...of mirth. It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, Than for a man to hear the song of fools. For as the crackling of thorns* under a pot, So is the laughter of the fool : this also is vanity. — Eccles. vii. 2 — 6. * A great noise and blaze, but soon going out and...

...mirth. • It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, Than for a man to hear the song of fools ; f For as the crackling of thorns under a pot. So is the laughter of the fool : this also is vanity. Religion makes a visit to the house of mourning, which the unbeliever, or lover...

...are ye all."2 " Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful, and the end of that mirth is heaviness."3 " As the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool."4 It may burn and blaze, wide and high, but it is soon over, as brief as it is boisterous —...

...in this condition, " wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light 6." But " As the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of a fool 7." " The end of that mirth is heaviness 8." And thus the account of Nabal finishes : " It came...

...second " Canto," was heard, — 'twas all in prose, except one half the motto. It thus began : ttFor as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of a fool." " What sorry poems, what a wretched chime, Do such mere poltroons jingle into rhyme." It was...

...with them than this life, or their lifetime. Psalm xvii. 14. That scripture was not written in vain: "As the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of a fool: this also is vanity."Eccles. vii. 6. It is like the crackling of thorns under a pot—makes...

...after the ways of godliness is true wisdom. It is the observation of the wise king Solomon, that " as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool," (Eccles. vii. 6) a bright blaze for a moment, and then all is over. Such is the merriment of those,...

...prison than the occupant of the palace ! Mirth laughed in the one, silence reigned in the other; " For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful, and the end of that mirth is heaviness." Herod, as we have...

...what doeth it? The heart of fools is in the house of mirth. Sorrow is better than laughter. As *he crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool."— Ecdenattet. The house of laughter makes a house of wo. A man triumphant is a monstrous sight : A man...

...who thus venture to use it. They cannot be surprised if such conduct reminds others of the proverb, " as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool." Ridicule then is a difficulty, but it cannot prove more than a temporary one, and must at length recoil...