Many Thoughts of Many Minds Part 19

Fas.h.i.+on, a word which knaves and fools may use Their knavery and folly to excuse.

--CHURCHILL.

FEAR.--The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.--PSALM 111:10.

O, fear not in a world like this, And thou shalt know ere long,-- Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong.

--LONGFELLOW.

Fear not the proud and the haughty; fear rather him who fears G.o.d.

--SAADI.

Fear guides more to their duty than grat.i.tude; for one man who is virtuous from the love of virtue, from the obligation he thinks he lies under to the Giver of all, there are ten thousand who are good only from their apprehension of punishment.--GOLDSMITH.

The fear of G.o.d is freedom, joy, and peace; And makes all ills that vex us here to cease.

--WALLER.

The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?--PSALM 27:1.

Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil.--DR. JOHNSON.

G.o.d planted fear in the soul as truly as He planted hope or courage.

Fear is a kind of bell, or gong, which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance upon the approach of danger. It is the soul's signal for rallying.--BEECHER.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment.--1 JOHN 4:18.

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.--GEORGE SEWELL.

Fear not; for I am with thee.--ISAIAH 43:5.

FIDELITY.--To G.o.d, thy country, and thy friend be true.--VAUGHAN.

He who is faithful over a few things is a lord of cities. It does not matter whether you preach in Westminster Abbey or teach a ragged cla.s.s, so you be faithful. The faithfulness is all.--GEORGE MACDONALD.

His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles; His love sincere, his thoughts immaculate; His tears, pure messengers sent from his heart; His heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth.

--SHAKESPEARE.

Nothing is more n.o.ble, nothing more venerable than fidelity.

Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.--CICERO.

Give us a man, young or old, high or low, on whom we know we can thoroughly depend, who will stand firm when others fail; the friend faithful and true, the adviser honest and fearless, the adversary just and chivalrous,--in such a one there is a fragment of the Rock of Ages.--DEAN STANLEY.

FLATTERY.--Those are generally good at flattering who are good for nothing else.--SOUTH.

If any man flatters me, I'll flatter him again, though he were my best friend.--FRANKLIN.

No flatt'ry, boy! an honest man can't live by't; It is a little sneaking art, which knaves Use to cajole and soften fools withal.

If thou hast flatt'ry in thy nature, out with't; Or send it to a court, for there 'twill thrive.

--OTWAY.

A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.--RICHARDSON.

Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies.--TACITUS.

It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour the dead only, these the living.--ANTISTHENES.

Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.--SWIFT.

Men find it more easy to flatter than to praise.--JEAN PAUL.

'Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.

--SWIFT.

Ah! when the means are gone, that buy this praise, The breath is gone whereof this praise is made.

--SHAKESPEARE.

Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity.--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.

Who flatters is of all mankind the lowest, Save he who courts the flattery.

--HANNAH MORE.

Meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.--PROVERBS 20:19.

Men are like stone jugs,--you may lug them where you like by the ears.

--DR. JOHNSON.

Commend a fool for his wit and a knave for his honesty, and they will receive you into their bosoms.--FIELDING.

FLOWERS.--Flowers are the sweetest things that G.o.d ever made and forgot to put a soul into.--BEECHER.

In Eastern lands they talk in flowers, And they tell in a garland their loves and cares: Each blossom that blooms in their garden bowers On its leaves a mystic language bears.

--PERCIVAL.

How the universal heart of man blesses flowers! They are wreathed round the cradle, the marriage altar, and the tomb.--MRS. L.M. CHILD.

There is not the least flower but seems to hold up its head and to look pleasantly, in the secret sense of the goodness of its Heavenly Maker.--SOUTH.

Flowers knew how to preach divinity before men knew how to dissect and botanize them.--H.N. HUDSON.

And with childlike credulous affection We behold their tender buds expand; Emblems of our own great resurrection, Emblems of the bright and better land.

--LONGFELLOW.

FOOLS.--He who provides for this life, but takes no care for eternity, is wise for a moment, but a fool forever.--TILLOTSON.

The wise man has his follies no less than the fool; but it has been said that herein lies the difference,--the follies of the fool are known to the world, but are hidden from himself; the follies of the wise are known to himself, but hidden from the world.--COLTON.