SHELLEY: _Evening._

=Evil.=

Farewell hope! and with hope, farewell fear!
Farewell remorse! all good to me is lost.
Evil, be thou my good; by thee at least
Divided empire with heaven's king I hold.
634
MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. iv., Line 108.

Evil springs up, and flowers, and bears no seed,
And feeds the green earth with its swift decay,
Leaving it richer for the growth of truth.
635
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL: _Prometheus._

=Example.=

The evil that men do lives after them,
The good is oft interred with their bones.
636
SHAKS.: _Jul. Caesar,_ Act iii., Sc. 2.

By his life alone,
Gracious and sweet, the better way was shown.
637
WHITTIER: _The Pennsylvania Pilgrim._

=Excess.=

To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
To throw a perfume on the violet,
To smooth the ice, or add another hue
Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light
To seek the beauteous eye of Heaven to garnish,
Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.
638
SHAKS.: _King John,_ Act iv., Sc. 2.

=Exile.=

Beheld the duteous son, the sire decayed,
The modest matron, and the blushing maid,
Forc'd from their homes, a melancholy train,
To traverse climes beyond the Western main.
639
GOLDSMITH: _Traveller,_ Line 407.

=Expectation.=

'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear;
Heaven were not heaven if we knew what it were.
640
SUCKLING: _Against Fruition._

=Experience.=

Experience is by industry achieved,
And perfected by the swift course of time.
641
SHAKS.: _Two Gent, of V.,_ Act i., Sc. 3.

His head was silver'd o'er with age,
And long experience made him sage.
642
GAY, _Fables,_ Pt. i., _The Shepherd and the Philosopher._

=Extremes.=

Extremes in nature equal good produce,
Extremes in man concur to general use.
643
POPE: _Moral Essays,_ Epis. iii., Line 161.

=Eyes.=

Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven,
Having some business, do entreat her eyes
To twinkle in their spheres till they return.
644
SHAKS.: _Rom. and Jul.,_ Act ii., Sc. 2.

True eyes
Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise
The sweet soul shining thro' them.
645
OWEN MEREDITH: _Lucile,_ Pt. ii., Canto ii., St. 3.

There are eyes half defiant,
Half meek and compliant;
Black eyes, with a wondrous, witching charm
To bring us good or to work us harm,
646
PHOEBE CARY: _Doves' Eyes._

Soul-deep eyes of darkest night.
647
JOAQUIN MILLER: _Californian,_ Pt. iv.

Her eyes are homes of silent pr