"The great felicity of life," says Seneca, "is to be without
perturbations."--BOVEE.
There is no mortal truly wise and restless at once; wisdom is the
repose of minds.--LAVATER.
REPROOF.--If you have a thrust to make at your friend's expense, do it
gracefully, it is all the more effective. Some one says the reproach
that is delivered with hat in hand is the most telling.--HALIBURTON.
The severest punishment suffered by a sensitive mind, for injury
inflicted upon another, is the consciousness of having done it.--HOSEA
BALLOU.
No reproach is like that we clothe in a smile, and present with a
bow.--LYTTON.
Reproof is a medicine like mercury or opium; if it be improperly
administered, it will do harm instead of good.--HORACE MANN.
He had such a gentle method of reproving their faults that they were
not so much afraid as ashamed to repeat them.--ATTERBURY.
Reprove thy friend privately; commend him publicly.--SOLON.
REPUTATION.--The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be
what you desire to appear.--SOCRATES.
How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might
have made!--HOLMES.
O, reputation! dearer far than life,
Thou precious balsam, lovely, sweet of smell,
Whose cordial drops once spilt by some rash hand,
Not all the owner's care, nor the repenting toil
Of the rude spiller, ever can collect
To its first purity and native sweetness.
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