I (A Literary Curiosity.} Why all

this toil for triumphs of an | hour ?—

Young. 1 Life's a short summer, man is

out a ; flower.— Dr. Johnson. ! By turns

we catch the fatal breaths and die.—

Pope, I The cradle and the tomb, alas !

how nigh.— Prior. To be is better- than

not to be.— Sewall. Though all man's

life may seem a : tragedy.— Spencer.

But' light cares speak when mighty

griefs are dumb ;— Daniel. The bottom is

but shallow whence they come.— Sir

Walter Raleigh. Thy, fate is but the

common fate of ' all,— Longfellow.

-Unmingled joys here to no man befall ;—

Southwell. Nature to each allots his

proper i sphere.— Congreve. ! Fortune

makes folly her peculiar care I

—Churchill. Custom docs often reason

overrule,— ! -Rochester. And throw a.

cruel sunshine on a j fool.— Armstrong.

' Live well : how long or short ? per|

mits to heaven.— Milton. v They who

forgive most shall foe most ; forgiven.

— llailey. . ; Soar not to high to

fall,. but stoop^ to rise :— Mafisinger.

1 We masters .grow, of all that we des-

j pira.— Crowlcy. Oh, then, rcnoUDce

tlmt unpious self est-cm.— Beattie. j

Tiichns have wings and grandure is a ;

dr.. am, — Cov.-pi-.r. . I j jink not

amtition wise because 'tis j brrv\—

Duvenant. ! The paths of iTlory lrr/i

but to the | giT.ve.— Gray. ' . | WL A'r

nil t^.e gaudy .glitter of a ? 'crown?—

Br;den. J 3 way to bliss lies not on

beds of down.— Queries. -K/M7 long we

live, r./it years but actions tell ;—

WrxUins. The man lives twice who lives

the first life T7C11.— Horrick