Familiar Quotations - Part 13

Prelude to Part First._ And what is so rare as a day in June? _The Vision of Sir Launfal. Prelude to Part First._ We are happy now because God wills it. _The Vision of Sir Launfal. Prelude to Part First._ Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how. _The Vision of Sir Launfal. Prelude to Part First._ Who gives himself with his alms feeds three,-- Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me. _The Vision of Sir Launfal. _The Biglow Papers. _The Biglow Papers. i._ This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur.[659-1] _The Biglow Papers. is a dreffle smart man; _The Biglow Papers. _The Biglow Papers. _The Biglow Papers. _The Biglow Papers. _The Biglow Papers. _The Biglow Papers. _The Biglow Papers. Second Series. _The Biglow Papers. Second Series. _The Biglow Papers. Second Series. _The Biglow Papers. Second Series. _The Biglow Papers. Second Series. _The Biglow Papers. Second Series. _The Biglow Papers. Second Series. _The Biglow Papers. Second Series. _The Biglow Papers. Second Series. _The Biglow Papers. Second Series. _The Biglow Papers. Second Series. Moral._ Though old the thought and oft exprest, 'T is his at last who says it best.[660-1] _For an Autograph._ Nature, they say, doth dote, Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote. _The Cathedral._ The one thing finished in this hasty world. _The Cathedral._ These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred, The diver Omar plucked them from their bed, Fitzgerald strung them on an English thread. _To George William Curtis._ But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet Coming with welcome at our journey's end. _To George William Curtis._ Thy measure takes, or when she 'll say to thee, "I find thee worthy; _Epigram._ In vain we call old notions fudge, The Ten Commandments will not budge, And stealing will continue stealing. New England Two Centuries ago._ Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy. New England Two Centuries ago._ It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled. New England Two Centuries ago._ power a man is. Second Series. Second Series. Abraham Lincoln, 1864._ metal of a man is tested. _Coleridge._ If I were asked what book is better than a cheap book, I should answer that there is one book better than a cheap book,--and that is a book honestly come by. Senate Committee on Patents, Jan. 29, 1886._ [659-1] See Moore, page 519. [660-1] See Emerson, page 604. _The Sands of Dee._ Men must work, and women must weep. _The Three Fishers._ Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long: And so make life, death, and that vast forever One grand sweet song. Heinrich Heine._ words of Bishop Wilson, "To make reason and the will of God prevail." He serves his party best who serves the country best.[665-1] _Inaugural Address, March 5, 1877._ [665-1] See Pope, page 339. No sound can awake him to glory again![666-1] _The Grave of Bonaparte._ Yet spirit immortal, the tomb cannot bind thee, A name which before thee no mortal hath won. _The Grave of Bonaparte._ [666-1] This song was composed and set to music, about 1842, by Leonard Heath, of Nashua, who died a few years ago.--BELA CHAPIN: _The Poets of New Hampshire, 1883, p. _The Song of the Camp._ The bravest are the tenderest,-- The loving are the daring. _The Song of the Camp._ DINAH M. Sc. ii._ In winter, when the dismal rain Comes down in slanting lines, And Wind, that grand old harper, smote His thunder-harp of pines. Sc. Sc. _The Brave Old Oak._ Then here 's to the oak, the brave old oak, Who stands in his pride alone! _The Brave Old Oak._ ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN. Under the sod and the dew, Love and tears for the Blue, Tears and love for the Gray.[668-1] _The Blue and the Gray._ [668-1] This poem first appeared in the "Atlantic Monthly." 