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34 beaverish or dog-like one, then truly all hope is gone.—Thomas Carlyle.

But 'tis a common proof That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend.—Shakspeare.

If the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the most distant regions in participation of their fruits, how much more are letters to be magnified which, as ships, pass through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant participate of the wisdom, illumina- tions, and inventions, the one of the other.—Bacon.

The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones, —Shakspeare.

Wide were his fields; his herds were large, And large his flocks of sheep, And numerous were his goats and deer Upon the mountain steep.—Michael Bruce.

But, with a crash like thunder, Fall every loosened beam, And, like a dam, the mighty wreck Lay right athwart the stream.—Macaulay.