Life and Literature Part 99

1369

_Misers._--If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow citizens, for the sake of acc.u.mulating wealth; "Poor Man," I would say, "you pay too much for your whistle."

--_Benj. Franklin._

1370

No thoroughly occupied man was ever miserable.

--_Dutch._

1371

'Tis time enough to bear a misfortune when it comes without antic.i.p.ating it.

--_Seneca._

1372

Learn never to repine at your own misfortunes, or to envy the happiness of others.

1373

Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it.

--_Cicero._

1374

Better a mistake avoided, than two corrected.

1375

I will not quarrel with a slight mistake, Such as our nature's frailty may excuse.

--_Roscommon._

1376

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.

--_Swift._

1377

No lessons are so impressive as those our mistakes teach us.

1378

Young heads are giddy, and young hearts are warm, And make mistakes for manhood to reform.

--_Young._

1379

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.

--_Goldsmith._

1380

MODERATION.

He that holds fast the golden mean, And lives contentedly between The little and the great, Feels not the wants that pinch the poor, Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door.

--_Cowper._

1381

THE CHARM OF MODULATION.

'Tis not enough the voice be sound and clear, 'Tis modulation that must charm the ear.

1382

The abundance of money ruins youth.

1383

I almost grow to believe there is a sort of curse on money which is not earned, even when it is bestowed by father on son or daughter. It cripples individual development, and I think only when it is earned is it blest.

1384