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without decision can never be said to belong to himself; he is as a wave of the sea, or a feather in the air which every breezé blows about as it listeth.-John Foster.

INDEPENDENCE.-It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.-Cobbett.

These two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together, manly dependence and manly independence, manly reliance and manly self-reliance.- Wordsworth.

The greatest of all human benefits, that, at least, without which no other benefit can be truly enjoyed, is independence.-Parke Godwin.

Happy the man to whom heaven has given a morsel of bread without laying him under the obligation of thanking any other for it than heaven itself.-Cervantes.

The word independence is united to the ideas of dignity and virtue; the word dependence, to the ideas of inferiority and corruption.-J. Bentham.

Independency may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance; I mean where a person contracts his desires within the limits of his fortune.-Shenstone.

Be and continue poor, young man, while others around you grow rich by fraud and disloyalty; be without place or power, while others beg their way upward; bear the pain of disappointed hopes, while others gain the accomplishment of theirs by flattery; forego the gracious pressure of the hand for which others cringe and crawl. Wrap yourself in your own virtue, and seek a friend and your daily bread. If you have in such a course grown gray with unblenched honor, bless God, and die.-Heinzelmann.

Let all your views in life be directed to a solid, however moderate, independence; without it no man can be happy, nor even honest.-Junius.

The moral progression of a people can scarcely begin till they are independent.Martineau.

Go to New England, and visit the domestic firesides, if you would see the secret of American Independence.—Religion has made them what they are.-Mosquera.

It should be the lesson of our life to grow into a holy independence of every judgment which has not the sanction of conscience and of God.-No man can lift up his head with manly calmness and peace who is the slave of other men's judgments. -J. W. Alexander,

There is often as much independence in not being led, as in not being driven.Tryon Edwards.

Hail! independence, hail! heaven's next best gift to that of life and an immortal soul!-Thomson.

INDEXES.-An index is a necessary implement, without which a large author is but a labyrinth without a clue to direct the readers within.-Fuller.

I certainly think the best book in the world would owe the most to a good index; and the worst book, if it had in it but a single good thought, might be kept alive by it.-Horace Binney.

Of many large volumes the index is the best portion and the most useful.-A glance through the casement gives whatever knowledge of the interior is needful.-An epitome is only a book shortened; and as a general rule, the worth increases as the size lessens.- Willmott.

A book without an index is much like a compass-box, without the needle, perplexing instead of directive to the point we would reach.-Anon.

Those authors who are voluminous would do well, if they would be remembered as long as possible, not to omit a duty which authors in general, and especially modern authors neglect, that of appending to their works a good index.-Henry Rogers.

Get a thorough insight into the index, by which the whole book is governed. Swift.

I have come to regard a good book as curtailed of half its value if it has not a pretty full index.-It is almost impossible without such a guide to reproduce on demand the most striking thoughts or facts the book contains, whether for citation or further consideration.-Horace Binney.

INDIFFERENCE.-Set honor in one eye, and death in the other, and I will look on both indifferently.-Shakespeare.

Indifference never wrote great works, nor thought out striking inventions, nor reared the solemn architecture that awes the soul, nor breathed sublime music, nor painted glorious pictures, nor undertook heroic philanthropies.-All these grandeurs are born of enthusiasm, and are done heartily.-Anon.

Nothing for preserving the body like having no heart.-J. P. Senn.

Indifference is the invincible giant of the world.-Ouida.

INDIGESTION.

INDIGESTION.-(See "HEALTH.")

Old friendships are destroyed by toasted cheese, and hard salted meat has led to suicide. Unpleasant feelings of the body produce correspondent sensations of the mind, and a great scene of wretchedness is sketched out by a morsel of indigestible and misguided food.—Sidney Smith.

How many serious family quarrels, marriages out of spite, and alterations of wills, might have been prevented by a gentle dose of blue pill!-What awful instances of chronic dyspepsia in the characters of Hamlet and Othello! Banish dyspepsia and spirituous liquors from society, and you have no crime, or at least so little that you would not consider it worth mentioning.-C. Kingsley.

Dyspepsia is the remorse of a guilty stomach.-A. Kerr.

