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go--and so return. 1031 CHARLES KINGSLEY: _Saint's Tragedy,_ Act ii., Sc. 10. Dear as remember'd kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd On lips that are for others. 1032 TENNYSON: _The Princess,_ Pt. iv., Line 36. =Knavery.= There's ne'er a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave. 1033 SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act i., Sc. 5. Whip me such honest knaves. 1034 SHAKS.: _Othello,_ Act i., Sc. 1. =Knell.= By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung. 1035 WILLIAM COLLINS: _Lines in 1746._ Ne'er sigh'd at the sound of a knell, Or smil'd when a Sabbath appear'd. 1036 COWPER: _Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk._ =Knowledge.= Knowledge is as food, and needs no less Her temp'rance over appetite, to know In measure what the mind may well contain; Oppresses else with surfeit, and soon turns Wisdom to folly. 1037 MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. vii., Line 126. All our knowledge is, ourselves to know. 1038 POPE: _Essay on Man,_ Epis. iv., Line 397. _I know_--is all the mourner saith, Knowledge by suffering entereth; And Life is perfected by Death! 1039 MRS. BROWNING: _Vision of Poets,_ St. 330. Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. 1040 TENNYSON: _Locksley Hall,_ Line 141. But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page, Rich with the spoils of time, did ne'er unroll. 1041 GRAY: _Elegy,_ St. 13. Oh, be wiser thou! Instructed that true knowledge leads to love. 1042 WORDSWORTH: _Lines left upon a Seat in a Yew-tree._ ==L.== =Labor.= I have seen a swan With bootless labor swim against the tide, And spend her strength with over-matching waves. 1043 SHAKS.: _3 Henry VI.,_ Act i., Sc. 4. Labor, you know, is Prayer. 1044 BAYARD TAYLOR: _Improvisations,_ St. 11. Taste the joy That springs from labor. 1045 LONGFELLOW: _Masque of Pandora,_ Pt. vi. To fall'n humanity our Father said, That food and bliss should not be found unsought; That man should labor for his daily bread; But not that man should toil and sweat for nought. 1046 EBENEZER ELLIOTT: _Corn Law Hymns._ To labor is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe. 1047 POPE: _Iliad,_ Bk. x., Line 78. =Ladies.= Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 'T is to their changes half their charms we owe. 1048 POPE: _Moral Essays,_ Epis. ii., Line 41. =Lake.= On
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