377
I do remember stopping by the way,
To watch a potter thumping his wet clay;
And with its all-obliterated tongue
It murmured, “Gently, brother, gently, pray!”
Omar Khayyām.
378
If you only knew the evils which others suffer, you would willingly submit to those which you now bear.
Philemon.
379
Children form a bond of union than which the human heart finds none more enduring.
Livy.
380
The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy,
And its best flavour temperance gives to joy.
Juvenal.
381
To our own sorrows serious heed we give,
But for another’s we soon cease to grieve.
Pindar.
382
Can anything be more absurd than that the nearer we are to our journey’s end, we should lay in the more provision for it?
Cicero.
383
Set about whatever you intend to do; the beginning is half the battle.
Ausonius.
384
All smatterers are more brisk and pert
Than those who understand an art;
As little sparkles shine more bright
Than glowing coals that gave them light.
Butler.
385
No prince, how great soever, begets his predecessors, and the noblest rivers are not navigable to the fountain.
A. Marvell.
386
The guilty man may escape, but he cannot be sure of doing so.
Epicurus.
387
In everything you will find annoyances, but you ought to consider whether the advantages do not predominate.
Menander.
388
Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
Herodotus.
389
Sleeping, we image what awake we wish;
Dogs dream of bones, and fishermen of fish.*
Cf. Arab proverb: “The dream of the cat is always about mice.”
Theocritus.
390
A man who does not endeavour to seem more than he is will generally be thought nothing of. We habitually make such large deductions for pretence and imposture that no real merit will stand against them. It is necessary to set off our good qualities with a certain air of plausibility and self-importance, as some attention to fashion is necessary.
Hazlitt.