A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfil appointed by God and his moral law. 1232 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield): Lothair. Ch. 32. Man cannot choose his duties. 1233 George Eliot: Romola. Ch. 40 The reward of one duty is the power to fulfil another. 1234 George Eliot: Daniel Deronda. Bk. vi. Ch. 46 Every mission constitutes a pledge of duty. Every man is bound to consecrate his every faculty to its fulfilment. He will derive his rule of action from the profound conviction of that duty. 1235 William Lloyd Garrison: Joseph Mazzini; His Life and Writings. Young Europe. General Principles. Do your duty, and don't swerve from it. Do that which your conscience tells you to be right, and leave the consequences to God. 1236 B. R. Haydon: Table Talk. The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty. 1237 The things of the world are ever rising and falling, and in perpetual change; and this change must be according to the will of God, as he has bestowed upon man neither the wisdom nor the power to enable him to check it. The great lesson in these things is, that man must strengthen himself doubly at such times to fulfil his duty and to do what is right, and must seek his happiness and inward peace from objects which cannot be taken away from him. 1238 Wilhelm von Humboldt: Letters to a Female Friend. Vol. ii. No. 18. (Couper, Translator.) Duty, - the command of heaven, the eldest voice of God. 1239 Charles Kingsley: Sermons for the Times. Sermon xxii. Duty is what goes most against the grain, because in doing that we do only what we are strictly obliged to, and are seldom much praised for it. 1240 La Bruyère: Characters. Of Man. (Rowe, Trans.) The pleasure a man of honor enjoys in the consciousness of having performed his duty is a reward he pays himself for all his pains. 1241 La Bruyère: Characters. Of Personal Merit. (Rowe, Translator.) They do well, or do their duty, who with alacrity do what La Bruyère: Characters. Of Judgments. (Rowe, Translator.) Men should soon make up their minds to be forgotten, and look about them, or within them, for some higher motive in what they do than the approbation of men, which is fame, namely their duty; that they should be constantly and quietly at work, each in his sphere, regardless of effects, and leaving their fame to take care of itself. 1243 Longfellow: Hyperion. Bk. i. Ch. 8. God never imposes a duty without giving the time to do it. 1244 Ruskin: Lectures on Architecture and Painting. Lect. ii. Duty, especially out of the domain of love, is the veriest slavery in the world. 1245 Timothy Titcomb (J. G. Holland): Gold-Foil. There is no evil that we cannot either face or fly from, but the consciousness of duty disregarded. A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity. 1246 Daniel Webster: Murder of Capt. Joseph White. E. EARNESTNESS. A man in earnest finds means, or, if he cannot find, creates them. 1247 William Ellery Channing: Address, Boston, Mass., September, 1838. Self-Culture. EATING. We must eat to live, not live to eat. 1248 Fielding: The Miser. Act iii. And men sit down to that nourishment which is called supper. 1249 Shakespeare: Love's Labor's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1. Let me not stay a jot for dinner; go, get it ready. 1250 Shakespeare: King Lear. They are as sick, that surfeit with too much, starve with nothing. 1251 Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice. ECCENTRICITY. Act i. Sc. 4. as they that Act i. Sc. 2. Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time. 1252 John Stuart Mill: On Liberty. Ch. 3. Of Indi viduality as one of the Elements of Well-Being. ECHO. The shadow of a sound, -a voice without a mouth, and words without a tongue. 1253 Paul Chatfield, M.D. (Horace Smith): The Tin Trumpet. Echo. Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror. 1254 Hawthorne: American Note-Books, Dec. 6, 1837. The old echoes are long in dying. 1255 Charles H. Parkhurst: Sermons. I. The Pattern in the Mount. ECONOMY. I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow, who used to say, Take care of the pence; for the pounds will take care of themselves. 1256 Lord Chesterfield: Letter, Nov. 6, 1747. Economy does not consist in the reckless reduction of estimates. On the contrary, such a course almost necessarily tends to increased expenditure. There can be no economy where there is no efficiency. 1257 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield): Letter to Constituents, Oct. 3, 1868. A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence. 1258 Emerson: English Traits. Aristocracy. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone and die not worth a groat at last. 1259 Benjamin Franklin: Poor Richard's Almanac. He has paid dear, very dear for his whistle. 1260 Benjamin Franklin: The Whistle. EDUCATION -see Adversity, Cleanliness, Knowl edge, Politicians, Woman. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to an human soul. 1261 Addison: The Spectator. No. 215. Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it. 1262 A. Bronson Alcott: Table Talk. III. Pursuits. Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators. 1263 A. Bronson Alcott: Table Talk. II. Enterprise. Experience. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. 1264 Bacon: Essays. Of Studies. Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. 1265 Bacon: Essays. Of Studies. Education is only like good culture, it changes the size, but not the sort. 1266 Henry Ward Beecher: Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit. Education. Education is only second to nature. 1267 Horace Bushnell: Nature and the Supernatural. Ch. 2. Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, was found a State education. It had been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience was to commence tyranny in the nursery. 1268 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield): Speech, House of Commons, June 15, 1874. Minister of Educa tion. Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends. There is no period in the history of the world in which I believe it has been more important that the disposition and mind of the people should be considered by the State than it is at present. 1269 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield): Speech, House of Commons, June 15, 1874. Minister of Education. Education, however indispensable in a cultivated age, produces nothing on the side of genius. When education ends, genius often begins. 1270 Isaac Disraeli: Literary Character. Ch. 6. Education should be as broad as man. 1271 Emerson: Lectures and Biographical Sketches. The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained. 1273 Garfield: The Works of James Abram Garfield. Letter Accepting the Nomination for the Presidency, Mentor, O., July 12, 1880. The best system of education is that which draws its chief support from the voluntary effort of the community, from the individual efforts of citizens, and from those burdens of taxation which they voluntarily impose upon themselves. 1274 Garfield: The Works of James Abram Garfield. Speech, House of Representatives, Feb. 6, 1872. The different steps and degrees of education may be compared to the artificer's operations upon marble: it is one thing to dig it out of the quarry, and another to square it, to give it gloss and lustre, call forth every beautiful spot and vein, shape it into a column, or animate it into a statue. Thomas Gray: The Alliance of Education and Government. (Edmund Gosse, Editor.) 1275 The awakening of our best sympathies, the cultivation of our best and purest tastes, strengthening the desire to be useful and good, and directing youthful ambition to unselfish ends, such are the objects of true education. 1276 J. T. Headley: Extract from Letter. The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us: to develop, to their fullest extent, the capacities of every kind with which the God who made us has endowed us. 1277 Mrs. Jameson: Education. Winter. Studies and Summer Rambles. Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is at once best in quality and infinite in quantity. 1278 Horace Mann: Lectures and Reports on Education. Lecture i. I call, therefore, a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously, all the offices, both private and public,. of peace and war. 1279 Milton On Education. I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct ye to a hillside, where I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect, and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming. Milton: On Education. 1280 A good education is generally considered as reflecting no small credit on its possessor; but in the majority of cases it reflects credit on the wise solicitude of his parents or guardians, rather than on himself. 1281 James Cotter Morison: Gibbon. Ch. 1. (English Men of Letters.) Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man. 1282 Wendell Phillips: Speeches. Idols. Education is the constraining and directing of youth towards that right reason, which the law affirms, and which the experience of the best of our elders has agreed to be truly right. 1283 Plato: Laws. IV. 182. (Jowett, Translator.) |