In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies;
All quit their sphere and rush into the skies.
Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes,
Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
a. POPE-Essay on Man. Ep. I. L. 124.
Thus unlamented pass the proud away,
The gaze of fools and pageant of a day;
So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to
glow

For others' good, or melt at others' woe.

b. POPE-Memory of an Unfortunate Lady. L. 4.

What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

BYRON-Sonnet. On Chillon. Introductory to Prisoner of Chillon. Whene'er with haggard eyes I view This dungeon that I'm rotting in, I think of those companions true Who studied with me at the UNiversity of Göttingen. CANNING-Song. Of One Eleven Years in Prison.

u.

Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage;
Minds innocent and quiet take
That for an hermitage.

V.

LOVELACE-To Althea, from Prison. IV.

I have been studying how I may compare
This prison where I live unto the world:
And for because the world is populous
And here is not a creature but myself,
I cannot do it; yet I'll hammer it out.
w. Richard II. Act V. Sc. 5. L. 1.

GEORGE ELIOT-Spanish Gypsy.
Bk. III. Song.

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings, goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury, and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.

g.

HENRY GEORGE-Progress and Poverty.
Introductory. The Problem.

To look up and not down,
To look forward and not back,
To look out and not in-and
To lend a hand.

You never bade me hope, 'tis true;
I asked you not to swear:
But I looked in those eyes of blue,
And read a promise there.

p.

GERALD GRIFFIN-You Never Bade Me Hope, 'Tis True. We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears.

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LA ROCHEFOUCAULD—Maxims. No. 39. And be these juggling fiends no more believ'd, That palter with us in a double sense : That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope.

r. Macbeth. Act V. Sc. 8. L. 19. His promises were, as he then was, mighty; But his performance, as he is now, nothing. 8. Henry VIII. Act IV. Sc. 2. L. 41. Thy promises are like Adonis' gardens That one day bloomed and fruitful were the next.

t. Henry VI. Pt. I. Act I. Sc. 6. L. 6. There buds the promise of celestial worth. YOUNG-The Last Day. Bk. III. L. 317.

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PROPHECY.

Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life!
The evening beam that smiles the clouds away,
And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray!
V. BYRON-Bride of Abydos. Canto II.
St. 20.

j.

ALAIN RENÉ Le Sage-Gil Blas.

Bk. VII. Ch. IV. Henri Van Laun's trans. Surer to prosper than prosperity could have assur'd us.

k. MILTON-Paradise Lost. Bk. II. L. 39. Prosperity's the very bond of love.

1. Winter's Tale. Act IV. Sc. 4. L. 584. There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny: the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops; and I will make it felony to drink small beer.

m. Henry VI. Pt. II. Act IV. Sc. 2. L. 70. Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear; As seas do laugh, show white, when rocks

L. 915.

As Love and I late harbour'd in one inn, With proverbs thus each other entertain: "In love there is no lack," thus I begin; "Fair words make fools," replieth he again; "Who spares to speak doth spare to speed,”. quoth I;

"As well," saith he, "too forward as too slow;"

"Fortune assists the boldest," I reply; "A hasty man," quoth he, "ne'er wanted woe;"

"Labour is light where love," quoth I, "doth pay;

Saith he, "Light burden's heavy, if far borne ;

Quoth I, "The main lost, cast the by away;" "Y'have spun a fair thread," he replies in