and energy, but in the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards; they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and skurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence.-MARIA EDGEWORTH on Procrastination.

None so nearly disposed to scoffing at religion as those who have accustomed themselves to swear on trifling occasions.TILLOTSON on Profanity.

Is not the separate property of a thing the great cause of its endearment amongst all mankind?— SOUTH.

Property communicates a charm to whatever is the object of it. It is the first of our abstract ideas; it cleaves to us the closest and the longest. It endears to the child its plaything, to the peasant his cottage, to the landlord his estate. It supplies the place of prospect and scenery. Instead of coveting the beauty of distant situations, it teaches every man to find it in his own. It gives boldness and grandeur to plains and fens, tinge and coloring to clays and fallows.-PALEY.

The temptations of prosperity insinuate themselves after a gentle, but very powerful manner, so that we are but little aware of them, and less able to withstand them.—ATTERBURY. To speak in a measure, the virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.-BACON.

Happy it were for all of us if we bore prosperity as well and wisely as we endure adverse fortune.-SOUTHEY.

A proverb is the wit of one, and the wisdom of many.RUSSELL.

Providence is an intellectual knowledge, both foreseeing, caring for, and ordering all things, and doth not only behold all past, all present, and all to come, but is the cause of their being so provided, which prescience is not.-RALEIGH.

Good Providence! that curbs the raging of proud monarchs, as well as of mad multitudes.-MILTON.

We are to vindicate the just providence of God in the government of the world, and to endeavor, as well as we can upon an imperfect view of things, to make out the beauty and harmony of all the seeming discords and irregularities of the divine administration.-TILLOTSON.

Prudence is one of the virtues which were called cardinal by the ancient ethical writers.-FLEMING.

The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendor cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft intervals of unbended amusement, in which a man shrinks to his natural dimensions, and throws aside the ornaments or disguises which he feels in privacy to be useless encumbrances, and to lose all effect when they become familiar.-JOHNSON.

'Tis a rule that goes a great way in the government of a sober man's life, not to put anything to hazard that may be secured by industry, consideration, or circumspection.-L'Es

TRANGE.

Prudence is principally in reference to actions to be done, and due means, order, reason, and method of doing or not doing.-HALE.

Q.

Horace has enticed me into the pedantry of quotation.— COWLEY.

He that has ever so little examined the citations of writers cannot doubt how little credit the quotations deserve when the originals are wanting.-LOCKE.

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Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.-Coleridge.

A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment.COLLIER.

For general improvement a man should read whatever his immediate inclination prompts him to; though, to be sure, if a man has a science to learn, he must regularly and resolutely advance. What we read with inclination makes a much stronger impression. If we read without inclination, half the mind is employed in fixing the attention, so there is but onehalf to be employed on what we read. If a man begins to read in the middle of a book, and feels an inclination to go on, let him not quit it to go to the beginning. He may, perhaps, not feel again the inclination.—JOHNSON.

Reason is always striving and always at a loss while it is exercised about that which is not its proper object.-DRYDEN. There is no opposing brutal force to the stratagems of human reason.-L'ESTRANGE.

Pure reason or intuition holds a similar relation to the understanding that perception holds to sensation.-LOCKE. Reason cannot show itself more reasonable than to leave reasoning on things above reason.-SIDNEY.

He that will make a good use of any part of his life must allow a large portion of it to recreation.-LOCKE.

There is an art of which every man should be master, the art of reflection.-COLERIDGE.

Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements; as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.BACON.

Religion is for the man in humble life, and to raise his nature, and to put him in mind of a state in which the privileges of opulence will cease, when he will be equal, and may be more than equal by virtue.-BURKE.

Religion receives man into a covenant of grace, where there is a pardon reached out to all truly penitent sinners, and assistance promised, and engaged, and bestowed, upon very easy conditions; viz.: humility, prayer, and affiance in him.HAMMOND.

The

Remorse of conscience is like an old wound; a man is under no condition to fight under such circumstances. pain abates his vigor, and takes up too much of his attention. -COLLIER.

A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart; his next, to escape the censures of the world. ADDISON.

Sins may be forgiven through repentance, but no act of art will ever justify them.-SHERLOCK.

Repentance so altereth and changeth a man through the mercy of God, be he ever so defiled, that it maketh him pure and clean.-WHITGIFT.

A man's reputation draws eyes upon him that will narrowly inspect every part of him.-ADDISON.

