God's poet is silence! His song is unspoken,And yet so profound, so loud, and so far,It fills you, it thrills you with measures unbroken,And as soft, and as fair, and as far as a star.—Joaquin Miller.
God's poet is silence! His song is unspoken,And yet so profound, so loud, and so far,It fills you, it thrills you with measures unbroken,And as soft, and as fair, and as far as a star.—Joaquin Miller.
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrusts himself.—La Rochefoucauld.
If thou desire to be held wise, be so wise as to hold thy tongue.—Quarles.
As we must account for every idle word, so we must for every idle silence.—Franklin.
Learn to hold thy tongue. Five words cost Zacharias forty weeks' silence.—Fuller.
Silence is a virtue in those who are deficient in understanding.—Bouhours.
Silence, when nothing need be said, is the eloquence of discretion.—Bovee.
Silence does not always mark wisdom.—S.T. Coleridge.
Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise.—Proverbs 17:28.
Sin.—Suffer anything from man, rather than sin against God.—Sir Henry Vane.
Let him that sows the serpent's teeth not hope to reap a joyous harvest. Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, its own avenging angel,—dark misgivings at the inmost heart.—Schiller.
I could not live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God.—George Eliot.
Never let any man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul! Any other issue is doubtful; the evil effect on himself is certain.—Southey.
Many afflictions will not cloud and obstruct peace of mind so much as one sin: therefore, if you would walk cheerfully, be most careful to walk holily. All the winds about the earth make not an earthquake, but only that within.—Archbishop Leighton.
Think not for wrongs like these unscourged to live;Long may ye sin, and long may Heaven forgive;But when ye least expect, in sorrow's day,Vengeance shall fall more heavy for delay.—Churchill.
Think not for wrongs like these unscourged to live;Long may ye sin, and long may Heaven forgive;But when ye least expect, in sorrow's day,Vengeance shall fall more heavy for delay.—Churchill.
Sin is never at a stay; if we do not retreat from it, we shall advance in it; and the farther on we go, the more we have to come back.—Barrow.
Other men's sins are before our eyes, our own are behind our back.—Seneca.
Take steadily some one sin, which seems to stand out before thee, to root it out, by God's grace, and every fibre of it. Purpose strongly, by the grace and strength of God, wholly to sacrifice this sin or sinful inclination to the love of God, to spare it not, until thou leave of it none remaining, neither root nor branch.—E.B. Pusey.
Cast out thy Jonah—every sleeping and secure sin that brings a tempest upon thy ship, vexation to thy spirit.—Reynolds.
Use sin as it will use you; spare it not, for it will not spare you; it is your murderer, and the murderer of the whole world. Use it, therefore, as a murderer should be used; kill it before it kills you; and though it brings you to the grave, as it did your head, it shall not be able to keep you there. You love not death; love not the cause of death.—Baxter.
Sincerity.—I think you will find that people who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be "consistent."—Holmes.
If the show of any thing be good for any thing, I am sure sincerity is better; for why does any man dissemble, or seem to be that which he is not, but because he thinks it good to have such a quality as he pretends to?—Tillotson.
The only conclusive evidence of a man's sincerity is that he gives himself for a principle. Words, money, all things else, are comparatively easy to give away; but when a man makes a gift of his daily life and practice, it is plain that the truth, whatever it may be, has taken possession of him.—Lowell.
Private sincerity is a public welfare.—Bartol.
I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain, what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an "honest man."—Washington.
Sincerity is to speak as we think, to do as we pretend and profess, to perform and make good what we promise, and really to be what we would seem and appear to be.—Tillotson.
Let us then be what we are, and speak what we think, and in all things keep ourselves loyal to truth, and the sacred professions of friendship.—Longfellow.
Slander.—When will talkers refrain from evil-speaking? When listeners refrain from evil-hearing.—Hare.
Never throw mud. You may miss your mark, but you must have dirty hands.—Joseph Parker.
Remember, when incited to slander, that it is only he among you who is without sin that may cast the first stone.—Hosea Ballou.
Slander,Whose edge is sharper than the sword; whose tongueOut-venoms all the worms of Nile; whose breathRides on the posting winds, and doth belieAll corners of the world: kings, queens, and states,Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the graveThis viperous slander enters.—Shakespeare.
Slander,Whose edge is sharper than the sword; whose tongueOut-venoms all the worms of Nile; whose breathRides on the posting winds, and doth belieAll corners of the world: kings, queens, and states,Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the graveThis viperous slander enters.—Shakespeare.
