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FORTY THOUSAND
QUOTATIONS
PROSE AND POETICAL
FORTY THOUSAND
QUOTATIONS
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PROSE AND POETICAL
Compiled by CHARLES NOEL DOUGLAS
Choice extracts on History, Science, Philosophy,
Religion, Literature, etc. Selected from
the standard authors of ancient
and modern times, classified
according to subject.
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COPYRIGHT, 1904, BY LOUIS K L O P> S C H
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INC., C O R 1ST W A 1
INTRODUCTION
The mission of this work is to supply a universal need, "which is felt by the multitude of busy men and women of to-day, who, while eager to be initiated into the society of the great masters of literature, find it impossible to devote the time necessary to such studies as would accom- plish that result. One to whom books are as strangers has not . yet learned to live. He is a solitary, though he dwell amid a vast popula- tion. On the other hand, he to wnom books are as friends possesses a Key to the Garden of Delights, where the purest pleasures are open for his entertainment, and where he has for his companions the master minds of all the ages.
Coleridge, writing nearly a century ago, asked: "Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody's reach ; and though it is better to know them thor- oughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have neither the time nor the means to get more."
In Forty Thousand Quotations, the busy man of affairs, the teacher and preacher, the public speaker, lawyer and writer, the man or woman who desires to make a creditable figure in conversation, correspondence or debate, in fact, the reader and student of either sex and any age, may turn at will to the choicest and most striking pas- sages of the illustrious authors, orators and thinkers of all time, from the classic age to the present day. It will open, as with a magic key, the gateways of literature, and the realm of books "will no longer be a terra incognita, since here are to be found the literary treasures of the ripest scholarship and the finest culture the world has ever known.
In making a collection of such magnitude, and from so many diverse sources, care has been exercised to render the indices, classification and general arrangement so simple that they can be mastered at a glance. One thousand four hundred topics are treated, covering almost the entire range of thought and emotion.
Famous classic, medieval and modern writers have contributed their quota. Here we have the loftiest strains of the poets, the highest flights of the orators, the keenest logic of the essayists, the strongest situations
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of the dramatists, the brightest bons mots of the humorists. -"Here are the flashes of genius that have stirred the souls of men, the famous epi- grams, ma'xims, aphorisms, adages, similes and other utterances that have excited the world's admiration or amusement. A noted author once remarked that a dozen lines from a writer's works, familiar to the people after twenty years, constituted literary immortality. This vol- ume is a Pantheon of Immortals in splendid array — rank upon rank of the novelists, poets, orators, philosophers, wits, sages, historians, scien- tists, statesmen, represented by utterances wherewith they have in- spired and delighted men and women of every age.
There are many ways in which a work of this character can be made of great value to the reader and student, whatever may be his or her vocation in life. Take the best thoughts on the topic selected; read them; write them down; repeat them; make them your own, and they will become a part of your life and an influence on your career. You will find unconsciously that your mental horizon will be widened, your address enriched, and even your letters will acquire a polish which would be unattainable through other means.. The art of apt quotation, happy simile, and pleasing witticism, is within your reach. Grace and power in writing and speaking do not consist in the employment of commonplace phrase and adjective, but come by studying the best mod- els, and so also do the flexibility, range of expression and felicitous illus- tration which hold the ear, while they carry force and conviction to the mind.
George Eliot calls such a collection as this "The flowers of all books," and never was description more felicitous. Joubert, writing on the same subject, said "The coin of wisdom is its great thoughts, its eloquent flights, its proverbs and pithy sentences." That coin, struck at the mint of genius, is here in abundant measure.
'This new and revised edition of Forty Thousand Quotations was first published as Forty Thousand Sublime and Beautiful Thoughts.
A
A
bility
Ability without leon I.
is of little opportunity. -
account — Napo-
Ability is a poor man's wealth. — Matthew Wren.
Ability in a man is knowledge which emanates from divine light. — Zoroas- ter.
Ability involves responsibility. Power to its last particle is duty. — Maclaren.
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. — Gibbon.
Consider well what your strength is equal to, and what exceeds your abil- ity.— Horace.
Ability wins us the esteem of the true men ; luck that of the people. — La Rochefoucauld.
Exigencies create the necessary abil- ity to meet and to conquer them. — Wendell Phillips.
An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions. — Chesterfield.
'Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abil- ities, and for no more. — Gail Hamil- ton.
The art of using moderate abilities to advantage wins praise, and often acquires more reputation than actual brilliancy. — La Rochefoucauld.
As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities. — Froude.
The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good. — Vauven- argues.
Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest. — Jean Paul Rich- ter.
I pride myself in recognizing and upholding ability in every party and wherever I meet it. — Beaconsfield.
To become an able man in any pro- fession, there are three things neces- sary,— nature, study, and practice. — - Aristotle.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. — Longfellow.
You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand to.— Cervantes.
Who does the best his circumstance allows, Does well, acts nobly ; angels could no more. — Young.
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability. — Burke.
The measure of capacity is tbe meas- ure of sphorp to either man or wom- an.— Klizaboth Oakes Smith.
The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a contempt fo*
Absence
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Absence
mere external show. — James A. Gar- field.
Natural ability can almost compen- sate for the want of every kind of cultivation; but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural ability. — Schopenhauer.
Read my little fable: He that runs may read.
Most can raise the flowers now, For all have got the seed.
— Tennyson.
To the very last, he [Napoleon! had a kind of idea; that, namely, of la carriere ouverte aux talent — the tools to him that can handle them. — Sir Walter Scott.
No man is without some quality, by the due application of which he might deserve well of the world ; and who- ever he be that has but little in his power should be in haste to do that little, lest he be confounded with him that can do nothing. — Dr. Johnson.
He could raise scruples dark and nice,
And after solve 'em in a trice;
As if Divinity had catch'd
The itch, on purpose to be scratch* d.
—Butler.
There's in him stuff that puts him to these
ends; For being not propped up by ancestry whose
grace
Chalks successors their way; nor called upon For high feats done to the crown; neither
allied
To eminent assistants; but, spider-like, Out of his self -drawing web, he gives us
note;
The force of his own merit makes his way; A. gift that heaven gives for him, which
buys A place next to a kmg. — Shakespeare.
Absence
Conspicuous by his absence. — Tac-
Absence makes the heart grow fonder; Isle of Beauty, fare thee well !
—T. H. Bayley.
Judicious absence is a weapon. — Charles Reade.
Thinking of thee, still thee, thought grew pain. — Moore.
I dote on his very absence. — Shake- speare.
Absence is all love's crime. — Beau- mont and Fletcher.
It is absence that tries fidelity. — Mrs. J. Hunter.
The absent feel and fear every ill.- Cervantes.
Achilles absent, was Achilles still.— < Homer.
I believe absence is a great element of charm. — Beaconsfield.
Short absence quickens love ; long absence kills it. — Mirabeau.
In the hope to meet
Shortly again, and make our absence sweet — Ben Jonson.
Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only ab- sence can set them free. — Dr. Johnson.
Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, my heart, untravelled, fondly turns to thee. — Goldsmith.
There's little pleasure in the house When our gudeman's awa.
_W. J. Mickle.
Ever absent, ever near; Still I see thee, still I hear; Yet I cannot reach thee. dear!
— Francis Kazinczy.
'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look bright- er when we come. — Byron.
Wives m their husbands' absences grow subtler, m
And daughters sometimes run off with the butler. —Byron.
Thou art gone from my gaze like a beauti- ful dream,
And I seek thee in vain by the meadow
and stream. — George Linley.
The joys of meeting pay the pangs of ab
sence,
Else who could bear it? — Rowe.
till As contraries are known by contra, ries, so is the delight of presence best
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Absolution
known by the torments of absence. — Alcibiades.
All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me. — Shakespeare.
Condemned whole years In absence to de- plore,
And image charms he must behold no more.
— Pope.
Your absence of mind we have home, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it. — Charles Lamb.
"Tis said that absence conquers love;
But oh! believe it not. I've tried, alas! its power to prove, But thou art not forgot.
— Frederick W. Thomas.
Days of absence, sad and dreary;
Clothed in sorrow's dark array, — Days of absence, I am veary;
She I love is far away.
— Rousseau.
have this while with leaden thoughts
been press'd;
But I shall, m a more continuate time, Strike off this score of absence.
— Shakespeare.
Oft in the tranquil hour of night When stars illume the sky,
I gaze upon each orb of light, And wish that thou wert by.^
— George Linley.
Ye .flowers that droop forsaken by the spring;
Ye birds that left by summer cease to sing;
Yet trees that fade when autumn heats re- move,
Say, is not absence death to those who love? — Pope.
Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee; Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless
pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening
chain. — Goldsmith.
How like a winter hath my absence been From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting
What freezings have I felt, what dark days
seen!
What old December's bareness every- where.
Not to -understand a treasure's worth till time has stole away the slighted srood, is cause of half the poverty we
feel, and makes the world the wilder- ness it is. — Cowper.
O thou who dost inhabit in my breast, Leave not the mansion so loag tenantless; Lest growing ruinous the building fall, And leave no memory of what it was.
— Shakespeare.
What shall I do with all the days and houra
That must be counted ere I see thy face?
How shall I charm the interval that lowers
Between this time and that sweet time
of grace?
— Frances Anne Kemble.
In my Lucia's absence Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden; I am ten times undone, while hope, and
fear, And grief, and rage and love rise up at
once,
And with variety of pain distract me. — Addison.
What I keep a week away? seven days and
nights?
Eight score hours? and lovers' absent hours, More tedious than the dial eight score
times ? 0 weary reckoning! • — Shakespeare.
Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind will blow out a candle and blow in a fire. — La Rochefoucauld.
With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence — o'er and o'er again Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought
grew pain, f And memory, like a drop that, night and
day, Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart
away 1 — Moore.
Since you have waned from us,
Fairest of women I I am a darkened cage
Songs cannot hymn in. Mv songs have followed you,
Like birds the summer; Ah! bring them back to me, Swiftly, dear comer! Seraphim, Her to hymn, Might leave their portals; And at my feet learn The harping of mortals!
— Francis Thompson.
Absent
Absent in body, but present in spirit, —St. Paul. Absolution
No man taketh away sins (which the law, though holy, just and
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could not take away) , but He in whom there is no sin. — Bede.
It appertaineth to the true God alone to be able to loose men from their sins. — St. Cyril.
He alone can remit sins who is appointed our Master by the Father of all ; He only is able to discern obe- dience from disobedience. — St. Clement of Alexandria.
Neither angel, nor archangel, nor yet even the Lord Himself (who alone can say " I am with you ") , can, when we have sinned, release us, un- less we bring repentance with us. — St. Ambrose.
It is not the ambassador, it is not the messenger, but the Lord Himself that saveth His people. The Lord remaineth alone, for no man can be partner with God in forgiving sins; this office belongs solely to Christ, who taketh away the sins of the world. — St. Ambrose.
Abstinence
Abstinence is approved of God. — Chaucer.
Abstinence is the surety of temper- ance.— Plato.
Too much is a vanity; enough is a feast. — Quarles.
Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason. — South.
Abstinence is many times very help- ful to the end of religion. — Tillotson.
Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket. — Horace Greeley.
Abstaining so as really to enjoy, is the epicurism, the very perfection, of reason. — Rousseau.
The more a man denies himself, the more shall he obtain from God. — Horace.
By forbearing to dc what may inno- cently be done, we may add hourly iiew vigor to resolution. — Dr. Johnson,
Abstinence is as easy to me as tem« perance would be difficult. — Samue! Johnson.
Abstinence is whereby a man re« fraineth from anything which he may lawfully take. — Elyot.
Against diseases Here the strongest fence Is the defensive virtue, abstinence.
— Herrick.
To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which one of the Fathers observes to be, not a vir- tue, but the groundwork of a virtue. — Johnson.
A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exer- cise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty. — Lord Kames.
His life is parallel'd E'en with the stroke and line of his great
justice;
He doth with holy abstinence subdue That in himself which he spurs on hia
power To qualify in others. — Shakespeare.
We read of a fountain in Arabia upon whose basin is inscribed, "Drink, and away;" but how delicious is that hasty draught, and how long and brightly the thought of its transient refreshment dwells in the memory. — • Tuckerman.
Never add artificial heat to thy body by wine or spice until thou findest that time hath decayed thy natural heat— Sir Walter Raleigh.
Abstract
Brief abstract and record of 'tedious* days. — Shakespeare.
They are the abstracts, and brief ihronicles of the time. — Shakespeare.
Absurdity
Absurdity refutes itself. — Bartholin*
Do not sanction an absurdity.—^ Mine, de Genlis.
The greater absurdities are,
Abundance
more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from \vhence they flow. — Atterbury.
Absurdities die of self-strangulation. — Haliburton.
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it. — Goldsmith.
Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude. — Landor.
Of all the authorities to which men can be called to submit, the wisdom of our ancestors is the most whimsically absurd. — Jeremy Taylor.
Abundance
In abundance prepare for scarcity, — — Mencius.
Abundance changes the value of things. — Terence.
Abundance without discretion is plain penury. — Matteo Gribaldi.
Not what we have, but what we en- joy, constitutes our abundance. — J. Petit-Senn,
For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. — Matthew, chap, xii., 34.
Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin. — Erasmus.
Abundance consists not alone in ma- terial possession, but in an uncovetous spirit. — Selden.
If I have enough for myself and family, I am steward only for myself; if I have more, I am but a steward of that abundance for others. — George Herbert.
Abuse
Abuse is the weapon of the vulgar. — Goodrich.
It is better a man should be abused than forgotten. — Dr. Johnson.
% Abuse
The weak resort of cowardice. — Col- ton.
The bitter clamour of two eager tongues. — Shakespeare.
It is the wit, the policy, of sin to hate those men whom we have abused. — Sir W. Davenant.
A calumnious abuse, too often re- peated, becomes so familiar to the ear as to lose its effect.
There is a time when the hoary head of inveterate abuse will neither draw reverence nor obtain protection. — • Burke.
Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence. His name, like a shuttlecock, must be beat backward and forward, or it falls to the ground. — Johnson.
Nor aught so crood but strained from that
fair use,
Revolts from true birth stumbling on abuse, — Shakespeare,
There are more people abusive to others than lie open to abuse them- selves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me to-day will have somebody to laugh at him to-morrow. — Seneca.
I never yet heard man or woman much abused, 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 de« light in pointing out the defects of $ 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 in- sulting. When, therefore, any one provokes you, be assured that it is your own opinion which provokes you, — Epictetus.
It has been shrewdly said, that when men abuse us we should suspect our- selves, and when they praise us, therm It is a rare instance of virtue to de<
Acacia
Accountability
spise censure which we do not deserve ; and still more rare to despise praise which we do. — Colton.
Acacia
Light-leaved acacias, by the door,
Stood up in balmy air, Clusters of blossomed moonlight bore,
And breathed a perfume rare.
— George MacDonald.
Our rocks are rough, but smiling there Th* acacia waves her yellow hair, Lonely and sweet, nor loved the less For flow'rmg in a wilderness.
— Moore.
A great acacia, with its slender trunk And overpoise of multitudinous leaves, (In which a hundred fields might spill their
dew
And intense verdure, yet find room enough) Stood reconciling all the place with green. — E. B. Browning.
The slender acacia would not shake
One long milk-bloom on the tree; The white lake-blossom fell into the lake
As the pimpernel dozed on the lea; But the rose was awake all night for your sake,
Knowing your promise to me; The lilies and roses were all awake,
They sighed for the dawn and thee.
— Tennyson.
Pluck the acacia's golden balls, And mark where the red pomegranate falls. —Julia C. R. Dorr.
Accent
Accent is the soul of language: it gives to it feeling and truth.— Rous- seau.
Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but second- ary.— Disraeli.
Accidents
The accident of an accident. — Lord Thurlow.
Chapter of accidents. — Burke.
Moving accidents by flood and field. —Othello.
By many a happy accident. — Thom- as Middleton.
There is no such thing as accident; It is fate misnamed. — Napoleon I.
Nothing with God can be accidental. — Longfellow.
What men call accident is God's own part. — Bailey.
Promptly improve your accidents. — - Napoleon I.
Nothing under the sun is accident* — Lessing.
Accident is simply unforeseen order. — Novalis.
The Orientals have another word for accident ; it is '"kismet," — fate. — • Macaulay.
The just season of doing things must be nicked, and all accidents im proved. — L'Estrange.
The chapter of accidents is the long- est chapter in the book. — Attributed to John Wilkes.
To what happy accident is it that we owe so unexpected a visit? — Gold- smith.
Our wanton accidents take root, and grow To vaunt themselves God's laws.
— Charles Kingsley.
Sometimes there are accidents in our lives the skillful extrication from which demands a little folly. — La Rochefoucauld.
There are no accidents so unfortu* nate from which skillful men will not draw some advantage, nor so fortunate that foolish men will not turn them to their hurt. — La Rochefoucauld.
Accommodated
That is, when a man is, as they say, accommodated: or where a man is — - being — whereby — he may be thought to be accommodated, which is an ex- cellent thing. — Shakespeare.
Accountability
Moral conduct includes every thing in which men are active and for which they are accountable. They are active in their desires, their affections, their designs, their intentions, and in every
Accusation
Acquirements
tiring they say and do of choice; anc for all these things they are account- able to God. — Emmons.