19, 1889._ [669-1] See Disraeli, page 607. Act v. Sc. JOHN FORD (1586-1639): _The Lover's Melancholy. Act i. Sc. 341._ I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men. Fable 398._ On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly, While virtuous actions are but born and die. WALTER POPE (1630-1714): _The Old Man's Wish._ When change itself can give no more, 'T is easy to be true. GEORGE SEWELL (---- -1726): _The Suicide._ Studious of ease, and fond of humble things. JOHN PHILIPS (1676-1708): _The Splendid Shilling. Line 121._ For twelve honest men have decided the cause, Who are judges alike of the facts and the laws. WILLIAM PULTENEY (1682-1764): _The Honest Jury._ Farewell to Lochaber, farewell to my Jean, For Lochaber no more, Lochaber no more, We 'll maybe return to Lochaber no more. ROBERT DODSLEY (1703-1764): _The Parting Kiss._ A charge to keep I have, A never dying soul to save, And fit it for the sky. JOHN ARMSTRONG (1709-1779): _The Art of Preserving Health. Book iv. Act i. Sc. RICHARD GRAVES (1715-1804): _The Festoon_ (1767). STEVENS (1720-1784): _The Storm._ That man may last, but never lives, Who much receives, but nothing gives; THOMAS GIBBONS (1720-1785): _When Jesus dwelt._ In this awfully stupendous manner, at which Reason stands aghast, and Faith herself is half confounded, was the grace of God to man at length manifested. SUSANNA BLAMIRE (1747-1794): _The Siller Croun._ A glass is good, and a lass is good, The world is good, and the people are good, And we 're all good fellows together. Act ii. Sc. THOMAS DIBDIN (1771-1841): _The snug little Island._ And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, While the earth bears a plant or the sea rolls its waves. TANEY (1777-1864): _The Dred Scott Case_ (Howard, Rep. 19, p. Second Series, p. 127.) epitaph: no man can write my epitaph. COLTON (1780-1832): _The Lacon._ Behold how brightly breaks the morning! Sc. EMMA WILLARD (1787-1870): _The Cradle of the Deep._ Right as a trivet. BARHAM (1788-1845): _The Ingoldsby Legends. CHARLES PHILLIPS (1789-1859): _The Character of Napoleon._ Rise up, rise up, Xarifa! LOCKHART (1794-1854): _The Bridal of Andalla._ Dwelt a youth, whose fond heart, night and day, In a dream of love melted away. VANDYK (1798-1828): _The Light Guitar._ If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot. JAMES (1801-1860): _The Monks of Old._ A place in thy memory, dearest, The sound of my name. DAVIS (1814-1845): _The Welcome._ Or in the battle's van, Is where he dies for man! BARRY (_Circa_ 1815): _The Dublin Nation, Sept. JULIA PARDOE (1816-1862): _The Captive Greek Girl._ Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die, But leave us still our old nobility. INGRAM (1820- ----): _The Dublin Nation, April 1, 1843, Vol. THEODORE O'HARA (1820-1867): _The Bivouac of the Dead._ (August, 1847.) Hold the fort! THOMAS NOEL: _The Pauper's Ride._ Were dress'd from top to toe. MISS ---- WROTHER: _The Universal Songster. 7._[683-2] (1609.) The mother said to her daughter, "Daughter, bid thy daughter tell her daughter that her daughter's daughter hath a daughter." Book iii. VANBRUGH: _The Provoked Husband, Act i. Sc. RICHARD GRAFTON: _Chronicles of England._ (1590.) Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November, February has twenty-eight alone, Excepting leap year,--that 's the time When February's days are twenty-nine. _The Return from Parnassus._ (London, 1606.) Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November; "Play the man! We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out."[685-1] There is a garden in her face, A heavenly paradise is that place, Wherein all pleasant fruits do grow. 229.) A vest as admired Voltiger had on, Which from this Island's foes his grandsire won, Whose artful colour pass'd the Tyrian dye, Obliged to triumph in this legacy.[685-2] _The British Princes, p. Our days begin with trouble here, Our life is but a span, And cruel death is always near, So frail a thing is man. For though a mortal made of clay, She hath a way so to control, To rapture the imprisoned soul, And sweetest heaven on earth display, She hath a way, Ann Hathaway,-- To be heaven's self Ann hath a way. 320._ [683-2] BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER: _The Knight of the Burning Pestle, act i. sc. 254._ [686-2] See Swift, page 293. In the edition of 1814 the second line of the prayer reads, "I pray thee, Lord, my soul to keep." [688-4] See Burke, page 412. [688-5] See Choate, page 588. [688-6] See Clarendon, page 255. i._ cat] nine lives instead of one.[691-3] _The Greedy and Ambitious Cat. Fable iii._ thorns.[691-4] _The Two Travellers. _The Two Travellers. _The King who became Just. Fable ix._ What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh.[691-5] _The Two Fishermen. Fable xiv._ Guilty consciences always make people cowards.[691-6] _The Prince and his Minister. _The Prince and his Minister. Fable vi._ There was once, in a remote part of the East, a man who was altogether void of knowledge and experience, yet presumed to call himself a physician. _The Ignorant Physician. Fable viii._ He that plants thorns must never expect to gather roses.[692-1] _The Ignorant Physician. iv._ That possession was the strongest tenure of the law.[692-2] _The Cat and the two Birds. 2._ [691-3] See Heywood, page 16. [691-4] See Herrick, page 203. [691-5] See Heywood, page 19. [691-6] See Shakespeare, page 136. [692-1] See Butler, page 214. [692-2] See Cibber, page 296. A., with a few alterations._[692-3]) We know to tell many fictions like to truths, and we know, when we will, to speak what is true. _The Theogony. _The Theogony. Line 82._ Night, having Sleep, the brother of Death.[692-5] _The Theogony. Line 754._ From whose eyelids also as they gazed dropped love.[693-1] _The Theogony. Line 910._ poor man has a grudge against poor man, and poet against poet.[693-2] _Works and Days. they know not how much half exceeds the whole.[693-3] _Works and Days. and in the day as well as night diseases unbidden haunt mankind, silently bearing ills to men, for all-wise Zeus hath taken from them their voice. Line 116._ man.[693-4] _Works and Days. Line 240._ For himself doth a man work evil in working evils for another. Line 287._ This man, I say, is most perfect who shall have understood everything for himself, after having devised what may be best afterward and unto the end. Line 293._ Let it please thee to keep in order a moderate-sized farm, that so thy garners may be full of fruits in their season. Line 304._ Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thine enemy. Line 353._ If thou shouldst lay up even a little upon a little, and shouldst do this often, soon would even this become great. Line 360._ At the beginning of the cask and at the end take thy fill, but be saving in the middle; A dilatory man wrestles with losses. Line 412._ The morn, look you, furthers a man on his road, and furthers him too in his work. [692-4] See Coleridge, page 500. [692-5] See Shelley, page 567. [693-1] See Milton, page 246. [693-2] See Gay, page 349. [693-3] Pittacus said that half was more than the whole.--DIOGENES LAERTIUS: _Pittacus, ii._ curse.--PUBLIUS SYRUS: _Maxim 463._ THEOGNIS. _Maxims. Line 500._ No one goes to Hades with all his immense wealth.[694-1] _Maxims. 384._ It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath. 385._ [695-1] See Gray, page 382. 19._ [695-5] See Shakespeare, page 64. [696-1] See Waller, page 219. _Electra, 1007._ There is an ancient saying, famous among men, that thou shouldst not judge fully of a man's life before he dieth, whether it should be called blest or wretched.[696-2] _Trachiniæ, 1._ In a just cause the weak o'ercome the strong.[696-3] _OEdipus Coloneus, 880._ A lie never lives to be old. 59._ Nobody loves life like an old man. [696-3] See Marlowe, page 40. [697-1] See Shakespeare, page 133. Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. 669._ The gifts of a bad man bring no good with them. 109._ Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife. 546._ When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. 809._ Who knows but life be that which men call death,[699-3] And death what men call life? 970._ [698-1] See Shakespeare, page 60. Also Garth, page 295. [698-2] The darkest hour is that before the dawn.--HAZLITT: _English Proverbs._ [698-3] See Herbert, page 206. [698-4] See Heywood, page 15. [698-5] Noblesse oblige.--BOHN: _Foreign Proverbs._ [698-6] See Davenant, page 217. [699-1] See Herbert, page 206. [699-2] See Henry, page 283. [699-3] See Diogenes Laertius, page 766. Life is short and the art long.[700-1] _Aphorism i._ diseases.[700-2] _Aphorism i._ [700-1] See Chaucer, page 6. [700-2] See Shakespeare, page 141. Act ii. Sc. Act ii. Sc. Act ii. Sc. Act iv. Sc. Act ii. Sc. Act ii. Sc. Act iii. Sc. Act iv. Sc. Act ii. Sc. Act ii. Sc. Act iv. Sc. 7, 3._ (_1229._) Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.[701-5] _Truculentus. Act iv. Sc. Act iii. Sc. Act i. Sc. Act iii. Sc. 2, 104._ (_791._) Each man reaps on his own farm. Act iii. Sc. [700-4] See Shakespeare, page 50. [700-5] See Wordsworth, page 479. It occurs in Terence, the "Andria," act v. sc. [701-2] What man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?