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skill of art is not able to make an oyster.Jeremy Taylor.

Take my word for it, it is not prudent to trust yourself to any man who does not believe in a God or in a future after death. -Sir Robert Peel.

Infidelity and Faith look both through the same perspective-glass, but at contrary ends. Infidelity looks through the wrong end of the glass; and, therefore, sees those objects near which are afar off, and makes great things little,-diminishing the greatest spiritual blessings, and removing far from us threatened evils. Faith looks at the right end, and brings the blessings that are far off close to our eye, and multiplies God's mercies, which, in the distance, lost their greatness.-Bp. Hall.

Charles II. hearing Vossius, a freethinker, repeating some incredible stories of the Chinese, turned to those about him and said, "This learned divine is a very strange man; he believes everything but the Bible."-S. Smiles.

Infidelity grows strong under oppressive civil rule; weak under that which is just. - Christlieb.

They that deny God destroy a man's nobility; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body, and if he is not akin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.-Bacon.

Let any of those who renounce Christianity, write fairly down in a book all the absurdities they believe instead of it, and they will find it requires more faith to reject Christianity than to embrace it.Colton.

Infidelity is one of the false coinagesa mass of base money that will not pass current with any heart that loves truly, or any head that thinks correctly. It is a fearful blindness of the soul.-Chalmers.

Infidelity reproves nothing that is bad. It only ridicules and denounces all that is good. It tears down, but never builds up; destroys, but never imparts life; attacks religion, but offers no adequate substitute. -J. R. Paxton.

Hume took unwearied pains to prove that nothing could be proved.—Bellamy.

Infidelity is seated in the heart; its origin is not in the head.-It is the wish that Christianity might not be true, that leads to an argument to prove it.-C. Sim

mons.

A man's wickedness sets Christianity against him before he can have any temptation to set himself against Christianity.S. Davies,

INFLUENCE.-Influence is the exhalation of character.-W. M. Taylor.

We live with other men, and to other men, not exclusively with, or to ourselves. -We have no intercourse with others that does not tell on them, as they are all the while influencing us.

There is little influence where there is not great sympathy.-S. I. Prime.

Virtue will catch, as well as vice, by contact; and the public stock of honest manly principle will daily accumulate.—Burke.

No act falls fruitless; none can tell how vast its powers may be; nor what results, enfolded dwell within it silently.

A good man does good merely by living. -Bulwer.

It is the age that forms the man, not the man that forms the age. Great minds do indeed react on the society which has made them what they are, but they only pay with interest what they have received.-Macaulay.

In families well ordered there is always one firm, sweet temper, which controls without seeming to dictate. The Greeks represented Persuasion as crowned.-Bul

wer.

The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air.-T. Starr King.

We cannot think or act but the soul of some one who has passed before points the way. The dead never die.-Bulwer.

A word or a nod from the good, has more weight than the eloquent speeches of others. -Plutarch.

The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.-This is a feudal tenure which they cannot alter. -Burke.

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.-Pascal.

Others are affected by what I am and say and do. And these others have also their

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spheres of influence. So that a single act of mine may spread in widening circles through a nation of humanity.-- Channing.

Not one false man but does unaccountable mischief.-Carlyle.

He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but consecrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasures.-Goethe.

The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no man can tell what becomes of his influence and example, that roll away from him, and go beyond his ken on their perilous mission.-H. W. Beecher.

There are nine chances in ten that every man who goes with me will lose his life in the undertaking.-But there are times when dead men are worth more than living ones. -Old John Brown.

You cannot be buried in obscurity: you are exposed upon a grand theater to the view of the world. If your actions are upright and benevolent, be assured they will augment your power and happiness.Cyrus.

Let him that would move the world, first move himself.-Socrates.

Though her (Lady Elizabeth Hastings) mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behavior; to love her was a liberal education.-Steele.

One of the most melancholy things in the world is the enormous power for evil of the dead over the living. There is hardly a great painter or writer, or a man who had achieved greatness in any direction, whose name has not been used to repress rising genius.-Hammerton.

Forming characters! Whose ?—our own, or others?-Both.-And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence. Who is sufficient for the thought?-Elihu Burritt.

Men are won, not so much by being blamed, as by being encompassed with love.-Channing.

The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.-Richter.

Often the elements that move and mold society, are the results of the sister's counsel, and the mother's prayer.—E. H. Chapin.

Planets do not govern the soul, or guide the destinies of men, but trifles, lighter than straws, are levers in the building up of character.-Tupper.

Good words do more than hard speeches, as the sunbeams, without any noise, will make the traveler cast off his cloak, which all the blustering winds could not do, but only make him bind it closer to him.-Leighton.

The career of a great man remains an enduring monument of human energy.The man dies and disappears, but his thoughts and acts survive and leave an indelible stamp upon his race.-S. Smiles.

