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"Comes home to men's business and bosoms." Paterfamilias, Times. "A long pull, a strong pull, and a pull all together." Nelson at the Nile. "One touch of nature makes the whole world kin." Jeremy Bentham. Apothegm by the late Lord Mountcoffeehouse. "Love rules the court, the camp, the grove."
I doubt whether the gallant colonel would have felt inclined to sustain that thesis in the House of Commons, of which assembly he afterwards became a popular and honoured member; but I dare say it did very well as an orderly-room apothegm.
Never was the trite, because sage apothegm, that "The child is father to the man," more fully verified than in the case of Goldsmith.
Unknown Egyptians, graving hieroglyphs; Hindus, with hymn and apothegm and endless epic; Hebrew prophet, with spirituality, as in flashes of lightning, conscience like red-hot iron, plaintive songs and screams of vengeance for tyrannies and enslavement; Christ, with bent head, brooding love and peace, like a dove; Greek, creating eternal shapes of physical and esthetic proportion; Roman, lord of satire, the sword, and the codex; of the figures, some far off and veil'd, others nearer and visible; Dante, stalking with lean form, nothing but fibre, not a grain of superfluous flesh; Angelo, and the great painters, architects, musicians; rich Shakspere, luxuriant as the sun, artist and singer of feudalism in its sunset, with all the gorgeous colors, owner thereof, and using them at will; and so to such as German Kant and Hegel, where they, though near us, leaping over the ages, sit again, impassive, imperturbable, like the Egyptian gods.
There is a feeling that it is rather better to leave every investigator where he chances to be at the moment, a feeling which sometimes finds expression in the apothegm that we cannot transplant a genius.
A brother, an uncle, a nephew, a brother-in-law, etc., with their families, are not infrequently placed in this dependent position, notwithstanding the trite apothegm, which says, 'it is better to be dependent on another for food than to live in his house." Moreover, this system fosters family dissension.
Pretty soon, of course, she'd have to come hack to earth, where certain monstrously terrifying questions were waiting for her. Madame Gréville's final apothegm had suggested one of them.
Past midnight and no one to look after her, and one night ruins her utterly and for life, and she as yet only a child! "John Newton had a very wise saying: 'Here is a man trying to fill a bushel with chaff. Now if I fill it with wheat first, it is better than to fight him. This apothegm contains in it the whole of what I would say on the subject of amusements."
"Let no one deem himself happy before his end," were the words of Solon; and here was a new and brilliant proof of the wisdom of the old apothegm.
"God is eternal," says a fine French apothegm, "but man is very old." And very new. Mary O'Halloran was perfect Young-Australian. To describe her from after-knowledge she was a very creature of the phenomena which had environed her own dawning intelligence. She was a child of the wilderness, a dryad among her kindred trees.
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