(besides, possibly, their beauty and self-reliance), and these are
their ill-health and their extravagant devotion to dress.--ABBA GOOLD
WOOLSON.
Where is the man who has the power and skill
To stem the torrent of a woman's will?
For if she will, she will, you may depend on't,
And if she won't, she won't, and there's an end on't.
I have often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women
sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortune. Those disasters
which break down the spirit of a man and prostrate him in the dust
seem to call forth all the energies of the softer sex, and give such
intrepidity and elevation to their character, that at times it
approaches to sublimity.--WASHINGTON IRVING.
To feel, to love, to suffer, to devote herself will always be the text
of the life of women.--BALZAC.
All a woman has to do in this world is contained within the duties of
a daughter, a sister, a wife and a mother.--STEELE.
I have always said it--nature meant to make woman its master-piece.
--LESSING.
The Christian religion alone contemplates the conjugal union in the
order of nature; it is the only religion which presents woman to man
as a companion; every other abandons her to him as a slave. To
religion alone do European women owe their liberty.--ST. PIERRE.
Nature has given women two painful but heavenly gifts, which
distinguish them, and often raise them above human nature,--compassion
and enthusiasm. By compassion, they devote themselves; by enthusiasm
they exalt themselves.--LAMARTINE.
The brain women never interest us like the heart women; white roses
please less than red.--HOLMES.
There is nothing by which I have, through life, more profited than by
the just observations, the good opinion, and the sincere and gentle
encouragement of amiable and sensible women.--ROMILLY.
WORDS.--A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up
anger.--PROVERBS 15:1.
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below,
Words, without thoughts, never to Heaven go.
--SHAKESPEARE.
We should be as careful of our words as of our actions, and as far
from speaking ill as from doing ill.--CICERO.
Immodest words admit of no defence,
For want of decency is want of sense.
--EARL OF ROSCOMMON.
Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?--JOB 38:2.
It is with a word as with an arrow: the arrow once loosed does not
return to the bow; nor a word to the lips.--ABDEL-KADER.
Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen
hunting for words.--H.W. SHAW.
I hate anything that occupies more space than it is worth. I hate to
see a load of bandboxes go along the street, and I hate to see a
parcel of big words without anything in them.--HAZLITT.
Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to
the bones.--PROVERBS 16:24.
Men who have much to say use the fewest words.--H.W. SHAW.
What you keep by you you may change and mend; but words once spoken
can never be recalled.--ROSCOMMON.
If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk
about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do
nothing else.--CARLYLE.
It would be well for us all, old and young, to remember that our words
and actions, ay, and our thoughts also, are set upon never-stopping
wheels, rolling on and on unto the pathway of eternity.--M.M. BREWSTER.
"Words, words, words!" says Hamlet, disparagingly. But God preserve us
from the destructive power of words! There are words which can
separate hearts sooner than sharp swords. There are words whose sting
can remain through a whole life!--MARY HOWITT.
A word spoken in due season, how good is it!--PROVERBS 15:22, 23.
WORK.--Get work. Be sure it is better than what you work to get.--MRS.
BROWNING.
No man is happier than he who loves and fulfills that particular work
for the world which falls to his share. Even though the full
understanding of his work, and of its ultimate value, may not be
present with him; if he but love it--always assuming that his
conscience approves--it brings an abounding satisfaction.--LEO W.
GRINDON.
Nothing is impossible to industry.--PERIANDER.
In work consists the true pride of life; grounded in active
employment, though early ardor may abate, it never degenerates into
indifference, and age lives in perennial youth. Life is a weariness
only to the idle, or where the soul is empty.--LEO W. GRINDON.
This we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he
eat.--II THESS. 3:10.
If you do not wish for His kingdom do not pray for it. But if you do
you must do more than pray for it, you must work for it.--RUSKIN.
No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him. There
is always work, and tools to work withal, for those who will; and
blessed are the horny hands of toil.--LOWELL.
I doubt if hard work, steadily and regularly carried on, ever yet hurt
anybody.--LORD STANLEY.