When illusions are over, when the distractions of sense, the vagaries of fancy, and the tumults of passion have dissolved even before the body is cold, which once they so thronged and agi- tated, the soul merges into intellect, intellect into conscience, conscience into the unbroken, awful solitude of Its own personal accountability; and though the inhabitants of the universe were within the spirit's ken, this per- sonal accountability is as strictly alone and unshared, as if no being were throughout immensity but the spirit and its God. — Henry Giles. Accusation
Give me good proofs of what you have al-
leged:
Tis not enough to say — in such a bush There lies a thief — in such a cave a beast; But you must show him to me ere I shoot, Ifelse I may kill one of my straggling sheep. —Shakespeare.
To vouch this is no proof Without more certain and more overt tests Than these thin habits and poor likelihoods Of modern seeming do prefer against him. —Shakespeare.
On the four aces doom'd to roll. — 'Churchill
We gentlemen, whose chariots roll only upon the four aces, are apt to have a wheel out of order. — Sir John Vanbrugh. Aches
Up start as many aches In his bones, as there are ouches in his skin. — George Chapman.
Can by their pangs and aches find All turns and changes of the wind.
— Butler.
If thou neglect'st, or dost unwillingly What I command, I'll rack thee with old
cramps; Fill all thy bones with aches; make thee
roar That beasts shall tremble at thy din.
— Shakespeare. Acknowledgments
What makes false reckoning, as re- gards gratitude, is that the pride of
the giver and the receiver cannot agree as to the value of the benefit. — La Rochefoucauld. Acquaintances
Make few acquaintances. — Roths- child.
Acquaintance softens prejudice. —
Slight acquaintance breeds distrust — Viera.
A long novitiate of acquaintance should precede the vows of friendship. •Bolingbroke.
It is good discretion not to make too much of any man at the first ; because one cannot hold out that proportion.— Bacon.
Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mm'?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And days o* auld Icmg syne?
— Burns.
If a man does not make new ac- quaintances, as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man should keep his friendship in constant repair. — Johnson.
Make the most of the day, by deter- mining to spend it on two sorts of ac- quaintances only — those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something may be learned. — • Colton.
There is a wide difference between general acquaintance and companion- ship. You may salute a man and ex- change compliments with him daily, yet know nothing of his character, his inmost tastes and feelings. — Wm. Mat* thews. Acquirements
That good sense which nature af- fords us is preferable to most of the knowledge that we can acquire. — Comines.
We shall at all times chance upon men of recondite acquirements, but whose qualifications, from the incom* municative and inactive habits of theii
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owners, are as utterly useless to oth- ers as though the possessors had them not — Colton.
That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one. — Colton.
Acting
All the world's a stage. — Shake- speare.
All the world practices the art of acting. — Petronius Arbiter.
Come, sit down, every mother's son, and rehearse your parts. — Shakespeare.
Lo, where the Stage, the poor, degraded
Stage,
Holds its warpexi mirror to a gaping age! — Charles Sprague.
Who teach the mind its proper face to scan, \nd hold the faithful mirror up to man. — Robert Lloyd.
The play's the thing
Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the kmg. — Shakespeare.
A fool cannot be an actor, though an actor may act a fool's part. — Soph- ocles.
The part was aptly fitted and nat- urally performed. — Shakespeare.
An actor should take lessons from a painter and a sculptor. — Goethe.
Where they do agree on the stage, then unanimity is wonderful. — Sheri- dan.
They wear the livery of other men's fortunes; their very thoughts are not their own. — Hazlitt.
The concealment of art by the actor is as great a mark of genius as it is oa the painter. — Francois Delsarte.
Let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them. — Shakespeare.
To see Kean act was like reading
Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.— Coleridge.
Let gorgeous Tragedy, in sceptred pall, come sweeping by. — Milton.
Comedians are not actors; they are imitators of actors. — Zimmerman.
On the stage he was natural, simple, af-
fecting, 'Twas only that when he was off, he was
acting. — Goldsmith.
The world's a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God and Nature do with actors filL — Thomas Heywood.
The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give. For we thc.c live to please, must please to live. — Samuel Johnson.
And what the actor could effect, The scholar couldpresage
—Thomas Campbell.
Even kings but play ; and when their part is done, some other, worse or bet- ter, mounts the throne. — Dryden.
See, how these rascals use me! They will not let my play run; and yet they steal my thunder. — John Den- nis.
To-day kings, to-morrow beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are nothing. — Hazlitt.
The most difficult character in com- edy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part — Cervantes.
God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces which are played upon earth have been composed in heaven. — Balzac.
A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach. —Pope.
The play bill which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out. — Scott.
The stage is a supplement to the pulpit, where virtue, according to Pla*
to's sublime idea, moves our love and affection when made visible to the eye. — Disraeli.
In really good acting we should be able to believe that what we hear and see is of our own imagining ; it should seem to us as a charming dream. — Joubert.
I can counterfeit the deep tragedian; Speak and look back, and pry on every side, Tremble and start at wagging of a straw, Intending deep suspicion. — Shakespeare.
Is it not a noble farce wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the vast' universe serves for a theatre ? — Montaigne.
Everybody has his own theatre, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, sceneshifter, boxkeeper, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience Into the bargain. — J. C. and A. W. Hare.
As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-grac'd actor leaves the stage, Aie idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious,
— Shakespeare.
tn other things the knowing artist may fudge better than the people; but a play, (Made for delight, and for no other use) If you approve it not, has no excuse. —Edmund Waller.
I have seen no men in life loving their profession so much as painters, except, perhaps, actors, who, when not engaged themselves, always' so to the play. — Thackeray.
It is their province to make the pub- lic weep and smile, tremble and resent, and to light all the passions of the human breast in their enthusiastic audiences. — G. A. Sala.
Who rant by note, and through the gamut rage; in songs and airs express their martial fire ; combat in trills, and in a fugue expire. — Addison.
Notwithstanding all that Rousseau has advanced so very ingeniously upon plays and players, their profession is, like that of a painter, one of the imi-
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tative arts, whose means are pleasure, and whose end is virtue. — Shenstone*
Johnson told Garrick that he and his profession were mutually indebted to each other, ''Your profession," said the doctor, "has made you rich; and you have made your profession respectable. ' ' — Co Iton.
It is with some violence to the im- agination that we conceive of an actor belonging to the relations of private life, so closely dp we identify these persons in our mind with the charac- ters which they assume upon the stage • — Lamb.
The actor is in the capacity of a steward to every living muse, and of an executor to every departed one : the poet digs up the ore; he sifts it from the dross, refines and purifies it for the mint; the actor sets the stamp upon it, and makes it current in the world. — Cumberland.
Few men of any modern nation have a proper sense of an sesthetical whole: they praise and blame by parts; they are charmed by passages. And who has greater reason to rejoice in this than actors, since the stage is ever but a patched and piecemeal matter?— Goethe.
Players, sir ! I look upon them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint-stools to make faces and pro- duce laughter, like dancing dogs. — But, sir, you will allow th^t some players are better than others? — Yes, sir; as some dogs dance better than others. — Dr. Johnson.
Remember that you are but an actor, acting whatever part the Master ha* ordained. It may be short or it may be long. If he wishes you to represent a poor man, do so heartily; if a crip- ple, or a magistrate, or a private man, in each case act your part with honor. — Epictetus.
Victor Hugo makes one of his hero- ines— an actress — say, "My art endows ine with a searching eye, a knowledge of the soul and the sours workings;
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and, spite of all your skill, I read you to the depths." This is a truth more or less powerful, as one is more or less gifted by the good God. — Charlotte Cushman.
And, like a strutting player, whose conceit Lies in his hamstring, and doth think it
rich
To hear the wooden dialogue and sound 'Twixt his stretch'd footing and the scaf-
foldage — Shakespeare.
Is it not monstrous that this player here, But in a fiction, m a dream of passion, m Could force his soul so to his own conceit That from her working all his visage wann'd. — Shakespeare.
A play there is, my lord, some ten words
Ions,
Which is as brief as I have known a play; But by ten words, my lord, it is too long, Which makes it tedious. — Shakespeare.
There is one way by which a stroll- ing player may b» ever secure of suc- cess ; that is, in our 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 people 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 feels it while be is drinking. — Goldsmith.
What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her? What would
he do,
Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have? He would drown the stage
with tears. — Shakespeare.
To wake the soul by tender strokes o^art, To raise the genius^ and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they be- hold—- For this the tragic Muse first trod the stage.
—Pope.
It's very hard!. Oh, Dick, my boy, It's very hard one can't enjoy
A little private spouting; But sure as Lear or Hamlet lives, Up comes our master, Bounce! and gives
The tragic Muse a routing.
— Hood.
Good, my lord, will you see the play- tirs well bestowed? Do you hear, let
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them be well used; for they are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time : after your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill re- port while you live. — Shakespeare.
I have heard
That guilty creatures sitting at a play, Have, by the very cunning of the scene, Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaim'd their malef actions ; For murder, though it have no tongue, will
speak With most miraculous organ.
— Shakespeare.
O, there be players that I have seen play, and heard others praise, and that highly, not to speak it profanely, that, neither having the accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated human- ity so abominably. — Shakespeare.
The play is done; the curtain drops,
Slow falling to the prompter's bell: A moment yet the actor stops,
And looks around, to say farewell, It is an irksome word and task:
And, when he's laughed and said his
say, He shows, as he removes the mask,
A face that's anything but gay.
— Thackeray.
Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks:
Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks.
The founder's you: the table is this place:
The carvers we: the prologue is the jgrace.
Each act, a course, each scene, a different dish,
Though we're in Lent, I doubt you're still _ for flesh.
Satire's the sauce, high-season'd, sharp and rough.
Kind masks and beaux, I hope you're pep- per-proof ?
Wit is the wine; but 'tis so scarce the tru«
Poets, like vintners, balderdash and brew.
Your surly scenes, where rant and blood- shed join,
Are butcher's meat, a battle's a sirloin:
Your scenes of love, so flowing, soft and chaste,
Are water-gruel without salt or taste.
— George Farquhar.
I think I love and reverence all arts equally, only putting my own just above the others; because in it I rec- ognize the union and culmination of my own. To me it seems as if wher
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Action,
God conceived the world, that was Poetry; He formed it, and that was Sculpture ; He colored it, and that was Painting; He peopled it with living beings, and that was the grand, divine, eternal Drama. — Charlotte Cushman.
Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, the whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temper- ance that may give it smoothness. — Shakespeare.
Action
Let us do or die. — Campbell.
Push on, — keep moving. — Thomas Morton.
There is only one proof of ability, — action. — Marie Ebner-Eschenbach.
To the valiant actions speak alone, —Smollett.
Action, so to speak, is the genius of nature. — Blair.
We cannot all do all things. — Virgil.
The food of hope is meditative action. — Bulwer-Lytton.
Strong reasons make strong actions. •—Shakespeare.
Time is short; your obligations are infinite. — Massillon.
Put his shoulder to the wheel. — Bur- ton.
A bold onset is half the battle. — Garibaldi.
_ The act of God injures no one. — - juvenal.
Be great in act, as you have been in thought. — Shakespeare.
What the Puritans gave the world
was not thought, but action. — Wen dell Phillips.
And all may do what has by man been done. — Young.
Awake, arise, or be forever fall'nl —Milton.
Gentle in method, resolute in ac- tion.— From the Latin.
It is well to think well : it is divine to act well. — Horace Mann.
It is better to wear out than to rust out. — Bishop Cumberland.
Do well and right, and let the world sink. — Herbert.
It is praiseworthy even to attempt a great action. — La Rochefoucauld.
Do not do what is already done. — Terence.
Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act. — Sophocles.
The thing done avails, and not what is said about it. — Emerson.
The Lord is a God of knowledge, and by Him actions are weighed. — I Samuel ii. 3
Never do an act of which you doubt the justice or propriety. — Latin.
Our actions are our own; their con- sequences belong to Heaven. — Francis.
Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in the dust, — James Shirley.
How much easier do we find it tc commend a good action than to imi- tate it. — Anon. •
Of every noble action the intent Is to give worth reward — vice punishment — Beaumont and Fletcher.
I profess not talking: only this, Let each man do his best.
— Shakespeare
The end of man is an action, and
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Action
not a thought, though it were the no- blest.-— Carlyle.
Activity is the presence of function, —character is the record of function. — Ureenough.
The flighty purpose never is o'ertook unless the deed go with it. — Shake- speare.
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff. — Novalis.
Remember that in all miseries la- menting becomes fools, and action, wise folk. — Sir P. Sidney.
Our acts make or mar us, — we are the children of our own deeds. — Victor Hugo.
^ A stirring dwarf we do allowance give before a sleeping giant. — Shake- speare.
The only true method of action in this world is to be in it, but not of it. — Madame Swetchine.
Our actions are like the termina- tions of verses, which we rhyme as we please. — Rochefoucauld.
Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and deeds alone suf- fice.— Whittier.
When we cannot act we must act as we can.—
as we wish, -Terrence.
To be active is the primary vocation of man. — Goethe.
Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious. — Colton.
Be slow in considering, but "resolute in action. — Bias.
Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action. — Goethe.
'T is human actions paint .the chart of time. — Montgomery.
Men tfo less than they ought unless they do all that they can. — Carlyle.
Action is the parent of results ; dor< mancy, the brooding mother of discon* lent. — Miss Mulock.
Action is happiness here ; and with- out action there can be no heaven.— Voss.
The life of action is nobler than the life of thought. — Miss Mulock.
Living requires but little life; doing requires much. — Joubert
The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new. — Cato.
Action is eloquence, and the eyes of the ignorant are more learned than their ears. — Shakespeare.
The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do. — Emerson,
Active natures are rarely melan- choly. Activity and melancholy are incompatible. — Bovee.
Our acts, our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
— John Fletcher.
So much one man can do, That does both act and know.
— Andrew MarvelL
Think that day lost whose (low) descend-
ing Sun Views from thy hand no noble action done,
— Jacob Bobart.
A great mind is a good sailor, as a great heart is. — Emerson.
For good or evil must in our actions meet; Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet. — Donne.
How my achievements mock me! I will go meet them.
— Shakespeare.
Not always actions show the man; we find Who does a kindness is not therefore kind,
—Pope.
Action is transitory, a step, a blow,
The motion of a muscle — this way or that
— Wordsworth.
Action may not always
bappJ«
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Action
ness; but there is no happiness with- out action. — Beaconsfield.
So smile the Heavens upon this holy act That after hours with sorrow chide us not! — Shakespeare.
He is at no end of his actions blest Whose ends will make htm greatest and not best. < — George Chapman.
If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere
well It were done quietly. —Shakespeare.
Celerity is never more admired than by the negligent. — Shakespeare.
Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity. — Lavater.
Attempt the end, and never stand to
Nothing's so hard but search will find it out. — Herrick.
That action which appears most conducive to the happiness and virtue of mankind. — Frances Hutchecon.
When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly. — Samuel Johnson.
Attack is the reaction; I never j think I have hit hard unless it re- bounds.— Sam7] Johnson.
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. — Locke.
Deliberate with caution, but_ act with decision; and yield with gracious- ness, or oppose with firmness. — Colton.
The firefly only bhines when on the wing; so is it with the mind; when once we rest, we darken. — Bailey.
Men's actions to futurity appear but as the events to which they are con- joined do give them consequence.— Joanna Baillie.
It is vain to expect any advantage from our profession of the truth, if we be not sincerely just and honest in our actions. — Archbishop Sharpe.
Thought and theory must precede all action that moves to salutary pur- poses. Yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory. — Wordsworth.
Hast thou not Greek enough to un- derstand thus much: the end of man is an action and not a thought, though it were of the noblest. — Carlyle.
Toil, feel, think, hope. A man is sure to dream enough before he dies without making arrangements for the purpose. — Sterling.
Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature. — South.
Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude. — Sallust
With devotion's visage, And pious action, we do sugar o'er The devil himself. —Shakespeare.
Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering. — Zimme rmann.
We must not stint Our necessary ^actions, in the fear To cope malicious censurers.
— Shakespeare.
Those graceful acts,
Those thousand decencies that daily flow From all her words and actions.
— Milton.
Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a dis- tance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. — Carlyle.
Prodigious actions may as well bo done By weaver's issue, as by prince's son.
— Dryden.
Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die.
— Tennyson.
Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance. — La Rochefoucauld.
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Everr/ man feels instinctively thnt all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.- — Lowell.
What is there that you enter upon so favorably as not to repent of the undertaking and the accomplishment of your wish? — Juvenal.
For strong souls f Live like fire-hearted suns; to spend their
strength In furthest striving action.
— George Eliot.
All our actions take Their hues from the complexion of the
heart,
As landscapes their variety from light. — W. T. Bacon.
Statesman, yet friend to truth 1 of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour cleai ; Who broke no promise, served no private end.
—Pope.
How slow the time to the warm soul, that, in the very instant it forms, would execute a great design ! — Thom- son.
We should often be ashamed of our very best actions, if the world only saw the motives which caused them. — La Rochefoucauld.
A contemplative life has more the appearance of a life of piety than any other; but it is the Divine plan to bring faith into activity and exercise. —Cecil.
I have lived to know thai the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate. — Adam Clarke.
Life is a short day; but It is a working-day. Activity may lead to evil; but inactivity cannot be led to good. — Hannah More.
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.
When our souls shall leave this Dwelling, the glory of one fair and virtuous action is above all the 'scutch-
eons on our tomb, or silken banners over us. — J. Shirley.
