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All faiths are to their own believers just;
For none believe because they will, but must:
Faith is a force from which there's no defence,
Because the reason it does first convince;
And reason conscience into fetters brings,
And conscience is without the power of kings.
Dryden.

FAITH-in Divine Things.

In philosophy, where truth seems doublyfaced, there is no man more paradoxical than myself; but in divinity I love to keep the road; and though not in an implicit, yet an humble faith, follow the great wheel of the church, by which I move, not reserving any proper poles or motions from the epicycle of my own brain; by these means I leave no gap for heresy, schisms, or errors.

Sir Thomas Brown.

FAITH-in the Time of Trouble.

FAITH and HOPE.

A swallow in the spring

Came to our granary, and 'neath the eaves Essay'd to make her nest, and there did bring Wet earth, and straw, and leaves.

Day after day she toil'd

With patient art; but, ere her work was crown'd,

Some sad mishap the tiny fabric spoil'd,
And dash'd it to the ground,

She found the ruin wrought; Yet not cast down, forth from her place she flew,

And with her mate fresh earth and grasses brought,

And built her nest anew.

But scarcely had she placed

The last soft feather on its ample floor,
When wicked hands, or chance, again laid

waste,

And wrought the ruin o'er.

But still her heart she kept,

Although the fig tree shall not blossom, And toil'd again; and, last night hearing calls,

neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield Do meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls; yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will joy in the God of my salvation. Habakkuk.

FAITH-Want of.

When men cease to be faithful to their God, he who expects to find them so to each other, will be much disappointed. The primitive sincerity will accompany the primitive piety in her flight from the earth, and then interest i will succeed conscience in the regulation of human conduct, till one man cannot trust another further than he holds him by that tie: hence, by the way, it is, that although many are infidels themselves, yet few choose to have their families and dependents such; as judging -and rightly judging-that true Christians are the only persons to be depended on for the exact discharge of their social duties.

Bishop Horne. FAITH-the Root of Good Works. Faith is the root of all good works. A root that produces nothing is dead. Bishop Wilson.

FAITH-without Works.

Works without faith, are like a fish without water; it wants the element it should live in. A building without a basis cannot stand; faith is the foundation, and every good action is as a stone laid. Feltham.

I look'd, and lo! three little swallows slept
Within the earth-made walls.

What trust is here, O man!
Hath Hope been smitten in its early dawn?
Have clouds o'ercast thy purpose, trust, or
plan?

Southey.

Have faith, and struggle on! FAITH and WORKS. Therefore love and believe; for works will follow spontaneous, Even as the day does the sun: the right from the good is an offspring,

Love in a bodily shape; and Christian works are no more than

Animate faith and love, as flowers are the animate spring-tide. Longfellow. FALSEHOOD-Culpability of.

A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found. I am for fumigating the atmosphere, when I suspect that falsehood, like pestilence, breathes around me. Carlyle.

FALSEHOOD-Illimitable in its Effects. Every lie, great or small, is the brink of a precipice, the depth of which nothing but Omniscience can fathom. Reade. FALSEHOOD-Mischiefs of.

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth; and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not

FALSEHOOD.

wholly wrong, as no watches so effectually deceive the wearers as those that are sometimes right. Colton. FALSEHOOD and DISSIMULATION -Evil of.

Whatsoever convenience may be thought to be in falsehood and dissimulation, it is soon over; but the inconvenience of it is perpetual, because it brings a man under an everlasting jealousy and suspicion, so that he is not believed when he speaks truth, nor trusted, when perhaps he means honestly. When a man hath once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast, and nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood.

Steele.

FAME-the Spur to Action. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise

(That last infirmity of noble minds)

To scorn delights and live laborious days;
But the fair guerdon when we hope to find,
And think to burst out into sudden blaze,
Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred
shears,

And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise;

Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil,
Nor in the glistering foil

Set off to th' world, nor in broad rumour lies,
But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes,
And perfect witness of all-judging Jove;
As he pronounces lastly on each deed,

Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed.
Milton.

FAME-Aspirations of.

Who, that surveys this span of earth we press, This speck of life in Time's great wilderness, This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas, The past, the future, two eternities !-

Would sully the bright spot, or leave it bare, When he might build him a proud temple

there;

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FAME-Difficulties of.

