elf-Knowledge.=

To know _thyself_--in others self-concern;
Would'st thou know others? read thyself--and learn!
1629
SCHILLER: _Votive Tablets, The Key._

=Self-Love.=

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin
As self-neglecting.
1630
SHAKS.: _Henry V.,_ Act ii., Sc. 4.

Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul;
Reason's comparing balance rules the whole.
1631
POPE: _Essay on Man,_ Epis. ii., Line 59.

=Self-Reproach.=

Men who can hear the Decalogue, and feel
No self-reproach.
1632
WORDSWORTH: _The Old Cumberland Beggar._

=Self-Respect.=

He that respects himself is safe from others;
He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
1633
LONGFELLOW: _Michael Angelo,_ Pt. ii.

=Self-Sacrifice.=

Give unto me, made lowly wise,
The spirit of self-sacrifice.
1634
WORDSWORTH: _Ode to Duty._

=Sense.=

A man whose blood
Is very snow-broth; one who never feels
The wanton stings and motions of the sense.
1635
SHAKS.: _M. for M.,_ Act i., Sc. 4.

Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven,
And though no science, fairly worth the seven.
1636
POPE: _Moral Essays,_ Epis. iv., Line 43

=Sensibility.=

Our sensibilities are so acute,
The fear of being silent makes us mute.
1637
COWPER: _Conversation,_ Line 351.

Sweet sensibility! thou keen delight!
Unprompted moral! sudden sense of right!
1638
HANNAH MORE: _Sensibility,_ Line 227.

=Separation.=

Thy soul ...
Is as far from my grasp, is as free,
As the stars from the mountain-tops be,
As the pearl in the depths of the sea,
From the portionless king that would wear it.
1639
E.C. STEDMAN: _Stanzas for Music,_ St. 3.

=September.=

September waves his golden-rod
Along the lanes and hollows,
And saunters round the sunny fields
A-playing with the swallows.
1640
ELLEN MACKAY HUTCHINSON: _The Prince._

=Sermons.=

Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything.
1641
SHAKS.: _As You Like It,_ Act ii., Sc. 1.

Perhaps it may turn out a sang,
Perhaps turn out a sermon.
1642
BURNS: _Epistle to a Young Friend._

=Serpent.=

What! would'st thou have a serpent sting thee twice?
1643
SHAKS.: _M. of Venice,_ Act iv., Sc. 1.

Where's my serpent of old Nile?
1644
SHAKS.: _Ant. and Cleo.,_ Act i., Sc. 5.

And hence one master-passion in the breast,
Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
1645
POPE: _Essay on Man,_ Epi