Shall I, wasting in despair,

Die because a woman's fair?
Or make pale my cheeks with care,
'Cause another's rosy are?

Be she fairer than the day,
Or the flow'ry meads in May,
If she be not so to me,

What care I how fair she be?
2396

George Wither: Shepherd's Resolution

Let ev'ry man enjoy his whim; What's he to me, or I to him. 2397

Churchill: Ghost. Bk. iv. Line 215.

I care for nobody, no, not I,
If nobody cares for me.

2398

Bickerstaff: Love in a Village. Act i. Sc. 3.

INDUSTRY — see Action, Activity, Decision, Perseverance.
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie,

Which we ascribe to Heav'n. The fated sky
Gives us free scope; only doth backward pull
Our slow designs, when we ourselves are dull.
2399

Shaks.: All's Well. Act i. Sc. 1.

The sweat of industry would dry, and die,
But for the end it works to.
2400

Shaks.: Cymbeline. Act iii. Sc. 6.

Detects the cause and cures the rage of war,

And sweeps, with forceful arm, to their last graves,
Kings from the earth and pirates from the waves.

2403

INFANCY-see Childhood.

Joel Barlow: To Freedom.

Ere sin could blight, or sorrow fade,
Death came with friendly care;
The opening bud to heav'n convey'd,
And bade it blossom there.

2404

Coleridge: Epitaph on an Infant.

A babe in a house is a well-spring of pleasure.

2405

Tupper: Proverbial Phil. Of Education

He that of greatest works is finisher,

Oft does them by the weakest minister;

So Holy Writ in babes hath judgment shown,
When judges have been babes.

2406 INFIDELITY, IN RELIGION - see Bible, Religion. Not, thus, our infidels th' eternal draw,

Shaks.: All's Well. Act ii. Sc. 1

A God all o'er, consummate, absolute,
Full-orb'd, in his whole round of rays complete;
They set at odds Heav'n's jarring attributes;
And, with one excellence, another wound,
Maim Heav'n's perfection, break its equal beams,
Bid mercy triumph over God himself,

Undeified by their opprobrious praise:

A God all mercy is a God unjust.

2407

Young: Night Thoughts. Night iv. Line 225

If man loses all, when life is lost,
He lives a coward, or a fool expires.
A daring infidel (and such there are,
From pride, example, lucre, rage, revenge,
Or pure heroical defect of thought,)

Of all earth's madmen, most deserves a chain.
2408

Young: Night Thoughts. Night vii. Line 199

A foe to God was ne'er true friend to man;
Some sinister intent taints all he does.

2409

Young: Night Thoughts. Night viii. Line 711.

And shaped his weapon with an edge severe,
Sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer.

2410

Byron: Ch. Harola. Canto iii. St. 107

INFIDELITY, PERSONAL

see Frailty, Fickleness. O, she is fallen

Into a pit of ink! that the wide sea

Hath drops too few to wash her clean agair
And salt too little, which may season give
To her foul tainted flesh!
2411

Shaks.: Much Ado. Act iv. Sc. 1.

She's gone; I am abus'd; and my relief
Must be to loathe her.

2412

Shaks.: Othello. Act. c. 3.

Another daughter dries a father's tears;
Another sister claims a brother's love;
An injured husband hath no other wife,
Save her who wrought him shame.
2413

Maturin: Bertram v. 2

O wretched is the dame, to whom the sound,
"Your lord will soon return," no pleasure brings.

2414

Maturin: Bertram a. 5

In her first passion, woman loves her lover;
In all the others all she loves is love,
Which grows a habit she can ne'er get over,
And fits her loosely-like an easy glove,

As you may find, whene'er you like to prove her.
2415
Byron: Don Juan. Canto iii. St. 3.

Though my many faults defaced me,
Could no other arm be found,

Than the one which once embraced me,
To inflict a cureless wound.

2416

Byron: Fare Thee Well.

Oh! colder than the wind that freezes
Founts, that but now in sunshine play'd,
Is that congealing pang which seizes
The trusting bosom when betray'd.