How constantly has mortification accompanied triumph: with what secret sorrow has that praise been received from strangers, denied to us by our friends. Nothing astonishes me more than the envy which attends literary fame, and the unkindly depreciation which waits upon the writer. Of every species of fame, it is the most ideal and apart: it would seem to interfere with no one. It is bought by a life of labour; generally, also, of seclusion and privation. It asks its honours only from all that is most touching and most elevated in humanity. What is the reward that it craves?-to lighten many a solitary hour, and to spiritualize a world, that were else too material. What is the requital that the Athenians of the earth give to those who have struggled through the stormy water, and the dark night, for their applause?-Both reproach and scorn. If the author have-and why should he be exempt from-the faults of his kind, with what greedy readiness are they seized upon and exaggerated! How! ready is the sneer against his weakness or his error! What hours of feverish misery have been passed, what bitter tears have been shed, over the unjust censure, and the personal sarcasm! The imaginative feel such wrong far beyond what those of less sensitive tem perament can dream. L. E. Landon. I

FAME-acquired by Acts of Duty.
What shall I do to be for ever known?

Thy duty ever.

This did full many who yet sleep unknownOh, never never!

Think'st thou, perchance, that they remain FAME-Over-care for. unknown,

Whom thou know'st not?

It is a very indiscreet and troublesome ambition which cares so much about fame; about

By angel-trumps in heaven their praise is what the world says of us; to be always blown ;

Divine their lot.

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Shakspeare.

looking in the faces of others for approval; to be always anxious about the effect of what we do or say; to be always shouting, to hear the echoes of our own voices. Longfellow.

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Fame to our ashes comes, alas! too late:
And praise smells rank upon the coffin plate.
Martial.

FAME-Animating Power of.

O! who shall lightly say, that Fame
Is nothing but an empty name!
Whilst in that sound there is a charm
The nerves to brace, the heart to warm;
As, thinking of the mighty dead,

The young from slothful couch will start,
And vow,
with lifted hands outspread,
Like them to act a noble part?
O! who shall lightly say that Fame
Is nothing but an empty name!
When, but for those, our mighty dead,
All ages past a blank would be,
Sunk in oblivion's murky bed,

A desert bare, a shipless sea?
They are the distant objects seen,-
The lofty marks of what hath been.
O! who shall lightly say that Fame
Is nothing but an empty name!
When memory of the mighty dead
To earth-worn pilgrim's wistful eye
The brightest rays of cheering shed,

That point to immortality? Joanna Baillie.

FAME-Way to Silence.

Fame may be compared to a scold; the best way to silence her is to let her alone, and she will at last be out of breath in blowing her own trumpet. Fuller.

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FAME.

On both his wings, one black, the other white,
Bears greatest names in his wild airy flight.

Milton.

Some when they die, die all: their mould'ring clay

Is but an emblem of their memories:

FANATICISM.

being the nursery, becomes the grave of the
heart.
W. Ellery Channing.

FAMILY-A Well-regulated.

To see a well-regulated family acting as if they were one body informed by one soul; to see those who are embarked together in one

The space quite closes up through which they bottom, whose interests are inseparably united, pass'd.

That I have lived, I leave a mark behind
Shall pluck the shining age from vulgar time,
And give it whole to late posterity. Young.

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The most lasting families have only their seasons, more or less, of a certain constitutional strength. They have their Spring and Summer sunshine glare, their wane, decline, and death; they flourish and shine, perhaps, for ages; at last they sicken: their light grows pale, and, at a crisis when the offsets are withered, and the old stock is blasted, the whole tribe disappears. There are limits ordained to everything under the sun. Man will not abide in honour. Of all human vanities, family-pride is one of the weakest. Reader, go thy way; secure thy name in the Book of Life, where the page fades not, nor the title alters nor expires-leave the rest to heralds and the parish register. Borlase.

FAMILIES-Ties of.

The ties of family and of country were never intended to circumscribe the soul. Man is connected at birth with a few beings, that the spirit of humanity may be called forth by their tenderness; and, whenever domestic or national attachments become exclusive, engrossing, clannish, so as to shut out the general claims of the human race, the highest end of Providence is frustrated, and home, instead of

and, therefore, whose hearts ought to be so too, acting in concert, adopting each other's cares, and making them their own, uniting their friendly beams, and jointly promoting the common happiness, is a beautiful scene, and amiable even in the sight of that Being who maketh men to be of one mind in a house. hearted cheerfulness, to whom we can discharge To have those who will receive us with an operthe fulness of the soul, to whom we can unburden our cares; and by unburdening we lessen them; (for sorrow, like a stream, grows weaker, by being divided into several channels :) to have those, with whom we can share our joys; (and joy, like light, by communicating grows greater, and burns brighter;) this is a happiness, which a forlorn individual must be in a great measure a stranger to, who stands single in life, without any support to lean upon. Seed.

