Part 59 (1/2)

815

Habit with hiht: I've done it from my youth”

--_Crabbe_

816

INNOCENCE AND GUILT

A painter, desiring to paint a picture of Innocence, found a beautiful boy playing at the side of a strea, with his hands clasped in prayer The picture was prized as a very beautiful one Years passed away, and the artist beca a counterpart, the picture of guilt, as a companion to the other; and at last he executed it He went to a neighboring prison, and there selected the raded and repulsive man he could find His body and eye asted; vice was visible in his very face But as the artist's surprise when, on questioning the man as to his history, he found that it was he who, as a lovely boy, had kneeled for hied him, not only in heart and ather by unseen degrees

As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas

--_Dryden: Ovid_

818

Old habits are hard to break; new habits are hard to e; our inclinations never change

820

Habits are soon assumed--acquired--but e strive to strip the flayed alive!

--_Cowper_

821

To stop the hand, is the way to stop the mouth

(If a man will not work, neither shall he eat)

--_Chinese_

822