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HABIT to Don Scipio

HABIT.—Habit gives endurance, and fatigue is the best night-cap.

Kincaid.—Rifle Brigade, Page 47.

HABIT.—How use doth breed a habit in a man!

Shakespeare.—Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act V. Scene 4. (Valentine in the Forest.)

Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,
As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

Dryden.—Pythagorean Phil. Book XV. Line 155.

HABITATION.—The poet’s eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven,
And, as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen
Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.

Shakespeare.—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act V. Scene 1. (Theseus to Hippolyta.)

HAGGARD.—If I do prove her haggard,
Though that her jesses were my dear heartstrings,
I’d whistle her off, and let her down the wind,
To prey at fortune.

Shakespeare.—Othello, Act III. Scene 3. (The Moor alone, his jealousy increasing.)

HAIL.—Hail fellow! well met!

Swift.—My Lady’s Lamentation.

HAIR.—Her golden hair streamed free from band,
Her fair cheek rested on her hand,
Her blue eyes sought the west afar,
For lovers love the western star.

Scott.—Last Minstrel, Canto III. Stanza 24.

HALCYON.—Alcedonia—days of calm.

Riley’s Plautus, Vol. II., Page 306, where see an amusing note on this title; quoting Ovid’s Met., Book XI. Line 744.

Birds of calm sit brooding on the charmed wave.

Milton.—Odes, Hymn on the Nativity.

HALF.—Fools, not to know that half exceeds the whole!

Addison from Hesiod, Book I. Verse 40; Spectator, No. 195; and Valpy’s Edition, translated by Elton.

Nothing is more true in political arithmetic, than that the same people with half a country is more valuable than the whole.

Spectator, No. CC.

HALF.—

He was no fool
Who said the half is better than the whole.

Armstrong.—A Day, Line 177.