Part 17

Nations, like individuals, live and die; but civilization cannot die.--Mazzini.

~Clergymen.~--The life of a conscientious clergyman is not easy. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. I would rather have Chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls. I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.--Johnson.

Clergymen consider this world only as a diligence in which they can travel to another.--Napoleon.

The clergy are as like as peas.--Emerson.

~Commander.~--The right of commanding is no longer an advantage transmitted by nature like an inheritance; it is the fruit of labors, the price of courage.--Voltaire.

The trident of Neptune is the sceptre of the world.--Antoine Lemierre.

He who rules must humor full as much as he commands.--George Eliot.

~Commerce.~--She may well be termed the younger sister, for, in all emergencies, she looks to agriculture both for defense and for supply.--Colton.

Commerce defies every wind, outrides every tempest, and invades every zone.--Bancroft.

~Common Sense.~--If common sense has not the brilliancy of the sun it has the fixity of the stars.--Fernan Caballero.

~Communists.~--One who has yearnings for equal division of unequal earnings. Idler or bungler, he is willing to fork out his penny and pocket your shilling.--Ebenezer Elliott.

Your leaders wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves. They would all have some people under them; why not then have some people above them.--Johnson.

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand. Its elements are hunger, envy, death.--Heinrich Heine.

~Comparison.~--All comparisons are odious.--Cervantes.

If we rightly estimate what we call good and evil, we shall find it lies much in comparison.--Locke.

~Compassion.~--The dew of compassion is a tear.--Byron.

~Compensation.~--Cloud and rainbow appear together. There is wisdom in the saying of Feltham, that the whole creation is kept in order by discord, and that vicissitude maintains the world. Many evils bring many blessings. Manna drops in the wilderness--corn grows in Canaan.--Willmott.

It is some compensation for great evils that they enforce great lessons.--Bovée.

~Complaining.~--We do not wisely when we vent complaint and censure. Human nature is more sensible of smart in suffering than of pleasure in rejoicing, and the present endurances easily take up our thoughts. We cry out for a little pain, when we do but smile for a great deal of contentment.--Feltham.

Our condition never satisfies us; the present is always the worst. Though Jupiter should grant his request to each, we should continue to importune him.--Fontaine.

~Conceit.~--Wind puffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.--Socrates.

Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.--Bible.

Nature has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man's own making.--Addison.

Everything without tells the individual that he is nothing; everything within persuades him that he is everything.--X. Doudan.

Apes look down on men as degenerate specimens of their own race, just as Hollanders regard the German language as a corruption of the Dutch.--Heinrich Heine.

If its colors were but fast colors, self-conceit would be a most comfortable quality. But life is so humbling, mortifying, disappointing to vanity, that a man's great idea of himself gets washed out of him by the time he is forty.--Charles Buxton.

One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find depreciated.--George Eliot.

The pious vanity of man makes him adore his own qualities under the pretense of worshiping those of God.--Bulwer-Lytton.