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INFLUENCE

{{Hoyt quote | num = 3 | text = By the golden chain Homer meant nothing else than the sun. Plato in Kihcher's Magnes Sive de Arte Magnetica. See also Hare's Guesses at Truth. 2nd Series. Ed. 3. P. 377. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Homer) | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Influence | page = 393 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend. | author = Pope | work = Essay on Man. | place = Ep. IV. L. 390. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Influence | page = 393 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = And the touch'd needle trembles to the pole. Pope;—Temple of Fame. L. 431. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Norris}}) | topic = Influence | page = 393 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = They are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely. Psalms. LVIII. 4. 5. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Influence | page = 393 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Even as the needle that directs the hour, (Touched with the loadstone) by the secret power Of hidden Nature, points upon the pole: Even so the wavering powers of my soul, Touch'd by the virtue of Thy spirit, flee From what is earth, and point alone to Thee. Quarles—Job Mil. Med. IV. Also in Emblems. Bk. I. Emblem 13. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Norris) Such souls, Whose sudden visitations daze the world, Vanish like lightning, but they leave behind A voice that in the distance far away Sir Henry Taylor—Philip Van Artevelde. Pt. I. Act I. Sc.7. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Influence | page = 393 }}
 * Wakens the slumbering ages.

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = For so the whole round Earth is every way Bound by Gold Chains about the Feet of God. | author = Tennyson | work = Morte D' Arthur. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Homer}}) | topic = Influence | page = 393 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = I am a part of all that I have met. | author = Tennyson | work = Ulysses. | place = L. 18. | note = | topic = Influence | page = 393 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = I thank God that if I am gifted with little of the spirit which is said to be able to raise mortals to the skies, I have yet none, as I trust, of that other spirit, which would drag angels down. Daniel Webster—Second Speech on Foot's Resolution, Jan. 26, 1830. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Dryden}}) | topic = Influence | page = 393 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = It is very true that I have said that I considered Napoleon's presence in the field equal to forty thousand men in the balance. This is a very loose way of talking; but the idea is a very different one from that of his presence at a battle being equal to a reinforcement of forty thousand men. Duke of Wellington—Memorandum. Sept. 18, 1836. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Influence | page = 393 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves Of their bad influence, and their good receives. Wordsworth—Character of the Happy WarWhose powers shed round him in the common strife, Or mild concerns of ordinary life, A constant influence, a peculiar grace. Wordsworth—Character of the Happy Warrior. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Influence | page = 393 }}

{{Hoyt topic|Ingratitude}}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 15 | text = Nil homine terra pejus ingrato creat. Earth produces nothing worse than an ungrateful man. Aubonius—Epigrams. CXL. 1. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Ingratitude | page = 393 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Deserted, at his utmost need, By those his former bounty fed; On the bare earth exposed he lies, With not a friend to close his eyes. Dryden—Alexander's Feast. St. 4. Ingratitude's a weed of every clime, It thrives too fast at first, but fades in time. Sam'l Garth—Epistle to the Earl of Godolphin. L. 27. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Ingratitude | page = 393 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 15 | text = That man may last, but never lives, Who much receives, but nothing gives; Whom none can love, whom none can thank, Creation's blot, creation's blank. Thomas Gibbons—When Jesus Dwelt. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Ingratitude | page = 393 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him. | author = Samuel Johnson | work = Boswett's Life of Johnson. 1776. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Ingratitude | page = 393 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Nihil amas, cum ingratum amas. You love a nothing when you love an ingrate. Plautus—Persa. II. 2. 46. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Ingratitude | page = 393 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Ingratus est, qui beneficium accepisse se negat, quod accepit: ingratus est, qui dissimulat; ingratus, qui non reddit; ingratissimus omnium, qui oblitus est. He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it. Seneca—De Beneficiis. III. 1. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Ingratitude | page = 393 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude: Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen, Although thy breath be rude. As You Like It. Act II. Sc. 7. L. 174 | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Ingratitude | page = 393 }} 