I dislike an eye that twinkles like a star. beautiful which, like the planets, have a light, are luminous, but not sparkling. 1430 - Those only are steady, lambent Longfellow: Hyperion. Bk. iii. Ch. 4. Whatever of goodness emanates from the soul, gathers its soft halo in the eyes; and if the heart be a lurking-place of crime, the eyes are sure to betray the secret. A beautiful eye makes silence eloquent, a kind eye makes contradiction assent, an enraged eye makes beauty a deformity; so you see, forsooth, the little organ plays no inconsiderable, if not a dominant, part. 1431 Frederick Saunders: Stray Leaves of Literature. Physiognomy. I have a good eye, uncle; I can see a church by daylight. I see how thine eye would emulate the diamond: thou hast the right arched bent of the brow. 1433 Shakespeare: The Merry Wives of Windsor. F. FACE- -see Beards, Blushes, Contentment, Eyes, Gratitude, Hair, Laughter, Sympathy. A beautiful face is a silent commendation. 1434 Bacon: Moral and Historical Works. Ornamenta Rationalia. He had a face like a benediction. 1435 Cervantes: Don Quixote. Bk. i. Pt. i. Ch. 6. (Jarvis, Translator.) The silent echo of the heart. 1436 Paul Chatfield, M.D. (Horace Smith): The Tin There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy, which must sadden, or at least soften, every reflecting observer. 1437 Coleridge: Table Talk. Additional Table Talk. Human Countenance. What a man is lies as certainly upon his countenance as in his heart, though none of his acquaintances may be able to read it. The very intercourse with him may have rendered it more difficult. 1438 George Mac Donald: Weighed and Wanting. Ch. 11. Two similar faces, neither of which alone causes laughter, cause laughter when they are together, by their resemblance. 1439 Pascal: Thoughts. Ch. ix. xxxix. (Wight, Trans lator. Louandre edition.) A face which is always serene possesses a mysterious and powerful attraction: sad hearts come to it as to the sun to warm themselves again. 1440 Joseph Roux: Meditations of a Parish Priest. Love, Friendship, Friends, No. 10. (Hapgood, Translator.) Faces are as legible as books, with this difference in their favor, that they may be perused in much less time than printed pages, and are less liable to be misunderstood. 1441 Frederick Saunders: Stray Leaves of Literature. Physiognomy. A noble soul spreads even over a face in which the architectonic beauty is wanting an irresistible grace, and often even triumphs over the natural disfavor. 1442 Schiller Essays, Esthetical and Philosophical. Grace and Dignity. Now Heaven bless that sweet face of thine! 1443 Shakespeare: King Henry IV. Pt. ii. Act ii. Sc. 4. Doubtless the human face is the grandest of all mysteries; yet fixed on canvas it can hardly tell of more than one sensation; no struggle, no successive contrasts accessible to dramatic art, can painting give, as neither time nor motion exists for her. 1444 Madame de Staël: Corinne. Bk. viii. Ch. 4. (Isabel Hill, Translator.) Sea of upturned faces. 1445 Daniel Webster: Speech, Faneuil Hall, Boston, Mass., Sept. 30, 1842. Reception to Mr Webster. FACT. Facts are stubborn things. 1446 Elliot Essays. Field Husbandry, 1747. Le Sage: Gil Blas. Bk. x. Ch. 1. (Smollett, Translator.) FAILURE-see Virtue There have, undoubtedly, been bad great men; but inasmuch as they were bad, they were not great. 1447 Leigh Hunt: Table Talk. Bad Great Men. Complaints are vain; we will try to do better another time. To-morrow and to-morrow. A few designs and a few failures, and the time of designing is past. 1448 Johnson: Letters to and from the late Samuel To fail at all is to fail utterly. 1449 Lowell: Among My Books. Dryden. The weakest goes to the wall. 1450 Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet. Act i. Sc. 1. Many men and women spend their lives in unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use. 1451 Timothy Titcomb (J. G. Holland): Gold-Foil. FAITH -see Courage, Distrust, Experience, Hope, Without faith a man can do nothing. But faith can stifle all science. 1452 Amiel Journal, Feb. 7, 1872. (Mrs. Humphrey Faith is nothing but spiritualized imagination. Pulpit. The highest order that was ever instituted on earth is the order of faith. 