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his actions are observed, so long he's wary;
but if he hopes for secrecy, returns

to his old ways again. But he whom kindness,
him also inclination makes your own:

he burns to make a due return, and acts,
present or absent, evermore the same.
'Tis this then is the duty of a father;
to make a son embrace a life of virtue,
better from choice than terror or constraint.

THE SAME

'HERE is a way of winning more by love

THERE is a winning more by!

force works on servile natures, not the free.
He that's compelled to goodness, may be good;
but 'tis but for that fit: where others, drawn
by softness and example, get a habit.

Then, if they stray, but warn 'em; and the same they should for virtue have done, they'll do for shame. B. JONSON

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GUILT-THE SOURCE OF SORROW

"O be good is to be happy; angels

they're better.

Guilt is the source of sorrow; 'tis the fiend,
th' avenging fiend, that follows us behind

with whips and stings: the best know none of this,
but rest in everlasting peace of mind,

and find the height of all their heaven is goodness.

TRU

TRUE LIBERTY

N. ROWE

RUE liberty always with right reason dwells, twinned, and from her hath no dividual being;

reason in man obscured or not obeyed,

immediately inordinate desires

and upstart passions catch the government
from reason, and to servitude reduce

man, till then free.

F. S. III

J. MILTON

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ADVERSITY TRIES FRIENDSHIP

SUMMER-friendship

whose flattering leaves, that shadowed us in our prosperity, with the least gust drop off

in the autumn of adversity! How like

a prison is to a grave! when dead, we are
with solemn pomp brought thither and our heirs
masking their joy in false, dissembled tears,
weep o'er the hearse; but earth no sooner covers
the earth brought thither, but they turn away
with inward smiles, the dead no more remembered.

RETRIBUTION

P. MASSINGER

NOR custom nor example nor vast numbers

of such as do offend make less the sin.

For each particular crime a strict account
will be exacted; and that comfort which
the damned pretend, fellows in misery,
takes nothing from their torments: every one
must suffer in himself the measure of
his wickedness.

P. MASSINGER

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HUS mighty rivers quietly do glide,

THUS

and do not by their rage their powers profess,

but by their mighty workings; when in pride

small torrents roar more loud, and work much less. Peace greatness best becomes. Calm power doth guide

with a far more imperious stateliness,

than all the swords of violence can do,

and easier gains those ends she tends unto.

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S. DANIEL

REMORSE

OEMORSE-she ne'er forsakes us!

REMORSE she ne'er forsakes tracks our rapid

steps

through the wild labyrinth of youthful frenzy,

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unheard, perchance, until old age hath tamed us;
then in our lair, when time hath chilled our joints,
and maimed our hope of combat, or of flight,
we hear her deep-mouthed bay, announcing all
of wrath and woe and punishment that bides us.

H

PRIDE IN ANCESTRY

OW blest is he who his progenitors

with pride.remembers, to the listener tells

the story of their greatness, of their deeds,
and, silently rejoicing, sees himself

linked to this goodly chain! For the same stock
bears not the monster and the demigod:

a line, or good, or evil, ushers in
the glory or the terror of the world.

A. SWANWICK from Goethe

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THE

OF LIFE AND DEATH

HE ports of death are sins: of life, good deeds; through which our merit leads us to our meeds. How wilful blind is he, then, that would stray, and hath it, in his powers, to make his way! This world's death's region is, the other life's; and here, it should be one of our first strifes, so to front death, as men might judge us past it: for good men but see death, the wicked taste it.

for tho' the worst of men by high permission

a while may flourish, and the best endure
the sharpest trials of exploring misery,
yet let mankind from these examples learn,
that powerful villany at last shall mourn,
and injured virtue triumph in its turn.

J. TRAP

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CARATACH'S LAMENT OVER HENGO

`AREWELL the hopes of Britain!

FA

thou royal graft, farewell for ever! Time and Death,

ye have done your worst. Fortune, now see, now proudly

pluck off thy veil, and view thy triumph; look,

look what thou hast brought this land to!—Oh, fair
flower,

how lovely yet thy ruins shew, how sweetly
even death embraces thee! The peace of Heaven,
the fellowship of all great souls, be with thee!

J. FLETCHER

THE PROPER USE OF TALENTS

HEAVEN doth with us, as we with torches do;

not light them for themselves: for if our virtues

did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike

as if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touched, but to fine issues: nor nature never lends

the smallest scruple of her excellence

but, like a thrifty goddess, she determines
herself the glory of a creditor,

both thanks and use.

W. SHAKESPEARE

HYPOCRISY-GENERAL

AY not, my art is fraud: all live by seeming.

SAY

The beggar begs with it, and the gay courtier
gains land and title, rank and rule, by seeming;
the clergy scorn it not, and the bold soldier
will eke with it his service.-All admit it,
all practise it; and he who is content

with shewing what he is, shall have small credit
in church or camp or state. So wags the world.

TRUE RICHES

T is the mynd that maketh good or ill,

IT

that maketh wretch or happię, rich or poor;
for some that hath abundance at his will,
hath not enough, but wants in greatest store;

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and other, that hath litle, asks no more, but in that litle is both rich and wise; for wisedome is most riches; fooles therefore they are which fortune doe by vowes devise, sith each unto himselfe his life may fortunize.

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THE TRIUMPH OF INNOCENCE

LL your attempts

ALL

E. SPENSER

shall fall on me, like brittle shafts on armour that break themselves; or like waves 'gainst a rock that leave no sign of their o'erboiling fury

but foam and splinters; my innocence, like these,
shall stand triumphant, and your malice serve
but for a trumpet, to proclaim my conquest;
nor shall you, though you do the worst fate can,
triumph o'er him whom innocence protects.

THE PAST IRREPARABLE

P. MASSINGER

IME once past may never have recourse,

TIME

no more than may the running streams revert to climb the hills, when they been rolled down the hollow vales. There is no curious art, nor worldly power, no, not the gods can hold the sway of flying time, nor him return when he is past: all things unto his might must bend, and yield unto the iron teeth of eating time.

MISFORTUNE OUR PROBATION

R. WILMOT

BUT fort velour soars a

UT know, young prince, that valour soars above

These are not ills; else they would never fall

on Heaven's first favourites and the best of men:
the gods, in bounty, work up storms about us,
that give mankind occasion to exert

their hidden strength, and throw out into practice
virtues, which shun the day, and lie concealed
in the smooth seasons and the calms of life.

J. ADDISON