Many Thoughts of Many Minds Part 58

SLANDER.--When will talkers refrain from evil-speaking? When listeners refrain from evil-hearing.--HARE.

Never throw mud. You may miss your mark, but you must have dirty hands.--JOSEPH PARKER.

Remember, when incited to slander, that it is only he among you who is without sin that may cast the first stone.--HOSEA BALLOU.

Slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword; whose tongue Out-venoms all the worms of Nile; whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world: kings, queens, and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave This viperous slander enters.

--SHAKESPEARE.

Nor do they trust their tongues alone, But speak a language of their own; Can read a nod, a shrug, a look, Far better than a printed book; Convey a libel in a frown, And wink a reputation down; Or, by the tossing of the fan, describe the lady and the man.

--SWIFT.

Those men who carry about and who listen to accusations, should all be hanged, if so it could be at my decision--the carriers by their tongues, the listeners by their ears.--PLAUTUS.

Oh! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant; And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken.

--WALTER SCOTT.

SLEEP.--One hour's sleep before midnight is worth two after.--FIELDING.

G.o.d gives sleep to the bad, in order that the good may be undisturbed.

--SAADI.

Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor; and so shall thy labor sweeten thy rest.--QUARLES.

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops; and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up to-morrow.

--BEECHER.

Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.--ALCOTT.

There are many ways of inducing sleep,--the thinking of purling rills, or waving woods; reckoning of numbers; droppings from a wet sponge fixed over a bra.s.s pan, etc. But temperance and exercise answer much better than any of these succedaneums.--STERNE.

Sleep is a generous thief; he gives to vigor what he takes from time.

--ELIZABETH, QUEEN OF ROUMANIA.

O sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.

--COLERIDGE.

SOCIETY.--Society is ever ready to worship success, but rarely forgives failure.--MME. ROLAND.

Society is a troop of thinkers, and the best heads among them take the best places.--EMERSON.

Society is like a lawn, where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface.--WASHINGTON IRVING.

Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for a.s.sistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.

Wants, frailties, pa.s.sions, closer still ally The common interest, or endear the tie.

To these we owe true friendship, love sincere, Each home-felt joy that life inherits here.

--POPE.

Every man depends on the quant.i.ty of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.--HAZLITT.

A man's reception depends upon his coat; his dismissal upon the wit he shows.--BERANGER.

Man in society is like a flow'r, Blown in its native bed. 'Tis there alone His faculties expanded in full bloom Shine out, there only reach their proper use.

--COWPER.

There is a sort of economy in Providence that one shall excel where another is defective, in order to make men more useful to each other, and mix them in society.--ADDISON.

Society is composed of two great cla.s.ses,--those who have more dinners than appet.i.te, and those who have more appet.i.te than dinners.--CHAMFORT.

SUCCESS.--Nothing is impossible to the man that can will. Is that necessary? That shall be. This is the only law of success.--MIRABEAU.

Nothing succeeds so well as success.--TALLEYRAND.

To know how to wait is the great secret of success.--DE MAISTRE.

The path of success in business is invariably the path of common-sense. Nothwithstanding all that is said about "lucky hits,"

the best kind of success in every man's life is not that which comes by accident. The only "good time coming" we are justified in hoping for is that which we are capable of making for ourselves.--SAMUEL SMILES.

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without a thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.--LONGFELLOW.

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.--SHERIDAN.

The great highroad of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast well-doing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful; success treads on the heels of every right effort.--SAMUEL SMILES.

It is possible to indulge too great contempt for mere success, which is frequently attended with all the practical advantages of merit itself, and with several advantages that merit alone can never command.--W.B. CLULOW.

'Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Semp.r.o.nius; we'll deserve it.

--ADDISON.

If fortune wishes to make a man estimable, she gives him virtues; if she wishes to make him esteemed, she gives him success.--JOUBERT.

Successful minds work like a gimlet,--to a single point.--BOVEE.

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.--ADDISON.

Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one the second time.--H.W. SHAW.

SUICIDE.--Bid abhorrence hiss it round the world.--YOUNG.

G.o.d has appointed us captains of this our bodily fort, which, without treason to that majesty, are never to be delivered over till they are demanded.--SIR P. SIDNEY.

To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward.

--ARISTOTLE.