80. A thousand years scarce serve to form a state ;
An hour may lay it in the dust and when
Can man its shattered splendor renovate,

Recall its virtues back and vanquish Time and Fate?
Childe Harold-Canto 2, Stanza 84.

NEVER.

81. For time at last sets all things even:
And if we do but watch the hour,
There never yet was human power
Which could evade, if unforgiven,
The patient search and vigil long
Of him who treasures up a wrong.

Mazeppa.

BYRON.

BYRON.

82. Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways and be

wise.

Proverbs-Ch. 6, Ver. 6.

A HAPPY JUDGE.

83. Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes;
The glorious fault of angels and of gods :
Thence to their images on earth it flows,
And in the breasts of kings and heroes glows.
Elegy to the Memory of a Lady.

Bible.

POPE.

84. Things ill got have ever bad success. King Henry 6th, Third Part—Act 2, Sc. 2. A GNOME or a NUN.

SHAKSPEARE.

85. The quality of mercy is not strained;
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath: it is twice blessed,
It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes :
'Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown.
Merchant of Venice-Act 4, Sc. 1.
A BIRD.

SHAKSPEARE.

86. The pleasantest angling is to see the fish
Cut with her golden oars the silver stream,
And greedily devour the treacherous bait.
Much Ado about Nothing-Act 3, Sc. 1.
A SHOWY MEADOW.

-Neither man nor angel can discern

SHAKSPEARE.

87.

Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks
Invisible, except to God alone.

Paradise Lost.

MILTON.

88. I had rather have a fool to make me merry, than experience

-Man, proud man,

Drest in a little brief authority;

Most ignorant of what he's most assured;

SHAKSPEARE.

Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven,
As make the angels weep.

Measure for Measure—Act 2, Sc. 2.

WELL KNOWN.

SHAKSPEARE.

90. Hail, Memory, hail! in thy exhaustless mine
From age to age unnumbered treasures shine.
Thought and her shadowy brood thy call obey,
And place and time are subject to thy sway.
Thy pleasures most we feel when most alone,
The only pleasures we can call our own.
Pleasures of Memory.

ROGERS.

91. Dear is the helpless creature we defend

Against the world; and dear the schoolboy spot
We ne'er forget, though there we are forgot.

92. If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,

BYRON.

The appetite may sicken and so die.-
That strain again ;—it had a dying fall :
O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south,
That breathes upon a bank of violets,

Stealing and giving odor.-Enough: no more;
'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.

Twelfth Night-Act 1, Sc. 1.

RED-HOT.

SHAKSPEARE.

93. This is the state of man: To-day he puts forth
The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms,
And bears his blushing honors thick upon him:
The third day comes a frost, a killing frost;
And when he thinks, good easy man, full surely
His greatness is a ripening, nips his root,

And then he falls, as I do.

King Henry 8th-Act 3, Sc. 2.

A NEW LEMON.

94. The man that hath no music in himself,

SHAKSPEARE.

Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,

Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils;
The motions of his spirit are dull as night,
And his affectious dark as Erebus:

Let no such man be trusted.

Merchant of Venice-Act 5, Sc. 1.

BLOOD.

SHAKSPEARE.

95. 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours;
And ask them what report they bore to Heaven;
And how they might have borne more welcome news.
Night Thoughts.

96.

-Satan can cite Scripture for his purpose.
An evil soul producing holy witness,

Is like a villain with a smiling cheek;
A goodly apple rotten at the heart;
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
Merchant of Venice-Act 1, Sc. 3.
ΒΟΤΤΟΜ.

YOUNG.

SHAESPEARE.

97.

98.

O heaven! that one might read the book of fate,
And see the revolution of the times

Make mountains level, and the continent
(Weary of solid firmness) melt itself

Into the sea! and, * * how chances mock
And changes fill the cup of alteration

With divers liquors! O, if this were seen,

The happiest youth,-viewing his progress through,
What perils past, what crosses to ensue,-

Would shut the book, and sit him down, and die. King Henry 4th, Second Part-Act 3, Sc. 1.

DEEP MAD.

SHAKSPEARE.

If thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his

head.

Romans-Ch. 12, Ver. 20.

BIBLE.

WEARY ATHENIANS.

99.

Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan
The outward habit by the inner man.
Pericles, Prince of Tyre-Act 2, Sc. 2.
A MUMMY or a NINNY.

SHAKSPEARE.

100. Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither

moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not

Bane of elated life; of affluent states,

What dreary change, what ruin is not thine ?
How doth thy bowl intoxicate the mind!

To the soft entrance of thy rosy cave

How dost thou lure the fortunate and great!

Dreadful attraction.

Ruins of Rome.

BIBLE

DYER.

102. The weary sun hath made a golden set,
And by the bright track of his fiery car,
Gives token of a goodly day to-morrow.
King Richard 3rd-Act 5, Sc. 3.

A NEW REALM.

SHAKSPEARE.

103.

-The southern wind

Doth play the trumpet to his purposes;
And by his hollow whistling in the leaves,
Foretells a tempest and a blustering day.

King Henry 4th, First Part-Act 5, Sc. 1. SHAKSPEARE.
A WHEAT FIELD.

104. The truly brave are generous to the fallen.

Marino Faliero

BYRON.

105. Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what

a day may bring forth.

Proverbs-Ch. 27, Ver. 1.

BIBLE.

A BANQUET.

106. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,
And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave,
Await alike th' inevitable hour,—

The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Elegy written in a country church-yard.

107. Virtue and knowledge are endowments greater

Than nobleness and riches: careless heirs

May the two latter darken and expend;

But immortality attends the former,

Making a man a god.

Pericles, Prince of Tyre-Act 3, Sc. 2.

The HOME of MAMMON.

GRAY.

SHAKSPEARE.

108. While reading pleases, but no longer, read;
And read aloud, resounding Homer's strain
And wield the thunder of Demosthenes.
The chest so exercised, improves its strength.
Art of Preserving Health.

ARMSTRONG.