Down she bent her head upon an arm so I can approve of those only who seek in white that tears seemed but the natural melttears for happiness.-Pascal. ing of its snow, touched by the flushed cheek's crimson. Miss L. E. Landon. The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.Rochefoucauld. Through certain humors or passions, and from temper merely, a man may be completely miserable, let his outward circumstances be ever so fortunate.-Lord Shaftesbury. Too many have no idea of the subjection of their temper to the influence of religion, and yet what is changed, if the temper is not? If a man is as passionate, malicious, resentful, sullen, moody, or morose after his conversion as before it, what is he converted from or to? Unsociable tempers are contracted in solitude, which will in the end not fail of corrupting the understanding as well as the manners, and of utterly disqualifying a man for the satisfactions and duties of life. Men must be taken as they are, and we neither make them nor ourselves better by flying from or quarrelling with them.-Burke. TEMPERANCE. Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty, for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood.— Shakespeare. Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow.-John Neal. Temperance is a tree which has for a root very little contentment, and for fruit, calm and peace.-Buddha. The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume, but a good stomach excels them all; to which nothing contributes more than industry and temperance.-William Penn. Temperance, indeed, is a bridle of gold; and he who uses it rightly is more like a god than a man.-Burton. Men live best on moderate means; nature has dispensed to all men wherewithal to be happy, if mankind did but understand how to use her gifts.-Claudian. Temperance is a virtue which casts the truest lustre upon the person it is lodged in, and has the most general influence upon all other particular virtues of any that the soul of man is capable of; indeed so general, that there is hardly any noble quality or endowment of the mind but must own teinperance either for its parent or its nurse; it is the greatest strengthener and clearer of reason, and the best preparer of it for religion, the sister of prudence, and the handmaid to devotion. South. Temperance is corporeal piety; it is the preservation of divine order in the body.— Theodore Parker. If it is a small sacrifice to discontinue the In temperance there is ever cleanliness and use of wine, do it for the sake of others; if it elegance. Joubert. is a great sacrifice, do it for your own.- Every moderate drinker could abandon the intoxicating cup if he would; every inebriate would if he could.-J. B. Gough. Except thou desire to hasten thine end, take this for a general rule, that thou never add any artificial heat to thy body by wine or spice, until thou find that time hath decayed thy natural heat, and the sooner thou beginnest to help nature, the sooner she will forsake thee, and trust altogether to art.-Sir Walter Raleigh. Great men should drink with harness on their throats.—Shakespeare. The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.-Anacharsis. There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and avoids it, is learned and temperate. Socrates. Above all, let the poor hang up the amulet of temperance in their homes.-Horace Mann. Temperance keeps the senses clear and unembarrassed, and makes them seize the object with more keenness and satisfaction. It appears with life in the face, and decorum in the person; it gives you the command of your head, secures your health, and preserves you in a condition for business.-Jeremy Collier. Samuel J. May. O temperance, thou fortune without envy; thou universal medicine of life, that clears the head and cleanses the blood, eases the stomach, strengthens the nerves, and perfects digestion.Sir W. Temple. Temperance is reason's girdle and passion's bridle, the strength of the soul and the foundation of virtue.-Jeremy Taylor. We ought to love temperance for itself, and in obedience to God who has commanded it and chastity; but what I am forced to by catarrhs, or owe to the stone, is neither chastity nor temperance.-Montaigne. The smaller the drink, the clearer the head, and the cooler the blood; which are great benetits in temper and business.-William Penn. TEMPTATION. The Devil has a great advantage against us, inasmuch as he has a strong bastion and bulwark against us in our own flesh and blood.— Luther It has been wisely said, "that well may thy guardian angel suffer thee to lose thy locks, when thou darest wilfully to lay thy head in the lap of temptation!" Was it not easier for the hero of Judæa to avoid the touch of the fair Every inordinate cup is unblessed, and the Philistine, than to elude her power when held ingredient is a devil.—Shakespeare. in her arms? -Jane Porter. Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.-Washington. Shut the door of that house of pleasure which you hear resounding with the loud voice of a woman.-Saadi. When the flesh presents thee with delights, then present thyself with dangers; where the world possesses thee with vain hopes, there possess thyself with true fear; when the devil brings thee oil, bring thou vinegar. The way to be safe is never to be secure.-Quarles. It is the bright day that brings forth the adder, and that craves wary walking. Shakespeare. We like slipping, but not falling; our real desire is to be tempted enough.-Hare. St. Augustine teaches us that there is in each man a Serpent, an Eve, and an Adam. Our senses and natural propensities are the Serpent; the excitable desire is the Eve; and reason is the Adam. Our nature tempts us perpetually; criminal desire is often excited; but sin is not completed till reason consents.Pascal. God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.-William Penn. To attempt to resist temptation, to abandon our bad habits, and to control our dominant passions in our own unaided strength, is like attempting to check by a spider's thread the progress of a ship of the first rate, borne along before wind and tide.-Rev. Dr. Waugh. Do not give dalliance too much the rein; the strongest oaths are straw to the fire in the blood.-Shakespeare. Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.— Shakespeare. A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself.-Colton. St. James says, "Count it all joy, when you fall into divers temptations."-Sterne. No place, no company, no age, no person is temptation-free; let no man boast that he was never tempted, let him not be high-minded, but fear, for he may be surprised in that very instant wherein he boasteth that he was never tempted at all.-Spencer. Might shake the saintship of an anchorite. The difference between those whom the world esteems as good and those whom it condemns as bad, is in many cases little else than that the former have been better sheltered from temptation.-Hare. He who has no mind to trade with the Devil should be so wise as to keep from his shop.