Nor do they trust their tongues alone,But speak a language of their own;Can read a nod, a shrug, a look,Far better than a printed book;Convey a libel in a frown,And wink a reputation down;Or, by the tossing of the fan,describe the lady and the man.—Swift.
Nor do they trust their tongues alone,But speak a language of their own;Can read a nod, a shrug, a look,Far better than a printed book;Convey a libel in a frown,And wink a reputation down;Or, by the tossing of the fan,describe the lady and the man.—Swift.
Those men who carry about and who listen to accusations, should all be hanged, if so it could be at my decision—the carriers by their tongues, the listeners by their ears.—Plautus.
Oh! many a shaft, at random sent,Finds mark the archer little meant;And many a word, at random spoken,May soothe or wound a heart that's broken.—Walter Scott.
Oh! many a shaft, at random sent,Finds mark the archer little meant;And many a word, at random spoken,May soothe or wound a heart that's broken.—Walter Scott.
Sleep.—One hour's sleep before midnight is worth two after.—Fielding.
God gives sleep to the bad, in order that the good may be undisturbed.—Saadi.
Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor; and so shall thy labor sweeten thy rest.—Quarles.
We sleep, but the loom of life never stops; and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up to-morrow.—Beecher.
Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.—Alcott.
There are many ways of inducing sleep,—the thinking of purling rills, or waving woods; reckoning of numbers; droppings from a wet sponge fixed over a brass pan, etc. But temperance and exercise answer much better than any of these succedaneums.—Sterne.
Sleep is a generous thief; he gives to vigor what he takes from time.—Elizabeth, Queen of Roumania.
O sleep! it is a gentle thing,Beloved from pole to pole.—Coleridge.
O sleep! it is a gentle thing,Beloved from pole to pole.—Coleridge.
Society.—Society is ever ready to worship success, but rarely forgives failure.—Mme. Roland.
Society is a troop of thinkers, and the best heads among them take the best places.—Emerson.
Society is like a lawn, where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface.—Washington Irving.
Heaven forming each on other to depend,A master, or a servant, or a friend,Bids each on other for assistance call,Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.Wants, frailties, passions, closer still allyThe common interest, or endear the tie.To these we owe true friendship, love sincere,Each home-felt joy that life inherits here.—Pope.
Heaven forming each on other to depend,A master, or a servant, or a friend,Bids each on other for assistance call,Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.Wants, frailties, passions, closer still allyThe common interest, or endear the tie.To these we owe true friendship, love sincere,Each home-felt joy that life inherits here.—Pope.
Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.—Hazlitt.
A man's reception depends upon his coat; his dismissal upon the wit he shows.—Beranger.
Man in society is like a flow'r,Blown in its native bed. 'Tis there aloneHis faculties expanded in full bloomShine out, there only reach their proper use.—Cowper.
Man in society is like a flow'r,Blown in its native bed. 'Tis there aloneHis faculties expanded in full bloomShine out, there only reach their proper use.—Cowper.
There is a sort of economy in Providence that one shall excel where another is defective, in order to make men more useful to each other, and mix them in society.—Addison.
Society is composed of two great classes,—those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.—Chamfort.
Success.—Nothing is impossible to the man that can will. Is that necessary? That shall be. This is the only law of success.—Mirabeau.
Nothing succeeds so well as success.—Talleyrand.
To know how to wait is the great secret of success.—De Maistre.
The path of success in business is invariably the path of common-sense. Nothwithstanding all that is said about "lucky hits," the best kind of success in every man's life is not that which comes by accident. The only "good time coming" we are justified in hoping for is that which we are capable of making for ourselves.—Samuel Smiles.
The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without a thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.—Longfellow.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.—Sheridan.
The great highroad of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast well-doing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful; success treads on the heels of every right effort.—Samuel Smiles.
It is possible to indulge too great contempt for mere success, which is frequently attended with all the practical advantages of merit itself, and with several advantages that merit alone can never command.—W.B. Clulow.
'Tis not in mortals to command success,But we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it.—Addison.
'Tis not in mortals to command success,But we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it.—Addison.
If fortune wishes to make a man estimable, she gives him virtues; if she wishes to make him esteemed, she gives him success.—Joubert.
Successful minds work like a gimlet,—to a single point.—Bovee.
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.—Addison.
Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one the second time.—H.W. Shaw.
Suicide.—Bid abhorrence hiss it round the world.—Young.
