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Omnia vincit amor, et nos cedamus amori.

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Act III. Sc. 1.

Love conquers all things; let us yield to love. Than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway

VERGIL-Ecloga. X. 69.

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For mightier far

Of magic potent over sun and star,

Is love, though oft to agony distrest,

And though his favourite be feeble woman's

breast.

WORDSWORTH-Laodamia. St. 15.

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Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it.

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DOUGLAS JERROLD-Jerrold's Wit. Meeting O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree. Trouble Half-Way.

GOLDSMITH-Deserted Village. L. 385.

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That a lie which is all a lie may be met and I give him joy that's awkward at a lie.

est of lies;

fought with outright

YOUNG-Night Thoughts. Night VIII. L. 361.

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Fragrant o'er all the western groves

The tall magnolia towers unshaded.

The riches of Heaven's pavement, trodden gold,
Than aught divine or holy else enjoyed
In vision beatific.

MILTON-Paradise Lost. Bk. I. L. 678.

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MARIA BROOKs-Written on Seeing Phara- Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst his store, mond.

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Sees but a backward steward for the poor. POPE-Moral Essays. Ep. III. L. 171.

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Non è un si bello in tante altre persone,
Natura il fece, e poi roppa la stampa.

There never was such beauty in another man. Nature made him, and then broke the mould. ARIOSTO-Orlando Furioso. Canto X. St. 84. L'on peut dire sars hyperbole, que la nature, que la après l'avoir fait en cassa la moule. ANGELO CONSTANTINI -La Vie de Scara

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mouche. L. 107. (Ed. 1690)

(See also BYRON, MONTGOMERY)

Ye children of man! whose life is a span Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay.

ARISTOPHANES - Birds. Trans. by JOHN HOOKHAM FRERE.

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Let each man think himself an act of God. His mind a thought, his life a breath of God. BAILEY-Festus. Proem. L. 162.

Mammon led them onMammon, the least erected Spirit that fell From Heaven: for even in Heaven his looks and Man is the nobler growth our realms supply

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And souls are ripened in our northern sky. ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD-The Invitation.

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