INDISCRETION.—An indiscreet man is more hurtful than an ill-natured one ; for the latter will only attack his enemics, and those he wishes ill to; the other injures indifferently both friends and foes. -Addison.

Indiscretion and wickedness, be it known, are first cousins.-L'Enclos.

For good and evil in our actions meet wicked is not much worse than indiscreet. -Donne.

The generality of men expend the early part of their lives in contributing to render the latter part miserable.-Bruyère.

Indiscretion, rashness, falsehood, levity, and malice produce cach other.-Lavater.

We waste our best years in distilling the sweetest flowers of life into potions, which, after all, do not immortalize, but only intoxicate.-Longfellow.

Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have little; to presume much, and be worth little.—Cervantes.

We may outrun by violent swiftness that which we run at, and lose by overrunning. -Shakespeare.

Imprudence, silly talk, foolish vanity, and vain curiosity, are closely allied; they are children of one family.-Fontaine.

INDIVIDUALITY.-Every individual nature has its own beauty.-In every company, at every fireside, one is struck with the riches of nature, when he hears so many tones, all musical, sees in each person original manners which have a proper and peculiar charm, and reads new expressions of face.--He perceives that nature

has laid for each the foundations of a divine building if the soul will build thercon.— Emerson.

There are men of convictions whose very faces will light up an era, and there are believing women in whose eyes you may almost read the whole plan of salvation.Fields.

Individuality is everywhere to be spared and respected as the root of everything good.—Richter.

You are tried alone; alone you pass into the desert alone you are sifted by the world.-F. W. Robertson.

Every great man is a unique. The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part which he could not borrow.-Emerson.

Everything without tells the individual that he is nothing; everything within persuades him that he is everything.-X. Doudan.

It was perhaps ordained by Providence, to hinder us from tyrannizing over one another, that no individual should be of so much importance as to cause, by his retirement or death, any chasm in the world. Johnson.

The epoch of individuality is concluded, and it is the duty of reformers to initiate the epoch of association. Collective man is omnipotent upon the earth he treads.Mazzini.

The worth of a state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.J. S. Mill.

The greatest works are done by the ones. The hundreds do not often do much-the companies never; it is the units the single individuals, that are the power and the might. Individual effort is, after all, the grand thing.-Spurgeon.

Human faculties are common, but that which converges these faculties into my identity, separates me from every other man. That other man cannot think my thoughts, speak my words, do my works. He cannot have my sins, and I cannot have his virtues.— Giles.

Individuality is everywhere to be spared and respected as the root of everything good.-Richter.

We live too much in platoons; we march by sections; we do not live in our individuality enough; we are slaves to fashion in mind and heart, if not to our passions and appetites.-E. H. Chapin.

The great political controversy of the ages has reached its end in the recognition of the individual.-The socialistic party

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would again sink the individual in the government, and make it possible for the government to perpetuate itself and become absolute.-F. C. Monfort.

If the world is ever conquered for Christ, it will be by every one doing their own work, filling their own sphere, holding their own post, and saying to Jesus, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do.-Guthrie.

Each mind hath its own method.—A true man never acquires after college rules.— What you have yourself aggregated in a natural manner surprises and delights when it is produced.-We cannot oversee each other's secret.—Emerson.

That life only is truly free which rules and suffices for itself.-Bulwer.

Not armies, not nations, have advanced the race; but here and there, in the course of ages, an individual has stood up and cast his shadow over the world.-E. H. Chapin.

It is said that if Noah's ark had had to be built by a company, they would not have laid the keel yet; and it may be so.-What is many men's business is nobody's business. The greatest things are accomplished by individual men.-Spurgeon.

INDOLENCE. (See "IDLENESS.") Indolence is the sleep of the mind. Vauvenargues.

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetite of the brute may survive.— Chesterfield.

What is often called indolence is, in fact, the unconscious consciousness of incapacity.-H. C. Robinson.

Indolence and stupidity are first cousins. -Rivarol.

Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs, and ends in iron chains.-The more one has to do the more he is able to accomplish.

So long as he must fight his way, the man of genius pushes forward, conquering and to conquer. But how often is he at last overcome by a Capua! Ease and fame bring sloth and slumber.-Buxton.

Nothing ages like laziness.—Bulwer. What men want is not talent; it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labor.—Bulwer.

