Part 102

Dirty work wants little talent and no conscience.--George Eliot.

~Waiting.~--It is the slowest pulsation which is the most vital. The hero will then know how to wait, as well as to make haste. All good abides with him who waiteth wisely.--Thoreau.

~Want.~--Nothing makes men sharper than want.--Addison.

Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.--Spurgeon.

It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.--Fielding.

If any one say that he has seen a just man in want of bread, I answer that it was in some place where there was no other just man.--St. Clement.

~War.~--Take my word for it, if you had seen but one day of war, you would pray to Almighty God that you might never see such a thing again.--Wellington.

Wherever there is war, there must be injustice on one side or the other, or on both. There have been wars which were little more than trials of strength between friendly nations, and in which the injustice was not to each other, but to the God who gave them life. But in a malignant war there is injustice of ignobler kind at once to God and man, which must be stemmed for both their sakes.--Ruskin.

Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.--Lamartine.

The fate of war is to be exalted in the morning, and low enough at night! There is but one step from triumph to ruin.--Napoleon.

Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit.--Spenser.

Providence for war is the best prevention of it.--Bacon.

The bodies of men, munition, and money, may justly be called the sinews of war.--Sir W. Raleigh.

War is the matter which fills all history, and consequently the only or almost the only view in which we can see the external of political society is in a hostile shape; and the only actions to which we have always seen, and still see, all of them intent, are such as tend to the destruction of one another.--Burke.

As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters.--Gibbon.

The fate of a battle is the result of a moment,--of a thought: the hostile forces advance with various combinations, they attack each other and fight for a certain time; the critical moment arrives, a mental flash decides, and the least reserve accomplishes the object.--Napoleon.

The feast of vultures, and the waste of life.--Byron.

I abhor bloodshed, and every species of terror erected into a system, as remedies equally ferocious, unjust, and inefficacious against evils that can only be cured by the diffusion of liberal ideas.--Mazzini.

~Weakness.~--Weakness is thy excuse, and I believe it; weakness to resist Philistian gold: what murderer, what traitor, parricide, incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it? All wickedness is weakness.--Milton.

The strength of man sinks in the hour of trial; but there doth live a Power that to the battle girdeth the weak.--Joanna Baillie.

How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens?--Joubert.

Weakness is born vanquished.--Madame Swetchine.

~Wealth.~--An accession of wealth is a dangerous predicament for a man. At first he is stunned, if the accession be sudden; he is very humble and very grateful. Then he begins to speak a little louder, people think him more sensible, and soon he thinks himself so.--Cecil.

If Wealth come, beware of him, the smooth, false friend! There is treachery in his proffered hand; his tongue is eloquent to tempt; lust of many harms is lurking in his eye; he hath a hollow heart; use him cautiously.--Tupper.

Men pursue riches under the idea that their possession will set them at ease, and above the world. But the law of association often makes those who begin by loving gold as a servant, finish by becoming themselves its slaves; and independence without wealth is at least as common as wealth without independence.--Colton.

~Weeping.~--What women would do if they could not cry, nobody knows! What poor, defenseless creatures they would be!--Douglas Jerrold.

~Welcome.~--Heaven opened wide her ever-during gates, harmonious sound! on golden hinges turning.--Milton.

~Wickedness.~--The happiness of the wicked passes away like a torrent.--Racine.