Many Thoughts of Many Minds Part 34

A laugh to be joyous must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness there can be no true joy.--CARLYLE.

One good, hearty laugh is a bombsh.e.l.l exploding in the right place, while spleen and discontent are a gun that kicks over the man who shoots it off.--TALMAGE.

Stupid people, who do not know how to laugh, are always pompous and self-conceited; that is, ungentle, uncharitable, unchristian.

--THACKERAY.

Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter.--GREVILLE.

LEARNING.--Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one.--CHESTERFIELD.

He who learns and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden, with a load of books.--SAADI.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.

--POPE.

The three foundations of learning: Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much.--CATHERALL.

The end of learning is to know G.o.d, and out of that knowledge to love Him, and to imitate Him, by possessing our souls of true virtue.--MILTON.

Learning pa.s.ses for wisdom among those who want both.--SIR W. TEMPLE.

Learning makes a man fit company for himself.--YOUNG.

He who has no inclination to learn more, will be very apt to think that he knows enough.--POWELL.

It is without all controversy that learning doth make the minds of men gentle, amiable, and pliant to government; whereas ignorance makes them churlish, thwarting, and mutinous; and the evidence of time doth clear this a.s.sertion, considering that the most barbarous, rude, and unlearned times have been most subject to tumults, seditions, and changes.--LORD BACON.

He that wants good sense is unhappy in having learning, for he has thereby only more ways of exposing himself; and he that has sense, knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of using it.--STEELE.

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.--BISHOP TAYLOR.

Learning is better worth than house or land.--CRABBE.

LIBERALITY.--If you are poor, distinguish yourself by your virtues; if rich, by your good deeds.--JOUBERT.

He that defers his charity until he is dead is, if a man weighs it rightly, rather liberal of another man's goods than his own.--BACON.

Liberality consists rather in giving seasonably than much.--LA BRUYeRE.

There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.

--PROVERBS 11:24.

Liberality consists less in giving profusely, than in giving judiciously.--LA BRUYeRE.

The liberal soul shall be made fat; and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.--PROVERBS 11:25.

LIBERTY.--The G.o.d who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time.

--THOMAS JEFFERSON.

'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life, its l.u.s.tre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.

--COWPER.

The love of liberty that is not a real principle of dutiful behavior to authority is as hypocritical as the religion that is not productive of a good life.--BISHOP BUTLER.

Liberty must be limited in order to be enjoyed.--BURKE.

Liberty is from G.o.d; liberties, from the devil.--AUERBACH.

A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.

--ADDISON.

If liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire on the floor.--HILLARD.

Few persons enjoy real liberty; we are all slaves to ideas or habits.

--ALFRED DE MUSSET.

The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government; the liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of G.o.d and of his country.--COWLEY.

The spirit of liberty is not merely, as mult.i.tudes imagine, a jealousy of our own particular rights, but a respect for the rights of others, and an unwillingness that any man, whether high or low, should be wronged and trampled under foot.--CHANNING.

Liberty, without wisdom, is license.--BURKE.

LIFE.--Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort.--SIR HUMPHRY DAVY.

Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies; Life's a short summer--man a flower-- He dies--alas! how soon he dies!

--DR. JOHNSON.

Life's but a means unto an end, that end, Beginning, mean, and end to all things--G.o.d.

--BAILEY.

In the midst of life we are in death.--CHURCH BURIAL SERVICE.

Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the scene of good or evil, as you make it.--MONTAIGNE.

Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind what happens let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care.

--DRYDEN.

Nor love thy life nor hate; but what thou liv'st Live well; how long or short permit to heaven.

--MILTON.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.--PSALM 90:10.

A handful of good life is worth a bushel of learning.--GEORGE HERBERT.