No, madam, 'tis not so well that I am poor, though many of the rich are damned.
I am as poor as Job, my lord, but not so patient.
Henry IV. Pt. II. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 144.
It is still her use
To let the wretched man outlive his wealth, To view with hollow eye and wrinkled brow An age of poverty. Merchant of Venice. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 268. </poem>
Poor and content is rich and rich enough,
But riches fineless is as poor as winter
To him that ever fears he shall be poor.
Othello. Act III. Sc. 3. L. 172.
Steep'd me in poverty to the very lips.
Othello. ActrV. Sc. 2. L. 50.
The world affords no law to make thee rich;
Then be not poor, but break it, and take this.
My poverty, but not my will, consents.
I pay thy poverty, and not thy will.
Whose plenty made him pore.
Spenser—Faerie Qveene. Bk. I. Canto IV. St. 29. </poem>
His rawbone cheekes, through penurie and pine,
Were shronke into his jawes, as he did never dyne.
Spenser—Faerie Qveene. Bk. I. Canto IX.
St. 35.
Paupertas sanitatis mater.
Poverty is the mother of health.
Vincent of Beauvais—Speculum Historiale.
Bk.X. Ch.LXXI. Herbert—Jacula Prudentum.
Whene'er I take my walks abroad,
How many poor I see!
Watts—Praise for Mercies.
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POWER
Give me a lever long enough
And a prop strong enough,
I can single handed move the world.
Archimedes.
Odin, thou whirlwind, what a threat is this
Thou threatenest what transcends thy might,
even thine,
For of all powers the mightiest far art thou,
Lord over men on earth, and Gods in Heaven;
Yet even from thee thyself hath been withheld
One thing—to undo what thou thyself hast ruled.
Matthew Arnold—Balder Dead. The Funeral.
He hath no power that hath not power to use.
Bailey—Festus. Sc. A Visit.
Then, everlasting Love, restrain thy will;
'Tis god-like to have power, but not to kill.
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Act II. Sc. 2. Song.
The balance of power.
Burke—Speech. (1741) Sir Robt. Walpole—Speech. (1741) John Wesley—
Journal, Sept. 20. 1790, ascribes it to "the
King of Sweden/' A German Diet, or the
Ballance of Europe. Title of a Folio of 1653.
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of power.
Byron—Childe Harold. Canto H. St. 2.
Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.
Wm. Ellery Channing—The Present Age.
An Address. (1841)
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Attributed to Charles V. Used also by
Napoleon. SeeCARLYLE—Latter Day Pamphlets, No. II.
To know the pains of power, we must go to
those who have it; to know its pleasures, we
must go to those who are seeking it: the pains
of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.
C. C. Colton—Lacon. P. 255.
Qui peut ce qui lui platt, commande alors qu'il
prie.
Whoever can do as he pleases, commands
when he entreats.
Cornetlle—Sertorius. IV. 2.
So mightiest powers by deepest calms are fed,
And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!
Barry Cornwall—Songs. The Sea in Calm.
L. 13.
For what can power give more than food and
drink,
To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
Dryden—Medal. L. 235.
Du bist noch nicht der Mann den Teufel festzuhalten.
Neither art thou the man to catch the fiend
and hold him!
Goethe—Faust. I. 3. 336.
Patience and Gentleness is Power.
Leigh Hunt—Sonnet. On a Lock of Millon's
Hair.
O what is it proud slime will not believe
Of his own worth, to hear it equal praised
Thus with the gods?
Ben Jonson—Sejanus. Act I.
Nihil est quod credere de se
Non possit, quum laudatur dis sequa potestas.
There is nothing which power cannot believe
of itself, when it is praised as equal to the gods.
Juvenal—Satires. IV. 70.
