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A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men. - [Babyhood] A letter, timely writ, is a rivet to the chain of affection; And a letter, untimely delayed, is as rust to the solder. - [Letters] A link between angels and men. - [Babies] A man looketh on his little one as a being of better hope; in himself ambition is dead, but it bath a resurrection in his son. - [Children] Affect not to despise beauty, no one is freed from its dominion; but regard is not a pearl of price, it is fleeting as the bow in the clouds. - [Beauty] Anger is a noble infirmity, the generous failing of the just, the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue. - [Anger] Error is a hardy plant; it flourisheth in every soil; In the heart of the wise and good, alike with the wicked and foolish; For there is no error so crooked, but it hath in it some lines of truth. - [Error] Extravagance is the rich man's pitfall. - [Extravagance] Faith may rise into miracles of might, as some few wise men have shown; faith may sink into credulities of weakness, as the mass of fools have witnessed. - [Faith] Happiness is a roadside flower growing on the highways of usefulness; plucked, it shall wither in thy hand; passed by, it is fragrance to thy spirit. Trample the thyme beneath thy feet; be useful, be happy. - [Happiness] Hate furroweth the brow; and a man may frown till he hateth. - [Hate] He that is ambitious for his son, should give him untried names, For those have serv'd other men, haply may injure by their evils; Or otherwise may hinder by their glories; therefore set him by himself, To win for his individual name some clear praise. - [Names] How beautiful is modesty! It winneth upon all beholders; but a word or a glance may destroy the pure love that should have been for thee. - [Modesty] Humility mainly becometh the converse of man with his Maker. - [Humility] I have sped by land and sea, and mingled with much people, but never yet could find a spot unsunned by human kindness. - [Kindness] If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little. - [Self] Imagination is not thought, neither is fancy reflection; thought paceth like a hoary sage, but imagination hath wings as an eagle. - [Imagination] Invention is activity of mind, as fire is air in motion; a sharpening of the spiritual sight, to discern hidden aptitudes. - [Invention] It is the cringer to his equal that is chiefly seen bold to his God. - [Humility] Know thyself, thy evil as thy good, and flattery shall not harm thee; yea, her speech shall be a warning, a humbling, and a guide. For wherein thou lackest most, there chiefly will the sycophant commend thee. - [Flattery] Knowledge is leagued with the universe, and findeth a friend in all things; but ignorance is everywhere a stranger, unwelcome; ill at ease and out of place. - [Knowledge] Lay not the plummet to the line; religion hath no landmarks; no human keenness can discern the subtle shades of faith. - [Faith] Let the misanthrope shun men and abjure; the most are rather lovable than hateful. - [Misanthropy] Lies can destroy, but not create. - [Lying] Love is the weapon which Omnipotence reserved to conquer rebel man when all the rest had failed. Reason he parries; fear he answers blow for blow; future interest he meets with present pleasure; but love, that sun against whose melting beams the winter cannot stand--that soft subliming slumber which wrestles down the giant, there is not one human being in a million, nor a thousand men in all earth's huge quintillion, whose clay heart is hardened against love. - [Love] Displaying page 1 of 3 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3
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