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Evangeline. Part i. 3.
And as she looked around, she saw how Death the consoler, Laying his hand upon many a heart, had healed it forever.
Evangeline. Part ii. 5.
God had sifted three kingdoms to find the wheat for this planting.[616-1]
The Courtship of Miles Standish. iv.
Into a world unknown,--the corner-stone of a nation![616-2]
The Courtship of Miles Standish. iv.
Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame.[616-3]
The Ladder of Saint Augustine.
The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they while their companions slept Were toiling upward in the night.
The Ladder of Saint Augustine.
The surest pledge of a deathless name Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken.
The Herons of Elmwood.
He has singed the beard of the king of Spain.[616-4]
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โโMan in sooth is a marvellous, vain, fickle, and unstable subject.[774:2]
Book i. Chap. i. That Men by various Ways arrive at the same End.
โโAll passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate.[774:3]
Book i. Chap. ii. Of Sorrow.
โโIt is not without good reason said, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.[774:4]
Book i. Chap. ix. Of Liars.
โโHe who should teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.[774:5]
Book i. Chap. xviii. That Men are not to judge of our Happiness till after Death.
โโThe laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from custom.
Book i. Chap. xxii. Of Custom.
โโAccustom him to everything, that he may not be a Sir Paris, a carpet-knight,[774:6] but a sinewy, hardy, and vigorous young man.
Book i. Chap. xxv. Of the Education of Children.
โโWe were halves throughout, and to that degree that methinks by outliving him I defraud him of his part.
Book i. Chap. xxvii. Of Friendship.
โโThere are some defeats more triumphant than victories.[774:7]
Book i. Chap. xxx. Of Cannibals.
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โโNothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
Book i. Chap. xxxi. Of Divine Ordinances.
โโA wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
Book i. Chap. xxxviii. Of Solitude.
โโEven opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life.
Book i. Chap. xl. Of Good and Evil.
โโPlato says, "'T is to no purpose for a sober man to knock at the door of the Muses;" and Aristotle says "that no excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of folly."[775:1]
Book ii. Chap. ii. Of Drunkenness.
โโFor a desperate disease a desperate cure.[775:2]
Book ii. Chap. iii. The Custom of the Isle of Cea.
โโAnd not to serve for a table-talk.[775:3]
Book ii. Chap. iii. The Custom of the Isle of Cea.
โโTo which we may add this other Aristotelian consideration, that he who confers a benefit on any one loves him better than he is beloved by him again.[775:4]
Book ii. Chap. viii. Of the Affection of Fathers.
โโThe middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us.
Book ii. Chap. x. Of Books.
โโThe only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write.
Book ii. Chap. x. Of Books.
โโShe [virtue] requires a rough and stormy passage; she will have either outward difficulties to wrestle with,[775:5] . . . or internal difficulties.
Book ii. Chap. xi. Of Cruelty.
โโThere is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants.
Book ii. Chap. xi. Of Cruelty.
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โโSome impose upon the world that they believe that which they do not; others, more in number, make themselves believe that they believe, not being able to penetrate into what it is to believe.
Book ii. Chap. xii. Apology for Raimond Sebond.
โโWhen I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?
Book ii. Chap. xii. Apology for Raimond Sebond.
โโ'T is one and the same Nature that rolls on her course, and whoever has sufficiently considered the present state of things might certainly conclude as to both the future and the past.[776:1]
Book ii. Chap. xii. Apology for Raimond Sebond.
โโThe souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mould. . . . The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbour causes a war betwixt princes.
Book ii. Chap. xii. Apology for Raimond Sebond.
โโMan is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.
Book ii. Chap. xii. Apology for Raimond Sebond.
โโWhy may not a goose say thus: "All the parts of the universe I have an interest in: the earth serves me to walk upon, the sun to light me; the stars have their influence upon me; I have such an advantage by the winds and such by the waters; there is nothing that yon heavenly roof looks upon so favourably as me. I am the darling of Nature! Is it not man that keeps and serves me?"[776:2]
Book ii. Chap. xii. Apology for Raimond Sebond.
โโArts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are formed and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing, as bears leisurely lick their cubs into form.[776:3]
Book ii. Chap. xii. Apology for Raimond Sebond.
โโHe that I am reading seems always to have the most force.
Book ii. Chap. xii. Apology for Raimond Sebond.
