Humility.

"Humbleness of heart proceeds from Heaven."-WORDSWORTH.

Regia, crede mihi, res est succurrere lapsis."-OVID.

Quemcumque miserum videris, hominem scias."-SENECA.

"Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a Publican. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. I fast twice a week, I give tithes of all that I possess. And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted. -St. LUKE chap. xviii. vs. 10-14.

What was the Master's teaching, His who spake
As never man spake, whom the Father's love
Sent down, and symbol'd by the gentle Dove;
Who humbly suffered death for sinners' sake?
Where was His pride, what time the bread He brake
With Publicans? Did not His voice reprove
Those who the little children would remove
From round His knees? Say, did He roughly shake
Away the hand that touched His garment's hem,
Her hand, who was made whole by faith alone?
The woman caught in sin did He condemn,
When each accuser grip'd the avenging stone?
Did He not wash His own Disciples' feet?
Did He spurn Lazarus in his winding sheet ?

XXXI.

Tears.

"Mollissima corda

Humano generi dare se Natura fatetur

Quæ lachrymas dedit. Hæc nostri pars optima sensûs.”—JUVENAL.

"O! lachrymarum fons, tenero sacros

Ducentem ortus ex animo, qualis

Felix in imo qui scatentem

Pectore, te, pia nympha, sentit."-GRAY.

What the chief difference between man and brute,
Philosophers have oft defined some say

The bound is marked by Reason's God-like ray :
Some fix on speech, and vaunt that beasts are mute;
And some on Laughter: Cooking seems to suit
One jester Plato said, perchance in play,
Man was a biped plumeless piece of clay :
Some deem him but a naked two-forked root.
But who hath thought him of the welling tears
That flow, spontaneous, to the human eye,
From the deep-seated fountains of the heart?
Fresh in old age as in our tenderest years,
They fall in sympathy with Pity's sigh:
Best symbols they of our more Heavenly part.

Fellow's Life.

"Doctus sine operâ est ut nubes, sine pluviâ.”—Arabian Proverb.
"If not to some peculiar end assigned,
Study's the specious trifling of the mind,
Or is at best a secondary aim-

A chace for sport alone, and not for game."-YOUNG.

"To this (as calling myself a scholar) I am obliged by the duty of my condition. I make not, therefore, my head a grave, but a treasury of knowledge. I intend no monopoly, but a community in learning. I study not for my own sake only, but for theirs that study not for themselves."-Sir T. BROWN, Religio Medici.

"The silence of a wise man is more wrong to mankind than the slanderer's speech."-WYCHERLY's Maaims.

Nec sibi sed toto genitum se credere mundo."-LUCAN.

"I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.-St. JOHN chap. IX. verse 4.

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“ Λαμπάδια ἔχοντες, διαδώσουσιν ἀλληλοῖς.”—PLATO.

"If our virtues did not go forth from us, 'twere all the same as if we had them not."--SHAKESPEARE, Measure for Measure.

Alas what learning with each scholar dies!

Therefore should all their gather'd knowledge write;
And so their good outlive them, and delight
All future generations that arise :

Thus do the pour'd out treasures of the wise
Enrich man's heart, and glad the common sight,
Like river-streams which in their bounteous might
Earth beautify at once, and fertilize.

He who in cloisters for himself lays bare
True Knowledge' source, and climbs the sun-capt tops
Of craggy Science, though much mark'd of all,

Is like a fountain which shoots up its fair
Column of waters-but the sparkling drops
Back to its basin, unproductive, fall.

senza infamia" and

senza

[Dante draws a terrible picture of those " lodo," who, he says, " never lived," who have not improved their time and talents, but dragged out on earth a useless sort of neutral existence, and now have their portion "Degli angeli che non furon ribelli :"

Ne per fedeli a Dio ma per se foro."-Inferno.]

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« Χρὴ Μουσῶν θεράποντα καὶ ἄγγελον, εἴ τι περισσόν
εἰδείη, σοφίης μὴ φθονερὸν τελέθειν,

ἀλλὰ τὰ μὲν μᾶσθαι, τὰ δὲ δεικνύναι, ἄλλα δὲ ποιεῖν.
τί σφιν χρήσηται μοῦνος ἐπιστάμενος ;”_THEOGNIS.

τὴν σοφίην σοφὸς ἰθύνει, τέχνας δ ̓ ὀμότεχνος.”
PSEUDO PHOCYLIDES.

Ἕτερος ἐξ ἑτέρου σοφὸς τό τε πάλαι τό τε νῦν
οὐδὲ γὰρ ῥᾶστον ἀῤῥήτων ἐπἐων πύλας
ἐξευρεῖν·”_BACCHYLIDES.

"The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem
For that sweet odour which doth in it live;
The earlier blooms have full as deep a dye
As the perfumed tincture of the Roses:
Hang on such thorns and play as wantonly

When summer's breath their masked buds discloses ;
But for their virtue only as their show,

They live unmoved, and unrespected fade;

Die to themselves: sweet Roses do not so,

Of their sweet smell are sweetest odours made."-SHAKESPEARE.

"For all the practical purposes of life, Truth might as well be in a prison as in the folio of a Schoolman, and those who release her from her cobwebbed shelf and teach her to live with men, have the merit of liberating, if not of discovering, her."-COLTON.

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Στῆλαι καὶ γραφίδες καὶ κύρβιες, ευφροσύνης μέν
αιτια τοῖς ταῦτα κτησαμένοις μεγάλης

ἀλλ ̓ ἐς ὅσον ζώουσι. τὰ γὰρ κενὰ κύδεα φωτῶν
ψυχᾶις οἰχομένων ου μάλα συμφέρεται.

ἡ δ ̓ ἁρέτὴ σοφίης τε χάρις κἀκεῖσε συνέρπει,

κἀνθάδε μιμνάζει μνῆστιν ἐφελκομένη.”AGATHIAS.

" Il docre del filosofo e di predicarla di sostenarla d' illustrata. .. Se i lumi che egli sparga non sono utili per suo secolo, e per la sua patria, le sarrano securamenti per un altro secolo e per un altra piese."-FILANGIERI. "No man is the lord of anything

(Though in and of him there be much consisting),

Till he communicate his parts to others:

Nor doth he of himself know them for aught,

Till he behold them formed in the applause

Where they are extended; which, like an arch, reverberates

The voice again; or, like a gate of steel

Fronting the sun, receives and renders back

His figure and his heat."-SHAKESPEARE.

"Wisdom that is hid, and treasure that is hoarded up, what profit is

in them both? Better is he that hideth his folly than a man that hideth his wisdom-EccL, chap. XX, vs. 30-31.

Fellow's Life.

(Continued.)

“ Manners are always propagated downwards.”—SMYTHE's Lectures.

"Arbores serit diligeus agricola, quarum aspiciet nunquam ipse baccam."-CICERO.

"Docti non soli vivi atque præsentes studiosos dicendi erudiunt atque docent; sed hoc etiam post mortem monimentis' literarum assequuntur."-CICERO.

From high to low, from rich to poor, the spread
Of Learning; as the kindling light of morn
Strikes the high peaks; then down the hills 'tis borne
To vales in thickest darkness shadowed,
Till with rich sunshine touch'd, each cottage shed
Smiles out from grass-green nook and golden corn:—
So on some glassy pool, its centre torn
By lustrous pebble, to the marge are sped,
In ever widening undulation, rings

Of wavy waters.-Ye with time and wealth,
Scatter your learning till it taketh root

Forward and far. The growth of knowledge springs
Like that of plants :-down strikes the seed by stealth;
But upward, seen of all, stem, flowers, and fruit.