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33. There are some hours that pass so soon,

Our spell-touch'd hearts scarce know they end.
MRS. A. B. WELBY.

34. May thy soul with pleasure shine,
Lasting as the gloom of mine!

CHARLES WOLFE.

35. Ah Pauline! who can gaze upon thee now,

And watch thy cheek all beaming with delight,
Nor grieve to think that thou so soon shalt know
Despair, and grief, and sorrow's withering blight!
J. T. WATSON.

36. May friendship open unto you

The path of peace and holy love;
May life continual joys renew;

May hope not too deceptive prove ;-
May sweet contentment round you throw
Such bliss as may be found below!

J. T. WATSON.

ENTERPRISE. (See ACTIVITY.)

ENTHUSIASM - ZEAL.

1. No seared conscience is so fell

2.

As that which has been burnt with zeal;

For Christian charity's as well

A great impediment to zeal,

As zeal a pestilent disease

To Christian charity and peace.

Zeal and duty are not slow;

But on occasion's forelock watchful wait.

BUTLER.

MILTON's Paradise Regained.

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3.

ENVY-EQUALITY.

His zeal

None seconded, as out of reason judg'd,
Or singular and rash.

MILTON'S Paradise Regained.

4. No wild enthusiast ever yet could rest,
Till half mankind were like himself possess'd.

5. On such a theme 't were impious to be calm; Passion is reason, transport, temper, here!

Cowper.

YOUNG'S Night Thoughts.

6. For virtue's self may too much zeal be had : The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

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9. But faith, fanatic faith, once wedded fast To some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last.

MOORE'S Lalla Rookh.

ENVY. (See CALUMNY.)

EQUALITY-SUPERIORITY.

1. Consider, man; weigh well thy frame,
The king, the beggar, are the same;
Dust form'd us all. Each breathes his day,
Then sinks into his native clay.

GAY's Fables.

2. Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are made Taller or stronger than the weeds they shade; Or, ask of yonder argent fields above,

Why Jove's satellites are less than Jove?

POPE'S Essay on Man.

3. Order is heaven's first law; and, this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest.

POPE'S Essay on Man.

4. None but thyself can be thy parallel.

5. To cope with thee, would be about as vain As for a brook to cope with ocean's flood.

BYRON'S Don Juan.

6. As some fierce comet of tremendous size,`
To which the stars did rev'rence as it pass'd,
So he through learning and through fancy took
His flight sublime, and on the loftiest top
Of fame's dread mountain sat.

POLLOK's Course of Time.

7. For mountains issue out of plains, and not
Plains out of mountains; and so, likewise, kings
Are of the people, not the people of kings.

BAILEY'S Festus.

ERROR.

1. For he that once hath missèd the right way,
The further he doth go, the further he doth stray,

SPENSER'S Fairy Queen.

2. More proselytes and converts use t'accrue
To false persuasions than the right and true,
For error and mistakes are infinite,
While truth has but one way to be i' the right.

BUTLER.

ESTEEM.

3. Even so, by tasting of that fruit forbid,

Where they sought knowledge, they did error find;
Ill they desir'd to know, and ill they did,

And to give passion eyes, made reason blind.

DAVIES' Immortality of the Soul.

4. Truth, crush'd to earth, shall rise again:
The eternal years of God are hers;
But Error, wounded, writhes with pain,
And dies among his worshippers.

1.

W. C. BRYANT.

ESTEEM.

Love is not love,

When it is mingled with respects, that stand

Aloof from the entire point.

SHAKSPEARE.

2. For all true love is grounded on esteem.

BUCKINGHAM.

3. O, why is gentle love

A stranger to that mind,

Which pity and esteem can move,
Which can be just and kind?

LORD LYTTLEton.

4. Take my esteem, if you on that can live; But, frankly, sir, 't is all I have to give.

5. She attracts me daily with her gentle virtues, So soft, and beautiful, and heavenly.

DRYDEN.

JAMES A. HILLHOUSE.

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2.

ETERNITY-FUTURITY.

O, that a man might know

The end of this day's business, ere it come,
But it sufficeth that the day will end;
And then the end is known.

Beyond is all abyss,

SHAKSPEARE.

Eternity, whose end no eye can reach.

MILTON'S Paradise Lost.

3. Too curious man! why dost thou seek to know
Events, which, good or ill, foreknown, are woe?
Th' all-seeing power, that made thee mortal, gave
Thee every thing a mortal state should have.

DRYDEN.

4. Sure there is none but fears a future state;
And when the most obdurate swear they do not,
Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.

5. Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried beings

Dryden.

Through what new scenes and changes must we pass !
The wide, th' unbounded prospect lies before me,
But shadows, clouds, and darkness rest upon it.

ADDISON'S Cato.

6. Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state.

7. Oh! in that future let us think

POPE'S Essay on Man.

To hold each heart the heart that shares;
With them the immortal waters drink,

And, soul in soul, grow deathless theirs!

BYRON.

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