EPITAPHS.

Envy makes us see what will serve to accuse others, and not perceive what may justify them.--Bp. Wilson.

As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.- -Chrysostom.

The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.-Horace.

The benevolent have the advantage of the envious, even in this present life; for the envious is tormented not only by all the ill that befalls himself, but by all the good that happens to another; whereas the benevolent man is the better prepared to bear his own calamities unruffled, from the complacency and serenity he has secured from contemplating the prosperity of all around him.-Colton.

EPITAPHS.-They are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time; after your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.-Shake

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Some persons make their own epitaphs, It and bespeak the reader's good-will. were, indeed, to be wished, that every man would early learn in this manner to make his own, and that he would draw it up in terms as flattering as possible, and that he would make it the employment of his whole life to deserve it.-Goldsmith.

Do ye not laugh. O, listening friends, when men praise those dead whose virtues they discovered not when living?-It takes much marble to build the sepulchre.-How little of lath and plaster would have repaired the garret !-Bulwer.

If all would speak as kindly of the living as in epitaphs they do of the dead, slander and censorious gossip would soon be strangers in the world,

EQUALITY. All men are by nature equal, made, all, of the same earth by the same Creator, and however we deceive ourselves, as dear to God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.-Plato.

By the law of God, given by him to humanity, all men are free, are brothers, and are equals.-Mazzini.

In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hold each other with an equal clasp. Mrs. Stowe.

Equality is the share of every one at their advent upon earth; and equality is also theirs when placed beneath it.-Enclos.

Liberty, equality-bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.-Amiel.

Your fat king, and your lean beggar, is

but variable service; two dishes, but to one table; that is the end.-Shakespeare.

Kings and their subjects, masters and slaves, find a common level in two placesat the foot of the cross and in the grave.Collon.

It is not true that equality is a law of nature.-Nature has no equality.-Its sovereign law is subordination and dependence.- Vauvenargues.

If by saying that all men are born free and equal, you mean that they are all equally born, it is true, but true in no other sense; birth, talent, labor, virtue, and providence, are forever making differences. -Eugene Edwards.

Let them ease their hearts with prate of equal rights, which man never knew.Byron.

So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.Johnson.

Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with; and there are few giants or dwarfs.-Hazlitt.

They who say all men are equal speak an undoubted truth, if they mean that all have an equal right to liberty, to their property, and to their protection of the laws.-But they are mistaken if they think men are equal in their station and employments, since they are not so by their talents.Voltaire.

Equality is one of the most consummate scoundrels that ever crept from the brain of a political juggler-a fellow who thrusts his hand into the pocket of honest industry or enterprising talent, and squanders their hard-earned profits on profligate idleness or indolent stupidity.-Paulding.

Men are by nature unequal.-It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.-Froude.

Some must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay.-Longfellow.

The equality of conditions is more complete in the Christian countries of the present day, than it has been at any time, or in any part of the world.-Its gradual development is a providential fact, and it possesses all the characteristics of a divine decree; it is universal, it is durable, and it constantly eludes all human interference; and all events, as well as all men, contribute to its progress.-De Tocqueville.

Whatever difference there may appear to be in men's fortunes, there is still a certain

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compensation of good and ill in all, that makes them equal.-Charron.

When the political power of the clergy was founded and began to exert itself, and they opened their ranks to all classes, to the poor and the rich, the villain and the lord, equality penetrated into the government through the church; and the being who as a serf must have vegetated in perpetual bondage, took his place, as a priest, in the midst of nobles, and not unfrequently above the head of kings.-De Tocqueville.

EQUANIMITY.-In this thing one man is superior to another, that he is better able to bear prosperity or adversity.-Philemon.

The excellence of equanimity is beyond all praise. One of this disposition is not dejected in adversity, nor elated in prosperity: he is affable to others, and contented in himself.-Buck.

EQUITY.-Equity is a roguish thing.For law we have a measure, and know what to trust to; equity is according to the conscience of him that is chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is equity.It is all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot, a chancellor's foot.-What an uncertain measure would this be!-One chancellor has a long foot; another, a short foot; a third, an indifferent foot.-It is the same thing with the chancellor's conscience.Selden.

