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PREFACE
My father used often to say, half jokingly, that if anyone
would ever take the trouble to collect all the extracts
from ! various writers which he had copied in his note
books, there would be found a volume of priceless
worthl My mother transcribed a great part of the con-
tents of these notebooks after my father's death ; but she
died before she could finish this work.
The note-books or Diaries extend over a period of
thirty-seven years. They are little, long, narrow books.
The space in them is limited, and they served, not only
as his record of official engagements, but as his literary
note-books, in which were entered any passages that
struck him in his daily reading. Certain favourite
quotations appear and reappear, and they furnish
living illustrations of many of the principles again and
again insisted upon in his prose writings. ' One must,
vi Matthew Arnold's Notebooks
I think,' he says, in his Preface to the first edition of
' Culture and Anarchy,' ' be struck more and more the
longer one lives, to find how much, in our present
society, a man's life of each day depends for its solidity
and value on whether he reads during that day, and,
far more still, on what he reads during it.' The
dictum first laid down in the ' Essays in Criticism '
(Preface), and constantly repeated in some form or
other, 'that it is the business of criticism to know
and make known the best that is known and thought in
the world,' is here shown to be his life-long practice.
The quotations are in English, French, German,
Italian, Latin, and Greek.
In the blank pages at the end of some of the note
books, he made a list of all the books he wished to read
during the year. Through those books which he did
read he drew a black line ; these lists I have repro
duced at the end of each year's extracts as they occur.
In order to present these note-books in the most
characteristic and at the same time a compendious
form, it has been decided to take every fifth year, un
abridged, from 1863 to 1888, the last year of my
father's life, besides the earliest entries, brief and irregular,
Preface vii
between 1852 and 1861, which, together, barely equal
in bulk the entries for a single year at a later period.
On New Year's Day 1882, he wrote to his sister
('Letters,' ii. 196): 'I am glad to find that in the
past year I have at least accomplished more than usual
in the way of reading the books which at the beginning
of the year I had put down to be read. I always do
this, and I do not expect to read all I put down, but
sometimes I fall much too short of what I proposed, and
this year things have been a good deal better. The
importance of reading, not slight stuff to get through
the time, but the best that has been written, forces
itself upon me more and more every year I live ; it is
living in good company, the best company, and people
are generally quite keen enough, or too keen, about
doing that, yet they will not do it in the simplest and
best manner by reading. However, if I live to be
eighty I shall probably be the only person left in
England who reads anything but newspapers and
scientific publications.'
Excepting the repetitions of those which are noted
as recurring in the same year, the passages are printed
precisely in the order in which they stand. They were
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written in and out, wherever a convenient space offered
itself; but there is a deep unconscious significance in
the days chosen for the latest entries. The passage
chosen for Sunday, April 15, 1888, is from Ecclesiasticus
xxxviii : ' Weep bitterly over the dead, as he is worthy,
and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou
shalt not do him good, but hurt thyself.' That Sunday
afternoon he died suddenly. For the next Sunday, the
Sunday after his burial, he had written these other
words from Ecclesiasticus : ' When the dead is at rest,
let his remembrance rest; and be comforted for him
when his spirit is departed from him.'
Eleanor Wodehouse.
October, 1902.
CONTENTS
Notebooks for 1852 and
1856
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Notebook for 1857
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, 1888
. 127
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MATTHEW ARNOLD'S NOTEBOOKS
1852
II m'a souvent passe par l'esprit, dit 'Gonville, que les
hommes ont leurs proprietes a peu pres comme les
herbes, et que leur bonheur consiste d'avoir ete destines
ou de s'6tre destines eux-m£mes aux choses pour les*
quelles ils etaient n6s.
1856
Vera hominis felicitas et beatitudo in sola, sapientia.
et veri cognitione consistit.
Je n'appelle priere un choix et un arrangement de
paroles lancets vers le ciel, mais un entretien de la pensde
avec l'ideal de lumiere et de perfections infinies. b
Matthew Arnold's Notebooks [1857
1857
Xaif ere. Xaijpeiv 8' octtis Swarai ko.1 ^vvtv^lo. /mjtivi
KafjLvei 6v7]tS>v, eiSai/nova 7rpoo"cret. Eurip.
Kpftcrcrcov yap "AiSot
KevOwv 6 voow /tarav. SophocL
. . . Qui sibi fidit
Dux regit examen.
Secundum propositum nostrum est cursus profectus
nostri. Semper aliquid certi proponendum est.
Ein unniitz Leben ist ein friiher Tod.
Das Wenige verschwindet leicht dem Blicke
Der vorwarts sieht wie viel noch ubrig bleibt.
Le travail qui creuse, I'attention qui concentre, la
puissance de talent qui realise.
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Omni die renovare debem is propositum nostrum,
dicentes ' nunc hodie perfecte incipiamus, quia nihil est,
quod hactenus fecimus.'
Rar6 etiam unum vitium perfecte vincimus, et ad
quotidianum profectum non accendimur : ideo frigidi et
tepidi remanemus.
Matthew Arnold's Notebooks [1858
1858
Omai convien che tu cosi ti spoltre,
Disse '1 Maestro : che, seggendo in piuma,
In fama non si vien, ne sotto coltre. Inferno, xxiv.
Lascio lo fele, e vo pei dolci pomi,
Promessi a me per lo verace Duca ;
Ma fino al centro pria convien ch' io tomi.
[H. Heine.]
E piu F ingegno affreno ch' io non soglio,
Perche non corra, che virtu nol guidi ;
Si che, se stella buona, o miglior cosa
M' ha dato il ben, ch' io stesso nol m' invidi.
Es ist besser das geringste Ding von der Welt zu thun,
als eine halbe Stunde fur gering halten.
TloXv/aaOirj voov ov SiScuxku.
ZZ/jixv rbv ckcivwv 6d.va.70v,
Te6vrJKa/j,ev Se tov Zkuvuv fiiov.
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Weil es nun einmal ein verschrobenes Publicum
giebt, das seiner Natur nach nur an verschnorkelter
Musick Vergniigen findet, so soil man, nach Aristoteles,
ihm .da wo es an Festen Vergniigen und Erholung sucht,
auch solche minder gute Musick bieten, es nicht durch
ganz gute Musick langweilen und bessern wollen.
Non arctandus est mundus ad angustias intellectus,
sed expandendus intellectus ad mundi imaginem recipi-
endam. Scientias non per arrogantiam in humani ingenii
cellulis, sed submisse in mundo majore quserendse sunt.
Science is the edifice of the world in the human
mind. The 0-to.o-l/j.ov was, amid the press and tumult of the
action, to maintain that composure of mind which the
Greeks deemed indispensable to the enjoyment rjf a
work of art.
The 3 tokens of genius : extraordinary understand
ing, extraordinary conduct, and extraordinary exertion.
The 3 things that improve genius : proper exertion,
frequent exertion and successful exertion.
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The 3 things that support genius : prosperity, social
acquaintance, and applause.
The 3 pillars of judgment : bold design, frequent
practice, and frequent mistakes.
The 3 pillars of learning : seeing much, suffering
much, and studying much.
The 3 embellishments of song : fine invention, happy
subject, and masterly harmonious composition.
That which Kant affirmed to be prior to all know
ledge is not itself knowledge, but consists of the
knowledge-forming faculties, which in themselves are
empty. These pure faculties are called by him the
' pure reason.' This consists of powers that constitute
man as man, the essence of humanity. The conditions
which, as necessary functions, precede experience, Kant
called ' transcendental.'
Bacon asked how and by what means are natural
phenomena possible : Kant asked how and by what
means are physics, mathematics, and metaphysics pos
sible. Bacon discovered the empirical philosophy : Kant,
the transcendental or critical philosophy.
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Wenn der Zuschauer mit dem Tragischen Helden
zusammenfliesst, so verschwindet vor der Wonne, welche
dieses Heraustreten aus den eignen Selbst begleitet, das
Gefiihl der Pein welches s o-VKOdvTr]S (paiveTa.1.
II faut que les esprits soient satisfaits et s'elevent en
meme temps que les interets se sentent garantis et se
confient. Knowledge dwells
In heads replete with thoughts of other men ;
Wisdom, in minds attentive to their own.
Gerson said:
The reformation of the Church must have its
beginning among the young children.
In a letter to the students of the College of Navarre,
written from Bruges, he says :
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Credendum est quod in tanti angustia, temporis, et
inter tot animarum pericula non multum placebit ludere,
ne dicam phantasiari, circa ea quae prorsus supervacua
sunt. II faut tacher d'etre bon, d'adoucir son caractere, de
calmer ses passions, de posseder son ame, d'ecarter les
haines injustes, d'attendrir son humeur autant que cela
est en nous, et quand on ne le peut pas, de sauver du
moins son esprit du desordre de son cceur, d'affranchir
ses jugements de la tyrannie des passions.
Vauvenargues (died at 32),
n'aspirant qu'a etre etendu et conciliant !
Le laisser aller est dangereux dans le bonheur ; il Fest
bien plus dans le malheur. Quand je suis malheureux,
je tire I'epee de son fourreau et je combats ma peine a
outrance. Bonstetten (died at 86).
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1863
Semper aliquid certi proponendum est.
Le sens precis de ces compositions [the Prophets of
Michael Angelo] nous echappera probablement toujours :
mais aussi longtemps qu'il y aura des hommes, elles
attireront, comme c'est le but de Part, les esprits vers le
monde obscur de Fideal.
Je vois avec joie la solitude se faire autour de moi :
c'est mon element, ma vie. On ne fait rien qu'avec la
solitude : c'est mon grand axiome. Un homme se fait
en dedans de lui et non en dehors.
