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Magnanimity

OTHING emboldens sin so much as mercy.

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Timon of Athens. Act III, Sc. 5.

EN must learn now with pity to dispense,

For policy sits above conscience.

Timon of Athens. Act III, Sc. 2.

THOUGH

HOUGH with their high wrongs I am
struck to the quick,

Yet with my nobler reason 'gainst my fury
Do I take part.

The rarer action is

In virtue than in vengeance. They being
penitent,

The sole drift of my purpose doth extend
Not a frown further.

The Tempest. Act V, Sc. 1.

A Margin for Humanity

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GENEROSITY

REASON not the need! Our basest beggars

Are in the poorest thing superfluous.

Allow not nature more than nature needs,
Man's life's as cheap as beast's.

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King Lear. Act II, Sc. 4.

IS not enough to help the feeble up,
But to support him after.

The Good Samaritan

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`HE mind shall banquet, though the body
pine.

Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits
Make rich the ribs, but bankrupt quite the
wits. Love's Labour's Lost. Act I, Sc. 1.

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MALL herbs have grace, great weeds do
grow a pace.

Richard III. Act II, Sc. 4.

UPERFLUOUS branches

We lop away, that bearing boughs may
live.

King Richard II. Act III, Sc. 4.

High Thought Simple Living

Gardening

Prun

ing

The

Happy
Mean

Truth and Display

Fortune's Ex

cesses

FOR

`OR aught I see, they are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing. It is no mean happiness, therefore, to be seated in the mean. Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.

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Merchant of Venice. Act I, Sc. 2.

UR purses shall be proud, our garments poor;

For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich;
And as the sun breaks through the darkest
clouds,

So honour peereth in the meanest habit.
What, is the jay more precious than the lark,
Because his feathers are more beautiful?
Or is the adder better than the eel,

Because his painted skin contents the eye?
The Taming of the Shrew. Act IV, Sc. 3.

ILL Fortune never come with both

W hands full,

But write her fair words still in foulest letters?
She either gives a stomach and no food;
Such are the poor, in health; or else a feast

away

And takes the stomach; such are the rich
That have abundance and enjoy it not.
King Henry IV. Part II, Act IV, Sc. 4.

I

AM a true laborer. I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other men's good, content with my own harm, and the greatest of my pride is to see my ewes graze and my lambs suck. As You Like It. Act III, Sc. 2.

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HOUGHTS tending to ambition, they do
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Unlikely wonders. Richard II. Act V, Sc. 5.

OUT 'tis a common proof,

BUT

That lowliness is young Ambition's lad-
der,

Whereto the climber-upward turns his face;
But when he once attains the upmost round,
He then unto the ladder turns his back,
Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees
By which he did ascend.

Julius Cæsar. Act II, Sc. 1.

Bucolic Pride

The

Folly of the Ambitious

Their Ingratitude

Ambi

tion a Shadow's

Shadow

The

Hind and the

Lion

Payment for

Poison

Inheritance

THE

substance of the ambitious is very merely the shadow of a dream. A dream itself is but a shadow; and I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow's shadow.

Hamlet. Act II, Sc. 2.

HE hind that would be mated by the lion
Must die for love.

ΤΗ

All's Well That Ends Well. Act I, Sc. I.

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AVARICE

HERE is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls,

Doing more murder in this loathsome world,
Than these poor compounds that thou may'st
not sell.

I sell thee poison; thou hast sold me none.
Romeo and Juliet. Act V, Sc. I.

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OW quickly nature falls into revolt,
When gold becomes her object!
For this the foolish, over-careful fathers

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