2417

INFLUENCE.

Moore: Lalla Rookh. Fire Worshippers.

I shot an arrow into the air;

It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.

I breathed a song into the air;
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For who has sight so keen and strong,
That it can follow the flight of song?
Long, long afterward, in an oak
I found the arrow, still unbroke;
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.
2418

Longfellow: The Arrow and The Song.

I am a part of all that I have met.

2419

Tennyson: Ulysses. Line 18

He thought all loveliness was lovelier,
She crowning it; all goodness credible,
Because of the great trust her goodness bred.
2420

George Eliot: The Spanish Gypsy. Bk. ii.
My work is mine,

And, heresy or not, if my hand slacked,

I should rob God·

2421

since he is fullest good

George Eliot. Stradivarius

No life

Can be pure in its purpose and strong in its strife,
And all life not be purer and stronger thereby.

2429

Owen Meredith: Lucile. Pt ii. Canto vi. St. 40

INGRATITUDE-see Curses.

I hate ingratitude more in a man

Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
Or any taint of vice, whose strong corruption
Inhabits our frail blood.

2423

Shaks.: Tw. Night. Act iii. Sc. 4

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.

2424

Shaks.: As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7. Song

Had I but serv'd my God with half the zeal
I serv'd my king, he would not in mine age
Have left me naked to mine enemies.

2425

Shaks.: Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2.

Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back,
Wherein he puts alms for oblivion,

A great-sized monster of ingratitudes.

Those scraps are good deeds past; which are devoured
As fast as they are made, forgot as soon

As done.

2426

The monstrous bulk of this ingratitude
With any size of words.
2427

Shaks.: Troil. and Cress. Act iii. Sc. 3. I'm rapt, and cannot cover

Shaks.: Timon of A. Act v. Sc. 1.

Shaks.: King Lear. Act i. Sc. 4.

The hedge-sparrow fed the cuckoo so long, That it had its head bit off by its young. 2428

Ingratitude! thou marble-hearted fiend,

More hideous, when thou show'st thee in a child,
Than the sea-monster!

2429

Shaks.: King Lear. Act i. Sc. 4.

Shaks.: King Lear. Act i. Sc. 4.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
To have a thankless child.

2430

Filial ingratitude!

Is it not as this mouth should tear this hand,

For lifting food to 't?

2431

Shaks.: King Lear. Act iii. Sc. 4

Great minds, like heaven, are pleased in doing good,

Though the ungrateful subjects of their favors

Are barren in return.

2432

Rowe: Tamerlane. Act ii. Sc. 1

He that's ungrateful, has no guilt but one; All other crimes may pass for virtues in him. 2433

Young: Busirts

So the struck eagle stretch'd upon the plain,
No more through rolling clouds to soar again,
View'd his own feather on the fatal dart,
And wing'd the shaft that quivered in his heart:
Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel
He nurs'd the pinion which impelled the steel.
2434

Byron: English Bards. Line 828.

The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree
I planted, they have torn me, and I bleed;

I should have known what fruit would spring from such a

The offender's sorrow lends but weak relief To him that bears the strong offence's cross. 2437

INK.

Shaks.: Sonnet xxxiv.

Let there be gall enough in thy ink;

Shaks.: Tw. Night. Act iii. Sc. 2.

Though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter.

2438

INN-
-see Tavern.

Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round,
Where'er his stages may have been,

May sigh to think he still has found,
The warmest welcome at an inn.

2439

Shenstone: Lines on Window of Inn at Henley

Near yonder thorn, that lifts its head on high,
Where once the sign-post caught the passing eye,
Low lies that house where nut-brown draughts inspired,
Where graybeard mirth and smiling toil retired,
Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound,
And news much older than their ale went round.
2440
Where you have friends you should not go to inns.
2441

INNOCENCE.

Goldsmith: Des. Village. Line 219.

The silence often of pure innocence Persuades, when speaking fails. 2442

George Eliot: Agatha

Shaks.: Wint. Tale. Act ii. Sc. 3