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They always talk who never think.
1859
PRIOR: _Upon this Passage in the Scaligeriana._

Where Nature's end of language is declin'd,
And men talk only to conceal the mind.
1860
YOUNG: _Love of Fame,_ Satire ii., Line 207.

It would talk,--
Lord! how it talked!
1861
BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER: _Scornful Lady,_ Act v., Sc. 1.

=Tasso.=

Tasso is their glory and their shame.
Hark to his strain! and then survey his cell!
And see how dearly earn'd Torquato's fame,
And where Alfonso bade his poet dwell.
1862
BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto iv., St. 36.

=Taste.=

Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find
Two of a face as soon as of a mind.
1863
POPE: Satire vi., Line 268.

Good native Taste, tho' rude, is seldom wrong,
Be it in music, painting, or in song:
But this, as well as other faculties,
Improves with age and ripens by degrees.
1864
ARMSTRONG: _Taste,_ Line 26

Such and so various are the tastes of men.
1865
AKENSIDE: _Pl. of the Imagination,_ Bk. iii., Line 567.

=Taxation.=

By heaven, I had rather coin my heart,
And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring
From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash,
By any indirection.
1866
SHAKS.: _Jul. Caesar,_ Act iv., Sc. 3.

Who nothing has to lose, the war bewails;
And he who nothing pays, at taxes rails.
1867
CONGREVE: _Epis. to Sir Richard Temple. Of Pleasing,_ Line 17.

=Tea.=

For her own breakfast she'll project a scheme,
Nor take her tea without a stratagem.
1868
YOUNG: _Love of Fame,_ Satire vi., Line 190.

=Teaching.=

I have labored,
And with no little study, that my teaching
And the strong course of my authority
Might go one way.
1869
SHAKS.: _Henry VIII.,_ Act v., Sc. 2.

=Tears.=

The big round tears
Cours'd one another down his innocent nose
In piteous chase.
1870
SHAKS.: _As You Like It,_ Act ii., Sc. 1.

Then fresh tears
Stood on her cheeks, as doth the honey-dew
Upon a gather'd lily almost wither'd.
1871
SHAKS.: _Titus And.,_ Act iii., Sc. 1.

Our present tears here, not our present laughter,
Are but the handsells of our joys hereafter.
1872
HERRICK: _Noble Numbers, Tears._

Thrice he assay'd, and thrice in spite of scorn,
Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth.
1873
MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. i., Line 619.

A child will weep a bramble's smart,
A maid to see her sparrow part,
A stripling for a woman's heart:
But woe awaits a country, when
She sees the tears of bearded men.
1874
SCOTT: _Marmion,_ Canto v., St. 16.

To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
1875
WORDSWORTH: _Intimations of Immortality._

Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depth of some divine despair
Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes,
In looking on the happy Autumn fields,
And thinking of the days that are no more.
1876
TENNYSON: _The Princess,_ Pt. iv., Line 21.

Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile.
1877
CAMPBELL: _Pl. of Hope,_ Pt. i., Line 180.

Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment day;
Love and tears for the Blue,
Tears and love for the Gray.
1878
FRANCIS M. FINCH: _The Blue and the Gray._

=Temper.=

Ye gods, it doth amaze me
A man of such a feeble temper should
So get the start of the majestic world
And bear the palm alone.
1879
SHAKS.: _Jul. Caesar,_ Act i., Sc. 2.

=Temperance.=

Temp'rate in every place,--abroad, at home.
Thence will applause, and hence will profit come;
And health from either--he in time prepares
For sickness, age, and their attendant cares.
1880
CRABBE: _The Borough,_ Letter xvii., Line 198.

=Tempests.=

The southern wind
Doth play the trumpet to his purposes;
And, by his hollow whistling in the leaves,
Foretells a tempest and a blustering day.
1881
SHAKS.: _1 Henry IV.,_ Act v., Sc. 1.

Suddeine they see from midst of all the maine
The surging waters like a mountaine rise,
And the great sea puft up with proud disdaine,
To swell above the measure of his guise,
As threatning to devoure all that his powre despise.
1882
SPENSER: _Faerie Queene,_ Bk. ii., Canto xii., St. 21.

From cloud to cloud the rending lightnings rage;
Till, in the furious elemental war
Dissolv'd, the whole precipitated mass,
Unbroken floods and solid torrents pours.
1883
THOMSON: _Seasons, Summer,_ Line 799.

