1419
Is there a heart that music cannot melt?
Alas! how is that rugged heart forlorn.
--_Beattie._
1420
Music loosens a heart that care has bound.
1421
No music is so charming to my ear as the requests of my friends, and the supplications of those in want of my a.s.sistance.
--_Caesar._
1422
His very foot has music in"t, As he comes up the stair.
--_Burns._
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1423
For art may err, but nature cannot miss.
--_J. Dryden._
1424
Our nature exists by motion; perfect rest is death.
1425
Good-nature, like a bee, collects honey from every herb. Ill-nature, like a spider, sucks poison from the sweetest flower.
1426
Good-nature is the beauty of the mind, and, like personal beauty, wins almost without anything else.
--_Hanway._
1427
If you want to keep your good looks, keep your good nature.
1428
NATURE.
No ordinance of man shall override The settled laws of nature and of G.o.d; Not written these in pages of a book, Nor were they framed to-day, nor yesterday; We know not whence they are; but this we know, That they from all eternity have been, And shall to all eternity endure.
--_Sophocles, born 495 B. C._
1429
Every one follows the inclinations of his own nature.
--_Propertius._
1430
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely sh.o.r.e, There is society where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but nature more, From these our interviews, in which I steal From all I may be, or have been before, To mingle with the universe, and feel What I am can ne"er express, yet cannot all conceal.
--_Lord Byron._
1431
Who can paint Like nature? Can imagination boast, Amid its gay creation, hues like hers?
--_J. Thomson._
1432
Tender handed stroke a nettle And it stings you for your pains; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains; Thus it is with vulgar natures, Use them kindly, they rebel: But be rough as nutmeg graters, And the rogues obey you well.
--_Aaron Hill._
1433