Women are certainly more happy in this than we men: their employments
occupy a smaller portion of their thoughts, and the earnest longing of
the heart, the beautiful inner life of the fancy, always commands the
greater part.--SCHLEIERMACHER.
On bravely through the sunshine and the showers!
Time hath his work to do, and we have ours.
--EMERSON.
We enjoy ourselves only in our work, our doing; and our best doing is
our best enjoyment.--JACOBI.
The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest
ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it.--CARLYLE.
Work, according to my feeling, is as much of a necessity to man as
eating and sleeping. Even those who do nothing which to a sensible man
can be called work, still imagine that they are doing something. The
world possesses not a man who is an idler in his own eyes.--WILHELM
VON HUMBOLDT.
It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you could
hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the
blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the
friction.--BEECHER.
WORLD.--The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by
description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted
with it. The scholar, who in the dust of his closet talks or writes of
the world, knows no more of it than that orator did of war, who
judiciously endeavored to instruct Hannibal in it.--CHESTERFIELD.
To know the world, not love her, is thy point;
She gives but little, nor that little long.
--YOUNG.
I am not at all uneasy that I came into, and have so far passed my
course in this world; because I have so lived in it that I have reason
to believe I have been of some use to it; and when the close comes, I
shall quit life as I would an inn, and not as a real home. For nature
appears to me to have ordained this station here for us, as a place of
sojournment, a transitory abode only, and not as a fixed settlement or
permanent habitation.--CICERO.
The world is a fine thing to save, but a wretch to worship.--GEORGE
MACDONALD.
The world is a bride superbly dressed; who weds her, for a dowry must
pay his soul.--HAFIZ.
O who would trust this world, or prize what's in it,
That gives and takes, and chops and changes, ev'ry minute?
--QUARLES.
This world is God's world, after all.--CHARLES KINGSLEY.
There is another and a better world.--KOTZEBUE.
God, we are told, looked upon the world after he had created it and
pronounced it good; but ascetic pietists, in their wisdom, cast their
eyes over it, and substantially pronounce it a dead failure, a
miserable production, a poor concern.--BOVEE.
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.--LOCKE.
Take this as a most certain expedient to prevent many afflictions,
and to be delivered from them: meddle as little with the world, and
the honors, places and advantages of them, as thou canst. And
extricate thyself from them as much, and as quickly as possible.--FULLER.
There is no knowledge for which so great a price is paid as a
knowledge of the world; and no one ever became an adept in it except
at the expense of a hardened or wounded heart.--LADY BLESSINGTON.
A good man and a wise man may at times be angry with the world, at
times grieved for it; but be sure no man was ever discontented with
the world who did his duty in it.--SOUTHEY.
Thou must content thyself to see the world so imperfect as it is. Thou
wilt never have any quiet if thou vexest thyself, because thou canst
not bring mankind to that exact notion of things and rule of life
which thou hast formed in thy own mind.--FULLER.
I am glad to think I am not bound to make the world go right, but only
to discover and to do, with cheerful heart, the work that God
appoints.--JEAN INGELOW.
Everybody in this world wants watching, but nobody more than
ourselves.--H.W. SHAW.
O what a glory doth this world put on,
For him who with a fervent heart goes forth,
Under the bright and glorious sky, and looks
On duties well performed and days well spent.
--LONGFELLOW.
Trust not the world, for it never payeth that it promiseth.
--ST. AUGUSTINE.
WORSHIP.--The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of
man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.--HOSEA
BALLOU.
It is for the sake of man, not of God, that worship and prayers are
required; not that God may be rendered more glorious, but that man may
be made better,--that he may be confirmed in a proper sense of his
dependent state, and acquire those pious and virtuous dispositions in
which his highest improvement consists.--BLAIR.
Lord, let us to thy gates repair
To hear the gladdening sound,
That we may find salvation there,
While yet it may be found.
There let us joy and comfort reap;
There teach us how to pray,
For grace to choose, and strength to keep
The strait, the narrow way.
And so increase our love for Thee,
That all our future days
May one continued Sabbath be
Of gratitude and praise.
