CHAPTER XIX QUOTATIONS RELATING TO MAN The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation. Disraeli To quote copiously and well, requires taste, judgment, and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound. AMBITION Bovee Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights and live laborious days; Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears Milton Resolved to ruin or to rule the state. Dryden The remarks of Philosphers on the vanity of ambition refer generally to that unworthy form of which Alexander may be taken as the type-the idea of self-exaltation, not only without any reference to the happiness, but even regardless of the sufferings, of others. A surer and more glorious title to fame is that of those who are remembered for some act of justice or self-devotion; the self-sacrifice of Leonidas, the good faith of Regulus, are the glories of history. Lubbock What shall I do to be forever known, And make the age to come my own? Abraham Cowley Too low they build, who build beneath the stars. Edward Young And though mine arm should conquer twenty worlds, There's a lean fellow beats all conquerors. Thomas Dekker Lives of great men all remind us BEAUTY Longfellow For of the soul the body form doth take, 'Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white We understood Her by her sight: her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, If to her share some female errors fall, Byron Look on her face, and you'll forget them all. The light of love, the purity of grace Pope The mind, the music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonized the whole And oh! that eye was in itself a soul! Loveliness Byron Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, James Thomson The maid who modestly conceals Edward Moore And ne'er did Grecian chisel trace A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew. 'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, Scott Pope Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold. Shakespeare Of Nature's gifts thou may'st with lilies boast, Shakespeare Beauty with a bloodless conquest, finds Waller What's female beauty but an air divine Young Beauty comes, we scarce know how, as an emanation from sources deeper than itself. Shairp A thing of beauty is a joy for ever; Keats In beauty, faults conspicuous grow; Gay Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. Emerson Gratior ac pulchro veniens in corpore virtus. Formosa facies muta commendatio est. Beauty was lent to nature as the type Beautiful in form and feature, Lovely as the day, Can there be so fair a creature S. J. Hale Longfellow 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,'—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. Ubi mel, ibi apes. Keats Plautus Blue were her eyes as the fairy-flax, And her bosom white as the hawthorn buds, That ope in the month of May. Longfellow One shade the more, one ray the less |