GENIUS.

life, a bold and impatient man the easy; for one cannot brook war, nor the other peace. Epicurus.

GENIUS-Rarity of.

The proportion of genius to the vulgar, is like one to a million; but genius without tyranny, without pretensiou, that judges the weak with equity, the superior with humanity, and equals with justice, is like one to ten millions. Lavater.

GENIUS-without Religion.

Genius, without religion, is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace. It may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without,

while the inhabitant sits in darkness.

GENIUS-True.

Hannah More.

So strong a wit did Nature to him frame,
As all things but his judgment overcame;
His judgment like the heavenly moon did show,
Tempering that mighty sea below. Cowley.
GENIUS-Wives of Men of.

GENIUS

tically, there was a little toiling steam tug, with heart of fire and arms of iron, that was hugging it close, and dragging it bravely on; and I knew that if the little steam tug untwined her arms and left the tall ship it would wallow and roll about and drift hither and thither, and go off with the refluent tide, no man knows whither. And so I have known more than one genius, high decked, full freighted, wide sailed, gay pennoned, that, but for the bare toiling arms, and brave, warm, beating heart of the faithful little wife, that nestled close in his shadow, and clung to him, so that no wind nor wave could part them, and dragged him on against all the tide of circumstance, would soon have gone down the stream and been heard of no more. No, I am too much a lover of genius, I sometimes think, and too often get impatient with dull people, so that, in their weak talk, where nothing is future possible state of development, when a taken for granted, I look forward to some gesture passing between a beautiful human soul and an archangel shall signify as much as the complete history of a planet, from the time when it curdled to the time when its sun was burned out. And yet, when a strong brain is weighed with a true heart, seems to me like balancing a bubble against a wedge of gold. It takes a very true man to be a fitting companion for a woman of genius, but not a very great one. I am not sure she will not embroider her ideal better on a plain ground than on one with a brilliant pattern already worked in its texture. But as the very essence of genius is truthfulness, contact with realities (which are always ideas behind shows of form or language), nothing is so contemptible as falsehood and pretence in its eyes. Now it is not easy to find a perfectly true woman, and it is very hard to find a perfectly true man. And a woman of genius, who has the sagacity to choose such an one for her companion, shows more of the divine gift in so doing than in her Send violets up and paint them blue. Lowell. finest talk or her most brilllant work of letters or of art.

There is an ordinance of nature at which men of genius are perpetually fretting, but which does more good than many laws of the universe which they praise; it is, that ordinary women ordinarily prefer ordinary men. "Genius," as Hazlitt would have said, "puts them out.' It is so strange; it does not come into the room as usual. It says "such things." Once it forgot to brush its hair. The common female mind prefers usual tastes, settled manners, customary conversation, defined and practical pursuits. And it is a great good that it should

be so.

The

Nature has no wiser instinct. average woman can make happy the average man; good health, easy cheerfulness, common charms, suffice. Harris.

GENIUS-Unconsciousness of

As effortless as woodland nooks

GENIUS and CHARACTER.

Oftentimes as I have lain swinging on the water, in the swell of the Chelsea ferryboats, in that long, sharp-pointed black cradle in which I love to let the great mother rock me, I have seen a tall ship glide by against the tide, as if drawn by some invisible tow-line, with a hundred strong arms pulling it. Her sails hung unfilled, her streamers were drooping, she had neither side-wheel nor sternwheel; still she moved on, stately, in serene triumph, as if with her own life. But I knew that on the other side of the ship, hidden beneath the great bulk that swam so majes

GENIUS and HOME.

Holmes.

because they have genius, but because they have not enough genius; a mind and sentiments of a higher order would render them capable of seeing and feeling all the beauty of Wordsworth. domestic ties.

Men do not make their homes unhappy

GENIUSES-Idolizing.

Mankind, from the earliest ages, have been prone almost to idolize those to whom they were indebted for any weighty benefits, or to whom they looked up as inventors of useful

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arts, or masters of hitherto occult sciences. scended. Thus his blood must needs be well Gratitude indeed demands that great and ori- | purified who is gentilely born on both sides. ginal geniuses, whom God has enriched with extraordinary talents, by the due exercise of which they have become benefactors of the human race, should be loved and valued highly for their services; but when we look only at the instrument, and see not the hand of Supreme Benevolence that employs it for our benefit, we then overvalue man, and undervalue God; putting the former into the place of the latter, and making an idol of him; and if any will not worship this idol, a clamour is raised against them, and they are almost persecuted. Kirby. GENTILITY-Assumption of.

Negligent; not clogg'd with ceremony
For your behaviour, let it be free and
Or observance; give no man honour, but
Upon equal terms; for look how much thou
Giv'st any man above that, so much thou
Tak'st from thyself: he that will once give the
Wall, shall be quickly thrust into the kennel.
Measure not thy carriage by any man's eye;
Thy speech by no man's ear; but be resolute
And confident in doing and saying;
And this is the grace of a right gentleman.
Chapman.

