Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed.
Success. EMILY DICKINSON.
SUICIDE.
He
That kills himself t' avoid misery, fears it,
And at the best shows but a bastard valor:
This life's a fort committed to my trust,
Which I must not yield up, till it be forced;
Nor will I: he's not valiant that dares die,
But he that boldly bears calamity.
The Maid of Honor. P. MASSINGER.
All mankind
Is one of these two cowards;
Either to wish to die
When he should live, or live when he should die.
The Blind Lady. SIR E. HOWARD.
Against self-slaughter
There is a prohibition so divine
That cravens my weak hand.
Cymbeline, Act iii. Sc. 4. SHAKESPEARE.
SUN.
That orbèd continent the fire
That severs day from night.
Twelfth Night, Act v. Sc. 1. SHAKESPEARE.
O thou that, with surpassing glory crowned,
Look'st from thy sole dominion like the God
Of this new world,…
O Sun!
Paradise Lost, Bk. IV. MILTON.
Fires the proud tops of the eastern pines.
King Richard II., Act iii. Sc. 2. SHAKESPEARE.
The lessening cloud,
The kindling azure, and the mountain's brow,
Illumed with fluid gold, his near approach
Betoken glad. Lo! now, apparent all
Aslant the dew-bright earth, and colored air,
He looks in boundless majesty abroad;
And sheds the shining day, that burnished plays
On rocks, and hills, and towers, and wand'ring streams
High gleaming from afar.
The Seasons: Summer. J. THOMSON.