Life and Literature Part 149

2061

Learn above all, how to manage women: their thousand Ahs! and Ohs! so thousand-fold, can be cured, but how,--I cannot tell.

--_Goethe._

2062

Pretty women without religion are like flowers without perfume.

2063

In women we love that which is natural, We admire that which is acquired, And shun that which is artificial.

2064

TAKE TO THE WOODS.

If thou art worn and hard beset With sorrow that thou wouldst forget; If thou wouldst read a lesson that will keep Thy heart from fainting and thy soul from sleep, Go to the woods and hills!--No tears Dim the sweet looks that Nature wears.

--_Longfellow._

2065

How many a day has been damped and darkened by an angry word!

2066

No word He hath spoken Was ever yet broken.

--_Anon._

2067

Many a word at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken.

--_Sir Walter Scott._

2068

It is as easy to draw back a stone thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken.

2069

The unspoken word never does harm.

2070

For want of a word, lives often drift, and remain apart.

2071

RASH, ANGRY WORDS.

Rash, angry words, and spoken out of season, When pa.s.sion has usurped the throne of reason, Have ruined many. Pa.s.sion is unjust, And for an idle transitory gust Of gratified revenge dooms us to pay, With long repentance at a later day.

_Theognis, a Greek._ --_Translated by Frere._

2072

An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions: he is neither hot nor timid.

--_Chesterfield._

2073

Words are but wind, but writing may rise up in judgment.

2074

Stay longer--are two charming words in a friend's vocabulary.

2075

Fair words gladden many a heart.

--_Longfellow._

2076

To a good listener few words will do.