To be desirous of a good name, and careful to do everything that we innocently may to obtain it, is so far from being a fault, even in private persons, that it is their great and indispensable duty.-ATTERBURY.

True resignation, which always brings with it the confi dence that unchangeable goodness will make even the disappointment of our hopes and the contradictions of life conducive to some benefit, casts a grave but tranquil light over the prospects of even a toilsome and troubled life.-HUMBOLDT. A man that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.-BACON. The indulgence of revenge tends to make man more cruel and savage.-KAMES.

A pure and simple revenge does in no way restore man towards the felicity which the injury did interrupt. For revenge is but doing a simple evil, and does not, in its formality, imply reparation; for the mere repeating of our own right is permitted to them that will do it by charitable instruments. All the evils of human felicity are secured without revenge, for without it we are permitted to restore ourselves; and therefore it is against natural reason to do an evil that no way cooperates the proper and perfective end of human nature. And he is a miserable person whose good is the evil of his neighbor; and he that revenges, in many cases, does worse than he that did the injury; in all cases as bad.-JEREMY TAY

LOR.

Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and foolish elation of heart.-ADDISON.

Riches do not consist in having more gold and silver, but in having more in proportion than our neighbors.-LOCKE. Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches, as to conceive how others can be in want.-SWIFT.

It is easy to run into ridicule the best descriptions when once a man is in the humor of laughing till he wheezes at his own dull jest.-DRYDEN.

Derision is never so agonizing as when it pounces on the wanderings of misguided sensibility.-LORD JEffrey.

If ridicule were employed to laugh men out of vice and folly, it might be of some use; but it is made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything solemn and virtuous.-ADDISON.

S.

Nothing the united voice of all history proclaims so loud, as the certain unfailing curse that has pursued and overtaken sacrilege.-SOUTH.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders generally discover everybody's face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so few are offended with it.-SWIFT.

A satire should expose nothing but what is corrigible, and make a due discrimination between those that are and those that are not the proper objects of it.-ADDISON.

Science is knowledge certain and evident in itself, or by the principles from which it is deduced or with which it is certainly connected. It is subjective, as existing in the mind;

objective, as embodied in truths; speculative, as leading to do something, as in practical science.-FLEMING.

Self-denial is a kind of holy association with God; and by making you his partner, interests you in all his happiness.— BOYLE.

Teach self-denial, and make its practice pleasurable, and you create for the world a destiny more sublime than ever is. sued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.-SCOTT.

It is the nature of extreme self-lovers, as they will set an house on fire and it were but to roast their eggs.-BACON. The reverence of a man self is not religion, the chiefes 'bridle of all vices.-BACON.

The weakness of social affections and the strength of pri vate desires constitute selfishness.

Shame is a painful sensation occasioned by the quick ap prehension that reputation and character are in danger, or by the perception that they are lost.-COGAN.

Where there is shame there may yet be virtue.-JOHNSON. Is there anything that more embitters the enjoyments of this life than shame ?

Sickness is early old age; it teaches us diffidence in our earthly state, and inspires us with thoughts of a future.POPE.

Simplicity is that grace which frees the soul from all unnecessary reflections upon itself.-FENELON.

There is a majesty in simplicity which is far above the quaintness of wit.-POPE.

Use sin as it will use you; spare it not, for it will not spare you it is your murderer, and the murderer of the world; use it, therefore, as a murderer should be used. Kill it before it kills you; and though it kill your bodies, it shall not be able to kill your souls; and though it bring you to the grave, as it did your Head, it shall not be able to keep you there.— BAXTER.

Sin is the contrariety to the will of God, and if all things be preordained by God, and so demonstrated to be willed by him, it remains there is no such thing as sin.-HAMMOND.

Sincerity is the most compendious wisdom, and an excellent instrument for the speedy dispatch of business; it creates confidence in those we have to deal with, saves the labor of many inquiries, and brings things to an issue in few words. It is like traveling in a plain beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves. In a word, whatsoever convenience may be thought to be in falsehood and dissimulation, it is soon over; but the inconvenience of it is perpetual, because it brings a man under an everlasting jealousy and suspicion, so that he is not believed when he speaks truth, nor trusted when perhaps he means honestly. When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast; and nothing then will serve his turn, neither truth nor false. hood.-TILLOTSON.

Slander is a complication, a comprisal and sum of all wick. edness.-BARROW.

The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as we usually find that to be the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.-SWIFT.

Now blessings light on him that first invented sleep! it

covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot.-CERVANTES.