God has appointed us captains of this our bodily fort, which, without treason to that majesty, are never to be delivered over till they are demanded.—Sir P. Sidney.
To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward.—Aristotle.
Our time is fix'd; and all our days are number'd;How long, how short, we know not: this we know,Duty requires we calmly wait the summons,Nor dare to stir till Heaven shall give permission.Like sentries that must keep their destined stand,And wait th' appointed hour, till they're relieved,Those only are the brave who keep their ground,And keep it to the last.—Blair.
Our time is fix'd; and all our days are number'd;How long, how short, we know not: this we know,Duty requires we calmly wait the summons,Nor dare to stir till Heaven shall give permission.Like sentries that must keep their destined stand,And wait th' appointed hour, till they're relieved,Those only are the brave who keep their ground,And keep it to the last.—Blair.
Suicide is not a remedy.—James A. Garfield.
Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day,Live till to-morrow, will have pass'd away.—Cowper.
Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day,Live till to-morrow, will have pass'd away.—Cowper.
The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.—Dr. George Sewell.
Superstition.—I think we cannot too strongly attack superstition, which is the disturber of society; nor too highly respect genuine religion, which is the support of it.—Rousseau.
There is but one thing that can free a man from superstition, and that is belief. All history proves it. The most sceptical have ever been the most credulous.—George Macdonald.
Superstition! that horrid incubus which dwelt in darkness, shunning the light, with all its racks, and poison chalices, and foul sleeping draughts, is passing away without return. Religion cannot pass away. The burning of a little straw may hide the stars of the sky; but the stars are there and will reappear.—Carlyle.
Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.—Seneca.
Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable.—Joubert.
Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind; the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities.—Lavater.
The child taught to believe any occurrence a good or evil omen, or any day of the week lucky, hath a wide inroad made upon the soundness of his understanding.—Dr. Watts.
Superstition is a senseless fear of God; religion, the pious worship of God.—Cicero.
Superstition renders a man a fool, and scepticism makes him mad.—Fielding.
I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.—Voltaire.
Sympathy.—Sympathy is the first great lesson which man should learn. It will be ill for him if he proceeds no farther; if his emotions are but excited to roll back on his heart, and to be fostered in luxurious quiet. But unless he learns to feel for things in which he has no personal interest, he can achieve nothing generous or noble.—Talfourd.
To commiserate is sometimes more than to give; for money is external to a man's self, but he who bestows compassion communicates his own soul.—Mountford.
A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track,—but one inch between wreck and smooth-rolling prosperity.—Beecher.
The greatest pleasures of which the human mind is susceptible are the pleasures of consciousness and sympathy.—Parke Godwin.
What gem hath dropp'd and sparkles o'er his chain?The tear most sacred, shed for other's pain,That starts at once—bright—pure—from pity's mine,Already polish'd by the Hand Divine.—Byron.
What gem hath dropp'd and sparkles o'er his chain?The tear most sacred, shed for other's pain,That starts at once—bright—pure—from pity's mine,Already polish'd by the Hand Divine.—Byron.
Sympathy is especially a Christian duty.—Spurgeon.
Tact.—Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely, and conciliate those you cannot conquer.—Colton.
A little management may often evade resistance, which a vast force might vainly strive to overcome.
Talent.—Talent of the highest order, and such as is calculated to command admiration, may exist apart from wisdom.—Robert Hall.
Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what Nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.—Sydney Smith.
Talent without tact is only half talent.—Horace Greeley.
Talking.—Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral.—Alphonse Karr.
No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world.—Ouida.
If you light upon an impertinent talker, that sticks to you like a bur, to the disappointment of your important occasions, deal freely with him, break off the discourse, and pursue your business.—Plutarch.
What you keep by you, you may change and mend;But words once spoken can never be recalled.—Roscommon.
What you keep by you, you may change and mend;But words once spoken can never be recalled.—Roscommon.
Such as thy words are, such will thy affections be esteemed; and such will thy deeds as thy affections, and such thy life as thy deeds.—Socrates.
But far more numerous was the herd of such,Who think too little, and who talk too much.—Dryden.
But far more numerous was the herd of such,Who think too little, and who talk too much.—Dryden.
He who indulges in liberty of speech, will hear things in return which he will not like.—Terence.
The tongue is the instrument of the greatest good and the greatest evil that is done in the world.—Sir Walter Raleigh.
He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.—Lavater.
A wise man reflects before he speaks; a fool speaks, and then reflects on what he has uttered.—From the French.
Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.—Montesquieu.
