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INTELLECT - INTENTION, &o.

Reason's progressive, Instinct is complete;
Swift Instinct leaps; slow Reason feebly climbs.
Brutes soon their zenith reach. In ages they
No more could know, do, covet, or enjoy.
Were man to live coeval with the sun,
The patriarch pupil would be learning still.

YOUNG'S Night Thoughts

The meaner tribe the coming storm foresees;
In the still calm the bird divines the breeze;
The ox, that grazes, shuns the poison-weed;
The unseen tiger frights afar the steed;
To man alone no kind foreboding shows
'The latent horror or the ambush'd foes;

O'er each blind moment hangs the funeral pall

Heaven shines, earth smiles, and night descends on all !

The New Timon

INTELLECT.-(See GENIUS.)

INTENTION. (See DESIGN.)

JAIL. (See IMPRISONMENT.)

.JEALOUSY-SUSPICION.

Foul jealousy! thou turnest love divine

To joyless dread, and mak'st the loving heart
With hateful thoughts to languish and to pine,
And feed itself with self-consuming smart:
Of all the passions of the mind, thou vilest art.
SPENSER'S Fairy Queen

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JEALOUSY - SUSPICION.

Beware of jealousy;

It is the green-eyed monster which doth make
The meat it feeds on.

The venom clamours of a jealous woman
Poison more deadly than a mad-dog's tooth.

Think'st thou I'd make a life of jealousy,
To follow all the changes of the moon

SHAKSPEARE

SHAKSPEARE

With fresh suspicions? No. to be once in doubt
Is- once to be resolv'd.

I'll see, before I doubt; when I doubt, prove:
And, on the proof, there is no more but this
Away, at once, with love and jealousy.

Trifles, light as air,

SHAKSPEARE

SHAKSPEARE.

Are to the jealous confirmations strong

As proofs of holy writ.

SHAKSPEARE.

Pale hag, infernal fury, pleasure's smart !—
Envious observer, prying in every part-

Suspicious, fearful, gazing still about thee-
O, would to God that love could be without thee!

DANIEL'S Rosamond.

Oh! the pain of pains,

Is when the fair one, whom our soul is fond of,
Gives transport, and receives it from another.

With groundless fear he thus his soul deceives,
What phrenzy dictates, jealousy believes.

YOUNG

GAY'S Dione

Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it:
For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

BYRON'S Don Juan.

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JOY-JUSTICE - KINDNESS,

For jealousy is but a kind

Of clap and gimcam of the mind,
The natural effect of love,

As other flames and achings prove.

BUTLER'S Hudibras

But there are storms, whose lightnings never glare-
Tempests, whose thunders never cease to roll;
The storms of Love when madden'd to despair-
The furious tempests of the jealous soul.

And jealousy, that doats and dooms,
And murders, yet adores!

ISAAC CLASON.

CHARLES SPRAGUE.

And shall we all condemn, and all distrust,
Because some men are false, and some unjust?
Forbid it, Heaven! for better 't were to be
Dup'd of the fond impossibility

Of light and radiance, which sleep's visions gave,
Than thus to live, Suspicion's bitter slave.

KINDNESS - PHILANTHROPY.

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks,
Shall win my love.

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SHAKSPEARE.

Sweet as refreshing dews, or summer showers,
To the long-parching thirst of drooping flowers;
Grateful as fanning gales to fainting swains;
And soft as trickling balm to bleeding pains,
Are thy kind words.

GAY's Dione,

Assail'd by scandal and the tongue of strife,
His only answer was a blameless life;
And he that forg'd, and he that threw the dart,
Had each a brother's interest in his heart.

Laugh at their jests and pranks that never fail,
Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale.

CowPER.

GOLDSMITH'S Traveller.

And he returns a friend who came a foe.

Who will not give

Some portion of his ease, his blood, his wealth,
For others' good, is a poor, frozen churl.

POPE.

It is in vain that we would coldly gaze

JOANNA BAILLIE.

On such as smile on us; the heart must Leap kindly back to kindness, though disgust Hath wean'd it from all worldlings.

BYRON'S Childe Harold.

The drying up a single tear has more
Of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.

BYRON'S Don Juan

Which seeks again those chords to bind
Which human woe hath rent apart;

To heal again the wounded mind,

And bind again the broken heart.

J. G. WHITTIER.

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KINGS-ROYALTY.

A little word in kindness spoken,

A motion, or a tear,

Has often heal'd the heart that's broken,

And made a friend sincere.

KINGS-ROYALTY.

O majesty!

When thou dost pinch thy bearer, thou dost sit

Like a rich armour worn in heat of day,

That scalds with safety.

Princes, that would their people should do well,

Must at themselves begin, as at the head;
For men, by their example, pattern out
Their imitations and regard of laws:

A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.

wretched state of kings! that standing high, Their faults are marks shot at by every eye.

BEN JONSON.

DECKER