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creatures her fit companions.--_Dickens._
There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.--_Lamartine._
There is something still more to be dreaded than a Jesuit, and that is a Jesuitess.--_Eugene Sue._
The honor of woman is badly guarded when it is guarded by keys and spies. No woman is honest who does not wish to be.--_Adrian Dupuy._
~Words.~--There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words, the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.--_Fredrika Bremer._
Words are often everywhere as the minute-hands of the soul, more important than even the hour-hands of action.--_Richter._
"The last word" is the most dangerous of infernal machines; and husband and wife should no more fight to get it than they would struggle for the possession of a lighted bomb-shell.--_Douglas Jerrold._
Words, like glass, darken whatever they do not help us to see.--_Joubert._
If we use common words on a great occasion they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or every-day clothes, hung up in a sacred place.--_George Eliot._
Words are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent.--_Colton._
~World.~--The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.--_Horace Walpole._
Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine.--_Goldsmith._
Contact with the world either breaks or hardens the heart.--_Chamfort._
Why, then the world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.--_Shakespeare._
~Worship.~--Worship as though the Deity were present. If my mind is not engaged in my worship, it is as though I worshiped not.--_Confucius._
~Writing.~--Writing, after all, is a cold and coarse interpreter of thought. How much of the imagination, how much of the intellect, evaporates and is lost while we seek to embody it in words! Man made language and God the genius.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
We must write as Homer wrote, not what he wrote.--_Theophile Vian._
~Wrong.~--There is no sort of wrong deed of which a man can bear the punishment alone; you can't isolate yourself and say that the evil that is in you shall not spread. Men's lives are as thoroughly blended with each other as the air they breathe: evil spreads as necessarily as disease.--_George Eliot._
My soul is sick with every day's report of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled.--_Cowper._
Y.
~Youth.~--The canker galls the infants of the spring, too oft before their buttons be disclosed; and in the morn and liquid dew of youth contagious blastments are most imminent.--_Shakespeare._
Reckless youth makes rueful age.--_Moore._
In general, a man in his younger years does not easily cast off a certain complacent self-conceit, which principally shows itself in despising what he has himself been a little time before.--_Goethe._
Too young for woe, though not for tears.--_Washington Irving._
O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness.--_Victor Hugo._
O youth! ephemeral song, eternal canticle! The world may end, the heavens fall, yet loving voices would still find an echo in the ruins of the universe.--_Jules Janin._
The youthful freshness of a blameless heart.--_Washington Irving._
The heart of youth is reached through the senses; the senses of age are reached through the heart.--_Retif de la Bretonne._
Agreeable surprises are the perquisites of youth.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
Z.
~Zeal.~--I like men who are temperate and moderate in everything. An excessive zeal for that which is good, though it may not be offensive to me, at all events raises my wonder, and leaves me in a difficulty how I should call it.--_Montaigne._
In the ardor of pursuit men soon forget the goal from which they start.--_Schiller._
Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.--_Charles Buxton._
Tell zeal it lacks devotion.--_Sir W. Raleigh._
Nothing to build and all things to destroy.--_Dryden._
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.--_Moliere._
People give the name of zeal to their propensity to mischief and violence, though it is not the cause, but their interest, that inflames them.--_Montaigne._
The frenzy of nations is the statesmanship of fate.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
~Zealot.~--When we see an eager assailant of one of these wrongs, a special reformer, we feel like asking him, What right have you, sir, to your one virtue? Is virtue piecemeal?--_Emerson._
What I object to Scotch philosophers in general is, that they reason upon man as they would upon a divinity; they pursue truth without caring if it be useful truth.--_Sydney Smith._
I have never known a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.--_Coleridge._
They have an idol, to which they consecrate themselves high-priests, and deem it holy work to offer sacrifices of whatever is most precious.--_Hawthorne._
* * * * *
The end crowns all; and that old common arbitrator, Time, will one day end all.--_Shakespeare._
