A tender sadness drops upon my soul He wrote poems and relieved himself very much. When a man's grief or passion is at this point, it may be loud, but it is not very severe. When a gentleman is cudgelling his brains to find any rhyme for sorrow, besides borrow and to-morrow, his woes are nearer at an end than he thinks. The only physic for grumblers must be-compare yourself with those more miserable. GAMBLING. It is possible that a wise and good man may be prevailed on to game; but it is impossible that a professed gamester should be a wise and good man. Lavater. GRATITUDE, Let those whom Heav'n has taught to feel share, And think those happy who can never lose That good they never knew. GOSSIPS. Miss Bowdler. Beware of inquisitive persons, for a wonderful curiosity to know all, is generally accompanied with as great an itch to tell it again. Shelley. Common tale-bearers are a plague to conversation, societies, relations, and families; and therefore, as Plautus says, tale-bearers should be hung up by the tongue, and tale-hearers by the Shelley. ears. GOOD HUMOUR. Honest good-humour is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small, and the laughter abundant. Washington Irving. GUILT. All fear, but fear of Heaven, betrays a guilt, And guilt is villainy. GOOD DEEDS. Lee. Only the actions of the just Smell sweet, and blossom in the dust. Shirley. UMILITY. Humility is the hall-mark of wisdom. Socrates, whom the Oracle, that is, the united opinion of the world in which he moved, pronounced to be the wisest man, was content with the title of a lover, rather than a professor, wisdom. Jeremy Collier. of Think not you are good enough, because no one knows you to be otherwise; and never imagine yourself so perfect as not to need mending. Shelley. To be humble to superiors, is duty; to equals, is courtesy; to inferiors, is nobleness; and to : all, safety it being a virtue, that for all her lowliness, commandeth the souls it stoops to. Sir Thomas More. When you are disposed to be vain of your mortal acquirements, look up to those who are more accomplished than yourself, that you may be fired with emulation. Dr. Moore. Humility is both a Christian and a social virtue: self-conceit makes us maintain our rights with arrogance, and intrench on those of other people." Humility is a virtue all preach, none practise, and yet everybody is content to bear. The master thinks it a good doctrine for his servant, the laity for the clergy, and the clergy for the laity. Seldon. The devout man loves to lie low at the footstool of the Creator, because it is there he obtains the most lively perceptions of the divine excellence, and the most tranquil confidence in the divine favour. In so august a presence, he sees all distinctions lost, and all beings reduced to the same level. He looks at his superiors without envy, and at his inferiors without contempt; and when from this elevation he descends to mix in society, the conviction of superiority, which must in many instances be felt, is a calm inference of the understanding, and no longer a busy importunate passion of the heart. HONESTY, Robert Hall. Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, as long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence. Pope. An honest man is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not. Shakespeare. An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told. Shakespeare. No legacy is so rich as honesty. Shakespeare. Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world. Carlyle. The principal, if not the only, difference between honesty and honour, seems to lie in their different motives: the object of the latter being reputation, and of the former, duty. Anon. |