A gentleman, nurse, that loves to hear himself talk; and will speak more in a minute, than he will stand to in a month. 5309 Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Sc. 4. He hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his tongue is the clapper; for what his heart thinks his tongue speaks. Shakespeare: Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 2. 5310 Men of few words are the best men. 5311 Shakespeare: King Henry V. Act iii. Sc. 2. What a spendthrift is he of his tongue! 5312 say it. 5314 Act i. Sc. 1. Alexander Smith: Dreamthorp. On the Writing of Essays. A good talker, even more than a good orator, implies a good audience. 5315 Leslie Stephen: Samuel Johnson. Ch. 3. Intemperance in talk makes a dreadful havoc in the heart. 5316 The inexhaustible talk that was the flow of a golden sea of eloquence and wisdom. 5317 William Winter: English Rambles. Pt. i. Ch. 6. TALKATIVENESS — 8 see Old Age, Woman. It was near a miracle to see an old man silent, since talking is the disease of age. 5318 Ben Jonson: Timber; or, Discoveries made upon Men and Matter. Whom the disease of talking still once possesseth. he can never hold his peace. Nay, rather than he will not discourse he will hire men to hear him. 5319 Ben Jonson: Timber; or, Discoveries made upon Men and Matter. The pleasure of talking is the inextinguishable passion of woman, coeval with the act of breathing. 5320 Le Sage: Gil Blas. Bk. vii. Ch. 7. (Smollett, Translator.) Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody, for they are ever prating. And the first evil this inability to keep silence produces is an inability to listen. 5321 Plutarch: Morals. On Talkativeness. (Shilleto. Translator.) Talkativeness has another plague attached to it, even curiosity; for praters wish to hear much that they may have much to say. 5322 Plutarch: Morals. On Talkativeness. (Shilleto, Talkative people: if they wish to be loved, they are hated; if they desire to please, they bore; when they think they are admired, they are really laughed at; they spend, and get no gain from so doing; they injure their friends, benefit their enemies, and ruin themselves. 5323 Plutarch: Morals. On Talkativeness. Your tongue runs before your wit. 5324 TASTE. (Shilleto, Swift: Polite Conversation. Good taste consists first upon fitness. 5325 George William Curtis: The Potiphar Papers. 1. Our Best Society. Our purity of taste is best tested by its universality, for if we can only admire this thing or that, we may be sure that our cause for liking is of a finite and false nature. 5326 Ruskin: Modern Painters. Pt. iii. Sec. 1, Ch. 3, § 12. Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to our moral nature in its purity and perfection. 5327 Ruskin: Modern Painters. Pt. i. Sec. 1, Ch. 6, § 2. Good taste cannot supply the place of genius in literature, for the best proof of taste, when there is no genius, would be, not to write at all. 5328 Mme. de Staël: Germany. Pt. ii. Ch. 14. (Wight's Taste is to literature what bon ton is in society. TAVERNS — see Inns. He who has not been at a tavern knows not what a paradise it is. O holy tavern! O miraculous tavern! - holy, because no carking cares are there, nor weariness, nor pain; and miraculous, because of the spits, which of themselves turn round and round! 5330 Aretino: Hyperion, by Longfellow. Bk. iii. Ch. 2. Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn? 5331 Shakespeare: King Henry IV. Pt. i. Act iii. Sc. 3. TAXATION. Millions for defence, but not a cent for tribute. 5332 Charles Cotesworth Pinckney: When Ambassador to the French Republic. 1796. Men who prefer any load of infamy, however great, to any pressure of taxation, however light. 5333 Sydney Smith: Letters on American Debts. The Humble Petition of the Rev. Sydney Smith to the House of Congress at Washington. TEACHING - see Instructors. None can teach admirably if not loving his task. To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song. 5335 Amiel: Journal, Oct. 27, 1864. (Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Translator.) There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you, and you are he; there is a teaching; and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever quite lose the benefit. 5336 Emerson Essays. Spiritual Laws. It is a luxury to learn; but the luxury of learning is not to be compared with the luxury of teaching. 5337 Roswell D. Hitchcock: Eternal Atonement. XIV. