I know their tricks and their manners.
A demd damp, moist, unpleasant body.
Men of light and leading.
A man so various, that he seem'd to be
Not one, but all mankind's epitome;
Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong,
Was everything by starts, and nothing long;
But in the course of one revolving moon,
Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon.
So over violent, or over civil,
That every man with him was God or Devil.
For every inch that is not fool, is rogue.
Dryden—Absalom and Achitophel. Pt. II.
L. 463.
Her wit was more than man, her innocence a
child.
Dryden—Elegy on Mrs. KiUigrew. L. 70.
Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
Dryden—Epistle to Congreve. L. 19.
Plain without pomp, and rich without a show.
Dryden—The Flower and the Leaf. L. 187.
There is a great deal of unmapped country
within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
George Eliot—Daniel Deronda.
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Ch.XXIV.
She was and is (what can there more be said?)
On earth the first, in heaven the second maid.
Tribute to Queen Elizabeth. MS. 4712, in
British Museum. Atscough's Catalogue.
A trip-hammer, with an ^olian attachment.
Emerson, of Carlyle, after meeting him in
1848.
Character is higher than intellect. * * * A
great soul will be strong to live, as well as to
think.
Emerson—American Scholar.
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
Emerson—Essay. On Character.
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| text = A great character, founded on the living rock
of principle, is, in fact, not a solitary phenomenon, to be at once perceived, limited, and described. It is a dispensation of Providence, designed to have not merely an immediate, but a
continuous, progressive, and never-ending agency.
It survives' the man who possessed it; survives
his age,—perhaps his country, his language.
Ed. Everett—Speech. The Youth of Washington. July 4, 1835.
Human improvement is from within outwards.
Froude—Short Studies on Great Subjects. Dir
vus Cæsar.
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Our thoughts and our conduct are our own.
Froude—Short Studies onGreat Subjects. Education.
Every one of us, whatever our speculative
opinions, knows better than he practices, and
recognizes a better law than he obeys.
Froude—Short Studies on Great Subjects. On
Pt. II.
Weak and beggarly elements.
Galatians. IV. 9.
In every deed of mischief, he [Andronicus
Comnenus] had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
Gibbon—Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Vol. DC. P. 94.
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| text = <poem>That man may last, but never lives,
Who much receives, but nothing gives;
Whom none can love, whom none can thank,—
Creation's blot, creation's blank.
Thomas Gibbons—When Jesus Dwelt.
A man not perfect, but of heart
So high, of such heroic rage,
That even his hopes became a part
Of earth's eternal heritage.
R. W. Gilder—At the President's Grave.
Epitaph for President Garfield, Sept. 19,
1881.
To be engaged in opposing wrong affords, under the conditions of our mental constitution, but a slender guarantee for being right.
Aufrichtig zu sein kann ich versprechen; unparteiisch zu sein aber nicht.
I can promise to be upright, but not to be
without bias.
Goethe—Spruche in Prosa. III.
Es bildet ein Talent sich in der Stille,
Sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt.
Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is
formed in the^tormy billows of the world.
Goethe—Torquato Tasso. I. 2. 66.
Welch' hoher Geist in einer engen Brust.
What a mighty spirit in a narrow bosom.
Goethe—Torquato Tasso. II. 3. 199.
Our Garrick's a.salad; for in him we see
Oil, vinegar, sugar, and saltness agree.
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| work = Retaliation. L. 11.
