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Show APHORISMS. fhe worst of slaves is be "whom passion ules. Brooke. The anticipation of evil is the death of happiness. Jane Porter. True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes. Halifax. The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty. Lavater. Love is a blessed wand which wins the waters from the hardness of the heart. George Meredith. To give heartfelt praise to noble actions is, in some measure, making them our own. Rochefoucauld. The scholar, without good breeding, is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic; the soldier, a brute; and every man disagreeable. disagree-able. Chesterfield. We seldom condemn mankind till they have injured us; and when they have, wa seldom do anything but detest them for the injury. Bulwer. Haste and rashness are storms and tempests, tem-pests, breaking and wrecking business, but nimlfenesg is a full, fair wind, blowing blow-ing it with speed to the haven. Fuller. Oddities and singularities of behavior may attend genius; when they do they are its misfortunes and its blemishes. The man of true gt-tiua will be ashamed of them; at least he will never effect to distinguish himself him-self by whimsical peculiarities. Sir William Wil-liam Temple. |