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affected by it.-All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age, have passed through this fiery persecution.There is no defence against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.-Addi

son.

Censure pardons the ravens, but rebukes the doves.-Juvenal.

Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure, which is useful, to praise which deceives them.-Rochefoucauld.

Horace appears in good humor while he censures, and therefore his censure has the more weight, as supposed to proceed from judgment and not from passion.— Young.

If any one speak ill of thee, consider whether he hath truth on his side; and if so, reform thyself, that his censures may not affect thee.-Epictetus.

The villain's censure is extorted praise.— Pope.

It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause, for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age; but to escape censure a man must pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing.-Hume.

He is always the severest censor on the merits of others who has the least worth of his own.-E. L. Magoon.

It is impossible to indulge in habitual severity of opinion upon our fellow-men without injuring the tenderness and delicacy of our own feelings.-H. W. Beecher.

Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker.-It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.-Tryon Edwards.

We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.-George Eliot.

The most censorious are generally the least judicious, or deserving, who, having nothing to recommend themselves, will be finding fault with others.-No man envies the merit of another who has enough of his own.-Rule of Life.

Our censure of our fellow-men, which we are prone to think a proof of our superior wisdom, is too often only the evidence of the conceit that would magnify self, or of the malignity or envy that would detract from others.-Tryon Edwards.

CEREMONY.-All ceremonies are, in themselves, very silly things; but yet a man of the world should know them.-They

are the outworks of manners and decency, which would too often be broken in upon, if it were not for that defence which keeps the enemy at a proper distance.-Chesterfield.

Ceremony is the invention of wise men to keep fools at a distance; as good breeding is an expedient to make fools and wise men equals.-Steele.

To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment. -Bulwer.

To repose our confidence in forms and ceremonies, is superstition; but not to submit to them is pride or self-conceit.— Pascal.

Ceremonies differ in every country; they are only artificial helps which ignorance assumes to imitate politeness, which is the result of good sense and good nature.Goldsmith.

If we use no ceremony toward others, we shall be treated without any.-People are soon tired of paying trifling attentions to those who receive them with coldness, and return them with neglect.-Hazlitt.

Ceremony resembles that base coin which circulates through a country by royal mandate; it serves every purpose of real money at home, but is entirely useless if carried abroad. A person who should attempt to circulate his native trash in another country would be thought either ridiculous or culpable.-Goldsmith.

Ceremony was devised at first, to set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, and recanting goodness; but where there is true friendship, there needs none.-Shakespeare.

To divest either politics or religion of ceremony, is the most certain method of bringing either into contempt.-The weak must have their inducements to admiration as well as the wise; and it is the business of a sensible government to impress all ranks with a sense of subordination, whether this be effected by a diamond buckle, a virtuous edict, a sumptuary law, or a glass necklace.-Goldsmith.

CHANCE. (See "ACCIDENT.") There is no such thing as chance; and what seems to us the merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.-Schiller.

By the word chance we merely express our ignorance of the cause of any fact or effect not that we think that chance was itself the cause.-Henry Fergus.

The doctrine of chances is the bible of the fool.

CHANGE.

There is no doubt such a thing as chance; but I see no reason why Providence should not make use of it.-Simms.

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster !-Jeremy Taylor.

Chance is but the pseudonym of God for those particular cases which he does not choose to subscribe openly with his own sign-manual.—Coleridge.

The mines of knowledge are often laid bare by the hazel-wand of chance.-Tupper.

Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman runs away with the applause.-Home.

Be not too presumptuously sure in any business; for things of this world depend on such a train of unseen chances that if it were in man's hands to set the tables, still he would not be certain to win the game. Herbert.

How often events, by chance, and unexpectedly, come to pass, which you had not dared even to hope for!-Terence.

Chance never writ a legible book; never built a fair house; never drew a neat picture; never did any of these things, nor ever will; nor can it, without absurdity, be supposed to do them, which are yet works very gross and rude, and very easy and feasible, as it were, in comparison to the production of a flower or a tree.—Barrow.