Parler et ecrire, vivre solitaire et dans Fetude, voila
mon ame tout entiere. Du reste, Favenir achevera de
me justifier, et encore plus le jugement de Dieu. Un
homme a toujours son heure : il suffit qu'il I'attende, et
qu'il ne fasse rien contre la Providence.
Se retirer en soi et en Dieu est la plus grande force
qui soit au monde. Lacordaire. c
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Aimer le beau avec passion, et par la beaute atteindre
a. la grandeur !
Chez les Grecs, Fideal passait dans la vie, parce qu'ils
savaient tout simplifier, meme le bonheur.
Polygnote, qui preceda Phidias, alia moins loin que
lui : il eut le grand style, mais non cette souplesse divine
qui constitue la perfection.
Les races petrifiees dans le dogme ou demoralisees
par le luxe, sont impropres a. la conduite de la civilisation.
L'absorption hieratique ou marchande amoindrit le
rayonnement d'un peuple, abaisse son horizon en
abaissant son niveau, et lui retire cette intelligence du
but universel, qui fait les nations missionaires.
La grandeur et la beaute de la France c'est qu'elle
prend moins de ventre que les autres peuples. Elle est
la premiere eVeill^e, la derniere endormie. Elle va en
avant. Elle est chercheuse. Cela tient a ce qu'elle est
artiste. Les peuples artistes sont aussi tes peuples
consequents. Aimer la beaute, c'est voir la lumiere;
car le beau n'est autre chose que la cime du vrai. Ainsi,
la poesie d'un peuple est l'element de son progress.
Les Mise"rables, ix. 199.
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Elever et cultiver les esprits, vulgariser les grands
resultats des sciences naturelles et philologiques, tel est
le seul moyen de faire comprendre et accepter les idees
nouvelles de la critique.
Heine on the Bible Society.
Les propagateurs de la Bible fondent le regne du pur
sentiment religieux, de Famour du prochain, de la vraie
moralite enfin, qui ne peut etre enseignee par des
formules scolastico-dogmatiques, mais seulement par des
images et des exemples, tels qu'il s'en trouve dans ce
saint et beau livre d'education ecrit pour des enfans de
tout age, et que nous appelons la Bible.
Quiconque s'imagine le pouvoir mieux ecrire ne
l'entend pas. Fleury (Preface) on the Gospel.
Le retranchement de Finutile, le manque meme du
necessaire relatif, est la grande route du detachement
chretien, comme de la force antique.
En general, les grands hommes de Fantiquite ont ete
pauvres. Aujourd'hui tout le monde echoue la ; on ne
sait plus vivre de peu.
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Un rare esprit d'ordre et de methode, un gout
passionne pour le bon arrangement de toutes choses.
Lacordaire.
That perpetual stream of thought in the human
mind which is the subject of disciplinarian treatment —
its susceptibility to every call and image, its liability to
. slide into endless barren inconsecutiveness. Only by
the force of the will is this quick element of thought to
be mastered, made to go in one direction, stopped in
others. Card. Wiseman.
' Car les diligences anglaises offrent aux voyageurs
Favantage de les laisser completement a. decouvert.'
The Provincial of the Order of Passionis ts
in England.
Le siecle tend vers je ne sais quel inconnu — and the
Church of Rome appears alone in possession of this
inconnu — giving, elle seule, un essor libre et regulier aux
sentiments intimes d'adoration, de mysticisme, de
tendresse, et a tant d'autres sentiments qui peuvent
s'appeler plus specialement catholiques.
Newman, in his letter to Jelf.
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Pilate said : What is truth ?
Jesus answered: Truth cometh from heaven. La
verite vient du ciel.
Pilate said : II n'y a done pas de verite sur la terre ?
Gospel of Nicodemus.
r) aXtfiaa. iariv e« tu>v ovpaviav, Aeyci 6 XpurTOs* iym
ci/ii fj aXr/Oeia. 6s AaAui ttjv aXr/Oeiav, /cat Trios iv yrj Kpiverai
r) (WrjOeia irapa, tujv I^ovtuiv yqtvqv i^ovaiav ;
Manning says :
When Judaism passed away, nationalism became a
heresy within the kingdom of God. It is the mark of
heresy to be national and local, as it is of the one
universal kingdom to know of no distinction of nations.
Dublin Review after the Malines Congress :
We are apt to be cowed and scared by the lordly
oppression of public opinion and not to bear ourselves
as men in the face of the anti-Catholic society of
England. It is good to have an habitual consciousness
that the public opinion of Catholic Europe looks upon
Protestant England with a mixture of impatience and
compassion which more than balances the arrogance of
the English people towards the Catholic Church in these
countries.
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The generalities on which the American Declaration
of Independence was grounded were of Efiglish growth.
We do not use such phrases now, because they do not
suit us ; and they do not suit us, because experience
shows that they are not true. The experience which
shows, us that they are not true is that of nearly two
generations spent in practical reforms of unequalle
extent and importance.
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1868
Turn not to the right hand nor to the left ; remove
thy foot from evil.
Semper aliquid certi proponendum est.
Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways
be established. He can never be good that is not obstinate in doing
what he knows he ought to do.
Omai convien che tu cosi ti spoltre.
Schaff ! das Tagwerk meiner Hande,
Hohes Gliick, dass ich's vollende !
How much more time than is necessary do we spend
in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no
poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the
grave !
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Die Hauptsache ist, dass man lerne sich selbst zu
beherrschen. The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of
thorns. Es ist besser das geringste Ding von der Welt zu
thun, als eine halbe Stunde fur gering halten.
By thy commandments is thy servant warned, and in
keeping of them there is great reward.
He that keepeth the law, happy is he.
It is joy to the just to do judgment.
He that keepeth the commandment keepeth his own
soul ; he that keepeth understanding shall find good.
They that deny themselves will be sure to find their
strength increased, their affections raised, and their
inward peace continually augmented.
When thou dost purpose aught, within thy power,
Be sure thou do it, though it be but small ;
Constancy knits the bones and makes us stour
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Bonus et devotus homo opera sua prius intus dis-
ponit quae foris agere debet.
Quis habet fortius certamen, quam qui nititur vincere
se ipsum ? Et hoc deberet esse negotium nostrum ;
vincere videlicet se ipsum, et quotidie se ipso fortiorem
fieri, atque in melius proficere.
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Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at
my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors !
For whoso findeth me, findeth life.
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life.
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The recompence of a man's hands shall be rendered
unto him.
To the counsellors of peace is joy.
In the way of righteousness is life, and in the path
way thereof there is no death.
Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep, and an idle
soul shall suffer hunger.
He that is slothful in his work is brother to him that
is a great waster.
Bernarde, ad quid venisti ?
Doing the will of God from the heart !
La tendance a. Fordre, ne peut-elle faire une partie
essentielle de nos inclinations, de notre instinct, comme
la tendance a la conservation, a la reproduction ?
He that will not obey the laws of God must obey his
own passions, which are the worst tyrants; he must
obey the world, and the humours of others. In short,
to serve God is perfect freedom ; all else is mere slavery,
let the world .call it what they please.
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Lo, I come, to do thy will, O God.
Numquam sis ex toto otiosus, sed aut legens, aut
scribens, aut orans, aut meditans, aut aliquid utilitatis
pro communi laborans. (Repeated.)
True piety is acting what one knows.
If it were as easy to persuade men to do what they
know they ought to do, as it is to convince them that
such things are fit and necessary.
Grant that I may this day omit no part of my duty.
Give thyself wholly to these things, that thy profit
ing may appear to all.
I do nothing of myself. If I honour myself, my
honour is nothing.
God grant that I may do so ; and I pray God pre
serve me from ease, idleness, and trifling away my
precious time. — Bp. Wilson.
A better conquest never canst thou make,
Than arm thy constant and thy nobler parts
Against all giddy loose suggestions.
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The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord, search
ing all the inward parts.
He that followeth after righteousness and mercy,
findeth life, righteousness, and honour.
Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue, keepeth
his soul from troubles.
Si te ipsum in aliquo quseris, statim in te deficis et
arescis. 7raVTOS KaXov Krqfx.a.TO's irovos wpoi/yetTat 6 Kar ty/cpa-
We are commanded to deny ourselves in all the ways
of false satisfactions, that we may be able to take pleasure
in the ways of God.
Jan. 4. — Little Basil died.
Formerly, la critique n'etait que Fart de tout discuter ;
now, la critique est Fart de tout comprendre et de tout
expliquer par Fhistoire.
Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee, in
whose heart are .thy ways.
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There is nothing sweeter than to take heed unto the
commandments of the Lord.
Resistendo passionibus invenitur vera pax cordis, non
autem eis serviendo.
Homo remissus et suum propositum deserens varie
tentatur. Deberet se in Deo homo taliter firmare, ut non esset
ei necesse multas humanas consolationes quserere.
Jan. 11. — Dear little Basil was buried.
Whosoever shall humble himself as this little child
the same is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven.
Resiste in principio inclinationi tuae, et malam dedisce
consuetudinem. Si omni anno unum vitium exstirparemus, cito viri
perfecti efficeremur.
O si adverteres, quantam tibi pacem et aliis Isetitiam
faceres, te ipsum bene habendo !
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Si essemus nobis ipsis magis mortui, et in terrenis
minus implicati, tunc possemus etiam divina sapere.
Ce qui fait la noblesse de I'homme, c'est le devoir et
la raison ; il n'est grand en realite que quand il sacrifie ses
entrainements a une fin voulue et disintiresske.
An approving conscience is the sense of harmony of
the personal will of man with that impersonal light which
is in him, representative of the will of God.
I came, not to do mine own will, but the will of him
that sent me.
Thou, O God, dost save both man and beast.
