BEGETS OTHERS. A lie must be thatched with another, or it will soon rain through. Owen. He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one. Pope. SOURCE OF CRIME. No villainy or flagitious action was ever yet committed but, upon a due enquiry into the causes of it, it will be found that a lie was first or last the principal engine to effect it. South. DEFINITION OF A. A lie has no legs and cannot stand; but it has wings, and can fly far and wide. Warburton. A BREACH OF PROMISE. A lie is a breach of promise: for whoever seriously addresses his discourse to another tacitly promises to speak the truth, because he knows that truth is expected. TREATMENT OF A. Paley When first found in a lie, talk to him of it as a strange, monstrous matter, and so shame him out of it. Locke. VIGOR OF A. When once the world has got hold of a lie it is astonishing how hard it is to get it out of the world. You beat it about the head, and it seems to have given up the ghost; and lo! the next day-like Zachary Taylor, who did not know when he was whipped by Santa Anna-it is alive, and as lusty as ever. Wm. Matthews. Burns. Ibid. LIFE. O life, thou nothing's younger brother! Is a more solid thing than thou! Cowley. With some new joys, cuts off what we possest. Dryden. Life is a warfare. Life is a navigation. Seneca. Life is as tedious as a twice told tale Thy life's a miracle. Ibid. AWFULNESS OF. 239 Oft in my way have I THE BEST. Wordsworth. We live in deeds, not years-in thoughts, not breaths In feeling, not in figures on a dial We count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. Bailey. The best part of one's life is the performance of his daily duties. All higher moShakespeare. tives, ideals, conceptions, sentiments in a man are of no account if they do not come Ibid. forward to strengthen him for the better discharge of the duties which devolve upon him in the ordinary affairs of life. Ibid. When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and best, but like a froward child, that must be played with, and humoured a little to keep it quiet, till it falls asleep, and then the care is over. Sir W. Temple. ACCOMPANIMENTS OF. Time flies, death urges, knells call, heaven invites. Hell threatens. Young. Life is made up not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what win and preserve the Sir H. Davy. heart and secure comfort. DIFFERENT AGES OF. At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment. And was born to suffer and to fear. Prior. If this life is unhappy it is a burden to us, Looks cheerful when one carries in one's which it is difficult to bear; if it is in every respect happy, it is dreadful to be deprived of it; so that in either case the result is the same, for we must exist in anxiety and apprehension. La Bruyere. The unalienable treasure. Christian life consists in faith and charity. Luther. Men deal with life as children with their Who first misuse, and then cast their toys ENJOYMENT OF.. The ready way to the right enjoyment of life is, by a prospect towards another, to have but a very mean opinion of it. Addison. Like some fair hum'rists, life is most enjoy'd When courted least; most worth, when disesteemed. Young. ESTIMATE OF. There appears to exist a greater desire to live long than to live well! Measure by man's desires, he cannot live long enough; measure by his good deeds, and he has not This tide of man's life after it once turn-lived long enough; measure by his evil eth and declineth ever runneth with a per- deeds, and he has lived too long. petual ebb and falling stream, but never floweth again. Sir W. Raleigh. DEFINITION OF. A flower that does with opening morn arise, A meteor shooting down the summer sky; Our earthly course. EMPTINESS OF. O frail estate of human things! EVANESCENCE of. Zimmerman. Even so luxurious men, unheeding pass As it is the chief concern of wise men to retrench the evils of life by the reasonings of philosophy, it is the employment of fools to multiply them by the sentiments of su perstition. FRAILTY OF. Addison. What art thou, life, that we must court thy stay? A breath one single gasp must puff away! A fleeting vapour, and an empty shade! Now to our cost your emptiness we know. The end of life is to be like unto God; and the soul following God, will be like unto him; He being the beginning, middle and end of all things Socrates. Far more valued is the vine that bends A GOOD. ALL A MIST. Nor love thy life, nor hate; but whilst thou On what strange grounds we build our hopes liv'st Our senses, our appetites, and our passions, are our lawful and faithful guides in most things that relate solely to this life; and therefore, by the hourly necessity of consulting them, we gradually sink into an implicit submission and habitual confidence. BEARING THE ILLS OF. Johnson. and fears; Man's life is all a mist, and in the dark Whether we drive, or whether we are If ill, 'tis ours; if good, the act of heaven. MORNING OF. Oh life! how pleasant is thy morning, To joy or play. Burns. There are three modes of bearing the ills Like school boys, at the expected warning, of life; by indifference, which is most common; by philosophy, which is most ostentatious; and by religion, which is the most effectual. AN INTERlude. Life is a weary interlude Colton. Which doth short joys long woes include; Bishop King. MAKING Most of. No man can promise himself even fifty years of life, but any man may, if he please, live in the proportion of fifty year in forty: let him rise early, that he may have the day before him; and let him make the most of the day, by determining to spend it on two sorts of acquaintance only; those y whom something may be got, and the from whom something may be learnt. Colton. BUT ONE. Not many lives, but only one, have we- How sacred should that one life ever be- Day after day fill'd up with blessed toil, FIRST PARt of. H. Bonar. I highly approve the end and intent of Pythagoras' injunction, which is to dedicate the first part of life more to hear and learn, in order to collect materials out of which to form opinions founded on proper lights, and well examined, sound princi ples; than to be presuming, prompt and flippant in hazarding one's own slight crude notions of things; and then by exposing the nakedness and emptiness of the mind, like a house opened to company before it is fitted either with necessaries or any ornament for their reception and enter And give to God each moment as it flies. He lives long that lives well, and time misspent is not lived, but lost. Besides, God is better than his promise, if he takes from Philip Doddridge. | him a long lease, and gives him a freehold of greater value. MONITORY PRECEPTS OF. Sink not beneath imaginary sorrows, A RULE OF. Then let us fill Fuller. Think not on sudden change of human With all the virtues we can crowd into it. This little interval, this pause of life, scenes; FOUR SEASONS OF. To ruminate, and by such dreaming high Pass by unheeded as a threshold brook A SHORT. |