4.
And ever with the years
Waxed this compassionateness of our Lord
Even as a great tree grows from two soft leaves,
To spread its shade afar.—E. Arnold.
5. And as the piety of Noah could not save the antediluvian empires, as the faith of Abraham could not convert idolatrous nations, as the wisdom of Moses could not prevent the sensualism of emancipated slaves, so the lofty philosophy of Aurelius could not save the empire which he ruled.—Lord.
6. The foreign merchants, manufacturers, and artisans fled from her gates as if the plague were raging within them.—Motley.
7. The Creole neighbors rushed bareheaded into the middle of the street, as though there were an earthquake or a chimney on fire.—Cable.
8. For, as there is a curiosity about intellectual matters which is futile and merely a disease, so there is certainly a curiosity which is, in an intelligent being, natural and laudable.—M. Arnold.
9. Dislike at first sight is more common than love, as discord is more common than harmony.—A. S. Hardy.