There is no action of man in this life which is not the beginning of so long a chain of consequences, as that no human providence can tell what the end will be.Thomas of Malmesbury.

Race and temperament go for much in influencing opinion.-Lady Morgan.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.-George Eliot.

Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world. Emerson.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.- -Longfellow.

The influence of individual character extends from generation to generation.-The world is molded by it.-Macleod.

If you had the seeds of pestilence in your body you would not have a more active contagion than you have in your tempers, tastes, and principles,-Simply to be in this world, whatever you are, is to exert an influence-an influence too, compared with which mere language and persuasion are feeble.-Horace Bushnell.

No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and pure and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.-Phillips Brooks.

Always so act that the immediate motive of thy will may become a universal rule for all intelligent beings.-Kant.

Our gifts and attainments are not only to be light and warmth in our own dwellings, but are also to shine through the windows into the dark night, to guide and cheer bewildered travelers on the road.H. W. Beecher.

To help the young soul, to add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame; to redeem defeat by new thought and firm action, this, though not easy, is the work of divine men.-Emerson.

INGRATITUDE.

When men do anything for God, the very least thing, they never know where it will end, nor what amount of work it will do for Him. Love's secret, therefore, is to be always doing things for God, and not to mind because they are such very little ones. -Faber.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellowmen; and along those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, aud they come back to us as effects.-Melville.

Influence never dies; every act, emotion, look and word makes influence tell for good or evil, happiness or woe, through the long future of eternity.

The life of a faithful Christian man is a guide to paradise.—Thos. à Kempis.

He that calls a man ungrateful, sums up all the evil of which one can be guilty.Swift.

He that is ungrateful has no guilt but one; all other crimes may pass for virtucs in him.-Young.

If there be a crime of deeper dye than all the guilty train of human vices, it is ingratitude.-Brooke.

Ingratitude is treason to mankind.Thomson.

Ingratitude is the abridgment of all baseness; a fault never found unattended with other viciousness.-Fuller.

An ungrateful man is like a hog under a tree eating acorns, but never looking up to see where they come from.-Timo. Dexter.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.-Seneca.

He that forgets his friend is ungrateful to him; but he that forgets his Saviour is unmerciful to himself.-Bunyan.

Ingratitude is monstrous; and for the multitude to be ungrateful, were to make a monster of the multitude.-Shakespeare.

Brutes leave ingratitude to man.— -Colton. I hate ingratitude more in man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice, whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood.-Shakespeare.

Flints may be melted-we see it dailybut an ungrateful heart cannot be; not by the strongest and noblest flame.-South.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.-Shakespeare.

Not to return one good office for another is inhuman; but to return evil for good is diabolical.-Seneca.

One ungrateful man does an injury to all who stand in need of aid.--Publius Syrus.

We seldom find people ungrateful as long as we are in a condition to render them services.--Rochefoucauld.

We often fancy we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from selflove.-Landor.

There neither is, or ever was, any person remarkably ungrateful, who was not also insufferably proud; nor any one proud, who was not equally ungrateful.-South.

Ingratitude! thou marble-hearted fiend, more hideous when thou showest thee in a child, than the sea monster.-Shakespeare.

There be three usual causes of ingratitude upon a benefit received-envy, pride, and covetousness; envy, looking more at other's benefits than our own; pride, looking more at ourselves than at the benefit covetousness, looking more at what we would have than at what we have.-Bp. Hall.

Filial ingratitude! Is it not as this mouth should tear this hand for lifting food to it. -Shakespeare.

There never was any man so wicked as not to approve of gratitude and to detest ingratitude, as the two things in the whole world, the one to be the most esteemed, and the other the most abominated.-Seneca.

A grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man.-Saadi.

Blow, blow, thou winter wind, thou art not so unkind as man's ingratitude.— Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky, thou dost not bite so nigh, as benefits forgot.-Shakespeare.

He who does a kindness to an ungrateful person, sets his seal to a flint and sows his seed upon the sand; on the former he makes no impression, and from the latter finds no product.-South.

Ungratefulness is the very poison of manhood.-Sir P. Sidney.

One great cause of our insensibility to the goodness of our Creator is the very extensiveness of his bounty.-Paley.

When we would, with utmost detestation, single some monster from the traitor herd, 'tis but to say ingratitude is his crime.Froude.

Nothing more detestable does the earth

INHERITANCE.-What madness is it for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! -For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.-Seneca.

They who provide much wealth for their children but neglect to improve them in virtue, do like those who feed their horses high, but never train them to be useful.Socrates.

Enjoy what thou hast inherited from thy sires if thou wouldst really possess it.What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.—Goethe. INJURY. (See "REVENGE " and "FORGIVENESS.")

No man is hurt but by himself.-Diogenes. To willful men, the injuries they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters. -Shakespeare.

No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.-Home.

Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all.-Fuller.

Christianity commands us to pass by injuries; policy, to let them pass by us.Franklin.