Thou givest them drink of thy pleasures, as out of a
river.
With thee is the well of life : And in thy light shall
we see light.
My mouth praiseth thee with joyful lips, when I
remember thee upon my bed, and think upon thee in the
night-watches. He only is my rock and my salvation : he is my
defence ; I shall not be moved.
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L'ceuvre de notre perfectionnement est une ceuvre
collective et eternelle.
Bonus homo nulli invidet, quia nullum privatum
gaudium amat.
Le but essentiel de Fart est d'elever I'homme au-
dessus de la vie vulgaire, et de reveiller en lui le senti
ment de son origine celeste.
Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward ; he
that doth keep his soul shall be far from there.
Mane propone, vespere discute mores tuos, qualis
hodie fuisti in verbo, opere, et cogitatione.
Melius est latere et sui curam agere, quam se neglecto
signa facere.
Tu intende illis, quse tibi praecipit Deus.
Let another man praise thee, and not thine own
mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips. (Twice
repeated.) ov enidviJ.ovp,c.v T€ Koi apxv epaoral ctrai, ^povrjotws.
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Great peace have they which love thy law, and
nothing shall make them stumble.
Nemo secure apparet, nisi qui libenter latet.
Nemo secure praeest, nisi qui libenter subest.
Si fortiter proponens saepe deficit, quid ille, qui raro
aut minus fixe aliquid proponit ?
Through thee have I been holden up ever since I was
born ; thou art he that hath blessed me from my
mother's womb ; my praise shall be always of thee.
Vae nobis, si volumus declinare ad quietem, quasi
jam pax sit et securitas, cum necdum appareat vestigium
vera? sanctitatis in conversatione nostra.
O taste and see how gracious the Lord is ! blessed is
the man that trusteth in him.
My God is the rock of my refuge ; in the multitude
of the sorrows which I have in my heart thy comforts
refresh my soul.
Vigilandum est et orandum, ne tempus otiose
transeat.
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Utinam per unum diem bene essemus conversati in
-hoc mundo !
Honour the Lord, not doing thine own ways, nor
finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own
words. Quanto quisque plus sibi moritur, tanto magis Deo
vivere incipit. (Repeated.)
Pone te primus in pace, et tunc poteris alios pacificare.
Good Friday
By means of death for the redemption of the
transgressors. Sophocles : le modele de I'homme ideal, la plenitude
et I'elevation du developpement intellectuel, la noblesse
inalterable de la beaute virile.
Vellem me pluries tacuisse, et inter homines non
fuisse !
Sophocle chante l'humanite a, Fheure ou elle se degage
des fatalites sombres et se dirige librement vers la lumiere.
On trouve dans lui un melange de vigueur et de serenite* d
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La lettre n'est pas I'esprit et la Bible n'est pas la
religion. Le christianisme existait avant que les evange-
listes et les ap6tres eussent ecrit.
Lessing se representait Dieu comme Fame du grand
tout, et Funivers comme un organisme, comme un corps
anime par un principe infini de vie et de mouvement.
Lessing a pratique la sagesse de Socrate, laquelle se
contente de questionner la vie et le monde, et de tenir
soigneusement registre de leurs reponses, mais sans se
flatter d'avoir toujours bien entendu.
Lessing croit que Fordre universel est un bien et qu'il y
a du bonheur dans la verite.
Tout change incessament, et tout s'ameliore en
changeant. Si portari vis, porta et alium. Sunt, qui seipsos in
pace tenent, et cum aliis etiam pacem habent.
Non est alia via ad vitam et ad veram internam pacem,
nisi via sanctae crucis et quotidianae mortificationis.
Quid illud summe necessarium ? Ut homo omnibus
relictis se relinquat et a se totaliter exeat, nihilque de
privato amore retineat.
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Et quanto altius quis in spiritu profecerit, tanto
graviores cruces semper inveniet; quia exilii sui poena
magis ex amore crescit.
Post concupiscentias tuas ne eas et a voluntate tua
avertere. rfjs (rapicos 7rpovotav pvq 7rotetcrt9e eis eiri0u//,tas.
They who give themselves up to pleasure are making
themselves chains not easy to be broken.
Love is collectively the desire in men that good should
be for ever present to them.
diravTa Kaipta \dpiv e^et Tpvyu>p.eva.
La condition essentielle de Fart classique — un cadre
fini, laissant place a toutes les delicatesses de l'execution.
L'avenir est de ce cote, car ainsi est appele et provoque
le progres de tous les arts.
p.ri Ta. {nj/rjXa p.ev wpos avTTjv ttjv Tv^r/v ot tru^poves.
Swarm to irXovrciv /cat 7rous ttol€lv.
¦fj irevia ayvu>p.ovds ye toiis ttoAaous irotet.
The scope of Christ's life and death :
' That your faith and hope might be in God.'
debs Tre<; £171/ ifdvres, aXX' oi 8vvd/j,eda.
Be stedfast in thy covenant and be conversant therein,
and wax old in thy work.
The more graces a man has received, the more reason
he has to fear, and the greater obligation to labour for
God. Marvel not at the works of sinners, but trust in the
Lord and abide in thy labour.
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Look up to God at all times, and he will, as in a
glass, discover what is fit to be done.
Spvos 7r«rovo-?7S 7ras dvrjp £vXeveTai.
Suaviter requiesces si cor tuum te non reprehenderit.
Habe bonam conscientiam et semper habebis laeti-
tiam. Une vie laborieuse, une succession de travaux qui
remplissent et moralisent les jours !
Xetp X£'Pa vhrrei, SaKTvXoi 8e SaKTvXovs.
Xipvqv a.TV\[av eoTiv Iv £KvXaTTe tois TpoVots eXevOepov.
reOvrjKev d.v6puyiroio-w dirao-a X^P15-
^tos ecrTiv av Tts tu> /3t'o) XaVV P<-u>v.
Der Zweck des Lebens ist das Leben selbst.
II faut savoir vivre de peu, desirer peu, ne rien
devoir, ne faire tort, dans aucun genre, a, qui que ce
soit, ne se point faire tort a soi-meme.
Le faible, que nous dedaignons, nous est d'ordinaire
superieur, la somme de vertu etant, chez ceux qui
obeissent (servantes, ouvriers, soldats, marins, etc.), plus
grande que chez ceux qui commandent et jouissent.
L'etude, qui pour la plupart des hommes n'est qu'un
amusement frivole et souvent dangereux, etait pour Dom
Rivet une occupation serieuse consacree par la religion.
UTOTrjTa 8' alpov, ko.1 irXeove^Lav s kov r)8vs tj.
Should one not labour day and night, and deny
inclination, in order to develope and work out reality
and rightj? B.
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Res ipsa, quae nunc religio Christiana nuncupatur,
erat apud antiquos, nee abfuit ab initio generis humani
quousque Christus veniret in carnem, unde vera religio
quae jam erat ccepit appellari Christiana.
Let me not falter nor slide away from the great end
of knowing God. Let not the joys, or honours, or
vanities of the world enfeeble or darken my spirit.
Let me ever feel that I can only perceive and know
God in so far as mine is a living soul, and lives, moves,
and has its being in him. B.
Oportet te viriliter omnia pertransire et potenti manu
uti adversus objecta. 6e66ev epaipmi KaXSiv,
Swara. p.aiop.evos iv rjXiKia, !
Vincenti datur manna, et torpenti relinquitur multa
miseria. renvoi 8' eTepoiv erepai ' %pr] 8' iv eifietais 68ots o~Tei)(OVTO
p,dpvao~6ai. p.ev fiwv Kelvos TeXevTav,
oTSev Se Stdo-SoTov dp\dv.
pir) p.eTea>pt£eo"0e • t^frevre Tr)v f}ao-iXeiav tov 6eov.
iXdXei auTOts irepl Trjv at 60-cpues 7repte£<0O"p,eVat Kat ot Xvyyoi
Kawpevoi.
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yXwo'O'rjs p.dXio-Ta ira,VTay(ov iretpS KpaTeiv.
He that hath knowledge spareth his words. He that
refraineth his lips is wise.
Love not sleep lest thou come to poverty.
Rise, be going ; count your resources ; learn what
you are not fit for, and give up wishing for it; learn
what you can do, and do it with the energy of a man. R.
Without counsel purposes are disappointed.
pieXXmv tl Trparrecv p.rj TrpoeurrrjS pvrjSevL
Before judgment, examine thyself; and in the day of
visitation thou shalt find mercy.
Without counsel purposes are disappointed.
Semper aliquid certi proponendum est.
Lighten mine eyes, O Lord, that I sleep not in
death. Give me grace to make amends, by my future dili
gence, for the many days and years that I have spent
unprofitably.
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To be a servant to the servants of God !
Rest is a crime in one who has promised to labour
all the days of his life.
Not to desire to be ministered unto, but rather to
minister; never to make it my object to live in ease,
plenty, luxury, and independence.
Thou art all mercy to me ; grant that I may be all
mercy to my brethren, for thy sake, O God.
Die hochste Aufgabe des ringenden Menschen-
geistes : nachzuweisen dass die gottliche Weltordnung
mit der Intelligenz der Sterblichen in Einklang stehe.
Age, quod agis ; fideliter labora in vinea mea ; ego
ero merces tua.
Quam tutum, pro conservatione coelestis gratiae
humanam fugere apparentiam, nee appetere quae foris
admirationem videntur prasbere.
Fili, sta firmiter et spera in me.
Fili, non te frangant labores quos assumpsisti propter
me.
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Scribe, lege, canta, geme, tace, ora, sustine viriliter
contraria ; digna est his omnibus et majoribus proeliis
vita aeterna.
May I preserve thy kingdom within me, the govern
ment of thy spirit.
Vouchsafe me the gift of perseverance, on which my
eternal happiness depends.
Blameless as the sons of God, in the midst of a
crooked and perverse world.
Nov. 23. Tommy died.
Leva igitur faciem tuam in ccelum !
Nov. 28. Tommy's funeral.
Awake, thou lute and harp : I myself will awake
right early.
Tu, Domine, tu solus es fidelissimus in omnibus, et
praeter te non est alter talis.
For I sent you out with mourning and weeping ; but
God will give you to me again with joy and gladness for
ever.
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Therefore let us not sleep, as do others, but let us
watch and be sober.
If thou hadst walked in the way of God thou
shouldest have dwelled in peace for ever.
Blessed are they that saw thee, and slept in love ; for
we shall surely live.
He who resisteth pleasures crowneth his life.
God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto
holiness. The more you love God, expect you must give the
greater proofs of it, and you may expect greater assistance
and consolation.
Prayer makes no change in God, but it creates in us
such dispositions as God thinks fit to reward.
It is a part of special prudence never to do anything
because one has an inclination to it ; but because it is
one's duty, or is reasonable. E
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Der Druck der Geschafte ist sehr schon der Seele.
Wenn sie entladen ist, spielt sie freier und geniesst des
Lebens. Elender ist nichts als der behagliche Mensch ohne
Arbeit ; das schonste der Gaben wird ihm ekel.
Die Menschen sind durch ihren Glauben auf eine
hohere Macht zum Thun begeistert und im Leiden
getrostet; also belohnt.
It is not the thing, but the reason and manner of
doing it, namely for God's sake and that I may accustom
myself to obey his voice, that God regards.
Self-denial has respect to the good estate of the soul,
as it hinders her from being carried away to the lower
pleasures of sense, that she may relish heavenly pleasures.
The more we deny ourselves the freer we shall be
from sin and the more dear to God.
Vivitur ingenio, caetera mortis erunt.
Nature is content with a little, grace with less.
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He that will not command his thoughts and his will,
will soon lose the command of his actions.
aperf/s eA/n-ts 6 6ebs eortv.
Man muss sich als Individuum hinstellen, wie man's
denkt, wie man's meint, und die folgenden mogen sich
heraussuchen was ihnen gemass ist.
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Hosea.
Virtue would hardly be distinguished from a kind of
sensuality, if there were no labour, no opposition, no
difficulty, in doing our duty.
He who fancies that his mind may effectually be
changed in a short time, deceives himself.
Sine me paululum, ut plangam dolorem meum, ante
quam vadam ad terram tenebrosam et opertam mortis
caligine. Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is
stayed on thee.
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Trust ye in the Lord for ever, for in the Lord is
everlasting strength.
O taste and see how gracious the Lord is : blessed is
the man who trusteth in him.
La nature qui se connait, voila. le genie. Or, la
nature etant infinie, le genie est divers. Tout grand
artiste a pour son partage un aspect des choses ; cette
passion, cette magicienne -qui est en lui ne peut tout
entreprendre ni tout embrasser ; elle ne dispose en
souveraine que de ce qu'elle aime, et sa puissance expire
des que s'alanguit son enthousiasme. Le plus grand
peintre n'apercoit dans le monde que ce qu'il aime a. y
voir, ce que ses yeux desirent ; il y a une preference au
fond de chaque talent.
Le vulgaire imagine Dieu comme un roi qui tient son
lit de justice dans sa cour. Les coeurs tendres se le
representent comme un pere qui a soin de ses enfants.
Le sage ne lui attribue aucune affection humaine. II
reconnait une puissance necessaire, eternelle, qui anime
toute la nature, et il se resigne.
Les sciences historiques ne sont autre chose que la
recherche des lois qui ont preside jusqu'ici au develop
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pement de I'espece humaine, Elles sont la base des
sciences sociales.
In thee, O God, do I put my trust. Thou art a place
to hide me in ; thou shalt preserve me from trouble ; thou
shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance.
My soul, wait thou still upon God, for my hope is in
him. In God is my health and my glory, the rock of my
might, and in God is my trust.
O God, thou art my God, early do I seek thee ; my
soul thirsteth for thee. My soul hangeth upon thee;
thy right hand hath upholden me.
Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing, for thou, O
God, art my refuge and my merciful God.
Unto thee, O God, will I cry ; my rock, be not thou
silent unto me.
O how plentiful is thy goodness that thou hast pre
pared for them that put their trust in thee !
Thou hidest them in the shelter of thy presence
from the noise of men ; thou keepest them in a covered
place from the strife of tongues.
Examine me, O God, and prove me, try out my reins
and my heart.
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All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto
such as keep his covenant.
If we would put a stop to the beginning of sin, we
must begin there where sin begins — namely, in the heart
and thoughts ; which are subjected to the law of God as
well as the outward actions.
Purity of heart consists in such a government of the
affections as not only to forbear outward acts of sin, but
even all consenting to it or suffering it to have entertain
ment in the heart.
Our contemplations of God should always be the
most serene and lovely; such as might ennoble our
spirits and not debase them. A right knowledge of God
would beget a freedom and liberty of soul within us.
dperjjs yap eX7rts 6 6eos io~Tiv, ov SovXeias rrpotpao-is.
Etiamsi injuste aliquid contra me prolatum fuerit,
non multum curabo ; sed neque vane exultabo, si per
alios excuser aut lauder. Pensabo namque, quia Deus
est scrutans corda et renes, qui non judicat secundum
faciem et humanam apparentiam.
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Le capital est le signe caracteristique et la mesure du
progres. II en est le vehicule necessaire et unique ; sa
mission speciale est de servir de transaction de la valeur
a la gratuite : par consequent, au lieu de peser sur le
prix naturel, son r61e constant est de I'abaisser sans
cesse. Bastiat said of the above : ' Cette phrase renferme et
resume le plus fecond des phenomenes economiques.'
Thus yesterday, to-day, to-morrow come,
They hustle one another and they pass ;
But all our hustling morrows only make
The smooth to-day of God.
To READ
Greek
Romans,* St. Matthew,* Pindar : Nemeans,* Isth-
Mark,* Luke.* mians,* Fragments.*
Plato — Phaedo, Banquet.* Passages for extract.*
Aristotle : Ethics, vols. ii. Menander.*
and iii.* * Struck out as read.
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Latin
Propertius.
Lucretius v. and vi.*
Imitation, B. iii. and B. i.
and ii.*
Italian
Dante's Paradiso.
English Poetry
G. Herbert's Poems.* Shelley's Prometheus Un-
Ritson's Met. Romances. bound.
Lear, Henry VI. Wordsworth, vol. iii. to end
of White Doe.*
English Prose
Smith's Discourses, top. 60.* Burke's Letter to a Noble
Robertson's Sermons, i. ii.*
Robertson's Life.
Walton's Lives, vol. i.*
White's Selborne.
Warton, iii, and iv.
Bolingbroke's Remarks.*
Lord.
Goldsmith's Essays.
Vicar of Wakefield.
Davies's Carthage.*
Baker's Abyssinia.
Hume : 15th Century.*
* Struck out as read.
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German
Herker's Ideen, vol. i. to Rahel.
p. 170.*
Gesenius' Isaiah.
Introduction to Xllth
century.
Legende Doree.*
Esprit de Vinet.
Riemer's Goethe, vol. i.*
French Vinet : Education; Sermons
(vols. i. and ii.) and Litt.
du i8me siecle.
Michelet, vol. vi.*
Buffon ; De l'Homme.
Read besides
Renan : St. Paul (and New M. de Camors.*
Preface*).
Proverbs.*
Mystere de Jesus.
Martin. Scriblerus.*
Religions de FOrient.
The Psalms after Ewald.*
Mauprat. Recit d'une Sceur, vol. i.*
Questions contemporaines.*
Shelley's Essays and
Letters.*
Zeller's Socratic Schools.*
Boissonade's Pindar.*
Michelet : Precis de l'His-
toire de France.*
Bunsen's Life, vol. i.
* Struck out as read.
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1*73
La destination de I'homme est d'accroitre le sentiment
de la joie, de feconder Fenergie expansive, et de com-
battre, dans tout ce qui sent, le principe de I'avilissement
et les douleiirs.
Qu'il y ait dans la nature, dans Fart (nature huma-
nisee), des elements religieux et les bases de la foi
profonde, c'est ce qui ne vient a I'esprit de personne.
Je tiens les verites de la religion naturelle pour aussi
certaines a leur maniere que celles du monde reel. Voila
la foi qui sauve, qui fait envisager autrement que comme
une folle partie de joie les quatre jours que nous passons
sur cette terre.
II faut savoir vivre de peu, desirer peu, ne rien devoir,
ne faire tort, dans aucun genre, a. qui que ce soit, ne se
point faire tort a soi-mSme.
Illi sunt veri fideles Tui, qui totam vitam suam ad
emendationem disponunt.
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Sicut tu alios notas, sic et tu ab aliis notaris.
(Repeated.) Si vis portari, porta et alium.
Satis cito sentimus et ponderamus quid ab aliis sus-
tinemus, sed quantum alii de nobis sustinent non adver-
timus. Oirre yap av aXXw dv6pd>rra> Trpocr (porn Trepura.T&p.ev, «>s airos eariv ev t<3 <£Trov.
I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I
may keep thy word.
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Order my steps in thy word, and so shall no wicked
ness have dominion over me.
ferome to Paulinus on the Bible :
Oro te, frater carissime, inter haec vivere, ista meditari,
nihil aliud nosse, nihil quaerere.
For I remembered thine everlasting judgments, O
Eternal, and received comfort.
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine ; but a
broken spirit drieth the bones.
A sound heart is the life of the flesh ; but envy the
rottenness of the bones.
