Sir Scott
Sir Scott
race simple smile toil tribute vain waste
A simple race! they waste their toil For the vain tribute of a smile
deceive oh practice tangled web
Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive
active afford cannot due forward friends-or-friendship gratitude humble incumbent less life member move ought owe path powers rejoice save share steadily success whom
If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.
drinking greatness vices
Of all the vices drinking is the most incompatible with greatness
consequences crimes forever ghosts haunt steps survive
The consequences of our crimes long survive their commission, and, like the ghosts of the murdered, forever haunt the steps of the malefactor
alert asserting constantly jealousy kept liable life pride resolute rights spent
Pride and jealousy there was in his eye, for his life had been spent in asserting rights which were constantly liable to invasion; and the prompt, fiery, and resolute disposition of the man, had been kept constantly upon the alert by the circumstances of his situation.
scorn
Better that they had ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn
death slow
Come he slow or come he fast. It is but death who comes at last.
christmas heap merry whistle wind
Heap on more wood! the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still.
awakening death final last
Death - the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening
believed blest fair girl knew mourn thee thus
Mary, I believed thee true, And I was blest in thus believing; But now I mourn that ever I knew A girl so fair and so deceiving.
death final last
Is death the last step? No, it is the final awakening.
brute envious exalted high lie loudest lowest shouts station turn whose worth zeal
And the brute crowd, whose envious zeal Huzzas each turn of fortune's wheel, And loudest shouts when lowest lie Exalted worth and station high
average efficiency fifty increase injury man percent probable
It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty percent