--_Matthew vii. 9._ [701-3] See Gay, page 349. [701-4] Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.--PUBLIUS SYRUS: _Maxim 170._ [701-5] See Chaucer, page 4. Act i. Sc. Act i. Sc. Act ii. Sc. Act iii. Sc. Act iv. Sc. 1, 12._ (_636._) In fine, nothing is said now that has not been said before. Act i. Sc. Act i. Sc. Act ii. Sc. Act ii. Sc. Act ii. Sc. Act ii. Sc. Act iii. Sc. Act iii. Sc. Act iv. Sc. 6, 8._ (_746._) Take care and say this with presence of mind.[703-2] _Eunuchus. Act iv. Sc. Act iv. Sc. Act iv. Sc. Act v. Sc. 2, 5._ (_844._) Many a time, . Act v. Sc. Act v. Sc. 7, 4._ (_1028._) I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.[703-4] _Heautontimoroumenos. Act i. Sc. Act i. Sc. 2, 36._ (_210._) That saying which I hear commonly repeated,--that time assuages sorrow. Act iii. Sc. 1, 12._ (_421._) Really, you have seen the old age of an eagle,[704-1] as the saying is. Act iii. Sc. 2, 9._ (_520._) Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances do not admit of it. Act iv. Sc. Act iv. Sc. Act iv. Sc. Act iv. Sc. Act iv. Sc. Act iv. Sc. Act i. Sc. Act ii. Sc. Act ii. Sc. Act iii. Sc. 2, 21._ (_506._) I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself. Act iii. Sc. 3, 61._ (_415._) According as the man is, so must you humour him. Act iii. Sc. Act v. Sc. Act v. Sc. Act v. Sc. [702-2] See Edwards, page 21. [702-4] See Wotton, page 174. SHAKESPEARE: _Othello, act ii. sc. [704-2] See Heywood, page 11. 33._ often injustice).--RACINE: _Frères Ennemies, act iv. sc. 3._ Mais l'extrême justice est une extrême injure.--VOLTAIRE: _OEdipus, act iii. sc. 3._ [704-4] Pliny the Younger says (book vi. 1._ While the sick man has life there is hope.[705-7] _Epistolarum ad Atticum. 10, 4._ [705-4] See Thomson, page 356. [705-5] See Coleridge, page 504. [705-6] See Rogers, page 455. [705-7] See Gay, page 349. 313._ What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.[706-2] _De Rerum Natura. 1133._ [706-1] See Lyly, page 32. [706-2] See Beaumont and Fletcher, page 199. [706-3] See Byron, page 540. 9, 25._ In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war.[706-5] _Satires, ii. 359._ [706-4] See Byron, page 555. [706-5] See Washington, page 425. [706-6] See Mason, page 393. [706-7] See Burke, page 409. [706-8] See Churchill, page 412. 22, 1._ a mouse."--PLUTARCH: _Life of Agesilaus II._ [706-10] See Pope, page 323. seen.[707-1] _The Art of Love. _The Art of Love. i._ It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul.[707-3] _Metamorphoses. 311._ [707-1] See Chaucer, page 3. [707-2] See Pope, page 344. I would have you call to mind the strength of the ancient giants, that undertook to lay the high mountain Pelion on the top of Ossa, and set among those the shady Olympus.--RABELAIS: _Works, book iv. xxxviii._ [707-3] See Watts, page 303. 146._ Practice in time becomes second nature.[707-5] _Frag. 227._ When God is planning ruin for a man, He first deprives him of his reason.[707-6] _Frag. 440._ [707-5] Custom is almost a second nature.--PLUTARCH: _Rules for the Preservation of Health, 18._ [707-6] See Dryden, page 269. _Maxim 1._ To do two things at once is to do neither. _Maxim 7._ us.[708-2] _Maxim 16._ Every one excels in something in which another fails. _Maxim 17._ The anger of lovers renews the strength of love.[708-3] _Maxim 24._ A god could hardly love and be wise.[708-4] _Maxim 25._ The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.[708-5] _Maxim 38._ He sleeps well who knows not that he sleeps ill. _Maxim 77._ A good reputation is more valuable than money.[708-6] _Maxim 108._ It is well to moor your bark with two anchors. _Maxim 119._ avoid.[708-7] _Maxim 120._ An agreeable companion on a journey is as good as a carriage. _Maxim 143._ Society in shipwreck is a comfort to all.[708-8] _Maxim 144._ Many receive advice, few profit by it. _Maxim 149._ Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.[709-1] _Maxim 170._ While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity. _Maxim 185._ Whatever you can lose, you should reckon of no account. _Maxim 191._ Even a single hair casts its shadow. _Maxim 228._ It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are. _Maxim 233._ We may with advantage at times forget what we know. _Maxim 234._ You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot.