Men who can hear the Decalogue, and feel
No self-reproach.
1632
WORDSWORTH:  The Old Cumberland Beggar.

=Self-Respect.=

He that respects himself is safe from others; He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. 1633 LONGFELLOW:  Michael Angelo, Pt. ii.

=Self-Sacrifice.=

Give unto me, made lowly wise,
The spirit of self-sacrifice.
1634
WORDSWORTH:  Ode to Duty.

=Sense.=

A man whose blood
Is very snow-broth; one who never feels
The wanton stings and motions of the sense.
1635
SHAKS.:  M. for M., Act i., Sc. 4.

Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven. 1636 POPE:  Moral Essays, Epis. iv., Line 43

=Sensibility.=

Our sensibilities are so acute,
The fear of being silent makes us mute.
1637
COWPER:  Conversation, Line 351.

Sweet sensibility! thou keen delight! 
Unprompted moral! sudden sense of right!
1638
HANNAH MORE:  Sensibility, Line 227.

=Separation.=

Thy soul ... 
Is as far from my grasp, is as free,
As the stars from the mountain-tops be,
As the pearl in the depths of the sea,
From the portionless king that would wear it.
1639
E.C.  STEDMAN:  Stanzas for Music, St. 3.

=September.=

September waves his golden-rod
  Along the lanes and hollows,
And saunters round the sunny fields
  A-playing with the swallows.
1640
ELLEN MACKAY HUTCHINSON:  The Prince.

=Sermons.=

Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything. 1641 SHAKS.:  As You Like It, Act ii., Sc. 1.

Perhaps it may turn out a sang,
Perhaps turn out a sermon.
1642
BURNS:  Epistle to a Young Friend.

=Serpent.=

What! would’st thou have a serpent sting thee twice? 1643 SHAKS.:  M. of Venice, Act iv., Sc. 1.

Where’s my serpent of old Nile?
1644
SHAKS.:  Ant. and Cleo., Act i., Sc. 5.

And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron’s serpent, swallows up the rest. 1645 POPE:  Essay on Man, Epis. ii., Line 131.

Some flow’rets of Eden ye still inherit,
  But the trail of the Serpent is over them all.
1646
MOORE:  Paradise and the Peri.

=Service.=

Ful wel she sange the service devine,
Entuned in hire nose ful swetely.
1647
CHAUCER:  Canterbury Tales, Prologue, Line 122.

And ye shall succor men;
’T is nobleness to serve;
Help them who cannot help again: 
Beware from right to swerve.
1648
EMERSON:  Boston Hymn, St. 13.

=Sex.=

Think you I am no stronger than my sex,
Being so father’d and so husbanded?
1649
SHAKS.:  Jul.  Caesar, Act ii., Sc. 1.