
served force which acts directly by presence, and
without means.—Lmerson.

We should not he too hasty in bestowing
either our praise or censure on mankind, since
we shall often find snch a mixture of good and
evil in the same character, that it may require a
yery accurate judginent-and a very elaborate in-
quiry to determine on which side the balance
turns.— Fielding.

What is the true test of character, unless it
be its progressive development in the bustle and
turmoil, in the action and reaction, of daily
life 1 — Goethe.

We must have a weak spot or two in a char-
acter before we can love it much. People that do
not laugh or cry, or take more of anything than
is good for them, or use anything but dictionary
words, ‘are admirable subjects for biographies.
But we don’t always care most for those flat-
pattern flowers that press best in the herbarium.

Holmes.

The most brilliant qualities become useless
when they are not sustained by force of charac-
ter.—Ségur>

Character is the spiritual body of the person,
and represents the individualization of vital ex-
perience, the conversion of unconscious things
into selfeonscious men.— Whipple.

Every man has in himself.a contment of un-
discovered character. Happy is he. who acts the
Columbus to his own soul.—Sir J. Stephens.

A man’s character is the reality of himself; his
reputation, the opinion others have formed
about him; character resides in him, reputa-
tion in other people; that is the substance, this
is the shadow.— Beecher.

Gross and obscene natures, however decorat-
ed, seem impure shambles; but character gives
splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled ‘skin
and gray hairs.—Zmerson.


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CHARACTER.

Fine natures are like fine pocms ; a glance at
the first. two lines suffices for a-guess into the
beauty that waits you if you read on.—

Bulwer Lytton.

It is an error common to many to take the
character of mankind from the worst and basest
amongst them; whereas, as an excellent writer
has observed, nothing should be. esteemed as
characteristieal of a species but what is to be
found amongst the best and the most perfect in-
dividuals of that species. —F ielding.

The niost striking characters are sometimes
the product of an infinity of little accidents.—
Danton.

Tt is a common error, of which a-wise man
will beware, to measure the worth of our neigh-
hor by his condnet towards ourselves. How
many rich souls might we not rejoice in the
knowledge of, were it not for our’pride !—

Richter.

Character is a wish for a perfect education.—
Novalis.

The noblest contribution which any man
ean make for the benefit of posterity is that of a
good character. The richest bequest which any
man can leaye to the yonth of his native Jand
is that of a shining, spotless example.—

Winthrop.

Strong characters are brought out by change
of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.—
Richter.

Only what we have wrought into our char-
acter during life can we take away with ns.—
Withelm von Humboldt.

‘Most natnres are insolyent; cannot ‘satisfy
their own wants, have an:ambition out ofall
proportion to their practical force, and so do
Jean and beg day and night continually.—

Emerson.

Character, like poreelain ware, must be
printed before it is glazed. There can be no
change after it is burned in.—Beecher.

Character is what nature has engraven in
ns; can we then efluce it ?— Voltaire.

Remedy your deficiencies, and your merits
will take care of themselves. Every man has
in him good and evil. lis good is his valiant
army, his evil is-his corrupt commissariat; re-
form the commissariat, and the-army will do its
duty.—Bulwer Lytton.

Certain trifling flaws sit as dixgracefully on
a character of clerrance asa rageed button on'a
court dress.—Lavater. .

The fine tints and flnent cnrves which con-
stitute beauty of character.—Bulcer Lytton.

It is amusing to detect character in. the vo-
eabulary of cach person. The adjectives habit-
nally used, like the inseriptions on a thermome-
ter, indicate the temperament. Zuckerman.

Say not you know another entirely till you
have divided an inheritance with him.—
Lavater.

Itis not what a man gets, but what a. man
is, that he should think of. Te should first
think of his character, and then of his condi-
tion. He that has character need have no fears
about his condition. Character will draw after
it condition. Circumstances obey principles.—

eecher.

As yonr enemies and your friends, so :are
you.—Lavater.

Talents are nurtured best in solitude, but
character on life’s tempestuons sea.— Goethe.

The amiable and the severe, Mr. Burke’s
sublime‘and beautiful, by different proportions,
are mixed in every character. Accordingly, as
either is predominant, men imprint the passions
of love or fuar. The best punch depends on a
proper mixture of sugar and lemons.—

Shenstone.

Individual character is in the right that is
in strict consistence with itself. Self-contradic-
tion is the only wrong.—<Schiller.

A man, who shows no defect is'a fool or a
hypocrite, whom we should mistrust. There are
detects so bound to fine qualities that they an-
nounce them, — defects which it is well not to
correct.— Joubert.

The most accomplished persons haye usually
some defect, some weakness in their characters,
which diminishes the lustre of their brighter qual-
itications.—Juntus.

Your disposition will be suitable to that
which you most frequently think on; for the
soul is, as it were, tinged with the color and
complexion of its own thoughts.— .

Mareus Antoninus.

A man’s character is like his shadow, which
sometimes follows and sometimes precedes him,
and which ts occasionally louger, occasionally
shorter, than hé ts.—

Madame de la Rochejaquelein.

Those who quit their proper character to as-
sume.what does not belong to them are, for the
greater part, ignorant both of the ¢
they leave and of the character they assnme.—

Burke.

A German writer observes: “The noblest
characters only show themselves in their real
light. All others act comedy with their fellow-
mien even unto the grave.” —Lady Blessington.


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CHARITY.

As every lord giveth a certain livery to
his servants, charity is the very livery of Christ.
Our Saviour, who is the Lord above all lords,
would have his servants known by their badge,
which is love.—Zatimer,

How white are the fair robes of Charity, as
she walketh amid the lowly habitations of the
poor !—HHosea Ballou,

The Shepherds led the Pilgrims to Mount
Charity, where they showed them a man that
had a bundle of cloth lying before him, out of
which he cut coats and garments for the poor
that stood about him; yet his bundle or roll of
cloth was never the less. ‘Then said they, “ What
should this be?” “ This is,” said the Shepherds,
* to show you, that he who has a heart to give of
his labor to the poor shall never want where-

withal. ‘He that watereth shall be watered
himself’? And the cake that the widow gave

to the prophet did not cause that she had the
less in her barrel.”—-Bunyan.

The heart of a girl is like a eonvent, — the
holier the cloister, the more charitable the door.
Bulwer Lytton.

To complain that life has no joys while
there iy a single creature whom we ean relieve
by our bounty, assist by our counsels, or enliven
by our presence, is to lament the loss of that
which we possess,-and is just-as irrational as to
die of thirst with the cup in our hands.—

Fitzosborne.

Charity is an eterna] debt, and without
limit.—Pasquier Quesnel.

Tf there be a pleasure on earth which angels
cannot enjoy, and whieh they might almost

envy man the possession of, it is the power of

yelieving distress, —if there be a pain which
devils might pity man for enduring, it is the
death-bed reflection that we have possessed the
power of doing good, but that we have abused
and perverted it to purposes of ill.—Colton.

That eomes too late that comes for the ask-
ing. —Seneca.

Nothing truly can be termed mine own but
what I make mine own by using well. Those
deeds of charity which we have done shall stay
forever with us; and that wealth which we
have so bestowed we only keep; the other is not
ours.—Afiddleton,

It is good to be charitable; but to whom ?
That is the point. As to the ungroteful, there
is not one who does not at last die miserable.
—La Fontuine.

Heaven he their resouree who have no other
but the charity of the world, the stock of which,
1 fear, is no way sufficient for the many great
claims which are hourly made upon it—Sterne.

Charity, though enjoined by the Christian
law, and the law of nature itself, is withal so
pleasant that if any duty can be said to be its
own reward, or to pay us while we dre diseharg-
ing it, it is this — Die ding.

A woman who wants a charitable heart
wants a pure mind.—Huliburton.

The spirit of the world encloses four kinds
of spirits, diametrically opposed to eharity, —
the spirit of resentment, spirit of aversion,
spirit of jealousy, and the spirit of indifference.—

Bossuet.

But when thou doest alms, let not thy left
hand know what thy right hand doeth.—Bible.

Thave mneh more confidenee in the eharity
which begins in the home and diverges into a
large humanity, than in the world-wide _phi-
Janthropy whieh begins at the outside of our
horizon to converge into egotism.—

‘Mrs. Jameson.

Charity is the seope of all God’s commands.
St. Chrysostom.

When I die, I should be ashamed to leave
enongh to build me a monument if there were
a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy
the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive
and seeing another enjoy it—-Dope.

It is fruition, and not possession, that ren-
ders us happy.—JlLontaigne.

Posthumous charities are the very essenee
of selfishness, when bequeathed by those who,
when alive, would part with nothing.— Colton.

Though we may sometimes unintentionally
bestow our beneficenee on the unworthy, it does
not take from the merit of the act. For eharity
doth not adopt the vices of its objects.—

Fielding.

True charity is not methodical, and scarcely
jndicions, so ‘to speak, but is liable to exeesses
and transports.—ALassillon.

Be not frightened at the hard words “im-

position,” “imposture” ; give, and ask no ques-

tions. Cast thy bread upon the waters. Some
y .

have, unawares, entertained angels—Lamb. -

True charity is spontaneons and finds its own
occasion ; it is never the offspring of importuni-
ty, nor of emulation.—fosea Ballou.

I would have none of that rigid, eireumspeet
charity which is never done without serutiny,
and which always mistrusts the truth of the
necessities laid open to it—AZassilfon.

Our possessions are wholly in our perform-
ances. He owes nothing to whom the world
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CHARITY,

It is an old saying, that charity begins at
home; but this is no ‘reason it should not go
snbroad. A man should live with the*world i
citizen of the world; he may have a preference
fur the particular quarter or square, or even
alley, in which he ves, but he should have a
yenerons feeling for the weltare of the whole.—

Cumberland,

Charity, — gently to hear, kindly to judge.
. ~ F Shakespeure,

Beneficence is a duty. We who frequently
practises it, and sees his benevolent intentions
realized, at length comes really to love him to
whom he has ‘done good.— Nant.

Four charity shall cover the multitude of
sins. — Bille.

Charity is that rational and constant affec-
tion which makes us sacrifice ourselves to the
human race, as if we were united with it, so as
to forin one individual, partaking equally in its
adversity and prosperity. —Confuctus.

Large charity doth never soil, but only
whitens soft white hands.—Zovell.

A man_ should fear when he enjoys only
what goud he does publicly. Is it not the pub-
licity, rather than the charity, that he loves 7—

. - Beecher.

The charities of life are scattered crery-
where, enamelling the vales of human beings
as the flowers paint the meadows. They-are
not-the frnit of study, nor the privilege of refine-
ment, but a natural instinet.—Baucroft.

Charity resembleth fire, which inflameth all
things it toucheth.—Lrasmus.

There is no dearth of charity in the world in
giving, bnt there is compuratively little exer-
cised in thinking and speaking.—

Sir P. Sidney.

Be charitable and indulgent to every one but
vourself.— Joubert.

Proportion thy charity to the strength of
thy estate, lest God proportion thy estate to the
weakness of thy charity; let the lips of the
poor be the-trumpet of thy gift, lest in seeking
applanse, thou Jose thy reward. Nothing is
more pleasing to God than an open hand and
a close mouth.— Quarles.

A rich min without charity is-a rogue; and
perhaps it wonld be no diffienle matter to prove
that he is-also a fool.—fielding.

Thave no respect for that sclf-boasting char-
ity which neglects all objects of commiseration
near and around it, but goes to the end of the
earth in scarch of misery, for the purpose of
talking about it—Geurge Jfason.

Our trne acquisitions lie only in our char-
ities. We gain only as we give. ‘There is- no
beggar so destitute as he who canaflord nothing
to hig neighbor.—Simms,

My poor are my best patients. God pays
for thern.— Bourhuave.

We should give as we-would receive, cheer-
fully, quickly, nnd withont hesitation ; for there
is no grace in-a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

Seneca,

That charity is bad which takes from inde-
pendence its proper pride, from mendicity its
salutary shame.—Southey.

Flatter not thyself in thy faith to God, if
thou wantest charity for thy neighbor; and
think not thou hast charity for thy neighbor, if
thou wantest faith to God; where they.are not
both together, they are both wanting; they are
both dead, if once divided. —Quarles.

The seerct pleasure of a generons act is the
great mind’s great bribe.—Dryden.

T thank Heaven I have often had it in my
power to give help-and_relief, and this is still
my greatest pleasure If I could choose my
sphere of action now, it would be that of the
most simple and direct eflorts of this kind.—

: . Niebuhr.

In giving of thy-alms, inquire not so much
into the person, as his necessity. God looks not
so much upon the merits of him that requires,
as into the manner of him that relieves; if the
man deserve not, thon hast given it to humanity.

Quarles.

You must have'a genius for charity as well
as for anything ‘else. As for doing good, that
is one of the professions which are full—

Thoreau.

In all other human gifts and passions,
though they advance nature, yet they are sub-
ject to excess; but charity alone admits no
excess. For so we see, by aspiring to be like
God in power the“angels traisgressed and fell ;
by aspiring to be like God in knowledge man
transgressed and fell; but by aspiring to be like
God in goodness or love neither man nor angel
ever did or shall transgress. “For unte “that
initation we-ure called.—Bacoa.

And learn the Inxury of doing good.—
Goldsmith.

He who bas never denied himself for the
suke of giving has but glanced at the joys of
charity. We owe our superfluity, and to be
happy in the performance of our duty we must
exceed it.—Madame Swetchine.

Wherever the tree of beneficence takes root,
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CHEERFULNESS.

The last, hest fruit which comes to late per-| CHASTITY.

fection, even in the kindliest soul, is tenderness
toward the hard, forbearance toward the unfor-
bearing, warmth of heart toward the cold, phi-
lanthropy toward the misanthropic.—Richter.

Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou
shalt find it after many days. — Bible.

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity
envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not
puffed up, doth not behave. itself unseemly,
secketh not her own, is not easily provoked,
thinketh no evil; rejoiceth not in iniquity, but

rejoiceth in the truth ; beareth all things, believ-
ethsall things, hopeth all things, endureth all
things.—Bible.

Charity is that swect-smelling savor of Jesus
Christ which vanishes -and is extinguished
from the moment that it is exposed.—

Massillon.

Active bencficence is a virtue of easier prac-
tice than furbearance after having conferred, or |
than thankfulness after having received, a bene-
fit. I know not, indeed, whether it be a greater
and more difficult exercise of magnanimity, for
the one party to act as if he had forgotten, or
for the other as if he constantly remembered, the
obligation.— Canning

There can be no Christianity where there is
no eharity.— Colton.

It is with charity as with money, —the
more we stand in ueced of it, the less we have to
give away.—Dovee.

Shut not thy purse-strings always against
ainted distress. Act a charity sometimes.
When a poor creature (outwardly and visibly
such) comes before thee, do not stay to inquire
whether the “seven small children,” in whose
name he implores thy assistance, have a verita-
ble existence. Rake not into the bowels of
unwelcome truth to save a halfpenny. It is
good to believe him.—Zamb.

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these
three ; but the greatest of these is charity.—
Bible.

The charities that soothe and heal and
bless are scattered at the feet of man like
flowers.— Wordsworth.

I will chide no breather in the world but
myself; against whom I know most faults.—

Not the mountain ice, congealed to erystals,
is so frosty chaste as thy victorious soul, which
conquers man and man’s proud tyrant-pas-
sion.—Dryden.

Nothing makes a woman more esteemed by
the opposite sex than chastity; whether it be
that we always prize those most who are hard-
est to come at, or that nothing besides chastity,
with its collateral attendants, truth, fidelity, and
constancy, gives the man a property in the per-
son he loves, and consequently endears her to
him above all things.—sddison.

Chastity, once lost, cannot be reealled; it
goes only once.— Ovid.

A pure mind in a chaste body is the mother
of wisdom and deliberation, sober counsels and
ingenuous actions, open deportment and sweet
earriage, sincere principles and unprejndicate
understanding, love of God and sclf-denial,
peace and confidence, holy prayers and spiritual
comfort, and sa pleasure of spirit infinitely
greater than the sottish pleasure of unchastity.

Jeremy Taylor.

He comes too near that comes to be denied.
Str Thomas Overbury.

There needs not strength to be added to
inviolate chastity; the excellency of the mind
makes the body impregnable.—Sir P. Sidney.

Of chastity, the ornaments are chaste.
Shakespeare.

Chaste as the icicle that is curdied by the
frost from purest snow, and hangs on Dian’s
temple.— Shakespeare.

The woman that deliberates is lost.—

Addison.

Chaster than crystal on the Scythian cliffs,
the more the proud winds court it, still the
purer.— Beaumont.

.A man defines his standing at the court of
chastity by his views of women. Ie eannot be
any man’s friend nor his own if not hers.—

Alcott.

CAEERFULNESS.
I had rather have a fool to make me merry
than experience to make me sad.—Shakespeare.

If good people would but make their good-
ness agreeable, and smile instead of frowning in

Shakespeare. | their virtue, how many would they win to the

Charity ever finds in the: act reward, and
needs no trumpet in the receiver.—

good cause! —Arehbishop Usher.

The most manifest sign of wisdom is con-

Beaumont and Fletcher. 1-tinued cheerfulness.—Aontaigne.

We are rich only through what we give, and
poor only through what we refuse,—
Madame Swetchine.

If the soul be happily disposed, everything

'beeomes capable of affording entertainment, and.

distress will almost want a name. Goldsmith.


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CHEERFULNESS.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning that breaks
through a gloom of clouds<aud glitters for a
moment. Cheerfulness keeps up a daylight in
the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual
serenity.—Johison.

Tf there is‘a virtue in the worldtat which we
should always aim, it is cheerfulness.—
Bulwer Lytton.

The lightsome countenance of a friend giveth
such an inward decking to the house where it
lodgeth, ns proudest palaces have cause to envy
the gilding. —Sir P. Sidney.

The industrious bee does not stop to com-
plain that there are so many poisonous flowers
and thorny branches in his road, but buzzes on,
selecting the honey where he can find it, and

assing quictly by the places where it is not.
There is cnough in this world,to complain about
and find fault with, if men have the disposition,
We often travel on a hard and uneven road ;
but with a cheerful spirit, and a heart to praise {
God for his: mercies, we may walk therein with
comfort, and come tothe end of our journey in
peace.— Dewey.

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound
of sadness to serve God with.—udler.

Cheerfulness is a friend to grace, it puts the
heart in tune to praise God. Uncheerful Chris-
tians, like the spies, bring an evil report on the
good land; others suspect there is something
unpleasant in religion, that they who profess it
hang their harps upon the willows and walk so
dejectedly. Be serions, yet cheerful. Rejoice
in the Lord always.—Rev. T. Watson.

I have always preferred cheerfulness to
mirth. The latter I consider as an art, the for-
mer as a habit of mind, Mirth is short and

transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent.—
Addison.

The burden becomes light which is cheerful-
ly borne.— Ovid.

True joy is a serene and sober motion, and
they are miserably out that take laughing for;

Let ine play the fool; with mirth and laugh-
ter let old) wrinkles come ;aud let my liver
rather heat with wine thun my heart cool with
mortifying groans. Why should a man whose
blood is warin within sit like lis grandsire cut
in alabaster, sleep when -he wakes, and creep
into thejaundice by being peevish !— Shakespeare.

The tind that is cheerful iu its present state
will be averse to all solicitude us to the future,
and will inect the’ bitter occnrreices of life with
a smile.—Jforace.

Cheerful looks make every dish a feast, and
it is that which crowns a welcome.—lMassinger.

A cheerful- temper spreads like the dawn,
and all vapors disperse before it. Even the tear
dries on the cheek, and the sigh sinks away
half-breathed when the eye of benignity beams
upon the unhappy.—Jane Porter.

To be free-ninded and cheerfully disposed
at hours of meat and slecp and of exercise is
one of the best precepts of long lasting. —Bacon.

A light heart lives long. —Shakespeare.

I live in a constant endeavor to fence against
the infirmities, of iH-health, and other evils of
life, by mirth; being finnly persuaded that
every time a man siniles, but much more when
he laughs, it adds something to his fragment of
life. —Sterne.

Cheerfutness is health ; the opposite, melan-
choly, is disease.—ZHuliburton.

Thave observed that in comedies the best
actor plays the droll, while some scrub rogue is
made the fine gentleman or hero. ‘Thins it is in
the farce of life. Wise men spend their time in
mirth ; it is only fools whe are serious.—

Bolingbroke.

A merry heart docth good like a medicine ;
but a broken spirit drieth the bones.—Bible.

Cheerfulness is always to be kept up if 2
man is ont of pain; but mirth, to a ‘prudent
‘man, should always be accidental. It should

rejoicing ; the.seat of it is.within, and there is | natnrally arise out of the occasion, and the oc-
no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave casion seldom be laid for it.—Steele.

mind.—Senecu.

To be happy, the passions must be cheerfut

The cheerful live longest in life, and after} and gay, not gloomy and melancholy. A pro-

it, in our regards.
of goodness.— Bovee.

Be thou of good cheer.—-Dible.

Cheerfulness is the offshoot | ponsity.to. hope and joy is real riches; one to

fear and sorrow, real poverty.—//ume.

You find yourself refreshed by the presence
of cheerful people. Why not mike carnest

The habit of looking on the best side of} effort to confer that pleasure on others? You
every event is worth more than a thousand {will find half the battle is gained if you never

pounds a year.—/olinson.

Youth will never live to ‘age unless they
keep themselves in breath with exercise, and in
heart with joyfulness.—Sir P. Sidney.

‘allow yourself to say anything gloumy.—

The creed of the true-saint is to make the
best of life, and make the most of it-—Chapin.

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CHEERFULNESS.

J cannot tell how much I esteem and admire
your good and happy temperament.

CHILDREN.

Thave told you of the Spaniard who always

What | put on’ his spectacles when about to eat cherries,

folly not to take advantage of circumstances, / that they might look bigger and more tempting.

and enjoy gratefully the consolations which God
sends us after the afflictive dispensations which
he sometinies sees proper to make uy feel |
scems to me to be a proof of great wisdom to
submit with resignation to the storm, and enjoy
the calm when it pleases him to give it us again.
. Madame de Séeigné.

God is glorified, not by our groans, but our
thanksgivings ; and all good thought.and good
action claim a natural alliance with good cheer.

Whipple.

Give us, O give us, the man who sings at his
work! Be his occupation-what it may, he is
equal to any of those who follow the same pur-
suit in silent sullenness. He will do more in
the saine time, — he will do it better, — he will
persevere longer. One is scarcely sensible of
fatigue whilst he marches to music. The-very
stars are said to make harmony as they revolve
in their spheres. Wondrous is the strength of
cheerfitIness, altogether past calenlation its
powers of endurance. Efforts, to be permanent-
ly useful, must be uniformly joyous,—a spirit
all sunshine, — graceful from very gladness, —
beautiful Leeause bright.— Carlyle.

A cheerful, easy, open countenance will
make fools think you a good-natured man, and
make designing men think you an undesigning
one. Chesterfield.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health.
Repinings and murmutings of the heart give
iuiperceptible strokes to those delicate fibres of
which the vital parts are composed, and wear
out the machine. Cheerfulness is as friendly to
the mind as to the body.—Addison.

There seem to be some persons, the favorites
of fortune and darlings of nature, who are born
cheerful. “A star danced” at their birth. | It
is uo superficial visibility, but a bountiful and
beneficent soul that sparkles in their eyes and
smiles on their lips. Their inborn geniality
amounts to genius, — the rare and dificult
genius which creates sweet and wholesome char-
acter, and radiates cheer.— Whipple.

What can the Creator see with greater
pleasure than a happy creature ?1—Lessing.

Cheerfulness is just as 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, unwholesome food, im-
properly severe labor, or erring habits of life-—

Ruskin,

Cheerfulness bears the same friendly regard
to the mind as to the body; it banishes al} anx-
jous care and discontent, soothes and composes
the passions and keeps them in a perpetual
calm.—Addison.

|

In like manner I make the most of my enjoy-

jments; and though I do not cast my eyes
It j away from my trouble’, I pack them in as little

compass‘as I can for myself, and never let them
annoy others.—Southey.

When Goethe says that in every human con-
dition foes lie in wait for us, “invincible only
by cheerfulness and equanimity,” he does not
mean that we can at all times be really cheerful,
or at a ioment’s notice; but that the endeavor
to look at the better side of things will produce
the habit, and that this habit is the surest safe-
guard against the danger of sudden evils.—

Leigh Hunt.

Every human soul has the germ of some
flowers within; and they would open if they
could only find sunshine and free air to expand
in. Talways told you that uot having enough of
sunshine was what ailed the world. Make pco-
ple happy, and there will uot be half the quar-
relling or a tenth part of the wickedness there
is—Ifrs. L. M. Child.

Cheerfulness ought to be the viuticum vite
of their life to the old; age withont cheerful-
ness is a Lapland winter without a sun.—

7 Colton.

Nothing will supply the want of sunshine to
peaches, and, to make knowledge valuable, you
must have the cheerfulness of wisdom. When-
ever yon are sincerely pleased you are nour-

ished. The joy of the spirit indicates its
strength. All healthy things ‘are sweet-tem-
pered. Genius works in sport, and goodness

smiles to the last.—£'merson.

A cheerful temper, joined with innocence,
will make beauty attractive, knowledge delight-
ful, aud wit good-natured. It will lighten sick-
ness, poverty, and:affliction, convert ignorance
into an amiable simplicity, and render deformity
itself agreeable.—Addison.

CHILDREN.

No man can tell but he that loves his chil-
dren how many delicions accents make a man’s
heart dance in the pretty conversation of those
dear pledges— Jeremy Taylor.

Children have more need of models than of
critics. —Joubert.

Am infallible way to make your child_miser-
able is to satisfy all his demands. Passion
swells by gratification ; -and the impossibility of
satisfying every one of his demands will oblige
you to stop short at last, after he has become a
little headstrong.—Henry Home.

I love these little people; and it is not a
slight thing when they, who are so fresh from
God, love us.—Dickens.


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7 CHILDREN.

Children generally hate to be idle; «all the
eare then is that their busy hnmor should be
constantly employedin something of use to
them.—Locke.

The whining schoolboy, with his satchel and
shining morning face, creeping like snai] unwill-
ingly to school.— Shakespeare.

Happy season of childhood! Kind Natnre,
that art to all-é bonntiful mother; that -visitest
the poor man’s hut with auroral radiance; and
for thy nursling hast provided a soft swathing
of love.and infinite hope wherein he waxes and
slumbers, danced round by sweetest dreams !—

Carlyle.

Childhood is the sleep of reason .—Rousseau.

The child’s grief throbs. against the round of
its little heart as heavilj?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 en-
terprise or soaring on the wings of fame.—

Chapin.

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant
children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with
them ?—Epictetus.

Beware of fatigning them by ill-jndged ex-
actness. If virtue offer itself to a child under‘a
melancholy and- constrained, aspect, if liberty
and license present themselves nnder an agree-
able form, all is lost, your labor is in vain.—

Fenelon.

Children have neither past nor future; and,
what seareely ever happens to us, they enjoy the
present.— Bruyére.

The least and most.impereeptible impres-
sions received in our infancy, have consequences
yery important, and of a long duration. It is
with these first impressions, as with a river
whose waters we can casily turn, by different
canals, in quite opposite courses, so that, from
the insensible direction the stream receives at
its sonrce, it takes different directions, and at
last arrives at places far distant from cach other ;
and with the same facility we may, I think, turn
the minds of children to what direction we
please.—Locke.

Living jevels

dropped unstained from
heaven.— Pollok.

If I were to choose among all gifts and
qualities that which, on the whole, makes life
leasantest, I should select the love of children.
o circumstance can render this world wholly a

solitude to one who has this possession.—
© DT. AW. Higginson.

Children sweeten labors, but they make mis-
fortunes more bitter; they inerease the cares of

A creatnre undefiled by the taint of the
world, unyexed hy its injustice, unwearied by
its hollow pleasures; a being fresh from the
source of light, with something of its universal
lustre in it. Tf childhood he this, how holy the
duty to see that in its onward growth it shall be
no other ! —Douglas Jerrold.

Your little child is your only true democrat.
Mrs. Stowe.

Children are very nice observers, and they
will often perecive your slightest defects. In
general, those who govern children forgive
nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

Fenelon,

T know that a sweet child is the sweetest
thing in nature, not even excepting the delicate
creatures which bear them ; but the prettier the
kind of a thing is, the more desirable it is that
it should be pretty of its kind. One daisy dif-
fers not much from another in glory; but a
violet shonld look,and smell the daintiest.—

Lamb.

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard
words bruise the heart of a child.—Long/ellow.

It always grieves me to contemplate the in-
itiation of children into the ways of life when
they are scarcely more than infants. It checks
their confidence and simplicity, two of the best
qualities that Heaven gives them, and demands
that they share our sorrows before they are
capable of entering into our enjoyments.—

Dickens.

Lhardly know so melancholy a reflection as
that parents are necessarily the sole directors of
the management of children, whether they have
or have not judgment, penetration, or taste to
perform .the task.—Lord Greville.

In bringing up a child, think of its old age.
Joubert.

Bring together all the children of the uni-
verse, you will see nothing in them but inno-
eence} gentleness, and fear; were they born
wicked, spiteful, and crucl, some signs of it
would come from them; as little snakes strive
to bite, and little tigers to tear. But nature
having been as sparing of offensive weapons to
man as to pigeons and rabbits, it cannot have
given them an instinct to mischief«and destruc-
tion.— Foltaire.

Blessed he the hand that prepares a pleas-
ure for‘a child, for there is no saying when and
where it may bloom forth_— Douglas Jerrold.

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 ont of

of life, but they mitigate the remembrance of | a woman is God’s noblest work ;:a woman made

death.—Bacon.

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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 gener-
ous hoy ? —Thackeray.

4 child is an angel dependent on man.—
Count de AMuistre.

When a child can be brought to tears, not
from. fear of punishment, but trom repentance
for his offence, he needs no chastisement. When
the tears begin to flow from grief at one’s own
conduct, be sure there is an angel nestling in
the hosom.—Horace Mann.

Happy child! the cradle is still to thee a
vast space; become a man, and the boundless
world will be too small to thee — Schiller.

A child’s eyes, those clear wells of undefiled
thought, — what on earth can be more beautiful 4
Full of hope, love, and curiosity, they meet your
own. In prayer, how earnest; in joy, how
sparkling ; in sympathy, how tender! The man
who never tried the companionship of a little
child has carelessly passed by one of the great
pleasures of life,-as one passes a-rare flower
without plucking it or knowing its yalne.—

Mrs. Norton.

That season of childhood, when the soul, on
the rainbow bridge of fancy, glides along, dry-
shod, over the walls and ditehes of this lower
earth.— Richter.

Children are the to-morrow of society.—
Whately.

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, sea-
son him; such as thou makest him, such com-
monly shalt thon find him. Let his first lesson
be obedience, and his second shall be what thou
wilt.— Quarles.

Childhood, who like an April morn appears,
sunshine and rain, hopes clouded o’er with fears.
Churchill.

Be ever gentle with the children God has
given you; watch over them constantly ; reprove
them earnestly, but not in anger. In the forei-
ble language of Scripture, “Be not bitter
against them.” “Yes, they are good boys,”
T once heard a kind father say. “ Italk to them
very much, but do not like to beat my children,
— the-world will beat them.” It was a beauti-
ful thought, though not elegantly expressed.—

‘ Elihu Burritt.

Onr children that die young are like those
spring bulbs which have their flowers prepared
beforehand, and leave nothing to do but to
break ground, and blossom, and pass away.
Thank God for spring flowers among men, as

8 CHILDREN.

T 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
schoolmistresses in the universe.—H. A, White.

A man looketh on his little one as a being
of better hope; in himself ambition is dead, but
it hath a resurrection in lis sou.—Tupper.

A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded.
Byron.

Above all things endeavor to breed them up
in the love of virtue, and that holy plain way
of it which we have lived in, that the world in
no part of it get into my family. I had rather
they were homely than fincly bred as to out-
ward behavior; yet I love sweetness mixed with
gravity,' and cheerfulness tempered with so-
briety.— William Penn.

Childhood shows the man, 23 morning shows
the day.—Jfiiton.

Truly there is nothing in the world so
blessed or so sweet as the heritage of children.—
Mrs, Oliphant.

Children are the hands by which we take
hold of heaven. By these tendrils we clasp it
and climb thitherward. And why do we think
that we are separated from them? We never
half knew them, nor in this world conld.—

- Beecher.

Call not that man wretched who, whatever
ills he suffers, has child to love.—Southey.

In trying to teach children a great deal in
a short time, they are treated uot as though the
race they were to run was for life, but simply a
three-mile heat.—Horace Mann.

I have often thonght what a melancholy
world this-would be without children, and what
an inhuman world without the aged.— Coleridge.

God sends children for another purpose than
merely to keep up the race,—to enlarge our
hearts, to make us unselfish, and full of kindly
sympathies and affections; to give our souls
higher aims, and to call out all our faculties
to extended enterprise and exertion; to bring
round our fireside bright faces and happy smiles,
and loving, tender hearts. My sou: blesses the
Great Father every day, that he has gladdened
the earth with little children. —Mary Howitt.

Children will grow up substantially what

they are by nature, — and only that.— ’
y y y Dfrs. Stowe.

The children of the poor are so apt to look
as if the rich would have been over-blest with
such! Alas for the angel capabilities, inter-
rapted so soon with care, and with after life so

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CHRIST.

A child is man in a small letter, yet the best
copy of Adum before he ‘tasted of Eve or the
apple; and he is happy whose small practice in
the world can only write his character. His
soul is yet a white. paper unseribbled -with
observations of the world, wherewith at length
it_ becomes a blurred uote-book. He is purely
Happy beeanse he knows no evil, nor hath made
means by sin to be acquainted with misery.—

: Bishop Earle.

In praising or loving a child, we love ‘and
praise not that which is, but that which we hope
‘or.— Goethe.

Just as the twig is bent the tree is inclined.
Pope.

While childhood, and while dreams, redn-
eing childhood, shall be left, imagination shall
not have spread her holy wings totally to fly the
earth.—Lamb.

Call not-that man wretched, who whatever
else he suffers as to pain inflicted, or pleasure
denied, has a child for whom he hopes and on
whom he doats.—Coleridge.

The plays of natural lively children are the
infancy of art. Children live in a world of
imagination and fecling. They invest the most
insignificant object with any form they please,
-and see in it whatever they wish to see.—

Oehlenschléger.

“Beware,” said Lavater, “of him who hates
the laugh of a child.” “TI love God and little
children,” was the simple yet sublime sentiment
of Richter.—frs. Sigourney

What gift has Providence bestowed on man
that is so dear to him as his children ?—Creero.

The child is father of the man.— Wordsworth.

Of all sights which can soften and humanize
the heart of men, there is none that ought so
surely to reach it as that of innocent children,
enjoying the happiness which is their proper
and natural portion.— Southey

Is the world all grown up? Is childhood
dead? Or is there not in the bosom of the wisest
and the best some of the child’s heart left, to
respond to its earliest enchantments ?—Zambd.

Many children, many cares; no children, no
felicity.—Bovee. ;

A child’s existence is a bright, soft element
of joy, out of which, as in Prospero’s Island,
wonder after wonder bodies itself forth, to teach
by charming.—Hodaey.

We should amuse our evening hours of life
in cultivating. the tender plants, and bringing
them to perfection, before they are transplanted
to a happier clime.— Washington.

Every child walks into existence through
the golden gate of love.—Beecher.

A man shall see, where there is a house full
of children, one or two of the eldest restricted,
and the youngest ruined by indulgence; but in
the midst, some that are, as it wére, forgotten,
who many times, nevertheless, prove the best.—-

Bacon.

The training of children is a profession
where we must know to lose time in order to
gain it—Rousseau.

Children, like dogs, have so sharp.and fine
a scent, that they detect and hunt ont every-
thing, — the bad before all the rest. ‘Fhey also
know well enough how this or that friend
stands with their parents; and as they practise
no dissimulation whatever, they. serve as excel-
lent barometers by which to observe the degree
of favor or disfavor at which we stand with
their parents.— Goethe.

The starlight smile of children.—
Epes Sargent.

I can endure a melancholy man, but not

a melancholy child: the former, in whatever
slongh he may sink, can raise his eyes cither
to the kingdom of reason or of hope; but the
little child is entirely ahsorbed and weighed
down by one black poison-drop of the present.—
Alrs. Norton.

The scenes of childhood are the memories of
future years.—J. O. Choules.

Heaven lies about us in onr infancy.—
Wordsworth.

We should treat children as God does ns,
who makes ns happiest when he leaves us under
the influenee of innocent delusions. Goethe.

CHIVALRY.
The age of ehivalry has gone, and one of

ealeulators and economists has sueceeded.—
Burke.

Collision is as necessary to produce virtue in
men, as it is to elicit fire in inanimate matter ;
and chivalry is the essence of virtue.—

Lord John Russell.
CHOICE,

The measure of choosing well is whether a

man likes what he has chosen.—Zamb.

CHRIST.

The best of men that ever wore earth about
him was a sufferer, a s6ft, meek, patient, hum-
ble, tranquil spirit; the first trne -gentleman
that ever breathed.—Decker.

In his death he is a sacrifice, satisfying for
‘our sins; in the resurrection, a-conqueror; in
the ascension, a king; in the intercession, a
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CHRISTIANITY.

Men who neglect Christ, and try to win
heaven throngh moralitics, are like sailors at
sea in a storm, who pull, some at the bowsprit
and some at the mainmast, but never touch the
helm.— Beecher.

At his birth a star, unseen before in heaven,
proclaims him come.--DLilton

The nature of Christ’s existence is myste-
rious, I admit; but this mystery meets the wants
of man. Reject it, and the world is an inexph-
cable riddle; believe it, and the history of our
race is satisfactorily explained —Napoleon.

In him dwelleth all the fulness of the God-
head bodily. — Bible.

Unlike all other founders of a religions faith,
Christ had no selfishness, no desire of domi-
nance; and his system, unlike all other systems
of worship, was bloodless, houndlessly benefi-
cent, inexpressibly pure, and — most marvellous
of all—went to break all bonds of body and
soul, and to cast down every temporal and
every spiritual tyranny.— Wilkam Howitt.

All the glory and beauty of Christ are mani-
fested within, and there he delights to dwell;
his visits there are frequent, his condescension
amazing, his conversation sweet, his comforts
refreshing ; and the peace that he brings passeth
all understanding.— Thomas & Kempis.

Rejecting the miracles of Christ, we. still
have the miracle of Christ himself.—Bovee.

He walked in Judea eighteen hundred years
ago; his sphere melody, flowing in wild native
tones, took captive the ravished souls of men,
and, being of .a truth sphere melody, still flows
and sounds, though now .with thousand-fold
accompaniments and rich symphonies, through
all our hearts, and modulates and divinely leads
them.—Carlyle.

CHRISTIANITY. |
I do not want the walls of separation be-
tween different orders of Christians to be de-
stroyed, but only lowered, that we may shake
hands a little easier over them.—Rowland Hill.
Every Christian is born great because he is
born for heaven.—Afassillon.

It is more to the honor of a Christian sol-
dier by faith to overcome the world, than by a
monastical vow to retreat from it; and more for
the honor of Christ to serve him in a city than
to serve him in a cell.— Matthew Henry.

The relations of Christians to each other
are like the several flowers in a garden that
have upon each the dew of heaven, which,
being shaken by the wind, they let fall the dew
at each other’s roots, whereby they are jointly
nourished, and become nourishers of one anoth-
er.— Banyan.

Now yon say, alas! Christianity is hard; I
grant it; but gainful and happy. I contemn
the difficnlty when I respect the advantage.
The greatest labors that have answerable re-
quitals are less than the least that have no
regard. Believe me, when IJ look to the reward,
I would not have the wark easier. It is a good
Master whom we serve, who not only pays, but
gives; not after the proportion of our earnings,
but of his own mercy.— Bishop Hull.

Christianity has no ceremonial. It has
forms, for forms are essential to order; but it
disdains the folly of attempting to reinforce the
religion of the heart by the antics of the mind.—

Rev. Dr. Croly.

Alas! how has the social spirit of Chris-
tianity been perverted by fools at onc time, and
by knaves and bigots at another; by the self-
tormentors of the cell, and the all-tormentors of
the conclave !—Colton,

Ordinarily rivers run small at the beginning,
grow broader and broader as they proceed, and
become widest and deepest at the point where
they enter the sea. It is such rivers that the
Christian’s life is like. But the life of the mere
worldly man is like those rivers in Southern
Africa, which proceeding from mountain fresh-
ets, are broad and deep at the beginning, and
grow narrower and more shallow as they ad-
vance. They waste themselves by soaking into
the sands, and at last they die out entirely.
The farther they run, the less there is of them.

Beecher.

Christianity, which is always true to the
heart, knows no abstract virtues, but virtues
resulting from our wants,'and usefnl to all_—

Chateaubriand.

The real security of Christianity is to be
found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite
adaptation to the human heart, in the facility
with which its scheme accommodates itself to
the capacity of every human intellect, in the
consolation which it bears to every house of
mourning, in the light with which it brightens
the great mystery of the grave.—Afacaulay.

He that loves Christianity better than truth
will soon lave his own sect or party better than
Christianity, and will end by loving himself
better than all.—Coleridye.

As to the Christian religion, besides the
strong evidence which we have for it, there is a
balance in its favor from the number of great
men who haye been convinced of its truth after
a serious consideration of the question. Gro-
tins was an acute man, a lawyer, a man accus-
tomed to examine evidence, and he was con-
vinced. Grotius was not a recluse, but a man
of the world, who certainly had no bias on the
side of religion. Sir Isaac Newton set out an
infidel, and came to be a very firm believer.—

Johnson.


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CHURLISINESS.

Thongh the living man can wear a inask
and earry on deceit, the dying Christian caunot
counterfeit. —Cumberland,

'

Christianity commands us to pass by in-
juries; poliey, to let them pass by us.

Franklin.

A Christian in this world is but gold in they
ore ;.at.death the pnre gold is melted out. andl
separated, and the dross cast away -aud con-
smmned.—Flaved.

Christian graces are like perfumes; the
more they are pressed, the sweeter they smell:
like stars that shine brightest in the dark; like
trees, the more they are “shaken, the deeper root
they take, and the more frait they bear.—

Rev. Joka Mason.

Tle who is truly a good’ man is more than
half way to being a Christian, by whatever
name he is called. —Sowh.

Great books are written for Christianity
much oftencr than great deeds are done for it.
City libraries tell us of the reign of Jesus
Christ, bnt city “streets tell us of the * reign of
Satan.—Horace Mann.

The other world iss to this like the east to
the west. We cannot approach the one withont
tnrning away from the other.‘ bd-el-Aader.

If ever Christianity: appears in its power, it
is when it erects its (rophies npon the tomb ;
when it takes np its votaries where the world
leaves them ; and fills the breach with immortal
hope in dying moments.—Robert Hull.

In becoming Christians, thongh we love
some persons more than we did, “let us love
none less.—-Gambold.

Christianity is indeed peculiarly fitted to the
more improve stages of society, to the more
delicate sensibilities of refined minds, and es-
pecially to that dissatisfaction with the present
state which always grows with the growth of
our moral powers:and affections.— Channing.

I would give nothing for the Christianity of
a man whose very doz and cat were not the
better for his religion.—Roreland J7ill.

A Christianity which will not help those
who are strngeling from the hottom to the
top of society “needs another Christ to die for
it—Beecher.

A Christian is God Almighty’s gentleman.—
ITare.

Christ was vite magister, not sckole: and he
ts the best Christian whose heart bents with
the purest pulse tuwards heaven ; not he whose
head spinneth out the finest cobwebs,—

Cudworth
6

Christianity. has carried civilization .along
with it, whithersoever it has gone; aud, as if wo
show that the latter dees not depend on physical
some of the countries the most civilized
in the days of Augustas are now in aw state of
hopeless barbarisin.—J/are.

The Chnreh limits her sacramental services
to the faithful. Christ gave himself upon the
evoss, a ransom for all.—Pascad.

Onrs is a religion jealous in its demands, but
how infinitely prodigal in its gifts! Tt troubles
yon for an hour, it repays you by immortality —

Bulwer Lytton.
CHURCH.

Surely the church is a place where one day’s
truce onght to be‘allowed to the disseusions and
animosities of mankind.— Burke.

As in Noah’s ark there were the clean and
the unclean, raven and dove, leopard and kid,
the cruel lion with ‘the gentle lamb; so in the
Church of Christ on earth you wilt find the
same diversities and differences of human char-
acter.—Rev. Dr. Guthrie.

The way to preserve the peace of the Church
is to preserve the purity of it.—2fatthew LTenry.

The clearest window that ever was fash-
ioned, if it is barred by spiders’ webs, and ling
over with carcasses of insects, so that the. sun-
light has forgotten to find its way through, of
what use can it be? Now, the Chureh is “Go's
window; and if it is so obscured by errors that
its light is darkness, how great is that dark-
ness ! —Beecher.

The Church has a good stomach; she has
swallowed down whole countries, and has never
known a-surfeit; the Charch alone can digest
such ill-gotten wealth.— Goethe.

There onght to he such an atmosphere in
every” Christian church that a man going there
and sitting two hours should take the contagion
of heaven, and carry lime a fire to kindle” the
altar whence he came.— Beecher.

Mensay theirpinnacles point toheaven. Why,
<0 does ev ery tree that buds, and every bird that
rises as it sings. Men say their aisles are good
for worship. Why, so is every mountain “glen
and rough sea- shore. . But this they have of
distinct and indisputable glory, —that their
mighty walls were never raised, ‘and never shall
be, brit by men who love and aid each other in
their weakness.— Ruskin.

An [ have not forgotten what the inside of a
church is made of, Tanva peppercorn, a brewer's
horse. —Shakespeare.

CHURLISHNESS,

My master is of churtish disposition, and
little recks to find the way to heaven by doing
deeds of hospitality —Shakespeare.


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CITIES.

CIRCUMSTANCES.

He is happy whose cireumstances suit his
temper; but he is more excellent who can snit
his temper to any cireumstances.—Zume.

Men ‘are the sport of circumstances, when
the cirenmstanees seem the sport of nen.—

Byron.

When the Gauls laid waste Rome, they
found the senators clothed in their robes, and
seated in stern tranquillity in their eurule chairs ;
in this manner they suffered death without re-
sistance or supplication. Such conduct was in
them applauded as noble and magnanimous; in
the hapless Indians it was reviled as both obsti-
nate and sullen. How truly are we the dupes
of show and cirenmstances! How different is
virtue, clothed in purple and enthroned in state,
from virtue, naked and destitute, and perishing
obseurcly in a wilderness.— Washington Irving.

Circumstances ! I make cireumstances.—
Napoleon.

It is our relation to cireumstances that
determines their influence upon us. The same
wind that carries one vessel into port may blow
another off shore.—Bovee.

CITIES,

The nnion of men in large masses is indis-
pensable to the development and rapid growth
of the higher faeulties of men. Cities have al-
ways been the fireplaces of civilization whence
light and heat radiated out into the dark, cold
world.— Theodore Parker.

If you suppress the exorbitant love of pleas-
ure and money, idle curiosity, iniquitons pur-
suits and wanton mirth, what a stillness would
there be in the greatest cities ! —Bruyere.

The city an epitome of the social world.
All the belts of civilization intersect along its
avenues. It contains the products of every
moral zone. It is cosmopolitan, not only in a
national, but a spiritual sense.—Chapin.

Cities force growth, and make men talkative
and entertaining, but they make them artificial.
Emerson.

The most delicate beauty in the mind of
women is, and ever must be, an independenee
of artificial stimul:nts for content. It is not so
with men. The links that bind men to capitals
belong to the golden chain of civilization, — the
chain which fastens all our destinies to the
throne of Jove. And henee the larger propor-
tion of men in whom genins is pre-eminent have
preferred to live in cities, thongh some of
them have bequeathed to us the loveliest pte-
tures of the rural scenes in whieh they declined
to dwell.— Bulwer Lytton.

Jf you would know and not be known, live
in a city.—Colton.

‘wonder at thé rest.

The number of objects we see from living in

a large city amnses the mind like a perpetual
raree-show, without supplying it with any ideas.
ffazlitt.

There is such a difference between the pur-
suits of nen in great cities that one part of the
inhabitants lives to little other purpose than to
° Some have hopes and
fears, wishes and aversions, which never euter
into the thoughts of others; and inquiry is
laborionsly exerted to gain that which those
who possess it are ready to throw away.—

Johnson.

God the first garden made, and the first city
Cain.—Covley. :

J have fonnd by experience that they who
have spent all their lives in cities contract not
only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking.—

Goldsmith.

I bless God for cities. Cities have been as
lamps of life along the pathway of humanity
and religion. Within them science has .given
birth to her noblest discoveries. Behind their
walls freedom has fonght 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,
indeed, have been’ the cradles of human liberty.
They have been the active centres of almost all
ehureh and state reformation —Rev. Dr. Guthrie.

Men, by assoeiating in large masses, as in
camps and in 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 busi-
ness of the city so much competition, so much
rivalry, so much necessity for industry, that I
think it is a perpetual, chronie, wholesale viola-
tion of natural law. There are ten men that
can suecced in the conntry, where there is one
that can succeed in the city.—Beecher.

Great towns are but-a large sort of prison to
the soul, like cages to birds, or pounds to beasts,
Charron.

Onr large trading cities bear to me very
nearly the aspeet of monastic establishments in
which the roar of the mill-wheet and the crane
takes the place of other devotional music,-and
in which the worship of Mammon and Moloch
is eondueted with a tender reverenee and an ex-
act propriety ; the merchant rising to his Mam-
mon matins with the self-denial of an anchorite,
and expiating the frivolities into which he
may be beguiled in the conrse of the day by
late attendance at Mammon vespers-—-Rushin.

Like Melrose Abbey, large cities should es-
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COMFORT.

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.
CIVILIZATION. .

The ultimate tendency of civilization is to-

wards barbarism.— Hare.

Such is the diligence with which, in coun-
tries completely civilized, one part of mankind
labor for another, that wants are snpplicd faster
than they can be formed, and the idle. and Juxu-
rious find fife stagnate for want of ‘some desire
to keep itin.motion. This species of distress
furnishes a new’ set‘of occupations ; and multi-
tudes are busied from day to day in finding the
rich and the fortunate something to do.—

: . Johnson.

_ 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.

A semi-civilized state of society, equally re-
moved from the extremes of barbarity and of re-
finement, seems to be that particular meridian
under which‘all the reciprocities and gratuities
of hoSpitality do most really flourish and
abound. For it so happens that the ease, the
luxnry, and the abundance of the highest state
of civilization are: as productive of selfishness
as the difficultics, the privations, and the sterili-
ties of the lowest.— Colton.

Ever since there has been so great a demand
for type, there has been mnch tess lead to spare
for cannon-balls.— Bulwer Lytton.

There is often no material difference between
the enjoyment of the highest rankstand those of
the rudest’ stages of society. If the life of many
young English noblemen, and an Iriquois in
the forest, or an Arab in the desert are com-
pared, it will be found that their reat sources
of happiness are nearly the same.— ©

Sir A. Alison.
CLEANLINESS.

Let thy mind’s sweetness have its operation

upon thy body, clothes, and habitation.—
~ ~ George Herbert.

“+

So great is the effect of cleanliness upon
man, that it extends even to his moral charac-
ter. Virtne never dwelt long with filth; nor
do I helieve there ever was a person scrupulons-
ly attentive to cleanliness who was a consum-
mate villain.—Runford.

_ Even from the hody’s purity the mind re-
ceives a secret sympathetic ajd.— Thomson.

Beauty commonly prodnees love, but clean-
Hiness preserves it. Age itself is not unamiable
while it is preserved clean-and unsullied ; like.a
picee of metal constantly kept smooth and

right, we look on it with more pleasnre than
on a new vessel cankered with rust.—Addison.

Cortainly this is a duty, not asin, “ Clean-
liness is indeed next to godliness.”—

John Wesley.
CLEMENCY.

Clemency, which we make .2. virtue of, pro-
ceeds sometimes trom vanity, sometimes from
indolence, often from fear, and almost always
from a mixture of all three —Rochefoucanld.

In general, indulgence for those we know
is rarer than pity for those we know not.—
Rivarol.

No attribnte so well befits the exalted scat
supreme, and power’s disposing hand, as clem-
ency. Hach crime must from its quality be
judged ; and pity there should interpose, where
malice is not the aggressor.— Sir William Jones.

CLOUDS.

Those playful fancies of the mighty sky.
Albert Smith.

That looked as though an angel in his np-
ward flight had left his mantle floating in mid-
air.— Joanna Baillie. :

Was I deccived, or did:a sable clond turn
forth her silver ining on the night ?—Zilton.

COLOR.

Color is, in brief terms, the type of love.
Hence it is especially connected with the blos-
soming of the earth ; and again, with its fruits ;
also, with the spring: and fall of the leaf, and
with the morning and evening of the day, in
order to show the waiting of love ‘about the
birth and death of man.—Auskin.

COMFORT.

Of all the created comforts, God is the lend-
er; you are the borrower, not the owner.—
Rutherford.

It is a little thing to speak a phrase of com-
mon comfort, which by daily use has almost lost
its‘sense; yet on the ear of him who thonght to
die unmourned it will fall like choicest musie.—

Talfourd.

In the exhaustless catalogue of Heaven’s
mercies to mankind, the power we have of find-
ing some germs of comfort in the hardest trials
must ever occupy the foremost place; not only
hecause it supports ‘and upholds us when we
most require to be sustained, but becinse in
this source of consolation there is something,
we have reason to believe, of the Divine Spirit ;
something of that goodness which detects,
amidst our own evil doings, a redeeming quali-
ty ; something whieh, even in our fallen nature,
we possess in common with the angels ; which
had its being in the old time when they tred the
earth, and linger on it yet, in pity. —Liekens.

A beam of comfort, like the moon through
clouds, wilds the black horror, and directs my
way.—Dryden.


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COMPARISON

The comforts we enjoy here below are not
like the anchor in the bottom of the sea that j
holds fast in a storm, but like the flag upon
the top of the mast that turns with every wind.

Rev. Christopher Love.

J want a sofa, as I want a friend, upon
which I can repose familiarly. If you can’t
have intimate terms and freedom with one and
the other, they are of no good.—Thackeray.

Giving comfort under affliction requires that |
penetration into the hnman mind, joined to
that experience which knows how to soothe,
how to reason, -and how to ridieule; taking the
utmost care never to apply those arts improper-
ly.—fvelding. ‘
COMMANDER.

It is better to have 2 lion at the head of an
army of sheep than a sheep at the head of an
army of lions.—Le foe.

A brave captain is as a root, ont of which
(as branches) the courage of his soldiers doth
spring —Sir P. Sidney.

COMMERCE.
Commerce has made all winds her mistress.
Sterling.

Commerce, however we may please onrselves '
with the contrary opinion, is one of the daugh- |.
ters of fortune, inconstant and deceitful as her |
mother. She chooses her residence where she
is least expected, and shifts her abode when her
continuance is, in appearance, most firmly set-
tled.—.Johnson.

A well-regulated commerce is not, like law,
physic, or divinity, to be overstocked with
hands ; but, on the contrary, flourishes by mul-
titudes, and gives employment to all its pro-
fessors.-—Addison.

The first inventions of commerce are, like
those of all other arts, cunning and short-sight-
ed.—-Curran.

As soon as the commercial spirit acquires
vigor, and begins to gain an ascendant in any
socicty, we discern a new genius in its policy,
its alliances, its wars, and its negotiations. —

Dr. W. Robertson.

It may almost be held that the hope of
commercial gain has done nearly as much for
the cause of truth as even the love of truth.—

Bovee.

Nature seems to have taken a particular care
to disseminate her blessings:among the different
regions of the world, with an eye to their mu-
tual intercourse and traffic among mankind,
that the nations of the several parts of the globe
might have a kind of dependence npon one
another, and be united together by their com-
mon interest.—Addison.

The trident of Neptune is the seeptre of the
world.—Antoine Lemierre.

COMMON-=SENSE.

_ Common-sense has given to words their or-
dinary signification, and common-sense is the
genius of mankind.—Guizot.

Fine sense-and exalted sense-are not half as
useful as common-sense, There are forty men
of wit for one man of sense. And he that will
earry nothing about him but gold will be every
day at.a loss for readier change.—Pope.

_ _Common-sense is the average sensibility and
intelligence of men undisturbed by individnal
peculiarities. — IV. 2. Alger.

Common-sense, alas in spite of our educa-
tional institutions, is a rare commodity —Bovee.

To act with common-sense, according to the
moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the
best philosophy, to do one’s duties, take the
world as it comes, submit respectfully to one’s
lot, bless the goodness that has given us so
much happiness with it, whatever it is, and
despise attectation.—Lorace Walpole.

In most old communities there is ‘a common-
sense cven in sensuality. Vice itself gets grad-
ually digested into a system, is amenable to
certain laws of conventional propriety and
honor, has for its object simply the gratification
of its appetites, and frowns -with quite a con-
servative air on all new inventions, all uncricd
experiments in iniquity.— WAipple.

Common-sense punishes ‘all departnres from
her, by foreing those who rebel into a desperate
war with all faets and experience, and into a
still more terrible civil war with cach other and
with themselves.— Colton.

Commun-sense is nature’s gift, but reason is
an art.— Beattie.

Sydney Smith playfully says that common-
sense was invented by Socrates, that philosopher
haying been onc of its most conspicuous ex-
emplars in conducting the contest of practical
sagacity against stupid prejudice and illusory
beliefs. — }Vhipple.

Common-sense is only a modification of
talent. Genius is an exaltation of it; the dif-
ference is, therefore, in the degree, not nature.—

; Bulwer Lytton.
COMPARISON.

I Jove not mine own parallel.—

Barry Cornwall.

Yet why repinc? I have seen mansions on
the verge of Wales that convert my farm-house
into a Hampton Court, and where they speak
of a glazed window as a great picee of mag-
nificence. All things figure by comparison.—

Shenstone.


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5 COMPLACENCY.

The botanist looks upon the astronomer as
a-being unworthy of his regard; and he that
is growing great and happy by electrifying %
bottle wonders how the world ean be engaged
by trifling prattle about war and peace.—

Johnson.

The prowd are always most provoked by
pride.— Young.

When the moon shone, we did not see the
candle, so doth the greater glory dim the less;
a substitute shines brightly as a king, until a
king be by; and then his stateempties itself, as
doth an inland brook into the main of waters.—

Shakespeare.

COMPASSION,

Compassion to an offender who has grossly
violated the laws is, in effect, a cruelty to the
peaceable subject who has observed them.—

Junius,

Want of compassion (however inaccurate
observers have reported to the contrary) is not
to be numbered among the general faults of
mankind. The blick ingredient whieh fonls
our disposition is envy. Hence onr eyes, it is
to be feared, are seldom turned np to those who
are manifestly greater, better, wiser, or happicr
than onrselves, without some degree of malig-
nity, while we commonly look downward on
the mean and miserable with sufficient benev-
olence and pity —Feding.

It is the crown of justice, and the glory,
where it may kill with right, to save with pity.
Beaumont and Fletcher.

There never was any heart truly great and
generous that was not also tender and com-
passionate.—South.

Compassion is an emotion of which we
ought never to be ashamed. Graceful, partic-
ularly in youth, is the tear of sympathy, and
the heart that melts at the tale of woe. We
should not permit ease and indulgence to con-
tract our affections, and wrap us up in a selfish
enjoyment; but we shonld accustom ourselyes
to think of the distresses of human life, of the
solitary cottage, the dying parent, and the
weeping orphan. Nor ought we ever to sport
with pain and distress in any of our amuse-
ments, or treat even the meanest insect with
wanton cruelty.— Blair.

COMPENSATION, -
Tf the poor man cannot always get meat,

the rich man cannot always digest it.—
Henry Giles.

Where there is much general deformity
nature has often, perhaps generally, accorded
some one bodily grace even in over-measnre.
So, no doubt, with the intellect and disposition,
only it is frequently less apparent, and we give
ourselves but little trouble to discover it.—

J. F. Boyes.

There is'a-third silent party to all our bar-
gains. The nature and soul of things takes én
itself the guaranty of the fulfilment of every
contract, so that honest service cannot come to
loss. —'merson.

Nothing is pure and entire of a piece. All
advantages are attended with disadvantages.
A universal compensation prevails in all condi-
tions of being and-existence.—/Zume,

If I have lost ‘anything it was incidental ;
and the less money, the less trouble; the less
favor, theless envy, — nay, even in those cases
which put us out of our wits, itis not the loss
itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles
us.— Seneca.

Curses always recoil on the head of him who
imprecates them. If you put a chain around
the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself
around your own.—Jemerson.

As there is no worldly gain withont some
loss, so there is no worldly loss without some
gain. If thou hast lost thy wealth, thou hast
Yost some trouble with it; ifthon art degraded
from thy honor, thou art likewise freed from
the stroke of envy; if sickness hath blurred thy
beauty, it hath delivered thee from pride. Set
the allowance against the loss, and thou shalt
tind no Joss great; he loses Jittle or nothing
that reserves himself— Quarles,

Whatever difference may appear in the for-
tunes of mankind, there is, nevertheless, a cer
tain compensation of good and evil which
makes them equal.—Rochefoucauld.

The rose docs not bloom withont thorns.
True; but would that the thorns did not out-
live the rose !—Richter.

If poverty makes man groan, he yawns in
opulence. Wher fortune exempts us from
labor, nature overwhelins us with time.—
: Rivarol.

No evil is without its compensation.— Seneca.

Since we are exposed to inevitable sorrows,
wisdom is the art of finding compensation.—

- Levis.
COMPLACENCY.
Complaisance, though in itself it be scarce

reckoned in the number of moral virtues, is
that which gives a lustre to every talent a man
can be possessed of. It was Plato’s advice to
an unpolished writer that le should sacrifice to
the graces. In the same manner I would ad-
vise every man of lcarning, who wonld not
appear in the world«a mere scholar or philos-
opher, to make himself master of the social
yittue which I have here mentioned.— Addison.

Complaisance renders:a superior amiable, an

equal agrecable, nnd an inferior acceptable.—
Addison.


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CONCEIT.

Men edneate éach other in reason by contact

all the world can, for want of essential means, or collision, and keep each other sane by the

pay his club-bill in society.