Chance is always powerful.-Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.-Ovid.

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.- Voltaire.

He who distrusts the security of chance takes more pains to effect the safety which results from labor. To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: "Leave no stone unturned."-Bulwer.

There is no such thing as chance or accident, the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.Adam Clarke.

Chance generally favors the prudent.— Joubert.

CHANGE.-The world is a scene of changes; to be constant in nature were inconstancy.-Cowley.

The circumstances of the world are so variable, that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.-W. H. Seward,

Perfection is immutable, but for things

imperfect to change, is the way to perfect them.-Constancy without knowledge cannot be always good; and in things ill, it is not virtue but an absolute vice.-Feltham

What I possess I would gladly retain.— Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.- Goethe.

If a great change is to be made in human affairs, the minds of men will be fitted to it; the general opinions and feelings will draw that way. Every fear and hope will forward it; and they who persist in opposing this mighty current will appear rather to resist the decrees of Providence itself, than the mere designs of men.-They will not be so much resolute and firm as perverse and obstinate.-Burke.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.-Bacon.

To-day is not yesterday.-We ourselves change. How then, can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same.-Change, indeed, is painful, yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.-Carlyle.

History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription moulders from the tablet; the statue falls from the pedestal.-Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand, and their epitaphs but characters written in the dust? Washington Irving.

Remember the wheel of Providence is always in motion; and the spoke that is uppermost will be under; and therefore mix trembling always with your joy.—Philip Henry.

It is not strange that even our loves should change with our fortunes.-Shakespeare.

In this world of change naught which comes stays, and naught which goes is lost. -Mad. Swetchine.

CHARACTER. (See "TALENTS.") Character is perfectly educated will.— Novalis.

The noblest contribution which any man can make for the benefit of posterity, is that of a good character. The richest bequest which any man can leave to the youth of his native land, is that of a shining, spotless example.-R. C. Winthrop.

Let us not say, Every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, Every man is the architect of his own character.G. D. Boardman.

Give us a character on which we can thoroughly depend, which we know to be

CHARACTER.

based on principle and on the fear of God, and it is wonderful how many brilliant aud popular and splendid qualities we can safely and gladly dispense with.-A. P. Stanley.

Talents are best nurtured in solitude; character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.—Goethe.

There is not a man or woman, however poor they may be, but have it in their power, by the grace of God, to leave behind them the grandest thing on earth, character; and their children might rise up after them and thank God that their mother was a pious woman, or their father a pious man.-N. Macleod.

Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take away with us.-Humboldt:

It is not what a man gets, but what a man is, that he should think of.-He should think first of his character, and then of his condition: for if he have the former, he need have no fears about the latter.—Character will draw condition after it.—Circumstances obey principles.-H. W. Beecher.

Men best show their character in trifles, where they are not on their guard.-It is in insignificant matters, and in the simplest habits, that we often see the boundless egotism which pays no regard to the feelings of others, and denies nothing to itself.Schopenhauer.

He who acts wickedly in private life, can never be expected to show himself noble in public conduct. He that is base at home, will not acquit himself with honor abroad; for it is not the man, but only the place that is changed.-Eschines.

Character is a diamond that scratches every other stone.-Bartol.

Character and personal force are the only investments that are worth anything.Whitman.

Actions, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell characters: some are mere letters, some contain entire words, lines, pages, which at once decipher the life of a man. One such genuine uninterrupted page may be your key to all the rest; but first be certain that he wrote it all alone, and without thinking of publisher or reader.—Lavater.

A man's character is the reality of himself. His reputation is the opinion others have formed of him.—Character is in him -reputation is from other people-that is the substance, this is the shadow.-H. W. Beecher.

The best characters are made by vigorous and persistent resistance to evil tenden

cies; whose amiability has been built upon the ruins of ill-temper, and whose generosity springs from an over-mastered and transformed selfishness. Such a character, built up in the presence of enemies, has far more attraction than one which is natively pleasing.-Dexter.