Speaking much is a sign of vanity; for he that is lavish in words, is a niggard in deed.—Sir Walter Raleigh.
Tears.—Tears of joy are the dew in which the sun of righteousness is mirrored.—Richter.
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.—Washington Irving.
The tear down childhood's cheek that flows,Is like the dewdrop on the rose;When next the summer breeze comes by,And waves the bush, the flower is dry.—Walter Scott.
The tear down childhood's cheek that flows,Is like the dewdrop on the rose;When next the summer breeze comes by,And waves the bush, the flower is dry.—Walter Scott.
Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another's sorrow.—Aaron Hill.
Tears may soothe the wounds they cannot heal.—Thomas Paine.
Hide not thy tears; weep boldly, and be proud to give the flowing virtue manly way; it is nature's mark to know an honest heart by.—Aaron Hill.
Tears are a good alterative, but a poor diet.—H.W. Shaw.
They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.—Psalm 126:5.
Every tear is a verse, and every heart is a poem.—Marc André.
Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.—Psalm 30:5.
Temper.—The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.—La Rochefoucauld.
In vain he seeketh others to suppress,Who hath not learn'd himself first to subdue.—Spenser.
In vain he seeketh others to suppress,Who hath not learn'd himself first to subdue.—Spenser.
With "gentleness" in his own character, "comfort" in his house, and "good temper" in his wife, the earthly felicity of man is complete.—From The German.
Nothing leads more directly to the breach of charity, and to the injury and molestation of our fellow-creatures, than the indulgence of an ill temper.—Blair.
Too many have no idea of the subjection of their temper to the influence of religion, and yet what is changed, if the temper is not? If a man is as passionate, malicious, resentful, sullen, moody, or morose after his conversion as before it, what is he converted from or to?—John Angell James.
If we desire to live securely, comfortably, and quietly, that by all honest means we should endeavor to purchase the good will of all men, and provoke no man's enmity needlessly; since any man's love may be useful, and every man's hatred is dangerous.—Isaac Barrow.
A sunny temper gilds the edges of life's blackest cloud.—Guthrie.
Temperance.—Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country, contentment in the house, clothes on the back, and vigor in the body.—Franklin.
Fools! not to know how far an humble lotExceeds abundance by injustice got;How health and temperance bless the rustic swain,While luxury destroys her pamper'd train.—Hesiod.
Fools! not to know how far an humble lotExceeds abundance by injustice got;How health and temperance bless the rustic swain,While luxury destroys her pamper'd train.—Hesiod.
Men live best on moderate means: Nature has dispensed to all men wherewithal to be happy, if mankind did but understand how to use her gifts.—Claudian.
Temperance is a virtue which casts the truest lustre upon the person it is lodged in, and has the most general influence upon all other particular virtues of any that the soul of man is capable of; indeed so general, that there is hardly any noble quality or endowment of the mind, but must own temperance either for its parent or its nurse; it is the greatest strengthener and clearer of reason, and the best preparer of it for religion, the sister of prudence, and the handmaid to devotion.—Dean South.
It is all nonsense about not being able to work without ale and cider and fermented liquors. Do lions and cart-horses drink ale?—Sydney Smith.
Temperance is a bridle of gold; he who uses it rightly, is more like a god than a man.—Burton.
Except thou desire to hasten thine end, take this for a general rule, that thou never add any artificial heat to thy body by wine or spice.—Sir Walter Raleigh.
Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow.—John Neal.
Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.—Fuller.
If you wish to keep the mind clear and the body healthy, abstain from all fermented liquors.—Sydney Smith.
Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty, for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood.—Shakespeare.
Temptation.—'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.—Shakespeare.
Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle.—Spurgeon.
If men had only temptations to great sins, they would always be good; but the daily fight with little ones accustoms them to defeat.—Richter.
Better shun the bait than struggle in the snare.—Dryden.
Every temptation is an opportunity of our getting nearer to God.—J.Q. Adams.
When a man resists sin on human motives only, he will not hold out long.—Bishop Wilson.
We must not willfully thrust ourselves into the mouth of danger, or draw temptations upon us. Such forwardness is not resolution, but rashness; nor is it the fruit of a well-ordered faith, but an overdaring presumption.—King.
But Satan now is wiser than of yore,And tempts by making rich, not making poor.—Pope.
But Satan now is wiser than of yore,And tempts by making rich, not making poor.—Pope.
God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.—William Penn.
Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation.—Matthew 26:41.
