For his bounty
There was no winter in't; an autumn 'twas
That grew the more by reaping: his delights
Were dolphin-like.
For this relief, much thanks: 'tis bitter cold,
And I am sick at heart.
A tear for pity and a hand
Open as day for melting charity.
Speak with me, pity me, open the door:
A beggar begs that never begg'd before.
'Tis not enough to help the feeble up,
But to support him after.
You find people ready enough to do the Samaritan, without the oil and twopence.
Sydney Smith—Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol. I. P. 261.
’Tis a little thing
To give a cup of water; yet its draught
Of cool refreshment, drain'd by fever'd lips,
May give a shock of pleasure to the frame
More exquisite than when nectarean juice
Renews the life of joy in happiest hours.
Thos. Noon Talfouhd—Ion. Act I. Sc. 2.
Non ignara mali miseris succurrere disco.
Being myself no stranger to suffering, I
have learned to relieve the sufferings of others.
Vergil—Æneid. I. 630.
The poor must be wisely visited and liberally
cared for, so that mendicity shall not be tempted
into mendacity, nor want exasperated into crime.
Robert C. Wlvthrop—Yorktown Oration in 1881.
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to
atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's
minds about to religion.
Bacon—Essays. Atheism.
Sublime Philosophy!
Thou art the patriarch's ladder, reaching heaven;
And bright with beckoning angels—but alas!
We see thee, like the patriarch, but in dreams,
By the first step,—dull slumbering on the earth.
Bulwer-Lytton—Richelieu. Act III. Sc. 1. L.4.
Beside, he was a shrewd philosopher,
And had read ev'ry text and gloss over
Whate'er the crabbed'st author hath,
He understood b' implicit faith.
Butler—Hudibras. Pt. I. Canto I. L. 127.
Before Philosophy can teach by Experience,
the Philosophy has to be in readiness; the Experience must be gathered and intelligibly recorded.
Carlyle—Essays. On History.
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vitse philosophia dux! O virtutis indagatrix,
expultrixque vitiorum! Quid non modo nos, sed
omnino vita hominum sine et esse potuisset? Tu
urbes peperisti; tu dissipates homines in societatum vita? convocasti. .
O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out
of virtue and expeller of vices! What could
we and every age of men have been without
thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast
called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life.
Cicero—Tusc. Quoest. Bk. V. 2. 5.
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Denis Diderot—Last Conversation.
The Beginning of Philosophy * * * is a
Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things.
Epictetus—Discourses. Bk. II. Ch. XL St. 1.
Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.
Froude—Short Studies on Great Subjects. Calvinism,.
This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.
How charming is divine philosophy!
Not harsh, and crabbed, as dull fools suppose,
But musical as is Apollo's lute,
And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets,
Where no crude surfeit reigns.
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That stone, * * *
Philosophers in vain so long have sought.
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Se moquer de la philosophic c'est vraiment
philosophe.
To ridicule philosoplry is truly philosophical.
Pascal—Pensées. Art. VII. 35.
Philosophy is nothing but Discretion.
John Selden—Table Tall: Philosophy.
There are more things in heaven and earth.
Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Hamlet. Act I. Sc.*5. L. 166. ("Our philosophy" in some readings.}})
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| text = <poem>The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there
you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift:
to be in heaven is to steer.
Bernard Shaw—Man and Superman. ActlH.
La clarW est la bonne foi des philosopher.
Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers.
Vauvenargues—Pensées Dwerses. No. 372.
Gilbert's ed. 1857. Vol.1. P. 475.