FAMINE-Horrors of.

Famine so fierce that what's denied men's use,
Ev'n deadly plants, and herbs of poisonous
juice,

Wild hunger eat; and to prolong our breath,
We greedily devour our certain death.
The soldier in th' assault of famine falls,
And ghosts, not men, are watching on the
walls.
Dryden.

This famine has a sharp and meagre face;
'Tis death in an undress of skin and bone,
Where age and youth, their landmark ta'en
Ibid.

away,

Look all one common sorrow.

FAN-Sentimentality of a.

There is an infinite variety of motions to be made use of in the flutter of a fan. There is the angry flutter, the modest flutter, the timorous flutter, the confused flutter, the merry flutter, and the amorous flutter. Not to be tedious, there is scarce any emotion in the mind which does not produce a suitable agitation in the fan; insomuch, that if I only see the fan of a disciplined lady, I know very well whether she laughs, frowns, or blushes.

Addison FANATICISM-in the 16th Century. In Paris the close of Lent was a stimulus to the prevailing excitement. A series of pro cessions took place which were begun, inno

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cently enough, by children, girls and boys, who walked two by two, with tapers, chanting hymns and litanies prepared for them by the priests. Then came parish processions in which all the parishioners of whatever age, sex, or quality, joined; some of the most devout walking to do penance as though in their shifts. Still a new impetus was wanting. It was necessary to warm the popular heart by a great theatrical display. A priest came forward and declared that in these processions over the hard pavements of Paris, nothing could be more meritorious, nothing more agreeable to God, than that women should walk with their delicate little fect bare, however it might cause them to suffer. Immediately, many an enthusiastic young girl devoted herself to this new mortification, and appeared, not with bare feet only, but almost naked-wearing only a slight linen drapery, not too carefully covering her form. These weeping and dishevelled Magdalenes produced more laughter than edification. At length, the Duchess of Montpensier, the Judith of the League, decided to act her part without hesitation. She abandoned robes and petticoats, and dispensed with the light drapery of the penitents, even over her bosom, with the exception of a simple veil of lace. The people rushed to see her. Crowded and pressed, the heroine was by no means disconcerted. She had set the fashion. Matrons and maidens followed it. Michelet.

FANATICISM-Definition of.

Fanaticism is such an overwhelming impression of the ideas relating to the future world as disqualifies for the duties of life.

Robert Hall.

FANATICISM-Fatal Hold of.

And they believe him-oh, the lover may Distrust that look which steals his heart

away;

The babe may cease to think that it may play
With heaven's rainbow; alchemists may doubt
The shining gold their crucible gives out;-
But faith, fanatic faith, once wedded fast
To some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last.
Moore.

FANATICISM-Demon Spirit of.

Demons, who impair

The strength of better thoughts, and seek their prey

In melancholy bosoms, such as were
Of moody texture from their earliest day,
And loved to dwell in darkness and dismay,
Deeming themselves predestined to a doom
Which is not of the pangs that pass away;

Making the sun like blood, the earth a tomb, The tomb a hell, and hell itself a murkier gloom. Byron.

FANCY-Characteristics of.
Lovers, and madmen, have such seething
brains,

Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet,
More than cool reason ever comprehends.
One sees more devils than vast hell can hold;
Are of imagination all compact:
That is, the madman: the lover all as frantic,
Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt:
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth

to heaven;

And, as imagination bodies forth
Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
A local habitation and a name.
nothing
That, if it would but apprehend some joy,
Such tricks hath strong imagination,
It comprehends some bringer of that joy;
Or, in the night, imagining some fear,
How easy is a bush supposed a bear!

FANCY-Fantasies of.

Shakspeare.

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FANCY-Illusions of.

Where'er we turn, by fancy charm'd, we find
Some sweet illusion of th' created mind.
Oft, wild of wing, she calls the soul to rove
With humbler nature, in the rural grove,
Where swains contented own the quiet scene,
And twilight fairies tread the circled green.
Dress'd by her hand, the woods and valleys
smile,

And spring diffusive decks the enchanted isle.
Collins.

FANCY-Imaginings of.

Her fancy follow'd him through foaming waves, To distant shores, and she would sit and weep

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