They that stand high have many blasts to shake them.
--_Shakespeare._
1243
Men possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.
--_Froude._
1244
The life of an old man is like a lighted candle in a draft.
--_j.a.panese._
1245
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor the man perfected without trials.
--_From the Chinese._
1246
He was--describe him who can, An abridgement of all that was pleasant in man; A truer, n.o.bler, trustier heart, More loving or more loyal, never beat Within a human breast.
1247
Some men remain poor because they haven"t enough friends, and some because they have too many.
1248
A poor man, though living in the crowded mart, no one will notice; a rich man, though dwelling amid the remote hills, his distant relative will visit.
1249
Art may make a suit of clothes, but nature must produce the man.
--_Hume._
1250
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never for himself.
1251
It is not good that man should be alone.
--_Genesis 2, 18v._
1252
Silent men, like still waters, are sometimes deep and dangerous.
1253
Man is a social creature, and we are made to be helpful to each other; we are like the wheels of a watch, that none of them can do their work alone, without the concurrence of the rest.
1254
Strive not too anxiously for thy support, thy Maker will provide. No sooner is a man born, than milk for his support streams from the breast.
--_Chinese._
1255
He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
--_Colton._
1256
The difference, he, Johnson, observed between a well-bred and an ill-bred man is this: One immediately attracts your liking, the other your aversion. You love the one till you find reason to dislike him; you dislike the other till you find reason to love him.
--_Boswell"s Life of Johnson._
1257
THE UNPUNCTUAL MAN.
He is a general disturber of other"s peace and serenity. Everybody with whom he has to do is thrown from time to time into a state of fever; he is systematically late; regular only in his irregularity.
--_Smiles._