The beauty and blessedness of labor are finely presented by John Greenleaf Whittier:—
Give fools their gold, and knaves their power;
Let fortune's bubbles rise and fall;
Who sows a field, or trains a flower,
Or plants a tree, is more than all.
For he who blesses most is blest;
And God and man shall own his worth
Who toils to leave, as his bequest
An added beauty to the earth.
1064
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
1065
The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.
—Vauvenargues.
1066
I have also seen the world, and after long experience have discovered that ennui is our greatest enemy, and remunerative labor our most lasting friend.
—Moser.
1067
LABOR.
Some relaxation is necessary to people of every degree; the head that thinks, and the hand that labors, must have some little time to recruit their diminished powers.
—Gilpin.
1068
None so little enjoy life, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do. The active only have the true relish of life. He who knows not what it is to labor, knows not what it is to enjoy. It is exertion that renders rest delightful, and sleep sweet, and undisturbed.
1069
A LABORING SCARECROW.
Two old farmers were walking up a road near Dunfermline, when one of the pair, shading his eyes from the sun, pointed to a distant field and said:
"I wonder if that figure over there is a scarecrow."
He paused and considered the matter for a while, and then, in a satisfied tone, concluded:
"Yes, it must be a scarecrow; it's not moving."
But the other Scot had a sharper pair of eyes, and perhaps a better understanding of human nature.
"No," he said, dryly, "it's not a scarecrow; it's only a man working by the day."
1070
ADVICE TO A YOUNG LADY.
The Rev. Mr. Berridge being once visited by a loquacious young lady, who, forgetting the modesty of her sex, and the superior gravity of an aged divine, engrossed all the conversation of the interview with small talk concerning herself. When she rose to retire, he said, "Madam, before you withdraw, I have one piece of advice to give you; and that is, when you go into company again, after you have talked half an hour without intermission, I recommend it to you to stop awhile, and see if any other of the company has anything to say."
—Old Magazine.
1071
SCOTCH STUDENT AS LAMPLIGHTER.
Many hardships endured by students attending university or college in Scotland have been brought to light from time to time. A student of Anderson's Medical College some years ago fulfilled the duties of lamplighter during his spare hours in a neighboring burgh. He had no other income than the few shillings he received weekly for lighting, extinguishing and cleaning the burgh lamps, and from this he paid his college fees and kept himself fairly respectable. On one occasion he applied for an increase of wages, and was called before the committee. One of the bailies remarked that an able-bodied healthy-looking young man like the applicant, might find some other employment instead of wasting his time as he was doing. The application for an increase was refused. One may conceive the bailie's surprise at a subsequent meeting when the town clerk read a letter from the lamplighter, tendering his resignation, as he had passed his final examination as a fully qualified doctor.
—Glasgow News.
1072
Ah! how sweet it is to remember—the long, long ago.
1073
ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE.
Talking of the origin of language,—Johnson: "It must have come by inspiration. A thousand, nay, a million of children could not invent a language. While the organs are pliable, there is not understanding enough to form a language; by the time that there is understanding enough, the organs are become stiff. We know that after a certain age we cannot learn to pronounce a new language. No foreigner who comes to England when advanced in life, ever pronounces English tolerably well; at least such instances are very rare. When I maintain that language must have come by inspiration, I do not mean that inspiration is required for rhetoric, and all the beauties of language; for when once man has language, we can conceive that he may gradually form modifications of it. I mean only that inspiration seems to me to be necessary to give man the faculty of speech; to inform him that he may have speech; which I think he could no more find out without inspiration than cows or hogs would think of such a faculty."
—Boswell's Life of Johnson.
1074
Laughter.—To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to men before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
—Pliny, the Elder.
1075
A good laugh is sunshine in a house.
—Thackeray.
1076
John Dryden said,—"It is a good thing to laugh, and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness, and of health."
1077
He who laughs overmuch may have an aching heart.
1078
The vulgar laugh and seldom smile; whereas well-bred people often smile and seldom laugh.
1079
Laughing is not always a proof that the mind is at ease, or in composure.
1080
Agree if possible, for the law is costly.
1081
If you've a good case, try to compromise;
If you've a bad one, take it into court.
1082
The law's delay, the insolence of office.
