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for a bishop, and in no way interferes with sermon-making.--_Sydney Smith._ He that reads Plutarch shall find that angling was not contemptible in the days of Mark Antony and Cleopatra.--_Izaak Walton._ Idle time not idly spent.--_Sir Henry Wotton._ To see the fish cut with her golden oars the silver stream and greedily devour the treacherous bait.--_Shakespeare._ ~Anticipation.~--It has been well said that no man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when to-morrow's burden is added to the burden of to-day that the weight is more than a man can bear.--_George MacDonald._ The craving for a delicate fruit is pleasanter than the fruit itself.--_Herder._ The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with fruition. In the first instance, we cook the dish to our own appetite; in the latter, nature cooks it for us.--_Goldsmith._ We are apt to rely upon future prospects, and become really expensive while we are only rich in possibility. We live up to our expectations, not to our possessions, and make a figure proportionable to what we may be, not what we are. We outrun our present income, as not doubting to disburse ourselves out of the profits of some future place, project, or reversion that we have in view.--_Addison._ Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.--_George Eliot._ ~Antiquarian.~--A thorough-paced antiquarian not only remembers what all other people have thought proper to forget, but he also forgets what all other people think it proper to remember.--_Colton._ The earliest and the longest has still the mastery over us.--_George Eliot._ ~Antithesis.~--Young people are dazzled by the brilliancy of antithesis, and employ it.--_Bruyere._ Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk, and truth the root.--_Colton._ ~Apology.~--An apology in the original sense was a pleading off from some charge or imputation, by explaining or defending principles or conduct. It therefore amounted to a vindication.--_Crabbe._ Brother, brother, we are both in the wrong.--_Gay._ ~Apothegms.~--Nor do apothegms only serve for ornament and delight, but also for action and civil use, as being the edge tools of speech, which cut and penetrate the knots of business and affairs.--_Bacon._ Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms, and th
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