~Will.~--In the schools of the wrestling master, when a boy falls he is
bidden to get up again, and to go on wrestling day by day till he has
acquired strength; and we must do the same, and not be like those poor
wretches who, after one failure, suffer themselves to be swept along as
by a torrent. You need but _will_, and it is done; but if you relax your
efforts, you will be ruined; for ruin and recovery are both from
within.--_Epictetus._
~Winter.~--After summer ever more succeeds the barren winter with his
nipping cold.--_Shakespeare._
Winter binds our strengthened bodies in a cold embrace
constringent.--_Thomson._
~Wisdom.~--Wisdom for a man's self is, in many branches thereof, a
depraved thing: it is the wisdom of rats, that will be sure to leave a
house some time before it fall; it is the wisdom of the fox, that
thrusts out the badger, who digged and made room for him; it is the
wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would
devour.--_Bacon._
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls
wisdom.--_Coleridge._
Human wisdom makes as ill use of her talent when she exercises it in
rescinding from the number and sweetness of those pleasures that are
naturally our due, as she employs it favorably, and well, in
artificially disguising and tricking out the ills of life to alleviate
the sense of them.--_Montaigne._
It may be said, almost without qualification, that true wisdom consists
in the ready and accurate perception of analogies. Without the former
quality, knowledge of the past is uninstructive; without the latter, it
is deceptive.--_Whately._
You read of but one wise man, and all that he knew was--that he knew
nothing.--_Congreve._
To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they; and strength of
mind is only courage to see and speak the truth.--_Hazlitt._