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158. What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason!

how infinite in faculties! in form, and moving, how express and admirable! in action, how like an angel! in apprehension, how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals!

Hamlet-Act 2, Sc. 2.

SHAKSPEARE.

KNOWN.

159. Sweet Memory! wafted by thy gentle gale,

Oft up the stream of time I turn my sail

To view the fairy haunts of long-lost hours,

Blessed with far greener shades, far fresher bowers. The Pleasures of Memory.

ROGERS.

160. Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one,
Have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells
In heads replete with thoughts of other men ;
Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much,
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
The Task.

COWPER.

161. I'll put a girdle round about the earth

In forty minutes.

Midsummer Night's Dream-Act 2, Sc. 2. SHAKSPEARE.

A CANNON.

162. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some

have greatness thrown upon them.

Twelfth Night-Act 5, Sc. 1.

ROYALTY.

SHAKSPEARE.

163. The tear down childhood's cheek that flows,

Is like the dew-drop on the rose;

When next the summer breeze comes by,
And waves the bush, the flower is dry.

Rokeby.

164.

-Our doubts are traitors,

And make us lose the good we oft might win,

By fearing to attempt.

Measure for Measure-Act 1, Sc. 5.

LITTLE.

SCOTT.

SHAKSPEARE.

165. Costly apparatus and splendid cabinets, have no magical power to make scholars. In all circumstances, as man is, under God, the master of his own fortune, so is he the maker of his own mind. The Creator has so constituted the human intellect, that it can grow only by its own action, and by its own action it most certainly and necessarily grows. Every man must therefore in an important sense, educate himself. His books and teachers

A man is not educated

are but helps the work is his.
until he has the ability to summon, in case of emergency,
all his mental power in vigorous exercise to effect his
proposed object. It is not the man who has seen most,
or who has read most, who can do this. Nor is it the
man that can boast merely of native vigor and capacity.
The greatest of all the warriors that went to the siege
of Troy, had not the pre-eminence because nature had
given him strength, and he carried the longest bow, but
because self-discipline had taught him how to bend it.
DANIEL WEBSTER.

166. Good things should be praised. Two Gent. of Verona-Act 3, Sc. 1.

HONEY-MOUTH.

SHAKSPEARE.

167. And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew,

That one small head should carry all he knew. The Deserted Village.

GOLDSMITH.

168. Money brings honor, friends, conquest and realms ;
Therefore, if at great things thou wouldst arrive,
Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap,
Not difficult, if thou hearken to me:
Riches are mine, fortune is in my hand;
They whom I favor, thrive in wealth amain,

While virtue, valor, wisdom, sit in want.
Satan to Christ-Paradise Lost.

169. Honor thy father and thy mother.

MILTON.

Exodus-Ch. 20, Ver. 12-The fifth Commandment. BIBLE.
CAIN or SATAN.

170. Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over

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Much more had seen: he studied from the life,

And in th' original perused mankind.

Art of Preserving Health.

ARMSTRONG.

173. Hortensio. Tell me now, sweet friend, what happy gale Blows you to Padua here, from old Verona.

Petruchio. Such wind as scatters young men through the

world,

To seek their fortunes further than at home,

Where small experience grows.

Taming of the Shrew-Act 1, Sc. 2.

SHAKSPEARE.

TWENTY ONE.

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175. I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

King Richard 2nd-Act 5, Sc. 5.

WAITING in ILL-WILL.

SHAKSPEARE.

176. Sorrow breaks seasons, and reposing hours, Makes the night morning, and the noontide night. King Richard 3rd-Act 1, Sc. 4.

A NARRATOR.

SHAKSPEARE.

177. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these, are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that, when any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it.

178.

Declaration of Independence.

-Time is like a fashionable host,

JEFFERSON.

That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand;
And with his arms outstretched, as he would fly,
Grasps in the comer: Welcome ever smiles,

And Farewell goes out sighing. O let not Virtue seek

Remuneration for the thing it was.

Troilus and Cressida-Act 3, Sc. 3.

A NEW GEM at HOME.

SHAKSPEARE.

179. We may blow our nails together, and fast it fairly out;

our cake's dough on both sides.

Taming of the Shrew-Act 1, Sc. 1.

A HOTTENTOT.

SHAKSPEARE.

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182. When ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest.

Leviticus-Ch. 19, Ver. 9.

BIBLE.

A WILD POPPY.

183. Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury. Deuteronomy-Ch. 23, Ver. 20.

TIN MINES.

184. Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot,

That it do singe yourself.

King Henry 8th-Act 1, Sc. 1.

NEW LIGHT-WOOD.

Bible.

SHAKSPEARE.

185. But ere these matchless heights I dare to scan,
There is a spot should not be pass'd in vain,-
Morat! the proud, the patriot field! where man
May gaze on ghastly trophies of the slain,
Nor blush for those who conquer'd on that plain;
Here Burgundy bequeath'd his tombless host,
A bony heap, through ages to remain,

Themselves their monument; the Stygian coast Unsepulchred they roam'd, and shriek'd each wandering ghost.

While Waterloo with Canna's carnage vies,
Morat and Marathon twin names shall stand;
They were true Glory's stainless victories,
Won by the unambitious heart and hand
Of a proud, brotherly, and civic band,

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