Tt is necessary, |

very conflict of their separate hobbies. Society

finally, that it may lose nothing of its merits, to! asa whole is.the deadly enemy of the particular

associate judgment and prudence’ with it.—
. Voltaire.
COMPLAINING.
Complaint is the largest tribute heaven re-
ecives, and the sincerest part of our devotion.—

T have always despised the whining yelp of
complaint, and the cowardly feeble resolve.—
Burns.

The usnal fortune of complaint is to excite
contempt more than pity.—Johnson.

I will not be as those who spend the day in
complaining of headache, and the night in
drinking the wine that gives the headache.—

Goethe.

We lose the right of complaining. sometimes
by forbearing it; but we often treble the force.—
- Sterne.
COMPLIMENTS.
When two people compliment each other
with the choice of anything, each of them gen-
erally gets that which he likes least.—Pope.

Deference is the most complicate, the most
indirect, and the most elegant of all compli-
ments.—Shenstone.

Compliments of congratulation are always
kindly taken, and cost one nothing but pen, ink,
and paper. I consider them as drafts upon
good breeding, where the exchange is ‘always
greatly in favor of the drawer.— Chesterfield.

Compliments are only lies in court clothes.—
Sterling.

Though all compliments are lies, yet because
they are known to be such, nobody depends on
them, so there is no hurt in them; vou return
them in the same manner you receive them ;
yet it is best to make as few as oné can.—

Lady Gethin.
CONCEIT.

The miller imagines that the corn grows

only to make his mill turn.— Goethe.

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.—Riehter.

A man — poet, prophet, or whatever he may
be—readily persnades himself of his right to
all the worship that is voluntarily tendered.—

Hawthorne.

An eagerness and zeal for dispute on every
subject, and with every one, shows great self-
sufficiency, that never-failing sign of great self-
ignorance.—Lord Chatham.

{.crotchet of each, and solitude is almost the only -

condition in which the acorn of conceit can
grow to the oak of perfect self-delusion.—
Whipple.

Conceit is the most contemptible and one of
the most odious qualities in the world. It is
vanity driven from. all other shifts, and foreed
to appeal to itself for admiration.— Hazlitt.

_ Coneeit is to nature what paint is to beanty;
it is not only needless, but impairs what it
would improve.—Pope.

No wonder we are all more or less pleased
with mediocrity, since it leaves us at rest, and
gives the same comfortable feeling as when one
associates with his equals.— Goethe.

Conceit in weakest bodies strongest Works.—
Shakespeare.

They say it was Liston’s firm belief, that he
was a.great and neglected tragic actor; 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.—Thackeray:

Conceit is just as natural a thing to human
minds as a centre is to a circle. But little-
minded people’s thoughts move in such small
circles that five minutes’ conversation gives you
an are long enough to determine their whole
curve. An are in the movement of a large
intellect does not differ sensibly from’a straight
line—Holmes.

Conceit *and confidence are both of them
cheats ; the first always imposes on itself, the
second freqnently deceives others too.—

Zimmermann.

The certain way to be cheated is to fancy
one’s self more cunning than others.— Charron.

None are so seldom found alone, and are so
soon tired of their own company, as those cox-
combs who are on the best terms with them-
selves.— Colton. .

Nature descends down.to infinite smallness.
Great men have their parasites; and, if you
take a large buzzing blue-bottle fly, and look at
it in a microscope, you may sce twenty or
thirty little ugly insects erawling about it,
which, doubtless, think their fly to be the bluest,
grandest, merriest, most ‘important animal in
the universe, and are convinced the world
would be at an end if it ceased to buzz.—

Sydney Smith.

Strong conceit, like a new principle, carries
all easily with it, when yet above common-sense.
Locke.


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CONFIDENCE.

ss ee

There is more hope of a fool than of him
that is wise in his own conccit.— Bible.

Conceited men often seem a harmless kind
of men, who, by an overweening self-respect,
relieve others from the duty of respecting them
at all.—Beecher.

Be not wise in your own conccits.— Bible.

Onc whom the music of his own vain tongue
doth ravish like enchanting harmony.
. Shakespeare.

We judge of others for the most part hy
their good opinion of themselves; yet nothing
gives such offence, or creates so many. enemies,
as that extreme self-complacency or supercilions-
ness of manner, which appears to set the opinion
of every one else at defiance. —//uchitt.

Men are found to be vainer on account of
those qualities which they fondly believe they
have than of those which they really have.—

- Voiture.

No man was ever so much deceived by
another as by himselfi— Lord Greville.

Be not righteous overmnch.—Bible.

Man helieves himself always greater than he
is, and is esteemed Jess than he is worth.—
Goethe.

All affectation and display proceed from the
supposition of possessing something better than
the rest of the world possesses. Nobody is
vain of possessing two legs aud two arms;
because that is the precise quantity of cither
sort of limb which everybody possesses.—

Sydney Smith.

Every man, however little, makes a figure
in his own eyes.—Henry Home.

Talk abont conceit as mnch as you like, it
is to human. character what salt is to the ocean ;
it keeps ic sweet and renders it endurable. Say
rather it is like the natural ungnent of the sea-
fowl’s plumage, which enables him to shed the
rain that falls on him and the wave in which
he dips. When one has had all his conceit
taken ont of him, when he has Tost all his illu
sions, his feathers will soon soak through, and
he will fly no more.—Z/folmes.

Tt is the admirer, of himsclf, and not the
admirer of virtue, that thinks himself superior
to others. —Pluarch.

Conceited people are never without a-certain
-degree of harmless satisfaction wherewith to
flavor the waters of life—JMJademe Deluzy.

How wise are we in thonelt! how weak in
practice! our very virtue, Rke our will, is—
nothing.— Shirley.

Dangerous conceits dre in thelr nature poi-
sons, which at the first are searee found to dis-
taste, but wich a little act upon the blood, bum
like the mines of sulphnr.—Shakespeare.

There is scarcely nny man, haw much soever
he may despise the character of 2 flatterer, but
will condescend in the meanest manner to flat-
ter himself\—ftelding.

He who gives himself airs of importance
exhibits the credentials of impotence.—Lavatler.

The best of lessons, for a good many peo-
ple, wonld be to listen’ at a key-hole. Tt is*s
pity for such that the practice is dishonorable.

Madame Swetchine.

The more any one speaks of himself, the

less he likes to hear another talked of.—Luvater.

But the conceit of one’s self and the conceit
of one’s hobby are hardly more prolific of ec-
centricity than the conceit of one’s money.
avarice, the most lhatefnl and wolfish of all the
hard, cool, callons dispositions of selfishness,
has its own pecniiar caprices and crotchets.
The ingennities of its meanness defy all the cal-
culations of reason, and reach the miraculous
in subtlety.— Whipple.

The weakest spot in every man is where he
thinks himself to be the wisest.—Lmmons,

CONDUCT.
The integrity of men is to be measured by
their conduct, not by their professions.— Junius.

CONFESSION.

Why docs no man confess his vices? Be-
cause he ig yet in them ; it is for a waking man
to tell his dream.—Seneca.

If thon wouldst be justified, acknowledge
thy 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.— Quurles.

That conduct sometimes seems ridicnlous,
in the eyes of the world, the secret reasons for
which, may, in reality, be wise and solid.—

Rochkefoucauld.

CONFIDENCE.
Fields are won by those who believe in the
winning. —7. W. LLigginson.

All confidence which is not absolute and en-
tire is dangerous; there are few oceastons bat
where a man onght either to say all or conceal
all; for how little soever you have revealed of
your secret to a fricnd, you have already said
too mneh if you think it not safe to make him
privy to all particulars.—.7. Beawmont.

Ie who has lost confidence can lose nothing
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CONSCIENCE.

To confide, even though to be betrayed, is
much better than to tcarn only to eonceal. In
the one case, your neighbor wrongs you; but
in the other you are perpetually doing injustice
to yourself. Simms.

If we are truly prudent, we shall eherish,
despite occasional delusions, those noblest and
happiest of our tendencies, — to love and to con-
fide —Bulwer Lytton.

Never put much confidence in such as put
no confidence in others. A man prone to sus-
peet 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.—Jfare.

We may have the confidenee of another
without possessing his heart. If his heart be
ours, there is no need of revelation or of confi-
dence, — all is open to us—Du Cour,

A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its
greatest confidence in its lowest estate.—
Sir P. Sidney.

Where there is any good disposition, eonfi-
dence begets faithfulness ; but Uistrust, if it do
not produce treachery, never fails to destroy
every inclination to ‘evinee filelity. Most peo-
ple disdain to clear themselves frum the aecusa-
tions of mere suspicion.—Jane Porter.

Trust not him who hath once broken faith.
Shakespeare.

There is something captivating in spirit and
intrepidity, to which we often yield as to a ‘re-
sistless power; nor can he reasonably expect
the confidence of others who too apparently dis-
trusts himselfi— Hazlitt.

For they can conquer who believe they ean.
ryden.

Trust him little who praises all, him less
who censures all, and him least who is indiffer-
ent about all.—Lavater.

People have generally three epochs in their
confidence in man. In the first they believe
him to be everything that is good, and they
are lavish with their friendship and eonfidence.
In the next, they have had experience, which
las smitten down their confidence, and they
then have to be careful not to mistrust every
one, and to put the worst construction upon
everything. Later in life, they learn that the
greater number of inen have much more good
in them than bad, and that, even when there
is cause to blame, there is more reason to

ity than condemn; and then a spirit of con-
fidence again awakens within them.—
Fredvika Bremer.

Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an
aged bosom.— Johnson,

Let not the quietness of any man’s temper,
much less the confidence he has in thy honesty
and goodness, tempt thee to contrive any mis-
chief against him ; for the more seeurely he re-
lies on thy virtue, and the less mistrust he has
of any harm from thee, the greater wickedness
will it be to entertain even the thonght of doing
him an injury —Bishop Patrick.

Trust him with little ‘who, without proofs,
trusts you with everything, or, when he has
proved you, with nothing.—Lavater.

It is unjust and absurd of persons advan-
cing in years, to expect of the young that confi-
dence should come all and only on their side;
the human heart, at whatever age, opens only
to the heart that opens in return. .

Miss Edgeworth.

Confidence in eonversation has a greater
share than wit.—Rochefoucauld.

Confidence in another man’s virtue is no
slight evidence of a man’s own,—JLontaigne.

To reveal imprudently the spot where we are
most sensitive and vulnerable is to invite a
blow. The demi-god Achilles admitted no one
to his eonfidence.—Aladame Swetchine.

CONSCIENCE.
OQ conscience! _conseienee !
faithful friend.— Crabbe.

man’s most

What.a strange thing an old dead sin laid
away in a seerct drawer of the sonlis? Must
it some time or other be moistened with tears,
until i¢ comes to life again, and begins to stir in
our conscionsness, as the dry wheat-animalcule,
looking like a grain of dust, becomes alive if it

is wet with a drop of water 7—Holmes.

The conseience is more wise than science.—
Lavater.

I feel within me a peace above all earthly
dignities, a still-and quiet eonscience.—
Shakespeare.

The great chastisement of a knave is not to
be known, but to know himself—J. Petit Senn.

A palsy may as well shake an oak, or a
fever dry up a fountain, as either of them
shake, dry up, or impair the delight of eon-
science. For it lics within, it centres in the
heart, it grows into the very substance of the
soul, so that it accompanies a man to his
grave ; he never outlives it.—South.

What other dungeon fs so dark as one’s
own heart? What jailer so inexorable as one’s
self 1 —Hawthorne.

Ue that hath a scrupulous conscience is like
a horse that is not well weighed; he starts at
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CONSCIENCE.

The most reckless sinner against his own
conscience has always in the background the:
vonsolation that he wilt go on in this course
only this thne, or only so long, but that-at such
atime he will amend.—/vehte.

Be more eareful of your conscience than oft
yeur estate. The latecr can be bought and sold ;
‘he former never.—Jfosed Ballon.

God’s vieegerent in the soul.— Buchan.

Some persons follow the dictates of their
sonseience only in the same sense in which a
voachman may be'said to follow the horses he
is driving.— IVhately.

Tt is as bad to clip conscience as toclip coin ;
it is as bad togive a counterfeit statement-as ‘a-
counterfeit bill —Chapin.

Every man, however good he may be, has a
yet better. man dwelling in him, which is prop-
erly “himself, but to whom nevertheless hé is
often unfaithful. It is to this interior and less
mutable being that we should attach ourselves,
not to the changeable, every-day man.—

ne Wilhelm von Humboldt.

Man’s conscience is the oracle of God! —
Byron.

Better be with the dead, whom wé, to gain
our place, have sent to peace, than on the tor-
ture of the mind to lie in restless eestasy.~—

Shakespeare.

Conscience, what‘art thou? thou tremendous
power! who dost inhabit us withont our leave ;
and art within ourselves, another self— Young.

Rules of society are nothing, one’s con-
science is the umpire.— Madame Dudevant.

God, in his wrath, has not left this world to
the merey of the subtest dialectician ; and all
arguments are happily transitory in their ef-
fect when they contradict the primal intuitions
of conscicnce and the inborn sentiments of the
heart.— WaAipple,

If thou wouldst be informed what God has
written concerning thee in heaven, look mto
thine- own bosom, and sec what graces he hath
there wrought in thee.—Fudlers © > .

What exile from himself can flee ? —Byron.

Conscience is, -at onee, the sweetest and
most troublesome of guests. It is the voice
which demanded Abel of his brother, or that
celestial harmony which vibrated in the cars of
the martyrs, and soothed their sufferings —

‘Madame ‘Swetchine.

The voice of conscience is so delicate that it
is casy to stifle it; bnt itis also so clear that it
is impossible to mistake it.—.adame de Staél.

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CONSCIENCE.

It is a blushing, shame-faced: spirit, that mu-
-tinies ina man’s bosom; it fills one full of ob-
stacles; it made me once restore a purse of
gold that by chance I found; it beggars any
mau that keeps.it; it is turned ont of all towns
and cities fora dangerous thing; and every
man that means to live well endeavors to trust
to himself, and live without it. Shakespeare.

Conscience is merely our own judgment of
the moral reetitude or turpitude of our own ac-
tions.— Locke.

Man's first care-shonld be to avoid the re-
proaches of his own heart; his next, to escape
the censures of the world. If the last interferes
with the former, it aught to be entirely negleet-
ed; but otherwise there cannot be a greater sat-
isfaction to~an honest mind than to see those
approbations which it gives itself seconded by
the applanses of the public.—<Addiéson.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
Franklin.

A tender conscience is an inestimable bless-
ing; that is, a conscience not only quick to
discern what is evil, but instantly to shim it, as
the cyclid closes itself against the mote.—

Rev. N. Adams.

I believe that we canuot live better than in
secking to become better, nor more agreeably
than having a clear conscienee.—Socrates.

There is no college for the conscicree.—
~ Theodore Parker.

Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles ;
infected minds to their deaf pillows will dis-
charge their secrets. — Shakespeare.

The moral conscience is a truly primitive
faculty; it is a particular manner of feeling
which corresponds to the goodness of moral
actions, as taste is a manner of fecling which
corresponds to beauty. Love men, immolate
error.— St. Augustine.

O couseience, into what abyss of fears ‘and
horrors hast thon driven me, out of which I
find no way, from deep to deeper plunged.—

Milton.

A guilty conscience is Jike a whirlpool,
drawing in-all to itself which would otherwise
pass by. —Fuller.

A man’s own conscience is his sole tribunal,
and he should care no more for that phantom
“opinion ” than he should fear mecting a.ghoav
if he crossed the churchyard at dark.—

Bulwer Lytton.

Conscience is .a grent ledger book in which
all our offences ate written and registered, and
which time reveals to the senst ane feeling 0”
the oftender.— Burton.


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CONSCIENCE.

Conscience does make cowards of ns all.—
Shakespeare.

Preserve your conscience always soft and
sensitive. If but one sin force its way into
that tender part of the soul and dwell there,
the road is paved for a thousand iniqnities.—

. Watts.

Let us be thankful for health and compe-
tence, and, above all, for.2 quict conscience.—
Izaak Waiton.

We never do evil so thoroughly and heartily
as when led to it by an honest but perverted,
becanse mistaken conscience. —T. Edwards.

No man ever offended his own conscience
but first or last it was revenged npon him for it.
South.

Weare born to lose and to perish, to hope
and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and
there is no antidote against a common calamity
but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in
the conscience.— Seneca.

Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which
represents the errors of our lives in their full
shape.— Bancroft.

A quiet conscience makes one so serenc.—
Byron.

Our faults afflict us more than our good
deeds console. Pain is ever nppermost in the
conscience as in the heart.—iMadame Swetchine.

In the commission of evil, fear no man so
much as thyself; another is but one witness
against thee, thou art a thonsand; another
thou mayest avoid, “thyself thon canst not.
Wickedness is its own punishment.—- Quarles.

What a fool is he who locks his door to keep
ont spirits, who has in his own bosom a spirit
he dares not meet ‘alone; whose voice, smothered
fay down, and piled over with mountains of
earthliness, is yet like the forewarning trumpet
of doom !—Afrs. Stowe.

Conscience is the chamber of justice.—
Origen.

Even in the fiercest uproar of our stormy
passions, conscience, though in her softest whis-
pers, gives to the supremacy of rectitude the
voice ofan undying testimony.— Chalmers.

The pulse of reason.— Coleridge.

O the wound of couscience is no sear, and
time cools it not with his wing, but merely keeps
it open-with his scythe. —Hichter.

Conscience, that vicegerent of God in the hu-
man heart, whose “still small voice ” the loudest
revelry cannot drown.— IV. £7. Harrison.

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CONSCIENCE.

Remorse of conscience is like an old wound ;
aman is in no condition to fight under such
circumstances, ‘The pain abates his vigor and
takes np too much of his attention.—

Jeremy Collier.

The conscience is the inviolable asylum of
the liberty ‘of man.—Napoleon. ‘

A gocd conscience fears no witnesses, but a
guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitnde.
Jf we do nothing but what is honest, let all the
world know it; but if otherwise, what does it
signify to have nobosly else know it so iong as
1 know it myself? Miserable is he who slights
that witness ! —Seneca.

A man never ontlives his conscience, and
that, for this cause only, he cannot outlive him-
self.— South.

A good conscience is to the soul what health
is to the body; it preserves a constant ease
and serenity within us, and more than. counter-
yails all the calamities and afflictions which can
possibly befall us.—Addison.

Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.— Johnson.

Conscience signifies that knowledge which a
man hath of his own thoughts and actions; and
beeanse, if a man judgeth fairly of his actions
by comparing them with the law of God, his
mind will approve or condemn him ; this: knowl-
edge or conscience may be both an accuser and
a judge.— Swift.

Alas, that we should be so unwilling to lis-
ten to the still and holy yearnings cf the heart !
A god whist

pers quite softly in our breast, softly
yet audibly; telling us what we ought to seek
and what to shun.— Goethe.

‘Most men are afraid of a bad name, bnt few
fear their consciences.—Pliny.

It is 1 man’s own dishonesty, his crimes, his
wickedness, and boldness, that takes away from
him soundness of mind; these are the furies,
these the flames and firebrands, of the’ wicked.—

Cicero.

Conscience is a judge in every man’s breast,
which none ean cheat or corrupt, and perhaps
the only incorrupt thing about him ; yet, inflex-
ible and honest as this jndge is (however pollut-
ed the bench on which he sits), no man can, in
my opinion, enjoy any ‘applause which is not
there adjudged to be his due.—Felding,

The world will never be in any manner of
order or tranquility until men are firmly con-
vinced that conscience, honor, and credit are all
in one interest.— Steele.

There is no future pang can deal that jus-
tice on the self-condemned he deals on his own

| son). —Byron.


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CONSCIENCE.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that lit-
tlo spark of celestial tire called conscicnee.—
Washington.

A man, so to speak, who is not able to
bow to his own conscience every morning is
hardly in a condition to respectiully salute the
world-at any other time of the diy.—

Douglas Jerrold.

~A wonnded conscience is ‘Able to unparadise
paradise itself.—/uller.

There is one court whose. “ findings” are
incontrovertible, and whose ‘sessions are beld in
the chambers of our own breast.—Zfosea Ballou,

The good or ‘evil we confer on_ others very
often, I believe, recoils on ourselves; for as
men of a benign disposition enjoy their own
acts of benefieence equally with those to whom

‘they are done, so there are scarce any Natures

so entirely diabolical fas to be capable of doing
injuries without-paying themselves some pangs
for the ruin which they bring on their fellow-
ereatures.—ielding.

What we call conscience, in many instances,
is only a wholesome fear of the constable—
Bovee.

As the stag which the hnntsman has hit
flies through bush and brake, over stock and
stone, thereby exhansting his strength but not
expelling the deadly bullet from his body; so
does experience show that they who -have
troubled consciences run from place to place,
but carry with them wherever they -go their
dangerous wounds.— Gotthold.

Conscience is the living law, and honor is to
this law what piety is to religion. —Boufflers.

In matters of conscience first thoughts are
best ; in matters of prudence last thoughts-are
best.— Rev. Robert Hall.

A good conscience is never lawless in: the
Worst regulated state, and will provide those
laws for itself which the neglect of legislators
had forgotten to supply.—Lfteldiny.

There is no class of men so difficult to be
managed in aw State, as those whose intentions
are honest, but whose conscicnees are bewitched:

Napoleon.

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry
than it has with polities —Sheridan.

The impnise which directs to right conduct,
and deters from crime, is not only older than
the ages of nations and cities, but cocval with
that Divine.Being who sces and rules: both
heaven ‘and earth.— Cicero.

If you should escape the censure of others,
hope not to escape your own.— Zenry Home. |

Conscience is tho voice of the sonl, the pas-
sions are ‘the voice of the body. Is it ustunish-
ing that often these‘two languages contradict
cach other,.and then to which mast we listen 3
Tvo often reason deecives ns; we have only too
much acquired the right-of refusing to Hsten to
it; but conscience never deceives us; it is the
true guide of man; it is to man what instinet
is to the body, which follows it, obeys nature,
and never is afraid of going astray.—Ltousseau.

No infallible oracle out of the breast.—
Rev. Dr. Hedge.

Leave her to heaven, and to those thorns
that in her bosom lodge, to prick and sting her.
Shakespeure.

No outward tyranny can reach the mind.
If conscience plays the tyrant, it wonld be
greatly for the benefit of the world that she
were more arbitrary, and far less placable than
some men find her.—/unius.

Conscience warns us as a friend before it
punishes us as a judge.— Stanislaus.

We should have all our communications
with men, as in the presence of God; and with
God, as in the presence of men.— Colton.

Conscience and ecovetousness are never to
be reconciled; like fire and water they always
destroy each other, according to the predominan-
ey of the element.—Jeremy Collier.

Conteience is God's deputy in the soul.—
Rev. T. Adams.

Who has a heart so pure bnt some un-
cleanly apprehensions keep leets and law-days,
and in session sit with meditations awful? —

Shakespeare.

Iam more afraid of my own heart than of
the Pope and all his Cardinals. I have within
me the great pope, selfi—Luther.

Our conscience is a fire within us, and our
sins as the fnel; instead of warming, it wilt
scorch’ us, unless the firel. be removed, or the
heat of it allayed by penitential tears.—

Dr, Mason.

Man is naturally more desirons of a qnict
and approving, than of.a vigilant and tender
conscience, — more desirous of sceurity than of
safety.— Whately.

Conscience is ‘a: thousand swords.—
- Shakespeare.

Be fearful only of thyself, and stind in.awe
of none “more than of thine own conscience.
There is a-Cato inevery'man; a severe censor
of his manners. And he that reverences this
judge will seldom do anything he need repent
of.— Burton.



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CONSOLATION.

Conscience is justice’s best minister; it
threatens, promises, rewards, and punishes and
keeps all under its-control; the busy must at-
tend to its remonstranees, the most powerful
submit to its reproof, and the angry endure its
upbraidings. While conscience is our friend,
all is peace; but if onec offended, farewell the
tranquil mind.—Afary Wortley Montagu.

Conscience and wealth are not‘always neigh-
bors.—ALussinger.

Conseience, that boon companion who sets a
man free under the strong breastplate of inno-
cence, that bids him on and fear not.—Dante.

The great theatre for virtue is conseience.—
Cicero,

In the wildest anarchy of man’s insurgent
appetites and sins there is still a reclaiming
voice, —a voice which, even when in practice
disregarded, it is impossible not to own; and
to which, at the very moment that we refuse
our obedience, we find that we cannot refuse
the homage of what ourselves do fecl and ac-
knowledge to be the best, the highest principles
of our nature.— Chalmers. :

CONSERVATISM.

A conservative is a man who will not look
at the new moon, out of respect for that “ an-
cient institution,” the old one.—Douglas Jerrold.

We are reformers in spring and summor ;
in autumn and winter we stand by the old; re-
formers in the morning, conservers at night.
Reform is aflirmative, conservatism negative ;
conservatism goes for comfort, reform for truth.

Emerson.

A consorvative young man has wound up
his life before it was unrecled. We expect old
men to be conservative; but when a nation’s
young men are so, its funeral bell is -already
rung.—Beecher,

The conservative may elamor against re-
form, but he might as well clamor against the
centrifugal force. He sighs for the “ good old

times,” — he might as well wish the oak back |

into the acorn.— Chapin.

+ Conservatism is a very good thing; but
how many conservatives announce principles
which might have shocked Dick Turpin, or
nonsensicalities flat enongh to have raised con-
tempt in Jerry Sneak! — Whipple.

CONSISTENCY.

With. consisteney a great soul has simply
nothing to do. He may as well concern him-
self with his shalow on the wall.—Zmerson.

As flowers always wear their own colors and
give forth their own fragrance every day alike,
so should Christians maintain their eharacter at
all times‘and under all cirewnstances.— Beecher.

CONSOLATION.

One should never be very forward in offer-
ing spiritual consolations to those in distress.
These, to be of any service, must be self-evolved
in the first instance.— Coleridge.

Queen Elizabeth, in her hard, wise way,
writing to a mother who had lost her son, tells
her that she will be comforted in time; and
why should she not do for herself what the
mere lapse of time will do for her 4? —Bentley.

If-a man makes me keep my distanec, the
comfort is he keeps his own at the same time.—

Consolation, indiscreetly pressed upon us

when we are suffering under afiliction only
serves to increase our pain and to render our
igrief more poignant —Lousseau,

As the bosom of earth blooms again and
again, having buried out of sight the dead
leaves of autumn, and Joosed the frosty bands
of winter; so does the heart, in spite of all
that melancholy pocts write, feel many re-
newed springs and summers. It is a beautiful
and a blessed world we live in, and whilst that
life Jasts, to lose the enjoyment of it is a sin.—

A. W. Chambers.

In a healthy state of the organism all
wounds have a tendeney to heal.—
Madame Swetchine.

Nothing does so establish the mind amidst
the rollings and turbulence of present things,
as a lookeabove them and a look beyond then,
— above them, to the steady and good hand by
which they are ruled ; and beyond them, to the
sweet and beautiful end to which, by that hand,
they will be brought.—Jeremy Taylor.

God has commanded time to console the
unhappy.— Joubert.

Before an affliction is digested, consolation
ever comes too soon ; and after it is digested, it

comes too Jate; bnt there is a mark between
these two, as fine almost :as a hair, for a com-
forter to take-aim at.—Sterne.

For every bad there might be a worse ; and
when one breaks his leg, Jet him be thankful it
-was not his neck.—Bishop Hail.

Apt words have power to suage the tumors
of a troubled mind.—ALilion.

Whoever ean tnrn his weeping eyes to
heaven has lost nothing; for there above is
everything he can wish for here below. He
only is a loser who persists in Jooking down on
the narrow plains of the present time— Richter.

Consolation heals without contaet; some-
what like the blessed air which we need but to
breathe. —Madame Swetchine.


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CONSPIRACY 93 CONTEMPT.
CONSPIRACY. Contempt is not a thing to be despised. It

Combinations of wickedness would over-
whelm the world by ¢he advantage which licen-
tious principles afford, did not those who have
long practised pertidy grow faithless to cach
other.— Johnson.

Conspiracies no sooner should be formed
than executed.—A ddison.

Conspiracies, like thunder-clonds, shonid in
a moment form and strike like lightning, ere
the sonnd is heard.—John Dow.

CONSTANCY.
As the faithful soldier never leaves his eamp
without the leave or command of his captain,
so the good man, placed in this world in sch a
position as God pleases, never seeks to stir or
leave it without the permission of his chiefi—
Amayot.

O Heaven! Were man but constant, he
were perfect. —Shakespeare.

The business of constancy chiefly is bravely
tostand to, and stoutly to suffer those incon-
venicnces which are not otherwise possible to be
avoided.—aontaigne.

Constancy is a saint without a worshipper.
Boufflers.

I mnst confess there is something in the
ehangeableness and inconstancy of hnman na-
ture that very often both dejects and terrifies
me. Whatever I am at present, I tremble to
think what I may be. While T find this princi-
ple in me, how can I assure myself that { shall
¢ always true to my God, my friend, or my-
self. In short, without constancy there is nei-
ther love, friendship, nor virtue in the world.—

Addison.

The constancy of the wise is only the art of
keeping disquietude to one’s self.—Rochefoucauld.

I am constant as the northem star, of whose
true-fixed and resting quality there is no fellow
in the firmament.—Shakespeare.

CONTEMPLATION.
In order to improve the mind, we ought
less to learn than to contemplate.—Descartes.

There is a sweet pleasure in contemplation ;
all others grow flat and insipid upon frequent
use; and when aman hath rin through a set
of vanities, in the declension of his age he
knows not what to do with himself if he cannot
think.—Sir TOP. Blount.

CONTEMPT.
None but the contemptible are apprehensive
of contempt.—Rochefoucauld.

Contempt is the only way to triumph over
ealumny.—Jfadame de ALaintenon.

may be borne with ncalm ‘and equal inind, but
no man, by lifting his head high, can pretend
that he does not perceive the scorns thit' are
poured down upon hint from above.—Burke.

Contempt is a kind of gangrene, which, if it
seizes one part of a character, corrupts all the
rest by degrees. — Johnson.

Speak with contempt of no man. Every
one hath a tender sense of reputation. And
every man hath a sting, which he may, if pro-
voked too far, dart gut.at one time or other,—

Burton.

It is very often more necessary to conccal
contempt than resentment, the former being
never forgiven, but the latter sometimes forgot.

Chesterfield.

Contempt is frequently regulated by fashion.
Zimmermann.

I have unlearned contempt; it is a sin that
is engendered earliest in the soul, and doth be-
set it likea poison worm feeding on all its beauty.
Wilkes.

Contempt naturally implies a man’s esteem-
ing of himself greater than the person whom he
contemns; he therefore that slights, that con-
temns an affront is properly superior to it;
and he conquers an injnry who conqners his re-
sentments of it. Socrates, being kicked by an
ass, did not think it « revenge proper for Soc-
rates to kick theass again.— South.

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 —Fabbi Ben Azat.

Contempt of others is the truest symptom of
a base and bad heart, — while it suggests itself
to the mean and the vile, and tickles their little
fancy on every occasion, it never enters the
great and good mind bnt on the strongest mo-
tives ; noris it then a welcome guest, — aflording
only an uneasy sensation, and bringing:always
with it a mixture of concern‘and compassion.—
. Fielding.

He who feels contempt for'any living thing
hath faculties that he hath never used, and
thought with him is in its infancy. — Wordsworth.

Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt
never is. Onr pride remembers it-forever. a
implies a discovery of weaknesses, which we are
much more careful -to. conceal than crimes.
Many a man will confess his crimes to a com-
mon friend, but I never knew a man who would
tell his silly weaknesses to his most intimate
one.— Chesterfield.

0, what 2 deal of scorn looks beautiful in
thecontempt and anger of his lip! —Shakespeare.


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CONTENTMENT

The basest and meanest of al] human beings
are generally the most forward to despise others.
So that the most contemptible are gencrally the
most contemptuous.—/%elding.

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 Chapin.

CONTENTMENT.
Contentment is natural wealth; Inxury, ar-
tificial poverty.— Socrates.

The fonntain of content must spring up in
the mind; and he who has so little knowledge
of human nature as to seck happiness by chang-
ing anything but his own disposition will
waste his life in fruitless efforts,'and multiply
the griefs which he proposes to remove.—

Johnson.

One who is contented with what he has done
will never become farnous for what he will do.
He has lain down to die. The grass is already
growing over him,—Bovee.

There is scaree any lot so low, but there is
something in it to satisfy the man whom it has
befallen ; Providence having so ordered things
that in every man’s cup, how bitter soever,
there are some cordial drops, — some good cir-
cumstances, which, if wisely extracted, are suf-
ficient for the purpose he wants them, — that is,
‘to make him contented, -and, if not happy, -at
least resigned.— Sterne. .

Tearn that I eat, get that I wear; owe no
man hate, envy no man's happiness; glad of
other men’s good, content with my harnn.—

Shakespeare.

I say to thee be thou satisfied. It is record-
ed of the hares that with a general consent they
went to drown themselves out of a. feeling of
their misery ; but when they saw a company of
frogs more fearful than they were, they began
to take courage and comfort again. Confer
thine estate with others.— Burton.

None is poor bnt the mean im mind, the
timorous, the weak,~and unbelieving; none is
wealthy bat the affluent in soul, who is satis-
fied and floweth over.— Tupper.

My God, give me neither poverty nor-riches ;
but whatsoever it may be thy will to give, give
me with it a heart which knows humbly to ac-
quiesce in what is thy will— Gotthold.

If men knew what felicity dwells in the cot-
tage of a godly man, how sonnd he sleeps, how
qnict his rest, how composed his mind, how free
from care, how easy his position, how moist his
mouth, how joyful his heart, they would never
admire the noises, the diseascs, the throngs of
passions, and the violence of unnatural ap-
petites.that fill the house of the luxurious and
the heart’of the ambitious.—Jeremy Taylor.

The chief secret of comfort lies in not suffer-
ing trifles to vex us, and in prudeutly culti-
vating our undergrowth of small pleasures,
since very few great ones, alas! are let on long
Teases.— Sharp.

__Withont content, we shall find it almost as
difficult to please others as ourselves.—
Lord Greville.

There is some help for. all the defects of
fortune; for, if-a man cannot attain to the
length of his wishes, he may have his remedy
by entting of them shorter.— Cowley.

For no chance is evil to him who is content,
and to-a man nothing is miserable unless it is
unreasonable. No man can make another man
to be his slave unless he hath first enslaved him-
self to life'and death. No pleasure or pain, to
hope or fear ; command these passions, and you
are freer than the Parthian kings.—

Jeremy Taylor.

The highest point outward things can bring
mnto, is the contentment of the mind; with
which no estate ean be poor without which all
estates will be miserable.—Sir P. Sidney.

Tf two angels were sent down from heaven, —
one to condnet an empire, and the other to
sweep a street, — they would feel no inclination
to change employments.—John Newton.

Onr content is our best having —
Shakespeare.

Learn to.be pleased with everything, with
wealth so far as it makes us beneficial to
others; with poverty, for not having much to
care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.

Plutarch.

It is right to be contented with what we
have, but never with what we are.—
"Sir James Mackintosh,

Trne contentment depends not upon What
we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes,
but a world was too little for Alexiander.— Colton.

The point of aim for our vigilance to hold
in view is to dwell upon the brightest parts in
every prospect, to call off the thonghts when
running upon disagreeable objects,tand strive
to be pleased swith the present cirenmstances
surrounding us.—Rev. J. Tucker.

Contentment produces, in some measnre, all
those effects which the alchemist usnally 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 for them.—

, Addison.

T have often said that all.the unhappiness of
men comes from not knowing -how to remain
quiet in a chamber.—Pascal.


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CONTRAST.

If we are at peace with God-and our own
conscience, what cnemy among men need we
fear ? ~—LHosea Bullou.

Enjoy your own fife without comparing it
with that of another.— Condorcet.

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough ;
but riches, fineless, is as poor as winter to him
that ever fears he shall be poor. Shakespeare.

That is true plenty, nat to have, but not to
want riches.—St. Chrysostom.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a
man can enjoy in this world; and if in the
present life his happiness arises from the subdu-
ing of his desires, it will arise in the next from
the gratitication of them.+-Addison.

Content is to the mind like moss to a tree;
it bindeth it up so.as to stop its growth.—
Halifax.

“What you demand is here, or at Ulubree.”
You traverse the world in search of happiness,
which is within: the reach of every man; a con-
tented inind confers it on all.—Horace.  ~

We can console ourselves for not having
great talents as we console ourselves for not
having great places. ‘We can be above both in
our hearts.— Vauvenargues.

May I always have a heart superior, with
economy suitable, to my fortune.— Shenstone.

Take the good with the evil, for ye all are
the pensioners of God, and none may choose or
refuse the cup his wisdom mixeth.— Tupper.

A sense of contentment makes us kindly and
benevolent to others; we are not chafed and
galled by eares which are tyrannical because
original. We are fulfilling our proper destiny,
and those around us feel the sunshine of our
own hearts. — Bulwer Lytton.

Contentment consisteth not in adding more
fuel, but in taking away some fire.—/'uller.

Every one is well or ill at case, according
as he finds himself; not he whom the world
believes, but he who believes himself to be so,
is content; and in him alone belief gives itself
being and reality. —lfontacgne. .

Happy the heart to whom God has given
enough strength and courage to suffer for him,
to find happiness in ‘simplicity and the happi-

ness of others.— Lavater.

. Naught is had, all is spent, where our desire
is got without content.—Shakespeare.

What is the highest secret of victory “and
ce? To will what God wills, and strike a
eague with destiny. — IW. 2B. Alger.

Hic is richest. who is content with the least;
for content is the wealth of nature.— Socrates.

Alas! if the principles of contentment are
not within us, the height of station and
worldly grandeur will a& soon _add -a cubit to’a
man’s stature as to his happiness. —Sterne.

Tf we will take the good we find, asking no
questions, we shall have heaping measures.
The great gifts are not got by analysis.’ Lvery-
thing good is on the highway. The middle
region of our being is the temperate zone.—

Emerson.

Contentment is‘a: pear) of great price, and
whoever procures it-at the expense of ten thou-
sand desires makes “a wise ‘anda happy pur-
chase.— Balguy.

Contentment gives a crown where fortune
hath denied it.—/ ord.

Contentment is not happiness. An oyster
may be contented. Happiness is compounded
of richer cloments.—Bouee.

It conduces much to our content if we pass
by those things which happen to our trouble,
and consider that whieh is pleasing and pros-
perous; that by the representation of the better
the worse may be blotted ont.—Jeremy Taylor.

CONTRADICTION.

We must not contradict, but instruct him
that contradicts ns; for a madinan is not cured
by-another ruining mad also.—Antisthenes.

CONTRAST. :
a\ learned man is a tank; a wise man is 2
spring.— W. R. Alyer.

As the rose-tree is composed of the sweetest
flowers and the sharpest thorns, — as the heavens
are sometimes overcast, alternately tempestnous
and serene; so is the life of man intermingled
with: hopes and fears, with joy-and ‘sorrows,
with pleasure and with pains.—Burton.

Do not speak of your happiness to a man
less fortunate than yourself.— Phearch.

By Heaven ! upon the same man, as upon a
vine-planted mount, there grow more kinds of
wine than one; on the sonth side something
little worse-than nectar, on-the north side’some-
thing little better than vinegar.—Aichter.

The rose and the thorn, sorrow ‘and glad-
ness, are linked together.—Saadi.

Strange as it may seem, the most ludicrous
lines I ever wrote have been written in the sad-
dest mood.— Cowper.

The superiority of some men is merely local.
They are great because their associdtes aro
little. —Johuson.


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CONVERSATION.

No man needs money so much as he who
despises it.—Richter.

Tf 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, calm and tempest, prosperity
and adversity, life and death.— Pythagoras.

The coldest bodies warm with opposition,
the hardest sparkle in collision. — Junius.

All things are donble, one against another.
Good is set against evil, and life against death ;
so is the godly against the sinner, and the sin-
ner against*the godly. Look upon all the
works of the Most High, and there are two and
two, one against another.—Licclesiasticus.

Nature hath meal and bran, contempt and
grace.— Shakespeare.

Cruel men are the greatest lovers of mercy,
avaricious men of gencrosity, and proud men of
humility ; that is to say, in others, not in them-
sclves.— Colton.

Shadow owes its birth to light. —Gay.

Men and statues that are admired in an
elevated situation have a very different cffect
upon us when we approach them; the first
appear less than we imagined them, the last
bigger.—Lord Greville.

_. The good often sigh more over little faults
than the wicked over great. Hence an old
proverb, that the stain appears greater accord-
ing to the brilliancy of what it touches.—
Palmiert.

The presence of the wretched is a burden to
to the happy ; and alas! the happy still more so
to the wretched.—Goethe.

Those that are good manners at the court
are as ridiculous in the country as the behavior
of the country is most mockable at the court.—

Shakespeare.

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
shadows of the dance. A wedding-party returns
from church, and a funeral winds to its door.
The smiles and the sadnesses of life are the tragi-
comedy of Shakespeare. Gladness and sighs
brighten and dim the mirror he beholds.—

Willmott.

Some people with great merit are very dis-
gusting; others with great faults are very
pleasing.—Rochefoucauld.

Is the jay more precions than the lark be-
cause his feathers are more beautiful? Or is
the adder better than the eel because his
painted skin contents the eye ? —Shakespeare.

Where there is much light the shadow is
deep.— Goethe.

CONVERSATION.

There is no real life but cheerful life; there-
fore valetudinarians should be sworn, before they
enter mto company, not to. say a word of them-
selves until the meeting breaks up.—Addison.

He who sedulously attends, pointedly asks,
calmly speaks, coolly answers, and ceases when
he has no more to say, is in possession of some
of the best requisites of man.—Lavater.

To speak well supposes a habit of attention
which shows itself in the thought; by langnage
we learn to think, and above all to develop
thonght.—Bonstetten.

As it is the characteristic of great wits to
say much in few words, so it is of smal] wits to
talk much and say nothing.—Rochefoucauld.

One eonld take down a book from a shelf
ten times more wise and witty than almost any
man’s conversation. Bacon is wiser, Swift
more humorous, than any person one is likely
to meet with; but they cannot chime in with
the exact frame of thought in which we happen
to take them down from our shelves. Therein
lies the Inxury of conversation; and when a
living speaker does not yield'us that luxury, he
becomes only a book on two legs.— Campbell.

Not only to say the right thing in the right
place, but, far more difficult still, to leave nn-
said the wrong thing at the tempting moment.—
i G. A. Sala.

The progress of a private conversation he-
twixt two persons of different sexes is often
decisive of their fate, and gives it a turn very
distinct perhaps from what they themselves an-
ticipated. Gallantry becomes mingled with
conversation, and affection and passion come
gradually to mix with gallantry. Nobles, as
well as shepherd swains, will, in such a ying
moment, say more than they intended; an
queens, like village maidens, will listen longer
than they should.— Walter Scott.

It is a secret known but to a few, yet of no
small use in the condnet of life, that when you
fall into a man’s conversation, the first thing you
should consider is whether he has a_ greater in-
clination to hear you, or that you shonld hear
him.—Steele.

There is a sort of knowledge beyond the
power of learning to bestow, and this is to be
had in conversation ; so necessary is this to the
understanding the characters of men, that none
are more ignorant of them than those learned
pedants whose lives have been entirely con-
sumed in colleges and among books; for how-
ever exquisitely human nature may have been
described by writers the true practical system
can be learned only in the world. —Fielding.


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CONVERSATION,

In table talk I prefer the pleasant and witty
before the learned and grave.—Vontaryue.

The first mgredient in conversation is trnth,
the next good sense, the third-good hnmor, and
the fourth wit.—Sir WW. Temple.

He that qnestioncth much shall learn much,
and content much; but especially if he apply
his qnestions to the skill of the persons w rom |
he asketh ; for he shall give them occasion to
please themselves in speaking, ‘and himself shall
continually gather knowledge ; but let his ques-
tions'not be troublesome, for that is fit for a
poser; and Jet him be sure to leave other men
their turn to speak; nay, if there be any that
wonld reign ‘and take up all the time, let him
find means to take them off, and bring others
on,—as musicians used to do with those that
dance too long galliards. If you dissemble
sometimes your knowledge of that yon are
thonght to know, you shall he thought, another
time, to know that you know not.— Bacon.

Reasonable men are the best dictionaries of
conversation.— Goethe.

The seeret of pleasing in conversation is not
to explain too much everything; to say them
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.

Those who speak'always and those who never
speak are equally unfit for friendship. A good
proportion of the talent of listening and speak-
ing is the base of social virtues.— Lavater.

The secret of tiring is to say everything that
can be said on the subject.— Voltaire.

One of the first observations to make in
conversation is the state, or the character, and
the education of the person to whom we speak.

Madame Necker.

If conversation be an art, like painting,
senlptnre, and literature, it owes its.most pow-
erful charm to nature 3, and the least shade of
formality or -artifice destroys the cilect of the
best collection ot words.— Tuckerman.

There is no-arena in which vanity displays
itself under such 2 variety of forms as in con-
versation.— Pascal.

Conversation opens onr views,and gives our
faculties. more vigorous play ; it puts us upon
turning our notions on every side, and holds
thein up toa light that discovers those latent
flaws which wonld probably have lain. concealed
ia the gloom of unagitated abstraction.—

7 Melmoth.

. In the sallies of badinage a polite fool shines ;
but in gravity he is as awkward as an elephant
disporting.—Ziumermann.

7

The extreme pleasure we take in talking of
ourselves shonld make us fear that we pive very
little to those who listen to ns.—Aochefoucauld.,

When we are in the company of sensible
men, we ought to be doubly cuntions of talking
too much, lest we lose two good things, — their
good opinion, and ovr own improvement; for
what we have to say we know, but what they
have to say we know not.— Colton.

Silence is one great art of conversation.—
Llazlitt,

Our compamons please us less from the
eharms we find in thetr conversation than from
those they find in ours.—Lord Greville.

Conversation enriches the understanding,
but solitude is the school of genius.— Gibbon.

In conversation, humor is more than wit,
casiness more than knowledge; few desire ta
learn, or think they need it; all desire to he
pleased, or, at least, to be casy.—

Sir W. Temple.

Conversation is an art in which a man has
all mankind for competitors.— Zmerson.

One of the best rules in conversation is,
never say a thing which any of the company
ean reasonably wish we had rather left nnsaid.
Let the sage reflections of these philosophic
minds be cherished.— Swift.

The less men think, the more they talk.—
Montesquieu.

The perfection of conversation is not to play

a regular sonata, but, like the olian_harp, to
await the inspiration of the passing breeze.—

Burke.

Conversation never sits easier npon us than
when we now and then discharge onrselves in a
symphony of laughter, whick may not improp-
erly be called the chorus of conversation.
~ Steele.

The tone of good conversation is brilliant
and natural; it is neither tedious nor frivolous ;
it is instruetive without pedantry, gay withont
tumultnousness, polished “without affectation,
gallant without insipidity, waggish without
equivocation.—RRousseau.

All men, well interrogated, answer well.—
Plato.

Topics of conversation among the multitnde
are generally persons, sometimes things, searce-
ly ever principles.— IV. B. Clulow.

Never hold any one by the button or the
hand in order to be heard out; for if people
are unwilling to hear you, yon had better hold
your tongue than them.— Chesterfield.


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COQUETRY.

Those persons who never speak till they ean COQUETRY.

make a hit are insufferable.
to fill up the embroidery of which they will only
do the flowers—J/adame Necker.

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.

Repose is as neeessary in conversation as in
a pictnre.—ZZazlitt,

A conversation ought no more to be like a
written discourse, than the latter like a conver-
sation. What is pretty singular is, those who
fall into the former blemish seldom escape the
other; because, being in the habit of speaking
as they would write, they imagine they ought
to write as they speak. It should be a rule
that a man cannot be too much on his guard
when he writes to the public, and never too easy
towards those with whom he converses.—

DD’ Alembert.

It is when you come close to a man in con-
versation that you discover what his real abili-
tics are. To make a speceh in ‘a-publie assem-
biy is a knack.—Johnson.

Conversation is a traffie; and if you enter
into it without some stock of knowledge to bal-
ance the aeconnt perpetually betwixt you, the
trade drops at once.—Sterne.

Take, rather than give, the tone of the com-
pany you arein. If yon have parts, you will
show them more or less upon every subjcet;
and if you have not, you had better talk sillily
upon a subject of other people’s than of your
own choosing.— Chesterfield.

CONVERSION.

As to the value of conversions, God alone
can judge. God alone can know how wide
are the steps which the soul has to take be-
fore it ean approach to‘a community with him,
to the dwelling of the pertect, or to the in-
tercourse and friendship of higher natures.—

Goethe.

In what way, or hy what manner of working
God changes a soul from evil to good, how he
impregnates the barren rock, — the priceless
gems and gold,—is to the human mind an
impenetrable mystery, in all cases alike.—

Coleridge.

Thaye known men who thonght the object of
conversion was to eleanse them as a garment is
cleansed, and that when they are converted
they were to be hung up in the Lord’s ward-
robe, the door of which was to be shut, so
that no dust could get at them. A coat that
is not used the moths eat; and a Christian who
is hung up so that he shal] not be tempted, the
moths eat him; and they have poor food at
that.— Beecher.

They oblige you?

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.
Longfellow.

To boast that we never coquet is itself a
sort of eoquetry.—Rochefoucauld. :

Heartlessness and fascination, in about
equal quantities, constitute the receipt for form-
ing the character of a court coquette.—

Madame Deluzy.

| An accomplished eoquette excites the pas-
, sions of others in proportion as she feels none
herself.— Hazlitt,

‘The characteristic of-a coquette is affectation

governed by whim; for as beauty, wit, good-
, Nature, politencss, and health are sometimes
j-affected by this ereature, so are ugliness, folly,
nonsense, ill-natnye, ill-breeding, and_ sickness
‘Tikewise put on by it in their tit, Its life is
one constant lie; and the only rule by which
you can form any jndgment of them is that
they are never what they seem.—Fieding.

All women seem by nature to be coquettes,
though all do not practise eoqnetry. Some are
restrained by reason, some by fear; none are
aware of the extent of their coquetry.—

Rochefoucauld.

There are many women who have never in-
trigued, and many men who have never gamed ;
but those who have done either but once are
very extraordinary animals,‘and more worthy
of a glass case when they die than alf the ex-
otics in the British Musenm.— Colton.

There is one antidote only for eoquetry,
and that is true love—Aadame Deluzy.

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 only
wrinkle and decay other women ; forgets that
age is written in the face, and that the same
dressy which became her when she was young
now only:makes her look the older. Affecta-
tion cleaves to her even in sickness and pain;
she dies in a high-head and colored ribbons.—

Bruyére.

The ecoquette who saerifices the ease and
reputation of as many‘as she is able to an ill-
natured vanity, is a more pernicious creature
than the wreteh whom fondness betrays to
make her lover happy, at the expense of her
own reputation. —F velding.

A coquette is a young lady of more beanty
than sense, more accomplishments than learn-
ing, more charms of person than graces of
mind, more admirers than friends, more fools
than wise men for attendants.—Longfellow.



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COURAGE.

Women find it far more difficuit ta overcome
their inclination to coquetry than te evercome
their love.—Jtorhefoucauld.

cokruprion.

O that estates, degrees, and offices were not
derived corruptly ! and that clear honor were
purehased by the merit of the wearer ! —

Shakespeare.

Examine well his milk-white hand, the palm
is_hardly clean, — but here ‘and there an ugly
smutch -appears. Foh! Teowas a bribe that
left it. He has tonehed corrnption.— Cowper.

My bnsiness in the state made me a looker-
ov here in’ Vienna, where IT have seen corrup-
tion boil and bubble till it o’errun the stew.—

Shakespeare.

Corruption is a tree whose branches are of
an unmeasnrable length; they spread every-
where; and the dew that drops from thence
hath infected some ehairs and stools of author-
ity. —Beaumont and Fletcher.

Loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.—
Shakespeare.
COUNTRY.

Seldom shall we sec in cities, courts, and
rich families, where men live pleutifally and eat
and drink freely, that perfect health, that ath-
letic soundness and vigor of constitution which
is commonly seen in the country, in poor honses
and cottages, where nature is" their cook, and
necessity their caterer,"and where they have no
other doctor but the snn and fresh air, and that
such a one as never sends them to the apoth-
ecary.—South.

One gets sensitive about losing mornings
after getting: a little used to them with living in
the country. Exch one of these endlessly varied

daybreaks is an opera but once perfor mene —
Villis.

Nor rnrai sights alone, but rural sonnds, ex-
hilarate the spirit and restore the tone of ‘lan-
guid nature. — Couper. .

There is virtne in country houses, in ‘gar-
dens and orchards, in fields, streams, and groves,
in rustic reereations and plain manners, that
neither cities nor universities: enjoy. —Aleoit.

Sir, when -you have seen one green field,
you have seen all green fields. Let us walk
down Cheapside.—Johnson.

‘Ask any school-boy up to the age of fifteen
where he wontd spend his holidays s. Not one
in five hundred will say, “In the streets of
London,” if you give him the option of green
fields and running waters. It is, then, a fair
presumption that “there must be something of
the child still in the character of the men or r the
women whom the country charms in maturer
as in dawning life.—Bulwer Lytton.

Men are taught virtue and a love of inde-
pendence by living in the country.—enander.

The city reveals the moral ends of being,
dnd sets the aw fal problem of life. The coun-
try soothes ns, refreshes us, lifts us up with
religious snggestion. — Chapin.

If country life be healthful to the lody, it is
no less so to the mind. —Auffini.

Sunny spots of greenery.— Coleridye.

In those vernal seasons of the year, when
the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury
and silenness against nature not to go ont and
see her riches, and partake in her rejuicing with
heaven and carth,—idilton,

I consider it the best part of an education to
have been born and brought up in the country.

Alcott.

COURAGE. -
Trne courage is the result of reasoning. A
Resolution

brave mind is always j impregnable.
lies more in the head than in’ the veins, and a
just sense of honor-and of infamy, of duty-and
of religion, will carry us farther than all the
force of mechanism.—Jeremy Collier.

God is the brave man’s hope and not the
coward’s excuse.— Plutarch.

Let him not imagine who aims at greatness
that all is lost by a single adverse cast of for-
tune; for if fortune has at one time the better
of conrage, courage may afterwards recover the
advantage. He who is prepossessed with the
aranee of overcoming'at least overcomes the
fear of failure; whereas he who is apprehensive
of losing loses, in reality, all hopes of subdning.
Boldness and power are such inseparable com-
panions that they appear to be born together ;
and when once divided, they both decay and dic
at the same time. —Arehbishop Venn.

If we survive danger, it stecls our conrage
more than anything else, —Niebuhr.

Physical conrage, which despises all danger,
will make a man brave i in one way ; and moral
courage, which despises all opinion, will make a
man brave in another. The former would seem
most necessary for the camp, the-latter for conn-
cil; but 10 constitute a great man, both aré
necessary ! —Colton.

Much danger makes great hearts most res-
olnte.—Afarston. —~

Women and men of retiring timidity are
cowardly only in dangers which affect them-
selves, but the first to resene when others nee

endangered.—Ziehter. *

It is not onr criminal actions that require
conrage to confess, but those-which are ridicn-
lous and foolish.—Zousseau.


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COURTESY.

Courage without discipline is nearer beast-
liness than manhood.—Sir P. Sidney.

An intrepid conrage is at best but a holiday
kind of virtue, to be seldom exercised, and
never but in cases of necessity; affability, mild-
ness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain
bring back to its original signification of virtue,
I mean good-nature, are of daily usc; they are
the bread of mankind and staff of life. —Dryden.

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking
danger, but in seeing it and conquering it—
Richter.

Truc conrage is cool and calm. The bravest
of men have the least of a brutal bullying inso-
lence ; and in the very time of danger are found
the inost serene and free. Rage, we kuow, can
make a coward forget himself and fight. But
what is done in fury or anger can never be
placed to the account of courage.—Shaflesbury.

t .
Who hath not courage to revenge will never
find generosity to forgive—Henry Home.

The truest conrage is-always mixcd with
cireumspection ; this being the quality ‘which
distinguishes the courage of the wise from the
hardiness of the rash and foolish.

Jones of Nayland.

The first mark of valor is defence —
Sir P. Sidney.

Courage is like the diamond, — very bril-
liant; not changed by fire, capable of high
polish, but except for the purpose of cutting
hard bodies, useless.— Colton.

Let us not despair too soon, my friend.
Men’s words are ever bolder than their deeds,
and many,a;one who now appears resolute to
Meet every extremity with eager zeal, will on a
sudden find in their breast a heart which h
Wot not of —Schiller. .

Conrage enlarges, cowardice diminishes re-
sources. In desperate straits the fears of the
timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the
brave. For cowards the road of desertion
should he left open. They will carry over to
the enemy nothing but their fears. The pol-
troon, like the seabbard, is an encumbrance
when once the sword is drawn.—Bovee.

Before putting yourself in peril, it is neces-
sary to foresee and fear it; but when one is
there, nothing remains but to despise it.—

Fenelon.

Courage, so far as it is a sign of race, is pe-
culiarly the mark of a gentleman or a lady;
but it becomes vulgar if rude or insensitive,
while timidity is not vulgar, if it be a character-
istic of race or fineness of make. A fawn is

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.

There is no courage but in innoeence; no
constancy but in an honest cause.—Southern.

Courage is always greatest when blended
with meekness; intellectual ability is most ad-
mirable when it sparkles in the setting of a
modest self-distrust ; and never does the human
soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge
and dares to forgive-an injury.— Chapin.

There is no impossibility to him who stands
prepared to conquer every hazard; the fearful
are the failing. —Ars. S. J. Hale.

Courage ought to be guided by skill, and
skill armed by conrage. Neither should hardi-
ness darken wit, nor wit cool hardiness. Be
valiant as men despising death, bnt confident as
unwonted to be overcome.—Sir P. Sidney.

Conrage consists not in hazarding without
fear, but being resolutely minded ina just
cause.—Plutarch.

Courage is poorly housed that dwells in
numbers ; thé lion never counts the herd that
are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he
has to seatter.—Aaron Hill.

Courage makes a man more than himself; for
he is then himself plus his valor.— IV. R. Alger.

' — i
By how mnch unexpected, by so much we

must awake endeavor for defence; for courage

mounteth with occasion — Shakespeare.

Courage and modesty are the most unequiv-
ocal of virtues, for they are of‘a> kind that hy-
pocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this
quality in common, that they are expressed by
the same color.— Goethe.

Courage is adversity’s lamp. Vauvenargues.
c=) y

Remember now, when yon meet your antag-
onist, do everything in a mild, agreeable man-
ner.” Let your courage be as keen, but, at the
same time, as polished, as your sword.—

Sheridan.

I dare do all that may hecome a man; who
dares do more is none.—Shakespeare.

The brave man is not he who feels no fear,
for that were stupid and irrational; but he
whose noble soul its fear snbdues, and bravely
dares the danger nature shrinks from.—

Joanna Baillie.
COURTESY.

When we are saluted with a salutation, sa-

lute the person with a better salutation, or at

not vnigar in being timid, nor a crocodile‘ least return the same, for God taketh an ac-

“gentle” because courageous.— Ruskin.

count of all things.—Aoran.


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COURTSIIP.

Nothing costs less nor is cheaper than com-
pliments of civility. — Cervantes.

‘When Zachariih Fox, the great merchant
of Liverpool, was asked by what means he con-
trived to realize so large a fortune as he pos-
sessed, liis reply was: “ Friend, by one article
alone,'and. in which thon mayest dea! too, if
thou pleasest, — it is civility.”’— Bentley.

What fairer cloak than courtesy for frand 7 —
Larl of Surling.

Hail} ye small sweet courtesies of life, for
smooth do ye make the road of it, like grace
and beauty, which beget inctinations to love ‘at
first sight; itis ye who open the door and let
the stranger in.—Sterne.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied
to love. From it ‘springs the purest courtesy
in the outward behavior.— Goethe.

The small courtesies sweeten life; the great-
er ennoble it.—Bovee.

Courtesy which oft is sooner found in lowly
sheds, with smoky rafters; than in tapestry halls
and courts of princes, where it first was named.

ALilton.

O dissembling courtesy ! how fine this tyrant
can tiekle where she wounds ! —Shakespeare.

As the sword of the best-tempered metal is
most flexible, so the truly generons are most
pliant and courtcous in their behavior to their
inferiors.—J°uller.

Approved valor is made precious by natural
courtesy. —Sir P. Sidney.

We must be as conrtcous to a2 man as we are
toa picture, which we are willing to give the
advantage of a good light.—Zmerson.

Courtesy is a science of the highest impor-
tance. It is, like grace and beauty in the body,
which charm at first sight, and tead on to fur-
ther intimacy and friendship, opening a door
that we may derive instrnetion from the exam-
ple of others, and at the saihe time enabling us
to benefit them by our example, if there be‘any-
thing in our character worthy of imitation. —

Montaigne.

There is no outward sign of courtesy that
does not rest on a deep moral foundation.—
Goethe.

It isa kind of good deed to say well; and
yet words are no deeds.— Shakespeare.

Comely courtesy that unto every person
knew her part.— Spenser.

A churlish courtesy rarcly comes but either
for gain or falsechood.—Sir #. Sidney

Whilst thon livest, keep a good tongue in
thy head.— Shakespeare.

Nothing is a courtesy unless it be meant us,
and that friendly and lovingly. We owe no
thanks to rivers that they carry our boats, or
winds that they be favoring and fill our sails,
or meats that they he nourishing ; for these are
what they are necessarily, Horses carry us,
trees shade us; but they knowiit not.—

. Ben Jonson.

Civility is a desire to receive civility, and to
be accounted’ well-bred.—Rechefoucauld.

Tf ever I shonld affect injustice, it would be
in this, that I might do courtesics and reccive
none.—J*eltham.

The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in
courtesy. A man of fine manners shall pro-
nounce your name with all the ornament that
titles of nobility could ever add.—£merson.

When my friends are blind of one cye, I look
at them in profile.—Joubert.

Great talents, such as honor, virtue, learn-
ing, and parts, are above.the generality 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, agrecable
address and manner, becanse they feel the
good effects of them, as making society easy
and pleasing.— Chesterfield.

A good word is an easy obligation ; but not
to speak ill requires only our ‘silence, which
costs us nothing.-—Tillotson,

COURTIER.
The chief requisites for a courtier are a
flexible conscience and-an inflexible politeness.
Lady Blessington.

7

Poor wretches that depend on_greatness’s
favor dream as I have done; wake and find
nothing.—Shakespeare.

The court does not render a man contented,
but it prevents his being so clsewhere.— Bruyére.

