RIGHT RIVERS
For the ultimate notion of right is that which tends to the universal good; and when one's acting in a certain manner has this tendency he has a right thus to act.
Equal rights for all, special privileges for none.
Thomas Jefferson.
We hold these truths to be self-evident,—that
all men are created equal; that they are endowed
by their Creator with certain inalienable rights;
that among these are Life, Liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness.
Thomas Jefferson—Declaration of Independence of the U. S. of America.
Let lis have faith that Right makes Might,
and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our
duty as we understand it.
Abraham Lincoln—Address. New York
City. Feb. 21, 1859. See Henry J. Raymond's Life and Public Services of Lincoln.
Ch. III.
With malice toward none, with charity for all,
with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see
the right.
Abraham Lincoln—Second Inaugural Address. March 4, 1865.
Mensuraque juris
Vis erat.
Might was the measure of right.
Lucan—Pharsalia. I. 175. Found in Thucydides. IV. 86. Plautus—Truncul. IV.
. 30. Lucan. I. 175. Seneca—Hercules
Furens. 291. Schiller—Wallenstein'sCamp.
VI. 144.
All men are born free and equal, and have
certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights.
Constitution of Massachusetts.
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Every man has by the law of nature a right to
sucb a waste portion of the earth as is necessary
for his subsistence.
More—Utopia. Bk. II.
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| text = Reparation for our rights at home, and security against the like future violations.
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| work = Letter to the Earl of Shelburne.
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| text = <poem>All Nature is but art unknown to thee;
All chance direction, which thou canst not see;
All discord, harmony not understood;
All partial evil, universal good;
And spite of pride, in erring reason's spite,
One truth is clear, Whatever is is right.
No question is ever settled
Until it is settled right.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
RIGHTEOUSNESS
Be not righteous overmuch.
Ecclesiastes. VII. 16.
Every one that useth milk is unskilful in the
word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
Hebrews. V. 13.
A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast;
but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
Proverbs. XII. 10.
Righteousness exalteth a nation.
Proverbs. XIV. 34.
I have been young, and now am old; yet have
I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed
begging bread.
Psalms. XXXVII. 25..
The righteous shall flourish like the palm-tree:
he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
Psalms. XCII. 12.
lg RIVERS (General Topic)
And see the rivers how they run
Through woods and meads, in shade and sun,
Sometimes swift, sometimes slow,—
Wave succeeding wave, they go
A various journey to the deep,
Like human life to endless sleep!
John Dyer—Grongar Hill. L. 93.
The fountains of sacred rivers flow upwards,
(i.e. everything is turned topsy turvy).
Euripides—Medea. 409.
Two ways the rivers
Leap down to different seas, and as they roll
Grow deep and still, and their majestic presence
Becomes a benefaction to the towns
They visit, wandering silently among them,
Like patriarchs old among their shining tents.
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| work = Christus. The Golden Legend.
Pt. V.
By shallow rivers, to whose falls
Melodious birds sing madrigals.
Marlowe—The Passionate Shepherd to His
Love. Same idea in Merry Wives of Windsor.
Act III. Sc. 1. Passionate Shepherd said
to be written by Shakespeare and Marlowe.
Les rivieres sont des chemins qui marchant et
qui portent ou 1'on veut aller.
Rivers are roads that move and carry us
whither we wish to go.
Pascal—Pensies. VII. 38.
Viam qui nescit qua deveniat ad mare
Eum oportet amnem quaerere comitem sibi.
He who does not know his way to the sea
should take a river for his guide.
Plautus—Pcenulus. III. 3. 14.
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| num = | text = <poem>Now scantier limits the proud arch confine,
And scarce are seen the prostrate Nile or Rhine; A small Euphrates thro' the piece is roll'd,