—Shakespeare.
1083
Law is sometimes like a mouse-trap; easy to enter, but not easy to get out of.
1084
FOLLY OF GOING TO LAW.
To go to law is for two persons to kindle a fire at their own cost to warm others, and singe themselves to cinders; and because they cannot agree as to what is truth and equity, they will both agree to unplume themselves, that others may be decorated with their feathers.
—Feltham.
1085
He that goes to law for a sheep will be apt to lose a cow.
1086
A lawyer's office is, I'm sure you'll find,
Just like a mill, whereto for grinding come
A crowd of folk of every sort and kind.
1087
REQUISITES FOR GOING TO LAW.
Wisely has it been said—that he who would go to law,
Must have a good cause,
A good purse,
A good attorney,
Good evidence
And a good judge and jury—and having
all these goods, unless he has also good luck, he will stand
but a bad chance of success.
1088
In a lawsuit nothing is certain but the expense.
1089
The Talmud says that when a man once asked Shamai to teach him the law in one lesson, Shamai drove him away in anger. He then went to Hillel with the same request. Hillel said, "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. This is the whole law; the rest merely commentaries upon it."
1090
Two go to law; a third, generally, bears off the spoil.
1091
LEAVING THE LAWYERS A MARGIN.
A man from the country applied lately to a respectable solicitor in this town for legal advice. After detailing the circumstances of the case, he was asked if he had stated the facts exactly as they occurred. "Ou, ay, sir," rejoined the applicant, "I thought it best to tell you the plain truth; ye can put the lees till't yoursel'."
1092
LAWYERS.
I know you lawyers can, with ease,
Twist your words and meanings as you please;
That language, by your skill made pliant,
Will bend to favor every client;
That 'tis the fee directs the sense,
To make out either side's pretence.
—Gay.
1093
Lawyers' gowns are lined with the wilfulness of their clients.
1094
Two lawyers, when a knotty case was o'er,
Shook hands, and were as good friends as before.
"Zounds!" says the losing client, "How come you
To be such friends, who were such foes just now?"
"Thou fool," says one, "we lawyers, tho' so keen,
Like shears, ne'er cut ourselves, but what's between."
1095
Some lawyers have the knack of converting poor advice into good coin.
1096
Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains.
1097
No man is so learned, but he may be taught; neither is anyone so illiterate, but he may teach.
1098
The chief art of learning is to attempt but little at a time.
—Locke.
1099
Learning by study must be won,
'Twas ne'er entailed from sire to son.
—Gay.
1100
One pound of learning requires ten of common sense to apply it.
1101
Who swallows quick, can chew but little. (Applied to learning.)
—Chinese.
1102
AUTUMN LEAVES.
"Come little leaves," said the wind one day,
"Come o'er the meadows with me and play;
Put on your dress of red and gold,
Summer is gone, and the days grow cold."
Soon as the leaves heard the wind's loud call
Down they came fluttering, one and all;
Over the brown fields they danced and flew,
Singing the soft little songs that they knew.
Dancing and whirling the little leaves went,
Winter had called them, and they were content.
Soon fast asleep in their earthly beds,
The snow laid a coverlet over their heads.
1103
GENERAL LEE'S REPLY.
After the Civil War many offers of places of honor and fame came to General Robert E. Lee. He refused them all, says Thomas Nelson Page, in his biography of the soldier. The only position which he finally did accept, was the presidency of Washington College,—now Washington and Lee University, at Lexington, Virginia, with a small salary.
On one of these occasions, Lee was approached with the tender of the presidency of an insurance company, at a salary of fifty thousand dollars a year. He declined it, saying that it was work with which he was not familiar.
"But, general," said the representative of the insurance company, "you will not be expected to do any work. What we wish, is the use of your name."
"Do you not think," said General Lee, "that if my name is worth fifty thousand dollars a year, I ought to be very careful about taking care of it?"
