TWO STEPS OF. ANATHEMA. Ambition hath but two steps: the lowest O villains! vipers damn'd without redemp Blood; the highest envy. TIRELESSNESS OF. Lilly. tion! Dogs, easily won to fawn on any man⚫ Ambition's monstrous stomach does in- Snakes in my heart-blood warmed, that sting my heart; Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise, skies? I am one Heaven still with laughter the vain toil sur- Who finds within me a nobility That spurns the idle pratings of the great, And their mean boast of what their fathers So dear to heaven is saintly chastity, Mrs. E. Oakes Smith. Man nath two attendant angels Ever waiting by his side, One to warn him when he darkleth, And rebuke him if he stray; One to leave him to his nature, And so let him go his way. Prince. BRIGHT, ALWAYS. Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell. Shakespeare. Is blood, pour'd and perplexed into a froth. Davenant. Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it. South. DURATION of. My rage is not malicious; like a spark of fire by steel inforced out of a flint It is no sooner kindled, but extinct. Goffe. Anger's my meat; I sup upon myself And so shall starve with feeding. Shakespeare. EFFECTS OF. There is not in nature A thing that makes a man so deform'd, so beastly, As doth intemperate anger. Webster's Duchess of Malp. EVILS OF. FIERCENESS OF. Dekker. We are ne'er like angels 'till our passion dies. REVERENCE of. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. AWFULNESS OF. ANGER. The wildest ills that darken life, Are rapture to the bosom's strife; The tempest in its blackest form Pope. For pale and trembling anger rushes in With faltering speech, and eyes that wildly stare, Fierce as the tiger, madder than the seas, Desperate and armed with more than hu. man strength. Armstrong. Madness and anger differ but in this; MANAGEMENT OF. The sun should not set upon our anger, When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry. Haliburton. PRUDENCE IN. Let your reason with your choler question Requires slow pace at first. Anger is like RECOMPENSE OF. Lamentation is the only musician that always like a screech owl, alights and sits on the roof of an angry man. Plutarch. RESTRAINING OF. My indignation, like th' imprisoned fire, Pent in the troubled breast of glowing Etna, Burnt deep and silent. Thomson. If anger is not restrained, it is frequently more hurtful to us, than the injury that provokes it. Be master of thine anger. Seneca. PLEASURE AT SIGHT OF. Confucius. Somerville. When anger rises, think of the conse-The heart is hard in nature and unfit quences. For human fellowship, as being void Of sympathy, and therefore dead alike To love and friendship both, that is not pleased REVENGEFUL. Senseless and deform'd Thomson. With sight of animals enjoying life, Nor feels their happiness augment his own. What! shall this speech be spoke for our Appearances to save his only care excuse? Or shall we on without apology? Shakespeare. APOSTACY. CRIME OF. The soul once tainted with so foul a crime A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an No more shall glow with friendship's hal- extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich. HYPOCRITICAL. Shenstone. Why should the sacred character of virtue Shine on a villain's countenance? Ye powers! Why fix'd you not a brand on treason's That we might know t' avoid perfidious That palter with us in a double sense; IN THE PROFESSIONS. In all professions every one affects a parShakespeare.ticular look and exterior, in order to appear what he wishes to be thought; so that it may be said the world's made up of appearLa Rochefoucauld. He has, I know not what Of greatness in his looks, and of high fate NOT A TEST OF QUALITY. The gloomy outside, like a rusty chest, Ibid. ances. NOT TO BE TRUSTED. As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins Mrs. Osgood. And these assume but valour's excrement, And this one maxim is a standing rule: The ass is still an ass, e'en though he wears a lion's hide. Which therein works a miracle in nature, wind, The chameleon may change its color, but Upon supposed fairness, often known |