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All things that we ordained festival,
Turn from their office to black funeral:
Our instruments, to melancholy bells:
Our wedding cheer, to a sad burial feast;
Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change;
Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse,
And all things change them to the contrary.
h. Romeo and Juliet. Act IV. Sc. 5.

Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Tempest. Act I. Sc. 2.

i.

I am not so nice,
To change true rules for odd inventions.
J. Taming of the Shrew. Act III. Sc. 1.

Our revels now are ended: these our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits, and
Are melted into air, into thin air;
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous pal-

aces,

The solemn temples, the great globe its.lf,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve;
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind.

k. Tempest. Act IV. Sc. 1.

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Men must reap the things they sow,
Force from force must ever flow,
Or worse; but 'tis a bitter woe
That love or reason cannot change.
T. SHELLEY-Lines Written among the
Enganean Hills. Line 232.

The loppéd tree in time may grow again, Most naked plants renew both fruit and flower,

The sorriest wight may find release from pain,

The driest soil suck in some moistening shower;

Time goes by turns, and chances change by

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In a wicked man there is not wherewithal to make a good man.

0. DE LA BRUYERE Of Judgments and Opinions.

Incivility is not a Vice of the Soul, but the effect of several Vices; of Vanity, Ignorance of Duty, Laziness, Stupidity, Distraction, Contempt of others, and Jealousy.

p. DE LA BRUYERE--The Characters or Manners of the Present Age. Vol. II. Ch. XI.

All men that are ruined are ruined on the side of their natural propensities. BURKE - On a Regicide Peace.

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No circumstances can repair a defect of character.

g. EMERSON--Issay. On Character.

Belief and practice tend in the long run, and in some degree, to correspond; but in detail and in particular instances they may be wide asunder as the poles.

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FROUDE-- Short Studies on Great
Subjects. On Progress. Pt. II.

Every one of us, whatever our speculative opinions, knows better than he practices, and recognizes a better law than he obeys. FROUDE- Short Studies on Great Subjects. On Progress. Pt. II. Human improvement is from within outwards. J.

FROUDE-Short Studies on Great
Subjects. Dirus Cæsar.

Our thoughts and our conduct are our own. k. FROUDE--Short Studies on Great Subjects. Education.

In every deel of mischief, he had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute. 1.

GIBBON-Decline and Fall of the Roman
Empire. Ch. XLVIII.

Handsome is that handsome does. m. GOLDSMITH -- The Vicar of Wakefield.

Ch. I.

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Only a sweet and vertuous soul,
Like season'd timber, never gives;
But though the whole world turn to coal,
Then chiefly lives.

8.

HERBERT- The Church. Vertue.

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To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience provided he has a very large heart.

Thou hast the patience and the faith of

k.

Saints.

m.

BULWER-LYTTON- What Will He Do
With It. Bk. V. Ch. IV.

The hearts of men are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their elo. quence.

n.

MACAULAY-Essay. Conversation

Touching the Great Civil War.

Now will I show myself to have more of the serpent than the dove; that is, more knave than fool.

LONGFELLOW-Christus. Pt. III. John Endicott. Act III. Sc. 3. With finding in itself the types of all,-A nature wise With watching from the dim verge of the

time

What things to be are visible in the gleams Thrown forward on them from the luminous

past,

Wise with the history of its own frail heart, With reverence and sorrow, and with love, Broad as the world, for freedom and for men. LOWELL-Prometheus. Line 221.

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MARLOWE-The Jew of Malta. Act II.

Rather the ground that's deep enough for

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RICH. MONCKTON MILNES-The Men of Old. Her virtue, and the conscience of her worth, That would be wooed, and not unsought be t.

won.

MILTON--Paradise Lost. Bk. VIII.
Line 502.

He that has light within his own clear breast,
May sit i' th' centre, and enjoy bright day:
But he that hides a dark soul, and foul
thoughts,

Benighted walks under the mid-day sun;
Himself is his own dungeon.

u. MILTON-Comus. Line 381.
Where an equal poise of hope and fear
Does arbitrate the event, my nature is
That I incline to hope rather than fear,
And gladly banish squint suspicion.

υ. MILTON-Comus. Line 410.

To those who know thee not, no words can paint!

And those who know thee, know all words are faint!

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See the same man, in vigour, in the gout;
Alone, in company; in place or out:
Early at Bus'ness and at Hazard late;
Mad at a Fox-chase, wise at a debate;
Drunk at a borough, civil at a Ball;
Friendly at Hackney, faithless at Whitehall.
h. POPE-Moral Essays. Ep. I. Line 71.

'Tis from high Life high Characters are drawn;

A Saint in Crape is twice a Saint in Lawn;
A Judge is just, a Chanc'llor juster still;
A Gown-man, learn'd; a Bishop, what you
will;

Wise, if a minister; but, if a King,
More wise, more learn'd, more just, more
ev'ry thing.

i. POPE Moral Essays. Ep. I.

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