Life and Literature Part 90

They that stand high have many blasts to shake them.

--_Shakespeare._

1243

Men possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

--_Froude._

1244

The life of an old man is like a lighted candle in a draft.

--_j.a.panese._

1245

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor the man perfected without trials.

--_From the Chinese._

1246

He was--describe him who can, An abridgement of all that was pleasant in man; A truer, n.o.bler, trustier heart, More loving or more loyal, never beat Within a human breast.

1247

Some men remain poor because they haven't enough friends, and some because they have too many.

1248

A poor man, though living in the crowded mart, no one will notice; a rich man, though dwelling amid the remote hills, his distant relative will visit.

1249

Art may make a suit of clothes, but nature must produce the man.

--_Hume._

1250

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never for himself.

1251

It is not good that man should be alone.

--_Genesis 2, 18v._

1252

Silent men, like still waters, are sometimes deep and dangerous.

1253

Man is a social creature, and we are made to be helpful to each other; we are like the wheels of a watch, that none of them can do their work alone, without the concurrence of the rest.

1254

Strive not too anxiously for thy support, thy Maker will provide. No sooner is a man born, than milk for his support streams from the breast.

--_Chinese._

1255

He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.

--_Colton._

1256

The difference, he, Johnson, observed between a well-bred and an ill-bred man is this: One immediately attracts your liking, the other your aversion. You love the one till you find reason to dislike him; you dislike the other till you find reason to love him.

--_Boswell's Life of Johnson._

1257

THE UNPUNCTUAL MAN.

He is a general disturber of other's peace and serenity. Everybody with whom he has to do is thrown from time to time into a state of fever; he is systematically late; regular only in his irregularity.

--_Smiles._