Sleep death's beautiful brother - fairest phenemenon poetical reality,—thou sweet collapsing of the weary spirit; thou mystery that every one knows; thou remnant of primeval innocence and bliss: for Adam slept in Paradise. To sleep -there's a drowsy mellifluence in the very word that would almost serve to interpret its meaning—to shut up the senses and hoodwink the soul; to dismiss the world; to escape from one's self; to be in igrorance of our own existence; to stagnate upon the earth, just breathing out the hours, not living them "Doing no mischief, only dreaming of it;" neither merry nor melancholy, something between both, and better than either. Best friend of frail humanity, and, like all other friends, best estimated in its loss.-LONGFELLOW.

Sorrow is uneasiness in the mind upon the thought of a good lost which might have been enjoyed longer; or the sense of a present evil.-LOCKE.

Sorrow being the natural and direct offspring of sin, that which first brought sin into the world must, by necessary consequence, bring in sorrow too. -SOUTH.

He that studies books alone will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men will know how things are.COLTON.

The intellectual husbandry is a goodly field, and it is the worst husbandry in the world to sow it with trifles.-HALL.

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do, without a thought of fame.-LONGFELLOW.

He that would relish success to purpose should keep his passion cool, and his expectation low.-COLLIER.

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counsellor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.-ADDISON.

Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.-COLTON.

By all human laws as well as divine, self-murder has ever been agreed on as the greatest crime.—TEMPLE.

Superstition renders a man a fool, and scepticism makes him mad.-FIELDING.

The child taught to believe any occurrence a good or evil omen, or any day of the week lucky, hath a wide inroad made upon the soundness of his understanding.-WATTS.

Suspiciousness is as great an enemy to wisdom as too much credulity.-FULLER.

Nature itself, after it has done an injury will ever be suspicious and no man can love the person he suspects.SOUTH.

Let us cherish sympathy. By attention and exercise it may be improved in every man. It prepares the mind for receiving the impressions of virtue; and without it there can be no true politeness. Nothing is more odious than that insensibility which wraps a man up in himself and his own concerns, and prevents his being moved with either the joys or the sor rows of another.-BEATTIE,

T.

Temperance gives nature her full play and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.—ADDISON.

Temperance, that virtue without pride, and fortune without envy, that gives indolence of body with an equality of mind; the best guardian of youth and support of old age; the precept of reason as well as religion, and physician of the soul as well as the body; the tutelar godess of health and universal medicine of life.-TEMPLE.

Every Christian is endowed with a power whereby he is enabled to resist and conquer temptation.-TILLOTSON.

Reflect upon a clear, unblotted, acquitted conscience, and feed upon the ineffable comforts of the memorial of a con. quered temptation.-SOUTH.

Time is the surest judge of truth; I am not vain enough to think I have no faults in this, which that touchstone will not discover.-DRYDEN.

One of the commonest errors is to regard time as an agent. But in reality time does nothing and is nothing. We use it as a compendious expression for all those causes which operate slowly and imperceptibly; but, unless some positive cause is in action, no change takes place in the lapse of a thousand years.-COPLESTONE.

The greatest friend of truth is time, her greatest enemy is prejudice, and her constant companion is humility.-COLTON. Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of the will.-DRYDEN.

Truth and reason constitute that intellectual gold that de. fies destruction.-JOHNSON.

The law of Christianity is eminently and transcendently called the word of truth.--SOUTH.

U.

By understanding 1 mean that faculty whereby we are enabled to apprehend the objects of knowledge, generals as well as particulars, absent things as well as present, and to judge of their truth or falsehood, good or evil.-WILKINS.

V.

Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understand. ing.-POPE.

Vanity is the production of the most ridiculous and contemptible vices--the vices of affectation and common lying.ADAM SMITH.

In a vain man the smallest spark may kindle into the greatest flame, because the materials are always prepared for it.→ HUME.

Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty; it wither the powers of his understanding, and makes his mind paralytic. -BURKE.

Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pain.-COLTON.

It will be found a work of no small difficulty to dispossess vice from the heart, when long possession begins to plead prescription.-BACON.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set; and surely virtue is best in a body that is comely, though not of delicate features.

and that hath rather dignity of presence than beauty of aspect; neither is it almost seen that very beautiful persons are otherwise of great virtue; as if nature were rather busy not to err, than in labor to produce excellency; and therefore they prove accomplished but not of great spirit; and study rather behavior than virtue. But this holds not always.-BACON.

