FLATTERY.

Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame, from a flatterer. -Ben Jonson.

The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.-Molière.

If we would not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could not harm us.Rochefoucauld.

Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors: for they will strengthen thy imperfections, encourage thee in all evils, correct thee in nothing, but so shadow and paint all thy vices and follies as thou shalt never, by their will, discern good from evil, or vice from virtue.-Sir W. Raleigh.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.Burke.

There is an oblique way of reproof, which takes off the sharpness of it, and an address in flattery, which makes it agreeable, though never so gross; but of all flatterers, the most skilful is he who can do what you like, without saying anything which argues he does it for your sake.Pope.

He that is much flattered soon learns to flatter himself.-We are commonly taught our duty by fear or shame, but how can they act upon a man who hears nothing but his own praises ?-Johnson.

Deference before company is the genteelest kind of flattery. The flattery of epistles affects one less, as they cannot be shown without an appearance of vanity. Flattery of the verbal kind is gross. In short, applause is of too coarse a nature to be swallowed in the gross, though the extract of tincture be ever so agreeable.Shenstone.

To be flattered is grateful, even when we know that our praises are not believed by those who pronounce them; for they prove at least our power, and show that our favor is valued, since it is purchased by the meanness of falsehood.-Johnson.

Flattery is never so agreeable as to our blind side; commend a fool for his wit, or a knave for his honesty, and they will receive you into their bosom.-Fielding.

Flattery, though a base coin, is the necessary pocket-money at court; where, by custom and consent, it has obtained such a currency, that it is no longer a frandulent, but a legal payment.-Chesterfield.

Know thyself, thine evil as well as thy good, and flattery shall not harm thee; her

speech shall be a warning, a humbling, and a guide; for wherein thou lackest most, there chiefly will the sycophant com mend thee.-Tupper.

No man flatters the woman he truly loves. Tuckerman.

Adulation is the death of virtue.-Who flatters, is, of all mankind, the lowest, save he who courts the flattery.-H. More.

You play the spaniel, and think with wagging of your tongue to win me.-Shakespeare.

Nothing is so great an instance of illmanners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; if you flatter only one or two, you affront the rest.Swift.

Flattery is a base coin which gains currency only from our vanity.-Rochefou cauld.

Imitation is the sincerest flattery.Cotton.

It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the deadthese the living.-Antisthenes.

We sometimes think we hate flattery, when we only hate the manner in which we have been flattered.-Rochefoucauld.

Some there are who profess to despise all flattery, but even these are, nevertheless, to be flattered, by being told that they do despise it.-Colton.

The rich man despises those who flatter him too much, and hates those who do not flatter him at all.-- Talleyrand.

A death-bed flattery is the worst of treacheries. Ceremonies of mode and compliment are mightily out of season when life and salvation come to be at stake.— L'Estrange.

There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.-Fielding.

Allow no man to be so free with you as to praise you to your face.-Your vanity, by this means, will want its food, but at the same time your passion for esteem will be more fully gratified: men will praise you in their actions; where you now receive one compliment, you will then receive twenty civilities.-Steele.

The lie that flatters I abhor the most.Cowper.

There is no detraction worse than to overpraise a man; for if his worth prove short of what report doth speak of him, his own actions are ever giving the lie to his honor. -Feltham.

FLOWERS.

There is no tongue that flatters like a lover's; and yet in the exaggeration of his feelings, flattery seems to him commonplace.-Bulwer.

There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.--Hazlitt.

Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. --Tacitus.

The most skilful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.-Addison.

The most subtle flattery a woman can receive is that conveyed by actions, not by words.-Mad. Necker.

Self-love is the greatest of flatterers.Rochefoucauld.

A fool flatters himself; the wise man flatters the fool.—Bulwer.

It is a dangerous crisis when a proud heart meets with flattering lips.-Flavel. When flatterers meet the devil goes to dinner. De Foe.

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We love flattery, even when we through it, and are not deceived by it, for it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.-Emerson.

