Many Thoughts of Many Minds Part 60

Shame on those b.r.e.a.s.t.s of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another's sorrow.--AARON HILL.

Tears may soothe the wounds they cannot heal.--THOMAS PAINE.

Hide not thy tears; weep boldly, and be proud to give the flowing virtue manly way; it is nature's mark to know an honest heart by.--AARON HILL.

Tears are a good alterative, but a poor diet.--H.W. SHAW.

They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.--PSALM 126:5.

Every tear is a verse, and every heart is a poem.--MARC ANDRe.

Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

--PSALM 30:5.

TEMPER.--The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.

In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn'd himself first to subdue.

--SPENSER.

With "gentleness" in his own character, "comfort" in his house, and "good temper" in his wife, the earthly felicity of man is complete.

--FROM THE GERMAN.

Nothing leads more directly to the breach of charity, and to the injury and molestation of our fellow-creatures, than the indulgence of an ill temper.--BLAIR.

Too many have no idea of the subjection of their temper to the influence of religion, and yet what is changed, if the temper is not?

If a man is as pa.s.sionate, malicious, resentful, sullen, moody, or morose after his conversion as before it, what is he converted from or to?--JOHN ANGELL JAMES.

If we desire to live securely, comfortably, and quietly, that by all honest means we should endeavor to purchase the good will of all men, and provoke no man's enmity needlessly; since any man's love may be useful, and every man's hatred is dangerous.--ISAAC BARROW.

A sunny temper gilds the edges of life's blackest cloud.--GUTHRIE.

TEMPERANCE.--Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country, contentment in the house, clothes on the back, and vigor in the body.--FRANKLIN.

Fools! not to know how far an humble lot Exceeds abundance by injustice got; How health and temperance bless the rustic swain, While luxury destroys her pamper'd train.

--HESIOD.

Men live best on moderate means: Nature has dispensed to all men wherewithal to be happy, if mankind did but understand how to use her gifts.--CLAUDIAN.

Temperance is a virtue which casts the truest l.u.s.tre upon the person it is lodged in, and has the most general influence upon all other particular virtues of any that the soul of man is capable of; indeed so general, that there is hardly any n.o.ble quality or endowment of the mind, but must own temperance either for its parent or its nurse; it is the greatest strengthener and clearer of reason, and the best preparer of it for religion, the sister of prudence, and the handmaid to devotion.--DEAN SOUTH.

It is all nonsense about not being able to work without ale and cider and fermented liquors. Do lions and cart-horses drink ale?--SYDNEY SMITH.

Temperance is a bridle of gold; he who uses it rightly, is more like a G.o.d than a man.--BURTON.

Except thou desire to hasten thine end, take this for a general rule, that thou never add any artificial heat to thy body by wine or spice.

--SIR WALTER RALEIGH.

Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow.--JOHN NEAL.

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.--FULLER.

If you wish to keep the mind clear and the body healthy, abstain from all fermented liquors.--SYDNEY SMITH.

Though I look old, yet I am strong and l.u.s.ty, for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood.--SHAKESPEARE.

TEMPTATION.--'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

--SHAKESPEARE.

Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle.--SPURGEON.

If men had only temptations to great sins, they would always be good; but the daily fight with little ones accustoms them to defeat.--RICHTER.

Better shun the bait than struggle in the snare.--DRYDEN.

Every temptation is an opportunity of our getting nearer to G.o.d.

--J.Q. ADAMS.

When a man resists sin on human motives only, he will not hold out long.--BISHOP WILSON.

We must not willfully thrust ourselves into the mouth of danger, or draw temptations upon us. Such forwardness is not resolution, but rashness; nor is it the fruit of a well-ordered faith, but an overdaring presumption.--KING.

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, And tempts by making rich, not making poor.

--POPE.

G.o.d is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.--WILLIAM PENN.

Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation.--MATTHEW 26:41.

THOUGHT.--Thought is the first faculty of man; to express it is one of his first desires; to spread it, his dearest privilege.--ABBe RAYNAL.

Those who have finished by making all others think with them, have usually been those who began by daring to think with themselves.--COLTON.

Our brains are seventy year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the Angel of the Resurrection.--HOLMES.

Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears; To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

--WORDSWORTH.

In matters of conscience first thoughts are best, in matters of prudence last thoughts are best.--ROBERT HALL.

Man thinks, and at once becomes the master of the beings that do not think.--BUFFON.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.--DISRAELI.

Thinking leads man to knowledge. He may see and hear, and read and learn, as much as he please; he will never know any of it, except that which he has thought over, that which by thinking he has made the property of his mind. Is it then saying too much if I say, that man by thinking only becomes truly man? Take away thought from man's life, and what remains?--PESTALOZZI.