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--_Tupper, Proverbial Philosophy of Reading_.

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Heap Coals of Fire upon His Head. 507 T.J., 504 G.B.

”The furnace-coals alike of public scorn, Private remorse, heaped glowing on his head.”

--_Browning, The Ring and the Book_.

Her Children Rise up and Call Her Blessed. 257 S.A.

”Her children shall rise up to bless her name, And wish her harmless length of days, The mighty mother of a mighty brood.”

--_Lowell, An Ode for the Fourth of July_.

He Who Runs may Read. 392 S.A.

”Perchance more careful whoso runs may read, Than erst when all, it seemed, could read who ran.”

--_Browning, The Ring and the Book_.

Herod of Jewry. 45 L.J.

”Let me have a child to whom Herod of Jewry may do homage.”

--_Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 1:2_.

High as Haman. 73 T.J.

”Will hang as high as Haman.”

--_Tennyson, The Foresters, Act IV, Scene 1_.

A h.o.a.ry Head is a Crown of Glory. 502 G.B.

”Honoured and even fair, s.h.i.+nes in the eye of the mind the crown of the silver hair.”

--_Stevenson, In Memoriam E. H_.

A House Divided Against Itself. 171 L.J.

”'A house divided against itself cannot stand.'

I believe this Government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved--I do not expect the house to fall--but I do expect it will cease to be divided.”

--_Lincoln, Speech before the Illinois State Convention, June 16, 1858_.

House not Made with Hands. 506 L.J.

”His holy places may not be of stone, Nor made with hands, yet fairer far than aught By artist feigned or pious ardor reared, Fit altars for who guards inviolate G.o.d's chosen seat, the sacred form of man.”

--_Lowell, The Cathedral_.

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The House on the Sand. 118 L.J.

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