Charles Caleb
Charles Caleb
defeat emulation envy exalt herself looks lower spies
Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by victory; envy spies out blemishes that she may lower another by defeat
winning race looks
If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.
time looks one-thing
To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.
fashion past looks
Custom looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present, but both of them are somewhat purblind as to things that are to come.
looks world eternity
He that will often put eternity and the world before him, and who will dare to look steadfastly at both of them, will find that the more often he contemplates them, the former will grow greater, and the latter less.
few men
Most men know what they hate, few know what they love.
apt catch company contagious disease far health others preferable vices
No company is preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health
camps improve large pay price refinement strengthen talents thus
Men, by associating in large masses, as in camps and cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds, but weaken their morals; thus a retrocession in the one, is too often the price they pay for a refinement of the
life men patches shreds small throw
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man.
dies faculties memory
Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, the first that dies
drudgery genius man mill school sentence true
To sentence a man of true genius to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse in a mill
almost knowledge owe
We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed
advantages anxious case doubtful encourage ought system
We ought not be over anxious to encourage innovation, in case of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established and it is understood.
bitterest enemy field hearts meet rather
There are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field than their own hearts in their closet.