--OKE.
Remember that God will not be mocked; that it is the heart of the
worshiper which He regards. We are never safe till we love Him with
our whole heart whom we pretend to worship.--BISHOP HENSHAWE.
The best way of worshiping God is in allaying the distress of the
times and improving the condition of mankind.--ABULFAZZI.
YOUTH.--The strength of opening manhood is never so well employed as
in practicing subserviency to God's revealed will; it lends a grace
and a beauty to religion, and produces an abundant harvest.--BISHOP
MANT.
He who cares only for himself in youth will be a very niggard in
manhood, and a wretched miser in old age.--J. HAWES.
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for
fruit on it in autumn.--HARE.
Youth, enthusiasm, and tenderness are like the days of spring.
Instead of complaining, O my heart, of their brief duration, try to
enjoy them.--RÜCKERT.
Every period of life has its peculiar temptations and dangers. But
youth is the time when we are most likely to be ensnared. This,
pre-eminently, is the forming, fixing period, the spring season of
disposition and habit; and it is during this season, more than any
other, that the character assumes its permanent shape and color, and
the young are wont to take their course for time and for eternity.
--J. HAWES.
The best rules to form a young man are, to talk little, to hear much,
to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's
own opinions, and value others' that deserve it.--SIR W. TEMPLE.
Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth.--ECCLESIASTES 12:1.
What we sow in youth we reap in age; the seed of the thistle always
produces the thistle.--J.T. FIELDS.
I love the acquaintance of young people; because, in the first place,
I do not like to think myself growing old. In the next place, young
acquaintances must last longest, if they do last; and then, sir, young
men have more virtue than old men; they have more generous sentiments
in every respect.--DR. JOHNSON.
Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to
be.--GOETHE.
Reckless youth makes rueful age.--FRANKLIN.
Oh! the joy
Of young ideas painted on the mind,
In the warm glowing colors fancy spreads
On objects not yet known, when all is new,
And all is lovely.
--HANNAH MORE.
In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves for a bright manhood,
there is no such word as fail.--LYTTON.
If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin
anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning.--GOETHE.
Young men think old men fools, and old men know young men to be
so.--DR. METCALF.
As I approve of a youth, that has something of the old man in him, so
I am no less pleased with an old man, that has something of the
youth.--CICERO.
Youth is not the era of wisdom; let us therefore have due
consideration.--RIVAROL.
ZEAL.--Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of
exciting, stun and stupefy the mind.--COLERIDGE.
Nothing has wrought more prejudice to religion, or brought more
disparagement upon truth, than boisterous and unseasonable zeal.--BARROW.
Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge is
lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place
himself that knowledge may grow.--BUDDHA.
Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief,
while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.--SHENSTONE.
He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden
thread that ties their hearts together.--JEREMY TAYLOR.
Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the
latter is divine.--HOSEA BALLOU.
It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire; and without fire,
true fire, no acceptable sacrifice.--WILLIAM PENN.
Every deviation from the rules of charity and brotherly love, of
gentleness and forbearance, of meekness and patience, which our Lord
prescribes to his disciples, however it may appear to be founded on an
attachment to Him and zeal for His service, is in truth a departure
from the religion of Him, "the Son of Man," who "came not to destroy
men's lives, but to save them."--BISHOP MANT.
Violent zeal for truth has a hundred to one odds to be either
petulancy, ambition, or pride.--SWIFT.
Zeal without knowledge is like expedition to a man in the dark.--NEWTON.
Zeal, unless it be rightly guided, when it endeavors the most busily
to please God, forceth upon Him those unseasonable offices which
please Him not.--HOOKER.
We do that in our zeal our calmer moments would be afraid to answer.
--SCOTT.
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Transcriber's Notes: The following have been changed from the
original book:
Publius Syrius (twice) changed to: Publius Syrus (for consistency).
A shining glass, that fadeth suddenly; changed to A shining gloss,
that fadeth suddenly; (typo).
Proverbs 11:24 changed to Proverbs 11:25 (correct verse).