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STATESMAN.

1. A statesman, that can side with every faction, And yet most subtly can entwist himself,

2.

When he hath wrought the business up to danger.

Forbear, you things

That stand upon the pinnacles of state,
To boast your slippery height; when you do fall,
You dash yourselves in pieces, ne'er to rise.

SHIRLEY.

BEN JONSON.

3. Thus the court wheel goes round, like fortune's ball;

4.

One statesman rising on another's fall.

With grave

Aspect he rose, and in his rising seem'd

A pillar of state: deep on his front engraven
Deliberation sat, and public care.

R. BROME.

MILTON'S Paradise Lost.

STATION. - (See ANCESTRY.)

STORM. - (See CLOUDS.)

STUBBORNNESS. - (See OBSTINACY.)

STYLE.- (See CRITICISM.)

SUCCESS.

1. Had I miscarried, I had been a villain;
For men judge actions always by events:
But when we manage by a just foresight,
Success is prudence, and possession right.

HIGGONS.

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2. 'T is not in mortals to command success;

But we'll do more, Sempronius we 'll deserve it.

3. It is success that colours all in life;

ADDISON'S Cato.

Success makes fools admir'd, makes villains honest.

All the proud virtue of this vaunting world
Fawns on success and power, howe'er acquir'd.

THOMSON.

4.

Applause

Waits on success; the fickle multitude,

Like the light straw that floats along the stream,
Glide with the current still, and follow fortune.

FRANKLIN.

5. But who shall tax successful villany, Or call the rising traitor to account ?

HAVARD.

1.

SUICIDE.

The dread of something after death,
That undiscover'd country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear the ills we have,

Than fly to others, that we know not of.

2. Oh! that this too, too solid flesh would melt,
Thaw, and dissolve itself into a dew!
Or that the Everlasting had not set
His canon 'gainst self-slaughter!

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SHAKSPEARE.

SHAKSPEARE.

From this world's ills, that, at the very worst,
Will soon blow o'er, thinking to mend ourselves,
By boldly venturing on a world unknown,
And plunging headlong in the dark! - 't is mad!
No frenzy half so desperate as this.

BLAIR'S Grave.

4. Fear, guilt, despair, and moon-struck frenzy, rush
On voluntary death; the wise, the brave,
When the fierce storms of fortune round 'em roar,
Combat the billows with redoubled force.

5. To cut his throat a brave man scorns;
So, instead of his throat, he cuts

his corns.

FENTON.

BUTLER'S Hudibras.

6. He with delirious laugh the dagger hurl'd,

7.

And burst the ties that bound him to this world.

CAMPBELL's Pleasures of Hope.

I mean not

That poor-soul'd piece of heroism, self-slaughter;
Oh no; the miserablest day we live,
There's many a better thing to do than die!

SUMMER.- (See AUTUMN.)

SUN.- (See MOON.)

G. DARLEY.

SUPERIORITY.- (See EQUALITY.)

SUPERSTITION. - (See Ghost.)

SURFEIT.- (See SATIETY.)

SURPRISE. - (See ASTONISHMENT.)

SUSPENSE. - (See EXPECTATION.)

SUSPICION. - (See JEALOUSY.)

SYCOPHANT. - (See FLATTERY.)

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SYMPATHY - TASTE, &c.

SYMPATHY.

1. Kindness by secret sympathy is tied,
For noble souls in nature are allied.

2. Shame on those breasts of stone, that cannot melt
In soft adoption of another's sorrow!

3. Oh! ask not, hope thou not too much
Of sympathy below:

Few are the hearts whence one same touch
Bids the sweet fountain flow.

DRYDEN.

AARON HILL.

MRS. HEMANS.

4. There's nought in this bad world like sympathy;
'T is so becoming to the soul and face -
Sets to soft music the harmonious sigh,
And robes sweet friendship in a Brussels lace.

BYRON'S Don Juan.

5. I know thee not - and yet our spirits seem
Together link'd by sympathy and love,
And, like the mingled waters of a stream,
Our thoughts and fancies all united rove.

MRS. AMELIA B. WELBY.

6. I know thee not - I never heard thy voice;

Yet, could I choose a friend from all mankind,
Thy spirit high should be my spirit's choice,
Thy heart should guide my heart, thy mind, my mind.

MRS. AMELIA B. WELBY.

TASTE.-(See STYLE.)

TEACHER.- (See SCHOOL.)

TEARS. - (See GRIEF.)

TEMPER.- (See ANGER.)

TEMPERANCE. - (See DRINKING.)

TEMPTATION.

1. What war so cruel, or what siege so sore,

As that which strong temptation doth apply

Against the fort of reason evermore,
To bring the soul into captivity?

SPENSER'S Fairy Queen.

2. Think not that fear is sacred to the storm;

Stand on thy guard against the smiles of fate.
Is Heaven tremendous in its frown? Most sure;
And in its favour formidable too.

Its favours here are trials, not rewards.

YOUNG'S Night Thoughts.

3. But Satan now is wiser than of yore,
And tempts by making rich, not making poor.

4.

There are crimes,

Made venial by the occasion, and temptations,
Which Nature cannot master or forbear.

5. It reign'd in Eden in that heavy hour

When the arch tempter sought our mother's bower,
In thrilling charms her yielding heart assail'd,
And e'en o'er dread Jehovah's word prevail'd.

POPE.

BYRON.

SPRAGUE'S Curiosity.

SPRAGUE'S Curiosity.

6. There the fair tree in fatal beauty grew,
And hung its mystic apples to the view.

THEATRE. - (See ACTOR.)

THIEVES. - (See DISHONESTY.)

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