Magnanimity N° OTHING emboldens sin so much as mercy. Με Timon of Athens. Act III, Sc. 5. EN must learn now with pity to dispense, For policy sits above conscience. Timon of Athens. Act III, Sc. 2. THOUGH HOUGH with their high wrongs I am Yet with my nobler reason 'gainst my fury The rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance. They being The sole drift of my purpose doth extend The Tempest. Act V, Sc. 1. A Margin for Humanity O GENEROSITY REASON not the need! Our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous. Allow not nature more than nature needs, King Lear. Act II, Sc. 4. IS not enough to help the feeble up, The Good Samaritan THE `HE mind shall banquet, though the body Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits SM MALL herbs have grace, great weeds do Richard III. Act II, Sc. 4. UPERFLUOUS branches We lop away, that bearing boughs may King Richard II. Act III, Sc. 4. High Thought Simple Living Gardening Prun ing The Happy Truth and Display Fortune's Ex cesses FOR `OR aught I see, they are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing. It is no mean happiness, therefore, to be seated in the mean. Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. O Merchant of Venice. Act I, Sc. 2. UR purses shall be proud, our garments poor; For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich; So honour peereth in the meanest habit. Because his painted skin contents the eye? ILL Fortune never come with both W hands full, But write her fair words still in foulest letters? away And takes the stomach; such are the rich I AM a true laborer. I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other men's good, content with my own harm, and the greatest of my pride is to see my ewes graze and my lambs suck. As You Like It. Act III, Sc. 2. TH HOUGHTS tending to ambition, they do Unlikely wonders. Richard II. Act V, Sc. 5. OUT 'tis a common proof, BUT That lowliness is young Ambition's lad- Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; Julius Cæsar. Act II, Sc. 1. Bucolic Pride The Folly of the Ambitious Their Ingratitude Ambi tion a Shadow's Shadow The Hind and the Lion Payment for Poison Inheritance THE substance of the ambitious is very merely the shadow of a dream. A dream itself is but a shadow; and I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow's shadow. Hamlet. Act II, Sc. 2. HE hind that would be mated by the lion ΤΗ All's Well That Ends Well. Act I, Sc. I. THE AVARICE HERE is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murder in this loathsome world, I sell thee poison; thou hast sold me none. H OW quickly nature falls into revolt, |