C. J. Smith
Cited as C. J. Smith. — 22 quotations
Action
To poke the fire is an act, to reconcile friends who have quarreled is a praiseworthy action.
Alliance
The alliance of the principles of the world with those of the gospel.
Avenge
I avenge myself upon another, or I avenge another, or I avenge a wrong. I revenge only myself, and that upon another.
Awe
The solitude of the desert, or the loftiness of the mountain, may fill the mind with awe -- the sense of our own littleness in some greater presence or power.
Awkward
An awkward affair is one that has gone wrong, and is difficult to adjust.
Captious
Caviling is the carping of argument, carping the caviling of ill temper.
Curious
Abstruse investigations in recondite branches of learning or sciense often bring to light curious results.
Despot
Irresponsible power in human hands so naturally leads to it, that cruelty has become associated with despot and tyrant.
Discipline
Discipline aims at the removal of bad habits and the substitution of good ones, especially those of order, regularity, and obedience.
Discover
The youth discovered a taste for sculpture.
Dissemble
He [an enemy] dissembles when he assumes an air of friendship.
Divert
We are amused by a tale, diverted by a comedy.
Docile
The elephant is at once docible and docile.
Duty
Duty is a graver term than obligation. A duty hardly exists to do trivial things; but there may be an obligation to do them.
Dwell
The poor man dwells in a humble cottage near the hall where the lord of the domain resides.
Empire
Empire carries with it the idea of a vast and complicated government.
Encompass
A question may be encompassed with difficulty.
Epoch
The capture of Constantinople is an epoch in the history of Mahometanism; but the flight of Mahomet is its era.
Imagination
The same power, which we should call fancy if employed on a production of a light nature, would be dignified with the title of imagination if shown on a grander scale.
Impediment
The eloquence of Demosthenes was to Philip of Macedon, a difficulty to be met with his best resources, an obstacle to his own ambition, and an impediment in his political career.
Incongruous
Incongruous denotes that kind of absence of harmony or suitableness of which the taste and experience of men takes cognizance.
Scorn
We scorn what is in itself contemptible or disgraceful.