SPORTSMEN. Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon. 5203 Shakespeare: King Henry IV. Pt. i. Act i. Sc. 2. SPRINGTIME see Amusement. What delights us in the spring is more a sensation than an appearance, more a hope than any visible reality. There is something in the softness of the air, in the lengthening of the days, in the very sounds and odors of the sweet time, that caresses us and consoles us after the rigorous weeks of winter. 5204 Hamerton: The Sylvan Year. March. STAGE, THE - see Actors, Drama, The. The stage. STARS. is the mirror of human life. William Winter: The Press and the Stage. Oration before the Goethe Society, New The chambers of the East are opened in every land, and the sun comes forth to sow the earth with orient pearl. Night, the ancient mother, follows him with her diadem of Bright creatures! how they gleam like spirits through the shadows of innumerable eyes from their thrones in the boundless depths of heaven. stars. 5206 Carlyle: Thomas Carlyle, First Forty Years, by Froude. Vol. i. Ch. 17. Letter, March 23, 1825. To Jane Welsh. No star seemed less than what science has taught us that it is. James Fenimore Cooper: The Sea Lions. Ch. 28. 5207 STATESMANSHIP. What most of all enables a man to serve the public is not wealth, but content and independence; which, requiring no superfluity at home, distracts not the mind from the common good. 5208 Plutarch: Lives. STINGINESS. Aristides and Marcus Cato. I give thee sixpence! I will see thee d- -d first. STYLE. Style is what gives value and currency to thought. 5210 Amiel Journal. Introduction. (Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Translator.) Style is the dress of thoughts. 5211 Lord Chesterfield: Letter, Nov. 24, 1749. One step above step above the The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult to class them separately. the sublime makes the ridiculous; and one ridiculous makes the sublime again. 5212 Thomas Paine: Age of Reason. Pt. ii. Note at Finis. (Also attributed to Napoleor. I. and Style, after all, rather than thought, is the immortal thing in literature. 5213 Alexander Smith: Dreamthorp. On the Writing of Essays. SUBLIMITY- see Style. As for the sublime, it is, even among the greatest geniuses, only the most elevated that can reach it. La Bruyère: Characters. 5214 SUBMISSION. Of Works of Genius. (Rowe, Translator.) No man is good for anything who has not learned the easy, prompt, cheerful submission of his will to rightful authority. 5215 Washington Gladden: Things New and Old. II. Good Gifts to our Children. SUBTLETY - Subtlety is only a deceitful manner of applying reason to do mischief. 5216 Cicero: Of the Nature of the Gods. Bk. iii. Sec. 30. (Yonge, Translator.) SUCCESS -see Virtue. It is a great presumption to ascribe our successes to our own management, and not to esteem ourselves upon any blessing, rather as it is the bounty of heaven, than the acquisition of our own prudence. 5217 Addison: The Spectator. No. 293. Success is sweet: the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats. 5218 A. Bronson Alcott: Table Talk. III. Pursuits. Men's best successes come after their disappointments. Pulpit. Success. Success is full of promise till men get it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown. 5220 Henry Ward Beecher: Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit. Success. SUCCESS. other Success surely comes with conscience in the long run, things being equal. Capacity and fidelity are commercially profitable qualities. 5221 Henry Ward Beecher: Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit. Success is the child of Audacity. 5222 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield): Iskander. Ch. 4. Even success needs its consolations. 5223 George Eliot: Life of George Eliot, by J. W. Cross. Ch. 18. Letter, June 3, 1876. To J. W. Cross. A strenuous soul hates cheap successes. 5224 Emerson: Letters and Social Aims. Progress of Culture. The greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people. 5225 We sink to rise. 5226 Emerson: Conduct of Life. Behavior. Emerson: Letters and Social Aims. Poetry and Imagination. In success be moderate. 5227 Benjamin Franklin: Poor Richard's Almanac. Almost everywhere men have become the particular things which their particular work has made them. 5228 J. G. Holland: Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects. III. Work and Play. Success serves men as a pedestal. It makes them seem greater when not measured by reflection. 