UNDERSTANDING (See Knowledge) UNDERTAKERS
Ye undertakers, tell us,
'Midst all the gorgeous figures you exhibit,
Why is the principal conceal'd, for which
You make this mighty stir?
There was a man bespake a thing,
Which when the owner home did bring,
He that made it did refuse it:
And he that brought it would not use it,
And he that hath it doth not know
Whether he hath it yea or no.
Sir John Davies—Riddle upon a Coffin.
Why is the hearse with scutcheons blazon'd
round, •
And with the nodding plume of ostrich crown'd?
No; the dead know it not, nor profit gain;
• • It only serves to prove the living vain.
Gay—Trivia. Bk. III. L. 231.
Diaulus, lately a doctor, is now an undertaker;
what he does as an undertaker, he used to do
also as a doctor.
Martial—Epigrams. Bk. I. Ep. 47.
.
There's a grim one-horse hearse in a jolly round
trot;
To the churchyard a pauper is going I wot;
The road it is rough, and the hearse has no
springs,
And hark to the dirge that the sad driver sings—
Rattle his bones over the stones,
He's only a pauper whom nobody owns.
Thomas Noel—The Pauper's Drive.
The houses that he makes last till doomsday.
Hamlet. Act V. Sc. 1. L. 66. _
UNITY
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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied
sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Bcbke—Thoughts on the Cause of the Present
Discontent.
I never use the word "nation" in speaking of the United States. I always use the word
"Union" or "Confederacy." We are not a nation but a union, a confederacy of equal and
sovereign States.
J. C. Calhoun—ToOliverDyer. Jan. 1,1849.
The Constitution in all its provisions looks to
an indestructible union composed of indestructible States.
Salmon P. Chase—Decision in Texas vs.
White. See Werden's Private Life and Public Services of Salmon P. Chase. P. 664.
Neque est ullum certius amicitiae vinculum,
quam consensus et societas consuiorum et voluntatum.
There is no more sure tie between friends
than when they are united in their objects and
wishes.
Cicero—Oratio Pro Cnwo Plancio. II.
Like two single gentlemen rolled into one.
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| cog = (the Younger)
| work = Broad Grins. Lodgings for Single Gentlemen.
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| text = <poem>Then join in hand, brave Americans all!
By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.
John Dickinson—The Liberty Song of 1768.
When our two lives grew like two buds that kiss
At lightest thrill from the bee's swinging chime,
Because the one so near the other is.
George Eliot—Brother and Sister. Pt. I.
St. 1.
We must all hang together or assuredly we
shall all hang separately.
Benj. Franklin. To John Hancock. At
Signing of the Declaration of Independence.
July 4, 1776.
Entzwei' und gebiete! Tuchtig Wort,
Verein' und leite! Bess'rer Hort.
Divide and command, a wise maxim ;
Unite and guide, a better.
Goethe—Spruche in Reimen. L. 516.
Was uns alle bandigt, das Gemeine.
The universal subjugator, the commonplace.
Goethe—Taschenbuch fur Damen auf das Jahr
1806.
Our Union is river, lake, ocean, and sky:
Man breaks not the medal, when God cuts the
die!
Though darkened with sulphur, though cloven
with steel,
The blue arch will brighten, the waters will heal!
Holmes—Brother Jonathan's Lament for Sister
Caroline. St. 7.
There with commutual zeal we both had strove
In acts of dear benevolence and love;
Brothers in peace, not rivals in command.
Homer—Odyssey. Bk. IV. L. 241
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He that is not with me is against me.
Luke. XI. 23.
Then none was for a party;
Then all were for the state;
Then the great man helped the poor,
And the poor man loved the great:
Then lands were fairly portioned;
Then spoils were fairly sold:
The Romans were like brothers
In the brave days of old.
Macaulay—Lays of Ancient Rome. Horatius.
St. 32.
Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd
Firm concord holds, men only disagree
Of creatures rational.
| author = Milton
| work = Paradise Lost.
| place = Bk. II. L. 496.
The union of lakes—the union of lands—
The union of States none can sever—
The union of hearts—the union of hands—
And the flag of our Union for ever!
George P. Morris—The Flag of Our Union.
