232 ENJOYMENT, &c. 8. The spider's most attenuated web Is cord-is cable, to man's tender tie YOUNG'S Night Thoughts. 9. What thing so good which not some harm may bring? Even to be happy is a dangerous thing. 10. They live too long who happiness outlive; For life and death are things indifferent; Each to be chose, as either brings content. 11. If solid happiness we prize, Within our breast this jewel lies, And they are fools who roam; The world has nothing to bestow; 12. A perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns. 13. He that holds fast the golden mean, And lives contentedly between The little and the great, LORD STERline. DRYDEN. COTTON. COWPER'S Task. Feels not the wants that pinch the poor, COWPER'S Horace. 14. Pleasures, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good. 15. Who that define it, say they more or less Than this, that happiness is happiness? POPE'S Essay on Man. POPE'S Essay on Man. Virtue alone is happiness below. POPE'S Essay on Man. 16. Know then this truth, (enough for man to know,) 17. Condition, circumstance is not the thing Bliss is the same in subject or in king; POPE'S Essay on Man. 18. For the wild bliss of nature needs alloy, And fear and sorrow fan the fires of joy. 19. I cannot think of sorrow now; and doubt CAMPBELL. BYRON'S Werner. 20. There is no sterner moralist than pleasure. BYRON'S Don Juan. 21. Love-fame-ambition-avarice-'t is the same, For all are meteors with a different name. 22. BYRON'S Childe Harold. Am I already mad? And does delirium utter such sweet words BULWER'S Lady of Lyons. 23. Oh! happy pair, to every blessing born! For you may life's calm stream unruffled run ; *For you its roses bloom without a thorn, And bright as morning shine its evening sun! 24. And may the stream of thy maturing life 25. The rapture dwelling within my breast, R. T. PAINE. A. W. NONEY. 234 ENJOYMENT - HAPPINESS, &c. 26. Too late I find how madly vain our toil 27. The highest hills are miles below the sky, And so far is the lightest heart below True happiness. 28. My life has been like summer skies When they are fair to view; BAILEY'S Festus. But there never yet were hearts or skies, Clouds might not wander through. 29. Pleasure's the only noble end, But to make pleasure please us more. 30. Gone-like a meteor, that o'er head Suddenly shines, and ere we've said MOORE. MOORE's Loves of the Angels. 31. How deep, how thorough-felt the glow MOORE'S Lalla Rookh. 32. For she hath liv'd with heart and soul alive Of her soft bosom cell, and cluster there. MRS. A. B. Welby. 33. There are some hours that pass so soon, Our spell-touch'd hearts scarce know they end. 34. May thy soul with pleasure shine, CHARLES WOLFE. 35. Ah Pauline! who can gaze upon thee now, And watch thy cheek all beaming with delight, 36. May friendship open unto you The path of peace and holy love; May hope not too deceptive prove ;— J. T. WATSON. ENTERPRISE. (See ACTIVITY.) ENTHUSIASM-ZEAL. 1. No seared conscience is so fell 2. As that which has been burnt with zeal; For Christian charity's as well A great impediment to zeal, As zeal a pestilent disease To Christian charity and peace. Zeal and duty are not slow; But on occasion's forelock watchful wait. BUTLER. MILTON'S Paradise Regained. 236 3. ENVY EQUALITY. His zeal None seconded, as out of reason judg'd, MILTON'S Paradise Regained. 4. No wild enthusiast ever yet could rest, 5. On such a theme 't were impious to be calm; Passion is reason, transport, temper, here! Cowper. YOUNG'S Night Thoughts. 6. For virtue's self may too much zeal be had : The worst of madmen is a saint run mad. 9. But faith, fanatic faith, once wedded fast MOORE'S Lalla Rookh. ENVY. (See CALUMNY.) EQUALITY-SUPERIORITY. 1. Consider, man; weigh well thy frame, GAY's Fables. |