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โโApollo said that every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.[777:1]
Book ii. Chap. xii. Apology for Raimond Sebond.
โโHow many worthy men have we seen survive their own reputation![777:2]
Book ii. Chap. xvi. Of Glory.
โโThe mariner of old said to Neptune in a great tempest, "O God! thou mayest save me if thou wilt, and if thou wilt thou mayest destroy me; but whether or no, I will steer my rudder true."[777:3]
Book ii. Chap. xvi. Of Glory.
โโOne may be humble out of pride.
Book ii. Chap. xvii. Of Presumption.
โโI find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.
Book ii. Chap. xx. That we taste nothing pure.
โโSaying is one thing, doing another.
Book ii. Chap. xxxi. Of Anger.
โโIs it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre?[777:4]
Book ii. Chap. xxxvi. Of the most Excellent Men.
โโNature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
Book ii. Chap. xxxvii. Of the Resemblance of Children to their Brothers.
โโThere never was in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity.[777:5]
Book ii. Chap. xxxvii. Of the Resemblance of Children to their Fathers.
โโThe public weal requires that men should betray and lie and massacre.
Book iii. Chap. i. Of Profit and Honesty.
โโLike rowers, who advance backward.[777:6]
Book iii. Chap. i. Of Profit and Honesty.
โโI speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little the more as I grow older.
Book iii. Chap ii. Of Repentance.
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โโFew men have been admired by their own domestics.[778:1]
Book iii. Chap. ii. Of Repentance.
โโIt happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.[778:2]
Book iii. Chap. v. Upon some Verses of Virgil.
โโAnd to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one.
Book iii. Chap. v. Upon some Verses of Virgil.
โโAll the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.
Book iii. Chap. v. Upon some Verses of Virgil.
โโ'T is so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so. The strange lustre that surrounds him conceals and shrouds him from us; our sight is there broken and dissipated, being stopped and filled by the prevailing light.[778:3]
Book iii. Chap. vii. Of the Inconveniences of Greatness.
โโWe are born to inquire after truth; it belongs to a greater power to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said, hid in the bottom of the deeps, but rather elevated to an infinite height in the divine knowledge.[778:4]
Book iii. Chap. viii. Of the Art of Conversation.
โโI moreover affirm that our wisdom itself, and wisest consultations, for the most part commit themselves to the conduct of chance.[778:5]
Book iii. Chap. viii. Of the Art of Conversation.
โโWhat if he has borrowed the matter and spoiled the form, as it oft falls out?[778:6]
Book iii. Chap. viii. Of the Art of Conversation.
โโThe oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.[778:7]
Book iii. Chap. ix. Of Vanity.
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โโNot because Socrates said so, . . . I look upon all men as my compatriots.
Book iii. Chap. ix. Of Vanity.
โโMy appetite comes to me while eating.[779:1]
Book iii. Chap. ix. Of Vanity.
โโThere is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
Book iii. Chap. ix. Of Vanity.
โโSaturninus said, "Comrades, you have lost a good captain to make him an ill general."
Book iii. Chap. ix. Of Vanity.
โโA little folly is desirable in him that will not be guilty of stupidity.[779:2]
Book iii. Chap. ix. Of Vanity.
โโHabit is a second nature.[779:3]
Book iii. Chap. x.
โโWe seek and offer ourselves to be gulled.
Book iii. Chap. xi. Of Cripples.
โโI have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
Book iii. Chap. xi. Of Cripples.
โโMen are most apt to believe what they least understand.
Book iii. Chap. xi. Of Cripples.
โโI have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that ties them together.
Book iii. Chap. xii. Of Physiognomy.
โโAmongst so many borrowed things, I am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.[779:4]
Book iii. Chap. xii. Of Physiognomy.
โโI am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.
Book iii. Chap. xiii. Of Experience.
โโThere is more ado to interpret interpretations than to interpret the things, and more books upon books than upon all other subjects; we do nothing but comment upon one another.
Book iii. Chap. xiii. Of Experience.
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โโFor truth itself has not the privilege to be spoken at all times and in all sorts.
Book iii. Chap. xiii. Of Experience.
โโThe diversity of physical arguments and opinions embraces all sorts of methods.
Book iii. Chap. xiii. Of Experience.
โโLet us a little permit Nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.
Book iii. Chap. xiii. Of Experience.
โโI have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than
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