[709-2] _Maxim 262._ What is left when honour is lost? _Maxim 265._ A fair exterior is a silent recommendation. _Maxim 267._ Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity. _Maxim 274._ When Fortune is on our side, popular favour bears her company. _Maxim 275._ When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray. _Maxim 277._ Fortune is like glass,--the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken. _Maxim 280._ It is more easy to get a favour from fortune than to keep it. _Maxim 282._ His own character is the arbiter of every one's fortune.[709-3] _Maxim 283._ There are some remedies worse than the disease.[709-4] _Maxim 301._ Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.[709-5] _Maxim 305._ Amid a multitude of projects, no plan is devised.[709-6] _Maxim 319._ It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another. _Maxim 322._ When two do the same thing, it is not the same thing after all. _Maxim 338._ A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.[710-1] _Maxim 357._ Any one can hold the helm when the sea is calm.[710-2] _Maxim 358._ No tears are shed when an enemy dies. _Maxim 376._ The bow too tensely strung is easily broken. _Maxim 388._ Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy. _Maxim 401._ No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety.[710-3] _Maxim 406._ The judge is condemned when the criminal is acquitted.[710-4] _Maxim 407._ Practice is the best of all instructors.[710-5] _Maxim 439._ He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion. _Maxim 459._ One man's wickedness may easily become all men's curse. _Maxim 463._ Never find your delight in another's misfortune. _Maxim 467._ It is a bad plan that admits of no modification. _Maxim 469._ It is better to have a little than nothing. _Maxim 484._ It is an unhappy lot which finds no enemies. _Maxim 499._ The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.[711-1] _Maxim 511._ A rolling stone gathers no moss.[711-2] _Maxim 524._ Never promise more than you can perform. _Maxim 528._ A wise man never refuses anything to necessity.[711-3] _Maxim 540._ No one should be judge in his own cause.[711-4] _Maxim 545._ Necessity knows no law except to conquer.[711-5] _Maxim 553._ Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently.[711-6] _Maxim 557._ We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have. _Maxim 559._ It is only the ignorant who despise education. _Maxim 571._ Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.[711-7] _Maxim 580._ It is not every question that deserves an answer. _Maxim 581._ No man is happy who does not think himself so.[711-8] _Maxim 584._ Never thrust your own sickle into another's corn.[711-9] _Maxim 593._ You cannot put the same shoe on every foot. _Maxim 596._ He bids fair to grow wise who has discovered that he is not so. _Maxim 598._ A guilty conscience never feels secure.[712-1] _Maxim 617._ Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last.[712-2] _Maxim 633._ Familiarity breeds contempt.[712-3] _Maxim 640._ Money alone sets all the world in motion. _Maxim 656._ He who has plenty of pepper will pepper his cabbage. _Maxim 673._ You should go to a pear-tree for pears, not to an elm.[712-4] _Maxim 674._ It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody. _Maxim 675._ We should provide in peace what we need in war.[712-5] _Maxim 709._ Look for a tough wedge for a tough log. _Maxim 723._ How happy the life unembarrassed by the cares of business! _Maxim 725._ hands.[712-6] _Maxim 759._ He gets through too late who goes too fast. _Maxim 767._ In every enterprise consider where you would come out.[712-7] _Maxim 777._ It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity. _Maxim 780._ The highest condition takes rise in the lowest. _Maxim 781._ It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are. _Maxim 785._ No one knows what he can do till he tries. _Maxim 786._ The next day is never so good as the day before. _Maxim 815._ He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap. _Maxim 825._ Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings. _Maxim 827._ It matters not how long you live, but how well. _Maxim 829._ It is vain to look for a defence against lightning.