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There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.--_Lamartine._
There is something still more to be dreaded than a Jesuit, and that is a Jesuitess.--_Eugene Sue._
The honor of woman is badly guarded when it is guarded by keys and spies. No woman is honest who does not wish to be.--_Adrian Dupuy._
~Words.~--There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words, the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.--_Fredrika Bremer._
Words are often everywhere as the minute-hands of the soul, more important than even the hour-hands of action.--_Richter._
"The last word" is the most dangerous of infernal machines; and husband and wife should no more fight to get it than they would struggle for the possession of a lighted bomb-shell.--_Douglas Jerrold._
Words, like glass, darken whatever they do not help us to see.--_Joubert._
If we use common words on a great occasion they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or every-day clothes, hung up in a sacred place.--_George Eliot._
Words are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent.--_Colton._
~World.~--The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.--_Horace Walpole._
Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine.--_Goldsmith._
Contact with the world either breaks or hardens the heart.--_Chamfort._
Why, then the world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.--_Shakespeare._
~Worship.~--Worship as though the Deity were present. If my mind is not engaged in my worship, it is as though I worshiped not.--_Confucius._
~Writing.~--Writing, after all, is a cold and coarse interpreter of thought. How much of the imagination, how much of the intellect, evaporates and is lost while we seek to embody it in words! Man made language and God the genius.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
We must write as Homer wrote, not what he wrote.--_Theophile Vian._
~Wrong.~--There is no sort of wrong deed of which a man can bear the punishment alone; you can't isolate yourself and say that the evil that is in you shall not spread. Men's lives are as thoroughly blended with each other as the air they breathe: evil spreads as necessarily as disease.--_George Eliot._
My soul is sick with every day's report of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled.--_Cowper._
Y.
~Youth.~--The canker galls the infants of the spring, too oft before their buttons be disclosed; and in the morn and liquid dew of youth contagious blastments are most imminent.--_Shakespeare._
Reckless youth makes rueful age.--_Moore._
In general, a man in his younger years does not easily cast off a certain complacent self-conceit, which principally shows itself in despising what he has himself been a little time before.--_Goethe._
Too young for woe, though not for tears.--_Washington Irving._
O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness.--_Victor Hugo._
O youth! ephemeral song, eternal canticle! The world may end, the heavens fall, yet loving voices would still find an echo in the ruins of the universe.--_Jules Janin._
The youthful freshness of a blameless heart.--_Washington Irving._
The heart of youth is reached through the senses; the senses of age are reached through the heart.--_Retif de la Bretonne._
Agreeable surprises are the perquisites of youth.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
Z.
~Zeal.~--I like men who are temperate and moderate in everything. An excessive zeal for that which is good, though it may not be offensive to me, at all events raises my wonder, and leaves me in a difficulty how I should call it.--_Montaigne._
In the ardor of pursuit men soon forget the goal from which they start.--_Schiller._
Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.--_Charles Buxton._
Tell zeal it lacks devotion.--_Sir W. Raleigh._
Nothing to build and all things to destroy.--_Dryden._
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.--_Moliere._
People give the name of zeal to their propensity to mischief and violence, though it is not the cause, but their interest, that inflames them.--_Montaigne._
The frenzy of nations is the statesmanship of fate.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
~Zealot.~--When we see an eager assailant of one of these wrongs, a special reformer, we feel like asking him, What right have you, sir, to your one virtue? Is virtue piecemeal?--_Emerson._
What I object to Scotch philosophers in general is, that they reason upon man as they would upon a divinity; they pursue truth without caring if it be useful truth.--_Sydney Smith._
I have never known a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.--_Coleridge._
They have an idol, to which they consecrate themselves high-priests, and deem it holy work to offer sacrifices of whatever is most precious.--_Hawthorne._
* * * * *
The end crowns all; and that old common arbitrator, Time, will one day end all.--_Shakespeare._
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