ittle nor Book arce ce, a his it. Action. No two things differ more than hurry and despatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind; despatch of a strong one. -Colton, Lacon. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special observance, that you o'er-step not the modesty of nature. Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 3. Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life.-Sir P. Sidney. Adversity. He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself. Constant success shows us but one side of the world.-Colton, Lacon. Adversity borrows its sharpest sting from our impatience.-Bishop Horne. As adversity leads us to think properly of our state, it is most beneficial to us. Dr. S. Johnson. A remembrance of the good use he made of prosperity contributed to support his mind under the heavy weight of adversity which then lay upon him.-Atterbury. Age. Age makes us most fondly hug and retain the good things of this life, when we have the least prospect of enjoying them.-Atterbury. Providence gives us notice by sensible declensions, that we may disengage from the world by degrees.Jeremy Collier. From fifty to threescore he loses not much in fancy; and judgment, the effect of observation, still increases.Dryden. Most men in years, as they are generally discouragers of youth, are like old trees, which, being past bearing themselves, will suffer no young plants to flourish beneath them.-Pope. Ambition. Ambitious men, if they be checked in their desires, become secretly discontent, and look upon men and matters with an evil eye.-Lord Bacon. How often is the ambitious man mortified with the very praises he receives, if they do not rise so high as he thinks they ought.-Addison. Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude. -Sir Walter Scott. An ambitious man puts it into the power of every malicious tongue to Lurow him into a fit of melancholy.Addison. The ambitious man has little happiss, but is subject to much uneasiness and dissatisfaction.-Addison. Anticipation. I would not anticipate the relish of any happiness, nor feel the weight of any misery, before it actually arrives. -Addison. We suffer misery and enjoy happiness before they are in being; we can set the sun and stars forward, or lose sight of them by wandering into those retired parts of eternity where the heavens and earth shall be no more. -Addison. The problem is, whether a man constantly and strongly believing that such a thing shall be, it don't help anything to the effecting of the thing.-Lord Bacon. Real joys are scarcer than anticipated ones, and consequently more enjoyed.-Anon. |