A good character is, in all cases, the fruit of personal exertion. It is not inherited from parents; it is not created by external advantages; it is no necessary appendage of birth, wealth, talents, or station; but it is the result of one's own endeavorsthe fruit and reward of good principles manifested in a course of virtuous and honorable action.—J. Hawes.

As the sun is best seen at his rising and setting, so men's native dispositions are clearest seen when they are children, and when they are dying.-Boyle.

As there is much beast and some devil in man, so is there some angel and some God in him. The beast and the devil may be conquered, but in this life never destroyed. -Coleridge.

Every man, as to character, is the creature of the age in which he lives.-Very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of their times.— Voltaire.

The great hope of society is in individual character. Channing.

The Duc de Chartres used to say, that no man could less value character than himself, and yet he would gladly give twenty thousand pounds for a good character, because, he could, at once, make double that sum by it.-Colton.

Characters do not change.-Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.Disraeli.

The character is like white paper; if once blotted, it can hardly ever be made to appear white as before. One wrong step often stains the character for life.-It is much easier to form a good character and preserve it pure, than to purify it after it has become defiled.-J. Hawes.

As they, who for every slight infirmity take physic to repair their health, do rather impair it; so they, who for every trifle are eager to vindicate their character, do rather weaken it.-J. Mason.

Thoughts of virtue lead to virtuous action; acts of virtue ripen into habits; and the goodly and permanent result is, the formation or establishment of a virtuous character.-Chalmers.

Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choices of good and evil we have made through life.-Geikie.

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A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character is what he is before God. That no man can touch; only he himself can damage it.-His reputation is what men say he is.-That may be damaged.-Reputation is for time; character is for eternity.—J. B. Gough.

A fair reputation is a plant of delicate nature, and by no means rapid in its growth. It will not shoot up, like the gourd of the prophet, in a single night, but like that gourd in a single night it may perish.-J. Hawes.

Every thought willingly contemplated, every word meaningly spoken, every action freely done consolidates itself in the character, and will project itself onward continually.-H. Giles.

Truthfulness is a corner-stone in character, and if it be not firmly laid in youth, there will ever after be a weak spot in the foundation.-J. Davis.

All the little vexations of life have their use as a part of our moral discipline. They afford the best trial of character. Many a man who could bow with resignation, if told that he was to die, is thrown off his guard and out of temper by the slightest opposition to his opinions or his projects.

Character is like stock in trade; the more of it a man possesses, the greater his facilities for making additions to it. Character is power-is influence; it makes friends; creates funds; draws patronage and support; and opens a sure and easy way to wealth, honor, and happiness.—Ï. Hawes.

Experience serves to prove, that the worth and strength of a state depend far less upon the form of its institutions than upon the character of its men; for the nation is only the aggregate of individual conditions, and civilization itself is but a question of personal improvement.-S. Smiles.

Wherever you find patience, fidelity, honor, kindness, truth, there you find respectability, however obscure and lonely men may be.-H. W. Beecher.

All that makes men true, pure, and godly, goes with them everywhere. All that makes them false, impure, wicked, abides with them. Every man goes to his own place.— Golden Rule.

A tree will not only lie as it falls, but it will fall as it leans. And the great question every one should bring home to himself is this: "What is the inclination of my soul? Does it, with all its affections, lean toward God or away from him?"-J. J. Gurney.

A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather than silver and gold.-Solomon.

Character is built out of circumstances.— From exactly the same materials one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.-G. H. Lewes.

The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.-Socrates.

The character that needs law to mend it, is hardly worth the tinkering.—Jerrold.

The best part of human character is tenderness and delicacy of feeling in little matters, the desire to soothe and please others-minutiæ of the social virtues.Emerson.

As there is nothing in the world great but man, there is nothing truly great in man but character.-W. W. Evarts.

If you would create something, you must be something.-Goethe.

Not education, but character, is man's greatest need and man's greatest safeguard.-Spencer.

If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.-D. ̃L. Moody.

