Pearls of Thought

ardly be such strong agents unless they were taken in a solvent of feeling. The great world-struggle of developing thoug

ansformed sensat

deas, and newspapers are our

ence becomes a flower in the other, and a flower again dwindles down to a mere weed by the same change. Healthy growths may become poi

which sculptors put in their statu

dices, and new ones

rfluous ideas abound and essent

en do not have them unti

t in proportion to the size of the box w

ce vice or malevolence, it commonl

beggary, and the root

e is perpetual d

with a deal of

as a palsy is more to be dreaded than a fever. The Turks have a proverb, which sa

ithout intelligible reason; to be going anywhere when met; to be about many places rather than any; to do nothin

of weak minds, and the hol

e sins of wantonness, softness, and effeminacy are prevented

and the bow of Cupid will become br

reat number of things, in order to avoid the cala

amity like igno

multitude of believers, in a crowd where the number of fools so much exce

tigates a fault, is, in literat

graciously left to a vicious government is either to fall by the people, if they are suff

ignorance is the malad

man's degradation is hi

g, but when it prescribes pills it ma

gle's wings and an owl'

produced; it is a vacuity in which the soul sits mo

every new illusion; in maturer years,

first of all ple

ive in some form or other, for images

n very easily, whether we will or no, and can so return as to bring seven other s

without learning has wi

not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or f

tors are a servi

ways to enter into artificial ones;

e!" So bragged the ape to the fox. But the fox replied, "And do thou

penetrating into the future; when I behold such a number of arts and sciences, and such a multitude of discoveries thence a

desires, and animates, is something celestial,

spired, cannot together perish

ut the souls of the righteous a

arth again, and heaven-born things fly

new life, and so does

er to the plague, fear into despair, anger into rage, lo

d a fool is, the former only wishes for what he may possi

nts of your fathers. The world is

y have no other model but them

es, depends, we say, on Providence. Suppose

small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large

they live as if they thought there was none: their vows

eir own lies opaque while everybody else's are transparent, making themselves exceptions to eve

e catching cour

an appear so contemptible and little in th

reserving the body like hav

invincible giant o

cide. Unpleasant feelings of the body produce correspondent sensations in the mind, and a great s

ill light up an era, and there are believing women in whose ey

be spared and respected as the

y of reformers to initiate the epoch of association. Colle

ide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though

dolence, and ther

te are golden

, conquering and to conquer. But how often is he at last overcome

ike laziness.-

to be happy before beco

than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at

for mental acquisition. To have the

nability to do or to be,-insincerity, unbelief. He who believes no thing, who believ

efied to nothing by the air-pump of unbelief; in which the panting

fficulties are more pressing on that side which is destitute of proof, I desire to know whet

fidelity is sen

once convince profligates by topics drawn from the view of their own qu

erything valuable has a compensating power. Not a blade of grass that withers, or the

s are; waste no time in learning them. Fast

led by what seems absurd, but let him consecrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not d

the life of any man or woman, I shall feel

awful problem of life. The country soothes us, refres

t minds do indeed react on the society which has made them what they a

temper, which controls without seeming to dictate. The

and fatten upon the acorns beneath the oak, but show to the tree which bore them no

o the goodness of our Creator is the v

ubserves the justice of God, and

k may make a mill

ink; though thou write with a go

that waits upon th

that the wide sea hath drops too few

ing's high road, and my means

ed without that's i

rage but in inn

l his thoughts and actions to the law, would not

hich only increases the weight of the chains it c

the disgust excited by false humanity, canting

mpire; our ordinary life borders upon it, and we cr

e of inspiration? After our subtlest analysis of the mental process, we must still

nthusiasm.-M

be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom a

ior of animals as religion do

generous, heroical; reflection w

rior to experience, and indep

ves insulted. If a man treads on another's toe in good societ

ury. I hope some day to meet the man who

stes, to say nothing of the rest, is that of irritating and exasperating men against each other by viol

l retail dealer trades only with his neighbor; when the great merch

directed by enlightened intellect, have a boundless scope for gratification; t

itated courts and revolutionized kingdoms; like the moon which, though far removed from the ocean, and shining upon it with a serene