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.
This world is but the vestibule of an immortal life. Every action of out lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. — Chapin.
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose. — Moliere,
There is no action so slight or so mean but it may be done to a great purpose, and ennobled ^hereby. — Rus- kin.
Deeds always overbalance; and downright practice speaks more plain- ly than the fairest profession. — South.
No two things differ more than hur- ry and despatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind ; despatch of a strong one. — Colton.
Press on! for in the grave there is no work and no device. Press on! while yet you may. — N. P- Willis.
Let thy mind still be bent, still plotting, where,
And when, and how thy business may be done,
Slackness breeds worms; but the sure trav- eller,
Though he alights sometimes, still goeth o&, —Herbert.
Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.
— Longfellow.
Remember you have not a sinew whose law of strength Is not action; you have not a faculty of body, mind, or soul whose law of improvement if not energy, — E. B. Hall.
There is no action of man in thii life which is not the beginning of so long a' chain of consequences, as that no human providence is high enough to give us a prospect to the end.— Thomas of Malmesbury.
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To live is not merely to breathe: it is to act; it is to make use of our or- gans, senses, faculties, — of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence. — Rousseau.
The life of man is made up of action and endurance; and life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is laid out in noble action or in patient persever- ance.— H. P. Liddon.
Those who labor to make human actions harmonize, find great difficulty In piecing them together; for, in gen- eral, they contradict each other. — Montaigne.
It is hard to personate and act a part long; for where Truth is not at the bottom, Nature will always be en- deavoring to return, and will peep out and betray herself one time or other. — Tillotson.
Man, being essentially active, must find in activity his joy, as well as his beauty and glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward. — Whipple.
/udge not of actions by their mere effect; Dive to the centre, and the cause detect; Great deeds from meanest springs may
take their course,
And smallest virtues from a mighty source.
— Pope.
Let's take the instant by the for- ward top; for we are old, and on our quickest decrees, the inaudible and noiseless foot of time steals, ere we can effect them. — Shakespeare.
That low man seeks a little thing to do,
Sees it and does it;
This high man, with a great thing to pur- sue, Dies ere he knows it.
—Robert Browning.
Rjghtness expresses of actions, what straightness does of lines; and there can no more be two kinds of right action than there can be two kinds of straight line. — Herbert Spencer.
I do not say the mind gets Informed by action, bodily action; but it does set earnestness and strength by it, and
Action
that nameless something that gives q man the mastership of his faculties. — • Mountford.
Unselfish and noble acts are the most radiant epochs in the biography of souls. When wrought in earliest youth, they lie in the memory of age like the coral islands, green and sunny, amidst the melancholy waste of ocean. — Rev. Dr. Thomas.
It is not to taste sweet things, but to do noble and true things, aud vindi- cate 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. — Carlyle.
It is good policy to strike while the iron is hot; it is still better to adopt Cromwell's procedure, and make the iron hot by striking. The master- spirit who can rule the storm is great, but he is much greater who can both raise and rule it. — B. L. Magoon.
Do not be afraid because the com- munity teems with excitement. Si- lence and death are dreadful. The rush of life, the vigor of earnest ment the conflipt of realities, invigorate, cleanse, and establish the truth. — Beecher.
All the means of action — the shape- less masses, the materials — lie every- where about us ; what we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into transparent crystal, bright and clear. — Longfellow.
Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon. — Emerson.
What a man knows should find its expression in what he does. Tine value of superior knowledge is chiefly in that it leads to a performing manhood, — Bovee.
Actions rare and sudden do com- monly proceed from fierce necessity, or else from some oblique design, whidr
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is ashamed to show itself in the pub- lic road. — Sir W. Davenant.
With a double vigilance should we watch our actions, when we reflect that good and bad ones are never child- less, and that in both cases the off- spring goes beyond the parent, — every good begetting a better, every bad a worse. — Chatfield.
You had that action and counter- action which in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers, draws out the harmony of the universe. — Edmund Burke.
Every event that a man would mas- ter must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped by him. — Holmes.
Indolence is a delightful but dis- tressing state; we must be doing some- thing to be happy. Action is no Jess necessary than thought to the instinc- tive tendencies of the human frame.-— Hazlitt.
Better that we should err in action than wholly refuse to perf&rm. The storm is so much better than the calm, as it declares the presence of a living principle. Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption also. — Simins.
To do an evil action is base ; 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 everything. — Plutarch.
Action bangs, as it were, "dissolved" in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him. — Cf.cl.vle.
If you think you can temper your- self into manliness by sitting there aver your books, it is the very silliest fancy that ever tempted a young man fco bis ruin. You cannot dream your-
self into a character: you must bam- mer and forge yourself one. — Froude*
The activity of the young is like that of rail cars in motion, — they tear along with noise and turmoil, and leave peace behind them. The quiet- est nooks, invaded by them, lose their quietude as they pass, and recover it only on their departure. Time's best gift to us is serenity. — Bovee.
"There is nothing so terrible as ac- tivity without insight," says Goethe ikl would open every one of Argus' hundred eyes before I used one of Briareus' hundred hands," says Lord Bacon. "Look before you leap," says John Smith, all over the world. — Whipple.
Allowing the performance of an hon- orable action to be attended with la- bor, the labor is soon over, but 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 eter- nal.— John Stewart.
A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true cri* terion of the attachment of friends; and that the most liberal professions of good-will are very far from being the surest marks of it. — George Wash- ington.
Man is born for action ; he ought to do something. Work, at each step, awakens a sleeping force and roots out error. Who does nothing, knows noth- ing. Rise ! to work ! If thy knowl- edge is real, employ it; wrestle with nature; test the strength of thy theo- ries ; see if they will support the trial ; act I — Aloysius.
Not alone to know, but to act ac- cording to thy knowledge, is thy des- tination,— proclaims the voice of my inmost soul. Not for indolent con- templation and study of thyself, nor for brooding over emotions of piety, — no, for action was existence given thee; thy actions, and thy actions alone, determine thy worth. — Fichte.
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Adaptation
Act! the wise are known by their actions; fame 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!— Sails.
Words are good, but there is some- thing 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 wrong we are always conscious. — Goethe.
Newton's great generalization, which he called the "third law of motion," was that " Action and reaction are always equal to each other ;" and that law has been one of the most pregnant of all truths about the mystery of force, — one of the brightest windows through which modern eyes have looked into the world of Nature. — Phillips Brooks.
Wouldst thou know the lawfulness of the action which thou desirest to undertake, let thy devotion recom- mend it to Divine blessing : if it be lawful, thou shalt perceive thy heart encouraged by thy prayer ; if unlaw- ful, thou shalt find thy prayer dis- couraged by thy heart. That action is not warrantable which either blush- es to beg a blessing, or, having suc- ceeded, dar^s not present a thanks- giving.— Quarles.
The only things in which we can be said to have any property are our actions. Our thoughts may be bad, yet produce no poison; they may be good, yet produce no fruit. Our rich- es may be taken away by misfortune, our reputation by malice, our spirits by calamity, our health by disease, our friends 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 die, neither that we shall go naked out of the world. — Colton.
There are three sorts of actions: those that are good, those that are bad, and those that are doubtful; and we ought to be most cautious of those that are doubtful ; for we are in most danger of these doubtful actions, be- cause they do not alarm us; and yet they insensibly lead to greater trans- gressions, just as the shades of twi- light gradually reconcile us to dark- ness.— A. Reed.
Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way;
But to act, that each to-morrow Finds us farther than to-day. * * * *
Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant I Let the dead Past bury its deadl
Act, act, in the living Present! Heart within, and God o'erhead!
— Longfellow.
There is no word or action but may be taken with two hands, — either with the right hand of charitable construc- tion, or the sinister interpretation ot malice and suspicion; and all things do succeed as they are taken. To construe an evil action well is but a pleasing and profitable deceit to my- self; but to misconstrue a good thing is a treble wrong, — to myself, the action, and the author. — Bishop Hall.
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The keen spirit Seizes the prompt occasion — makes the
thought
Start into instant action, and at once Plans and performs, resolves and executes. — Hannah More.
Adam
Adam, the goodliest man of men since bom His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve. — Milton.
Adaptation
To wade in marshes and sea mar* gms is the destiny of certain birds, and they are so accurately made fov this that they are imprisoned in those places. Each animal out of its habi- tat would starve. To the physician, each man, each woman, is an amplifi- cation of one organ. A soldier, a locksmith, a bank-clerk, and a dancer could not exchange functions. And thus we are victims of adaptation.— » Ernei-soiL
Address
Address
Address makes opportunities; the want of it gives them. — Bovee.
Brahma once asked of Force, "Who is stronger than thou?" She replied, " Address," — Victor Hugo.
Give a boy address and accomplish- ments, and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes. He has not the trouble of earning or owning them ; they solicit him to enter and possess. — Emerson.
A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything Ae does know, but of many things that tie does not know; and will gain more credit by his adroit mode of hiding his ignorance than the pedant by his, awk- ward attempt to exhibit his erudition. — Colton.
There is a certain artificial polish, a commonplace vivacity acquired by perpetually mingling in the beau monde, which, in the commerce of the world, supplies the place of natural suavity and good-humor, but is pur- chased at the expense of all original and sterling traits of character. — • Washington Irving. Adieu
I take a long, last, lingering view;
Adieu 1 my native land, adieu 1
— Logan.
Adieu, adieu! my native shore Fades o'er the waters blue.
— Byron. Admiration.
Fools admire, but men of sense ap- prove.— Pope.
Distance is a great promoter of ad- miration ! — Diderot.
Few men are admired by their ser- vants.— Montaigne.
Admiration is the basis of ignor- tfnce. — Balthasar Gracian.
Season your admiration for awhile. •— Shakespeare.
Admiration and familiarity are strangers. — George Sand.
Admiration
We live by admiration, hope, and love. — Wordsworth.
For her own person, it beggared all description. — Shakespeare.
Admiration begins where acquaint* ance ceases. — Dr. Johnson.
None knew thee but to love thee, nor named thee but to praise. — Fito- Greene Halleck.
Admiration is a youthful fancy which scarcely ever survives to ina< ture years. — H. W. Shaw.
All things are admired either be- cause they are new or because they are great. — Bacon.
We always love those who admire us, and we do not always love those whom we admire. — La Rochefoucauld.
The king himself has followed ner, When she has walk'd before.
— Goldsmith.
There is a long and wearisome step between admiration and imitation. — Richter.
Those who are formed to win gen- eral admiration are seldom calculated to bestow individual happiness.-— Lady Blessington.
When we view elevated ideas of Na- ture, the result of that view is ad- miration, which is always the cause of pleasure. — Dryden.
Amid the most mercenary ages it is but a secondary sort of admiration that is bestowed upon magnificence. — Shenstone.
That which astonishes, astonishes once; but whatever is admirable be- comes more and more admired. — Jov.- bert.
No nobler feeling than this of ad- miration for one higher than himself dwells in the breast of man. — OarlyK
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Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and of preserving happiness. — Horace.
Admiration is a forced tribute; and to extort it from mankind, envious and ignorant as they are, they must be taken unawares. — James Northcote.
The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the mo- ment: the eye of the body is not al- ways that of the soul. — George Sand.
Admiration must be continued by that novelty which first produces it; and how much soever is given, there must always be reason to imagine that more remains. — Johnson.
To cultivate sympathy you must be among living creatures, and thinking about them; and to cultivate admira- tion, you must be among beautiful things and looking at them. — Ruskin.
It may be laid down as a genera) 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 second place.— Fielding.
'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.
It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live, than to be loved by them ; and this not on account of any gratification of van- ity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love. — Arthur Helps.
Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, un- less it be still fed with such discover- ies, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view. — Addison.
There is a wide difference between admiration and love. The sublime,
which is the cause of the former, al- ways dwells on great objects and terri* ble; the latter on- small ones and pleas- ng ; we submit to what we admire, but we love what submits to us : in one case we are forced, in the other we are flattered, into compliance, — Burke. Admonition
It must descend, as the dew, upon the tender herb, or like melting flakes of snow ; the softer it falls, the longer _ dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind. — Seed. Adoption
Faith unites us to Christ, and ac- quiesces in the redemption purchased Dy Him as the meritorious cause of our adoption. — Fisher's Catechism.
"Tis often seen Adoption strives with, nature; and choice
breeds .
A native slip to us from foreign lands.
—Shakespeare.
Adoption is an act of God's free grace, whereby we are received into the number, and have a right to all the privileges of the sons of God. — * Westminster Catechism.
We need a spirit of adoption to take us out of the foundling hospital of the world, and to put us into the celestial family. — G. D. Boardman. Adore
Adored through fear, strong only to de- stroy. — Cowper.
We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe, And still adore the hand that gives the blow. — Pomfret.
Led like a victim, to my death 1 11 go, And, dying, bless the hand that gave the blow. — Dryden.
Adorn
She came adorned hither like sweet May, — Shakespeare.
Th' adorning thee with so much art
Is but a barbarous skill; 'Tis like the poisoning of a dart,
Too apt before to kill. — Cowley.
A poet, naturalist and historian, who scarcely left any style of writing untouched and touched nothing that he did not adorn- — Dr. Johnson,
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The night is far spent, the day is at hand. — Bible.
Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not. — Bible.
I die in the faith of the speedy ac- complishment of those glorious things which are spoken concerning the city of God and of the kingdom of Christ. "Amen. Even so, Lord Jesus ! Come quickly." — Increase Mather.
What, then, is meant by the coming of the Lord Jesus? In answering it, the heart and mind must be exercised. First of all, the King of Zion is some- times spoken of as coming in His grace, in His spirit, not in a visible way. He had promised "to come" to all believers in spirit to comfort them. —John Hall, D.D.
Great God, what do I see and hear!
The end of things created 1 The Judge of mankind doth appear
On clouds of glory seated! The trumpet sounds; the graves restore The dead which they contained before;
Prepare, my soul, to meet Him!
— Martin Luther.
It is a very remarkable fact, that Ood's prophecies respecting the Ad- vent of His Son seem to have spread athwart the whole habitable globe, and in the shape of traditional echoes to have been dispersed over all the world. The great promise of a Messiah, which was the grand truth that the Jew clung to in his most desperate fortunes, found itself translated into heathen tongues, and accepted even by heathen men. — French.
If I were but sure that I should live to see the coming of the Lord, it would DC the joyfulest tidings in the world. O that I might see His kingdom come ! It is the characteristic of His saints to love His appearing, and to look for that blessed hope. "The Spirit and the bride say, Come.' "Even so, come, Lord Jesus." — Richard Baxter.
There Is a time appointed in the history of our world, when that very
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Jesus who appeared on earth, "a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief, * shall reappear with all the circum- stances of majesty and power, "King of kings and Lord of lords." We are led to expect a day when Christ shall find a home in the remotest hearts and families, and the earth in all its cir- cumference be covered with the knowl- edge and the power of the Lord. — H. Melville, D.D.
But though that great day is far away, the heart asserts, and truly, that when there is deepest night over nations and the world and men, a day of the Lord is at hand ; that a dawn is coming — not the last day nor the final dawn, but the uprising of Christ in light, deliverance, knowledge and love. The belief is born not only out of our natural hatred of evil and suffering and the desire to be free, but out of actual experience.
Earth, thou grain of sand on the shore of the Universe of God; thou Bethlehem, amongst the princely cities of the heavens ; thou art, and remain- est, the Loved One amongst ten thou- sand suns and worlds, the Chosen of God! Thee will He again visit, and then thou wilt prepare a throne for Him, as thou gavest Him a manger cradle ; in His radiant glory wilt thou rejoice, as thou didst once drink His blood and tears, and mourn His death ! On thee has the Lord a great work to complete. — Pressel.
There is an account come of the ar- rival of King George II. and a great rejoicing for it in Edinburgh. I see the fires and illuminations of that city reflected on the skies. 0, how will the heavens reflect and shine with illumi- nations, when the King of kings, and Lord of lordsj shall erect His tribunal in the clouds, and come in His own glory* and His Father's glory, *and in the glory of the holy angels ! 0, what a heartsome day will that be! When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall we appear with Him in glory. We shall then lift up our heads with joy, because it shall be a time of refreshing from the presence of the Lord. — Ebenezer Erskine.
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The last words of the pious Henry Holmes, of Boston, were, "Lord Jesus, come quickly.'* In their primary sense, as referring to Christ's personal and glorious advent, these words have often dropped from the lips and pens of earn- est believers. In a somewhat despond- ing mood, Martin Luther broke out, "May the *Lord Jesus come at once ! Let Him cut the whole matter short with the Day of Judgment; for there fs no amendment to be expected." The martyr Ridley wrote: "The world, without doubt — this I do be- lieve, and therefore say it — draws to- ward an end. Let us with John, the servant of God, cry in our hearts unto our Savior, Christ, 'Come, Lord Jesus, come.' " — I>r. A. C. Thompson.
No man rightly desires Christ's com- ing, but he that hath assurance of ben- efit at His coming. To him the day of Christ is as the day of harvest to the husbandman ; as the day of deliverance to the prisoner; as the day of corona- tion to the king; the day of wedlock to the bride ; a day of triumph and ex- ultation, a day of freedom and conso- lation, a day of rest and satisfaction. To him the Lord Jesus is all sweetness, as wine to the palate, and ointment to the nostrils, saith Solomon ; honey to the mouth, saith St. Bernard; music in the ear, and a jubilee in the heart. Get assurance of Christ's coming, as a ransomer to redeem you, as a conqueror to subdue all your enemies under you, as a friend to comfort you, as a bride- groom to marry you, and then shall you with boldness and confidence, with joy and gladness, with vehement and holy longings, say, "Come, Lord Jesus." — Grosse.
