I have seen the wicked in great power,
And spreading himself, like a green bay-tree;
Yet he passed away, and, lo! he was not;
Yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
Mark the perfect man,
And behold the upright,
For the end of that man is peace.
--_Psalms xxxvii, 35-37v._
1217
He who stands high is seen from afar.
--_From the Danish._
1218
I confess that increasing years bring with them an increasing respect
for men who do not succeed in life, as those words are commonly used.
--_G. S. Hillard._
1219
Beauty is good for women, firmness for men.
--_Bion._
1220
A man who is always forgetting his best intentions may be said to be a
thoroughfare of good resolutions.
1221
It is a matter of the simplest demonstration, that no man can be really
appreciated, but by his equal or superior.
--_Ruskin._
1222
It takes a great man to make a good listener.
--_Sir Arthur Helps._
1223
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but rising every time we
fall. A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected
without trials.
--_Goldsmith._
1224
Be content with the day as it is; look for the good in everything.
1225
An honest man is believed without an oath, for his reputation swears for
him.
1226
A thread will tie an honest man better than a rope will do a rogue.
1227
Would you make men trustworthy? Trust them.
Would you make them true? Believe them.
We win by tenderness.
We conquer by forgiveness.
--_Robertson._
1228
If there is any person to whom you unfortunately feel a dislike that is
the person of whom you ought never to speak.
--_Richard Cecil._
1229
He is not yet born who can please everybody.
1230
Fenimore Cooper asserts, in one of his books, that there is "an
instinctive tendency in men to look at any man who has become
distinguished." Said Carlyle: "True, surely, and moreover, an
instinctive desire in men to become distinguished and be looked at,
too!"
1231
It is not what he has, nor even what he does, which directly expresses
the worth of a man, but what he is.
--_Amiel._
1232
Man is not allowed to know what will happen--tomorrow.
--_Statius._
1233
A horse is not known by his furniture, but by his qualities; so men
should be esteemed for virtue, not wealth.
1234
Man looks aloft, and with erected eyes
Beholds his own hereditary skies.
--_Dryden's Ovid._
1235
The best club for a married man is an armchair in front of a big
fire-place at home.
1236
Men take each other's measure when they meet for the first time.
1237
Does one see wolves taking to the road in order to plunder other wolves,
as does inhuman man?
1238
No man can end with being superior, who will not begin with being
inferior.
--_Sydney Smith._
1239
Never speak of a man in his own presence.
It is always indelicate, and may be offensive.
--_Dr. Johnson._
1240
No man is always wise.
--_Pliny._
1241
An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him.
1242
They that stand high have many blasts to shake them.
--_Shakespeare._
1243
Men possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.
--_Froude._
1244
The life of an old man is like a lighted candle in a draft.
--_Japanese._
1245
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor the man perfected
without trials.
--_From the Chinese._
1246
He was--describe him who can,
An abridgement of all that was pleasant in man;
A truer, nobler, trustier heart,
More loving or more loyal, never beat
Within a human breast.
1247
Some men remain poor because they haven't enough friends, and some
because they have too many.
1248
A poor man, though living in the crowded mart, no one will notice; a
rich man, though dwelling amid the remote hills, his distant relative
will visit.
1249
Art may make a suit of clothes, but nature must produce the man.
--_Hume._
1250
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never for
himself.
1251
It is not good that man should be alone.
--_Genesis 2, 18v._
1252
Silent men, like still waters, are sometimes deep and dangerous.
1253
Man is a social creature, and we are made to be helpful to each other;
we are like the wheels of a watch, that none of them can do their work
alone, without the concurrence of the rest.
1254
Strive not too anxiously for thy support, thy Maker will provide. No
sooner is a man born, than milk for his support streams from the breast.
--_Chinese._
1255
He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
--_Colton._
1256
The difference, he, Johnson, observed between a well-bred and an
ill-bred man is this: One immediately attracts your liking, the other
your aversion. You love the one till you find reason to dislike him; you
dislike the other till you find reason to love him.
--_Boswell's Life of Johnson._
1257