8. Vital principle, which keeps my heart Firm, 'mid the pressure of a thousand ills, MRS. S. MOWBRAY. FALSEHOOD-TRUTH - SINCERITY 1. He is a freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. 2. I cannot hide what I am: I must be CowPER. Sad when I have a cause, and smile at no man's 3. This, above all, to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. SHAKSPEARE. 4. In many looks the false heart's history SHAKSPEARE. Is writ, in moods, and frowns, and wrinkles strange, SHAKSPEARE. 5. Oh, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem, By that sweet ornament which truth doth give! The rose is fair, but fairer we it deem, For that sweet odour which doth in it live. SHAKSPEARE. 258 FALSEHOOD-TRUTH, &c. 6. I think good thoughts, while others write good words, 7. The man of pure and simple heart 8. What he says SHAKSPEARE. GAY's Fables. You may believe, and pawn your soul upon it. SHIRLEY. 9. "Twixt truth and error there's this diff'rence known, Error is fruitful, truth is only one. HERRICK. 10. Dishonour waits on perfidy. The villain C. JOHNSON. 11. Let falsehood be a stranger to thy lips. Shame on the policy that first began To tamper with the heart, to hide its thoughts! 12. When fiction rises, pleasing to the eye, Men will believe, because they love the lie; 13. The sages say, dame Truth delights to dwell,— HAVARD. CHURCHILL. DR. WOLCOT's Peter Pindar. 14. 15. It is not in the power Of Painting or of Sculpture to express CUMBERLAND's Philemon. Beyond all contradiction, The most sincere that ever dealt in fiction. BYRON'S Don Juan. BYRON'S Don Juan. 16. My smiles must be sincere, or not at all. 17. 'Tis strange, but true; for truth is always strange, How much would novels gain by the exchange! BYRON'S Don Juan. 18. I know the action was extremely wrong; I own it, I deplore it, I condemn it; But I detest all fiction, even in song, And so must tell the truth, howe'er you blame it. BYRON'S Don Juan. 19. I mean to show things as they really are, Not as they ought to be; for I avow That till we see what's what in fact, we're far BYRON'S Don Juan. 20. First, I would have thee cherish truth, As leading-star in virtue's train; Folly may pass, nor tarnish youth, But falsehood leaves a poison-stain. MISS ELIZA COOK. 21. Truth, crush'd to earth, shall rise again,- W. C. BRYANT. 260 FAME-NOTORIETY. FAME-NOTORIETY. 1. Death makes no conquest of this conqueror, For now he lives in fame though not in life. 2. Talk not to me of fond renown, the rude, 3. I courted fame but as a spur to brave And honest deeds; and who despises fame, SHAKSPEARE. 4. Knows he that mankind praise against their will, Is so much tickled from not hearing all? CROWN. MALLET. YOUNG'S Night Thoughts. 5. They, spider-like, spin out their precious all, YOUNG'S Night Thoughts. 6. With fame, in just proportion, envy grows; The man that makes a character, makes foes. 7. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, To scorn delights, and live laborious days. 8. The whole amount of that enormous fame, YOUNG. MILTON. POPE'S Essay on Man. 9. What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, even before our death. POPE'S Essay on Man. 10. Whose honours with increase of ages grow, As streams roll down, enlarging as they go. POPE'S Essay on Criticism. 11. A youth to fame, ere yet to manhood, known. 12. Absurd! to think to overreach the grave, And from the wreck of names to rescue ours: POPE. BLAIR'S Grave. 13. He left a name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. DR. JOHNSON. 14. And glory long has made the sages smile ; Than on the name a person leaves behind. BYRON'S Don Juan. 15. What is the end of fame? "Tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper: Some liken it to climbing up a hill, Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour. 16. And blaze with guilty glare thro' future time, BYRON'S English Bards, &c. 17. Far dearer the grave or the prison, Than the trophies of all who have risen MOORE. |