MIND.

work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving that upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity.-Daniel Webster.

The blessing of an active mind, when it is in a good condition, is, that it not only employs itself, but is almost sure to be the means of giving wholesome employment to others.-Anon.

We find means to cure folly, but none to reclaim a distorted mind.-Rochefoucauld.

Frivolous curiosity about trifles, and laborious attention to little objects, which neither require nor deserve a moment's thought, lower a man, who from thence is thought, and not unjustly, incapable of greater matters.- Chesterfield.

A truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can equally embrace great things and small. I would have a man great in great things, and elegant in little things.— Johnson.

To see a man fearless in dangers, untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body.-Seneca.

If thou desirest ease, in the first place take care of the ease of thy mind; for that will make all other sufferings easy. But nothing can support a man whose mind is wounded.-Fuller.

Intrepidity is an extraordinary strength of mind, which raises it above the troubles, disorders, and emotions, which the sight of great perils is calculated to excite; it is by this strength that heroes maintain themselves in a tranquil state of mind, and preserve the free use of their reason under the most surprising and terrible circumstances. -Rochefoucauld.

The finite mind does not require to grasp the infinitude of truth, but only to go forward from light to light.-P. Bayne.

There are few who need complain of the narrowness of their minds if they will only do their best with them.-Hobbes.

Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.-Quintilian.

We in vain summon the mind to intense application, when the body is in a languid state.-Gallus.

MIND.

The mind is chameleon-like in one respect, it receives hues from without; but it is unlike it in another respect, for it retains them.-B. St. John.

It is a great mistake to think anything too profound or rich for a popular audience. -No train of thought is too deep or subtle or grand; but the manner of presenting it to their untutored minds should be peculiar. -It should be presented in anecdote, or sparkling truism, or telling illustration, or stinging epithet, etc.; always in some concrete form, never in a logical, abstract, syllogistic shape.-Rufus Choaté.

Hard, rugged, and dull natures of youth acquit themselves afterward the jewels of the country, and therefore their dulness at first is to be borne with, if they be diligent. That schoolmaster deserves to be beaten himself who beats nature in a boy for a fault. And I question whether all the whipping in the world can make their parts, which are naturally sluggish, rise one minute before the hour nature hath appointed.-Fuller.

Don't despair of a student if he has one clear idea.-Emmons.

A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone.-Swift.

The idea that there is a want of sympathy in the mass of the people with an educated man's mind, is much exaggerated in general belief. Any fine thought, or rich expression is apprehended by the common mind somehow; vaguely at first; but so almost any thought is, at first, vaguely and uncertainly apprehended by any but a thoroughly trained mind.-Rufus Choate.

The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse as we grow old.-Rochefoucauld..

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. -Milton.

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.-Chesterfield.

He who cannot contract the sight of his mind, as well as dilate it, wants a great talent in life.—Bacon,

The failure of the mind in old age is often less the result of natural decay, than of disuse.-Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment brings indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death.-Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy.-Sir B. Brodie.

MIND.

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.-John Adams.

Few minds wear out; more rust out.Bovee.

The end which at present calls forth our efforts will be found, when it is once gained, to be only one of the means to some remoter end. The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.-Johnson.

A mind once cultivated will not lie fallow for half an hour.-Bulwer.

Just as a particular soil wants some one element to fertilize it, just as the body in some conditions has a kind of famine for one special food, so the mind has its wants, which do not always call for what is best, but which know themselves and are as peremptory as the salt-sick sailor's call for a lemon or raw potato.-O. W. Holmes.

It is with diseases of the mind as with diseases of the body, we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.-Colton.

Mind is the brightness of the body,lights it, when strength, its proper but less subtle fire, begins to fail.-J. S. Knowles.

The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.-Pliny.

The mind itself must, like other things, sometimes be unbent; or else it will be either weakened or broken.-Sir P. Sidney.

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Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receives.- Colton.

Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that for a time can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty.-Mrs. Stowe.

As the mind must govern the hands, so in every society the man of intelligence must direct the man of labor.—Johnson.

A great, a good, and a right mind is a kind of divinity lodged in flesh, and may be the blessing of a slave, as well as of a prince. It came from heaven, and to heaven it must return; and it is a kind of heavenly felicity which a pure and virtuous mind enjoys, in some degree, even earth.-Seneca.

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My mind to me a kingdom is; such present joys therein I find, that it excels all other bliss that earth affords.—Chaucer.

Narrow minds think nothing right that is above their own capacity.-Rochefoucauld.

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor. -Spenser.

A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.— Dryden.

Mental pleasures never clog;-unlike those of the body, they are increased by repetition, approved of by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment.-Colton.

The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking.Phædrus.

A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity.-A strong mind has two highest tides, when the moon is at the full, and when there is no moon.Hare.

MINISTERS.-The Christian ministry is the worst of all trades, but the best of all professions.-John Newton.

We ought to judge of preachers, not only from what they do say, but from what they do not say.-Emmons.

