And give it some faint glimpses
Of immortality!
_Midnight_. J.R. LOWELL.
NOBILITY.
Be noble! and the nobleness that lies
In other men, sleeping, but never dead,
Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.
_Sonnet IV_. J.R. LOWELL.
His nature is too noble for the world:
He would not flatter Neptune for his trident,
Or Jove for 's power to thunder.
_Coriolanus, Act iii. Sc 1_. SHAKESPEARE.
This was the noblest Roman of them all:
All the conspirators save only he
Did that they did in envy of great Caesar;
He only, in a general honest thought
And common good to all, made one of them.
_Julius Caesar, Act v. Sc 5_. SHAKESPEARE.
OPINION.
For most men (till by losing rendered sager)
Will back their own opinions by a wager.
_Beppo_. LORD BYRON.
Some praise at morning what they blame at night,
But always think the last opinion right.
_Essay on Criticism, Pt. II_. A. POPE.
He that complies against his will
Is of his own opinion still.
_Hudibras, Canto III_. S. BUTLER.
OPPORTUNITY.
Who seeks, and will not take when once 'tis offered,
Shall never find it more.
_Antony and Cleopatra, Act ii. Sc. 7_. SHAKESPEARE.
This could but have happened once,
And we missed it, lost it forever.
_Youth and Art_. R.
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