Many Thoughts of Many Minds Part 21

intimidate. For, under G.o.d, we are determined that, wheresoever, whensoever, or howsoever we shall be called to make our exit, we will die freemen.--JOSIAH QUINCY.

Who then is free?--the wise, who well maintains An empire o'er himself; whom neither chains, Nor want, nor death, with slavish fear inspire; Who boldly answers to his warm desire; Who can ambition's vainest gifts despise; Firm in himself, who on himself relies; Polish'd and round, who runs his proper course, And breaks misfortune with superior force.

--HORACE.

The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.--CHANNING.

He was the freeman whom the truth made free; Who first of all, the bands of Satan broke; Who broke the bands of sin, and for his soul, In spite of fools consulted seriously.

--POLLOCK.

FRIENDs.h.i.+P.--Friends.h.i.+p is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.--CICERO.

The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumping on your back His sense of your great merit, Is such a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed To pardon or to bear it.

--COWPER.

He is a friend indeed who proves himself a friend in need.--PLAUTUS.

Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not.--PROVERBS 27:10.

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

There is no man so friendless but that he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths.--LYTTON.

A friends.h.i.+p that makes the least noise is very often the most useful; for which reason I should prefer a prudent friend to a zealous one.

--ADDISON.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends; and that the most liberal professions of good-will are very far from being the surest marks of it.--GEORGE WAs.h.i.+NGTON.

No friend's a friend till he shall prove a friend.--BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.

The qualities of your friends will be those of your enemies,--cold friends, cold enemies; half friends, half enemies; fervid enemies, warm friends.--LAVATER.

Purchase no friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give such will cease to love.--FULLER.

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend as to find a friend worth dying for.--HENRY HOME.

Real friends.h.i.+p is a slow grower, and never thrives unless engrafted upon a stock of known and reciprocal merit.--CHESTERFIELD.

There is nothing more becoming any wise man, than to make choice of friends, for by them thou shalt be judged what thou art: let them therefore be wise and virtuous, and none of those that follow thee for gain; but make election rather of thy betters, than thy inferiors.--SIR WALTER RALEIGH.

'Tis thus that on the choice of friends Our good or evil name depends.

--GAY.

We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends; this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none.

--DR. JOHNSON.

An act, by which we make one friend and one enemy, is a losing game; because revenge is a much stronger principle than grat.i.tude.--COLTON.

That friends.h.i.+p will not continue to the end that is begun for an end.

--QUARLES.

Be slow to fall into friends.h.i.+p; but when thou art in continue firm and constant.--SOCRATES.

We cannot expect the deepest friends.h.i.+p unless we are willing to pay the price, a self-sacrificing love.--PELOUBET.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the suns.h.i.+ne, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

--BOVEE.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.--FRANKLIN.

The greatest medicine is a true friend.--SIR W. TEMPLE.

True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation.--THEOPHRASTUS.

Sudden friends.h.i.+ps rarely live to ripeness.--MLLE. DE SCUDeRI.

Who friends.h.i.+p with a knave hath made, Is judg'd a partner in the trade.

--GAY.

Thou mayest be sure that he who will in private tell thee of thy faults is thy friend, for he adventures thy dislike and doth hazard thy hatred.--SIR WALTER RALEIGH.

He is happy that hath a true friend at his need; but he is more truly happy that hath no need of his friend.--WARWICK.

I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.

--COWPER.

True happiness consists not in the mult.i.tude of friends, but in the worth and choice.--DR. JOHNSON.

FRUGALITY.--Frugality is founded on the principle that all riches have limits.--BURKE.

Frugality may be termed the daughter of prudence, the sister of temperance, and the parent of liberty.--DR. JOHNSON.

The world has not yet learned the riches of frugality.--CICERO.

FUTURITY.--It is vain to be always looking toward the future and never acting toward it.--J.F. BOYES.

The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, the last duty done.--GEORGE MACDONALD.

Trust no future howe'er pleasant; Let the dead past bury its dead; Act,--act in the living present, Heart within and G.o.d o'erhead!

--LONGFELLOW.

The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.--SENECA.

G.o.d will not suffer man to have the knowledge of things to come; for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless; and, understanding of his adversity, he would be senseless.--ST. AUGUSTINE.

Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.--PROVERBS 27:1.