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ADMIRATION
ADVERSITY
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1

Dicta et facta.
Said and done. Done as soon as said.

TerenceEunuchus. 5. 4. 19.


2

Actum ne agas.
Do not do what is already done.

TerencePhormio. II. 3. 72.


3
A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends; and that the most liberal professions of goodwill are very far from being the surest marks of it.
George WashingtonSocial Maxims.


4

Action is transitory, a step, a blow,
The motion of a muscle—this way or that.

WordsworthThe Borderers. Act III.


5
And all may do what has by man been done.
YoungNight Thoughts. Night VI. L. 611.

ADMIRATION

6

"Not to admire, is all the art I know
(Plain truth, dear Murray, needs few flowers of speech)
To make men happy, or to keep them so,"
(So take it in the very words of Creech)
Thus Horace wrote we all know long ago;
And thus Pope quotes the precept to re-teach
From his translation; but had none admired.
Would Pope have sung, or Horace been inspired?

ByronDon Juan. Canto V. 100. PopeFirst Book of the Epistles of Horace. Ep. I. L. 1.


7

No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for
one higher than himself, dwells in the breast of
man. It is to this hour, and at all hours, the
vivifying influence in man's life.

CarlyleHeroes and Hero Worship.


8

To admire nothing, (as most are wont to do;)
Is the only method that I know,
To make men happy, and to keep them so.

Thomas CreechTranslation. Horace. I. Ep. VI. 1.
(See also Byron)


9

Heroes themselves had fallen behind!
—Whene'er he went before.

GoldsmithA Great Man.


10

On dit que dans ses amours
Il fut caressé des belles,
Qui le suivirent tou jours,
Tant qu'il marcha devant elles.

Chanson sur le fameux La Palisse. Attributed to Bernard de la Monnoye. (Source of Goldsmith's lines.)


11

The king himself has follow'd her
When she has walk'd before.

GoldsmithElegy on Mrs. Mary Blaize.


12
We always love those who admire us, and we do not always love those whom we admire.
La RochefoucauldMaxim. 305.


13
For fools admire, but men of sense approve.


14
Season your admiration for awhile.
Hamlet. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 192.


ADVENTURE

15

Some bold adventurers disdain
The limits of their little reign,
And unknown regions dare descry.

GrayOde on a Distant Prospect of Eton College.


16
  • * * and now expecting

Each hour their great adventurer, from the search
Of foreign worlds.

MiltonParadise Lost. Bk. X. L. 439.


17

Qui ne s'adventure n'a cheval ny mule, ce dist Salomon.—Qui trop, dist Echephron, s'adventure—perd cheval et mule, respondit Malcon.
He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.—Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,—loses horse and mule, replied Malcon.

RabelaisGargantua. Bk. I. Ch. 33.


ADVERSITY

(See also Affliction)

18
It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
Acts. IX. 5.


19
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and Adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
BaconOf Adversity.


20

And these vicissitudes come best in youth;
For when they happen at a riper age,
People are apt to blame the Fates, forsooth,
And wonder Providence is not more sage.
Adversity is the first path to truth:
He who hath proved war, storm or woman's rage,
Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty,
Has won the experience which is deem'd so weighty.

ByronDon Juan. Canto XII. St. 50.


21
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
CarlyleHeroes and Hero Worship. Lecture V.


22
In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.
Ecclesiastes. VIII. 14.


23

Aromatic plants bestow
No spicy fragrance while they grow;
But crush'd or trodden to the ground,
Diffuse their balmy sweets around.

GoldsmithThe Captivity. Act I.
(See also Rogers)


24

Thou tamer of the human breast,
Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour
The bad affright, afflict the best!

GrayHymn to Adversity. St. 1.