Part 89

Death from sin no power can separate.--Milton.

Our sins, like to our shadows, when our day is in its glory, scarce appeared. Towards our evening how great and monstrous they are!--Sir J. Suckling.

'Tis the will that makes the action good or ill.--Herrick.

Guilt, though it may attain temporal splendor, can never confer real happiness. The evident consequences of our crimes long survive their commission, and, like the ghosts of the murdered, forever haunt the steps of the malefactor.--Sir Walter Scott.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.--Shakespeare.

Sin is disease, deformity, and weakness.--Plato.

Sin and her shadow death.--Milton.

If ye do well, to your own behoof will ye do it; and if ye do evil, against yourselves will ye do it.--Koran.

It is the sin which we have not committed which seems the most monstrous.--Boileau.

There are sins of omission as well as those of commission.--Madame Deluzy.

~Sincerity.~--Sincerity is to speak as we think, to do as we pretend and profess, to perform and make good what we promise, and really to be what we would seem and appear to be.--Tillotson.

The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere lives in but half his being, self-mutilated, self-paralyzed.--Coleridge.

~Skepticism.~--Skepticism is slow suicide.--Emerson.

~Skill.~--Nobody, however able, can gain the very highest success, except in one line. He may rise above others, but he will fall below himself.--Charles Buxton.

Whatever may be said about luck, it is skill that leads to fortune.--Walter Scott.

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.--Gibbon.

~Slander.~--Done to death by slanderous tongues.--Shakespeare.

Slugs crawl and crawl over our cabbages, like the world's slander over a good name. You may kill them, it is true, but there is the slime.--Douglas Jerrold.

Slander lives upon succession, forever housed where it gets possession.--Shakespeare.

When the absent are spoken of, some will speak gold of them, some silver, some iron, some lead, and some always speak dirt, for they have a natural attraction towards what is evil, and think it shows penetration in them. As a cat watching for mice does not look up though an elephant goes by, so are they so busy mousing for defects, that they let great excellences pass them unnoticed. I will not say it is not Christian to make beads of others' faults, and tell them over every day; I say it is infernal. If you want to know how the devil feels, you do know if you are such an one.--Beecher.

If parliament were to consider the sporting with reputation of as much importance as sporting on manors, and pass an act for the preservation of fame as well as game, there are many would thank them for the bill.--Sheridan.

~Sleep.~--When one asked Alexander how he could sleep so soundly and securely in the midst of danger, he told them that Parmenio watched. Oh, how securely may they sleep over whom He watches that never slumbers nor sleeps! "I will," said David, "lay me down and sleep, for thou, Lord, makest me to dwell in safety."--Venning.

After life's fitful fever he sleeps well.--Shakespeare.

Sleep is no servant of the will; it has caprices of its own; when courted most, it lingers still; when most pursued, 'tis swiftly gone.--Bowring.

Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep.--Bible.

Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.--Alcott.

Night's sepulchre.--Byron.

Sleep is pain's easiest salve, and doth fulfill all offices of death, except to kill.--Donne.