SLANDER -see Calumny, Lying, Silence. Slander, in the strict meaning of the term, comes under the head of lying; but it is a kind of lying which, like its antithesis, flattery, ought to be set apart for special censure. 5049 Washington Gladden: Things Old and New. Slander is a most serious evil; it implies two who do wrong, and one who is doubly wronged. 5050 Herod vii. 10. (F. A. Paley, Translator, in Greek Wit.) If slander be a snake, it is a winged one: it flies as well as creeps. 5051 Douglas Jerrold: Specimens of Jerrold's Wit. Evil-speaking is malignity's balm. 5052 Joubert: Pensées. No. 119. (Attwell, Translator.) Enemies carry about slander, not in the form in which it took its rise. . . . The scandal of men is everlasting: even then does it survive when you would suppose it to be dead. 5053 Plautus: The Persian. Act iii. Sc. 1. (Riley, Translator.) What is slander? A verdict of "guilty" pronounced in the absence of the accused, with closed doors, without defence or appeal, by an interested and prejudiced judge. 5054 Joseph Roux: Meditations of a Parish Priest. Mind, Talent, Character. No. 67. (Hapgood, Translator.) When a mean wretch cannot vie with another in virtue, out of his wickedness he begins to slander. The abject envious wretch will slander the virtuous man when absent, but when brought face to face his loquacious tongue becomes dumb. 5055 Saadi The Gulistan. Ch. 8. Rules for Conduct in Life. No. 50. SLAVERY see Dishonor, Freedom, Honor, Liberty, Oppression, Tyranny. Christ never died for laws nor for governments, but for men; and they who crush men to build up nations may expect God to meet them with the blast of his lightning and the terror of his thunder. 5056 Henry Ward Beecher: Life Thoughts. Slavery they can have everywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil. 5057 Burke: Speech, March 22, 1775. On Conciliation with America. Slavery is the worst of all evils, to be repelled, if need be, not only by war, but even by death. 5958 Cicero: Orations. The Second Philippic. Sec. 44. (Yonge, Translator.) There is nothing more detestable than disgrace, nothing more shameful than slavery. 5059 Cicero: Orations. The Third Philippic. Sec. 14. (Yonge, Translator.) Slavery is no scholar, no improver; it does not love the whistle of the railroad; it does not love the newspaper, the mailbag, a college, a book or a preacher who has the absurd whim of saying what he thinks; it does not increase the white population; it does not improve the soil; everything goes to decay. 5060 Emerson: Miscellanies. Address on the Emancipation in the British West Indies. Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings. 5061 Emerson: Miscellanies. Woman. Freedom and slavery! the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice, and both are acts of the will. 5062 Epictetus: Fragments. VIII. (Long, Translator.) Nothing in the world is lawless except a slave. 5063 J. C. and A. W. Hare: Guesses at Truth. Slavery destroys, or vitiates, or pollutes, whatever it touches. No interest of society escapes the influence of its clinging curse. It makes Southern religion a stench in the nostrils of Christendom: it makes Southern politics a libel upon all the principles of Republicanism; it makes Southern literature a travesty upon the honorable profession of letters. 5064 Hinton Rowan Helper: The Impending Crisis of the South. Slavery is the parent of ignorance, and ignorance begets a whole brood of follies and vices; and every one of these is inevitably hostile to literary culture. 5065 Hinton Rowan Helper: The Impending Crisis of the South. Slavery tolerates no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no freedom of opinion. 5066 Hinton Rowan Helper: The Impending Crisis of the South. This is a world of compensations, and he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, they cannot long retain it. 5067 Lincoln: The Life, Public Services, and State Enslave a man and you destroy his ambition, his enterprise, his capacity. In the constitution of human nature, the desire of bettering one's condition is the mainspring of effort. The first touch of slavery snaps this spring. 5068 Horace Mann: Slavery, Letters and Speeches. Speech, United States House of Representatives, June 30, 1848. Measure slavery by the Golden Rule, and where is it? ... It stands in the way of that automatic instinct of progress which is eternal in the human race and irresistible in human history. 5069 Theodore Parker: Miscellaneous Discourses. The It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces. 5070 William H. Seward: Speech, Oct. 25, 1858. "Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery,” said I, "still thou art a bitter draught.' 