Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk.
Cymbeline, Act iii. Sc. 3. SHAKESPEARE.
Ask for whose use the heavenly bodies shine;
Earth for whose use? Pride answers,
'T is for mine!
Essay on Man, Pt. I. A. POPE.
PROGRESS.
From lower to the higher next,
Not to the top, is Nature's text;
And embryo good, to reach full stature,
Absorbs the evil in its nature.
Festina Lente. J.R. LOWELL.
Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone,
Not God's, and not the beast's;
God is, they are,
Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.
A Death in the Desert. R. BROWNING.
Progress is
The law of life, man is not
Man as yet.
Paracelsus, Pt. V. R. BROWNING.
The Lord let the house of a brute to the soul of a man,
And the man said, "Am I your debtor?"
And the Lord—"Not yet: but make it as clean as you can,
And then I will let you a better."
By an Evolutionist. A. TENNYSON.
Eternal process moving on,
From state to state the spirit moves.
In Memoriam, LXXXIII. A. TENNYSON.
PROMISE.
Promise is most given when the least is said.
Musoeus of Hero and Leander. G. CHAPMAN.