The sky
Is overcast, and musters muttering thunder,
In clouds that seem approaching fast, and show
In forked flashes a commanding tempest.
1884
BYRON: _Sardanapalus,_ Act ii., Sc. 1.

=Temptation.=

Oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
The instruments of darkness tell us truths;
Win us with honest trifles, to betray us
In deepest consequence.
1885
SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act i., Sc. 3.

'Tis the temptation of the devil
That makes all human actions evil;
For saints may do the same things by
The spirit, in sincerity,
Which other men are tempted to,
And at the devil's instance do:
And yet the actions be contrary,
Just as the saints and wicked vary.
1886
BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. ii., Canto ii., Line 233.

Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution,
She lives whom we call dead.
1887
LONGFELLOW: _Resignation_

=Tenderness.=

Higher than the perfect song
For which love longeth,
Is the tender fear of wrong,
That never wrongeth.
1888
BAYARD TAYLOR: _Improvisations,_ Pt. v.

=Tents.=

Shall fold their tents like the Arabs,
And as silently steal away.
1889
LONGFELLOW: _The Day is Done._

=Terror.=

There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats.
1890
SHAKS.: _Jul. Caesar,_ Act iv., Sc. 3.

=Test.=

Bring me to the test,
And I the matter will re-word.
1891
SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act iii., Sc. 4.

=Text.=

And many a holy text around she strews,
That teach the rustic moralist to die.
1892
GRAY: _Elegy,_ St. 21.

=Thankfulness.=

The poorest service is repaid with thanks.
1893
SHAKS.: _Tam. of the S.,_ Act iv., Sc. 3.

Thanks to men
Of noble minds, is honorable meed.
1894
SHAKS.: _Titus And.,_ Act i., Sc. 2.

=Theatre.=

As in a theatre, the eyes of men,
After a well-graced actor leaves the stage,
Are idly bent on him that enters next,
Thinking his prattle to be tedious.
1895
SHAKS.: _Richard II.,_ Act v., Sc. 5.

=Thief.=

The robb'd that smiles, steals something from the thief.
1896
SHAKS.: _Othello,_ Act i., Sc. 3.

=Thirst.=

That panting thirst, which scorches in the breath
Of those that die the soldier's fiery death,
In vain impels the burning mouth to crave
One drop--the last--to cool it for the grave.
1897
BYRON: _Lara,_ Canto ii., St. 16.

=Thorn.=

Why are we fond of toil and care?
Why choose the rankling thorn to wear?
1898
J.M. USTERI: _Life let us Cherish._

=Thought.=

Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.
1899
SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act iii., Sc. 2.

Thought alone is eternal.
1900
OWEN MEREDITH: _Lucile,_ Pt. ii., Canto v., St. 16.

No thought which ever stirred
A human breast should be untold.
1901
ROBERT BROWNING: _Paracelsus,_ Sc. 2.

Thought leapt out to wed with Thought
Ere Thought could wed itself with Speech.
1902
TENNYSON: _In Memoriam,_ Pt. xxiii., St. 4.

Thought is deeper than all speech,
Feeling deeper than all thought;
Souls to souls can never teach
What unto themselves was taught.
1903
CHRISTOPHER P. CRANCH: _Stanzas._

=Thread.=

Sewing at once a double thread,
A shroud as well as a shirt.
1904
HOOD: _Song of the Shirt._

=Threats.=

If thou more murmur'st, I will rend an oak,
And peg thee in his knotty entrails, till
Thou hast howl'd away twelve winters.
1905
SHAKS.: _Tempest,_ Act i., Sc. 2.

Back to thy punishment,
False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings,
Lest with a whip of scorpions I pursue
Thy ling'ring.
1906
MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. ii., Line 699.

=Thrift.=

Thrift, thrift, Horatio! the funeral baked meats
Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.
1907
SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act i., Sc. 2.

=Throne.=

High on a throne of royal state, which far
Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind.
1908
MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. ii., Line 1.

=Thunder.=

And threat'ning France, plac'd like a painted Jove,
Kept idle thunder in his lifted hand.
1909
DRYDEN: _Annus Mirabilis,_ St. 39.

Far along,
From peak to peak, the rattling crags among,
Leaps the live thunder.
1910
BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto iii., St. 92.