Adroit observers will find that some who affect to dislike flattery may yet be flattered indirectly by a well-seasoned abuse and ridicule of their rivals.-Colton.

It has well been said that the archflatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.-Bacon.

Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where, although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived.-Colton.

The only benefit of flattery is that by hearing what we are not, we may be instructed what we ought to be.-Swift.

"Tis an old maxim in the schools, that flattery is the food of fools.-Yet now and then your men of wit will condescend to take a bit.-Swift.

FLOWERS,-Flowers are God's thoughts of beauty taking form to gladden mortal gaze.

Lovely flowers are the smiles of God's goodness. Wilberforce.

Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.— H. W. Beecher.

What a desolate place would be a world without flowers ?-It would be a face without a smile; a feast without a welcome.

Are not flowers the stars of the earth ?And are not our stars the flowers of heaven? -Mrs. Balfour.

To me the meanest flower that blows can

What a pity flowers can utter no sound? -A singing rose, a. whispering violet, a murmuring honeysuckle, oh, what a rare and exquisite miracle would these be!H. W. Beecher.

The flowers are nature's jewels, with whose wealth she decks her summer beauty. -Croly.

The instinctive and universal taste of mankind selects flowers for the expression of its finest sympathies, their beauty and flectingness serving to make them the most fitting symbols of those delicate sentiments for which language seems almost too gross a medium.-Hillard.

Flowers are love's truest language.-P. Benjamin.

To analyze the charms of flowers is like dissecting music; it is one of those things which it is far better to enjoy, than to attempt fully to understand.-Tuckerman.

In eastern lands they talk in flowers, and tell in a garland their loves and cares.Percival.

How the universal heart of man blesses flowers! They are wreathed round the cradle, the marriage altar, and the tomb.— They should deck the brow of the youthful bride, for they are in themselves a lovely type of marriage.-They should twine round the tomb. for their perpetually renewed beauty is a symbol of the resurrection.They should festoon the altar, for their fragrance and beauty ascend in perpetual worship before the most high.-Mrs. L. M. Child.

It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous, but I believe never the sweet.-Hare.

Your voiceless lips, O, flowers, are living preachers-each cup a pulpit, and each leaf a book.-Horace Smith.

Stars of earth, these golden flowers; emblems of our own great resurrection; emblems of the bright and better land.-Longfellow.

Every rose is an autograph from the hand of God on this world about us.-He has inscribed his thoughts in these marvellous hieroglyphics which sense and science have, these many thousand years, been seeking to understand.-Theodore Parker.

A passion for flowers, is, I think, the only one which long sickness leaves untouched with its chilling influence.-Mrs. Hemans. To cultivate a garden is to walk with God.-Bovee.

FOLLY.

There is not the least flower but seems to hold up its head, and to look pleasantly, in the secret sense of the goodness of its heavenly Maker.-South.

Flowers are God's thoughts of beauty, taking form to gladden mortal gaze ;bright gems of earth, in which, perchance, we see what Eden was-what Paradise may be!

FOLLY.-Folly consists in drawing of false conclusions from just principles, by which it is distinguished from madness, which draws just conclusions from false principles.-Locke.

There is a foolish corner even in the brain of the sage.-Aristotle.

This peculiar ill property has folly, that it enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities.-South.

Men of all ages have the same inclinations over which reason exercises no control. Thus wherever men are found there are follies, aye, and the same follies.-Fontenelle.

The wise man has his follies no less than the fool; but herein lies the differencethe follies of the fool are known to the world, but are hidden from himself; the follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world.-Colton.

Want and sorrow are the wages that folly earns for itself, and they are generally paid.-Schubart.

He who lives without folly is not so wise as he imagines.-Rochefoucauld.

FOOLS. The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.-Boileau.

What the fool does in the end, the wise man does in the beginning. - Spanish maxim.

A fool in a high station is like a man on the top of a high mountain-everything appears small to him and he appears small to everybody.

In all companies there are more fools than wise men, and the greater part always gets the better of the wiser.-Rabelais.

