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Action, so to speak, is the genius of nature. - [Action] Affectation is certain deformity; by forming themselves on fantastic models, the young begin with being ridiculous, and often end in being vicious. - [Affectation] Anxiety is the poison of humans life. It is the parent of many sins, and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, where you may be disappointed, and be blessed in dis-appointment, what means this restless stir and commotion of mind? Can your solicitude alter the cause or unravel the intricacy of human events? - [Anxiety] Beauty! thou pretty plaything! dear deceit, That steals so softly o'er the stripling's heart And gives it a new pulse unknown before! - [Beauty] Between levity and cheerfulness there is a wide distinction; and the mind which is most open to levity is frequently a stranger to cheerfulness. - [Cheerfulness] But know that thou must render up the dead, And with high interest too! they are not thine But only in thy keeping for a season, Till the great promis'd day of restitution; When loud diffusive sound of brazen trump Of strong-lung'd cherub shall alarm thy captives, And rouse the long, long sleepers into life, Daylight and liberty. - [Death] But see! the well-plumed hearse comes nodding on, stately and slow; But tell us, why this waste? Why this ado in earthing up a carcass That's fallen into disgrace, and in the nostrils smells horrible? - [Funerals] By indulging this fretful temper, you alienate those on whose affection much of your comfort depends. - [Ill-nature] Can your solicitude alter the cause or unravel the intricacy of human events? - [Anxiety] Compassion is an emotion of which we ought never to be ashamed. Graceful, particularly in youth, is the tear of sympathy, and the heart that melts at the tale of woe. We should not permit ease and indulgence to contract our affections, and wrap us up in a selfish enjoyment; but we should accustom ourselves to think of the distresses of human, life, of the solitary cottage; the dying parent, and the weeping orphan. Nor ought we ever to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty. - [Compassion] Conscience is too great a power in the nature of man to be altogether subdued; it may be for a time repressed and kept dormant; but conjectures there are in human life which awaken it, and when once reawakened, it flashes on the sinner's mind with all the horrors of an invisible ruler and a future judgment. - [Conscience] Dissimulation in youth is the forerunner of perfidy in old age; its first appearance is the fatal omen of growing depravity and future shame. It degrades parts and learning, obscures the luster of every accomplishment and sinks us into contempt. The path of falsehood is a perplexing maze. After the first departure from sincerity, it is not in our power to stop; one artifice unavoidably leads on to another, till, as the intricacy of the labyrinth increases, we are left entangled in our snare. - [Dissimulation] Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties. - [Exercise] Fretfulness of temper will generally characterize those who are negligent of order. - [Order] Gentleness, which belongs to virtue, is to be carefully distinguished from the mean spirit of cowards and the fawning assent of sycophants. - [Gentleness] Here all the mighty troublers of the earth, Who swam to sov'reign rule through seas of blood; Th' oppressive, sturdy, man-destroying villains, Who ravag'd kingdoms; and laid empires waste, And in a cruel wantonness of power Thinn'd states of half their people, and gave up To want the rest; now, like a storm that's spent, Lie hush'd. - [Grave] Here the o'erloaded slave flings down his burden From his gall'd shoulders; and, when the cruel tyrant, With all his guards and tools of power about him, Is meditating new, unheard-of hardships, Mocks his short arm, and, quick as thought, escapes Where tyrants vex not, and the weary rest. - [Grave] How blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt! - [Affliction] In the eye of that Supreme Being to whom our whole internal frame is uncovered, dispositions hold the place of actions. - [Motive] Industry is not only the instrument of improvement, but the foundation of pleasure. He who is a stranger to it may possess, but cannot enjoy; for it is labor only which gives relish to pleasure. It is the appointed vehicle of every good to man. It is the indispensable condition of possessing a sound mind in a sound body. - [Industry] It frequently happens that where the second line is sublime, the third, in which he meant to rise still higher, is perfectly bombast. - commenting on Lucan's style [Ridicule] It is for the sake of man, not of God, that worship and prayers are required; not that God may be rendered more glorious, but that man may be made better,--that he may be confirmed in a proper sense of his dependent state, and acquire those pious and virtuous dispositions in which his highest improvement consists. - [Worship] Levity may be the forced production of folly or vice; cheerfulness is the natural offspring of wisdom and virtue only. The one is an occasion agitation; the other a germane habit. The one degrades the character, the other is perfectly consistent with the dignity of reason and the steady and manly spirit of religion. - [Cheerfulness] Life will frequently languish, even in the hands of the busy, if they have not some employment subsidiary to that which forms their main pursuit. - [Employment] 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. - [Temper] Displaying page 1 of 2 for this author: Next >> [1] 2
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