Holy Writ. KNOWLEDGE. That the soul be without knowledge, it is not good. PROVERBS, Xiii. If they obey not, they shall die without knowledge. JOB, XXXVI. And God said unto Solomon, Wisdom and knowledge is granted unto thee. LAMP. 2 CHRONICLES, Xii. Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. PSALMS CV. cxix. LATTER DAYS. Afterward shall the Children of Israel return, and seek the Lord their God; and shall fear the Lord, and His goodness, in the latter days. LAW. HOSEA, iii. Whoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the King, let judgment be executed speedily upon him. EZRA, vii. God shall smite thee; for sittest thou to judge me after the law, and commandest me to be smitten contrary to the law? ACTS, xxiii. Shakespeare, LAW-(continued). Villain! thou know'st no law of God nor man; RICHARD III. i. 2. Take heed: for He holds vengeance in His hand, RICHARD III. i. 4. LIFE. Life's but a walking shadow; * "T is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. MACBETH, V. 5. We are such stuff As dreams are made of; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. TEMPEST, iv. 1. The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and bad together. ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL, iv. 3. O Lord, that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness! 2 HENRY VI. i. 1. LIGHT. Heaven does with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves; for, if our virtues Did not go forth with us, 't were all alike As if we had them not. MEASURE FOR MEASURE, i. 1. Holy Writ. LAW (continued). They kept not the covenant of God; and refused to walk in His laws; but He, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not. PSALM 1xxviii. Neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord, our God, to walk in His laws which He set before us. LIFE. DANIEL, ix. All our days are passed away; we spend our years as a tale that is told. PSALM XC. Man is like to vanity; his days are as a shadow that passeth away. PSALM, cxliv. Who knoweth what is good for man in this life? all the days of his vain life he spendeth as a shadow. ECCLESIASTES, vi. Thou hast granted me life, and favour, and Thy visitation hath preserved my spirit. JOB, X. LIGHT. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father, which is in Heaven. MATTHEW, V. Shakespeare, LUCIFER. And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, Never to hope again. HENRY VIII. iii. 2. Thou art more deep-damn'd than Prince Lucifer. KING JOHN, iv. 3. MAKER. When I am in Heaven, I shall desire To see what this child does, and praise my Maker. HENRY VIII. v. 4. MAN. What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculties! in form, and moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a God! The beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! MANNA. You drop manna in the way of starved people. HAMLET, ii. 2. MERCHANT OF VENICE, v. 1. MARRIAGE. God forbid that I should wish them sever'd, 3 HENRY VI. iv. 1. Holy Writ. LUCIFER. How art thou fallen from Heaven, O Lucifer! thou shalt be brought down to hell. MAKER. At that day shall a man look to his Maker. MAN. ISAIAH, XIV. ISAIAH, Xvii. And God said, Let us make man in our own image, after our likeness in the image of God created He him. : What is man, that Thou art of man, that Thou visitest him? lower than the angels, and hast honour. GENESIS, i. mindful of him? and the son Thou hast made him a little crowned him with glory and PSALM viii. MANNA. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat. And the house of Israel called the name thereof manna. MARRIAGE. EXODUS, xvi. What, therefore, God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. MATTHEW, xix. |