In pulpit eloquence, the grand difficulty is, to give the subject all the dignity it deserves without attaching any importance to ourselves.—Colton.

It requires as much reflection and wisdom to know what is not to be put into a sermon, as what is.- Cecil.

"Three things," says Luther, "make a Divine-prayer, meditation, and trials."— These make a Christian; but a Christian minister needs three more, talent, application, and acquirements.-C. Simmons.

If a minister takes one step into the world, his hearers will take two.-Cecil.

It was said of one who preached very well, and lived very ill, that when he was out of the pulpit, it was a pity he should ever go in; and when in the pulpit, it was a pity he should ever come out.-Fuller.

It is very easy to preach, but very hard to preach well.-No other profession demands half so much mental labor as the clerical.-Emmons.

The preaching that comes from the soul, most works on the soul.-Fuller.

I have heard many great orators, said Louis XIV. to Massilon, and have been highly pleased with them; but whenever I hear you, I go away displeased with my

The minister is to be a real man, a live man, a true man, a simple man, great in his love, in his life, in his work, in his simplicity, in his gentleness.-John Hall.

The proud he tamed; the penitent he cheered; nor to rebuke the rich offender, feared; his preaching much, but more his practice wrought, a living sermon of the truths he taught.-Dryden.

The life of a pious minister is visible rhetoric.-Hooker.

Men of God have always, from time to time, walked among men, and made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer.-Emerson.

MINORITIES.-Votes should be

weighed, not counted.-Schiller.

A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, though the whole world be against him, is mightier than them all for the orb of time becomes such a man's shield, and every step brings him nearer to the hand of omnipotence.-Take ground for truth, and justice, and rectitude, and piety, and fight well, and there can be no question as to the result.-We are to feel that right is itself a host.-Never be afraid of minorities, so that minorities are based on principles.-H. W. Beecher.

This minority is great and formidable. I do not know whether, if I aimed at the total overthrow of a kingdom, I should wish to be encumbered with a large body of partisans.-Burke.

The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands.-C. Simmons.

MIRACLES.-A miracle is a work exceeding the power of any created agent, consequently being an effect of the divine omnipotence.-South.

A miracle I take to be a sensible operation, which being above the comprehension of the spectator, and in his opinion contrary to the established course of nature, is taken by him to be divine.-Locke.

Every believer is God's miracle.-Bailey. Miracles are ceased, and therefore we

MIRTH.

Harmless mirth is the best cordial against the consumption of the spirit; wherefore jesting is not unlawful, if it trespasseth not in quantity, quality, or season.-Fuller.

There is nothing like fun, is there? I haven't any myself, but I do like it in others. We need all the counterweights we can muster to balance the sad relations of life. God has made sunny spots in the heart; why should we exclude the light from them?-Haliburton.

Man is the merriest species of the creation; all above or below him are serious.· Addison.

Blessed be mirthfulness; it is God's medicine-one of the renovators of the world.-Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety,-all this rust of life, ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. It is better than emery. Every man ought to rub himself with it. A man without mirth is like a wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it runs.-H. W. Beecher.

Frame your mind to mirth and merriment, which bar a thousand harms and lengthen life.-Shakespeare.

Merriment is always the effect of a sudden impression. The jest which is expected is already destroyed.-Johnson.

Who cannot make one in the circle of harmless merriment may be suspected of pride, hypocrisy, or formality.—Lavater.

Nothing so covers the nerves, so tempers passion and anger, so cures discontent, so brings man to such a level, and so creates such true fellowship, as the divine spirit of mirth.-H. W. Beecher.

Mirth should be the embroidery of conversation, not the web; and wit the ornament of the mind, not the furniture.

I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning; or men, that cannot well bear it, to repent of the money they spend when they be warmed with drink; and take this

for a rule, you may pick out such times and such companies, that you may make yourself merrier for a little than a great deal of money; for "it is the company and not the charge that makes the feast."Izaak Walton.

Gaiety and a light heart, in all virtue and decorum, are the best medicine for the young, or rather for all.-Solitude and melancholy are poison; they are deadly to all, and above all to the young.—Talfourd.

Mirthfulness is in the mind, and you cannot get it out. It is the blessed spirit that God has set in the mind to dust it, to enliven its dark places, and to drive asceticism, like a foul fiend, out of the backdoor. It is just as good, in its place, as conscience or veneration. Praying can no more be made a substitute for smiling than smiling can for praying.-H. W. Beecher.

Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt; and every grin, so merry, draws one out.Wolcott.

What more than mirth would mortals have? The cheerful man is a king.-I. Bickerstaff.

Fun gives you a forcible hug, and shakes laughter out of you, whether you will or no.-Garrick.

MISANTHROPY.-Man delights not me, nor woman either.-Shakespeare.

There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of doing them to others.-Sir W. Temple.

Men possessing minds which are morose, solemn, and inflexible, enjoy, in general, a greater share of dignity than happiness. -Bacon.