1104
Colonel Chesney, of the British Army, said of R. E. Lee: "The day will come when the evil passions of the great civil war will sleep in oblivion, and the North and South do justice to each other's motives, and forget each other's wrongs. Then history will speak with clear voice of the deeds done on either side, and the citizens of the whole Union do justice to the memories of the dead, and place above all others the name of the great Southern chief. In strategy, mighty; in battle, terrible; in adversity, as in prosperity, a hero indeed; with the simple devotion to duty and the rare purity of the ideal Christian Knight,—he joined all the kingly qualities of a leader of men. It is a wondrous future indeed that lies before America; but in her annals of the years to come, as in those of the past, there will be found few names that can rival in unsullied lustre that of the heroic defender of his native Virginia,—Robert Edward Lee."
From "Lee of Virginia,"
—By Edward Jennings Lee, M. D.
1105
He that visits the sick, in the hope of a legacy, I look upon him in this to be no better than a raven, that watches a weak sheep only to peck out the eyes of it.
—Seneca.
1106
Leisure is sweet to those who have earned it, but burdensome to those who get it for nothing.
1107
Full oft have letters caused the writers
To regret the day they were inditers.
1108
Letters which are sometimes warmly sealed, are often but coldly opened.
—Richter.
1109
FOR LIBERALITY.
Though safe thou think'st thy treasure lies,
Hidden in chests from human eyes,
A fire may come, and it may be
Bury'd, my friend, as far from thee.
Thy vessel that yon ocean stems,
Loaded with golden dust and gems,
Purchased with so much pains and cost,
Yet in a tempest may be lost.
Pimps, and a lot of others,—a thankless crew,
Priests, pickpockets, and lawyers too,
All help by several ways to drain,
Thanking themselves for what they gain.
The liberal are secure alone,
For what we frankly give, forever is our own.
—Lord Lansdowne.
1110
LIBERALITY.
The office of liberality consisteth in giving with judgment.
—Cicero.
1111
Libraries are the wardrobes of literature.
—James Dyer.
1112
A lie has no legs and cannot stand; but it has wings, and can fly far and wide.
—Bishop Warburton.
1113
Equivocation is first cousin to a lie.
1114
One lie
Demands for its support a hundred more.
1115
One lie must be thatched with another, or it will soon rain through.
—Owen.
1116
Life is a journey, and they only who have traveled a considerable way in it, are fit to direct those who are setting out.
1117
A term of life is set to every man,
Which is but short; and pass it no one can.
—Burton.
1118
Better, ten-fold, is a life that is sunny,
Than a life that has nothing to boast of but money.
1119
I have found by experience that many who have spent all their lives in cities, contract not only an effeminacy of habit but of thinking.
—Goldsmith.
1120
LIFE—DIFFERENT AGES OF.
At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
—Gratian.
1121
I find one of the great things in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
1122
There's a Divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough-hew them as we will.
—Shakespeare.
1123
The husband and the wife must, like two wheels, support the chariot of domestic life, otherwise it must stop.
1124
NOT A CANDIDATE.
The following well-merited rebuke by a slave to his master, shows that persons occupying mean positions in this life are sometimes superior to those above them.
A gentleman in the enjoyment of wealth, and of high social standing, and wholly given up to the pleasures of this world, knowing that one of his slaves was religious, and happening to see him in the garden near the porch of his house, called him up rather to amuse himself than for any serious purpose. When the slave came to him, cap in hand, he said, "Tom, what do you think of me; do you believe I will be one of the elect when I die?"
With a low obeisance, the slave replied: "Master, I never knew any one to be elected who was not a candidate."
The master, struck with the gentle but just rebuke of the man's answer, turned and entered his mansion, and from that hour became a candidate, living thereafter a good life.
—Belhaven.
1125
Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices: whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?
—Montaigne.
1126
In life, as in chess, forethought wins.
1127
Yes and No are, for good or evil, the giants of life.
—D. Jerrold.
1128
THE SUNNY SIDE OF THE STREET.
An old gentleman, accounting recently for his age and his happiness, said: "It is quite simple. Lead a natural life, eat what you want,—but of course prudence must be exercised—and walk on the sunny side of the street."
1129
It is to live twice, when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
1130
LIFE.
Life! We've been long together
Through pleasant and through cloudy weather;
'Tis hard to part when friends are dear—
Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear.
Then steal away, give little warning,
Choose thine own time,
Say not "good-night," but in some brighter clime,
Bid me "good-morning."
—A. L. Barbauld.
1131
LIFE—EVANESCENCE OF.