A courtier’s dependant is a beggar’s dog.—
Shenstone.

Not a courtier, althongh they wear their
faees to the bent of the king’s looks, "hath -a
heart that is not-glad at the thing they scowl at.

Shakespeare.

A court is-an assemblage of noble and dis-
tinguished beggars.—TZalleyrand.

COURTSHIP.

Courtship consists in a number of quict at-
tentions, uot so pointed as to alarm, nor so
vague as not to be understood.—Sterne.


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COVETOUSNESS.

With women worth the being won the soft-
est lover ever best sueceeds.—Auron Hill.

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.

She half consents who silently denies. —Ovid.

He that can keep handsomely within rules,
and support the carriage of a companion to his
mistress, is much more likely to prevail than
he who lets her see the whole relish of his life
depends upon her. If possible, therefore, divert
your mistress rather than sigh for her.—Steede.

She is a woman, therefore may be wooed ;
she is a woman, therefore may be won.—
Shakespeare.

Men dream in conrtship, but in wedlock
wake ! — Pope.

I knelt, and with the fervor of a lip uunsed
to the cool breath of reason, told my love.—
Willis.

The pleasantest part of a man’s life is gen-
erally that which passes in courtship, provided
his passion be sincere, and the party beloved
kind swith diserction. Love, destre, hope, all
the pleasing emotions of the soul, rise in the
pursuit.— Addison.

Men are April when they woo, December
when they wed.— Shakespeure.

A town, before it can be phindered and de-
serted, must first be taken ; and in this particu-
Jar Venus has borrowed -a Jaw from her con-
sort Mars. A woman that wishes to retain her
snitor must keep him in the trenches ; for this
is a siege which the besieger never raises for
want of supplies, since a feast is more fatal to
Jove than a fast, and a surfeit than a starvation.
Inanition may cause it to die a slow death, but
repletion always destroys it by a sudden one.—

Colton.

I profess not to know how women’s hearts
‘are wooed and won. To me they have always
been matters of riddle and admiration. —

Washinyton Irving.

She most attracts who longest can refiise—
Aaron Hill.

That man that has a tongne, I say, is no
man if with his tongue he cannot win a woman.
Shakespeare.

Courtship is a fine bowling-green turf, all
galloping round and swecthearting, a sunshine
holiday in snmmer time; but when once
through matrimony’s tnrnpike, the weather be-
comes wintry, and some husbands are seized
with a cold, aguish fit, to which the faculty give
the name of indifference.—G. A. Stevens.

See how the skilful lover spreads his toils—
Sullingfleet.

Let a woman once give you a task, and you
‘are hers, heart and soni; all your care and
trouble Jend new charms to her for whose sake
they are taken. To resenc, to revenge, to in-
strict, or protect a woman is all the same as to
love her.— Richter.

COVETOUSNESS.

Some imen are so covetous, ag if they were
to live forever ; and others so profuse,as if they
were to dic the next moment.— Aristotle.

Covetousness, which is idolatry —Bidle.

Where neeessity ends, desire and enriosity
begin; and no sooner are we snpplied with
everything natnre can demand than we sit
down 10 contrive artificial appetites—Johnson.

He deservedly loses his own property who
covets that of another.—Pheedrus.

To think well of every other man’s condi-
tion, and to dislike onr own, is one of the mis-
fortimes of huinan nature. “ Pleased with each
other’s lot, our own we hate.”—Burton.

When all sins are old in us, and go upon
crutches, covetousness docs but then lie in her
cradle.— Decker.

A circle cannot fill a triangle, so neither can
the whole world, if it were to be compassed,
the heart,of man; a-:man may.as easily fill a
chest with grace.as the heart with gold. The
air fills not the body, neither doth money the
covetous mind of man.—<Spenser.

The soul of man is infinite in what it eovets.
Ben Jonson.

The covetons 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.

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.

Coyetonsness swells the principal to no pur-
pose, and lessens the use to all purposes.—
Jeremy Taylor.

Covetous men need money least, yet they
most affect it; but prodigals, who need it most,

have the least regard for it—slexander TWitson.

Covetons men are fools, miserable wretches,
buzzards, madmen, who live by themselves, in
perpetual slavery, fear, suspicion, sorrow, dis-
content, with more of gall than honey in their
enjoymerts ; who are rather possessed by their
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COWARDICE.

Covctousness, like a candle ill made, smoth-

The eorctous man pines in plenty, like

ers the splendor of a happy furtune in its own | Tantalus np to the chin in water, and yet

‘ grease. —L", Osborn-

Covetousness, like jealousy, when it has,

once taken root, never leaves a& man but with
his life.x—Zhomus Llughes.

It was with good reason that God com-|!

manded throngh Moses that the vineyard and
harvest were not to be gleaned to the lust grape
aii; but something to be left for the poor.
‘ovetousness is never to be satisfied; the
it has, the more it wants. Such insatiable
s injure themselves, and transform God's
blessings into evil.—Luther.

Why are we so blind? That which we im-
prove, we lave, that which we hoard is net for
ourselves.—Mudume Deazy.

When workmen strive to do better than
well, they do confound their skill in covetous-
ness.— Siakespeure.

The covetous man heaps up riches, not to
enjoy them, but to have them; and starves
himself in the midst of plenty,:and most unnat-
urally cheats and rebs 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 without it.— Tillotson, .

Those who give not till they die show that
they would not then if they could keep it any
lunger—Bishop Hull.

Suppose a_more complete assemblage of
sublanary cnjoyments, and a more perfect sys-
tein of earthly felicity than ever the sun beheld,
the mind of man would instantly devour it, and,
as, if it was still empty and unsatisfied, would
require something more.—Leighton.

Poor in abundance, tamished at a feast,
man’s grief is but his grandeur in disguise, and
discontent js immortality.— Young.

He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy,
let hin be never so friendly in all other cases,
J look upon him in this to be‘no better than a
raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck
Ont its eyes.—Seneca.

Covetousness, by 2 greediness of getting
more, deprives itself of the true end of getting ;
it loses the enjoyment of what it has got.—

Sprat.

Although the beauties, riches, honors, sci-
ences, virtues, and perfeetions of all nen living
were in the present possession of one, yet some-
what above and beyond all this would still be
sought and earnestly thirsted for.—JZooker.

Covctonsness is a. sort of mental gluttony,
not confined to money, but craving honor, und
fecding on selfishness.—Cham/fort.

thirsty —Rev. 2. Adams.

Covetousness teaches nen to be cruel and
crafty, industrious and evil, full of care ul
| nialice ; and after all this, it is for no good to
itself, for it dares not spend those heaps of
treasure which it has snatched.—Jeremy Taylor.

Of covetousness we may truly say that it
makes both the Alpha and Omega in the devil’s
alphabet, and that it is the tirst viee in corrupt
nature which moves, and the last which di¢s.—

South.
COWARDICE.

Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome

hy those who nobly dare.—Queen Elizabeth.

Alt mankind is one of these two cowards, —
either to wish to die when he should live, or live
when he should die.—Sir Hobert LZoward.

What masks are these uniforms to hide
cowards | —Duke of Wellington.

Itis a law of nature that faint-hearted men
should hethe fruit of luxurious countries, for we
never tind that the same soil produces delicacies
and herocs.—ZZerodotus.

The craven’s fear is but selfishness, like his
merriment.— IWahittier.

My valor is certainly going! it is sneaking
off! I feel it oozing out, as it were, at the pals
of my hands.—Sheridun.

Plenty-and peace breed cowards ; hardness
ever of hardiness is mother.—Shakespeure.

Lie not, neither to thyself, nor man, nor
God. Let month and heart be one; beat and
speak together, and make both felt in action.
It is for cowards to lie.—George Herbert.

It is vain for the coward -to fly; death fol-
lows close behind; it is by defying it that the
brave escape.—Voltuire.

When the passengers gallop hy as if fear
made them speedy, the enr follows them with
an open mouth; Jet them walk by in confident
neglect, and the dog will not stir at all; it is 3
weakness that every creature takes advantage
of.—J. Beaumont,

Cowards die many times hefore their death ;
the valiant taste of death but once.—
Shakespeare.

Commonly they use their feet for defence,
whose tongue is their weapon.— Sir P. Sidney.
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If cowardice were not so completely a-cow-
‘ard as to be unable to look steadily upon the
effects of courage, he would find that there is no
refuge so sure as dauntless vulor.—June Porter,


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You are the hate of whom the proverb goes,
whose valor plucks dead lions by the beard, —
Shakespeare.

One of the chief misfortunes of honest peo-
ple is that they are cowirdly.— Voltaire.

Mankind are dastardly when they meet
with opposition —Franklin.

Fear is the virtue of slaves: but the heart
that loveth is willing. —Longfellow,

It is the coward who fawns upon those
above him. tis the coward that is insolent
whenever he dares be so.— Junius.

Cowardiceis not synonymous with prudence.
It often happens that the better part of disere-
tion is valor.—Haslitt.

A coward ; a most devout coward ; religious
in it.—Shukespeare.

COXCOMB.

A ecoxeomb begins by determining that his
own profession is the first; and he finishes by
deciding that he is the first of his profession —

Colton.

A coxeomb is ugly all over with the.affecta-
tion of the fine gentleman.—Johuson.

A vulgar man is eaptious and jealous ; eager
and impetuous about trifles. He suspects him-
self to be slighted, and thinks everything that is
said meant at him.— Chesterfield.

None are so seldom found alone, and are so
soon tired of their own company, as those cox-
eombs who are on the best terms with them-
selves.—Colton.

Foppery is never cured ; it is the bad stami-
na of the mind, which, like those of the body, are

never rectified ; once a coxcomb, and always a!

coxeomb.— Johnson. °

CREDITOR.

Creditors have better memories than debtors,
and creditors are a: superstitions sect, great ob-
servers of set days and times.— Franklin.

There is nothing in this world so fiendish as!

the eonduet of a mean man when he has the
power to revenge himself upon a noble one in
adversity. It takes a-man to make adevil; and
the fittest man for such a purpose is a snarling,
waspish, red-hot, fiery ereditor.—Beecher.

The most trifling actions that affeet a man’s
credit are to be regarded. The sound of your
hammer at five in the morning or nine at night,
heard by a ereditor, makes him easy six months
longer ; but if he sees you at a billiard-table, or
hears your voiee at a tavern, when you should
be at work, he sends for his money the next
day.—Frathklin.

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CREDULITY.

The creditor whose appearance gladdens the
heart of-a debtor may hold his head in sun.
beams and his foot on storms.—Luvater.

Credit is like a looking-glasss, whieh, when
only sullied by a breath, may be wiped elear
agin, but if once cracked, ean never be re-
paired.— Walter Scott.

CREDULITY.

The only disadvantage of an honest heart is
eredulity.—Sir P. Sidney.

The more gross the frand, the more glibly
will it go down, and the more greedily will it

-be swallowed, since folly will always find faith
wherever impostors will tind impudence.—
Bovee.

We all know that ‘a lie needs no other
grounds than the invention of the liar; and to
take for granted as truth all that is alleged
against the fame of others is.a.species of eredu-
lity that men would blush at on any other sub-
ject— Jane Porter.

Fear, if it be not immoderate, puts a guard
abont us that does watch and defend us; but
eredulity keeps us naked, and lays us open to
all the sly assaults of ill-iutending men; it was a
virtue when man was in his innocenee; but
sinee his fall, it abuses those that own it—

Feltham.

In all places, and in all times, those religion-
ists who have believed too much have been
more inelined to violence and perseention than
those who have believed too little — Colton.

J eannot spare the luxury of believing that
‘all things beantiful are what they seem.—
Halleck.

Credulity is the common failing of inexperi-
enced virtue, and he who is spontaneously sus-
picious may be justly charged with radieal cor-
ruption.—/ehzson. .

You believe that easily whieh you hope for
earnestly.— Terence.

The general goodness which is nourished in
noble hearts makes every one think that
strength of virtue to be in another whereof
they find assured foundation in themselves.—

Sir P. Sidney.

Credulity is perhaps a weakness almost in-
separable from eminently truthful characters.—
Tuckerman.

We believe at onee in evil; we only believe
in good upon refiection. Is not this sad {—
Mudame Deluzy.

O credulity, thon hast as many ears as fame
has tongues, open to every sound of truth as

of falsehood.—Havard.


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CREED.

CRITICISM,

It is a enrions paradox, that precisely in

proportion to our own intellectual weakness iterimes 2

will be our eredulity’ as to those” mysterious
powers assumed by others.—Colton.

Generous souls are still most subject to ere-
dulity. —Sir W. Davenant.

Men are most apt to believe what they least
understand; cud through the lust of human
wit obscure things are more easily credited. —

Pliny.

Superstition is certainly not the charaeteris-
tic of this age. Yet some men are bigoted in
volities who-are infidels in “religion. Ridicu-
lous credulity { —Junius.

Your noblest natures are most eredulons.—
: : Chapman.
CREED,

In polities, as in yeligion, it so happens that
we have less charity for those who believe the
half of our creed than for those that deny the
whole of it.—Colton. © .

He that will believe only what he can fully
comprehend must have a very long head or a
very short ereed.—Colton. :

CRIME. '
Crimes sometimes shock us too much ; vices
alinost always too little —L/are.

There are crimes which become innocent,
and even glorious, throngh their splendor,
anumber, and excess; henee it is that public
theft is called address, and to seize unjustly on
provinces is to’ make conquests. —Rockefoucauld,

One crime is everything ; two nothing.—
Madame Deluzy.

Of all the adui¢ 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; ‘abnost all who enter
upon x course of crime do so between the ages
of cight and sixteen. —Larl of Shaftesbury.

Heaven will permit no man to sceure hap-
piness by crime.—l/feri.

Small crimes always precede great crimes.
Whoever has ‘been able to transgress the limits
set by law’ may afterwards violate the most
sacred rights; crime, like virtue, has its degrees,
and never have we scen timid innocence pass
suddenly to extreme licentiousness.—facine.

Fear follows crime, and is its punishmeut.—
Voltaire,

The contagion of crime is like that of the
plague. Criminals collected togetlic¥ corrupt
each other; they are worse than ever when at
the termination of their punishment they re-
enter society. —2Vepolcon.

‘Those who nee themselves incapable of great
re ever backward to suspect others. —
Roche foucauld,

It is supposable that, in the eyes of angels,
a struggle down a dark lane and va. battle of
Leipsic differ in nothing but excess of wicked:
ness.— Wedlmott.

There is no den in the wide world to lide ‘a
roene. Commits crime, and the earth is made
of glass. Commit a crime, and it scems fa
coat of snow fell on the gronnd, such reveals
in the woods the track of every partridge and
fox, and squirrel and mole.—Z'merson.

Most people fancy themselves innocent of
those crimes of which they cannot he convicted.
Seneca.

The perfection of +a thing consists in its cs-
sence; there are perfect criminals, as there are
men of perfect probity —Le Locke.

CRISIS.

There is a moment of difficulty and danger
at whieh flattery and falschood can no longer
deceive, and simplicity itself can no longer be
misled.—Junius.

CRITICISM.

Criticism is the child ‘and handmaid of re-
flection. It works by censure, and censure im-
plies a standard.—Richard Grant White.

There is ta certain meddlesome spirit which,
in the garb ‘of Iearned research, goes prying
about the traces of history, casting down its
monuments, and marring and mutilating its
fairest trophies. Care should be taken to vin-
digate great names from such pernicious erudi-
tion — Washington Lreing.

Ten censure wrong for one who writes
amiss.—-Pope.

Neither praise nor blame is thé object of true
criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to es-
tablish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to
award, — these‘are the true aitas and duties of
criticism.— Simms. -

Criticism is like champagne, nothing more
execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good ;
if meagre, mnddy, vapid, and sony, both are fit
only to engender colic and wind; but if rich,
generous, and sparkling, they communicate 2
genial glow to the -spirits, improve the taste,
and expand the heart— Colton.

There is scarcely 1 good eritic of hooks horn
in our. age, and yet every fool thinks himself
justified in criticising persons.— Bulwer Lytton.

The purity of the eritical ermine, like that
of the judicial, is often soiled by contact with
polities. — Whipple.


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CRITICISM.

Doubtless eriticism was originally benignant,
pointing out the beanties of a work rather than
its defects. The passions of men have made it
malignant, as the had heart of Procrustes turned
the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instru-
ment of torture.—Lonyfellow.

The most noble criticism is that in which
the critic is not the antagonist so mnch as the
rival of the!author.—Disraeli.

It is quite cruel that a poct cannot wander
through his regions of enchantment without
having a critic forever, like the Old Man of the
Sea, upon his back.—ioore.

Get your enemies to read your works in
order to mend them, for your friend is 50 much
your second self that he will judge too like you.

Pope.

Criticism must never be sharpened into
anatomy. The delicate veins of fancy may be
traced, and the rich blood that gives bloom and
health to the complexion of thought be resolved
into its clements. Stop there. The lite of the
imagination, as of the body, disappears when
we pursuc it.— Willmott.

Crities are sentinels in the grand army of
letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers
and reviews, to challenge every new author.—

Longfellow.

The critic, as he is currently termed, who is
discerning in nothing but faults, may care little
to be told that this is the mark of nuiamiable
dispositions or of bad passions; but he might
not feet equally easy, were he convinced that
he thus gives the mot absolute proofs of igno-
yance and want of taste.—J/aceulloch,

Is it in destroying and pulling down that
skill is displayed ? The shallowest understand-
ing, the rudest hand, is more than equal to that
task.— Burke.

The malignant deity Criticism dwelt on the
top of a snowy mountain in Nova Zembla;
Momus found her extended in her den upon
the spoils of numberless volumes half devoured.
At her right hand sat Ignorance, her father and
husband, blind with age ; at her left, Pride, her
mother, dressing her up in the scraps of paper
berself had torn. There was Opinion, her
sister, light of foot, hoodwinked, and headstrong,
yet giddy and perpetually turning. About her

layed her children, Nvise and Impudence,
Julness..and Vanity, Positiveness, Pedantry,
and Tl Manners.— Swift.

It is a maxim with me that no man was
ever written out of reputation but by himself.—
Bentley.

It is ridiculons for any man to criticise on
the works of another who has not distinguished
himself by his own performances.—Addison.

| There are some books and characters so
pleasant, or rather which contain so much that
1s pleasant, that criticism is perplexed or silent.
The hounds are perpetually at fault among the
sweet-scented herbs and flowers that grow at
, the base of Etna —J. £. Boyes.

OF all the ecants in this canting world,
deliver me from the cant of criticism.— Sterne.

He who would reproach an anthor for ob-
senrity shonld lvok into his own mind to see
whether it is quite clear there. In the dusk the
plainest writing is ilegible.— Goethe.

One interesting feature of criticism is seen
in the case with which it discovers what Addi-
son called the specific quality of an author. In
Livy, it will be the manner of telling the story ;
in Sallust, personal identitication with the char-
acter; in Tacitus, the analysis of the deed into
its motive. If the same test be applied to paint-
ers, it will find the prominent faculty of Cor-
reggio to be manifested in harmony of effect ;
of Poussin, in the sentiment of his landscapes ;
and of Raffaelle, in the gencral comprehension
of his subjeet.— Wilinott.

Critics must excuse me if I compare them
to certain animals called asses, who, by gnawing
vines, originally tanghe the great‘advantage of
pruning them.—Shenstone.

It is necessary a writing critic should ander-
stand how to write. And though every writer
is not bound to show himself in the capacity
of critic, every writing critic is bound to show
himself capable of being a writer; for if he be
apparently impotent in this latter kind, he is to
be denicd all title or character in the other.—

Shajlesbury.

Criticism is as often a trade-as a science ; it
requiring more health than wit, more labor than
capacity, more practice than genius.—Bruyére.

A true critic, in the perusal of a book, is like
a dog ata feast, whose thoughts and stomach
are wholly set upon what the guests fling away,
and consequently is apt to snarl most when
there are the fewest bones.— Swift.

The fangs of a bear and the tusks ofa wild
boar do not bite worse, and make deeper
igashes, than a‘goosequill sometimes; no, not
even the badger himself, who is said to be so
tenacious of his bite that he will not give over
his hold till he feels his teeth mect, and the
bones crack.— Howell.

The eyes of critics, whether in commending
or carping, are both on one side, like a turbot’s,
Lando.

We rarely meet with persons that have true
judgment; which, to many, renders literature
a very tiresome knowledge. Guvod judges are
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CRUELTY.

Criticism often. takes from the tree cater-
pillars and blossoms together—/tehter.

Some critics are like chimney-sweepers ;
they pnt out. the tire below, and frighten the*
swallows from their nests above 5 they-serupe a
long time in the chinmey, cover themselves
with soot, and bring nothing away but a bag
of cinders, and then sing from the top of the
house as if they had built it.—Long/ellow.

Tf a frleless poem could be produeed, Tam
satistied it would tire the critics themselves, and

,
annoy the whole reading world with the spleen,
Walter Scott.

Professional eritics are incapable of distin-
gushing and ‘appreciating cither diamonds in
the rongh state or gold iu bars. ‘They are
traders, and in. liternture know oily the coins
that are’ current. Their criticism hus seales
and weights, but neitdier crucible ver touch-
stoue,—Jonbert.

Tt is the heart that makes the critic, not the
nose.—iiux Miiller.

The exercise of criticism always destroys for
a.time our sensibility to beauty by_ leading us
to regard the work in relation tu certiin laws
of construction, ‘The eye turns from the charms

| of nature to fix itself upon the servile dexterity

It behvoves the minor critie Who hunts for
blemishes to be a little distrustful of his own
sagacity.— Junius.

Of all mortals a critic is the silliest; for,
inuring himself to exantine all things whether
they ure of consequence or not, meyer looks
upon anything but with a design of passing sen-
tence npon it; by which means he is never a
companion, but.always a censor.— Steele.

Te wreathed the rod of criticism with roses.
Disraeli.

The pleasure of eriticism takes from us that
of being deeply moved by very beautiful things
Bruytre.

A poet that fails in writing heeomes often‘a
morose critic. The weak and insipid white-,
wine makes at length excellent vinegar.—- ‘

Shenstone.

It is easy to eriticise an-author, but it is
difficult to appreciate hin — Vauvencargues.

If men of wit-and genins would resolve never
to complain in their works of critics and de-
tractors, the next-age would not know thats
they ever had any.— Swift.

CRITICS.

Critics are.a kind of freebooters in the re-
publie of letters, who, like deer, -gonts,’ and
divers other graminivorous animals, gain sub-
sistence by gurging upon buds and leaves of the
youn. shrnbs of the forest, thereby robbing
them of their yerdure and retarding their pro-
gress to matuvity.— [Pashington freing.

ity
Es

To be a mere verbal critic is what no man
of xenius would be if he could; but to besa
critic of true taste and fecling is what 10 man
without genius could be if he wonld.—Colton.

He whose first emotion on the view of an
excellént production is to undervalue it will
never have one of his own to show,—slikin.

The severest critics are always those. who
have cither never.attempted, or who have failed
in original composition. —Zfazldt.

of art.— Alison.

It is not enough for a render to be unpre-
judiced, He should remember that a book is to
be studicd, as a picture is hung. Nut only
must a bad Hight be avoided, but-a good one
obtained. ‘Yhis taste supplies. It puts a his-
tory, a tale, or a poem in a just point of view,
and there examines the execution.— |Vilinott.

“Hold their farthing candle to the sun.—
Young.
CRUELTY.
The man who prates about the cruelty of
angling will be found invariably fo beat his
witt.— Christopher North.

The cruelty of the effeminate is more dread-
ful than that of the hardy—Lacater. .

I Would not enter on my list of friends
(thongh graced with polished manners and fine
sense, vet wanting sensibility) the man who
necdlessly sets foot upon a worm.—Couwper.

Cruelty‘and fear shake hands together.--
Balzae.

When the crucl fall into the hands of the
cruel, we read their fate with horror, not with
pity. Sylla commanded the bones of Marius to
be broken, his eyes to be pulled out, his hands to
be cut off, and his body to be torn in pieces with
pincers, and Catiline was the exeentioner. “A
picce of crnelty,” says Seneca, “only fit for
Marius to suffer, Catiline to exccute, and Sylla
to command.”— Colton.

All cruelty springs from weakness.—Seneca.

. Cruelty is no more the eure of crimes than
it is the cure of sufferings. Compassion, in the
‘first instance, is good for both ; I have known it
to bring compunetion when nothing else would.

Landor,

Much more may & judge overweigh himself
in cruelty than in clemency.—Sir P.Sidney.

Let me be ernel, not unnatural; 1 will sperk
daggers to her, but use none; my tongue and
soul in this be hypocrites —Shakespenre.


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CULTIVATION.

Detested sport, that owes its pleasures to
-another’s pain.— Cowper.

Nothing is so pregnant as cruelty ; so multi-
farious, so rapid, so ever teeming a mother is
unknown to the animal kingdom ; each of her
experiments provokes another and refines upon
the lust; thongh always progressive, yet always
remote from the eud.—Lavater.

CULTIVATION,

Tt is very rare to find ground which pro-
duces nothing ; if it is not covered with flowers,
with fruit-trees and grains, i¢ produces briers
and pines. It is the same with man; if he is
not virtuons, he becomes vieious.—Bruyére.

Partial eultnre runs to the ornate; extreme
culture to simplicity —Bovee.

The earth flourishes, or is overrnn with
noxious weeds and branibles, as we apply or
withhold the enltivating hand. So fares it with
the intellectual system of man. If you are‘a
parent, then, consider that the good or ill dispo-
sitions and principles yon please to cultivate in
the mind of your infant may hereafter preserve
anation in prosperity, or hang its fate on the
point of the sword.—Zforace Jlann.

Reading makes a full man, conference a
ready man,and writing an exact man.—Bacon.

There is no reason why the brown hand of
labor should not bold Thomson as well as the
sickle. Ornamental reading shelters and even
strengthens the growth of what is merely use-
ful. A cornficld never returns a poorer crop
because a few wild-flowers bloom in the hedge.
The refinement of the poor is the triumph of
Christian civilization.— Willmott.

A well-cnitivated mind is, so to speak, made

up of all the minds of preceding-ages ; it is |

only one single mind which has been educated
dnring all this time.—F'ontenelle.

It matters little whether a man be mathe-
matically or philologically or artistically culti-
vated, so he be but cultivated.— Goethe.

Whatever expands the affections, or en-
larges the sphere of our sympathies, — what-
ever makes us feel onr relation to the mniverse,
and all that it inherits, in time and in eternity, to
the great and beneficent Canse of all, must un-
questionably refine our nature, and elevate us
in the scale of being.— Channing.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as
food is to the body.— Cicero.

Not that the moderns are born with more
wit than their predecessors, but, finding the
world better furnished at their coming into it,
they have more leisure for new thoughts, more
light to direct them, and more hints to work
upon.—Jeremy Collier.

108

CUNNING.

As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot
be productive without culture, so the mind,
without cultivation, can never produce good
fruit.— Seneca.

A man’s nature runs either to herbs or
weeds; therefore let him seasonably water the
one and destroy the other.—Lady Gethin.

I am very sure that any man of common
understanding may, by culture, care, attention,
and labor, make himself whatever he pleases,
except a great poet.— Chesterfield.

CUNNING.

Cunning leads to knavery; it is but a step
from one to the other, and that very slippery ;
lying only makes the difference ; add to that cun-
ning,-and it is knavery.—-Bruyére.

This is the fruit of craft; like him that shoots
up high, looks for the shaft, and finds it in his
forehead.—ALiddleton.

Cunning is the art of concealing our own
defects, and discovering other people’s weak-
nesses.— Hualitt.

Whoever appears to bave much cunning
has in_ reality very little; being deficient in the
essential article, which is, to hide ennning.—

Henry IZome.

Cunning pays no regard to virtne, and is
but the Jow mimic of wisdom.—Dolinglroke.

The common practice of eunning is the sign
of .a small genius; it almost always happens
that those who use it to cover themselves in one
place lay themselves open in another.— \

Rochefoucauld.

Cunning is none of the best nor worst quali-
ties; it floats between virtue and vice; there is
searce any exigence where it may not, and per-
haps ought not to be supplied by prudence.—

Bruyere.

Knowledge without justice ought to be
called cnnning rather than wisdom.—FPlato.

All my own experience of life teaches me
the contempt of cunning, not the fear. The
phrase “ profonnd ennning ” has always seemed
to me a contradiction in terms. I never knew
acunning mind which was not either shallow
or on some point diseased.—Jérs. Jameson.

We take cunning for a sinister or crooked
wisdom ; and certainly there is a great difference
between a cunning man and ‘a wise man, not
only in point of honesty, but in point of ability.

Bacon.

It has been a sort of maxim that the greatest
art is to conceal art; but I know uot how,
among some people we meet with, their greatest
cunning is to appear cunnihg.—Steele.


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CURIOSITY.

109

CURIOSITY.

The most sure method of subjecting your-
self to be deceiver is to consider yourself more
eunning than others.—Jochefoucauld,

_. Cunning is only the mimic of discretion, and
may pass upon mean men in the same manner
as vivacity is often mistaken for wit, and gravity
for wisdom.—Addison.

Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.—
W. R. Alger.

Cunning has only private’ selfish aims, and
sticks -at_ nothing which may make them sue-
eced, Discretion has large and extended views,
and, like a well-formed eye, commands a whole
horizon ; cunning is a kind of short-sighte«ness,
that diseovers the minutest objects which are
near at hand, but is not able to discern things
at a distance. —Addison.

In-a great business there is nothing so fatal
as cunning management.—/unius.

Those who are overreaehed by our cunning
are far from appearing to us as ridicnlous as
we appear to ourselves when the cunning of
others has overreached us.—Rochefoucauld.

Cunning to wisdom is as an‘ape to man.—
Villiam Penn.

The whole power of cunning is privative ;
to say nothing, and to do nothing, is the utmost
of its reach. Yet men, thns narrow hy nature
and mean by art, are sometimes able to rise by
the miscarriages of bravery and the openness
of integrity,and, watching failures and snateh-
ing opportunities, obtain advantages which be-
long to higher characters.—Johnson.

A cunning man_overreaches no one half as
mueh as himself.— Beecher.

Hurry and cunning are the two apprentices
of deSpatch and of skill; but neither of them
ever learn their masters’ trade.—Colton.

The bounds of a'man’s knowledge.are easily
concealed if he has but prudence.— Goldsmith.

The very eunn’ng conceal their cunning ;
the indifferently shrewd boast of it —Bovce.

The greatest of all cunning is to seem blind
to the snares which we know to be laid for us.
Men are never so easily deceived as while they
are endeavoring to deceive others.—

Rochefoucauld.
CURIOSITY,

Men are moré inelined to ask curious ques-

tions than to obtain necessary instruction. —
Pasquier Quesnel.

OF all the faculties of the human mind, eu-
riosity is that which is the most fruitful or the
most barren in effective results, according as it
is well or badly directed —Palnieri.

No heart is empty of the humor of curiosity,
the beggar béing as attentive in his station to
an improvement of knowledge as the prince.—

Osborn,

Avoid him who from mere curiosity asks
three questions running about a thing that ean-
not interest him.—Lavuler. :

The over-enrious are not over wise.—
Massinger.

._ Who forees himself on others is to himself
a.load. Impetuous curiosity is empty and in-
constant. Prying intrusion may be suspected
of whatever is little. —Laveter.

The first and simplest emotion which we
diseover in the human mind is curiosity. —Burke.

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.

The enriosity of an honorable mind willing-
ly rests there where the love of truth does not
urge it farther onward, and the love of its neigh-
bor 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.

«Curiosity is as much the parent of attention
as attention isof memory.— }Whately.

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.

_ The euriosity of knowing things has been
given to man for a scourge.— Bible.

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I loathe that low vice curiosity. —Byron.

There is philosophy in the remark that
every man has in his own life follies enough,
in the performance of his duty deficiencies
enough, in his own mind trouble enongh,
without being curious after the affairs of others.

Dibdin.

O this itch of the ear, that breaks out'at the
tongue! Were not curiosity so over-busy, de-
traction would soon be starved to death.—

Douglas Jerrold.

Curiosity is the direct incontinency of the
spirit. Knock therefore at the door before you
enter upon your neighbor’s privacy; and re-
member that there ts no difference between
entering into his house and looking into it—

Jeremy Taylor.

He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees
a counterfeit Dryden.


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CURSES.

110

CYNICISM.

_ Curiosity is the most superficial of all. the
affections ; it changes its object perpetnally ; it
has an appetite which is very sharp, but very
easily satistied, and it has always an appearance
of giddiness, restlessness, and anxiety.— Burke.

Inquisitive people are the fnnnels of con-
versation; they do not take i# anything for
their own use, but merely to pass it to another.

Steele.

Curiosity is one of the permanent and cer-
tain characteristics of a vigorons intellect.
Every advance into knowledge opens new pros-
pects, and prodnces new ineitements to further
progress.— Johnson.

CURSES.

Let this pernicious hour stand aye accursed
in the ealendar ! —Shakespeure.

A curse is like a cloud, — it passes.—Builey.

We let onr blessings get mouldy, and then
call them curses.— Beecher.

_ Dinna curse him, sir; I have heard a good
man say that a curse was like a stone flung up
to the heavens,.and m like 10 return on his
head that sent it— Walter Scott.

Curses are like young chickens and still
come home to roost.— Bulwer Lytton.

CUSTOM.

The influence of costume is incalculable ;
dress a boy ‘as 2 man ani he will at once change
his own conception of himself—Bayle St. John.

Custom does often reason overrule.—
Rochester.

Custom is the great leveller. It corrects the
inequality of fortune by lessening equally the
pleasures of the prince and the pains of the
peasant —ZHenry Lome.

The way of the world is to make laws, but
follow customs.—ALontaiyne.

Choose always the way that seems the best,
however rongh it may be. Custom will render
it éasy and agreeable.—Pythagoras.

New customs, though they be never so ridic-
ulous, nay, let them be unmanly, yet are fol-
lowel.— Shakespeare.

Can there be any greater dotage in the
world than for one to guide and’ direct his
courses by the sonnd of a.bell, and not by his own
judgment and discretion ? —Rabelais.

Custom is the law of fools.—Vanbrugh

There are not unfrequently substantial rea-
sons underneath for customs that appear to us
absurd.— Charlotte Bronte. -

The custom and fashion of to-day will be
the awkwardness and outrage of to-morrow. So
arbitrary are these transient laws.—Dumas.

Custom is the law of one description of fools,
and fashion of another; but the two parties of-
ten clash, for precedent is the legislator of the
first and novelty of the last.—Colton.

Be not so bigoted to any custom as to wor-
ship it at the expense of truth.—Aimmermann.

Be not too rash in the breaking of an incon-
venient custom ; as it was gotten, so leave it by
degrees. Danger attends upon too sudden al-
terations ; he that pulls down-a bad building’ by
the great may be rnined by the fall, but he
thas takes it down brick by brick may live to
build_a-better.— Quarles.

A custom more honored in the breach than
the observance.— Shakespeare.

Men commonly think according to their in-
clinations, speak according to their learning
and imbibed opinions; but generally act ae-
cording to custom.—Bacon.

Custom, though never so ancient, without
truth, is but an old error.—Cyprian.

As the world leads we follow.—Seneca.

Custom is the tyranny of the lower hnman
faculties over the higher.—dA/adume Necker.

Parents fear the destruction of natural af-
feetion in their children. What is this natural
principle so liable todecay ? Habit is a second
nature, which destroys the first. Why is not
custom nature? J suspect that this-nature it-
self is but a first custom, us custom is-a second
nature.—Paseal.

There is no tyrant like enstom, and no free-
dom where its edicts are not resisted.— Bovee.

Custom is a violent and treacherous schoo)-
mistress. She, by little and little, slyly and un-
perceived, slips in the foot of her authority ; but
having by this gentle and humble beginning,
with the benefit of time, fixed‘and established it,
she then unmasks a furious and tyrannic coun-
tenance, against which we have no more the
courage or the power so much as to lift up our
eyes.— Montaigne.

Custom may lead a_man into many errors ;
but it justifies none:—Fielding.

The ancients tell us what is best; but we

must learn of the moderns what is fittest.—
Franklin.
CYNICISM,

Trnst him little who smilingly praises all
alike, him less who sneeringly censures all
alike, him least who is coldly indifferent to all
alike.—Lavater.


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DANCING.

Lil

DANGER.

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. The
eynie puts all human actions into two classes,
openly bad and secretly bad. All virtue
and generosity and disinterestedness are merely
the appearance of good, but selfish at the bot-
tom. Ile holds that no man does a good thing
except for profit. The effeet of his conversation
upon yonr feclings is to chill and sear them ; to
send you away, sour and morose. His criti-
cisms and hints fall indiscriminately npon every
lovely thing, like frost npon flowers — Beecher.

Indifference to alt the actions and passions
of mankind was not supposed to be such a dis-
tinguished quality‘at that time, think. Ihave
known it very fashionable indeed. I have seen
it displayed with such suceess that I have encoun-
tered some fine ladies and gentlemen who might
as well have been born caterpillars.— Dickens.

Don’t hang a dismal picture on the wall,
and do not danb with sables and glooms in
your conversation. Don’t be a cynic-and dis-
consolate preacher. Don’t bewail and bemoan,
Omit the negative propositions. Nerve us with
incessant allirmatives. Don't waste yourself in
rejection, nor bark'against the bad, but chant
the beauty of the good. When that ts spoken
which has a right to be spoken, the chatter and
the criticism will stop. Set down nothing that
will not help somebody.—£ merson.

_ Nu admirari is the motto which men of the
world always affect. They think it vulgar to
wonder, or be enthusiastic. They have so mneh
corruption and so much charlatanism that they
think the credit of all high qualities must be
delusive.—Sir Egerton Brydyes.

There is so much trouble in coming into the
world, and go much more,‘as well as meanness,
in going out of it, that it is hardly worth while
to be here at all.—Lord Bolingbroke.

D.

DANCING.

Learn to dance, not so mneh for the sake
of dancing, as for- coming into a room, and
presenting yourself genteelly and gracefnlly.
Women, whom yon onght to endeavor to please,
cannot forgive a vulgar and awkward air and
gestures.— Chesterfield.

In swimming dance on airs soft billows
float.—ALilton.

T have suffered more from my bad dancing
than from all the misfortunes and miseries of
ty life put together.—Landor,

I love these rural dances, — from my heart
Tlove them. This world, at best, is full of care
and sorrow ; the life of a poor man is-so stained
with the sweat of his brow, there is so much
toil and struggling and anguish ‘and disap-
pointment, here below, that I gaze with delight
on a scene where all those are laid aside and
forgotten, and the heart of the toil-worn peas-
ant scems to throw off its load.—Zongfellow.

Well was it said by a man of sagacity, that
dancing was a sort of privileged and reputable
folly, and that the best way to be convinced of
this was to close the ears, and judge of it by
the eyes alone.—Goithold.

No amusement seems more to have a foun-
dation in our natire. The animation of yonth
overflows spontanconsly. in harmonions move-
ments. The true idea of dancing entitles it to
favor. Its end is to realize perfeet grace in
motion ; and who docs not know that. sense
of the graceful is one of the higher faculties of
our nature ? —Channing.

The cymnasinm of running, walking on
stilts, climbing, etc. steels and makes hardy
single powers and muscles; bnt dancing, like
a corporeal poesy, embellishes, exercises, and
equalizes all the muscles at once.—Richter.

. Dance, dance, as long as ye can;_we must
travel through life, but why make a dead march
of it? —Eliza Cook.

Flushed with the beautiful motion of the
dance.— Willis.

DANGER.

Dangers are no more light if they once
seem light, and more dangers have deceived
men than forced them; nay, it were better to
meet some dangers half-way, though they come
nothing near, than to keep too long.a watch
npon their approaches; for if a man watch too
long, it is odds he will-fall fast asleep.— Bacon.

That danger which is despised arrives the
soonest.—Laberius. “

A timid person is frightened before a-danger,
a coward during the time, and a courageous
person afterwards.—Richter.

A man’s opinion of danger varies ‘at differ-
ent times, in consequence of an irregular tide of
animal spirits ; and he is actuated by considera-
tions which he dares not avow.—Smollet.

We should never so entirely avoid danger as
to appear irresolute and cowardly ; but, at the
same time, we should: avoid unnecessarily ex-
posing onrselves to danger, than which nothing
ean be more foolish.—Cicero.


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DAUGHTER.

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112

DEATH.

We triumph ‘without glory when we con-|
quer without danger.— Corneille.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent
it; he that fears otherwise gives advantage to
the danger; it is less folly not to endeavor the
prevention of the evil thou fearest than to fear
the evil which thy endeavor cannot prevent.—

Quarles.

Thon dwarf dressed up in giant’s clothes,
that showest far off still greater than thou art.—
Suckling.

Danger levels man_and_ brute, and all are
fellows in their need.— Byron.

DAUGHTER.

A danghter is an embarrassing and ticklish
possession. —Afenander.

To a father waxing old nothing is dearer
than a daughter; sons have spirits of higher
pitch, but less inclined to sweet endearing fond-
ness. —Luripides.

Still harping on my daughter.—
Shakespeare.
DEATH.
Deliverer! God hath anointed thee to frec
the oppressed, and crush the oppressor.—
Bryant.

Living is death ; dying is life. We are not
what we appear to be. On this side of the
grave we are exiles, on that citizens ; on this side
orphans, on that children; on this side captives,
on that freemen; on this side disguised, un-
known, on that disclosed and proclaimed as the
sons of God.—Beecher. -

If some men died and ofhers did not, death
would indeed be a most mortifying evil.—
Bruyére.

We hold death, poverty, and grief for our
principal enemies; but this death, which some
repute the most dreadful of all dreadful things,
who does not know that others call it the only
secure harbor from the storms and tempests of
life, the sovereign good of nature, the sole
support of liberty, and the common and sudden
remedy of all evils ? —Afontaigne.

We so converse every night with the image
of death that every morning we find an argu-
ment of the resurrection. Sleep and death have
but one mother, and they have one name in
common.—Jeremy Taylor.

Death shuns the naked throat and proffered
breast; he flies when called to be a welcome
guest.—Sir Charles Sedley.

We look at death through the cheap-glazed
windows of the flesh, and believe him the mon-
ster which the flawed and cracked glass repre-
sents him.—LZowell.

Birth into this life was the death of the em-
bryo life that preceded,-and the death of this
will be birth into some new mode of being. —

Rev. Dr. Hedge.

Friend to the wretch whom every friend for-
sakes, I woo thee, Death! Life and its joys I
leave to those that prize them. Hear me, |
gracious God! At thy good time let Death ap-
proach; I reck not, let him but come in gen-
uine form, not with thy vengeance armed, too
much for man to bear.— Bishop Porteus.

Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes
falsehoods, or betrays its emptiness; it is a
touchstone that proves the gold, and dishonors
the baser metal. —/Zawthorne.

I have heard that death takes us away from
ill things, not from good. I have heard that
when we pronounce the name of man we pro-
nounce the belief of immortality.—£mersou.

It is infamy to die, and not be missed.—
Carlos Wilcox.

Of all the evils of the world which are re-
proached with an evil character, death is the
most innocent of its accusation.— .

Jeremy Taylor.

All my possessions for a moment of time.
— Last words of —Queen Elizabeth.

The birds of the air die to sustain thee; the
beasts of the field dic to nonrish thee; the fishes
of the sea die to feed thee. Our stomachs are
their common sepulchre. Good God! with how
many deaths are our poor lives patched up!
how full of death is the life of momentary man!

Quarles.

When-a man dies they who survive"him ask
what property he has lett behind. The angel
who bends over the dying man asks what good
deeds he has sent before him.—Koran.

I have ‘often thought of death, and I find it
the least of all evils.—Jeremy Taylor.

Where all life dies, death lives.— Ailton.

All death in nature is birth, and at the mo-
ment of death appears visibly the rising of life.
There is no dying principle in nature, for nature
throughout is unniixed life, which, concealed
behind the old, begins again and develops itself.
Death as well as birth is simply in itself, in
order to present itself ever more brightly and
more like to itself—Fvehte.

Men must endure their going hence, even
as their coming hither ; ripeness is all.—
Shakespeare.

T look upon death to be as necessary to our
constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed
in the morning.—Franklin.


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DEATH.

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Could we but know one ina hundred of the
close approachings of. the skeleton, we should
lead -a_ Ttfe of perpetual shudder. Often -ind
often do his bony fingers almost elitch onr
throat, or his foot is put out to pive us: 2 cross
buttock. But a saving arm pulls him back ere
we have scen’so much as his shadow.— —_~

oe Professor Wilson.

Js death the Jast sleep? No, it is the last
final awakening.— Walter Scott.

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 unknown before.

Bazter.

Death is the tyrant of the imagination. His
reign is in solitade and darkness, in tombs, and
prisons, over weak hearts"and secthing brains.
Tie lives, without shape or sound, a phantasm,
inaccessible to sight or touch, —a ghastly and
terrible apprehension.—Barry Cormeall.

It is not I who dic, when I die, but my sin
und miscry.—Gotthold.

It isan exquisite and beautifil thing in our
nature, that, when the heart is tonched and soft-
ened by some tranquil happiness or affectionate
feeling, the memory of the dead comes over it
most powerfully and irresistibly. It. would seem
almost as thouglY our better thonghts and sym-

athies were charms, in virtue of which the soul]
1s enabled to hold some vague and mysterions
intercourse with the spirits of those wham we
loved in life. Alas! how often and how long
may these paticnt angels hover around us,
watching for the spell which is so soon forgot-
ten !—Dickens.

Cullen whispered in his last moments: “1
wish I had the power of writing or speaking,
for then I would describe to you how pleasant
a thing it is to die.’—Dr. Derby.

Death, remembered, should be like a mirror,
who tells us life is but a breath; to trust it,
error.— Shakespeare.

The good die first; and they whose hearts
are dry as summer dust burn to the socket.—
Wordsworth.

If one were to think continually of dcith,
the business of life would stand still, I-am no
friend to making religion appear too hard.
Many good people have done harm by giving
too severe notions to it.—JoAnson.

The fear of approaching death, which in
youth we imagine must cause inquictude co the
aged, is very seldom the source of much un-
easiness.—LHaxlitt.

Death hath no advantage but where it comes
a stranger.—Jeremy Taylor.

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To fear tleath is the way to live long ; to be
afraid of death is to be long a dying.— Quarles.

O Death, what art thon ? nurse of dreamless
slunbers freshening the fevered flesh to a wake
fulness eternal.— 7 ‘upper.

I scarcely know how it is, but the deaths of
children seem to me always less premature than
those of older persons. Not that they are in
fact so, but it is because they themselves have
little or no relation to time or maturity. —

Barry Cornwall.

Death is the ultimate boundary of human
matters.—ZZorace.

To mourn deeply for the death of another
loosens from myself the petty desire for, and the
animal ‘adherence to life. We have gained the
end of the philosopher, and view without shrink-
ing the coftin and the pall.— Bulwer Lytton.

‘All that nature has prescribed must be good ;
and as death is natural to us, it is absurdity to
fearit. Fear loses its purpose when we are sure
it cannot preserve us, and we should draw a
resolution to meet it from the impossibility to
escape it.— Steele.

O mighty Cesar! dost thou lic so low ? are
all thy conquests, glorics, triumphs, spoils,
shrunk to this little measure ? —Shakespeare.

If I were a writer of books, I would compile
‘a register, with the comment of the various
deaths of men; and it could not but be useful,
for who should teach men to dic would at the
same time teach them to live —Afontatgne.

Who is it that called time the avenger, yet
failed to see that death was the consoler?
What mortal afflictions are there to which death
docs not bring full remedy? What hurts of
hope and body does it not repair?“ This is-a
sharp medicine,” said Raleigh, speaking of the
axe, “but it cures all disorders.”—Siams.

Death is a-black camel, which kneels at tho
gates of al],—Abd-el-AKader.

To neglect at any time preparation for
death is to sleep ou our post at a siege ; to omit
it in old age is to sleep at an attack.—/ohnson.

Death, thou-art infinite ; it is life is little—
‘ . Bailey.

One may live as a conqueror, a king, or a!
magistrate; but he must die as a man —
Daniel Webster.

To how many is the death of the beloved
the parent of faith !—Bulwer Lytton.

The darkness of death is like the evening
twilight ; it makes all objects appear more lovely
to the dying —Aichter.


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ee eee

Death to a good man is but passing through
a dark entry, out of one little dusky room of
his Father’s honse into another that is fair and
large, lightsome and glorious, and divinely en-
tertaining—Adam Clarke.

The Pope can give no bull to dispense with
death.—Moltére.

Men may live fools, but fools they cannot
die.— Young.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom
cannot release, the physician of him whom med-
icine cannot cure, and the comforter of him
whom time cannot console.—Colton.

Tt were well to dic if there be gods, and sad
to live if there be none-—<Afarcus Antoninus.

Death is the only monastery; the tomb is
the only cell, and the grave that adjoins the
convent is the bitterest mock of its futility. —

Bulwer Lytton.

There is a sweet anguish. springing np in
our bosoms when a child’s face brightens under
the shadow of the waiting angel. “There is'an
autumnal fitness when age gives up the ghost ;
and when the saint dies there is a tearful victory.

. Chapin.

The happiest of pillows is not that which
love first presses; it is that which death has
frowned on and passed over.—Leandor.

Men fear death, as children fear the dark;
and as that natural fear in children is increased
by frightful tales, so is the other. Groans, con-
vulsions, weeping friends,‘and the like show
death terrible; yet there is no passion so weak
but conquers the fear of it, and therefore death
is not such a terrible enemy. Revenge tri-
umphs over death, love slights it, honor aspires
to it, dread of shame prefers it, grief flies to it,
and fear anticipates it— Bacon.

No evil is honorable: but death is honor-
able; therefore death is not evil.—Zeno.

Among the poor, the approach of dissolution
is usnally regarded with a quiet and natural
composure, which it is consolatory to contem-
plate, and which is as far removed from the
dead palsy of unbelief as it is from the delirious
raptires of fanaticism. Theirs is a true, un-
hesitating faith, and they are willing to lay
down the burden of a weary life, in the snre and
certain hope of'a blessed immortality.— Southey.

Death is the quiet haven of us all.—
Wordsworth.

Let death snd exile, and all other things
which appear terrible, be daily before your
eyes, bnt death chiefly; and you will never en-
tertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly
covet anything. —LEpictetus.

To me few things appear so beautifnl as a
very young child in its shroud. The little
innocent face looks so. sublimely simple and
contiding among the terrors of death. Crime-
less and fearless, that little mortal passed under
the shadow and explored the mystery of disso-
lution. There is death, in its sublimest and
purest image ; no hatred, no hypocrisy, no sus-
picion, no care for the morrow, ever darkened
that little one’s face; death has come lovingly
upon it; there is nothing cruel or harsh it its
victory —Leigh Hunt.

To die, I own, is a dread passage, — terrible
to nature, chiefly -to those who have, like ine,
been happy — Thomson.

Can we wonder that men perish dnd are
forgotten, when their noblest-and most enduring
works decay? Death comes even to monnu-
mental structures, and oblivion rests on the
most illustrious names.—Jfarcus Antoninus.

Death comes equally to us all, and makes us
all eqnal when it comes. The ashes of an oak
in a chimney are no epitaph of that, to tell me
how high or how large that was; it tells me
not What flocks it sheltered while it stvod, nor
what men it hwt when it fell. The dust of
great persons’ graves is speechless too; it says
nothing, it distinguishes nothing.—Donne.

Death alone of the gods: loves not gifts, nor
do you need to offer incense or libations; he
cares.not for altar nor hymn; the goddess of -
Persuasion alone of the gods has no power over
him.— Horace.

At the last, when we die, we have the dear
angels for our escort on the way. They who
ean grasp the whole world in their hands can
surely also gnard our souls, that they make that
last journey safely.— Luther.

Soon as man, expert from time, has fonnd
the key of life, it opes the gates of death.—
Young.

Death, whether it regards ourselves or oth-
ers, appears less terrible in war than at home.
The cries of women and children, friends in
anguish, 2 dark room, dim tapers, priests and
physicians, are what affect us the most on the
death-bed. Behold us already more than half
dead and buried.—Henry Lome.

Death is a friend of onrs; aud he that is

not ready to entertain him is not at home.—
Bacon,

Some men make a womanish complaint,
that it is a great misfortune to die before our
time. I would ask what time? Is it that of
Nature? But she, indeed, has lent us life,'as
we do a sum of money, only no certain day is
fixed for payment. What reason then to com-
plain if she demands it at pleasure, since it was
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Ephemera die nll at sunset, and no insect of
this class has ever sported in the beams ofthe
morning sun. Happier are ye, little human
ephemera! Ye played only in, the ascending
beams, and in the early dawn, and in the east-
ern light; ye drank only of the prelibations of
lite; hovered for a little space over a world of
freshness and of blossoms; and fell tasleep.in
innocence before yet the morning dew wis ex-
haled ! —Richter.

That we shall dic we know; it is but the
time, and drawing days out, that men stand
upon.—Shakespeare.

Earth has one angel less, and heaven one
more, since yesterday. .Already, kneeling at
the throne, she has received heravelcome, and is
resting on the bosom of her Saviour. If hnman
love have power to penetrate the veil, (and hath
it not ?) then there are yet living here a few who
have the blessedness of knowing that an angel
loves them.— /Zawthorne.

How could the hand that gave such charms
blast them again ? —.1oore.

It matters not at what hour of the day the
rightcous fall -asleep; death cannot come to
him untimely who is fit to die; the less of this
cold world, the more of heaven, — the briefer
life, the earlier immortality.—Z. ZZ. Jfitman,

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to
draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.—
Lowell.

O, if the deeds of human creatures could be
traced to their source, how beautiful would even
death appear; for how much charity, mercy,
and purisded affection would be scen to have
their growth in dusty graves ! —Dickens.

Death ready stands to interpose his dart.—
Bilton.

_ Many persons sigh for death when it scems
far off, but the inclination vanishes when the
bout upsets, or the locomotive runs off the track,
or-the measles set-in —T. W. [Higginson.

No better armor against the darts of death
than to be busied in God’s service. —
Thomas Fuller.

Pale death enters with impartial step the
cottages of the poor and the palaces of the rich,
FTorace.

The realm of death sceins an enemy’s coun-
try to most men, on whose shores they are
loathly driven by stress of weather ; to the wise
man itis the. desired ‘port where ie moors his
bark-gladly, as in some quiet haven of the For-
tunate Isles; it is the golden west into which
his sun sinks, and, sinking, casts back a glory
upon .the leaden cloud-tack which had darkly
besieged his day.—Lowell.

Death reigns in all the portions of our time.
The antumn with its frnits provides disorders
for us, and the winter’s cold turns them into
sharp diseases, and the spring brings flowers to
strew onr hearse, and the summer gives green
turf and brambles to bind upon onr graves.
Calentures and surfeit, cold and :agues, are the
"four quarters of the year, and all minister to
death; and you can go no whither bnt vou
tread upon a dead man’s bones.—Bishop Taylor.

Death and the sun are not to be looked a
steadily.—LRtochefoucauld. -

Against specious appearances we must set
clear couvictions, bright and ready for use.
When death appears as an evil, we ought im-
mediately to remember that evils are things to
be avoided, but death is inevitable. —Lpictetus,

Death gives-us sleep, eternal youth, and im-
mortality.— Richter. ~

The more we sink into the infirmities of age,
the nearer we are to immortal youth. All peo-
ple‘are young in the other world. That state
is an eternal spring, ever fresh and flourishing.
Now, to pass from midnight into noon on the

sudden, to be decrepit one minute and all
spirit and activity the next, must be a desirable
change. To call this dying is an abuse of lan-
guage.—Jeremy Collier.

Ah! surely nothing dics but something
mourns.— Byron.

When death strikes down the innocent and
young, for every fragile form from which he Iets
the panting spirit free, a hundred virtues rise, in
shapes of mercy, charity, and love, to walk the
world and bless it. Of every tear that sorrow-
ing mortals shed on such green graves, some
good is born, some gentler nature comes.—

Dickens.

Death is a commingling of eternity with
time; in the death of a good nan eternity is
seen looking through time.— Goethe.

Death is a mighty mediator. There all the
flames of rage are extinguished, hatred is ‘ap-
peased, and angelic pity, like a weeping sister,
bends with gentle and close embrace over the
funeral urn.—Schiller.

If life be a pleasure, yet, since death also is
sent by the hand of the same Master, neither
should that displease us.—Afichael Angelo.

There are flowers which only yield their
fragrance to the night; there are faces whose
‘beanty only fully opens out in death. ‘No more
wrinkles.; no drawn,. distorted lineaments ; an
expression of ‘cxtreme humility, blended with
gladness of hope; a serene brightness, and an
jideal straightening of the ontline, as if the Di-
vine finger, source of supreme beauty, had been
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If thon expect death«as a friend, prepare to
entertain him; if thou expect death as an ene-
my, prepare to overcome him; death has no
advantage but when he comes a stranger.—

Quarles.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is
death.—Bible.

Death did not first strike Adam, the first
sinfnl man, nor Cain, the first hypocrite, but,
Abel, the innocent and righteous. The first’
son] that met with death, overcame death; the
first soul that 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. —Bishop Hall.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so
necessary, and so universal as death should ever
have been designed by Providence as an evil to
mankind.—Suv/t.

He that always waits upon God is ready
whensoever he calls. Neglect not to sect your
accounts even; he is a happy man who so tives
ag that death at all times may find him at leisure
to die.—freltham.

What! is there no bribing death ?— Dying
words of-—Curdinal Beaufort.

Everything dies, and on this spring morn-
ing, if I lay my ear to the ground, I seein to hear
from every point of the compass, the heavy step
of men who carry a corpse.to its burial.—

Madame de Gasparin.

There is no finite life except unto death ; no
death except unto higher life.—Bunsen.

Death, of all estimated evils, is the only one
whose presence never incommoded anybody, and
which only canses concern during its absence.—

Arcesilaus.

That which is so universal as death must be
a benetit.— Schiller.

Death opens the gate of fame, and shuts the
gate of envy after it; it unlooses the chain of
the captive, and puts the bondsman’s task into
another man’s hand.—Sterne.

Death is the dropping of the flower that the
fruit may swell.—Beecher.

Let dissolution come when it will, it can do
sthe Christian no harm, for it will be but a pas-
sage out of a prison into'a palace; out of a sca
of troubles into a haven of rest ; out of a crowd
of enemies to an innumerable company of true,
foving, and faithful friends; ont of shame, re-
proach, and contempt, into exceeding great and
eternal glory.—Bunyan.

Life is the triumph of our mouldering clay ; |

death, of the spirit infinite! divine ! — Young.

We die every day; every moment deprives
us ofa portion of life and advances us a step
toward the grave; our-whole life is only a long
and painful sickness. —iassillon.

He who fears death has already lost the life
he covets.— Cato.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many,
and the end of all. It sets the slave at liberty,

.carries the banished man home, and places all

mortals on the same level, insomuch that life it-
self were a punishment -without it.—-Seneca.

Death is an equal doom to good and bad, the
common inn of rest.— Spenser.

Setting is preliminary to brighter rising ;
decay is a process of advancement ; death is the
condition of higher and more fruitful life.—

Chapin.

Death but supplies the oil for the inextin-
guishable lamp of life —- Coleridge.

The day of onr decease-will be that of our
coming of age; and with our last breath we
shall become free of the universe. And in some
region of infinity, and from among its splen-
dors, this earth will be looked back on like 7a
lowly home, and this life of onrs be remembered
like a short apprenticeship 10 duty.—.ountford.

How wonderful is Death, —— Death and his
brother, Sleep ! Shelley.

Death possesses a good deal of real estate,
namely, the graveyard in every'town.— =~
Hauthorne.

It seems as though, at the approach of a cer-
tain dark hour, the light of heaven infills those
who are leaving the light of earth.

Victor Hugo.

A short death is the sovereign good hap of
hnman life.—Pliny. _

The sense of death is most in apprehension ;
and the poor beetle, that we tread-upon, in cor-
poral sufferance finds a pang as great as when a
giant dies.—Shakespeare.

Death ? Translated into the heavenly tongue,
that word means Kife ! —Beecher.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the
moment of waking from a tronbled dream, — it
may be so the moment after death. — Hawthorne.

Death is not an end, but a transition crisis.
All the forms of decay are but masks of regen-
eration, — the secret alembics of vitality. —

Chapin.

It seems to be remarkable that death in-
creases our veneration for the ‘good, and exten-
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The tongnes of dying men enforce attention, i

like deep harmony.—Shiikespeare.

‘The whole life of a_ philosopher is the med-
itation of his death.— Cicero.

But the grave is not deep; it is the shining
trend of an angel that seeks ns. When the mn-
kavwn hand throws the fatal dart at the end of
aman, then boweth he'his head, and‘ the durt only
lifts the crown of thorns from his wounds.—:

Richter.

Passing through nature to eternity.—
- Shakespeare.

Death opencth the gate to good fume, and
extingnisheth envy.—Bacon.

Like other tyrants, death delights to smite
what, smitten, most proclaims the pride of
power and arbitrary nod.— Young.

Tt is uncertain at what place death awaits
thee. Wait thon for it at every place—Seneca.

Death is as near to the young as to the old ;
here is all the difference: death stands behind
the young inan’s back, before the old inan’s
face—Rev. 1. Adams. ‘

Not where death hath power may love be
dlest.—JZrs. Lemans.

Death lies on her like an untimely frost upon
the sweetest flower of all the field.—
Shakespeare.

To close the cyes, and give a seemly comfort
to the apparel of the dead, is poverty’s holiest
touch of nature.—Dickens. .

What can they suffer that do not fear to dic?
Plutarch.

O eloquent, just, and mighty death! whom
none could advise thou hast persuaded, what
none hath dared thon hast done, and whom
all the world hath flattered thou only hast cast
ont of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn
itogether all the far-stretched greatuess, -all-the

ride, cruelty, and ambition of men, and covered
it all over with these two narrow words, Lie
jace !—Sir Walter Raleigh.

O death! thou gentle end of human sorrows.

, Rowe.

Neath and loye'are the two wings which bear
man from earth to-heaven.—Afiehael Angelo.

Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning
dew, she sparkled, was exhaled, and went to
heaven.— Young.” ° .

The sleeping: and the dead are but as pic-
tures; it is the eye*tof childhood that fears. a
painted devil.— Shakespeare.

That evil can never be great which is the
last.— Cornelius Nepos.

Nothing can we call onr own but death,
and that small inodel of the barren carth which
serves as paste nnd cover to our bones.— ..

