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Ideas. After all has been said that can be said about the widening influence of ideas, it remains true that they would hardly be such strong agents unless they were taken in a solvent of feeling. The great world-struggle of developing thought is continually foreshadowed in the struggle of the affections, seeking a justification for love and hope. George Eliot.

Our ideas are transformed sensations. - Condillac.

In these days we fight for ideas, and newspapers are our fortresses. - Heinrich Heine..

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up. That which was a weed in one intelligence becomes a flower in the other, and a flower again dwindles down to a mere weed by the same change. Healthy growths may become poisonous by falling upon the wrong mental soil, and what seemed a night-shade in one mind unfolds as a morning-glory in the other. Holmes.

A fixed idea is like the iron rod which sculptors put in their statues. It impales and sustains. —

Taine.

Old ideas are prejudices, and new ones caprices. -X. Doudan.

We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking. Joubert. Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up. -Voltaire.

Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots. - Bulwer-Lytton.

Idleness. If idleness do not produce vice or malevolence, it commonly produces melancholy. — Sydney Smith.

Idleness is the key of beggary, and the root of all evil. Spurgeon.

In idleness there is perpetual despair. - Carlyle. Doing nothing with a deal of skill. — Cowper.

From its very inaction, idleness ultimately becomes the most active cause of evil; as a palsy is more to be dreaded than a fever. The Turks have a proverb, which says, that the devil tempts all other men, but that idle men tempt the devil. - Colton.

The first external revelations of the dry-rot in men is a tendency to lurk and lounge; to be at street corners without intelligible reason; to be going anywhere when met; to be about many places rather than any; to do nothing tangible but to have an intention of performing a number of tangible duties to- Dickens. morrow or the day after.

Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools.- Chesterfield.

So long as idleness is quite shut out from our lives, all the sins of wantonness, softness, and effeminacy are prevented; and there is but little room for temptation. - Jeremy Taylor.

Let but the hours of idleness cease, and the bow of Cupid will become broken and his torch extinguished. Ovid.

Ignorance. - Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.—Sydney Smith.

There is no calamity like ignorance. — Richter.

'Tis sad work to be at that pass, that the best trial of truth must be the multitude of believers, in a crowd where the number of fools so much exceeds that of the wise. As if anything were so common as ignorance! Montaigne.

Ignorance, which in behavior mitigates a fault, is, in literature, a capital offense. — Joubert.

There is no slight danger from general ignorance; and the only choice which Providence has graciously left to a vicious government is either to fall by the people, if they are suffered to become enlightened, or with them, if they are kept enslaved and ignorant. - Coleridge.

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of ignorance. Alcott.

The true instrument of man's degradation is his ignorance. Lady Morgan.

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Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm. George Eliot.

The ignorant hath an eagle's wings and an owl's eyes. George Herbert.

Ignorance is mere privation, by which nothing can be produced; it is a vacuity in which the soul sits motionless and torpid for want of attraction. John

son.

Illusion.

In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose. Madame Swetchine.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

Voltaire.

Imagination. — We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire. George Eliot.

A vile imagination, once indulged, gets the key of our minds, and can get in again very easily, whether we will or no, and can so return as to bring seven other spirits with it more wicked than itself; and what may follow no one knows. Spurgeon.

He who has imagination without learning has I wings and no feet. Joubert.

No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability. ·

Johnson.

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Imitation. - Imitators are a servile race. —

Fontaine.

- Dr.

Imitation causes us to leave natural ways to enter into artificial ones; it therefore makes slaves. Vinet.

"Name to me an animal, though never so skillful, that I cannot imitate! So bragged the ape to the fox. But the fox replied, "And do thou name to me an animal so humble as to think of imitating thee." Lessing.

Immortality. When I consider the wonderful activity of the mind, so great a memory of what is past, and such a capacity of penetrating into the future; when I behold such a number of arts and sciences, and such a multitude of discoveries thence arising; I believe and am firmly persuaded that a nature which contains so many things within itself cannot be mortal. - Cicero.

Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and consequently imperishable. - Aristotle.

The spirit of man, which God inspired, cannot together perish with this corporeal clod. - Milton.

All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine. Socrates.

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat. Marcus Antoninus.

The seed dies into a new life, and so does man. George MacDonald.

Impatience. - Impatience turns an ague into a fever, a fever to the plague, fear into despair, anger into rage, loss into madness, and sorrow to amazement. Jeremy Taylor.

Impossibility.

One great difference between a wise man and a fool is, the former only

wishes for what he may possibly obtain; the latter desires impossibilities. Democritus.

Improvement.

Slumber not in the tents of

your fathers. The world is advancing. Advance with it. - Mazzini.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after. Goldsmith.

Improvidence.- How full or how empty our lives, depends, we say, on Providence. Suppose we say, more or less on improvidence. — Bovée.

Income.. Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip. Colton.

Inconsistency. - Men talk as if they believed in God, but they live as if they thought there was none: their vows and promises are no more than words of course. L'Estrange.

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People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool's caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else's are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone were rosy. - George Eliot.

Inconstancy.

Otway.

The catching court disease.

Nothing that is not a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconstancy. - Addison.

Indifference..

Nothing for preserving the body like having no heart. J. Petit Senn. Indifference is the invincible giant of the world. Ouida.

Indigestion..

Old friendships are destroyed by toasted cheese, and hard salted meat has led to oicide. Unpleasant feelings of the body produce Jofrespondent sensations in the mind, and a great