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Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare descry. —Gray.
" * * and now expecting
Each hour their great adventurer, from the
search Of foreign worlds. —Milton.
Adversary
Oh that mine adversary had written a book, — -Job.
And do as adversaries do in law:
Strive ^ mightily, but eat and drink as friends. — Shakespeare.
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He that has no cross deserves no crown. — Quarles.
Adversity is the first path to truth. — Byron.
Remember to be calm in adversity, — Horace.
Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.
There is healing in the bitter cup. — Southey.
There is no education like adver- sity.— Beaconsfield.
Adversity reminds men of religion, — Livy.
Whom the Lord loveth He chasten- eth. — Hebrews.
The fire of my adversity has purged the mass of my acquaintance. — Boling- broke.
Afflictions are but conductors to im- mortal life and glory.— Aughey.
Brave men ought not to be cast down by adversity. — Silius Italicus.
Adversity makes men, and pros- perity makes monsters. — Victor Hugo.
If thou faint in the day of ad- versity, thy strength is small. — Prov- erbs.
Adversity borrows its sharpest sting from our impatience. — Bishop Home,
In adversity and difficulties arm yourself with firmness and fortitude. — From the Latin.
Great men rejoice in adversity just as brave soldiers triumph in war. — Seneca.
God's corrections are our instruc- tions; His lashes our lessons, and His scourges our schoolmasters. — Aughey
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As adversity leads us to think prop- erly of our state, it is most beneficial to us. — Johnson.
It is not affliction itself, but afflic- tion rightly borne, that does us good. — Aughey.
God brings men into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse them. — Aughey.
God strikes not as an enemy, to de- stroy; but as a father, to correct. — • Aughey.
He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others or himself. — Aughey.
In the adversity of our best friends we often find something which does not displease us. — Rochefoucauld.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them. — Washington Irving.
Adversity, which makes us indul- gent to others, renders them severe towards us. — J. Petit-Senn.
The Good are better made by 111, As odors crushed are sweeter still. — Sam'l Roger,:.
Then know, that I have little wealth to lose;- A man I am cross' d with adversity.
— Shakespeare.
*Tis good for men to love their present
pains Upon example; so the spirit is eased.
— Shakespeare.
In this wild world t the fondest and the best Are the most tried, most troubled and distress' d. — Crabbe.
In all cases of heart-ache, the ap- plication of another man's disappoint- ment draws out the pain and allays the irritation. — Ly tton.
Heaven oft in mercy smites, even when the blow severest is. — Joanna Baillie.
Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong. — Longfellow.
Much dearer be the things which come through hard distress. — Spenser,
Prosperity is no just scale; adver* sity is the only balance to weigh f r i ends. — Plutarch.
Through danger safety comes — through trouble rest. — John Harston*
In the wounds our sufferings plough immortal love sows sovereign seed. — Massey.
Half the ills we hoard within our hearts are ills because we hoard them. — Barry Cornwall.
A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate.— Sir P. Sidney.
Let me embrace these sour adver- sities, for wise men say it is the wisest course. — Shakespeare.
He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself. — Colton.
Clouds are the veil behind which the face of day coquettishiy hi<Jes itself, to enhance its beauty. — Richter.
Prosperity is a great teacher; ad- versity is a greater. Possession pam- pers the mind ; privation trains and strengthens it. — Hazlitt.
The winter's frost must rend the burr of the nut before the fruit is seen. So adversity tempers the human heart, to discover its real worth. — Balzac.
The most affluent mav be stripped of all, and find his worldly comforts, like so many withered leaves, dropping from him. — Sterne.
Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages; they have learned to understand and be understood by all. — Madame Swet- chine.
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not. — Fielding,
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Mr. Bettenham said that virtuous men were like some herbs and spices, that give not out their sweet smell till they be broken or crushed. — Bacon.
On every thorn delightful wisdom grows; In every rill a sweet instruction flows. — Dr. Young,
Heaven is not always angry when he
strikes, But most chastises those whom most he
likes. — Pomfret
In the day of prosperity we have many refuges to resort to ; in the day of adversity only one.— rHoratius Bonar.
Constant success shows us but one side of the world ; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture. — Colton.
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which, in prosperous circum- stances, would have lain dormant. — - Horace.
It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched. — Mar- tial.
When reduced by adversity, a man forgets the lofty tone and supercilious language of prosperity.
It is noble and so regarded both ! among nations and individuals to keep faith in adversity. — Silius Italicus.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man ; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity. — Carlyle.
As every mercy is a drop obtained from the ocean of God's goodness, so] every affliction is a drachm weighed out in the wisdom of God's providence.
Adversity tries men, and virtue1 strives for glory through adverse cir- cumstances, undeterred by hard obsta- cles. — Silius Italicus.
The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried and smelted and polished and glorified through the furnace of tribulation. — Chap in.
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As the ant does not wend her was to empty barns, so few friends will be found to haunt the place of de* parted wealth.
Adversity, sage useful guest, Severe instructor, but the best, It is from thee alone we know Justly to value things below.
— Somerville,
Sweet are the uses of adversity? Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head. — Shakespeare.
His overthrow heap'd happiness upon him ; For then, and not till then, he felt himself, And found the blessedness of being little. — Shakespeare.
The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly welded by the fiercest fire.
Thou tamer of the human breast.
Whose iron scourge and tort'ring houi
The bad affright, afflict the best! —Gray.
Love is maintain' d by wealth: when all is
spent,
Adversity then breeds the discontent. — Herrick.
Remember that there is nothing sta- ble in human affairs ; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity. — Isocrates.
By adversity are wrought the great- est works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of dis- tress and misery are grown. — Daniel.
Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humanity, calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.— Mallet.
In adversity be spirited and firm, and with equal prudence lessen your sail when filled with a too fortunate gale of prosperity. — Horace.
Affliction is the good man's shining scene ; prosperity conceals his bright- est rays; as night to stars, woe lustre gives to man. — Young.
Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a state
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of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to virtue. — Schiller.
Adversity has ever been considered as the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with him- self, particularly being free from flat- terers.— Johnson.
Prosperity is too apt to prevent us from examining our conduct, but as adversity leads us to think properly of our state, it is most beneficial to us. — Johnson.
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 what a little will only accus- tom you to endure. — Greville.
Our dependence upon God ought to be so entire and absolute that we should never think it necessary, in any kind of distress, to have recourse to human consolations. — Thomas a Kem- pis.
God kills thy comforts from no other design but to kill thy corrup- Jons; wants are ordained to kill wan- tonness, poverty is appointed to kill pride, reproaches are permitted to de- stroy ambition. — John Flavel.
There is strength deep-bedded in omr 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? — Mrs. Hemans.
He that can heroically endure ad- versity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the latter. — Fielding.
The truly great and good, in afflic- tion, bear a countenance more princely than they are wont ; for it is the temper of the highest hearts, like the palm-tree, to strive most upwards when it is most burdened. — Sir P. Sidney.
Men, th-ink God is destroying them
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because he is timing them. The vio- linist screws up the key till the tense cord sounds the concert pitch ; but it is not to break it, but to use it tune- fully, that he stretches the string upor the musical rack. — Beecher.
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revela- tion of God's favor. — Bacon.
Such a house broke!
So noble a master fallen! All gone and not One friend to take his fortune by the arm And go along with him. — Shakespeare.
Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. Men see clearer at such time. Storms purify the atmosphere. — Beecher.
Aromatic plants bestow No st)icy fragrance while they grow; But crush'd or trodden to the ground. Diffuse their balmy sweets around.
— Goldsmith.
When Providence, for secret ends Corroding cares, or sharp affliction, sends We must conclude it best it should be so. And not desponding or impatient grow. — Pomfret
A wretched soul, bruis'd with adversity We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burden'd with like weight oi
pairj, As much, or more, we should ourselves
complain. — Shakespeare.
All is well as long as the sun shines and the fair breath of heaven gently wafts us to our own purpose ; but if you will try the excellency and feel the work of faith, place the man in a persecution. — Jeremy Taylor.
Bold adversity Cries out for noble York and Somerset, To beat assailing death from his weak le- gions.
And whiles the honorable captain there Drops bloody sweat from his war-wearied limbs. — Shakespeare
If adversity hath killed his thou- sands, prosperity hath killed his ten thousands; therefore adversity is to be preferred. The one deceives, the other instructs; the one miserably
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happy, the other happily miserable. — Burton.
Times of groat calamity and con- fusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicit- ed from the darkest storm. — Colton.
As the flint contains the spark, un- known to itself, which the steel alone can awaken to life, so adversity often reveals to us hidden gems, which pros- perity or negligence would forever have hidden. — H. W. Shaw.
Adversity is a medicine which peo- ple are rather fond of recommending indiscriminately as a panacea for their neighbors. Like other medicines, it only agrees with certain constitutions. There are nerves which it braces, and nerves which it utterly shatters. — Jus- tin McCarthy.
The gods in bounty work up storms about us, that give mankind occasion to exert their hidden strength,, and throw out into practice virtues that shun the day, and lie concealed in the smooth seasons and the calms of life. — Addison.
One month in the school of affliction will teach thee more than the great precepts of Aristotle in seven years; for thou canst never judge rightly of human affairs, unless thou hast first felt the blows, and found out the de- ceits of fortune. — Fuller.
The willow which bends to the tem- pest often escapes better than the oak, which resists it; and so, in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character. — Walter Scott.
There are minerals called hydropha- nous, which are not transparent till they are immersed in water, when they become so; as the hydrophane, a va- riety of opal. So it is with many a Christian. Till the floods of adversity have been poured over him, his char-
acter appears marred and clouded by selfishness and worldly influences. But trials clear away the obscurity, and give distinctness and beauty to his piety. — Professor Hitchcock.
The lessons of adversity are often the most benignant when they seem the most severe. The depression of vanity sometimes ennobles the feeling. The mind which does not wholly sink under misfortune rises above it more lofty than before, and is strengthened by affliction. — Chenevis.
And these vicissitudes come best in youth} For when they happen at a riper age,
People are apt to blame the Fates, forsooth. And wonder Providence is not more sage.
Adversity is the first path to truth: He who hath proved war, storm or worn- an's rage,
Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty,
Has won the experience which is deem'd so weighty, —Byron.
The wisdom of God appears in afflic- tions. By these He separates the sin which He hates, from the son whom He loves. By these thorns He keeps him from breaking over into Satan's pleasant pastures, which would fatten him indeed, but only to the slaughter. — Aughey.
Present suffering Is not enjoyable, but life would be worth little without it. The difference between iron and steel is fire, but steel is worth all it costs. Iron ore may think itself sense- lessly tortured in the furnace, but when the watch-spring looks back, it knows better. David enjoyed pain and trouble no more than we do, but the time came when he admitted that they had been good for him. Though the aspect of suffering is hard, the pros- pect is hopeful, and the retrospect will start a song, if we are "the called ac- cording to his purpose," in suffering. — • Maltbie Babcock.
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The great art in writing advertise- ments is the finding out a proper method to catch the reader's eye; without, a good thing may pass over unobserved, or be lost among commit sions of bankrupt — Addison.
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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full of knowledge in respect to what is going on in a State or com- munity than the editorial columns are. — Henry Ward Beecher.
Advice
The worst men often give the best advice. — Bailey.
Necessity is the only successful ad- viser.— Charles Reade.
Agreeable advice advice. — Massillon.
is seldom useful
We ask advice, but we mean appro- bation.— Colton.
Good counsels observed are chains to grace. — Fuller.
Good counsel has no price. — Maz- zini.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit by it. — Publius Syrus.
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice. — Hochefoucauld.
We give advice, but we do not in- spire conduct. — La Rochefoucauld.
Do not take a blind guide nor a bad adviser.
Bad advice is often most fatal to the adviser. — Flaccus.
A fop sometimes gives important advice. — Boileau.
Hazard not your wealth on a poor man's advice. — Manuel Conde Luca- nor.
Whatever advice you give, be short —-Horace.
One can advise comfortably from a safe port. — Schiller.
Superfluous advice is not retained by the full mind. — Horace.
We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.— W. R. Alger.
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It is not advice, but approval, which we crave. — Boufflers.
The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel. — Bacon.
He who was taught only by himself had a fool for a master. — Ben Jonson,
We all, when we are well, give good advice to the sick. — Terence.
To attempt to advise conceited peo« pie is like whistling against the wind, —Hood.
If you would convince a person of his mistake, accost him not when he is ruffled. — Dr. Watts.
Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient. — Beecher.
I do not like giving advice: it is incurring an unnecessary responsibil- ity.— Beaconsfield.
Advice is like kissing: it costs noth- ing and is a pleasant thing to do. — H. W. Shaw.
Before giving advice we must have secured its acceptance, or, rather, have made it desired. — Amiel.
Any one can give advice, such as it is, but only a wise man knows how to profit by it— Colton.
When a wise man gives thee bettei counsel, give me mine again. — Shake- speare.
Begin nothing without considering what the end may be. — Lady M. W, Montague.
Advice is seldom welcome. who need it most like it least. — John- son.
He who can take advice is some- times superior to him who can give it. — Von Knebel.
Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least—Chesterfield.
Even the ablest pilots are willing to receive advice from passengers in tem- pestuous weather. — Cicero.
Know when to speak, for many times it
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Danger to give the best advice to kings. • — Hernck.
Do not give to thy friends the most agreeable counsels, but the most ad- vantageous.— Tuckerman.
How is it that even castaways can give such good advice? — Ninon de Lcnclos.
Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly. — Publius Sy- rus.
The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.— Bacon.
Wait for the season when to cast good counsels upon subsiding —Shakespeare.
Mishaps are mastered by advice dis- creet, and counsel mitigates the great- est smart. — Spenser.
Let no man value at a little price a virtuous woman's counsel — George Chapman.
The pride of men will not often suffer reason to have any scope until it can be no longer of service. — Burke.
Let no man presume to give advice to others that has not first given good counsel to himself. — Seneca.
How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning. — Swift.
Those who give bad advice to the prudent, both lose their pains and are laughed to scorn. — Phsedrus.
Every man, however wise, requires the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life. — Plautus.
Harsh counsels have no effect; they
are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil. — Helvetms.
He had only one vanity ; he thought he could give advice better than anj other person. — Samuel L. Clemens.
And may you better reck the rede, Than e^er did th' adviser. — Burns.
'Twas good advice, and meant, "My son, be good."
— George Crabbe.
Bosom up my counsel, You 11 find it wholesome.
— Shakespeare.
Be niggards of advice on no pretense; For the worst avarice is that of sense.
—Pope.
For women with a mischief to their kind Pervert with bad advice our better mind — Dryden.
Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice Hath often still'd my brawling discontent — Shakespeare
It is always safe to learn even from our enemies, seldom safe to instruct even our friends — Colton.
Advice is like snow : the softer 5t falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind.— Coleridge.
I pray thee cease thy counsel,
Which falls into mine ears as profitless
As water in a sieve. — Shakespeare
Who will ever give counsel, if the counsel be judged by the event, and if it be not found wise, shall therefore be thought wicked? — Sir P. Sidney.
Eemember this: they that will not
be counselled cannot be helped. If
you do not hear Reason, she will rap your knuckles — Franklin.
There is nearlv as much ability re- quisite to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self — Rochefoucauld.
It has been well observed that few are better qualified to give others ad- vice than those who have taken the least of it themselves. — Goldsmith.
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Counsel and conversation is a good second education, that improves all the virtue and corrects all the vice of the former, and of nature itself.—- Clarendon.
Let 110 man value at a little price
A virtuous woman's counsel; her \ving* d
spirit Is leathered oftentimes with heavenly
words. — George Chapman.
In order to convince it is necessary to speak with spirit and wit; to ad- vise, it must corne from tho heart.—" D'Aguesseau.
When we feel a strong desire to thrust our advice upon others, it Is usually because we suspect their weak- ness ; but we ought rather to suspect our own.— -Colton.
Ah, gentle dames! it gars xne greet, To Hunk how inony counsels swoict, How mony lengthened, sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises.
Direct not him, whose way himself will
choose; *Tis breath tliou lack'st, and that breath
wilt thou lose. — Shakespeare,
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.
She had a good opinion of advice,
Like all who give and eke receive it
gratis, For which small thanks are still the market
price,
Even when the article at highest rate is, —-Shakespeare.
Advice, as it always gives a tem- porary appearance of superiority, can never be very grateful, even when it is most necessary or most judicious; but, for the same reason, every one is eager to instruct his neighbors. — John- son.
He who calls in the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own ; and he who profits by a superior under- standing raises his powers to a level with the height of the superior under- standing he unites with. — Burke.
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Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice, that we, for the most part, summon our powers to op- pose it without any very accurate inquiry whether it is righto — Dr. John- son.
There is nothing of which men are more liberal than their good advice, be their stock of it ever so small ; be* cause it seems to carry in ic an inti- mation of their own _ influence, im- portance, or worth. — Young.
