5. O grant me, Heaven! a middle state,

Neither too humble, nor too great;
More than enough for nature's ends,
With something left to treat my friends.

MALLET.

6. Be honest poverty thy boasted wealth;

So shall thy friendships be sincere tho' few;

So shall thy sleep be sound, thy waking cheerful.

HAVARD.

7. Want is a bitter and a hateful good,

Yet many things, impossible to thought,

Because its virtues are not understood;

Have been by need to full perfection brought.
The daring of the soul proceeds from thence,
Sharpness of wit, and active diligence;
Prudence at once, and fortitude it gives,
And, if in patience taken, mends our lives.

8. But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page, Rich with the spoils of time, did ne'er unfold; Chill penury repress'd their noble rage,

And froze the genial current of the soul.

DRYDEN.

GRAY'S Elegy.

9. What numbers, once in fortune's lap high-fed,
Solicit the cold hand of charity!
To shock us more, solicit it in vain !

YOUNG'S Night Thoughts.

10. Aye idleness!—the rich folks never fail To find some reason why the poor deserve Their miseries.

11. But poverty, with most who whimper forth Their long complaints, is self-inflicted woe, Th' effect of laziness, or sottish waste.

SOUTHEY.

COWPER'S Task.

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12.

13.

INDUSTRY - INGENUOUSNESS, &c.

O, blissful poverty !

Nature, too partial to thy lot, assigns

Health, freedom, innocence, and downy peace-
Her real goods; and only mocks the great
With empty pageantries.

He views, with keen desire,

The rusty grate, unconscious of a fire.

FENTON.

GOLDSMITH.

14.

But for pride,

We had not felt our poverty, but as

BYRON'S Werner.

Millions of myriads feel it, cheerfully.

15. Behold yon grey-hair'd prisoner, who reclines,
Silent and sad, upon his bed of straw :-
Look on his venerable form; behold

The snow-white beard that hangs adown his breast.
"Tis Winter-cold and dreary Winter-and
The storm-king rages fearfully without;
Yet no bright blaze adds comfort to his hearth;
No cheering friends sit smiling at his side;
But a cold, biting freezing numbs his limbs,
And he is lone and comfortless indeed.

J. T. WATSON.

INDUSTRY.—(See IDLENESS.)

INGENUOUSNESS.-(See FRANKNESS.)

INGRATITUDE. (See GRATITUDE.)

INJURY-WRONG.

1. It often falls, in course of common life,

That Right longtime is overborne of Wrong,
Through avarice, or power, or guile, or strife,
Which weakens that, and makes this power strong.
SPENSER'S Fairy Queen.

2. Things ill begun strengthen themselves in ill.

3. Mar not the things that cannot be amended.

SHAKSPEARE.

SHAKSPEARE.

4. The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on, And doves will fight in safeguard of their brood.

5. I see the right, and I approve it too,

SHAKSPEARE.

Condemn the wrong, but yet the wrong pursue.

6. Then furl your banners - better far

The sun ne'er shone on "Stripe and Star,"
Than it should ever cheer the sight,

Or lead the van to unjust fight.

7. "Tis wrong to sleep in church

What you can never pay

't is wrong to borrow -'t is wrong to touch

With unkind words the heart that pines in sorrow —

'Tis wrong to scold too loud—to eat too much ;

'Tis wrong to put off acting till to-morrow –
To tell a secret, or get drunk. But such
Are nought to this of your invention; it
Can scarce be borne- but I'll not mention it.

J. T. WATSON.

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INJUSTICE-JUSTICE - RIGHT.

INJUSTICE-JUSTICE - RIGHT.

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1. Nought is on earth more sacred or divine, That gods and men do equally adore,

Than this same virtue, that doth right define;

For th' heavens themselves, whence mortal men implore
Right in their wrongs, are rul'd by righteous lore.

SPENSER'S Fairy Queen.

2. This, above all, to thine own self be true, And it will follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.

3.

4.

Plate sins in gold,

SHAKSPEARE.

And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks;
Arm it in rags-a pigmy's straw doth pierce it.

Yes, let the traitor die,

For sparing justice feeds iniquity.

5. Justice, when equal scales she holds, is blind;
Nor cruelty nor mercy change her mind :
When some escape for that which others die,
Mercy to those, to these is cruelty.

6. Just men are only free, the rest are slaves.

SHAKSPEARE.

SHAKSPEARE.

DENHAM.

CHAPMAN.

7. And Justice, while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

BUTLER'S Hudibras.

8.

O! how glorious 't is

To right th' oppress'd, and bring the felon vile

To just disgrace!

SOMERVILE'S Chase.

9. And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One thing is clear whatever is, is right.

POPE'S Essay on Man.

10. For forms of government let fools contest:
Whatever's best administer'd is best;
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight,
He can't be wrong, whose life is in the right.

POPE'S Essay on Man.

11. He's poor, and that's suspicious-he's unknown,
And that's defenceless; true, we have no proof
Of guilt-but what hath he of innocence?

12. He who is only just, is cruel: who

BYRON'S Werner.

Upon the earth would live, were all judg'd justly?

BYRON'S Marino Faliero.

13. All are not just because they do no wrong;
But he, who will not wrong me when he may,
He is the truly just. I praise not those

Who in their petty dealings pilfer not,

But him, whose conscience spurns at secret fraud,
When he might plunder and defy surprise.
His be the praise, who, looking down with scorn
On the false judgment of the partial herd,
Consults his own clear heart, and boldly dares
To be, not to be thought, an honest man.

CUMBERLAND'S Philemon.

INNOCENCE - PURITY.

SHAKSPEARE.

1. For unstain'd thoughts do seldom dream on evil.

At a false accusation doth the more

Confirm itself; and guilt is best discover'd
By its own fears.

NABB.