Health is the vital principle of bliss, And exercise, of health. The Castle of Indolence. Canto ii. Stanza 55. Forever, Fortune, wilt thou prove Whoe'er amidst the sons Of reason, valour, liberty, and virtue Displays distinguish'd merit, is a noble O Sophonisba! Sophonisba, O!1 Song. Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 3. Sophonisba. Act iii. Sc. 2. When Britain first, at Heaven's command, Arose from out the azure main, This was the charter of her land, And guardian angels sung the strain: Rule, Britannia! Britannia rules the waves! Alfred. Act ii. Sc. 5. Trembling all precipitate down dash'd, Line 102. The Ruins of Rome. Line 40. 1 The line was altered after the second edition to "O Sophonisba! I am wholly thine." PHILIP DODDRIDGE. 1702-1751. Live while you live, the epicure would say, Epigram on his Family Arms.1 Awake, my soul! stretch every nerve, Zeal and Vigour in the Christian Race. JOHN WESLEY. 1703–1791. That execrable sum of all villanies commonly called a Slave Trade. Journal. Feb. 12, 1772. Certainly this is a duty, not a sin. "Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness." 2 Sermon xcii. On Dress. I am always in haste, but never in a hurry. 8 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. 1706-1790. They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Historical Review of Pennsylvania. 1 Dum vivimus vivamus (Let us live while we live). - ORTON: Life of Doddridge. 2 See Bacon, page 170. 3 Given as a saying of Wesley, in the "Saturday Review," Nov. 28, 1874. 4 Eripuit cœlo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis (He snatched the lightning from heaven, and the sceptre from tyrants), - a line attributed to Turgot, and inscribed on Houdon's bust of Franklin. Frederick von der Trenck asserted on his trial, 1794, that he was the author of this line. 5 This sentence was much used in the Revolutionary period. It occurs God helps them that help themselves.1 Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for Never leave that till to-morrow which you can do A little neglect may breed mischief: for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost. Ibid. He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing. Ibid. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone.5 Ibid. Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore. Ibid. Ibid. It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright. Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. Ibid. even so early as November, 1755, in an answer by the Assembly of Pennsylvania to the Governor, and forms the motto of Franklin's "Historical Review," 1759, appearing also in the body of the work. - FROTHINGHAM : Rise of the Republic of the United States, p. 413. 1 See Herbert, page 206. 2 CLARKE: Paræmiolgia, 1639. My hour is eight o'clock, though it is an infallible rule, "Sanat, sanctificat, et ditat, surgere mane" (That he may be healthy, happy, and wise, let him rise early). — A Health to the Gentle Profession of Serving-men, 1598 (reprinted in Roxburghe Library), p. 121. 8 See Lyly, page 32. 4 See Tusser, page 21. 5 See Heywood, page 11. We are a kind of posterity in respect to them.1 Remember that time is money. Letter to William Strahan, 1745. Advice to a Young Tradesman, 1748. Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter. Letter on the Stamp Act, July 1, 1765. Here Skugg lies snug As a bug in a rug.2 Letter to Miss Georgiana Shipley, There never was a good war or a bad peace.3 Letter to Josiah Quincy, Sept. 11, 1773. You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours. Letter to William Strahan, July 5, 1775. We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately. At the signing of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776. He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle. The Whistle. November, 1779. Here you would know and enjoy what posterity will say of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years. Letter to Washington, March 5, 1780. Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. Letter to M. Leroy, 1789. 1 Byron's European fame is the best earnest of his immortality, for a foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity. — HORACE BINNEY WALLACE: Stanley, or the Recollections of a Man of the World, vol. ii. p. 89. 2 Snug as a bug in a rug. The Stratford Jubilee, ü. 1, 1779. 3 It hath been said that an unjust peace is to be preferred before a just war. SAMUEL BUTLER: Speeches in the Rump Parliament. Butler's Remains. NATHANIEL COTTON. 1707-1788. If solid happiness we prize, And they are fools who roam. The world has nothing to bestow; And that dear hut, our home. To be resign'd when ills betide, And pleas'd with favours given, - Whose fragrance smells to heaven. The Fireside. Stanza 3. Thus hand in hand through life we'll go; With cautious steps we 'll tread. Stanza 11. Yet still we hug the dear deceit. To-morrow. Hold the fleet angel fast until he bless thee. HENRY FIELDING. 1707-1754. All Nature wears one universal grin. Tom Thumb the Great. Act i. Sc. 1. Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business. And this our queen shall be as drunk as we. Sc. 2. When I'm not thank'd at all, I'm thank'd enough; I've done my duty, and I've done no more. Sc. 3. Thy modesty's a candle to thy merit. 1 The incense of the heart may rise.-PIERPONT: Every Place a Temple. Ibid. |