He that gives good advice builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and exfujpla builds Yvitli the other; but he that give1? good admoni- tion and bad example builds with one hand and pulls down with the other- — Bacon,
No man Is so foolish but he may give another good counsel sometimes, and no man so wise but he may easily en*, ii! Lo tnl.cs BO other counsel than his OWE. He that was taught only by himself had a fool for a master. — Ben Jensen.
A man takes contradiction and ad- vice much more easily than people think, only lie will not bear it 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. — Bichter.
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend givoth and that a man giveth himself, as there la between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer; for there is iio cuch flatterer as a man's self, anrl there is no such remedy against flattery of a man's self as the liberty of a friend. — Bacon.
No one was ever the better for ad- vice: in genera!, what we called giv- ing advice was properly taking an occasion to show our own wisdom at another's expense; and to receive ad- vice was little better than tamely to afford another the occasion of raising himself a character from our defects* — Lord Shaftesbury.
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If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cot- tages, princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instruc- tions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teach- ing.— Shakespeare.
Love all, trust a few, % Do -wrong to none; be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use; and keep thy
friend Under thine own life's key; be checked for
silence, But never taxed for speech.
—Shakespeare.
It was the maxim, I think, of Al- phonsus of Aragon, that dead coun- sellors are safest. The grave puts an end to flattery and artifice, and the information we receive from books is pure from interest, fear, and ambi- tion. Dead counsellors are likewise most instructive, because they are heard with patience and with rever- ence.—Johnson*
Give thy. thoughts no tongue. Nor any tmproporlioned thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. The friends thou hast, and their adoption
Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of
steel ;
But do not dull thy palm with entertain- ment Of each new-hatched, unfledged comrade.
Beware ,
Of entrance to a quarrel; but, b^ing in, Bear it that the opposer may beware of
thee; Give every man thine ear, but few thy
voice. " Take each man's censure, bat reserve thy
Judgment.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not expressed in fancy; lich, not
gaudy;
For the apparel oft proclaims the man. Neithei a borrower nor a. lender be, For loan oft loses both itself and friend; And borrowing dulls the edge of hui
bandry.
This above all: To thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day. Thou canst not then be false to any man. • — Shakespeare.
It would truly be a fine thing if men suffered themselves to be guided by reason, that they should acquiesce
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in the true remonstrances addressed 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 in- continently go out cf the other, and begin again by following the custom. The best teacher one can have is ne« cessity. — Francois la None.
I lav very little stress either upon asiiing or giving advice. Generally speaking, they who ask advice know what they wish to do, and remain firm to their intentions. A man may allow himself to be enlightened on va- rious points, even upon matters of expediency and duty; but, after all, he must determine his course of action for himself. — Wilhelm von Huniboldt.
Advice is offensive, not because it lays us open to unexpected regret, or convicts us of any fault which has escaped our notice, but because it shows us that we are known to others as well as ourselves ; and the officious monitor is perseciued with hatred, not because his accusation is false, but because he assumes the superiority which we are not willing to grant him, and has dared to detect what we desire to conceal. — Johnson
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Affectation is the product of false hood.— Carlyle.
There is a pleasure in affecting afr fectation. — Lamb.
Die of a rose in aromatic pain.-—
Affectation hides three times aft many virtues as charity does sins.— • Horace Mann.
Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than the small-pox. — St. Evre- mond.
All affectation is the vain and ridic- ulous attempt of poverty to appear rich. — Lavater.
Affectation is as necessary to th« mind as dress is to the body. — Hazlitt
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Great affectation and great absence of it are at first sight very similar. — \VhateIy.
On the rich quilt sinks with becoming woe, Wrapt in & gown, for sickness and for snow. —Pope.
We are never so ridiculous from the habits we have as from those we affect to have.— La Rochefoucauld.
There affectation, with a sickly mien, Shows in her cheek the roses of eighteen.
—Pope.
By giving sixty-five's pale wither'd mien. The blooming roses of sixteen. — Wolcot.
All affectation; 'tis my perfect scorn; Object of my implacable disgust. — Cowper.
Affectation discovers sooner what one Is than »t makes known what one would fain appear to be. — Stanislaus.
Affectation is the wisdom of fools, and the folly of many a comparatively wise man.
JT is too much proved that with de- votion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself. — Shake- speare.
Hearts may be attracted by as- sumed qualities, but the affections are only to be fixed by those that are real. — Be Moy.
Affectation endeavors to correct nat- ural defects, and has always the laud- able aim of pleasing, though it always misses it. — Locke.
It is remarkable that great affecta- tion and great absence of it (uncon- sciousness) are at first sight very sim- ilar; they are both apt to produce singularity. — Bishop Whately.
Affectation is certain deformity; by forming themselves on fantastic mod- els, the young begin with being ridic- ulous, and often end in being vicious. —Blair.
Great vices are the proper objects of Our detestation, smaller faults of our
pity, but affectation appears to be the only true source of the ridiculous. — Fielding.
Affectation in any part of car car- riage is lighting up a candle to see our defects, and never fails to make us taken notice of, either as wanting sense or sincerity. — Locke.
Avoid all affectation and singular- ity. What is according to nature is best, and what is contrary to it is always distasteful. Nothing is grace- ful that is not our own. — Jeremy Col- lier.
In all the professions every one af- fects a particular look and exterior, in order to appear what he wishes to be thought; so that it mav be said the world is made up of appearances. — Rochefoucauld.
Affectation is an awkward and forced Imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the Beauty thai -accompanies what is natural.— Locke.
Among the numerous stratagems by which pride endeavors to recommend folly to regard, there is scarcely one that meets with less success than af* fectation, or a perpetual disguise of the real character by fictitious appear- ances. — Johnson.
Paltry affectation, strained allu« sions, and disgusting finery are easily attained by those who choose to wear them ; they are but too frequently the badges of ignorance or of stupidity, whenever it would endeavor to please, — Goldsmith.
Affectation naturally counterfeits those excellences which are placed at the greatest distance from possibility of attainment, because, knowing our own defects, we eagerly endeavor to supply them with artificial excellence, — Johnson.
When Cicero consulted the oracle at Delphos, concerning what course of studies he should pursue, the answer was, " Follow Nature*" If every oiie
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would do this, affectation would be almost unknown. — J. Beaumont.
Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep: so that scarcely can two persons meet but one is offended or diverted by the ostentation of the other. — Dr. John- son.
There is a false gravity that is a very ill symptom ; and it may be said that as rivers, which run very slowly, have always the most mud at the bot- tom, so a solid stiffness in the constant course of a man's life is a sign of a thick bed of mud at the bottom of his brain, — Saville.
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Entire affection hateth nicer hands, — Spencer.
Affection is the broadest basis o$ good in life. — George Eliot.
A loving heart is the truest wisdom, — Dickens.
Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them. — Madame Swetchine.
Alas! our young affections run to waste, Or water but the desert. — Byron.
Affectation is to be always distin- guished from hypocrisy, as being the art of counterfeiting those qualities, which we might with innocence and safety, be known to want. Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villany ; af- fectation part of the chosen trappings of folly. — Johnson,
Affectation proceeds from one of these two causes, — vanity or hypoc- risy; for as vanity puts us on affect- ing false characters, in order to pur- chase applause ; so hypocrisy sets us on an endeavor ^to avoid censure, by concealing our vices under an appear- ance of their opposite virtues. — Field- ing.
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. — Shakespeare.
It is sweet to feel by what fine- spun threads our affections are drawn together. — 3 terne.
Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are enabled to inspire. — Duchesse de Praslin.
I will not call vanity and affectation twins, because, more properly, vanity is the mother, and affectation is the darling daughter. Vanity is the sin, and 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 spread- eth into affectation, and then it is complete. — Sir IL Saville.
Affection.
Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth, — Colos- sians, chap. iii.
No decking sets forth anything so much as affection. — Sir P- Sidney.
How cling we to a thing our hearts have nursed.- — Mrs. C. H. W. Esling.
I have given suck, and know how tender it is to love the babe that; milks me. — Shakespeare.
It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one. — Thackeray.
No affections and a great brain,— these are the men to command the world, — Beaconsfield.
Affection, mistress of passion, sways it to the mood of what it likes or loathes. — Shakespeare.
Such affection and unbroken faith as temper life's worst bitterness. — Shelley.
Dear as the light that visits these sa4 eyes; Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart. — Gray.
Affection is a coal that must be cool'd: Else, suffer 'd, it will set the heart on fire. — Shakespeare.
Of all earthly music, that which reaches the farthest into heaven is the beating of a loving heart.-^Beecher.
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O you much partial gods ! why gave ye men affections, and net power to govern them ?=— Ludovic Barry.
Love is strong in its passion; affec- tion is powerful -in its gentleness. — Michelet.
Of all the tyrants the world affords, our- own affections are the fiercest lords. — Earl of Sterling.
If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love. — Willis,
Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to be suggestions of that realm which is the home of the heart. *— Beecher.
The affections are immortal I they are the sympathies which unite the ceaseless generations. — Bulwer-Lytton,
There are moments, of mingled sor- row and tenderness, which hallow the caresses of affection. — Washington Irv- ing.
Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor »of compulsion, like tempest- threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, nev- er spring to timely growth.— John Ford.
The poor wren, the most diminutive of birds, will ^fight, her young ones in her nest, against the owl, — Shake- speare.
The affection of young ladies is of as rapid growth as Jack's beanstalk, and reaches up to the sky in a night- Thackeray
The affections are the children of i£° trorance; when the horizon of our ex- perience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly van- ish.— Beaconslield,
There comes a time when the souls of human beings, women more even than men, begin to faint for the at- mosphere of the affections they are made to breathe. — Holmes.
There are few mortals so insensible that their affections cannot be gained by mildness, their confidence -by sin- cerity, their hatred by scorn or neg- lect.— Zimmermann.
Even Children follow'd. with endearing1 wile. And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile. — Goldsmith.
Generous as brave,
Affection, kindness, and the sweet office? Of love and duty, were to him as needfu As his daily biead. — Rogers.
If the deepest and best affections which God has given us sometimes brood over the heart like doves of peace, — they sometimes suck out our life-blood like vampires. — Mrs. Jame- son.
Universal love is a glove without fingers, which fits all hands alike, and none closely ; but true affection is like a glove with fingers, which fits one hand only, and sits close to that one. — Richter.
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,
The objects that we have known in better days are the main props that sustain the weight of our auctions, and give us strength to await our fu- ture lot. — Win. Hazlitt.
Hearts may be attracted by assumed qualities, but the affections are only to be fixed by those that are real.— -De
Moy*
I may not to the world impart
The secret of its power, But treasured in my inmost heart
I keep my faded flower.
—Ellen C Howarth.
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 ther first part of wisdom is to watch the affections. — Dr. Waterland
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AiEictloS
Affection is a garden, and -without it there would not be a verdant spot on the surface of the globe.
Fathers alone a father's heart can know What secret tides of still enjoyment flow When brothers love, but if their hate suc- ceeds,
They wage the war, but 'tis the father bleeds. —Young,
Who have not saved some trifling thing More prized than jewels rare,
A faded flower, a broken ring, A tress of golden hr.ir.
—Ellen C. Howarth.
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If ^ they are wholly re- strained love will die at the roots.— Hawthorne.
How often a new affection makes a new man I The sordid, cowering soul turns heroic. Tbe frivolous girl be- comes the steadfast martyr o£ patience and ministration, transfigured by deathless love. The career of bound- ing impulses turns into an anthem of sacred deeds. — Cliayin.
walled with riches, glazed with beauty, and roofed with honor, — Quarles.
Talk not of wasted affection, affection never
was wasted; If it enrich not the heart of another, its
waters, returning
Bacl* *Vheir, sprm£s> Iiks the rain, shall fill them full of refreshment;
I hat wmch the fountain sends forth re- turns again to the fountain.
— Longfellow.
Why cloth Fate, th?t often bestows tnousands of souls on a conqueror o* tyrant, to be the sport of his passions", so often deny to the tenclerest and most feeiin? hearts one kindred one on which to lavish their affections? VVny^is it that Love must so often sigh m vain for an object, and Hate never?— Kichter, Affliction
Affliction is but the shadow of God's wing.— George Macdonald.
XIow sacred,, how beautiful, is the feeling of affection in pure and guile- less bosoms ! The proud may sneer at it, the fashionable may call it fable, the selfish and dissipated may affect to despise it; but the holy passion is surely of heaven, and is made evil by the corruptions cf those whom it was sent to bless and to preserve.- — * daunt
A solitary blessing1 few can find, Our joys with those we love are inter- twined,
And he whose wakeful tenderness removes The obstiuctiupf thoin that wounds the
breast he loves,
Smooths not another's rushed path alone But scatters roses to adorn his own.
Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fiy upward. — Job v. T.
Afflictions clarify the soul. — Quarles.
Calamity is man's true touchstone — « Fletcher.
'T is a phypio that is bicter to sweet end.- — fchakespcare.
Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions.— Matthew Henry.
Thore is healing in the bitter cup.— bouthey.
I am a feather for each wind that blows. — Shakespeare.
Afflictions are but as a dark entry iito our Father's house. — Thomas Brooks.
Let the foundation of thy affection Night Brings out stars as sorrow be virtue, then make the building as shows us truths. — P. J. Bailey, rich and as glorious as llion canst; if the foundation be beauty or wealth,
and the building virtue, the foundation is too weak for the building, and it will fall: happy is he, the palace of whose affection is founded upon virtue.
What region of the earth is not full of our calamities? — Virgil.
It is the best thing for a stricken heart to be helping others. — A, H. K.
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We only see clearly when we have reached the depths of woe. — Ouida.
He who tenders doubtful safety to those in trouble refuses it, — Seneca.
The afflictions to which we are ac- customed, do not disturb us. — Claudi- antis.
Distress is virtue's opportunity : we fmly live to teach us how to die. — Southern.
Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites, — Bovee.
In time of affliction, a vow; in the time of prosperity, an increase of Wickedness. — Hebrew Proverb.
Heaven gives us friends to bless the present
scene;
jfcesumes them, to prepare us for the next. —Young.
The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction. — Spur- geon.
Corn is cleaned with wind, and the soul with chastening.- — George Herbert.
Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A bi other to relieve, how exquisite the bliss! — Burns.
Affliction is not sent in vain — From that good God \vlio chastens whom He loves 1 — Southey.
Heaven is not always angry when he
strikes, But most chastises those whom most he
likes. • — Pomfret
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Oft the cloud that wraps the present hour serves but to brighten all our fu- ture days. — Wm. Browne.
Affliction is enamor'd of thy _ parts, And thou art wedded to calamity.
— Shakespeare.
It is from the remembrance of joys we have lost that the arrows of afflic- tion are pointed. — Mackenzie.
TVe bleed, we tremble, we forget, we smile — The mind turns fool, before the cheek s dry. — Young.
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions. — Shake- speare.
If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches. — Burgh.
Patience cannot remove, but it can always dignify and alleviate, misfor- tune.— Laurence Sterne.
As threshing separates the corn from the chaff, so does affliction purify vir- tue.— Bacon.
With the wind of tribulation God separates in the floor of the soul, the chaff from the cora.-^-Molinos,
How olunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt !— Blair.
What seem tr, us but dim funereal tapers may be heaven's distant lamps. — Longfellow.
The good are better made by ill, as* odors crushed arc sweeter still ! — Rog« ers.
Amid my list of blessings infinite stands this the foremost, "That my heart has bled." — Young.
Thy pleasure points the shaft, and bends
the bow;
The cluster blasts, or bids it brightly glow. — Dr. Young.
Affliction is a school of virtue : it corrects levity, and interrupts the con- fidence of sinning. — Atterbury.
The loss of a beloved connection awakens an interest in heaven before tin felt. — Bovee.
The eternal stars shine out as as it is dark enough. — Carlyle.
Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed. — Hannah More.
As sure as God ever puts His chil- dren into- the furnace, He will be in
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the furnace with them. — C. H. Spur- geon.
We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us. — Robert Hall,
Christ leads me through no darker rooms Than He went through before.
— Richard Baxter.
Grace will ever speak for itself and be fruitful in well-doing ; the sancti- fied cross is a fruitful tree. — Ruther- ford.
Affliction of itself does not sanctify any body, but the reverse. I believe in sanctified afflictions, but not in sanctifying afflictions, — C. H. Spur- geon.
Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordi- nary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces. — Matthew Henry.
Affliction is the wholesome soul of virtue; Where patience, honor, sweet humanity, Calm fortitude, take root, and strongly flourish. — Mallet and Thomson.
Afflictions clarify the soul And like hard masters, give more hard di- rections,
Tutoring the non-age of uncurbed affections. — Quarles.
"With every anguish of our earthly part the spirit's sight grows clearer; ;his was meant when Jesus touched the blind man's lids with clay. — Lowell.
The cup which my Saviour giveth me, can it be anything but a cup of salvation ? — Alexander Maclaren.
Believe me, the gods spare the af- flicted, and do not always oppress those who are unfortunate. — Ovid.
God afflicts with the mind of a fath- er, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again. — South,
God sometimes washes the eyes of His children with tears in order that they may read aright His providence and His commandments. — T. L. Cuy- ler.
Alas by some degree of woe,
We eveiy bliss must gain; The heart can ne'er a liansport know,
That never feels a pain.
— Lord Lyttleton.
Most of the grand truths of God have to be learned by trouble; thoy must be burned into usf by the hot iron Q^ affliction, otherwise we shall not t uly receive them. — C. EL Spurgeon.
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Thou art never at any time nearer to God than when under tribulation ; which He permits for the purification and beautifying of thy soul. — Miguel Molinos.