=Tide.=

Even at the turning o' the tide.
1911
SHAKS.: _Henry V.,_ Act ii., Sc. 3.

There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
1912
SHAKS.: _Jul. Caesar,_ Act iv., Sc. 3.

=Time.=

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
1913
SHAKS.: _Richard II.,_ Act v., Sc. 5.

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old time is still a-flying;
And this same flower that smiles to-day,
To-morrow will be dying.
1914
HERRICK: _To Virgins to Make Much of Time._

Threefold the stride of Time, from first to last!
Loitering slow, the FUTURE creepeth--
Arrow-swift, the PRESENT sweepeth--
And motionless forever stands the PAST.
1915
SCHILLER: _Sentences of Confucius, Time._

=Tithes.=

This priest he merry is and blithe
Three quarters of a year,
But oh! it cuts him like a scythe,
When tithing-time draws near.
1916
COWPER: _Yearly Distress,_ St. 2.

=Titles.=

We all are soldiers, and all venture lives;
And where there is no difference in men's worth,
Titles are jests.
1917
BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER: _King or No King,_ Act i., Sc. 1.

Titles are marks of honest men and wise;
The fool or knave that wears a title, lies.
1918
YOUNG: _Love of Fame,_ Satire i., Line 137.

=Toad.=

Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve.
1919
MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. iv., Line 800.

=Tobacco.=

Sublime tobacco! which from east to west
Cheers the tar's labor or the Turkman's rest.
1920
BYRON: _The Island,_ Canto ii., St. 19.

=To-day.=

Happy the man and happy he alone,
He who can call to-day his own.
1921
DRYDEN: _Im. of Horace,_ Bk. iii., Ode 29, Line 65.

Our cares are all To-day, our joys are all To-day;
And in one little word, our life, what is it but--To-day?
1922
TUPPER: _Proverbial Phil. of To-day_

=Toil.=

No man is born into the world whose work
Is not born with him. There is always work,
And tools to work withal, for those who will;
And blessed are the horny hands of toil.
1923
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL: _A Glance Behind the Curtain._

_Tomb._

E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries,
E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires.
1924
GRAY: _Elegy,_ St. 23.

=To-morrow.=

To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death.
1925
SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act v., Sc. 5.

Defer not till to-morrow to be wise,
To-morrow's sun on thee may never rise.
1926
CONGREVE: _Letter to Cobham._

To-morrow comes and we are where?
Then let us live to-day.
1927
SCHILLER: _The Victory Feast,_ St. 13.

Where art thou, beloved To-morrow?
Whom young and old, and strong and weak,
Rich and poor, through joy and sorrow,
Thy sweet smiles we ever seek--
In thy place--ah! well-a-day!
We find the thing we fled--To-day.
1928
SHELLEY: _To-morrow._

=Tongue.=

While thou livest, keep a good tongue in thy head.
1929
SHAKS.: _Tempest,_ Act iii., Sc. 2.

No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp,
And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee
Where thrift may follow fawning.
1930
SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act iii., Sc. 2.

Sacred interpreter of human thought,
How few respect or use thee as they ought!
But all shall give account of every wrong,
Who dare dishonor or defile the tongue.
1931
COWPER: _Conversation,_ Line 23.

=Tools.=

For all a rhetorician's rules
Teach nothing but to name his tools.
1932
BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. i., Canto i., Line 89.

=Toothache.=

There was never yet philosopher
That could endure the toothache patiently.
1933
SHAKS.: _Much Ado,_ Act v., Sc. 1.

=Torrent.=

So the loud torrent and the whirlwind's roar
But bind him to his native mountains more.
1934
GOLDSMITH: _Traveller,_ Line 217.

=Torture.=

The hell of waters! where they howl and hiss,
And boil in endless torture.
1935
BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto iv., St. 69.

=Towers.=

Towers and battlements it sees
Bosom'd high in tufted trees.
1936
MILTON: _L'Allegro,_ Line 75.

=Town.=

God made the country, and man made the town.
1937
COWPER: _Task,_ Bk i., Line 749.

=Toys.=

Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys,
And eagerly pursues imaginary joys.
1938
AKENSIDE: _Virtuoso,_ St. 10.

=Trade.=

But times are alter'd; trade's unfeeling train
Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain;
Along the lawn, where scatter'd hamlets rose,
Unwieldy wealth and cumbrous pomp repose.
1939
GOLDSMITH: _Des. Village,_ Line 63.

Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay.
1940
DR. JOHNSON: _Line added to Goldsmith's Des. Village._

=Tranquillity.=

Like ships that have gone down at sea
When heaven was all tranquillity.
1941
MOORE: _Lalla Rookh, The Light of the Harem._

=Traveller--Travelling.=

Now spurs the lated traveller apace
To gain the timely inn.
1942
SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act iii., Sc. 3.

When I was at home, I was in a better place;
But travellers must be content.
1943
SHAKS.: _As You Like It,_ Act ii., Sc. 4.

In travelling
I shape myself betimes to idleness
And take fools' pleasures....
1944
GEORGE ELIOT: _Spanish Gypsy,_ Bk. i.

=Treason.=

Then I, and you, and all of us fell down,
Whilst bloody treason flourish'd over us.
1945
SHAKS.: _Jul. Caesar,_ Act iii., Sc. 2.

So Judas kiss'd his master,
And cried--All hail! when as he meant--all harm.
1946
SHAKS.: _3 Henry VI.,_ Act v., Sc. 7.

Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason?
Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
1947
SIR JOHN HARRINGTON: _Epigrams,_ Bk. iv., Epigram 5.

Treason is not own'd when 'tis descried;
Successful crimes alone are justified.
1948
DRYDEN: _Medals,_ Line 207.

=Treasure.=

The unsunn'd heaps
Of miser's treasure.
1949
MILTON: _Comus,_ Line 398.

=Trees.=

Trees can smile in light at the sinking sun
Just as the storm comes, as a girl would look
On a departing lover--most serene.
1950
ROBERT BROWNING: _Pauline,_ Line 726.

The groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned
To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave,
And spread the roof above them.
1951
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT: _Forest Hymn._

Sure thou didst flourish once! and many springs,
Many bright mornings, much dew, many showers,
Passed o'er thy head; many light hearts and wings,
Which now are dead, lodg'd in thy living bowers.
1952
HENRY VAUGHAN: _The Timber._

A brotherhood of venerable trees.
1953
WORDSWORTH: _Sonnet composed at ---- Castle._

=Trial.=

We learn through trial.
1954
MARGARET J. PRESTON: _Attainment,_ St. 7.

=Trifles.=

Since trifles make the sum of human things,
And half our misery from our foibles springs.
1955
HANNAH MORE: _Sensibility._

Think nought a trifle, though it small appear;
Small sands the mountain, moments make the year;
And trifles life.
1956
YOUNG: _Love of Fame,_ Satire vi., Line 193.

=Triumph.=

Why comes temptation, but for man to meet
And master, and make crouch beneath his foot,
And so be pedestaled in triumph?
1957
ROBERT BROWNING: _The Ring and the Book,_ Line 1185.

=Trouble.=

Double, double toil and trouble,
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
1958
SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act iv., Sc. 1.

To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The stings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them.
1959
SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act iii., Sc. 1.

=Truth.=

Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
1960
CHAUCER: _The Frankeleines Tale,_ Line 11789.

O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the devil.
1961
SHAKS.: _1 Henry IV.,_ Act iii., Sc. 1.

Truth crushed to earth shall rise again:
The eternal years of God are hers.
1962
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT: _The Battle-field._

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie;
A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby.
1963
HERBERT: _Temple, Church Porch,_ St. 13.

Truth has such a face and such a mien,
As to be lov'd, needs only to be seen.
1964
DRYDEN: _Hind and Panther,_ Pt. i., Line 33.

He is the freeman whom the truth makes free,
And all are slaves beside.
1965
COWPER: _Task,_ Bk. v., Line 133.

Truth is one;
And, in all lands beneath the sun,
Whoso hath eyes to see may see
The tokens of its unity.
1966
WHITTIER: _Miriam._

Truth is truth howe'er it strike.
1967
ROBERT BROWNING: _La Saisiaz,_ Line 198.

I love truth: truth's no cleaner thing than love.
1968
MRS. BROWNING: _Aurora Leigh,_ Bk. iii., Line 735.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty,--that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
1969
KEATS: _Ode on a Grecian Urn._

Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne.
1970
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL: _Present Crisis,_ St. 8.

