odest men are dumb.

--_Geo. Colman._

1730

It is more easy to be wise for others, than for ourselves.

--_La Rochefoucauld._

1731

No man fights a harder battle than the man who overcomes himself.

1732

To me, there is none like you but yourself.

--_From the address of a grateful Hindoo
to Sir Wm. Jones._

1733

One always knocks one's self on the sore place.

--_From the French._

1734

You say, not always wisely, Know thyself!
Know others, ofttimes is the better maxim.

--_Menander, Born 342 B. C._

1735

No object is more pleasing to the eye than the sight of a man whom you
have obliged; nor any music so agreeable to the ear, as the voice of one
that owns you for his benefactor.

1736

Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man
more sharply as ill-bred.

1737

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

1738

Some persons have a prudent consideration for Number--one.

1739

Some persons can neither stir hand nor foot without making it clear they
are thinking of themselves, and laying little traps for approbation.

--_S. Smith._

1740

We hardly find any persons of good sense, save those who agree with us!

1741

We find few sensible people, except those who are of our way of
thinking.

1742

Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.

1743

The question was asked, "Why can we see other people's failings sooner
than our own? and why can we give advice to others easier than follow it
ourselves?" A sensible man asked in reply, "Why can our eyes see
everything else but themselves?"

1744

What others say of me, matters little.
What I myself say and do,
Matters much.

1745

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only
begins for man with self-surrender.

--_Amiel._

1746

Did it ever strike you that continual mourning was multiplied
selfishness?

--_Ursula._

1747

Take the selfishness out of the world and there would be more happiness
than we shou