5071 Laurence Sterne: Sentimental Journey. The By the law of slavery, man, created in the image of God, is divested of the human character, and declared to be a mere chattel. 5072 Charles Sumner: Address, New York City, May 9, 1855. The Anti-Slavery Enterprise. The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I appeal. 5073 Charles Sumner: Works. Speech, May 19-20, 1856. On the Admission of Kansas. Where slavery is there liberty cannot be, and where liberty is there slavery cannot be. 5074 Charles Sumner: Speech before the New York Young Men's Republican Union. Slavery and the Rebellion. The execrable sum of all villanies commonly called a Slave Trade. 5075 John Wesley: Journal. Feb. 12, 1792. SLEEP - see Dreams, Misers. To sleep is to strain and purify our emotions, to deposit the mud of life, to calm the fever of the soul, to return into the bosom of maternal nature, thence to re-issue, healed and strong. Sleep is a sort of innocence and purification. Blessed be He who gave it to the poor sons of man as the sure and faithful companion of life, our daily healer and consoler. 5076 Amiel: Journal, March 20, 1853. (Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Translator.) Ornamenta He sleeps well who is not conscious that he sleeps ill. Blessings light on him who first invented this same sleep! It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak. It is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold. and cold for the hot. It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even. There is only one thing, which somebody once put into my head, that I dislike in sleep: it is, that it resembles death; there is very little difference between a man in his first sleep, and a man in his last sleep. 5078 Cervantes: Don Quixote. Pt. ii. Ch. €8. Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles. Cervantes: Don Quixote. Pt. ii. Ch. 70. (Jarvis, Translator.) Sleep, the type of death, is also, like that which it typifies, restricted to the earth. It flies from hell, and is excluded from heaven. 5080 Colton: Lacon. No one but an adventurous traveller can know the luxury of sleep. 5081 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield): Virian Grey. The world of sleep has an existence of its own. 5082 Victor Hugo: The Toilers of the Sea. Even sleep is characteristic. How beautiful are children in their lovely innocence! how angel-like their blooming features! and how painful and anxious is the sleep of the guilty! 5083 Wilhelm von Humboldt: Letters to a Female And I pray you let none of your people stir me: I have an exposition of sleep come upon me. 5084 Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream. He that sleeps feels not the toothache. 5085 Shakespeare: Cymbeline. Act v. Sc. 4. SLOTHFULNESS - see Idleness, Ignorance, Laziness, Opportunity. Sloth is the tempter that beguiles, and expels from paradise. 5086 A. Bronson Alcott: Table Talk. III. Pursuits. Labor. Sloth... never arrived at the attainment of a good wish. Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright. 5088 Benjamin Franklin: Poor Richard's Almanac. A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness. 5089 George S. Hillard: Life and Campaigns of SMILES -see Tears. There are few faces that can afford to smile: a smile is sometimes bewitching, in general vapid, often a contortion. 5090 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield): Tancred. Bk. ii. Ch. 7. Smiles are the language of love. 5091 J. C. and A. W. Hare: Guesses at Truth. Is it not a thing divine to have a smile which, none know how, has the power to lighten the weight of that enormous chain which all the living in common drag behind them? Victor Hugo: The Toilers of the Sea. Pt. i. Bk. iii. Ch. 1. 5092 A smile is ever the most bright and beautiful with a tear upon it. What is the dawn without the dew? The tear is rendered by the smile precious above the smile itself. 5093 Landor: Imaginary Conversations. Dante and Gemma Donati. SNEER. Who can refute a sneer ? 5094 William Paley: Moral Philosophy. Bk. v. Ch. 9. SNOBS. An immense percentage of Snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life. 5095 Thackeray: Miscellanies. Book of Snobs. He who meanly admires a mean thing is a Snob - perhaps that is a safe definition of the character. 5096 Thackeray: Miscellanies. Book of Snobs. Ch. 2. That which we call a Snob, by any other name would still be snobbish. 5097 Thackeray: Miscellanies. Book of Snobs. Ch. 18. You, who forget your own friends, meanly to follow after those of a higher degree, are a snob. 5098 Thackeray: Miscellanies. Book of Snobs. Ch. Last. |
