If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter, the whole face of the earth would have been changed.
Thus does the Muse herself move men divinely inspired, and through them thus inspired a Chain hangs together of others inspired divinely likewise.
Plato—Ion. Par. V. Simile called "Plato's Rings."
| seealso = (See also Homer)
| topic = Influence
| page = 393
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num = 3
| text = <poem>By the golden chain Homer meant nothing else
than the sun.
Plato in Kihcher's Magnes Sive de Arte Magnetica. See also Hare's Guesses at Truth.
2nd Series. Ed. 3. P. 377.
| seealso = (See also {{sc|Homer)
Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
| author = Pope
| work = Essay on Man.
| place = Ep. IV. L. 390.
And the touch'd needle trembles to the pole.
Pope;—Temple of Fame. L. 431.
| seealso = (See also Norris)
| topic = Influence
| page = 393
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>They are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her
ear; which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
Psalms. LVIII. 4. 5.
Even as the needle that directs the hour,
(Touched with the loadstone) by the secret
power
Of hidden Nature, points upon the pole:
Even so the wavering powers of my soul,
Touch'd by the virtue of Thy spirit, flee
From what is earth, and point alone to Thee.
Quarles—Job Mil. Med. IV. Also in Emblems. Bk. I. Emblem 13.
| seealso = (See also {{sc|Norris)
Such souls,
Whose sudden visitations daze the world,
Vanish like lightning, but they leave behind
A voice that in the distance far away
- Wakens the slumbering ages.
Sir Henry Taylor—Philip Van Artevelde.
Pt. I. Act I. Sc.7.
For so the whole round Earth is every way
Bound by Gold Chains about the Feet of God.
| author = Tennyson
| work = Morte D' Arthur.
| seealso = (See also Homer)
| topic = Influence
| page = 393
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = I am a part of all that I have met.
| author = Tennyson
| work = Ulysses.
| place = L. 18.
| note =
| topic = Influence
| page = 393
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>I thank God that if I am gifted with little of the spirit which is said to be able to raise mortals
to the skies, I have yet none, as I trust, of that
other spirit, which would drag angels down.
Daniel Webster—Second Speech on Foot's
Resolution, Jan. 26, 1830.
| seealso = (See also Dryden)
| topic = Influence
| page = 393
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>It is very true that I have said that I considered
Napoleon's presence in the field equal to forty
thousand men in the balance. This is a very loose
way of talking; but the idea is a very different
one from that of his presence at a battle being
equal to a reinforcement of forty thousand men.
Duke of Wellington—Memorandum. Sept.
18, 1836.
Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves
Of their bad influence, and their good receives.
Wordsworth—Character of the Happy WarWhose powers shed round him in the common
strife,
Or mild concerns of ordinary life,
A constant influence, a peculiar grace.
Wordsworth—Character of the Happy Warrior.
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| note =
| topic = Influence
| page = 393
}}
INGRATITUDE
{{Hoyt quote
| num = 15
| text = Nil homine terra pejus ingrato creat.
Earth produces nothing worse than an ungrateful man.
Aubonius—Epigrams. CXL. 1.
Deserted, at his utmost need,
By those his former bounty fed;
On the bare earth exposed he lies,
With not a friend to close his eyes.
Dryden—Alexander's Feast. St. 4.
Ingratitude's a weed of every clime,
It thrives too fast at first, but fades in time.
Sam'l Garth—Epistle to the Earl of Godolphin.
L. 27.
| author =
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| note =
| topic = Ingratitude
| page = 393
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num = 15
| text = That man may last, but never lives,
Who much receives, but nothing gives;
Whom none can love, whom none can thank,
Creation's blot, creation's blank.
Thomas Gibbons—When Jesus Dwelt.
A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.
| author = Samuel Johnson
| work = Boswett's Life of Johnson.
1776.
Nihil amas, cum ingratum amas.
You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.
Plautus—Persa. II. 2. 46.
Ingratus est, qui beneficium accepisse se negat,
quod accepit: ingratus est, qui dissimulat; ingratus, qui non reddit; ingratissimus omnium, qui
oblitus est.
He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed
upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he
is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most
ungrateful of all is he who forgets it.
Seneca—De Beneficiis. III. 1.
Blow, blow, thou winter wind,
Thou art not so unkind
As man's ingratitude:
Thy tooth is not so keen,
Because thou art not seen,
Although thy breath be rude.
As You Like It. Act II. Sc. 7. L. 174