[713-1] _Maxim 835._ No good man ever grew rich all at once.[713-2] _Maxim 837._ Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.[713-3] _Maxim 847._ It is better to learn late than never.[713-4] _Maxim 864._ Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.[713-5] _Maxim 865._ Better use medicines at the outset than at the last moment. _Maxim 866._ Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. _Maxim 872._ Whom Fortune wishes to destroy she first makes mad.[713-6] _Maxim 911._ Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage. _Maxim 914._ He knows not when to be silent who knows not when to speak. _Maxim 930._ sell.[714-1] _Maxim 968._ misery.[714-2] _Maxim 995._ Unless degree is preserved, the first place is safe for no one.[714-3] _Maxim 1042._ Confession of our faults is the next thing to innocency. _Maxim 1060._ I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.[714-4] _Maxim 1070._ little. _Maxim 1072._ Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he. _Maxim 1073._ [708-1] Commonly called Publius, but spelled Publilius by Pliny (Natural History, 35, sect. [708-2] We always like those who admire us.--ROCHEFOUCAULD: _Maxim 294._ [708-3] See Edwards, page 21. [708-5] See Shakespeare, page 154. book ii. xxxiii._ [708-7] The best plan is, as the common proverb has it, to profit by the folly of others.--PLINY: _Natural History, book xviii. [709-1] See Plautus, page 701. [709-2] See Heywood, page 10. [709-3] See Bacon, page 167. [709-4] See Bacon, page 165. Marius said, "I see the cure is not worth the pain."--PLUTARCH: _Life of Caius Marius._ [709-5] Habit is second nature.--MONTAIGNE: _Essays, book iii. x._ [709-6] He that hath many irons in the fire, some of them will cool.--HAZLITT: _English Proverbs._ [710-1] See Heywood, page 14. sc. 3._ [710-3] See Cowper, page 419. [710-5] Practice makes perfect.--_Proverb._ [711-1] See Shakespeare, page 48. [711-2] See Heywood, page 14. 1._ [711-5] See Milton, page 232. [711-6] See Chaucer, page 3. [711-7] When men are arrived at the goal, they should not turn back.--PLUTARCH: _Of the Training of Children._ it.--JOHNSON: _The Rambler, p. 150._ [711-9] Did thrust as now in others' corn his sickle.--DU BARTAS: _Divine Weekes and Workes, part ii. Second Weeke._ Not presuming to put my sickle in another man's corn.--NICHOLAS YONGE: _Musica Transalpini. 1588._ [712-1] See Shakespeare, page 136. act in life as though it were thy last.--MARCUS AURELIUS: _Meditations, ii. 5._ [712-3] See Shakespeare, page 45. book ii. xl._ [712-5] See Washington, page 425. [713-2] No just man ever became rich all at once.--MENANDER: _Fragment._ [713-3] See Butler, page 213. [713-4] See Shakespeare, page 64. [713-5] See Bacon, page 166. [713-6] See Dryden, page 269. [714-1] See Shakespeare, page 72. [714-3] See Shakespeare, page 102. i._) [714-5] See Cowper, page 424. [714-6] See Rogers, page 455. [714-7] See Dryden, page 275. [714-8] See Beaumont and Fletcher, page 197. [714-9] See Dryden, page 267. [714-10] See Theobald, page 352. [715-1] See Harrington, page 39. [715-2] See Dyer, page 22. [715-3] See Watts, page 303. Fable 4, 1._ advice to others, I will show in a few lines. Fable 9, 1._ Whoever has even once become notorious by base fraud, even if he speaks the truth, gains no belief. Fable 18, 1._ along, that they may not be seized by the crocodiles.[715-5] _Book i. Fable 26, 12._ Come of it what may, as Sinon said. Fable 23, 1._ A fly bit the bare pate of a bald man, who in endeavouring to crush it gave himself a hard slap. Fable 3, 1._ "I knew that before you were born." Let him who would instruct a wiser man consider this as said to himself. [716-1] See Longfellow, page 612. [716-3] See Horace, page 706. Book ii. Book ii. Book ii. 1._ Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.[717-3] _Natural History. 2._ To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.[718-1] _Natural History, Book vii. 2._ Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.[718-2] _Natural History, Book vii. 4._ With man, most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.[718-3] _Natural History, Book vii. 6._ The human features and countenance, although composed of but some ten parts or little more, are so fashioned that among so many distinguished from one another.[718-5] _Natural History, Book vii.