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All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn, led yellow Autumn, wreathed with nodding corn.-Burns.

As fall the light autumnal leaves, one still the other following, till the bough strews all its honors.-Dante.

Autumn nodding o'er the yellow plain.Thomson.

Who is there who, at this season, does not feel his mind impressed with a sentiment of melancholy? or who is able to resist that current of thought, which, from such appearances of decay, so naturally leads him to the solemn imagination of that inevitable fate which is to bring on alike the decay of life, of empire, and of nature itself?-Sir A. Alison.

Wild is the music of autumnal winds amongst the faded woods.- Wordsworth.

The year growing ancient, not yet on summer's death, nor on the birth of trembling winter.-Shakespeare.

However constant the visitations of sickness and bereavement, the fall of the year is most thickly strewn with the fall of human life. Everywhere the spirit of some sad power seems to direct the time: it hides from us the blue heavens, it makes the green wave turbid; it walks through the fields, and lays the damp ungathered harvest low; it cries out in the night wind and the shrill hail; it steals the summer bloom from the infant cheek; it makes old age shiver to the heart; it goes to the churchyard, and chooses many a grave.

James Martineau.

It is surely very narrow policy that supposes money to be the chief good.—Johnson.

Had covetous men, as the fable goes of Briareus, each of them one hundred hands, they would all of them be employed in grasping and gathering, and hardly one of them in giving or laying out, but all in receiving, and none in restoring; a thing in itself so monstrous, that nothing in nature besides is like it, except it be death and the grave, - the only things I know which are always carrying off the spoils of the world, and never making restitution. For otherwise all the parts of the universe, as they borrow of one another, so they still pay what they borrow, and that by so just and well-balanced an equality that their payments always keep pace with their receipts.— Dryden.

Avarice is more opposite to economy than liberality.-Rochefoucauld.

Many have been ruined by their fortunes; many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it, the great have become little, and the little great.-Zimmermann.

How quickly nature falls into revolt when gold becomes her object!-Shakespeare.

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He who is always in a hurry to be wealthy

The melancholy days are come, the saddest and immersed in the study of augmenting his of the year.-Bryant.

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fortune, has lost the arms of reason and deserted the post of virtuc.-Horace.

Avarice increases with the increasing pile of gold.—Juvenal.

Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice; whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born.—Shenstone.

Poverty is in want of much, but avarice of everything.-Publius Syrus.

Parsimony is enough to make the master of the golden mines as poor as he that has nothing; for a man may be brought to a morsel of bread by parsimony as well as profusion

Heny Home. Avarice is the miser s dream, as fame is the poct's.-Hazlitt.

Because men believe not Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard They do not believe any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing -Barrow.

It may be remarked, for the comfort of honest poverty, that avarice reigns most in those who have but few good qualities to recommend them. This is a weed that will grow only in a barren soil.-Hughes.

Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.-Seneca.

For the love of money is the root of all evil. Bible.

When a miser contents himself with giving nothing, and saving what he has got, and is in other respects guilty of no injustice, he is, perhaps, of all bad men the least injurious to society; the evil he does is properly nothing more than the omission of the good he might do. If, of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested, it is the effect of an avidity common to all men; it is because men hate those from whom they can expect nothing. The greedy misers rail at sordid misers.

Helvetius.

To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion, is to add hypocrisy to injustice. Lamb.

The objects of avarice and ambition differ only in their greatness. A miser is as furious about a halfpenny, as the man of ambition about the conquest of a kingdom.-Adam Smith.

O cursed hunger of pernicious gold!-Dryden.

Avarice, in old age, is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road, the nearer we approach to our journey's end?-Cicero.

Avarice is the most opposite of all characters to that of God Almighty, whose alone it is to give and not receive.-Shenstone.

The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchre of all his other passions, as they successively decay. But unlike other tombs, it is enlarged by repletion and strengthened by age.-Colton.

The avaricious man is like the barren, sandy ground of the desert, which sucks in all the rain and dews with greediness, but yields no fruitful herbs or plants for the benefit of others.-Zeno.

O cursed lust of gold! when for thy sake the fool throws up his interest in both worlds, - first starved in this, then damned in that to come.-Blair.

A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.—Swift.

Extreme avarice almost always makes mistakes. There is no passion that oftener misses its aim; nor on which the present has so much influence, in prejudice of the future.— Rochefoucauld.

