He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle. J. BENJ. FRANKLIN-The Whistle.

A fool and a wise man are alike both in the starting-place, their birth, and at the post, their death; only they differ in the race of their lives.

k. FULLER-The Holy and Profane States. Natural Fools. Generally, nature hangs out a sign of simplicity in the face of a fool.

1. FULLER-The Holy and Profane
States. Natural Fools.

By outward show let's not be cheated;
An ass should like an ass be treated.
m. GAY-The Packhorse and Carrier.
Pt. II. Line 99.

A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity. N. GLADSTONE-Time and Place of Homer. Introductory.

A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense. 0. Mrs. JAMESON-Studies. Detached

Thoughts.

MASSINGER-Unnatural Combat.

Act V. Sc. 2.

Young men think old men fools, and old men know young men to be so.

q. Quoted by Camden as a saying of Dr. Metcalf.

In a bowl to sea went wise men three,
On a brilliant night of June:
They carried a net, and their hearts were set
On fishing up the moon.

THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK-The Wise
Men of Gotham. Paper Money
Lyrics.

A blockhead rubs his thoughtless skull,
And thanks his stars he was not born a fool.
POPE-Epilogue to Jane Shore.

S.

Line 7.

Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread. t. POPE-Essay on Criticism. Line 625. Leave such to trifle with more grace and

ease,

Whom Folly pleases, and whose Follies please.

u.

POPE-Second Book of Horace.
Ep. II. Line 326.

No creature smarts so little as a fool
V. POPE-Prologue to Satires. Line 84,
The fool is happy that he knows no more.
POPE-Essay on Man. Ep. II.

w.

Line 264. The rest on Outside merit but presume, Or serve (like other Fools) to fill a room. POPE-The Dunciad. Bk. I. Line 135.

x.

Ye have done your worst.-Fortune, now see, now proudly

Pluck off thy veil, and view thy triumph. Look,

Look what thou hast brought this land to.Oh, fair flower,

How lovely yet thy ruins show! how sweetly Even death embraces thee! The peace of Heaven

The fellowship of all great souls be with thee!

j.

BEAUMONT and FLETCHER-The
Tragedy of Bonduca.

He that is down needs fear no fall;
He that is low no pride.

k. BUNYAN-Pilgrim's Progress. Pt. II.

Could he with reason murmur at his case, Himself sole author of his own disgrace? 1. COWPER-Hope. Line 316.

I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend,

For when at worst, they say, things always mend.

m. COWPER-Translation from Owen. To a Friend in Distress.

LONGFELLOW-Spanish Student.

Act III. Sc. 5. Fortune in Men has some small diff'rence made,

One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade; The cobbler apron'd and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd. t. POPE-Essay on Man. Ep. IV.

Line 195.

Who thinks that Fortune cannot change her mind,

Prepares a dreadful jest for all mankind,
And who stands safest? tell me, is it he
That spreads and swells in puff'd prosperity,
Or blest with little, whose preventing care
In peace provides fit arms against a War.
น. POPE-Second Book of Horace.

Satire II. Line 123. Every one is the architect of his own fortune. υ. PSEUDO-SALLUST-Ep. de Rep. Ordin. II. 1.

A good man's fortune may grow out at heels. w. King Lear. Act II. Sc. 2.

All other doubts, by time let them be clear'd: Fortune brings in some boats, that are not steer'd.

x. Cymbeline. Act IV. Sc. 3.

And rail'd on lady Fortune in good terms.
y. As You Like It. Act II. Sc. 7.
Fortune is merry,
And in this mood will give us any thing.
Z. Julius Cæsar. Act III. Sc. 2.
Fortune knows,
We scorn her most, when most she offers
blows.
Antony and Cleopatra. Act III.

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