The Century Vocabulary Builder Part 33

That thereby he may gather The ground of your _ill-will_, and so remove it.

No place is so propitious to the formation either of close friendships or of deadly _enmities_ as an Indiaman.

There need be no _hostility_ between evolutionist and theologian.

Shall we be thus afflicted in his wreaks, His fits, his frenzy, and his _bitterness?_

Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in _malice_.

Every obstacle which partisan _malevolence_ could create he has had to encounter.

His flight is occasioned rather by the _malignity_ of his countrymen than by the enmity of the Egyptians.

Where the soul sours, and gradual _rancor_ grows, Imbitter'd more from peevish day to day.

Peace in their mouthes, and all _rancor_ and vengeance in their hartes [hearts].

For them the gracious Duncan have I murder'd; Put _rancors_ in the vessel of my peace Only for them.

Her _resentment_ against the king seems not to have abated.

Mrs. W. was in high _dudgeon_; her heels clattered on the red-tiled floor, and she whisked about the house like a parched pea upon a drum-head.

If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient _grudge_ I bear him.

Men of this character pursue a _grudge_ unceasingly, and never forget or forgive.

And since you ne'er provoked their _spite_, Depend upon't their judgment's right.

. (With this group compare the _matrimonial_ group in Exercise C, above.)

_Marriages_ are made in heaven.

Hasty _marriage_ seldom proveth well.

A man finds himself seven years older the day after his _marriage_.

Let me not to the _marriage_ of true minds Admit impediments.

_Marriage_ is the best state for man in general; and every man is a worse man in proportion as he is unfit for the married state.

_Matrimony_--the high sea for which no compa.s.s has yet been invented.

_Wedlock's_ a lane where there is no turning.

What is _wedlock_ forced, but a h.e.l.l, An age of discord and continual strife?

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Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see; That _mercy_ I to others show, That _mercy_ show to me.

The quality of _mercy_ is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice bless'd; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes; * * * * *

And earthly power doth then show likest G.o.d's When _mercy_ seasons justice.

_Clemency_ is the surest proof of a true monarch.

_Lenity_ will operate with greater force, in some instances, than vigor.

All the fellows tried to persuade the Master to greater _leniency_, but in vain.

It will be necessary that this acceptance should be followed up by measures of the utmost _lenience_.

There is however a limit at which _forbearance_ ceases to be a virtue.

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Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His _pity_ gave ere charity began.

For _pity_ melts the mind to love.

For _pitee_ renneth [runneth] soon in gentle herte [heart].

Our _sympathy_ is cold to the relation of distant misery.

Man may dismiss _compa.s.sion_ from his heart, but G.o.d will never.

It is unworthy a religious man to view an irreligious one either with alarm or aversion; or with any other feeling than regret, and hope, and brotherly _commiseration_.

Their congratulations and their _condolences_ are equally words of course.

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Is there for honest _poverty_ That hings [hangs] his head, and a' that?

Not to be able to bear _poverty_ is a shameful thing, but not to know how to chase it away by work is a more shameful thing yet.

St.i.tch! st.i.tch! st.i.tch!

In _poverty_, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, Would that its tone could reach the Rich, She sang this "Song of the Shirt!"

_Poverty_ is dishonorable, not in itself, but when it is a proof of laziness, intemperance, luxury, and carelessness; whereas in a person that is temperate, industrious, just and valiant, and who uses all his virtues for the public good, it shows a great and lofty mind.

_Want_ is a bitter and hateful good, Because its virtues are not understood; Yet many things, impossible to thought, Have been by _need_ to full perfection brought.

Hundreds would never have known _want_ if they had not first known waste.