Thought.—Thought is the first faculty of man; to express it is one of his first desires; to spread it, his dearest privilege.—Abbé Raynal.
Those who have finished by making all others think with them, have usually been those who began by daring to think with themselves.—Colton.
Our brains are seventy year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the Angel of the Resurrection.—Holmes.
Thanks to the human heart by which we live,Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears;To me the meanest flower that blows can giveThoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.—Wordsworth.
Thanks to the human heart by which we live,Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears;To me the meanest flower that blows can giveThoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.—Wordsworth.
In matters of conscience first thoughts are best, in matters of prudence last thoughts are best.—Robert Hall.
Man thinks, and at once becomes the master of the beings that do not think.—Buffon.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.—Disraeli.
Thinking leads man to knowledge. He may see and hear, and read and learn, as much as he please; he will never know any of it, except that which he has thought over, that which by thinking he has made the property of his mind. Is it then saying too much if I say, that man by thinking only becomes truly man? Take away thought from man's life, and what remains?—Pestalozzi.
One thought cannot awake without awakening others.—Marie Ebner-Eschenbach.
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.—Hare.
A man would do well to carry a pencil in his pocket, and write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable, and should be secured, because they seldom return.—Bacon.
Every pure thought is a glimpse of God.—C.A. Bartol.
Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.—Rivarol.
Learning without thought is labor lost.—Confucius.
The three foundations of thought: Perspicuity, amplitude and justness. The three ornaments of thought: Clearness, correctness and novelty.—Catherall.
As he thinketh in his heart, so is he.—Proverbs 23:7.
Time.—Time is like money; the less we have of it to spare, the further we make it go.—H.W. Shaw.
Youth is not rich in time, it may be poor;Part with it as with money, sparing; payNo moment but in purchase of its worth;And what it's worth, ask death-beds; they can tell.—Young.
Youth is not rich in time, it may be poor;Part with it as with money, sparing; payNo moment but in purchase of its worth;And what it's worth, ask death-beds; they can tell.—Young.
Redeem the misspent time that's past,And live this day as 'twere thy last.—Ken.
Redeem the misspent time that's past,And live this day as 'twere thy last.—Ken.
Time, the cradle of hope, but the grave of ambition, is the stern corrector of fools, but the salutary counselor of the wise, bringing all they dread to the one, and all they desire to the other.—Colton.
The time which passes over our heads so imperceptibly makes the same gradual change in habits, manners and character, as in personal appearance. At the revolution of every five years we find ourselves another and yet the same;—there is a change of views, and no less of the light in which we regard them; a change of motives as well as of action.—Walter Scott.
Let me therefore live as if every moment were to be my last.—Seneca.
The great rule of moral conduct is, next to God, to respect time.—Lavater.
Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever!—Horace Mann.
As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every minute of time.—Mason.
No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any.—Thomas Jefferson.
Make use of time, if thou valuest eternity. Yesterday cannot be recalled; to-morrow cannot be assured; to-day only is thine, which, if thou procrastinatest, thou losest; which loss is lost forever.—Jeremy Taylor.
He is a good time-server that improves the present for God's glory and his own salvation.—Thomas Fuller.
Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them.—Seneca.
Time is given us that we may take care for eternity; and eternity will not be too long to regret the loss of our time if we have misspent it.—Fénelon.
Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.—Hawthorne.
Dost thou love life, then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.—Franklin.
Toleration.—Let us be very gentle with our neighbors' failings, and forgive our friends their debts as we hope ourselves to be forgiven.—Thackeray.
There is nothing to do with men but to love them; to contemplate their virtues with admiration, their faults with pity and forbearance, and their injuries with forgiveness.—Dewey.
Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.—Arthur Helps.
It requires far more of constraining love of Christ to love our cousins and neighbors as members of the heavenly family than to feel the heart warm to our suffering brethren in Tuscany and Madeira.—Elizabeth Charles.
If thou canst not make thyself such an one as thou wouldst, how canst thou expect to have another in all things to thy liking?—Thomas à Kempis.
The religion that fosters intolerance needs another Christ to die for it.—Beecher.
Let us often think of our own infirmities, and we shall become indulgent toward those of others.—Fénelon.
Has not God borne with you these many years? Be ye tolerant to others.—Hosea Ballou.
Travel.—A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.—Saadi.
He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.—Carlo Goldoni.
Railway traveling is not traveling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.—Ruskin.
To roam giddily, and be everywhere but at home, such freedom doth a banishment become.—Donne.
The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.—Dr. Johnson.
