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A wilful falsehood is a cripple, not able to stand by itself without another to support it. It is easy to tell a lie, but hard to tell only one lie.—Fuller.

As universal a practice as lying is, and as easy a one as it seems, I do not remember to have heard three good lies in all my conversation.-Swift.

When the world has once got hold of a lie, it is astonishing how hard it is to get it out of the world. You beat it about the head, till it seems to have given up the ghost, and lo! the next day it is as healthy as ever.-Bulwer.

A lie, though it be killed and dead, can sting sometimes,-like a dead wasp.-Mrs. Jameson.

Nothing is rarer than a solitary lie; for lies breed like toads; you cannot tell one but out it comes with a hundred young ones on its back.- Washington Allston.

One lie must be thatched with another, or it will soon rain through.-Owen.

A great lie is like a great fish on dry land it may fret and fling, and make a frightful bother, but it cannot hurt you. You have only to keep still and it will die of itself.— Crabbe.

Let falsehood be a stranger to thy lips; shame on the policy that first began to tamper with the heart to hide its thoughts! and doubly shame on that unrighteous tongue that sold its honesty, and told a lie! -Havard.

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but they usually quarrel among themselves. -Daniel Webster.

One lie engenders another.-Once committed, the liar has to go on in his course of lying; it is the penalty of his transgression.-F. Jacox.

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MADNESS. (See "INSANITY.”) Madness is consistent, which is more than can be said of poor reason.-Whatever may be the ruling passion at the time continues so throughout the whole delirium, though it should last for life.-Our passions and principles are steady in frenzy, but begin to shift and waver as we return to reason. -Sterne.

The insane, for the most part, reason correctly, but from false principles, while they do not perceive that their premises are incorrect.-Tryon Edwards.

The consummation of madness is, to do what, at the time of doing it, we intend to be afterward sorry for: the deliberate and

intentional making of work for repentance. -W. Nevins.

This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or of heaven.-Moore.

Locke says the distinction between a madman and a fool is that a fool is he that from right principles makes a wrong conclusion ; but a madman is one who draws a just inference from false principles. Thus the fool who cut off the fellow's head that lay asleep, and hid it, and then waited to see what he would say when he awaked and missed his head-piece, was in the right in the first thought, that a man would be surprised to find such an alteration in things since he fell asleep; but he was a little mistaken to imagine he could awake at all after his head was cut off.-Tatler.

How pregnant, sometimes, his replies are; a happiness that often madness hits on, which reason and sanity could not so prosperously be delivered of !—Shakespeare.

He raves; his words are loose as heaps of sand, and scattered wide from sense.— So high he's mounted on his airy throne, that now the wind has got into his head, and turns his brains to frenzy.—Dryden.

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.-Dryden

MAGNANIMITY. Magnanimity 18 sufficiently defined by its name; yet we may say of it, that it is the good sense of pride, and the noblest way of acquiring applause.-Rochefoucauld.

A great mind will neither give an affront, nor bear it.-Home.

If you desire to be magnanimous, undertake nothing rashly, and fear nothing thou undertakest.-Fear nothing but infamy dare anything but injury; the measure of magnanimity is to be neither rash nor timorous.-Quarles.

Of all virtues magnanimity is the rarest; there are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another.-Hazlitt.

Magnanimity is greatness of soul, exerted in contemning dangers and difficulties, in scorning temptations, and in despising mere earthly pomp and splendor.-Buck.

A brave man knows no malice; but forgets, in peace, the injuries of war, and gives his direst foe a friend's embrace.Cowper.

MAGNET.-That trembling vessel of the pole, the feeling compass, navigation's soul.-Byron.

MAIDENHOOD.

The obedient steel with living instinct moves, and veers forever to the pole it loves.-Darwin.

Instinct with life, it safely points the way through trackless seas, which else were never sailed.

MAIDENHOOD.-Nature has thrown a veil of modest beauty over maidenhood and moss roses.-N. P. Willis.

The blushing beauties of a modest maid. -Dryden.

A maiden never bold; of spirit so still and quiet, that her motion blushed at herself.-Shakespeare.

She had grown in her unstained seclusion, bright and pure as a first opening lilac when it spreads its clear leaves to the sweetest dawn of May.-Percival.

