Constantine the Great, born 274 A. D., in order to reclaim a miser, took
a lance and marked out a space of ground the size of a human body and
said to him: "Add heap to heap, accumulate riches upon riches, extend
the bounds of your possessions, conquer the whole world, and in a few
days, such a spot as this, will be all that you will have."
1368
A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by
seeming rich.
--_Shenstone._
1369
_Misers._--If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable
living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his
fellow citizens, for the sake of accumulating wealth; "Poor Man," I
would say, "you pay too much for your whistle."
--_Benj. Franklin._
1370
No thoroughly occupied man was ever miserable.
--_Dutch._
1371
'Tis time enough to bear a misfortune when it comes without anticipating
it.
--_Seneca._
1372
Learn never to repine at your own misfortunes, or to envy the happiness
of others.
1373
Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it.
--_Cicero._
1374
Better a mistake avoided, than two corrected.
1375
I will not quarrel with a slight mistake,
Such as our nature's frailty may excuse.
--_Roscommon._
1376
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
--_Swift._
1377
No lessons are so impressive as those our mistakes teach us.
1378
Young heads are giddy, and young hearts are warm,
And make mistakes for manhood to reform.
--_Young._
1379
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to
copy after.
--_Goldsmith._
1380