Why have we memory sufficient to retain the minutest circumstances that have happened to us; and yet not enough to remember how often we have related them to the same person? Maxims, CCCI.-ROCHEFOUCAULT. MEN. Honest I was a gentleman before I turned conspirator; for honest men are the gentlemen of nature! The Lady of Lyons, Act II. Scene I.-E. B. LYTTON. MEN that are truly FREE. Men who have long tossed upon the troubled ocean of life, and have learned by severe experience to entertain just notions of the world and its concerns, to examine every object with unclouded and impartial eyes, to walk erect in the strict and thorny paths of virtue, and to find their happiness in the reflection of an honest mind, alone are-free. MEN. Neglected Solitude, Cap. II.-J. G. ZIMMERMAN. Men of great stature will quickly be made porters to a king, and those diminutively little, dwarfs to a queen, whilst such who are of a middle height may get themselves masters where they can. The moderate man eminent for no excess or extravagancy in his judg ment, will have few patrons to protect, or persons to adhere to him. MEN. Mixt Contemplations on these Times, XXXIII. Little Great I have visited many countries, and have been in cities without number, yet never did I enter a town which could not produce ten or twelve of those little great men; all fancying them selves known to the rest of the world, and complimenting each other upon their extensive reputation. Citizen of the World, Letter LXXIV.-OLIVER GOLDSMITH. MEN of WIT. Your men of wit are good-for-nothing, dull, lazy, restive snails; 'tis your undertaking, impudent, pushing fool, that commands his fortune. The Cheats of Scapin, Act. III. Scene I.-T. OTWAY. MEN and WOMEN. Difference between 'Tis not a year or two shows us a man: They are all but stomachs, and we all but food; They eat us hungerly, and when they are full They belch us. Othello, Act III. Scene IV.-SHAKSPERE. MEN and INSECTS. Men are even as their fellow insects; they rise to life, exert their lineaments, and flutter abroad during the summer of their little season, then droop, die away, and are succeeded, and succeeded in insignificant rotation. The Fool of Quality, Chap. IV.-H. BROOKE. MERCHANTS, their influence. The merchant, above all, is extensive, considerable, and respectable by his occupation. It is he who furnishes every comfort, convenience, and elegance of life, who carries off every redundance, who fills up every want; who ties country to country, and clime to clime, and brings the remotest regions to neighbourhood and converse; who makes man to be literally the lord of creation, and gives him an interest in whatever is done upon earth; who furnishes to each the products of all lands, and the labours of all nations; and thus knits into one family, and weaves into one web, the affinity and brotherhood of all mankind. The Fool of Quality, Chap. iv.—H. BROOKE. MERCY in HEAVEN. Over her hung a canopy of state, Not of rich tissue, nor of spangled gold, GILES FLETCHER. MERCY brightens the Rainbow. High in the airy element there hung As though his purer waves from heaven sprung, That ebb'd and flow'd as wind and season would; Beneath those sunny banks a darker cloud, MERCY for all. GILES FLETCHER. Are we gods, Allied to no infirmities? are our natures More than men's natures? When we slip a little Out of the way of virtue, are we lost? Is there no medicine called sweet mercy? MERCY and TRUTH. Out of the west coast, a wench, as me thought, For the virtue that her followed afeard was she never. Of the din and of the darkness. Pierce Plowman.-ROBERT LONGLANDE. MERCY is Unpurchasable. Ignominy in ransom, and free pardon, Are of two houses: lawful mercy is Nothing akin to foul redemption. Measure for Measure, Act II. Scene IV.-SHAKSPERE. MERIT. Merit not always-Fortune feeds the bard, The Candidate.-G. CRABBE. |