Equity is that exact rule of righteousness or justice which is to be observed between man and man.-It is beautifully and comprehensively expressed in the words of the Saviour, "All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them, for this is the law and the prophets."-Buck.

Equity in law is the same that the spirit is in religion, what every one pleases to make it: sometimes they go according to conscience, sometimes according to law, sometimes according to the rule of court.Selden.

EQUIVOCATION.-I doubt the equivocation of the fiend that lies like truth.Shakespeare.

A sudden lie may sometimes be only manslaughter upon truth; but by a carefully constructed equivocation truth is always, with malice aforethought, deliberately murdered.-Morley.

Be these juggling fiends no more believed, that palter with us in a double sense; that keep the word of promise to our ear, and break it to our hope.-Shakespeare.

When thou art obliged to speak, be sure to speak the truth; for equivocation is half way to lying, and lying is the whole way to hell.-Penn.

He who is guilty of equivocation, may well be suspected of hypocrisy.-Maunder. We must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us.-Shakespeare.

There is no possible excuse for a guarded lie.-Enthusiastic and impulsive people will sometimes falsify thoughtlessly, but equivocation is malice prepense.-H. Ballou,

The lie indirect is often as bad, and always meaner and more cowardly than the lie direct.

ERROR. (See "TRUTH.")

Find earth where grows no weed, and you may find, a heart wherein no error grows.-Knowles.

Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.-Mad. De Staël.

There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness, while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.Coleridge.

Our understandings are always liable to error.-Nature and certainty are very hard to come at, and infallibility is mere vanity and pretence.-Marcus Antoninus.

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.-Jeremy Taylor.

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.-Pope.

The copy-books tell us that "to err is human." That is wrong. To err is inhuman, to be holy is to live in the straight line of duty and of truth to God's life in every intrinsic existence.-Phillips Brooks.

My principal method for defeating error and heresy, is, by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares: but if I can fill it first with wheat, I may defy his attempts.-John Newton.

Wrong conduct is far more powerful to produce erroneous thinking, than erroneous thinking to produce wrong conduct. -J. S. Kieffer.

Error commonly has some truth in what it affirms, is wrong generally in what it denies.-F. L. Patton.

Half the truth will very often amount to absolute falsehood.- Whately.

No tempting form of error is without some latent charm derived from truth.Keith.

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It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered. The Chinese say, "The glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time you fall." -Bovee.

It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge. Malinformation is more hopeless than non-information; for error is always more busy than ignorance. Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, from which we must first erase. Ignorance is contented to stand still with her back to the truth; but error is more presumptuous, and proceeds in the wrong direction. Ignorance has no light, but error follows a false one. The consequence is, that error, when she retraces her steps, has farther to go before she can arrive at truth, than ignorance. - Colton.

Few practical errors in the world are embraced on conviction, but on inclination; for though the judgment may err on account of weakness, yet, where one error enters at this door, ten are let into it through the will; that, for the most part, being set upon those things which truth is a direct obstacle to the enjoyment of; and where both cannot be had, a man will be sure to buy his enjoyment, though he pays down truth for the purchase.-South.

In all science error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last. -Walpole.

Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them.-It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.-From pure extravagance, and genuine, unmingled falsehood, the world never has, and never can sustain any mischief.-Sydney Smith.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.Confucius.

If any one sincerely, candidly, unselfishly tries to understand and to obey the voice of divine wisdom, he will not go fatally astray. -H. L. Wayland.

There is no error so crooked but it hath in it some lines of truth, nor is any poison so deadly that it serveth not some wholesome use. Spurn not a seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth.Tupper.

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Error is sometimes so nearly allied to truth that it blends with it as imperceptibly as the colors of the rainbow fade into each other.-Clulow.

Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.--Jefferson.

Error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment giving assent to that which is not true. Locke.

Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.-Longfellow.

From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.-Publius Syrus.

False doctrine does not necessarily make the man a heretic, but an evil heart can make any doctrine heretical.-Coleridge.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future. Plutarch.