=Tulips.=

Then comes the tulip race, where beauty plays
Her idle freaks; from family diffused
To family, as flies the father-dust,
The varied colors run; and while they break
On the charmed eye, the exulting florist marks,
With secret pride, the wonders of his hand.
1971
THOMSON: _Seasons, Spring,_ Line 539.

=Tune.=

Strange that a harp of thousand strings
Should keep in tune so long!
1972
WATTS: _Hymns and Spiritual Songs,_ Bk. ii., Hymn 19.

=Turf.=

Green be the turf above thee,
Friend of my better days!
1973
FITZ-GREENE HALLECK: _On Joseph Rodman Drake._

=Turk.=

Should such a man, too fond to rule alone,
Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
1974
POPE: _Prologue to the Satires,_ Line 197.

=Twilight.=

Now came still evening on, and twilight gray
Had in her sober livery all things clad.
1975
MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. iv., Line 598.

Peacefully
The quiet stars came out, one after one;
The holy twilight fell upon the sea,
The summer day was done.
1976
CELIA THAXTER: _A Summer Day,_ St. 15

=Tyranny.=

'Tis time to fear, when tyrants seem to kiss.
1977
SHAKS.: _Pericles,_ Act i., Sc. 2.

'Twixt kings and tyrants there's this difference known--
Kings seek their subjects' good, tyrants their own.
1978
HERRICK: _Aph. Kings and Tyrants._

Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that
Of blood and chains?
1979
BYRON: _Sardanapalus,_ Act i., Sc. 2.

==U.==

=Uncertainty.=

Oh, how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day!
1980
SHAKS.: _Two Gent. of V.,_ Act i., Sc. 3.

=Unity.=

Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
1981
MARIA WHITE LOWELL: _Ingomar the Barbarian,_ Act ii.

=Unkindness.=

This was the most unkindest cut of all.
1982
SHAKS.: _Jul. Caesar,_ Act iii., Sc. 2.

=Use.=

These things are beyond all use,
And I do fear them.
1983
SHAKS.: _Jul. Caesar,_ Act ii., Sc. 2.

==V.==

=Vacuity.=

He trudged along, unknowing what he sought,
And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
1984
DRYDEN: _Cym. and Iph.,_ Line 84.

=Valentine.=

Oft have I heard both youths and virgins say,
Birds choose their mates, and couple too, this day;
But by their flight I never can divine
When I shall couple with my Valentine.
1985
HERRICK: _Aph. To His Valentine._

=Valor.=

Fear to do base unworthy things is valor;
If they be done to us, to suffer them,
Is valor too.
1986
BEN JONSON: _New Inn,_ Act iv., Sc. 3.

=Vanity.=

Light vanity, insatiate cormorant
Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.
1987
SHAKS.: _Richard II.,_ Act ii., Sc. 1.

What dotage will not Vanity maintain?
What web too weak to catch a modern brain?
1988
COWPER: _Expostulation,_ Line 630.

=Vapor.=

A wing vapor melting in a tear.
1989
POPE: _Odyssey,_ Bk. xix., Line 143.

=Variety.=

Variety's the very spice of life,
That gives it all its flavor.
1990
COWPER: _Task,_ Bk. ii., Line 606.

=Vault.=

Heaven's ebon vault
Studded with stars unutterably bright.
1991
SHELLEY: _Queen Mab._

=Vengeance.=

In high vengeance there is noble scorn.
1992
GEORGE ELIOT: _Spanish Gypsy,_ Bk. iv.

=Venice.=

I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs,
A palace and a prison on each hand.
1993
BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto iv., St. 1.

In Venice, Tasso's echoes are no more,
And silent rows the songless gondolier.
1994
BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto iv., St. 3.

=Venus.=

Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
1995
POPE: _Wife of Bath, Her Prologue,_ Line 369.

=Verse.=

Whoe'er offends at some unlucky time
Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme.
1996
POPE: Satire i., Bk. ii., Line 76.

Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound;
She feels no biting pang the while she sings.
1997
RICHARD GIFFORD: _Contemplation._

=Vice.=

There is no vice so simple, but assumes
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
1998
SHAKS.: _M. of Venice,_ Act iii., Sc. 2.

I hate when vice can bolt her arguments,
And virtue has no tongue to check her pride.
1999
MILTON: _Comus,_ Line 760.

Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
As to be hated needs but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
2000
POPE: _Essay on Man,_ Epis. ii., Line 217.

