278
SHAKS.: _Othello,_ Act i., Sc. 3.
=Caution.=
Let every eye negotiate for itself
And trust no agent.
279
SHAKS.: _Much Ado,_ Act ii, Sc. 1.
Know when to speak; for many times it brings
Danger, to give the best advice to kings.
280
HERRICK: _Aph. Caution in Council,_
Vessels large may venture more,
But little boats should keep near shore.
281
FRANKLIN: _Poor Richard._
=Caverns.=
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
282
COLERIDGE: _Kubla Khan._
=Celibacy.=
But earthly happier is the rose distill'd,
Than that, which, withering on the virgin thorn,
Grows, lives and dies in single blessedness.
283
SHAKS.: _Mid. N. Dream,_ Act i., Sc. 1.
Our Maker bids increase; who bids abstain
But our destroyer, foe to God and man?
284
MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. iv., Line 748.
=Censure.=
Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe,
Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
285
POPE: _Iliad,_ Bk. x., Line 293.
=Ceremony.=
Ceremony was but devised at first
To set a gloss on faint deeds--hollow welcomes,
Recanting goodness, sorry ere 't is shown;
But where there is true friendship, there needs none.
286
SHAKS.: _Timon of A.,_ Act i., Sc. 2.
=Challenge.=
There I throw my gage,
To prove it on thee, to the extremest point
Of mortal breathing.
287
SHAKS.: _Richard II.,_ Act iv., Sc. 1.
=Chance.=
That power
Which erring men call Chance.
288
MILTON: _Comus,_ Line 587.
All nature is but art unknown to thee,
All chance, direction, which thou canst not see.
289
POPE: _Essay on Man,_ Epis. i., Line 289.
=Change.=
All but God is changing day by day.
290
CHARLES KINGSLEY: _Prometheus._
When change itself can give no more,
'T is easy to be true.
291
CHARLES SEDLEY: _Reasons for Constancy._
Let the great world spin forever down the ringing
grooves of change.
292
TENNYSON: _Locksley Hall,_ Line 182.
=Chaos.=
For he being dead, with him is beauty slain,
And, beauty dead, black chaos comes again.
293
SHAKS.: _Venus and A.,_ Line 1019.
Chaos of thought and passion, all confused;
Still by himself abused or disabused.
294
POPE: _Essay on Man,_ Epis. ii., Line 13.
=Character.=
There is a kind of character in thy life,
That to the observer doth thy history
Fully unfold.
295
SHAKS.: _M. for M.,_ Act i., Sc. 1.
Worth, courage, honor, these indeed
Your sustenance a
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