The least error should humble, but we should never permit even the greatest to discourage us.-Potter.

Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed. -Chesterfield.

Errors of theory or doctrine are not so much false statements, as partial statements. Half a truth received, while the corresponding half is unknown or rejected, is a practical falsehood.-Tryon Edwards.

There is nothing so true that the damps of error have not warped it.— Tupper.

The consistency of great error with great virtue, is one of the lessons of universal history. But error is not made harmless by such associations. False theories, though held by the greatest and best of men, and though not thoroughly believed, have wrought much evil.-Channing.

All errors spring up in the neighborhood of some truth; they grow round about it, and, for the most part, derive their strength from such contiguity.-T. Binney.

Whatever is only almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is the more likely to lead astray.-Precise knowledge is the only true knowledge, and he who does not teach exactly, does not teach at all.-H. W. Beecher.

In its influence on the soul, error has been compared to a magnet concealed near the ship's compass.-As in the latter case, the more favorable the winds, and the greater the diligence and skill in working the ship, the more rapidly will it be speeded on in a wrong course; and so in the former, the greater the struggle for safety, the more speedy the progress to ruin.Tryon Edwards.

There will be mistakes in divinity while men preach, and errors in governments while men govern.-Dudley Carleton.

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The little I have seen of the world teaches me to look upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger. When I take the history of one poor heart that has sinned and suffered, and think of the struggles and temptations it has passed through, the brief pulsations of joy, the feverish inquietude of hope and fear, the pressure of want, the desertion of friends, I would fain leave the erring soul of my fellow-man with Him from whose hands it came.-Longfellow.

ESTEEM. The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.-Addison.

The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue; and it is a mark of an abandoned spirit to have no regard to it.-Burke.

Esteem has more engaging charms than friendship and even love. -It captivates hearts better, and never makes ingrates.-Rochefoucauld.

Esteem cannot be where there is no confidence; and there can be no confidence where there is no respect.-Giles.

We have so exalted a notion of the human soul that we cannot bear to be despised, or even not to be esteemed by it.-Man, in fact, places all his happiness in this esteem. -Pascal.

All true love is founded on esteem.Buckingham.

ESTIMATION.-A life spent worthily should be measured by deeds, not years.— Sheridan.

To judge of the real importance of an individual, we should think of the effect his death would produce.-Levis.

It is seldom that a man labors well in his minor department unless he overrates it.It is lucky for us that the bee does not look upon the honeycomb in the same light we do.- Whately.

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves. -Charlotte Elizabeth.

ETERNITY.-(See "FUTURE STATE.") What is eternity? was asked of a deaf and dumb pupil, and the beautiful and striking answer was, "It is the lifetime of the Almighty."

Eternity is a negative idea clothed with a positive name.-It supposes, in that to which it is applied, a present existence, and is the negation of a beginning or an end of that existence.-Paley.

No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it.-Farrar.

This is the world of seeds, of causes, and of tendencies; the other is the world of harvests and results and of perfected and eternal consequences.

Eternity, thou pleasing dreadful thought! through what variety of untried being! through what new scenes and changes must we pass! The wide, the unbounded prospect lies before me; but shadows, clouds, and darkness rest upon it.-Addison.

He that will often put eternity and the world before him, and will dare to look steadfastly at both of them, will find that the more he contemplates them, the former will grow greater and the latter less.Colton.

The wish falls often, warm upon my heart, that I may learn nothing here that I cannot continue in the other world; that I may do nothing here but deeds that will bear fruit in heaven.-Richter.

The most momentous concern of man is the state he shall enter upon after this short and transitory life is ended; and in proportion as eternity is of greater importance than time, so ought men to be solicitous upon what grounds their expectations with regard to that durable state are built, and on what assurances their hopes or their fears stand.-Clarke.

How vast is eternity!-It will swallow up all the human race; it will wollect all the intelligent universe; it will open scenes and prospects wide enough, great enough, and various enough to fix the attention, and absorb the minds of all intelligent beings forever.--Emmons.

