A nation is not worthy to be saved if, in the hour of its fate, it will not gather up all its jewels of manhood and life, and go down into the conflict, however bloody and doubtful, resolved on measureless ruin or complete success. 5726 Garfield: The Works of James Abram Garfield. Speech, House of Representatives, June 25, 1864. Enrolling and Calling out the National Forces. I propose to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer. 5727 Grant: Despatch to Washington. Before Spottsylvania Court-House, May 11, 1864. Death. Terrible as is war, it yet displays the spiritual grandeur of man daring to defy his mightiest hereditary enemyHeine: Wit, Wisdom, and Pathos. Pictures. Italy. 5728 Strategy is the most important department of the art of ar, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius. 5729 George S. Hillard: Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan. Ch. 13. A day of battle is a day of harvest for the devil. 5730 William Hooke: Sermon, Taunton, Mass., 1640. New England's Tears for Old England's Fears. Sometimes war must break down doors, sometimes slip in quietly. 5731 Victor Hugo: Ninety-Three. Pt. i. Bk. ii. Ch. 3. (Benedict, Translator.) The great acts of war require to be undertaken by noble men. 5732 Victor Hugo: Ninety-Three. Pt. i. Bk. ii. Ch. 3. (Benedict, Translator.) Go in anywhere, Colonel! You'll find lovely fighting along the whole line. 5733 Philip Kearny: At the Battle of Seven Pines, May 31, 1862. War is one of the greatest plagues that can afflict humanity: it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge, in fact, is preferable to it. Famine and pestilence become as nothing in comparison with it. 5734 Martin Luther: Table-Talk. Of Constrained War, when decisive, has a quick and practical philosophy of its own, and the difficulties that seem largest in its progress usually vanish at its close. 5735 Lord Lytton: Speeches. Prefatory Memoir. Letter on the Wur, Nov. 12, 1855. To Delme Radcliffe, Esq. No war ought ever to be undertaken but under circumstances which render all intercourse of courtesy between the combatants impossible. It is a bad thing that men should hate each other; but it is far worse that they should contract the habit of cutting one another's throats without hatred. War is never lenient but where it is wanton; when men are compelled to fight in self-defence, they must hate and avenge: this may be bad; but it is human nature; it is the clay as it came from the hand of the potter. 5736 Macaulay Essays. On Mitford's History of 5737 William Learned Marcy: Speech, United States Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they are meritorious. 5738 Pascal: Thoughts. Ch. vi., iii. (Wight, Translator. Louandre edition.) Civil war is a momentous evil. . . . Civil war needs momentous and solemn justification. 5739 Wendell Phillips: Orations, Speeches, Lectures, Food for powder, food for powder; they'll fill a pit as well as better: tush, man, mortal men, mortal men. 5740 Shakespeare: King Henry IV. Pt. i. Act iv. Sc. 3. They shall have wars and pay for their presumption. 5741 Shakespeare: King Henry VI. Pt. iii. Act iv. Sc. 1. Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature. 5742 Voltaire: A Philosophical Dictionary. Slaves. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace. 5743 George Washington: Speech, Jan. 8, 1790. To both Houses of Congress. Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. 5744 Duke of Wellington: Despatch. 1815. The whole art of war consists in getting at what is on the other side of the hill, or, in other words, in learning what we do not know from what we do. 5745 Duke of Wellington: To J. W. Croker in WAVES - see Surf, The. It is a beautiful thought that, however far one shore may be from another, the wave which now ripples over my foot will in a short time be on the opposite strand. 5746 Wilhelm von Humboldt: Letters to a Female Friend, Vol. i. No. 68. (Catharine M. A. Couper, Trans.) WEAKNESS. There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends. 5747 Lowell: Among My Books. Shakespeare Once WEALTH -see Avarice, Civilization, Competency, No nation can bear wealth that is not intelligent first. Wealth created without spot or blemish is an honest man's peerage, and to be proud of it is his right. 5749 Henry Ward Beecher: Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit. If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as of getting. 5750 Benjamin Franklin: Poor Richard's Almanac. Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it. 5751 Benjamin Franklin: Poor Richard's Almanac. Poverty breeds wealth; and wealth in its turn breeds poverty. The earth, to form the mould, is taken out of the ditch; and whatever may be the height of the one will be the depth of the other. 