A child no more; a maiden now; a graceful maiden, with a gentle brow, and cheek tinged lightly, and a dove-like eye; and all hearts bless her, as she passes by.-Mary Howitt.

The honor of a maid is her name, and no legacy is so rich as honesty.-Shakespeare.

No padlock, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden so well as her own reserve.-Cervantes.

A loving maiden grows unconsciously more bold.-Richter.

Let the words of a virgin, though in a good cause, and to as good purpose, be neither violent, many, nor first, nor last.It is less shame for her to be lost in a blushing silence, than to be found in a bold eloquence.--Quarles.

MAJORITY.-The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.-Schiller.

There is one body that knows more than anybody, and that is everybody.-Talleyrand.

It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be.- Virgil.

We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital.-H. Mann.

One and God make a majority.—Frederick Douglass.

A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority though he be alone.H. W. Beecher.

MALEVOLENCE. Avoid an angry man for a while; a malevolent one, forever.

Malevolence is misery; it is the mind of Satan, the great enemy, an outcast from all joy, and the opponent of all goodness and happiness.-J. Hamilton.

The malignity that never forgets or forgives is found only in base and ignoble natures, whose aims are selfish, and whose means are indirect, cowardly, and treacherous.-G. S. Hillard.

MALICE.-Malice is the devil's picture. Lust makes men brutish; malice makes them devilish-it is mental murder.-T. Watson.

Malice drinks one half of its own poison. -Seneca.

Malice sucks up the greater part of her own venom, and poisons herself.-Montaigne.

Malice, in its false witness, promotes its tale with so cunning a confusion, so mingles truths with falsehoods, surmises with certainties, causes of no moment with matters capital, that the accused can absolutely neither grant nor deny, plead innocence nor confess guilt.-Sir P. Sidney.

There is no malice like the malice of the renegade.-Macaulay.

Wit loses its respect with the good when seen in company with malice; to smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast, is to become a principal in the mischief. Sheridan.

Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, gives a kind of credit to a false accusation.-Massinger.

There is no small degree of malicious craft in fixing upon a season to give a mark of enmity and ill-will; a word-a look, which at one time would make no impression, at another time wounds the heart, and, like a shaft flying with the wind, pierces deep, which, with its own natural force would scarce have reached the object aimed at.-Sterne.

There is no benefit so large that malignity will not lessen it; none so narrow that a good interpretation will not enlarge it.Seneca.

MAN. (See "MEN.")

Indisputably a great, good, handsome man is the first of created things.-C. Bronté.

The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.-Amiel.

A man's ledger does not tell what he is, or what he is worth.-Count what is in man, not what is on him, if you would know what he is worth-whether rich or poor.-H. W. Beecher.

What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculties !

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In form and moving, how express and admirable! In action, how like an angel! In apprehension, how like a god!-Shakespeare.

What a chimera is man! what a confused chaos! what a subject of contradiction! a professed judge of all things, and yet a feeble worm of the earth! the great depositary and guardian of truth, and yet a mere huddle of uncertainty! the glory and the scandal of the universe!-Pascal.

Half dust, half deity, alike unfit to sink or soar.-Byron.

Man himself is the crowning wonder of creation; the study of his nature the noblest study the world affords.-Gladstone. Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires.—Lamartine.

How little man is; yet, in his own mind, how great! He is lord and master of all things, yet scarce can command anything. He is given a freedom of his will; but wherefore? Was it but to torment and perplex him the more? How little avails this freedom, if the objects he is to act upon be not as much disposed to obey as he is to command!-Burke.

Men are but children of a larger growth; our appetites are as apt to change as theirs, and full as craving, too, and full as vain. Dryden.

Men, in general, are but great children. -Napoleon.

He is of the earth, but his thoughts are with the stars. Mean and petty his wants and desires; yet they serve a soul exalted with grand, glorious aims,—with immortal longings, with thoughts which sweep the heavens, and wander through eternity. A pigmy standing on the outward crest of this small planet, his far-reaching spirit stretches outward to the infinite, and there alone finds rest.-Carlyle.

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Man is to man all kinds of beasts fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture. -Cowley.

It is not what he has, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.-Amiel.

