Many Thoughts of Many Minds Part 36

Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.

--POPE.

But there's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream.

--MOORE.

They do not love, that do not show their love.

--SHAKESPEARE.

Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak. It serves for food and raiment.--LONGFELLOW.

That you may be beloved, be amiable.--OVID.

All these inconveniences are incidents to love: reproaches, jealousies, quarrels, reconcilements, war, and then peace.--TERENCE.

Love seizes on us suddenly, without giving warning, and our disposition or our weakness favors the surprise; one look, one glance from the fair, fixes and determines us. Friends.h.i.+p, on the contrary, is a long time forming; it is of slow growth, through many trials and months of familiarity.--LA BRUYeRE.

Love is a child that talks in broken language, Yet then he speaks most plain.

--DRYDEN.

Love that has nothing but beauty to keep it in good health, is short-lived.--ERASMUS.

No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with only a single thread.--BURTON.

It is possible that a man can be so changed by love, that one could not recognize him to be the same person.--TERENCE.

Only those who love with the heart can animate the love of others.

--ABEL STEVENS.

If a man really loves a woman, of course he wouldn't marry her for the world, if he were not quite sure that he was the best person she could by any possibility marry.--HOLMES.

True love is humble, thereby is it known; Girded for service, seeking not its own; Vaunts not itself, but speaks in self-dispraise.

--ABRAHAM COLES.

Love without faith is as bad as faith without love.--BEECHER.

MAN.--Man is the image and glory of G.o.d: but the woman is the glory of the man.--1 COR. 11:7.

Do you know what a man is? Are not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man?--SHAKESPEARE.

A man may twist as he pleases, and do what he pleases, but he inevitably comes back to the track to which nature has destined him.--GOETHE.

Men may rise on stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher things.

--TENNYSON.

It is an error to suppose that a man belongs to himself. No man does.

He belongs to his wife, or his children, or his relations, or to his creditors, or to society in some form or other.--G.A. SALA.

The record of life runs thus: Man creeps into childhood,--bounds into youth,--sobers into manhood,--softens into age,--totters into second childhood, and slumbers into the cradle prepared for him,--thence to be watched and cared for.--HENRY GILES.

How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!

--YOUNG.

He is the whole encyclopaedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn; and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.--EMERSON.

Man is an animal that cooks his victuals.--BURKE.

Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this,--one dog does not change a bone with another.--ADAM SMITH.

Know then thyself, presume not G.o.d to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

--POPE.

His life was gentle; and the elements So mix'd in him, that nature might stand up And say to all the world, "This was a man!"

--SHAKESPEARE.

Man that is born of woman is of few days, and full of trouble.

--JOB 14:1.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world.--CARLYLE.

An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to form and ripen. He is strong, not to do, but to live; not in his arms, but in his heart; not as an agent, but as a fact.--EMERSON.

What a piece of work is a man! How n.o.ble in reason! how infinite in faculties! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action, how like an angel! in apprehension, how like a G.o.d!--SHAKESPEARE.

There are but three cla.s.ses of men, the retrograde, the stationary, and the progressive.--LAVATER.

Before man made us citizens, great nature made us men.--LOWELL.

MANNERS.--Evil communications corrupt good manners.--1 COR. 15:33.

The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses with heat puts whole drawing-rooms to flight. If you wish to be loved, love measure.--EMERSON.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse.--SWIFT.

I really think next to the consciousness of doing a good action, that of doing a civil one is the most pleasing; and the epithet which I should covet the most next to that of Aristides, would be that of well-bred.--CHESTERFIELD.

A man's worth is estimated in this world according to his conduct.

--LA BRUYeRE.

There is certainly something of exquisite kindness and thoughtful benevolence in that rarest of gifts,--fine breeding.--LYTTON.

In the society of ladies, want of sense is not so unpardonable as want of manners.--LAVATER.

Good manners are a part of good morals.--WHATLEY.

One princ.i.p.al part of good breeding is to suit our behavior to the three several degrees of men: our superiors, our equals, and those below us.--SWIFT.