Many Thoughts of Many Minds Part 66

WORDS.--A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.--PROVERBS 15:1.

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below, Words, without thoughts, never to Heaven go.

--SHAKESPEARE.

We should be as careful of our words as of our actions, and as far from speaking ill as from doing ill.--CICERO.

Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense.

--EARL OF ROSCOMMON.

Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?--JOB 38:2.

It is with a word as with an arrow: the arrow once loosed does not return to the bow; nor a word to the lips.--ABDEL-KADER.

Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.--H.W. SHAW.

I hate anything that occupies more s.p.a.ce than it is worth. I hate to see a load of bandboxes go along the street, and I hate to see a parcel of big words without anything in them.--HAZLITT.

Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.--PROVERBS 16:24.

Men who have much to say use the fewest words.--H.W. SHAW.

What you keep by you you may change and mend; but words once spoken can never be recalled.--ROSCOMMON.

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.--CARLYLE.

It would be well for us all, old and young, to remember that our words and actions, ay, and our thoughts also, are set upon never-stopping wheels, rolling on and on unto the pathway of eternity.--M.M. BREWSTER.

"Words, words, words!" says Hamlet, disparagingly. But G.o.d preserve us from the destructive power of words! There are words which can separate hearts sooner than sharp swords. There are words whose sting can remain through a whole life!--MARY HOWITT.

A word spoken in due season, how good is it!--PROVERBS 15:22, 23.

WORK.--Get work. Be sure it is better than what you work to get.--MRS.

BROWNING.

No man is happier than he who loves and fulfills that particular work for the world which falls to his share. Even though the full understanding of his work, and of its ultimate value, may not be present with him; if he but love it--always a.s.suming that his conscience approves--it brings an abounding satisfaction.--LEO W.

GRINDON.

Nothing is impossible to industry.--PERIANDER.

In work consists the true pride of life; grounded in active employment, though early ardor may abate, it never degenerates into indifference, and age lives in perennial youth. Life is a weariness only to the idle, or where the soul is empty.--LEO W. GRINDON.

This we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.--II THESS. 3:10.

If you do not wish for His kingdom do not pray for it. But if you do you must do more than pray for it, you must work for it.--RUSKIN.

No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him. There is always work, and tools to work withal, for those who will; and blessed are the h.o.r.n.y hands of toil.--LOWELL.

I doubt if hard work, steadily and regularly carried on, ever yet hurt anybody.--LORD STANLEY.

Women are certainly more happy in this than we men: their employments occupy a smaller portion of their thoughts, and the earnest longing of the heart, the beautiful inner life of the fancy, always commands the greater part.--SCHLEIERMACHER.

On bravely through the suns.h.i.+ne and the showers!

Time hath his work to do, and we have ours.

--EMERSON.

We enjoy ourselves only in our work, our doing; and our best doing is our best enjoyment.--JACOBI.

The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it.--CARLYLE.

Work, according to my feeling, is as much of a necessity to man as eating and sleeping. Even those who do nothing which to a sensible man can be called work, still imagine that they are doing something. The world possesses not a man who is an idler in his own eyes.--WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT.

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you could hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.--BEECHER.

WORLD.--The world is a country which n.o.body ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it. The scholar, who in the dust of his closet talks or writes of the world, knows no more of it than that orator did of war, who judiciously endeavored to instruct Hannibal in it.--CHESTERFIELD.

To know the world, not love her, is thy point; She gives but little, nor that little long.

--YOUNG.

I am not at all uneasy that I came into, and have so far pa.s.sed my course in this world; because I have so lived in it that I have reason to believe I have been of some use to it; and when the close comes, I shall quit life as I would an inn, and not as a real home. For nature appears to me to have ordained this station here for us, as a place of sojournment, a transitory abode only, and not as a fixed settlement or permanent habitation.--CICERO.

The world is a fine thing to save, but a wretch to wors.h.i.+p.--GEORGE MACDONALD.

The world is a bride superbly dressed; who weds her, for a dowry must pay his soul.--HAFIZ.

O who would trust this world, or prize what's in it, That gives and takes, and chops and changes, ev'ry minute?

--QUARLES.

This world is G.o.d's world, after all.--CHARLES KINGSLEY.

There is another and a better world.--KOTZEBUE.

G.o.d, we are told, looked upon the world after he had created it and p.r.o.nounced it good; but ascetic pietists, in their wisdom, cast their eyes over it, and substantially p.r.o.nounce it a dead failure, a miserable production, a poor concern.--BOVEE.

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.--LOCKE.

Take this as a most certain expedient to prevent many afflictions, and to be delivered from them: meddle as little with the world, and the honors, places and advantages of them, as thou canst. And extricate thyself from them as much, and as quickly as possible.--FULLER.

There is no knowledge for which so great a price is paid as a knowledge of the world; and no one ever became an adept in it except at the expense of a hardened or wounded heart.--LADY BLESSINGTON.

A good man and a wise man may at times be angry with the world, at times grieved for it; but be sure no man was ever discontented with the world who did his duty in it.--SOUTHEY.

Thou must content thyself to see the world so imperfect as it is. Thou wilt never have any quiet if thou vexest thyself, because thou canst not bring mankind to that exact notion of things and rule of life which thou hast formed in thy own mind.--FULLER.

I am glad to think I am not bound to make the world go right, but only to discover and to do, with cheerful heart, the work that G.o.d appoints.--JEAN INGELOW.