A brave man is clear in his discourse, and | And there's one rare strange virtue in their keeps close to truth. Aristotle. speeches, A brave man may yield to a braver man. The secret of their mastery-they are short. OF A VILLAIN. NECESSITY FOR. Halleck. Stop not unthinking, every friend you meet, The fiend Lumbago jumps upon his back. NO HONOR IN. BRIBERY. Holmes. Who thinketh to buy villainy with gold, REFUSAL OF. Silver, though white, There to mark forth its base corruption. None but the brave deserve the fair. Dryden. STRENGTH of Soul. Intrepidity is an extraordinary strength of soul, which raises it above the troubles, disorders, and emotions which the sight of great perils can arouse in it; by this strength heroes maintain a calm aspect and preserve their reason and liberty in the most surpris- The heart will break, yet brokenly live on. ing and terrible accidents. TRUE. La Rochefoucauld. THE. Byron. BROOK. THE. fore, That smoothes and wounds, that strikes and LIKE THE SEASONS. I do not like "but yet;" it does allay Thus sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud; And, after summer, ever more succeeds cold, So cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet. The good precedence; fie upon "but yet;" NOT TO BE INSULTED. "But yet" is as a jailer to bring forth Some monstrous malefactor. WIFE OF. CÆSAR. Shakespeare. Caesar was asked why he had divorced his "Because," said he, "I would have Shakespeare. Do not insult calamity: THE LOT OF MANKIND. When men once reach their autumn, sickly Fall off apace, as yellow leaves from trees, joys At every little breath misfortune blows; the chastity of my wife clear even of sus-Till left quite naked of their happiness, picion." wife. My cake is dough. A MIRROR. CAKE. CALAMITY. Plutarch. Shakespeare. In the chill blasts of winter they expire, AFTER A STORM. A PERFECT. Gradual sinks the breeze, Into a perfect calm; that not a breath I heard to quiver thro' the closing woods, Or rustling turn the many twinkling leaves, Of aspen tall. The uncurling floods diffus'd In glassy breadth, seem through delusive lapse HONESTY OF. You talk to me in parables You may have known that I'm no wordy man, Fine speeches are the instruments of knaves Forgetful of their course. 'Tis silence all, Needs no disguise nor ornament: be plain. And pleasing expectation. OF THE AIR. Thomson. MANLINESS OF. Otway. 'Tis great-'tis manly to disdain disguise, It shows our spirit, or it proves our strength. Young. OF THE BRAVE. The brave do never saun the light; Just are their thoughts, and open are their tempers Truly without disguise they love and hate; Still are they found in the fair face of day And heav'n and men are judges of their actions. Rowe. SIMPLICITY OF. In simple and pure soul I come to you. Shakespeare. TRANSPARENCY OF. Make my breast Transparent as pure crystal, that the world, Jealous of me, may see the foulest thought My heart does hold. Buckingham. CANT. "Tis too much prov'd-that, with devotion's visage And pious action, we do sugar o'er Horace. INDICATION OF. Back-wounding calumny The whitest virtue strikes. Shakespeare. Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou Shalt not escape calumny. ROGUES. CAMP FOLLOWERS. Ibid. Shakespeare. ATTENDS BLESSINGS. And he who meditates on others' woe, What bliss, what wealth, did e'er the world Shall in that meditation lose his own. bestow Rude was his garment, and to rags all rent, With fingers filthy, with long nayles un- Right fit to rend the food on which he fared; His name was Care; a blacksmith by his trade Cumberland. I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread. Ps. xxxvii 25. God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb. Sterne. TENACITY OF. Care that is once enter'd into the breast APPEARANCE of. CARES. All cares appear as large again as they are, owing to their emptiness and darkness; it is so with the grave. Richter. That neither day nor night from working COMPENSATIONS FOR. spared, But to small purpose yron wedges made; Those be unquiet thoughts that careful minds invade. EFFECTS OF. Providence has given us hope and sleep, as a compensation for the many cares of life. Voltaire. Spenser. CREATED. But human bodies are sic fools, Care seeks out wrinkled brows and hollow For a' their colleges and schools, And builds uimself caves to abide in them. ENEMY TO LIFE. Still though the headlong cavalier, Care keeps her seat behind. Horace. PALLIATIVES FOR. A good cause makes a strong arm. Circumstances must make it probable Th' attendance of success: For an attempt But it hath means withal to soothe these God befriend us, as our cause is just. cares Shakespeare, But now so wise and wary was the knight Grows, lives and dies in single blessedness. Ibid. Horace appears in good humor while he censures, and therefore his censure has the more weight as supposed to proceed from judgment, not from passion. Young. OF THE WORLD. O that the too censorious world would learn This wholesome rule, and with each other bear; But man as if a foe to his own species Takes pleasure to report his neighbours' faults. Judging with rigour every small offence, And prides himself in scandal. Few there are Who injured take the part of the transgres sor And plead his pardon ere he deigns to ask it. Haywood. SOMETIMES A COMMENDATION. The censure of those that are opposed to us, is the nicest commendation that can be given us. St. Evremond. WISDOM IN RECEIVING. Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure which is useful to them, to praise which deceives them. La Rochefoucauld, |