=Story.=

Her father loved me; oft invited me;
Still question’d me the story of my life,
From year to year, the battles, sieges, fortune,
That I have passed.
1801
SHAKS.:  Othello, Act i., Sc. 3.

She thank’d me,
And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her,
I should but teach him how to tell my story,
And that would woo her.
1802
SHAKS.:  Othello, Act i., Sc. 3.

=Strangers.=

By foreign hands thy dying eyes were clos’d, By foreign hands thy decent limbs compos’d, By foreign hands thy humble grave adorn’d, By strangers honored, and by strangers mourn’d. 1803 POPE:  To the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady, Line 51.

=Streets.=

The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets. 1804 SHAKS.:  Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 1.

=Strength.=

O, it is excellent
To have a giant’s strength; but it is tyrannous
To use it like a giant.
1805
SHAKS.:  M. for M., Act ii., Sc. 2.

To be strong
Is to be happy!
1806
LONGFELLOW:  Christus, Golden Legend, Pt. ii.

=Strife.=

No fears to beat away, no strife to heal,—­ The past unsighed for, and the future sure. 1807 WORDSWORTH:  Laodamia.

=Striving.=

How far your eyes may pierce I cannot tell; Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well. 1808 SHAKS.:  King Lear, Act i., Sc. 4.

=Study.=

Study is like the heaven’s glorious sun,
That will not be deep-search’d with saucy looks;
Small have continual plodders ever won,
Save base authority from others’ books.
1809
SHAKS.:  Love’s L. Lost, Act i., Sc. 1.

If not to some peculiar end design’d
Study ’s the specious trifling of the mind,
Or is at best a secondary aim,
A chase for sport alone, and not for game.
1810
YOUNG:  Love of Fame, Satire ii., Line 67.

=Style.=

The lives of trees lie only in the barks, And in their styles the wit of greatest clerks. 1811 BUTLER:  Sat. on Abuse of Human Learning, Line 211.

=Success.=

Didst thou never hear
That things ill got had ever bad success?
1812
SHAKS.:  3 Henry VI., Act ii., Sc. 2.

Life lives only in success.
1813
BAYARD TAYLOR:  Amran’s Wooing, St. 5.

’Tis not in mortals to command success; But we’ll do more, Sempronius—­we’ll deserve it. 1814 ADDISON:  Cato, Act i., Sc. 2.

=Suffering.=

Yet tears to human suffering are due;
And mortal hopes defeated and o’erthrown
Are mourned by man, and not by man alone.
1815
WORDSWORTH:  Laodamia.

=Suicide.=

Why, he that cuts off twenty years of life
Cuts off so many years of fearing death.
1816
SHAKS.:  Jul.  Caesar, Act iii., Sc. 1.