Affliction is the good man's shining scene; Prosperity conceals Ins brightest ray, As night to stars, woe lustre gives ^to man. —Young.
The very afflictions of our earthly pilgrimage are presages of our future _ lory, as shadows indicate the sun, — • Richter.
Perfumes, the more they are chafed, the more they render their pleasant scents ; and so affliction expresseth virtue fully. — John Webster.
The furnace of affliction refines us from earthly dressiness, and softens ur for the impression of God's own stamp, — Bayle.
Incessant falls teacb, men to reform, and distress rouses t'aeir strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease. — Mencins.
Nothing- can occur beyond the strength of faith to sustain, or, tram* scending the resources of religion, to relieve.— Binney.
It is the crushed grape that gives out the blood-reel wine : it is the suffer- ing soul that breathes the sweetest melodies. — Gail Hamilton.
The mind which does not wholly sink under misfortune rises above it more lofty than before, and is strengthened by affliction. — Richard Chenevis.
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Affliction is a sort of moral gymna- sium in which the disciples of Christ are trained to robust exercise, hardy exertion, and severe conflict. — Hannah More.
Henceforth I'll bear Affliction till it do cry out itself, Enough, enough, and die.
• — Shakespeare.
Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire; that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead. — Shakespeare.
With silence only as their benediction,
God's angels come Where in the shadow o£ a great affliction,
The soul sits dumb! — Whittier.
f Every man deems that he has pre- cisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all for him to bear ; but they are so, because they are the very ones he needs. — Richter*
And this is the course of Nature : there is nothing like suffering to en- lighten the giddy brain, widen the nar- row mind, improve the trivial heart- Charles Reade.
If aught can teach us aught, Affliction's looks, Making us pry into ourselves so near,
Teach us to know ourselves, beyond all books, Or all the learned schools that ever were. — -John Davies.
Aromatic plants bestow No spicy fragrance where they gnrtSKJ But crushed and trodden to the ground, Diffuse their balmy sweets aiound.
— Goldsmith.
God is now spoiling us of what would otherwise have spoiled us. When God makes the world too hot for His people to hold, they will let it go. — T. Powell.
When Providence for secret ends, Corroding cares, or sharp affliction, sends; We must conclude it best it should be so, And not despondent or impatient grow.
— Pomfret.
Are afflictions aught
But mercies in disguise? th* alternate cup, Medicinal though bitter, and prepar'd By love's own hand for salutary ends.
—•Mallet.
The great, in affliction, bear a coun-
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tenance more princely than they are wont ; for it is the temper of the high- est heart, like the palm-tree, to strive most upward when it is most burdened. —-Sir P. Sidney.
Affliction appears to be the guide to reflection ; the teacher of humility ; the parent of repentance ; the nurse of faith ; the strengthcner of patience, and the promoter of charity.
The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden. — Phillips Brooks.
No man ever stated his griefs as lightly as he might. For it is only the finite that has wrought and suffered; the infinite lies stretched in smiling re- pose.— -Emerson,
Afflictions are the medicine of the mind. If they are not toothsome, let it suffice that they are wholesome. It is not required in physic that it should please, but heal. — Bishop Henshaw.
No chastening for the present seem- eth to be joyous, but grievous: never- theless afterward it yieldetb the peace- able fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.-— Hebrews sii. 11.
There will be no Christian but w&at will have a Gethsemane, but every praying Christian will find that there is no Getksemane without Its angel I—- Rev. T. Binney.,
Now let us thank th* eternal power, con- vjnc'd
That heaven but tries our virtue by afflic- tion;
That oft the cloud which wraps the present hour,
Serves but to brighten all our future days! — John Brown.
Every man will have his own cri- terion in forming his judgment df off- ers. I depend very/ much on the effect of affliction. I consider how ft man comes out of the furnace ; gold will lie for a month in the furnace wltfcouf losing a grain. — Richard Cecil.
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Human character is never found "to enter into its glory," except through the ordeal of affliction. Its force can* not come forth without the offer of re- sistance, nor can the grandeur of its free will declare itself, except in the battle of fierce temptation. — James Martineau.
What He tells thee in the darkness, Weary watcher for the day,
Grateful lip and heart should titter When the shadows flee away.
— F. R. Havergal.
The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the neces- sity of their fall; and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, de- tached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow. — W. S. Landor.
However bitter the cup we have to drink, we are sure it contains nothing unnecessary or unkind ; and we should take it from His hand with as much meekness as we accept of eternal life with thankfulness. — \Yilliam Goodell.
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 all, therefore, it is trusted, for our good concealed; — for our final and greatest good. — Leigh Hunt.
It is a great thing, when our Geth- gemane 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.
Fairer and more fruitful in spring the vine becomes from the skilful prun- ing of the husbandman; less pure had been the gums which the odorous bal- sam gives if it had not been cut by the ,kn!fe of the Arabian shepherd.— Me- tastasio.
TOat which tfoou dost not understand wnen thou readest, thoti shalt under- stand in the day of thy visitation ; for m$$y secrets of religion are not per- ceived till they be felt, and are not
felt but in the day of a great calamity, — Jeremy Taylor.
As they lay copper in aquafortis be* fore they begin to engrave it, so the Lord usually prepares us by the search* ing, softening discipline of affliction for making a deep, lasting impression of himself upon our hearts. — J, T, Nottidge.
The bread of bitterness is the food on which men grow to their fullest stature; the waters of bitterness are the debatable ford through which they reach the shores of wisdom; the ashes boldly grasped and eaten without fal- tering are the price that must be paid for the golden fruit of knowledge. — Ouida.
Afflictions sent by Providence melt the constancy of the noble-minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile. The same furnace that hardens clay lique- fies gold ; and in the strong manifesta- tions of divine power Pharaoh founcj his punishment, but David his pardon* — Colton.
Be still, sad heart, and cease repining, Behind the clouds the sun is shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall, — Some days must be dark and dreary.
— Longfellow.
Cod washes the eyes by tears until they can behold the invisible land where tears shall come no more. O love ! O affliction ! ye are the guides that show us the way through the great airy space where our loved ones walked; and, as hounds easily follow the scent before the dew be risen, so God teaches us, while yet our sorrow is wet, to follow on and find our dear ones in heaven. — Beecher.
fAs the most generous vine, if it is not pruned, runs out into many super- fluous stems, and grows at last weak and fruitless ; so doth the best man, if he be not cut short of his desires and pruned with afflictions. If it be pain- ful to bleed, it is worse to wither. Let me be pruned, th&t I may grow, rather than be cut up to burn, — BisJaop Halle
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In a great affliction there is no light either in the stars or in the sun; for when the inward light is fed with fra- grant 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 outwardly, though a thousand suns should preside in the heavens. — Beecher.
The cloud which appeared to the prophet Ezekiel carried with it winds and storms, but it was environed with a golden circle, to teach us that the storms of afflictions, which happen to God's children, are encompassed with brightness and smiling felicity. — N. Caussin.
Had it pleased Heaven
To try me with affliction; had he rain d
All kinds ol sores and shames on my bare
head;
Steep'd me in poverty to the very lips; Given to captivity me and my utmost hopes; I should have found in some place of my
soul A drop or patience. — Shakespeare.
There is an elasticity in the human mind, capable of bearing much, but which will not show itself until a cer- tain weight of affliction be put upon it ; Hs powers may be compared to those vehicles whose springs are so contrived that they get on smoothly enough when loaded, but jolt con- foundedly when they have nothing to bear. — Colton.
In thy silent wishing, thy voiceless, unuttered prayer, let the desire be not cherished that afflictions may not visit thee; for well has it been said, "Such prayers never seem to have wings. I am willing to be purified through sor- row, and to accept it meekly as a bless- ing. I see that all the clouds are angels' faces, and their voices speak harmoniously of the everlasting chime."-— Mrs. L. M. Child.
The truth is, when we are under any affliction we are generally troubled with a malicious kind of melancholy; we only dwell and pore upon the sad and dark occurrences of Providence, but never take notice of the more be-
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nign and bright ones. Our way in this world is like a walk under a row of trees, checkered with light and shade; and because we cannot all along walk in the sunshine, we therefore perverse- ly fix only upon the darker passages, and so lose all the comfort of our comforts. We are like froward chil- dren who, if you take one of their playthings from them, throw away all the rest in spite.— Bishop Hopkins.
Oh, when we are journeying through the murky night and the dark woods of affliction and sorrow, it is something to find here and there a spray broken, or a leafy stem bent down with the tread of His foot and the brush of His hand as He passed ; and to remember that the path He trod He has hallowed, and thus to find lingering fragrance and hidden strength in the remem- brance of Him as "in all points tempt- ed like as we are," bearing grief for us, bearing grief with us, bearing grief like us. — Alexander Maclaren.
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Am I to set my life upon a throw, Because a bear is rude and surly? No— > A moral, sensible, and well-bred man, Will not affront me, and no other can. — Cowper, After
After me the deluge. — Madame de Pompadour.
After the war, aid. — Greek Proverb.
After death the doctor. — English Proverb.
When I am dead, may earth be min- gled with fire! Ay, said Nero, and while I am living, too. — Prom a Greek Tragedian.
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Good old age. — Genesis xv. 15.
Slow, consuming age. — <3ray.
Crabbed age and youth cannot together. — Shakespeare.
Few people know how to be old. La Rochefoucauld.
Age either transfigures or petrifiea — Marie Ebner-Eschenbach,
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It is difficult to grow old gracefully. - — Madame de Stael.
Begin to patch up thine old body for heaven. — Shakespeare.
The clock of his age had struck fifty- eight.— Cellini.
An old man is twice a child. — Shakespeare.
When the age is in, the wit is out. — • Shakespeare.
Mellowed by the stealing hours of time. — S hakespear e.
No wise man ever wished to be younger. — Swift.
Old age is an incurable disease. — Seneca.
The evening of life brings with it its lamps. — Joubert.
JT is the sunset of life gives us mys- tical lore. — Campbell.
Age is suspicious, but is not itself often suspected. — Zimmermann.
Nor age so eat up my invention. — Shakespeare,
Men shut their doors against a set- ting sun. — Shakespeare.
O good gray head which all men knew. — Tennyson.
Age and want sit smiling at the gate. — Pope*
Thyself no more deceive, thy youth hath fled. — Petrarch.
The silver livery of advised age. — Shakespeare.
They say women and music should never be dated. — Goldsmith.
The Grecian ladies counted their age from- their marriage, not their birth. — Homer.
As I approach a second childhood, I
Ago
endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it. — Lady Montagu.
Age * * * is is a matter of feeling, not of years. — George William Curtis-
Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As they draw neai to their eternal home
— Edmund Waller,
His cheek the map of days outworn. — Shakespeare.
Time's chariot-wheels make their carriage-road in the fairest face. — Rochefoucauld,
Age too, shines out, and garrulous recounts the feats of youth. — Thomson.
Have a care lest the wrinkles in the face extend to the heart. — Marguerite de Valois.
White hairs are the crests of foam which cover the sea after the tempest — Elizabeth, Queen of Roumania.
What makes old age so sad is, not that our joys, but that our hopes, cease. — Richter.
Old age is a tyrant, which forbids the pleasures of youth on pain of death — Rochefoucauld.
We are to seek wisdom and under- standing only in the length of days. — Robert Hall.
The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men. — Auerbach.
Some smack of age in you, some rel* ish of the saltness of time. — Shake- speare.
Tour date is better in your pie and your porridge than in your cheek. — Shakespeare.
The defects of the mind, ,like those of the face, grow worse as we grow old. — Rochefoucauld.
Every man desires to live long; but, no man woul'I be old. — Swift.
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His hair just grizzled as in a green old age. — Dryden.
Years steal fire from the mind as vigor from the limb. — Byron.
Years do not make sages ; they only make old men. — Madame Swetchine.
As the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. — Longfellow.
The enthusiasm of old men is singu- larly like that of infancy. — Gerard de Nerval.
As we grow old we become more fo'olish and more wise. — Rochefou- cauld.
Nature, as it grows again toward earth, is fashioned for the journey, dull and heavy. — Shakespeare.
We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count. — Emer- son.
As you are old and reverend, you should he wise. — Ibid.
An old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave. — Wordsworth.
A youthful age is desirable, but aged youth is troublesome and grievous. — Chilo.
How many persons fancy they have experience simply because they have grown old! — Stanislaus.
For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old be- fore I really am so, — Cicero.
As we advance in life the circle of our pains enlarges, while that of our pleasures contracts. — Madame Swetch- ine.
We see time's furrows on another's brow ; how few themselves, in that just mirror, see ! — Young.
What folly can be ranker? Like
our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines. — Young.
Cautious age suspects the flattering form, and only credits what experience tells. — Johnson.
At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at for- ty, the judgment. — Grattan.
To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure. — Ben Jonson.
The best is yet to be,
The last of life, for which the fir^t was made, —Browning.
I love everything that's old, — ojd friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine. — Goldsmith.
Forty is the old age of youth ; fifty is the youth of old age. — Victor Hugo.
To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us. — Hazlitt.
Men, like peaches and pears, grovr sweet a little while before they begin to decay. — Holmes.
Age, that lessens the enjoyment of life, increases our desire of living. — • Goldsmith.
When men once reach their autumn, sickly joys fall off apace, as yellow leaves from trees. — Young.
You see me here, — a poor old man, As full of grief as age; wretched In both* — Shakespeare.
Thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace, thou shalt be buried in »a good old age. — Genesis.
Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood ; age tastes by habit, — La K
Age is rarely despised but whert it is contemptible. — 'Johnson.
As you are old and reverend, you should be
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Age bears away with it all things, even the powers of the mind — Virgil.
Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye. — Shakespeare.
These are the effects of doting age, — vain doubts and idle cares and over- caution. — Dryden.
Borne on the swift, tho' silent wings of time, Old age comes on apace, to ravage all the clime. — Beattie.
Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sun- shiny old age. — Mi's. L. M. Child,
A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living. — Steele.
Whatever poet, orator, or sage
May say of it, old age is still old age.
— Longfellow.
Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and aid authors to read. — Bacon.
Youth is a blunder ; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret. — Disraeli (Earl Beaconsfieftl).
Why will you break the Sabbath of my days ? Now sick alike of envy and of praibe.
— Pope.
Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. — - Shakespeare.
Age is a tyrant, who forbids, at the penalty of life, all the pleasures of south. — La Rochefoucauld.
A time there is when like a thrice- told tale long-rifled life of sweets can yield no tnore. — Young.
Age raakea ns not childish, as some gay; it finds us still true children. —
pt of power and of riches now bear sway, t g*' $a09fton and infirmity of age.
• — Frowde.
Age is frequently beautiful, wisdom
appearing like an aftermath. — Bea* consfield.
Old age has deformities enough of its own; do not add to it the deform- ity of vice. — Cato.
Boys must not have th' ambitious care of
men, Nor men the weak anxieties of age.
— Horace.
Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the light of a soft moon, silvering over the evening of life. — Richter.
The sunshine falls, the shadows grow more
dreary,
And I am near to fall, infirm and weary. — Longfellow.
The most dangerous weakness of old people who have been amiable is to forget they are no longer so.-— Rochefoucauld.
What should we speak of When we are old as you? When we shal!
hear The rain and wind beat dark December.
— Shakespeare.
When he's forsaken, Wither' d and shaken, What can an old man do but die*
-Hood.
Beauty and ugliness disappear equally under the wrinkles of age ; on« is lost in them; the other hidden, — *L Petit-Senn.
There is nothing more disgraceful than that an old man should have nothing to produce as a proof that he has lived long except his years. — Sen- eca.
Nature Is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then a young heart beating under fourscore winters. — Emerson.
And the bright faces of my young corap^p
ions
Are wrinkled like my own, or are no — LongfeP
Tell me what you nV*'^ ' more honorable than age" never ex- dom entailed upon ij$r grief aftet
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eminence of it in everything; in an old friend, in old wine, in an old pedigree. — Shaker ly Marmion.
Most long lives resemble those threads of gossamer, the nearest ap- proach to nothing unmeaningly pro- longed, scarce visible pathways of some worm from his cradle to his grave. — Lowell.
Time has laid his hand upon my heart gently, not smiting it; but as a harper lays his open palm upon his harp, to deaden its vibrations.— -Long- fellow.
The tendency of old age, say the Physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant, to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified. — J. F. Boyse.
Ag*
1 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.
On his bold visage middle age Had slightly press'd its signet sage.
— ScUt.
At your age,
The hey-day in the blood is tame, it's hum- ble, And waits upon the judgment.
— Shakespeare.
We hope to grow old and we dread old age ; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death. — La Bruyere.
The tree that bears no fruit deserves no name; the man of wisdom is the man of years. — Young.
There are three clasaes into which all the women past seventy years of age, that ever I knew, were to be di- vided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch. — Cole- ridge.
O sir, you are old; nature in you stands on the very verge of her con- fine; you should be ruled and led by some discretion, that discerns your fate better than you yourself. — Shakespeare.
Last scene of all, that ends this strange, eventful history, is second childishness, and mere oblivion; sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans every- thing.— Shakespeare.
'Tis the sunset of life gives us mystical lore, And corning events cast their shadows before. —Campbell.
Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like a shock of corn cometh ta his season. — Job v. 26.
