Part 103

The hatred of the wicked is only roused the more from the impossibility of finding any just grounds on which it can rest; and the very consciousness of their own injustice is only a grievance the more against him who is the object of it.--Rousseau.

Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation.--Plutarch.

What rein can hold licentious wickedness, when down the hill he holds his fierce career?--Shakespeare.

~Wife.~--Thy wife is a constellation of virtues; she's the moon, and thou art the man in the moon.--Congreve.

A light wife doth make a heavy husband.--Shakespeare.

O woman! thou knowest the hour when the goodman of the house will return, when the heat and burden of the day are past; do not let him at such time, when he is weary with toil and jaded with discouragement, find upon his coming to his habitation that the foot which should hasten to meet him is wandering at a distance, that the soft hand which should wipe the sweat from his brow is knocking at the door of other houses.--Washington Irving.

Her pleasures are in the happiness of her family.--Rousseau.

Hanging and wiving goes by destiny.--Shakespeare.

The wife safest and seemliest by her husband stays.--Milton.

~Will.~--In the schools of the wrestling master, when a boy falls he is bidden to get up again, and to go on wrestling day by day till he has acquired strength; and we must do the same, and not be like those poor wretches who, after one failure, suffer themselves to be swept along as by a torrent. You need but will, and it is done; but if you relax your efforts, you will be ruined; for ruin and recovery are both from within.--Epictetus.

~Winter.~--After summer ever more succeeds the barren winter with his nipping cold.--Shakespeare.

Winter binds our strengthened bodies in a cold embrace constringent.--Thomson.

~Wisdom.~--Wisdom for a man's self is, in many branches thereof, a depraved thing: it is the wisdom of rats, that will be sure to leave a house some time before it fall; it is the wisdom of the fox, that thrusts out the badger, who digged and made room for him; it is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.--Bacon.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.--Coleridge.

Human wisdom makes as ill use of her talent when she exercises it in rescinding from the number and sweetness of those pleasures that are naturally our due, as she employs it favorably, and well, in artificially disguising and tricking out the ills of life to alleviate the sense of them.--Montaigne.

It may be said, almost without qualification, that true wisdom consists in the ready and accurate perception of analogies. Without the former quality, knowledge of the past is uninstructive; without the latter, it is deceptive.--Whately.

You read of but one wise man, and all that he knew was--that he knew nothing.--Congreve.

To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they; and strength of mind is only courage to see and speak the truth.--Hazlitt.

Knowledge comes but wisdom lingers.--Tennyson.

Seize wisdom ere 'tis torment to be wise; that is, seize wisdom ere she seizes thee.--Young.

Wisdom married to immortal verse.--Wordsworth.

No man can be wise on an empty stomach.--George Eliot.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.--Euripides.

~Wishes.~--The apparently irreconcilable dissimilarity between our wishes and our means, between our hearts and this world, remains a riddle.--Richter.

~Wit.~--I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit, and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch, and tumbling into it.--Johnson.

Thy wit is a very bitter sweeting; it is a most sharp sauce.--Shakespeare.

Wit must grow like fingers. If it be taken from others 'tis like plums stuck upon blackthorns; there they are for a while, but they come to nothing.--Selden.

If he who has little wit needs a master to inform his stupidity, he who has much frequently needs ten to keep in check his worldly wisdom, which might otherwise, like a high-mettled charger, toss him to the ground.--Scriver.