Many Thoughts of Many Minds Part 32

The joy resulting from the diffusion of blessings to all around us is the purest and sublimest that can ever enter the human mind, and can be conceived only by those who have experienced it. Next to the consolations of divine grace, it is the most sovereign balm to the miseries of life, both in him who is the object of it, and in him who exercises it.--BISHOP PORTEUS.

Who partakes in another's joys is a more humane character than he who partakes in his griefs.--LAVATER.

Joy is more divine than sorrow; for joy is bread, and sorrow is medicine.--BEECHER.

Without kindness, there can be no true joy.--CARLYLE.

Joy is an import; joy is an exchange; Joy flies monopolists: it calls for two; Rich fruit! Heaven planted! never pluck'd by one.

--YOUNG.

JUDGMENT.--How are we justly to determine in a world where there are no innocent ones to judge the guilty?--MADAME DE GENLIS.

Who upon earth could live were all judged justly?--BYRON.

One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides.

--GOETHE.

Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances; but by the character of their lives and conversations, and by their works.

--L'ESTRANGE.

We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that everyone may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.--2 COR. 5:10.

It is very questionable, in my mind, how far we have the right to judge one of another, since there is born within every man the germs of both virtue and vice. The development of one or the other is contingent upon circ.u.mstances.--BALLOU.

The right of private judgment is absolute in every American citizen.

--JAMES A. GARFIELD.

The very thing that men think they have got the most of, they have got the least of; and that is judgment.--H.W. SHAW.

There are no judgments so harsh as those of the erring, the inexperienced, and the young.--MISS MULOCK.

The judgment of a great people is often wiser than the wisest men.

--KOSSUTH.

Judge thyself with a judgment of sincerity, and thou wilt judge others with a judgment of charity.--MASON.

'Tis with our judgments as our watches; none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.

--POPE.

JUSTICE.--Justice offers nothing but what may be accepted with honor; and lays claim to nothing in return but what we ought not even to wish to withhold.--WOMAN'S RIGHTS AND DUTIES.

Be just and fear not: Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy G.o.d's, and truth's.

--SHAKESPEARE.

And heaven that every virtue bears in mind, E'en to the ashes of the just, is kind.

--POPE.

He who is only just is cruel.--BYRON.

The sweet remembrance of the just Shall flourish when he sleeps in dust.

--PARAPHRASE OF PSALM 112:6.

Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property, and obedience is the premium which we pay for it.--WILLIAM PENN.

Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge that no king can corrupt.

--SHAKESPEARE.

Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is always, therefore, represented as blind.--ADDISON.

At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and n.o.bler ideas of it; but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.--POPE.

In matters of equity between man and man, our Saviour has taught us to put my neighbor in place of myself, and myself in place of my neighbor.--DR. WATTS.

The books are balanced in heaven, not here.--H.W. SHAW.

Be just in all thy actions, and if join'd With those that are not, never change thy mind.

--DENHAM.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

--ARISTOTLE.

Justice is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.--WEBSTER.

KINDNESS.--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.

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart, and secure comfort.

--SIR H. DAVY.

Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning.--F.W. FABER.

How easy it is for one benevolent being to diffuse pleasure around him; and how truly is a kind heart a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity to freshen into smiles!--WASHINGTON IRVING.

Always say a kind word if you can, if only that it may come in, perhaps, with singular opportuneness, entering some mournful man's darkened room, like a beautiful firefly, whose happy circ.u.mvolutions he cannot but watch, forgetting his many troubles.--HELPS.

One kindly deed may turn The fountain of thy soul To love's sweet day-star, that shall o'er thee burn Long as its currents roll.

--HOLMES.

We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness around us at so little expense. Some of them will inevitably fall on good ground, and grow up into benevolence in the minds of others: and all of them will bear fruit of happiness in the bosom whence they spring.--BENTHAM.

There is no beautifier of complexion or form or behavior like the wish to scatter joy, and not pain, around us.--EMERSON.

KISSES.--A kiss from my mother made me a painter.--BENJAMIN WEST.

It is the pa.s.sion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.--BOVEE.