Trifles make perfection; but perfection is no trifle. Michael Angelo. It is iniquitous, unjust, and most impolitic to persecute for religion's sake. It is against natural religion, revealed religion, and sound Were she perfect, one would admire her policy. - Chief Justice Mansfield. more, but love her less. Grattan. Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant. Chapin. Victor Hugo. Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt; nothing so hard but search will find it out. Lovelace. He who distrusts the security of chance takes more pains to effect the safety which results from labor. To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says, "Leave no stone unturned.". Bulwer-Lytton. Hope against hope, and ask till ye receive.— Montgomery. Because perseverance is so difficult, even when supported by the grace of God, thence is the value of new beginnings; for new beginnings are the life of perseverance. - E. B. Pusey. Much rain wears the marble. Shakspeare. PERVERSENESS. It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles. Washington Irving. Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance, and make a seeming impossibility give way. — Jeremy Collier. A falling drop at last will cave a stone. Lucretius. Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant. Bayard Taylor. I'm proof against that word "failure." I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. - George Eliot. Want of perseverance is the great fault of women in everything, morals, attention to health, friendship, and so on. It cannot be too often repeated that women never reach the end of anything through want of perseverance. Mme. Necker. Great works are performed, not by strength, but perseverance. - Steele. Did you ever hear of a man who had striven all his life faithfully and singly towards an object, and in no measure obtained it? If a man constantly aspires, is he not elevated? Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them, that it was a vain endeavor? Thoreau. The discovery of what is true and the prac tice of that which is good are the two most important objects of philosophy. — Voltaire. Philosophy is the rational expression of genius. — Lamartine. There was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently, however they All impediments in fancy's course are motives have writ the style of gods, and made a push of more fancy. — Shakspeare. at chance and sufferance. -- Shakspeare. The ancient philosophy disdained to be useful, and was content to be stationary. It dealt largely in theories of moral perfection, which were so sublime that they never could be more than theories. — Macaulay. PHYSIC. The philosopher is the lover of wisdom and truth; to be a sage is to avoid the senseless and the depraved. The philosopher, therefore, should live only among philosophers. Voltaire. To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare a man's self to die. Cicero. Philosophy is the health of the mind. Seneca. What does Philosophy impart to man but undiscovered wonders? Let her soar even to her proudest height, to where she caught the soul of Newton and of Socrates, she but extends the scope of wild amaze and admiration. H. Kirke White. To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher. - Pascal. As in many things the knowledge of philosophers was short of the truth, so almost in all The Christian religion, rightly understood, is things their practice fell short of their knowlthe deepest and choicest price of philosophy.-edge; the principles by which they walked Sir Thomas More. were as much below those by which they judged as their feet were below their head. That stone philosophers in vain so long have sought. Milton. Beattie has well observed that nothing is below the attention of a philosopher which the Author of Nature has been pleased to establish. — L'Estrange. The world would be much better off if the pains taken to analyze the subtlest moral laws were given to the practice of the simplest. Marie Ebner-Eschenbach. Understand the rules, but swear not unto the doctrines of Zeno or Epicurus. Sir T. Browne. South. A republic of philosophers, such as speculative men are fond of forming in imagination, but which was never known. Livius. Philosophy is a goddess, whose head, indeed, is in heaven, but whose feet are upon earth. She attempts more than she accomplishes, and promises more than she performs. She can teach us to hear of the calamities of others with magnanimity; but it is religion only that can teach us to bear our own with resignation. - Colton. PHYSIC. The purse of the patient often protracts his case. - - Zimmermann. They have no other doctor but sun and the fresh air, and that such an one as never sends them to the apothecary. — South. Blistering, cupping, bleeding, are seldom of use but to the idle and intemperate; as all those inward applications which are so much in practice among us are for the most part nothing else but expedients to make luxury consistent with health. - Addison. Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it.Shakspeare. Out-door exercise is the best physic. Napoleon I. His pills as thick as hand-grenades flew, and where they fell as certainly they slew.Roscommon. No men despise physic so much as physicians, because no men so thoroughly understand how little it can perform. They have been tinkering the human constitution four thousand years, in order to cure about as many disorders. Colton. Within the infant rind of this small flower poison hath residence, and medicine power. Shakspeare. Nature is the sovereign physician. Voltaire. The language of the face is not taught by the schools; it is intuitive, and to the observant is always legible. - Julia Ward Howe. Alas! how few of Nature's faces there are to gladden us with their beauty! The cares and sorrows and hungerings of the world change them as they change hearts; and it is only when these passions sleep and have lost their hold forever that the troubled clouds pass off, Addison. and leave heaven's surface clear. - Dickens. |