In an address to a temperance society, Admiral Capps told a story which
is printed in the New York _Tribune_.--A man who had ruined his health
with alcohol sat looking sadly at his wife, to whom he had made many
promises of reform.
"Jenny," he said, "you are a clever woman, a courageous, good woman. You
should have married a better man than I am."
She looked at him, thin-limbed and stoop-shouldered, prematurely old,
and answered, quietly, "I did, James."
490
_Genesis ix, 21_--"Noah drank of the wine, and was drunken."
A person in Maryland, who was addicted to drunkenness, hearing a
considerable uproar in his kitchen one night, felt the curiosity to step
without noise to the door, to know what was the matter; when he found
his servants indulging in the most unbounded roars of laughter at a
couple of negro boys, who were mimicking himself in his drunken
fits!--as how he reeled and staggered--how he looked and nodded--and
hiccupped and tumbled. The pictures which these children of nature drew
of him, and which had filled the rest with such inexhaustible merriment,
struck him with so salutary a disgust, that from that night he became a
perfectly sober man, to the great joy of his wife and children.
491
From drink, with its ruin, and sorrow and sin,
I surely am safe if I never begin.
492
Pray tell me whence you derive the origin of the word dun? The true
origin of this expression owes its birth to one Joe Dunn, a famous
bailiff of the town of Lincoln, England, so extremely active, and so
dexterous at the management of his rough business, that it became a
proverb, when a man refused to pay his debts, "Why don't you Dun him?"
that is, why don't you send Dun to arrest him? Hence it grew a custom,
and is now as old as since the days of Henry VII.
--_Mulledulcia._
493
Knowledge is the hill which few may hope to climb;
Duty is the path that all may tread.
--_Lewis Morris._
494
When a minister preaches his sermon, he should do so fearlessly, i. e.
like a man who cuts up a big log,--let the chips fall where they may.
495
Do what you ought, come what may.
--_French._
496
_Duty_:--I hate to see a thing done by halves; if it be right, do it
boldly; if wrong, leave it undone.
--_Gilpin._
497
Whosoever contents himself with doing the little duties of the day,
great things will, by-and-by, present themselves to him for their
fulfilment also.
--_Howard Pyle._
498
We make time for duties we love.
--_Unknown._
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499
One should choose a wife with the ears, rather than with the eyes.
--_Spanish._
500
What is told in the ear, is often heard a hundred miles off.
--_Chinese._
501
'Tis easy for any man who has his foot unentangled by sufferings, both
to exhort and to admonish him that is in difficulties.
--_Aeschylus._
502
If you take things easy when you ought to be doing your best work, you
will probably have to keep hard at work when you might be taking it
easy.
503
Nothing is easy to the unwilling.
--_From the German._
504
He that eats longest lives longest.
505
Half of what we eat is sufficient to enable us to live, and the other
half that we eat enables the doctors to live.
--_Dr. Osler._
506
Economy is the easy chair of old age.
507
He that will not economize may some day have to agonize.
--_Confucius._
508
Economy is no disgrace; it is better living on a little, than living
beyond your means.
509
In abundance prepare for scarcity.
--_Mencius._
510
Lay up something for a rainy day; it may be needed some day.
511
Economy is something like a savings-bank, into which we drop pennies and
get dollars in return.
--_H. W. Shaw._
512
Take care to be an economist in prosperity: there is no fear of your
being one in adversity.
--_Zimmerman._
513
For age and want, save while you may,
No morning sun lasts a whole day.
514
Economy is too late at the bottom of the purse.
515
Spend not when you must save,
Spare not when you must spend.
--_Italian._
516
Every man must educate himself. His books and teacher are but helps; the
work is his.
--_Webster._