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1

Great floods have flown
From simple sources, and great seas have dried
When miracles have by the greatest been denied.

All's Well That Ends Well. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 142.

2

It must be so; for miracles are ceased
And therefore we must needs admit the means
How things are perfected.

Henry V. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 67.

3

What is a miracle?—'Tis a reproach,
Tis an implicit satire on mankind;
And while it satisfies, it censures too.

Young—Night Thoughts. Night IX. L. 1,245.

MISCHIEF

4

In life it is difficult to say who do you the most mischief, enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best.

Bulwer-Lytton—What Will He Do With It? Bk. III. Heading to. Ch. XVII.

5

What plaguy mischief and mishaps
Do dog him still with after claps!

Butler—Hudibras. Pt. I. Canto III. L. 3.

6

Let them call it mischief:
When it is past and prospered 'twill be virtue.

Ben Jonson—Catiline. Act III. Sc. 3.

7

When to mischief mortals bend their will,
How soon they find it instruments of ill.

Pope—Rape of the Lock. Canto III. St. 125.

8

Now let it work: Mischief, thou art afoot,
Take thou what course thou wilt.

Julius Caesar. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 265.

9

To mourn a mischief that is past and gone
Is the next way to draw new mischief on.

Othello. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 204.

10

 O mischief, thou art swift
To enter in the thoughts of desperate men!

Romeo and Juliet. Act V. Sc. 1. L. 35.

MISERS

(See also Avarice)

11

And were it not that they are loath to lay out money on a rope, they would be hanged forthwith, and sometimes die to save charges.

Burton—Anatomy of Melancholy. Pt. I. Sec. II. Memb. 3. Subsec. 12

12

A mere madness, to live like a wretch, and die rich.

Burton—Anatomy of Melancholy. Pt. I. Sec. II. Memb. 3. Subsec. 13

13

If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow-citizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship, for the sake of accumulating wealth, Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.

Benj. Franklin—The Whistle.

14

Hoards after hoards his rising raptures fill;
Yet still he sighs, for hoards are wanting still.

Goldsmith—The Traveller.

15

Quserit, et inventis miser abstinet, ac timet uti.
The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains.

Horace—Ars Poetica. 170.

16

The unsunn'd heaps
Of miser's treasures.

Milton—Camus. L. 398.

17

Abiturus illuc priores abierunt,
Quid mente cseca torques spiritum?
Tibi dico, avare.

 Since you go where all have gone before, why
do you torment your disgraceful life with
such mean ambitions, O miser?

Phaedrus—Fables. IV. 19. 16.

18

He sat among his bags, and, with a look
Which hell might be ashamed of, drove the poor
Away unalmsed; and midst abundance died—
Sorest of evils!—died of utter want.

Pollok—Course of Time. Bk. III. L. 276.

19

'Tis strange the miser should his cares employ
To gain those riches he can ne'er enjoy;
Is it less strange the prodigal should waste
His wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?

Pope—Moral Essays. Ep. IV. L. 1.

20

Decrepit miser; base, ignoble wretch;
I am descended of a gentler blood.

Henry VI. Pt. I. Act V. Sc. 4. L. 7.

21

Tam deest avaro quod habet, quam quod non habet.

The miser is as much in want of what he has, as of what he has not.

Syrus—Maxims.

MISERY

(See also Sorrow, Woe)

22

Levis est consolatio ex miseria alioram.

The comfort derived from the misery of others is slight.

Cicero—Epistles. VI. 3.

23

Horatio looked handsomely miserable, like Hamlet slipping on a piece of orange-peel.

Dickens—Sketches by Bos. Horatio Sparkins. (Omitted in some editions)

24

The worst of misery
Is when a nature framed for noblest things.
Condemns itself in youth to petty joys,
And, sore athirst for air, breathes scanty life
Gasping from out the shallows.

George Eliot—The Spanish Gypsy. Bk. III.

25

Grim-visaged, comfortless despair.

Gray—Ode on Eton College.

(See also Comedy of Errors)