Life and Literature Part 80

Though safe thou think'st thy treasure lies, Hidden in chests from human eyes, A fire may come, and it may be Bury'd, my friend, as far from thee.

Thy vessel that yon ocean stems, Loaded with golden dust and gems, Purchased with so much pains and cost, Yet in a tempest may be lost.

Pimps, and a lot of others,--a thankless crew, Priests, pickpockets, and lawyers too, All help by several ways to drain, Thanking themselves for what they gain.

The liberal are secure alone, For what we frankly give, forever is our own.

--_Lord Lansdowne._

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LIBERALITY.

The office of liberality consisteth in giving with judgment.

--_Cicero._

1111

Libraries are the wardrobes of literature.

--_James Dyer._

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A lie has no legs and cannot stand; but it has wings, and can fly far and wide.

--_Bishop Warburton._

1113

Equivocation is first cousin to a lie.

1114

One lie Demands for its support a hundred more.

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One lie must be thatched with another, or it will soon rain through.

--_Owen._

1116

Life is a journey, and they only who have traveled a considerable way in it, are fit to direct those who are setting out.

1117

A term of life is set to every man, Which is but short; and pa.s.s it no one can.

--_Burton._

1118

Better, ten-fold, is a life that is sunny, Than a life that has nothing to boast of but money.

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I have found by experience that many who have spent all their lives in cities, contract not only an effeminacy of habit but of thinking.

--_Goldsmith._

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LIFE--DIFFERENT AGES OF.

At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

--_Gratian._

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I find one of the great things in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

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There's a Divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them as we will.

--_Shakespeare._

1123

The husband and the wife must, like two wheels, support the chariot of domestic life, otherwise it must stop.

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