--BACON.
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge; and its nature is
sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.--CHANNING.
To be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is
false is false,--this is the mark and character of intelligence.
--EMERSON.
INTEMPERANCE.--A man may choose whether he will have abstemiousness
and knowledge, or claret and ignorance.--DR. JOHNSON.
Intemperance weaves the winding-sheet of souls.--JOHN B. GOUGH.
Drunkenness calls off the watchman from the towers; and then all the
evils that proceed from a loose heart, an untied tongue, and a
dissolute spirit, we put upon its account.--JEREMY TAYLOR.
It is little the sign of a wise or good man, to suffer temperance to
be transgressed in order to purchase the repute of a generous
entertainer.--ATTERBURY.
Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath
babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.
Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth its color
in the cup, when it moveth itself aright: at the last it biteth like a
serpent, and stingeth like an adder.--PROVERBS 23:29-32.
O, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their
brains!--SHAKESPEARE.
I never drink. I cannot do it, on equal terms with others. It costs
them only one day; but me three,--the first in sinning, the second in
suffering, and the third in repenting.
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