v. Ch. XX. Every one is the son of his own works. w. CHURCHILL--Independence. Line 471. There is the love of firmness without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to extravagant conduct. x. CONFUCIUS--Analects. What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small ma: seeks is in others. y. CONFUCIUS-Analects. His mind his kingdom, and his will his law. 2. COWPER-Truth. Line 405. Every man has at times in his mind the Ideal of what he should be, but is not. This ideal may be high and complete, or it may be quite low and insufficient; yet in all men that really seek to improve, it is better than the actual character. * * * Man never falls so low, that he can see nothing higher than himself. a. THEODORE PARKER-Critical and Miscellaneous Writings. Essay I. Yet, if he would, man cannot live all to this world. If not religious, he will be superstitious. If he worship not the true God, he will have his idols. b. THEODORE PARKER-Critical and Miscellaneous Writings. Essay I. Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. C. POPE-Rape of the Lock. Canto V. Line 123. See the same man, in vigour, in the gout; 'Tis from high Life high Characters are drawn; A Saint in Crape is twice a Saint in Lawn; Wise, if a minister; but, if a King, i. POPE-Moral Essays. Ep. I. Line 135. Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act II. Sc. 7. This eye shoots forth! How big imagination Moves in this lip! to the dumbness of the gesture One might interpret. a. Timon of Athens. Act I. Sc. 1. I do profess to be no less than I seem; to serve him truly, that will put me in trust; to love him that is honest; to converse with him that is wise, and says little; to fear judgment; to fight, when I cannot choose; and to eat no fish. b. King Lear. Act I. Sc. 4. I know him a notorious liar, Think him a great way fool, solely a coward; Yet these fix'd evils sit so fit in him, That they take place, when virtue's steely bones Look bleak in the cold wind. Which he wore. d. Cymbeline. Act IV. Sc. 2. Look, as I blow this feather from my face, Look, what thy soul holds dear, imagine it To lie that way thou go'st, not whence thou com'st; Suppose the singing birds, musicians; The grass whereon thou tread'st, the presence strew'd; The flowers, fair ladies; and thy steps, no Now the melancholy god protect thee: and the tailor make thy doublet of changeable taffata, for thy mind is a very opal. k. Twelfth Night. Act II. Sc. 4. Thou art, most rich, being poor; Most choice, forsaken; and most lov'd, despis'd. Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon. n. Though I am not splenetive and rash, To wound thy lord, thy king, thy governor; It blots thy beauty, as frosts do bite the meads; Confounds thy fame, as whirlwinds shake fair buds. What thou would'st highly, That would'st thou holily; would'st not play false, And yet would'st wrongly win. q. Macbeth. Act I. Sc. 5. Why, now I see there's mettle in thee, and even, from this instant, do build on thee a better opinion than ever before. Othello. Act IV. Sc. 2. I'm called away by particular business, but I leave my character behind me. S. SHERIDAN-School for Scandal. Act II. Sc. 2. Daniel Webster struck me much like a steam engine in trousers. t. SYDNEY SMITH-Lady Holland's Memoir. The most reasoning characters are often the easiest abashed. Nothing can work me damage, except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault. v. ST. BERNARD. |