TRUST THYSELF

his thought because it is his. In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humoured inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else, to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another..

We but half express ourselves and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. It may be safely trusted as proportionate and of good issues, so it be faithfully imparted, but God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. . . . Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine Providence has found for you; the society of your contemporaries, the connexion of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the Eternal was stirring at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being. And we are now men and must accept in the highest mind the most transcendent destiny.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

RESPICE FINEM

Respice Finem

ALL is best, though we oft doubt

What the unsearchable dispose

Of Highest wisdom brings about,

And ever best found in the close. Oft He seems to hide His face,

But unexpectedly returns,

And to His faithful champion hath in place
Bore witness gloriously; whence Gaza mourns,
And all that band them to resist

His uncontrollable intent.

His servants He, with new acquist

Of true experience from this great event, With peace and consolation hath dismiss'd, And calm of mind, all passion spent.

JOHN MILTON

THE GRACE OF MANHOOD

BRIGHT Thoughts, clear Deeds, Constancy, Fidelity, Bounty, and generous Honesty are the gems of noble Minds; wherein (to derogate from none) the true Heroick English Gentleman hath no Peer.

SIR THOMAS BROWNE

THE surest mark of a finely bred man is that envy cannot breed in him.

LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

A LITTLE touch of something like pride is seated in the true sense of a man's own greatness, without which his humility and modesty would be contemptible virtues.

THOMAS TRAHERNE

MANNERS Makyth Man.

WILLIAM OF WYKEHAM

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Domine, Quis Habitabit?

ORD, who shall dwell in thy tabernacle: Or who shall rest upon thy holy hill? Even he that leadeth an uncorrupt life:

And doeth the thing that is right, and speaketh the truth from his heart.

He that hath used no deceit in his tongue, nor done evil to his neighbour;

And hath not slandered his neighbour.

He that setteth not by himself, but is lowly in his own eyes:

And maketh much of them that fear the Lord.
He that sweareth unto his neighbour, and disappoint-

eth him not:

Though it were to his own hindrance.

He that hath not given his money upon usury:

Nor taken reward against the innocent.

Whoso doeth these things, shall never fall.

Psalm xv.

Integer Vitae

HE man of life upright,

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Whose guiltless heart is free

From all dishonest deeds,

Or thought of vanity;