332 2. HUNGER-HUNTING, &c. I, your glass, 3. 4. 5. Will modestly discover to yourself, That of yourself, which yet you know not of. Her voice was ever soft, SHAKSPEARE. Gentle, and low; an excellent thing in woman. Disguis'd humility is Both the swift and safest way to pride. SHAKSPEARE. SIR W. DAVENANT. Be wise; Soar not too high to fall, but stoop to rise. 6. Humility is eldest-born of virtue, MASSINGER. And claims the birthright at the throne of heaven, MURPHY. 7. Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot. MOORE's Loves of the Angels. HUNGER. (See APPETITE.) HUNTING.-(See FISHING.) HYPOCRISY.-(See DECEIT.) IDLENESS-INDUSTRY-PERSEVERANCE. 1. The rolling wheel, that runneth often round, The hardest steel in course of time doth tear; And drizzling drops, that often do rebound, The firmest flint doth in continuance wear. SPENSER'S Sonnets. 2. Who's born for sloth? To some we find 3. The ploughshare's annual toil assign'd; "Tis industry supports us all. See the issue of your sloth: GAY's Fables. Of sloth comes pleasure, of pleasure comes riot, Of spending comes want, of want comes theft, CHAPMAN AND JONSON. 4. Like clocks, one wheel another one must drive; Affairs by diligent labour only thrive. 5. For Hercules himself must yield to odds; 6. He whistled as he went, for want of thought. 7. And heard the everlasting yawn confess The pains and penalties of idleness. 8. Industrious habits in each bosom reign, And industry begets a love of gain. CHAPMAN. SHAKSPEARE. DRYDEN. POPE. GOLDSMITH'S Traveller. 9. Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt; Nothing's so hard, but search will find it out. HERRICK. That wins each godlike act, and plucks success 11. No more the irksome restlessness of rest Disturb'd him like an eagle in her nest, Whose whetted beak, and far pervading eye, 12. Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, And by her wary ways reform thine own. 13. HAVARD. BYRON'S Island. I would not waste my spring of youth 14. Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for every fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait. 15. The proudest motto for the young! SMART. HILLHOUSE. H. W. LONGfellow. "T will have a holy, cheering power- ALICE G. LEE. As blind men use to bear their noses higher Than those who have their eyes and sight entire. 2. As lookers-on feel most delight, That least perceive the juggler's sleight, The more they admire the sleight of hand. BUTLER. BUTLER'S Hudibras. 3. But 't is some justice to ascribe to chance The wrongs you must expect from ignorance: 4. By ignorance is pride increas'd; Those most assume who know the least: DAVENANT. GAY'S Fables. 5. The lamb thy riot dooms to death to-day, POPE'S Essay on Man. 6. Where ignorance is bliss, 't is folly to be wise. 7. With just enough of learning to misquote. GRAY. BYRON'S English Bards, &c. 336 IMAGINATION - IMMORTALITY, &c. 8. They cannot read, and so don't lisp in criticism; BYRON'S Beppo. 9. Who laughs to scorn the wisdom of the schools, And thinks the first of poets first of fools. SPRAGUE'S Curiosity. IMAGINATION.-(See FANCY.) IMMORTALITY-SOUL. 1. One thinks the soul is air; another, fire; DAVIES' Immortality of the Soul. 2. But, as the sharpest eye discerneth nought, DAVIES' Immortality of the Soul. 3. Whate'er of earth is form'd, to earth returns; SOMERVILE'S Chase. 4. The soul of man, a native of the skies, YOUNG'S Night Thoughts. 5. "Tis immortality't is that alone YOUNG'S Night Thoughts. |