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions; I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than to be one of the twenty to follow mine own teachings. 5338 Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2. A true teacher should penetrate to whatever is vital in his pupil, and develop that by the light and heat of his own intelligence. 5339 E. P. Whipple: Success and Its Conditions. The Vital and the Mechanical. TEARS - see Laughter, Smiles. Sympathizing and selfish people are alike given to tears. 5340 Tears. Tears are often to be found where there is little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without any tears. 5341 Johnson: Works. IX. 304. (Oxford edition, 1825.) 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. Landor: Imaginary Conversations. Dante and Gemma Donati. 5342 Tears, O Aspasia, do not dwell long upon the cheeks of youth. Rain drops easily from the bud, rests on the bosom of the maturer flower, and breaks down that one only which hath lived its day. 5343 Landor: Pericles and Aspasia. XXVIII. Tears soothe suffering eyes. Richter: Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces. In youth, one has tears without grief: in age, griefs without tears. 5345 Joseph Roux: Meditations of a Parish Priest. Lofty mountains are full of springs; great hearts are full of tears. 5346 Joseph Roux: Meditations of a Parish Priest. A kind overflow of kindness: there are no faces truer than those that are so washed. How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping! 5347 Shakespeare: Much Ado about Nothing. If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. 5348 Weep not, sweet queen, for trickling tears are vain. 5351 Shakespeare: King Henry IV. Pt. i. Act ii. Sc. 4. TEMPER. The brain may devise laws for the blood; but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree: such a hare is madness, the youth, to skip o'er the meshes of good counsel, the cripple. 5352 Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2. TEMPERANCE. Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness. 5353 B. R. Haydon: Table Talk. Temperance, in the nobler sense, does not mean a subdued and imperfect energy; it does not mean a stopping short in any good thing, as in love or in faith; but it means the power which governs the most intense energy, and prevents its acting in any way but as it ought. 5354 Ruskin: The Stones of Venice. The Fall. Temperance is the nurse of chastity. 5355 Wycherley: Love in a Wood. Act iii. Sc. 3 TEMPTATIONS see Praise, Success. Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself. 5356 Henry Ward Beecher: Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit. TENDERNESS. Tenderness is a virtue. 5357 Goldsmith: The Good-Natured Man. Act iii. Want of tenderness is want of parts, and is no less a proof of stupidity than depravity. 5358 Johnson: Boswell's Life of Johnson. II. 122. (George Birkbeck Hill, Editor, 1887.) Tenderness is the repose of passion. 5359 Joubert: Pensées. No. 68. (Attwell, Translator.) TERROR. No divine terror will ever be found in the work of the man who wastes a colossal strength in elaborating toys; for the first lesson that terror is sent to teach us is, the value of the human soul, and the shortness of mortal time. Ruskin: The Stones of Venice. Ch. 3, Sec. 49. 5360 THANKFULNESS. Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks. THEFT. The Fall. Shakespeare: Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2. Whether we force the man's property from him by pinching his stomach, or pinching his fingers, makes some difference anatomically; morally, none whatsoever. 5362 Ruskin: The Two Paths. Lecture v. Sec. 3, 1. THINKERS — see - see Society. In every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker in the world? Carlyle: Heroes and Hero Worship. The Hero as Divinity. 5363 A thinker is a person. 5364 Joseph Cook: Boston Monday Lectures. Conscience. Matthew Arnold's Views on Conscience. The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial. 5365 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield): Contarini Fleming. Pt. iv. Ch. 5. Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. 5366 Emerson Essays. Circles. The greater part of mankind may be divided into two classes; that of shallow thinkers who fall short of the truth; and that of abstruse thinkers who go beyond it. 5367 Hume: Essays. XXIII. Of Commerce. |