PREACHING EASIER THAN PRACTICE. 163 good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching. The brain may devise laws for the blood; but a hot temper leaps over a cold decree. Merchant of Venice. Act i. Scene 2. Adriana. A wretched soul, bruis'd with adversity, We bid be quiet, when we hear it cry; Comedy of Errors. Act ii. Scene 1. Ophelia. • But, good my brother, Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Hamlet. Act i. Scene 3. PRIDE OFTEN ACCOMPANIES POVERTY, Olivia. Oh world! how apt the poor are to be proud! Twelfth Night. Act iii. Scene 1. Suffolk. Small things make base men proud. 2nd part King Henry VI. Act iv. Scene 1. Agamemnon. He that is proud, eats up himself; pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle: and whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise. Troilus and Cressidu. Actii, Scene 3. PRIDE OF AUTHORITY. Isabella. Could great men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet; For every pelting, petty officer Would use his heaven for thunder; nothing but thunder. Thou rather, with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt, Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, King Lear. Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar ? Gloster, Aye, Sir. King Lear. And the creature run from the cur? There thou mightest behold the great image of authority: A dog's obey'd in office. King Lear. Act iv. Scene 6. PROCR TINATION. ITS DANGER AND IMPOLICY. Macbeth. The flighty purpose never is o'ertook, Macbeth. Act iv. Scene 1, King. Not one word more of the consumed time. Let's take the instant by the forward top; On our quick'st decrees The inaudible and noiseless foot of time Steals ere we can effect them. We should do when we would: for this "would" changes, And hath abatements and delays as many, As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents; And then this “should” is like a spendthrift sigh, That hurts by easing.† Hamlet. Act iv. Scene 7. * Timorous, hesitating thoughts. Referring to the vulgar notion that sighing impairs the animal powers. Helena. He that of greatest works is finisher, Oft does them by the weakest minister : When judges have been babes. Great floods have flown Where hope is coldest, and despair most sits. All's well that ends well. Act ii. Scene 1. 1T OVER-RULES ALL THINGS. Hamlet. Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well When our deep plots do pall. And that should teach us, There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Kough-hew them how we will. Hamlet. Act v. Scene 2. |