Shakespeare.

Dear beauteous death, the jewel of the just.
Llenry Vaughan.

It is not strange that a bright memory
should come to a dying old man, as the sun-
shine breaks across the hills at the close of a
stormy day; nor that.in the light of that ray
the very clouds that made'the day dark should
grow gloriously beautiful. —Lfawthorne.

There is nodeath! ‘What scems so is tran-
sition —Longfellow. -

There is nothing of evil in life for him who
rightly comprehends that death is no evil; to
know how to die delivers us from alt subjection
and constraint.—.Vontaigne.

Cruel as death and hungry as the grave.
Thorson.

The bed of death bringstevery 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.

Death borders upon our birth, and our
cradle stands in the grave.— Bishop Hall.

The wearicst and most loathed worldly life
that: age, ache, penury, and imprisomment can
Jay on nature is a paradise to what we fear of
death.— Shakespeare. .

Good men but see death, the wicked. taste it.
Ben Jonson.

He that dies in an earnest pursuit is like one
that is wounded in hot blood, who, for the
time, scarce fecls the hurt; ‘and therefore a
mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is
good doth avert the dolors of death; but above
all,. believe it, the sweetest canticle is, “Lord,
now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace.” —

Bacon.

- If Socrates died like a sage, Jesus died like
a God.—Roussean.

Tf f must die, I will enconnter darkness as a
bride, and hug it in mine arms.— Shakespeare.

Death makes a beautiful appeal to oharity.
When we look upon the dead form, so composed
and still, the kindness and the love that are in
us all come: forth.— Chapin.

Death is as the foreshadowing of life. We

dic that we may dic no more.—Looker.


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The gods eonceal from men the happiness of
death, that they may endure life.—Zucan.

Death, which hateth and destroyeth a man,
is believed; God, Which hath made him and
loves him, is always deferred.—

Sir Walter Raleigh.

I must sleep now. — Dying words of—
Byron.
DEBT.

A man who owes a little can clear it off in a
very little time, and, if he is a prudent man,
will; whereas a man who, by long negligence,
owes a great deal, despairs of ever being able to
pay, and therefore never looks into his accounts
at all.— Chesterfield.

Man hazards the condition and loses the
virtues of freeman, in proportion as he accus-
toms his thoughts to view without anguish or
shame his lapse into the bondage of debtor.—

Bulwer Lytton.

Lose not thy own for want of asking for it;
it will get thee no thanks.—/'udler.

Small debts are like small shot, — they are
yattling on every side, and can scarcely be
escaped without a wound; great debts are like
cannon, of loud noise but little danger.—

Johnson.

Many delight more in giving of presents
than in paying their debts.—Sir P. Sidney.

Paying of debts is, next to the graee of God,
the best means in the world to deliver you from
a thonsand temptations to sin and vanity.—

Delany.

Deht is the fatal disease of republics, the
first thing ‘ind the mightiest to undermine gov-
ernment and corrupt the people.—

Wendell Phillips.

Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the
widow, the orphan, and the s .ns of genins fear
and hate; — debt, which consimnes so much
time, which so cripples and disheartens © great
spirit with cares that seem so base, is a precep-
tor whose lessons cannot be foregone, and is
needed most by those who suffer from it most.—

E’merson.

Debt is to man what the serpent is to the
bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its
coil crushes sinew and bone, its jaw is the piti-
less grave.—Bulwer Lytion.

-A slight debt produces a debtor; a heavy
one an enemy.— Publius Syras.

Never be argued ont of your soul, never be
argued ont of your honor, and never be argued
into believing that soul and honor do not run a
terrible risk if you limp into life with the load
of a debt on your shoulders.—Bulwer Lytton.

DECEIT.

It is in disputes'as in armies, where the
weaker side sets up false lights,and makes a
great noise, to make the enemy believe them
more numerous and strong than they really are.

Of all the agonies in life, that which is most
poignant and harrowiug — that which for the
time annihilates reason, and leaves our whole
organization one lacerated, mangled heart — is
the conviction that we have been deecived where
we placed all the trust of love.—Bulwer Lytton.

It is a pity we so often succeed in onr at-
tempts to deceive each other, for our double-
dealing generally comes down upon ourselves.
To speak a lie or to act a lie is alike contempti-
ble in the sight of God and man.—Everton.

‘All false practices and affections of knowl-
edge are more odious to God, and deserve to be
so to men, than any want or defect of knowledge
can be.—Sprat.

It is great, it is manly, to disdain disguise ;
it shows our spirit, or it proves our strength.—
Young.

It is as easy to deceive one’s self without
perceiving it as itis diffienlt to deceive others
without their finding it out.—Rochefoucauld.

Tf a misplaced admiration shows imbecility,
an affected criticism shows vice of character.
Expose thyself rather to appear a -beast than
false.—Diderot.

He was justly accounted a skilful poisoner
who destroyed his victims by bouquets of lovely
and fragrant flowers. The art ‘has not been
lost; nay, is practised every day,— by the
world.—Latimer,

Trust not in him that seems a saint.— Fuller.

The surest way of making a dupe is to let
your victim suppose you are his.—-Bulwer Lytton.

O that deceit shontd dwell in such a gorgeous
palace ! —Shakespeare. :

There are falschoods which represent-truth
so well that it wonld be judging iil not to be
deceived by them.— Rochefoucanld.

We never deceive for a good purpose;
knavery.adds malice to falschood.—Brayere.

Deceit.and falsehood, whatever conveniences
they may for a time promise or produce, are, in
the sun of life, obstacles to happiness. Those
who profit by the cheat distrust the deceiver ;
and the act by which kindness was sought puts
an end to confidence.— Johnson.

No man was ever so mmch deceived by an-
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Ah,..that deceit should steal such gentle As: that g Ikint can best affect-n: pretended
-shapes, and with a yirtuons visor hide deep vice! | passion for oné woman who has no truc:love
Shakespeare. | for another, so he that has no real esteem for

any of the -virtnes can best assume the appenr-
Some frauds sueceed from the apparent ean- {| anee of them-all.—Colton. :
dor, the. open coutidence, and the full blaze of -
ingennousness that is thrown around them. We have few faults that are not more ex-
The slightest mystery would excite suspicion, | cusable in themselves than are the means which
and. ruin all. .Such stratagems maybe com-| we use to conecal them.—/ochefoucauld.
pared to the stars, theyvare «discoverable by . —
darkness and hidden only by light.— Colton. Cheaters must get some credit hefore they
can cozen,and all falsehood, if not fonnded in
Deceit is the false road to happiness; and | some truth, would not’be fixed in-any beticf.—

-ul the joys. we travel throngh to vice, like fair: Fuller.
bangnets, vanish when we tench them.— -
dlaron ELill. It is too much proved, that, with devotion’s

visage and pions'action, we do sugar over the
It many times falls ont that we deem our-} Devil himself— Shakespeare.
selves inuch deceived in others beeanse we first

deceived ourselyes.— Sir P, Sidney. Wiles:and deceit are female qualities. —
LEschylus.
We are ‘so accustomed to masquerade onr- “ os
selves before others that we end by deceiving O, what a tangled web we weave when first
ourselyes.—Rockcfoucauld, we practise to deceive ! — Walter Scott. ’
Life is the art of being well deceived.— Many an honest man practises upon himself

Hazlitt. |anramount of deceit suflicient, if practised upon
another, and in a little different way, to send
All deception in the course of life is indeed | him to the state prison.— Bovee.
nothing else but a tie reduced to practice, -and —

falsehood passing from words into things.— Men are never so easily deceived as while
South. | they are endeavoring to deceiye others.— .
Rochefoucauld.

Men, like musical instruments, seem made
to be played upon.—Boree. Mankind in the gross is a gaping monster,
- that loves to be deceived, and has seldom been
Man is nothing but insincerity, falsehood, | disappointed.—Jfackenzie.
and hypocrisy, both in regard to himself and in
regard to others. He does not wish that he False face must hide what the false heart
shoul be told the truth, he shuns saying it to | doth know.—Shakespeare.
others; and all these moods, so inconsistent
with justice and reason, have their roots in his The life even of a just man is’a round of
heart.—Pascal. petty frauds ; that of'a knave a series of greater.
We degrade life by our follies and. vices, and
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat] then complain that the unhappiness which ig
one’s self. All sin is casy after that—Bailey. j only their accompaniment is inherent in the
constitution of things —Bovee. —»

He who attempts to make others believe in
means which he himself despises is a puffer ; We are never deceived ; we deceive ourselves.
he who makes use‘of more means than he knows Goethe.
to be necessury is aquack ; and he who ascribes |] DECENCY. o -
to those means a greater efficacy than his Decency is the least. of all laws, but yet
own experience warrants is an impostor.— it is the law which is the most strictly observed.
° “ Lavater. Rochefoucauld.
. DECISION, . ~

He was no civil rnffian; none of those who], There-is nothing more to be esteemed than
lie with twisted looks, betray with shrugs. ‘a manty firmness and decision of character. 1
Thomson. | like a person who knows his own mind and
- . sticks to it; who sees at-once what is to be done

Men are so simple, and yield so much. to ne-| in given circumstances and does it—//aslitt. ~
eéssity, that he who will deceive will always find
him who will lend himself to be deceived. — The woman who is resolved to be respected
Machiavelli. | can make herself to be so even ainidst an army

of soldiers.— Cervantes.

The true motives of our-actions, like the

real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed ; When desperate ills demand a speedy cure,
but the gilded.and hollow pretext is pompously | distrust is cowardice and prudence folly.—
placed in the front tor show.— Colton. Johnson.


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DEFEAT.

120

DELICACY.

Whatever we think ont, whatever we take
in hand to do, should be perfectly and finally
finished, that the word, if it must alter, will
only have to spoil it; we have then nothing to
do but unite the severed, to recollect’ and re-
store the dismembered.— Goethe.

T hate to see things done by halves. If it be
right, do it boldly; if it be wrong, leave it un-
done.— Gilpin.

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.—Beecher.

No man is defeated without some resentment
which will be continued with obstinacy while he
believes himself in the right, and asserted with
bitterness, if even to his own conscience he is
detected in the wrong.—Johnson.

DEFERENCE,

Deference is the most complicate, the most
indirect, and the most elegant of all compli-
ments.— Shenstone.

Deference often shrinks and withers as much
upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive
plant does npon the touch of one’s finger.—

L henstone.
DEFORMITY.

Do you suppose-we owe nothing to Pope’s
deformity? He said to himself, “If my person
be crooked, my verses shall be straight.”—

Hazlitt.

Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time
into this breathing world, scarce half made ap,
and that so lamely and unfashionably, that dogs
bark-at meas I halt by them.— Shakespeare.

Many a man has risen to eminence under
the powerful reaction of his mind in fierce
counter-agency to the scorn of the unworthy,
daily evoked by his personal defects, who with
a handsome person would have sunk into the
lnxury of a careless life under the tranquillizing
smiles of continual admiration.—De Quincey.

Deformity is daring; it is its essence to
overtake mankind by heart and soul, and make
itself the eqiial, ay, the superior of the rest.—

Byron.

From whence comes it that a cripple in
body does not irritate us, and that a crippled
mind enrages us? It is becanse a cripple sees
that we go right, and a distorted mind says that
it is we who go astray. But for that we should
have more pity and less rage. —Pauscal.

DELAY.
In delay we waste our lights in vain, like
lamps by day.— Shakespeare.

The procrastinator is not only indolent and
weak, but commonly false too; most of the
weak are false.—Lavater.

Defer no time; delays have dangerous ends.
Shakespeare.

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 scene.— Young.

O, how many deeds of deathless virtue and
immortal crime the world had wanted had the
actor said, “I will do this to-morrow ” ! —

Lord John Russell.

Every delay is hateful, but it gives wisdom.—
Publius Syrus.

That we would do we should do when we
would, for this would changes, and hath abate-
ments and delays as many as there are tongues,
are hands, are accidents ; and then this should
is like a spendthrift’s sigh, that hurts by easing.

Shakespeare.

He who prorogues the honesty of to-day till
to-morrow will probably prorogue his to-mor-
rows to eternity. —Lavater.

Dull not device by coldness and delay.—
Shakespeare.

Delay has ever been injurious to those who
are prepared.—Lucan.

Go, fool, and teach a cataract to creep! can
thirst, empire, vengeance, beauty, wait? — Young.

Some one speaks admirably of “the well-
ripened frnit of sage delay.” —alzac.

Lingering labors come to nanght.-——
Robert Southwell.

He that gives time to resolve gives leisure
to deny, and warning to prepare.— Quarles.

Fearful commenting is leaden servitor to
dull delay; delay leads impotent and snail-
paced beggary.— Shakespeare.

DELICACY.
There is a certain delicacy which in yielding
conquers ; and with a pittful look, makes one

find cause to crave help one’s self
Sir P. Sidney.

Delicacy is to the affections what grace is to
the beauty.—Degerando.

Weak men often, from the very princi-
ple of their weakness, derive a certain suscepti-
bility, delicacy, and taste, which render them, in
those particulars, much superior to men of
stronger and more consistent minds who langh
at them.—Lord Greuille.


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121

DEPENDENCE.

Antappearance of delicacy, and even of fra-
-gility, is almost essential to beauty.— Burke.

Friendship, love, and piety ought to be
handled with a sort of mysterious secrecy 5 they
ought to be spoken of only in the rare‘moments
of perfect cunfidence, to be mutually under-
stood iu silenee. Many things, are too delicate
to be thought; many more, to be-spoken.—

° Novalis.

The hand of little employment hath the
duintier sense.— Shakespeare.

Trne delicacy, that most heantifol heart-
lenf of humanity, exhibits itself most signifi-
eantly in little things.—Jfary Howitt.

Delicacy is to the mind what fragrance is to
the fruit—Achilles Poincelot.

The finest qualities of our nature, like the
bloom on frnits, can be preserved only by the
most delicate handling.— Thoreau,

DELUSION.

Were we perfectly acquainted with the ob-
ject, we should never passionately desire it.—
Rochefoucauld.

‘

The worst deluded are the self-deluded.—
Bovee.

No man is hippy without a delusion of some
kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happi-
ness as realitics.—Bovee.

*When our vices quit us, we flatter ourselves
with the belief that it is we who quit them.—
Rochefoucauld.

We strive as hard to hide onr hearts from
ourselves as from vthers, and always with more
success ; for in deciding upon our own case we
are -both judge, jury,, and executioner, and
where sophistry carmmot ‘overcome the first, or
flattery the sccond, self-love is always ready to
defeat the sentence by bribing the third.—

Colton.

Yon think-a man to be your dupe; if he
pretends to be so, who is the greatest dupe, — he
or you 1—Bruyére.

DEMOCRACY.
It is the most beautiful-truth in morals that

we have no sneh thing as a distinct or divided”

interest from our race. In their welfare is ours,
vand by choosing the broadest paths: to effect
their happiness we choose’ the. surest and the
shortest to our own.—Buheer Lytton.

Lyeurgus being asked why’ he, who in other
respects appeared to be so zenlous for the equal
rights of men, did not make his government
democratical rather than oligarehical, “Go
you,” replied the legislator, “and try a democ-
raey in your own house.”—Pluarch.

The idea of bringing all nen on an-equality
with each other bas always been a pleasant
dreain ; the law cannot equalize meu in spite of
nature.— Fauvenargues.

in every village there will arise-a_miscreant
to establish the most grinding tyrauny by calling
himself the people.—Sir Lobert Peel.

‘)

“Tt is-a great blessing,” says Pascal, “ to
be born a man of quality, since it brings one
man as far forward at cighteen or twenty as
another man would be at fifty, which is a clear
gain of thirty years.” These thirty years are
commonly wanting to the ambitions characters
of democracies. The principle of equality,
which allows every mun to arrive at everything,
prevents all men from rapid advancement.—

De Tocqueville.

If there were a people consisting of gods,
they; would be governed democratically. So
perfect a government is not suitable: to imen.—

Rousseau.

Democracy is always the work of kings.
Ashes, which in themselves are sterile, fertiliz
the land they are ‘cast upon.—Landor. .

DEPENDENCE.

God has made no one absolnte. The rich
depend on the poor, as well as the poor on the
rich. The world is but “a: mere magnificent

building ; all the stones are gradually cemented
together. There is no one subsists by himself

alone.—Felthum.

In an arch each single stone, which, if
severed from the rest, would be perhaps de-
fenceless, is sufficiently secured by the solidity
and entireness of the whole fabric of which it is
a part.— Boyle.

No degree of knowledge attainable by man
is able to set him above the want of hourly as-
sistance.—Johnson. .

That :acknowledgment of weakness which
we make in imploring tu be relieved from hun-
ger and from temptation is surely wisely put
in our daily prayer. Think of it, you who are
rich, and tuke heed how yon turn a beggar
away.— Thackeray.

Dependence is a perpetual call upon hu-
manity, and a greater incitement tu tenderness
and pity than any other motive whatsgever.—

Addison.

When we consider how weak we-are in our-
selves, yea, the very strongest’ of us, snd how
assaulted, we may justly wonder that we ¢an
continue one day in the state of grace; but
when we look on the strength by which we are
guarded, the power of God, then we see the
teason of our stability to the end; for omnip-
otency supports us, and the everlasting arms
are under us.— Leighton.



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DESERTS.

The greatest man living may stand in need
of the meanest, as mueh as the meanest does of
him.— fuller.

There is none made so great but he may
both need the help and service, and stand in
fear of the power and_unkindness, even of the
nieanest of mortals. —Seneca.

How beautifully is it ordered, that as many
thousands work for one, so must every indi-
vidual bring his labor to make the whole!
The highest is not to despise the lowest, nor
the lowest to envy the highest; each must
live in all and by all.’ Who will not work,
neither shall he eat. So God has ordered that
men, being in need of each other, should learn
to love each other, and bear cach other’s burdens.

G. A, Sala.

Heaven’s eternal wisdom has deereed that
man of man should ever stand iu need.—
Theocritus.

Dependence goes somewhat against the grain
of a generous mind; and it is no wonder that
it shonld do so, considering the unreasonable
advantage which is often taken of the inequality
of fortune.—Jeremy Collier.

Thon shalt know by experience how salt
the savor is of others’ bread, and how sad a path
it is to elimb and deseend another’s stairs.—

Dante.
DESERTS.

Use every man after his desert, and who
should-escape whipping? Use them after your
own honor and dignity; the less they deserve,
the more meritis in your bounty.— Shakespeare.

DESIRE.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in mo-
tion, and he whose real wants are supplied
must admit those of faney.— Johnson.

All impediments in faney’s course are mo-
tives of more fancy.— Shakespeare.

We never desire ardently what we desire
rationally.—Rochefoucauld.

By annihilating the desires, you’ annihilate
the mind. Every man without passions has
within him no prineiple of action, nor motive to
aet.— Helvetius.

The shadows of our own desires stand he-
tween us and our better angels, and thus their
brightness is eclipsed.—Dickens.

What we wish for in youth comes in heaps
on us in old age.— Goethe.

Every desire bears its death in its very
gratification. Curiosity languishes under re-
peated stimulants, and novelties cease to excite
surprise, until at length ave eannot wonder
even at a miracle.— Washington Irving.

122

DESIRE

It is better to desire than to enjoy, to love
than to be loved.—J/azlitt.

Every desire is a viper in the bosom, who,
while he was chill, was harmless; but when
warmth gave him strength, exerted it in poi-
son.—J/ofmson.

_ We trifle when we assign limits to our de-
sires, sinee nature has set none.—Bovee.

The passious and desires, like the two twists
of a rope, mutually mix one with the other,
and twine inextricably round the heart; pro-
ducing good if moderately indulged, but cer-
tain destruetion if sutiered to become inordinate.

Burton.

Happy the man who early learns the wide
chasm that lies between his wishes .ind his
powers !— Goethe.

Unlawful desires «are punished after the ef-
fect of enjoying; but impossible desires are
punished in the desire itselfi—Sir P. Sidney.

While we desire, we do not enjoy; and with
enjoyment desire ceases, which should lend its
strongest zest to it. This, however, does not
apply to the gratification of sense, but to the
passions, in which distance and diffieulty have
a prineipal share.—J/ualitt.

Before we passionately desire anything which
another enjoys, we should cxamine into the
happiness of its possessor.—Rochefoucaud.

Keep you in the rear of your affection, out
of the shot and danger of desire.— Shakespeare.

He who can wait for what he desires takes
the eourse not to hé exceedingly-grieved if he
fails of it; he, on the contrary, who labors
after a thing too impatiently thinks the suceess
when it comes is not a recompense equal to all
the pains he has been at about it.—Brayere.

Our nature is inseparable from desires, and
the very ‘word “desire” (the craving for some-
thing not possessed) implics that our present
felicity is not complete.—LZobbes.

Heart’s-ease is a flower which blooms from
the grave of desire.— IV. R. Alger.

There is nothing eapricions in nature. In
nature the implanting of a desire indieates. that
the gratification of that desire is in the constitu-
tion of the ereature that feels it—merson.

Ere yet we yearn for what is out of our
reach, we are still in the cradle. When wearied
out with our yearnings, desire again falls asleep,
we are on the death-bed.— Bulwer Lyiton.

However rieh or clevated,-a nameless some
thing is always wanting to our imperfect for-
tunc.— Horace. :


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23

DESPAIR.

Perish the lore that deadens young desire.—
° Beattie.

In moderating, not in satisfying desires, lies
peace.— Heber. '

DESPAIR.
Sick in- the world’s regard, wretched and
low. —Shakespeare.

There,are some vile and contemptible inen
Who, allowing themselves to be conquered by
misfortune, seek 2 refuge in death.—slgathon.

Despair-is the greatest of our errors.—
Vauvenargues.

Despair is like forward children, who, when
yon 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.'

Beware of desperate steps. The darkest
day, live till to-morrow, will have passed away.
Cowper.

Despair, thon hast the noblest issues of all
ill, which frailty brings us to; for to be worse
we fexr not, and who cannot lose is ever a frank
gamester.—Sir Robert Toward. °

For me— I hold no commerce with despair !
Dawes.

Despair makes a despicable figure, and de-
scends from a mean original. It is the off

spring of fear, of laziness, of impatience; itt

‘arenes a defect of spirit and resolution, and
oftentimes of honesty too.—-Jeremy Collier.

It is late before the brave despair.—
Thomson.

To despond is to he ungrateful beforehand.
Be not looking for evil. Often thon diainest
the gall of fear while evil is passing thy dwell
ing.—Tupper.

Despair makes victims-soinetimes victors.—
Bulwer Lytton,

I am one'whom the vile blows and buf.
fets of the world lave so incensed that I am
reckless what I do to spite the world.—

Shakespeare.

Despair, — the last dignity of the wretehed.—
: Henry Giles.

A broken heart is a distemper which kills
many more than is generally imagined, and
.would have a fair title to a’place in the bills of
mortality, did it not differ in one instance from
all other diseases, namely, that no physicians
can cure it.—sielding.

Rage is for litde wrongs; despair is dumb.
° Lannah More.

Lachrymal connsellors, with one foot in the
eave of despair, and-the other invading the
peace of their friends, are the paralyzers of action,
the pests of society, and the subtlest homicides
in the world; they poison with a tear; and
eonvey'a dagrer to the heart, while they press
you to their bosoms.—./ane Porter.

Despair, sir, is a dauntless hero.— /olcroft.

.~ All hope is lost of my reception into grace ;
what worse? For where no hope is left, is left
no fear.—dfilton.

Despair doth strike as deep a furrow in
the brain as mischief or remorse.—
Barry Cormeall.

He that despairs degrades the Deity, .and

Of all fanits the greatest is the exeess-of}.scems to intimate that he is insufficient, or not

impious terror, dishonoring divine grace.

He' just to his word; ‘and in vain hath read the

who despairs wants love, wants faith; for faith, | Seriptures, the world, and man.—/*eltham.

hope, and love are three turches which blend
their light together, nor docs the one shine with-
‘out the other.—Metustasio.

Despair gives the shocking ease to the mind
that a moriilication gives.to the body.—
- Lord Greuille.

Asia general rule, those who are dissatisfied
with theniselves will seek to go ont of them-
selves into an ideal world. Persons. in strong
health and spir
exercise, who ‘are “in favor with their stars,”
and have a thorongh relish of the good things

.Wwho take plenty of air and}

The mild despairing of.a heart resigned —
- Coleridge.

I would not despair uniess I knew the ir-
revocable decree was passed ; saw my misfor-
tune recorded in the book of fate, and signed
and sealed by necessity. —Jeremy Collier.

Despair is the damp of hell; rejoicing is the
serenity of heaven.—Donne.

The passage of providenre lics throngh
many crooked ways ;'a despairing heart is the

of this life, seldom devote themselves in despair] true prophet of approaching evil; his actions

to religion or-the Muses. .Sedentary; uervons,

‘J may! weave the webs of fortune, but not break

h¥pochondriteal people, on thé ‘contrary, are! them.—Quarles.

forced, for want of un appetite for the real and
substantial, to look out for amore airy food aud
speculative comforts.—Lfazlitt.

Some noble spirits mistake despair for con-
tent.— Willis.


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124

DESTINY.

Even every ray of hope destroyed and not a
wish to gild the gloom.—Burus.

To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to
despair is but to antedate those miserics that
must fall on us.—AZassinger.

The fact that God has prohibited despair
gives misfortune the right to hope all things,
and leuves hope free to dare all things.—

Madame Swetchine.

Try what repentance can; what can it not?
yet what can it, when one cannot repent? O
wretched state! © bosom black as death! O
liméd soul, that, struggling to be free, art
more engaged ! —Shakespeare.

Despair defies even despotism ; there is that
in my heart would make its way through hosts
with levelled spears.—Byron,

O God! O God! How weary, stale, flat,
and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this
world ! —Shakespeare.

Religion converts despair, which destroys,
into resignation, which submits.—
Lady Blessington.

My day is closed! the gloom of night is
come! 1 hopeless darkness settles over my
fate.—Joannu Baillie.

DESPATCH.

True despatch is a rich thing. For time is
the measure of business, as moncy is of wares,
and business is bought at a dear hand ‘where
there is sinall despatch.—Bacon.”

To choose time is to save time; and an un-
seasonable motion is but beating the air. There
be three parts of business, — the preparation, the
debate or examination, and the perfection ;
whercof, if you look for despatch, let the middle
only be the work of many, and the first and
last the work of few.—Bacon.

DESPONDENCY.

Life is a warfare; and he who easily de-
sponds deserts a double duty, — he betrays the
noblest property of man, which is dauntless res-
olution ; and he rejeets 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 despondency, and been
strangled in their birth by-a cowardly imagina-
tion! —Jeremy Collier.

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 stmuble or whether we fall, we must only
think of rising again and going on in our
course.—Fenelon. ”

Some persons depress their own minds, de-
spond at the first difficulty ; and conclude that
making any progress in knowledge, farther
than serves their ordinary business, is above
their capacities —Locke.

DESPOTISM.

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.—

Calton.

I will believe in the right of one man -to
govern a nation despotically when I find «a man
born into the world with boots and spurs, and a
nation born with saddles on their backs.—

Algernon Sidney.

Travellers describe a tree in the island of
Java whose pestiferons exhalations blight every
tiny blade of grass within the compass of its
shade. So it is with despotism.— Ruffini.

It is odd to consider the connection between
despotism and barbarity, and how the making
one person more than man makes the rest less.

Addison.

Despots govern by terror. They know
that he who fears God fears nothing else; and
therefore they eradicate from the mind, through
their Voltaire, their Helvetius, and the rest of
that infamous gang, that only sort of fear which
generates true courage.— Burke.

In times of anarchy one. may seem a despot
in order to be a saviour,.—Mirabeau.

As virtue is necessary in a republic, and
honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required
in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all
necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.

ALontesquieu.

When the savages of Louisiana wish to have
fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom'and gather
the frnit. That is exactly a despotic govern-
ment.—A/ontesquien.

DESTINY.

That which God writes on thy forehead
thou wilt come to.—Koran.

If the course of human affairs be considered,
it will be seen that many things arise against
which Heaven does not allow us to guard

Machiavelli.

Our minds are as different as our faces ;-we
are all travelling to one destination, — happi-
ness; but few‘are going by the same road.—

Colton.

Philosophers never stood in need of Homer
or the Pharisees, to be convinced that every-
thing is done by immutable laws, that every-
thing is settled, that everything is a necessary
effect of some previous cause. Voltaire.


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DEVOTION.

Resist as much as thou wilt; heaven’s ways
are heaven’s ways.—Lesstug.

Nature scems to have prescribed to every
man at his birth the bounds of his virtues and
viees.—Rochefoucauld.

What unknown power governs men! On
what feeble causes do their destinies hinge! —
Voltaire.

T know that nothing comes to pass but what
God appoints; our fate is: decreed, and things
do not happen by chance, but every man’s por-
tion of joy and sorrow is predetermined.—

Seneca.

\

That which is not allotted the hand cannot
reach, and what is allotted will find you wher-
ever you may be.—Saadi.

Man supposes that he directs his life, and
governs his actions, when his existence is irre-
trievably under the contro] of destiny.— Goethe.

There are but two future verbs which man
may appropriate confidently:and withont pride :
TL shall sutfer,” and “J shall dic.” —

« Madame Swetchine,

Stern is the on-look of necessity. Not with-
ont a shudder may the hand of man grasp the
mysterious urn of destiny.— Schiller.

Vast, colossal destiny, which raises man to
fame, though it may also grind him to powder !
Schiller.

Death and life have their determined ap-
ointments; riches and honor depend upon
eaven.— Confucius.

DEVOTION.

The life of a devotee is a crusade of which
the heart is the Holy Land.—Alfred de Afusset.

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DIET.

2S

Those who make use of devotion as a means
and end generally are hypocrites.— Goethe.

The inward sighs of humble penitence rise
to the car of heaven, when pealéd hymns are
scattered with the sounds of common iir.—

Joanne Baillie.

The sceret heart is fair devotion’s temple;
there the saint, even on that living altar, lights
the flame of purest sacrifice, which burns uu-
seen, not unaceepted.—Zannah Aore.

Devotion, when it docs not lie under the
cheek of reason, is apt to degencrate into en-
thusiasm.— Addison.

DEW, ,
Dew-drops are the gems of morning, but the
tears of mournful eve ! — Coleridge.

That same dew, which sometime on the. buds
was wont to swell, like round.and orient pearls,
stood now'within the pretty flowerets’ cyes, like
tears that did their own disgrace bewail.—

Shakespeare.

Those tears of the sky for the loss of the
sun.— Chesterfield.

None can give the dew but God. It comes
from above; it is of a celestial original ; the na-
tivity thereof is from “the womb of the morn-
ing.” None can give grace but God.—

Bishop Reynolds.

The starlight dews all silently their tears of
love instil.—Byron.

DIET.

_ The chief pleasure (in eating) docs not con-
sist in costly seasoning or exqnisite flavor, but
-in yourself. Do you seck for sauce by sweating.

Llorace.

If thou wouldst preserve a sonnd hody, use

I find no quality:so easy for a man to coun-| fasting and walking; if a healthful soul, fasting
terfeit as devotion, though his life and manner | and praying; walking exercises the body, pray-

are not conformable to it; the essence of it is
abstruse. and occult, but the appearances easy
and -showy.— Montaigne.

To worship rightly is to love each other,

ing exercises the soul, fasting cleanses both.—
Quarles.

Simple dict is best; for many dishes hring
many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than

each smile-a hymn, each kindly deed a prayer.— | even heaping several meats upon each other.—

Whittier.

+

He who receives a sacrament does not per-

form a.good work; he receives a benefit. In

the mass we give Christ nothing; we: only
receive from him.—Luther.

All is holy where devotion kneels.— Holmes.

Pliny.

Food, improperly taken, not only produces
original diseases, but affords those that are
already engendered both matter and sustenance ;
so that, let the father of disease be what it may,
Intemperance is certainly its mother.—Burton.

Your worm is your only emperor for. dict ;

_Private devotions and secret offices of re-{ we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fut
ligion are like the refreshing of a. garden with | ourselves for maggots.— Shakespeare.

the distilling and petty drops of a water-pot;
but addressed from the temple, ate like rain
from heaven.—Jeremy Taylor.

One meal a day-is enough for_a lion,-and it
ought to suffice for a man.—Dr. George Fordyce.


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126

DIGNITY.

A chine of honest bacon would please my
appetite more than all the marrow-puddings,
for I like them better plain, having a very vul-
gar stomach.—Dryden.

A fig for your bill of fare; show me your
bill of company.— Swift.

DIFFICULTY.

Hath fortune dealt thee il] cards? let wis-
dom make thee a good gamester. In a fair gale,
every fool may sail, but wise behavior ina
storm commends the wisdom of a pilot; to bear

adversity with an equal mind is both the sign
and glory of a brave spirit Quarles.

Fortune is the best school of conrage when
she is fraught with anger, in the same way as
winds and tempests are the school of the sailor-
boy.—Afetastasio. 7

Difficulty is a severe instrnetor, set over us
by the supreme ordinance of a paternal guardian
and legislator, who knows us better than we
know ourselves, as he loves us better too. He
that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and
sharpens our skill. Our antagonist.is onr helper.

Burke.

It is as hard to come, as for a camel to
thread the postern ofta needle’s eye.—
Shakespeare.

It is difficulties which give birth-to miracles.
It is not every calamity that is a curse, and
early adversity is often a blessing. Perhaps
Madame de Maintenon would never have
mounted a throne had not her cradie been
rocked in a prison. Surmountéd obstacles not
only teach, but hearten us in onr future strng-
gles; for virtue must be learnt, though, unfor-
tunately, some of the vices come'as it were by
inspiration—Rev, Dr. Sharpe.

Out of difficulties grow miracles.—Bruyeére.

Accustom yourself to master and overcome
things of difficnity ; for if you observe, the left
hand for. want of practice is insignificant, and
not adapted to general business; yet it holds
the bridle better than the right, from constant
use.— Pliny.

The greatest difficulties lie where welare not
looking for them.— Goethe.

What is difficulty? Only a word indicating
the degree of strength requisite for accomplish-
ing particular “objects; 2 mere notice of the
necessity for exertion; a bugbear to children
and fools ; only a mere stimulus to men.—

Samuel: Warren.

Onr energy is in proportion to the resistance
it meets. We can attempt nothing great but
from a sense of the difficulties we have to en-
counter ; we can persevere in nothing great but
from a pride in overcoming them.—Hazlitt.

The three things most difficult are — to keep
a secret, to forget an injury, and to make good
use of leisure.— Chilo.

The more powerful) the obstacle, the more
glory we have in overcoming it; and the diffi-
culties with which we are met are the maids of
honor which set off virtue.—JJoliére.

There is no merit where there is no trial;
and, till experience stamps the mark of strength,
cowards may pass for heroes, faith for falsehood.

Aaron Hill.

_, Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as
labor does the body.— Seneca.

Difficulties are things that show what men
are. In case of any difficulty remember that
God, like a gymnastic trainer, has pitted you
against a rough antagonist. For what end?
That you may. be an Olympic conqueror, and
this cannot be without toil.—Zpictetus.

. Wisdom is not found with those who dwell
at their ease; rather nature, when she adds
brain, adds difficulty Emerson.

Difficnities are God’s errands ; and when.we
are sent upon them we should esteem it a proof
of God’s confidence, —~as a compliment from
God.—Beecher.

Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome
them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists di-
gestion.—Bovee.

DIFFIDENCE.

Persons extremely reserved are like old
enamelled watches, which had painted covers,
that hindered your secing what o’clock it was.

Walpole.

Diffidence may check resolution and ob-
struct performance, but compensates its embar-
rassments by more important advantages; it
concihates the prond,:and softens the severe ;
averts envy from excellence, and censure from
misearriage.—Johnson.

We are as often duped by diffdence as by
confidence.— Chesterfield.

DIGNITY. .

Lord Chatham and Napoleon were as much
actors as Garrick or Talia. Now, an imposing
air should always be taken as evidence of impo-
sition. Dignity is often a veil between us and
the real truth of things.— Whipple.

True dignity is never gained by place, and
never lost when honors are withdrawn.— —
Afassinger.

Dignity of position adds to dignity of char-
acter, as wel] as to dignity of carriage. Give
us a proud position, and we are impelled to act
up to it—Bovee.


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DILIGENCE.

127

DISCERNMENT.

Dignity consists not in possessing honors,
but in deserving them.—Aristotle.

Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do
they continue long together.— Ovid.

DILIGENCE.
What we hope ever to do with case we may
learn first to do with diligence.—Johnson.

Who makes qniek use of the moment js a
genius of prudence.—Larater.

The expectations of life depend upon dili-
gence; and the mechanic that -would perfect
his work must first sharpen his tools.—

Confucius.

Prefer diligence before idleness, unless you
esteem rust above brightness.—Plato.

DIRT.
Dirt is not dirt, but only something in the
wrong place.—Zord Palmerston.

DISAPPOINTMENT.

Oft expectation fails, ‘and most oft there
where it most promises ;.and oft it hits where
hope is coldest, and despair most sits.—

Shakespeare.

The darling schemes ‘and fondest hopes of
man are frequently frustrated by time. While
sagacity contrives, patience matures, and labor
industrionsly executes, disappointment langhs
at the curious fabric, formed by.so many efforts,
and “gay with so many brilliant colors, -and,
while the artists imagine the work arrived at
the moment of completion, brushes away the
beautiful web, and leaves nothing behind.—

Dwight.

How disappointment tracks the steps of
hope! —Afiss Landon.

He that will do no good offices after a disap-
pointment must stand still, and do just nothing:
at all. The plough goes on after a barren
year; and while the ashes. are yet warm, we
raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.—

, Seneca.

Bearing a life-long hunger in his heart.—
Tennyson.

It is generally known that he who-expeets
much will be often disappointed ; yet disappoint-
ment seldom enres us of expectation, or has any
other effect than that.of producing’ a moral sén-
tence or peevish exelamation.—Johngon:

Life: is-as tedions as-a twice-told tale, vex-
ing the dull car of a drowsy man.—Shakespeare.

In the light of eternity we shall sec that
what we desired would have ‘been fatal to us,
and that what we would have avoided was
essential to our well-being.—/enelon.

When we: mect with better fare than was
expected, the disappointment is overlooked even
by thé scrupulous. When we meet with worse
than was expected, philosuphers alone know
how to make it better—Zimmermann.

Man must be disappointed with the lesser
things of life hefore he can comprehend the fall
value of the greater. —Bulwer Lytton.

It is folly to pretend that one ever wholly
recovers from ‘a: disappointed passion. Sneh
wounds always leave a scar. There are faces
I can never look upon without emotion, there
are names I can never hear spoken without
almost starting. —Longfellow.

Mean spirits under disappointment, like
small beer in a thunder-storm, always turn
sonr.—Randolph.

An old man once said, “ When I was yonng I
was poor; when old I became rich; but in each
condition I found disappointment. When the
faculties of enjoyment were, I had not the
means; when the means came, the faeulties
were ‘gone.”—-Jfiudame de Gusparin.

Thus ever fade my fairy dreams of bliss.—
Byron.

It is sometimes of God’s mercy that men in
the eager pursuit of worldly aggrandizement
are bafiled ; for they are very like a train going
down an inclined plane, — putting on the brake
is not pleasant, but it keeps the car on the
track.— Beecher. '

It never yet happened to any man since the
beginning of the world, nor ever will, to have
all things according to his. desire, or to whom
fortune was never opposite and adverse.—
. Burton.

We mount to heaven mostly on the ruins of
our cherished schemes, ftuding our failures were
suecesses.— Alcott.

DISCERNMENT.

To sueeced in the world, it is'much more
necessary to possess the penetration to discern
who is a fool than to discover who is a clever
man.— Talleyrand.

After a spirit of discernment the next rarest

things in the world are‘diamonds and pearls.—

Bruyére.

Simple ereatnres, whose thoughts are not
taken np, like those of educated people, with
the care of a great muserm of dead phrases, are
very quick to sce the live facts which are going
on about them.—ZZolmes.

The idiot, the’ Indian, -the child, and un-
schooled farmer’s boy stand nearer to the light

‘by which nature is to be read, than the dissector

or the antiquary.—Lmerson.


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128

DISCRETION.

There seems to be no part of knowledge in
fewer hands than that of discerning when to
have done.—Swijt.

DISCIPLINE.

Has it never occurred to ns, when sur-
rounded by sorrows, that they may be sent to
us only for our instruction, as we darken the
cages of birds when we wish to teach them to
sing ? —Jtichter.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so
powerful that it may not be subdued by disci-
pline.—Seneca.

The heart must be divorced from its idols.
Age does a great deal in curing the man of his
frenzy ; but if God has a special work for a man,
he takes a shorter and sharper course with him.
This grievons loss is only a further and more
expensive education for the work of the minis-
try; it is but saying more closely, “ Will you
pay the price ?””— Cecil.

+. : \

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne;
no gall, no glory ; no cross, no crown.—

William Penn.

A dull axe never loves grindstones, but a |

keen workman does; and he puts his tool on
them in order that it may be sharp. And men
do not like grinding; but they are dull for the
purposes which God designs to work out with
them, and therefore he is grinding them.—
Beecher.

A stern discipline pervades all nature, which
is a little cruel that it may be very kind. —
Spenser.

We have all to be laid upon an’ altar; we
have all, as it were, to be subjected to the action
of fire —G. J. W. Alelville.

DISCONTENT.

That which makes. people dissatisfied with
their condition is the chimerical idea they form
of the happiness of others.— Thomson.

What is more miserable than discontent ?—
Shakespeare.

Discontents are sometimes the better part

DISCRETION,

The greatest parts, without discretion, as
observed by an elegant writer, may be fatal to
their owner; as Polyphemns, deprived of his
eyes, was only the more exposed on account of
his enormous strength and stature.—lddison.

The better part of valor is discretion.—
Shakespeare.

Jest not openly at those that are simple, but
remember how much thou art-bound to God,
who hath made thee wiser. Defame not any .
woman publicly, though thon know her to be
evil ; ‘for those that are faulty cannot endnre to
j,be taxed, but will seek to be avenged of thee ;
and those that are not guilty cannot endure
unjust reproach.—Sir Walter Raleigh.

All persons.are not discreet enough to know
how to take things by the right handle.—
Cervantes.

Without discretion, people may be overlaid
with unreasonable affection, and choked with
H too much nourishment.—Jeremy ‘Collier.

| Diseretion in speech is more than eloquence.
Bacon.

i Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a
guide to us in all the duties of life; cunning is
a kind of instinct, that only looks out after
our immediate interests and welfare. Discre-
tion is only found in men of strong sense and
good understanding; cunning is often to be
met with in brutes themselves, and in persons

; who are but the fewest removes from them.—

| Bruyére.

Diseretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of
life ; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.—
Bovee.

There are many more shining qualities in
the mind of man, but there are none so useful
as discretion.—Addison.

In a state where discretion begins, law,
liberty, and safety end.—Junius.

There is no talent so useful towards rising
in the world, or which puts men more out of the

of our life. I know not well which is the most' power of fortune, than that quality generally
useful; joy I may choose for pleasure, but ad- | possessed by the dullest sort of men, and in
yersities are the best for profit; and sometimes , common speech called “ discretion,” — a species
those do so far help me, as I should, without of lower prudence, by the assistance of which
them, want much of the joy I have-—-Feltham. 'people.of the meanest intellectuals pass through
thé world in great tranquillity, neither giving
DISCOVERY. (nor taking offence. For want of a reasonable
It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach infusion of this aldermanty discretion, every-
the wisest of us humility, that many of the most. thing fails. Had Windham possessed discretion
valuable discoveries have been the result of in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might
chance rather than of contemplation, and of, have ruled their age —Swift.
accident rather than of design.— Colton.

Ifa cause be good, the most violent attack
inexhaustible source, of its enemies will not injure it so much as an
| injudieious defence of it by its friends.— Colton.

A new principle is an
of new views.— Vauvenargues.


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DISEASE. 1

9 DISTINCTION:

Tf thou art a master, be sometimes blind ; if |
a servant, soinctimes deafi—/"udler.

Never join with your friend when he abuses
his horse or his wife, unless the one is about te be
sold, and the other to be buried.— Colton.

DISEASE.
Diseases, desperate grown, by desperate ap-;
pliance are relieved, or not at nll—Shakespeare.

DISGUISE.
Men would not live long in society, were
they not the mutual dupes of each other.—
Rochefoucauld,

Were we to take as much pains to be what
we ought to be as we do to disguise what we
really are, we might appear like onrselves
without being at rhe trouble of ‘any disguise at
all.—Rochefoucauld.

DISHONESTY. -
Dishonesty is a forsaking of permanent for
temporary advantages.— Bovee.

I have known a yast quantity of nonsense
talked abont bad men not looking yon in the
face. Don’t trust that conventional idea. Dis-
honesty will stare honesty out of countenance
any day in the week, if there is‘anything to be
gat by it.—Dickens.

Dishonest men conceal their faults from
themselves as Well as others; honest men know
aud confess them.—Rochkefoucauld.

nan

Who purposely cheats his friend would

cheat his God.—Lavater.

That which is won ill will never wear well,
for there is a curse attends it, which will waste
it; and the same corrupt dispositions which
inctine men.to the sinful ways of getting’ will
iucline them to the tike sinful ways of spend-
ing.—Matthew Henry.

Dishonor waits on perfidy, A man should
bhish to think a ‘falsehood; icis the crime of
cowards.— Johnson.

Tf you attempt to beat a man down and to
get his goods for less than a fair price, you are
attempting, to commit burglary, as muchas
though you broke into his shop to take the things
withont paying for them. There is cheating on
both sides of the connter, and generally less be-
hind it than before it.—Beecher,

It is hard to say which of the two we onght
most to lament, — the unhappy man who sinks
under the sense of his dishonor, or him who
survives it.—Junius.

DISPLAY.

They that govern most make least noise.—
Selden.

The lowest people are generally the first to
find fault with show or equipage; especially
that of 4 person lately emerged from his obscur-
ity. They never once consider that le is break-
ing the ice for themselves. —Sheustuie.

The horses which make the most show arc,
in general, those which-advance the least. It is
the same with men; and we-ought not to con-
found that perpetual agitation which exhausts
itself in vain etlorts, with the activity which
goes right to the end.—Baron de Stassurt.

DISPUTE.

The more discussion the better, if passion
and personality he eschewed ; “and discussion,
even if stormy, often winnows truth from
error, —a good never to be expeeted in an un-
inquiring age.— Channing.

There is no dispute managed without pas-
sion, and yet there is scarce a dispute worth a
passion.—Sherlock.

The pain of dispute exceeds by much its
utility. AH disputation makes the mind deat;
and when people are deaf I am dumb.—/oubert.

It is true there is nothing displays a genius,
I mean a quickness of genius, more than a dis-
pute; as two diamonds, encountering, contrib-
ute to each other’s lustre, But perhaps the
odds is mnch against’ the man of taste in this
particular.— Shenstone.

DISSIMULATION.

Dissimulation is but a faint kind of policy ;
for it asketh a strong wit and a strung heart,
to know when to tell the truth and to do it.—

Bacon.

Dissimulation in yonth is the forerunner of
perfidy in old age; its first appearance is the
fatal omen of growing depravity and future
shame. It degrartes parts and learning, ob-
seures the Instre of every accomplishment, and
sinks us into contempt. The path of false-
hood is a perplexing maze, After the first de-
parture from sincerity, it ix not in our power
to stop; one artifice unavoidably leads on to
another, till, as the intricaey of the labyrinth
increases, we are left entangled in onr snare.—

Blair.

He who knows not how. to dissimulate knows
not how to rule.—Aetellus of Macedon.

The harlot’s cheek, beantied with plaster-
ing art, is not more ugly to the thing that helpa
it than is my deed to my most painted word.—

Shakespeare.
DISTINCTION. -

All our distinctions are accidental ; beauty
and deformity, thongh personal qualities, are
neither entitled to praise nor censure; yet it so
happens that they color our opinion of those
qualitics to which mankind have attached re-
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DISTRUST.

Distinction, with a broad and powerful fan,
puffing at all, winnows the light away.—
Shakespeare.

All that causes one man to differ from
another is a very slight thing, What is it that
jis the origin of beauty or ugliness, health or
weakness, ability or stupidity? A slight differ-
ence in the organs, a little more or a little less
bile. Yet this more or less is of infinite impor-
tance to men;‘and when they think otherwise
they are mistaken.— Vauvenargues.

DISTRUST.
The best use one can make of his mind is to
distrust it.—/enelon.

Nothing is more certain of destroying any
good feeling that may be cherished towards us
than to show distrust. To be suspected as an
enemy is often enough to make aman become
so; the whole matter is over, there is no farther
use of guarding against it. On the contrary,
confidence leads us naturally to act kindly, we
are affected by the good opinion which others
entertain of us, and we are not easily induced
to los¢ it—Afadame de Sévigné.

In distrust are the nerves of the mind.—
Demosthenes.

Excessive distrust is not less hurtful than its
opposite. Most men become useless to hin who
is unwilling to risk being deecived.—

Vauvenargues.

This fecling of distrust is always the last
which a great mind acquires ; he is deceived for
a long time.—Racine.

A certain amount of distrnst is wholesome,
but not so much of others as of ourselves;
neither vanity nor conceit can exist in the same
atmosphere with it—fadame Necker.

DOCTRINE.

Every one cleaves to the doetrine he has
happened upon, as to a rock against which he
has been thrown by tempest.—Cicero.

_As those wines which flow from the first
treading of the grape are sweeter and better
tban those forced ont by the press, which gives
them the roughness of the husk and the stone,
so are those doctrines best and sweetest which
flow from a gentle ernsh of the Scriptures,-and
are not wrung into controversics and common-
places, Bacon.

Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth
set up and stufted.— Beecher.

The question is not whether a doctrine is
beautiful, but whether it is true. When we
want to go to a place, we don’t ask whether the
road leads through a pretty country, but wheth-
er it is the right road, the road pointed out by
authority, the turnpike-road.— Hare.

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DOUBT.

DOGMATISM.

Nothing can be more unphilosophical than
to be positive or dogmatical on any subject ;
and evenaf excessive scepticism could be main-
tained, it would not be more destructive to all
just reasoning and inquiry. When men are
the most sure and ‘arrogant, they‘are commonly
the most mistaken, and have there given reins
to passion, without that proper deliberation and
suspense which can Alone secure them from the
grossest absurdities— Hume.

A dogmatical spirit inclines a man to be
censorious of his neighbors. Every one of' his
opinions appears to him written, as it were, with
sunbeams, and he grows angry that his neigh-
bors do not see it in the same light. He is
tempted to disdain his correspondents as men
of low and dark understandings because they
do not believe what he does.— Watts.

DOMESTIC.

The domestic man, who loves no music so
well as his kitchen clock, and the airs which

.the logs sing to him as they burn on the hearth,

has solaces which others never dream of-—
- Emerson,

_ Domestic worth, — that shuns too strong a
light.—Zord Lyttelton.

Domestic happiness is the end of almost all
our pursuits, and the common reward of all our
pains. When men find themselves forever
barred from this delightful fruition, they are
lost to all industry, and grow careless of all their
worldly affairs. ‘Thus they become bad subjects,
bad relations, bad friends, ahd bad men.—

Fielding.

A prince wants only the pleasure of private
life to complete his happiness.—Bruyere.

Our notion of the perfect society embraces
the family as its centre and ornament. Nor is
there a paradise planted till the children ap-
pear in the foregronnd to animate and complete
the picture.— Alcott.

Domestic happiness, thou only bliss of par-
adise that has survived the fall! —Cowper.

A house kept to the end of prudence is la-
borions without joy ; a house kept to the end of
display is impossible to‘@all but a few women,
and their snecess is dearly bought.—£merson.

No money is better spent than what is laid
ont for domestic satisfaction. A man is pleased
that his wife is dressed as well as other people, and
the wife is pleased that she is dressed.—.Johnson.

DOUBT.
Man was not made to question, but adore —
Young.

Human knowledge is the parent of doubt.—
Lord Greville.


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DOUBT.

Onur doubts are traitors, and make us lose the
good ‘we oft might win, by fearing to attcinpt.—
Shakespeare.

Can that which is the greatest virtue in
philosophy, doubt (called hy Galilvo the father
ot invention), be in religion, what the priests
tern it, the greatest of sins ? —Boree.

Doubt is the vestibule which all must pass,
hefore they can enter into the temple of wis-
dom; therefore, when We are in doubt and
puzzle out the truth by our own exertions, we
have gained a something that will stay by us,
and which will serve us again. . But, if to
avoid the trouble of the search, we avail our-
selves of the superior information of a friend,
such knowledge will not remain with us; we
have not bought, but borrowed it.— Colton.

Servile doubt argues an impotence of mind,
that says we fear because we dare not mect
inisfortunes.—Alaron Hill,

When you doubt, abstain.—Zoroaster.

In contemplation, if a man begin with cer-
tainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will
be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in
certainties.— Bacon.

We know ‘aceurately only when we know
little ; with knowledge doubt increases,—
Goethe.

To be once in doubt is once to be resolved.—
‘ Shakespeare.

A bitter and perplexed “ What shall Ido?”
is worse to man than worse necessity.—
: Coleridge.

The wound of pence is surety, surety secure ;
bnt modest doubt is called the beacon of the
wise; the tent that searches to the bottom of
the worst.— Shakespeare.

Tlove sometimes to doubt, as well as know.—
Dante.

There is no weariness like that which rises
from doubting, from the perpetual jogging of
unfixed reason, The torment of suspense is
yery reat; and as soon as the wavering, per-
plexed mind begins to deterniine, be the deter-
mination which way soever, it will find itself at
case. — South.

Misgive that you may not mistake.—
Whately.

Weary the path that docs not challenge rea-
son. Doubt is an incentive to truth, and patient
inquiry leadeth the way.— Zosea Ballou.

Who never doubted never half believed ;
where doubt there truth is, — it is her shadow.—
Bailey.

DREAMS.
DRAMA,
It is remarkable how virtnous “and. gener-

ously disposed every one is at a play, We
uniformly applaud what is right, and condemn
what is wrong, when it costs us nothing but the
sentiment.—/fazlitt.

The real object of the drama is the exhibi-
tion of the human character.—.Mucaulay.

The drama embraces and applies all the
heanties and decorations of poetry. The sister
arts attend and adorn it. Painting, architec
tire, and musie ure her handmaids. The cost-
liest lights of a people’s intelleet* burn at her
show. All ages welcome her.— }illmott.

The seat of wit, when one speaks as a man
of the town and the world, is the playhonse.—
Stecle.

Every movement of the theatre by a skilful
poct is communicated, as it were, by magic to
the spectators; who weep, tremble, resent, re-
joice, and are inflamed with all the variety of
passions which actuate the several personages
of the drama.—LZume.

The drama is the book of the people.—
Wulmott.

There is so much of the glare and grief of
life connected with the stage, that it fills me
with most solemn thoughts.—Heary Gdes.

DREAMS.
When monarch reason sleeps, this mimie
wakes.—Dryden.

As dreams are the fancies of those that
sleep, so fancies are but the dreams of those
awake.—Gir T. P. 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.—F. H. Hedge.

Let not our babbling dreams -affright our
souls.— Shakespeare.

Dreams in their development have breath
and tears and tortures, and the tonch of joy;
they leave a weight upon our waking thonghts,
they, take. a weight from off our waking toils,
they do divide our being ; they become a. por-
tion of ourselves -as of our time, and look Vike
heralds of cternity.— Byron.

We are near waking when we dream that
we dream.—Vovalis.

Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and
legend,-yvho sport on the-earth in the" night
scason, and melt away with ‘the first beam of
the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality

on their daily pilgrimage through the world.—
Dickens.


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DRESS.

Dreams full oft are found of real events the
forms and shadows.—Joanna: Baillie.

Dreams are the children of an idle brain
begot of nothing but vain fantasy ; which is as
thin of substance as the air,-and more ineonstant
than the wind.— Shakespeare.

Regard not dreams, since they are but the
images of our hopes and fears.— Cato.

Nothing so mich convinces me of the bound-
lessness of the human mind as its operations in
dreaming. — IV". B. Cludow.

The dreamer is a madman quiesrent, the
madman is a dreamer in action.—/°. Lf. Hedge.

If we can sleep without dreaming, it is well
that painful dreams are avoided. Tf, while we
sleep, we can have any pleasing dreams, it is,
as the French say, fant gagné, so mach added
to the pleasure of lite —Zranklia,

As a wild maiden, with love-drinking eyes,
sees in sweet dreams a beaming vouth of glory.
alexander Smith.

Metaphysicians have been learning their les-
son for the last four thonsand years, and it is
high time that they should now begin to teach
us Something. Can any of the tribe inform us
why all the operations of the mind are carried
on with undiminished strength and activity in!
dreams, except the judgment, which alone is}
suspended and dormant ! — Colton.

Every one turns his dreams into realities as
far as he ean; man is cold as ice to the truth,
hot as fire to falsehood.—La Fontaine.

Dreams are like portraits; and we find they
please because they are confessed resemblances.
Crabbe.

What the tender and poetic yonth dreams;
to-day, and conjures up with inarticulate specch, ;
is to-morrow the ‘vociferated result of public
opinion, aud the day after is the character of
nations.—Emerson.

Dreams where thought, in fancy’s maze,
runs mad.— Young.

DRESS.

Nothing can embellish a beautiful face more
than a narrow band that indicates a small
wound drawn crosswise over the brow.—

Richter.

The only medicine which docs women more
good than harm is dress.—Riclter

Those who think that in order to dress well
it is nceessary to dress extravagantly or grand-
ly make/a great mistake. Nothing so well be-
comes trne feminine beauty as simplicity.—

George D. Prentice.

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please
others. — Franklin.

In Athens the ladies were not gaudily but
simply arrayed, and we doubt whethér any
ladies ever excited more admiration. So also
the noble old Roman matrons, whose superb
forms were gazed on delightedly by men worthy
of them, were always very plainly dressed.—

George D. Prentice.

There can be no kernel in this light nut ;
the soul of this man is in his clothes.
Shakespeare.

Next to clothes being fine, they should be
well made, and worn casily; for a man fs only
the less genteel for a fine coat, if, in wearing it,
he shows:a regard for it, and fs not as easy in if
as if it was a plain one.—Chesterfield.

In the matter of dress one should always
keep below one’s ability.—A/ontesquien.

Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, but
not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy; for the
apparel oft proclaims the man.— Shakespeare.

Next to dressing for 9 rout or ball, undress-
ing is a woe.— Byron.

No man ever stood lower in my estimation
for having a patch in his clothes; yet I am sure
there is greater anxiety to have fashionable, or
rat least clean and unpatched clothes, than to
have.a sound conscience. I sometimes try my
acquaintanees by some such test as this, — who
could wear a patch, or two extra seams only,
over the knee.— Thoreau.

A saint in erape is twiee a saint in lawn.—
Pope.

Dress has a moral effect upon the conduct of
mankind, Let any gentleman find himself with
dirty boots, old surtout, soiled neckcloth, and a
general negligence of dress, and he will in-all
probability find a corresponding: disposition by
negligence of address.— Sir Jonak Barrington.

The plainer the dress, with greater lustre
does beauty appear. Virtue is the greatest or-
nament, and good sense the best equipage.—

Lord fl alifax.

Beanty gains little, and homeliness-and de-
formity lose much, by gandy attire. Lysander
knew this was in part true, and refused the rich
garments that the tyrant Dionysius proffered to
his danghters, saying “ that they were fit only
to make unhappy faces more remarkable.” —

Zimmermann,

Throngh tattered clothes small vices do ap-
pear; robes-and furred gowns hide all. Plate
sin with gold, and the strong tance of justice
hurtless breaks ; arm it in rags, a pygmy’s straw
doth pierce it. Shakespeare.



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3 DRESS.

We sacrifice to dress till household joys and
comforts ecase. Dress drains our cellar dry,
and keeps our larder Iean.— Cowper,

Tt is not ever~ man that can afford to wear
a shabby coat; and worldly wisdom dictates to’
her disciples the propricty of dressing: somewhat
beyond theiy means, but of living within them ;
for every one Sees how we dress, but none see
how we live, except we choose to let them.—

Colton.

A fine coat is but a‘ livery when the person
who wears it discovers no higher sense than
that of a footman.—tddisoa.

A lady of genins.will give a genteel air t
her whole dress by a well-fancied Snit- of knot:
as a judicious writer gives a spirit to a whole
sentence by a single expression.— Gay.

Women always show more taste in-adorning’
others than themselves ; and the reason is, that
their persons are like their hearts, ~ they réad
another's better than they can their own.—

_ Richter.

In elothes clean and fresh there is a kind of
youth with which age should surround itself.—
Joubert.

‘

As the index tells us the contents of stories,
and directs to the partienlar chapter, even so
does the outward habit and superficial order of
garments (in man dr woman) give us a: taste
of the spirit, and demonstratively point (as it
were a mannal note from the margin) all the
internal quality of the son]; and there cannot
be a more evident, palpable, gross manifestatiun
of poor, degenerate, dunghilly blood and breed-
ing than a rude, unpolished, disordered, and
slovenly outside.—.Massinger.

And why take ye thought for raiment?
Confider the lilics of the field, how they grow ;
they toi] not, neither do they spin.— Bible.

Processions, cavaleades, and all that fund of
gay frippery, furnished out by tailors, barbers,
and tire-vomen, mechanically influence the mind
into veneration ; an emperor in his nightcap
wonld not meet with half the respect of an em-
peror with a crown.— Goldsmith.

As you treat your body, so your house, your
domestics, your enemies, your friends. Dress
is a table of your contents.—Lavater.

Those who are ineapable of shining but by
dress would do well to consider that the con-
trast betwixt them and their clothes turns ont
much to their disadvantage. It is on this ac-
eonnt I have sametiines observed with pleasure
sore nobleinen of immense fortune to dress ex-
ceeding plain.— Shenstone.

No man is esteemed for gay garments but
by fools and women.—Sir Walter Raleigh.

Men of quality never-appear more amiable
than when their dress is plain. Their birth, rank,
title, and its appendages are at best invidious ;
and‘as they do not need the : ance of dress, so,
.by their disclaiming the advantage of it, they
‘inake their superiority sit more casy.—

Shenstone.

The vanity of loving fine clothes and new
fashions, and valning ourselves by them, iS one
of the most childish pieces of folly that ean be.—

Sir Matthew Lale.

I would rather have a young fellow too
much than too little dressed ; the excess on that
side will wear off, with, a little age and reflec-
tion; but if he is negligent at twenty, he will be
a sloven at forty, and stink at fifty years’ old.
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.— Chestersield.

