C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. Lord Lansdowne
Fate holds the strings, and men like children, move But as they’re led; success is from above.
1 One destin’d period men in common have, The great, the base, the coward, and the brave, All food alike for worms, companions in the grave.
2 The kiss you take is paid by that you give: The joy is mutual, and I’m still in debt.
3 Thy thoughts to nobler meditations give, And study how to die, not how to live.
4 ’Tis sweet to love; but when with scorn we meet, Revenge supplies the loss with joys as great.
5 To die and part is a less evil; but to part and live, there, there is the torment. 6 To doubt is an injury; to suspect a friend is breach of friendship; jealousy is a seed sown but in vicious minds; prone to distrust, because apt to deceive. 7