Rather wink at small injuries, than to be too forward to avenge them. He that to destroy a single bee should throw down the hive, instead of one enemy, would make a thousand.

It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us, than the powerful whom we have injured. That conduct will be continued by our fears, which commenced in our resentment.-Colton.

In life it is difficult to say who do you the most mischief-enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best.

He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee.-If weaker,

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spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.Seneca.

The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than the one who receives it. Colton.

The injuries of life, if rightly improved, will be to us as the strokes of the statuary on his marble, forming us to a more beautiful shape, and making us fitter to adorn the heavenly temple.-Cotton Mather.

An injury unanswered, in time grows weary of itself and dies away in voluntary remorse. In bad dispositions, capable of no restraint but fear, it has a different effect; the silent digestion of one wrong provokes a second.-Sterne.

There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.-Alexander Smith.

Nothing can work me damage except myself. The harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and am never a real sufferer but by my own fault.-St. Bernard.

If men wound you with injuries, meet them with patience: hasty words rankle the wound, soft language dresses it, forgiveness cures it, and oblivion takes away the scar. It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.-Beaumont.

As a Christian should do no injuries to others, so he should forgive the injuries others do to him.-This is to be like God, who is a good-giving, and a sin-forgiving God.— Venning.

The injuries we do, and those we suffer, are seldom weighed in the same balance.C. Simmons.

The purpose of an injury is to vex and trouble me.-Now, nothing can do that to him that is truly valiant.-Johnson.

If a bee stings you, will you go to the hive and destroy it? Would not a thousand come upon you? If you receive a trifling injury, do not go about proclaiming it, or be anxious to avenge it. Let it drop. It is wisdom to say little respecting the injuries you may have received.-Anon.

INJUSTICE.-If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.-Democritus.

The man who wears injustice by his side, though powerful millions followed him to war, combats against the odds-against high heaven.-Havard.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.Plato.

No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.-Aristotle.

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Of all injustice, that is the greatest which goes under the name of law; and of all sorts of tyranny the forcing of the letter of the law against the equity, is the most insupportable.-L'Estrange.

Injustice arises either from precipitation, or indolence, or from a mixture of both.The rapid and slow are seldom just; the unjust wait either not at all, or wait too long.-Lavater.

An unjust acquisition is like a barbed arrow, which must be drawn backward with horrible anguish, or else will be your destruction.-Jeremy Taylor.

Fraud is the ready minister of injustice. -Burke.

Surely they who devour the possessions of orphans unjustly shall swallow down nothing but fire into their bellies, and shall broil in raging flames.-Koran.

Any one entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.—La Fontaine.

Did the mass of men know the actual selfishness and injustice of their rulers, not a government wonld stand a year.-The world would foment with revolution.Theodore Parker.

Whatever is unjust is contrary to the divine will; and from this it follows that no true and abiding happiness can be gained by those who are unjust.-Stretch.

He that acts unjustly, is the worst rebel to himself; and though now ambition's trumpet and the drum of power may drown the sound, yet conscience will one day speak loudly to him.-Havard.

Men endure the losses that befall them by mere casualty with more patience than the damages they sustain by injustice. Sir W. Raleigh.

INK.-My ways are as broad as the king's high road, and my means lie in an inkstand.-Southey.

The colored slave that waits upon thy thought, and sends that thought, without a voice, to the ends of the earth.-Anon.

Oh, she is fallen into a pit of ink that the wide sea hath drops too few to wash her clean again!-Shakespeare.

A drop of ink may make a million think. -Byron.

Let there be gall enough in thy ink; though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter.-Shakespeare.

INNOCENCE.-He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.-Horace.

To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.-Penn.

The innocent seldom find an uneasy pillow.-Cowper.

The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.-N. P. Willis.

O, innocence, the sacred amulet against all the poisons of infirmity, and all misfortunes, injury, and death.-Chapman.

Against the head which innocence secures, insidious malice aims her darts in vain turned backward by the powerful breath of heaven.-Johnson.

Innocence and mystery never dwell long together.-Mad. Necker.

Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.-South.

Unstained thoughts do seldom dream on evil.-Shakespeare.

Innocence and ignorance are sisters. But there are noble and vulgar sisters. Vulgar innocence and ignorance are mortal, they have pretty faces, but wholly without expression, and of a transient beauty; the noble sisters are immortal, their lofty forms are unchangeable, and their countenances are still radiant with the light of paradise. They dwell in heaven, and visit only the noblest and most severely tried of mankind. -Novalis.

There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the law, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.-Montaigne.

The silence, often, of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails. Shakespeare.

They that know no evil will suspect none. -Ben Jonson.

We have not the innocence of Eden; but by God's help and Christ's example we may have the victory of Gethsemane.-E. H. Chapin.

INNOVATION.—A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.-Burke.

It will always do to change for the better. -Thomson.