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1

Remember Lot's wife.

Luke. XVII. 32.

2

C'est une importune garde, du secret des princes, à qui n'en à que faire.

The secret counsels of princes are a troublesome burden to such as have only to execute them.

Montaigne—Essays. III. 1.

3

Primo dede mulieris consilio, secundo noli.

Take the first advice of a woman and not the second.

Gilbertos Cognatus Noxeranus—Sylloge. See J. J. Grynæus—Adagia. P. 130. Langius—Polyanthea Col. (1900) same sentiment. (Prends le premier conseil d'une femme et non le second. French for same.)

4

Consilia qui dant prava cautis hominibus,
Et perdunt operam et deridentur turpiter.

Those who give bad advice to the prudent, both lose their pains and are laughed to scorn.

Phædrus—Fabulæ. I. 25.

5

Be niggards of advice on no pretense;
For the worst avarice is that of sense.

Pope—Essay on Criticism. L. 578.

6

In the multitude of counsellors there is safety.

Proverbs. XI. 14; XXIV. 6.

7

Vom sichern Port lasst sich's gemachlich rathen.
One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Schiller—Wilhelm Tell. I. 1. 146.

8

Bosom up my counsel,
You'll find it wholesome.

Henry VIII. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 112.

9

When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again.

King Lear. Act II. Sc. 4. L. 76.

10

Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice
Hath often still'd my brawling discontent.

Measure for Measure. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 8.

11

I pray thee cease thy counsel,
Which falls into mine ears as profitless
As water in a sieve.

Much Ado About Nothing. Act V. Sc. 1. L. 3.

12

Direct not him, whose way himself will choose;
'Tis breath thou lack'st, and that breath wilt thou lose.

Richard II. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 29.

13

Many receive advice, only the wise profit by it.

Syrus—Maxim. 152.

14

Che spesso awien che ne' maggior perigli
Son piil audaci gli ottimi consigli.

For when last need to desperation driveth,
Who dareth most he wisest counsel giveth.

Tasso—Gerusalemme. VI. 6.

15

A dead father's counsel, a wise son heedeth.

Tegner—Fridthjof's Saga. Canto VIII.

16

Facile omnes, quum valemus, recta consilia segrotis dam us.

We all, when we are well, give good advice to the sick.

Terence—Andria. II. 1. 9.

AERONAUTICS

(See also Darwin, under Navigation)

17

Let brisker youths their active nerves prepare
Fit their light silken wings and skim the buxom air.

Richard Owen Cambridge in the Scriblerad. (1751)

18

He rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.

Psalms. XVIII. 10.

19

For I dipt into the future far as human eye could see,
Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be;
Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails,
Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales;
Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'd a ghastly dew
From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue.

Tennyson—Locksley Hall. 117.

20

"Wal, I like flyin' well enough,"
He said, "but the' ain't sich a thundern' sight
O' fun in't when ye come to light."

Trowbridge—Darius Green and his Flying Machine.

21

Darius was clearly of the opinion
That the air is also man's dominion
And that with paddle or fin or pinion,
We soon or late shall navigate
The azure as now we sail the sea.

Trowbridge—Darius Green and his Flying Machine.

22

"The birds can fly, an' why can't I?
Must we give in," says he with a grin,
"That the bluebird an' phœbe are smarter 'n we be?"

Trowbridge—Darius Green and his Flying Machine.

AFFECTATION

23

Affectation is an awkward and forced Imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the Beauty that accompanies what is natural.

Locke—On Education. Sec. 66. Affectation.

24

There Affectation, with a sickly mien,
Shows in her cheek the roses of eighteen.

Pope—The Rape of the Lock. Canto 4.

AFFECTION

25

Even children follow'd with endearing wile,
And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile.

Goldsmith—The Deserted Village . L. 183.