48. All that he does is to distribute what others produce. 49. I thought that ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her. 50. Who chooseth me shall gain what many men desire. One new-made mound I saw close by, O'er which the grasses hardly crept. 51. 52. It is certain that those who will not crack the shell will never get the kernel. 53. 54. 55. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Thy posterity shall sway. Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just. 56. It seems to have been a maxim in that age, that every leader might claim as his own the territory which his sword had won from the enemy. 57. The night is long that never finds a day. 58. Did not He that made that which is without make that which is within also? 59. 60. 61. My greatest grief is that I leave Nothing that claims a tear. Thrice blest whose lives are faithful prayers. It chanced the song that Enid sang was one 62. Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god. 63. 64. To me the meanest flower that blows can give The good old rule Sufficeth them, the simple plan That they should take who have the power, 65. They also which saw it told them by what means he that was possessed of the devils was healed. 66. Who dreamed, that saw his maiden grasp On his palfrey's broidered reins, That the blood of the old Plantagenets Was running in his veins ? 67. That Abdul Aziz was murdered is probable enough. 68. The temper of the people amongst whom he presides ought to be the first study of a statesman. 69. How sweet the truth those blessed strains are telling Of that new life, when sin shall be no more. 70. 71. 72. Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. The evil that men do lives after them. This is the dumb and dreary hour When injured ghosts complain. 73. Someone has said that what Lancashire thinks today England will think to-morrow. 74. 75. Is it my fault that I was Geffrey's son? Who spills the foremost foeman's life 76. Thou knowest the Delphic oracle foretold That the first Greek who touched the Trojan strand 77. The great calamity which had fallen on Argyle had this advantage, that it enabled him to show by proofs not to be mistaken what manner of man he was. 78. In Vespasian's time there went a prophecy in the East that those that should come forth of Judæa should reign over the world. 79. How much a dunce that hath been sent to roam Excels a dunce that hath been kept at home. 80. Unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance; and from him that hath not shall be taken away, even that which he hath. 81. It may seem paradoxical to say that the incapacity which Pitt showed in all that related to the conduct of the war is, in some sense, the most decisive proof that he was a man of very extraordinary abilities. 82. What is sauce for a goose is sauce for a gander. 83. 84. 85. Ah! who can tell how hard it is to climb Can heal the wound he gave. I hear a voice you cannot hear, 86. Sell that ye have and give alms. 87. Pay me that thou owest. 88. It was a matter of astonishment among her neighbours, who knew what a furious husband she had, that it had never been reported that Patricius had beaten his wife. In my former days of bliss 89. 90. Her divine skill taught me this: I could some invention draw. For well thou know'st, 'tis not the extent 91. That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold. 92. And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head should carry all he knew. 93. That the epitaph with which Pope honoured the memory of his friend does not appear on the walls of the great national cemetery is no subject for regret; for nothing worse was ever written by Colley Cibber. 94. Is it possible to believe that we have become what we are under-a bad government? 95. 96. Now where we are I cannot tell, But I wish I could hear the Inchcape Bell. Whoe'er excels in what we prize 97. It is remarked by an ancient historian that in peace children bury their parents; in war parents bury their children. 98. 99. 100. 101. I see that those which are aloft That there was ever intercourse (Yes), proof was plain that, since the day You have the letters Cadmus gave Think ye he meant them for a slave? 102. The man who first saw that it was possible to found an European empire on the ruins of a Mogul monarch was Dupleix. 103. This must my comfort be, That sun that warms you here shall shine on me. 104. An army have I mustered in my thoughts, Wherewith already France is overrun. 105. 'Tis Joan, not we, by whom the day is won: For which I will divide my crown with her. 106. For every drop of blood was drawn from him There hath at least five Frenchmen died to-night. 107. Sufficeth, that I have maintains my state, And sends the poor well pleased from my gate. He holds vengeance in his hand To hurl upon their heads that break his law. 108. 109. It was no wonder that the statesmen whom she outwitted held Elizabeth almost to the last to be little more than a frivolous woman. 110. The same sense of justice which forbids us to conceal or extenuate the faults of his earlier days, compels us to admit that those faults were nobly repaired. 111. The world which credits what is done Is cold to all that might have been. 112. False face must hide what the false heart doth know. 114. 113. Those who were interested in proving to me that I was an eminent man found me already convinced. To me what nature has in charms denied, Is well by wit's more lasting flames supplied. He that commends me to mine own content, Commends me to the thing I cannot get. 116. For just experience tell in every soil, 115. That those who think must govern those who toil. 4. Except the Lord build the house, their labour is but lost that build it. 5. Each might his province well command, Would all but stoop to what they understand. |