lenient as to make people presume. _Sa'di._ 118. Be patient, if
thou wouldst thy ends accomplish; for like patience is there no
appliance effective of success, producing certainly abundant fruit of
actions, never damped by failure, conquering all impediments.
_Bharavi._
119. As rain breaks through an ill-thatched house, passion
breaks through an unreflecting mind. _Dhammapada._ 120. Most men, even
the most accomplished,
are of limited faculties; every
one sets a value on certain qualities in himself and others: these
alone he is willing to favour, these alone will he have
cultivated. _Goethe._ 121. Poverty, we may say, surrounds a man with
ready-made barriers, which if they do mournfully gall and hamper, do
at least
prescribe for him, and force on him, a sort of course and goal; a safe
and beaten, though a circuitous,
course. A great part of his guidance
is secure against
fatal error, is withdrawn
from his control. The rich, again, has his whole life to guide,
without goal
or barrier, save of his own choosing, and, tempted, is too likely to
guide it ill. _Carlyle._ 122. By Fate full many a heart has been
undone, And many a sprightly rose made woe-begone; Plume thee
not on thy lusty youth and strength: Full many a bud is blasted ere
its bloom. _Omar Khayyam._ 123. The best
thing is to be respected, the next,
is to be loved; it is bad to be hated, but
still worse to be despised. _Chinese._
124. To be envied is a nobler
fate than to be pi
