Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change.

292 TENNYSON: _Locksley Hall,_ Line 182.

=Chaos.=

For he being dead, with him is beauty slain, And, beauty dead, black chaos comes again.

293 SHAKS.: _Venus and A.,_ Line 1019.

Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused.

294 POPE: _Essay on Man,_ Epis. ii., Line 13.

=Character.=

There is a kind of character in thy life, That to the observer doth thy history Fully unfold.

295 SHAKS.: _M. for M.,_ Act i., Sc. 1.

Worth, courage, honor, these indeed Your sustenance and birthright are.

296 E.C. STEDMAN: _Beyond the Portals,_ Pt. 10.

=Charity.=

Charity itself fulfils the law, And who can sever love from charity?

297 SHAKS.: _Love's L. Lost,_ Act iv., Sc. 3.

Alas for the rarity Of Christian charity Under the sun!

298 HOOD: _Bridge of Sighs._

=Charms.=

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

299 POPE: _R. of the Lock,_ Canto v., Line 34.

=Chastity.=

So dear to heav'n is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her.

300 MILTON: _Comus,_ Line 453.

=Chatterton.=

I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perish'd in his pride.

Of him who walk'd in glory and in joy, Following his plough along the mountain side.

301 WORDSWORTH: _Res. and Indep.,_ St. 7.

=Chaucer.=

Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled, On Fame's eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.

302 SPENSER: _Faerie Queene,_ Bk. iv., Canto ii., St. 32.

=Cheating.=

Doubtless the pleasure is as great, Of being cheated as to cheat.

303 BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. ii., Canto iii., Line 1.

=Cheerfulness.=

It is good To lengthen to the last a sunny mood.

304 JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL: _Legend of Brittany,_ Pt. i., St. 35.

=Chickens.=

To swallow gudgeons ere they 're catch'd, And count their chickens ere they 're hatch'd.

305 BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. ii., Canto ii., Line 923.

=Chiding.=

Chide him for faults, and do it reverently, When you perceive his blood inclined to mirth.

306 SHAKS.: _2 Henry IV.,_ Sc. 4.

=Child--Childhood--Children.=

Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more?

We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

307 LONGFELLOW: _Children._

Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

308 POPE: _Essay on Man._ Epis. ii., Line 275.

The child is father of the man.

309 WORDSWORTH: _My Heart Leaps,_ Line 7.

Children are the keys of Paradise.

They alone are good and wise, Because their thoughts, their very lives are prayer 310 R.H. STODDARD: _The Children's Prayer._

I have had playmates, I have had companions, In my days of childhood, in my joyful school-days.

All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

311 CHARLES LAMB: _Old Familiar Faces._

As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore.