MODESTY -see Vanity. Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. 3597 Lord Chesterfield: Letters to His Son, May 17, 1750. Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues. 3598 Goldsmith: She Stoops to Conquer. Act i. A modest man never talks of himself. 3599 La Bruyère: Characters. Of Man. (Rowe, Trans.) If a young lady has that discretion and modesty without which all knowledge is little worth, she will never make an ostentatious parade of it, because she will rather be intent on acquiring more, than on displaying what she has. 3600 Hannah More: Essays on Various Subjects. Everything that is exquisite hides itself. 3601 Joseph Roux: Meditations of a Parish Priest. Joy, Suffering, Fortune. No. 50. (Hapgood, Trans.) MONARCHY. The people once belonged to the kings: now the kings belong to the people. 3602 Heine: Wit, Wisdom, and Pathos. The Citizen Monarchy. The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant, accommodates itself to the meanest capacities, silences the loud and clamorous, and brings over the most obstinate and inflexible. 3604 Addison: The Spectator. No. 239. Character is money; and according as the man earns or spends the money, money in turn becomes character. As money is the most evident power in the world's uses, so the use that he makes of money is often all that the world knows about a man. 3605 Bulwer-Lytton: Caxtoniana. Essay xxi. On the Management of Money. Money is character; money also is power. I have power not in proportion to the money I spend on myself, but in proportion to the money I can, if I please, give away to another. 3606 Bulwer-Lytton: Caxtoniana. Essay xxi. the Management of Money. What's money without happiness? On 3607 Bulwer-Lytton: Money. Act v. Sc. 5. Money, in truth, can do much, but it cannot do all. We must know the province of it, and confine it there, and even spurn it back when it wishes to get farther. 3608 Carlyle: Heroes and Hero Worship. The Hero as Money, Paul, can do anything. Dickens: Dombey and Son. Ch. 8. The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money. 3610 Benjamin Franklin: Necessary Hints to Those That Would Be Rich. Money as luxury is valuable only as a passport to respect. It is one instrument of power. 3611 Hazlitt: Table Talk. Second series. Pt. i. Money is the god of our time, and Rothschild is his prophet. 3612 Heine: Wit, Wisdom, and Pathos. Lutetia. The Almighty Dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages. 3613 Washington Irving: The Creole Village. Genius scorns the power of gold: it is wrong. Gold is the war-scythe on its chariot, which mows down the millions of its foes, and gives free passage to the sun-coursers with which it leaves those heavenly fields of light for the gross battlefields of earth. 3614 Ouida: Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos. Folle-Farine. Money makes a man laugh. 3615 John Selden: Table Talk. Money. A mere hoard of gold, kept by a devil; till sack commences it, and sets it in act and use. 3616 Shakespeare: King Henry IV. Pt. ii. Act iv. Sc. 3. For they say, if money go before, all ways do lie open. 3617 Shakespeare: The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2. Money is a good soldier, sir, and will on. 3618 Shakespeare: The Merry Wives of Windsor. Put but money in thy purse. money. 3619 Fill thy purse with Shakespeare: Othello. Act i. Sc. 3. Money makes up in a measure all other wants in men. 3620 Wycherley: The Country Wife. Act ii. Sc. 1. MONOTONY. The monotony of sunshine is like any other monotony: it tends to lull the mind into a condition of fixed routine, in which activity is still possible, yet repeats itself as the days do. 3621 Hamerton: The Sylvan Year, July. XXXIX. MONUMENTS - - see Cemeteries, Epitaphs, Grave, The, Immortality, Trees. To extend our memories by monuments, whose death we daily pray for, and whose duration we cannot hope, without injury to our expectations in the advent of the last day, were a contradiction to our belief. 3622 Sir Thomas Browne: Hydriotaphia. Ch. 5. Tombs are the clothes of the dead: a grave is but a plain suit, and a rich monument is one embroidered. 3623 Thomas Fuller: The Holy and Profane States. Monuments may be builded to express the affection or pride of friends, or to display their wealth, but they are only valuable for the characters which they perpetuate. 3624 Dedi Garfield: The Works of James Abram Garfield. The monument means a world of memories, a world of deeds, a world of tears, and a world of glories. By the subtle chemistry that no man knows, all the blood that was shed by our brethren, all the lives that were devoted, all the grief that was felt, at last crystallized itself into granite, rendering immortal the great truth for which they died, and it stands there to-day. 3625 Garfield: Oration, Painesville, O., 1880. Dedication of a Soldiers' Monument. When we see the many grave-stones which have fallen in, which have been defaced by the footsteps of the congregation, which lie buried under the ruins of the churches, that have themselves crumbled together over them; we may fancy the life after death to be as a second life, into which man enters in the figure, or the picture, or the inscription, and lives longer there than when he was really alive. But this figure also, this second existence, dies out too, sooner or later. Time will not allow himself to be cheated of his rights with the monuments of men or with themselves. 3626 Goethe: Elective Affinities. II. 2. (1 (Bohn edition.) The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one. 3627 Hawthorne: English Note-Books. London, Those only deserve a monument who do not need one; that is, who have raised themselves a monument in the minds and memories of men. 3628 Hazlitt: Characteristics. No. 388. If a man do not erect in this age his own tomb ere he dies, he shall live no longer in monument than the bell rings and the widow weeps. An hour in clamor, and a quarter in rheum. 3629 ... Shakespeare: Much Ado about Nothing. Tombs decked by the arts can scarcely represent death as a formidable enemy; we do not, indeed, like the ancients, carve sports and dances on the sarcophagus, but thought is diverted from the bier by works that tell of immortality, even from the altar of death. 3630 Mme. de Staël: Corinne. Bk. vi. Ch. 3. (Isabel Hill, Translator.) Monuments and eulogy belong to the dead. 3631 Daniel Webster: Address, Charlestown, Mass., June 17, 1825. The Bunker Hill Monument. Our poor work may perish; but thine shall endure! This monument may moulder away, the solid ground it rests upon may sink down to a level of the sea, but thy memory shall not fail! Wheresoever among men a heart shall be found that beats to the transports of patriotism and liberty, its aspirations shall be to claim kindred with thy spirit. 3632 Daniel Webster: Address, Charlestown, Mass., June 17, 1825. The Bunker Hill Monument. To-day it speaks to us. Its future auditors will be the successive generations of men, as they rise up before it and gather around it. Its speech will be of patriotism and courage, of civil and religious liberty, of free government, of the moral improvement and elevation of mankind, and of the immortal memory of those who, with heroic devotion, have ' sacrificed their lives for their country. . . . When honored and decrepit age shall lean against the base of this monument, and troops of ingenuous youth shall be gathered round it, and when the one shall speak to the other of its objects, the purposes of its construction, and the great and glorious events with which it is connected, there shall rise from every youthful breast the ejaculation, “Thank God, I — I also — AM AN AMERICAN!" 3633 Daniel Webster: Address, Charlestown, Mass., We wish that this column, rising towards heaven among the pointed spires of so many temples dedicated to God, may contribute also to produce, in all minds, a pious feeling of dependence and gratitude. We wish, finally, that the last object to the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and the first to gladden his who revisits it, may be something which shall remind him of the liberty and the glory of his country. Let it rise! let it rise, till it meet the sun in his coming; let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and the parting day linger and play on its summit. 3634 MOODS. Daniel Webster: Address, Charlestown, Mass., Nature has no moods. They belong to man alone. 3635 Auerbach: On the Heights. (Bennett, Translator.) I will maintain the humor to the last. 3636 MOONLIGHT. Abraham Cowley: Essays. Of Myself. Moonlight is sculpture. 3637 Hawthorne: American Note-Books, 1838. MORALITY - Men who neglect Christ, and try to win heaven through moralities, are like sailors at sea in a storm, who pull, some at the bowsprit, and some at the mainmast, but never touch the helm. 3638 Henry Ward Beecher: Life Thoughts. Morality is character and conduct, such as is required by the circle or community in which the man's life happens to be placed. 3639 Henry Ward Beecher: Life Thoughts. Morality is good, and is accepted of God, as far as it goes; but the difficulty is, it does not go far enough. 3640 Henry Ward Beecher: Life Thoughts. Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality. 3641 Henry Ward Beecher: Life Thoughts. Morality will be very difficult for the man who does not pray. 3642 Hugh R. Haweis: Speech in Season. Bk. i. The Instinct of Worship and Praise. Sec. 3. Isolation. Everywhere the tendency has been to separate religion from morality, to set them in opposition even. But a religion without morality is a superstition and a curse; and anything like an adequate and complete morality without religion is impossible. The only salvation for man is in the union of the two as Christianity unites them. 3643 Mark Hopkins: Lecture, Boston, Mass., April 9, 1871. (In the Evangelical Course.) |