HEAD and the HEART. The The head is always the dupe of the heart. Maxims, CCXVII.-Rochefoucault. Oh! trifling head and fickle heart, And sick of pleasures, scarce enjoyed! The progress of Discontent.-THOMAS WARTON. HEALTH. Value of O Health! thou sun of Life, without whose beam The fairest scenes of nature seem involved In darkness, shine upon my dreary path Once more; or, with thy faintest dawn, give hope, That I may yet enjoy thy vital ray ! Though transient be the hope, 't will be most sweet, Like midnight music, stealing on the ear, Then gliding past, and dying slow away. The Sabbath.-JAMES GRAHAMË. HEART. Mastery of the Call yourself to often reckonings; cast up your debts, payments, graces, wants, expenses, employments; yield not to think your set devotions troublesome; take not easy denials from yourself; yea, give peremptory denials to yourself: he can never be any good that flatters himself: hold nature to her allowance; and let your will stand at courtesy: happy is that man which hath obtained to be the master of his own heart. HEART. Sermon by BISHOP HALL. Strength of a Pure A heart unspotted is not easily daunted. King Henry VI. Part II. Act III. Scene I HEART. Value of a Good SHAKSPERE. A good leg will fall; a straight back will stoop; a black beard will turn white; a curled pate will grow bald; a fair face will wither; a full eye will wax hollow; but a good heart, Kate, is the sun and the moon; or, rather the sun, and not the moon; for it shines bright, and never changes, but keeps his course truly. King Henry V. Act v. Scene II.-SHAKSPERE. HEART and the HEAD. The Everybody speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to speak well of his head. Maxims, ccxv.-ROCHEFOUCault. HEART. Hardness of an Ungrateful Flints may be melted—we see it daily—but an ungrateful heart cannot; no, not by the strongest and the noblest flame. Sermon by DR. ROBERT SOUTH. HEAVEN. Descriptions of There is a world, a pure unclouded clime, Where there is neither grief, nor death, nor time! Nor loss of friends! Perhaps, when yonder bell The Greenwich Pensioners.-Rev. WM. LISLE BOWLES. Now I saw in my dream that by this time the pilgrims were got over the Enchanted Ground, and entering into the country of Beulah, whose air was very sweet and pleasant, the way lying directly through it, they solaced them there for a season. Yea, here they heard continually the singing of birds, and saw every day the flowers appear in the earth, and heard the voice of the turtle in the land. In this country the sun shineth night and day; wherefore it was beyond the Valley of the Shadow of Death, and also out of the reach of Giant Despair; neither could they from this place so much as see Doubting Castle. Here they were within sight of the city they were going to; also here met them some of the inhabitants thereof: for in this land the shining ones commonly walked, because it was upon the borders of Heaven. Pilgrim's Progress.-JOHN BUNYAN. HEAVEN. Description of Ther is lyf withoute ony deth, And ther is youthe without ony elde; And ther is alle manner frendshipe that may be, In wham resteth alle mannere grace. The Pricke of Conscience.-RICHARD ROLLE. HEAVEN. The Class of Men who go to No ill men That live by violence and strong oppression Come thither. 'Tis for those the gods love; good ones. Bonduca, Act IV. Scene II.-BEAUMONT and FLETCHER. HEAVEN not answerable for Man's Follies. This is the excellent foppery of the world! that, when we are sick in fortune (often the surfeit of our own behaviour), we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars: as if we were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion. King Lear, Act I. Scene II.-SHAKSPERE. HERO. Definition of a A hero is—as though one should say—a man of high achievement-who performs famous exploits-who does things that are heroical-and in all his actions and demeanour is a hero indeed. HOME. The Fool of Quality, Chapter IV.-H. BROOKE. Home of our childhood! how affection clings O happiest they, whose early love unchanged, Hopes undissolved, and friendship unestranged, Tired of their wanderings, still can deign to see Love, hopes, and friendship, centering all in thee! A Metrical Essay, Part 1.-O. W. HOLMES. |