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HUNGER-HUNTING, &c.

I, your glass,

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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

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The ploughshare's annual toil assign'd;
Some at the sounding anvil glow;
Some the swift-sliding shuttle throw;
Some, studious of the wind and tide,
From pole to pole our commerce guide;
While some, of genius more refin'd,
With head and tongue assist mankind.
In every rank, or great or small,

"Tis industry supports us all.

See the issue of your sloth:

GAY's Fables.

Of sloth comes pleasure, of pleasure comes riot,
Of riot comes disease, of disease comes spending,

Of spending comes want, of want comes theft,
And of theft comes hanging.

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;
And many strokes, tho' with a little axe,
Hew down, and fell the hardest timber'd oak.

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.

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That wins each godlike act, and plucks success
Even from the spear-proof crest of rugged danger.

11. No more the irksome restlessness of rest

Disturb'd him like an eagle in her nest,

Whose whetted beak, and far pervading eye,
Darts for a victim over all the sky.

12. Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, And by her wary ways reform thine own.

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HAVARD.

BYRON'S Island.

I would not waste my spring of youth
In idle dalliance: I would plant rich seeds,
To blossom in my manhood, and bear fruit
When I am old.

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!
Write it in lines of gold
Upon thy heart, and in thy mind
The stirring words. enfold:
And in misfortune's dreary hour,
Or fortune's prosperous gale,

SMART.

HILLHOUSE.

H. W. LONGfellow.

"T will have a holy, cheering power-
"There's no such word as fail!”,

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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,
And still the less they understand,

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:
None can the moulds of their creation choose,
We therefore should man's ignorance excuse;
When born too low to reach at things sublime,
'Tis rather their misfortune than their crime.

4. By ignorance is pride increas'd;

Those most assume who know the least:
Their own self-balance gives them weight,
But every other finds them light.

DAVENANT.

GAY'S Fables.

5. The lamb thy riot dooms to death to-day,
Had he thy reason, would he skip and play?
Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flowery food,
And licks the hand just rais'd to spill his blood.

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.

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IMAGINATION - IMMORTALITY, &c.

8. They cannot read, and so don't lisp in criticism;
Nor write, and so they don't affect the muse;
Were never caught in epigram or witticism;
Have no romances, sermons, plays, reviews.

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;
Another, blood diffus'd about the heart;
Another saith the elements conspire,
And to her essence each doth give a part.

DAVIES' Immortality of the Soul.

2. But, as the sharpest eye discerneth nought,
Except the sunbeam in the air do shine,
So the best soul, with her reflecting thought,
Sees not herself without some light divine.

DAVIES' Immortality of the Soul.

3. Whate'er of earth is form'd, to earth returns;
The soul alone, that particle divine,
Escapes the wreck of worlds, when all things fail.

SOMERVILE'S Chase.

4. The soul of man, a native of the skies,
High-born and free, her freedom should maintain
Unsold, unmortgag'd for earth's little bribes.

YOUNG'S Night Thoughts.

5. "Tis immortality't is that alone
Amid life's pains, abasements, emptiness,
The soul can comfort, elevate, and fill;
That only, and that amply this performs.

YOUNG'S Night Thoughts.

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