=Victory.=

Thus far our fortune keeps an upward course,
And we are grac'd with wreaths of victory.
2001
SHAKS.: _3 Henry VI.,_ Act v., Sc. 3.

"But what good came of it at last?"
Quoth little Peterkin.
"Why, that I cannot tell," said he;
"But 'twas a famous victory."
2002
ROBERT SOUTHEY: _Battle of Blenheim._

=Village.=

Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain.
2003
GOLDSMITH: _Des. Village._

Suburban villas, highway-side retreats,
That dread th' encroachment of our growing streets,
Tight boxes neatly sash'd, and in a blaze
With all a July sun's collected rays,
Delight the citizen, who gasping there,
Breathes clouds of dust, and calls it country air.
2004
COWPER: _Retirement,_ Line 481.

=Villain.=

Which is the villain? Let me see his eyes;
That when I note another man like him
I may avoid him.
2005
SHAKS.: _Much Ado,_ Act v., Sc. 1.

=Vine.=

Come, thou monarch of the vine,
Plumpy Bacchus with pink eyne!
2006
SHAKS.: _Ant. and Cleo.,_ Act ii., Sc. 7.

=Violet.=

A violet by a mossy stone
Half hidden from the eye;
Fair as a star, when only one
Is shining in the sky.
2007
WORDSWORTH: _She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways._

Odors, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.
2008
SHELLEY: _Music, When Soft Voices Die._

What thought is folded in thy leaves!
What tender thought, what speechless pain!
I hold thy faded lips to mine,
Thou darling of the April rain!
2009
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH: _The Faded Violet._

=Virtue.=

Heaven doth with us, as we with torches do;
Not light them for themselves: for if our virtues
Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike
As if we had them not.
2010
SHAKS.: _M. for M.,_ Act i., Sc. 1.

Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues
We write in water.
2011
SHAKS.: _Henry III.,_ Act iv., Sc. 2.

Assume a virtue if you have it not.
2012
SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act iii., Sc. 4.

Virtue may be assail'd, but never hurt;
Surpris'd by unjust force, but not enthrall'd;
Yea, even that which mischief meant most harm,
Shall in the happy trial prove most glory.
2013
MILTON: _Comus,_ Line 589.

Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed,
What then? Is the reward of virtue bread?
2014
POPE: _Essay on Man,_ Epis. iv., Line 149.

=Vision.=

And in clear dream and solemn vision
Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear.
2015
MILTON: _Comus,_ Line 453.

=Voice.=

Her voice was ever soft,
Gentle, and low; an excellent thing in woman.
2016
SHAKS.: _King Lear,_ Act v., Sc. 3.

=Vows.=

Unheedful vows may needfully be broken.
2017
SHAKS.: _Two Gent. of V.,_ Act ii., Sc. 6.

It is the hour when lovers' vows
Seem sweet in every whisper'd word.
2018
BYRON: _Parisina,_ St. 1.

==W.==

=Wagers.=

Quoth she, I've heard old cunning stagers
Say fools for arguments use wagers.
2019
BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. ii., Canto i., Line 297.

=Walks.=

A pillar'd shade
High overarch'd, and echoing walks between.
2020
MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. ix., Line 1106.

Whene'er I take my walks abroad,
How many poor I see!
2021
WATTS: _Divine Songs,_ Song iv.

=War.=

O war, thou son of hell,
Whom angry heav'ns do make their minister,
Throw in the frozen bosoms of our part
Hot coals of vengeance!--Let no soldier fly;
He that is truly delicate to war
Hath no self-love: nor he that loves himself.
2022
SHAKS.: _2 Henry VI.,_ Act v., Sc. 2.

Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front.
2023
SHAKS.: _Richard III.,_ Act i., Sc. 1.

War's a game, which, were their subjects wise,
Kings would not play at.
2024
COWPER: _Task,_ Bk. v., Line 186.

War, war is still the cry, "War even to the knife!"
2025
BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto i., St. 86.

War is a terrible trade; but in the cause that is righteous,
Sweet is the smell of powder.
2026
LONGFELLOW: _Courtship of Miles Standish,_ Pt. iv., Line 135.

=Warning.=

Men that stumble at the threshold,
Are well foretold that danger lurks within.
2027
SHAKS.: _3 Henry VI.,_ Act iv., Sc. 7.

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