How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, how complicate, how wonderful is man! distinguished link in being's endless chain! midway from nothing to the Deity! dim miniature of greatness absolute! an heir of glory! a frail child of dust! helpless immortal! insect infinite! a worm! a God!-Young.

Since the generality of persons act from

impulse much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.-Hare.

Man is the highest product of his own history. The discoverer finds nothing so grand or tall as himself, nothing so valuable to him. The greatest star is at the small end of the telescope, the star that is looking, not looked after nor looked at.Theodore Parker.

Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances; but by the character of their lives and conversations, and by their works. "Tis better that a man's own works than that another man's words should praise him.-L'Estrange.

The superior man is he who develops in harmonious proportions, his moral, intellectual, and physical nature. This should be the end at which men of all classes should aim, and it is this only which constitutes real greatness.-Douglas Jerrold.

Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this,-one dog does not change a bone with another.-Adam Smith.

Man is an animal that cooks his victuals. -Burke.

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.—Alexander Hamilton.

Do you know what a man is? Are not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man ?—Shakespeare.

The record of life runs thus: Man creeps into childhood,-- bounds into youth,sobers into manhood,-softens into age, totters into second childhood, and slumbers into the cradle prepared for him, thence to be watched and cared for.Henry Giles.

No man is so great as mankind.-Theodore Parker.

Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool. It seems as if heaven had sent its insane angels into our world as to an asylum. And here they will break out into their native music, and utter at intervals the words they have heard in heaven; then the mad fit returns, and they mope and wallow like dogs!-Emerson.

In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind; but now in my age I think I should write an apology for them.- Walpole.

The way of every man is declarative of the end of every man.-Cecil.

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sent to man how near he is to the level of beasts, without showing him at the same time his greatness. It is likewise dangerous to let him see. his greatness without his meanness. It is more dangerous yet to leave him ignorant of either; but very beneficial that he should be made sensible of both.-Pascal.

Man perfected by society is the best of all animals ; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.—Aristotle.

Man is greater than a world-than systems of worlds; there is more mystery in the union of soul with the body, than in the creation of a universe.—Henry Giles.

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are, for it shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be. Carlyle.

A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no luster as you turn it in your· hand until you come to a particular angle; then it shows deep and beautiful colors. Emerson.

To despise our own species is the price. we must often pay for a knowledge of it.Colton.

A man is one whose body has been trained to be the ready servant of his mind; whose passions are trained to be the servants of his will; who enjoys the beautiful, loves truth, hates wrong, loves to do good, and respects others as himself.

Now the basest thought possible concerning man is, that he has no spiritual nature; and the foolishest misunderstanding of him possible is, that he has, or should have, no animal nature. For his nature is nobly animal, nobly spiritual,-coherently and irrevocably so: neither part of it may, but at its peril, expel, despise, or defy the other. -Ruskin.

There are but three classes of men, the retrograde, the stationary, and the progressive.-Lavater.

Omit a few of the most abstruse sciences, and mankind's study of man occupies nearly the whole field of literature. The burden of history is what man has been; of law, what he does; of physiology, what he is; of ethics, what he ought to be; of revelation, what he shall be.-George Finlayson. The proper study of mankind is man.Pope.

Man is to be trained chiefly by studying and by knowing man. -Gladstone.

It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all

taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.—I should not like to be merely a great doctor, a great lawyer, a great minister, a great politician.-I should like to be, also, something of a man.Theodore Parker.

To have known one good old man-one man who, through the chances and mischances of a long life, has carried his heart in his hand, like a palm branch, waving all discords into peace-helps our faith in God, in ourselves, and in each other, more than many sermons.-G. W. Curtis.

The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.- Walter Scott.

The grandeur of man's nature turns to insignificance all outward distinctions. His powers of intellect, of conscience, of love, of knowing God, of perceiving the beautiful, of acting on his own mind, on outward nature, and on his fellow-creatures-these are glorious prerogatives.—Channing.

An acorn is not an oak when it is sprouted. -It must go through long summers and fierce winters, and endure all that frost, and snow, and thunder, and storms, and side-striking winds can bring, before it is a full grown oak.-So a man is not a man when he is created; he is only begun.-His manhood must come with years. He that goes through life prosperous, and comes to his grave without a wrinkle, is not half a man.-Difficulties are God's errands and trainers, and only through them can one come to the fullness of manhood.-H. W. Beecher.

