FORECAST AND WATCHFULNESS. The veins unfill'd our blood is cold, and then And then I'll set upon him. 81 Coriolanus, Act v. Sc. I, 1. 47. Before the times of change, still is it so: King Richard III., Act ii. Sc. 3, 1. 41. There is a history in all men's lives, Second Part of King Henry IV., Act iii. Sc. I, 1. 80. The providence that 's in a watchful state Knows almost every grain of Plutus' gold, Finds bottom in the uncomprehensive deeps, Keeps place with thought and almost, like the gods, Troilus and Cressida, Act iii. Sc. 3, l. 196. We see which way the stream of time doth run Second Part of King Henry IV., Act iv. Sc. 1, 1. 70. We'll set thee to school to an ant, to teach thee there's no labouring i' the winter.1 King Lear, Act ii. Sc. 4, 1. 68. 1 The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the sum The Beneficent Use of Talents and Wealth. Of great riches there is no real use, except it be in the distribution; the rest is but conceit. . . . A great state left to an heir, is as a lure to all the birds of prey to seize on him. . . . Therefore defer not charities till death; for, certainly, if a man weigh it rightly, he that doth so is rather liberal of another man's than of his own. SIR FRANCIS BACON, Essay on Riches. A pig may poke his nose into the trough and think o' nothing outside it; but if you've got a man's heart and soul in you, you can't be easy amaking your own bed an' leaving the rest to lie on the stones. GEORGE ELIOT, Adam Bede. THYSELF and thy belongings Are not thy own so proper as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee.1 Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd The smallest scruple of her excellence 1 And ye are not your own; for ye are bought with a price. -1 Cor. vi. 19. But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines Herself the glory of a creditor, Both thanks and use. Measure for Measure, Act i. Sc. I, 1. 30. That man, how dearly ever parted, How much in having, or without or in, Cannot make boast to have that which he hath, Nor feels not what he owes [owns], but by reflection; As when his virtues shining upon others Heat them and they retort that heat again No man is the lord of any thing, Though in and of him there be much consisting, Nor doth he of himself know them for aught Where they 're extended; who, like an arch, reverberates Fronting the sun, receives and renders back His figure and his heat. Troilus and Cressida, Act iii. Sc. 3, 1. 96. Fair sir, I pity her And wish, for her sake more than for mine own, My fortunes were more able to relieve her; But I am shepherd to another man And do not shear the fleeces that I graze : My master is of churlish disposition THE BENEFICENT USE OF TALENTS AND WEALTH. And little recks to find the way to heaven By doing deeds of hospitality : Besides, his cote, his flocks and bounds of feed 85 As You Like It, Act ii. Sc. 4, l. 75. King Lear. Prithee, go in thyself; seek thine own ease : This tempest will not give me leave to ponder On things would hurt me more. ... I'll pray, and then I'll sleep. Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, King Lear, Act iii. Sc. 4, l. 23. For his bounty, There was no winter in 't; an autumn 'twas That grew the more by reaping.2 Antony and Cleopatra, Act v. Sc. 2, 1. 86. 'Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. - Matt. vii. 12. 2 There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth. - Prov. xi. 24. |