Many Thoughts of Many Minds Part 27

One means very effectual for the preservation of health is a quiet and cheerful mind, not afflicted with violent pa.s.sions or distracted with immoderate cares.--JOHN RAY.

The requirements of health, and the style of female attire which custom enjoins, are in direct antagonism to each other.--ABBA GOOLD WOOLSON.

For life is not to live, but to be well.--MARTIAL.

From labor health, from health contentment springs.--BEATTIE.

In these days half our diseases come from neglect of the body in overwork of the brain--LYTTON.

The rule is simple: Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy.--FRANKLIN.

HEART.--Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.--PROVERBS 4:23.

The poor too often turn away unheard, From hearts that shut against them with a sound That will be heard in heaven.

--LONGFELLOW.

He who has most of heart knows most of sorrow.--BAILEY.

All offences come from the heart.--SHAKESPEARE.

Many flowers open to the sun, but only one follows him constantly.

Heart, be thou the sunflower, not only open to receive G.o.d's blessing, but constant in looking to Him.--RICHTER.

Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.--MATTHEW 12:34.

Do you think that any one can move the heart but He that made it?

--JOHN LYLY.

When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it is pretty certain that she has his.--G.D. PRENTICE.

The heart never grows better by age, I fear rather worse; always harder. A young liar will be an old one; and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.--CHESTERFIELD.

A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.--GIBBON.

The heart that has once been bathed in love's pure fountain retains the pulse of youth forever.--LANDOR.

A loving heart carries with it, under every parallel of lat.i.tude, the warmth and light of the tropics. It plants its Eden in the wilderness and solitary place, and sows with flowers the gray desolation of rock and mosses.--WHITTIER.

None but G.o.d can satisfy the longings of an immortal soul; that as the heart was made for Him, so He only can fill it.--TRENCH.

There are treasures laid up in the heart,--treasures of charity, piety, temperance, and soberness. These treasures a man takes with him beyond death, when he leaves this world.--BUDDHIST SCRIPTURES.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?--JEREMIAH 17:9.

HEAVEN.--The generous who is always just, and the just who is always generous, may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.--LAVATER.

The redeemed shall walk there.--ISAIAH 35:9.

If our Creator has so bountifully provided for our existence here, which is but momentary, and for our temporal wants, which will soon be forgotten, how much more must He have done for our enjoyment in the everlasting world!--HOSEA BALLOU.

Heaven does not make holiness, but holiness makes heaven.--PHILLIPS BROOKS.

I cannot be content with less than heaven.--BAILEY.

Heaven's gates are not so highly arched as princes' palaces; they that enter there must go upon their knees.--DANIEL WEBSTER.

He who seldom thinks of heaven is not likely to get thither; as the only way to hit the mark is to keep the eye fixed upon it.--BISHOP HORNE.

Perfect purity, fullness of joy, everlasting freedom, perfect rest, health and fruition, complete security, substantial and eternal good.--HANNAH MORE.

Heaven is the day of which grace is the dawn; the rich, ripe fruit of which grace is the lovely flower; the inner shrine of that most glorious temple to which grace forms the approach and outer court.--REV. DR. GUTHRIE.

Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.--HARE.

Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul. "The kingdom of G.o.d is within you."--BEECHER.

Blessed is the pilgrim, who in every place, and at all times of this his banishment in the body, calling upon the holy name of Jesus, calleth to mind his native heavenly land, where his blessed Master, the King of saints and angels, waiteth to receive him. Blessed is the pilgrim who seeketh not an abiding place unto himself in this world; but longeth to be dissolved, and be with Christ in heaven.--THOS. a KEMPIS.

HEROES.--Great men need to be lifted upon the shoulders of the whole world, in order to conceive their great ideas or perform their great deeds. That is, there must be an atmosphere of greatness round about them. A hero cannot be a hero unless in an heroic world.--HAWTHORNE.

Troops of heroes undistinguished die.--ADDISON.

n.o.body, they say, is a hero to his valet. Of course; for a man must be a hero to understand a hero. The valet, I dare say, has great respect for some person of his own stamp.--GOETHE.

There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.--SENECA.

We can all be heroes in our virtues, in our homes, in our lives.--JAMES ELLIS.

Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody; and to that person whatever he says has an enhanced value.--EMERSON.

HISTORY.--History maketh a young man to be old, without either wrinkles or gray hairs,--privileging him with the experience of age, without either the infirmities or inconveniences thereof.--THOMAS FULLER.

History teaches everything, even the future.--LAMARTINE.

It is when the hour of the conflict is over that history comes to a right understanding of the strife, and is ready to exclaim, "Lo, G.o.d is here, and we knew him not!"--BANCROFT.

This I hold to be the chief office of history, to rescue virtuous actions from the oblivion to which a want of records would consign them, and that men should feel a dread of being considered infamous in the opinions of posterity, from their depraved expressions and base actions.--TACITUS.

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.--CICERO.

History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.--CERVANTES.

There is no history worthy of attention but that of a free people; the history of a people subjected to despotism is only a collection of anecdotes.--CHAMFORT.