Excess generally causes reaction and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in government.-Plato.

EXCITEMENT. - Excitement is so engraven on our nature that it may be regarded as an appetite; and like all other appetites it is not sinful unless indulged unlawfully, or to excess.Guthrie.

It is the passions that wear-the appetites that grind out the force of life. -Excitement in the higher realm of thought and feeling does not wear out or waste men. - The moral sentiments nourish and feed us.-H. W. Beecher.

Violent excitement exhausts the mind, and leaves it withered and sterile.Fenelon.

The language of excitement is at best but picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.Thoreau.

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Never be afraid because the munity teems with excitement. Silence and death are dreadful. The rush of life, the vigor of earnest men, and the conflict of realities, invigorate, cleanse, and establish the truth.-H. W. Beecher.

Religious excitement is to the steady influence of Christian principle as is the flush of fever to the uniform glow of health. N. Murray.

Excitement is of impulse, while earnestness is of principle; the one a glow, the other a fire; the one common, the other rare; the one theorizes, the other acts; the one needs company, the other can live alone. The two are oftener found in separation than in union, though neither is incompatible with the other.-Merry.

EXCUSES. - Of all vain things excuses are the vainest. -Buxton.

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he was poor; which are esteemed the worst parts of poverty.Sir W. Temple.

The wise, for cure, on exercise depend. -Better to hunt in fields for health unbought than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught.-Dryden.

Such is the constitution of man, that labor may be styled its own reward.Nor will any external incitements be requisite if it be considered how much happiness ess is gained, and how much misery escaped,b y frequent and violent agitation of the body. -Johnson.

EXERTION.- Every man's task is his life-preserver.-Emerson.

Never live in hope or expectation, while your arms are folded. God helps those that help themselves. Providence smiles on those who put their shoulders to the wheel that propels to wealth and happiness.

It is only the constant exertion and working of our sensitive, intellectual, moral, and physical machinery that keeps us from rusting, and so becoming useless. C. Simmons.form, our judgment as to the future amounts to moral certainty.-Beattie.

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul. Charles Buxton.

EXPECTATION. In our pursuit of the things of this world, we usually prevent enjoyment by expectation; we anticipate our happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures by delightful forethoughts of them; so that when we come to possess them, they do not answer the expectation, nor satisfy the desires which were raised about them, and they vanish into nothing.-Tillotson.

By expectation every day beguiled; dupe of to-morrow even from a child.Goldsmith.

We part more easily with what we possess, than with the expectation of what we wish for: and the reason of it is, that what we expect is always greater than what we enjoy.

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises. --Shakespeare.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. George Eliot.

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'Tis expectation makes blessing dear; heaven were not heaven if we knew what it were. Suckling.

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, though the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase. Congreve.

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When private virtue is hazarded on the perilous cast of expediency, the pillars of the republic, however apparent their stability, are infected with decay at the very centre.-E. H. Chapin.

EXPENSE. - (See "EXTRAVAGANCE.")

What maintains one vice would bring up two children. You may think, perhaps, that a little tea, or a little punch now and then, diet a little more costly, clothes a little finer, and a little entertainment now and then, can be no great matter; but remember, "Many a little makes a mickle." Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship. - Franklin.

Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions; therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion.Bacon.

Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessaries. -Franklin.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction. A man is pleased that his wife is dressed as well as other people, and the wife is pleased that she is so dressed.-John

son.

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel. Franklin.

The vices, and follies, and sins of men, cost more than everything else; and the useless and abominable expenditures of nations are a weight on their

we want to be again expecting.-John

son.

Our ancestors have travelled the iron age; the golden is before us. St. Pierre.

With what a heavy and retarding weight does expectation load the wing of time.-W. Mason.

EXPEDIENCY.-Many things lawful are not expedient, but nothing can be truly expedient which is unlawful or sinful.-C. Simmons.

Expedients are for an hour, but principles are for the ages. Just because the rains descend, and the winds b'ow, we cannot afford to build on the shifting sands.-H. W. Beecher.

night the minds, and well-nigh enslave the bodies of their people.-C. Simmons. He that buys what he does not want, will soon want what he cannot buy. EXPERIENCE. - Experience is the extract of suffering. -A. Helps. Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows. -Musset.

