Like the eternal thunders of the deep, Impossible is a word only to be found in Into my ears this truth-Thou liv'st for ever. the dictionary of fools. Napoleon J. AN EXCUSE. Anon. IMPOSSIBLE. And what's impossible, can't be And never, never comes to pass. MORAL. Horace. Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but by ascending a little, you may often look over it altogether. So it is with our moral improvement: we wrestle fiercely with a vicious habit, which could have no hold upon us if we ascended into a higher moral atmosphere. Helps. IMPROVIDENCE. CHARACTERISTICS OF. It has always been more difficult for a man to keep than to get; for in the one case, fortune aids, which often assists injusGeorge Colman, Jr. tice; but in the other case, sense is required. The way to avoid the imputation of im- THE EFFECT OF IGNORANCE. He that has but impudence, Butler. DEAD TO SHAME. sense, EVIL. It is better to have nothing to do, than to Attilus. be doing nothing. TORMENTS OF. The keenest pangs the wretched find Ne'er blush'd, unless, in spreading vice's fections submit, and which governs him, though perhaps with some intervals, through the whole course of his life. snares, He blunder'd on some virtue unawares. It sweeteneth our enjoyments, and seasoneth our attainments with a delightful relish. Barrow. An hour's industry will do more to produce cheerfulness, suppress evil humours, and retrieve your affairs, than a month's moaning. Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him. Franklin. BLESSINGS OF. At the working-man's house hung or looks in, but dares not enter! nor will the bailiff or the constable enter; for industry pays debts, but despair increaseth them. Franklin. blends. The very exercise of industry, imme- | Or as the plumage of an angel's wing diately in itself, is delightful, and hath an Where every tint of rainbow beauty innate satisfaction which tempereth all anMrs. Welby. noyance, and even ingratiateth the pains going with it. Barrow. BREAD OF. ETERNITY OF. less? A young star, who shone BIRTH OF AN. other children grow up to manhood and womanhood, and suffer all the changes of mortality; but this one alone is rendered an immortal child; for death has arrested it with his kindly harshness and blessed it into an eternal image of youth and innoLeigh Hunt. FEELINGS ASSOCIATED WITH AN. Joy thou bring'st, but mix'd with trembling; cence. What grief can be, but time doth make it Anxious hopes and tender fears, Pleasing hopes and mingled sorrows, "Tis aye a solemn thing to me Cottle. Mrs. Browning. He smiles and sleeps! sleep on And smile, thou little young inheritor Of a world scarce less young: sleep on and smile! COMPREHENSION OF. Collect into one sum as great a number as you please, this multitude, how great soever, lessens not one jot of the power of Thine are the hours and days when both are adding to it, or brings him any nearer the end of the inexhaustible stock of number. Locke. cheering And innocent. INFIDELITY. CHARACTER of. Byron. BAD. INFLUENCE. Not one false man but does unaccountable mischief. Carlyle. EXERCISE OF. EXPANSION OF. To me it appears, and I think it material to be remarked, that a disbelief of the established religion of their country has no tendency to dispose men for the reception Every man, however humble his station of another; but, that, on the contrary, it or feeble powers, exercises some influence generates a settled contempt of all religious | on those who are about him for good or evil. pretensions whatever. General infidelity Prof. A. Sedgwick. is the hardest soil which the propagators of a new religion can have to work upon. Paley. DISSATISFACTION WITH. Such who profess to disbelieve a future state are not always equally satisfied with their own reasonings. Atterbury. EFFECT OF. When once infidelity can persuade men that they shall die like beasts, they will soon be brought to live like beasts also. South. WORTHLESSNESS OF. INFINITY. CHARACTERISTICS OF. Infinity is the retirement in which perfect love and wisdom only dwell with God. In infinity and eternity the sceptic sees an abyss in which all is lost. I see in them the residence of Almighty power, in which my reason and my wishes find equally a firm support. Here, holding by the pillars of heaven, I exist-I stand fast. Miller. As a little silvery circular ripple, set in motion by the falling pebble, expands from its inch of radius to the whole compass of a pool, so there is not a child-not an infant Moses—placed, however softly, in his bulrush ark upon the sea of time, whose existence does not stir a ripple, gyrating outward and on, until it shall have moved across and spanned the whole ocean of God's eternity, stirring even the river of life, and the fountains at which the angels drink. Elihu Burritt. |