Den einzelnen Verkehrtheiten des Tags sollte man
immer nur grosse weltgeschichtliche Massen entgegen-
setzen. I have thought upon thy name, O Eternal, in the
night season, and have kept thy law.
O stablish thy word in thy servant, that I may fear
thee. Der Wiirzel des Guten ist in der Gnade Gottes.
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Hell and destruction are never full ; so the eyes of
men are never satisfied. BeoBev ipaipav KaXutv,
8vva.Ta paiopevos iv r/XiKia. !
Les idees chretiennes, apres avoir retrempe notre
nature morale, offrent encores a. notre meditation la plus
approfondie un aliment sain et salutaire, une mine riche
et inepuisable. Be steadfast in thy covenants, and be conversant
therein, and wax old in thy work.
Gaudebis vespere si diem expendas fructuose.
Quanto quisque plus sibi moritur, tanto magis Deo
vivere incipit.
Homo remissus et suum propositum deserens varie
tentatur. Resistendo passionibus invenitur vera pax cordis, non
autem eis serviendo.
La somme incomparable de gout pour le bien que le
christianisme a inspire !
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Absorpta est omnis gloriatio vana in profunditate
judiciorum tuorum super me.
L'homme est ence monde pour profiter de Fecole de
sa destinee et pour travailler a. son salut.
Citius obliviscentur tui homines, quam aestimas.
Certa viriliter ; consuetudo consuetudine vincitur.
Das Schone ist eine Manifestation geheimer Natur-
gesetze, die uns ohne dessen Erscheinung ewig waren
verborgen geblieben.
Through the contemplation of works of art, to keep
alive in the mind a high unapproachable ideal !
The highest aim of art is beauty, and its last effect
the feeling of pleasure.
Palissy said :
La nature la grande ouvriere —
L'homme ouvrier comme elle.
p.r) p.e6vo-Keo-6e otvv vtds, ep,a6ev dtp' <5v erraBev ttjv
viraKorjv, Kat TeXet(of?ete eyeveTO Tots ij7raK07jouo"tv awai ?rao"iv
ainos o-o)T77ptas attovtov.
p-dvos odtos r/pepiei 6 Xoyos, £ evXaftrjriov eorl to dSwcetv
p.aXXoi/ 77 to dStKeto-^at, Kat iravTos piaXXov dvSpi p.eXeT77reov
oij to SoKetv etvai dyadbv aXXa to etvai, Kat tSta Kat 8rjpu>o~Ca.
Gorgias. (Repeated.)
Socrates and politics :
olpai CTTtxeipetv 177 us dX»70a)S ttoXitiktJ Texv)7 Kat irpdrruv
Ta TroXtTiKa p.dvos tSv vCv.
Socrates and popularity :
K.pivovp.ai ws ev 7rai8iois laTpos av Kpivoiro KarmopovvTos
bij/oiroiov.
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Franklin says :
Eat and drink such an exact quantity as suits the
constitution of thy body, in reference to the services of
the mind.
Goethe says :
Vom Absoluten in theoretischem Sinne wag' ich
nicht zu reden : behaupten aber darf ich, dass wer es in
der Erscheinung anerkannt und immer im Auge behalten
hat, sehr grossen Gewinn davon erfahren wird.
Hier nun allein kann der grosse Begriff der Pflicht
mich aufrecht erhalten.
L'occasion fait le larron, et c'est la provocation
surtout qui developpe les instincts vicieux.
Qui quaerit habere privata, amittit communia.
Citius exterior vincitur inimicus, si interior homo non
fuerit devastatus.
II ne faut plus songer a, autre chose dans la pratique
de la vie qu'a Famelioration des mceurs et a la reconcilia
tion des int6r§ts. - G. S.
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Euripides in Macedonia
He had a presentiment of the mission of Hellenic
art to become the common property of all peoples
striving after a loftier conduct of life. Curtius.
En verite, le monde devient mefiant, et ne croit
les choses que quand il les voit. Pascal.
o v Tr)v xj/vyriv (lvtov aVoXeo-et avrrjv ' Kat 6 pioS>v
Trjv i]/V)(r]V avrov iv tu> Koo-puo tovtr)v atoivtov
v OeXeis Kparetv.
Gaudebis vespere si diem expendas fructuose.
Angelica hilaritas cum monastica simplicitate !
Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify
among you this day, which ye shall command your
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children to observe to do, all the words of this law. For
it is not a vain thing for you ; because it is your life.
Deut. xxxii. 46, 47.
The wicked of heart are the Eternal's abomination ;
the upright in way are his delight. Prov. xi. 20.
00-01 i$airrLo-6r)p.ev eis Xpiordv, eis t6v 6dvarov avrov
i/3aTrrio-6r]p.ev. et to Trvevpa tov eyetpavTOS tov 'Irjo-ovv eK veKpZv
oikcT ev vp.lv, 6 eyetpas Xptorov eK vexputv tfaorroirjo-ei Kat
Tot 6vrjra o-wp.aTa vp.S>v Slot to evoiKOuv awoij Trvevpa iv
iplv. apa ouv, a8eX0L, 6v Kpuris itoXXtJs eori ireipas TeXevratov
e7rtyeW77p,a. Sive homo, seu similis turpissima bestia nobis.
Quintus Serenus.
The fathers shall not be put to death for the children,
neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers ;
every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
Deut. xxiv. 16.
He is the Rock ; for all his ways are judgement ; a
God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful.
Deut. xxxii. 4, 18.
It is not good to eat much honey, so for men to
make little their own glory, is glory. Prov. xxv. 27.
The poor useth entreaties, but the rich answereth
roughly. Prov. xviii. 23.
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Evil men understand not judgement ; but they that
seek the Eternal understand all things. Prov. xxviii. 5.
The rich man is wise in his own conceit; but the
poor that hath understanding searcheth him out.
Prov. xxviii. 11.
The righteous considereth the cause of the poor;
but the wicked regardeth not to know it. Prov. xxix. 7.
servare modum, finemque tenere
Naturamque sequi —
Nee sibi, sed toti genitum se credere mundo —
In commune bonus. Lucan.
L'opinion generate dirige Fautorite, quels qu'en soient
les depositoires. M. Turgot regardait comme tres importante toute
methode de simplifier, de rendre plus faciles les opera
tions de I'esprit quelles qu'elles fussent.
There ought to be a system of manners in every
nation, which a well-formed mind would be disposed to
relish. Burke.
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Connaitre la verite pour y conformer Fordre de la
societe, telle est Funique source du bonheur public.
Si Fon n'enseignait aux enfants que des verites, si on
ne leur parlait que de ce qu'ils peuvent entendre, il n'y
aurait presque plus d'esprits faux.
L'ordre naturel tend a rendre Fopinion generate de
plus en plus conforme a, la verite. I.
Turgot etait convaincu que pour detruire le mal en
lui-meme [of chaotic and unjust administration] il suffirait
de suivre quelques principes bien simples, qu'il s'etonnait
de ne pas trouver plus repandus.
Les calviriistes opposaient a nos superstitions popu
lates, souvent remplies de debauches, une durete farouche
et des mceurs feroces, caractere de presque tous les refor-
mateurs. Voltaire.
Tas p.oopas £,ryrrjo-eis koX epeis Trepdo~Tacro • yu/xvd£e Se
o-eavTov rrpbs evcrefteiav. twos yivov t5>v tticttIov, iv Xoym,
iv dvao-Tpora p,eXira,
ev tovtois io-6i, Iva o-ov r) TrpoKoirt] tpavepa rj Traaiv.
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pvr) dp.eXei. tov iv croi xapioyxaTos. eTre\e o-eawai Kat 7-77
SiSao-KaXia, emp^eve aurois. tovto yap 7roiTrovs. Pourquoi chez aucun peuple n'a-t-il done existe de
bonnes moeurs ? C'est qu'aucun n'a eu de bonnes lois.
Turgot in Condorcet.
rjp.ev yap irore Kat 77^,615 dvo^TOt, d7rei0ets, irXavojpevot,
SouXeuovTes irriBvpfais Kat ijSovats iroiKiXais, iv KaKia koX
tf>66v7 tt)s TrpoKorrrjs eo-Ttv.
Ut servetur Veritas praedicandi, teneatur necesse est
altitudo vivendi. Gregory the Great.
ISov, eo-rrjKa iirl Tr)v 6vpav Kal Kpovo) ' eav tis aKOuo-77 rljs
(pwvrjs pov Kal dvoitLrj ttjv Bvpav, elo-eXevo-opat irpos avrov,
Kal Senrvrjo-oi per avrov, Kal avrbs peT ip.ov.
L'habitude des actions de bonte, celle des affections
tendres, est la source de bonheur la plus pure, la plus
inepuisable. Laisse germer dans ton cceur de douces affections
pour les personnes que les evenements, les habitudes,
tes gouts, tes occupations, rapprocheront de toi.
Jouis des sentiments des personnes que tu aimeras ;
mais surtout jouis des tiens. Occupe-toi de leur bon
heur, et le tien en sera la recompense.
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Good Friday
ev eavrois orevd£op.ev, vio6eo~[av direKSexop-evoi.
II est plus doux, plus commode, si j'ose le dire, de
vivre pour autrui, et c'est alors seulement qu'on vit
veritablement pour soi-meme. Condorcet.
Easter Sunday
ocoi TrvevpxiTi 6eov ayovrai, ovtol vloi elo~iv 6eov.
tois koB' vrropovrjv epyov dyaBov Sd£av Kat Tip.r)v Kal
d dpeo-ai oi Svvavrau
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p.77 o~ov, TroiovvTes Ta 6eXr)pt.aTa Tr)s o-apK.bs Kat Taiv Stavoioiv,
Kat rjp.e6a TeKva p.a veKpbv Sid apjaprlav,
to Se Trvevp.a £0)7) Sid 8iKaioo-vvr]v.
et Se' tis Trvevpta Xpiorbv ovk e^e^ °vT°S ovk' error avrov.