Out of clothes out of countenance, out of
countenance out of wit.—Ben Jonson.

A simple garb is the proper costume of the
yulgar ; it is ent for them, and exactly suits
their measure; but it is an ornament for those
who have filled up their life with great deeds:
Iliken them to beauty in dishabille, but more
bewitching on that account.—Bruyére. .

Be neither too carly in the fashion, nor too
long out of it, nor too precisely in it; what cus-
tom hath civilized is become decent, till then
ridiculous ; where the eye is the jury, thy appar-
el is the evidence.— Quarles.

|

{, As long as there are cold and nakedness in
the land around vou, so long can there be no
question at all bnt that splendor of dress is a
lerime. In dne time, when we have nothing
better to set people to work at, it may be right
to let them make lace and cnt jewels; but as
long as there are any who have no blankets for
their beds, and no rags for their bodies, so long
it is blanket-making and tailoring we must set
people to work at, not lace.—Ruskin,

Too great carelessness, equally with exeess
in dr multiplies the wrinkles of old age, and
makes its decay the more conspienous.—Druyére.

All costume off a man is pitiful or grotesque.
It is only the serions eye peering from and the
sincere life passed within it, which restrain
langhter and consecrate the costuine of any peo-
ple. Let Harlequin be taken with a fit of the
colic, and his trappings will hgve to serve that
mood too. When the soldier is hit by ‘9 can-
non-ball rags aré as becoming as purple.—
Thoreau.

In the indications of female poverty there
ean be no disguise. No woman dresses below
herself from caprice.—Lamb.


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134

DRUNKENNESS.

It is the saying of an old divine, “ Two things
in my apparel I will chiefly aim at, —commodi-
ousuess and decency; more than these is not
commendable, yet I hate an effeminate spruce-
ness as much as a fantastic disorder. <A neg-
lected comeliness is the best ornament.” It is
said of the celebrated Mr. Whitfield, that he al-
ways swas very clean and neat, and often said
pleasautly ‘ that a minister of the gospel ouglit
to be without a spot.”—J/. Beaumont.

Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes
him that hath it without means esteemed for an
excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts
the world in remembrance of his means.—

Ben Jonson.

The person whose clothes are extremely fine
{am too apt to consider as not being possessed
of any superiority of fortune, but resembling
those Indians who are found to-wear all the
gold they have in the world in.a bob at the
nose.— Goldsmith.

A rich dress adds but little to the beauty of
a person. It may possibly create a deference,
but that is rather an enemy to love.—Shenstone.

I have always a saered veneration for‘any
one I observe to be‘a little ont of repair in his
person, as supposing him either a poct or .a
philosopher; because the richest minerals are
ever found under the most ragged and withered
surfaces of the earth — Siz.

* A gentleman’s taste in dress is, upon princi-
ple, the avoidance of all things extravagant. It
consists in the quiet simplicity of exquisite neat-
ness; but, as the neatuess must be a neatness in
fashion, employ the best tailor; pay him ready
money, and, on the whole, you will tind him the
cheapest.— Bulwer Lytton.

DRUNKENNESS.

All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the
worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the
mind, and unmans mien. It reveals secrets, is
quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous,
and mad. He that is drunk is not a man,
because he is, for so long, void of reason that
distinguishes a-man from a beast.—

William Penn.

Drunkenness is nothing else but a voluntary
madness.— Seneca.

Man has evil as well as good qualities pecu-
liar to himself. Drnnkenness places him as
much below the level of the brutes as reason
elevates him above them.—Sir G. Sinclair.

Beware of drunkenness, lest all good men
beware of thee; where drunkenness reigns,
there reason is an exile, virtue a stranger, God
an enemy; blasphemy is wit, oaths are rhet-
orie, and seerets are proclamations. Noah dis-
covered that in one hour, drunk, which, sober,
he kept secret six hundred years.— Quarles.

A drunken man is likesa drowned man, a
fool, and a madman; one draught above heat
makes him a fool, the second mads him, and a
third drowns him.—Shakespeare.

Some of the domestic evils of drunkenness
are houses without windows, gardens withont
i fences, fields without tillage, barns without

roofs, children without clothing, principles,
morals, or manners.—FranMin.

In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort,
; cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for con-
fidence.—Johnson.

Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitu-
tion or of a bad memory, — ofa constitution so
treacherously good -that it never bends till it
i breaks; or of a memory that recollects the
jpleasures of getting intoxicated, bat forgets the
| pains of getting sober.—Colton.

Habitual intoxication is the epitome of every
crime.—Douglas Jerrold.

Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet
i poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath
thath not himself; which whosoever doth com-
mit doth not commit sin, but he himself is
wholly sin.—St. Augustine.

Troops of furies march in the drunkard’s
triumph.—Zimmermann.

The bliss of the drunkard is a visible picture
of the expectation of the dying atheist, who
hopes uo more than to lic down in the grave
with the “beasts that perish.” —Jane Porter.

A vine bears three grapes, —the first of
pleasure, the second of drunkenness, and the
third of repentance.—Anacharsis.

People say, “Do not regard “what he says
now he is in liqnor.” Perhaps it is the only
time he onght to be regarded: Aperit precordia
liber — Shenstone.

Of all vices take heed of drunkenness ; other
vices are but fruits of disordered affections, — this
disorders, nay, banishes reason ; other vices but
impair the soul, — this demolishes her two chief
faeulties, the‘understanding and the will; other
yiees make their own way, — this makes way for
all vices ; he that is:a drunkard is qualified for
all vice.— Quarles.

Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but
drunkenness belongs only to man.—Fielding.

They were red-hot with drinking ; so full of
valor, that they smote the air for breathing in
their faces, beat the ground for kissing of their
feet.— Shakespeare.

There is scarcely « crime before me that is
not, directly or indirectly, cansed by strong
drink.— Judge Coleridge.



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135

DOTY.

Those men who destroy a healthful constitn-
tion of body by intemperance wid an irregwar
tite do as manitestly kil} themselves as those
who hang or poison or drown themselves.—

Sherlock.

The sight of a-drunkard is a. better sermon
against that vice than the best that was ever
preached upon that subject. —Sarille.

If the headache should come before drumk-
enness, we should have a care of drinking too
much; but Pleasure, to deceive us, imiurches
before,.and conceals her train.—Jlontuigne.

DUELS.

Tf all seconds were as averse to duels as
their principals, very little blood would be shed
in that way.— Colton.

With respect to duels, indeed, I have my
own ideas. Few things in this so surprising
world strike me with more sn Two ht
tle visual spectra of nen, hovering with inseenre
enough cohesion in the midst of the unfathoma-
bic, and to dissolve therein, at any rate, very
soon, make pause at the distance of twelve paces
asunder, whirl around, and simultanconsly, by
the cunningest mechanism, explode one another
into dissolution ; and, offhand, become air, and
non-extant, — the little spitfires !— Carlyle.

Since bodily strength is but a servant to the
mind, it were very barbarous and preposterous
that force shonld be made judge over reason. —

Sir P. Sidney.

Dnelting, though harbarons in civilized, is a
highly civilized institution among barbarous
people ; and when compared to assassination,
is a_prodivions victory gained over human pas-
sions.— Sydney Sinith.

DULNESS.
What a comfort a dull bnt kindly person is,

.to be sure, at times! A ground-glass shade over

a gas-lamp does not bring more solace to our
dazzled eyes than such a one to our minds.—

FTolmes.

There are some heads which have no win-
dows, and the day can never strike from above ;
nothing enters from heavenward.—Joubert.

A dull man is so near a dead man that he
is hardly to be ranked in the list of the living;
and_as he is not to be buried whilst he is half
alive, so he is as little to be employed whilst he
is half dead.—Suville.

DUTY. 7
The true way fo render ourselves happy is
to love our duty and tind in it onr pledisure.—
Madame de Aotteville.

Let men Jangh when yon sacrifice desire to
duty, if they will, You have time and eternity
to rejoice in.— Theodore Parker.

Amid all our ignorance and weakness what
we best know is our duty— SVhately.

There is little pleasure in the world chat is
true and sincere besides the pleasure of doing
our duty and doing good. Jam sure ne other
is vomparable to this.—7ilotson,

Every subject’s duty is the king’s; brit every
subject’s soul is his own.— Shakespeare.

We are apt to mistake onr vocation by look-
ing out of the way for occasions to exercise
great and rare virtues, and by stepping over the
ordinary ones that lie direetly in the road betore
us.—Hannah More.

It is one of the worst of errors to suppose
that there is any other path of safety except
that of duty.—Nevins. .

Dnty itself is supreme detight when love is
the inducement and labor. By such a princi-
ple the ignorant are eulightened, the hard-
hearted softened, the disobedient reformed, and
the faithful encouraged.—Zfosea Ballou.

Fear God and keep his commandments, for
this is the whole duty of man.— ible.

There is‘a sanctity in suffering when meek-
ly born. Our duty, though set about by thorns,
may still be made a staff, supporting even while
it tortures. Cast it‘away, and, like the proph-
et’s wand, it changes to a snake.—

Douglus Jerrold.

Only when the voice of duty is silent, or
when it has already spoken, may we allowably
think of the consequeuces of a particular action.

Hare.

Let him who gropes painfully in darkness
or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that
the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept
well to heart: “Do the duty which lies nearest
thee,” which thon knowest to be a-duty! Thy
second duty will already have become clearer —

"Carlyle.

Who s0 escapes.a duty avoids:a gain.—
Theodore Parker.

_ . There are not good things enough in life to
indemnify us for the neglect of a single duty.—
Madame Swetchine.

Man owes two solemn debts, — one to so-
ciety, and one to nature. It is ouly when he
pays the second that he covers the first.—

Douglas Ferrold.

A few strong instincts, and a few plain
rules.— Wordsworth.

Stern duties need not speak sternly. He
who stood firm before the thunder worshipped
the “still small voiee.”—Srdney Lobell. ,


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EARNESTNESS.

It is an impressive truth that sometimes in
the very lowest forms of duty, less than which
would rank aman as a villain, there is, never-
theless, the sublimest ascent of self-sacrifice.
To do less would class you as an object of
eternal scorn, to do so much presumes the
grandeur of heroism.—Le Quincey.

Perish discretion when it interferes with

duty. —Hannah More.

There is no mean work save that whieh is
sordidly selfish; there is no irreligious work
save that which is morally wrong; while in
every sphere of life “the post of honor is the
post of duty.”—Chapin.

Stern daughter of the voice of God! —
Wordsworth.

No man’s spirits were ever hurt by doing
his duty; on the contrary, one good action,
one temptation resisted and overcome, one
sacrifice of desire or interest, purely for con-
science’ sake, will prove a cordial for weak-and
low spirits, far beyond what either indulgence
or diversion or company can do for them.—

* Paley.

Duties are ours; events are God’s.—Cecil.

I believe that we'are conforming to the di-
vine order and the‘will of Providence when we
are doing even indifferent things-that belong to
our condition. —Feneon.

Whether your time calls you to live or die,
do both like a prince.—Sir P. Sidney.

136

EARNESTNESS.,

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
consequently should not besany part of your
concern.—L pictetus.

There is no evil which we cannot face or fly
from but the consciousness of duty disregarded.
Daniel Webster.

The consideration that human happiness
and moral duty are inseparably connected will
always continue to prompt me to promote the
progress of the former by inculcating the prac-
tice of the latter — Washington.

Every one regards his duty-as a troublesome
master from whom he would like to be free.—
La Roche.

Let us do our duty in our shop or our
kitchen, the market, the strect, the office, the
school, the home, just ‘as faithfully as if we
stood in the front rank of some great battle,
and we knew that victory for mankind de-
pended 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.

Reyerence the highest, have patience with
the lowest. Let this day’s performance of the
meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars
too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy
feet and from it learn the all—Jfargaret Fuller.

Knowledge of our duties is the most useful
part of philosophy.— Whately.

E.

EARNESTNESS.

Do you wish to become rich? Yon may
become rich, that is, if you desire it in no half
way, but thoroughly. A miser sacrifices all to
his single passion; hoards farthings and dics
possessed of wealth. Do you wish to master
any science or accomplishment? Give yourself
to it and it lies beneath your feet. Time and
pains will do anything. This world is given as
the prize for the men in earnest ; and that which
js true of this world is truer still of the world to
come.—F’. W. Robertson.

The most precions wine is produced upon
the sides of volcanoes. Now bold and inspiring
ideas are only born of a cicar head that stands
over a glowing heart.—Horace Mann.

Patience is only one faculty ; earnestness the
devotion ofall the faculties. Earnestness is the
cause of patience ; it gives endurance, overcomes
pain, strengthens weakness, braves dangers,
sustains hope, makes light of difficulties, and
lessens the sense of weariness in overcoming
them ~-Bovee.

T look upon enthusiasm in all other points
but that of religion to be a very necessary turn
of mind; as, indeed, it isa’ vein which nature
seems to have marked with more or less strength
in the tempers of most men.—Fitzosborne,

There is no substitute for thorough-going,
ardent, and sincere earnestness.—Dickens.

Earn2stness alone makes life eternity. —
Carlyle.

A man without earnestness is a mournful
and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consola-
tion to believe, as we mmst of such a one, that
he is the most effectual and compulsive of all
schools.—Sterling.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put
his heart into his work and done his best; but
what he has said or done otherwise shall give
him no peace.—Lmerson.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by rear
son.—Pascal.


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137

ECONOMY.

EARTH.
Onee every atom of this ground lived,

Where we find echoes, we generally find
emptiness and hollowness; it is the contrary

breathed, and felt like me ! James Dontygomery. ,,with the echoes of the heart.—J. £. Boyes.

Where is the dust that has not been alive ?
The spade, the plough, disturb our ancestors ;

The babbling gossip of the air.—
Shakespeare.

fromm human mould we reap our daily bread.— j‘ECONOMY.

Young.

The earth, that is nature’s mother, is her
tomb. — Shakespeare.

Lean not on earth; it will pieree thee to the
heart; a broken reed at best; bne oft a spear,
on its sharp point Peace bleeds and Hope ex-
pires.— Young.

The waters deluge man with rain, oppress
him with hail, and drown him with inundations ;
the-air rnshes in storms, prepares the tempest,
or lights up the voleano; but the earth, gentle

~and indulgent, ever subservient to the wants of
man, spreads his walks with flowers :and his
table with plenty; returns with interest every
good committed to her eare, and though she pro-
dnees the poison, she still supplies the antidote ;
though constantly 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 flowers are but earth vivified. — :
Lumartine.

Friend, hast thon considered the “rugged,
all-nourishing earth,” as Sophocles well nanies
her; how she feeds the sparrow on the house-
top, much more her darling man 4 —Carlyle.

I believe this earth on which we stand is
but the vestibule to glorious mansions through
which a moving crowd forever press.—

Jounna Baillie.

Speak no harsh words of earth; she is our
mother, and few of us her sons who have not
‘added a wrinkle to her brow.—Alezunder Smith.

ECCENTRICITY.

Even beauty cannot palliate eccentricity.—
Balzac.

Oddities and singnlaritics of behavior may
attend genius; hnt 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.

_ Often extraordinary excellence, not being
rightly conceived, docs rather offend than
please—Sir P. Sidney.

ECHO.

That tuneful nymph, the babbling Echo, who
has not learnt to conceal what is told her, nor
yet is able to speak’ till another speaks.— Ovid.

If you know how-to spend less than you get
you have the philosopher's stone:-—franklin.

All to whom want is terrible, upon what-
ever principle, ought to think themselves obliged
to learn the sage maxims of our parsimonious
ancestors, anid attain the salutary arts of con-
tracting expense; fur without economy none
can be rich, and with it few can be poor.

Johnson.

To make three guineas do the work of five.
Burns.

Nature is avaricionsly frugal ; in matter it
allows no atom to clude its grasp; in mind, no
thought or feeling to perish. It gathers up the
fragments that nothing be lost.—

Rev. Dr. Thomas.

Economy is an excellent Inve to betray peo-
ple to expeuse.—Zimmermunn.

It is no small commendation to manage .a
little well. He is a good wagoner who can
tura in a little room. To live well in abun-
dance is the praise of the estate not of the per-
son. I will study more how to give a good
account of my little than how to make it
more.—Bishop Hall.

Economy is of itself a great revenue.—
Cicero.

He who is taught to live upon little owes
more to his father’s wisdom than he that has 2
great deal left him does to his father’s care.—

Willlaum Penn.

There is no gain so certain‘as that which
arises from sparing what you have.—
. Publius Syrus.

He regarded nothing to he cheap that was
snperfluous, for what one does not need is dear
at a penny; and it was better to possess
tiehls, where the plough gocs and cattle feed,
than fine gardens that require much watering
and sweeping.—Plutarch.

Beware of little expenses; a small leak will
sink-a great ship.—Franklin.

Qualities not regulated ran into their oppo-
sites. Economy before competence is meanness
after it. ‘Lhercfore economy is for the poor;
the rich may dispense with it.— Boece.

No man is rich whose expenditnres exceed
his means; and no one is poor whose incom-
ings exceed his outguings.—ultburton.


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EDUCATION,

Frugality is founded on the principle that
al] riches have limits.—Burke.

Men talk in raptures of youth and beauty, wit
and sprightliness ; but atter seven years of nnion
not one of them is to be compared to good fam-
ily management, which is seen at every meal,
and felt every hour in the husband’s purse.—

Witherspoon.

With parsimony a little is sufficient; and
without it nothing is sufficient ; whereas frugal-
ity makes a poor man rich.— Seneca.

Gain may be temporary and uncertain ; but
ever while you live expense is constant and cer-
tain; and it is casier to build two chimneys
than to keep one in fuel.—franklin.

Take care to be an economist in prosperity ;
there is no fear of your being one in adversity. —
Zimmermann.

Economy is the parent of integrity, of lib-
erty, and of ease, and the beanteous sister of
temperance, of cheerfulness and health.—

Johnson.

Sound economy is sound understanding
brought into action ; it is calculation realized ;
it is the doctrine of proportion reduced to prac-
tice; it is foresceing coutingencies, and providing
against them.—J/unnak More.

Not to be covetons is money, not to be a
purchaser is a revenue.— Cicero.

Economy: is integrity and profuseness is a
ernel and crafty demon, that gradnally involves
her followers in dependence and debts ; that is,
fetters them with irons that enter into their
souls.— Hawkesworth.

Let honesty and industry be thy constant
companions and spend one penny less than thy
clear gains ; then shall thy hide-bound pocket
soon begin to thrive and will never again cry
with the empty belly-ache; neither will credit-
ors insult thee, nor want oppress, nor hunger
bitc, nor nakedness freeze thee.—f’ranklin.

The regard one shows economy is like that
we show an old aunt who is to leave us some-
thing at last.—Shenstone.

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 Afore.

Where there is a question of economy, 1
prefer privation.—Jfadame Swetchine.

The man who will live above his present
circumstances is in great danger of living in a
Tittle time much beneAth theni, or, as the Ital-
ian proverb says . “‘ The man who lives by hope
will dic by despair.” —Addison,

EDITOR.

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 bayonets.—

Napoleon,
EDUCATION. .
Education is the apprenticeship of life—
Willmott.

Jails and state prisons are the complement
of schools ; so many less as you have of the
latter, so many more you must have of the
former.—Horace Mann.

Let the soldier be:abroad if he will, he can
do nothing in this age. There is another per-
sonage less imposing in the eves of some, per-
haps insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad,
and J trust to him, armed with his primer,
against the soldier in full military array.—

Lord Brougham.

He is to be educated because he is a man,
and not because he is to make shoes, nails, and
pins.— Channing. -

Knowledge does not comprise all which is
contained in the large term of education. The
feelings are to be disciplined, the passions are to
be restrained ; true and worthy motives are to
be inspired ; a profound religious feeling is to be
instilled, and pure morality inculeated under
all cirenmstances. All this is comprised in ed-
ucation.—Laniel JWVebster.

Education commences at the mother’s knee,
and every word spoken within the hearing of
little children tends towards the formation of
eharacter. Let parents bear this ever in mind.—

Hosea Ballou.

The real object of education is to give chil-
dren resources that will endure as long as life
endures ; habits that time will ameliorate, not
destroy ; occupation that will render sickness
tolerable, solitude pleasant, age venerable, life
more dignified and useful, and death less terri-
ble.—Sydney Smith,

No woman is educated who is not equal to
the successful management of a family.—
Burnap.

Promoteias an object of primary importance
institutions for the general diffusion of knowl-
edge. In proportion as the structure of a gov-
ernment gives force to public opinion, it should
be enlightened.— Washington.

We speak of educating our children. Do
we know that our children also educate us *—
Mrs. Sigourney.

The sacred books of the ancient Persians say,
If you would he holy, instruct your children,
because all the good ‘acts they perform will be
‘imputed to you. — Montesquieu.



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9 EDUCATION.

Any who says.(with Mandeville in his treat-
ise agutnst charity schools), “If a horse knew
as much us x man, J should not tike to be his
rider,” onght to add, “If a man knew as little
ns a horse, I should not like to trust him to
ride.” — Whately.

Conkl we know by what strange cirenm-
stances .a man’s genius became: prepared for
practical success, we should discover that the
most serviceable items in his education were
never entered in the bills which his father paid
for.—Bulwer Lytton.

The world is only saved by the breath of
the school children.— Talmud.

Begin the education of the heart, not with
the cultivation of noble propensities, but with
the cutting away of those that are evil. When
once the noxious herbs are withered and rooted
ont, then the moré noble plants, strong in
themselves, will shoot upwards. The virtuous
heart, like the body, becomes strong and healthy
more by labor than nourishinent.—2iehter.

The hest edueation in the world is that got
by struggling to geta living.— Wendell Phillips.

The true order of learning should be first,
what is necessary ; sccond, what is useful ; and
third, what is ornamental. To reverse this ar-
rangement is like beginning to build at the top
of the cditice.—Ars. Sigourney.

School-houses are the republican line of for-
tifications.—Zforace Jfann.

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 —Ldward Everett.
There are many things which we can afford
to forget which it is yet well to learn.—ZZolmes.

It depends on education (that holder of the
keys which the Almighty hath put into our
hands) to open the gates which lead to virtue
or to vice, to happiness or misery.—./ane Porter.

I call, therefore, a complete and generons
education, that which fits a man to perform
justly, skilfully, and magnanimonsly all the of-
fices, both private and public, of peace and war.

Ailton.

When a king asked Euclid, the mathemati-
cian, whether he could uot explain his art_to
him in ‘a nore compendions manner, he was
answered, that there was no royal way to gcom-
‘etry. Other things may be seized by might, or
purchased with money ; but knowledge is to he
gained only by study, and study to be prosecut-
ed only in retirement.—./vhnson.

Every fresh acquirement is another remedy
against affliction and time.— Willmott.

I consider that it is on instruction and eda-
| cation that the fature security and direction of
} the destiny of every nation chiefly and funda-
mentally rests. —Aossuth.

The wisest man may always learn some
thing from the humblest peasant.—
J. Petit, Senn.

Education, briefly, is the leading human
souls to what is best, and making what is best
ont of them; and these two objects are always
attainable together, and by tlic same means;
the training which makes men happiest in them.
selves also makes them most serviceable to oth-
ers.—Ruskin,

Edneation begins the gentleman, but read-
ing, good company, and edneation must finish
him.—Loeke.

We know that the gifts which men have do
not come from the schools. If a man is:a plain,
literal, factual man, you can make a great deal
more of him in his own line by education than
without education, justas you can make a great
deal more of a potato if you cultivate it than
if you do not; but no cultivation in this world
will ever make an apple out of a potato.—

Beecher.

Education is our only political safety. Ont-
side of this ark all is deluge—Horace ALann.

Were it not better for a man inva fair room
to set up one great light, or branching candle-
stick of lights, than to go about with a rush-
light into every dark corner ?—Bacon.

Education is cither from nature, from man,
or from things ; the developing of our faculties
and organs is the education of nature; -that of
man is the application we learn to make of this
very developing ; and that of things is the expe-
rience we acquire in regard to the different ob-
jects by which we are’ affected. All that we
have not at our birth, and that we stand in
need of at the years of immaturity, is the gift of
educution.— Rousseau.

The best and most important part of every
man’s education is that which be gives himself.

Gibbon.

A father inquires whether his boy can con-
struc Homer, if he understands lorace, and
can taste Virgil; but how seldom does he ask,
or examine, or think whether he can restrain
his passions, — whether hic'is gratefal, generous,
hnimane, compassionate, just, und benevolent.—

Lady Hervey.

The pains we take in hooks or arts which
treat of things remote from the necessaries of
life is @ busy idleness.— £xller.

Public instruction should be the first object
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EDUCATION.

The education of the present race of females
is net very favorable to domestic happiness.
For my own part, I call education, not that
which smothers a woman with accomplishments,
Dnt 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.

In exalting the faculties of the soul, we
annihilate, in a great degree, the delusion of
the senses.—Aime-Martin.

Virtue and talents, thongh allowed their
due consideration, yet are not enough to pro-
cnre a man a welcome wherever he comes.
Nobody contents himself with rongh diamonds,
or wears them so. “When polished and set, then
they give a lustre.—Locke.

Man must either make provision of sense
to understand, or ofa halter to hang himself.—
Antisthenes.

Ttoo acknowledge the all-but omnipotence
of early enlture and nurtnre; hereby we have
either a doddered dwarf-bush, or a high-tower-
ing, wide-shadowing tree! either a sick yellow
cabbage, or an edible Inxuriant green one. Of
atrnth, it is the duty of all men, especially of
all philosophers, to note down with accuracy
the characteristic circumstances of their educa-
tion, — what furthered, what hindered, what in
any way modified it.—Carlyle.

I think I should know how to educate ‘a
boy, but not a girl; I shonld be in danger of
making her too learned.—Niebuhr.

Minds that are stupid and incapable of sci-
ence arc in the order of nature to be regarded
as monsters and other extraordinary phenom-
ena; minds of this sort are rare. Henee I con-
clude that there are great resources to be found
in children, which are suffered to vanish with
their years. It is evident, therefore, that it is
not of nature, bnt of onr own negligence, we
ought to complain.—Quintilian.

All who have meditated on the art of gov-
erning mankind have been convinced that the
fate of empires depends on the education of
youth.— Aristotle.

Do not ask if a man has been through col-
lege. Ask if a college has been through him ;
if he is a walking university. Chapin.

An intelligent class can scarce ever be, as a
class, vicions ; never, as a class, indolent. The
excited mental activity operates as a counter-
poise to the stimulus of sense and “appetite.—

Edward Everett.

As an apple is not in any proper sense an
apple until it is ripe, so a human being is not
in any proper sense a human being until he is
educated.— Horace Mann.

All that a-university or final highest school
can do for us is still but what the first school
began doing, — teach us to read. We learn to
read in various languages, in various sciences ;
we learn the alphabet and letters of all manner
of books. But the place where we-are to get
knowledge, even theoretic knowledge, is the
books themselves. It depends on what we read,
after al] manner of professors have donc their
best for us. The trne university of these days
is.a collection of books.— Carlyle.

Education is the chief defence of nations.—
Burke.

How can man be intelligent, happy, or use-
ful, without the culture and discipline of ednca-
tion? It is this that unlocks the prison-house
of his mind, and releases the captive.—

Rev. Dr. Humphrey.

In this country every one gets a mouthful
of education, but scarcely any one a full meal.—
Theodore Parker.

The greatest defect of common cdueation is,
that we are in the habit of putting pleasure all
on one side, and weariness on the other ; ‘all
weariness in study, ‘all pleasure in idleness.—

Fenelon.

Thalwell thought it very unfair to influence
achild’s mind by Inculeating any opinions be-
fore it had come to years of discretion to choose
for itself. I showed him my garden, and told
him it was a botanical garden. ‘ How so?
said he; “itis covered with weeds.” “0,” 4
replied, “that is only becanse it has not yet
come to its age of discretion and choice. The
weeds, you see, have taken the liberty to grow,
and thonght it unfair in me to prejudice the
soil towards roses and strawberries.” —

Coleridge.

The aim of education should be to teach us
rather how to think than what to think, —
yather to improve our minds, so as to enable us
to think fur ourselves, than to load the memory
with the thoughts of other men.—Beattie.

To be thoroughly imbued with the liberal
arts refines the nanners, and makes men to be
mild and gentle in their conduct.— Ovid.

Man is an animal, formidable both from his
passions and his reason; his passions often
urging him to great evils,and his reason fir~
nishing means to achieve them. ‘To train this
animal, and make him amenable to order; to
innre him to a sense of justice and virtue; to
withhold him from il] courses by fear, and cn-
courage him in his duty by hopes; in short, to
fashion and model him for society, hath been
the aim of civil and religious institutions ; and,
in all times, the endeavor of good and wise men.
The aptest method for attaining this end hath
been always judged a proper edncation.—

Bishop Berkeley.


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EGOTISM.

That there should one man die ignorant
who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a
tragedy, were it to happen more than twent
times ina minute, as by some computations it
does.— Carlyle.

Unless the people can be kept in total dark-
ness, it is the wisest way for the advocates of
trath to give them full light.— Whately.

What we do not call education is more
precious than that which we call so. We form
no guess, at the time of receiving a thought, of
its comparative value. And education often
waste its efforts in attempts to thwart and balk
this natural magnetism, which is sure to select
what belongs to it.—Amerson.

As the fertilest ground must be mannred,
so must the highest flying wit have a Deedalus
to guide him.—Six P. Sidney.

We shall one day learn to supersede politics
by education. What we call onr root-and-
branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, in-
temperance, is only medicating the symptoms.
We must begin higher up, namely, in edneation.

Emerson.

Capacity without edneation is deplorable,
and education without capacity is thrown away.
EGOTISM.

The more you speak of yonrself, the more
you are likely to lie—Zinunermann. ,

The awkwardness:and embarrassment which
all feel on beginning to write, when they them-
selves are the theme, onght to serve'as a hint to
-anthors that self is a subject they ought very
rarcly to descant upon.— Colton.

J shall never ‘apologize to you for egotism.
I think very few men writing to their friends
have enough of it—Sydney Smith.

It is a false principle, that because we are
entirely occupied with ourselves, we must equally
occupy the thoughts of others. The contrary
inference is the fair one.— Hazlitt.

When all is summed up, a man never speaks
of himself without loss; his acensations of him-
self are always believed, his praises never.—
Montaigne.

We like so much to talk of ourselves that
we are never weary of those private interviews
with a lover during the course of whole years,
and for the same reason the devont like to spend
much time with their confessor; it is the pleas-
ure of talking.of themselves, even thongh it be
to talk ill —adame de. Sévigné.

To speak highly of one with whom we are
intimate is a species of egotism. Onr modesty
-as well as onr jealonsy teaches us cantion on
this subject. —Haclitt.

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EGOTISM.

t
What hypocrites we seem to be whenever
we talk of ourselves! Our words sonnd so
humble, while our hearts are so proud.—are.

Egotism is the tongue of vanity.—Cham/fort.

Every real master of speaking or writing
uses his personality as he would any other ser-
viceable material ; the very moment a speaker
or writer begins to use it, not for his main pur-
pose, but for vanity’s sake, as all weak people
are sure to do, hearers and readers feel the dif
ference in a moment.—ZLolmes.

Here is the ‘egotist’s code: everything for
himself, nothing for others.—Sanial-Dubuy.

The reason why lovers are never weary of
one another is this, — they are always talking of
themsclyes.—Lochefoucauld.

Seldom do we talk of ourselves with snceess.

If ITcondemn myself, more is belicved than is
expressed ; if I praise inyself, much less.—

Henry Home.

The pest of society is egotists. There are
dull and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and
fine egotists. It is a discase that, like influenza,
falls on all constitutions. In the distemper
known to physicians as chorea, the patient
sometimes turns round, and continues to spin
slowly on one spot. Is egotism a metaphysical
virioloid of this malady ?—//merson.

Do you wish men to speak well of you?
Then never speak well of yourself—Paseal.

He who thinks he can find in himself the
means of doing without others is much mistak-
en; bnt he who thinks that others cannot do with-
out him is still more mistaken.—/ochefoucauld.

It is never permissible to say, I say —
Afadame Necker.

There is searee any man who cannot per-
suade himself of his own merit. Has he com-
mon-sense, he prefers it to genius; has he some
diminutive virtnes, he prefers them to great
talents.—Sewall. -

Let the degree of-egotism be the measure of
confidence.—Zavater.

Christian picty annihilates the egotism of
the heart ; worldly politeness veils-and represses
it.—Pascal.

Egotism is more like an offence than a
crime; though ic is allowable to speak of your=
self, provided nothing is advanced in favor;
but 1 cannot hclp suspecting that those who
abuse themselves are, in reality, angling for ap-
probation.— Zimmermann.

The personal pronoun “Tt” bovld he the
coat of arms of some individ:uus.—/trearol


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ELOQUENCE.

ELEGANCE.

Elegince is something more than ease; it is
more than a freedom from awkwardness or
restraint. It implics, I conceive,'a precision, a
polish, a sparkling, spirited yet delicate.—

ITasliit.

When the mind toses its feeling for elegance,
it grows corrupt and grovelling, and seeks in
the crowd what ought to be found at home.—

Landor.

Taste and elegance, though they:are reck-
oned only among the smalter and secondary
morals, yet aré of no mean importance in the
regulations of life. A moral taste is not ot
force to turn vice into ‘virtue; but it recom-
mends virtue with something like the, blandish-
ments of pleasure, and it iutinitely abates the
evils of vice.—Burke.

ELOQUENCE.
- Eloquence is to the sublime what the whole
is to its part.—Bruyere.

No man ever did or ever will become truly
eloquent without being a constant reader of the
Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublim-
ity of its language.—Fisher Ames.

In eloquence, the great triumphs of the. art
are when the orator is lifted above himself;
when consciousty he makes himself the mere
tongue of the occasion and the hour, and says
what cannot bnt be said. Hence the term
“abandonment,” to describe the self-surrender of
the orator. Not his will, but the principle on
which he is horsed, the great connection and
crisis of events, thunder in the car of the crowd.

Emerson.

As the grace of man is in the mind, so the
beauty of the mind is eloquence.— Cicero.

Great is the power of eloquence; but never
is it so great as when it pleads along with na-
ture, and the culprit is a child strayed from his
duty, and returned to it aguin with tears.—

Sternct

Eloquence is relative. One ean no more
pronounce on the eloquence of any composition
than the wholesomeness of & medicine without
knowing for whom it is intended.— IVhately.

Gentlemen, do you know what is the finest
specch that I ever in my life heard or read? It
is the address of Garibaldi to his Roman soldiers,
when he told them: “ Soldiers, what I have to
offer you is futigue, danger, struggle, and death ; |
the chill of the cold night in the free air, and!
heat under the burning sun; no lodgings, no
munitions, no provisions, but forced marehes,
dangerous watchposts, and the continual strug-
gle with the bayonet against battcries ; — those
who love freedom and their country may follow |
me.”
heard in my life.—ossuth.

It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires
matter to feed it, motion to excite it, and it
brightens as it burus.— Tacitus.

Eloquence is in the assembly, not in the
speaker.— Willian Pitt.

The receipt to make .a speaker, and an ap.
planded one too, is short and easy. Take-com-
mon-sense quantunt suficit: add a little applica-
tion to the rules and orders of the House [of
Commons], throw obvious thoughts in a new
light, and make up the whole with a large
quantity of purity, correetness, and eleganey of
style. “Take it for granted that by far’ the
greatest part of mankind neither analyze nor
search to the bottum; they are incapable of
penetrating deeper than the surface. —

Chesterfield.

His tongue dropped manna, and could make
the worse appear the better reason, to perplex
and dash maturest counsels.—.ilton.

A just and reasonable modesty docs not only
recommend eloquence, but sets off every great
talent which a man can be possessed of. It
heightens all the virtues which it accompanies ;
like the shades of paintings, it raises and rounds
every figure, and mukes the colors more beauti-
ful, though not so glowing as they would be
without it—Addison.

O Eloquenee !. thou violated fair, how thou
art wooed and won to cither bed of right or
wrong ! —Havard.

A cold-blooded learned man might, for any-
thing I know, compose in his closct an eloquent
book ; but in public discourse, arising ont of
sudden occasions, he could by no possibility be
eloquent.—£rskine.

Those who would make us feel must feel
themselves.— Churchill.

-There should be in eloquence that which is
sleasing and that which is real; but that which
is pleasing should itself be real.—Pascal.

The manner of your speaking is full as im-
portant as the matter, as more people have ears
to be tickled than understandings to jndge.—

' Chester field.

In true eloquence I wish that the things be
snrmonnted and that the discourse fill the im-
agination of him who hears, that he has no
yemembrance of words. An orator of past
times said that his calling was to make little
things appear and be grand.—Jfontaigne.

Eloquence, to produce her full effect, should
start from the head of the orator, as Pallas
from the brain of Jove, completely armed and
equipped. Diffidence, therefore, which is so

That is the most glorious speech I ever \dom a mentor to the writer, would prove a

dangerous counsellor for the orator.— Colton.


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EMULATION.

Were we-as eloquent as angels, we should
please some more by listening than by talking.
Calton.

ts in saving all that is

Truc cloquence cons
—fochefoucauld.

proper, and nothing more.

The pleasure of cloquence is in greatest part
owing often to the stimulus of the occasion
which produces it, — to the magic of sympathy,
which exalts the feeling of each by radiating on
him the fecting of all.—£mersor.

Brevity is a great praise of cloquence.—
Cicero,

Power above powers! O heavenly clo-
qnence! that, with the strong rein of command-
ing words, dost manage, guide, and master the
high eminence of inen’s affections ! —Dantel.

Thoughts that breathe and words that burn.
Gray.

Eloquence, when:at its highest pitch, leaves
little room for reason or reflection, but addresses
itself entirely to the fancy or the affections, cap-
tivates the willing hearers, and subdnes their
understanding. Happily, this pitch it seldom
attains. —Hume,

Your words are like the notes of dying
swans, too sweet to last ! —Dryden.

There is as much eloquence in the tone of
voice, in the eyes, and in the air of a speaker as
in his choice of words.—Rochefoucauld.

The glorious burst of winged words ! —
Tupper.

True cloquence does not consist in specch.

It cannot be bronght from far. Labor and

learning may toil in vain. Words and phrases

may be marshalled in every way, but they can-

not compass it. It must exist in the, man, in
the subject, and in the occasion.—

Daniel Webster.

When he spoke, what tender words he used !
so softly that, like flakes of feathered snow, they
melted as they fell.—Dryden.

Silence that spoke, and cloquence of cyes.—
Pope.

Manyrare ambitious of saying grand things,
that is, of being grandiloquent. Eloquence is
speaking ont, — a quality few esteem and fewer
aim at.—Jfare.

Eloquence the Soul, song charms the senses.
Milton.

Tie has oratory who ravishes his hearers
while he forgets himself.—Lavater.

In oratory affectation must be avoided ; it
being better for’ man by,a native and clear elo-
quence to express himself than by those words
which may smell cither of the lunp or inkhorn.

Lord Herbert.

False eloquence is exaggeration, true clo-
quence is emphasis.— WW. R-Alger.

Eloquence is the language of nature, and
cannot, be learned in the schools; the passions
are powerful pleaders, and their very silence,
like that of Garrick, goes directly to the soul ;
but rhetorie is the creature of art, which he who
feels least will most excel in; it is the quackery
of eloquence, and deals in nostrums, not in
cures,—Colton.

EMPIRE,
Extended empire, like expanded gold, ex-
changes solid strength for feeble splendor.—
Johnson.
EMPLOYMENT.
The Devil never tempted a man whom he
found judiciously employed.— Spurgeon.

Employment is nature’s physician, fand is
essential to humat happiness.— Galen.

Employment and ennui are simply incom-
patible— Madame Delucy.

Be always employed about some rational
thing, that the Devil find thee not idle.—
St. Jerome.
EMULATION,
Emulation admires and strives to imitate
great actions; envy is only moved to malice.—
Balzac.

Emulation looks ont for merits, that she
may exert herself by a victory; envy spics ont
blemishes, that she may have another by a de-
feat.— Colton.

My heart laments that virtue cannot live
out of the teeth of emulation. —Shakespeare.

Emnlation is a noble passion ; it is enter-
prising, but it is just ; it makes the conqnest
for glory fair and generous. ‘True emniation
consists in striving to excel in everything com-
mendable ; it raises itself, but not by depressing
otlicrs.—J. Beaumont.

It is scarce possilile at once to admire and
excel antauthor, as water rises no higher than
the reservoir it falls from.—Bacon.

Emulation is a handsome passion; it is
enterprising, but just withal. Ite keeps a man

Eloquence is a pictural representation of ,within the terms of honor, and makes the con-
thought; and hence those who, after having ‘test for glory just and gencrons. He strives to

painted it, make additions to it, give usa fancy
picture, but not a portrait-—Pascal. .

excel, but itis by raising himself, not by depress-
ing others.—/eremy Cellier.


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ENCOURAGEMENT.

144

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ENDURANCE.

Worldly ambition is founded on pride or
envy, but emulation, or laudable ambition, is
actually fonnded in humility; for it evidently
implies that we have a low opinion of our pres-
ent attainments, and think it necessary to be ad-
vanced.—Bishop Lal.

Emulation is grief arising from seeing one’s
self exceeded or excelled by his concurrent, to-
gether with hope to equal or exeeed him in time
fo come, by his own ability But envy is the
same grief joiued with pleasure conceived in the
imagination of some ill-fortune that may befall
him.— Thomas Hobbes.

Where there is emulation, there will be van-
ity ; where there is vanity, there will be folly.—
Johnson.

Emulation, even in the brutes, is sensitively
“nervous.” See the tremor of the thorongh-
bred racer before he starts. The dray-horse
does not tremble, but he docs not emulate. It
is not his work to rm -arace. Says Marcus
Antoninns, “It is all one to a stone whether it,
be thrown upward or downward.” Yet the
emulation of a man of genius is seldom with his
contemporaries, that is, inwardly in his mind,
although ontwardly in his act it wonld seem so
The competitors with whom his secret ambition
seems to vie are the dead —Budwer Lytton.

Emulation hath a thousand sons, that one
by one pursue; if you give way, or edge aside
from the direct forthright, like to an entered
tide, they all rush by, and leave you hindmost.

Shakespeare.

There is emulation even in vice.—
Eugene Sue.

Give me the boy who rouses when he is
praised, who profits when he is encouraged, and
who cries when he is defeated. Such a boy
will he fired by ambition ; he will be stung by
reproach, and animated by preference; never
shall I apprehend any bad consequences from
idleness in such a boy.—Quintilian.

God grant that we may contend with other
churches, as the vine with the olive, which of
us shall bear the best fruit; but not as the brier
with the thistle, which of us will be most un-
profitable.—Bacon.

Emulation has been termed:a spur to virtue,
and assnmes to be a spur of gold. But it is a
spur composed of baser materials, and if tried
in the furnace, will be found to want that
fixedness which is the characteristic of gold.—
~ Colton.
ENCOURAGEMENT.

Faint not; the miles to heaven are but few
and short.—Rutherford.

Correction does much, but encouragement
does more. Encouragement after censure is as

the sun after a shower.— Goethe.

More hearts pine away in secret anguish for
the want of kindness from those who should be
their comforters than for any other calamity in
life-— Young.

It may be proper for all to remember that
they ought not to raise expectations which it is
not in their power to satisfy ; and that it is more
pleasing to sce smoke brightening into flame
than flame sinking into smoke.—Johnson.

ENDURANCE,

There was never yet philosopher that conld
endure the toothache patiently, however they
have writ the style of gods, and make a pish at
chance and sufferance.— Shakespeare.

Prolonged endnranve tames the bold.—
Byron.

There is a sort of natural instinct of human
dignity in the heart of man which steels his very
nerves not to bend beneath the heavy blows of a
great-adversity. The palm-tree grows best be-
neath a ponderous weight, even so the character
of man. There is no merit in it, it is‘a law
of psychology. The petty pangs of small daily
eares have often bent the character of men, but
great misfortunes seldom. There is less danger
im this than in great good Inck.— Kossuth.

A true-devoted pilgrim is not weary to
measure kingdoms with his feeble steps.—
Shakespeare.

There is nothing in the world so much ad-
mired as a man who knows how to bear unhap-
piness with courage.—Seneca. Pa

‘Wounds and hardships provoke our courage,
and when our fortunes are at the lowest, our
wits and minds are commonly at the best.—

Charron.

Whenever evil befalls us,ave ought to ask
ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can
tnrn it into good. So shall we take occasion,
from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many
flowers.—Leigh Hunt.

The greater the difficulty the more glory in
swmounting it. Skilfil pilots gain their repn-
tation from storms and tempests.—£picurus.

Not in the achievement, but in the endur-
ance of the hnman soul, does it show its di-
vine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite
God.— Chapin.

Stillest streams oft water fairest meadows,
and the bird that flutters least is longest on the
wing.— Cowper.

Our strength often increases in proportion to
the obstacles which are imposed upon it; it is
thus that we enter upon the most perilous plans
after haying had the shame of failing in more
simple ones.—Rapin.


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ENEMIES.

145

ENJOYMENT.

As in labor,.the more one doth exercise, thie
more one is enabled to do, strength growing
upon work ; so, with the use of snfluring, men’s
minds get the habit of suffering, nnd all fears
and terrors.are to thein but as a summons to
battle, whereof they know beforehand they shall
come off victorious. —Sir P. Sidney

ENEMIES.
There is no little enemy.— Franklin.

A Christian should not discover that he has
eneinies by any other way than by doing more
good to them than to others. “If thine cnemy
hunger, feed him ; it he thirst, give him drink.”

Bishop Wilson.

Make no enemies ; he is insignificant indeed
that can do thee no harm.— Colton.

Some men are more beholden to their bitter-
est enemies than to friends who appear to be
sweetness itself. The former frequently tell the
truth, but the latter never.— Cato.

Lam persuaded that he who is capable of
being a bitter enemy can never possess the ne-
cessary virtues that constitute a true friend.—

Fitzosborne.

If we could read the secret history of our
enemies, we should find in each man’s life sor-
row and suffering cnough to disarm atl hostil-
ity. Longfellow.

Plutarch has written ‘An cssay on the bene-
fits which a man may reecive from his enemies ;
and, among the good fruits of enmity, mentions
this in particular, that by the reproaches which
it casts upon us, we sec the worst side of our-
sclves.— Addison.

That is a most wretched fortune which is
withont.an enemy.—Publins Syrus.

Let us carefully observe those good qualities
wherein onr enemies excel us; and endeavor to
excel them, by avoiding whatis faulty, and ini-
tating what is excellent in them.—Phuarch.

Men of sense often learn from their enemies.
Prndenee is the best safeguard. This principle
eannot be learned froma friend, but an cnemy
extorts it immediately. It is from their. foes,
uot 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.—ristophanes.

Did a person but know tlic value of an ene-
my, he would purchase him with pure gold.—
albbe de Raunet.

Be assured those will be thy worst enemies,
not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have
done evil to thee. And those will be thy best
friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but
who haye done good to thee.—favater.

10

Everybody has enemies. To have an enemy
is quite another thing. One imust be somebody
in order to have an cnemy. One must be a
force before he can be resisted by another force.

Madame Swetchine.

Onur eneinies are our outwaril consciences. —
- Shakespeare.

With stupidity aad sound digestion man
may front mueh. But what in these dull, uniin-
aginative days are the terrors of conscience to
the diseases of the liver !—Curlyle.

A malicions enemy is better than a clumsy
friend.—dladume Swetchine. .

ENERGY.

Energy, even like the biblical grain of mus-
tard-sced, will remove mountains.—
- Ffosea Ballou.

True wisdom, in, general, consists in ener-
getic determination.—iVapoleon.

Energy will do anything that can he done in
this world; and no talents, no cirenmstances,
no apportnnities, will make a two-legged animal
a man without it.— Goethe.

He alone has energy that cannot be deprived
of it—Lavater.

It is with many enterprises as with striking
fire; we do not mect with success except by
reiterated cfforts, and cften at thé instant when
we despaired of success.—

Madame de Maintenon.

To impress we must be in earnest ; to amuse
it is only necessary to be kindly and fanciful.—

Tuckerman.

ENJOYMENT,
He scatters enjoymeut who can enjoy much.
Lavater.

~ Temper your cnjoyments with prudence,

lest there be written upon your heart that fear-
” 4 4 PP

ful word “ saticty.”— Quarles, .

Light as a gossamer is the cirenmsetuire

which can bring enjoyment to a conscience

which is notits own accuser.— ]Villiam Carleton.

Ye men of gloom and ansterity, who paint
the face of Infinite Benevolence with an eternal
frown, read in the everlasting book, wide open
to your view, the lesson it would teach. Its
pictures are not in black and sombre lcs, but
bright and glowing tints ; its musie — save when
ye drown it— is not in sighs and groans, but
songs aud cheerful sounds. Listen to the mil-
lion voiees in the summer air, and find one
dismal as your own.—Vickens.

The less you can enjoy, the poorer, the
scantier yourself, —the more you can eujoy,
the richer, the more vigorous.—Lavater.


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ENNUI.

146

ENTERPRISE.

All solitary enjoyments quickly pall, or be-
come painful, so that, perhaps, no more insuf-
ferable misery can be conceived than that which
mnst follow incommnnicable privileges. Only
imagine a human being condemned to perpetual
youth while all around him decay and die. O,
how sincerely would he call npon death for
deliverance ! —Archbishop Sharp.

“ Gratitude is memory of the heart.” There-
fore forget not to say often, with Bettine, I
have all I have ever cujoyed.”-—

Ennui is a growth of English root, though
nameless in our language.—Syron.

“Ennni” is a word which the French in-
vented, though of all nations in Europe they
know the least of it.— Bancroft.

There is nothing so insupportable to man as
to be in entire repose, without passion, ocenpa-
!tion, amusement, or application. Then it is
that he feels his own nothingness, isolation, in-
signiticance, dependent nature, powerlessness,

Afrs. £. M. Child. emptiness, Immediately“there issue from his
' soul ennui, sadness, chagrin, vexation, despair.
Pascal,

Providence has fixed the limits of human
enjoyment by immovable boundaries, and has
set, different gratifications at such a distanect That which renders life burdensome to us
from each other, that no art or power can bring generally arises from the abuse of it oussean.
them together. This great law it is the bust-,
ness of every rational being to understand, that' As the gout seems privileged to attack the
life ay not pass away in an attempt to make bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a
contradictions consistent, to combine opposite similar prerogative over their minds.—Colton.
qualities, and to unite things which the nature |:

of their being must always keep asunder.—
Johnson.
ENNUIL.
I do pity unlearned gentlemen on a rainy
day.—Lord Falkland.

Ennui, perhaps, has made more gamblers
than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and
perhaps as many suicides as despair. Colton.

Ennui, wretchedness, melancholy, groans,
and sighs are the offering which these unhappy
Methodists make to'a Deity, who has covered
the earth with gay colors, and scented it with
rich perfumes; and shown us, by the plan and
order of his works, that he has given to man
something better than a bare existence, and
scattered over his creation a thousand super-
fluous joys, which are totally unnecessary to
the mere support of life-— Sydney Smith.

Thave also seen the world, and after long!

experience have discovered that ennui is our
greatest. enemy, and remnnerative labor our
most lasting friend.— Justus JLdser.

Ennui was born one day of uniformity.—
JLotte.

The victims of ennui paralyze all the grosser
feelings by excess, and torpefy all the finer by
disuse and inactivity. Disgusted with this
world and indifferent about another, they at
last lay violent hands upon themselves, and
assume no small credit for the sang froid-with
which they'meet death. Bnt alas! such beings
ean searcely be said to die, for they have never
truly lived.— Colton.

A scholar has no ennui.—Richier.

Ambition itself is not so reckless of human
life as ennui; clemency is a favorite attribute
of the former ; but ennui has the taste of a can-
nibal.—Buneroft.

Ennui, the parent of expensive and ruinous

| vices.—Ninon de 0 Enclos.

| Social life is filled with doubts and vain as-

|

pirings ; solitude, when the imagination is de-
throned, is turned to weariness and ennui.—
Miss L. E. Landon.

Ennui is the desire of activity without the
| fit means of gratifying the desire.—Bancre/t.

This ennni, for which we Saxons had no
name, — this word of France, has got a terrific
| significance. It shortens life, and bereaves the
day of its light.— Emerson.

We are amnsed through the intellect, but it

is the heart that saves us fron: ennui.—
Madane Swetchine.
ENTERPRISE,

What passes in the world for talent or dex-
terity or enterprise is often only a want of
moral principle. We may succed where others
fail, not from a greater share of invention, but
from not being nice in the choice of expedients.

Hazlitt.

The method of the enterprising is to plan
avith audacity and execute with vigor ; to sketch
out a map of possibilities, and then to treat
them as probabilities —Bovee.

The fact is, that ‘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.— Sydney Sinith.

?

Providence has hidden a charm in difficult
undertakings which is appreciated only by
those who dare to grapple with them.—

Madame Swetchine.

On the neck of the young man sparkles ne
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ENTIIUSIASM. 147 ENVY.
ENTHUSIASM. All noble enthusiasms pass through a fever-

The same reason makes a man a religions
enthnsiast that makes a man an enthusiast in
any other way, an wucomfortable mind in an
uncomfortable body.— [Zashitt.

Enthnsiasm is a virtue rarely to be met
with in seasons of calm and unruilled pros-
perity. Enthusiasm flourishes in adversity,
kindles in-the honr of danger, and awakens to
deeds of renown, The terrors of persecution
only serve to quicken the energy of its purposes.
Tt swells in proud integrityj.and, great in the
purity of its cause, it can seatter defiance amidst
hosts of enemices.—Dr. Chalmers.

The best thing which we derive from history
is the enthusinsm that it raises in us.— Goethe.

Enlist the interests of stern morality and
religious enthusiasm in the cause of political
liberty, as in the time of the old Puritans, and
it will be irresistible —Coleridge.

e . .
Every great and commanding movement in
the annals of the world is the triumph of en-
thusiasm.—Z/merson.

A mother should give her children a super-
abundance of enthusiasm; that after they have
lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with
the world, enough may still remain to prompt
and support them through great actions. A
cloak should be of threé-pile, to Keep its gloss in
wear.— Hare.

Enthusiasin is the leaping lightning, not to
be measured_by the horse-power of the under-
standing.—£ merson.

Enthusiasm is grave, inward, sclf-controlted ;
mere excitement, outward, fantastic, hysterical,
and passing in a moment from tears to langhter.

. Sterling.

Nothing is so contagions as enthnsiasm ;
it is the real allegory of the tale of Orpheus ;
it moves stones, it charms brutes. Enthusiasm
is the genius of sincerity, and_truth accom-
plishes uo victories without it—Bulwer Lytton.

Without enthusiasm, the adventurer could
never kindle that fire in his followers which is
80 necessary to consolidate their mutual inter-
ests; for no one can heartily deecive numbers
who is not first of all deceived himselfi—

Warburton.

Enthusiasm is always connected with the
senses, whatever be the object that excites it.
The true strength of virtue is serenity of mind,
combined with a deliberate‘and steadfast deter-
mination to execute her laws. That is the
healthful condition of the moral life; on the
other hand, enthusiasm, even when excited by
representations of goodness, is a brilliant but
feverish glow which leaves only exhaustion and
languor bchind.—Aant,

ish stage and grow wiser and more screne.—
Channing,

Let us reeognize the beauty and power of
true enthusiasm ; dnd whatever we may do to
enlighten ourselves and others, guard against
checking or ehilling-a single earnest sentiment.

Tuckerman.

Every production of genius must be the
production of entliusiasm.—Disraeli.

ENVY.
Base envy withers at another’s joy.—
Thomson

Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the
fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhonnd, it
singles out the fattest deer in the flock. Abra-
ham’s riches were the Vhilistines’ envy ; and
dacob’s blessing bred Esau’s liatred.—

J, Beaumont.

We onght to be gnarded against every ap-
pearance of envy,:as a passion that always im-
plies inferiority wherever it resides — Pliny.

There is a time in cyery man’s education
when he arrives at the conviction that envy.is
ignorance.—Zmerson.

Envy, like a cold prison, henumbs and stu-
pefies ; and, conscions of its own impotence, folds
its arms in despair.—Jeremy Collier.

Envy may jnstly be called “ the gall of hit-
terness and bond of iniquity’; it is the most
acid fruit that grows on-the stock of sin, a fluid
so subtle that nothing but the fire of divine love
ean purge it from the soul_—ZZoseu Ballou.

How ean we explain the perpetuity of envy,
—avice which yields no return ?—Bulzac.

In our road through life we may happen to
meet with a man casting 4 stone reverentially to
enlarge the cairn of another which stone he has
earricd in his bosom to sling‘against that very
other’s head, —Zandor. 7

Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.—
- Rochefoucauld,

We had rather do anything than acknowl-
edge the merit of another if we can help it.
We cannot bear a superior or an equal. Tience
ridicule is sure to prevail over truth, for the
maliec of mankind, thrown into the scale, gives
the casting weight —Ja=litt.

Those who raise envy will casily incur ecn-
sure.— Churchill,

They say that love and tears are learned
without any master; and I may say that there
is no great need of studying at the court to learn
envy and revenge.—N. Caussin.


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148

ENVY.

Whoever feels pain in hearing a good char-
acter of his neighbor will feel a pleasure in the
reverse ; and those who despair to rise in dis-
tinction by their virtues are happy if others can
be depressed to a level with themsclves.—

Rev. John Barker.

Envy is a passion so full of cowardice and
shame, that nobody ever had the confidence to
own it.—Fochester. '

The man that makes a character makes foes.
Young.

We are often infinitely mistaken, and take
the falsest measures, when we cnyy the happi-
ness of rich and great men; we know not the
inward canker that cats out all their joy and
delight, and makes them really much more mis-
erable than ourselves.— Bishop LHall.

The hate which we all bear with the most
Christian patience is the hate of those who envy
us.— Colton.

Other passions have objects to flatter them,
and seem to content and satisfy them for a
while; there is power in ambition, pleasure in
Inxury, and pelf in covetousness ; but envy can
gain nothing but -vexation.—.Montaigne.

How bitter a thing it is to. look into happi-
ness through another man’s eyes ! — Shakespeare.

There is but one man who ean believe him-
self free from envy, and it is he who has never
examined his own heart.— William Duncan,

Envy, like flame, soars upwards.—Ziry.

We are often yain of even the most criminal
of our passions ; but envy is a timid and shame-
ful passion that we never dare acknowledge.—

Rochefoueauld.

A weak mind is ambitions of envy, a strong
one of respect.— Ei. SW igylesworth.

Do not envy the violet the dew-drop or glitter
of a sunbeam; do not envy the bee the plant
from which he draws some sweets. Do not
envy man the little goods he possesses ; for the
earth is for him the plant from which he obtains
some sweets, and his mind is the dew-drop which
the world colors for an instant.—

- Leopold Schefer.

The hen of our neighbor appears to us a
goose, says the Oriental proverb.—
Madame Deluzy.

Men that make envy and crooked malice
nourishment do bite the best.— Shakespeare.

Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the
brightness of another’s prosperity, like the scor-
pion confined within a circle of fire, will sting
itself to death.—Colton.

Envy pierees more in the restriction of
praises than in the exaggeration of its criticisms.
Achilles Poincelot.

Men of noble birth are noted to be envious
towards new men when they rise; for the dis-
tance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye,
that when others come on they think themselves
going back.—Bacon.

Envy is like a fly that passes all a body’s
sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.—
Chapman.

'

Envy feeds upon the living; after death it
ceases, — then every man’s well-earned honors
defend him against calumny.— Ovid.

Tf our credit be so well built, so firm, that it
is not easy to be shaken by calumny or insinua-
tion, 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.

The truest mark of being born with great
qualities is being born without envy.—
Kochefoucauld.

Aman 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 wantcth the one will prey upon
the other.—Bacon.

‘Who can speak broader than he that has
no house to put his head in? Sueh may rail
against great buildings.— Shakespeare.

Envy, — the rottenness of the bones.—Bible.

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.

If envy, like anger, did not burn itself in its
own fire, and consume and destroy those persons
it possesses, before it can destroy those it wishes
worst to, it would set the whole world on fire,
and leave the most excellent persons the most
miserable.— Clarendon.

Envy the attendant of the empty mind.—_
Pindar.

Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed
to it, or will admit of some excnse; 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.

Surely, if we considered detraction to be
bred of envy, nested only in deficient minds, we
should find that the applanding of virtue would
win us far more honor than the seeking slyly to
disparage it. That would show we loved what
we commended, while this tells the world we
grudge at what we want in oursclves.— Feltham.


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ENVY.

The envious man is in pain upon all ocea-
sions which ought to give him pleasure. The
relish of his life is inverted ; and the objects
which administer the highest satisfaction
those who are exempt from this passion give
the quickest pangs to persons who are subject
toir. All the perfections of their fellow-crea-
tures ara odious. Youth, beauty, valor, aud
wisdom are provoeations of their displeasure.
What a wretched and apostate state is this! to
he offended with excellenee, and to hate a man
beeause we approve him ! —Steele.

There is some good in public envy, whereas
in private there is none; for public envy is as
An ostracism that eclipseth men when they
gvow too great; and therefore it is a bridle also
to great ones to keep within bonnds.—Bacon.

Asa moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy
consume a man.— St. Chrysostom.

I don’t believe that there is a human erea-
ture in his senses, arrived to maturity, that at
some time or other has not been carried away
hy this passion (sc. envy) in good earnest; and
yet IE never inct with any one who dared own he
‘vas guilty of it but in jest. Mandeville.

Many men profess to hate another, but no
man owns envy, as being an enmity or dis-
pleasure for no cause but goodness or felicity.

Jeremy Taylor.

Envy is of all others the most ungratifying
and diseonsolate passion. There is power for
ambition, pleasnre for luxury, and pelf even for
eovetousness ; bnt envy gets no reward but yexa-
tion.—Jeremy Collier.

No crime is so great as daring to execl.—
Churcluall.

Newton found that a star, examined through

a glass tarnished by smoke, was diminished
into a speck of light. But no smoke ever
breathed so thick a mist as envy or detraction.—
Willmott.

Envy, among other ingredients, has a mix-
ture of the love of justice in it. We are more
angry at undeserved than at deserved good for-
tune.—Laclitt.

Envy makes us see what will serve to accuse
others,-and not perceive what may justify them.
Bishop Wilson.

