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Man should be ever better than he seems.

Sir Aubrey de Vere—A Song of Faith.

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Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is
Good steadily hastening towards immortality,
And the vast all that is called Evil I saw hastening to merge itself and become lost and dead.

Walt Whitman—Roaming in Thought. (After reading Hegel.)

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Bene facere et male audire regium est.

To do good and be evil spoken of, is kingly.

 On the Town Hall of Zittau, Saxony. Noted in Carlyle—Frederick the Great. XV. 13.

GOOSE

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I dare not hope to please a Cinna's ear.
Or sing what Varus might vouchsafe to hear;
Harsh are the sweetest lays that I can bring.
So screams a goose where swans melodious sing.

Beattie Trans, of Vergil. Pastoral 9.

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Shall I, like Curtius, desperate in my zeal,
O'er head and ears plunge for the common weal?
Or rob Rome's ancient geese of all their glories,
And cackling save the monarchies of Tories?

Pope—Dunciad. Bk. I. L. 209.

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As wild geese that the creeping fowler eye,
Or russet-pated choughs, many in sort,
Rising and cawing at the gun's report,
Sever themselves, and madly sweep the sky.

Midsummer Night's Dream. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 20.

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Idem Accio quod Titio jus esto.
What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the
gander.
Vabro, quoting Gelitos. III. XVI. 13.
Same used by Swift. Jan. 24, 1710.

GORSE Ulex

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Mountain gorses, do ye teach us

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That the wisest word man reaches
Is the humblest he can speak?
E. B. Browning—Lessons from the Gorse.

9

Mountain gorses, ever-golden.
Cankered not the whole year long!
Do ye teach us to be strong,
Howsoever pricked and holden
Like your thorny blooms and so
Trodden on by rain and snow,
Up the hillside of this life, as bleak as where ye
grow?
E. B. Browning—Lessons from the Gorse..

10

Love you not, then, to list and hear
The crackling of the gorse-flower near,
Pouring an orange-scented tide
Of fragrance o'er the desert wide?
Wm. Howitt—A June Day. i

GOSSIP (See also Scandal)

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Whoever keeps an open ear
For tattlers will be sure to hear
The trumpet of contention.

Cowper—Friendship. St. 17.

12

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the
dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it; it
proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.

George Eliot—Donald Deronda. Bk. II. Ch. XIII.

13

Tell tales out of school.

Heywood—Proverbs. Pt. I. Ch. X.

14

He's gone, and who knows how may he report
Thy words by adding fuel to the flame?

Milton—Samson Agonistes. L. 1,350.

15

Fabula (nee sentis) tota iactaris in urba.

You do not know it but you are the talk of all the town.

Ovid—Art of Love. III. 1. 21.

16

He that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.

Proverbs. XVII. 9.

17

This act is as an ancient tale new told;
And, in the last repeating, troublesome,
Being urged at a time unseasonable.

King John. Act IV. Sc. 2. L. 18.

18

Foul whisperings are abroad.

Macbeth Act V. Sc 1. L. 79.

19

If my gossip Report be an honest woman of her word.

Merchant of Venice. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 7.

20

I heard the little bird say so.

Swift—Letter to Stella. May 23, 1711.

21

Tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.

I Timothy. V. 13.

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Fama, malum quo non aliud velocius ullum,
Mobilltate viget, viresque acquirit eundo.

Report, that which no evil thing of any kind is more swift, increases with travel and gains strength by its progress.

Vergil—Æneid. IV. 174.

GOVERNMENT

(See also Democracy, Politics, Statesmanship, Trust [Public])

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The declaration that our People are hostile to a government made by themselves, for themselves, and conducted by themselves, is an insult.

John Adams—Address to the citizens of Westmoreland Co., Virginia. Answered July 11, 1798. See also Thomas Cooper—Some information respecting America. (1794) In Report of a Meeting of the Mass. Historical Society by Samuel A. Green, May 9, 1901.

(See also Lincoln)

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* * * The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or not.

John Adams—Diary. June 2, 1778. Charles Francis Adams' Life of Adams. Vol. III. P. 171.