not all its treasures; they left a great deal for the industry and sagacity of after-ages. —Locke.
Angels.– In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction: a hand is put in theirs, which leads them forth gently towards a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward; and the hand may be a little child's. —George Eliot.
Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep. —Milton.
Anger.– If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wrong, but the coals are. —Beecher.
Temperate anger well becomes the wise. —Philemon.
When anger rushes, unrestrained, to action, like a hot steed, it stumbles in its way. —Savage.
Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are bitterer than to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim. —Charles Buxton.
Above all, gentlemen, no heat. —Talleyrand.
Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge. —Bulwer-Lytton.
Keep cool and you command everybody. —St. Just.
I never work better than when I am inspired by anger; when I am angry I can write, pray, and preach well; for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart. —Luther.
When one is in a good sound rage, it is astonishing how calm one can be. —Bulwer-Lytton.
Angling.– I give up fly-fishing; it is a light, volatile, dissipated pursuit. But ground-bait with a good steady float that never bobs without a bite is an occupation for a bishop, and in no way interferes with sermon-making. —Sydney Smith.
He that reads Plutarch shall find that angling was not contemptible in the days of Mark Antony and Cleopatra. —Izaak Walton.
Idle time not idly spent. —Sir Henry Wotton.
To see the fish cut with her golden oars the silver stream and greedily devour the treacherous bait. —Shakespeare.
Anticipation.– It has been well said that no man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when to-morrow's burden is added to the burden of to-day that the weight is more than a man can bear. —George MacDonald.
The craving for a delicate fruit is pleasanter than the fruit itself. —Herder.
The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with fruition. In the first instance, we cook the dish to our own appetite; in the latter, nature cooks it for us. —Goldsmith.
We are apt to rely upon future prospects, and become really expensive while we are only rich in possibility. We live up to our expectations, not to our possessions, and make a figure proportionable to what we may be, not what we are. We outrun our present income, as not doubting to disburse ourselves out of the profits of some future place, project, or reversion that we have in view. —Addison.
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. —George Eliot.
Antiquarian.– A thorough-paced antiquarian not only remembers what all other people have thought proper to forget, but he also forgets what all other people think it proper to remember. —Colton.
The earliest and the longest has still the mastery over us. —George Eliot.
Antithesis.– Young people are dazzled by the brilliancy of antithesis, and employ it. —Bruyère.
Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk, and truth the root. —Colton.
Apology.– An apology in the original sense was a pleading off from some charge or imputation, by explaining or defending principles or conduct. It therefore amounted to a vindication. —Crabbe.
Brother, brother, we are both in the wrong. —Gay.
Apothegms.– Nor do apothegms only serve for ornament and delight, but also for action and civil use, as being the edge tools of speech, which cut and penetrate the knots of business and affairs. —Bacon.
Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms, and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism. —Coleridge.
Proverbs are potted wisdom. —Charles Buxton.
Appeal.– Seeing all men are not Œdipuses to read the riddle of another man's inside, and most men judge by appearances, it behooves a man to barter for a good esteem, even from his clothes and outside. We guess the goodness of the pasture by the mantle we see it wears. —Feltham.
Appearances.– It is the appearances that fill the scene; and we pause not to ask of what realities they are the proxies. When the actor of Athens moved all hearts as he clasped the burial urn, and burst into broken sobs, how few then knew that it held the ashes of his son! —Bulwer-Lytton.
What waste, what misery, what bankruptcy, come from all this ambition to dazzle others with the glare of apparent worldly success, we need not describe. The mischievous results show themselves in a thousand ways – in the rank frauds committed by men who dare to be dishonest, but do not dare to seem poor; and in the desperate dashes at fortune, in which the pity is not so much for those who fail, as for the hundreds of innocent families who are so often involved in their ruin. —Samuel Smiles.
Foolish men mistake transitory semblances for eternal fact, and go astray more and more. —Carlyle.
What is a good appearance? It is not being pompous and starchy; for proud looks lose hearts, and gentle words win them. It is not wearing fine clothes; for such dressing tells the world that the outside is the better part of the man. You cannot judge a horse by his harness; but a modest, gentlemanly appearance, in which the dress is such as no one could comment upon, is the right and most desirable thing. —Spurgeon.
He was a man who stole the livery of the court of heaven to serve the devil in. —Pollok.
I more and more see this, that we judge men's abilities less from what they say or do, than from what they look. 'T is the man's face that gives him weight. His doings help, but not more than his brow. —Charles Buxton.
Appetite.– Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind very studiously; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind this, will hardly mind anything else. —Johnson.
Here's neither want of appetite nor mouths; pray Heaven we be not scant of meat or mirth. —Shakespeare.
This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men. —Izaak Walton.
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