1454 Henry Ward Beecher: Proverbs from Plymouth The faith which you keep must be a faith that demands obedience, and you can keep it only by obeying it. 1455 Phillips Brooks: Sermons. IV. Keeping the Faith. Faith is love taking the form of aspiration. 1456 William Ellery Channing: Note-Book. Faith needs her daily bread. 1457 Georgiana M. Craik: Fortune's Marriage. Faith. Ch. 10. Faith makes us, and not we it; and faith makes its own forms. 1458 Emerson Miscellanies. Address, Divinity College, Cambridge, July 15, 1838. Heaven alone, not earth, is destined to witness the repose of faith. 1459 Moses Harvey: Lectures on the Harmony of Science and Revelation. Faith always implies the disbelief of a lesser fact in favor of a greater. A little mind often sees the unbelief, without seeing the belief of large ones. 1460 Hoimes: The Professor at the Breakfast- This is faith: it is nothing more than obedience. 1461 Voltaire: Philosophical Dictionary. Faith. Sec. 2. (Kneeland, Translator.) A perfect faith would lift us absolutely above fear. 1462 George MacDonald: Sir Gibbie. Ch. 11. Faith is obedience, not compliance. 1463 George MacDonald: The Marquis of Lossie. Ch. 64. The principal part of faith is patience. 1464 George MacDonald: Weighed and Wanting. Ch. 53. Faith is among men what gravity is among planets and suns. 1465 Charles H. Parkhurst: Sermons. IV. Walking by Faith. Faith is mind at its best, its bravest, and its fiercest. Faith is thought become poetry, and absorbing into itself the soul's great passions. Faith is intellect carried up to its transfigCharles H. Parkhurst: Sermons. IV. Walking urement. 1466 by Faith. by Faith. Faith is the heroism of intellect. IV. Walking Faith is the very heroism and enterprise of intellect. Faith is not a passivity, but a faculty. Faith is power, the material of effect. Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants. 1468 Charles H. Parkhurst: Sermons. IV. Walking by Faith. Faith in a better than that which appears is no less required by art than by religion. 1469 John Sterling: Essays and Tales. Thoughts. Faith is the force of life. Tolstoi: My Confession. Ch. 11. Faith is the root of works. A root that produceth nothing is dead. 1471 Thomas Wilson: Maxims of Piety and of Our life must answer for our faith. Cottages have them (falsehood and dissimulation) as well as courts, only with worse manners. 1474 Lord Chesterfield: Letter to His Son, April 15, 1748. Falsehood is fire in stubble; it likewise turns all the light stuff around it into its own substance for a moment, one crackling blazing moment, and then dies; and all its converts are scattered in the wind, without place or evidence of their existence, as viewless as the wind which scatters them. 1475 Coleridge: Omniana. Truth and Falsehood. Falsehood is often rocked by truth; but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse. 1476 Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. Colton: Lacon. George Eliot: Adam Bede. Ch. 17. Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly practice and partly habit. It requires an effort in them to speak truth. 1478 Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as the detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after. 1479 Hazlitt: Characteristics. No. 266. It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentional lying that there is so much falsehood in the world. 1480 Johnson: Boswell's Life of Johnson. III. 228. (George Birkbeck Hill, Editor, 1887.) Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood. 1481 Johnson: Works. VII. 98. (Oxford edition, 1825.) Falsehood is for a season. 1482 Landor: Imaginary Conversations. William Penn and Lord Peterborough. Dissembling profiteth nothing; a feigned countenance, and slightly forged externally, deceiveth but very few. 1483 Seneca: Works. Epistles, No. 79. (Thomas FAME-see Envy, Knowledge, Poetry, Success, Vice. Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing it when obtained, would be sufficient to deter a man from so vain a pursuit. 1484 Addison: The Spectator. No. 255. Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property of a man. 1485 Carlyle Essays. Goethe. (Foreign Review, 1828.) Money will buy money's worth, but the thing men call fame, what is it? 1486 Carlyle Essays. Memoirs of the Life of Scott. (London and Westminster Review, Nos. XII. and LV., 1838.) |