There is a broad distinction between character and reputation, for one may be destroyed by slander, while the other can never be harmed save by its possessor. Reputation is in no man's keeping. You. and I cannot determine what other men shall think and say about us. We can only determine what they ought to think of us and say about us.-J. G. Holland.

A man may be outwardly successful all his life long, and die hollow and worthless as a puff-ball; and he may be externally defeated all his life long, and die in the royalty of a kingdom established within him. A man's true estate of power and riches, is to be in himself; not in his dwelling, or position, or external relations, but in his own essential character.-That is the realm in which he is to live, if he is to live as a Christian man.-H. W. Beecher.

It is not money, nor is it mere intellect, that governs the world; it is moral character, and intellect associated with moral excellence.-T. D. Woolsey.

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provided he has a very large heart,—Bul

wer.

Make but few explanations. The character that cannot defend itself is not worth vindicating.-F. W. Robertson.

No more fatal error can be cherished than that any character can be complete without the religious element. The essential factors in character building are religion, morality, and knowledge.-J. L. Pickard.

In the destiny of every moral being there is an object more worthy of God than happiness. It is character.-And the grand aim of man's creation is the development of a grand character-and grand character is, by its very nature, the product of probationary discipline.—Austin Phelps.

To be worth anything, character must be capable of standing firm upon its feet in the world of daily work, temptation, and trial; and able to bear the wear and tear of actual life. Cloistered virtues do not count for much.-S. Smiles.

The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.-O. W. Holmes.

Do what you know and perception is converted into character.—Emerson.

We shall never wander from Christ while we make character the end and aim of all our intellectual discipline; and we shall never misconceive character while we hold fast to Christ, and keep him first in our motto and our hearts.-S. F. Scovel.

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

Good character is human nature in its best form. It is moral order embodied in the individual.-Men of character are not only the conscience of society, but in every well governed state they are its best motive power; for it is moral qualities which, in the main, rule the world.-S. Smiles.

Never does a man portray his own character more vividly, than in his manner of portraying another.-Richter.

Should one tell you that a mountain had changed its place, you are at liberty to doubt it; but if any one tells you that a man has changed his character, do not believe it.-Mahomet.

A good heart, benevolent feelings, and a balanced mind, lie at the foundation of character. Other things may be deemed fortuitous; they may come and go; but character is that which lives and abides, and is admired long after its possessor has left the earth.—John Todd,

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge one for yourself.-Froude.

CHARITY.-First daughter to the love of God, is charity to man.-Drennan.

The word "alms" has no singular, as if to teach us that a solitary act of charity scarcely deserves the name.

Charity gives itself rich; covetousness hoards itself poor.-German Proverb.

Charity is never lost it may meet with ingratitude, or be of no service to those on whom it was bestowed, yet it ever does a work of beauty and grace upon the heart of the giver.

The deeds of charity we have done shall stay with us forever.-Only the wealth we have so bestowed do we keep; the other is not ours. -Middleton.

Defer not charities till death. He that does so is rather liberal of another man's substance than his own.-Stretch.

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, when alive, would part with nothing.-Colton.

I would have none of that rigid and circumspect charity which is never exercised without scrutiny, and which always mistrusts the reality of the necessities laid open to it.-Massilon.

Beneficence is a duty; and he who frequently practices it and sees his benevolent intentions realized, at length comes to love him to whom he has done good.—Kant.

How often it is difficult to be wisely charitable-to do good without multiplying the sources of evil.. To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also. It is written, not "blessed is he that feedeth the poor," but "blessed is he that considereth the poor. A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.-Ruskin.

The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, lie scattered at the feet of men like flowers. Wordsworth.

Every good act is charity. Your smiling in your brother's face, is charity; an exhortation of your fellow-man to virtuous deeds, is equal to alms-giving; your putting a wanderer in the right road, is charity; your assisting the blind, is charity; your removing stones, and thorns, and other obstructions from the road, is charity; your giving water to the thirsty, is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter, is the good he does in this world to his fellow-man. When he dies, people will say, "What property has he left behind him?"