The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.-Bovee.

Out of the ashes of misanthropy benevolence rises again; we find many virtues where we had imagined all was vice, many actions of disinterested friendship where we had fancied all was calculation and fraud,—and so gradually, from the two extremes, we pass to the proper medium; and feeling that no human being is wholly good or wholly base, we learn that true knowledge of mankind which induces us to expect little and forgive much. The world cures alike the optimist and the misanthrope.-Bulwer.

The misanthrope is a man who avoids society, only to free himself from the trouble of being useful to it; who considers his

neighbors only on the side of their defects, not knowing the art of combining their virtues with their vices, and of rendering the imperfections of other people tolerable by reflecting on his own.-He is more employed in finding out and punishing the guilty, than in devising means to reform them; and because he thinks his talents are not sufficiently valued and employed by his fellow citizens, or rather because they know his foibles and do not choose to be subject to his caprices, he talks of quitting cities, towns, and societies, and living in dens or deserts.-Saurin.

MISCHIEF.-O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men. -Shakespeare.

It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief, enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best.—Bulwer.

The opportunity to do mischief is found a hundred times a day, and that of doing good once a year.- Voltaire.

The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief. Demosthenes.

Few men are so clever as to know all the mischief they do.-Rochefoucauld.

It shocks me to think how much mischief almost every man may do, who will but resolve to do all he can.—Sterne.

He that may hinder mischief, yet permits it, is an accessory.-E. A. Freeman.

MISER. (See "GOLD "and “MONEY.”) The word "miser," so often used as expressive of one who is grossly covetous and saving, in its origin signifies one that is miserable, the very etymology of the word thus indicating the necessary unhappiness of the miser spirit.-Tryon Edwards.

The prodigal robs his heir; the miser robs himself. Bruyère.

The miser is as much in want of that which he has, as of that which he has not. -Publius Syrus.

A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.-Shenstone.

A thorough miser must possess considerable strength of character to bear the selfdenial imposed by his penuriousness. Equal sacrifices, endured voluntarily, in a better cause, would make a saint or a martyr.-Clulow.

Misers mistake gold for good, whereas it is only a means of obtaining it.-Rochefou cauld.

MISER.

Misers have been described as madmen, who in the midst of abundance banish every pleasure, and make, from imaginary wants, real necessities. But very few correspond to this exaggerated picture. Instead of this, we find the sober and industrious branded by the vain and the idle with the odious appellation; men who, by frugality and labor, raise themselves above their equals, and contribute their share of industry to the common stock. Whatever the vain or the ignorant may say, well were it for society had we more of this character. In general, these close men are found at last the true benefactors of society. With an avaricious man we seldom lose in our dealings, but we too frequently do in our commerce with prodigality. Goldsmith.

Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends, an incarnation of fat dividends. -C. Sprague.

How vilely he has lost himself who becomes a slave to his servant, and exalts him to the dignity of his Maker! Gold is the God, the wife, the friend of the moneymonger of the world.-Penn.

To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.-Colton.

The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.-Theodore Parker.

Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there is a defect of intellect as well as of heart. And even the cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.-Bulwer.

A mere madness-to live like a wretch that he may die rich.-Burton.

The base miser starves amid his store, broods o'er his gold, and griping still at more, sits sadly pining, and believes he's poor.-Dryden.

There is not in nature anything so remotely distant from God, or so extremely opposite to him, as a greedy and griping niggard.-Barrow.

There is a perpetual frost in the pockets of some rich people; as soon as they put their hands into them, they are frozen so they cannot draw out their purses.-Had I my way, I would hang all misers; but reversing the common mode, I would hang them up by the heels, that their money

might run out of their pockets.—Rowland Hill.

Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread.-Young.

MISERY. (See "SORROW.")

Twins, even from the birth, are misery and man.-Homer.

The true recipe for a miserable existence is to quarrel with Providence. J. W. Alexander.

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.-Sannazaro.

If you wish to be miserable, think about yourself; about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you, what people think of you; and then to you nothing will be pure. You will spoil everything you touch; you will make sin and misery for yourself out of everything God sends you you will be as wretched as you choose.-Charles Kingsley.

No scene of life but teems with mortal woe.- Walter Scott.

Misery so little appertains to our nature, and happiness so much so, that we lament over that which has pained us, but leave unnoticed that which has rejoiced us -Richter.

There are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot help smiling at, but they are the smiles that make wrinkles and not dimples.-O. W. Holmes.

Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.-Colton.

It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure.-Gréville.

As small letters hurt the sight, so do small matters him that is too much intent upon them: they vex and stir up anger, which begets an evil habit in him in reference to greater affairs.-Plutarch.

Misery is caused for the most part, not by a heavy crush of disaster, but by the corrosion of less visible evils, which canker enjoyment, and undermine security. The visit of an invader is necessarily rare, but domestic animosities allow no cessation. Johnson.

Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.-Shakespeare.