Many Thoughts of Many Minds Part 14

There are few difficulties that hold out against real attacks; they fly, like the visible horizon, before those who advance.

DISCIPLINE.--No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.--WILLIAM PENN.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.--SENECA.

DISCORD.--Our life is full of discord; but by forbearance and virtue this same discord can be turned to harmony.--JAMES ELLIS.

The peacemakers shall be called the sons of G.o.d, who came to make peace between G.o.d and man. What then shall the sowers of discord be called, but the children of the devil? And what must they look for but their father's portion?--ST. BERNARD.

DISCRETION.--Remember the divine saying, He that keepeth his mouth, keepeth his life.--SIR WALTER RALEIGH.

There are many more s.h.i.+ning qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.--ADDISON.

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.--BACON.

Discretion and hard valor are the twins of honor.--BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.

The better part of valor is discretion.--SHAKESPEARE.

Discretion is more necessary to women than eloquence, because they have less trouble to speak well than to speak little.--FATHER DU BOSC.

Let's teach ourselves that honorable stop Not to outsport discretion.

--SHAKESPEARE.

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to win all the duties of life.--ADDISON.

Great ability without discretion comes almost invariably to a tragic end.--GAMBETTA.

DISSIMULATION.--Dissimulation, even the most innocent in its nature, is ever productive of embarra.s.sment; whether the design is evil or not, artifice is always dangerous and almost inevitably disgraceful.

--LA BRUYeRE.

DRESS.--In the matter of dress people should always keep below their ability.--MONTESQUIEU.

Those who are incapable of s.h.i.+ning but by dress would do well to consider, that the contrast between them and their clothes turns out much to their disadvantage.--SHENSTONE.

And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they toil not, neither do they spin.--MATTHEW 6:28.

A majority of women seem to consider themselves sent into the world for the sole purpose of displaying dry goods; and it is only when acting the part of an animated milliner's block that they feel they are performing their appropriate mission.--ABBA GOOLD WOOLSON.

No man is esteemed for gay garments but by fools and women.--SIR WALTER RALEIGH.

Those who think that in order to dress well it is necessary to dress extravagantly or grandly make a great mistake. Nothing so well becomes true feminine beauty as simplicity.--GEORGE D. PRENTICE.

Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, but not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy; for the apparel oft proclaims the man.--SHAKESPEARE.

No real happiness is found In trailing purple o'er the ground.

--PARNELL.

If a woman were about to proceed to her execution, she would demand a little time to perfect her toilet.--CHAMFORT.

Men of quality never appear more amiable than when their dress is plain. Their birth, rank, t.i.tle and its appendages are at best invidious; and as they do not need the a.s.sistance of dress, so, by their disclaiming the advantage of it, they make their superiority sit more easy.--SHENSTONE.

It is well known that a loose and easy dress contributes much to give to both s.e.xes those fine proportions of body that are observable in the Grecian statues, and which serve as models to our present artists.--ROUSSEAU.

As soon as a woman begins to dress "loud," her manners and conversation partake of the same element.--HALIBURTON.

Dress has a moral effect on the conduct of mankind. Let any gentleman find himself with dirty boots, old surtout, soiled neckcloth and a general negligence of dress, he will in all probability find a corresponding disposition by negligence of _address_.--SIR JONAH BARRINGTON.

We sacrifice to dress, till household joys And comforts cease. Dress drains our cellar dry, And keeps our larder clean; puts out our fires, And introduces hunger, frost and woe, Where peace and hospitality might reign.

Dress changes the manners.--VOLTAIRE.

DRINK.--Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink.--ISAIAH 5:11.

All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and mad. He that is drunk is not a man, because he is, for so long, void of reason that distinguishes a man from a beast.--WILLIAM PENN.

Some of the domestic evils of drunkenness are houses without windows, gardens without fences, fields without tillage, barns without roofs, children without clothing, principles, morals or manners.--FRANKLIN.

Drunkenness is the vice of a good const.i.tution or of a bad memory--of a const.i.tution so treacherously good that it never bends till it breaks; or of a memory that recollects the pleasures of getting intoxicated, but forgets the pains of getting sober.--COLTON.

Habitual intoxication is the epitome of every crime.--DOUGLAS JERROLD.

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee--devil! * * * O, that men should put an enemy to their mouths to steal away their brains; that we should, with joy, revel, pleasure and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!

--SHAKESPEARE.

Every inordinate cup is unbless'd, and the ingredient is a devil.

--SHAKESPEARE.

It were better for a man to be subject to any vice, than to drunkenness: for all other vanities and sins are recovered, but a drunkard will never shake off the delight of beastliness.--SIR WALTER RALEIGH.

Man has evil as well as good qualities peculiar to himself.

Drunkenness places him as much below the level of the brutes as reason elevates him above them.--SIR G. SINCLAIR.

Of all vices take heed of drunkenness; other vices are but fruits of disordered affections--this disorders, nay, banishes reason; other vices but impair the soul--this demolishes her two chief faculties, the understanding and the will; other vices make their own way--this makes way for all vices; he that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.--QUARLES.

There is scarcely a crime before me that is not directly or indirectly caused by strong drink.--JUDGE COLERIDGE.

Beware of drunkenness, lest all good men beware of thee; where drunkenness reigns, there reason is an exile, virtue a stranger, G.o.d an enemy; blasphemy is wit, oaths are rhetoric, and secrets are proclamations.--QUARLES.

DUTY.--Duty grows everywhere, like children, like gra.s.s.--EMERSON.

Perish discretion when it interferes with duty.--HANNAH MORE.