How short is human life! the very breath
Which frames my words, accelerates my death.
—Hannah More.
1132
HUMAN LIFE.
Ah! what is human life?
How like the dial's tardy-moving shade,
Day after day slides from us unperceived!
The cunning fugitive is swift by stealth;
Too subtle is the movement to be seen:
Yet soon the hour is up—and we are—gone.
—Young.
1133
Are we to have a continuous performance by "I did" and "I didn't"?
—Unknown.
1134
Into each life some rain must fall,
Some days be dark and dreary
But—
Behind the cloud the sun's still shining.
—Longfellow.
1135
Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.
—Antoninus.
1136
Lord, help me live from day to day,
In such a self-forgetful way,
That even when I kneel to pray,
My prayer shall be for—others.
1137
No one sees what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.
—Cicero.
1138
He who with life makes sport,
Can prosper never;
Who rules himself in nought,
Is a slave ever.
1139
A MISSION FOR EVERY ONE.
Think not thou livest in vain,
Or that one honest pain
Of thine is lost.
He, who in loving care,
Numbers thine every hair,
Knows all the cost.
No lightest care of thine
Escapes His love divine;
No smile's forgot,
Nor cup of water given.
Each tender, loving deed,
Like some strange, precious seed,
Shall bear its fruit in heaven.
Nor dream, if thou wert gone
From out life's troubled throng
Thou'dst not be missed.
Thou knowest not what heart,
That lives in gloom apart,
Would find its sunshine fled
If thou wert dead—
What slender thread of faith would break
If thou shouldest prove untrue.
The flower that blooms in desert place
And lifts its head with winsome grace,
Might sigh: "Alas; ah, me:
Why should I live where none can see?"
But He who made both field and flood,
Hath formed that flower and called it good,
And in His wisdom placed it there
To make the desert seem more fair:
And if He then hath need of flowers
To deck this barren world of ours,
He hath a use for thee!
1140
YOUTH, MANHOOD, OLD AGE.
How small a portion of our life it is, that we really enjoy. In youth, we are looking forward to things that are to come; in old age, we are looking backwards to things that are gone past; in manhood, although we appear indeed to be more occupied in things that are present, yet even that is too often absorbed in vague determinations to be vastly happy on some future day, when we have time.
1141
—Shakespeare.
1142
LIFE REPRESENTED BY A NEWSPAPER.
This folio of four pages, happy work!
Which not even critics criticize, that holds
Inquisitive attention while I read—
What is it, but a busy map of life,
Its fluctuations and its vast concerns?
1143
The acts of this life are the destiny of the next.
—Chinese.
1144
There are three whose life is no life:—
He who lives at another's table;
He whose wife domineers over him;
And he who suffers bodily affliction.
—Talmud.
1145
Life is too short to be spent in nursing animosities, or in registering wrongs.
1146
Think naught a trifle, though it small appear;
Small sands the mountain, moments make the year,
And trifles, life.
—Young.
1147
THE HAPPIEST LIFE.
Life's fittest station needs must be
Midway between the poor and great:
Above the cares of poverty,
Below the cares of high estate.
—E. C. Dolson.
1148
We find life exactly what we put in it.
1149
The sweetest thing in life
Is the unclouded welcome of a wife.
—N. P. Willis.
1150
As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.
—Froude.
1151
Be ready at all times to listen to others.
1152
A man with an empty stomach is a poor listener.
1153
The only thing certain about litigation is it's uncertainty.
—Bovee.
1154
Little by little added, if oft done,
In small time makes a good possession.
—Hesiod, a Greek, 850 B. C.
1155
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
1156
THE THREE LOOKS.
The old man looks down, and thinks of the past.
The young man looks up, and thinks of the future.
The child looks everywhere, and thinks of nothing.
1157
For 'tis a truth well known to most,
That whatsoever thing is lost,
We seek it, ere it come to light,
In every cranny but the right.
—Cowper.
1158
Where you are not appreciated, you cannot be loved.
1159
When people fall in love at first sight, they often live to regret that they didn't take another look.
1160
"I'm sorry that I spelt the word,
I hate to go above you;
Because"—the brown eyes lower fell—
"Because, you see, I love you!"
—John Greenleaf Whittier.