17 vloBearta Sid XptoTov Tt7Ctoj5 ets tov 6eov !
Nunquam sis ex toto otiosus, sed aut legens, aut
scribens, aut orans, aut meditans, aut aliquid utilitatis
pro communi laborans.
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Trinity Sunday
p.r) 6aprjrm to, vorjp.ara vp.u>v dirb Trjs aTrXoTr/TOS Kat
Trjs dyvoTTTros T77S ets tov Xpiorov /
Non est alia via ad vitam, et ad veram internam
pacem, nisi via sanctae crucis et quotidianae mortifica-
tionis. ouo-ta tov aya6ov, Trpoaipeais Troid' tov KaKOV, Trpoaipe-
ors 7rotd • Tt ow Ta eVcros ; vXai tjj 7rpoaipeo-ei. Epict.
koJBoXov eKelvo p.ep.vrjo-0, oti eavrovs BXifiopLiv, eavrovs
o-revoxupovp,ev ¦ tout' eon, Ta 86yp,a.TO. 77/xas BXifiei Kal
orevoxupet. Epict.
to. dyaBa Ttva vp.lv Sokci ; Trpoaipecris 01a Set, Kat xpr)o~is
(pavTacriuv. Epict.
ov 6eXeis o-v xpfjo-6ai TrapeXfluv 01s ep.a6es ; ov yap
Xoydpid eori, to. Xeirrovra vvv. Tt ow to Xei7rdv eortv; 6
Xpr]0~6p.evos, 6 epyu p.aprvprjo'oiv Tols Xoyots. Epict.
dpxr) (piXiowptas, o~waio,6r]o-is Trjs avrov do-Bevetas Kal
dSvvap-tas irepi Ta dvayKaia. Epict.
Christiano paucis ad scientiam veritatis opus est.
Tertullian.
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778' dpx>7 (j>iXoo-odjias, KaTayvmo-is koi dirto-Tia irpbs to
\f11XSts Sokovv, epevva Se tis irepl to Sokovv, ei SpBSts SoKei.
Epict.
os av 71-01770-77 tol 6eXrjp.aTa tov 6eov, ovtos dSeX^ds pov
Kat dSeXipT) Kat p.rjrrjp eo-Ttv. Mark iii. 35.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality
of your thoughts ; therefore guard accordingly. M. Aurelius.
O si adverteres, quantam tibi pacem et aliis laetitiam
faceres, te ipsum bene habendo !
Love is an expansion, not a contraction; a giving,
not a craving. It breaks in pieces the condensing circle
of self, and goes forth in the delightfulness of its desire
to bless. Fool of Quality.
Mile, de I'Espinasse's Art of Conversation
II consiste a, ne parler jamais de vous aux autres,
et beaucoup d'eux. D'Alembert.
Elevons nos ames vers celui qui represente dans nos
pensees Fideale justice et Finfatigable amour !
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On est insense, selon moi, de chercher le pouvoir
Fascendant, Feclat, dans une situation materielle quel-
conque. G. S.
Le vrai pouvoir, celui qui atteint le coeur, la raison,
et la conscience, n'a besoin ni de trone, ni d'armee,
ni d'argent. Pour Fobtenir, il n'y a qu'un travail a, faire
sur soi-m§me, chercher le beau, te vrai, et le reprendre
dans la mesure de ses forces. Id.
Sine sollicitudine et diligentia nunquam acquires
virtutes. Si dederis te ad fervorem, invenies magnam pacem et
senties leviorem laborem. Homo fervidus et diligens ad
omnia est paratus.
Vigila super te ipsum, excita te ipsum, admone te
ipsum ; et quidquid de aliis sit, non neglige te ipsum.
Tantum proficies, quantum tibi ipsi vim intuleris.
L'egoisme donne la mesure de Finferiorite des etres ;
un £tre parfait ne serait plus ego'iste. Renan.
The French :
Une nation qui ne sait pas obeir, qui ne sait rien
respecter. M- de M.
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Si nous sortons de cette affreuse crise, je n'oublierai
pas que nous avons une serieuse reforme a operer dans
nos mceurs, une teinte grave a. imprimer a. notre vie. Id.
Nous sommes frappes dans ce que nous avons de
plus cher : notre orgueil, et notre vie de sensualite. Id.
France and England as opponents of Prussia's taking
Holland: L'une est vaincue, Fautre n'a pas d'armee, et
se trouve paralysee par la crainte de la Russie en Orient
et aux Indes. Id.
Les atrocites de la guerre ne sont rachetees que si
elles ont pour resultat une nation a une plus grande
hauteur morale et materielle. Id.
Apres les ruines du passe, au milieu de la confusion
du present et devant les incertitudes de l'avenir, le
pays trouvait dans sa vitalite naturelle, dans Finfluence
dominatrice, qu'il exercait sur les besoins futiles mais
imperieux du monde entier, une mine de production et
d'expansion extraordinaires. Id.
Si recte tibi esset, et bene purgatus esses, omnia tibi
in bonum cederent et profectum.
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eav p,r) orpav ovpavuv-
In pueris elucet spes plurimorum, quae ubi emoritur
aetate, manifestum est non defecisse naturam sed curam.
Quintilian.
Ta cravTOv KaBapov. ivrevBev, iK Trjs Stavotas, eK/3aXe
Xvirr/v, cpoftov, im6vp,tav, (pBovov, eVixaipeKaKiav, djiXapyv-
piav, ptaXaKtav, aKpar/iav.
Tavra Se ovk cot-iv dXXus tK/3aXetv, et ^177 irpos p.6vov
tov Beov drropXeTrovTa, eKetvu p.6vu> Trpoo"7reirov86Ta, toIs
eKetvov Trpocrrdypiao-i KaBoxrioipevov-
Le mieux est de faire contre fortune bon coeur.
Ammianus Marcellinus on Constantius
' Christianam religionem absolutam et simplicem
anili superstitione confudit.'
The nouveaux riches differ from the other rich only
in this — tu a7ravTa p,SXXov Kat cpavXorepa Kaxd exetv tous
veoTrXovTovs. Aristotle.
Two things, says Hippocrates, the physician needs :
(j>iXoTrovirjv Kal TrovXvxpovirrv.
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The Roman priest to a too clever Vestal Virgin :
' Coli Deos sancte magis quam scite.'
Sine amico non potes bene vivere, et si Jesus non
fuerit tibi prae omnibus amicus, eris nimis tristis et
desolatus. Esto humilis et pacificus, et erit tecum Jesus.
• Sis devotus et quietus, et permanebit tecum Jesus.
Strauss says:
None but a book-student could ever imagine that a
creation of the brain, woven of poetry and philosophy,
can take the place of real religion.
Parva in aliis reprehendimus, et majora nostra
pertransimus. After all, a benevolent and rational absolutism is the
best form of Government. Bismarck.
Vanity of Vanities
The force of attraction is doubly displayed,
Between subject and object it acts ; —
The clasp of a fitness transcendently made
By the God, or the will, which attracts. Windfalls.
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There are a great many theatres scattered over the
town, some of which are very good, white others are the
ruination of thousands of people. P. J. Letter on London.
In cruce robur mentis, in cruce gaudium spiritus.
An Englishwoman of sixty years ago, full of that
pure, unquestioning, simple, yet profound and practical
religion, which, if it has passed away from amongst us,
has left behind it undying influences, and examples
much easier to reverence than to follow or surpass.
Coleridge on Miss Dyson.
'Hope, together with her twin sisters, Faith and
Charity, was known to the ancients under the name of
the "Three Graces.'" Woolwich Candidate.
Wer recht wirken will muss nie schelten, sich um das
Verkehrte nicht bekiimmern, sondern nur das Gute
immer thun. G.
The day-dreamer, says Plato, dpyov Kat aXXus rr"X'>vi
en dpyorepav rrotel.
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Versuche deine Pflicht zu thun, und du weisst gleich
was an Dir ist. Was aber ist deine Pflicht ?
Die Forderung des Tages.
Christmas Day
iSov, tvayyeXtfppjxt vp.lv xapdv p.eydXrjv, rjris carat 7ravri
tio Xau. 6V1 ire)(6ri vp.lv orj/xepov o-iaTrjp, os icrTiv Xpiaros,
Kvpios iv rroXei AaueiS.
6 6ebs 6 xapexuv rjp.lv rravra ttXouo-ius eis a7rdXavo-tv.
ei Tts ev Xdyu oi irratei, ovtos TeXetos dvT^p, Svvarcs
XaXivayuy^o-ai Kat oXov to o-up.a. James iii. 2.
A sound heart is the life of the flesh, but envy the
rottenness of the bones.
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine, but a
broken spirit drieth the bones.
6dpo~ei " Kat totc p.ev o-otpir/s err aKpotrri 6odo,0'eis-
Sis a venereis amoribus aversus; quibus si te
dedideris, non aliud quidquam possis cogitare quam
illud quod diligis.
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aTrenrdp.i6a to. KpvrrTa Trjs altrxvvrjs.
In abscissione omnium infimarum delectationum erit
benedictio tua.
Le philosophe est au fond de tout artiste de reelle
valeur. G. S.
De la vie generate la culture intellectuelle doit Stre le
but. G. S.
Das Hervorbringen selbst ein Vergniigen und sein
eigner Lohn ist. G.
Eat and drink such an exact quantity as suits the
constitution of thy body, in reference to the services of
the mind. Franklin.
