our words of slander. They
have been carried about in every direction. You cannot recall them. Go
and slander no more." It was a striking way of teaching a very important
lesson.

1778

He who slanders his neighbors makes a rod for himself.

--_Dutch._

1779

He will always be a slave, who does not know how to live upon a little.

--_Horace._

1780

Slaves cannot breathe in Britain; if their lungs
Receive our air, that moment they are free;
They touch our country, and their shackles fall.

--_Cowper._

1781

SLAVERY.

O execrable son! so to aspire
Above his brethren, to himself assuming
Authority usurp'd, from God not given.
He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl,
Dominion absolute; that right we hold
By His donation; but man over men
He made not lord; such title to Himself
Reserving, human left from human--free.

--_Milton._

1782

_Sleep._--I never take a nap after dinner, but when I have had a bad
night, and then the nap takes me.

--_Sam'l Johnson._

1783

We are all equals when we are asleep.

--_Spanish._

1784

If you want the night to seem a moment to you, sleep all night.

1785

O sleep! it is a gentle thing,
Beloved from pole to pole.

--_Coleridge._

1786

_Sleep._--Even sleep is characteristic. How charming are children in
their lovely innocence! How angel-like their blooming hue! How painful
and anxious is the sleep and expression in the countenance of the
guilty.

--_W. Von Humboldt._

1787

When I go to sleep, I let fall the windows of mine eyes.

--_Shakespeare._

1788

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but
the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

--_Eccles. v, 12v._

1789

Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.

--_Alcott._

1790

Sleep! to the homeless, thou art home,
The friendless find in thee a