He is a noble gentleman: withal
Happy in's endeavours: the general voice
Sounds him for courtesy, behaviour, language,
And every fair demeanour an example:
Titles of honour add not to his worth,
Who is himself an honour to his title.

GENTLEMAN-A Country.

John Ford.

There is no character more deservedly esteemed than that of a country gentleman who understands the station in which Heaven and Nature have placed him. He is a father to his tenants, a patron to his neighbours, and is superior to those of lower fortune more by his benevolence than his possessions. He justly divides his time between solitude and company, so as to use the one for the other. His life is employed in the good offices of an advocate, a referee, a companion, a mediator, and a friend. Addison. GENTLEMAN-An English.

I do not know a finer race of men than the English gentlemen. Instead of the softness and effeminacy which characterize the man of rank in most countries, they exhibit a union of elegance and strength, a robustness of frame and freshness of complexion, which I attribute to their living so much in the open air, and pursuing so eagerly the invigorating recreation of the country. Washington Irving.

The man within whose reach Heaven has placed the greatest materials for making life happy, is an English country gentleman. Emperor Alexander. GENTLEMAN- -a rare Person.

Perhaps a gentleman is a rarer man than some of us think for. Which of us can point out many such in his circle, men whose aims are generous, whose truth is constant, and not only constant in its kind, but elevated in its

GENTLEMAN.

degree; whose want of meanness makes them simple, who can look the world honestly in the face with an equal manly sympathy for the great and the small? We all know a hundred whose coats are very well made, and a score who have excellent manners, and one or two happy beings who are what they call in the inner circles, and have shot into the very centre and bull's-eye of fashion; but of gentlemen, how many? Let us take a little scrap of paper, and each make out his list. Thackeray. GENTLEMAN-Qualifications of the. The taste of beauty, and the relish of what is decent, just, and amiable, perfects the character of the gentleman. Shaftesbury.

GENTLEWOMAN.

A wrong done to thee think a cat's-eye spark Thou wouldest not see, were not thine own heart dark.

Thine own keen sense of wrong that thirsts
for sin,

Fear that the spark self-kindled from within,
Which blown upon will blind thee with its glare,
Or smother'd stifle thee with noisome air.
Clap on the extinguisher, pull up the blinds,
And soon the ventilated spirit finds
Its natural daylight. If a foe have kenn'd,—
Or worse than foe, an alienated friend,-
A rib of dry rot in thy ship's stout side,
Think it God's message, and in humble pride
With heart of oak replace it; thine the gains-
Give him the rotten timber for his pains!

Coleridge.

What is it to be a gentleman? It is to be GENTLENESS-Definition of. honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise, and, possessing all these qualities, to exercise them in the most graceful outward manner. Ought a gentleman to be a loyal son, a true husband, an honest father? Ought his life to be decent, his bills to be paid, his tastes to be high and elegant, his aims in life lofty and noble? Thackeray. GENTLEMAN-Requisites of the. Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection, must finish him.

Gentleness, which belongs to virtue, is to be carefully distinguished from the mean spirit of cowards, and the fawning assent of sycophants. It removes no just right from fear; it gives up no important truth from flattery; it is, indeed, not only consistent with a firm mind, but it necessarily requires a manly spirit and a fixed principle, in order to give it any real value. Blair.

GENTLEMAN-The True.

Tis not the gently graceful gait,
Well made clothes, well put on,
The softly-measured tone,
Still talking of the rich and great,

Locke.

That makes the gentleman.

But 'tis the heart in danger true,
The honour free from stain,
The soul which scorns the vain,
Holding the world but at its due,

That makes the gentleman.

GENTLENESS-in Greatness.

A crystal river,
Diaphanous because it travels slowly:

Soft is the music that would charm for ever;
The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly.
Wordsworth.

GENTLENESS-the Divine Source of

Greatness.

Thou hast also given me the shield of Thy salvation; and Thy gentleness hath made me great. Samuel.

GENTLENESS-Power of.

An accent very low

In blandishment, but a most silver flow

Of subtle paced counsel in distress,
Right to the heart and brain, though un-
descried,

Winning its way with extreme gentleness
Through all the outworks of suspicious pride.
Tennyson.
GENTLEWOMAN-Description of the.
Noble she is by birth, made good by virtue,
Exceeding fair, and her behaviour to it
Is like a singular musician

To a sweet instrument, or else as doctrine
Is to the soul, that puts it into act,
And prints it full of admirable forms,
Without which 'twere an empty, idle flame.
Her eminent judgment to dispose those parts
Sits on her brow, and holds a silver sceptre,

is objectless upon earth; that it predominates GIFTS-Useless. in the period of sinless infancy, are difficulties the solution of which might afford some probable insight into our ante-mundane condition, and a peep at least into the shadow-land of pre-existence. Lamb.