Rien ne s'arrangera plus en ce monde que par la
raison et l'equite, la patience, le savoir, le devouement et
la modestie. G. S.
Johnson on the youthful Pope 's omnivorous Reading
' In a mind like his, however, all the faculties were at
once involuntarily improving. Judgment is forced upon
us by experience. He that reads many books must
compare one opinion or one style with another ; and
when he compares, must necessarily distinguish, reject,
and prefer.'
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Erskine on Providence
A purpose of goodness and kindness at the founda
tion of all things, and ordering all things, is the only rest
for the soul of man amidst the agitations of time. What
changes have come upon both of us ! still let us be
comforted by the assurance that there is no accident in
them, and that indeed that wise and loving purpose
underlies them all, and, when truly entered into and
understood, gives them a satisfactory interpretation.
The Method
Kofydpurov to evrds — to. eK tov dv6pwKOV ooropeud/tevd
eo-riv rd KOivovvra dv6pwirov. eo-ui,6ev yap ex ttJs KapSias
Tutv dv6'panr<0V, ol 8iaXoyicrp,ol ot kokoi eKJropevocTat,
iropvelai, KXorrai, (pdvot, p.otxetai, irXeove^iat, rrovrjpiai, SdXos,
do-eXyeta, 6s rrovrjpos, f$Xao-v. 6 -yap fuyds ptov xprjo-TOS Kal to djoprtov
p.ov iXapov icrTiv.
77 irpav'T77s Kat iirietKeia tov Xptorou.
77 077X07175 koi ayvofrjs tov Xpiorov.
The Secret
eXeyev Se 7rpds 7rdvTas ' Et tis BeXet 07rio-u ptov epxeo-f?ai,
dpvrjcrdo-6u> eavj_6v, Kat dpaTia tov oraupdv aurou ko.6' r)p.epav,
Kal aKoXov6eiT(a p.01. os yap av 6eXrj ttjv i/'UX'/v avrov o-uo"ai
d7roXe'o-et airrjv. os 8' av diroXeorj ttjv \j/vxr)V avTov eveKev
ipiov, outos truo-et avrrjv. ti yap uxpeXelrat dvfjpurros,
Kep8rjo-as tov Koo-pov oXov, eavTov Se dVoXeo-as 77 t,r]p.iw6eis ;
Luke ix. 23-25.
e7rpe7rev yap avru, St' ov Ta irdvra koI St' ov Ta 7rdvTa,
7roXXovs viovs eis Sdfav dyayovra, tov dpyrjybv Trjs o~a>Tr]pias
auTuv Sid 7ra0ij/xdVuv TeXetSo-at.
en-ei ow Ta iraihia KeKoivuwrjKev ai/xaros Kai o-apKos, Kat
awds TrapaTrXrjo-tois p.eTeo-)(ev tuv awuv, tva Sid tov Bavdrov
KaTapyqa-g tov to Kpdfos e^ovTa tov 6avdfov, tovt«ttiv tov
Sid/JoXov, Kat d7raXXd?77 towous 00-01 v aurds dvrjvsyKev ev ra o-wpaTi
avrou iirl to fuXov, tva Tats ap.apTtais diroyevopevoi ttj
SiKatorruvr/ £rjo-v /JeXrio-rwv 0"ot djatvopevtov outus «XOu, us a7ro tou
Beov TCTayp-Evos ets Tavfr/v Tr)v xupav.
Bien dire, c'est bien sentir.
Omnia vanitas, praeter amare Deum, et illi soli servire.
Tu, Domine, solus es fidelissimus in omnibus, et
praeter te non est alter talis.
oo"a eoriv dXr/Brj, 6o"a o~ep,vd. . .
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Toute la vie de Turgot fut dominee par Fidee haute,
la foi du Progres infini, du developpement sans bornes
des puissances et des activites humaines.
Semper aliquid certi proponendum est.
Rien ne sauve dans cette vie-ci que l'bccupation et
le travail. Une vie laborieuse, une succession de travaux qui
remplissent et moralisent les jours !
With joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of
salvation. • Is. xii. 3.
Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give
him, shall never thirst. John iv. 14.
Rien ne s'arrangera plus en ce monde que par la
raison et l'equite, la patience, le savoir, le devouement et
la modestie. II y a des forces de faiblesse, de docilite, de seduc
tion, ou de suavite, qui sont tout aussi reelles que les
forces de vigueur, d'empietement, de violence ou de
brutalite.
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Alles Siindigenein Selbstverderben undSelbstmorden
ist.
As righteousness tendeth to life, so he that pursueth
evil pursueth it to his own death. Prov. xi. 19.
II ne s'agit pas de parler, il s'agit de persuader ; il ne
s'agit pas d'ecrire sur du papier, il faut ecrire dans les
cceurs. J. de M.
Le soin de bien dire la verite et d'apprivoiser I'atten
tion est un devoir, une fonction du sage et une marque
de sa bonte.
La gaiete clarifie I'esprit, surtout la gaiete litteraire.
L'ennui Fembrouille.
Recherchons tout ce qui peut donner de la grace, de
la gaiete, du bonheur dans la vie !
II faut se faire aimer, car les hommes ne sont justes
qu'envers ceux qu'ils aiment.
Celui qui manque a. sa vocation est puni parce qu'il
n'a pas fait, par I'epuisement qui requite d'une force non
employee, d'une tension sans resultat.
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Die Wahl der Gegenstande zeigt immer, was Einer fur
ein Mann, und wess Geisteskind er ist. G.
Pour gagner l'humanite, il faut lui plaire ; pour lui
plaire, il faut etre aimable.
En quoi ai-je avance l'ceuvre generate, et que reste-t-il
de moi en bien et en mal ? J. de M.
Le faible, que le mondain dedaigne, lui est d'ordinaire
superieur; la somme de vertu est chez ceux qui
obeissent (servantes, ouvriers, soldats, marins, etc.) plus
grande que chez ceux qui commandent et jouissent.
Commander et jouir, loin d'aider a, la vertu, sont une
difficulte pour etre vertueux.
O that thou hadst hearkened unto my command
ments ! then had thy peace been as a river.
Ich liess die deutsche Literatur und das Studium
derselben sehr bald hinter mir, und wandete mich zum
Leben und zur Production. G.
La souveraine habilet^ consiste a, bien connaitre le
prix des choses.
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Scias pro certo, quia morientem te oportet ducere
vitam. Le philosophe est au fond de tout artiste de reelle
valeur. G. S.
Ponder the path of thy feet and let all thy ways be
established. Les grandes imes portent dans leur propre fonds un
tendre sentiment du vrai. V.
Le sentiment de nos forces les augmente. V.
Im engen Kreis verengert sich der Sinn. G.
Une ame belle trouve un charme secret a, satisfaire
son genie bienfaisant et accessible. V.
Victurosque Dei celant, ut vivere durent,
Felix esse mori. Lucan.
©apo-ei, TeKvov, dlevTai o~ov al dpapriat. Matth. ix. 2.
iSuv Se tous oxXous iorrXayyyia-Br) irepl avruv, on 770-av
io-K.vXp.evoi Kat ipptp.p.evoi urrei TrpofiaTa p.77 e)(ovTa 7roip,eva.
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Tu habe Deum prae oculis, et noli contendere verbis
querulosis. Was ist wichtiger als die Gegenstande, und was ist
die ganze Kunstlehre ohne sie ? Alles Talent ist
verschwendet, wenn der Gegenstand nichts taugt. G.
Tantum contende in republica quantum probari tuis
civibus possis. Cicero, after Plato.
Vegno di loco ove tornar disio. Dante.
Quelque recherche qu'on ait faite, jamais un miracle
ne s'est produit la ou il pouvait §tre observe et constate. Littri.
Good Friday
Tene breve et consummatum verbum : dimitte omnia
et invenies omnia, relinque cupidinem et reperies
requiem. Hoc non est opus unius diei nee ludus parvulorum ;
immo in hoc brevi includitur omnis perfectio religio-
sorum.
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Easter Day
otrives direBdvopiev ttJ dpiapTia, 7rus en t,ryrop.ev ev
airrrj ; rj dyvoetre, on ocroi i/3a.TrTio-Brjp.ev ets Xpiordv, ets
tov 6dvarov avrou ij3arrTio-6rjp.ev ;
el 0-vp.djvroi yeyovaptev T(a 6p.otmp.aTi tov 6avdrov avrov,
dXXd Kai Trjs dvaordo-eus eo~6p,e6a.
Le bien penser est la source du bien ecrire.
ei Kat 6 e£u r)p.u>v avBpojTros 8ia6eipeTai, dXX' o eo-io
ijp.uv dvaKaivovrai r)p.epa Kal r)p,epa. 2 Cor. iv. 16.
7repiiraTelTe dftus tov Beov tov koXovvtos vpas eis ttjv
eavrov BaaiXeiav Kal Sdfav. 1 Thess. 11. 12.
What Paul delivered : rrws Set TrepnraTelv, Kal dpeo-Keiv
t<3 61Z. What Paul exhorted to : eis to TrepnraTelv vp.ds dftus
tou 6eov tov KaXovvros vp,as eis T77V eavrov Bao-iXeiav Kai
Sdfav. 6 Se Kvptos KaTevflwai v/xuv rds KapSias ets ttjv dydVr/v
tov Beov Kal eis T77V virop.ovr)v tov Xpiorou.
aurds Se 6 Kvpios tt}s elprjvrjs 8(077 vplv T77V elprjvrjv 81a
7ravrds ev iravrt Tporrio. (Repeated.)
