5. O grant me, Heaven! a middle state, Neither too humble, nor too great; MALLET. 6. Be honest poverty thy boasted wealth; So shall thy friendships be sincere tho' few; So shall thy sleep be sound, thy waking cheerful. HAVARD. 7. Want is a bitter and a hateful good, Yet many things, impossible to thought, Because its virtues are not understood; Have been by need to full perfection brought. 8. But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page, Rich with the spoils of time, did ne'er unfold; Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul. DRYDEN. GRAY'S Elegy. 9. What numbers, once in fortune's lap high-fed, YOUNG'S Night Thoughts. 10. Aye idleness!—the rich folks never fail To find some reason why the poor deserve Their miseries. 11. But poverty, with most who whimper forth Their long complaints, is self-inflicted woe, Th' effect of laziness, or sottish waste. SOUTHEY. COWPER'S Task. 346 12. 13. INDUSTRY - INGENUOUSNESS, &c. O, blissful poverty ! Nature, too partial to thy lot, assigns Health, freedom, innocence, and downy peace- He views, with keen desire, The rusty grate, unconscious of a fire. FENTON. GOLDSMITH. 14. But for pride, We had not felt our poverty, but as BYRON'S Werner. Millions of myriads feel it, cheerfully. 15. Behold yon grey-hair'd prisoner, who reclines, The snow-white beard that hangs adown his breast. J. T. WATSON. INDUSTRY.—(See IDLENESS.) INGENUOUSNESS.-(See FRANKNESS.) INGRATITUDE. (See GRATITUDE.) INJURY-WRONG. 1. It often falls, in course of common life, That Right longtime is overborne of Wrong, 2. Things ill begun strengthen themselves in ill. 3. Mar not the things that cannot be amended. SHAKSPEARE. SHAKSPEARE. 4. The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on, And doves will fight in safeguard of their brood. 5. I see the right, and I approve it too, SHAKSPEARE. Condemn the wrong, but yet the wrong pursue. 6. Then furl your banners - better far The sun ne'er shone on "Stripe and Star," Or lead the van to unjust fight. 7. "Tis wrong to sleep in church What you can never pay 't is wrong to borrow -'t is wrong to touch With unkind words the heart that pines in sorrow — 'Tis wrong to scold too loud—to eat too much ; 'Tis wrong to put off acting till to-morrow – J. T. WATSON. 348 INJUSTICE-JUSTICE - RIGHT. INJUSTICE-JUSTICE - RIGHT. - 1. Nought is on earth more sacred or divine, That gods and men do equally adore, Than this same virtue, that doth right define; For th' heavens themselves, whence mortal men implore SPENSER'S Fairy Queen. 2. This, above all, to thine own self be true, And it will follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. 3. 4. Plate sins in gold, SHAKSPEARE. And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks; Yes, let the traitor die, For sparing justice feeds iniquity. 5. Justice, when equal scales she holds, is blind; 6. Just men are only free, the rest are slaves. SHAKSPEARE. SHAKSPEARE. DENHAM. CHAPMAN. 7. And Justice, while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes. BUTLER'S Hudibras. 8. O! how glorious 't is To right th' oppress'd, and bring the felon vile To just disgrace! SOMERVILE'S Chase. 9. And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One thing is clear whatever is, is right. POPE'S Essay on Man. 10. For forms of government let fools contest: POPE'S Essay on Man. 11. He's poor, and that's suspicious-he's unknown, 12. He who is only just, is cruel: who BYRON'S Werner. Upon the earth would live, were all judg'd justly? BYRON'S Marino Faliero. 13. All are not just because they do no wrong; Who in their petty dealings pilfer not, But him, whose conscience spurns at secret fraud, CUMBERLAND'S Philemon. INNOCENCE - PURITY. SHAKSPEARE. 1. For unstain'd thoughts do seldom dream on evil. At a false accusation doth the more Confirm itself; and guilt is best discover'd NABB. |