A clever, pliant, winning mind knows | DIVINITY OF. how to avoid and overcome difficulties. Bending easily to what it wants, it understands the inclination and temper it is dealing with, and by managing their interests it advances and establishes its own. Ibid.

A well regulated mind sees all things as they should be seen, appraises them at their proper value, turns them to its own advantage, and adheres firmly to its own opinions as it knows all their force and weight.

CLASSIFIED.

Ibid.

Though the gifts of the mind are infinite, they can it seems to me be thus classified. There are some so beautiful that every one can see and feel their beauty. There are some lovely, it is true, but which are wearisome. There are some which are lovely, which all the world admires, but without knowing why. There are some so refined and delicate that few are capable even of remarking all their beauties. There are others which, though imperfect, yet are produced with such skill, and sustained and managed with such sense and grace, that they even deserve to be admired. Ibid.

CONTENTMENT of.

A mind content both crown and kingdom is. Greene.

CULTURE OF THE.

As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without culture, so the mind, without cultivation, can never produce good fruit. Seneca. Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body. Cicero. DIGNITY OF.

The gaudy glass of fortune only strikes
The vulgar eye; the suffrage of the wise,
The praise that's worth ambition, is attain'd
By sense alone, and dignity of mind.

Armstrong.

DISEASE OF THE.
Canst thou not minster to a mind diseased;
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow;
Raze out the written troubles of the brain;
And, with some sweet oblivious antidote,
Cleanse the foul bosom of that perilous stuff,
Which weighs upon the heart?

A DISTORTED.

Shakespeare.

We find means to cure folly, but none to roclaim a distorted mind.

Whatever that be which thinks, which understands, which wills, which acts, it is something celestial and divine, and upon that account, must necessarily be eternal. Cicero.

DOMINION of.

Sublime is the dominion of the mind over

the body, that for a time, can make flesh
and nerve impregnable, and string the sin-
ews like steel, so that the weak become so
mighty.
Mrs. Stowe.

EXTRAVAGANCE of the.

Richter.

If the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between. them and that of the fool; there are infinite reveries and numberless extravagancies pass through both. Addison. FAILURE OF THE.

The failure of the mind in old age is often less the result of natural decay than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment brings indolence; indolence, decayed of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy.

Sir Benjamin Brodie. With curious art the brain, too finely wrought,

Preys on herself, and is destroy'd by
thought!

Constant attention wears the active mind.
Blots out her pow'rs, and leaves a blank
behind.
Churchill.
FITTED TO GOVERN.

As the mind must govern the hands, s in every society the man of intelligence La Rochefoucauld. must direct the man of labor. Johnson,

A GREAT.

The truly strong and sound mind, is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small. I would have a man great in great things. and elegant in little things.

Ibid. The little mind that loves itself will write and think with the vulgar, but the great mind will be bravely eccentric and scorn the beaten road.

GREATNESS OF.

Goldsmith.

JOY OF THE.

My mind to me a kingdom is;
Such perfect joy therein I find,
As far exceeds all earthly bliss
That God or nature has assign'd;
Though much I want that most would have,
Yet still my mind forbids to crave.
Sir Edmund Dier.

JUDGE OF MAN.

The mind is the proper judge of man. Seneca. A MIRROR.

Great minds erect their never-failing tro-Man's mind a mirror is of heavenly sights, phies A brief wherein all miracles summ'd lie, Of fairest forms, and sweetest shapes the store,

On the firm base of mercy. Shakespeare.
GROVELLING.

O souls, in whom no heavenly fire is found,
Fat minds, and ever grov'ling on the
ground!
Persius.

IMMORTALITY OF.

Thought
Alone, and its quick elements--will, passion,
Reason, imagination-cannot die.

What has thought
To do with time or place or circumstance?

The immortal mind superior to its fate,
Amid the outrage of eternal things,
Firm as the solid base of this great world,
Rests in its own foundation. Akenside.
IMPROVING THE.

Most graceful all, yet thought may grace
them more.
Southwell.
NARROWNESS OF.

A narrow mind begots obstinacy, and we do not easily believe what we cannot see. Dryden.

Short-sighted people,-I mean such who have but narrow conceptions, never extendShelley.ed beyond their own little sphere,-cannot comprehend that universality of talents which is sometimes observable in one person. They allow no solidity in whatever is agreeable; or when they see in any one the graces of the body, activity, suppleness and dexterity, they conclude he wants the endowments of the mind, judgment, prudence and perspicacity. Let history say what it will, they will not believe that Socrates ever danced. La Bruyere.

The great business of man is to improve his mind and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.

INDOLENCE of.

Pliny.

OF TWO PARTS.

The mind attaches itself by idleness and The mind of man hath two parts: the one habit to whatever is easy or pleasant. This always frequented by the entrance of manihabit always places bounds to our knowl-fold varieties; the other desolate and overedge, and no one has ever yet taken the pains to enlarge and expand his mind to the full extent of its capacities.

La Rochefoucauld.

INFLUENCE of.
"Tis the mind that makes the body rich.
Shakespeare.

It is the mind that maketh good or ill,
That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

grown with grass, by which enter our charitable thoughts and divided contemplations, Sir W. Raleigh.

PLEASURES of the.

Mental pleasures never clog; unlike those of the body, they are increased by repetition, approved of by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment. Colton. PLIABILITY OF.

The mind doth shape itself to its own wants,
And can bear all things. Joanna Baillie.
QUALITIES OF THE.

Mind, mind alone, (bear witness earth and
heaven!)

The living fountains in itself contains
Of beauteous and sublime: here, hand in
hand,

Sit paramount the graces; here enthron'd, | SWIFTNESS OF.

Celestial Venus, with divinest airs,
Invites the soul to never-fading joy.

"Tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank, and gross in nature, Ebenezer Elliott. Possess it merely. Shakespeare. A WEAK.

And al. that freedom's highest aims can A CONSISTENT. reach

Is but to lay proportion'd loads on each.