~^J feel I am growing old for want of mbody to tell me that I am looking browing as ever. Charming false- mirror1 vSbire is a vast deal o '^^ words. — Landon
What foll^
^Xgrows better by age;
We must not take the faults of our youth into our old age; for old age brings with it its own defects. — Goethe,
It is only necessary to grow old to become more indulgent. I see no fault committed that I have not committed myself. — Goethe.
Set is the «un of my years; And over a few poor ashes, I sit in my darkness and tears.
— Gerald Massey.
And his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound.
— Shakespeare.
How far the gulf -stream of our youth May flow into the Arctic region of our lives, Where little else than life itself survives. — Longfellow.
Some one has said of a fine and hon- orable old age, that it was the child- hood of immortality. — Pindar.
When a noble life has, prepared old age, it is not the decline that it Re- veals, but the first days of immortal- ity. — Madame de StaSl.
The easiest thing for our friends to discover in us, and the hardest thing for us to discover in ourselves, is that we are growing old. — H. W. Shaw.
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There is nothing against which an old man should be so much upon his guard as putting himself to nurse. — Dr. Johnson^
In an aged man appears ripeness of wisdom: it is the oldest sandal-tree which emits the most fragrance. — Sa- taka.
Old men's lives are lengthened shad- ows; their evening sun falls coldly on the earth, but the shadows all point to the morning. — Richter.
Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; it is exceedingly long, — it is exceedingly short. — Beecher.
Old age'was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen. — Joubert.
Only when the sap is dried up, only when age comes on, does the sun shine m vain for man and for the tree. — Bulwer-Lytton.
Age is not all decay ; it is the ripen- ing, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk. — George MacDonald.
The Disappointment of Manhood succeeds to the delusion of Youth; let usj hope that the heritage of Old Age is not Despair. — Disraeli.
For we are old, and on our quick'st decrees The inaudible and noiseless foot of Time Steals ere we can effect them.
— Shakespeare.
That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, bwt only of such as are distinguished by their levity. — Cicero.
Next to the very young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish. Alas! the heart hardens as the blood ceases to run. — Thackeray.
An aged Christian, with the snow of time on his head, may remind us tbat those points of earth are whitest which are nearest heaven. — Chapin.
If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old. — James A. Garfield.
In age to wish for youth is full as vain As for a youth to turn a child again.
' — Denham.
The surest sign of age is loneliness. While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot be old, whatever his years may be. — Alcott.
Old age takes from the man of in tellect no qualities save those that ar»§ useless to wisdom. — Joubert.
Thus pleasures fade away; Youth, talents, beauty, thus decay, And leave us dark, forlorn, and gray.
—Scott.
_. r * * * Years steal
rire from the mind, as vigor from the limb* And life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim, — Byron.
Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us, to the next world, and the old man lives among graves. — Richter.
Up to forty a woman has only forty springs in her heart. After that age she has only forty winters. — Arsene Houssaye.
When men grow virtuous in their old age, they are merely making a sac- rifice to God of the devil's leavings. — Swift.
We grizzle every day. I see no need of it. Whilst we converse with what is above us, we do not grow old, Dut grow young. — Emerson.
Down jhls neck his reverend lockes
In cbmelye curies did wave; And on his aged temples grewe The blossomes of the grave
—Old Ballad.
Depend upon it, a man never ex- periences such pleasure or grief afte*
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fourteen years as he does before, un- less in some cases, in his first love- making, when the sensation is new to him. — Charles Kingsley.
To resist with success the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart; to keep these in parallel vigor, one must exercise, Btudy, and love. — Bonstetten.
As sailing into port is a happier thing than the voyage, so is age hap- pier than youth; that is, when the voyage from youth is made with Christ at the helm. — Rev. J. Pulsford.
Thus fares it still In our decay,
And yet the \\iser mind Mourns less for what ere takes away
Than what it leaves behind.
—Wordsworth.
The vine produces more grapes when it is young, but better grapes for wine when it is old, because its juices are moie perfectly concocted. — Bacon.
My days are in the yellow leaf;
The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief
Are mine alone! — Byron.
Natures that have much heat, and great and violent desires and perturba- tions, aro not ripe for action till they have parsed the meridian of their years. — Bacon.
Backward, flow backwaid, O tide of the
yeais!
I am so weary of toil and of tears, — Toil without recompense^ tears all in vain — Take them and give me my childhood again 1 1 — Elizabeth Akers Allen.
The vices of old age have the stiff- ness of it, too ; and as it is the unfit- test time to loarn in, so the unfitness of it to unlearn will be found much greater. — South.
I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst— Twlly.
Throughout the whole vegetable, sensible, and rational world, whatever
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makes progress towards maturity, as soon as it has passed that point, begins to verge towards decay. — Blair.
He who would pass the declining years of his life with honor and com- fort, should when young, consider that he may one day become old, and re- member, when he is old, that he has once been young. — Addison.
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind, than it does in the face, and souls are never, or very rarely seen, that in growing old do not smell sour and musty. Man moves all together, both towards his perfection and decay. — Montaigne.
So life's year begins and closes;
Days, though short'ning, still can shine; What though youth gave love and roses,
Age still leaves us friends and wine.
— Moore,
Though now this grained face of mine be
hid
In sap-consuming winter's drizzled snow, And all the conducts of my blood froze up, Yet hath my night of life some memory. — Shakebpeai e.
For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. — Longfellow.
Though sinking in decrepit age^ be prematurely falls whose memory re- cords no benefit conferred on him by- man. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously. — Sheridan.
Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, ns childhood is ; and old men lose one of the most precious rights of man, — that of being judged by their peers, — Goethe.
Remote from cities Hv'd a Swain, Unvex'd with all the cares of gain; His head was silver'd o'er with age, And long experience made him &age. • ' —Gay.
Our life much resembles wine : when there is only a little remaining, it "be- comes vinegar; for all the ills of hu- man nature crowd to old age as If M were a workshop. — Antiphanea*
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Life grows darker as we go on, till only one pure light is left shining on it; and that is faith. Old age, like solitude and sorrow, has its revela- tions.— Madame Swetchine.
Of roses for the flush of youth, And laurel for the perfect prime; But pluck an ivy branch for me Grown old before my time.
— Christina G. Rossetti.
Thus aged men, full loth and slow, The vanities of life forego, And count their youthful follies o'er, Till memory lends her light no more. —Scott.
Venerable men ! you have come down to us from a former generation. Heav- en has Bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joy- ous day. — Daniel Webster.
There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures nor sensible of doing them to others. — Sir W. Temple.
The mental powers acquire their full robustness when the cheek loses its ruddy hue, and the limbs their elastic step; and pale thought sits on manly brows, and the watchman, as he walks hi& rounds, sees the student's lamp burning far into the silent night. — Dr. Guthrie.
The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the ne- cessity of their fall ; and thus insen- sibly are we, as years close round us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sor- row— Landor.
fjike ,a morning dream, life becomes wore and more bright the longer we Mtfet and the reason of everything ap- pears njore clear. What has puzzled u$ before seems less mysterious, and t&e crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end. — Richter.
A femfortable old. age is the reward p£ a well-spent youth; therefore in- $£ 'Its Introducing dismal and prospects of decay, it
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should give us hopes of eternal youtfi in a better world. — Palmer.
Age and sufferings had already marked out the first incisions for death, so that he required but little effort to cut her down ; for it is with men as with trees, they are notched long before felling, that their life-sap may flow out. — Richter.
Old age is a lease nature only signs as a particular 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 traverses and difficulties she has strewed in the way of his long career. — Montaigne.
What is it to grow old?
Is it to lose the glory of the form,
The lustre of the eye?
Is it for Beauty to forego her wreath?
Yes; but not this alone.
— Matthew Arnold.
Winter, which strips the leaves from around us, makes us see the distant regions they formerly concealed; so does old age rob us of our enjoyments, only to enlarge the prospect of eter- nity before us. — Richter.
We should provide for our age, in order that our age may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from the meditation of the nest. It is aw- ful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave ! — Bui- wer-Lytton.
Alike all ages; dames of ancient days Have led their children thro' the mirthful
maze.
And the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore, Has frisk a beneath the burthen of three- score. — Goldsmith.
Fate seem'd to wind him up for fourscore
years;
Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more; Till like a clock worn out with eating time, The wheels of weary life at last stood still, — Dryden,
One's age should be tranquil, as one's childhood should be playful; hard work, at either extremity of hu- man existence, seems to me out of place; tb* morning and the evening
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should be alike cool and peaceful ; at midday the sun may burn, and men may labor under it. — Dr. Arnold
O blest retirement 1 friend to life's decline — Retreats from care, that never must be mine How blest is he who crowns, in shades like
these, A youth of labour with an age of ease,^
— Goldsmith.
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. W. Curtis.
I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emo- tion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding. — Longfellow.
Corne forth, old man, — thy daughter's side
Is now the fitting place for thee: When time has quell'd the oak's bold pride, The youthful tendril yet may hide.
The ruins of the parent tree, — Scott.
So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou
drop
Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gather' d, not harshly pluck' d, for death ma- ture. ' — Milton.
Leirn to live well, or fairly make your will; You've play'd, and lov'd, and ate, and drank
your fill;
Walk sober off, before a sprightlier age Comes titt'rjng on, and shoves you from the
stage. — Pope.
What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the
brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's
page, And be alone on earth as I am now.
-"—Byron.
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 concealments. In a young person it is simply allowable; we do ftot expect him to be above it. — Bovee.
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 — Madame Swetchine.
Is it that Nature, attentive to the preservation of mankind, increases our wishes to live, while she lessens our enjoyments, and as she robs the senses of every pleasure, equips imag- ination in the spoil ? — Goldsmith.
If the memory is more flexible in childhood, it is more tenacious in ma- ture age ; if childhood has sometimes the memory of words, old age has that of things, which impress themselves according to the clearness of the con- ception of the thought which we wish to retain. — De Bonstetten.
An age that melts with unperceived decay, And glides in modest innocence away; Whose peaceful Day benevolence endears, Whose Night congratulating conscience
cheers ;
The general favourite as the general friend: Such age there is, and who shall wish ita
end? — Dr. Johnson.
True wisdom, indeed, springs from the wide brain which is fed from the deep heart; and it is only when age warms its withering conceptions at th«j memory of its youthful fire, when it makes experience serve aspiration, and knowledge illumine the difficult paths through which thoughts thread their way into facts, — it is only then that age becomes broadly and nobly wise. — • Whipple.
Age, when it does not harden the heart and sour the temper, naturally returns to the milky disposition of in* fancy. Time has the same effect upon the mind as on the face. The pre- dominant passion, the strongest fea* ture, becomes more conspicuous from the others retiring. — Lady Montagu.
Some persons resemble certain, txeeSf such as the nut, which flowers in Feb- ruary and ripens its fruit in Septem- ber; or the juniper and the arbutus; which take a whole year or more to perfect their fruit; and others, th*
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cherry, which takes between two and three months.— Whately.
Old age brings us to know the value of the blessings which we have en- joyed, and it brings us also to a very thankful perception of those which yet remain. Is a man advanced in life? The ease of a single day, the rest of a single night, are gifts which may be subject? of gratitude to God. — Paley.
Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies. The law of contrasts is one of the laws of beauty. Under the conditions of our climate, shadow gives light its worth ; sternness enhances mildness ; solemnity, splendor. Varying propor- tions of size- support and subserve one another. — Madame Swetchine.
Remember that some of the bright- est drops in the chalice of life may still remain for us in old age. The last draught which a kind Providence gives us to drink, though near the bot- tom of the cup, may, as is said of the taught of the Roman of old, have at fehe very bottom, instead of dregs, most costly pearls. — W. A. Newman.
Behold where age's wretched victim lies. See his head trembling, and his half clos'd
eyes, ' Frequent for breath his panting bosom
heaves ;
To broken sleep his remnant sense he gives, And only by his pains, awaking, finds he
lives. — Prior.
The course of my long life hath reached at
last,
In fragile bark o'er a tempestuous sea. The common harbor, where must rendered
be, Account of all the actions of the past.
— Longfellow.
Weak withering age no rigid law forbids. With frugal nectar, smooth and slow with
balm,
The sapless habit daily to bedew, And give the hesitating wheels of life Gliblier to play. — John Armstrong,
Old age likes to dwell in the recol- lections of the past, and, mistaking the speedy march of years, often is in- clined to take the prudence of the win- ter time far a fit wisdom of midsum-
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mer ^ days. Manhood is bent to th« passing cares of the passing moment, and holds so closely to his eyes the sheet of "to-day," that it screens the "to-morrow" from his sight. — Kossuth.
There is a quiet repose and steadi- ness about the happiness of age, if the life has been well spent. Its feeble- ness is not painful. The nervous sys- tem has lost its acuteness. But, in mature years we feel that a burn, a scald, a cut, is more tolerable than it was in the sensitive period of youth.— Hazlitt.
Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of reposing age; With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of
death;
Explore the thought, explain the asking eye1! And keep awhile one parent from the sky*
—Pope.
Old age is courteous — no one more: For time after tune he knocks at the door, But nobody says, "Walk in, sir, pray!" Yet turns he not from the door away, But lifts the latch, and enters with speed, And then they cry, "A cool one, indeed.*4 —Goethe.
I'm growing fonder of my staff;
I'm growing dimmer in the eyes;
I'm growing fainter in my laugh;
I'm growing deeper in my sighs;
I'm growing careless of my dress;
I'm growing frugal of my gold;
I'm growing wise; I'm growing, — yes,-—
I'm growing old. — Saxe.
The careful cold hath nipt my rugged rind, And in my face deep furrows eld hath
plight;
My head bespren with hoary frost I find, And by mine eye the crow his claw doth
bright;
Delight is laid abed, and pleasure past; No sun now shines, clouds have all over- cast. • — 'Spenser.
Can man be so age-stricken that no faintest sunshine of his youth may re-* visit him once a year? It is impossi* ble. The moss on our time-worn man- sion brightens into beauty; the good old pastor, who once dwelt here, re- newed his prime and regained his boy- hood in the genial breeze of his nine- tieth spring. Alas for the worn an<3 heavy soul, if, whether in youth os
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age, it has outlived its privilege of springtime sprightliness ! — Hawthorne,
Old age doth in sharp pains abound;
We are belabored by the gout, Our blindness is a dark profound.
Our deafness each one laughs about. Then reason's light with falling ray
Doth but a trembling flicker cast Honor to age, ye children payl
Alasl my fifty years are past!
— Beranger.
My way ot fife
Is fallen into the sear, the yellow leaf And that which should accompany old age, As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have; but, in their stead, Curses not loud, but deep, mouth-honor,
breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and
dare not. — Shakespeare.
His silver hairs
Will purchase us a good opinion, And buy men's voices to commend our
deeds; It shall be said his judgment rul'd our
hands;
Our youths and wildness shall no whit ap- pear, But all be burled in his gravity,
— Shakespeare.
Those old fellows have Their ingratitude in them hereditary; Their blood is caked, 'tis cold, it seldom
flows ; 'TJs lack of kindly warmth, they are not
kind,
And nature, as it grows toward earth, Is fashion'd for the journey — dull and
heavy, — 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 cratches. The grandsire turns wearily from his middle-aged, care- worn son, to listen with infant laugh to the prattle of an infant grandchild. It is the old who plant young trees; it is the old who are most saddened by the autumn, and feel most delight in the returning spring, — Bulwer-Lytton*
Agree
Agreeing to differ. — Ovid.
The character in conversation which
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commonly passes for agreeable Is made up of civility and falsehood. — Swift.
Nature never says one thing, Wis« dom another. — Juvenal.
Agreement exists in disapreement.-^ Lucan.
If you wish to appear agreeable in society you must consent to be taught many things which you know already. — Lavater.
Most arts require long study and application ; but the most useful art of all, that of pleasing, requires onlv the desire. — Chesterfield.
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 conformity of the features to each other, and to the air and complexion of the person, — • Rochefoucauld.
The art of being agreeable frequent ly miscarries through the ambition which accompanies it. Wit, learning, wisdom, — what can more effectually conduce to the profit and delight of society? Yet I am sensible that a man may be too invariably wise, learned, or witty to be agreeable; 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. — Cum* berland.
Nature has left every man a capaci- ty of being1 agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there* are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they -might correct in half an ftouj?, are not so much as tolerable. — Swift,
Agriculture
The farmers are the founders of civ- ilization.— Daniel Webster.
The divine chemistry works in the subsoiL — Hawthorne.
Time spent in the cultivation of ffaf fields passes very
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Life grows darker as we go on, till only one pure light is left shining on it; and that is faith. Old age, like solitude and sorrow, has its revela- tions.— Madame Swetchine.
O, roses for the flush of youth, And laurel for the perfect prime; But pluck an ivy branch for me Grown old before my time.
— Christina G. Rossetti.
Thus aged men, full loth and slow, The vanities of life forego, And count their youthful follies o'er, Till memory lends her light no more.
—Scott.
Venerable men ! you have come down to us from a former generation. Heav- en, has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joy- ous day. — Daniel Webster.
There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures nor sensible of doing them to others.— Sir W. Temple.
The mental powers acquire their full robustness when the cheek loses its ruddy hue, and the limbs their elastic step; and pale thought sits on manly brows, and the watchman, as he walks bi& rounds, sees the student's lamp burning far into the silent night. — Dr. Gttthrie.
The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the ne- cessity of their fall ; and thus insen- sibly are we, as years close round us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sor- — Landor.
