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Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various
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=Enthusiasm.=

Rash enthusiasm, in good society
Were nothing but a moral inebriety.
619
BYRON: _Don Juan,_ Canto xiii., Line 35.


=Envy.=

Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise,
For envy is a kind of praise.
620
GAY: _Fables,_ Pt. i., Fable 44.

Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue;
But, like a shadow, proves the substance true.
621
POPE: _E. on Criticism,_ Pt. ii., Line 266.

Base envy withers at another's joy,
And hates that excellence it cannot reach.
622
THOMSON: _Seasons, Spring,_ Line 284.


=Epitaphs.=

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