only puts in motion what has been locked up in frost. But this may be good, or it may be bad. 5776 Johnson: Boswell's Life of Johnson. III. 327. (George Birkbeck Hill, Editor, 1887.) Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature, if it be well used; exclaim no more against it. 5777 Shakespeare: Othello. Act ii. Sc. 3. Good wine needs no bush. Shakespeare: As You Like It. Epilogue. O thou invisible spirit of wine! If thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil. 5779 Shakespeare: Othello. Act ii. Sc. 3. WINTER -see Hoar-Frost. The wind sweeps through the forest with a sound like the blast of a trumpet. The dry leaves whirl in eddies through the air. A fretwork of hoar-frost covers the plain. The stagnant water in the pools and ditches is frozen into fantastic figures. Nature ceases from her labors and prepares for the great Change. In the low-hanging clouds, the sharp air, like a busy shuttle, weaves her shroud of snow. There is a melancholy and continual roar in the tops of the tall pines like the roar of a cataract. It is the funeral anthem of the dying year. 5780 Longfellow : Prose Works. Appendix II. The BlankBook of a Country Schoolmaster. XVII. Autumn. Take Winter as you find him, and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow with no nonsense in him, and tolerating none in you, which is a great comfort in the long run. 5781 Lowell: My Study Windows. A Good Word for Winter. Winter does not work only on a broad scale; he is careful in trifles. 5782 Alexander Smith: Dreamthorp. Christmas. Every leaf and twig was . . . covered with a sparkling ice armor. Even the grasses in exposed fields were hung with innumerable diamond pendants, which jingled merrily when brushed by the foot of the traveller. It was as if some superincumbent stratum of the earth had been removed in the night, exposing to light a bed of untarnished crystals. 5783 Henry D. Thoreau: Winter. Journal, Jan. 21, 1838. WISDOM see Cheerfulness, Christianity, Conceit, Folly, Love, Old Age, Opportunity, Quotation, Reading, Science, Silence, Thought, Wit. Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and in lending one's self to the universal delusion without becoming its dupe. 5784 Amiel Journal, Dec. 11, 1872. (Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Translator.) Wisdom never grows old, for she is the expression of order itself; that is, of the Eternal. Only the wise man draws from life, and from every stage of it, its true savor because only he feels the beauty, the dignity, and the value of life. 5785 Amiel: Journal, Dec. 4, 1863. (Mrs. Humphrey You will cast away your cards and dice when you find the sweetness of youthful learning. 5786 Richard Baxter : Compassionate Counsel to Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man. 5787 Carlyle: Miscellanies. Inaugural Address, Edinburgh, April 2, 1866. He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of daily virtuous living. 5788 Carlyle Essays. Schiller. (Fraser's Magazine. Body cannot teach wisdom; God only. 5789 Emerson: Representative Men. Plato. He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. 5790 Epictetus: Fragments. CXXIX. (Long, Trans.) He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God. 5791 Epictetus: Fragments. CLI. (Long, Translator.) Knowledge is the treasure of the mind, but discretion is the key to it, without which it is useless. The practical part of wisdom is the best. 5792 Owen Felltham: Resolves. Pt. i. Of Wisdom and Science. The true greatness and the true happiness of a country consist in wisdom; in that enlarged and comprehensive wisdom which includes education, knowledge, religion, virtue, freedom, with every influence which advances and every institution which supports them. 5793 Henry Giles: Lectures and Essays. Patriotism. Knowledge is the parent of love; Wisdom, love itself. 5794 J. C. and A. W. Hare: Guesses at Truth. Wisdom is seldom gained without suffering. 5795 Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. 5796 Holmes: The Professor at the Breakfast-Table. Ch. 2. The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself. 5797 Mrs. Jameson: Memoirs and Essays. Allston. He that never thinks never can be wise. 5798 Washington Johnson: Rasselas. Ch. 17. A wise man will always be a Christian, because the perfection of wisdom is to know where lies tranquillity of mind and how to attain it, which Christianity teaches. 5799 Landor: Imaginary Conversations. Andrew Wisdom consisteth not in knowing many things, nor even in knowing them thoroughly; but in choosing and in following what conduces the most certainly to our lasting happiness and true glory. 