All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience. Sir P. Sidney.

Experience is the successive disenchantment of the things of life. It is reason enriched by the spoils of the heart.-J. P. Senn.

Experience is the shroud of illusions.. -Finod.

This is one of the sad conditions of life, that experience is not transmissible. No man will learn from the suffering of another; he must suffer himself.

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed. Coleridge.

However learned or eloquent, man knows nothing truly that he has not learned from experience. Wieland.

Experience is the Lord's school, and they who are taught by Him usually learn by the mistakes they make that in themselves they have no wisdom; and by their slips and falls, that they have no strength. John Newton.

Experience keeps a dear school; but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true, we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.Franklin.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience. Terence.

The rules which experience suggests are better than those which theorists elaborate in their libraries. - R. S. Storrs. Experience joined with common sense, to mortals is a providence. Green.

He cannot be a perfect man, not being tried and tutored in the world.-Experience is by industry achieved, and perfected by the swift course of time.l Shakespeare.

No man was ever endowed with a judgment so correct and judicious, but that circumstances, time, and experience, would teach him something new, and apprise him that of those things with which he thought himself the best acquainted, he knew nothing; and that those ideas which in theory appeared the most advantageous were found, when brought into practice, to be altogether impracticable. Terence.

When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed to me.John Wesley.

To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters. Shakespeare.

Adversity is the first path to truth. He who hath proved war, storm, or woman's rage, whether his winters be eighteen or eighty, hath won the experience which is deemed so weighty.Byron.

It is foolish to try to live on past experience. It is a very dangerous, if not a fatal habit to judge ourselves to be safe because of something that we felt or did twenty years ago. Spurgeon.

It may serve as a comfort to us in all our calamities and afflictions, that he who loses anything and gets wisdom by it, is a gainer by the loss. L'Estrange.

Nobody will use other people's experience, nor has any of his own till it is too late to use it. - Hawthorne.

That man is wise to some purpose who gains his wisdom at the expense and from the experience of another. Plau

tus.

Experience is a jewel, and it had need be so, for it is often purchased at an infinite rate. Shakespeare.

Each succeeding day is the scholar of that which went before it. -Publius Syrus.

Experience, if wisdom's friend, her best; if not, her foe.-Young.

Every man's experience of to-day, is that he was a fool yesterday and the day before yesterday. -To-morrow he will most likely be of exactly the same opinion-Mackay.

Experience takes dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches like no other. Carlyle.

He hazardeth much who depends for his learning on experience. An unhappy master is he who is made wise only by many shipwrecks; a miserable merchant, who is neither rich nor wise till he has been bankrupt. By experience we find out a short way by long wandering.-Roger Ascham.

Experience, that chill touchstone whose sad proof reduces all things from their false hue. Byron.

Life consists in the alternate process of learning and unlearning, but it is often wiser to unlearn than to learn.Bulwer.

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes. - Froude.

I know the past, and thence will assay to glean a warning for the future, so that man may profit by his errors, and derive experience from his folly-Shelley.

Experience is a safe light to walk by, and he is not a rash man who expects success in the future by the same means which secured it in the past. Wendell Phillips.

Experience-making all futures, fruits of all the pasts. Arnold. EXTRAVAGANCE. PENSE," and "ECONOMY.")

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Prodigality is the vice of a weak nature, as avarice is of a strong one. It comes of a weak craving for those blandishments of the world which are easily had for money.-H. Taylor.

That is suitable to a man, in point of ornamental expense, not which he can afford to have, but which he can afford to lose. Whately.

The man who builds, and lacks wherewith to pay, provides a home from which to run away. Young.

The covetous man never has money; the prodigal will have none shortly.Ben Jonson.

Laws cannot prevent extravagance; and this perhaps is not always an evil to the public. A shilling spent idly by a fool may be picked up by a wiser person, who knows better what to do with it; it is, therefore, not lost. Franklin.

All extremes are error. - The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between these extremes. Cecil.