He travels safest in the dark who travels lightest.—Cortes.
Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveler just returned from abroad.—Swift.
Trust.—I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.—Thoreau.
Trust with a child-like dependence upon God, and you shall fear no evil, for be assured that even "if the enemy comes in like a flood" the Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against him. While at that dread hour, when the world cannot help you, when all the powers of nature are in vain, yea, when your heart and your flesh shall fail you, you will be enabled still to rely with peace upon Him who has said "I will be the strength of thy heart and thy portion for ever."—H. Blunt.
To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.—George Macdonald.
Whoso trusteth in the Lord, happy is he.—Proverbs 16:20.
Truth.—There is no right faith in believing what is true, unless we believe it because it is true.—Whately.
Truth crushed to earth shall rise again;The eternal years of God are hers;But error, wounded, writhes with pain,And dies among his worshipers.—Bryant.
Truth crushed to earth shall rise again;The eternal years of God are hers;But error, wounded, writhes with pain,And dies among his worshipers.—Bryant.
Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art.—Ammian.
And all the people then shouted, and said, Great is truth, and mighty above all things.—Esdras.
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smooth pebble, or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.—Newton.
For truth has such a face and such a mien,As to be lov'd needs only to be seen.—Dryden.
For truth has such a face and such a mien,As to be lov'd needs only to be seen.—Dryden.
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.—Walter Scott.
Truth is violated by falsehood, and it may be equally outraged by silence.—Ammian.
Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out. It is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack; and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.—Tillotson.
You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it; but let all you tell be truth.—Horace Mann.
No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.—Bacon.
Nothing from man's hands, nor law, nor constitution, can be final. Truth alone is final.—Charles Sumner.
The greatest friend of truth is time; her greatest enemy is prejudice; and her constant companion is humility.—Colton.
I have seldom known any one who deserted truth in trifles that could be trusted in matters of importance.—Paley.
Bodies are cleansed by water; the mind is purified by truth.—Horace Mann.
Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication, a duty.—Mme. de Stael.
Truth is one;And, in all lands beneath the sun,Whoso hath eyes to see may seeThe tokens of its unity.—Whittier.
Truth is one;And, in all lands beneath the sun,Whoso hath eyes to see may seeThe tokens of its unity.—Whittier.
Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line.—Tillotson.
The expression of truth is simplicity.—Seneca.
What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.—Demosthenes.
Truth should be the first lesson of the child and the last aspiration of manhood; for it has been well said that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.—Whittier.
The firmest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed, but where they speak and think and do what they must, because they are so and not otherwise.—Emerson.
Unhappiness.—The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.—Henry Home.
A perverse temper and fretful disposition will, wherever they prevail render any state of life whatsoever unhappy.—Cicero.
What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, and then they choose to call themselves miserable.—Goethe.
Vanity.—All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.—Auerbach.
There is no limit to the vanity of this world. Each spoke in the wheel thinks the whole strength of the wheel depends upon it.—H.W. Shaw.
Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.—Pope.
Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and ruins the character he is so industrious to advance by it.—Addison.
An egotist will always speak of himself, either in praise or in censure; but a modest man ever shuns making himself the subject of his conversation.—La Bruyère.
Vanity is the foundation of the most ridiculous and contemptible vices—the vices of affectation and common lying.—Adam Smith.
Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others.—Shakespeare.
There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity.—Washington.
Vanity makes men ridiculous, pride odious and ambition terrible.—Steele.
It is our own vanity that makes the vanity of others intolerable to us.—La Rochefoucauld.
Vanity is a strange passion; rather than be out of a job it will brag of its vices.—H.W. Shaw.
Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty.—Mrs. Jameson.
She neglects her heart who too closely studies her glass.—Lavater.
Verily, every man at his best state is altogether vanity.—Psalm 39:5.
Vice.—Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved.—Colton.
The vicious obey their passions, as slaves do their masters.—Diogenes.
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.—Plutarch.
Vice stings us, even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us, even in our pains.—Colton.
One sin another doth provoke.—Shakespeare.
What maintains one vice would bring up two children.—Franklin.
Vice and virtue chiefly imply the relation of our actions to men in this world; sin and holiness rather imply their relation to God and the other world.—Dr. Watts.
He that has energy enough in his constitution to root out a vice should go a little farther, and try to plant in a virtue in its place, otherwise he will have his labor to renew.—Colton.
Vices that are familiar we pardon, and only new ones reprehend.—Publius Syrus.
This is the essential evil of vice: it debases a man.—Chapin.