ew their vernal bloom;
Returning moons their lustrous phase resume;
But man a second youth expects in vain.[14]

_Somadeva._

[14] Cf. Job, XIV, 7.

320.

Shall He to thee His aid refuse
Who clothes the swan in dazzling white,
Who robes in green the parrot bright,
The peacocks decks in rainbow hues?[15]

_Hitopadesa._

[15] Cf. Matt. VI, 25, 26.

321.

A bad man is as much pleased as a good man is distressed to speak
ill of others.

_Mahabharata._

322.

Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own
peculiar way.

_Goethe._

323.

There is such a grateful tickling in the mind of man in being
commended that even when we know the praises which are bestowed on
us are not our due, we are not angry with the author's insincerity.

_Feltham._

324.

Too much to lament a misery is the next way to draw on a remediless
mischief.

_R. Chamberlain._

325.

There is no remembrance which time doth not obliterate, nor pain
which death doth not put an end to.

_Cervantes._

326.

Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely
improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy
Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.

_Longfellow._

327.

Plans that are wise and prudent in themselves are rendered vain when
the execution of them is carried on negligently and with imprudence.

_Guicciardini._

328.

Every man stamps his value on himself. The price we challenge for
ourselves is given us. Man is made great or little by his own will.

_Schiller._

329.

Hath any wronged thee, be bravely revenged. Slight it, and the
work's begun; forgive it, and 'tis finished. He is below himself
that is not above an injury.

_Quarles._

330.

As gold is tried by the furnace, and the baser metal shown, so the
hollow-hearted friend is known by adversity.