DEAR native regions, I foretell My soul will cast the backward view, Thus when the sun, prepared for rest, A lingering light he fondly throws SHE observed the staggering and unsatisfactory condition of those who have risen to distinction by undue paths, and the out-works and bulwarks of fiction and falsehood, by which they are under the necessity of surrounding and defending their precarious advantages. WALTER SCOTT. AMBITION'S like a circle on the water, Till by broad spreading it disperse to nought. SHAKESPEARE. COMPLAISANCE renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, an inferior acceptable. It smooths distinction, sweetens conversation, and makes every one in the company pleased with himself. It produces good nature and mutual benevolence, encourages the timorous, soothes the turbulent, humanizes the fierce, and distinguishes a society of civilized persons from a confusion of savages. ADDISON. LOVE wol not be constreined by maistrie: CHAUCER. THE discovery of any thing which is true, is a valuable acquisition to society, which cannot possibly hurt, or obstruct the good effect of any other truth whatsoever; for they all partake of one common essence, and necessarily coincide with each other; and like the drops of rain which fall separately into the river, mix themselves at once with the stream, and strengthen the general current. THAT thou mayst injure no one, dove-like be, My Church is my Mother; and no proof, however strong, that there are better Mothers than she, can tear me away from her bosom. RICHTER. Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant, Si le plaisir est une rose, Le souvenir en est l'odeur. JOHNSON. VICTOR AUGIER. THAT conscience approves of and attests such a course of action, is itself, alone, an obligation. BUTLER. IN the lighted hall the guests are met, P. B. SHELLEY. A VALUABLE truth can never want the meretricious dress of wit to set it off; this dress is a strong presumption of the falsehood of what it covers. EGERTON BRYDGES. O SLEEP, awhile thy power suspending, When faithful with the gloom returning, O! let me hear with bosom swelling, Of joys that pine, and pangs that last. CURRAN. THE anger of a generous man is like a vial of clear water, which when shook, beads at the top, but instantly subsides without any soil or sediment of uncharitableness. WHAT a state is guilt, When ev'ry thing alarms it! Like a centinel, HAVARD. I CANNOT praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. MILTON. WHAT is it to have A flattering false inscription on a tomb, And in men's hearts reproach? the bowel'd corpse May be sear'd in, but (with free tongue I speak) The faults of great men through their sear-clothes break. CYRIL TOURNEUR. HE that does a base thing in zeal for his friend, burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together. JER. TAYLOR. How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice, when they will not so much as take warning? SWIFT. Ан, Freedom is a noble thing- |