What, gone without a word?
Aye, so true love should do: it cannot speak;
For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it.
Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act ii. Sc. 3. SHAKESPEARE.
The rest is silence.
Hamlet, Act v. Sc. 2. SHAKESPEARE.
SIN.
Ay me, how many perils doe enfold
The righteous man, to make him daily fall.
Faërie Queene, Bk. I. E. SPENSER.
There is a method in man's wickedness,
It grows up by degrees.
A King and no King, Act v. Sc. 4. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.
Where is the man who has not tried
How mirth can into folly glide,
And folly into sin!
The Bridal of Triermain, Canto I. SIR W. SCOTT.
I see the right, and I approve it too,
Condemn the wrong, and yet the wrong pursue.
Metamorphoses, VII. 20. OVID. Trans. of TATE AND STONESTREET.
I am a man
More sinned against than sinning.
King Lear, Act iii. Sc. 2. SHAKESPEARE.
The good he scorned
Stalked off reluctant, like an ill-used ghost,
Not to return; or, if it did, in visits
Like those of angels, short and far between.
The Grave, Pt. II. R. BLAIR.
Man-like is it to fall into sin,
Fiend-like is it to dwell therein,
Christ-like is it for sin to grieve,
God-like is it all sin to leave.
Sin. F. VON LOGAU. Trans. of LONGFELLOW.