Part 95

~Talking.~--I know a lady that loves talking so incessantly, she won't give an echo fair play; she has that everlasting rotation of tongue, that an echo must wait till she dies, before it can catch her last words!--Congreve.

Talkers are no good doers.--Shakespeare.

When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in woman?--Holmes.

Who think too little and who talk too much.--Dryden.

They talk most who have the least to say.--Prior.

~Taste.~--Taste is the power of relishing or rejecting whatever is offered for the entertainment of the imagination.--Goldsmith.

There are some readers who have never read an essay on taste; and if they take my advice they never will; for they can no more improve their taste by so doing than they could improve their appetite or digestion by studying a cookery-book.--Southey.

Those internal powers, active and strong, and feelingly alive to each fine impulse.--Akenside.

All our tastes are but reminiscences.--Lamartine.

~Teaching.~--Count it one of the highest virtues upon earth to educate faithfully the children of others, which so few, and scarcely any, do by their own.--Luther.

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.--Bulwer-Lytton.

~Tears.~--The overflow of a softened heart.--Madame Swetchine.

Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.--Bible.

In woman's eye the unanswerable tear.--Byron.

Blest tears of soul-felt penitence.--Moore.

God washes the eyes by tears until they can behold the invisible land where tears shall come no more. O love! O affliction! ye are the guides that show us the way through the great airy space where our loved ones walked; and, as hounds easily follow the scent before the dew be risen, so God teaches us, while yet our sorrow is wet, to follow on and find our dear ones in heaven.--Beecher.

The kind oblation of a falling tear.--Dryden.

A penitent's tear is an undeniable ambassador, and never returns from the throne of grace unsatisfied.--Spencer.

Fate and the dooming gods are deaf to tears.--Dryden.

We praise the dramatic poet who possesses the art of drawing tears, a power which he has in common with the meanest onion.--Heinrich Heine.

Her tears her only eloquence.--Rogers.

Eye-offending brine.--Shakespeare.

The tears which flow, and the honors that are paid, when the founders of the republic die, give hope that the republic itself may be immortal.--Daniel Webster.

All my mother came into mine eyes, and gave me up to tears.--Shakespeare.

The tear that is wiped with a little address may be followed, perhaps, by a smile.--Cowper.

Virtue is the daughter of Religion. Her sole treasure is her tears.--Madame Swetchine.

Nothing dries sooner than a tear.--George Herbert.

My plenteous joys, wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves in drops of sorrow.--Shakespeare.