All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as ruined edifice, before one single word, faith. - Napoleon I. a FALSEHOOD. Faith builds a bridge across the gulf of death, to break the shock which Nature canfarther shore. not shun, and lands thought smoothly on the Young. No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence. George Eliot. The great desire of this age is for a doctrine which may serve to condense our knowledge, guide our researches, and shape our lives, so that conduct may really be the consequence of belief.-G. H. Lewes. Faith is the continuation of reason. - If you have any faith, give me, for Heaven's A lively faith will bear aloft the mind, and sake, a share of it! Your doubts you may leave the luggage of good works behind. keep to yourself, for I have a plenty of my Goethe. Dryden. Christians are directed to have faith in own. Faith converses with the angels, and ante Christ, as the effectual means of obtaining the dates the hymns of glory. - Jeremy Taylor. change they desire. - Franklin. Faith is deferential incredulity. - Voltaire. We cannot live on probabilities. The faith in which we can live bravely and die in peace must be a certainty, so far as it professes to be a faith at all, or it is nothing. - Froude. Oh, welcome, pure-eyed Faith, white-handed Hope, thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings! Milton. Men seldom think deeply on subjects in which they have no choice of opinion; they are fearful of encountering obstacles to their faith, as in religion, and so are content with the surface. Sheridan. FALSEHOOD. The crime of cowards. - Dr. Johnson. Nothing can show a greater depravity of understanding than to delight in the show when the reality is wanting. - Dr. Johnson. None speak false when there are none to hear. Beattie. Falsehoods which we spurn to-day were the truths of long ago. - Whittier. Round dealing is the honor of man's nature; and a mixture of falsehood is like alloy in gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it. - Bacon. Falsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded. Whately. Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth. Shakspeare. He seemed for dignity composed and high exploit; but all was false and hollow. - Milton. A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men; for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man. Montaigne. For my part, if a lie may do thee grace, I'll Where fraud and falsehood invade society, gild it with the happiest terms I have. the band presently breaks. - South. Shakspeare. There is often seen this anomaly in women, The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-especially in those of childish natures, - that makers. they possess at once great promptness and unskilfulness in falsehood. · Daudet. Coleridge. To lapse in fulness is sorer than to lie for need; and falsehood is worse in kings than beggars. - Shakspeare. Let a man be ne'er so wise, he may be caught with sober lies. — Swift. Falsehood is fire in stubble. - Coleridge. Falsehood and fraud shoot up in every soil, the product of all climes. Addison. wisdom; for it asketh a strong wit and a strong Dissimulation is but a faint kind of policy or heart to know when to tell truth, and to do it. - Bacon. For no falsehood can endure touch of celestial temper, but returns of force to its own likeness. Milton. Past all shame, so past all truth. Shakspeare. To be true is manly, chivalrous, Christian; to be false is mean, cowardly, devilish. Carlyle. False modesty is the most decent of all not bear to be examined in every point of view, falsehoods. Chamfort. Whatever convenience may be thought to be in falsehood and dissimulation, it is soon over; but the inconvenience of it is perpetual, because it brings a man under everlasting jealousy and suspicion, so that he is not believed when he speaks the truth, nor trusted when perhaps he means honestly. - Tillotson. But Falsehood, like a drawing in perspective, will because it is a good imitation of truth, as a perspective is of the reality, only in one. truth, like that reality of which the perspective is the representation, will bear to be scrutinized in all points of view, and though examined under every situation, is one and the same. Colton Every breach of veracity indicates some latent vice or some criminal intention, which the individual is ashamed to avow.- Dugald Stewart. False people are prone to quarrel. Seneca. FAME. An enduring fame is one stamped by the judgment of the future, that future which dispels illusions, and smashes idols into dust.Gladstone. Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a death-bed. — Pope. The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled - Hazlitt. He who is false to his fellow-man is also false from the ashes of dead men. to his Maker. - Stahl. Fame and admiration weigh not a feather in the scale against friendship and love, for the heart languishes all the same. - George Sand. Fame has eagle wings, and yet she mounts not so high as man's desires. -Beaconsfield. A woman's fame is the tomb of her happiness. L. E. Landon. Money will buy money's worth; but the thing men call fame, what is it? - Carlyle. The triumphs of the warrior are bounded by the narrow theatre of his own age, but those of a Scott or a Shakspeare will be renewed with greater lustre in ages yet unborn, when the victorious chieftain shall be forgotten, or shall live only in the song of the minstrel and the page of the chronicler. - Prescott. How idle a boast, after all, is the immortality of a name ! Washington Irving. As to being known much by sight, and being pointed at, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies in that. Whatever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor. - Cowley. The greatest can but blaze and pass away. Pope. When Fame stands by us all alone, she is an angel clad in light and strength; but when Love touches her she drops her sword, and fades away, ghostlike and ashamed. Ouida. Celebrity sells dearly what we think she gives. Emile Souvestre. A philosopher is a fool who torments himself while he is alive to be talked about when he is dead. D'Alembert. Fame must necessarily be the portion of but few. - Robert Hall. He lives in fame, and died in virtue's cause.- Even the best things are not equal to their fame. Thoreau. She comes unlooked for if she comes at all. Pope. Many actions calculated to procure fame are not conducive to ultimate happiness. Addison. It is more reasonable to wish for reputation while it may be enjoyed, as Anacreon calls upon his companions to give him for present use the wine and garlands which they propose to bestow upon his tomb. - Dr. Johnson. Fame, impatient of extremes, decays not more Many have lived on a pedestal who will never by envy than excess of praise. — Pope. have a statue when dead. Béranger. Deathless laurel is the victor's due.— Dryden. Who strive to grasp it, as they touch, destroy. - Young. Fame is the thirst of youth. - Byron. How has a little wit, a little genius, been What an intellectual celebrated in a woman! triumph was that of the lovely Aspasia, and how heartily acknowledged!Margaret Fuller Ossoli. With fame, in just proportion, envy grows. Young. Our admiration of a famous man lessens upon our nearer acquaintance with him; and we seldom hear of a celebrated person without a catalogue of some notorious weaknesses and FANATICISM. Familiarities are the aphides that impercep tibly suck out the juice intended for the germ of love. Landor. Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, fades in his eyes, and palls upon the sense. —. FANATICISM. Addison. A fanatic, either religious or political, is the subject of strong delusions. Whately. - The false fire of an overheated mind. Cowper. Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution.-J. W. Fletcher. There is no doubt that religious fanatics have done more to prejudice the cause they affect to advocate than have its opponents. Hosea Ballou. Reason is not compatible with zeal run mad. South. Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary. Spurgeon. To conquer fanaticism, you must tolerate it; the shuttlecock of religious difference soon falls to the ground when there are no battledoors to beat it backward and forwards. -- Chatfield. E. P. Whipple calls fanaticism "religion caricatured," which is a full definition in a word. - James Parton. Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment. Mrs. Stowe. Though fanaticism drinks at many founts, its predisposing cause is mostly the subject of an invisible futurity. — Atterbury. Fanaticism is an inflamed state of the passions; and nothing that is violent will last long. The vicissitudes of the world and the business of life are admirably adapted to abate the excesses of religious enthusiasm. - Robert Hall. - There is such a delusion as evinces itself in cool vehemence; and it is the most dangerous of all expressions of fanaticism.-W. B. Clulow. Of all things, wisdom is the most terrified with epidemical fanaticism, because, of all enemies, it is that against which she is the least able to furnish any kind of resource. Burke. |