If any young man expects without faith, without thought, without study, without patient, persevering labor, in the midst of and in spite of discouragement, to attain anything in this world that is worth attaining, he will simply wake up, by-and-by, and find that he has been playing the part of a fool.-M. J. Savage.

People have no right to make fools of themselves, unless they have no relations to blush for them.-Haliburton.

A fool may be known by six things: anger, without cause; speech, without profit; change, without progress; inquiry, without object; putting trust in a stranger, and mistaking foes for friends.-Arabian Proverb.

There are many more fools in the world than there are knaves, otherwise the kuaves could not exist.-Bulwer.

Nothing is more intolerable than a prosperous fool; and hence we see men who, at one time, were affable and agreeable, completely changed by prosperity, despising old friends and clinging to new.

Cicero.

A fool always finds some greater fool to admire him.-Boileau.

There is no greater fool than he that says, There is no God," unless it be the one who says he does not know whether there is one or not.-Bismarck.

A fool at forty is a fool indeed.-Young. None but a fool is always right.-Hare. To be a man's own fool is bad enough; but the vain man is everybody's.-Penn.

The greatest of fools is he who imposes on himself, and thinks certainly he knows that which he has least studied, and of which he is most profoundly ignorant.Shaftesbury.

A fool may have his coat embroidered with gold, but it is a fool's coat still.Rivarol.

There are more fools than wise men ; and even in wise men, more folly than wisdom.-Chamfort.

Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.-Young.

A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility, as from the want of sense. Mrs. Jameson.

A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.-Thackeray.

Young men think old men fools, and old men know young men to be so.-Metcalf.

Where lives the man that has not tried how mirth can into folly glide, and folly into sin!- Walter Scott.

Fools are often united in the strictest intimacies, as the lighter kinds of woods are the most closely glued together.-Shenstone.

Fools with bookish knowledge, are children with edged weapons; they hurt themselves, and put others in pain.-The half

FOPPERY.

learned is more dangerous than the simpleton.-Zimmerman.

To pursue trifles is the lot of humanity; and whether we bustle in a pantomime, or strut at a coronation, or shout at a bonfire, or harangue in a senate-house; whatever object we follow, it will at last conduct us to futility and disappointment. The wise bustle and laugh as they walk in the pageant, but fools bustle and are important; and this probably, is all the difference between them.-Goldsmith.

I am always afraid of a fool; one cannot be sure he is not a knave.-Hazlitt.

FOPPERY. (See "CoXCOMB.") Foppery is the egotism of clothes.Victor Hugo.

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Foppery is never cared; it is of the bad stamina of the mind, which, like those of the body, are never rectified.-Once a coxcomb, always,a coxcomb.-Johnson.

The soul of this man is in his clothes.Shakespeare.

Fops take a world of pains, to prove that bodies can exist without brains; the former so fantastically drest, that the latter's absence may be safely guessed.-Churchill.

Puppets, who, though on idiotism's dark brink, because they've heads, dare fancy they can think!- Wolcott.

A shallow brain, behind a serious mask; an oracle within an empty cask-the solemn fop!-Cowper.

FORBEARANCE.-If thou would'st be borne with, then bear with others.Fuller.

The kindest and the happiest pair, will find occasion to forbear; find something every day they live, to pity, and perhaps forgive.--Cowper.

Cultivate forbearance till your heart yields a fine crop of it. Pray for a short memory as to all unkindnesses.-Spurgeon.

It is a noble and great thing to cover the blemishes and excuse the failings of a friend; to draw a curtain before his stains, and to display his perfection; to bury his weaknesses in silence, but to proclaim his virtues on the house-top.-South.

Use every man after his deserts, and who shall escape whipping ?-Shakespeare.

To bear injuries, or annoying and vexatious events, meekly, patiently, prayerfully, and with self-control, is more than taking a city.-C. Simmons.

There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.-Burke,

FORETHOUGHT.

FORCE. Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.-Milton. Force rules the world-not opinion; but opinion which makes use of force.-Pascal. FOREBODING.-A heavy summons lies like lead upon me.--Shakespeare.