and even bayonet

times fatal. It is a torch or a fire-brand accord

terday, weighs down the mind together with itself, and fix

a great decayer

o hard, and rallies so ofte

urse of every age an

lunts its edge. Even when the denunciation is just and tru

of the other advantages common to her sisters, and being warmed

ich have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory. Nothing can be made of

hen one gentleman thinks another gentleman an ass, he does not say it poin

ll can never hit it. Irresolution loosens all the joints of a state; like an ague, it shakes not this nor that limb, but all the body

lves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them,

soup grow cold between the p

us to take a step as much too s

g rolled up the wrong way, tormentin

ng man can raise is the iv

gh stone. Its clinging and beautiful tenacity has given rise to an abundance of conceits about fidelity, friendship, and woman's love, which have become commonplace simply from their appropriateness. It migh

nzy dictates, jeal

glasses which make little things large, of

upon itself, born o

t love, but it angers them when a man they

inds more than he look

ove, as the devil is the br

hat jump about among the slu

t when the wit is the f

itterness. Certainly, he that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh othe

man was made, jewels were invented only to m

ey are able to oblige the prince of their country by lending him money; none of them beg; they

ompared with which Stonehenge is in its n

m sunshine, and the

which peasants sing, full of m

poor miser, beggar'd

hen we hunt after the raptur

est of wine.

s in the west, or towards the evening sky; but in the latter hours of

one judges, the les

man in a case in which his own

grand jurymen since before N

hem, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems t

eth, and easily sinneth; but in judging and examining

ution judgment hath repented

ce, but an accident alone, here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed s

easant, when saved from falling on one

but posterity never. The tribunal of the present is accessi

knows little of the laws of evidence who has not studied the unwritten law of the human heart; and without this

who frame their hasty judgment

t what is in conformity with justice shall

is justice den

ften escapes from its slowness. Its tardy and doubtfu

ruth in acti

an. When we are in other scenes we may have truer and nobler ideas of it; but while w

will, but hear

t and honesty, He saw to it that justice should b

geous glare obtained by polluted hands, she is wont to draw nigh to holiness, not reverencing

s slow but sure.

s there?" Justice is like the kingdom of God-it is not without

e weighs and decides, polity surveys and orders; justice

ady enough to do the Samaritan withou

n to all kind h

and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings.

a valuable part of the

s conferred is little less t

tted to the aged; it is the coqu

remembrances will grow

come so is to make themselves beloved by the people. This maxim is doubtless a very adm

on are the last arguments to wh

the throne itself; under its lofty ruins he alone

s is, that nature disapproves it; otherwise she would not so frequently turn

sceptre knows not the weight

f, and mellows into right; and power which in one age is

xists, and always will exist. Depend upon it, Eve learned it in Paradise, and was taught its bea

ed kisses after

the cup, and I'll not l

iful lips! Man's usual fate-he was los

the first kiss

foot or two from our faces, kisses at any rate would be done for. N

g, that last glance of love which becomes

re always sweet

of the falcon's be

ne undying affection,-these are love's

stible as the invention of knaves. They never give peop

I affirm, before God, I never knew

s priests are well clothed; ever

at education, at culture, at book learning, which is the recorded wisdom of the experience of mankind,

must be "experienced," in

, which showeth well that they be but deceits of pleasure, and not pleasures; and that it was the novelty which pleased, not the quality; and therefore we see that volup

ony where everything is known, and lo

e confers; and the means they employ to secure this superiority are as wrong as the ultimate objec

h has much to ca

s yet all a hypothesis of knowledge; a thing to be argued of in schools; a thing f

knowledge increas

to the memory. That which a man truly knows may be disposed of without rega

o as continually to acquire new, he m

e mind, and is the only way to give the understanding its

t lesson, that difference of nation does not imply necessary hostility, and that all contact need not be war. The whole world is becoming a common fiel

faint light beyond its own i

is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to remount to f

st mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth; the

lanted in solitude, but must b

th thoughts of other men; Wisdom, in

never loses. On the contrary, it increases by the multiple of its own power; all

s almost a warrant against the infirm e

nconsiderable, that I would not

purpose, and when the seal of the irreparabl

owledge positive, but knowledge comparative, and subjec