Life and Literature Part 121

1677

He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know't, and he's not robb'd at all.

--_Shakespeare._

1678

One roof and two winds--i. e., persons of opposite tempers living together.

--_Chinese._

1679

Water and protect the root; Heaven will watch the flower and fruit.

--_Chinese._

1680

If a man could make a single rose, we should give him an empire; yet roses, and flowers no less beautiful, are scattered in profusion over the world, and no one regards them.

1681

Royalty is but a feather in a man's cap; let children enjoy their rattle.

--_Cromwell._

1682

There cannot be a greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.

--_Locke._

1683

No rumor wholly dies, once bruited wide.

--_Hesiod, a Greek, 850 B. C._

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1684

He who ordained the Sabbath loved the poor.

--_O. W. Holmes._

1685

Those persons who are in the habit of avoiding worldly cares on the Sabbath, are the most remarkable for the perfect performance of their duties during the week. The influence of a change of thought on the Sabbath upon the minds of such persons, resembles that of a change of food upon the body. It seems to give a fresh spring to the mental operations, as the latter does to the physical.

1686

SABBATH.

Hail, Sabbath! thee I hail, the poor man's day: On other days the man of toil is doom'd To eat his joyless bread--the ground Both seat and board--screen'd from the winter's cold And summer's heat, by neighboring hedge or tree; But on _this_ day, embosom'd in his home, He shares the frugal meal with those he loves.

--_Grahame._

1687

A well-spent Sabbath on earth, prepares us for the spending of a better one in heaven.

1688

Better a little in safety, than an abundance, surrounded by danger.

1689

More can be said in one minute than can be forgotten in a lifetime.

1690

SALT.

When Henry Drummond was traveling in tropical Africa, he found that salt was regarded by the natives as a rare luxury. Often he offered the native boys the choice between a pinch of salt and a lump of sugar, and they always chose the salt. Once he presented the head man of a village with a spoonful of salt. The chief twisted a leaf into a little bag, into which he poured the salt. Then he held out his hand to the children who crowded around, and each was allowed one lick of his empty palm.

1691

A NAME ON THE SEA SAND.