Lives spent in indolence, and therefore sad.-Cowper.

If you ask me which is the real hereditary sin of human nature, do you imagine I shall answer pride, or luxury, or ambition,

or egotism? No; I shall say indolence. Who conquers indolence will conquer all the rest. Indeed all good principles must stagnate without mental activity.-Zim

mermann.

Indolence, methinks, is an intermediate state between pleasure and pain, and very much unbecoming any part of our life after we are out of the nurse's arms.-Sleele.

Of all our faults, that which we most readily admit is indolence.-We persuade ourselves that it cherishes all the peaceful virtues, and that without destroying the others it merely suspends their functions.Rochefoucauld.

The darkest hour in the history of any young man is when he sits down to study how to get money without honestly earning it.--Horace Greeley.

Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both.-It is the waste of what might be a happy and useful life.-Tryon Edwards.

INDULGENCE.-Sensual indulgencies are costly at both ends.-C. Simmons.

Those who love dainties are likely soon to be beggars.-Franklin.

Too many wish to be happy before becoming wise.-Mad. Necker.

Live only for to-day, and you ruin tomorrow.-C. Simmons.

INDUSTRY.-(See "IDLENESS and "INDOLENCE.")

Industrious wisdom often doth prevent what lazy folly thinks inevitable.

He doth allot for every exercise a several hour; for sloth, the nurse of vices and rust of action is a stranger to him.—Massinger. It is better to wear out than to rust out. Cumberland.

If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiencies. Nothing is denied to well-directed labor; nothing is ever to be attained without it.-Sir Joshua Reynolds.

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all things easy.-Franklin.

There is no art or science that is too difficult for industry to attain to; it is the gift of tongues, and makes a man understood and valued in all countries, and by all nations; it is the philosopher's stone, that turns all metals, and even stones, into gold, and suffers no want to break into its dwellings; it is the northwest passage, that brings the merchant's ships as soon to

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him as he can desire in a word, it conquers all enemies, and makes fortune itself pay contribution.-Clarendon.

Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.-Goldsmith.

One loses all the time which he might employ to better purpose.-Rousseau:

Fortune may find a pot, but your own industry must make it boil.

In every rank, both great and small, it is industry that supports us all.—Gay.

God has so made the mind of man that a peculiar deliciousness resides in the fruits of personal industry.-Wilberforce.

Industry need not wish, and he that lives upon hopes will die fasting. There are no gains without pains. He that hath a trade hath an estate, and he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor; but then the trade must be worked at, and the calling followed, or neither the estate nor the office will enable us to pay our taxes. If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for, at the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff or the constable enter, for industry pays debts, while idleness and neglect increase them.-Franklin.

If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiencies.-S. Smiles.

Many are discontented with the name of idler, who are nevertheless content to do worse than nothing.-Zimmermann.

There is always hope in a man who actually and earnestly works.-In idleness alone is there perpetual despair.-Carlyle.

The celebrated Galen said that employment was nature's physician.—It is indeed so important to happiness that indolence is justly considered the parent of misery.— Collon.

The more we do, the more we can do ; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have. -Hazlitt.

Though you may have known clever men who were indolent, you never knew a great man who was so; and when I hear a young man spoken of as giving promise of great genius, the first question I ask about him always is, Does he work?—Ruskin.

Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.-Addison.

Industry is not only the instrument of improvement, but the foundation of pleasure. He who is a stranger to it may pos

sess, but cannot enjoy, for it is labor only which gives relish to pleasure.-It is the indispensable condition of possessing a sound mind in a sound body, and is the appointed vehicle of every good to man.Blair.

Application is the price to be paid for mental acquisition. To have the harvest we must sow the seed.-Bailey.

No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him.-There is always work, and tools to work with, for those who will; and blessed are the horny hands of toil.-J. R. Lowell.

That man is but of the lower part of the world who is not brought up to business and affairs.-Feltham.

A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution of body nor knowledge of mind.Socrates.

Industry keeps the body healthy, the mind clear, the heart whole, and the purse full.-C. Simmons.

