CAUTION -see Advice, Discretion.
Let every eye negotiate for itself
And trust no agent.

540

Shaks.: Much Ado. Act ii. Sc. i

Things done well,

And with a care, exempt themselves from fear:
Things done without example, in their issue

Are to be fear'd.

541

Shaks.: Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. 2 Trust none;

For oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer-cakes,
And hold-fast is the only dog.

542

Shaks.: Henry V. Act ii. Sc. 3

Be advis'd;

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it do singe yourself: we may outrun,
By violent swiftness, that which we run at,
And lose by over-running.

543

Shaks.: Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. 1

Fast bind, fast find;

A proverb never stale in thrifty mind.

544 What, would'st thou have a serpent sting thee twice? 545 Shaks.: M. of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.

Shaks.: M. of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 5.

When clouds are seen, wise men put on their cloaks;
When great leaves fall, then winter is at hand!
When the sun sets, who doth not look for night?
Untimely storms make men expect a dearth:
All may be well; but, if God sort it so,

"Tis more than we deserve, or I expect.
546

Shaks.: Richard III. Act ii. Sc. 3.

Know when to speak; for many times it brings
Danger, to give the best advice to kings.

547

Herrick: Aph. Caution in Council.

Look before you ere you leap;

For as you sow y' are like to reap.

548

Butler: Hudibras. Pt. ii. Canto ii. Line 502.

The mouse, that always trusts to one poor hole,
Can never be a mouse of any soul.

549 Pope: Wife of Bath. Line 288 Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide: In part is she to blame that has been tried; He comes too near that comes to be denied. 550 Lady M. W. Montague: Lady's Resolve. All's to be fear'd where all is to be gained. 551

Byron: Werner. Act ii. Sc. 2

A man of sense can artifice disdain,
As men of wealth may venture to go plain
I find the fool when I behold the screen,
For 'tis the wise man's interest to be seen..
552

Vessels large may venture more,

Young: Love of Fame. Satire ii. Line 193

Franklin: Poor Richard.

But little boats should keep near shore.

553

CELIBACY see Maidenhood.

Lady, you are the cruelest she alive,
If you will lead these graces to the grave,
And leave the world no copy.

554

Shaks.: Tw. Night. Act i. Sc. 5.

But earthly happier is the rose distill'd,
Than that, which, withering on the virgin thorn,
Grows, lives and dies in single blessedness.
555
Our Maker bids increase; who bids abstain
But our destroyer, foe to God and man?
556

Shaks.: Mid. N. Dream. Act i. Sc. 1.

Milton: Par. Lost. Bk. iv. Line 748. A bachelor

May thrive, by observation, on a little;
A single life's no burthen: but to draw
In yokes is chargeable, and will require
A double maintenance.

557

CEREMONY.

Ford: Fancies Chaste and Noble. Act i. Sc. 3.

Ceremony was but devised at first

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

But where there is true friendship, there needs none.

558

Shaks.: Timon of A. Act i. Sc. 2.

The sauce to meat is ceremony,

Shaks.: Macbeth. Act iii. Sc. 4.

Meeting were bare without it.

559 CHALLENGE.

There I throw my gage,

To prove it on thee, to the extremest point
Of mortal breathing.

560

CHANCE-see Pride.

Shaks.: Richard II. Act iv. Sc. 1.

In my school-days, when I had lost one shaft,
I shot his fellow of the self-same flight,
The self-same way, with more advised watch,
To find the other forth; and by adventuring both
I oft found both.

561

Shaks.: M. of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1

A falcon, towering in her pride of place,
Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at, and kill'd.

562

Shaks.: Macbeth. Act ii. Sc. 4.

I have set my life upon a cast,

And I will stand the hazard of the die.
563
How slight a chance may raise or sink a soul.
564

Shaks. Richard III. Act v. Sc. 4.

Bailey: Festus. Sc. A Country Town.

All nature is but art unknown to thee,
All chance, direction, which thou canst not see.
565

CHANGE.

Pope: Essay on Man. Epis. i. Line 289.

Alas! in truth, the man but chang'd his mind,
Perhaps was sick, in love, or had not dined.
566
Nature never stands still, nor souls either.
up or go down.

567

Pope: Moral Essays. Epis. i. Line 127.
They ever go

Julia C. R. Dorr: Outgrown.

Byron Dream. St. 3.