— South. When I cannot be forced, I am fooled out of my integrity. He cannot constrain if I do not consent. If I do but keep possession, all the posse of hell cannot violently eject me; but I cowardly surrender to his summons. Thus Temptations are a file which rub off much there needs no more to be my undoing but of the rust of self-confidence.-Fenelon. myself.-Fuller. A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments.-Hillard. It is one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.-Shakespeare. The time for reasoning is before we have approached near enough to the forbidden fruit How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds to look at it and admire.—Margaret Percival. makes deeds ill done!-Shakespeare. We are surrounded by abysses, but the greatest of all depths is in our own heart, and an irresistible leaning leads us there. Draw thyself from thyself! -Goethe. Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation.-Bible. The temptation is not here, where you are reading about it or praying about it. It is down in your shop, among bales and boxes, ten-penny nails, and sand-paper.—Chapin. TENDERNESS. Tenderness, without a capacity of relieving, only makes the man who feels it more wretched than the object which sues for assistance.Goldsmith. Terror itself, when once grown trancendental, becomes a kind of courage; as frost sufficiently intense, according to the poet Milton, will burn.-Carlyle. The most terrible of all things is terror.- Most terrors are but spectral illusions. Only have the courage of the man who could walk up to his spectre seated in the chair before him, and sit down upon it; the horrid thing will not partake the chair with you.-Helps. By the apostle Paul, shadows to-night have struck more terror to the soul of Richard than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers. Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor. Shakespeare. Thanks, oftenest obtrusive.-Shenstone. I will example you with thievery: the sun is a thief, and with his great attraction robs the vast sea; the moon is an arrant thief, and her pale fire she snatches from the sun; the sea is a thief, whose liquid serge resolves the moon into salt tears; the earth is a thief, that feeds and breeds by a composture stolen from general excrement; each thing is a thief.-Shakespeare. THEOLOGY. A theology at war with the laws of physical nature would be a battle of no doubtful issue. The laws of our spiritual nature give still less chance of success to the system which would thwart or stay them.-Channing. Theology is but a science of mind applied to God. As schools change, theology must necessarily change. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas of truth are not. Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.— Beecher. He that seeks perfection upon earth leaves nothing new for the saints to find in heaven; for whilst men teach, there will be mistakes in divinity, and as long as no other govern, errors in the state.-F. Osborn. THEORIES. To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says.-Fontenelle. The human mind feels restless and dissatisfied under the anxieties of ignorance. It longs for the repose of conviction; and to gain this repose it will often rather precipitate its conclusions than wait for the tardy lights of observation and experiment. There is such a thing, too, as the love of simplicity and system, -a prejudice of the understanding which disposes it to include all the phenomena of nature under a few sweeping generalities, - an indolence which loves to repose on the beauties of a theory rather than encounter the fatiguing detail of its evidences.-Chalmers. The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and of detail, is the one that must O theft most base, that we have stolen what rule all observation.-John Weiss. we do fear to keep!-Shakespeare. THEFT. Virtuosi have been long remarked to have little conscience in their favorite pursuits. A man will steal a rarity who would cut off his hand rather than take the money it is worth. Yet, in fact, the crime is the same.-Horace Walpole. Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief still fears each bush an officer. Shakespeare. What is dishonestly got vanishes in profligacy.-Cicero. THOUGHT. A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times. It has come to you over a new route, by a new and express train of association.-Holmes. The value of a thought cannot be told.— Bailey. By virtue of the Deity thought renews itself inexhaustibly every day, and the thing whereon it shines, though it were dust and sand, is a new subject with countless relations.-Emerson. Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.-Hare. I can readily conceive of a man without hands or feet; and I could conceive of him without a head, if experience had not taught me that by this he thinks. Thought, then, is the essence of man, and without this we cannot conceive of him.-Pascal. The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions.Emerson. Great thoughts proceed from the heart.Vauvenargues. The more we examine the mechanism of thought, the more we shall see that the automat Every day a little life, a blank to be inscribed ic, unconscious action of the mind enters largewith gentle thoughts.-Rogers. A thinking man is the worst enemy the Prince of Darkness can have; every time such a one announces himself, I doubt not there runs a shudder through the nether empire; and new emissaries are trained with new tactics, to, if possible, entrap him, and hoodwink and handcuff him.-Carlyle. ly into all its processes. Our definite ideas are stepping-stones; how we get from one to the other, we do not know; something carries us; we do not take the step.—Holmes. Liberty of thinking, and of expressing our Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of thoughts, is always fatal to priestly power, and our own. Shakespeare. to those pious frauds on which it is commonly founded. Hume. Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened.-Emerson. Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. Wordsworth. All that a man does outwardly is but the expression and completion of his inward thought. To work effectually, he must think clearly; to act nobly, he must think nobly. Intellectual force is a principal element of the soul's life, and should be proposed by every man as the principal end of his being.—Channing. The greatest events of an age are its best thoughts. It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.-Bovee. Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.-Rivarol. Orthodoxy is the Bourbon of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.Professor Huxley. It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves.-Longfellow. Thoughts are winged.-Shakespeare. When the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet, then all things are at risk. There is not a piece of science, but its flank may be turned to-morrow; there is not any literary reputation, nor the so-called eternal names of fame, that may not be revised and condemed.-Emerson. Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.-Disraeli. |