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another hypocrisy, which is less innocent, because it imposes on the world. This is the affliction of such as aspire to the glory of a great and immortal sorrow: when time, which consumes all things, has worn out the grief which they really had, they still persist in their tears, lamentations, and sighs. They assume a mournful behaviour; and labour, by all their actions, to demonstrate that their affliction will not in the least abate till death. This disagreeable, this troublesome vanity, is common among ambitious women. As the sex bars all the paths to glory, they endeavour to render themselves celebrated by the ostentation of an inconsolable affliction. There is yet another species of tears, whose shallow springs easily overflow, and as easily dry away: we weep, to acquire the reputation of being tender; we weep, in order to be pitied; we weep, that we may be wept over; we even weep, to avoid the scandal of not weeping.

Maxims, xxv.-ROCHEFOUCAULT.

AGE, in Olden Times.

Reverence paid to

Age was authority

Against a buffoon, and a man had then
A certain reverence paid unto his years,
That had none due unto his life. So much
The sanctity of some prevail'd for others.

Every Man in his Humour, Act II. Scene v.
BEN JONSON.

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Old age is a tyrant, which forbids the pleasures of youth on pain of death.

Maxims, CCCXxx.-ROCHEFOUCAULT.

AGE. Weakness of Old

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

AGE.

Essay on Youth and Age.-LORD BACON.

Youthfulness in

Though gray our heads, our thoughts and aims are green! Like damaged clocks, whose hand and bell dissent; Folly sings six, while nature points at twelve.

Night Thoughts, v. Line 633.
EDWARD YOUNG.

AMBITION knows no Limit.

Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up

Thine own life's means!

Macbeth, Act II. Scene IV.-SHAKSPERE.

AMBITION. Absurdity of

Other ambition Nature interdicts;

Nature proclaims it most absurd in man,
By pointing at his origin, and end;

Milk, and a swathe, at first his whole demand;
His whole domain, at last, a turf or stone;

To whom, between, a world may seem too small.
Night Thoughts, VI. Line 341.

AMBITION.

Test of

EDWARD YOUNG.

When great men suffer themselves to be subdued by the length of their misfortunes, they discover that the strength of their ambition, not of their understanding, was that which supported them. They discover too, that, allowing for a little vanity, heroes are just like other men.

Maxims, XXXIII.-ROCHEFOUCAULT.

AMBITION. Folly of

There shall they rot-Ambition's honour'd fools!
Yes, honour decks the turf that wraps their clay!
Vain sophistry! in these behold the tools,
The broken tools, that tyrants cast away

By myriads, when they dare to pave their way
With human hearts-to what !—a dream alone.
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto I. Verse xlii.
LORD BYRON.

AMBITION and LOVE.

We

pass often from love to ambition: but we sel

dom return from ambition to love.

Maxims, XXXVII.-ROCHEFOUCAULT.

AMBITION and MODERATION.

Moderation must not claim the merit of combating and conquering ambition; for they can never exist in the same subject. Moderation is the languor and sloth of the soul; ambition its activity and ardour.

Maxims, XXXVI.-ROCHEFOUCAULT.

AMBITION and CHOLER.

Ambition is like choler, which is a humour that maketh men active, earnest, full of alacrity, and stirring, if it be not stopped; but if it be stopped, and cannot have its way, it becometh fiery, and thereby malign and

venomous.

Essay on Ambition.-LORD BACON.

ANGELS. Ministration of

How oft do they their silver bowers leave,
To come to succour us, that succour want?
How oft do they with golden pinions cleave
The flitting skies, like flying pursuivant
Against fowle fiends to aid us militant.
They for us fight, they watch and duly ward,
And their bright squadrons round about us plant;
And all for love, and nothing for reward:

Oh! why should heavenly God to man have such regard!

The Ministry of Angels.-EDMUND SPENSER.

ANGLING.

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 III. Scene I.
SHAKSPERE.

ANGUISH and DISCONTENT.

Corroding Anguish, soul-subduing pain,
And Discontent that clouds the fairest sky,—
A melancholy train.

Genius: An Ode.-H. K. WHITE.

ANIMALS. Against Cruelty to

Heaven's King

Keeps register of every thing,

And nothing may we use in vain :

Ev'n beasts must be with justice slain.

The Fawn.-ANDREW MARVEL.

ANTICIPATION and REALISATION.
"Tis an old lesson; Time approves it true,
And those who know it best, deplore it most;
When all is won that all desire to woo,

The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost:
Youth wasted, minds degraded, honour lost,
These are thy fruits, successful passion! these!
If, kindly cruel, early hope is crost,

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