A change came o'er the spirit of my dream.
568
How chang'd since last her speaking eye
Glanc'd gladness round the glitt'ring room;
Where high-born men were proud to wait,
Where beauty watched to imitate!

569

Byron: Parisina. St. 10.

All but God is changing day by day.

570

Charles Kingsley: Prometheus.

Weep not that the world changes - did it keep

A stable, changeless state, 't were cause indeed to weep. 571 William Cullen Bryant: Mutation.

Not in vain the distance beacons, forward, forward let us

range.

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves

572

of change.

CHANGING.

Tennyson: Locksley Hall. St. 91.

The stone that is rolling can gather no moss, For master and servant oft changing is loss. 573

CHAOS.

Tusser: 500 Pts. Good Hus. Lessons.

Where eldest Night

And chaos, ancestors of nature, hold

Eternal anarchy amidst the noise

Of endless wars.

574

Milton: Par. Lost. Bk. ii. Line 894

Shaks.: Venus and Adonis. Line 1019

For he being dead, with him is beauty slain;
And beauty dead, black chaos comes again.
575
Religion, blushing, veils her sacred fires,
And unawares Morality expires,

Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine;
Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine!
Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos,is restored;
Light dies before thy uncreating word:
Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall;
And universal darkness buries all.

576

Pope: Dunciad. Bk. iv. Line 649.

CHARACTER-see Fickleness, Detraction, Reputation.
There is a kind of character in thy life,
That to the observer doth thy history

Fully unfold.

577

Shaks.: M. for M. Act i. Sc. 1

He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one;
Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading:
Lofty, and sour, to them that loved him not;
But to those men that sought him, sweet as summer.
578
Shaks.: Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2.
His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles;
His love sincere, his thoughts immaculate;
His tears, pure messengers sent from his heart;
His heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth.
579
Gnats are unnoted wheresoe'er they fly,
But eagles gazed upon with every eye.

580

Shaks.: Two Gent. of V. Act ii. Sc. 7.

Shaks.: R. of Lucrece. Line 1014.

Dryden: All for Love. Prologue.

Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow;
He who would search for pearls must dive below.

581

Form'd by thy converse happily to steer
From grave to gay, from lively to severe;
Correct with spirit, eloquent with ease,
Intent to reason, or polite to please.
582

Pope: Essay on Man. Epis. iv. Line 379.

Of manners gentle, of affections mild!
In wit a man, simplicity a child.

583

Pope: On Gay. Line 1. Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? 584 Pope: Epis. to Arbuthnot. Line 213. Rare compound of oddity, frolic, and fun! Who relished a joke and rejoic'd in a pun.

585

Goldsmith: Retaliation. Postscript. Line 3.

Describe him who can,

An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man. 586

Goldsmith: Retaliation. Line 93

He has done the work of a true man,
Crown him, honor him, love him.
Weep over him, tears of woman,
Stoop manliest brows above him!

No duty could overtask him,
No need his will outrun;
Or ever our lips could ask him,
His hands the work had done.

587

Whittier: To G. L. S.

Learn to dissemble wrongs, to smile at injuries,
And suffer crimes thou want'st the power to punish;
Be easy, affable, familiar, friendly:

Search, and know all mankind's mysterious ways.

But trust the secret of thy soul to none.

588

Rowe: Ulysses. Act i. Sc. A Palace

As in a building

Stone rests on stone, and wanting the foundation
All would be wanting, so in human life
Each action rests on the foregoing event,
That made it possible, but is forgotten
And buried in the earth.

589

Longfellow: Michael Angelo. Pt. v

Her glossy hair was clustered o'er a brow
Bright with intelligence, and fair and smooth;
Her eyebrows' shape was like the aërial bow;
Her cheek all purple with the beam of youth.
590

Byron: Don Juan. Canto i. St. 61
A truer, nobler, trustier heart,
More loving, or more loyal, never beat
Within a human breast.

591

Byron: Two Foscari. Act ii. Sc. 1.

With more capacity for love, than earth
Bestows on most of mortal mould and birth,
His early dreams of good out-stripp'd the truth,
And troubled manhood follow'd baffled youth.
592

Byron: Lara. Canto i. St. 18

To those who know thee not, no words can paint!
And those who know thee, know all words are faint!
593
Hannah More: Sensibility

Worth, courage, honor, these indeed
Your sustenance and birthright are.

594

E. C. Stedman: Beyond the Portals. Pt. 10