No only signs of life, but sources of beauty. CEN 'ENTRES, or wooden frames, are put under the arches of a bridge, to remain no longer than till the latter are consolidated, then to be taken down and perhaps burned. So sinful pleasures are the Devil's scaffolding on which to build a habit; and, when that is once formed and fixed, the pleasures are sent for firewood and the hell begins in this life. Coleridge. I KNOW not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit as poisoning the sources of eternal truth. 225 TTTTTT OH, many a shaft at random sent Finds mark the archer never meant ; And many a word, at random spoken, Sir Walter Scott. A JUST and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of. It heightens all the virtues which it accompanies; like the shades of paintings, it raises and rounds every figure, and makes the colours more beautiful, though not so glowing as they would be without it. Addison. FORT `ORTUNE is like a market, where, many times, Bacon. THE 'HE fullest and best ears of corn hang lowest Bishop Reynolds. THE Carlyle. LIKE snow that falls where waters glide, They melt in Time's destroying tide, Smile forth with sweetest light. Leggett. S frost to the bud, or blight to the blossom, even such is self-interest to friendship; for confidence cannot dwell where selfishness is porter at the gate. THE Tupper. HE essence of true nobility is neglect of self. Let the thought of self pass in and the beauty of a great action is gone, like the bloom from a flower. THER 'HERE would not be so many open mouths if there were not so many open ears. Bishop Hall. T is ill with a nation when the cerebrum sucks the cerebellum dry-for it cannot live by intellect alone. The broad foreheads always carry the day at last, but only when they are based on or buttressed with massive hindheads. It would be easier to make a people great in whom the animal is vigorous, than to keep one so after it had begun to spindle into over-intellectuality. The hands that have grasped dominion and held it, have been large and hard; those from which it has slipped, delicate, and apt for the lyre and the pencil. Moreover, brain is always to be bought, but passion never comes to market. Lowell. THE 'HE passions of mankind are partly protective, partly beneficent, like the chaff and grain of the corn; but none without their use, none without nobleness, when seen in balanced unity with the rest of the spirit which they are charged to defend. Ruskin. 1525 CR 15252525 RIME and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens within the flower of the pleasure that concealed it. Emerson. STANDING in one of the many studii of Carrara —for it is a great workshop, full of beautifullyfinished copies in marble of almost every figure, group, and bust we know-it seemed, at first, so strange to me that those exquisite shapes, replete with grace, and thought, and delicate repose, should grow out of all this toil, and sweat, and torture! But I soon found a parallel to it, and an explanation of it, in every virtue that springs up in miserable ground, and every good thing that has its birth in sorrow and distress. Dickens. THE HE golden beams of truth, and the silken cords of love twisted together, will draw men on with a sweet violence whether they will or not. Cudworth. POETRY has been described as "a man's thoughts tinged by his feelings." 252525252T |