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That does both act and know.

e. MARVELL Upon Cromwell's return

from Ireland.

Awake, arise, or be for ever fall'n. f.

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MILTON-Paradise Lost.

Bk. I.

Line 830.

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All may do what has by man been done.
YOUNG-Night Thoughts. Night VI.
Line 606.

ADMIRATION.

No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than himself dwells in the breast of inan. It is to this hour, and at all hours, the vivifying influence in man's life. CARLYLE-Heroes and Hero Worship. Lecture I.

υ.

Green be the turf above thee,

Friend of my better days!

None knew thee but to love thee,
Nor named thee but to praise.
FITZ-GREENE HALLECK-On the death
of Joseph R. Drake.

20.

Few men are admired by their servants.
x. MONTAIGNE-Essays. Bk. III. Ch. 2.
We always like those who admiro us, we
do not always like those whom we admire.
ROCHEFOUCAULD-Maxim 234.
y.

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What you do When you speak,

Winter's Tale. Act IV. Sc. 3.

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The sapless habit daily to bedew,
And give the hesitating wheels of life
Glibblier to play.

h.

JOHN ARMSTRONG-Art of Preserving
Health. Bk. II. Line 486

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

i. BACON ESSAY XLII. Of Youth and Age. Old age comes on apace to ravage all the clime.

j. BEATTIE--The Minstrel. Bk. I. St. 25.

To resist with success, the frigidity of old
age, one must combine the body, the mind,
and the heart; to keep these in parallel
vigor, one must exercise, study and love.
k. BONSTETTEN--In Abel Stevens'
Ch. XXVI.
Madame de Stael.

No chronic tortures racked his aged limb,
For luxury and sloth had nourished none for

him.

1. BRYANT The Old Man's Funeral.

Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray
Marathon.

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BYRON Childe Harold. Canto II.

St. 88.

Just as old age is creeping on apace,
And clouds come o'er the sunset of our day,
They kindly leave us, though not quite alone,
But in good company--the gout or stone.
BYRON-Don Juan. Canto III.

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My days are in the yellow leaf;
The flowers and fruits of love are gone;
The worm, the canker, and the grief
Are mine alone!

St. 59.

0. BYRON-On my Thirty-sixth Year. Dark and despairing, my sight I may seal, But man cannot cover what God would reveal:

'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore,
And coming events cast their shadows before.
CAMPBELL-Lochiel's Warning.
Line 53.

p.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. q. Life's shadows are meeting Eternity's day. JAMES G. CLARKE-Leona.

7'.

CICERO.

The spring, like youth, fresh blossoms doth
produce,

But autumn makes them ripe and fit for use:
So age a mature mellowness doth set
On the green promises of youthful heat.

S.

Sir JOHN DENHAM-Cato Major. Pt. IV.

Boys must not have th' ambitious care of men,
Nor men the weak anxieties of age.
WENTWORTH DILLON (Earl of
Roscommon)-Trans.

1.

Horace.

Of the Art of Poetry. Line 212. We do not count a man's years, until he has nothing else to count.

น.

EMERSON-Society and Solitude.

Old Age.

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Henry VIII. Act IV. Sc. 2.

O, heavens, If you do love old men, if your sweet sway Allow obedience, if you yourselves are old, Make it your cause.

h.

King Lear. Act II. Sc. 4.

Pray, do not mock me:

I am a very foolish fond old man,

Fourscore and upward; and, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind.

i. King Lear. Act IV. Sc. 7.

Some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time.

J. King Henry IV. Pt. II. Act I. Sc. 2. Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.

k. Merchant of Venice. Act I. Sc. 2. The wrinkles which thy glass will truly show, Of mouthed graves will give thee memory, Thou by thy dial's shady stealth maiest know, Time's thievish progress to eternity.

1.

Sonnet LXXII.

Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty;
For in my youth I never did apply
Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood;
Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo
The means of weakness and debility;
Therefore my age is as a lusty winter,
Fresty, but kindly.

in. As You Like It. Act II. Sc. 3

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WORDSWORTH-To a Young Lady.
Thus fares it still in our decay,
And yet the wiser mind

Mourns less for what age takes away
Than what it leaves behind.

x. WORDSWORTH-The Fountain. St. 9. Shall we shall aged men, like aged trees, Strike deeper their vile root, and closer cling, Still more enamour'd of their wretched soil? y. YOUNG-Night Thoughts. Night IV.

AGONY.

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