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shiver and shrink at sight of toil and hazard,
and make the impossibility they fear.

TRU

TRUE DIGNITY

N. ROWE

RUE dignity is his whose tranquil mind virtue has raised above the things below; who, every hope and fear to heaven resigned, shrinks not, though Fortune aim her deadliest blow. J. BEATTIE

PROUD HUMILITY

PITCH thy behaviour low, thy projects high:

so shalt thou humble and magnanimous be:

sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky
shoots higher much than he that means a tree.

G. HERBERT

THE FAVOURITES OF PRINCES

N the wild storm

IN

the seaman hews his mast down, and the merchant heaves to the billows wares he once deemed precious: so prince and peer, 'mid popular contentions, cast off their favourites.

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A GOOD NAME

G. CHAPMAN

'HE honours of a name 'tis just to guard; they are a trust but lent us, which we take, and should, in reverence to the donor's fame, with care transmit them down to others' hands.

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PITY-WHEN FORFEITED

J. SHIRLEY

HEN fortune or the gods afflict mankind,
compassion to the miserable is due;
but when we suffer what we may prevent,
at once we forfeit pity and esteem.

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GENTLENESS

W. HIGGON

'HE gentle mind by gentle deeds is knowne;
for a man by nothing is so well bewrayed
as by his manners; in which plain is showne
of what degree, and what race, he is growne.

E. SPENSER

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AGE

HOW shall summer's honey breath hold out against the wreckful siege of battering days, when rocks impregnable are not so stout nor gates of steel so strong, but time decays?

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POWER OF MUSIC

USIC has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. I've read, that things inanimate have moved, and, as with living souls, have been informed by magic numbers and persuasive sound.

SUICIDE

HE term of life is limited,

THE

R. CONGREVE

ne may a man prolong nor shorten it: the soldier may not move from watchful sted, nor leave his stand, until his captain bid.

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PRIDE

E. SPENSER

HE bending willow, yielding to each wind, shall keep his rooting firm : when the proud oak braving the storm, presuming on his root,

shall have his body rent from head to foot.

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VIRTUE AND VICE

J. WEBSTER

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XTRAORDINARY virtues, when they soar

sights judge of,

losing their proper splendour, are condemned
for most remarkable vices.

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SYMPATHY IN SORROW

P. MASSINGER

AY but sorrow close shrouded in heart, .I know, to keepe is a burdenous smart: ech thing imparted is more eath to beare: when the rayne is fallen, the clouds waxen cleare.

CONTENTMENT

E. SPENSER

ONTENT who lives with tryed state

CONT

neede feare no chaunge of frowning fate;

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but who will seeke for unknowne gayne,
oft lives by losse, and leaves with payne.

St

TRUE LIBERTY

E. SPENSER

ED virom vera virtute vivere animatom addecet,' fortiterque innoxium vacare adversus adversarios; ea libertas est, qui pectus firmum et purum gestitat: aliæ res obnoxiæ nocte in obscura latent.

Q. ENNIVS

LOSS OF POWER IS LOSS OF HOMAGE

THE great man down, you mark his favourite flies ;

the poor advanced, makes friends of enemies; when sorrows come, they come not single spies but in battalions.

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THE SAME

`IS certain greatness once fallen out with fortune

he shall as soon read in the eyes of others
as feel in his own fall.

WHE

THE SAME

HEN Fortune in her shift and change of mood spurns down her late beloved, all his dependents, which laboured after him to the mountain's top even on their knees and hands, let him slip down, not one accompanying his declining foot.

FORTITUDE

firm patience to wild fury; and is armed

to suffer with a quietness of spirit

the worst extreme of tyranny and rage.

GRIEF-HOW LIGHTENED

OME from the feeling of their grief are wrought

It easeth some, though none it ever cured,
to think their dolors others have endured.

APPEARANCES NOT TO BE TRUSTED

WE

E see the ships that in the main are tost
and many times by tempests wreckt and lost,

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had, at their launching from the haven's mouth,
a smooth sea and a calm gale from the south.

PROVIDENCE

UR indiscretion sometimes serves us well

teach us,

there's a Divinity that shapes our ends,
rough-hew them how we will.

LABOUR SWEETENS LEISURE

F all the year were playing holidays,

work;

should

but when they seldom come, they wished-for come, and nothing pleaseth but rare accidents.

THE SAME

W. SHAKESPEARE

TIO qui nescit uti plus negotii habet,

OTI

quam quum est negotium in negotio;
nam quoi quod agat institum est, in illo negotio

id agit: studet ibei, mentem atque animum delectat

suum.

Otioso in animo animus nescit quid sibi velit.

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Q. ENNIVS

INGRATITUDE most CONTEMPTIBLE NGRATITUDE is more hateful in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness; or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood.

PATIENCE EASILY PREACHT TO OTHERS

AWRETCHED soul bruised with adversity

we bid be quiet when we hear it cry;
but were we burdened with like weight of pain,
as much or more we should ourselves complain.

THE SAME

IS all men's office to speak patience

'TIS

to those who wring under the load of sorrow;

but no man's virtue nor sufficiency

to be so moral, when he shall endure

the like himself.

W. SHAKESPEARE

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THE SAME

EC vero tanta præditus sapientia

NEC

quisquam est, qui aliorum ærumnam dictis
allevans;

non idem, quum Fortuna mutata impetum
convertat, clade subita frangatur sua,

ut illa ad alios dicta et præcepta excidant.

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UID petam

ANDROMACHE

L. ACCIVS

præsidii? quid exsequar? quò nunc aut exilio aut

fuga

freta sim? arce et urbe sum orba, quo accedam? quo

applicem ? quoi nec patriæ aræ domi stant; fractæ et disjectæ jacent ; fana flamma deflagrata, tosti alti stant parietes.

LOVE OF LUCRE

Q. ENNIVS

NON ego omnino lucrum omne esse utile homini

existumo,

scio ego: multos iam lucrum luculentos homines reddidit: est etiam ubi profecto damnum præstet facere quam lucrum :

odi ego aurum: multa multis sæpe suasit perperam.

VIR

VIRTUE

T. M. PLAVTVS

VIRTUS præmium est optimum: virtus omnibus rebus anteit profecto: Libertas, salus, vita res, parentes, patria et prognati, tutantur, servantur: virtus omnia in se habet: omnia adsunt bona, quem [penes est virtus.

T. M. PLAVTVS

SOLICITVM ALIQVID LÆTIS INTERVENIT

SATIN parva res est voluptatum in vita atque in

ætate

agunda, præquam quod molestum est? ita quoique comparatum

est in ætate hominum, ita diis placitum, voluptatem ut

F. S.

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