FATE.

Success, the mark no mortal wit,
Or surest hand, can always hit:
For whatsoe'er we perpetrate,

We do but row, we're steered by Fate,
Which in success oft disinherits,

For spurious causes, noblest merits.
Hudibras, Pt. I. Canto I.

S. BUTLER.

Fate holds the strings, and men like children move But as they 're led: success is from above. Heroic Love, Act v. Sc. 1.

LORD LANSDOWNE.

Fate steals along with silent tread,
Found oftenest in what least we dread;
Frowns in the storm with angry brow,
But in the sunshine strikes the blow.
A Fable: Moral.

W. COWPER.

With equal pace, impartial Fate
Knocks at the palace, as the cottage gate.
Bk. I. Ode IV.

HORACE. Trans. of PH. FRANCIS.

Our wills and fates do so contrary run
That our devices still are overthrown;

Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own. Hamlet, Act iii. Sc. 2.

SHAKESPEARE.

What fates impose, that men must needs abide;
It boots not to resist both wind and tide.

King Henry VI., Pt. IV. Act iv. Sc. 3.

SHAKESPEARE.

Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate. Essay on Man, Epistle I.

A. POPE.

Let those deplore their doom,
Whose hope still grovels in this dark sojourn :
But lofty souls, who look beyond the tomb,
Can smile at Fate, and wonder how they mourn.
The Minstrel, Bk. I.

No living man can send me to the shades
Before my time; no man of woman born,
Coward or brave, can shun his destiny.
The Iliad, Bk. VI.

J. BEATTIE,

HOMER. Trans. of BRYANT.

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie,

Which we ascribe to Heaven: the fated sky Gives us free scope; only, doth backward pull Our slow designs, when we ourselves are dull. All's Well that Ends Well, Act i. Sc. 1.

SHAKESPEARE.

I'll make assurance doubly sure,

And take a bond of Fate.

Macbeth, Act iv. Sc. 1.

SHAKESPEARE.

Men at some time are masters of their fates;
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
Julius Cæsar, Act i. Sc. 2.

SHAKESPEARE.

Man is his own star, and the soul that can
Render an honest and a perfect man
Commands all light, all influence, all fate.
Nothing to him falls early, or too late.
Upon an Honest Man's Fortune.

There's a divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough-hew them how we will.

Hamlet, Act v. Sc. 2.

J. FLETCHER.

SHAKESPEARE.

FAULT.

Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud;
Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun,
And loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.
All men make faults.

Sonnet XXXV.

SHAKESPEARE.

Men still had faults, and men will have them still;

He that hath none, and lives as angels do,

Must be an angel.

On Mr. Dryden's Religio Laici.

W. DILLON.

Go to your bosom ;

Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know

That's like my brother's fault.

Measure for Measure, Act ii. Sc. 2.

And oftentimes excusing of a fault

SHAKESPEARE.

Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse,
As patches, set upon a little breach,
Discredit more in hiding of the fault
Than did the fault before it was so patched.
King John, Act iv. Sc. 2.

SHAKESPEARE.

Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it?
Why, every fault's condemned ere it be done.
Mine were the very cipher of a function,

To fine the faults whose fine stands in record,
And let go by the actor.

Measure for Measure, Act ii. Sc. 2.

SHAKESPEARE.

Her face is like the Milky Way i' the sky,— A meeting of gentle lights without a name. Breunoralt.

SIR J. SUCKLING.

A face with gladness overspread!
Soft smiles, by human kindness bred!

To a Highland Girl.

FAIRY.

W. WORDSWORTH,

They 're fairies! he that speaks to them shall die : I'll wink and couch; no man their sports must eye. Merry Wives of Windsor, Act v. Sc. 5.

SHAKESPEARE.

This is the fairy land: O, spite of spites!
We talk with goblins, owls, and elvish sprites.
Comedy of Errors, Act. ii. Sc. 2.

In silence sad,

SHAKESPEARE.

Trip we after the night's shade :
We the globe can compass soon,
Swifter than the wand'ring moon.

Midsummer Night's Dream, Act iv. Sc. 1.

SHAKESPEARE.