To me avarice seems not so much a vice as a deplorable piece of madness.Sir Thomas Browne.

Avarice has ruined more men than prodigality, and the blindest thoughtlessness of expenditure has not destroyed so many fortunes as the calculating but insatiable lust of accumulation.-Colton.

Avarice is insatiable and is always pushing on for more.-L'Estrange.

Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children, and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it.—Colton.

In plain truth, it is not want, but rather abundance, that creates avarice.-Montaigne.

Avarice often produces opposite effects; there is an infinite number of people who sacrifice all their property to doubtful and distant expectations; others despise great future advantages to obtain present interests of a trifling nature.

Rochefoucauld.

It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in.—Beecher.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.-Cowley.

Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice; other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind. That which soothes the pride of one will offend the pride of another; but to the favor of the covetous bring money, and nothing is denied.-Johnson.

Avarice is to the intellect what sensuality is to the morals.-Mrs. Jameson.

All the good things of this world are no further good to us than as they are of use; and whatever we may heap up to give to others, we enjoy only as much as we can use, and no more. De Foe.

The character of covetousness is what a AWKWARDNESS. man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in littie and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.-Pope.

Awkwardness is a more real disadvantage than it is generally thought to be; it often occasions ridicule, it always lessens dignity

Chesterfield.

BABE.

It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life. Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.-Hare.

A babe is a mother's anchor.-Beecher.

A babe in a house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a restingplace for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men.-Tupper.

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The coarsest father gains a new impulse to labor from the moment of his baby's birth; he scarcely sees it when awake, and yet it is with him all the time. Every stroke he strikes is for his child. New social aims, new moral motives, come vaguely up to him.-T.W.Higginson.

A sweet new blossom of humanity, fresh fallen from God's own home to flower on earth.Gerald Massey.

Welcome to the parents the puny struggler, strong in his weakness, his little arms more irresistible than the soldier's, his lips touched with persuasion which Chatham and Pericles in

manhood had not. His unaffected lamentations when he lifts up his voice on high, or, more beautiful, the sobbing child, — the face all liquid grief, as he tries to swallow his vexation, soften all hearts to pity and to mirthful and clamorous compassion.-Emerson.

Fragile beginnings of a mighty end.Mrs. Norton. Those who have lost an infant are never, as it were, without an infant child. Their other children grow up to manhood and womanhood, and suffer all the changes of mortality; but this one alone is rendered an immortal child; for death has arrested it with his kindly harshness, and blessed it into an eternal image of youth and innocence.-Leigh Hunt.

Good Christian people, here lies for you an inestimable loan; take all heed thereof, in all carefulness employ it; with high recompense, or else with heavy penalty will it one day be required back.-Carlyle.

Of all the joys that brighten suffering earth, what joy is welcomed like a new-born child?Mrs. Norton. BACHELOR.

I have no wife or children, good or bad, to provide for: a mere spectator of other men's fortunes and adventures, and how they play their parts; which, methinks, are diversely presented unto me, as from a common theatre or scene.-Burton.

A man unattached and without wife, if he have any genius at all, may raise himself above his original position, may mingle with the world of fashion, and hold himself on a level with the highest; this is less easy for him who is engaged; it seems as if marriage put the whole world in their proper rank.-Bruyère.

BALLADS.

Vocal portraits of the national mind.—

Lamb.

A well-composed song strikes the mind and softens the feelings, and produces a greater effect than a moral work, which convinces our reason, but does not warm our feelings, nor effect the slightest alteration in our habits.—

Napoleon.

Give me the writing of the ballads, and you make the laws.-Fletcher of Saltoun.

Ballads are the gypsy childen of song, born under green hedgerows, in the leafy lanes and by-paths of literature, in the genial summertime.-Longfellow.

BARGAIN.

I will give thrice so much land to any welldeserving friend; but in the way of bargain, mark me, I will cavil on the ninth part of a hair.-Shakespeare.

BASENESS.

Every base occupation makes one sharp in its practice, and dull in every other.Sir P. Sidney.

There is a law of neutralization of forces, which hinders bodies from sinking beyond a certain depth in the sea; but in the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sink ing.-Lowell.

Some kinds of baseness are nobly undergone. Shakespeare. BASHFULNESS.

Conceit not so high a notion of any as to be bashful and impotent in their presence.Fuller.

