CHARACTERISTICS OF. KEENNESS of. here; She has tied Ingratitude, my lord, is a nail which driven into the tree of courtesy, causes it to Sharp-tooth'd unkindness, like a vulture wither; it is a broken channel, by which the foundations of the affections are undermined; and a lump of soot, which falling into the dish of friendship, destroys its scent and flavour. Basil. THE WORST OF CRIMES. If there be a crime Of deeper dye than all the guilty train Of human vices, 'tis ingratitude. DETESTATION OF. Brooke. South. Look'd black upon me; struck me with More serpent-like, upon the very heart. To be strangled in the birth; not to be cher- There is not one vice incident to the mind of man against which the world has raised such a loud and universal outcry as against I could stand upright ingratitude. Against the tyranny of age and fortune; Nothing more detestable does the earth But the sad weight of such ingratitude produce than an ungrateful man. Will crush me into earth. PUBLIC. Ausonius. Denham. Shakespeare. FORGIVENESS OF. Ingratitude! thou marble-hearted fiend; child Donne. Injuries accompanied by insults are never forgiven, all men on these occasions, are good haters, and lay out their revenge at compound interest. PUNISHMENT OF. Colton. SLIGHTING of. INNOCENCE. Slight sma.linjuries and they will become A SACRED AMUlet. And trouble me; now nothing can do that O, innocence, the sacred amulet, To him that's truly valiant. He that is af- THE ARMOR of. fected With the least injury, is less than it. (SELF) TO BE Avoided. Johnson. A man should be careful never to tell tales of himself to his own disadvantage; people may be amused, and laugh at the time, but they will be remembered, and brought up against him upon some subsequent occasion. CAUSES OF. INJUSTICE. Johnson. I am arm'd with innocence, Madden. The noble sisters are immortal; their lofty forms are unchangeable, and their countenances are still radiant with the lights of Paradise. Novalis. CONSCIOUS. Against the head which innocence secures, Injustice arises either from precipitation or indolence, or from a mixture of both. I hope no other hope; who bears a spotless The rapid and the slow are seldom just; the unjust wait either not at all, or wait too long. Lavater. breast, Doth want no comfort else, howe'er distrest. I thank the Gods, no secret thoughts re- No; I dare challenge Heaven to turn me outward, And shake my soul quite empty in their A general fierceness dwells with innocence True, conscious honour, is to feel no sin; There is no courage, but in innocence, How the innocent, Unstain'd thoughts do seldom dream on Birds never limed, no secret bushes fear. fear. POWER OF. Her graceful innocence, her ev'ry air Ibid. POWER OF. In the nice bee what sense so subtly true By a divine instinct, men's minds distrust GIVEN BY PROVIDENCE. The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent. Newton. Every animal is providentially directed to the use of its proper weapon. Ray. INSTINCT AND REASON. BITTERNESS OF. INSULT. Milton. Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd, Ben Jonson. SPIRIT OF. Haliburton. INNOVATION. A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors. Burke. INSTINCT. DEFINITIONS OF. An instinct is a propensity prior to experience and independent of instruction. Paley. An instinct is a blind tendency to some mode of action, independent of any consideration on the part of the agent, of the end to which the action leads. Whateley. An instinct is an agent which performs bundly and ignorantly a work of intelligence and knowledge. Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart. INTEGRITY. Nothing more completely baffies one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another. Colton. THE. INTELLECT. The term intellect includes all those powers by which we acquire, retain and extend our knowledge, as perception, memory, imagination, judgment, etc. Fleming. DEVELOPMEnt of. Times of general calamnity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thun. derbolt is elicited from the darkest storm. Colton. NO LIMIT TO. God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side Sir W. Hamilton. of the grave. Bacon. Intercourse is after all man's best teacher. "Know thyself" is an excellent maxim; but even self-knowledge cannot be perfected in closets and cloisters-nor amid Roll'd up a hill by a weak child: I move A little up, and tumble back again. W. Rider. Like a man to double business bound. I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect. Shakespeare. EVILS OF. Irresolution is a worse vice than rashness. lake scenery, and on the sunny side of the He that shoots best may sometimes miss mountains. Men who seldom mix with their fellow-creatures are almost sure to be Wm. Matthews. one-sided-the victims of fixed ideas, that sometimes lead to insanity. A BOND OF LOVE. The kindly intercourse will ever prove A bond of amity and social love. Bloomfield. INTERRUPTION. I hope when you know the worst you You have displaced the mirth, broke the will at once leap into the river and swim good meeting By my troth I'll go with thee to the lane's eud. I am a kind of burr-I shall stick. They have been at a great feast of lanShakespeare.guages and stolen the scraps. Shakespeare. ANGUISH OF. JEALOUSY. That anxious torture may I never feel, Which doubtful, watches o'er a wandering heart. O, who that bitter torment can reveal, Ten thousand fears With hateful thoughts to languish and to DANGERS OF. And feed itself with self-consuming smart; art. But through the heart EASILY AROUSED. All jealousy Must be strangled in its birth, or time Davenant. Jealousy is the apprehension of superiority. Shenstone. LIVES ON DOUBTS. Jealousy lives on doubts; it becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty. La Rochefoucauld. EFFECTS Of. The rage of jealousy then fired his soul, And his face kindled like a burning coal; Now cold despair succeeding in her stead To livid paleness turns the glowing red. Dryden. FATAL EFFects of. |