Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet
Till earth and sky stand presently at God's great judgment seat;
But there is neither East nor West, border nor breed nor birth
When two strong men stand face to face, tho' they come from the ends of the earth!
La physionomie n'est pas une regie qui nous
soit donnee pour juger des hommes; elle nous
peut servir de conjecture.
Physiognomy is not a guide that has been
given us by which to judge of the character of
men: it may only serve us for conjecture.
La Bruyère—Les Caractères. XII.
Incivility is not a Vice of the Soul, but the
effect of several Vices; of Vanity, Ignorance of
Duty, Laziness, Stupidity, Distraction, Contempt of others, and Jealousy.
La Bruyère—The Characters or Manners of the Present Age. Vol. II. Ch.XI.
On n'est jamais si ridicule par les qualites
que Ton a que par celles que Ton affecte d'avoir.
The qualities we have do not make us so
ridiculous as those which we affect to have.
La Rochefoucauld—Maximes. 134.
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| text = Famse ac fidei damna majora sunt quam qua?
sestimari possunt.
The injury done to character is greater than
can be estimated.
LrvT—Annates. III. 72.
A tender heart; a will inflexible.
| author = Longfellow
| work = Christus. Pt. III. The New
England Tragedies. John Endicott. Act III.
Sc. 2.
So mild, so merciful, so strong, so good,
So patient, peaceful, loyal, loving, pure.
| author = Longfellow
| work = Christus. The Golden Legend.
Pt.V. L. 319.
Sensitive, swift to resent, but as swift in
atoning for error.
| author = Longfellow
| work = Courtship of Miles Standish.
Pt. IX. The Wedding Day.
In this world a man must either be anvil or
hammer.
Not in the clamor of the crowded street,
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng,
But in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
For me Fate gave, whate'er she else denied,
A nature sloping to the southern side;
I thank her for it, though when clouds arise
Such natures double-darken gloomy skies.
| author = Lowell
| work = An Epistle to George William Curtis.
Postscript 1887. L. 53.
All that hath been majestical
In life or death, since time began,
Is native in the simple heart of all,
The angel heart of man.
| author = Lowell
| work = An Incident in a Railroad Car. St.10.
Our Pilgrim stock wuz pethed with hardihood.
| author = Lowell
| work = Biglow Papers. Second Series. No.
. L. 38.
Soft- heartedness, in times like these,
Shows sof 'ness in the upper story.
LowELii—Biglow Papers. Second Series. No.
. L. 119.
Endurance is the crowning quality,
And patience all the passion of great hearts.
| author = Lowell
| work = Columbus. L. 237.
For she was jes' the quiet kind
Whose nature never vary,
Like streams that keep a summer mind
Snowhid in Jenooary.
| author = Lowell
| work = The Courtin'. St. 22.
His Nature's a glass of champagne with the
foam on 't,
As tender as Fletcher, as witty as Beaumont;
So his best things are done in the flash of the
moment.
| author = Lowell
| work = Fable for Critics. L. 834.
It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of a man is tested.
| author = Lowell
| work = My Study Windows. Abraham Lincoln.
A nature wise
With finding in itself the types of all,—
With watching from the dim verge of the time
What things to be are visible in the gleams
Thrown forward on them from the luminous
past,—
Wise with the history of its own frail heart,
With reverence and sorrow, and with love,
Broad as the world, for freedom and for man.
LowELii—Prometheus. L. 216.
Eripitur persona, manet res.
The mask is torn off, while the reality remains.
Lucretius—De Rerum Natura. III. 58.
<poem>There thou beholdest the walls of Sparta, and
every man a brick. Lycurgus, according to Plutarch.
<poem>We hardly know any instance of the strength
and weakness of human nature so striking and so grotesque as the character of this haughty, vigilant, resolute, sagacious blue-stocking, half Mithridates and half Trissotin, bearing up against a world in arms, with an ounce of poison in one pocket and a quire of bad verses in the other. Macaulay—Frederick the Great. (1842)
And the chief-justice was rich, quiet, and infamous.