As those that pull down private houses adjoining to the temples of the gods prop up such parts as are contiguous to them, so, in undermining bashfulness, due regard is to be had to adjacent modesty, good-nature, and humanity. Plutarch.

The bashful virgin's sidelong look of love.Goldsmith.

Bashfulness is more frequently connected with good sense than we find assurance; and impudence, on the other hand, is often the mere effect of downright stupidity.-Shenstone.

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The fame of a battle-field grows with its Beauty is a fairy; sometimes she hides heryears; Napoleon storming the Bridge of Lodi, self in a flower-cup, or under a leaf, or creeps and Wellington surveying the towers of Sala- into the old ivy, and plays hide-and-seek with manca, affect us with fainter emotions than the sunbeams, or haunts some ruined spot, or Brutus reading in his tent at Philippi, or Rich-laughs out of a bright young face.-G. A. Sala. ard bearing down with the English chivalry upon the white armies of Saladin.- Willmott.

Troops of heroes undistinguished die.—
Addison.

It was a goodly sight to see the embattled pomp, as with the step of stateliness the barbed steeds came on, to see the pennons rolling their long waves before the gale, and banners, broad and bright, tossing their blazonry.-Southey.

When Greeks joined Greeks, then was the tug of war. The labored battle sweat and conquest bled.-D. K. Lee.

BEARD.

He that hath a beard is more than a youth; and he that hath none is less than a man.Shakespeare. Such a beard as youth gone out had left in ashes.-Tennyson.

Beauty is like an almanac; if it last a year it is well.-Rev. T. Adams.

Gaze not on beauty too much, lest it blast thee; nor too long, lest it blind thee; nor too near, lest it burn thee. If thou like it, it deceives thee; if thou love it, it disturbs thee; if thou hunt after it, it destroys thee. If virtue accompany it, it is the heart's paradise; if vice associate it, it is the soul's purgatory. It is the wise man's bonfire, and the fool's furnace.

Quarles.

In days of yore nothing was holy but the beautiful.-Schiller.

Sometimes there are living beings in nature as beautiful as in romance. Reality surpasses imagination; and we see breathing, brightening, and moving before our eyes sights dearer to our hearts than any we ever beheld in the land of sleep.-Jane Austen.

The rose is fair, but fairer we it deem for that sweet odor which doth in it live.

Shakespeare.

Beauty in a modest woman is like fire at a distance, or like a sharp sword; neither doth the one burn, nor the other wound those that come not too near them.-Cervantes.

That is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot express.-Bacon.

Beauty has so many charms, one knows not how to speak against it; and when it happens that a graceful figure is the habitation of a virtuous soul, when the beauty of the face speaks out the modesty and humility of the mind, and the justness of the proportion raises our thoughts up to the heart and wisdom of the great Creator, something may be allowed it, and something to the embellishments which set it off; and yet, when the whole apology is read, it will be found at last that beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest.-Sterne.

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Beauty is no local deity, like the Greek and Roman gods, but omnipresent.-Bartol.

In the true mythology, Love is an immortal child, and Beauty leads him as a guide; nor can we express a deeper sense than when we say, Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.Emerson.

Lovely sweetness is the noblest power of woman, and is far fitter to prevail by parley than by battle.-Sir P. Sidney.

A flower that dies when first it begins to bud.
Shakespeare.

No man receives the true culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished; and I know of no condition in life from which it should be excluded. Of all luxuries this is cheapest and the most at hand; and it seems to me to be the most important to those conditions where coarse labor tends to give a grossness to the mind.—Channing.

Might but the sense of moral evil be as strong in me as is my delight in external beauty! Dr. Arnold.

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Beauty can give an edge to the bluntest sword.-Sir P. Sidney.

The beautiful is a manifestation of secret laws of nature, which, but for this appearance, had been forever concealed from us.-Goethe.

Beauty is an all-pervading presence. It unfolds to the numberless flowers of the spring; it waves in the branches of the trees and the green blades of grass; it haunts the depths of the earth and the sea, and gleams out in the hues of the shell and the precious stone. And not only these minute objects, but the ocean, the mountains, the clouds, the heavens, the stars, the rising and setting sun, all overflow with beauty.-Channing.

A beautiful woman is the hell of the soul, the purgatory of the purse, and the paradise of the eyes.-Fontenelle.

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