Fairies, black, gray, green, and white,

You moonshine revellers, and shades of night. Merry Wives of Windsor, Act v. Sc. 5. SHAKESPEARE.

Fairies use flowers for their charactery.

Merry Wives of Windsor, Act v. Sc. 5.

"Scarlet leather, sewn together,
This will make a shoe.
Left, right, pull it tight;
Summer days are warm;
Underground in winter,

Laughing at the storm!"

Lay your ear close to the hill,

SHAKESPEARE.

Do you not catch the tiny clamor,

Busy click of an elfin hammer,

Voice of the Leprecaun singing shrill
As he merrily plies his trade?
He's a span

And quarter in height.

Get him in sight, hold him fast,
And you 're a made

Man!

The Fairy Shoemaker.

W. ALLINGHAM.

Some say no evil thing that walks by night,
In fog, or fire, by lake or moorish fen,
Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost

That breaks his magic chains at curfew time,
No goblin, or swart fairy of the mine,
Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.

Comus.

I took it for a faery vision

Of some gay creatures of the element,
That in the colors of the rainbow live
And play i' th' plighted clouds.

Comus.

Oft fairy elves,

Whose midnight revels by a forest side,
Or fountain, some belated peasant sees,

Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon

Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth

MILTON.

MILTON.

Wheels her pale course, they on their mirth and dance
Intent, with jocund music charm his ear;

At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds.
Paradise Lost, Bk. I.

MILTON.

FAITH.

Faith is the subtle chain

Which binds us to the infinite; the voice
Of a deep life within, that will remain
Until we crowd it thence.

Sonnet: Faith.

E. O. SMITH.

Nor less I deem that there are Powers
Which of themselves our minds impress;
That we can feed this mind of ours
In a wise passiveness.

Expostulation and Reply.

W. WORDSWORTH.

One in whom persuasion and belief
Had ripened into faith, and faith become
A passionate intuition.

The Excursion, B. VII.

W. WORDSWORTH.

Faith builds a bridge across the gulf of Death,

To break the shock blind nature cannot shun, And lands Thought smoothly on the further shore. Night Thoughts, Night IV.

DR. E. YOUNG.

A bending staff I would not break,
A feeble faith I would not shake,

Nor even rashly pluck away

The error which some truth may stay, Whose loss might leave the soul without A shield against the shafts of doubt. Questions of Life.

J. G. WHITTIER.

I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope,
And gather dust and chaff, and call
To what I feel is Lord of all,

And faintly trust the larger hope.

In Memoriam, LIV.

A. TENNYSON.

The Power that led his chosen, by pillared cloud and flame,

Through parted sea and desert waste, that Power is still the same;

He fails not-He-the loyal hearts that firm on Him rely; So put your trust in God, my boys, and keep your powder dry.*

Oliver's Advice.

COLONEL W. BLACKER.

If faith produce no works, I see
That faith is not a living tree.
Thus faith and works together grow;
No separate life they e'er can know :
They 're soul and body, hand and heart:
What God hath joined, let no man part.
Dan and Jane.

Whose faith has centre everywhere,
Nor cares to fix itself to form.

In Memoriam, XXXIII.

H. MORE.

A. TENNYSON.

But who with filial confidence inspired,
Can lift to Heaven an unpresumptuous eye,
And smiling say, My Father made them all.
The Task, Bk. V. Winter Morning Walk.

FALSEHOOD.

W. COWPER.

I give him joy that 's awkward at a lie.

Night Thoughts, Night VIII.

DR. E. YOUNG.

For my part, if a lie may do thee grace,
I'll gild it with the happiest terms I have.

King Henry IV., Pt. I. Act v. Sc. 4.

SHAKESPEARE.

'Tis as easy as lying.

Hamlet, Act iii. Sc. 2.

SHAKESPEARE.

Some truth there was, but dashed and brewed with lies,

To please the fools, and puzzle all the wise.
Absalom and Achitophel.

J. DRYDEN.

* Cromwell, once when his troops were about crossing a river to attack the enemy, concluded an address with these words: "Put your trust in God; but mind to keep your powder dry."