1161
Where there is love, all things interest; where there is indifference, minute details are tedious, disbelief is cherished, and trifles are apt to be thought contemptible.
1162
If he loves me, the merit is not mine; my fault will be if he ceases.
1163
LOVE.
To a man, the disappointment of love may occasion some bitter pangs: it wounds some feelings of tenderness—it blasts some prospects of felicity; but he is an active being; he may dissipate his thoughts in the whirl of varied occupation, or may plunge into the tide of pleasure; or, if the scene of disappointment be too full of painful associations, he can shift his abode at will, and taking, as it were, the wings of the morning, can "fly to the uttermost parts of the earth, and be at rest."
But woman's is comparatively a fixed, a secluded and a meditative life. She is more the companion of her own thoughts and feelings; and if they are turned to ministers of sorrow, where shall she look for consolation? Her lot is to be wooed and won; and if unhappy in her love, her heart is her world—is like some fortress that has been captured, and sacked, and abandoned, and left desolate.
Shall I confess it?—I believe in broken hearts, and the possibility of dying of disappointed love! I do not, however, consider it a malady often fatal to my own sex; but I firmly believe that it withers down many a lovely woman into an early grave. So is it the nature of woman to hide from the world the pangs of wounded affection.
—Washington Irving.
1164
To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
1165
WHAT!
Since there's no help for me, come, let us kiss and part—
Alas! I am done, you see no more of me;
But I am sorry, yea, sorry with all my heart,
That thus, you have willed it,—to be free:
Shake hands forever, cancel all our vows,
And when we meet at any time again,
Be it not seen in either of our brows
That we one jot of former love retain.
—Anonymous.
1166
Dr. Doddridge one day asked his little daughter how it was that everybody loved her: "I know not," said she, "unless it be that I love everybody."
—Arvine.
1167
He who is loved by man is loved by God.
—The Talmud.
1168
If there's delight in love, 'tis when I see
That heart which others bleed for, bleed for me.
—Garrick.
1169
Love is the only passion that justifies a perpetual hyperbole, i. e., poetic exaggeration.
—Bacon.
1170
There is an atmosphere in the letters of those we love which we alone—we who love—can feel.
1171
LIFE WITHOUT LOVE.
Life without love is like day without sunshine,
Roses bereft of sweet nature's perfume;
Love is the guide mark to those who are weary
Of waiting and watching in darkness and gloom.
Love to the heart is like dewdrops to violets
Left on the dust-ridden roadside to die;
Love leads the way to our highest endeavors,
Lightens and lessens the pain of each sigh.
Life without love is like spring without flowers,
Brook-streams that move not, or star-bereft sky;
Love creates efforts most worthy and noble,
Prompts us to live and resigns us to die.
—Unknown.
1172
LOVE.
The night has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one;
Yet the light of the whole world dies
With the setting sun.
The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one;
But the light of a whole life dies
When love is done.
—Francis W. Bourdillon.
1173
One nail by strength drives out another,
So the remembrance of my former love
Is by a newer object quite forgotten.
—Shakespeare.
1174
Love is like the moon; when it does not increase, it decreases.
1175
FORGET THEE?
Behold the sun forget to shine,
The brightest star to twinkle,
The ivy round the oak to twine,
The tearful heart to sprinkle
The sod that wraps affection's grave,
The never silent surging sea
The sandy shore to lash and lave—
Then think that I'll forget thee.
—Winfred.
1176
THE MAIDEN IN LOVE.
Sweet mother, I can spin no more to-day,
And all for a youth who has stolen my heart away.
—Sappho, 600 B. C.
—Translated by Appleton.
1177
We are easily duped by those whom we love.
—Moliere.
1178
MORE THAN HIS SHARE.
"Martha, does thee love me?" asked a quaker youth of one at whose shrine his heart's fondest feelings had been offered up.
"Why, Seth," answered she, "we are commanded to love one another, are we not?"
"Aye, Martha; but does thee regard me with that feeling that the world calls love?"
"I hardly know what to tell thee, Seth; I have greatly feared that my heart was an erring one. I have tried to bestow my love on all; but I have sometimes thought, perhaps, that thee was getting rather more than thy share."
—Christian Observer.
1179
No disguise can long conceal love where it is, nor feign it where it is not.
