ENJOYMENT, &c.

8. The spider's most attenuated web

Is cord-is cable, to man's tender tie Of earthly bliss; it breaks at every breeze. YOUNG'S Night Thoughts. 9. What thing so good which not some harm may bring? Even to be happy is a dangerous thing.

LORD STERLINE.

10. They live too long who happiness outlive; For life and death are things indifferent; Each to be chose, as either brings content.

11. If solid happiness we prize,

Within our breast this jewel lies,

And they are fools who roam;
The world has nothing to bestow;
From our own selves our joys must flow,
And that dear hut-our home.

12. A perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.

13. He that holds fast the golden mean, And lives contentedly between The little and the great,

Feels not the wants that pinch the poor,
Nor plagues that haunts the rich man's door,
Embittering all his state.

14. Pleasures, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.

DRYDEN.

COWPER'S Task.

COWPER'S Horace.

15. Who that define it, say they more or less Than this, that happiness is happiness?

COTTON.

POPE'S Essay on Man.

16. Know then this truth, (enough for man to know,) Virtue alone is happiness below.

POPE'S Essay on Man.

POPE'S Essay on Man.

17. Condition, circumstance is not the thing-
Bliss is the same in subject or in king;
In who obtain defence, or who defend,
In him who is, or him who finds, a friend.

18. For the wild bliss of nature needs alloy, And fear and sorrow fan the fires of joy.

19. I cannot think of sorrow now; and doubt
If e'er I felt it 't is so dazzled from
My memory, by this oblivious transport.

POPE'S Essay on Man.

20. There is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

BYRON'S Werner.

21. Love-fame-ambition-avarice-'t is the same, For all are meteors with a different name.

BYRON'S Don Juan.

CAMPBELL.

Am I already mad?

And does delirium utter such sweet words
Into a dreamer's ear?

BYRON'S Childe Harold.

BULWER'S Lady of Lyons.

23. Oh! happy pair, to every blessing born!
For you may life's calm stream unruffled run ;
For you its roses bloom without a thorn,

And bright as morning shine its evening sun!

24. And may the stream of thy maturing life

For ever flow, in blissful sunlight, through
A fairy scene with gladsome beauty rife,
As ever greeted the enraptur'd view.!

25. The rapture dwelling within my breast,
And fondly telling its fears to rest,
Comes o'er me, wearing its charmed chain,
No vestige learning of sorrow's chain.

R. T. PAINE.

A. W. NONEY.

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26. Too late I find how madly vain our toil
In search of happiness on mortal soil;
The gilded phantom we so dearly prize,
A moment glitters, then for ever flies.

27. The highest hills are miles below the sky,
And so far is the lightest heart below
True happiness.

BAILEY'S Festus.

28. My life has been like summer skies
When they are fair to view;
But there never yet were hearts or skies,
Clouds might not wander through.

29. Pleasure's the only noble end,

MRS. L. P SMITH.

To which all human powers should tend;
And virtue gives her heavenly lore,
But to make pleasure please us more.

MOORE.

30. Gone-like a meteor, that o'er head Suddenly shines, and ere we've said "Look! look, how beautiful!"—'t is fled! MOORE's Loves of the Angels.

31. How deep, how thorough-felt the glow
Of rapture, kindling out of wo!
How exquisite one single drop
Of bliss, that, sparkling to the top
Of misery's cup!-how keenly quaff'd,
Though death must follow in the draught.

MOORE'S Lalla Rookh.

32. For she hath liv'd with heart and soul alive
To all that makes life beautiful and fair;
Sweet thoughts, like honey bees, have made their hive
Of her soft bosom cell, and cluster there.

MRS. A. B. WELBY.

33. There are some hours that pass so soon, Our spell-touch'd hearts scarce know they end. MRS. A. B. WELBY.

34. May thy soul with pleasure shine, Lasting as the gloom of mine!

CHARLES Wolfe.

35. Ah Pauline! who can gaze upon thee now,
And watch thy cheek all beaming with delight,
Nor grieve to think that thou so soon shalt know
Despair, and grief, and sorrow's withering blight!
J. T. WATSON.

36. May friendship open unto you

2.

The path of peace and holy love;
May life continual joys renew;

May hope not too deceptive prove ;—
May sweet contentment round you throw
Such bliss as may be found below!

ENTERPRISE. (See ACTIVITY.)

ENTHUSIASM - ZEAL.

1. No seared conscience is so fell

As that which has been burnt with zeal;
For Christian charity's as well
A great impediment to zeal,

As zeal a pestilent disease
To Christian charity and peace.

Zeal and duty are not slow;

But on occasion's forelock watchful wait.

J. T. WATSON.

BUTLER.

MILTON'S Paradise Regained.

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3.

ENVY-EQUALITY.

His zeal

None seconded, as out of reason judg'd,
Or singular and rash.

7.

MILTON'S Paradise Regained.

4. No wild enthusiast ever yet could rest,
Till half mankind were like himself possess'd.

5. On such a theme 't were impious to be calm; Passion is reason, transport, temper, here! YOUNG'S Night Thoughts.

6. For virtue's self may too much zeal be had : The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

-With all the zeal
Which young and fiery converts feel,
Within whose heated bosoms throngs
The memory of a thousand wrongs.

8. And rash enthusiasm, in good society, Were nothing but a moral inebriety.

BYRON'S Siege of Corinth.

CowPER.

9. But faith, fanatic faith, once wedded fast
To some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last.

BYRON'S Don Juan.

POPE.

ENVY. (See CALUMNY.)

MOORE'S Lalla Rookh.

EQUALITY-SUPERIORITY.

1. Consider, man; weigh well thy frame,
The king, the beggar, are the same;
Dust form'd us all. Each breathes his day,
Then sinks into his native clay.

GAY's Fables.