5752 Life is short. wealth the better. 5753 J. C. and A. W. Hare: Guesses at Truth. Johnson: Boswell's Life of Johnson. 1773. (Routledge edition, Vol. ii. Ch. 6.) Wealth is an imperious mistress; she requires the whole heart and life of man. : 5754 Laboulaye Abdallah. Ch. 9. (Mary L. Booth, Translator.) Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting. 5755 Lowell: Democracy and Other Addresses. Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, it means leisure, it means liberty. 5756 Lowell: Democracy and Other Addresses. Address, Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 8, 1886. Harvard Anni versary. Wealth is the smallest thing on earth, the least gift that God has bestowed on mankind. 5757 Martin Luther: Table-Talk. Of the Nature of the (Hazlitt, Translator.) World. No. 167. The wealth of society is its stock of productive labor. My meaning in saying he is a good man is, to have you understand me that he is sufficient: yet his means are in supposition: he hath an argosy bound to Tripolis, another to the Indies; I understand moreover, upon the Rialto, he hath a third in Mexico, a fourth for England; and other ventures he hath, squandered abroad. But ships are but boards, sailors but men: there be land-rats, and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves; I mean, pirates; and then, there is the peril of waters, wind, and rocks. The inan is, notwithstanding, sufficient:-three thousand ducats: -I think I may take his bond. 5759 Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3. A man can no more make a safe use of wealth without reason, than he can of a horse without a bridle. 5760 Socrates. (F. A. Paley, Translator, in Greek Wit.) Wealth cannot purchase any great private solace or convenience. Riches are only the means of sociality. 5761 Henry D. Thoreau: Winter. Journal, Jan. 2, 1842. Wants keep pace with wealth always. 5762 Timothy Titcomb (J. G.Holland): Gold-Foil. WEATHER, The. We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important. 5763 Auerbach: On the Heights. (Bennett, Translator.) WELCOME. Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary. June. Letters. I reckon this always, that a man is never undone till he be hanged; nor never welcome to a place till some certain shot be paid and the hostess say, Welcome. 5765 WHIST. Shakespeare: Two Gentlemen of Veronu. A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigor of the game. 5766 Charles Lamb: Mrs. Battle's Opinions on Whist. WICKEDNESS. 'Cause I's wicked-I is. I's mighty wicked anyhow. I can't help it. 5767 Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom's Cabin. Ch. 20. WIFE - see Discipline, Matrimony. Thy wife is a constellation of virtues; she's the moon, and thou art the man in the moon. Everything in this world depends upon will. 5770 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield): Endymion. Ch. 65. There is nothing more precious to a man than his will; there is nothing which he relinquishes with reluctance. So much 5771 J. G. Holland: Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects. VII. Cost and Compensation. That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery. 5772 Richard Hooker: Ecclesiastical Polity. Bk. i. Our circumstances alter: our opinions change; our passions die; our hopes sicken and perish utterly:-our spirits are broken; our health is broken, and even our hearts are broken; but will survives- the unconquerable strength of will, which is in later life what passion is when young. 5773 WIND. Mrs. Jameson: Sketches of Art, Literature, and We must not think too unkindly even of the east wind. It is not, perhaps, a wind to be loved, even in its benignest moods; but there are seasons when I delight to feel its breath upon my cheek, though it be never advisable to throw open my bosom and take it into my heart, as I would its gentle sisters of the south and west. 5774 Hawthorne: American Note-Books. June 11, 1840. A faint, low murmur, rising and falling on the wind. Now it comes rolling in upon me wave after wave of sweet, solemn music. There was a grand organ swell: and now it dies away as into the infinite distance; but I still hear it whether with ear or spirit I know not the very ghost of sound. . . . It is the voice of the pines yonder a sort of morning song of praise to the Giver of life and Maker of beauty. 5775 Whittier: My Summer with Dr. Singletary. Ch. 5. WINE - see Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others. Sometimes it does. But the danger is that while a man grows better pleased with himself he may be growing less pleasing to others. Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has repressed. It |