5229 Joubert: Pensées. No. 148. (Attwell, Translator.) The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well; and doing well whatever you do, without a thought of fame. 5230 Longfellow: Hyperion. Bk. i. Ch. 8. Success never needs an excuse. 5231 Lord Lytton: Speeches. XV. The Excise Great success is a great temptation. 5232 Theodore Parker: Miscellaneous Discourses. Human success is a quotation from overhead. 5233 Charles H. Parkhurst: Sermons. I. The Pattern in the Mount. Success causes us to be more praised than known. 5234 Joseph Roux: Meditations of a Parish Priest. Mind, Talent, Character. No. 46. (Hapgood, Trans.) Success treads on the heels of every right effort; and though it is possible to overestimate success to the extent of almost deifying it, as is sometimes done, still in any worthy pursuit it is meritorious. 5235 Samuel Smiles: Self-Help. Ch. 3. The secret of many a man's success in the world resides in his insight into the moods of men, and his tact in dealing with them. 5236 Timothy Titcomb (J. G. Holland): Lessons in Life. Moods and Frames of Mind. The mighty credit, which is a mantle of cloth of gold and finest silver spun by the greatest of the angels of men Success. 5237 ... Lew Wallace: Ben-Hur. Bk. iv. Ch. 11. Consider what God can do, and you will never despair of A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions. 5240 Lowell: Democracy and other Addresses. May 10, 1884. SUICIDE -see Cowardice. Wordsworth. Address, The more pity that great folk should have countenance in this world to drown or hang themselves, more than their even Christian. 5241 Shakespeare: Hamlet. Act v. Sc. 1. SUNDAY- see Sabbath, The. God's altar stands from Sunday to Sunday, and the seventh day is no more for religion than any other. It is for rest. The whole seven are for religion, and one of them for rest. 5242 Henry Ward Beecher: Life Thoughts. Sunday is the common people's great liberty-day, and they are bound to see to it that work does not come into it. 5243 Henry Ward Beecher: Proverbs from Plymouth The one great poem of New England is her Sunday. The Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence. 5245 Emerson: Lectures and Biographical Sketches. Character. SUNLIGHT Sunlight is like the breath of life to the pomp of autumn. 5246 Hawthorne: American Note-Books. Brook Farm, Sunlight is painting. 5247 SUNRISE. Oct. 9, 1841. Hawthorne: American Note-Books. 1838. Only the country-liver can fully feel it-this dying of night with the birth of day-this supreme moment when the mists and dimness and low voices of the one exhale into the melody and brightness of the other. It is a daily miracle- this sudden transition from gray to rosy light-this unrolling of the dew-covered landscapethis assumption, in delicious crescendo, of sound-this quickening of the day's life over the sleep of night-this flying of darkness, as of a ghost pursued, before the flooding of light this oldest of all stories again told. Awake, for the day has dawned! 5248 E. H. Arr (Mrs. Ellen H. Rollins): New England The Weekly Routine. Bygones. And lo! in a flash of crimson splendor, with blazing scarlet clouds running before his chariot, and heralding his majestic approach, God's sun rises upon the world. 5249 Thackeray: The Christmas Books. The Kickleburys on the Rhine. SUNSET. That hour of the day when, face to face, the rising moon beholds the setting sun. 5250 SUPERIORITY. Longfellow: Hyperion. Bk. ii. Ch. 10. The object of the superior man is truth. 5251 Confucius: Analects. Bk. xv. Ch. 31. (Legge, Translator.) The faults of the superior man are like the eclipses of the sun and moon. He has his faults, and all men see them; he changes, and all men look up to him. 5252 Confucius: Analects. Bk. xix. Ch. 21. (Legge, SUPERSTITION - Superstition, without a veil, is a deformed thing; for, as it addeth deformity to an ape to be so like a man, so the similitude of superstition to religion makes it the more deformed; and as wholesome meat corrupteth to little worms, so good forms and orders corrupt into a number of petty observances. 5253 Bacon Essays. Of Superstition. Superstition is a quality that seems indigenous to the ocean. 5254 James Fenimore Cooper: The Red Rover. Ch. 15. |