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Page 11 - Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
Page 24 - Shylock, we would have moneys : ' you say so ; You, that did void your rheum upon my beard And foot me as you spurn a stranger cur Over your threshold : moneys is your suit. What should I say to you ? Should I not say ' Hath a dog money ? is it possible A cur can lend three thousand ducats...
Page 69 - A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
Page 45 - I shall detain you now no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct you to a hill-side, where I will point you out the right path of a virtuous and noble education ; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect, and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
Page 48 - Imagination has, at a more advanced period of life, been found susceptible of culture to a wonderful degree. In such men, what an accession is gained to their most refined pleasures ! What enchantments are added to their most ordinary perceptions ! The mind awakening, as if from a trance, to a new existence, becomes habituated to the most interesting aspects of life and of nature ; the intellectual eye is " purged of its film ;" and things the most familiar and unnoticed, disclose charms invisible...
Page 30 - The man who hails you Tom or Jack, And proves, by thumping on your back, His sense of your great merit, Is such a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed, To pardon or to bear it.
Page 24 - What should I say to you ? Should I not say, " Hath a dog money ? is it possible, A cur can lend three thousand ducats ? " or Shall I bend low, and in a bondman's key, With 'bated breath, and whispering humbleness, Say this, — " Fair, sir, you spit on me on Wednesday last ; You spurned me such a day ; another time You called me — dog ; and for these courtesies I'll lend you thus much moneys.
Page 48 - See the wretch that long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigour lost, And breathe and walk again ; The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise.
Page 44 - We shall conduct you to a hill-side, laborious indeed at the first ascent; but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospects and melodious sounds, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming."* DIFFICULTIES VANISH.
Page 19 - In opposition to all this, let me declare to you, that these hours, or days, or years of repose, when the mighty oppressive hand of the giant Business is let up, will be none the less sweet, for your having taken a genuine satisfaction in your work as you went along. You will not make the journey better, if, like famous pilgrims to Loretto, you put peas in your shoes. FORM THE HABIT OP SEEKING PLEASURE IN WORK, HAPPINESS IN THE DUTY OF THE HOUR. The period when the young man is about coming of age...