7rdvTOre \aipere, aSiaXetirTUs Trpoo-ev)(eo-6e, iv 7ravTi
evxaptO"Tetre " touto yap BeXrjpM 6eov iv Xpiorai 'I-qaov ets
vpas-
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do-bt eis Xptordi' iBarrrio-BrjTe, Xpiordv eveSuo-uo-6'e. Gal. iii. 27.
La plus veritable marque d'etre ne avec de grandes
qualites, c'est d'etre ne sans envie. La R.
L'occasion fait le larron, et c'est la provocation
surtout qui developpe les instincts vicieux.
Whit Sunday
C'est en quelque sorte se donner part aux belles
actions que de les louer de bon cceur. La R.
Peu de gens savent etre vieux. La R.
.Faciles imitandis Turpibus et pravis omnes sumus.
Nous avons plus de force que de volonte; et c'est
souvent pour nous excuser a nous-me"mes que nous nous
imaginons que les choses sont impossibles. La R.
Nous n'avons pas assez de force pour suivre toute
notre raison. La R.
II faut entretenir la vigueur du corps, pour con-
server celle de I'esprit. 1
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Pour executer de grandes choses, il faut vivre comme
si on ne devait jamais mourir.
Heureux qui porte en son coeur tes lois d'un heureux
naturel !
La pensee de la mort nous trompe, car elle nous fait
oublier de vivre.
On n'est pas ne pour la gloire, lorsqu'on ne connait
pas le prix du temps.
Buffon says :
Tout sujet est un ; et, quelque vaste qu'il soit, il
peut etre renferme dans un seul discours.
Was die Volker wahrhaft gliicklich macht, das
kommt von Zion- Jerusalem. Delitzsch, 37.
Isaiah's Subject
Der Sturz der falschen Herrlichkeit Israel's und die
durch's Gericht hindurch sich voUziehende Aufrichtung
der wahren.
De meme qu'il y a une fidelite de Dieu envers
l'homme a quoi Dieu ne manque jamais, il y a une
fidelite de l'homme envers Dieu a. quoi nous ne devons
jamais manquer. Bourdaloue.
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Luxus das Hauptlaster Juda's unter Uzzia-Jotham
war, wie Israel's unter Jeroboam IL, wo auch die
Strafdrohung die gleiche ist.
See Is. v. n-17, and Am. vi.
Israel als Volk ist unverganglich, Kraft gottlicher
Verheissung; aber die Masse des Volkes ist dem
Untergang bestimmt, Kraft gottlichen Richterspruchs ;
und nur ein Rest, der sich bekehrt, wird schliesslich
Israel's Volksthumlichkeit fortpflanzen, und die herrliche
Zukunft ererben. Isaiah's Thema
Dass nur nach dem Sturze der falschen Herrlichkeit
Israel's die verheissene wahre sich verwirklichen ; und
dass nach Vertilgung der Volksmasse nur ein kleiner
Rest diese Verwirklichung erleben wird.
Oportet te novum induere hominem et in alteram
virum mutari.
Un gouvernement doit £tre un moteur de progres, un
organe de Fopinion publique, un protecteur de tous les
droits legitimes, un initiateur de toutes les energies qui
constituent le genie national. Gambetta.
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Oportet . te saepe agere quod non vis, et quod vis
oportet relinquere.
La subdivision est ce qui perd presque tous les
partis, et elle est presque toujours l'effet de cette finesse
qui, par son caractere particulier, est opposee a. la
prudence. De Retz.
Nulla res tantum ad dicendum proficit quantum
scriptio. Cicero.
Natura cupida est, amat propria et privata, libentius
accipit quam donat ;¦ gratia autem pia est et communis,
vitat singularia, beatius dare judicat quam accipere.
The French Republic should be, says Gambetta,
' L'epanouissement de Felite de Fhumanite.'
Comme au temps de Rabelais, c'est la methode qui
resoudra tes difficultes ; c'est-a-dire Fart superieure
d'enseigner le vrai et de le rendre eclatant, au lieu de
multiplier les details pedantesques. Newspaper.
Natura de defectu et molestia cito conqueritur. Imit.
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La meme egalite qui permet a chaque citoyen de
concevoir de vastes esperances rend tous les citoyens
individuellement faibles. Tocqueville.-
A man's thoughts must be going. Whilst he is
awake, the working of his mind is as constant as the
beating of his pulse. He can no more stop the one
than the other. Hence, if our thoughts have nothing
to. act upon, they act upon themselves. They acquire
a corrosive quality ; they become in the last degree
irksome and tormenting. . Paley.
Le desir de l'egalite devient toujours plus insatiable a,
mesure que l'egalite est plus grande. Tocqueville.
Flee from evil, and do the thing that is good : and
dwell for evermore. Ps. xxxvii. 27.
Est in animis omnium fere natura molle quiddam,
demissum, humile, enervatum quodammodo et langui-
dum. Si nihil esset aliud, nihil esset homine deformius. Cicero.
iEolica dialectus latinam totam antiquam, quanta est,
paucis exceptis formavit. Salmasius.
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Si verum quaerimus, in omnibus officiis persequendis
animi est adhibenda contentio. Ea est sola officii
tamquam custodia. C.
Sumus natura, ut ante dixi (dicendum est enim
saspius), studiosissimi appetentissimique honestatis. C.
Omnibus rebus, non solum dolori, simili contentione
animi resistendum est. Ira exardescit ; libido con-
citatur. In eandem arcem confugiendum est ; eadem
sunt arma sumenda. C.
.... Who overcomes
By force, hath overcome but half his foe. Milton.
His old instructor officiously sought opportunities of
conference, which the prince, having long considered
him as one whose intellects were exhausted, was not
very willing to afford. Rasselas.
Dum licet, et spirant flamina, navis eat. Ovid.
It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord.
Ps. xcii. i.
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O praise the Lord, for it is a good thing to sing
praises unto our God ; yea a joyful and pleasant thing it
is to be thankful. Ps. cxlvii. 1.
' In the decline of life shame and grief are of short
duration. Rasselas.
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no
pleasures. Rasselas.
Paley calls the higher class 'this important, but
most incorrigible class of the community.'
Sins of debauchery have a tendency, which other
species of sin have not so directly, to unsettle and
weaken the powers of the understanding ; as well as, I
think, in a greater degree than other vices, to render the
heart thoroughly corrupt. Paley.
What to Wish for
A serious, devout, humble, apprehensive mind,
anxiously desiring to learn and know the truth, and
ih order to know it, carefully abstaining from the
indulgence of passions, and from practices which harden
and indispose the mind against religion. Paley.
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Let us not afflict ourselves with our failings ; our
perfection consists in opposing them. Bp. Wilson.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and
knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Rasselas.
To man is permitted the contemplation of the skies,
but the practice of virtue is commanded. Rasselas.
' The French could not act differently, if they had
determined to chill the enthusiastic admiration and
sympathy with which the Republic was regarded on
this side the Channel.' P. M. G.
Germany
'The birth place of the most moral races of men.
that the world has yet seen, of the soundest laws, the
least violent passions, and the fairest domestic and civil
virtues.' All men have fits and starts of nobleness ; the
characteristic of heroism is its persistency. Emerson.
How dear, how soothing to man, arises the idea
of God, peopling the lonely place, effacing the scars
of pur mistakes and disappointments ! ¦ Emerson.
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And my soul, be joyful in the Eternal ! it shall
rejoice in his salvation. Ps. xxxv. 9.
The evil of any pleasure we can imagine is not in the
act itself but in its consequences. Rasselas.
Nisi conversi meritis et efficiamini sicut parvuli, non
intrabitis in regnum ccelorum.
Cleanse that which is within ! the thoughts, from
within, out of a man's heart, they defile him !
He that loveth his life shall lose it ; he that will lose
his life shall save it.
77 Trpavrrjs ko\ iirteiKeta tov Xpiorov ! 2 Cor. x. 1.
And they shall comfort you, when ye see their- ways
and their doings. Ezek. xiv. 23.
ypr/yopelTe, cnrjKeTe iv ttj rrio'Tei, av8pi£ecr6e, Kpa/ratovcrBe.
1 Cor. xvi, 13.
Taceant carnales et animates homines de Sanctorum
statu disserere, qui non norunt nisi privata gaudia diligere.
Demunt et addunt pro sua inclinatione, non prout
placet ae.ternse yeritati.
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Multi quaerunt, quis major sit in regno Dei, qui
ignorant, an cum minimis erunt digni eomputari.
The hand can never execute anything higher than the
character can inspire. Emerson.
The man is only half himself, the other half is his
expressions. Emerson.
Talent may frolic and juggle ; genius realises and
adds. Emerson.
iv TravTi evxapto-retre * tovto yap BeXr/pa Beov iv Xpioru
T770-OU ets vp,as.
Praise the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his
benefits. Je alter man wird, je mehr schatzt man Naturgaben,
weil sie durch nichts konnen angeschafft werden. G.
Peribit totum quod non est ex Deo ortum.
Be steadfast in thy covenant, and be conversant
therein, and wax old in thy work.
Gaudebis vespere, si diem expendas fructuose.
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Ce qu'il m'apprit de plus precieux fut de m'habituer
a. me connaitre moi-meme, et a reflechir sur mes im
pressions. Diligentibus Deum omnia cooperantur in bonum.
Man muss sich immerfort verandern, erneuen, ver-
jiingen, um nicht zu verstocken. G.
A sound heart is the life of the flesh, but envy the
rottenness of the bones.
Habits are lost by forbearing those acts which are
connatural to them and conservative of them. Barrow.
Eigentlich von der Verkehrtheit des Verhaltens gegen
das Gottliche alles Ungliick ausgeht. Ewald.
00-a eortv dXtjdrj, dVa o~ep.vd, oo-a Sucain, do-a dyvd,
00-a Trpoo-djiXij, 00-a ev