Excellence is never granted to man, but as a reward of labor.-It argues, indeed, no small strength of mind to persevere in the habits of industry without the pleasure of perceiving those advantages, which, like the hand of a clock, while they make hourly approaches to their point, yet proceed so slowly as to escape observation.-Sir J. Reynolds.

Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man.-And one principal reason why men are so often useless is, that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.-Emmons.

An hour's industry will do more to produce cheerfulness, suppress evil humors, and retrieve one's affairs, than a month's moaning.-It sweetens enjoyments, and seasons our attainments with a delightful relish.-Barrow.

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune. Whately.

Industry hath annexed thereto the fairest fruits and the richest rewards.-Barrow.

The chiefest action for a man of spirit is never to be out of action; the soul was never put into the body to stand still.-J. Webster.

INFAMY.-(See "SLANDER.")

What grief can there be that time doth

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not make less?-But infamy, time never can suppress.-Drayton.

The most infamous are fond of fame; and those who fear not guilt, yet start at shame.-Churchill.

Infamy is where it is received.—If thou art a mud wall, it will stick; if marble, it will rebound.-If thou storm, it is thine; if thou contemn it, it is his.-Quarles.

INFANCY.-Heaven lies about us in

our infancy. Wordsworth.

Of all the joys that brighten suffering earth, what joy is welcomed like a newborn child?—Mrs. Norton.

Joy thou bringest, but mixed with trembling; anxious joys, and tender fears; pleasing hopes, and mingled sorrows; smiles of transport dashed with tears.— Cottle.

They who have lost ad infant are never, as it were, without an infant child. Their other children grow up to manhood and womanhood, and suffer all the changes of mortality; but this one is rendered an immortal child, for death has arrested it with his kindly harshness, and blessed it into an eternal image of youth and innocence.Leigh Hunt.

Ere sin could blight, or sorrow fade, death came with friendly care; the opening bud to heaven conveyed, and bade it blossom there.-Coleridge.

A lovely bud, so soft, so fair, called hence by early doom; just sent to show how sweet a flower in paradise would bloom.Legh Richmond.

Beautiful as is the morning of day, so is the morning of life.-Fallen though we are, there remains a purity, modesty, ingenuousness and tenderness of conscience about childhood, that looks as if the glory of Eden yet lingered over it, like the light of the day on the hill-tops, at even, when the sun is down.-Guthrie.

The glorified spirit of the infant, is as a star to guide the mother to its own blissful clime.—Mrs. Sigourney.

INFIDELITY.-(See "UNBELIEF.")

There is but one thing without honor, smitten with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be,-insincerity, unbelief. He who believes no thing, who believes only the shows of things, is not in relation with nature and fact at all.-Carlyle.

Infidelity, indeed, is the root of all sin; for did man heartily believe the promises to obedience, and the threats to disobedience, they could hardly be so unreasonable

When once infidelity can persuade men that they shall die like beasts, they will soon be brought to live like beasts also.South.

I would rather dwell in the dim fog of superstition than in air rarefied to nothing by the air-pump of unbelief, in which the panting breast expires, vainly and convulsively gasping for breath.-Richter.

There is not a single spot between Christianity and atheism on which a man can firmly fix his foot.-Emmons.

If on one side there are fair proofs, and no pretense of proof on the other, and the difficulties are more pressing on that side which is destitute of proof, I desire to know whether this be not upon the matter as satisfactory to a wise man as a demonstration. Tillotson.

The nurse of infidelity is sensuality.— Cecil.

It is always safe to follow the religious belief that our mother taught us; there never was a mother yet who taught her child to be an infidel.-H. W. Shaw.

Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.-Sterne.

Men always grow vicious before they become unbelievers; but if you would once convince profligates by topics drawn from the view of their own quiet, reputation, and health, their infidelity would soon drop off.-Swift.

Infidelity gives nothing in return for what it takes away. What, then, is it worth? Everything valuable has a compensating power. Not a blade of grass that withers, or the ugliest weed that is flung away to rot or die, but reproduces something.-Chalmers.

There is one single fact which we may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity, namely, that no man ever repented of being a Christian on his death-bed.H. More.

Infidelity is the joint offspring of an irreligious temper and unholy speculation, employed not in examining the evidences of Christianity, but in detecting the vices and imperfections of professing Christians.

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the