The four cardinal virtues are prudence, fortitude, temperance and justice.-PALEY.

The felicity and beatitude that glitter in virtue shines throughout all her apartments and avenues, even to the first entry, and utmost pale and limits. Now of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us the contempt of death is one of the greatest, as the means that accommodates human life with a soft and easy tranquillity, and gives us a pure and pleasant taste of living, without which all other pleasure would be extinct; and which is the reason why all the rules by which we are to live, centre and concur in this one article.-MONTAIGNE.

W.

Mad wars destroy in one year the works of many years of peace.--FRANKLIN.

The bodies of men, munition and money may justly be called the sinews of war.-RALEIGH.

The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words-industry and frugality.FRANKLIN.

When, therefore, the desire of wealth is taking hold of the heart, let us look round and see how it operates upon those whose industry or whose fortune has obtained it. When we find them oppressed with their own abundance, luxurious without pleasure, idle without ease, impatient and querulous in themselves, and despised or hated by the rest of mankind, we shall soon be convinced that, if the real wants of our condition are satisfied, there remains little to be sought with solicitude or desired with eagerness.-DR. S. JOHNSON.

Wickedness may prosper for a while, but at the long run he that sets all knaves at work will pay them.-L'ESTRANGE. No one kind of true peace is consistent with any sort of prevailing wickedness.-STILLINGFLEET.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. --COLERIDGE.

Wisdom groundeth her laws upon an infallible ruling of comparison.-HOOKER.

Human wisdom is the aggregate of all human experience,' constantly accumulating, and selecting and reorganizing its own materials-STORY.

Wisdom is that which makes men judge what are the best ends, and what the best means to attain them, and gives a man advantage of counsel and direction.-TEMPLE.

Strong and sharp as our wit may be, it is not so strong as the memory of fools, nor so keen as their resentment: he that has not strength of mind to forgive, is by no means so weak as to forget; and it is much more easy to do a cruel thing than to say a severe one.-COLTON.

Wit is not the jerk or sting of an epigram, nor the seeming contradiction of a poor antithesis; neither is it so much the morality of a grave sentence, affected by Lucan, but more sparingly used by Virgil.-DRYDEN.

Intemperate wits will spare neither friend nor foe, and make themselves the common enemies of mankind.-L'Es TRANGE.

I am married, and have no other concern but to please the man I love; he is the end of every care I have! if I dress, it is for him; if I read a poem, or a play, it is to qualify myself for a conversation agreeable to his taste; he is almost the end of my devotions; half my prayers are for his happiness.STEELE on wives.

Women have, in general, but one object, which is their beauty; upon which scarce any flattery is too gross for them. Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person; if her face is so shocking that she must in some degree be conscious of it, her figure and her air, she trusts, make ample amends for it. If her figure is deformed, her face, she thinks, counterbalances it. If they are both bad, she comforts herself that she has graces; a certain manner; a je ne scais quoi, still more engaging than beauty. This truth is evident from the studied dress of the ugliest women in the world. An undoubted, uncontested, conscious beauty is, of all women, the least sensible of flattery upon that head; she knows it is her due, and is therefore obliged to nobody for giving it her. She must be flattered upon her understanding; which, though she may possibly not doubt of herself, yet she suspects that men may distrust LORD CHES

TERFIELD.

Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment.-COLTON.

There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which beams and blazes in the dark hours of adversity.IRVING.

Y.

Youth is the time of enterprise and hope; having yet no occasion of comparing our force with any opposing power, we naturally form presumptions in our own favor, and imagine that obstruction and impediment will give way before us. The first repulses rather inflame vehemence than teach prudence; a brave and generous mind is long before it suspects its own weakness, or submits to sap the difficulties which it expected to subdue by storm. Before disappointments have enforced the dictates of philosophy we believe it in our power to shorten the interval between the first cause and the last effect; we laugh at the timorous delays of plodding industry, and fancy that by increasing the fire we can at pleasure accelerate the projection.-Dr. S. JOHNSON.

Youth is not like a new garment, which we can keep fresh and fair by wearing sparingly. Youth, while we have it, we must wear daily, and it will fast wear away.-Foster.

Z.

True zeal is not any one single affection of the soul, but a strong mixture of many holy affections, filling the heart with all pious intentions; all, not only uncounterfeit, but most fervent.-SPRAT.

Nothing hath wrought more prejudice to religion, or brought more disparagement upon truth, than boisterous and unseasonable zeal.-BARROW.