5800 Landor: Imaginary Conversations. Lord Bacon and Richard Hooker. The only jewel which you can carry beyond the grave is wisdom. 5801 James Alfred Langford: The Praise of Books. It is great folly to wish only to be wise. 5802 La Rochefoucauld: Reflections; or, Sentences and Wisdom is to the soul what health is to the body. 5803 La Rochefoucauld: Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims. No. 83. Wisdom is everlasting; early or late we apprehend her still the same. 5804 Frederic W. H. Myers: George Eliot. (The Wisdom sends us to childhood: nisi efficiamini sicut parvuli. 5805 Pascal: Thoughts. Ch. xxv., lxxx. (Wight, Wisdom alone is a science of other sciences and of itself. 5806 Plato: Charmides. I. 21. (Jowett, Translator.) Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty. 5807 Plutarch: Morals. On Fortune. (Shilleto, Trans.) A man of virtue, judgment, and prudence speaks not until there is silence. 5808 Saadi: The Gulistan. Ch. 4. of Taciturnity. On the Advantages No. 7. If wisdom was to cease throughout the world, no one would suspect himself of ignorance. 5809 Saadi: The Gulistan. Ch. 8. Rules for Conduct in Life. No. 30. Wise men say nothing in dangerous times. 5810 John Selden: Table Talk. Wisdom. Those things on which philosophy has set its seal are beyond the reach of injury; no age will discard them or lessen their force, each succeeding century will add somewhat to the respect in which they are held; for we look upon what is near us with jealous eyes, but we admire what is further off with less prejudice. The wise man's life, therefore, includes much; he is not hedged in by the same limits which confine others; he alone is exempt from the laws by which mankind is governed; all ages serve him like a god. If any time be past he recalls it by his memory, if it be present he uses it, if it be future he anticipates it; his life is a long one because he concentrates all times into it. Bk. x. Of the Short(Stewart, Trans.) Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents. 5812 Shakespeare: Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 5. Wisdom is a hen, whose cackling we must value and consider because it is attended with an egg; but, then, lastly, it is a nut, which, unless you choose with judgment, may cost you a tooth, and pay you with nothing but a worm. 5813 Swift: A Tale of a Tub. Introduction. Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life. 5814 WIT Timothy Titcomb (J. G. Holland): Gold-Foil. see Art, Books, Buffoonery, Chance, Fools, Genius, Humor, Necessity, Puns, Society. It consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language. 5815 Dr. Barrow: Sermons. XIV. Against Foolish and Idle Talking and Jesting. Sometimes it is lodged in a sly question, in a smart answer, in a quirkish reason, in a shrewd intimation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting an objection; sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense. 5816 Dr. Barrow: Sermons. XIV. Against Foolish Wit without an employment is a disease. Burton: Anatomy of Melancholy. Don't put too fine a point to your wit, for fear it should get blunted. 5818 The Little Cervantes: The Exemplary Novels. Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not. 5819 Men of humor are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Skakespeare. 5820 Coleridge: Table Talk. Aug. 20, 1833. His wit run him out of his money, and now his poverty has run him out of his wits. 5821 Congreve Love for Love. Act v. Sc. 2. The falling-out of wits is like the falling-out of lovers: we agree in the main, like treble and bass. 5822 Congreve: The Way of the World. 5823 Emerson: Letters and Social Aims. Act iii. Sc. 13. Social Aims. Emerson: Letters and Social Aims. Progress of Culture. Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. 5825 Emerson: Letters and Social Aims. The Comic. Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things. 5826 J. C. and A. W. Hare: Guesses at Truth. Genuine and innocent wit is surely the very flavor of the mind. 5827 Moses Harvey: Lectures, Literary and Biographical. Wit and Humor. Genuine wit implies no small amount of wisdom and culture. 5828 Moses Harvey: Lectures, Literary and Biographical. Wit and Humor. There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits. No. 374. 5829 B. R. Haydon: Table Talk. Those who object to wit are envious of it. 5830 Hazlitt: Characteristics. We prefer a person with vivacity and high spirits, though bordering upon insolence, to the timid and pusillanimous; we are fonder of wit joined to malice than of dulness without it. 5831 Hazlitt: Characteristics. No. 159. Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education, and the most common among the uneducated. Hazlitt: Characteristics. No. 371. 5832 |