Every natural longing has its natural satisfaction. If we thirst, God has created liquids to gratify thirst. If we are susceptible of attachment, there are beings to gratify that love. If we thirst for life and love eternal, it is likely that there are an eternal life and an eternal love to satisfy that craving.-F. W. Robertson.

Eternity invests every state, whether of bliss or suffering, with a mysterious and awful importance entirely its own.-It gives weight and moment to whatever it attaches, compared to which all interests that know a period fade into absolute insignificance. Robert Hall.

The sum and substance of the preparation needed for a coming eternity is, that we believe what the Bible tells us, and do what the Bible bids us.-Chalmers.

There is, I know not how, in the minds of men, a certain presage, as it were, of a

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future existence, and this takes the deepest root, and is most discoverable in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls.-Cicero.

Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grows meaner and more hostile.Carlyle.

All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties.-Emerson.

The grand difficulty is so to feel the reality of both worlds as to give each its due place in our thoughts and feelings-to keep our mind's eye, and our heart's eye, ever fixed on the land of Promise, without looking away from the road along which we are to travel toward it.-Hare.

The eternal world is not merely a world beyond time and the grave. It embraces time; it is ready to realize itself under all the forms of temporal things. Its light and power are latent everywhere, waiting for human souls to welcome it, ready to break through the transparent veil of earthly things and to suffuse with its ineffable radiance the common life of man.-John Caird.

The thought of eternity consoles for the shortness of life.-Malesherbes.

The disappointed man turns his thoughts toward a state of existence where his wiser desires may be fixed with the certainty of faith. The successful man feels that the objects he has ardently pursued fail to satisfy the craving of an immortal spirit. The wicked man turneth away from his wickedness, that he may save his soul alive. -Southey.

Eternity stands always fronting God; a stern colossal image, with blind eyes, and grand dim lips, that murmur evermore, "God-God-God!"-E. B. Browning.

Our object in life should be to accumulate a great number of grand questions to be asked and resolved in eternity. Now we ask the sage, the genius, the philosopher, the divine, but none can tell; but we will open our queries to other respondents-we will ask angels, redeemed spirits, and God. -Foster.

What we call eternity may be but an endless series of the transitions which men call deaths, abandonments of home, going ever to fairer scenes and loftier heights.-Age after age, the spirit-that glorious nomadmay shift its tent, carrying with it evermore its elements, activity and desire.Bulwer.

Let me dream that love goes with us to the shore unknown.-Mrs. Hemans.

ETIQUETTE.-A man may with more impunity be guilty of an actual breach, either of real good breeding or good morals, than appear ignorant of the most minute points of fashionable etiquette.- Walter Scott.

We must conform, to a certain extent, to the conventionalities of society, for they are the ripened results of a varied and long experience.-A. A Hodge.

Good taste rejects excessive nicety; it treats little things as little things, and is not hurt by them.-Fenelon.

EVASION.-Evasions are the common shelter of the hard-hearted, the false, and the impotent when called upon to assist; the real great, alone plan instantaneous help, even when their looks or words presage difficulties.-Lavater.

Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation.-Balzac,

Evasion, like equivocation, comes generally from a cowardly or a deceiving spirit, or from both; afraid to speak out its sentiments, or from guile concealing them.

EVENING. Now came still evening on, and twilight gray had in her sober livery all things clad.-Milton.

A paler shadow strews its mantle over the mountains; parting day dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues with a new color as it gasps away.-Byron.

The evening came.--The setting sun stretched his celestial rods of light across the level landscape, and like the miracle in Egypt, smote the rivers, the brooks, and the ponds, and they became as blood.Longfellow.

Evening is the delight of virtuous age; it seems an emblem of the tranquil close of a busy life-serene, placid, and mild, with the impress of the great Creator stamped upon it; it spreads its quiet wings over the grave, and seems to promise that all shall be peace beyond it.-Bulwer.

There is an evening twilight of the heart, when its wild passion waves are lulled to rest.--Halleck.

EVENTS.-Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.-Cowper. Coming events cast their shadows before. -Campbell.

Often do the spirits of great events stride on before the events, and in to-day already walks to-morrow.-Coleridge.

There is little peace or comfort in life if we are always anxious as to future events.