,$. morning dream, life becomes and more bright the longer we lite, and the reason of everything ap- pears more clear. What has puzzled lag before seems less mysterious, and t&e crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end. — Richter.
A ewfortable old age is the reward a w^ll-spent youth? therefore in- 'its Introducing dismal and prospects of decay, it
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should give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world. — Palmer.
Age and sufferings had already marked out the first incisions for death, so that he required but little effort to cut her down ; for it is with men as with trees, they are notched long before felling, that their life-sap may flow out. — Richter.
Old age is a lease nature only signs as a particular 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 traverses and difficulties she has strewed in the way of his long career. — Montaigne.
What is it to grow old?
Is it to lose the glory of the form,
The lustre of the eye?
Is it for Beauty to forego her wreath?
Yes; but not this alone.
— Matthew Arnold.
Winter, which strips the leaves from around us, makes us see the distant regions they formerly concealed; so does old age rob us of our enjoyments, only to enlarge the prospect of eter- nity before us. — Richter.
We should provide for our age, in order that our age may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from the meditation of the next. It is aw- ful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave ! — Bul- wer-Lytton.
Alike all ages; dames of ancient days Have led their children thro' the mirthful
maze.
And the gay grandsire, skill* d in gestic lore, Has frisk' d beneath the burthen of three- score. — Goldsmith.
Fate seem'd to wind him up for fourscore
years;
Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more; Till like a clock worn out with eating time, The wheels of weary life at last stood still. — Dryden.
One's age should be tranquil, as one's childhood should be playful; hard work, at either extremity of hu- man existence, seems to me out of place; tb* morning and the evening
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as he was so, he quitted our profes- sion and turned builder. — Cowley.
"Agriculture, for an honorable and high-minded man," says Xenophon, "is the best of all occupations and arts by which men procure the means of living."— Alcott.
God Almighty first planted a gar- den; and indeed it is the purest of human pleasures : it is the greatest re- freshment to the spirits of man. — Bacon.
Ye rigid ploughmen1 bear in mind Your labor is for future hours._
Advance! spare not! nor look behind! Plough deep and straight with all your Powers! — Richard Hengist Home.
Agriculture is the noblest of all al- chemy; for it turns earth, and even manure, into gold, conferring upon its cultivator the additional reward of health.— Chatfield.
Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield: Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has
broke: How jocund did they drive their team
a-field '
How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! — Gray.
Look up! the wide extended plain Is billowy with its ripened grain, And on the summer winds are rolled Its waves of emerald and gold.
— Wm. Henry Burleigh.
In the age of acorns, antecedent to Ceres and the royal ploughman Trip- tolemus, a single barley-corn had been of more value to mankind than all the diamonds that glowed in the mines of India. — H. Brooke.
Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulg'd the^ day that hous'd their annual
With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain. — Pope-
And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of m man- bind, an$ do more essential service to
his country, than the whole race of politicians put together. — Swift
It is not known where he that in- vented the plough was born nor where be died; yet he has effected more for the happiness of the world than the whole race of heroes and of conquer- ors who have drenched it with tears and manured it with blood, and whose birth, parentage, and educatio^ have been handed down to us with a pre- cision precisely proportionate to the mischief they have done. — -Colton.
E'en in mid-harvest, while the jocund swain Pluck'd from the brittle stalk the golden
grain,
Oft have I seen the war of winds contendj And prone on earth th' infuriate storm de- scend, Waste far and wide, and by the roots
uptorn, The heavy harvest sweep through ether
borne,
.A.S the light straw and rapid stubble fly In dark'nmg whirlwinds round the wintry
In darkening1 sky.
—Virgil.
In ancient times, the sacred Plough em-
ploy'd
The Kings and awful Fathers of mankind- And some, with whom compared your m
sect-tribes
Are but the beings of a summer's day, Have held the Scale of Empire, ruled tbtf
Storm
Of mighty War; then, with victorious handj Disdaining little delicacies, seized The Plough, and, greatly independent
scorned
All the vile stores corruption can bestow. — Thomson.
In a moral point of view, the Iif6 of the agriculturist is the most pure- and holy of any class of men ; pure, because it is the most healthful, and vice can hardly find time to contami- nate it ; and holy, because it brings the Deity perpetually before bis view, giv- ing him thereby the most exalted no- tions of supreme power, and the most fascinating and endearing view of moral benignity.— Lord John Russell,
Alchemy *
I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like en- thusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose. — Sir W. Temple,
Ale |
It is an art without art, which has its beginning in falsehood, its middle in toil, and its end in poverty. — From the Latin.
The glorious sun
Stays in his course and plays the alchemist, Turning with splendor of his precious eye The meager cloddy earth to glittering gold. — Shakespeare.
Alchemy may be compared to the man who told his sons he had left them gold buried somewhere in his vine- yard; where they by digging found no gold, but by turning up the mould, about the roots of their vines, pro- cured a plentiful vintage. So the search and endeavors to make gold have brought many useful inventions und instructive experiments to light. — Bacon. Alienation, Evils of
Nothing presents a more mournful aspect than a family divided by anger and animosity. Unhappily, however, this is not a very rare occurrence. We even behold at times, brothers them- selves so indifferent towards each other, so wanting in affection, or even in a state of such hostility among themselves that they appear as if they had been cherished by the same fond heart only to be divided bv their tastes and manner of thinking. Often they are lews obliging to one another than they are to persons whom they know not.— ^achokke. Allegory
Allegory dwells in a transparent palace.— Le Mierre.
A man conversing in earnest, if he watch his intellectual processes, wiH 9nd that a material image, more or less luminous, arises in his mind, con- temporaneous with every thought, Which furnishes the vestment of the thought. Hence, good writing and brilliant discourse are perpetual al- legories.— Emerson.
Allegories, when well chosen, a^3
Alone
like so many tracks of light in a dis- course, that make everything about them clear and beautiful. — Addison.
Almond
With a bee in every "bell, Almond bloom, we greet thee well.
— Edwin Arnold.
Blossom of the almond trees, April's gift to April's bees.
— Edwin Arnold.
White as the blossoms which the almond
tree,
Above its bald and leafless branches bears. — Margaret J. Preston.
Like to an almond tree ymounted hye On top of greene Selinis all alone,
With blossoms brave bedecked daintily; Whose tender locks do tremble every one, At everie little breath, that under heaven is blowne. — Spenser.
Almond blossom, sent to teach us That the spring days soon will reach us. — Edwin Arnold.
Alms
Charity is the perfection and orna- ment of religion. — Addison.
Where there is plenty, charity is a duty, not a courtesy. — Feltham.
We may cover a multitude of sins with the white robe of charity. — Beecher.
Are we not to pity and supply the poor, though they have no relation to us? No relation? That cannot be. The Gospel styles them all our brethren. — Thomas Sprat.
Those good men who take such pleasure in relieving the miserable for Christ's sake, would not have been less forward to minister unto Christ Him- self.— Atterbury.
Shall we repine at a little misplaced charity, we who could no way foresee the effect, when an all-knowing, all- wise Being showers down every day His benefits on the unthankful and un- deserving ? — Atterbury.
Alone
It is not good that man should b*
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They are never alone that are ac- companied with noble thoughts. — Sir Philip Sidney.
The time never lies heavy upun him ; it is impossible for him to be alone. — Addison.
When musing on companions gone, We doubly feel ourselves alone,
—Scott.
Alone! — that worn-out uprd, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; lTet all that poets sing, and srief nctl1
Known, Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word —
Alone. — Lytton.
Bid amaranthus all tils beauty shed, And daffodillies fill their crps vilh tears, To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies. _ —Milton.
Nosegays! leave them for the waking, Throw them earthward where they grew Dim ?re such, beside the bi caking Amarnnths he looks unto. Folded eyes see brighter colors than the open ever do. — E. B. Browning.
Amaranths such ss ciov.ti the maids That wander through Zamara's sludes — - Mooie,
Immoiicl amaranth, n, fower which once In Parad^e, fast by t'lc Tree o£ Life, _ Be«- an to bloom, buc soon for Man's oilence, To" heav'n remo/il, where first it grew*,
there grows,
And ilow'is aloft shading the fount of life. — Milton.
Ambassador
An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the common- wealth,—Sir II. Wotton. Ambition.
Ambition is the mind's Immodesty. — Davenant.
Ambition's cradle oftenest is its grave, — Longfellow.
By that sin angels fell— Shake- speare.
The glorious frailty of the noble mind. — Hoole.
The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory. — Cicero.
Ambition has no rest! — Bulwer* Lytton.
Men would be angels, angels would be gods. — Pope.
The path of glory leads but to the grave. — Gray.
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back. — 33en Jonson.
Vaulting ambition, which overleaps itself. — Shakespeare.
Ambition is not a vice of little peo- ple.— Montaigne.
I charge thee, nine? away ambition: By that sin fell the angels.
• — Shakespeare.
No man is born without ambitious worldly desires.- — Garlyle.
All may have, if they fir, re try, 8 glorious life or a-rave. — Herbert.
Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals. — Uonhain.
Though ambition in itself ss a vice, yet it isf often the parent of virtues. — < Qu'ntilian.
If you wish to roneh the highest, be* gin at the lowest. — Syrus,
Fatal ambition1 say whn1 \vondi cms charms Delude mankind to toil for thee in arms'
~ liowe.
Ambition is but the evil shadow of aspiration. — George Mactlonald.
You have greatly vonturod, but all must do so who would greatly win. — r Byron.
When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its prog TOSS is bound- less.— Seneca.
Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals : we storm heaven itself in our folly. — Horace.
Ambition is like hunger; it oboya n« law but its appetite, — II. W. Shaw.
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He who surpasses or subdues man- kind must look down on the hate of those below. — By?on.
The highest and most lofty trees have the most reason to dread the thunder. — Rollin,
Ambition hath one heel nail'd in hell,
Thouch she stretch her finders to touch the But once kindled, quenchless evermore. hftftvena. —Lilly. | — Byron.
Most people would succeed in snial] things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. — Longfellow.
Ambition hath but two steps; the lowest, blood; the highest, envy.— Lilly. "
We. frequently pass from love to am- bition , but one seldom returns from ambition to love. — Rochefoucauld.
-there is a fire and motion of the soul,
They that stand high, have many blasts to ;
shake them; And if they fall, they dash themselves to
pieces. — Shakespeare.
Ambition breaks the tics of blood, and forgets the obligations of grati- tude.—Sir W. Scott.
Think not ambition wise, because ?t is brave.— Sir W. Davenant.
Too low they build who build be- neath the stars. — Young.
What is ambition but desire of greatness? And what is gieatness but extent of power? — Higgons.
Beware ambition; heaven is not reached with pride, but with submis- sion.-— Middleton.
Who soars too near the sun, with golden wings, melts them. — Shake- speare.
How like a mounting devil in the heait Rules the unreined ambition!
— Willis.
Take nway ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and pa- triots ? — Seneca.
Tt is the constant fault and insepa- rable ill quality of ambition never to look behind it. — Seneca.
Ah! curst ambition' to thy lures we owe
All the great ills that mortals bear below.
— Teckcll.
Blood only serves to wash Ambi- tion's hands. — Byron.
Remarkable places are like the sum- mits of rocks; eagles and reptiles only can get there. — Madame Necker*
Proud-crested fiend, the world's worst foe, ambition. — Bloomfield.
Ambition thinks no face so beau- tiful as that which looks from undei a crown.— Sir P. Sidney.
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds. — • T. D. English.
It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world. — Cobbett.
xlmbition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices ; so climbing is per- formed in the same posture with creep- ing.— Swift.
The tallest trees are most in the power of the windy, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune. — William Penn.
One may easily enough guard against ambition till fivc-and-twenty. It is not ambition's day. — Shengtone.
Ambition, like love, can abide no lingering; and ever urgeth on his own successes, hating- nothing but what may stop them. — Sir P. Sidney.
Neither love nor ambition, as it has often J3een shown, can brook a division of its empire in the heart. — Bovee.
It is observed by Cicert), that men of the greatest and most shining parts are most actuated by ambition. — Addison.
The cheat ambition, eager to espouse
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Ambition
dominion, courts it with a lying show, and shines in borrowed pomp to serve a turn. — Jeffrey.
The ambitious deceive themselves when they propose an end to their ambition; for that end, when attained, becomes a means. — Rochefoucauld.
The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, am- bition is the more durable passion of the two. — Buhver-Lytton.
Ambition Is an idol, on whose wings Great minds are carried only to extieme; To be sublimely great or to be nothing. — Southey.
Ambition is an idol, on whose wings |
to ex- !
What is ambition? It is a glorious cheat I Angels of light walk not so clazzlingly the sapphire walls of heaven. — Willis.
Our natures are like oil; compound us with
anything, Yet will we strive to swim to the top.
— Beaumont and Fletcjier.
Ambition is a lust that's never quenched, Grows more inflamed, and madder by en- joyment. % — Otway.
Ambition has but one reward fo*\all: A little power, a Httje transient fame, A grave to rest in», and a fading name! — William Winter.
Uncurbed ambition, unresisting sloth, And base dependence, are the fiends ac- curst. — Mason.
Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves al- ways in show, like the statue of a pub- lic place. — Montaigne.
In the world there are only two ways of raising one's self, either by one's own industry or by the weakness of others. — Bruyfcre.
Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the coun- sels and monitions of reason itself. — L'Estrange.
To wish is of little account ; to suc- ceed you must earnestly desire; and this desire must shorten thy sleep. — Ovid.
When you are aspiring to the high- est place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank. — Cicero.
Part' x had rather be the
Dream after dream ensues, And still they dream. that they shall still
succeed, And still are disappointed. — Cowper.
A slave has but one master ; the am- bitious man has as many masters as there are persons whose aid may con- tribute to the advancement of his for- tune.— Bruy&re.
Ijike dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. — Burton.
Be always displeased at what thou art, it thou aesire to attain to what thou art not ; for where thou hast pleased thyself, there thou abidest. — Quarles.
Every one has before his eyes an end which he pursues till death; but for many that end is a feather which they blow before them in the air.— - N:coll.
Ambition is a rebel both to the soul and reason, and enforces all laws, all conscience ; treads upon religion, and offers violence to nature's self. — Ben Jonson,
But what will not ambition and revenge Descend to? who aspires must down as low As high he soar'd, obnoxious first or last To basest things. — Milton.
There is a native baseness in th$ am- bition which seeks beyond Its des&rt; that never shows more conspicuously than when, no matter how, it tempo- rarily gains its object. — Simms.
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The modesty of certain ambitious persons consists in becoming great without making too much noise ; it may be said that they advance in the world on tiptoe. — Voltaire.
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. — Henry Taylor.
I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatis- factory nature of all human pleasures. — Pope.
Ambition's like a circle on the water, Which never ceases to enlarge itself, 'Till by broad spreading it disperse to nought. — Shakespeare.
Talents^ angel-bright,
I£ wanting worth are shining instruments In false ambition's hand, to finish faults Illustrious, and give infamy renown.
— Young.
We should be careful to deserve a good reputation by doing well; and when that care is once taken, not to be over anxious about the success. — > Rochester.
0 cursed ambition, thou devouring bird, How dost thou from the field of honesty Pick every grain of profit or delight, And mock the reaper's toill — Havard
All my ambition is, I own,
To profit and to please unknown;
Like streams supplied from springs below,
Which scatter blessings as they go.
—Dr. Cotton.
If love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal force, I make no doubt but that the last would win the prize. — Mon- taigne.
Where ambition can be so happy as to ?over its enterprises even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is tfoe most incurable and infesible of all human passions. — Hume.
Most: natures are Insolvent; cannot satisfy their own wants, have an am-
bition out of all proportion to their practical force, and so do lean and beg day and night continually. — Emerson.
Ambition ! deadly tyrant ! inexorable master I what alarms, what anxious hours, what agonies of heart, are the sure portion of thy gaudy slaves?— Mallet.
A hop and skip shall raise the son of a cobbler, well underlaid with pieces, to the government of a prince, till over- much ambitious cutting wears him to his last. — Nabbes.
It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations, as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutified his nature, and quenched the spirit of immortality, which is his portion. — Southey.
Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by ac- cumulating power as a mean to happi- ness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end. — Colton.
Moderation cannot have the credit of combating and subduing ambition, — they are never found together. Moder- ation is the languor and indolence of the soul, as ambition is its activity and ardor. — Rochefoucauld.
Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. God sometimes sends a fam- ine, sometimes a pestilence, and some- time^ a hero, for the chastisement of mankind ; none of them surely for our admiration. — Landor.
Who knows but He, whose hai>4 the light- ning forms,
Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms,
Pours fierce ambition in a Coesar's mind.
— Pope.
Breams, indeed, are ambition; for* the very substance of the ambitious 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 like choler, which is a
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humor that maketh men active, earnest, full of alacrity, and stirring, if it be not stopped, but if it be stopped, and cannot have its way, it becometh fiery, and thereby malign and venomous. — Bacon.
We should reflect that whatever tempts the pride and vanity of ambi- tious persons is not so big ab the smallest star which we see scattered in disorder and unregarded on the pave- ment of heaven. — Jeremy Taylor.
Ambition is a spirit in the world
That causes all the ebbs and flows of nations,
Keeps mankind sweet by action; without
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The world would be a filthy, settled mud. — Crown.
Aspiring to nothing but humility, the wise man will make it the height