Envy is an ill-enatured vice, and is made up
of meanness and malice. It wishes the force
of goodness to he strained, and the measure of
happiness abated, It laments over prosperity,
and sickens at the sight of health. It often-
times wants spirit as well as good-nature.—

. Jeremy Collicr.

Base natures joy to see_hard hap happen to
them they deem happy.—Sir P. Sidaey.

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ENVY.

The praise of the envious is far less eredit-
able than their censure; they praise only that
which they can surpass, but that which sur-
passes.them they censure.— Colton.

Envy is blind, and has no other quality but
that of detracting from virtue.—Licy.

Envy ought in strict truth to have no place
whatever allowed it in the heart of man; for
the goods of this present world are so vile and
Jow that they nre beneath it, and those of the
future world are so vast and exalted that they
are above it— Colton.

We often glory in the most criminal passion ;
but that of envy is so shamefni that we dare
not even own it.—Rochefoucauld.

To pooh-pooh wliat we are never likely
to possess is wonderfully casy. The confirmed
echibate is londest in his denunciations of matri-
mony. In Alsop, it is the tailless fox that
advocates the disuse of tails. It is the grapes
we cannot reach that we call sour.—

fEneas Sage.

In short, virtue cannot live .where envy
reigns, nor Hberality subsist with niggardliness.
Cervantes.

It is beeause we have but 2 small portion of
enjoyment ourselves that we feel so little pleas-
ure in the good fortune of others. Is it possi-
ble for the happy to be envious ? —

W. B. Clulow.

Of all hostile: feelings, envy is perhaps the
hardest ‘to be subdued, heeanse hardly any one
owns it even to himself, but looks out for one
pretext after another to justify his hostility —

Whately.

Envy scts the strongest seal on desert.—
Ben Jonson.
An envious man waxcth lean with the fat-
negs of his neighbors. Envy is the danghter of
pride, the author of murder and revenge, the
beginner of sceret sedition, and the perpetual
tormentor of virtue. Envy is the filthy slime
of the soul ;-a’ venom,-2. poison, or quicksilver
which consumeth the flesh, and dricth up the
marrow of the bones.—Soerates.

The envious will dic, but envy never.—
Moliére.
To be an object of hatred and aversion to
their contemporaries has been the usual fate of
all those whoxe merit has raised them Above
the common level. The man who submits to
the shafts of envy for the sake of noble objects
pursnes a judicious course for his own lasting
ame. Hatred dies with its object, while merit
soon breaks forth in full splendor, and his glory
is handed down to posterity in never-dying
strains.— Thucydides.


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EQUIVOCATION.

Envy always outlives the felicity of its
object.—Rochefoucauld.

EQUALITY.

All men are equal ; it is not birth, but vir-
tue alone, that makes the difference.— Voltuire.

Equality is one of the most consummate

There are some races more cultured and ad- | scoundrels that ever erept from the brain of a

yanced:and ennobled by edneation than others ;
but there are no raees nobler than others. All
are equally destined for freedom.—

Alexander von Humboldt, '

Consider man; weigh well thy frame; the
king, the beggar, are the same; dust formed us
all.— Gay.

Equality is the share of every one at their
advent upon earth, and equality is also theirs
when placed beneath it —Minon de 0 Enectos.

Your fat king, and your lean beggar, is but
variable service ; two dishes, but to one table;
that is the end.— Shakespeare.

Who can in reason then or right assume mon-
archy over such as live by right his equals, if
in power or splendor less, in freedom equal ? —

Milton.

Come forward, some great marshal, and or-

political juggler, —a fellow who thrusts his
hand into the pocket of honest industry or en-
terprising talent, and squanders their hard-
earned profits on profligate idlencss or indolent
stupidity. —Paulding.

So let them ease their hearts with prate of
equal rights, which man never knew.—Byron.

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
lhave bnt human conditions ; his eeremonics laid
by, in his nakedness he appears but a man ; and
though his affections are higher momnted than
ours, yet, when they stoop, they stoop with the
like wing.— Shakespeare.

AH things whatsoever ye would that men

| should do to you, do ye even so to them.— Bille.

Itds untrue that equality isa law of natnre.
Nature has no equality. Its sovereign law is

ganize equality in society, and your rod shail l'subordination and dependence.— Vauvenurgues.

swallow up all the juggling old court gold-
sticks. —Thackeray.

Thersites’s body is as good as Ajax’s, when
neither are alive.—Shakespeare.

So far is it from being true that men are
natnrally equal, that no two people can he half
an hour together but one shall ‘acquire an evi-
dent superiority over the other.— Johnson.

Whatever difference there may appear to be
in men’s fortunes, there is still a eertain com-
pensation of good and ill in all, that makes
them equal.—Charron,

Kings and their subjects, masters and slaves,
find a common level in two places,—at the
foot of the cross, and in the grave.— Colton.

Golden Jads‘and girls ali must, as chimney-
sweepers, come to dust— Shakespeare.

All men are by nature equal, made all of.

the same earth by one Workman ; and_how-
ever we deceive ourselves,‘as dear unto God is
the poor peasant as the mighty ptinee.—Plato.

As soon the dust ofa wreteh whom thou
wouldest not, as of a prince whom thou couldst
not Jook upon, will trouble thine cyes if the
wind blow it thither; and when a whirhwind
hath blown the dust of the churchyard into the
thureh, and the man sweeps out the dust of
the ekurch into the ehurchyard, who will un-
dertake to sift those dusts again, and to pro-
nonnee, “ This is the patrician, this is the noble
flower, and this the yeoman, this the plebeian
bran ” ? —Rev. Dr, Donne.

| practice.

Equality is deemed by many a mere specu-
lative chimera, which ean never be reduced to
But if the abuse is inevitable, does it

follow that we ought not to try at least to miti-

| pare it? It is precisely because the force of
‘things tends always to destroy equality, that
the force of the legislature must always tend
to maintain it.— Rousseau.

In the gates of eternity, the black hand and
the white hold each other with an eqnal clasp.—
Mrs. Stowe.
EQUANIMITY.
In this thing one man is superior to‘another,
that he is better able to bear adversity and
prosperity. —Philemon.

Eqnanimity is the gem in Virtue’s chaplet
and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her ealendar.—
Alcott.

EQUITY.
Equity is a roguish thing ; for law we have
a measure, we know what to trust to; equity is
according to the conscience of him that is chan-
ecllor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is
equity. It is all onc as if they should make the
standard for the measure we call a foot-a chan-
cellor’s foot. What.an uncertain measure would
this be? One chaneellor has a long foot, anoth-
er a short foot, a third an indifferent foot; it is

the saine thing*in the chancellor’s conscience —
Selden.

EQUIVOCATION,

A sudden lie may he sometimes only man-
slaughter upon truth; but by a earefully con-
structed equivocation truth always is with
malice aforethought deliberately murdered —

Borley.



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ERROR.

151

ERROR.

There is no possiblé exense for a guarded
tie. Enthusiastic and impulsive people will
sometimes falsify thuughtlessly, but equivoci-
tion is malice prepense.—//osea Ballou.

ERROR,

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 extravagance,
‘and genuine, wuningled falschood, the world

never has, and never can sustain any mischief.—

Sydney Smith.

Error is ever talkative. — Goldsmith.

Our understandings are always Hable to
error; nature and certainty ‘are very hard to
come at, and infallibility is mere ¥anity and
pretence.—.Mareus Antoninus.

Error is but the shadow of the truth.—
Stillingfleet.

Conscionsness of error is, to a certain extent,
a conscionsness of understanding ; and corree-
tion of error is the plainest proof of energy and
mastery.—Landor.

In al} science error precedes the truth, and it
is better it should go first than last.—
Horace Walpole.

O hateful error, Melancholy’s child! why
dost thou show to the apt thonghts of men the
things that are not! O error soon conceived,
thon never comest unto a happy birth, but
killest the mother that engendered thee! —

Shakespeare.

No tempting form of error is without some
latent charm derived from truth.—Acevth.

Truth only is prolific. Error, sterile in itself,
produces only by means of the portion of truth
which it contains. It may have offspring, but
the life which it gives, like that of the hybrid
races, cannot be transmitted. —

Madame Swetehine.

There are few, very few, that will own them-!
sel¥es in a mistake.— Swift.

.

Error is a hardy plant; it flourisheth in
every soil; in the heart of the wise:and good,
alike with the wicked and foolish; for there is
no error so crooked but it hath in it some Hines)
of truth, nor is any poison so deadly that its
serveth not some wholesome use.—Z'upper.

Error, when she retraces her steps, has far-
ther to go before she can arrive at truth, than
ignorance.—-Colton.

.There are errors which no wise man will
treat with rudeness while there is a probability +

Spurn not a seeming error, but dig below its
surface for the trath.—Tupper.

It is much easier-to meet with error than to
find truth; error is on the surface, and can be
more easily met with; trath is hid in great
depths, the way to seck dues not appear to all
the world.—Gocthe.

There wilt be mistakes in divinity while
men preach, and errors in_ governments while
men govern.—Sir Dudley Carlton.

My principal method for defeating. error and
heresy is by establishing the truth. One pur-
oses to fill'a bushel with tares, but ifI can fill

it first with wheat, I may defy his attempts.—
Newton.

Error is worse than ignorance.— Bailey.

For the first time, the best may err, art may
persuade, and novelty spread out its charms.
The first faule is the child of simplicity ; but
every other the offspring of guilt.— Goldsmith.

Find earth where grows no weed,.and you
may find a heart wherein no error grows.—
Knowles.

Error is always more busy than ignorance.
Ignorance is a blank sheet on which we may
write; but crror is a scribbled one from which
we must first erase.— Colton.

The little I have seen of the world teaches
me to jook upon the errors of others in sorrow,
not in anger. When I take the history of one
poor heart that has sinned and suffered, and
represent to myself the struggles and tempta-
tions 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 hand it came.—

Longfellow.

It is only an error of judgment to make a
mistake, but it argues-an infirmity of character
to adhere to it when discovered. Or, as the
Chinese better say, “The glory is not in
never falling, but in rising every time you fall.”

Bovee.

All errors spring up in the neighborhood of
some truth; they grow round about it, and, for
the most part, derive their strength from sueh
contignity.—Rev. T. Binney.

Error is sometimes so nearly allied to.truth
that it blends with it as imperceptibly as the
colors of the rainbow fade into cach other.—

W. B. Clilow.

How happy he who can still hope to lift
himself from this sea of error! What we know

that they may be the refraction of some great | not, that we are anxious to possess, and caunot

truth still below the horizon.— Coleridge.

use what we know.— Goethe.


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152

ETERNITY.

We can get ont of certain errors only at the
top; thatis, by raising our minds above human
things.— Joubert,

There are in certain heads a kind of estab-
lished errors against which reason has no weap-
ons, ‘There are more of these mere assertions
current than one would believe. Men are very
fond of proving their steadfast adherence tu
nonsense.—- Von Anebel.

The more confidently secure we feel against
our liability to any error, to which in faet we
are liable, the greater must be owr danger of
falling into it— }Vhately.

ESTEEM.

Estcem cannot be where there is no confi-,
dence, and there can be no contidence where
there is no respect— Henry Giles.

The estcem of wise and good men is the
greatest of all temporal encouragements to
virtuc ; and it is a mark of an abandoned spirit
to have no regard to it.—Burke.

We acquire the love of people who, being in
ous proximity, are presumed to know us; and
we receive reputation, or celebrity, from such
as arc not personally acquainted with us.
Merit sccures io us the regard of our honest
neighbors, and good fortune that of the public.
Esteem is the harvest ofa whole life spent in
nsefulness ; but reputation is often bestowed
npon a chance action, and depends most on
snecess.—G. A. Sala.

To be loved, we should merit but little es-
teem ; all superiority attracts awe-and aversion.
Helvetius.

The chief ingredients in the composition of
those qualities that gain esteem and praise are
good nature, truth, good sense, and good breed-
ing.—Addison.

We have so exalted a notion of the human
soul, thatave cannot bear to be despised by it,
or even not to be esteemed by it. Man, in
fact, places all his happiness in this esteem.—

- Paseal.

Local esteem is far more conducive to hap;
piness than general reputation. The latter may
be compared to the fixed stars which glimmer
so remotely as to afford little light and no
warmth. The former is like the sun, each day
shedding his prolific'and cheering beams.—

W. B. Clulow.

Ii is common to esteem most what is most
unknown.— Tacitus.

There is graciousness aud a kind of urbanity
in beginning with men by esteem and confi-
dence. It proves, at least, that we have long
lived in good company with others and with
ourselves.— Joubert.

| Esteem has more engaging charms than
friendship, and even love. Ji captivates hearts
better, and never inakes ingrates.—
Rochefoucauld.
ESTIMATION.
Tt is seldom that a man labors well in his
minor department unless he overrates it. It is
lneky for us that the bee docs not look Pen the

honeycomb in the same light we do.— !Vhately.
ETERNITY.
Eternity, thou pleasing, dreadful thought! —

‘Addison.

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 preparing.—Jfountford.

The thought of eternity consoles for the
shortness of life. —dfalesherbes.

“What is eternity?’ was a question once
‘asked at the Deaf and Dumb Institution at
Paris, and the beantiful and striking answer
was given by one of the pupils, “ The lifetime
of the Almighty.”—John Bate.

And can eternity belong to me, poor pen-
sioner on the bountics of an hour ?— Young.

Our imagination so magnifies this present

, existence, by the power of continual reflection
on it, and so attenuates eternity, by not think-
ing of it at all, that we reduce an eternity to
| nothingness, and expand a mere nothing to an
eternity; and this habit is so inveterately rooted
in us that all the force of reason cannot induce
us to lay it aside.—Pascal. ,

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 deepest root, and
is most discoverable, in the greatest geninses
‘and most exalied souls.— Cicero.

| 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 fecls that the objects which
he has ardently pursued fail to satisfy the crav-
ings of an immortal spirit; the wicked man
| turneth away from his wickedness, that he may
save his soul alive.—Southey.

All great natures delight in stability; all
great men find eternity affirmed in the very
promise of their faculties —Lmerson.

When at eve, at the bounding of the land-
scape, the heavens appear to recline so slowly
on the earth, imagination pictures beyond the
horizon an asylum of hope,—a native land of
love; and nature seems silently to repeat that
man is immortal.—J/adame de Staél.

Let me dream that love goes with us to the
shore unknown.—M/rs. Homans.


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153

EVIL.

In the life to come, at- the first ray of its
light onr true characters, puriticd but preserv-
ing their identity, will more fully expand, and
the result of the iufinite diversity will be a com-
plete unity.— Madame de Gasparin.

Beyond is all abyss, eternity, whose end no
eye can reach.—.lilion.

IIe that will often put eternity and the
world before him, aud who will dare to look
steadfastly at both of them, will find that the
more often he coucemplates them, the former
will grow greater and the latter less-— Colton.

ETHICS. .

Ethics is the doctrine of manners, or science
of philosophy, which teaches men their duty
and the springs and principles of human con-
duct.—.aunder.

Art itself is essentially ethical ; becanse every
trne work of artannst have a beanty or grandeur
of some kind, and beauty and grandenr cannot
be comprehended by the beholder except through
the moral sentiment. The eye is onlysa:witness ;
it is nota judge. The mind judges what the
eye reports to it; therefore, whatever clevates
the moral sentiment to the contemplation of
beauty‘and grandeur is in itself ethieal.—

Bulwer Lytton.
EVASION.

Evasion is unworthy of ns, and is always the

intimate of eqnivocation — Balzac.

Evasions are the common shelter of the
hard-hearted, the false and impotent, when
called upon to assist; the real great alone plat
instantaneons help, even when their looks or
words presage difiiculties —Lavater.

EVENING.

The evening came. The setting sun stretched
his celestial rod$’of light across the Jevel land-
seape, tind, like the Hebrews in Egypt, smote
the rivers, the brooks, and the ponds, and they
became as blood.—Longfellow.

Sober Evening takes her wonted station in
the middle air, a thousand shadows at her beck,
Thomson.

Evening is the delight of virtuous age; it
seems an cmblem of the tranquil close of busy
life, — serene, placid, and mild, with the im-
press of its great Creator stamped upon it; it
spreads its quict wings over the graye, and
scems to promise that all shall be peace beyond
it—Bulwer Lytton.

Now came still evening on, and twilight
gray had in her sober livery all things clad.—
‘Milton.

a paler shadow strews its mantle over the
mountains; parting day dies like the dolphin,
whom cach pang imbnes with ‘a new color as it
gasps away.— Byron.

Mecek-eyed Eve, her cheek yet warm with
blushes, slow retires through the “Hesperiiu
gardens of the west,-and shuts the gates of day,

Mrs. Barbauld.

Night steals on; and the day takes its fare-
well, like the words of a departing, friend, or
the Jast tone of hallowed musi¢ in’ minster’s
nisles, heard when it floats along the shade of
chns, in the still place of graves.—Perewal.

Vast-and deep the mountain shadows grew.
Royers.
EVIL.
The lives of the best of us are spent in
choosing between evils. —Junius.

All animals are more happy than man.
Look, for instance, on yonder ass: all: allow
him to be miserable; his evils, however, are
not brought on by himself and his own fault;
he feels only those which nature has inflicted.
We, on the contrary, besides our necessary ills,
draw upon ourselves a multitude of others.—

Menunder.

The doing an evil to avoid an evil cannot
be good.— Coleridge.

Imaginary evils soon become real ones hy
indulging our reflections on them; ‘as’ he who
in a melaneholy fancy sees something like a
face on the walt or the wainscot can, by two
or three touches with a }ead pencil, make it
luok visible, and agreeing with what he fancied.

To overcome evil with good is good, to
resist evil by evil is evil.—Jfohummed.

All evil, in fact the very existence of evil, is
inexplicable until we refer to the paternity of God.
It hangs a hnge blot in the universe until the
orb of divine Jove rises behind it. In that
apposition we deteet its meaning. It appears
to us but a finite shadow as it passes across the
disk of infinite light.—Chapin.

Nothing is to be esteemed evil which God
and nature have fixed with eternal sanction.—
Jeremy Taylor.

We sometimes learn more from the sight of
evil than from an example of good; and it_is
well to aecustom ourselves to profit by the evil
whieh is so common, while that whieh is good
is so rare.—Lascal.

The dvend of evil is a munch more forcible
principle of haman actions than.the prospect of
good.—Locke.

There is nothing-evil but what is within us ;
the rest is cither natural or accidental.—
Sir P. Sidney.

There are only two bad things in this world,
sin and bile.—Hannah More:


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EVIL. 1

4, EVIL.

That which the French proverb hath of sick-
ness is true of all evils, that they come on

horseback, and go away on foot; we have often '

seen 2 sudden full or one meal’s surfeit hath
stuck by many to their graves; whereas pleas-
ures come like oxen, slow and heavily, and go
away like post-horses, upon the spur.—

Bishop Hall.

Where evil may he done, it is right to pon-
der; where only suticred, know the shortest
panse is much too long.—f/annah Aore.

Never let man imagine that he can pursue a
good end by evil means, without smmning against
~his own soul! Any other issue is doubtful; the
evil effect on himself.is certain.—Southey.

The truest definition of evilis that which
represents it 2s something contrary to nature ;
evil is evil because it ig unnatural; a vine
which should bear olive-berries, an eye to which
blue seems yellow, wonld be diseased ; an un-
natural mother, an winatnral son, an unnat-
ural act, are the strongest terms of condemna-
tion.— 2". WW. Robertson.

In the history of man it has been very gener-
ally the case that when evils have grown insuf
ferable they have touched the point of cure.—

Chapin.

If yon do what you should not, yon must

bear what you would not—Franklin.

Evil is easily discovered, there is an infinite
variety; good is almost unique. But some
kinds of evil are almost as difficult to discover
as that which we call good; and often particn-
lar evil of this elass passes for good. It needs
even a certain preatness of soul to attain to this,
as to that which is good.—Puscal.

Tf evil is inevitable, how are the wicked ac-
countable? Nay, why do we call men wicked
atall? Evil is inevitable, but it is also remedi-
able.—Horace Afann-

He who will fight the Devil with his own
weapon must not wonder if he finds him an
over-match.—South.

By the very constitution of our nature moral
evil is its own curse. —Chalmers.

As surely as God is good, so surely there is
no such thing as necessary evil. For by the re-
ligions mind, sickness and pain and death are
not to be accounted evils. Moral evils are of
your own making ; and undoubtedly the great-
er part of them may be prevented. Deformities
of mind, as of body, will sometimes ocenr.—

Southey.

It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that
gain is slower and harder than loss in all things
good; butin all things bad, getting is quicker
and easier than getting rid of —Hare.

To great evils we submit; we resent little
provocations. I have before now been disap-
pointed of a hundred-pound job and lost half.a
erown at rackets on the same day, and been
more mortified at the Jatter than the former.—

flaclitt,

We are neither obstinately nor wilfully tc
oppose evils, nor trackle under them for want of
eonrage, but that we are naturally to give way
to them, according to their condition -and our
own, we ought to grant free passage to diseases ;
and I find they stay less with me who let them
alone. And I have lost those which are reputed
the most tenacious and obstinate of their own
defervescence, withont any help or art, and eon-
trary to their rules. Let us a little permit Na-
ture to take her own way; she better under-
stands her own affairs than we.—AZontaigne.

Philosophy trinmphs easily over past ‘and
future evils, but present evils triumph over phi-
losophy.—ochefoucauld.

Many have puzzled themselves about the
origin of evil. Lam content to observe that there
is evil, and that there is a way to escape from it;
and with this I begin and end. Newton.

We cannot do evil to others without doing it
to ourselves.—Desmahis.

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.—Lmerson.

The evil that men do lives after them; the
good is oft interred with their bones.—
Shakespeare.

Evils in the journey of life are like the hills
which alarm travellers npon their road ; they
both appear great at a distanee, but when we
approach them we find that they are far less in-
surmountable than we had conceived.—Colton.

There are times when it would seem as if
God fished with a line, and the Devil with a
net.—Dadame Swetchine,

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative,
not absolute. It is like cold, which 1s the pri-
vation of heat. All evil is so much death or
nonentity —Emerson.

He who is in evil is also in the punishment
of evil.— Swedenborg.

As there is much beast and some devil in
man, so is there some angel and some God in
him. The béast and the devil may be conquered,
but in this life never destroyed.— Coleridge.

There is this of good in real evils, they de
liver us while they last from the petty despotism
of all that were imaginary.—Colton. .


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EXAMPLE.

There is some soul of goodness in things
evil, would men observingly distil it out.—
. Shakespeare.

There are thousands hacking a¢ the branches
of evil to one who is striking at the root.—
Thoreau.

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 individ-
nal to do inealculable mischief. —

. Washington Irving.
EVIL-SPEAKING.
IH deeds are doubled with an evil word.—

Shakespeare.

Tt is not good to speak evil of all whom we
know bad ; it is worse to judge evil of any who
may prove good. To speak ill upon knowl-
edge shows a want of charity ; to speak ill upon
suspicion-shows a want of honesty. I will not
spetk so bad as I know of inany; I will not
speak worse than I know of any. To know
evil of others and not speak it, is sometimes dis-
cretion ; to speak evil of others and not know
it, is always dishonesty. He may be evil him-
self who speaks good of others upon knowledge,
but he can never be: good himself who_speiks
evil of others upon suspicion.—Arthur Warwick.

A good word is‘an easy obligation ; but not
to speak ill requires only our silence, which
costs us nothing.—Tillotson.

One doth not know how much an ill word
may empoison liking.— Shakespeare.

A man has no more right to say an uneivil
thing than to act one; no more right to say a
rude thing to another than to knock him down.

Johnson.
‘
A knavish specch sleeps in a foolish ear—
Shakespeare.

It is safer to affront some people than to
oblige them ; for the better a man deserves, the
worse they will speak of him.—Seneca.

_ Evil report, like the Italian stiletto, is an
rassassin’s weapon, worthy only of the bravo.—
ifadame de Maintenon.

When will talkers refrain from evil speak-
ing? Whien listeners refrain from evil hearing.
At present there are nvuny so credulous of evil,
they will reccive suspicions and impressions
against persons whom they don’t know, from a
person whom they do know,— an anthority
good for nothing.—Zare,

Wherever the speech is corrupted the mind
is also.— Seneca.

EXAGGERATION.
Exaggeration is a blood relation to false-
hood and nearly as blainable.——Lfosea Ballou.

The habit of exaggeration, like dram drink-
ing, becomes a slavish necessity, and they who
practise it pass their lives in a kind of mental
telescope, through whose. magnifying medium
they look upon themselves and everything
around them.—J. B. Owen.

EXAMPLE. é
Allured to brighter worlds, and led_the way.
Goldsmith.

If thou desire to see thy child virtuons, Ict
him not see his father’s vices; thou cunst mot re-
buke that in children that they behold practised
in thee; till reason be ripe, exainples direct
more than precepts; such as thy behavior is
before thy children’s faces, snch commonly is
theirs behind their parents’ backs — Quarles.

Man is an imitative creature, and whoever
is foremost leads the herd.—Sehiller.

So admirably hath God disposed of the ways
of men, that even the sight of vice in others is
like a warning arrow shot for ns to take liced
We should correct onr own faults by -sceing
how uncomely they appear in others ; who will
not abhor a choleric passion, and a saucy pride
in himself, that sees how ridiculous and con-
temptible they render those who are infested
with them ?—J, Beaumont.

He hath a daily beauty in his life——
Shakespeare.

Example has more followers than reason.
We unconscionsly imitate what pleases ns,-and
insensibly approximate to the characters we
moSt admire. In this way, a generous hubit of
thonght and of action carries with it an incaleu-
lable influence.—Bovee. ~

There is a transcendent power in example.
We reform others unconsciously when we walk
uprightly.—Jladame Swetchine.

Nothing enlarges the gulf of athcism more
than the wide passage which lies between the
faith and lives of men pretending to teach Chris-
tianity.— Stillingfleet.

Thongh “ the words of the wise he as nails
fastened hy the masters of the assemblies,” yet
sure their examples, arc the hammer to drive
them in to take the deeper hold. A father that
whipped his son for swearing, and swore him-
self whilst he whipped him, did more harm by
his example than good by his correction.—
. Fuller.

I am satisfied that we are less convineed by
what we hear than by what we see.—//erodotus.

Think not, Sultan, that in the seyuestered
vale alone dwells virtue, and her sweet compan-
ion, with attentive eye, mild, affable benevolence t
No, the first great gift we can bestow on others
is a good cxample.—Sir Charles Morell


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EXAMPLE.

We can do more good by being good than,
in any other way.—owland Hill.

Men trust rather to their eyes than to their
ears ; the eficet of precepts is therefore slow and
tedions, whilst that of examples is summary
and effectual.— Seneca. ~

*

It is a well-known psychological fact that
the conscience of children is formed by the in-}
fluences that surronnd them; and that their |
notions of oud and evil are the result of the
moral atmospbere they breathe.—Michter.

Itis-a world of mischief that may be done
by a single exainple of avarice or luxury.
voluptuous palate makes many more.—Seneca.

Therd are bad examples whieh tare worse
than crimes; and more states hare perished
from the violation of morality than from the
violation of tuw.—JZontesquicu.

None preaches better than the ant, and she
says nothing.—franklin.

Examples wonld indeed be excellent things
were not people so modest that none will set,
and so vain that none will follow them.—Zare.

“Not the ery, but the flight ofa wild duck,”
says a Chinese author, “Jeads- the flock to fly
and follow.” —Richter.

Be more prudent for your children than
perhaps you have been for yourself. When
they too are parents, they will imitate you,
and each of yon will have prepared happy gen-
erations, who will transmit, together with your
memory, the worship of your wisdom.—

La Beaume.

Examples of vicions courses practised in a
domestic cirele corrupt more readily and more
deeply when we behold them in persons in‘an-
thority.—J/uvenal.

Example is a dangerous lure; where the
wasp got throngh the gnat sticks fast.—
La Fontaine.

The pulpit only “teaches” to be honest;
the market-place “trains ” to overreaching and
frand; and teaching has not a tithe of the effi-
ciency of training. Christ never wrote a tract,
but he went abont doing good.—Horace Afann.

The road by precepts is tedious, by exam-
ple, short and efficncions.—Seneca.

The corruption of the positively wicked is
often Iess sad and fatal to society than the
irregularities of a virtuous man who yields and
falls. —Desmahis.

They asked Lueman the fabulist, From whom
did yon learn manners? He answered, From

1

the unmannerly—Saadi. !

6 EXAMPLE.

Precept is instruction written in the sand, the
tide flows over it and the record is gone. Ex-

} ample is graven on the rock, and the lesson is

not soon lost.— Channing.

Every man is bound to tolerate the act of
which he himself has set the example.—Phicdrus.

Nothing is so contagious as example ; never
was there any considerable good or ill done that
does not produce its like. We intitate good
actions through emulation, and bad ones
through a malignity in our nature, which shame
conceals, and example sets at liberty.—

- Rochefoucauld.

Other men are lenses throngh which we
read our own minds.—Emerson,

Men judge things more fully by the cye than
by the ear ; consequently a minister’s practice is
as much regarded, if net more, than his ser-
mons.—Bridges.

It is certain, that, either wise bearing or
ignorant earriage is caught, as men take dis-
case, one of another; therefore let men take
heed of their company.— Shakespeare.

Preaching is of much avail, but practice is
far more effective. A godly life is the strongest
argument that yon can offer to the sceptic.—

Hosca Ballou.

_ There are follies which are caught like con-
tagious diseases — Rochefoucauld.

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 eqnal or
excel them. The bad he will by all means
avoid.— Thomas & Kempis.

Example is more forcible than precept.
People look at my six days in the week, to see
what I mean gn the seventh.— Cecil.

No reproof or denunciation is so potent as
the silent influence of a good examples”
‘osea Ballou.

My advice is to consult the lives of other
men, as we wonld a tooking-glass, aud from
thence fetch examples for our own imitation.—

Terence

Be a pattern to others,‘and then ‘all will go
well; for as a whole city is infected by the
licentions 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 hearing the
definition of fortitude-—Sir P. Sidney.

No man is so insignificant as to be sure his
example can do no hurt.—Clarendon.


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157

EXCELSIOR.

The sight of lovers feedeth those in love.—
. Shakespeare.
People seldom improve when they have no
other madel but themselves to copy after,.—
Goldsmith,
EXCELLENCE. . :
Excellence is never granted to man but as
the reward of labor. It urgnes, indeed, no small
strength of mind to persevere in the habits of
industry without the pleasnre of perceiving
advantages which, like the hands of a
clock, whilst they make hourly approaches to
their point, yet proceed so slowly as to escape
observation.—Sir Joshua Reynolds

Aman that is desirous to excel should en-
deavor it in those things that are in themselves
most exeellent.—Lpietetus.

Human excellence, parted from God, is like
a fabled tlower, which, according to Rabbis, Eve
plucked when passing out of paradise, — sev-
ered from its native root, it is only the touching
memorial of a lost Eden; sad, while charming,
— beantifil, but dead —C. Stanford.

Those who attain any excellence commonly
spend life in one common pursuit; for exccl-
lence is. not often.gained npon easier terms.—

Johnson.

There is a moral exeellence-attainable by all
who havé the will to strive-after it ; but there is
an intellectual and physical superiority which
is above the reach of our wishes, and is granted
to a few ouly.— Crabb.

EXCELSIOR.

What we truly and carnestly aspire to be,
that in some sense we are. -The mere aspira-
tion, by changing the frame of the mind, for
the moment realizes itselfi—.J/rs. Jameson.

Tris but+a base, ignoble mind that mounts
no higher than a bird can soar.— Shakespeare.

Bright and illustrious illusions! Who can
blame, who Jangh at the boy, who not ‘ad.
mire and commend him, for that desire of a
fame ontlasting the Pyramids hy which he in-
sensibly Icarns to live in a life beyond the pres-
ent, and nonrish dreams of a good unattainable
by the senses ? — Bulwer Lytton.

The movement of the species is upward, ir-
resistibly npward.—Baxcroft.

_ Lift thyself up, look around, and see some-
thing higher and brighter than earth, earth-
worms, and carthly ds ——Richter.

Darwin remarks that we are less dazzted by
the light at waking, if we have been dreaming
of visible objects. Happy are those who have
here dreamt of a higher vision! They will the
sooner he able to endure the ,glorics of the
world to come.—.Vocalis.

Our natures are like oil; compound ns with
anything, yet still, we strive to swim upon tho
top.—Beaumont and Fletcher.

Whilst we converse with what is above us,
we do not grow old, but grow young.—
Emerson.

The desire of excellence is the necessary at-
tribute of those who excel. We work. little for
ja thing unless we wish for it. But we cannot
of ourselves estimate the degree of our success
in what we strive for; that task is left to others.
With the desire for exeellenee comes, therefore,
the desire for approbation. And this distin-
guishes intellectual, execllence from moral ex-
cellenee; for the latter has no necessity of hu-
man tribunal; it is more inclined to shrink
from the public than to invite the public to be
its judge.—Bulwer Lytton.

O saered hunger of ambitions minds ! —
Spenser.

Who shoots.at the midday sun, though he
be sure he shall never hit the mark, yet as sure
he is that he shall shoot higher taan he who
aims but/at.a bush.—Su P. Sidney.

By steps we may ascend to God.—Milton.

Man can only learn to rise from the consid-
eration of that which he cannot surmount.—
Richter.

The little done vanishes from the sight of
man, who looks forward to what is still to do.—
Goethe.

Tt is not to taste sweet things, but to do
noble and true things, and vindicate himself
under God’s heaven as'a God-made man, that
the poorest son of Adam dimly longs. Show
him the way of doing that, the dullest day-
drudge kindles into a hero, They wrong man
greatly who say he is to be seduced by case.
Difficulty, ‘abuegation, martyrdom, death, are
the allurements that act on the heart of man.
Kindle the inner genial life of him, you have a
flame that burns up all lower considerations. —

Carlyle.

Lifted up so high I disdained subjection, and
thought one step higher would sev me highest.
Afitton.

Fearless minds climb soonest unto crowns.—
Shakespeare.

Besides the pleasure derived from acquired
knowledye, there Inrks in the mind of man, ind
tinged with a shade of sadness, an unsatisfactory
longing for something beyond the present, &
striving towards regions yet unknown and un-
opened. — Wilhelm von Fwnboldt.

Too low they build who build beneath the
stars.— Young.


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158

EXERCISE.

EXCEPTIONS.

The exceptions of the scrupulous put one
in mind of some general pardons where every-
thing is forgiven except crimes. —Fielding.

EXCESS.
Let us teach ourselves that honorable step,
not to ontde discretion.—Shukespeare.

To regard the excesses of the passions as
maladies has so salutary an effect that this idea
renders all moral sermons useless.—Doiste.

The misfortune is, that when a man has
found honcy, le enters upon the feast with an
appetite so voracious that he usually destroys
his own delight by excess and satiety —Anox.

Whatever has exceeded its due bounds is
ever in a state of instability —Seneca.

Pleasures bring effeminaey, and effeminacy
foreruns ruin; such conqnests, without blood or
sweat, sufficiently do revenge themselves upon
their intemperate conquerors.— Quarfes.

They are as sick that surfeit with too mueh,
as they that starve with nothing. —Shukespeure.

There is no unmixed good in human affairs ;
the best principles, if pushed to excess, degener-
ate into fatal viccs. Generosity is nearly ‘allied
to extravagunec; charity itself may lead to ruin;
the sternness of justice is but one step removed
from the severity of oppression. It is the same
in the political world; the tranquillity of des-

otism resembles the stagnation of the Dead

ea; the fever of innovation the tempests of
the ocean. It would seem as if, at particular
periods, from causes inserutable to human wis-
dom, a universal frenzy seizes mankind ; reason,
experience, prudence, are alike blinded ; and the
very classes who are to perish in the storm are
the first to raise its fury.—Sir A. Alison.

If a man get a fever, or a pain in the head
with overdrinking, we are subject to eurse the
wine, when we should rather impute it to our-
selves for the excess.—Lrasmus.

The excesses of onr youth are draughts upon
our old age, payable with interest, about thirty
years after date.—Colton.

The desire of power in excess caused angels
to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess eaused
man to fall; but in charity is no excess, neither
ean man nor angels come into danger by it.—

Bacon,
*

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.

Violent delights have violent ends, and in
their triumph die; like fire and powder, whieh
as they kiss consume.— Shakespeare.

Every morsel to a satisfied hunger is only a
new labor to a tired digestion.— South.

It is a eommon thing to serew up justice to
the pitch of an injury. A man may be over-
rightcous, and why not over-grateful too? There
is a mischicvons excess that borders so close
upon ingratitude that it is no easy matter to
distinguish the one from the other; but, in re-
gard that there is good-will in the bottom of it,
however distempered ; for it is effectually but
kindness out of the wits.—Seneca. +

There can be no excess to love, none ta
knowledge, none to beauty, when these attributes
are considered in the purest sense.—/'merson.

He who indulges his sense in any execsses
renders himself obnoxions to his own reason;
and, to gratify the brute in him, displeases the
man, and sets his two natures at variance.—

Walter Scott.

Let pleasure be ever so innocent, the excess
is always eriminal.— St. Hvremond.

To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, is
wasteful and ridiculous excess. — Shakespeare.

Tn its primary signification, all vice, that is,
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 wonld preserve. The debauchee
offers up his body a “ living saerifice ” to sin.—

Colton.

As surfeit is the father of much fast, so every
scope by the immoderate nse turns to restraint.
Shakespeare.

EXCUSE.

An exense is worse and more terrible than a
lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.—Pope.
EXERCISE.

In those vernal seasons of the year when
the air is soft and pleasant, it were an injury

cand sullenness against Nature not to go out and

see her riches, and partake of her rejoicings
with heaven and earth.—Ailton.

There are many troubles which you cannot
eure by the Bible and the hymn-book, but whieh
you can eure by a good perspiration and a breath
of fresh air.— Beecher.

Such is the constitution of man, that labor
may be styled its own reward ; nor will any cx-
ternal incitements be requisite if it be considered
how mueh happiness is gained, and how much
misery escaped, by frequent and violent agita-
tion of the body.—Johnson.

By looking into physieal eauses our minds
are opened and enlarged; and in this pursuit,
whether we take or whether we lose the game,
the chase is eerteinly of service. —Burke.


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EXPECTATION. 159 EXPERIENCE.
EXPECTATION. It may serve as a comfort to us in-all our

Tlow slow this old moon wanes! she lingers
my desires, like to a step-dame or a. downger,
Long withering out n yonng man’s revenne.—

Shakespeure.

Uncertainty and expectation are joys of life.
Scenrity is an insipid thing; and the overtak-
ingiand possessing of a wish discovers the folly
of the chase.— Congreve.

Yon give me nothing during your life, but
you promise to provide for me at your death.
If yon are not a fool, yon know what I wish
for.— Martial.

The great source of pleasure is ‘variety.
Uniformity must tire at last, though it be uni-
formity of excellence. We love to expect, and
when expectation is disappointed or gratified,
we want to be again expecting. —Johuson.

With what a heayry and retarding weight
does expectation load the wing of time. —
William Mason.

, EXPEDIENCY.
Expediency is the science of exigencics.—
Kossuth
EXPERIENCE.

I learn several great truths; as that it isim-
possible to see into the ways of futnrity, that
punishment ‘always attends the villain, that
love is the fond soother of the human breast.—

Goldsmith.

Our ancestors have travelled the iron age;
the golden is before us.—
Bernardin de St. Pierre.

There are many arts among men, the knowl
edge of which is acquired bit by bit by expe-
rience. For it is experience that canseth our
life to move forward by the skill we acquire,
while want of experience subjects us to the ef
fects of chance.—Luto.

Experience wonnded is the school where
man learns piercing wisdom out of smart.—

Lord Brooke.

Everything is worth seeing once, and the
more one sces, the Iess one either wonders or
admires.— Chesterfield.

Experience does take dreadfully high school-
wages, but he teaches like no other.—Carlyle.

We hazardeth much who depends for his
learning on experience. An unhappy master,
he that is only made wise by many shipwrecks ;
a miserable merchant, that is neither rich nor
wise till he has been bankrupt. By experience
we find out a short way by a long wandering, —

Rager Ascham.

To most men experience is like the stern
lights of a.ship, whic
it has passed.— Coleridge.

1 illumine only the track J
ition from age and experience.— Terence.

enlamities and afilictions that he that loses nny-
thing and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the
loss.—L’ strange.

Experience is the common school-honse of
fools and ill men. Men of wit and honesty be
otherwise instructed. —Lrasnius.

Taught by experience to know my own
blindness, shall I speak as if I could not err,
and as if others might not in some disputed
points be more.enlightened than myself? ~
Channing.

Would they could sel] us experience, though
at diamond prices, but then no one would use
the article second-hand ! —Balzae.

Each successive generation planges into the
abyss of passion, withont the slightest regard to
the fatal effects which snch condnct has pro-
duced upon their predecessors; and lament,
when too late, the rashness with which. they
slighted the adviec of experience, and stifled the
voice of reason.—Steele.

Theories ‘are very thin and unsubstantial ;
experience only is tangible —Hosea Ballou.

Ah! the youngest heart has the same waves
within it-as the oldest, but without the phim-
met which ean measure their depths —Aichter.

Oft have I thonght, — jabber as he will, how
learned soever, man knows nothing but what
he has learned from experience! — Wtelund.

Experience is by industry achieved, ‘and
perfected by the swift course of tine:—
Shakespeare.

I scarcely exeeed the middle age of man;

Yet between infancy and maturity 1 have seen

ten revolutions {—Lamartine.

IfI might venture to appeal to what is so
mauch out of fashion at Paris, I mean to experi-
ence, I should tell you that in my course I have
known, and, according to my measure, have co-
operated with great men ; and I have never yet
seen any plan which has not been mended by
the observations of those who were much infe-
rior in understanding to the person who togk the
lead in the business.—Burke. — -

The highest conceptions of the sages, who
in order to arrive at them have had to live many
days, have hecome the milk for children.—

: Ballauche.

We are often prophets to others only be-
eause werare our own historians.—
Madame Swetchine.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the
conduct of life as not to receive new informa-


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EXTREMES.

eee

All reasoning is retrospect ; it consists in
the application of facts and principles previous-
ly known. This will show the very great im-
portance of knowledge, especially of that kind
called experience.—/. Foster.

Allis but lip wisdom which wants experi-
ence.—Sir P. Sidney.

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.—L’ranklin.

Nobody will use other people’s experience,
nor has-any of his own till it 1s too late to use
it —Hauthorne.

In all instances where our experience of the
past has been extensive and uniform, our judg-
ment concerning the future amounts to moral
certainty. —Benttie.

Experience is a jewel, and it had need be so,
for it is often purchased at an infinite rate,—
Shakespeare.

To some purpose is that man wise who
gains his wisdom at another’s expense.—
Plautus.

Each sneceeding day is the’ scholar of that
which preceded.—Publius Syrus,

The bitter past, more weleome is the sweet.
Shakespeare.

Every man’s experience of to-day is that he
was a fool yesterday and the day before yester-
day. To-morrow he will most likely be of ex-
actly the same opinion.— Charles Mackay.

Experience, that chill touchstone whose sad
proof reduces all things from their hue.—Byron.

EXTENUATION.

Oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make
the fault the worse by the excuse; as patches,
set upon a little breach, ciseredit more, in hid-
ing of the fanlt than did the fault before it was
so patched.—Shakespeare.

EXTRAVAGANCE,

The passion of ‘acquiring riches in order to
support a vain expense corrupts the purest
souls.—Fenelon.

Expense of time is the most costly of all
expenses.— Theophrastus.

Prodigality is indeed 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 to be had for money.

Henry Taylor.

There is hope in extravagance, there is
none in rontine.—Zmerson.

That is suitable to a man in point of orna-
mental expense, not which he can afford to have,
but which he can afford to lose.— Whately.

A large retinue upon a small income, like a
large cascade upon a small stream, tends to dis-
cover its tenuity.—Shenstone.

EXTREMES.

We feel neither extreme heat nor extreme
cold. Qualities that are in excess are so much
at variance with our feelings that they are
impalpable; we do not fecl them, though we
suffer from their effects. The mind is equally
affected by too great youth and by excessive
old ‘age, by too much and too little leaming.
In short, extremes are for us as if they were
not, and as if we were not, in regard to them;
they escape from us, or we from them.—Pascal.

Our age knows nothing but reactions, and
leaps from one extreme to another.—WMiebuhr.

Crnel men are the greatest lovers of mercy,
avaricious men of generosity, and proud men
of humility; that is to say, in others, not in,
themselves.—- Colton.

No violent extreme endures.— Carlyle.

We must remember how apt man is to ex-
tremes, — rushing from credulity and weakness
to suspicion and distrust. Bulwer Lytton.

Everything runs to excess; every good
quality is noxious, if unmixed; and, to carry
the danger to the edge of rnin, nature canses
each man’s pecniiarity to snperabound.—

Emerson.

Shin equally a sombre air ‘and vivacious
sallies.—J/arcus Antoninus.

The. man who can be nothing but serious,
or nothing but merry, is but half a man.—
Leigh Hunt.

Both in individuals and in masses violent ex-
eitement is always followed by remission, and
often by reaction. We are all inelined to de-
preciate whatever we have overpraised, and, on -
the other hand, to show undue indulgence,
where we have shown undue rigor.—JJacaulay.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will
hear reason.—Frelding.

So near are the boundaries of panegytic and
invective, that a worn-out sinner is sometimes
found to make the best declaimer against sin.
The same high-seasoned descriptions which in
his unregencrate state served to inflame his
appetites, in his new province of a moralist will
serve him (a little turned) to expose the enor-
mity of those appetites in other men.—Lamb,

Women are ever in extremes; they are
either better or worse than men.—Bruyere.


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Tt is a hard but good law of fate, that, as
“every evil, so every“excessive power wears itsel!’
out.—-ferder.

Extreme old age is childhood ; extreme wis-
dom is ignorance, for so+it- may be ealled, since
the man whom the oracle pronounced — the
wisest of men professed thut he knew nothing ;
yea, push.a coward to the extreme and he will
show conrage; oppress a man”to the last, aud |
he Will rise'abote oppression.—./. Beaumont.

The greatest flood has_the soonest ebb ; the?
sorest tempest the most’sudden calm; the hot-
test love the coldest end; and from the deepest
desire oftentimes ensnes the deadliest lhate.—

. Socrates.

Though little fire grows great with little
wind, yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and
all.— Shakespeare.

There is‘a mean in all things. Even virtue
itself hath its stated limits; which not_being
strictly observed, it ceases to be virtne.—ZTorace.

Too austere a philosophy makes few wise
men; too rigorous politics, few good subjects ;
too hard a relixion, few religions persons whose
devotion is of long continuance.—St. Evremond.

Pleasure.and pain, though directly opposite,
are yet so contrived by uature as to be con-
stant companions ; and it is a facet that the
same motions and muscles of the face are
employed both in laughing and erying.—

Charron.

Our senses will not admit anything cx-
treme. Too much noise confuses us, too much
light dazzles us, too great distance or nearness

prevents vision, too great prolixity or brevity
weakens an arguinent, too much pleasure gives
pain, too much accordance annoys.—Paseal.

The blast that blows loudest is soon over-
blown.—Smollett.

That extremes beget extremes is an apo-
the¢m built on the most profound observation
of the human mind.—Colton.

As great enmities spring from great friend-
ships, and mortal distempers from vigorous
health, so do the most surprising and the wild-
est frenzies from the high and lively agitations
of our souls.—Jfontaigne.

Extremes, though contrary, have the like
effets; extreinc heat mortifies, like extreme
coll; extreme love breeds satiety as well as
extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts
chastity as much as too much license.—

Chapman.

The reverse of
Truth lies

All extremes are error.
error.is not truth, bnt error still.
between these extremes.— Cecil.

H

Mistrust the man who finds everything good,
the nun who finds everything evil, and: still
more, the man who js indifferent to everything.-—

Lavater.

Extremity is the trier of spirits. —
Shakespeare.
EYES. a
Flaw-secing eyes, like needle points.—Zowell.

People forget that it is the exe which makes
the horizon, and the rounding mind’s eye which
makes this'or.that man a-type or representative
of humanity with the nae of hero or saint.—

Eemerson.

The vista that shines through the cye to the
heart.—.lZoore. -

The eye speaks with an cloquence and trnth-
fulness surpassing speech, It is the window
out of which the winged thoughts olten fly un-
wittingly. It is the tiny magic mirror on whose
erystal surface the moods of feeling fitfully play,
like the sunlight.aud shadow on a still stream.—

Tuckerman.

Such fiercé vivacity as fires the eye of genius
fancy-crazed.—Colerrdge.

Speech is alaggard-and a sloth, but the eyes.
shoot out an electric fluid that condenses all
the elements of sentiment ‘and passion in one
single emanation.—dforace Smith.

That deadly Indian hug in which men wres-
tle with their eyes. — Holes.

Little eyes must be good-tempered, or they
are ruined. They have no other resource. But
this will beantify them cnongh. They are made
for langhing, and should do their duty.—

Leigh Hunt.

We credit most our sight; one eye. doth
please our trust far more than ten eat-witnesses.
Herrick.

Gradual -as the snow, at heayén’s breath,
melts off and shows the azure flowers beneath,
her lids unclosed, and the bright eyes were seen.

Jfoore.

Crows pick out the eyes of the dead when
they are no longer of any use. But fatterers
destroy the souls of che living by blinding their
eyes.— Maximus.

I prize the soul that slambers in a quict eye.
Eliza Cook.

O, the cye’s light is a noble gift of Heaven!
All beings live from light; each fair created
thing, the very plants, turn with n joyful trans-
port to the light.—Sehifler.

The eyes of other people are the eyes
ruin us.— Franklin.


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Men are born with two eyes, but with one
tongue, in order that they should see twice as
much-as they say.—Colton.

T dislike an eye that twinkles like a star.
Those only are beautiful which, like the planets,
have ‘a steady, lambent light, — are luminons,
not sparkling. —Longfellow.

Pure vestal thoughts in the translucent fane
of her still spirit. —Zennyson. .

Ahab cast a covetous eye at Naboth’s vine-
yard, David a lustful eye at Bathsheba, The
eye is the pulse of the soul ; as physicians judge
of the heart by the pulse, so we by the eye; a
rolling eye, a roving heart. The good eye keeps
minute time, and strikes when it should; the
lustful, crotehet-time, and so puts all out of tune.

Rev. T. Adams.

The eye strays not while under the guidance
of reason.— Publius Syrus.

Alaek! there lies more peril in thine eye
than twenty of their swords; look thou but
sweéct, and I am proof against their enmity. —

; Shakespeare.

Who has a daring eye tells downright truths
and downright lies.—Lavater.

A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances
suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and
inflame; to make him even forget; they dazzle
him so, that the past hecomes straightway dim
to him; and he so prizes them, that he would
pive all his life to possess them. What is the
fond love of dearest friends compared to his
treasure? Is memory as strong as expectancy,
truition as hunger, gratitude as desire 4 —

Thackeray.

The eye of the master will do more work
than botn his hands.—Franklin.

Lovers are angry, reconciled, entreat, thank,
appoint, and finally speak alt things, by their
eyes.— Afontaigne.

Hell trembles at a heaven-directed eye.—
Bishop Ken.

The eye observes only what the mind, the
heart, and the imagination are. gifted*to see;
and sight must be reinforced by insight hefore
souls can be discerned as well as manners, ideas
as well as objects, realities and relations as well
as appearances and accidental connections.—

Whipple.

Wait upon him whoin thou art to speak to
with thine eye; for there be many cunning men
that have secret heads and transparent counte-
nances.— Burton.

A wanton eye is a messenger of an unchaste
neart.— St. Augustine.

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EYES.

What stars do spangle heaven with such
beauty as those two eyes become that heavenly
face 1 —Shakespeare.

Ah! the soft starlight of virgin eyes.—Balzac.
—_——

That fine part of our constitution, the eye,
seems as much the receptacle and seat of our
passions, appetites, and inclinations, as the mind
itself; and at least it is the outward portal to
introduce them to the house within, or rather
the common thoronghfare to let our affections
pass in and out. Love, anger, pride, and ava-
rice all visibly move in those little orbs.—

Addison.

The eye sees what it brings the power to sce.
Carlyle.

What an eye she has! methinks it sounds a
parley of provocation. —Shakespeare.

Somehody onee observed, — and the observa-
tion did him credit, whoever he was— that the
dearest things in the world were neighbors’ eyes,
for they cost everybody more than anything
else contributing to honsekeeping.—

Albert Smith.

The eyes have a property in things and
territories not named in-any title-deeds, and are
the owners of our choicest possessions.—.Alcott.

Eyes that droop like summer flowers.—
Miss L. . Landon.

One of the most wonderful things in nature
is a glance ; it transeends specch ; it is the bodily
symbol of identity. — Emerson.

There is a lore simple -and sure, that asks
no discipline of weary years, — the language of
the soul, told through the eye.—Jirs Sigourney.

Heart on her lip and soul within her eyes.—
jyron.

The eye’is the window of the soul, the mouth
the door. The intellect, the will, are seen in the
eye ; the emotions, sensibilities, and affections, in
the mouth. The animals look for man’s inten-
tions right into his eyes. Even a rat, when you
hunt him-and bring hima to bay, looks you in
the cye.—Hiram Powers. j

Sometimes from her eyes I did receive fair
speechless messages. — Shakespeare.

When there is love in the heart there are
rainbows in the eyes, which cover every black
cloud with gorgeous hues. —Beecher.

Eyes not down-dropped nor over-bright, but
fed with the clear-pointed flame of chastity.—
Tennyson.

Where is any author in the world teaches
such beauty as a.woman’s eye ? — Shakespeare.


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EYES.
s

And eves disclosed what cyes alone could
tell. — Dwight.

Satan turned Eve’s oye to the apple, Achan’s
eye to the wedge of gold, Ahab’s eye to Naboth’s
vineyard, and then what work did he make with

them! —Rev. J. Allene.

Faster than his tongue did make offence, his
eye did heal it up.— Shakespeare.

The eyes are the amulets of the mind.—
IW. R. Alger.

None but those who have loved can he sup-
posed to understand the oratory of the eye, the
mute cloquence of a look, or the conversational
powers of the face. Love’s sweetest meanings
are unspoken ; the full heart knows no rhetoric
of words, and resorts to the pantomime of sighs
and glances.—Bovee.

Our eyes when gazing on sinful objects
are out of their calling and God’s keeping.—
Fuller.

The eyes of women are Promethean fires.—
Shakespeare.

Eyes are bold as lions, roving, rnnning,
leaping, here and there, far‘and near. . They
speak all languages. They wait for no intro-
duction ; they are no Englishmen ; ask no leave
of age or rank; they respect neither poverty
nor riches, neither learning nor power, nor vir-
tue, nor sex, butintrude, and come again, and
go throngh and through you in a moment of
time. What inundation of life and thought is
discharged from one soul into another through
them ! —Emerson.

cyes.—

Men of cold passions have quick
- Hawthorne.

Eyes will not see when the heart wishes
them to be blind. Desire conceals truth as
darkness does the earth.— Seneca.

Like a star glancing out from the blue of the
sky !— Whittier.

A beautiful eye makes silence eloqnent, a
kind eye makes contradiction an assent, an en-
raged eye makes beauty deformed. This little
meinber gives life to every other part-about us;
and I believe the story of Argus implies no
more than thatithe eye is in every part; that is
to say, every other part would be mutilated
were not its foree represented more by the eye
than even by itself Addison.

Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eye,
despising what they look on.—Shakespeare.

Tell me, sweet eyes, from what divinest star
did ye drink in your liquid melancholy 4—
Bulwer Lytton.

Those laughing orbs, that borrow from
azure skies the light they wear.—
frances S. Osgood.

"A lover’s eyes will gaze an eagle blind. —
Shakespeare.

The eye is the inlet to the soul, and it is well
to beware of him whose visual organs avoid
your honest regard.—Tosea Ballou.

The balls of sight are so formed that one
man’s eyes are spectactes to another to read his
heart with.—Johnson.

Such eyes-as may have looked from heaven,
but never were raised to it before ! —Afoore.

The intelligence of affection is carried on by
the eye only ; good-breeding has made the tongue
falsify the heart, and act a part of continued re-
straint, while Nature has preserved the cyes to
herself, that she may not be disguised or mis-
represented —Addison.

The curious questioning eye, that plucks the
heart of every mystery.—Grenville Mellen.

The eyes are the pioncers that first announce
the soft tale of love.—Propertius.

An eye like Mars, to threaten and command.
Shakespeare.

Some eyes threaten like a loaded and levelled
pistol, and others are as insniting as hissing or
kicking ; some have no more expression than
blueberries, while others are as deep as a well
which you can fall into.—Lmersen.

Love looketh from the eye, and kindleth
love by looking.—Zupper.

Drink to me only with thine eyes, and I will
pledge with mine.—Benr Jonson.

Sweet, silent rhetoric of persuading eyes. —
Sir W. Davenant.

The eye is continually influenced by what it
cannot detect; nay, it is not going too far to
say that it is most influenced by what it detects
least. Let the painter define, if he can, the
variations of lines on which depend the changes
of expression in the human countenance.—

Ruskin.

Eyes raised toward heaven are always
beautiful, whatever they be. — Joubert.


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FACE.

F.

FACE.
A good face is the best letter of reecommen-
dation.— Queen Elizabeth.

No human face is exactly the same in its
lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes,
no branch in its symmetry. All admit irregn-
lavity as they imply change; and to banish
imperfection is to destroy expression, to check
exertion, to paralyze vitality, All things are
literally better, lovelicr, and more beloved for
the imperfections which have been divinely ap-
pointed, that the law of human life may be
effort, and the law of human judginent mercy.

Ruskin.

Tic had a face like a bencdiction.— Cervantes.

‘

What clear arehed brows! What sparkling
eyes! the lilies contending with the roses in
her cheeks, who shall most set them off. What
ruby lips !—-Afassinger. ;
ul

All men’s faecs ‘are true, whatsoever their
hands are.— Shakespeare.

Look in the face of the person to whom you
are speaking, if you wish to know his real sen-
timents; for he can command his words more
easily than his conntenance.— Chesterfield.

The check is apter than the tongue to tell
an errand.— Shakespeare.

Therelare faces so fluid with expression, so
flushed and rippled by the play of thought, that
we can hardly find what the mere features
really are. When the delicious beauty of linca-
ments loses its power, it is because a more
delicions beauty has appeared, that an interior
and durable form has been disclosed.—

Emerson.

There is in every human countenance cither

a history or a prophecy, whieh must sadden, or
at least soften, every reflecting obscrver.—

Coleridge.

We are all seulptors and painters, and our
material is onr own flesh and blood and bones.
Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man’s
features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute
them.—Thkorean,

Expression alone can invest beauty with
snpreme and lasting command over the eye.—
Fuseli.

Alas! how few of nature’s faces there are
to gladden us with their beauty! The cares
and sorrows and hungerings of the world
ehange them as they change hearts; and it is
only when those passions sleep, and have lost
their hold forever, that the troubled clouds pass
off, and leave heaven’s surface clear.—Dickens.

That chastened brightness only gathered by
those who tread the path of sympauly and love.
Bulwer Lytton.

Beanty depends more upon the movement
of the face than upon the form of the features
when at rest. Thus a countenanee habitnally
under the influence of amiable feclings acquires

‘a beauty of the highest order, from the fre-

queney with which such feelings are the ori
nating canses of the movement or expressions
which stamp their character npon it—

Afrs. S. C. Hall.

A cheerful face is nearly ‘as good for an
invalid as healthy weather.—/ranklin.

There remains in the faecs of women who
are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those
rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and,
later, an after-summer, the reflex of their most
beautiful bloom.—Richter.

Fire burns only when we are near it; but a
beautiful free burns and inflames, thongh at a
distance.—Nenophon.

Her face had ‘a wonderful fascination in it.
It was such a calm, quiet face, with the light
of the rising soul shining so peacefully through
it. At times, it.wore an expression of serious-
ness, of sorrow even; and then scemed to make

‘the very air bright with what the Italian pocts

so beautifully call the “lampeggiar dell’ ange-
lico riso,” — the lightning of the angelic smile. —
Longfellow.

In thy face I see the map of honor, truth,
and loyalty — Shakespeare.

Natnre has laid ont all her art in beantifying
the face: she has touched it with vermilion,
planted.in it a double row of ivory, made it the
seat of smiles and blushies, lighted it up and en-
livened it with the brightness of the eyes, hung
it on cach side with curions organs of sense,
given it airs and graces that cannot be described,
and surrounded it with such a flowing shade
of hair as sets all its beauties in the most
agrecable light.— Addison.

The furrows of long thought dried up in
tears.— Byron.

The face of a woman, whatever be the force
or extent of her mind, whatever be the impor-

‘tance of the objects she pursues, is always an

obstacle or a:reason in the story of her life.—
Madame de Staél.

Her face, O call it pure, not pale ! —Coleridge.

The loveliest. faces are to be seen by moon-
light, when one secs half with the eye and half

with the fancy.—Bovee.
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FAITH.

Those faces which have charmed us the most
escape us the soonest.— Walter Scott.

As the language of the face is universal, so
is it very comprehensive. No laconism can
reach it, It isthe short-hand of the mind, and
crowils-a great deal in-a little room. A man
imax look a sentence as soon as speak a word.
The strokes are small, but so masterly drawn
that you may easily collect the image «and
proportions of what they resemble—  ~

Jeremy Collier. ;

Truth makes the face of that person shine
who speaks and owns it.—South.

Faces are as legible as books, only with
these circumstances to recommend them to‘our
perusal, that they are read in mnch less time,
and'are much less likely to deceive us.—Lavater,

That same face of yours looks like the title-
page to.a whole volume of roguery.—

Colley Cibber.

Ver closed lips were delicate as the tinted |
pencilling of veins upon a flower; and on her
check the timid blood had “faintly melted *
through, like something that was half afraid of .
light.— Willis.

Features, — the great soul’s apparent seat.—
Bryant.

Not the entranee of a cathedral, not the
sound of a passing bell, not the furs of a magis-
trate, nor the sables of a funeral, were fraught
with half the solemnity of face ! —Shenstone.

A face like nestling luxury of flowers.—
Massey.
FACT.

Facts‘are to the mind the same thing as food
to the body. On the due digestion of facts
depend the strength and wisdoin of the one,
just as vigor and health depend on the other.
The wisest in council, the ablest in debate, and
the most-agrecable companion in the commerce
of human life, is that man who has assimilated
to his understanding the greatest number of
facts.—Burke.

