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"Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all."

2 Henry VI. III. 3.

UDGE thyself first, and then maybe thou'rt fit

The blot in other's character to hit.

April 15.

"Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear." All's Well that Ends Well, V. 3.

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EN'S nature is too complex.

Why seek our souls to vex

With memories sad?

And yet in the mere memory,

From out the heart's deep treasury,

There's comfort to be had,

For time benignant shrouds the long past pain, And 'tis the pleasantness that lives again.

"What win I if I gain the thing I seek?
A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy.
Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week,
Or sells eternity to get a toy?"

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Lucrece.

HEN passion speaks, grave prudence holds her tongue.

'Tis idle to declaim against a hurricane ;

The sweetest sounds that ere were said or sung
Are silenced as it thunders o'er the plain.

That froth of fleeting joy, that minute's mirth,
That dream, that breath, that nothingness
Are in the eyes of the impassioned worth
A whole eternity of bliss.

And teach His duty to Divinity?

Shall the presumptuous serf instruct his liege,

An atom comprehend infinity?

The Almighty placed us in this world of change,
Omniscience cares for our necessities;
Our powers are never tasked beyond their range,
Allowance made for our infirmities.

Be ours the aim our duties to fulfil

And leave results to His directing care, Assured that earnest faith will help us still"Thy will be done, O Lord!" our only prayer.

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'Ships are but boards, sailors are but men ;

there be land rats and water rats, water thieves

and land thieves."

Merchant of Venice, I. 3.

HOUGH ships were boards, they took you to

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your port;

They're now of iron and quite another sort.
Rats of all kinds there are now just as then,
And thieves there are, but also honest men
Who still contrive an honest life to lead
And, working hard, to earn their daily bread.

April 19.

Lord Beaconsfield died, 1881.

"He was a scholar and a ripe and good one; Exceeding wise, fair spoken and persuading.' Henry VIII. IV. 2.

E was a scholar, true: his book was man ;

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Inside and out he knew him through and
through,

Studied his foibles, made him serve his plan,
And grew the wiser as he older grew.

"What custom wills, in all things should we do it The dust on antique time would be unswept." Coriolanus, II. 3.

OT to prolong a practice 'cause 'tis old,

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Nor to adopt one just because it's new, Not to be obstinate, nor yet too bold,

Is a rare excellence attained by few.

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April 21.

"Good name in man and woman

Is the immediate jewel of their souls."

Othello, III. 3.

ET the good name be due to actions good,

And not a reputation cheaply earned

By quoting moral saws as daily food,

Whilst inmost thoughts are to mere pleasure

turned.