Women know not the whole of their coquetry.
The greatest miracle of love is the cure of
coquetry.
Coquetry whets the appetite; flirtation depraves it. Coquetry is the thorn that guards
the rose—easily trimmed off when once plucked.
Flirtation is like the slime on water-plants, making them hard to handle, and when caught, only
to be cherished in slimy waters.
CORPORATIONS (See Business)
CORRUPTION
Spiritalis enim virtus sacramenti ita est ut lax:
etsi per immundos transeat, non inquinatur.
The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like
light: although it passes among the impure,
it is not polluted.
Corruption is a tree, whose" branches are
Of an immeasurable length: they spread
Ev'rywhere; and the dew that drops from thence
Hath infected some chairs and stools of authority.
* * * thieves at home must hang; but he that puts
Into his overgorged and bloated purse
The wealth of Indian provinces, escapes.
'Tis the most certain sign, the world's accurst
That the best things corrupted, are the worst;
'Twas the corrupted Light of knowledge, hurl'd
Sin, Death, and Ignorance o'er all the world;
That Sun like this (from which our sight we have;
Gaz'd on too long, resumes the light he gave.
Sir John Denham—Progress of Learning.
I know, when they prove bad, they are a sort
of the vilest creatures: yet still the same reason
gives it: for, Optima corrupta pessima: the best
things corrupted become the worst.
Feltham—Resolves. XXX. Of Woman. P.
. Pickering's Reprint of Fourth Ed. (1631)
(See also Purchas)
When rogues like these (a sparrow cries)
To honours and employments rise,
I court no favor, ask no place,
For such preferment is disgrace.
At length corruption, like a general flood
(So long by watchful ministers withstood),
Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on,
Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.
So true is that old saying, Corruptio optimi
pessima.
Purchas—Pilgrimage. To the Reader. Of religion. Saying may be traced to Thomas
Aquinas. Prim. Soc. Art. I. 5. Aristotle. Eth. Nic. VIII. 10. 12. Eusebius—Demon. Evang. I. IV. Ch. XII.
St. Gregory—Moralia on Job.
The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if
they know when to stop raking the muck.
COST (See Value, Worth)
COUNSEL (See Advice)
COUNTRIES
(See also England, France,
Germany, etc.); COUNTRY LIFE
The East bow'd low before the blast,
In patient, deep disdain.
She let the legions thunder past,
And plunged in thought again.
Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds
Exhilarate the spirit, and restore
The tone of languid Nature.
The town is man's world, but this (country
life) is of God.
There are Batavian graces in all he says.
Benj. Disraeli—Retort to Beresford Hope
(descended from an Amsterdam family),
who had referred to Disraeli as an "Asian
Mystery."
crassum ingenium. Suspicor fuisse Batavum.
Oh, dense intelligence. I suspect that it was
Batavian (i.e. from the Netherlands- Batavia.)
A land flowing with milk and honey.
hate the countrie's dirt and manners, yet
I love the silence; I embrace the wit;
A courtship, flowing here in full tide.
But loathe the expense, the vanity and pride.
No place each way is happy.
Far from the gay cities, and the ways of men.