FAILURE. .
He only is exempt from failures who makes
no effurts.— JVhately.

Every failure is-a step to snecess; every de-
tection of what is false directs us towards 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 charin derived from truth.—

Professor Whewell.

Only the astrologer and the empyric never
fail — Willmott.

There is not a ficreer hell than failure in a
great object.—Aeats.

A failure establishes only this, that our de-
termination to succeed was not strong cnough.—
Bovee.

Tn the Jexicon of youth, which fate reserves
for a bright manhood, there is uo such word as
“ fail’? !$—Balwer Lytton.

FAITH.

It is impossible to be a hero in anything
unless one is first a hero in faith —Jacobi.

All sects, as far as reason will help them,
gladly use it; when it fails them, they cry out
it isa matter of faith, and above reason.—Locke.

Faith is not reason’s labor, but repose.—
Young.

Judge not man by his outward manifestation

‘of faith; for some there are who tremblingly

yeach out shaking hands to the guidance of
faith; others who stoutly venture in the dark
their human confidence, their leader, which they
mistake for faith; some whose hope totters
upon crutches; others who stalk into fnturity
upon stilts. The difference is chiefly constitu-
tional with them.—Lanib.

Faith always implies the dishelicf of a lesser
fact in favor of a greater.—ZZolines,

Faith, in order to be genuine. and of any
real value, must be the oftspring of that divine
love which Jesus manifested when he prayed
for his enemies on the cross.—LZosea Ballou.

Trne faith nor biddeth nor abideth form.—
Bailey.

Faith and works are necessary to our, spir-
itnal life as Christians, as soul and body are to
our natural life as men; for fuith is the soul of

j religion, and works the body.—Colton.

Faith loves to Ican on.time’s destroying. arm.
Lolmes.

Faith is the key that unlocks the cabinet of
God’s treasures ; the king’s messenger from the
celestial world, to bring all the supplies we need
out of the fulness that there is in Christ.

. J. Stephens.

Faith may rise into miracles of might, as
some few wise men hare shown; faith may sink
into eredulities of weakness, as the mass of
fools have witnessed. —T upper.

Faith is necessary to victory.—/Zazlitt.

It is hy faith that poetry, as well as devo-
tion, soars above this dull carth; that imagina-

tion breaks throngh its clouds, breathes » purer

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Faith is a certain image of eternity. All
things are present to it,—things past, and
things to come.—Jeremy Taylor.

Faith is the subtle chain that binds us to the
Infinite. —iJfrs. E. Oakes Smith.

Faith builds a oridge across the gulf of
death, to break the shock blind nature cannot
shun, and Jands thought smoothly on the far-
ther shore.— Young.

The light of genius is sometimes so resplen-
dent as to make a man walk through life, amid
glory and acclamation ; but it burns very dimly
and low when carried into “ the valley of the
shadow of death.” But faith is like the evening
star, shining into our souls the more brightly,
the deeper is the night of death in which they
sink.—Mountford.

The power of faith will often shine forth the
most when the character is naturally weak.—
Hare.

Tf thy faith have no donbts, thou hast just
canse to doubt thy faith ; and if thy doubts have
no hope, thou hast just reason to fear despair ;
when therefore thy donbts shall exercise thy
faith, keep thy hopes firm to qualify thy doubts ;
so shall thy faith be secured from doubts; so
shall thy doubts be preserved from despair.—

Quarles.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight.
Pope.

In our age faith and charity are fonnd, but
they are found apart. We tolerate everybody,
becanse we donbt everything ; or else we tole-
rate nobody, because we believe something.—

Mfrs. E. B. Browning.

Man is not made to question, but adore.—
Young.

In your intercourse with sects, the snb-
lime and abstruse doctrines of Christian belief
belong to the Chureh ; but the faith of the indi-
vidual, centred in his heart, is, or may be, collat-
eral to them. Faith is subjective.— Coleridge.

Some wish they did ; but no man disbelieves.
Young.

Never vet did there exist a full faith in the
Divine Word (by whom light as well as immor-
‘tality was brought into the world) 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
simplified those of the desires and passions.—

Coleridge.

There is one inevitable criterion of judg-
ment touching religious faith in doctrinal mat-
ters. Can yon reduce it to practice? If not,
have none of it—Hosea Ballou.

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FAITH.

As‘ the flower is before the fruit, so is faith
before good works.— Whately. .

Lay not the plummet to the line; religion
hath -no landmarks; no human keenness can
discern the subtle shades of faith— Tupper.

Faith is the substance of things hoped for,
the evidence of things not seen.— Bille.

Faith converses with the angels, and ante-
dates the hymns of glory ; every man that hath
this grace is as certain that there are glories for
him, if he persevere in duty, as if he had heard
and sung the thanksgiving song for the blessed
sentence of doomsday —Jéereniy Taylor.

The inventory of my faith for this lower
world is soon made ont. I believe in Him who
made it.—iadame Swetchine.

Faith is the flame that lifts the sacrifice to
heaven.—J. Afoniyomery.

Faith without works is like a bird ‘without
wings; thotigh she may hop with her compan-
ions on earth, yet she will never fly with them
to heaven; but when both are joined together,
then doth the soul mount up to her eternal rest.

J. Beaumont.

__ Faith, amid the disorders of a sinful life, is
like the lamp burning in an ancient tomb —
Madame Swetchine.

Faith is the root of all good, works. A root
that produces nothing is dead.—Bishop Wilson.

I know a courier, swift and sure, who will
earry us to the absent,—faith. He knows the
road ! have no fear ; he will not stumble or stray,

Madame de Gasparin.

The steps of faith fall on the seeming void,
and find the rock beneath.— JVhittier.

Let us fear the worst, but work with faith ;
the best will always"take care of itself.
Victor Hugo.

_ Faith is letting down onr nets into the un-
transparent deeps, at the Divine command, not
knowing what we’shall take.—Faber.

Hare you not observed that faith is gener-
ally strongest in-those whose character may be
called the weakest ?—Wadame de Staél.

Faith affirms many things, respecting which
the senses are silent, but nothing that they deny:
It is superior, bnt never opposed to their testi-
mony.— Pascal.

Faith is a homely, private capital; as there
rae Pets
are'public savings-banks and poor finds, out of
which in times of want we can relieve the neces-
sities of individuals, so here the faithful take
their coin in peace.— Goethe.


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FALSEHOOD.

Love.is a hodily shape; and Christian works
“are no more than animate faith and love, us
flowers are the animate spring-tide.—Long/ellow.

Faith consists in believing things becanse
they are impossible. Faith is uothing more than
submissive or deferential. ineredulity:— Voltaire.

There was never found inany age of the
world either philosopher or sect, or law or dis-
cipline, whieh did so highly exalt -the public
good as the Christian faith.— Bacon.

Fnith is the pencil of the sonl, that pictures
heavenly things.—Zhomas Burbridge. .

Strike from mankind the principle of faith,
and men wonld have no more history than a
flock of sheep.—Bulcer Lytton.

FATSENHOOD.
Falschood is susceptible of an infinity of

combinations, but truth has only onc mode of
being.—Housseau. *

There is a sct of harmless liars, frequently
to be met with in company, who deal much in
the mirvelions. Their usual intention is to

tease and entertain; but as men'are most de-
Fghted with what they conceive to be the truth,
these people mistake the means of pleasing, and
incur universal blame.—Zume. ‘

A few men are sufficient to broach false-
hoods, which are afterwards innocently diffused
by successive relaters.— Johnson.

Falschood and death are synonymous.—
Bancroft.

The gain of lying is nothing else but not to
be trasted of any, nor to be believed when we
speak the trath.—Sir Valter Raleigh.

Past all shame, so past all trnth._—
Shakespeare.

He who tells a lie is not sensible how great
a task he undertakes; for he mnst be forced to
invent twenty more to maintain that one.—Pope.

Although the Devil be the farher of lies, he
seeins, like other great inventors, to have lost
much of his reputation by the continual im-
provements that have been made upon him.—

.. Not the least misfortune in a prominent
falschood is the fact that trailition is apt to
repeat it for-truth—ZJfosea Ballou.

O, what a.goodly outside falsehood hath !—
Shakespeare.

Falsehood, like poison, will generally be
rejected when adininistered alone; but when
blended with wholesome ingredients, may be
swallowed unperecived.— Whately.

Falsehood, like: the dry-rot, flourishes the
more in proportion as air and light are excluded.
Whately.

To tell a falschood is like the cut of'a sabre;
for thongh the wound may heal, the sear of it
will remain.—Saadi.

Falschood avails itself of haste and uncer-
tainty. Tacitus.

Falschood is never so successful as when she
baits her hook with truth, and no opinions
so fatally mislead us -as those that arc not
wholly wrong, as no watches so effectnally de-
ecive the wearer as those that are sometimes
right.— Colton.

Falschood is cowardice, — truth is conrage.
Hosea Ballou.

Falschood is difficnlt to be maintained.
When the materials of a building are solid
blocks of stone, very rude architecture will suf-
fice; but a structure of rotten materials needs
the most careful adjustment to make it stand at
all.— Whately.

Cowards tell lics, and those that fear the
rod.—Herbert.

If there were no falschood in the world, there
would be no doubt; if there were no doubt,
there would be no inquiry; if no inquiry, no
wisdom, no knowledge, no genius.—Landor.

Falschood -always endeavored to copy the
mien and attitudes of truth. Johnson.

A lic should be trampled on and _extin-
guished wherever found. Iam for fumigating
the atmosphere when I suspect that falsehood,
like pestilence, breathes around moe.— Carlyle.

Falschoods not only disagree with truths,

but usually quarrel among themselves.—
: - Danie Webster.

Every lic, great or small, is the brink of a
precipice, thedepth of which nothing but Om-
nis¢ience can fathom.—Rev. Dr. Reade.

Woe to falsehood ! it affords no relief to the
breast, like truth; it gives us no comfort, pains
him who forges it,'and like an arrow dirceted by
a god flies back«and wounds-the ‘archer.—

Goethe.

False modesty is the most decent of all false-
hoods.—Cham/fort.

Falschood jis fire in stubble;—it likewise
turns all the light stuff around it into its own
substance for a moment, one crackling, blazing
moment, and then dies; and all its contents are
scattered in the wind, without place or evidence
of their existence, as viewless:as the wind which
scatters them.—Coleredye.


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FAME.

Fame is an undertaker that pays but litile
attention ta the living, but bedizens the dead,
furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to
the grave.—Colton.

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and
the punishment of talent.—Cham/ort.

It is the penalty of fame that .a man must
ever keep rising. “Get a reputation and then
go to bed,” is the absurdest of all maxims.
“ Keep up a reputation or go to bed,” would be
nearer the truth.— Chapin.

Better than fame is still the wish for fame,
the constant training for a glorious strife—
Bulwer Lytton.

Fame often rests at first upon something ac-
cidental, and often, too, is swept away, or for a
time removed; but neither genius nor glory is
,conterred at once, nor do they glimmer and fall,
like drops in-a grotto, at a shout.—Zundor.

The breath of popular applause.—Herrick.

What is fame? The advantage of being
known by people of whom you yourself know
nothing, and for whom you care as little.—

Stanislaus.

Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine
brightest after they set.— Colton.

Those who despise fame seldom deserve it.
We are apt to undervalue the purchase we can-
not reach, to conceal our poverty thebetter, It
is a spark which kindles upon the best fuel, and
burns brightest in the bravest breast.—

Jeremy Collier.

Tt often happens that those of whom we
speak least on earth are best known in heaven.
N. Caussin.

Raised by fortune to a ridiculous visibility.
Grattan.

To he read by bare inscriptions, like many
in Griiter, — to hope for eternity by enigmati-

cal epithets or first letters of our names, — to be |

studied by antiquarians who we were, and have
new names given us like many of the mummies,
are cold consolation unto the students of perpe-
tuity, even by everlasting languages.—

T. Hughes.

What a heavy burden is a name that has
become too soon famous ! — Voltaire.

In itself a shadow. Soon as caught, con-
temned; it shrinks to nothing in the grasp.
Consult the ambitious, it is ambition’s cure.—

Young.

To have fame follow us is well, but it is
not a desirable avant-courier.— Balzac.

The thirst after fame is greater than that af
ter virtue; for who embraces virtue if you take
away its rewards —Juvenal.

Happy indeed the poet of whom, like Or-
pheus, nothing is known but an immortal name!
Happy next, perhaps, the poet of whom, like
Homer, nothing is known but the immortal
works. The more the merely human part of
the poet remains a mystery, the more willing is
the reverence given to his divine mission.—

Bulwer Lytton.

Fame is a good so wholly foreign to our na-
tures that we have no faculty in the soul adapt-
ed to it, nor any organ in the body to relish it;
an object of desire placed out of the possibility
of fruition.— Addison.

Though fame is smoke, its fumes are frank-
‘incense to human thoughts.—Byron.

Fame is the inheritance, not of the dead, but
of the living. It is we who look back with
lofty pride to the great names of antiquity, who
drink of that flood of glory as of a river, and
refresh our wings in it for future flight.— Hazlitt.

He that will sell his fame will also sell the
public interest.—Solon.

In fame’s temple there is always a niche to
befound for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels,
or successful butchers of the human race.—

Zimmermann.

What is fame? a fancied life in others’
breath.—Pope.

Tf opinion hath lighted the lamp of thy name,
endeavor to encourage it with thy own oil,
lest it go out and stink; the chronical discase
of popularity is shame; if thou be once up, be-
ware; from fame to infamy is a beaten road. —

Quarles.

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.—
Socrates.

The fame which bids fair to live the longest
resembles that which Horace attributes to Mar-
cellus, whose progress he compares-to the silent,
imperceptible growth of a tree— 17. B. Chilow.

There is no less danger from great fame than
from infamy.— Tacitus.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things
light and swollen, and drowns things weighty
and solid; but if persons of quality and judg-
ment conenr, then it filleth all round about, and
will not easily away; for thé odors of oint-
ments are more durable than those of flowers.—

Bacon.

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly”
in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker
than dust, straw, and feathers.—Hare.


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FAME.

Fame is the shame of immortuiity, and is it-
self arshadow.— Young. ‘

Fame is not won on downy phimes nor un-
der canopies ; the man who consumes his days
without obtaining it leaves such mark of him-
self on earth as smoke in air or foani on water.

Dante.

J awoke one morning and found myself fa-
mous.— Byron.

It is a very indiscreet and troublesome am-
hition which cares so much about fame; about
what the world says of us; to be always’ look-
ing in the faces of others for approval; to be
always anxious about the ctfect of what we do
or say; to be always shouting, to hear the
echoes of our own voiecs:— Longfellow.

Fame, — next grandest word to God! —
; Alexander Smith,
Tam not covetous for gold; but if it bea
sin to covet honor, I am the most offending
soul alive.—Shakespeare.

If fame is only to come after death, I'am in
no hurry for it.—Jurtial. :

Fame may be compared to a scold; the best
way to silence her is to let her aloue, and: she
will at last be out of breath in blowing her own
trumpet.—Fuller.

Milton neither aspired to present fame, nor
even expected it; but (to use his own words)
his high ambition was “to Ieave something so
written to after ages, that they should not will-
ingly let it die.” “And Cato finely observed, he
would much rather that posterity should inqnire
why no statues were erccted to him, than why
they were—Colton.

Fame, —a flower upon a dead man’s heart.—
Motherwell.

A few words upon a tombstone, and the
truth of those not to be depended on.—Bovee.

The greatest can but blaze,'and pass away.—
. Pope.

After upwards of two thousand years Epi-
eurus has been exonerated from the reproach
that the doctrines of his philosophy reeommend-

-ed the pleasures of sensuality and voluptuous-
“ness as the chief good. Caliumny may rest on
genius a considerable part of a world’s duration ;
what then is the value of fame ?—

W. B. Clulow.

The way to fame is like the way to heaven,
through muceh tribulation.—Stcele.

As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its
shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is
truly preclous.—Landor,

A man’s heart must be very frivolous if the
possession of fame rewards the labor to attain
it. For the worst of reputation is that it is not
palpable or present, — we do not feel or see or
taste it. People praise us beltind our backs,
but we hear them not; few befere our faces,
and who is not suspicious of the truth of such
praise’? —Bulwer Lytton.

Tie who wontd acquire fame must not show
himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure
is the death of yenius.— Sins,

To be rich, to be famons? do these profit a
year hence, when other names sound Jouder
than yours, when you lie hidden away under
ground, along with the idle titles engraven on
your coftin? But only true love lives after you,
follows your memory with secret blessings,
or pervades you, and intercedes for you. ‘Won
omnis moriar, if, dying, I yet live in a tender
heart or two; vor am lost and hopeless, living,
if a sainted departed soul still loves and prays
for me.—Thackeray.

Never get a reputation for a small perfection
if you are trying for fame in a loftier area. —
Bulwer Lytton,

Men’s fame is like their hair, which grows
after they ‘are dead, and with just as little use
to them.—George Villiers.

He lives in fame that died in virtue’s cause.—
Shakespeare.

There is not in the world so toilsome a trade
as fame ; life concludes before you have so much
as sketched your work.—Bruyere,

Among the writers of all ages, some deserve
fame, and have it; others neither have nor de-
serve it; some have it, not deserving ; others,
though deserving, yet totally miss it, or have it
Trot equal to their deserts. —Afilton.

What is the end of fame? it is but to fill a
certain portion of uncertain paper.—Byron.

If a man do not erect in this age his own
tomb ere he dies, he’shall live no longer in mon-
ument than the bell rings and the widow
weeps.— Shakespeare.

Who despises fame will soon renounce the
virtues that deserve it.—Afullet.

Fame is a revenne payable only to our
ghosts; and to deny ourselves all present satis-
faction, or to expose ourselves to so much liaz-
ard for this, were as great madness as to starve
ourselves, or fight desperately for food, to be
laid on our tombs after onr death.—dfackenzie.

Fame is a shuitlecock. If it be struck only
at one end of a. room it will saon fall to. the
floor. To keep it up, it must be struck at both
ends.— Johnson.


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FAME.

Death makes no conquest of this conqueror ;
for now he lives in fame though not in life—
Shakespeare.

Common fame is the only liar that deserveth
to have some respect still reserved to it; though
she telleth many an untruth, she often hits
right, and most especially when she speaketh ill
of men.— Saville.

Fame is no plant that grows on mortal
soil.—Milton.

Of present fame think little and of future
less ; the praises that we receive after we -are
buried, like the posics that are strewn over onr
grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they
are nothing to the dead: the. dead are gone
either to a place where they hear them not, or
where, if they-do, they will despise them.—

Colton.

‘

The aspiring yonth that fired the Ephesian
dome outlives in fame the pious fool that raised
it.— Colley Cibber.

Fame, they tell you, is air; but without air
there-is no life for any; without fame there is
none for the best.—Landor.

To some. characters, fame is like an intoxi-
cating eup placed to the lips, — they do well to
turn away from it who fear it will tnrn_ their
heads. But to others fame is “love disguised,”
the Jove that answers to Jove in its widest, most
exalted sense.—dfrs. Juineson.

There is no employment in the world so la-
borious as that of making to one’s self a great
name; life ends before one has searcely made
the first rough dranght of his work.—Brayére.

To get-a name can happen but to few. A
name, even in the most commercial’ nation, is
onc of the few things which cannot be bought.
It is the free gift of mankind, which must be
deserved before it will be granted, and is at
last unwillingly bestowed.—Johuson.

The only pleasure of fame is that it proves
the way to pleasnre; and the more intellectnal
our pleasure, the better for the pleasure and for
us too.— Byron.

Time has 2 doomsday book, upon whose
pages he is continually recording illustrious
names. But as often as a new name is written
there, an old one disappears. Only afew stand
in illuminated characters never to be effaced.—

Longfellow.

I have Jearned to prize the qniet lightning
deed, not the applauding thunder at its heels,
which men call fame,—Alexander Smith.

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.

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FANATICISM.

Your fame is as the grass, whose hue comes
and goes, and His might withers it by whose
power it sprang from the lap of the earth_—

Dante.

Men’s evil manners live in brass; their vir-
tues we write in water.—Shakespeare.

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and
blossom in the dust—Jumes Shirley.

FAMILIARITY.

When a ian becomes familiar with his god-
dess, she quickly sinks intoa woman.—_ —~
Addison.

The confidant of my vices is my master,
though he were my valet.—Goethe.

All objects lose by too familiar a view.—
Dryden,

The ways suited to confidence are familiar
to me, but not those that are suited to familiar-
ity.—Joubert.

Make not thy friends too cheap to thee, nor
thyself to thy friend. —/uller.

Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.—
Shakespeare.

Familiarities are the aphides that impercep-
tibly suck out the juices intended for the germ
of love.—Landor.

Thongh familiarity may not breed contempt,
it takes off the edge of adiniration.— Hazlitt,

Familiarity .is 2 suspension of almost‘all the
laws of civility, which libertinism has intro-
duced into society under the notion of case.

Rochefoucauld.

Be not too familiar with thy servants; at
first it may beget love, but in the end it will
breed contempt.— fuller.

FANATICISM.

Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of
superstition, the father of intolerance and of
persecution.—Rev. J. Fletcher.”

If you see one cold and vehement at the
same time, set him down for'a fanatic.—Lavater.

The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart
of things than the cool and slippery disputant.
Chapin.

Fanaticism is such an overwhelming impres-
sion of the ideas relating to the fature worlil as
disqualifies for the duties of life.—Robert Hall.

Fanaticism is a fire, which heats the mind
indeed, but heats without purifying. It stimu-
lates and ferments all the passions; but it recti-
ties none of them.— Warburton. ~


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FASHION.

Everybody knows that fanaticism is religion
caricatured ; bears, indeed, about the same re-
lation to it that a monkey bears to aman; yet,
with many, contempt of fanuticism is received
as sure sign of hostility to religion. — Whipple.

That can never be reasoned down which was
not reasoned up:—/isher sl mes.

What is fanaticism to-day is the fashionable
erced to-morrow, and trite as the multiplication-
table a week after.— Wendell Phillips.

The blind fanaticism of one foolish honest
man may cause more evil than the wnited efforts
of twenty rogues.—Baron de Grimm.

FANCY,

Fancy is imagination in her youth and
adoleseence. Fancy is always execursive; im-
agination, not seldom, is sedate.—Landor.

Faney, when once brought into religion,
knows not where to stop. It is like one of those
fiends in old. stories whieh any one could raise,
but which, when raised, could never be kept
within the magic circle. — Whately.

So full of shapes is fancy, that it alone is
high-fantastical.— Shakespeare.

Most marvellous and enviable is that feeun-
dity of fancy which can adorn whatever it
touches, which ean invest naked fact and dry
reasoning with untooked-for beanty, make flow-
erets bloom ‘even on the brow'of the precipice,
and, when nothing better can be had, can turn
the very substance of rock itself into moss and
lichens. This faculty is incomparably the most
important for the vivid and attractive exhibition
of truth to the minds of men.—Fuller.

Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe,
the past and-the future, while reality is confined
to the present.— Richter.

It is the fancy, not the reason of things, that
makcs us so uneasy: It is not the place, noy the
condition,.but the mind alone, that can make
anybody happy or miserable.— L’ Hstrange.

Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, more
longing, wavering, sconcr lost and won, than
women’s are.— Shakespeare.

That queen of error, whom we call fancy
and opinion, is the more deceitful becanse she
dues not always deceive. -She. would bé the
infallible rule of truth if she were the infallible
rule of falschood; but being only most. fre-
quently in error, she gives no evidence of her real
quality, for she marks with the same character
both that which is trne and thag which is false.

. Pascal.

-» Faney restrainet may’ be compared to a
fountain, which plays highest by ‘diminishing
the aperture.~ Goldsmith: .

Tonching everything lightly with the chann
of poetry. ~ Lucretius.

Nothing is so atrocious .as fancy without
taste.— Goethe. .

All impediments in fancy’s course arc mo-
tives of mere fancy.— Shakespeare.

The mere reality of life would he incon-
ceivably poor withont the char of fancy, which
brings in its bosom, no doubt, ay many vain
fears as idle hopes, but lends much oftener to
the illusions it calls up a gay flattering hne than
one Which inspires terror.—

Withelin von Zumboldt.

Fancy runs most furiously when-a guilty
conscience drives it— Fuller.

Fancy has an extensive influence in morals.
Some of the most powerfut‘and dangerous feel-
ings in natnre, as those of ambition and envy,
derive their principal nonrishinent from a cause
apparently so trivial. Its effect on the common
attuirs of life is greater than might be supposed.
Nakeil reality would searcely keep the world in
motion. — IV. B. Clulow.

Every fancy you consult, consult your puyse.
. Frankia.

Every fancy that we would substitute for a
reality is, if we saw aright, and saw the whole,
not only false, but every way Jess beantiful and
exccllent than that which we sacrifice to it—

Sterling.

Fancy borrows much from memory,:and so
looks back to the past.— Ruffini.

When my way is too rough for my feet, or
too steep for my strength, I get off it to some
smooth velvet path which fancy has scattered
over ‘with rosebuds of delights; and, having
taken ‘a few turns‘in it, come back strengthened
and refreshed.—Sterne.

A fretful faney is constantly flinging its pos-
sessor into gratuitous tophets.— IW. R. Alger.

FAREWELL.

For in that word, that fatal word, however
we promise, hope, believe, there breathes” de-
spair.— Byron. .

Where thon art gone, adiens and farewells
are a sound unknown. Cowper.

The bitter word, which closed all earthly
friendships, and finished every feast of love, —
farewell. — Pollok.

FASHION.

Seest thou not, I say, what a deformed thicf
this fashion is, how piddily he tirns about all
the hot bloods between “fourteen: and fiye-and-
thirty ¢ —Shakespeare. .


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FASHION.

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 it.—Pascal.

The fashion doth wear out more apparel
than the man.—Shakespeare.

Fashion is gentility running away from vul-
garity, and afraid of being overtaken by it. It
is a sign the two things are not far asunder.—

Hazlitt.

The secret of fashion is to surprise and nev-
er to disappoint.—Bulwer Lytton.

Thus grows up fashion, an equivocal sem-
blance, the most puissant, the most fantastic
and frivolous, the most feared and followed, and
which morals and violence assault in vain.—

Emerson.

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in
living forms and social intereourse.—Holimes.

Without depth of thonght or earnestness of
feeling or strength of purpose, living an unreal
life, sacrificing substance to show, substituting
the fictitious for the natural, mistaking a crowd
for sovicty, finding its chief pleasure in ridicule,
and exhausting its ingenuity in expedients for
killing time, fashion is among the last influ-
enees under whieh-a human being who respeets
himself, or who comprehends the great end of
life, would desire to be placed —Channing.

Fashion seldom mterferes with nature with-
out diminishing her grace and efficiency.—
Tuckerman.

The mere leader of fashion has no genuine
claim,to supremacy ; at least, no abiding assur-
ance of it. He has embroidered his title upon
his waisteoat, and carries his worth in his watch-
chain ; and if he is allowed any real precedence
for this it is almost a moral swindle, ~ a way of
obtaining goods under false pretences,— Chapin.

A fop of fashion is the mereer’s friend, the
tailor’s fool, and his own foe.—Lavater.

Manners have been somewhat cynieally de-
fined to be a contrivance of wise men to keep
fools at a distance. Fashion is shrewd to detect
those who do not belong to her train, and sel-
dom wastes her attentions. Society is very
swift in its instinets, and if you do not belong
to it, resists and sneers at you, or quietly drops
you.— Emerson.

Change of fashions is the tax Which industry
imposes on the vanity of the rieh.— Cham/ort.

Fashion is a great restraint upon your per-
sons of taste and fancy ; who wonld otherwise
in the most trifling instances be able to distin-
guish themselves from the vulgar.— Shenstone. ~

Fashion is the veriest goddess of semblance
and of shade; to be happy is of far less eonse-
quence to her worshippers than to appear so;
even pleasure itself they sacrifice to parade, and
enjoyment to ostentation.— Colton.

Fashion is, for the most part, nothing but
the ostentation of riches.—Locke.

Fashion being the art of those who must
purchase notice at some cheaper rate than that of
being beautiful, loves to do rash and extrava-
gant things. She must be forever new, or she
becomes insipid.— Lovell.

Women cherish fashion because it rejuve-
nates them, or at least renews them.—
Bladame de Preizeux.

Those who seem to lead the public taste are,
in general, merely outrunning it in the direction
whieh it is spontaneously pursuing.—J/acaulay.

We onght always to conform to the manners
of the greater number, and so behave as not to
draw attention to ourselves. Excess either way
shocks,-and every man truly wise ought to at-
tend to this in his dress as well as language,
never to he affected in anything, and follow
without being in too great haste the changes of
fashion.—oliére.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions,
but follows religiously the new.— Thoreau.

I have been told by persons of experience in
matters of taste, that the fashions follow a law
of gradation, and are never arbitrary. The
new mode is always only a step onward in the
same direetion as the last mode; and -a culti-
vated eye is prepared for and predicts the new
fashion. — Emerson.

We are tanght to clothe our minds, as we
do our bodies, after the fashion in vogue ; and it
is accounted fantastical, or something worse,
not to do so.—Locke.

Where doth the world thrust forth a vanity
(so it be new, there is no respect how vile) that
is not quickly buzzed into the ears ? —

Shakespeare.

It is the rule of rules, and the general law of
all laws, that every person should observe those
of the place where he is.—Jfontaagne.

He alone is a man who can resist the genius
of the age, the tone of fashion with vigorons
simplieity and modest courage.—Lavater.

Fashion is the science of appearances, and
it inspires one with the desire to seem rather
than to be.—Chapin.

There would not be so much harm in the
giddy following the fashions, if somehow the
wise could always set them.—Bovee.


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FAULTS.

Avoid singularity. There may often be less
vanity in following the new modes than in_ad-
hering to the old ones. It is true that the fool-
ish invent them, but the wise may conform to,
instead of contradieting them.—Joubert.

FATE.
What fates impose, that men must needs
abide ; it boots not to resist. both wind and tide.
Shakespeare.

God overrules all mutinous‘aceidents, brings
them under his laws of fate, and makes them all
serviceable to his purpose.—A/areus Antoninus.

Heaven from all creatures hides the book of
fate.—Pope. 7

The world throws its life into a hero or a
shepherd, and puts him where he is wanted.
Dante and Colimubus were Italians in their;
time ; they would be Russians or Americans to-
day.—L£merson.

Fate whirls on the hark, and the rongh
gale sweeps from the rising tide the lazy calm
of thought.—Bulwer Lytton.

All things are in fate, yet all things are not
decreed by fate —Plato.

“ Whosoever quarrels with his fate, does not
understand it,” says Bettine; and among all:
her inspired sayings, she spoke none wiser.—

" Mrs. L. M. Child.

There is a divinity that shapes our ends,
rough-hew them how we will.—Shakespeare.

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.

It is the best use of fate to teach a fatal
courage. Go fiee the fire at sea, or the cholera
in your friend’s house, or the burglar in your
own, or what danger lies in the way of duty,
knowing you are guarded by the cherubim of
destiny. If you bélieve in fate to your harm,
believe it, at least, for sour good —Emerson.

Fate hath no voice but the heart’s impulses.
chiller.

All things are hy fate, but poor blind man
sees hut a part of the chain, the nearest link,
his eyes not carrying to that equal beam that
poises all above. —Dryden.

The crown of manhood is a winter joy ; an
evergreen, that stands the northern blast, and
blossoms in the rigor of our fate— Young. ~

Whatever may happen to thee, it was pre-
pared for thee from all eternity ; and_ the impli-
eation of causes was from eternity spinning the
thread of thy, being and of that which is inci-
ilent-to it.—Mareus Antoninus.

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But, O vain boast! who can control his
fate 4 —Shakespeare.

Astrict belief in fate is the worst of slavery ;
imposing upon our necks an everlasting lord or
tyrant, whom we are to stand in awe of night
and day ; on the other hand, there is some com-
fort that God will be moved by our prayers ;
but this imports an inexorable necessity.—

Lpicuras.

Fate-with impartial hand turns ont the doom
of high and low ; her capacions urn is constantly
shaking the names of all mankind.—/forace.

Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of
the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of
the bad.—1V. RB. Alger.

FAULTS.
We are often more agrecahle through our

“faults than through our good qualities. —
Rochefoucauld.

a
If the best man’s faults were written on his

forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.
Tay.

He who exhibits no faults is a fool or a
hypocrite, whom we should mistrust. There
are faults so intimately connected with fine
qualitics that they indicate them, and we do
well not to correct them.—./oubert.

It is his natnre’s plague to spy into abuses;
and oft his jealousy shapes faults that are not.
Shakespeare.

There are some fanlts which, when well
managed, make a greater figure than virtue it-
self.—Rochefoucauld,

It is not so much the being exempt from
faults as the having overcome them that is an
advantage to us; it being with the follies of the
mind as with weeds of a field, which, if destroyed
and consumed upon the place where they grow,
enrich and improve it more than if none had
ever sprung there.— Swift. .

Only those faults which we encounter in
ourselves are insufferable to us in others.—
Madame Swetchine.

Why do we discover faults so much more
readily than perfections ? —Jfudame de Sévigné.

Had we not faults of onr own we should
take less pleasure in observing those of others.
Rochefoucauld.

If we were faultless, we should not be so
mnch annoyed hy the defects of those with
whom we associate. If we were to acknowledge
honestly that we have not virtne enongh to bear
patiently with our neighhbor’s weaknesses, we
should ‘show, our own’ imperfection, and this
alarms our vanity.—Fenelon.


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FEAR.

dust as you are pleased at finding faults,
you are displeased at finding perfections.—
Lavater.

Best men oft are moulded out of faults.—
Shakespeare.

He shall be immortal who liveth till he be
stoned by one without fault.—Fuller. ~

FEAR.

Why, what should be the fear? I do not set
my life'at a pin’s fee; and for my soul, what
can it do to that, being a thing immortal ?—

Shakespeare.

All the passions seck that which nourishes
them; fear loves the idea of danger.—Joubert.

Man begins life helpless. The babe is in
aroxysms of fear the moment its nurse leaves
it alone, and it eomes so slowly to any power
of self-protection that mothers say the salva-
tion of the life and health of a‘young child is a
perpetual miracle.—merson.

A certain degree of fear produces the same
effects as rashness.—Cardinal de Retz.

Fear hath the common fault of a justice of
peace, and is apt to conclude hastily from
every slight circumstance, without examining
the evidence on both sides.— fielding.

T rather tell thee what is to be feared than
what I fear; for always I am Czsar—
Shakespeare.

Noiseless as fear in a wide wilderness.—
Keats.

Such as are in immediate fear of losing
their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live
in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and
repose; whereas such as are aetually poor
slaves and exiles oftentimes live‘as merrily as
men in a better condition; and so many peo-

le who, impatient of the perpetual alarms of
ear, have hanged and drowned themselves
give us sufficiently to understand that it is
more importunate and insupportable than death
itself. —Aontaigne.
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Fear has many eyes.— Cervantes.

Fear nothing but what thy industry may
prevent; be contident of nothing but-what for-
tune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear
what is impossible to be avoided than to be
secure when there is a possibility to be deprived.

Quarles.

Of all base passions, fear is most accursed. —
Shakespeare.

We must be afraid of neither poverty nor
exile nor imprisonment; of fear itself only
should we be afraid.— Epictetus.

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FEAR.

I feel my sinews slackened with the fright,
and a cold sweat trills down all over my limbs,
as if I were dissolving into water.—Dryden.

From the moment fear begins I have ceased
to fear.—Schiller.

In morals what begins in fear usually ends
in wickedness ; in. religion what begins in fear
usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, cither as a
principle or a motive, is the beginning of all
evil.—Afrs. Jameson.

In time we hate that which we often fear—
Shakespeare.

Fear guides more fo their duty than grati-
tude; for one man who is virtuous from the
love of virtue, from the obligation which he
thinks he lies under to the Giver of all, there
are ten thousand who are good only from their
apprehension of punishment.— Goldsmith.

Present fears are less than horrible imagin-
ings.—Shakespeare.

Fear is implanted in us as a preservative
from evil; bnt its duty, like that of other pas-
sions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist
it; nor should it be suffered to tyrannize in
the imagination, to raise phantoms of horror,
or to beset life with supernumerary distresses.—

Johnson.

Nothing ronts us but the villany of our
fears.— Shakespeare.

The thing in the world I am most afraid of
is fear; and with good reason, that, passion
alone, in the trouble of it, exeeeding all other
accidents.— Montaigne.

Fear always springs from ignorance.—
Emerson.

In every mind.where there is a strong ten-
dency to fear there is a strong capacity to hate.
Those. who dwell in fear dwell next door to
hate; and I think it is the cowardice of women
which makes them such intense haters.—

Mrs. Jameson.

We often pretend to fear what we really
despise, and more often to despise what we
really fear.—Colton.

God planted fear in the soul as trily as he
planted hope or courage. Fear is a kind of
bell, or gong, which rings the mind into quick
life and avoidance upon the approach of danger.
It is the soul’s signal for rallying —Beecher.

Nothing is to be feared but fear.—Bacon.

Nothing is se rash as fear; and.the counsels
of pusillanimity very rarely put off, whilst they
are always sure to aggravate, the evils from
which they would fly.—Burke.


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FICKLENESS.

Good men have the fewest fears. He has
but one grent fear who fears to do wrong; he
has’ a thousand who has overeote it.— Bovee.

_

Fear is far more painful to cowardice than

death to true conrage.—Sir P. Sidney.

"Pear -never was a friend to the love of God
or man, to duty or conscience, truth, probity, or
honor. It therefore can never make a good
subject, a good citizen, or a good soldier, and,
least of all, a good-Christian ; except the devils,
who believe and tremble; are to be accounted
good Christians.—Z/enry Brooke.

There is great beauty in going through life
fearlessly. Half our fears are baseless, the
other half disereditable.—Bonce.

Fear is the mother of foresight.—
Henry Taylor.

In how large a proportion of creatures is ex-
istenee composed of one ruling passion, the
most agonizing of all sensations, — fear.—

Bulwer Lytton.

There is nothing so ingenious as fear; it is
even more ingenious than hatred, especially
when its concern is with the preservation of
money.— Bayle St. John.

Early_and provident fear is the mother of
safety.— Burke.

Fear sometimes adds wings to the heels, and
sometimes nails them to the ground, and fetters
them from moving.— Vontaigne.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love
easteth out fear, because fear hath torment.—
Bible.

Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices,
maketh a man think the better of another, the
worse of himself Sir P. Sidney.

Fear is the white-lipped -sire of subterfuge
and treachery.—J/rs. Sigourney.

Shun fear, it.is the ague of the sont! ‘apas-
sion man created for himself, —for sure that
eramp of nature could not dwell in the warm
realnis of glory.—Aaron IHill.

FEELINGS. oo.

Feelings arc like chemicals, — the more you
analyze them the worse they smell. So it is
best not to stir them up very much, only enough
to convince one’s self that. they are offensively
wrong, and then look away as far as possible,
ont of one’s self, for a purifying power; and
that we know can only come from Him who
holds onr hearts in his hands, and can turn us
whither he will.—Charles Aingsley.

The feelings, like flowers and butterflies,
last Jonger the later they are delayed.—Wichter.

A word,:a look, which at one time wonld
make no impression, ut another time wonnds
the henrt; und like a shift flying with the
wind, pierces deep, which, with its own natural
foree, wonld scarce have reached the object
nimed at.—Sterne.

When the heart is still agitated by the re-
mains of 1 prssion, we.are more ready to reecive
a new one than when we are entirely cured.—

Rochefoucauld.

Every human feeling is greater and larger
than the exciting cause.— Coleridye.

Some. feelings are quite untranslatable; no
language has yet been fonnd for them. They
gleam upon us beantifully throngh the dim
twilight of fancy, und yet when we bring them
close to us, and hold them up to the light of
reason, lose their beanty all ‘at, once, as glow-
worms which gleam with such a spiritual light
in the shadows of evening, when brought in
where the candles ‘are lighted, are found to be
only worms like so many others.—Longfellow.

Feelings come and go like light troops fot.
lowing the victory of the present; but princi-
ples, like troops of the line, are undisturbed,
and stand fast.—Hiehter.

Life is a comedy to him who thinks, and a
tragedy to him who feels—ZZorace Walpole.

Fine feclings, withont vigor of reason, are in
the situation of the extreme feathers of a pea-
cock’s tail, — dragging in the mud.—

John Foster.

Onr feelings were given us to excite to ac-
tion, and when they end in themselves, they are
impressed to_no one good purpose that I know
of.—Biskop Sandford.

The heart that is soonest awake to the
flowers is always the,first to be touched by the
thorns.—Afoore.

FICKLENESS.

There are three things a wise man will not
trust, — the wind, the sunshine of an Apvil day,

‘and woman’s plighted faith.—Southey.

He wears his faith but as the fashion of his
hat; it ever changes with the next block.—
Shakespeare.

We are all of us, in this world, more or less
like St. January, whom the inhabitants of
Naples worship one day, and pelt with baked
apples the next.—Aludame Swetchine.

It is plain there is not in nature a point of
stability to be found; everything cither:ascends
or declines; when wars are eniled abroad, se-
dition begins at home; .and when men are
freed from fyshting for necessity, they quarrel
through ambition.—Sir Walter Raleigh.


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FICTION.

Fickleness has its rise in the experience of
the fallucionsness of present pleasures, and in
the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures.

Pascal.

The uncertain glory of an April day.—
Shakespeare.

O perilons mouths, that bear in them one
and the self-same tongue, either of commenda-
tion or approof! bidding the law make courtesy
to their will; hooking both right and wrong to
the appetite, to follow as it draws ! —

Shakespeare.

Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel.—
Bible.

Trresolution loosens all the joints of a state;
like an ague, it shakes not this or that limb,
but all the hody is at once in a fit. The irreso-
Jute man is lifted from one place to another, and
hath no place left to rest on. He flecks from
oue eg to another; so hatcheth nothing, but
addles all his actions.—Feltham.

FICTION.
Man is a poetical animal, and delights in
fiction. —Hazlitt.

Addison acknowledged that he would rather
inform than divert his reader ; but he recollected
that a man must be familiar with wisdom before
he willingly enters on Seneca and Epictetus.
Fiction alltres him to the severe task by a gayer
preface. Embellished truths are the illuminated
alphabet of larger children. —}Villmott.

FIDELITY.
Fidelity is the sister of justice —Horace.

I am constant as the Northern Star, of
whose true-fixed and resting quality there is no
fellow in the firmament.—Shukespeare.

There is a third silent party to all our bar-
gains. The nature and soul of things takes on
itself the guaranty of the fulfihnent of every
contract, so that honest service cannot come to
loss. If you serve an ungrateful master, serve
him the more. Put God m your debt. Every
stroke shall be repaid. The longer the pay-
ment is withholden, the better for you ; for com-
pound interest on compound interest is the rate
and usage of this exchequer.—-Emerson.

It is more difficult for a man to be faithful
to his mistress when he is favored than when he
ig ill treated by her. —Rochefoucauld.

Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them
the more.—Dryden.

Tt goes a great way towards making a man
faithful, to let him understand that you think
him so, and he that does but so much as suspect
that I will deceive him gives me a sort of right
to cozen him.~-Seneca.

176

FLATTERY.

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venera-
ple than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the
most sacred exee)lences and endowments of the
human mind.—Cicero.

FIRMNESS.

Firmness, both in sufferance and exertion,
is a character which I would wish to posséss.
I have always despised the whining yelp of
complaint, and the cowardly feeble resolve.—

Burns.

When firmness is sufficient, rashness is un-
necessary.— Napoleon.

It is only persons of firmness that can have
real gentleness ; those who appear gentle are in
general only of a weak character, which casily
changes into asperity.—Rochefoucauld.

Firmness of purpose is one of the most
necessary sinews of character, and onc of the
best instruments of success. Without it, genius
wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.—

Chester field.

Rely on principles ; walk erect and free, not
trusting to bulk of body, like a wrestler; for
one should not be unconquerable in the sense
that an ass is. Who thea is unconquerable ?
He whom the inevitable cannot overcome.—

Epictetus.»

I know no real worth but that tranquil firm-
ness which seeks dangers by duty, and braves
them without rashness.—Stanislaus.

FLATTERY.
Men find it more easy to flatter than to
praise.—Richter.

Know thyself, thy evil as thy good, and
flattery shall not harm thee; yea, her speech
shall be a warning, a humbling, and a guide.
For wherein thou lackest most, there chiefly

‘will the syeophant commend thee.—T upper.

O that men’s ears should be to counsel deaf,
but not to flattery ! —Shakespeare.

Of all wild beasts, preserve me from a ty-
rant; and of all tame —a flatterer.—
Ben Jonson.

Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors, for
they will strengthen thy imperfeetions, encour-
age thee in al] evils, correct thee in nothing,
but so shadow and paint thy follies and vices
as thou shalt never, by their will, discover good
from evil, or vice from virtue.—

Sir Walter Raleigh.

A man finds no sweeter voice in all the
world than that which chants his praise.—
Fontenelle.

If any man flatters me, I'll flatter him again,
though he were my best friend.—Franklin.


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FLATTERY.

It is scarcely credible to what degree diseern-
ment mnay be dazzled by the mist of pride, and
wisdom infatuated by the intoxicasion of flat
tery; or how low the genius_may descend by
successive gradations of servility, and how swift-
ly it may fall down the precipice of falschood.—

Johnson,

If we would not flatter ourselves, the flattery
of others could not harm us.—Rochefoucauld.

Flattery, though, a base coin,.is the-neees-
sary pocket.money at court ;7 where, by cnstom
and consent, it has obtained such 9 currency
that it is no longer @ fraudulent, but a legal
payment.— Chesterfield.

Fiattery is the bellows blows up sin; the
thing the which is flattered, but a spark, to
which the blast gives heat and stronger glowing.

Shakespeare.

One wonld scarce ever be pleased if he did
not flatter himselfi— Rochefoucauld.

Fiattery corrupts both the receiver -and the
giver; and:adulation is not‘of more service to
the people than to kings.—Burke.

There is nothing which so poisons princes
as flattery, nor anything whereby wicked men
more easily obtain credit and favor with them. |

Montaigne.

Let the passion of flattery be ever so inor-
dinate, the snpply can keep pace with the de-
mand, and in the world’s great market, in which
wit and folly drive their bargains with each

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FLATTERY.

———

Nothing is so great an instance of ill-man-
ners as flattery. Hf you flatter all the company,
yon.please none ; if you flatter only one or two,
you-allront the rest.—Swif?.

Applause is of too coarse a nainre to be
swallowed in the gross, though the extract or
tincture be ever so agrecabile.— Shenstone.

Fiattery is like ‘a painted ‘armor, designed
for show. and not for use.—Socrates.

Flatterers of every age resemble those Afri-
can tribes of which the credulous Pliny speaks,
who made men, animals, and even plants perish,
while fascinating them with praises.—Aichter.

We sometimes think we hate flattery, when
we only hate the manner in which we have been
flattered. —Rochefoucauld.

Imitation is the sincerest of flattery. —Colton.

It is better to fall among crows than flat-
terers ; for those devour the dead only, these the
living.—Antisthenes. "

The flattercr easily insinuates ‘himsclf into
the closet, while honest merit_stands shivering
in the hall or antechamber.—Jane Porter. .

We must define flattery and praise; they
are distinct. Trajan was enconraged to virtne
by the panegyric of Pliny; Tiberius became ob-
stinate in vice from the flattery of the’scnators.

Louis the Sixteenth.

There is not one of us that would not be

other, there are traders of all sorts.— Cumberland. « worse than kings, if so continually carrupted ‘as

No man flatters the woman he truly loves.—
Tuckerman.

Hold!
virtue! Who flatters is of -all mankind the
lowest, save he who courts the flattery.—

Hannah More.

A flatterer is the shadow of a fool.—

flattercrs.

they are with a sort of vermin called
. sontaigne.

Some indecd there are, who profess to de-

No adulation; it is the death of spise all flattery, but even these are, neverthe-

less, to be flattered, by being told that they

+ do despise it.—Colton.

No flattery, boy! an honest man cannot live
by it; it is a little, sneaking art, which knaves

Str Thomas Overbury. | use-to cajole and soften fools withal.— Otway.

To be flattered is grateful, even when we
know that our praises are not believed by those
whopronotnce them ;"for they prove at least
our power, and show that our favor is -valned,
since it is purchased by the meanness of false-
hood.—/ohnson.

Flattery is no more than what raises in a
man’s mind ah idea of a preference which he
has not.—Durke.

Delicions essence! how refreshing art thon
to nature! how'strongly are all its powers and
all its weaknesses on thy side! how sweetly
dost thon mix with the’ blood, and help it
through the most difficult‘and tortuous passages
to the heart !—Sterne.

No visor does become black villany so well

‘as soft-and tender flattery.— Shakespeare.

Allow no man to be so free with yon as to
praise yon to your face. Your vanity by this
means will want its food. Av-the same time
your passion for esteem will he more-fully grati-
fied; men will praise yon" in their-actions ;
where you now receive one compliment, you
will then receive twenty civilities.—Steele,

Flattery is like base coin; it impoverishes
him who receives it.—Afadame Voillez.

The rich man despises those who flatter him

‘too much; and ‘hates those who do not flatter

him at all.—Talleyrand.


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FLATTERY.

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 giving the lie to his honor—Feltham.

When-I tell him he hates flatte , he says he
does, being then most flattered —Shakespeare.

There.is no flattery so adroit or effectual as
that of implicit assent.— Hazlitt.

Give me flattery, — flattery the food of
courts, that I may rock him, and Inll him in
the down of his desires. —Beaumont.

Not kings alone,—the people, too, have

I must be tolerably sure, before I congratu-~ their flatterers —ALivabedu.

late men upon a blessing, that they have really
received one.—Burke.

Tf yon had told Sycorax that her son Cali-
ban was as handsome as Apollo, she would
have been pleased, witch as she was.—

Thackeray.

Among all the diseases of the mind, there is
not one more epidemical or more pernicious
than the love of flattery.— Steele.

The lie that flatters I abhor the most.—
; Cowper.

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 diffi-
culty be seen through; it is rarely strong enough
to catch flies of any considerable magnitnde.—

Fuller.

Flatterers are the bosom enemies of princes.
South.

A flatterer is said to be-a beast that biteth !
smiling. But it is hard to know them from —
friends, they are so obsequions and full of prd-
testations; for as a wolf resembles a dog, so
doth-a flatterer a friend —Sir Welter Raleigh.

Flattery, which was formerly.a viee, is now
grown into a eustom.—Publins Syrus.

Beware of «flattery; it is «@ flowery weed
which oft offends the yery idol vice whose shrine
it would perfume.—Fenton.

The ‘most dangerous of all flattery is the
inferiority of those about us.—
Madame Swetchine.

Adroit observers will find that some who
affect to dislike flattery may yet be flattered
indircetly by a well-seasoned abuse and ridicule
of their rivals.—Colton.

The love of flattery in most men proceeds
from the mean opinion they have of themselves ;
in women, from the contrary. — Swift.

There is no tongue that flatters like a lov-
er’s; and yet in the exaggeration of his feelings
flattery seems to him commonplace. Strange
and prodigal exuberance, whieh soon. exhausts
itself by overflowing —Bulwer Lytton.

Men are like stone jugs,— you may Ing them
where you like by the ears—Johnson.

Flattery is often a traffic of mutual mean-
ness where,-althongh both parties intend decep-
tion, neither are-deceived ; since words that cost
little "are exchanged for hopes that cost less.
But we must be careful how we flatter fools too
little, or wise men too much; for the flatterer
must act the very reverse of the physician, and
administer the strongest dose only to the weak-
est patient.—Colton.

Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies—
Tacitus.

It requires but little acquaintance with the
heart to know that woman’s first wish is to be
handsome; and that, consequently, the readicst
method of ohtaining. her kindness is to praise
her beauty.—Johnson.

The most ‘skilful flattery is to let a person

talk on, and be a-listener.— Addison.

Meddle not with him that flattereth with his
lips.—Bible.

Flatiery is an ensnaring quality, and leaves

a very dangerous impression. It swells a man’s

imagination, entertains his-vanity, and drives
him to a-doting upon-his own persou.—

Jeremy Collier.

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters
the fool —Bulwer Lytton. :

The most subtle flattery that a woman can
receive is .that conveyed by actions, not by
words.—Madame Necker.

Parent of wicked, bane of honest deeds. —
Prior.

Christian! thon knowest thou carriest gun-
powder’ about thee. Desire them that carry
fire to keep at a distance. It is a dangerous
crisis, when a proud heart meets with flattering
lips.—Flavel.

‘When flatterers meet the Devil goes to din-
ner.—De Foe.

People generally despise where they flatter,
and eringe to those they wonld gladly overtop ;
so that truth and ceremony are two things.—

“Barcus Antoninus.

It hath been well said that the arch-flatterer,
with whom all the petty flatterers have intelli-
gence, is a man’s self—Bacon.


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FLOWERS.

179

FLOWERS.

Flattery is never so agreeable as to our
blind side. Commend .a fool for his wit, or a
knave for his honesty, and they will receive you
into their bosoins.—/telding.

FLOWERS.
Sweet flowers are slow, and weeds make
haste:—Shakespeure. -

How the universal heart of man_ blesses
flowers! They are wreathed round the cradle,
the inarriage altar, and ‘the tomb. ~The Persian
in the far East delights in their perfume, and
writes his love in nosegays; while the Indian
child of the far West claps his hands with glee
as he gathers the abundant blossoms, — the
illuminated scriptures of the prairies. The eu-
pid of the ancient Hindoos tipped his arrows
with flowers, ‘and orange flowers are a bridal
crown with. us, 2 nation of yesterday.—

Mrs. L. Af. Child.

The budding rose above the rose full blown.
Wordsworth.

The instinctive and universal-taste of man-
kind selects flowers for the expression of its
finest sympathies, their beauty and their ficet-
ingness serving.to make them the most fitting
symbols of.those. delicate sentiments .for whieh
language itself seems almost too gross a medium.

Hillard.

Flowers are love’s truest languare.—
. Park Benjamin.

There is not the least flower bnt seems to
hold up its head, and to look pleasantly, in the
sceret sense: of the goodness of its Heavenly
Maker.— South.

Floral apostles ! that in dewy splendor weep
without woe,-and blush without a erime.—
Horace Smith.

There is to the poctical sense a ravishing
prophecy -and winsome intimation in flowers
that now.and then, from the influence of. mood
or circumstance, reasserts itself like the reminis-
eence of childhood, or the spell of love.—

Tuckerman.

A snow of blossoms,and A wild of flowers.—
Tickell.

Flowers are the sweetest things. that God
ever made-and forgot to put asoulinto—— —
Beecher.

The little flower which sprung up-throngh
the hard pavement.of poor Picciola’s prison was
beantiful from contrast with the dreary sterilit
which surrounded it. So here, amid rough
walls, are there fresh tokens of nature. And
O the beantiful lessons which flowers teach -to
children, expecially in the city! The child’s
mind ean grasp with case the delicate sugges-
tions of flowers.— Chapin.

To analyze the charms of flowers is liko
dissecting music ; it is one of those things which
it is far better to enjoy than to attempt to un-
derstand.— Zuckerman.

The plants look up to heaven, from whence
they have their nonrishment.—Shekespeare.

. _ Flowers so strictly belong to youth that we
adult men soon come to feel that their heautital
generations concern not us; we have had our
day; now let the children have theirs.— Ms

- Emerson.

The moss-clad violet, fragrant and concealed
like hidden charity. —J. £. ZJollinys.

Flowers and fruits-are always fit presents, —
flowers, because they-are a proud assertion that

‘a. ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the

world. —merson.

There is to me a daintiness about early
flowers that touches me like poetry. They blow
out with such a simple loveliness among the
common herbs of pastures, and breathe their
lives so unobtrusively, like hearts whose beat-
ings are too gentle for the world.— W'ilis.

In Eastern lands they talk in flowers,-and
they tell in a garland their loves and cares.—
Pereval.

“Tf flowers have souls,” said Undine, “ the
bees, whose nurses-they are, must seem to them
darling children at the breast. I onee fancied
a paradise for the spirits of departed flowers.”
“They go,” answered I, “not into paradise,
but into a middle state; the souls of lilies euter
into maidens’ foreheads, those of hyacinths and
forget-me-nots dwell in their eyes, aml those of
roses in their lips.”—Riéehter.

. '

Sweet flower, thou tellest how hearts as pure
and tender as thy leaf, as low and humble a8
thy stem, will surely know the joy that peace
imparts.—Pereival.

Lovely flowers are the smiles of God’s good-
ness.— Wilberforce.

Flowers should deck the brow of the youth-
ful 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 their
beauty ascend in perpetual worship before the
Most High.—J/rs. L. M. Child.

_ To me the meanest -flower that blows. can
give thoughts that do often lic too deep for tears.
’ Wordsworth.

, ‘The herb feeds upon the juice of a good soil,
and drinks in.the dew-of heaven as cagerly, and
thrives by it as effectually, as the stalled ox that
tastes everything that he eats or drinks.— South.

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FOE.

Look how the blue-eyed violets glanee love
to one another! —7’. B. Mead.

If thou wouldest attain to thy highest, go
Jook upon a flower; what that does willessly,
that do thou willingly. — Schiller.

These stars of earth, these golden flowers.—~
Longfellow.

Doubtless botany has its valne; but the
flowers knew how to preach divinity before men
knew how to disseet and botanize them; they
are apt to stop preaching, though, so soon as we
begin to disseet and botanize them.—

H. N. Hudson.

Foster the beautiful, and every hour thou
tallest new flowers to birth.—Schiller.

For the Infinite has sowed his name in the
heavens in burning stars, but on the earth he
has sowed his name in tender flowers.—Richter.

Where flowers degenerate man cannot live.
Napoleon.

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
and waste its sweetness on the desert air.—
Gray.

He must have an artist’s eye for color and
form who can arrange a hundred flowers as
tastefully, in any other -way, as by strolling
through a garden, and picking here one and
there one, and adding them to the bonquet in
the accidental order in which they chance to
come. Thus we see every suminer day the fair
lady coming in from the breezy side hill with

gorgeous eolors and most witching effects. If

only she could be changed to alabaster, was
ever a finer show of flowers in so fine a vase?
But instead of allowing the flowers to remain as
they-were gathered, they are laid upon the table,
divided, rearranged on some principle of taste, I
know not what, but never again have that
charming naturalness and grace which they
first had.—Beecher.

It is with flowers as with moral qualities ;
the bright are sometimes poisonous ; but, I be-
lieve, never the sweet.— Hare.

Flowers are like the pleasures of the world.
Shakespeare.

Honey, by some sweet mystery of the dew,
is born of air, in bosoms cf the flowers, liquid, —
serene.— Grovanni Rucellai.

. The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the
air (where it comes and goes like the warbling
of music) than in the hand.— Bacon.

Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a
fragrance as before a storm. Beauteons soul!
when a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as
a sweet-smelling flower.—Aichter.

Your, voiceless lips, O flowers, are living
preachers, ~ each enp a pulpit, and each leaf a
book.—LZoruce Smith.

Not a flower but shows some toneh, in
freekle, streak, or stain, of His unrivalled pencil.
He inspires their balmy odors, and imparts their
hues.— Cowper. -

The flower of sweetest smel] is shy and
lowly.— Wordsworth.

‘Flowers are the bright remembrances of
youth; they waft us back, with their bland
odorous breath, the joyous honrs that only
young life knows, ere we have learnt that
this fair earth hides graves.—

Countess of Blessington.

Iregard them, as Charles the Emperor did
Florence, thathey are too pleasant to be looked
upon except on holidays—Zzaak Watton.

Often a nosegay of wild-flowers, which was
to ns, as village children, a grove of pleasnre,
has in after years of manhood, and in the town,
given us by its old perfume an_ indescribable
transport back into godlike childhood; and
how, like a-flower-goddess, it has raised us into
the first embracing Aurora-elonds of our first
dim feelings ! —Riehter.

Emblems of our own great resurreetion,
emblems of the bright and better land.—
Longfellow.

'

Every rose is an autograph from the hand
of the Almighty God on this world abont us.
He has inscribed his thonghts in these marvel-
lous hieroglyphies which sense and seience have
been these many thousand years seeking to
understand.— Theodore Parker.

Happy are they who can ereate a rose-tree
or erect a honeysuckle.— Gray.

Most gladly would I give the blood-stained
laurel for the first violet which March brings us,
the fragrant pledge of the new-fledged year.—

Schiller.

How like they are to human things! —
Longfellow.

A passion for flowers is, I really think, the
only one which long sickness leaves untouched
with its chilling influence.—Jirs. Hemans.

To eultivate a garden is to walk with God,
to go hand in hand with Natnre in some of her
most beautiful processes, to learn something of
her choicest seerets, and to have a more intelli-
gent interest awakened in the beautiful order of
her works elsewhere.— Bovee.

FOE.
He makes no friend who never made a foe.—
Tennyson.


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FOOLISHNESS. 181 FOOLS.
FOOLISHNESS.. Letting down buekets into-empty wells, and

There is-n foolish corner even in the brain | growing old with drawing nothing up.—

of the sage.—-Aristotle.

Take my word for this, reader, and say a
fool told it you, if you please, that he.wlfo hath
not a-dram of ‘folly in his mixture hath pounds
of much worse matter in his composition. —

Lamb.

This peeuliar ill property has. folly, that it
enlarges men's desires while it: lessens their
capacities. — South.

Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.— Byron.

There are follies as catching as contagious
‘ >
disorders.— Rorhefoucauld.

Foily consists in the drawing of false con-
clusions from just principles, by which it is dis-
tingtished from maduess, which draws just con-
elusions from false principles.—Locke.

In folly’s cup stilt laughs the bubble jov.—
Pope.

.The wise man. has_his follies no less than
the fool; but it has been said that herein lies
the difference, — the follies of the fool are known
to the world, but are hidden from himself; the
follies of the wise are known to himself, but
hidden from the world.— Colton.

He who lives without ‘folly is not so wise as
he imagines.—Rechefoucauld.

I find nonsense singularly refreshing.—
. Lalleyrand.

Folly hath often the same results as wisdom ;
but wisdom wonld not engage in her school-
room so expensive an assistant as calamity.—

Landor.

He must be a thorough fool who ean learn
nothing from his own folly —JZare.

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 so.—Pope.

Fortune makes folly her peeuliar eare.—
Churchill.

When our follies afford equal dclicht to our-
“selves and those abont us, what is there to be
desired more? We cannot discover the “vast
advantage of “seeing ourselves as others see
us.” Jt is better to have a-contempt for any
one than for ourselves.— Hazlitt.

