Many Thoughts of Many Minds- 2

Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to virtue.--SCHILLER.

The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried and smelted and polished and glorified through the furnace of tribulation. --CHAPIN.

Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth.--HEBREWS 12:6.

In all cases of heart-ache, the application of another man's disappointment draws out the pain and allays the irritation.--LYTTON.

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favor.--BACON.

There is healing in the bitter cup.--SOUTHEY.

The lessons of adversity are often the most benignant when they seem the most severe. The depression of vanity sometimes ennobles the feeling. The mind which does not wholly sink under misfortune rises above it more lofty than before, and is strengthened by affliction. --CHENEVIX.

In this wild world the fondest and the best,Are the most tried, most troubled and distress'd. --CRABBE.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.--HORACE.

If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. --PROVERBS 24:10.

On every thorn delightful wisdom grows; In every rill a sweet instruction flows.--DR. YOUNG.

The fire of my adversity has purged the mass of my acquaintance. --BOLINGBROKE.

Heaven is not always angry when he strikes,But most chastises those whom most he likes.--POMFRET.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.--WASHINGTON IRVING.

In the day of prosperity we have many refuges to resort to; in the day of adversity only one.--HORATIUS BONAR.

ADVERSITY.--Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.--COLTON.

Man, being essentially active, must find in activity his joy, as well as his beauty and glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward.--WHIPPLE.

Our acts make or mar us;--we are the children of our own deeds. --VICTOR HUGO.

When our souls shall leave this dwelling, the glory of one fair and virtuous action is above all the scutcheons on our tomb, or silken banners over us.--J. SHIRLEY.

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.--COLTON.

It is not to taste sweet things, but to do noble and true things, and vindicate himself under God's heaven as a God-made man that the poorest son of Adam dimly longs. Show him the way of doing that, the dullest day-drudge kindles into a hero.--CARLYLE.

Prodigious actions may as well be done, by weaver's issue, as by prince's son.
--DRYDEN.

Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.--LOWELL.

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way;
But to act, that each to-morrow
Finds us farther than to-day.
* * * * *
Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act, act, in the living Present!
Heart within, and God o'erhead!
--LONGFELLOW.

My Life Teacher*

Many Thoughts of Many Minds - 1

AFFECTATION.--Affectation is the wisdom of fools, and the folly of many a comparatively wise man.

We are never rendered so ridiculous by qualities which we possess, as by those which we aim at, or affect to have.--FROM THE FRENCH.

Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than the small-pox. --ST. EVREMOND.

All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich.--LAVATER.

Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins. --HORACE MANN.

AFFECTION.--A loving heart is the truest wisdom.--DICKENS.

Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. --COLOSSIANS 3:2.

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained love will die at the roots.--HAWTHORNE.

Affection is a garden, and without it there would not be a verdant spot on the surface of the globe.

Of all earthly music, that which reaches the farthest into heaven is the beating of a loving heart.--BEECHER.

If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.--WILLIS.

AFFLICTION.--God sometimes washes the eyes of his children with tears in order that they may read aright His providence and His commandments. --T.L. CUYLER.

Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all for him to bear; but they are so, because they are the very ones he needs.--RICHTER.

Affliction is but the shadow of God's wing.--GEORGE MACDONALD.

Affliction appears to be the guide to reflection; the teacher of humility; the parent of repentance; the nurse of faith; the strengthener of patience, and the promoter of charity.

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.--MATTHEW HENRY.

If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches.--BURGH.

Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.--JOB 5:7.

With the wind of tribulation God separates in the floor of the soul, the chaff from the corn.--MOLINOS.

No chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.--HEBREWS 12:11.

AGE.--No wise man ever wished to be younger.--SWIFT.

It is only necessary to grow old to become more indulgent. I see no fault committed that I have not committed myself.--GOETHE.

That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity.--CICERO.

We must not take the faults of our youth into our old age; for old age brings with it its own defects.--GOETHE.

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.--JAMES A. GARFIELD.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.--VICTOR HUGO.

Remember that some of the brightest drops in the chalice of life may still remain for us in old age. The last draught which a kind Providence gives us to drink, though near the bottom of the cup, may, as is said of the draught of the Roman of old, have at the very bottom, instead of dregs, most costly pearls.--W.A. NEWMAN.

Begin to patch up thine old body for heaven.--SHAKESPEARE.



My Life Teacher*

AFFECTATION.--Affectation is the wisdom of fools, and the folly of many a comparatively wise man.

We are never rendered so ridiculous by qualities which we possess, as by those which we aim at, or affect to have.--FROM THE FRENCH.

Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than the small-pox. --ST. EVREMOND.

All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich.--LAVATER.

Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins. --HORACE MANN.

AFFECTION.--A loving heart is the truest wisdom.--DICKENS.

Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. --COLOSSIANS 3:2.

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained love will die at the roots.--HAWTHORNE.

Affection is a garden, and without it there would not be a verdant spot on the surface of the globe.

Of all earthly music, that which reaches the farthest into heaven is the beating of a loving heart.--BEECHER.

If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.--WILLIS.

AFFLICTION.--God sometimes washes the eyes of his children with tears in order that they may read aright His providence and His commandments. --T.L. CUYLER.

Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all for him to bear; but they are so, because they are the very ones he needs.--RICHTER.

Affliction is but the shadow of God's wing.--GEORGE MACDONALD.

Affliction appears to be the guide to reflection; the teacher of humility; the parent of repentance; the nurse of faith; the strengthener of patience, and the promoter of charity.

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.--MATTHEW HENRY.

If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches.--BURGH.

Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.--JOB 5:7.

With the wind of tribulation God separates in the floor of the soul, the chaff from the corn.--MOLINOS.

No chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.--HEBREWS 12:11.

AGE.--No wise man ever wished to be younger.--SWIFT.

It is only necessary to grow old to become more indulgent. I see no fault committed that I have not committed myself.--GOETHE.

That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity.--CICERO.

We must not take the faults of our youth into our old age; for old age brings with it its own defects.--GOETHE.

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.--JAMES A. GARFIELD.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.--VICTOR HUGO.

Remember that some of the brightest drops in the chalice of life may still remain for us in old age. The last draught which a kind Providence gives us to drink, though near the bottom of the cup, may, as is said of the draught of the Roman of old, have at the very bottom, instead of dregs, most costly pearls.--W.A. NEWMAN.

Begin to patch up thine old body for heaven.--SHAKESPEARE.