Many Thoughts of Many Minds Part 39

--DR. WATTS.

The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heaven of h.e.l.l, a h.e.l.l of heaven.

--MILTON.

The blessing of an active mind, when it is in a good condition, is, that it not only employs itself, but is almost sure to be the means of giving wholesome employment to others.

He that has treasures of his own May leave the cottage or the throne, May quit the globe, and dwell alone Within his s.p.a.cious mind.

--DR. WATTS.

The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows corrupt.--ROUSSEAU.

Every great mind seeks to labor for eternity. All men are captivated by immediate advantages; great minds alone are excited by the prospect of distant good.--SCHILLER.

Mind unemployed is mind unenjoyed.--BOVEE.

As the mind must govern the hands, so in every society the man of intelligence must direct the man of labor.--DR. JOHNSON.

As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without culture, so the mind without cultivation can never produce good fruit.--SENECA.

Few minds wear out; more rust out.--BOVEE.

There is nothing so elastic as the human mind. Like imprisoned steam, the more it is pressed the more it rises to resist the pressure. The more we are obliged to do, the more we are able to accomplish.

--T. EDWARDS.

Minds of moderate calibre ordinarily condemn everything which is beyond their range.--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.

Guard well thy thoughts: our thoughts are heard in heaven.--YOUNG.

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

--SPENSER.

He that has no resources of mind, is more to be pitied than he who is in want of necessaries for the body; and to be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others, bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.--COLTON.

A good mind possesses a kingdom.

MIRTH.--Harmless mirth is the best cordial against the consumption of the spirit; wherefore jesting is not unlawful, if it trespa.s.seth not in quant.i.ty, quality, or season.--FULLER.

Mirthfulness is in the mind, and you cannot get it out. It is the blessed spirit that G.o.d has set in the mind to dust it, to enliven its dark places, and to drive asceticism, like a foul fiend, out at the back door. It is just as good, in its place, as conscience or veneration. Praying can no more be made a subst.i.tute for smiling than smiling can for praying.--BEECHER.

Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt; And ev'ry grin so merry draws one out.

--PETER PINDAR.

There is nothing like fun, is there? I haven't any myself, but I do like it in others. O, we need it! We need all the counterweights we can muster to balance the sad relations of life. G.o.d has made many sunny spots in the heart; why should we exclude the light from them?--HALIBURTON.

I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.--IZAAK WALTON.

Mirth is G.o.d's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety,--all this rust of life, ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. It is better than emery. Every man ought to rub himself with it. A man without mirth is like a wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it runs.--BEECHER.

MISFORTUNE.--The diamond of character is revealed by the concussion of misfortune, as the splendor of the precious jewel of the mine is developed by the blows of the lapidary.--F.A. DURIVAGE.

A soul exasperated in ills, falls out With everything, its friend, itself.

--ADDISON.

We have all of us sufficient fort.i.tude to bear the misfortunes of others.--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.

The good man, even though overwhelmed by misfortune, loses never his inborn greatness of soul. Camphor-wood burnt in the fire becomes all the more fragrant.--SATAKA.

Who hath not known ill-fortune, never knew Himself, or his own virtue.

--MALLET.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.--WAs.h.i.+NGTON IRVING.

Misfortunes are, in morals, what bitters are in medicine: each is at first disagreeable; but as the bitters act as corroborants to the stomach, so adversity chastens and ameliorates the disposition.--FROM THE FRENCH.

When one is past, another care we have; Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.

--HERRICK.

The greatest misfortune of all is not to be able to bear misfortune.

--BIAS.

I believe, indeed, that it is more laudable to suffer great misfortunes than to do great things.--STANISLAUS.

Our bravest lessons are not learned through success, but misadventure.

--ALCOTT.

The less we parade our misfortunes the more sympathy we command.

--ORVILLE DEWEY.

It is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy would prefer the share they are already possessed of, before that which would fall to them by such a division.--ADDISON.

We should learn, by reflecting on the misfortunes which have attended others, that there is nothing singular in those which befall ourselves.

--MELMOTH.

Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.--COLTON.

MOB.--The mob has nothing to lose, everything to gain.--GOETHE.

The mob have neither judgment nor principle,--ready to bawl at night for the reverse of what they desired in the morning.--TACITUS.

The sc.u.m that rises upmost, when the nation boils.--DRYDEN.

The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under your cudgel; but should the ring slip, and you lose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you.--JANE PORTER.

Inconstant, blind, Deserting friends at need, and duped by foes; Loud and seditious, when a chief inspired Their headlong fury, but, of him deprived, Already slaves that lick'd the scourging hand.

--THOMSON.