Tt is the folly of the world, constantly,
which confounds its wisdom. Not only out of
the mouths of babes and sucklings, but out of
the mouths of fools aud cheats, we may often
get our truest lessons. —/Lo/mes.

Coteper.

Men of all ages have the-same inclinations,
over which reasum excreises no control. ‘Ths
wherever men are found, there are follies, ay,
and the same follics.—/"ontenelle.

_He who has been once very foolish will
never be very wise —A/outaigne.

FOOLS.

People have no right to make fools of them-
selves, unless they have no relations to blush
for them.—J/aliburton.

A rogue is a roundabout fool.— Coleridge.

A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as
a knave, and always more incorrigible.— Colton.

For_not only is Fortune herself blind, but
she generallly causes those men to be blind
whose interests she has more particularly em-
braced. Therefore they are often hanghty and
arrogant; nor is there-anything more intoler-
able than’a prosperous fool. And henee we
often see that men who were at one time
affable and agreeable are completely changed
by prosperity, despising their old friends, “and
clinging to new.— Cicero.

A fool’s bolt is soon shot. —Shakespeare.

Were I to be angry at men heing fools, I
could here find ample room for declamation ;
but,’alas!_ I have been a fool myself; and why
shonld I be angry with them for being some-
thing so natural to every child of humanity ?7—

Goldsmith.

No creature smarts so little as  fool.—Pope.

There is in human nature gencrally more of
the fool than of the-wise;-and therefore those
faculties by which the foolish part of men’s
minds are taken are more potent.—Bugon.

The fool or knave that wears a title lies. —
Young.

This world is full of fools, and he who
would not wish to sce onc must not only shut
himself up alone, but must also break his look-
ing-glass.— Boileau.

The multitude of fools is a protection to the
wise.—St. Augustine.

To succeed in the world, i¢ is much more
necessary to possess the penetration to discover
who is-a_fool than to discover who is-a clever
man.—Cato.

Their heads sometimes so little, that there is
no room for wit; sometimes:so long, that there
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FOOLS.

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire
him.— Boileau.

A man of wit would often be much em-
barrassed without the company of fools.—
Rochefoucauld.

As I do live by food, I met a fool, who laid
him down, and basked him in the sun, who
railed on lady fortune in good terms, in good
set terms, — and yet a motley fool.—
Shakespeare.

A fool at forty is a fool indeed ! — Young.

Though thou shouldst bray a fool in a mor-
tar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his
foolishness depart from him.—Birble.

All men are fools, and with every effort they
differ only in the degree.— Boileau.

If men are to be fools, it were better that
they were fools in little matters than in great;
dulness, turned up with temerity, is a livery all
the worse for the facings; and the most tre-
mendous of all things is 2 magnanimous dunce.

Sydney Smith.

None but a fool is always right—Hare.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise
man knows himself to be a fool.—Shakespeare.

There are certain people fated to be fools;
they not only commit follies by choice, but are
even constrained to do so by fortune—

Rochefoucauld.

A fool must now and then be right, by
chance.— Cowper.

The greatest of fools is he who imposes on
himself, and in his greatest concern thinks cer-
tainly he knows that which he has least studied,
and of which he is most profoundly ignorant.—

Shaftesbury.

Of all thieves fools are the worst ; they rob
you of time and temper.— Goethe.

Fools are very often united in the strictest
intimacies, as the lighter kinds of woods are
the most closely glued together.—Shenstone.

To the fool-king belongs the world.—
Schiller.

Men are so completely fools by necessity
that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly
who does not confess his foolishuess.—Pascal.

Fools are not mad folks.— Shakespeare.

182

FORBEARANCE,

There are more fools than wise men ;-and
even in the wise men more folly than wisdom.—
Chamfort.

A fool can neither cat nor drink, nor stand
nor walk, nor, in short, laugh nor ery nor take
snuff, like a man of sense. How obvious the
distinction ! —Shenstone.

Fools with bookish knowledge are children
with edged weapons; they hurt themselves, and
put others in pain.—Zimmermann.

I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot
be sure that he is nota knave as well.— Hazlitt.

A. fool who has a flash of wit creates as-
tonishment and scandal, like haek-horses set-
ting out to gallop.—Cham/fort,

Always win fools first. They talk muck;
and what_they have once uttered they will
stick to; whereas there is always time, up .to
the last moment, to bring before a wise man
arguments that may entirely change his opinion.

Helps.

In sallies of badinage-a polite fool shines;
but in gravity he is as awkward as an clephant
disporting.—Zimmermann.

FOOTSTEPS.

The flower she-touched on dipped and rose.
Tennyson.

The grass stoops ‘not, she treads on it so
light.—Shakespeare.

Footprints on the sands of time.
Longfellow.

Her treading would not bend a blade of
grass, or shake the downy blow-ball from his
stalk ! —Ben Jonson.

FOPPERY.
Dandies, when first-rate, are generally very
agreeable men.—Bulwer Lytton.

Nature bas sometimes made .a:fool; but a
coxcomb is always of a man’s own making.—
Addison.

The all-importance of clothes has sprung
up in the intellect of the dandy, without effort,
like an instinct of genius; he is inspired with
cloth, a poet of cloth._— Carlyle.

FORBEARANCE.

It is a noble and great thing to cover the
blemishes and to excuse the failings of a friend ;
to draw a curtain hefore his stains, and to dis-
play his perfections ; to bury his weaknesses in
silence, but to proclaim his virtues upon the

The imputation of being a fool is a thing  house-top.—South.

which mankind, of all others, is the most im-
patient of, it being a blot upon the prime and
specific perfection of human nature.— South.

Whosoever shall smite thee ou thy right
cheek, turn to him the other also.—Bille.


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183

FORGIVENESS.

FORCE.
Who overcomes by force hath overcoine
but half his foe.—Afilton.

Force rules the world,.and not opinion; but
opinion is that which makes use of force.—
- Pascal.
FORETHUCUGHOT.
To have too much forethonght is the part of

a wretch; to have too little is the part of a fool.
Ceeil.

As.@ man withont forethonght scarcely de-
serves-the name of a man, so forethought with-
ont reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for
the instinct of a beast.—Coleridge.

To fear the worst oft cures the worst.—
Shakespeare.

Itis only the surprise and newness of the
thing which makes that misfortune terrible
which by premeditation might be made easy -to
us. For that which some people make light by
sufferance, others do by foresight.—Sencca.

FORGETFULNESS.

Men.are men; the best sometimes forget.—
Shakespeure.

The pyramids themselves, doting with ‘age,
have forgotten the names of their founders.—
Fidler.

The world forgetting, by the world forgot !

Pope *

Thongh the past haunt me as a spirit, yet
L ask not to forget !—.frs. Hemans.

Forget thyself to marble. —Ifilton.

_ Jtis far off; and rather like a dream than
“an assurance that my remembrance warrants.—
Shakespeare.

It is sure the hardest science to forget ! —
Pope.
FORGIVENESS. :

There is a manner of forgiveness so divine
that you are ready to embrace the offender for
having called it forth—Lavater,

The rarer action is in virtne than in ven-
~geanee.—Shakespeare.

He that cannot forgive others breaks the
bridge over which he must pass himself; for
every man has need to be forgiven.—

Lord Herbert.

Often forgive others, but never thyself.—
Publius Syras.

A more glorious victory cannot be gained
over another man than this, that when the in-
jury began on his part, the ‘Kinduess should
begin on ours.— Tillotson.

The snn should not set upon onr anger,
neither should he rise upon our confidence.
We should forgive freely, but forget rarely, 1
will not be revenged, and this I owe to my en-
emy; but I will remember, and this I owe to
myself.—Colton.

To erv is human; to forgive, divine—LPope.

A brave man thinks no onc his superior who

does him an injury: for he has it then in his

power to make hiniself his superior to the other
y forgiveness.—Drununond.

It is easier for the generous to forgive than
for offence to ask it.— Zhomson. :

It is necessary to repent for years in order to
efface a fault in the eyes of men; a single tear
suffices with God.— Chateaubriand.

The narrow soul knows not the godlike
glory of forgiving.—Rewe.

The brave only know how to forgive; it
is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue
human nature can arrivetat, Cownrds have
done: good and kind actions, ~ cowards have
even fonght, nay, sometimes even conqnered ;
but a coward never forgave. It is not in his
nature; the power of doing it flows only from a
strength and greatness of soul, conscious of its
own force and security, and above the little
temptations of resenting every fruitless-attempt
to interrupt its happiness.—Sterne.

We pardon as longyas we love.—
Rochefoucauld.

Of him that-hopes to be forgiven, it is indis-
pensably required that he forgive. It is, there-
fore, superfluous to urge any other motive. On
this «great duty eternity is suspended ;. and to
him that refuses to practise it, the throne of
mercy is inaccessible, and the Saviour of the
world has‘been born in vain.—Joliason.

They who forgive most shall be most for-
given.— Bailey.

When thou forgivest,— the man who has
pierced thy heart stands to thee in: the relation
of the sca-worm that perforates the shell of the
muscle which straightway closes the wound with
a pearl.—Ztichter.

If thon wonldst find mnch favor and peace
with God and man, be very low in thine own
eyes. Forgive thyself little, and others much,

Leighton.

We forgive too little, forget too much.—
Madame Swetchine.

It is in vain for you to expect, it is impndent
for you to ask of God, forgiveness on your own
behalf, if you. refuse. to “exercise. this forgiving
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FORTUNE.

God pardons like a mother, who kisses the
offence into everlasting forgetfulness.—Deecher.

Humanity is never so beautiful as when
praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving an-
other. — Richter.

The truly great man is as apt to forgive as
his power is able to revenge.—Sir P. Sidney.

If you bethink yourself of any erime, unree-
onciled as yét to heaven and grace, solicit for
it straight. — Shakespeare.

There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this
world, —a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot
out like quills. Men take one who has offended,
and set him down before the blowpipe of their
indignation, and scorch him, and burn his fault
into him; and when they have kneaded him
sufficiently with their fiery fists, then — they
forgive him.—Beecher.

Young men soon-give, and soon forget af-
fronts; old age is slow in both.—Addison.

He who has not forgiven an enemy has
never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoy-
ments of life—Levater.

Hath any wronged thee? be bravely re-
venged ; slight it, and the work is begun; for-
give it, and it is finished ; he is below himself
that is not above an injury.— Quarles.

Great souls forgive not injuries till time has
put their enemies within their power, that they
may show forgiveness is their own.—Dryden.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.
Madame Deluzy.

“T ean forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only
another way of saying “I will not forgive.”
A forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note,
torn in two-and burned up, so that it never can
be shown against the man.— Beecher.

That eurse shall be — forgiveness ! —Byron.

Forgiveness is commendable, but ‘apply not
ointment to the wound of an oppressor.—Saadi.

FORTITUDE.

Where true fortitude dwells, loyalty, bounty,
friendship, and fidelity may be found.—Gay.

It is sufficient to have a simple heart in or-
der to escape the harshness of the age, in or-
der not to fly from the unfortunate ; but it is to
have some understanding of the imperishable
jaw, to seek them in the forgetfulness ‘against
which they dare-not complain, to prefer them
in their ruin, to admire them in their struggles.

Sénancour.

In struggling with misfortunes lies the true
proof of virtue.— Shakespeare,

Fortitude has its extremes as well as the rest
of the virtues,‘and, ought, like them, to be al-
ways attended by prudence.— Voet.

Learn to: labor and to wait.—Longfellow.

The fortitude of a Christian consists in pa-
tience, not in enterprises which the poets call
heroic, and which are commonly the effects of
interest, pride, and worldly honor.— Dryden.

True fortitude I take to be the quiet posses-
sion of a man’s self, and an undisturbed doing
his duty, whatever evil besets or danger lies in
his way.—Locke.

The vulgar refuse or crouch beneath their
load ; the brave bear theirs without repining.—
Mailet.

Fortitude implies a firmness and strength of
mind, that enables us todo and suffer as we
ought. .It rises upon.an opposition, and, like a
river, swells .the higher for having its course
stopped.—Jeremy Collier.

_ True fortitude is seen in great exploits, that
justice warrants and that wisdom guides.—
Addison.

Fortitude is the guard and support. of the
other virtues ; and without courage a man will
scarce keep steady to his duty, and fill up the
character of a truly worthy man.—Zocke.

Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffer-
ing yet hoping all things.—J/rs. Hemuns.

Blessed are those whose blood and judg-
ment are so well commingled that they are not
a pipe for Fortune’s finger to sound what stop
she please.—Shakespeare.

Fortitude, itself an essential virtue, is‘a guard
to every other virtue.—Locke.

Fortitude is not the appetite of formidable
things, nor inconsult rashness; but virtue fight-
ing for a truth, derived from knowledge of dis-
tinguishing good or bad causes.— Nudd.

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the ar-
mor of the will, and the fort of reason.—Bacon.

Bid that welcome which comes to punish us,

and we punish it, seeming to bear it lightly —
Shakespeare.
FORTUNE.

Will Fortune never come with both hands
full and write her fair words still in foulest
letters? She either gives a stomach, and no
food, — such are the poor, in health; or else a
feast, and takes away the stomach, — such are
the rich, that have abundance and enjoy it not.

Shakespeare.

The less we deserve good fortune, the more
we hope for it.—Afoliére.


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185

FORTUNE.

What real good does-an addition .to a for-
tune already sufficient procure? Not any. Conld
the great man, by having his fortune increased,
increase also his appetites, then precedence might
be attended with real amusement.— Goldsmith.

If fortune wishes to make a man estimable
she gives him virtnes; if she wishes to make
him esteemed she gives him suecess.—Joubert.

Fortune does us neither good nor hurt;
she only presents us the matter, and the seed,
which our soul, more powerfully than she, turns
and applies as she best pleases; being the sole
eanse and sovereign mistress of her own happy
or unhappy condition. —Jontaigne.

Those who lament for fortune do not often
lament for themselyes.— Voltaire.

Fortune is said to be blind, but her favorites
never are. Ambition has the eye of the eagle,
prudence that of the lynx ; the first looks through
the air, the last-along the-ground.— ~

Bulwer Lytton.

Fortune is brittle as glass, and when she is
most.refulgent, she is often most unexpectedly
broken.—Publius Syrus.

The heavens do not send good haps in hand-
fuls; but let us pick out our good by little, and
with care, from out -much bad, that still our
little world may know its king. —Sir P. Sidney.

Fortune is like a market, where many times
if you-wait a little the price will fall—Bacon.

This is most true, and all history bears tes-
timony to it, that men may second Fortune, but
they cannot thwart her, — they may weave her
web, but they cannot break it.—achiavelli.

A fortunate shepherd is nursed in a rnde
eradle in some wild forest, and, if fortune smile,
has risen to empire. That other, swathed in
purple by -the throne, has at last, if fortune
frown, gone to feed the herd.—.Vetastasio.

Fortune dreads the brave, and is only ter-
rible to the coward.— Seneca.

It isa madness to make Fortune the mistress
of events, because in herself she is nothing, but
is ruled by Prudence.—Dryden.

Fortune, to show us her power in all things,
and to abate our presumption, secing she could
not make fools wise, has made them fortunate.

Montaigne.

Tt has been remarked that almost every
character which has excited either attention or
pity has owed part of its suecess to merit, and

art to a happy concurrence of circumstances
in its favor. Had Cassar or Cromwell exchanged
countries, the one might have been a sergeant,
‘and the’ other an exciseman.— Goldsmith.

Fortune, like-a coy mistress, loves to yield
her favors, though she makes us wrest them
froin her.—Bovee.

The bad fortune of the good turns their
faces up to heaven ; and the good fortune of the
bad bows their heads down to the earth.—Saadi.

O, how full of error is the judgment of man-
kind! They wonder at results wlien they-are
ignorant of the reasons. They call it fortune
when they know not the cause, and thns wor-
ship their own ignorance changed into a deity.—

. : ‘Metastasio,

Many have been rnined by their fortunes ;
many have eScaped ruin by the want of fortune.
To obtain it, the great have becoine little, and
the little great—Zimmermann.

Fortune does not change men; it only un-
masks them.—.Madame Riccoboni.

The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune;
man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
La Fontaine.

O Fortune, Fortune !-all men call thee fickle.
Shakespeare.

Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry,
and is as often trundling in_a wheelbarrowias
lolling in a coach and six.— Goldsmith.

Fortune brings in some boats that are not
steered.— Shakespeare.

It is with fortune as with fantastical mis-
tresses, — she makes sport with those that are
ready to die for her,-and throws herself.at the
feet of others that despise her.— J. Beaumont.

That strumpet — Fortune.—Shakespeare.

The «heel of fortnne tnrns incessantly
round, and who can say within himself, I shall
to-day be uppermost ? — Confucius.

What men usnally say of misfortunes, that
they never come alone, niay with equal truth be
said of good fortune; nay, of other circum-
stances which. gather round us in a harmonious
way, whether it arise from a kind of fatality, or
that man has the power of attracting to him-
self things that are mutually related.— Goethe.

We do not commonly find men of superior
sense amongst those of the highest fortune.—
Jurenal.

Lkave heard Cardinal Imperiali say : “ There
is no man whom Fortune does not visit onee 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.

We do not know what is really good or bad
fortune. —Housseau. ‘


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FORTUNE.

The old Scythians painted blind Fortune's
powerful lands with wings, to show her gifts
come swift and suddenly, which, if her favorite
be not swift to take, he loses them forever.-—

Chapman.

Our probity is not less at the mercy of for-
tune than our property.—Zochefoucauld.

It cannot be denied but outward accidents
conduce much to fortune’s favor, — opportunity,
death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but
chiefly the mould of a man’s fortune is in his
own hands.—Bacon.

We rise to fortune by successive steps; we
descend by only one.—Stanislaus.

A man is thirty years old before he has any
settled thonghts of his fortune; it is not com-
pleted before fifty. He falls to building in his
old age, and dies by the time his house is in a
condition to be painted and glazed.—Bruyére. \

Fortune! There is no fortune; all is trial,
or punishment, or recompense, or foresight,—
Voltaire.

Men have made an-all-powerful goddess of
fortune, that they may attribute to her all their
follies — Madame Necker.

Fortune is the rod of the weak.and the staff
of the brave.—Lowell.

So quickly sometimes has the whee] turned
round, that many a man has lived to enjoy the
benefit of that charity which his own piety pro-
jected.—Sterne.

Though Fortune’s malice overthrow my
state, my mind exceeds the compass of her
wheel.— Shakespeare.

There are some men who are Fortune’s favor-
ites, and who, like cats, light forever upon their
legs.— Colton.

All our advantages are those of fortune;
pirth, wealth, health, beanty, are her accidents ;
and-when we cry out against fate, it were well
we should remember Fortune can take naught
save what she gave.—Byron.

Every man is the architect of his own for-
tune.—Sallust.

In human life there is: a constant change of
fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an
exemption ‘from the common fate. Life itself
decays, and all things are daily changing

lutarch,

There ‘are some natures that will take hurt
from any conditions of life; and the man that
prosperity ripens into a spendthrift is precisely
the man that poverty would have soured into a
churl.—“Alexander Smith.

The power of fortune is confessed only b
the miserable, for the happy impute all their
success to prudence or merit— Swift.

Ttis we that are blind, not Fortune ; because
our eye is too dim to discern the mystery of her
effects, we foolishly paint her blind, and hood-
wink the providence of the Almighty.— -

Sir Thomas Browne.

We treat Fortune like a mistress, — the more
she yields, the more we demand.—
wadame Roland.

Fortune rules in-all things, and advances
and depresses things more out of her own will
than right and justice.—Sallust.

Fortune, not wisdom, human life doth sway.
Cicero.

The way of fortune is like the milky way in
the sky, which is a meeting or knot of a num-
ber of small stars, not-seen asunder, but giving
light together; so are there -a number of litie
and scarce discerned virtues, or rather facnities
and customs, that make men fortunate.-—Bacon,

Dame Fortune, like most others of the female
sex, is generally most indulgent to the nimble-
mettled blockheads.— Otway.

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the
companion of Genius; others find a hundred by-
roads to her palace; there is but one open, and
that a very indifferent one, for men of letters.—

Disraeli.

Good and bad fortune are found severally to
visit those who have the most of the one or the
other.—Rochefoucauld.

When Fortune means to men most good, she
looks upon them with a threatening eye. —~
Shakespeare.

They are generally better satisfied whom
Fortune never favored, than those whom she
has forsaken.—Seneca.

Fortune, like other females, prefers a: lover
to a master, and submits with impatience to
control ; but he that wooes her with opportunity
and importunity will seldom court her in vain.

Colton.

Some are born great, some achieve great-
ness, and some have greatness thrust ‘upon
them.—Shakespeare.

We should manage our fortune like our
constitution ; enjoy it when good, have patience
when bad, and never apply violent remedies but
in cases of necessity.—Aochefoucauld.

The old saying is expressed with depth and
significance: “ On the pinnacle of fortune man
does not long stand firm.”— Goethe.


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To be thrown npon one’s own resourees is to
be cast in the:very lap of fortune ; for our feenl-
ties then nndérgo a development, ond display
an energy, of whichthey were previously un-
susceptible —frankiin.

Fortune gives -too mich to many, but to
none cnough.—.Vartial.

Lueky.men‘are favorites of Heaven.— Dryden.

The moderation of fortunate people comes
from the calm which good‘ fortune gives to their
tempers.—Rochefoucauld,

We'are sure to get the better of Fortune if
we do bnt grapple with her.—Seneca.

It requires greater virtues to support good
than bad fortune.—Nochefoucauld.

FRAILTY.
Fruilty, thy name is woman !—Shakespeare.

Though thou seest another openly offend, or
even commit some cnormons sin, yet thou must
not from thetice take occasion to value thyself’
for thy superior goodness; for thou canst not
tell how long thon wilt be able to persevere in
the narrow path of virtue. All men are frail,
but thon shouldst reckon none so frail-as thy-
selfi— Thomas a Aempis.

Man with frailty is‘allied by birth._—
. Bishop Lowth.
FRANCE.
The sun rises bright in France, and fair sets
he.—Allan Cunningham.

Studious to please, and ready to subinit ;
the supple Gaul was born a parasite.—Joknson.

A monarchy tempered by songs.—Chamfort.

France is a dog-hole, and it no more merits
the tread of a man’s fuot.— Shakespeare.

~» Deeayed in thy.glory and sunk in thy worth.
: Byron.
FRANKNESS.
He speaks home; you may relish him more
in the soldier than in the scholar.— :
Shakespeure.

It is wrong to believe that frank sentiments
and the candor of the mind are the-exclusive
share. of the young; they ornament oftentimes
old age, upon which they scem to spread a chaste
refiection of the modest graces of their younger
days, where they shine with the same brightness
as those flowers which are often seen peeping,
fresh and laughing, from among ruins.—

Poincelot.
FRAUD.

All frands, like the “wall danbed with un-
tempered mortar,” with which men think to but-
tress upan cditice, always tend to the decay of the
system they are devised to support.— HW Aately.

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FREEDOM.

Thongh frand in all other-actions be oiions,
yet in matters of war it is laudable and glorious,
and he who overcomes his enemies hy stratagem
is as much to be praised as he who overcomes
them by force.—-Alacluavell,

FREEDOM,

The man who stands upon his own soil,
who feels, by the laws of the land in which he
lives, — by the laws of civilized nations, — he is
the righttul and exclusive owner of the land
which he tills, is, by the constitution of our
nature, underea wholesome influence, uot easily
imbibed from any other souree.—

. Edward Everett,

Void of freedom, what would virtne he ?—
Lameartine.

. The eause of freedom 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 these who desire it.—

: Kossuth.

There is no legitimacy npon earth but ina
government which is the choice of the nation.—
Joseph Bonaparte.

The sea,‘as well as air, isa free and com-
mon thing to all; and a particular nation can-
not pretend to have the right to the’exelusion
of alt others, -withont violating the rights of
nature and public usage.—Queen Llzabeth.

We do not know of how much a man is
eapable if he has the will, and to what point he
will raise himself if he feels free —J. ven Jfiiller.

The man. who seeks freedom for anything
but freedom’s self is made to be a slave.—
De Tocqueville.

The water-lily, in the midst of waters, opens
its Ieaves and expands its petals, at the first
pattering of the shower, and rejoices in the
rain-drops with a qnicker sympathy than the
packed shrubs in the sandy desert.— Coleridge.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those
who falsely believe they nre free.— Goethe.

The greatest glory of a free-horn people is
to transmit that freedom to their children. —
Havard.

To have freedom is only to have that which
is absolutely necessary to enable us to be what
we onght to be, and to possess what we onght
to possess. — Rake. °

Countries are well cultivated, not as_they
are fertile, but as they are freé.—fontesquieu.

Whatever natural right men may have to
freedom and independency, it is manifest that
some meu have a natural asvendency over
others.—Lerd Greville.


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FRIENDSHIP.

Frecdom is the ferment of freedom. The
moistened sponge drinks up water greedily;
the dry one sheds it— Holmes.

Progress, the growth of power, is the end
and boon of liberty; and, without this, a peo-
ple may have the name, but want the substance
and spirit of freedom.— Channing.

Many politicians are in the habit of laying
it down as a self-evident proposition, that no
people ought to be free till they are fit to use
their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the
fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into
the water till he had learned to swim !—

Macaulay.

Know ye not who would he free themselves
must strike the blow? by their right arms the
conquest must be wrought ?—Byron.

FREE SPEECH.

There is tonic in the things that men do not
love to hear; and there is damnation in_the
things that wicked men love to hear. Free
specch is to a great people what winds-are to
oceans and malarial regions, which waft away
the elements of disease, and bring new elements
of health. And where free speech is stopped
miasma is bred, and death comes fast.—-Beeeher

FRIENDSHIP.
In your friendships and in your enmities let
your confidence and your hostilities have eertain
ounds; make not the former dangerous, nor
the latter irreconcilable. There are strange vi-
cissitudes in business.—Chesteryield.

We call friendship the love of the Dark Ages.
Aladame de Salm.

A wound in the friendship of young persons,
as in the bark of young trees, may be so grown |
over as to Ieave no sear. The case is very dif-
ferent in regard to old persons and old timber.
The reason of this may be accountable from the
decline of the social passions, and the prevalence
of spleen, suspicion, and rancor towards the
latter part of life.—Shenstone.

Friendship! mysterious cement of the sou)!
sweetener of life! and solder of society ! —Blair.

Friendship is more firmly secured by lenity
towards failings than by attachment to excel-
Jenees. The former is valucd as a kindness
which cannot be claimed ; the latter is exacted
as the payinent of a debt to merit.—

W. B. Chilow.

Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed
by heat or violence or accident, may as well be
broken at once; it never can be trusted after.
The more graceful and ornamental it was, the
more clearly do-we discern -the hopelessness of
restoring it to its former state. Coarse stones,
if they are fractured, may be cemented again ;
precions ones never.—Lundor.

The friendships of the world are oft confed-
eracies in vice, or leagues of pleasnre.—Addison.

Charity commands us, where we know no ill,
to think well of all; but friendship that always
goes a step higher, gives a man a peculiar right
and claim to the good opinion of his friend.—

South,

We must love our friends as trne-amateurs
love paintings; they have their eyes perpetually
fixed on the fine parts, and see no others.—
Madame @’ Epinay.

The light of friendshipis like the light of phos-
phorus, — seen plainest when all around is dark.
Crowell.

We value the devotedness of friendship rath-
eras an oblation to vanity than-as a free inter-
change of hearts; an endearing contract of
sympathy, mutual forbearance, and respect ! —

Jane Porter.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping
close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but
leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.—

Bovee.

Friendship is infinitely better than kindness.
Cicero.

Whatever thé number of © man’s friends,
there will be times in his life when he has one
too few.—Bulwer Lytton.

To say, with La Rochefoucauld, that “in
the adversity of our best friends there is some-
thing that does not displease ns,” and to say
that in the prosperity of our best friends there ts
something that does not please us, secms to be
the same thing; yet I believe the first is false,
and the latter true.—Lord Greville.

My friends! There are no friends !—
Aristotle.

Friendship, like love, is self-forgetful. The
only inequality it knows is one that exalts the
object, and humbles self.— Henry Giles.

A friendship will be young after the lapse of
acentury. A passion is old at the end of three
months.—Nigu.

Be on such terms with your friend as if you
knew that he might one day become your en-
emy.—Laberius.

What is commonly called friendship is no
more than a partnership; a reciprocal regard
for one another’s interests, and an exchange of
good offices ; in a word, a-mere traffic, wherein
self-love always proposes to be a gainer.—

Rochefoucauld.

Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as
often as kindred virtues.—Bovee.


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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom
we show the worst, but the best of our nature.—
Tawthorne.

Nothing is more dangerous than an impru-
dent friend ; better is it to have to deal with a
prudent enemy. — La fontaine,

Life is to be fortified by ‘many friendships.
To love and to be loved is the greatest happi-
ness of existence.—Syduey Smith.

Friendship is love without its flowers or veil.
Hare.

We love e¥erything on our own account;
we-even follow our own taste and inclination
when we prefer our friends to ourselves ; and
yet it is this preference alone that constitutes
true and perfect friendship. —Rochefoucauld.

He who has ceased to enjoy his friend’s su-
periority has ceased to love him.— .
Madame Swetchine.

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a
sunflower also. He attracts and follows.—
Richter.

When danger threats, the friend comes
forth resolved and shields his friend; in For-
tune’s golden smiles what need of friends ? her
favoring power wants no auxiliary.—Zuripides,

He that doth a base thing in zeal for his
friend burns the golden thread that ties their
hearts together—Jeremy Taylor.

Wise were the kings who never chose a
friend till with full enps they had unmasked
his soul, and seen the bottom of his deepest
thoughts.— Horace.

How were friendship possible? In mutnal
devotedness to the good and trne; otherwise
impossible, except as armed nentrality or hol-
low commercial league. A man, be the heavens
ever praised, is sufficient for himself; yet were
ten men, united in love, capable of being and of
doing what ten thousand singly would fail in.
Infinite i$ the help man can yield to man.—

° Carlyle.

A faithful friend is the true image of the
Deity.— Napoleon.

As the shadow in early morning, is friend-
ship with the wicked ; it dwindles hour by hour.
But friendship with the good increases, like the
evening shadows, till the sun of life sets. —
Ferder.

The amity that wisdom knits not, folly
may casily untie.— Shakespeare.

Real friendship is a slow grower; and never
thrives unless engrafted upon a-stock of known
and reciprocal merit.— Chesterfield.

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FRIENDSHIP.

A friend loveth at all times; and a brother
is born for-adversity.— Bible,

When the first time of love is over, there
comes a something better still. Then comes
that other love ; that faithful friendship which
never changes, and which will accompany you
with its calm light through~the whole of life.
It is only needful to place yourself so that it may
come, and then it comes of itself’ And then
everything turns and changes itself to the best.

- fredrika Yremer.

That friendship will not continue to the end
that is begun for an end.— Quarles.

With a clear sky, 4 bright sun, and a gentle
breeze, you will have friends in plenty ; but let
Fortune frown, and the firmament be overcast,
‘and then your friends will prove like the strings
of the Inte, of which you will tighten ten before
yon find one that will bear the stretch and keep
the pitch.— Gottheld.

If ‘sve would build on-a sure foundation in
friendship, we must love our friends for their
sakes rather than for our own.— Charlotie Bronté.

True friends are the whole world to onejan-
other ; and he that is'a friend to himself is also
a friend to mankind. Even in my studies the
greatest delight I take is of imparting it to
others’; for there is no relish to me in the pos-
sessing of anything without a partner.— Seneca.

We may have many acquaintances, but we
can have but few friends; this made Aristotle
say that he that hath many friends hath none.

. . Johnson.

What an argument in favor of social con-
nections is the observation that by eommunieat-
ing our grief we have less, and by communnicat-
ing our pleasure we have more.—Lord Greville.

There have been fewer friends on earth than
kings.— Cowley. :

We say, in common discourse, that aman
may be his own enemy; and the frequeney of
the fact makes the expression intelligible. But
that a man should be the bitterest enemy of his
friends implies a contradiction of a peculiar
nature. There is something in it which cannot
be conecived without a confusion of ideas, nor
expressed without a solecism in language; yet
aman is often injured by the assistance of his
friend, whose impulse, however generons and
sincere, combines neither prudence for its reg-
ulation nor skill for its successful adoption.—

Junius,

There is no man so friendless but that he
can find a friend sincere enough to tell hin dis-
agreeable truths.—Bulwer Lytion.

Women bestow on friendship only what they
borrow from love —Chamfort.


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FRIENDSHIP.

He who disguises tyranny, protection, or
even benefits under the air and name of friend-
ship reminds me of the guilty priest who poi-
soned the sacramental brexd.—Chamfort.

To what gods is sacrificed that rarest and
sweetest thing upon earth, friendship? To
vanity and to interest.—Jfalesherbes.

‘

There are no rules for friendship. It must
be left to itself; we cannot force it any more
than love.—Haziitt.

Old friends are the great blessings of one’s
latter years. Half a word conveys one’s mean-
ing. They have memory of the same events,
and have the same mode of thinking. I have
young relations that may grow upon me, for my
nature is affectionate, but can they grow old
friends? My age forbids that. Still less ean
they grow companions. Is it friendship to ex-
plain half one says? One must relate the his-
tory of one’s memory and ideas ; and what is
that to the young but old stories ? —

Horace Walpole.

A friendship that makes the least noise is

Friendship is constant in all other things,
save in the office and affairs of love—  ~
Shakespeare.

If thy friends be of better quality than thy-
self, thou mayest be sure of two things: the
first, that 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 pos-
sess.— Sir’ Walter Raleigh. -

The greatest medicine is a true friend.—
Sir W. Temple.

I have never believed that friendship sup-
posed the obligation of hating those whom your
friends did not love, and [ believe rather it
obliges me to love those whom they love.—

Morelia.

Friendship is made fast by interwoven ben-
efits—Sir P. Sidney.

We learn our virtnes from the bosom friends
who love us; our faults from the enemy who
hates us. We cannot easily diseover our real

very often the most useful ; for which reason I, form-from.a friend. He is a mirror on which
should prefera prudent friend to a zealous one.: the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness
Addison.‘ of the reflection. —Riclter.

Take heed of a speedy professing friend;
love is never lasting which flames before it
burns.—Feltham.

These hearts which suck up friendship like
water, and yield it again with the first touch,
might as well expect to squeeze a sponge and
find it hold its moisture, as to retain affections
which they are forever dashing from them.—

Jane Porter.

We lose some friends for whom we regret
more than we grieve; and others for whom we
grieve, yet do not regret.—Rochefoucauld.

A principal fruit of friendship is the ease and
discharge of the fulness and swellings of the
heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and
induce.—Bacon. ~

There is nothing that is meritorious but vir-
tue and friendship, and, indeed, friendship itself
is but a part of virtue.—Pope.

A friend should bear his friend’s infirmities.
Shakespeare.

The most elevated and pure souls cannot

hear, even from the lips of the most contempti- ;

ple men, these words, friendship,” “sensibility,”
“virtue,” without immediately attaching to
them all the grandeur of which their heart is
susceptible. —Aichter.

Friendship consists properly in mutual of-
fices, and a: generous strife in alternate acts of
kindness —South,

Friendship is the-wine of life.— Young.

Perfect friendship puts us under the necessity
of being virtnons. As it.can only be preserved
among estimable persons, it forces ns to resemble
them. You find in friendship the surety of
good counsel, the emulation of good example,
sympathy in our griefs, succor in our distress.—

Madame de Lambert.

He who reckons ten friends has not one.—

‘ . Afalesherbes.

Friends are diseovered rather than made;
there are people who are in their own nature
friends, only they don’t know eaeh other; but
certain things, like poetry, music, and paintings
are like the Freemason’s sign, — they reveal the
initiated to each other.—Jirs. Stowe.

Friendship requires deeds.—Richter.

Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind
are agreed.—Cicero.

Be careful to make friendship the child, and
not the father of virtue ; for many strongly knit
minds are rather good friends than good men ;
so, as though they do not like the evil their
friend does, yet they like him who does the evil ;

| and though no connsellors of the offence, they

yet protect the offender.—Sir P. Sidney.

Old friends are best. King James used to
call for his old shoes ; they were easiest for his
feet.— Selden. :


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FRIENDSHIP.

When men-are friends there is no need of

justice ; but when they are-just, they still need
friendship.—<Aristotle:

The ideal of friendship is to feel as one while
remaining two.—Jfadame Swetchine.

The noblest part of a friend is an honest
boldness in the notifying of errors. He that

We have social strengths. Our affection
towards others creates a-‘sort of vuntage’or pur-
chase which nothing will supply. Lean do that
by another which I cannot do alone: I can say
to you what I cannot first say to myself. Other
men are-lenses through which we read our own
minds.— emerson.

The youth of friendship is better than its

tells me of ‘a fanit, aiming at my good, I must’ old age. —Hazlitt.

think him wise and’ faithful, — wise in spying
that which I see not; faithful in a plain -ad-
monishment, not tainted with flattery. —

Feltham.

Friendships which are born in misfortune
‘are more firm and Jasting than those which are
formed in happiness.—D' Urfey.

There are jilts in fricndship as-well as in
Jove, and by the behavior of some men in both,
one would almost imagine that they industrions-
ly songht to gain the-atfections of others with a
view only of making the parties miserable.—

Fielding.

Friends areas companions on s journey,
who ought.to aid each other to persevere in the
road to a happier lite—Pythagoras.

Do not allow grass to grow on the road of
friendship.—Jfadame Geoffrin.

Love and esteem are the first principles of
friendship, whieh always is imperfect where
either of these two is wanting. — Budgell.

Friendship is like those ‘ancient altars where
the unhappy and even the guilty, found a sure
asylum.—il/adame Swetchine.

He who has not the weakness of friendship
has not the strength.— Joubert.

Friendship, gift of heaven, delight of great
sonls ; friendship which kings,-so distinguished
for ingratitude, are unhappy enough not to
know.— Voltaire.

Friendship is:stronger than kindred.—
Publius Syrus.

People young, and raw, and soft-natured,
think it an easy thing to gain love, and reckon
their own friendship a sure price of any man’s;

Také heed how you place your good-will’but when experience shall have shown. them

upon any other ground than proof of virtue.
Neither length of acquaintance, mutnal seerecies,
nor height of benefits, can bind a vicions heart ;
no man being good to others that is not good
in himself— Sir P. Sidney.

Friendship is a cadence of divine melody
melting through the heart-—Jfildmay.

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and
ruins the walls it embraces ; but true friendship
gives new life and animation to ‘the object it
supports.—urton.

Rare as is true love; true friendship is rarer. |

La Fontaine. more sacred when beheld through the shades of
, the sepulchre.—Jobert [all.

If two men are nnited, the wants of neither’!

are any greater, in some respects, than they !

would be-were they atone, and their strength Is
superior to the strength of two separate men.—
Sé€nancour.

Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune ;
but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all
. goodness.— Richelieu.

Feast-won, fast-lost, one cloud of winter

sligion.—

the hardness of most hearts, the hollowness of
others, and the baseness and ingratitude of al-
most all, they will then find that a true friend is
the’ gift of God, and that He only who made
hearts can unite them.—Souh.

Purchase no friends by gifts; when thou

‘ ceasest to give such will cease to love.—L£uller.

Friendship is full of dregs. Shakespeare.

The friendship of high and sanctified spirits
loses: nothing by death but its ‘alloy; failings
disappear, and the virtues of those whose “ faces
we shall behold no wore” appear greater and

The diffienlty is not so great to die for a
friend as to find 2 friend worth dying for—
Henry fTome.

.. The-generality of friends puts us out of con-
ecit with friendship; just as-the generality of
religions peo ple puts us ont of conceit with re-
tochefoucauld.

To be influenced by a passion for the same

showers, these flies are conched.—Shakespeare. pursuits, ard to have similar distikes, is the ra-

If a man does not make new acquaintances
as he advances throngh life, he wal soon find
himself left alone. A man should -keep his
friendships in constant repair—Johnson.

t

tional ground-work of lasting friendship.—
Cicero.

The corpse of friendship is not. worth em-

! balming —Haslitt.


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FRIENDSHIP.

Those who want friends to open themselves
unto are cannibals of their own hearts.— Bacon.

The qualities of your friends will be those of.
your enemies, — cold friends, cold enemies ; half
friends, half enemies; fervid enemies, warm
friends.—Lavater.

I love a friendship that flatters itself in the
sharpness and vigor of its communieations.—

Montaigne.

True friends Visit us in prosperity only when
invited, but_in adversity they come without in-
vitation.— Theophrastus.

Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor
vice, but to aid virtue.—Crcero.

I would give more for the
and love of one than for the public praise of ten
thousand. — JV. R. Alger.

Let friendship creep gently to a-height ; if it
rush to it, it may soon run itself out of breath.
fuller.

A man that is fit to make a friend of must
have conduct to manage the engagement, and
resolution to maintain it. He-must use freedom
‘without roughness, and oblige without design.
Cowardice will betray friendship,.and covetons-
ness will starve it. Folly will be nauseous,

assion is apt to ruffle, and pride will fly out
into contumely and neglect.—Jeremy Collier.

Something like home, that is not home, is to

be desired ; it.is to be found in the house of-a-
friend.—Sir William Temple. .

Dread more the blunderer’s friendship than
the calumniator’s enmity.—Lavater.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth,
and must undergo and withstand the shocks of
adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
Washington.

Friendship improves happiness and abates
misery, by the doubling of our joy and the di-
viding of our grief— Cicero.

True friendship cannot be among many.
For since our facuitics are of a finite energy, it
is impossible our love can be very intense when
divided among many. No, the rays must be
contracted to make them burn.—/ohn Norris.

He who cannot feel friendship is alike inea-
pable of love. ° Let a woman beware of the man
who owns that he loves no one but herself.—

Talleyrand.

There is a power in love to divine another’s
destiny better than that other can, and by he-
yoie enconragements, hold him to his task.
What has friendship so signal as its sublime at-
traction to whatever virtue is in us? —£merson.

Friendship hath the skill and observation of
the best physician, the diligence and vigilance
of the best nurse, and the tenderness and pa-
itience of the best mother.— Clarendon.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening,
which strengthens with the setting sun of life.—
La Fontaine.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when
thou art in continue firm and constant.—
Socrates.

Nature loves nothing solitary, and always
reaches out to something, as a support, which
ever in the sincerest friend is most delightful.—

. Cicero.

No better relation than a prudent and faith-

rivate esteem, ful friend. —Franklin.*

In friendship, we see only the faults which
may injure our friends. In love, we see only the
faults by which we ourselves suffer—Du Cour.

The friends thon hast, and their adoption
tried, grapple them to thy soul with hooks of
steel.— Shakespeare.

Onc of the surest evidences of friendship that
one individual can display to ‘another is'telling
him gently of afault. If any other can excel it,
itis listening to such a disclosure with gratitude,
and amending the error.— Bulwer Lytton,

Friends should be weighed, not told; who
boasts to have won a multitude of fricnds has
never had one.— (Coleridge.

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.

He will find himself in a great mistake that
either seeks for a friend in a palace or tries him
at a feast.—Seneca.

Friendship throws a greater lustre on _pros-
erity, while it lightens adversity by sharing in
its griefs and‘anxieties.—Cicero.

Summer friends vanish when the cask is
drained to the dregs, their necks refusing to
halve the yoke that sorrow draws.—Horace.

I have too dceply read mankind to be
amused with friendship ; it is a name invented
merely to betray eredulity ; it is intercourse of
interest, not of souls.—Havard.

We should remember that it is quite as much
a part of friendship to be delicate in its de-

mands as to be ample in its performances.—
J. F. Boyes,

Friendship is too pure a pleasure for a mind
eankered with ambition, or the lust of power
and grandeur.—Junius.


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FRUGALITY.

Itis a common saying, and because founded
in trnth, has become a proverb, that friendships
ought to be immortal, but enmities mortal_—

Livy.

Convey thy Jove to thy friend as an arrow
to the mark, to stick there ; not asa ball against
the wall; to rebound back to thee.— Quarles.

There is nothing so great that I fear to do
for my friend ; nor nothing so small that I will
disdain to do for him.—Sir P. Sidney.

FRUGALITY.
Frugality is fonnded_on the principle that
all riches have limits.—Burke.

Frngality may be termed the daughter of
prndence, the sister of temperance, and the par-
ent of liberty. He that is extravagant will
quickly become poor, and poverty will enforce
dependence'and invite corruption.—Johason.

The world has not yet learned the riches of
frugality. —Cicero.

He that spareth in everything is an inexcus-
able niggard. He that sparcth in nothing is an
inexensable madman. The mean is to spare in
what is least necessary,-and to lay out more
liberally in what is most required in our several
cireumstances.—Lord Halifax.

By sowing frugality we reap libertyy a
golden harvest.— Agesilaus.

Frugality is good if liberality be joined with
it. The tirst is leaving off supertinons expenses ;
the last is bestowing them to the benefit of oth-
ers that need. The first without the last begets
covetousness ;_ the last without the first begets
prodigality.— William Penn.

He seldom lives frugally who lives by
chance. [ope is always liberal, and they that
truse her promises make little scrnple of revel-
ling to-day on the profits of to-morrow.—

: Johnson.
FUN.

Fun has no limits. Te is like the human
race anid face ; there is a family likeness among
all the species, but they-all differ.—ZZaliburton.
FUTURITY. ,

It ever is the marked propensity of restless
and aspiring minds to look into the stretch of
dark futurity.— Joanna Baillie.

While a man is stringing ‘a harp, he tries
the strings, not for music, but for construction.
When it is finished i¢ shall be played for melo-
dies. God is fashioning the human heart. for
future joy. He only sounds @ string here and
there to sec how far his work has progressed.—

Beecher.

If there was no future life, our sonls wonld
not thirst for it— Richter.
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FUTURITY.

Everything that looks to the future clevates
human nature; for never is life so low or so
litle as when ocenpied with the present.—

Landor.

The future is always fairy-land to the
young. Life is Hike’a beantitnl and winding
lane, on either side bright flowers, and beautiful
bueterflies and tempting fruits, which we svarce-
ly pause to admire and to taste, so cager are we
to hasten to an opening which we imagine will
be more beautifiil still. But by degrees, as we
advance, the trees grow bleak ; the flowers and
butterflies fail, the fruits disappear, and we find
we haye arrived — to reach‘a desert. waste—

G. A. Sala.

Age and sorrow have the gift of reading the
future by the sad past.—er. J. Farrar.

Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou
knowest not what a day may bring forth.—
Bible.

One might as well attempt to calculate
mathematically the contingent forms of the
tinkling bits of glass in'a kalcidoscope as to look
through the tube of the future and foretell its
pattern.— Beecher.

Coming events cast their shadows before.—
Campbell,

It has been ‘well observed that we should
treat futurity as an aged friend, from whom we
expecta rich legacy. Let us do nothing to for-
feit his esteem, and treat him with respect, not
with servility. But Ict us not be too prodiyal
when we are yonng, nor too parsiinonions when
we are old, otherwise we shall fall into the com-
mon error of those who, when they had the pow-
er to enjoy, had not the prndence to acquire ;
and when they had the prnience to acquire, had
no longer the power to enjoy.— Colton. .

O Heaven ! that one might read the book of
fate, and sec the revolution of the times.—
Shakespeare.

Futurity is impregnable to mortal ken: no
prayer picrees throngh heaven's adamantine
walls. Whether the birds fly right or left,
whatever be the aspect of the stars, the book of
nature is a maze, dreams are a lie, and every
sign a falsehood.— Schiller.

When all else is lost, the future still re-
mains.—Bovee.

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 deepest root, and is
most discoverable, in the greatest geniuses and
most exalted souls.—Cicero.

‘The future docs not come from before to
meet us, but comes streaming up from behind
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94 FUTURITY.

The veit which covers the face of futurity is
woven by the hand of mercy.—Bulwer Lytton.

Why wil) any man be so impertinently
officions as to tell me all prospect of a future
state is only fancy and delusion? Is there an
merit in being the messenger of ill news? If it
is a dream, fet ime enjoy it, since it makes me
both the happier and better man.—Addison.

We are always looking into the future, but
we see only the past.—Afadame Sweteliine.

Sure there is none but fears a: future state ;
and when the most obdurate swear, do not
their trembling hearts belie their boasting
tongues.—Dryden.

We are born fora higher destiny than that
of earth; there is a realm where the rainbow
never fades, where the stars will be spread be-
fore us like islands that slumber on the ocean,
— and where the beings that pass before us like
shadows will stay in our presence forever.—

Bulwer Lytton.

How narrow our souls become avhen -ab-
sorbed in any present good or ill! it is only
the thought of the future that makes them great.

Richter. ;

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 Gethsemane.—Chapin.

O, if this were seen, the happiest youth —
viewing his progress through, what perils past,
what crosses to ensue — would shut the book
and sit him down and die.—Shakespeare.

Since we stay not here, being people but of
a day’s abode, and our age is like that of a fly,
aud contemporary with that of a gourd, we
must look somewhere else for an abiding city, a
place in another country, to fix our house in,
whose walls and foundation is God, where we
must rest, or else be restless forever.—
Jeremy Taylor.

We may believe that we shall know each
other’s forms hereafter ; and in the bright fields
of the better land call the lost dead to 1 .

eels.

If that marvellous microcosm, man, with all
the costly cargo of his faculties and powers, were
indced a rich argosy, fitted out and freighted
only for shipwreck and destruction, who
amongst us that tolerate the present only from
the hope of the future, who that have any as-
pirings of a high and intellectual nature about
them, contd be brought to submit to the dis-
gusting mortifications of the voyage ? —Colton.

It is vain to be always looking towards the
future and never acting towards it—
J. EF. Boyes.

The dead carry our thoughts to another and
a nobler existence. They teach us, and espe-
cially by all the strange and seemingly unto-
ward circumstances of their departure from this
life, that they and we shall live in a future state
forever.— Orville Dewey.

It is easy to see, hard to foresee.— Franklin.

We bewail our friends as if there were no
better fnturity yonder, and bewail ourselves as
{if there were no better futnrity here; for all
j our passions are born atheists and infidels.—
Richter.

It is one of God’s blessings that we cannot
foreknow the hour of our death; for a time
fixed, even beyond the possibility of living,
would trouble us more than doth this uncer-
tainty.—/ames the Sixth.

Divine wisdom, intending to detain us some
time on earth, has done well to cover with a
yeil the prospect of life to come; for if our sight
could clearly distinguish the apposite bank, who
would remain on this tempestuous coast ?—

Madame de Staél.

It is heaven itself that points out an here-
after, and intimates eternity to man.—Addison.

My mind can take no hold on the present
world, nor rest in it a moment, but my whole
nature rushes onward with irresistible force to-
wards a future and better state of being. —Fichte.

The grand difficulty is to feel the reality of
both worlds, so as to give each its due place in
our thonghts and feclings, 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.

To me thore is something thrilling and ex-
alting in the thought that we are drifting for-
ward into a splendid mystery, — into something
that no mortal eye has yet seen, no intelligence
has yet declared. — Chapin. :

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Look not mournfully into the past, — it
comes not back again; wisely improve the pres-
ent, —it is thine ; go forth to meet the shadowy
future without fear, and with 2 manly heart.—
Longfellow.

God will not suffer man to have the knowl-
edge of things to come; for if he had prescience
‘of his prosperity, he would be careless ; and, un-
derstanding of his adversity, he would be sense-
less.—St. Augustine.

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GALLANTRY.

GAMBLING.

GALLANTRY.
Gallantry thrives most in the:atmosphere of
the court.—illadame Neeker.

A gallant man is above ill words.—Selden.

Love is the smallest part of gallantry.—
Rochefoueauld.

Gallantry, though a fashionable crime, is a
very detestable one; and the wretch who pilfers
from ns in the hour of distress is an innocent
character compared to the plunderer who wan-
tonly robs us of happiness and reputation —

tev. Hf. Kelley.

The gallantry of the mind consists in agree-
able flattery. —Hochefoucauld.

GAMBLING,

Gaming is the destruction of all decorum;
the prince forgets at it his dignity, and the lady
her modesty.—.Marchioness d’ Alembert.

Keep flax from fire, youth from gaming.—
Franklin.

Gambling houses are temples where the most
sordid and turbulent passions contend ; 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
of infants, and their nearest relatives.—

Zimmermann.

Who gets by play proves loser in the end.—
FFeath.

T look upon every man as a suicide from the
moment he takes the dice-box desperately in his
hand; and all that follows in his fatal career
from that*time is only sharpening the dagger
before he strikes it to his heart —Cumberland.

It is possible that a wise and good man may
be prevailed on to game; butit is impossible
that a professed gamester should be-a wise and
good man.—Lavater.

Gaming is a vice the more dangerous as it
is decvitful; and, contrary to every other species
‘of luxury, flateers its votaries with the hopes of
increasing their wealth ; so that avarice itself is
so far from securing us against its temptations
that it often betrays the more thoughtless and
giddy part of mankind into them.—/‘elding.

The gamester, if he die’a martyr to his pro-
fession, is doubly ruined. He adds his sou! to
every other loss, and by the ‘act of suicide, re-
nounees carth to forfeit heaven.— Colton.

Play not for gain, but sport; who plays for
more than he can lose with pleasure stakes his
heart.—George ILerbert.

An assembly of the states, a court of justice,
shows nothing so serious and graye as a table
of gamesters playing very high ; « melancholy
solicitude clouds their looks : envy and rancor
agitate their minds while the meeting lasts,
without regard to friendship, alliances, birth, or
distinctions.—-Bruyére.

It is lost'at dice, what ancient honor won.—
. Shakespeare.

If thy desire to raise thy fortunes encourage
thy delights to the casts of fortune, be wise be-
times, lest thou repent too late; what thou get-
test, thou gainest by abused providence; what
thou losest, thou losest by abused patience ;
what thon winnest is prodigally spent; what
thou losest is prodigally lost ; itis an evil trade
that prodigality drives; and a bad voyage
where the pilot is blind.— Quarles.

Games of chance are traps to eatch school-
boy novices and gaping country squires, who
begin with’a guinca and end with a mortgage.

Cumberland,

The exercises I wholly condemn are dicing
and carding, especially if you play for any great
sum of money, or spend any time in them, or
use to come to meetings in dicing-houses, where
cheaters mect and cozen young gentlemen outs
of all their moncy.—Lord Herbert.

Gaming is the child of avarice, but the par-
ent of prodigality.—Colton.

Sports and gaming, whether pursned from a
desire of gain or love of pleasure, are as ruinous
to the temper and disposition of the party ad-
dicted to them, as they are to his fame and for-
tune.— Burton.

Gaming finds a man a cully, and leaves him
‘a knave.—T. Hughes.

The coldness of ‘a losing gamester lessens
the pleasure of the winner. Pvould no more
play with aman that slighted his ill fortune
than I would make love to a8 woman who un-
dervalued the loss of her reputation. —Congreve.

All gaming, since it implies a desire to prof
it at the expense of another, involves a breach
of the tenth commandment.— Whately.

It is well for gamesters that they are so na-
merous as to make a society of themselves; for
it would be a strange abuse of terms to rank
those among society at large, whose profession
it is to prey pon all who compose it.—

Cumberland,

By gaming we lose both our time and treas-
ure, — two things most precious to the life of
man.—Feltham.


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196

GENEROSITY.

The passion of gaming is almost never un-
accompanied ; and, to those of our sex especial-
ly, is always the source or the occasion of all the
others.— Massillon.

Be assured that, althongh men of eminent
genius have been guilty of all other vices, none
worthy of more than a secondary name has ever
been a gainester. Hither an cxcess of avarice,
or a deficiency of what, in physics, is called ex-
citability, is the cause of it; neither of which
can exist in the same bosom_with genius, with
patriotism, or with virtue—LZandor.

Lookers-on many times see more than game-
ster's.— Bacon.

There is nothing that wears out/a fine face
like the vigils of a card-table, and those entting
passions which naturally attend them. Hag-
gard looks and pale complexions are the natu-
ral indications of a female gamester—Addison.

It is the child of avarice, the brother of in-
iquity, and the father of mischief.— IVashington.

That reproach of modern times, that gulf of
time and fortune, the passion for gaming, which
is so often the refnge of the idle sons of pleasnre
and often, alas! the last resource of the ruined.

lair.

Gaming has been resorted to by the affluent
as:a refuge from ennui; it is a mental dram,
and may succeed for & moment, but, like all
other stimuli, it produees indirect debility ; and
those who have recourse to it will find that the
sources of their ennui are far more inexhansti-
ble than those of their purse.— Colton.

GAYETY.

Gayety pleases more when we are assured that
it does not cover carelessness. —Aadame de Staél.

Gayety is to good-humor as animal perfumes,
to vegetable fragrance. The one overpowers
weak spirits, the other recreates and revives
them. Gayety seldom fails to give some pain ;
good-humor boasts no faculties which every
one does not believe in his own power, and
pleases principally by not offending.— Johnson.

Some people are commended for a giddy
kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue
as drunkenness.—Pope.

Is there anything in life so lovely and poet-
ical as the ‘Jaugh and merriment of a young
girl, who, still in harmony with all her powers,
sports with you in luxuriant freedom, and in
her mirthfilness neither despises nor dislikes?
Her gravity is seldom as innocent as her play-
fulness; still less that haughty discontent which
converts the youthful Psyche into a dull, thick,
buzzing, wing-drooping night-moth.—AHichter.

Gayety is the soul’s health; sadness is its
poison.—Stanislaus.

Leaves seem light and uscless, and idle
and wavering, and changeable,—they even
dance ; yet God has made them part of the oak.
In so doing, he has given ns a lesson, not to
deny the stout-leartedness within because we
see the lightsomeness without.—Zeigh Hunt.

Gayety is often the reckless ripple over
depths of despair — Chajin.

GENEROSITY.

Any one may do a casual act of good-na-
ture; but a continuation of them shows it a
part of the temperament.—Sterne.

Some are unwisely liberal; and more de-
light to give presents than to pay debts.—
Sir P. Sidney.

A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair
praise.— Shakespeare.

There isa story of some mountains of salt
in Cumana, which never diminished, though
earried away in much abundance by merchants ;
but when once they were monopolized to the
benefit of... private purse, then the salt de-
creased, till atterwards all were allowed to take
of it, when it had a new access and increase.
The trnth of this story may be uncertain, but
the application is true; he that envies others
the use of his gifts decays then, but he thrives
most that is most diffusive—Spencer.

Generosity, wrong placed, becometh a vice ;
a princely mind will undo a private family —
Fuller.

True generosity is a duty as indispensably
necessary as those imposed upon us by the law.
It is a rnle imposed upon us by reason, which
should be the sovereign law of a rational being.

, Geldsmith.

The generous who is always just, and the
just who is always generous, may, unan-
nounced, approach the throne of Heaven.—

Lavater.

When you give, take to yourself no credit
for generosity, unless yon deny yourself some-
thing in order that you may give.—

Henry Taylor.

Bounty, being free itself, thinks -all others
$0.-—Shakespeare. .

Men of the noblest dispositions think them-
selves happiest when others share their happi-
ness with them.—Duncan.

There is greatness in being generous, and
there is only simple justice in satisfying credi-
tors. Generosity is the part of the soul raised
above the vulgar.— Goldsmith.

The secret pleasure of a generous act is the
great mind’s great bribe —Dryden.


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197

GENIUS.

All my experience of the world teaches me
that in ninety-nine cases ont of a hundred the
safe side*and the just side of a question is the
geucrous side and the merciful side.— ‘

‘ulfrs. Jameson.

To this world, it is not what we take up, but
what we give up, that makes us rich.— Beecher.

O the world is but a-word ; were it all yours
to give it ia a breath, how quickly were it
gone ! —Shakespeare.

There is no grace in a benefit that sticks to
the fingers.—Seneca.

Wherever I find a great deal of gratitude in

a poor man, I take it for granted there wonld
be as inuch generosity if he were a rich man.—
Pope.

What seems to be pencrosity is often no
more than disguised ambition ; which overlooks
a small interest, in order to gratify a great one.

Rochefoucauld.

Generosity during life is a very different
thing from gencrosity in the hour of death ; one
proceeds from, genuine liberality ‘and benevo-
lence, the other from pride or fear.

Lorace Mann.

Almost always the most indigent are the
most generous.— Stanislaus.

The reputation of gencrosity is to be pnr-
chased pretty cheap; it docs not depend so
much upon a man’s general expense, as it docs
npon his giving handsomely where it is proper
to give ac all. iA man, for instance, who shouhl
give a servant four shillings would pass for cov-
etous, while he who gave him a crown would
be reckoned generous; so that the difference of
those two opposite characters turns upon one
shilling — Chesterfield.

How much casier it is to be gencrous than
just! Men are sometimes bountiful who are
not honest.—Juntus.

He that gives-all, thongh but little, gives
much ; because God looks not to the quantity of
the gift, but to the quality of the givers: he that
desires to give more than he can hath equalled
his gift to his desire, and hath given more than
he hath.—Quarles.

If theré be any truer measure of a-man than
by what he docs, it must be by what he gives.—
. “South.

One great reason why men practise gencros-
ity so little in the world Is their finding so little
there. Gencrosity.is catching ; ‘and if so many
eseape it, it is in @ small degree for the same
reason that countrymen escape the small-pox,
—becanse they meet with no one to give it to
them.—Lord Greville. °

It is not enongh to _help.the feeble up, but
to support him after.— Shakespeare.

He who gives what he would as readily
throw away gives withont geucrosity ; for the
essence of generosity is in self-sacritice.—

Henry Taylor.

They that do an.act that docs deserve re-
quital pay first themselves the stock of such
content.—Sir Lobert Lloward.

GENIUS.

The effusions of genius are entitled to admi-
ration rather than apphiuse, as they are chiefly
the effect of natural endowment, and sometimes
appear to be almost involuntary.— WW. B. Clulow.

Genius may at times want the spur, but it
stands as often in need of the curb.—Longinus.

Nature seems to delight in disappointing the

-assiduities of art, with which it would rear dul-

uess to maturity, and to glory in the vigor and
Inxuriance of her chance productions. She
seatters the seeds of genius to the winds, and
thongh some may perish among the stony
places of the world, and some may be choked
by the thorns and brambles of carly auversity,
yet others will now and then strike root even in
the clefts of the rock, struggle bravely up into
sunshine, «and spread over their sterile birth-
place all the beauties of vegetation. —
Washington Irving.

Genius is the instinct of enterprise. A boy
came