—Rochefoucauld.
1180
LOVE.
Naught sweeter is than love. Whom that doth bless
Regardeth all things less.
If thou first taste of love, then shalt thou see
Honey shall bitter be!
What roses are, they never know, who miss
Fair Cytherea's kiss.
—Nossis, Greek.
Translated by Lilla Cabot Perry.
1181
How often love is maintained by wealth:
When all is spent adversity then breeds
The discontent.
—Herrick.
1182
The moment one is in love one becomes so amiable.
1183
ONE WHO LOVES.
I had so fixed my heart upon her,
That whereso'er I fram'd a scheme of life
For time to come, she was my only joy
With which I used to sweeten future cares:
I fancy'd pleasures, none but one who loves
And doats as I did, can imagine like them.
1184
The secret of being loved is in being lovely, and the secret of being lovely, is in being unselfish.
1185
A lover never sees the faults of the one he loves till the enchantment is over.
1186
THE TRAGEDY OF FICKLE LOVE.
He came too late! Neglect had tried
Her constancy too long;
Her love had yielded to her pride
And the deep sense of wrong.
She scorned the offering of a heart
Which lingered on its way,
Till it could no delight impart,
Nor spread one cheering ray.
He came too late! At once he felt
That all his power was o'er;
Indifference in her calm smile dwelt—
She thought of him no more.
Anger and grief had passed away,
Her heart and thoughts were free;
She met him, and her words were gay
No spell had memory.
He came too late! Her countless dreams
Of hope had long since flown;
No charms dwelt in his chosen themes,
Nor in his whispered tone.
And when, with word and smile, he tried
Affection still to prove,
She nerved her heart with woman's pride
And spurned his fickle love.
—Unknown.
1187
OH, NO! WE NEVER MENTION HIM.
Oh, no! we never mention him, his name is never heard;
My lips are now forbid to speak that once familiar word:
From sport to sport they hurry me, to banish my regret;
And when they win a smile from me, they think that I forget.
They bid me seek in change of scene the charms that others see;
But were I in a foreign land, they'd find no change in me.
'Tis true that I behold no more the valley where we met,
I do not see the hawthorn-tree; but how can I forget?
For oh! there are so many things recall the past to me—
The breeze upon the sunny hills, the billows of the sea;
The rosy tint that decks the sky before the sun is set;—
Ay, every leaf I look upon forbids me to forget.
They tell me he is happy now, the gayest of the gay;
They hint that he forgets me too,—but I heed not what they say:
Perhaps like me he struggles with each feeling of regret;
But if he loves as I have loved, he never can forget.
—Thomas Haynes Bayley, 1797-1839.
1188
Is it possible a man can be so changed by love that one would not know him for the same person?
1189
Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.
—Goethe.
1190
Love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.
1191
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections, as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
—Hawthorne.
1192
MARTIN LUTHER AND HIS FRIENDS.
"My dear Veit," said Luther, "I have said it often and I repeat it again, whoever would know God aright and speculate concerning Him without danger, must look into the manger, and learn first of all to know the Son of the Virgin Mary, born at Bethlehem, lying in His mother's bosom or hanging upon the cross; then will he understand who God is. This will not only then be not terrible, but on the contrary most attractive and comforting. Guard yourself, my dear Veit, from the proud thought of climbing into heaven without this ladder, apart from the Lord Jesus Christ in His humanity. As the Word simple describes Him, stick to this, and do not permit reason to divert you from it; then will you apprehend God aright! I wish to know of no other God than the God who hung upon the cross, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and of the Virgin Mary."
1193
Luther was remarkable for his contempt of riches, though few men had a greater opportunity of obtaining them. The Elector of Saxony offered him the produce of a mine at Sneberg, but he nobly refused it, lest it should prove an injury to him.
—Buck.
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LUXURY.
Dr. Johnson:—"A man gives half a guinea for a dish of green peas. How much gardening does this occasion? How many laborers must the competition, to have such things early in the market, keep in employment? You will hear it said very gravely, 'Why was not the half-guinea, thus spent in luxury, given to the poor? To how many might it have afforded a good meal? Alas! has it not gone to the industrious poor, whom it is better to support, than the idle poor? You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity."
