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CARLYLE-Essays. Signs of the Times.

Every noble activity makes room for itself. A great mind is a good sailor, as a great heart is.

u. EMERSON-Voyage to England.

Our acts, our angels are, or good or ill,
Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
JOHN FLETCHER-- Upon an Honest
Man's Fortune. Line 37.

v.

The doing right alone teaches the value or the meaning of right; the doing it willingly, if the will is happily constituted; the doing it unwillingly, or under compulsion, if persuasion fails to convince.

20.

FROUDE-Short Studies on Great
Subjects. On Progress. Pt. III.

A fiery chariot, borne on buoyant pinions,
Sweeps near me now! I soon shall ready be
To pierce the ether's high unknown

dominions,

To reach new spheres of pure activity. GOETHE-Faust.

x.

That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers. HUTCHINSON-Inquiry; Concerning

y.

Moral Good and Evil. Sec. 3.

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Cries out for noble York and Somerset,

To beat assailing death from his weak legions. And whiles the honourable captain there Drops bloody sweat from his war wearied limbs.

e.

Henry VI. Pt. I. Act IV. Sc. 4.

His overthrow heap'd happiness upon him;
For then, and not till then, he felt himself,
And found the blessedness of being little.
f. Henry VIII. Act IV. Sc. 2.

Sweet are the uses of adversity;
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

J. As You Like It. Act. II. Sc. 1.

Then know, that I have little wealth to lose; A man I am cross'd with adversity.

h.

Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act IV.

Sc. 1. They can be meek that have no other cause, A wretched soul, bruis'd with adversity, We bid be quiet, when we hear it cry. i. Comedy of Errors. Act II. Sc. 1.

ADVICE.

The worst men often give the best advice: Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.

j. BAILEY-Festus. Sc. A Village Feast. She had a good opinion of advice,

Like all who give and eke receive it gratis, For which small thanks are still the market price,

Even where the article at highest rate is. k. BYRON-Don Juan. Canto XV. St. 29.

Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil where he is known.

1.

SAM'L JOHNSON-Boswell's Life of Johnson.

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