Half our forebodings of our neighbors, are but our wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.-L. E. Landon.

FORETHOUGHT.-To fear the worst, oft cures the worst.-Shakespeare.

To have too much forethought is the part of a wretch; to have too little is the part of a fool.- Cecil.

As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of man, so forethought without reflection is but a phrase for the instinct of the beast.-Coleridge.

It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes terrible that misfortune, which, by premeditation might be made easy to us; for what some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.-Seneca.

Happy those who knowing they are subject to uncertain changes, are prepared and armed for either fortune; a rare principle, and with much labor learned in wisdom's school.-Massinger.

He that foretells his own calamity, and makes events before they come, doth twice endure the pains of evil destiny.-Dave

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Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.-Colton.

If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.Confucius.

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.Buxton.

Whatever is foretold by God will be done by man; but nothing will be done by man because it is foretold by God.- Wordsworth.

Whoever fails to turn aside the ills of life by prudent forethought, must submit to the course of destiny.-Schiller.

Accustom yourself to submit on every occasion to a small present evil, to obtain a greater distant good. This will give decision, tone, and energy to the mind, which, thus disciplined, will often reap victory from defeat, and honor from repulse.Colton.

Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.- Thucydides.

FORGETFULNESS.

FORGETFULNESS.-Though the past haunt me as a spirit, I do not ask to forget. -Mrs. Hemans.

There is a noble forgetfulness-that which does not remember injuries.-C. Simmons.

When out of sight, quickly also out of mind. Thos. à Kempis.

FORGIVENESS.-(See "PARDON.") To err is human; to forgive, divine.Pope.

His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.-Emerson.

He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for every one has need to be forgiven.-Herbert.

Said General Oglethorpe to Wesley, "I never forgive." "Then I hope, sir," said Wesley, "you never sin."

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

Forgiveness is the most necessary and proper work of every man; for, though, when I do not a just thing, or a charitable, or a wise, another man may do it for me, yet no man can forgive my enemy but myself.-Lord Herbert.

A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury; for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it.-Pope.

Life that ever needs forgiveness has for its first duty to forgive.-Bulwer.

A more glorious victory cannot be gained over another man, than this, that when the injury began on his part, the kindness should begin on ours.-Tillotson.

It has been a maxim with me to admit of easy reconciliation with a person whose offence proceeded from no depravity of heart; but where I was convinced it did so, to forego, for my own sake, all opportunities of revenge. I have derived no small share of happiness from this principle.-Shenstone.

The heart has always the pardoning power.-Mad. Swetchine.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the full value of time and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.-Rambler.

It is hard for a haughty man ever to forgive one that has caught him in a fault, and whom he knows has reason to complain of him his resentment never subsides till he has regained the advantage he has lost,

and found means to make the other do him equal wrong.-Bruyère.

Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.-E. H. Chapin.

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. He that has gone so far as to cut the claws of the lion will not feel himself quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth.--Colton.

Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.Chesterfield.

It is easier for the generous to forgive, than for the offender to ask forgiveness.Thomson.

They never pardon who commit the wrong.-Dryden.

The sun should not set on our anger; neither should it rise on our confidence.We should forgive freely, but forget rarely. -I will not be revenged; this I owe to my enemy. I will remember; this I owe to myself.-Colton.

To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.-Tillotson.

The narrow soul knows not the godlike glory of forgiving.-Rowe.

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.-Sterne.

May I tell you why it seems to me a good thing for us to remember wrong that has been done us? That we may forgive it.Dickens.

We pardon as long as we love.-Rochefoucauld.

We forgive too little; forget too much.Mad. Swetchine.

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.-Richter.

When thou forgivest, the man who has pierced thy heart stands to thee in the relation of the sea-worm, that perforates the shell of the mussel, which straightway closes the wound with a pearl.-Richter.

He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.-Lavater.

A Christian will find it cheaper to pardon than to resent. Forgiveness saves the ex