Book of Wise Sayings | Page 5

a present's worth, but in the love which it was meant to mark.
Bháravi.
81.
Men who have not observed discipline, and have not gained treasure in their youth, perish like old herons in a lake without fish.
Dhammapada.
82.
As drops of bitter medicine, though minute, may have a salutary force, so words, though few and painful, uttered seasonably, may rouse the prostrate energies of those who meet misfortune with despondency.
Bháravi.
83.
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.
84.
Let thy words between two foes be such that if they were to become friends thou shouldst not be ashamed.
Sa'dí.
85.
An indiscreet man is more hurtful than an ill-natured one; for as the latter will only attack his enemies, and those he wishes ill to, the other injures indifferently both his friends and foes.
Addison.
86.
A man of quick and active wit For drudgery is more unfit, Compared to those of duller parts, Than running nags are to draw carts.
Butler.
87.
All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich.
Lavater.
88.
There never was, there never will be, a man who is always praised, or a man who is always blamed.
Dhammapada.
89.
A good man's intellect is piercing, yet inflicts no wound; his actions are deliberate, yet bold; his heart is warm, but never burns; his speech is eloquent, yet ever true.
Mágha.
90.
He who can feel ashamed will not readily do wrong.
Talmud.
91.
A stranger who is kind is a kinsman; an unkind kinsman is a stranger.
Hitopadesa.
92.
The good to others kindness show, And from them no return exact; The best and greatest men, they know, Thus ever nobly love to act.[7]
Mahábhárata.
[7] Cf. Luke, VI, 34, 35.
93.
Trees loaded with fruit are bent down; the clouds when charged with fresh rain hang down near the earth: even so good men are not uplifted through prosperity. Such is the natural character of the liberal.
Bhartrihari.
94.
The man who neither gives in charity nor enjoys his wealth, which every day increases, breathes, indeed, like the bellows of a smith, but cannot be said to live.
Hitopadesa.
95.
That energy which veils itself in mildness is most effective of its object.
Mágha.
96.
Our writings are like so many dishes, our readers, our guests, our books, like beauty--that which one admires another rejects; so we are approved as men's fancies are inclined.... As apothecaries, we make new mixtures every day, pour out of one vessel into another; and as those old Romans robbed all cities of the world to set out their bad-cited Rome, we skim off the cream of other men's wits, pick the choice flowers of their tilled gardens, to set out our own sterile plots. We weave the same web still, twist the same rope again and again; or, if it be a new invention, 'tis but some bauble or toy, which idle fellows write, for as idle fellows to read.[8]
Burton.
[8] Ferriar has pointed out, in his Illustrations of Sterne, how these passages from Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy have been boldly plagiarised in the introduction to the fragment on Whiskers in Tristram Shandy: "Shall we for ever make new books as apothecaries make new mixtures, by only pouring out of one vessel into another? Are we for ever to be twisting and untwisting the same rope?" And Dr. Johnson, who was a great admirer of Burton, adopts the illustration of the plundering Romans in his Rambler, No. 143.
97.
It is our follies that make our lives uncomfortable. Our errors of opinion, our cowardly fear of the world's worthless censure, and our eagerness after unnecessary gold have hampered the way of virtue, and made it far more difficult than, in itself, it is.
Feltham.
98.
There is not half so much danger in the desperate sword of a known foe as in the smooth insinuations of a pretended friend.
R. Chamberlain.
99.
Nothing is so oppressive as a secret; it is difficult for ladies to keep it long, and I know even in this matter a good number of men who are women.
La Fontaine.
100.
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love: there is a kind of it which pleases only the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
Cervantes.
101.
Contentment consisteth not in heaping more fuel, but in taking away some fire.
Fuller.
102.
It is difficult to personate and act a part long, for where truth is not at the bottom Nature will always be endeavouring to return, and will peep out and betray herself one time or other.
Tillotson.
103.
The truest characters of ignorance Are vanity, pride, and arrogance; As blind men use to bear their noses higher Than those that have their eyes and sight entire.
Butler.
104.
It is better to be well deserving without praise than to live by the air of undeserved commendation.
R. Chamberlain.
105.
He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love.
Sir P. Sidney.
106.
Never put thyself in the way of temptation: even David could