Every one who rightly considers it, may know, that eminence and opulence
in the world are not real divine blessings, notwithstanding man, from
the pleasure he finds in them, calls them so; for they pass away, and
also seduce many, and turn them away from heaven; but that eternal life,
and its happiness, are real blessings, which are from the Divine: this
the Lord also teaches in Luke: 12 ch., 33-34. "Make to yourselves a
treasure that faileth not in the heavens, where the thief cometh not,
nor the moth corrupteth; for where your treasure is, there will your
heart be also."
--_Emanuel Swedenborg, 1688-1772._
1673
Without frugality none can become rich, and with it, few would become
poor.
--_Dr. Johnson._
1674
No man has a right to do as he pleases, except when he pleases to do
right.
1675
_Late Rising._--He who rises late, must trot all day, and will scarcely
overtake his business at night.
--_Dr. Fuller._
1676
To wish for anything that is unattainable is worthless, and a poor road
to travel.
1677
He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen,
Let him not know't, and he's not robb'd at all.
--_Shakespeare._
1678
One roof and two winds--i. e., persons of opposite tempers living
together.
--_Chinese._
1679
Water and protect the root;
Heaven will watch the flower and fruit.
--_Chinese._
1680
If a man could make a single rose, we should give him an empire; yet
roses, and flowers no less beautiful, are scattered in profusion over
the world, and no one regards them.
1681
Royalty is but a feather in a man's cap; let children enjoy their
rattle.
--_Cromwell._
1682
There cannot be a greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the
current of his discourse.
--_Locke._
1683
No rumor wholly dies, once bruited wide.
--_Hesiod, a Greek, 850 B. C._
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1684
He who ordained the Sabbath loved the poor.
--_O. W. Holmes._
1685
Those persons who are in the habit of avoiding worldly cares on the
Sabbath, are the most remarkable for the perfect performance of their
duties during the week. The influence of a change of thought on the
Sabbath upon the minds of such persons, resembles that of a change of
food upon the body. It seems to give a fresh spring to the mental
operations, as the latter does to the physical.
1686