Whoever considers the study of anatomy, I believe, will never be an atheist; the frame of man's body, and coherence of his parts, being so strange and paradoxical, that I hold it to be the greatest miracle of nature.-Lord Herbert.

Careful and thorough intellectual culture under a constant pressure of conscience and duty-this is the only way to a complete manhood, and this, only, is complete education.-S. F. Scovel.

The chief constituents of what we call manhood, are moral rather than intellectual.-J. S. Kieffer.

That which especially distinguishes a high order of man from a low order-that which constitutes human goodness, human greatness, human nobleness-is surely not the degree of enlightenment with which men pursue their own advantage. But it is self-forgetfulness; it is self-sacrifice; it is disregard of personal pleasure, personal indulgence, personal advantage, remote or

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present, because some other line of conduct is more right.

It is not by books alone, or chiefly, that one becomes in all points a man. Study to do faithfully every duty that comes in your way. Stand to your post; silently devour the chagrins of life; love justice; control self; swerve not from truth or right; be a man of rectitude, decision, conscientiousness; one that fears and obeys God, and exercises benevolence to all; and in all this you shall possess true manliness.

We seldom contemn mankind till they have injured us; and when they have, we seldom do anything but detest them for the injury.-Bulwer.

Men's weaknesses and faults are known from their enemies ; their virtues and abilities from their friends; their customs and lives from their servants.-Anon.

Man, if he compares himself with all that he can see, is at the zenith of power; but if he compare himself with all that he can conceive, he is at the nadir of weakness.Colton.

Bounded in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who has a recollection of heaven.-Lamartine.

Man should be ever better than he seem; and shape his acts, and discipline his mind, to walk adorning earth, with hope of heaven.-Aubrey de Vere.

A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.—Marcus Aurelius.

The way of a superior man is three-fold: virtuous, he is free from anxieties; wise, he is free from perplexities; bold, he is free from fear.-Confucius.

It is an error to suppose that a man belongs to himself. No man does. He belongs to his wife, or his children, or his relations, or his creditors, or to society, in some form or other. He has his body, and that is all, and even for that he is answerable to society. In short, society is the master and man is the servant; and it is entirely according as society proves a good or bad master, whether he turns out a bad or a good servant.-Sala.

Surely, if all the world was made for man, then man was made for more than the world.-Duplessis.

Man! thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.—Byron.

In men this blunder still you find, all think their little set mankind.-H. More.

Contemporaries appreciate the man rather than the merit; but posterity will

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regard the merit rather than the man.— Colton.

An evil man is clay to God, and wax to the devil; a good man is God's wax, and Satan's clay.-Bp. Hall.

One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man.-Goethe.

In these two things the greatness of man consists, to have God so dwelling in us as to impart his character to us, and to have him so dwelling in us that we recognize his presence, and know that we are his, and he is -ours.-The one is salvation: the other the assurance of it.-F. W. Robertson.

The older I grow-and I now stand on the brink of eternity-the more comes back to me that sentence in the Catechism which I learned when a child, and the fuller and deeper its meaning becomes : "What is the chief end of man? To glorify God and enjoy him forever."-Carlyle.

Every man is valued in this world as he shows by his conduct he wishes to be valued. -Bruyère.

Every man is a volume, if you know how to read him.-Channing.

To study mankind, is not learning to hate them; so far from such a malevolent end, it is learning to bear and live easily with them.

He is but the counterfeit of a man, who has not the life of a man.-Shakespeare.

The soul of man createth its own destiny of power; and as the trial is intenser here, his being hath a nobler strength of heaven.-N. P. Willis.

The highest manhood resides in disposition, not in mere intellect.-H. W. Beecher.

I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.-Garfield.

Who dares do all that may become a man, and dares no more, he is a man indeed.— Shakespeare.

There are depths in man that go to the lowest hell, and heights that reach the highest heaven, for are not both heaven and hell made out of him, everlasting miracle and mystery that he is.- Carlyle.

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

He is the wisest and happiest man, who, by constant attention of thought discovers the greatest opportunity of doing good, and breaks through every opposition that he may improve these opportunities.Doddridge.