To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, Recanting goodness, sorry ere 'tis shown.

b. Timon of Athens. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 16.

O ceremony, show me but thy worth!
What is thy soul of adoration?

Art thou aught else but place, degree, and form,

Creating awe and fear in other men?

C. Henry V. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 261.

To feed were best at home; From thence the sauce to meat is ceremony; Meeting were bare without it.

d. Macbeth. Act III. Sc. 4. L. 36.

Discouragement seizes us only when we can no longer count on chance.

r. GEORGES SAND-Handsome Lawrence.

Ch. II.

Chance will not do the work-Chance sends

the breeze;

But if the pilot slumber at the helm,
The very wind that wafts us towards the port
May dash us on the shelves.-The steersman's
part is vigilance,

Blow it or rough or smooth.

Against ill chances men are ever merry;
But heaviness foreruns the good event.
t. Henry IV. Pt. II. Act IV. Sc. 2.
L. 82.

But as the unthought-on accident is guilty To what we wildly do, so we profess Ourselves to be the slaves of chance, and flies Of every wind that blows.

I shall show the cinders of my spirits Through the ashes of my chance.

บ.

Antony and Cleopatra. Act V. Sc. 2. L. 173.

And grasps the skirts of happy chance,
And breasts the blows of circumstance.
TENNYSON-In Memoriam. Pt. LXIV.

w.

A lucky chance, that oft decides the fate Of mighty monarchs.

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

y. VOLTAIRE-A Philosophical Dictionary.

The sublime and ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult to class them separately. One step below the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again.

THOMAS PAINE-Theological Works.
The Age of Reason. Pt. II.

If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter, the whole face of the earth would have been changed.

m. PASCAL Thoughts. Ch. VIII. 29.

My merry, merry, merry roundelay
Concludes with Cupid's curse,

They that do change old love for new,
Pray gods, they change for worse!
n. GEORGE PEELE-Cupid's Curse; From
the Arraignment of Paris.
Revolutions are not made; they come.
0. WENDELL PHILLIPS-Speech. Public
Opinion, Jan. 28, 1852.

Revolutions never go backward.

p.

WENDELL PHILLIPS-Speech.

Progress, Feb. 17, 1861. Alas! in truth, the man but chang'd his mind, Perhaps was sick, in love, or had not dined. q. POPE-Moral Essays. Ep. I. Pt. II. Manners with Fortunes, Humours turn with Climes,

Tenets with Books, and Principles with Times.

T. POPE-Moral Essays. Ep. I. Pt. II. See dying vegetables life sustain, See life dissolving vegetate again; All forms that perish other forms supply; (By turns we catch the vital breath and die.) 8. POPE-Essay on Man. Ep. III. L. 15. Till Peter's keys some christen'd Jove adorn, And Pan to Moses lends his Pagan horn. t. POPE-The Dunciad. Bk. 3. L. 109.

As hope and fear alternate chase
Our course through life's uncertain race.
SCOTT-Rokeby. Canto VI. St. 2.

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