Maxims and Wise Sayings

416 IMPROVEMENT ERA Comely and vast as it was formed to grow; With all its thousand downward-dropping stems Waiting to fall from all its thousand boughs, And all its lakhs and lakhs of lustrous leaves Waiting to push to sunlight, and so make New canopies of flower and fruit and shade, Where creatures of the field, fowls of the air, Monkey and squirrel folk might find their home, And man and cattle 'neath its ample roof Have shelter from the noon. This Forest King— Of bulk to overspread a Raja's camp Was wrapped in what thou sayest passeth sight. —Edwin Arnold, The Secret of Death.

Maxims and Wise Sayings From Wii.dows in the Library of the University of Pennsylvania, 1904

COPIED AND CONTRIBUTED BY J. B. BALL

Striving to better, oft we mar what's good. Wisely and slow they stumble that run fast. ;

When clouds appear, wise men put on -their cloaks. Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find fault, but to weigh arid consider. Self-love is not so vile a thing as self-negligence. Celerity is never more admired than by the negligent. O world, how apt the poor are to be proud The empty vessel makes the greatest sound. How poor are they that have no patience. Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile. Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all. Many wearing rapiers are afraid of goose quills. Truth is truth to the end of reckoning. Who cannot condemn rashness in cold blood? Past and to come seem best, things present worse. Better a witty fool than a foolish wit. Time is an old justice that examines all offenders. Strong reasons make strong actions. Men should be what they seem. No might nor greatness in mortality can censure 'scape. Those that with haste will make a mighty fire, begin it with weak straws. Ignorance is the curse of God. Knowledge, the wings wherewith we fly to heaven. Everyone can master a grief but he that has it. Winning will put any man into courage.