The man who can be nothing but serious, or nothing but merry, is but half a man. Leigh Hunt.

There is a mean in everything. Even virtue itself hath its stated limits, which, not being strictly observed, it ceases to be virtue.-Horace.

Extremes meet in almost everything: it is hard to tell whether the statesman at the top of the world, or the ploughman at the bottom, labors hardest.

Extreme views are never just; something always turns up which disturbs the calculations founded on their data.Tancred.

That extremes beget extremes, is an apothegm built on the most profound observation of the human mind.Colton.

The blast that blows loudest is soonest overblown. - Smollett.

Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects.- Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold; extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license. Chapman.

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Mistrust the man who finds everything good; the man who finds everything evil; and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.-Lavater.

We must remember how apt man is to extremes-rushing from credulity and weakness, to suspicion and distrust.Bulwer.

The greatest flood has soonest ebb; the sorest tempest, the most sudden calm; the hottest love, the coldest end; and from the deepest desire often ensues the deadliest hate. - Socrates.

It is a hard but good law of fate, that as every evil, so every excessive power wears itself out. - Herder.

Neither great poverty, nor great riches will hear reason.-Fielding.

Both in individuals, and in masses, violent excitement is always followed

No violent extremes endure; a sober moderation stands secure. Aleyn.

Extremes are vicious and proceed from men; compensation is just, and proceeds from God.-Bruyère.

EYE. That fine part of our constitution, the eye, seems as much the receptacle and seat of our passions, appetites, and inclinations, as the mind itself; at least it is the outward portal to introduce them to the house within, or rather the common thoroughfare to let our affections pass in and out. Love, anger, pride, and avarice, all visibly move in those little orbs. -Addison.

One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity. Emerson.

It is the eyes of other people that ruin us. If all but myself were blind I should neither want a fine house nor fine furniture. - Franklin.

The balls of sight are so formed, that one man's eyes are spectacles to another, to read his heart with. Johnson.

The curious questioning eye, that plucks the heart of every mystery.Mellen.

Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say. - Colton.

The eyes are the pioneers that first announce the soft tale of love. Propertius.

The eye speaks with an eloquence and truthfulness surpassing speech. It is the window out of which the winged thoughts often fly unwittingly. It is the tiny magic mirror on whose crystal surface the moods of feeling fitfully play, like the sunlight and shadow on a quiet stream. Tuckerman.

The eye is the pulse of the soul; as physicians judge the heart by the pulse, so we by the eye.-T. Adams.

Who has a daring eye, tells downright truths and downright lies.-Lavater.

Where is any author in the world teaches such beauty as a woman's eye? -Shakespeare.

The eye is the window of the soul; the intellect and will are seen in it.The animals look for man's intentions right into his eyes. Even a rat, when you hunt and bring him to bay, looks you in the eye. Hiram Powers.

A beautiful eye makes silence eloquent; a kind eye makes contradiction an assent; an enraged eye makes beauty deformed. This little member gives life to every other part about us.Addison.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands. - Franklin.

Lovers are angry, reconciled, entreat, thank, appoint, and finally speak all things by their eyes. Montaigne.

The dearest things in the world are our neighbor's eyes; they cost everybody more than anything else in housekeeping. Smith.

Our eyes, when gazing on sinful objects, are out of their calling, and out of God's keeping. Fuller.

A wanton eye is the messenger of an unchaste heart. Augustine.

The eye observes only what the mind, the heart, the imagination are gifted to see; and sight must be reinforced by insight before souls can be discerned as well as manners; ideas as well as objects; realities and relations as well as appearances and accidental connections. -E. P. Whipple.

Eyes are bold as lions, roving, running, leaping, here and there, far and near. They speak all languages; wait for no introduction; ask no leave of age or rank; respect neither poverty nor riches, neither learning nor power, nor virtue, nor sex, but intrude, and come again, and go through and through you in a moment of time. - What inundation of life and thought is discharged from one soul into another through them!Emerson.

Men of cold passions have quick eyes. -Hawthorne.

'Twas but for a moment and yet in that time she crowded the impressions of many an hour; her eye had a glow,