Many Thoughts of Many Minds Part 18

Exercise is the chief source of improvement in all our faculties.

--BLAIR.

You will never live to my age without you keep yourself in breath with exercise.--SIR P. SIDNEY.

EXPERIENCE.--To Truth's house there is a single door, which is experience.--BAYARD TAYLOR.

Experience join'd with common sense, To mortals is a providence.

--GREEN.

Experience does take dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches like no other.--CARLYLE.

No man was ever endowed with a judgment so correct and judicious, in regulating his life, but that circ.u.mstances, time and experience, would teach him something new, and apprize him that of those things with which he thought himself the best acquainted, he knew nothing; and that those ideas, which in theory appeared the most advantageous, were found, when brought into practice, to be altogether inapplicable.

--TERENCE.

Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us if we can get brightened by it, and not ground.--H.W. SHAW.

It may serve as a comfort to us in all our calamities and afflictions that he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss.--L'ESTRANGE.

To wilful men, The injuries that they themselves procure, Must be their schoolmasters.

--SHAKESPEARE.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.--FRANKLIN.

All is but lip wisdom which wants experience.--SIR P. SIDNEY.

EXTRAVAGANCE.--He who is extravagant will quickly become poor; and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.--DR. JOHNSON.

The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, Provides a home from which to run away.

--YOUNG.

FAITH.--What we believe, we must believe wholly and without reserve; wherefore the only perfect and satisfying object of faith is G.o.d. A faith that sets bounds to itself, that will believe so much and no more, that will trust thus far and no farther, is none.

Faith is the key that unlocks the cabinet of G.o.d's treasures; the king's messenger from the celestial world, to bring all the supplies we need out of the fullness that there is in Christ.--J. STEPHENS.

Faith builds a bridge from this world to the next.--YOUNG.

It is impossible to be a hero in anything unless one is first a hero in faith.--JACOBI.

Faith is not the lazy notion that a man may with careless confidence throw his burden upon the Saviour and trouble himself no further, a pillow upon which he lulls his conscience to sleep, till he drops into perdition; but a living and vigorous principle, working by love, and inseparably connected with true repentance as its motive and with holy obedience as its fruits.

Faith is the root of all good works. A root that produces nothing is dead.--BISHOP WILSON.

The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power, wise by his wisdom, happy by his happiness.--ADDISON.

The highest historical probability can be adduced in support of the proposition that, if it were possible to annihilate the Bible, and with it all its influences, we should destroy with it the whole spiritual system of the moral world.--EDWARD EVERETT.

He had great faith in loaves of bread For hungry people, young and old, And hope inspired; kind words he said To those he sheltered from the cold.

In words he did not put his trust; His faith in words he never writ; He loved to share his cup and crust With all mankind who needed it.

He put his trust in Heaven and he Worked well with hand and head; And what he gave in charity Sweetened his sleep and daily bread.

No cloud can overshadow a true Christian but his faith will discern a rainbow in it.--BISHOP HORNE.

Faith in G.o.d, faith in man, faith in work: this is the short formula in which we may sum up the teachings of the founders of New England,--a creed ample enough for this life and the next.--LOWELL.

FAME.--None despise fame more heartily than those who have no possible claim to it.--J. PEt.i.t-SENN.

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.--SIMMS.

Though fame is smoke, its fumes are frankincense to human thoughts.

--BYRON.

He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.--SHAKESPEARE.

Whatever may be the temporary applause of men, or the expressions of public opinion, it may be a.s.serted without fear of contradiction, that no true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.--CHARLES SUMNER.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else,--very rarely to those who say to themselves, "Go to, now let us be a celebrated individual!"--HOLMES.

It is a very indiscreet and troublesome ambition which cares so much about fame; about what the world says of us; to be always looking in the faces of others for approval; to be always anxious about the effect of what we do or say; to be always shouting, to hear the echoes of our own voices.--LONGFELLOW.

The way to fame is like the way to heaven--through much tribulation.

--STERNE.

Nor fame I slight, nor for her favors call: She comes unlook'd for, if she comes at all.

--POPE.

Write your name in kindness, love and mercy on the hearts of the thousands you come in contact with year by year, and you will never be forgotten.--CHALMERS.

The drying up a single tear has more Of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.

--BYRON.

FAs.h.i.+ON.--Fas.h.i.+on's smile has given wit to dullness and grace to deformity, and has brought everything into vogue, by turns, except virtue.--COLTON.

A woman would be in despair if Nature had formed her as fas.h.i.+on makes her appear.--MLLE. DE L'ESPINa.s.sE.

Fas.h.i.+on is not public opinion, or the result of embodiment of public opinion. It may be that public opinion will condemn the shape of a bonnet, as it may venture to do always, and with the certainty of being right nine times in ten: but fas.h.i.+on will place it upon the head of every woman in America; and, were it literally a crown of thorns, she would smile contentedly beneath the imposition.--J.G. HOLLAND.

Fas.h.i.+on is among the last influences under which a human being who respects himself, or who comprehends the great end of life, would desire to be placed.--CHANNING.

The Empress of France had but to change the position of a ribbon to set all the ribbons in Christendom to rustling. A single word from her convulsed the whalebone market of the world.--J.G. HOLLAND.

A fas.h.i.+onable woman is always in love--with herself.--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.

Change of fas.h.i.+ons is the tax which industry imposes on the vanity of the rich.--CHAMFORT.