Church of England, and we must not supply our enemies with arms from our arsenal. The meaning of subscribing is, not that they fully understand all the Articles, but that they will adhere to the Church of England.-Life. March 21, 1771. Elements of Confidence is the common consequence of success.-Preface to Shakespeare. Success and The prosperous are feared, hated, and Miscarriage flattered; and the unfortunate avoided, pitied and despised.-Idler, No. 102. Sunday It should be different from another day. Observance People may walk, but not throw stones at birds. There may be relaxation, but there should be no levity. Journal. August 20. Too much wealth is very frequently the Superfluity occasion of poverty. Connection of The superstitious are often melancholy; Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue Suspicion than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious; and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.-Rambler, No. 79. Sympathy It has always been considered as alleviation of misery not to suffer alone, even when union and society can contribute nothing to resistance or escape.-Rambler, No. 76. K Intellectual Every man loves merit of the same kind with his own.-Rambler, No. 99. Afraid of a You need not be afraid; marry her. Be Lady's Talents 'fore a year goes about, you'll find that reason much weaker, and that wit not so bright.-Life. Telling Tales 1768. A man should be careful never to tell tales of Oneself of himself to his own disadvantage. People may be amused and laugh at the time, but they will be remembered and brought out against him upon some subsequent occasion.-Life. March 25, 1776. Complimentary People consider it as a compliment to be Talking talked to, as if they were wiser than they are. So true is this, that Baxter made it a rule, in every sermon that he preached, to say something that was above the capacity of his audience.—Life. March 30, 1783. Tastes Differ That which is the means of happiness to one man, may be to another the cause of misery.-Adventurer, No. 3. Temperance No. 2. To temperance every day is bright, and every hour is propitious to diligence.-Idler, You know, humanly speaking, there is a Temptation certain degree of temptation which will overcome any virtue.-Life. March 31, 1778. Leases to Tenants It is a man's duty to extend comfort and security among as many people as he can. He should not wish to have his tenants mere Ephemera -mere beings of an hour.-Journal. Want of Want of tenderness is want of parts, and Tenderness no less a proof of stupidity than depravity.— Life. Dr. Maxwell's Collectanea, 1770. He that changes his party by his humour, Tergiversation. is not more virtuous than he that changes it by his interest: he loves himself rather than truth.Life of Milton. Test of a The true state of every nation is the state Nation of common life.-Journey to the Western Islands, p. 17. Christian The ideas of Christian theology are too Theology simple for eloquence, too sacred for fiction, and too majestic for ornament.-Lives of the Poets. Waller, The Potential He who accustoms himself to fraud in Thief little things, wants only opportunity to practice it in greater.-Adventurer, No. 119. Aiming at 1 He that waits for an opportunity to do ! Great Things much at once, may breathe out his life in idle wishes, and regret in the last hour his useless intentions and barren zeal.-Idler, No. 4. Immortality External things are naturally variable, but of Thought truth and reason are always the same.Rasselas, ch. 18.. Great thoughts are always general, and Great Thoughts consist in positions not limited by excep tions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness. -Lives of the Poets, II., p. 24. Time will impair the body, and uses us Time well if it spares the mind.-Letter to Mrs. Thrale, No. 134. Time to us Time, with all its celerity, moves slowly to him whose whole employment is to watch its flight.-Idler, No. 21. Hardening Men may be generally observed to grow Effect of Time less tender as they advance in age.—Rambler. A Tiresome That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.-Life. Max well's Collectanea, 1770. -XTit for Tat To-morrow If we will have the kindness of others, we must endure their follies.-Idler, No. 14. t To-morrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale. Letter to Mrs. Thrale, 71. Trade It is a mistaken notion that a vast deal of money is brought into a nation by trade. It is not so. Commodities come from commodities; but trade produces no capital accession of wealth.-Life. October 26, 1769. Trade Trade could not be managed by those who manage it, if it had much difficulty.—Letter to Mrs. Thrale, No. 283. Trade Trade is like gaming. If a whole company are gamesters, play must cease as there is nothing to be won. When all nations are traders, there is nothing to be gained by trade, and it will stop first where it is brought to the greatest perfection.-Journal. September 20. Punctuality The chief praise to which a trader aspires in Trade is that of punctuality, or an exact and vigorous observance of commercial engagements: nor is there any vice which he so much dreads the imputation, as of negligence and instability.-Rambler, No. 2o1.gad Their great books are soon understood, and 1. Traders their language is understood with no very laborious application.-Letter to Mrs. Thrale, No. 233. Opulent Retired Traders I never much like that class of people, for they have lost the civility of tradesmen without acquiring the manners of gentlemen.-Life. well's Collectanea, 1770. Jack of all Collectanea. Domestic Tragedies Max A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.-Life. Boswell's March 21, 1783. What is nearest us touches us most. The passions rise higher at domestic than at imperial tragedies.-Letter to Mrs. Thrale, No. 23. I Soma Os rodotɔ0 You may translate books of science exactly. ་ Translation You may also translate history, in so far as it is not embellished with oratory, which is poetical. |