every threadbare sail,
And give her to the god of storms,
The lightning and the gale!
1800
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES: _Old Ironsides._

=Story.=

Her father loved me; oft invited me;
Still question'd me the story of my life,
From year to year, the battles, sieges, fortune,
That I have passed.
1801
SHAKS.: _Othello,_ Act i., Sc. 3.

She thank'd me,
And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her,
I should but teach him how to tell my story,
And that would woo her.
1802
SHAKS.: _Othello,_ Act i., Sc. 3.

=Strangers.=

By foreign hands thy dying eyes were clos'd,
By foreign hands thy decent limbs compos'd,
By foreign hands thy humble grave adorn'd,
By strangers honored, and by strangers mourn'd.
1803
POPE: _To the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady,_ Line 51.

=Streets.=

The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead
Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets.
1804
SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act i., Sc. 1.

=Strength.=

O, it is excellent
To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous
To use it like a giant.
1805
SHAKS.: _M. for M.,_ Act ii., Sc. 2.

To be strong
Is to be happy!
1806
LONGFELLOW: _Christus, Golden Legend,_ Pt. ii.

=Strife.=

No fears to beat away, no strife to heal,--
The past unsighed for, and the future sure.
1807
WORDSWORTH: _Laodamia._

=Striving.=

How far your eyes may pierce I cannot tell;
Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.
1808
SHAKS.: _King Lear,_ Act i., Sc. 4.

=Study.=

Study is like the heaven's glorious sun,
That will not be deep-search'd with saucy looks;
Small have continual plodders ever won,
Save base authority from others' books.
1809
SHAKS.: _Love's L. Lost,_ Act i., Sc. 1.

If not to some peculiar end design'd
Study 's the specious trifling of the mind,
Or is at best a secondary aim,
A chase for sport alone, and not for game.
1810
YOUNG: _Love of Fame,_ Satire ii., Line 67.

=Style.=

The lives of trees lie only in the barks,
And in their styles the wit of greatest clerks.
1811
BUTLER: _Sat. on Abuse of Human Learning,_ Line 211.

=Success.=

Didst thou never hear
That things ill got had ever bad success?
1812
SHAKS.: _3 Henry VI.,_ Act ii., Sc. 2.

Life lives only in success.
1813
BAYARD TAYLOR: _Amran's Wooing,_ St. 5.

'Tis not in mortals to command success;
But we'll do more, Sempronius--we'll deserve it.
1814
ADDISON: _Cato,_ Act i., Sc. 2.

=Suffering.=

Yet