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I've lately had two spiders Crawling upon my startled hopes- Now though thy friendly hand has brushed 'em from me, Yet still they crawl offensive to mine eyes: I would have some kind friend to tread upon 'em.— COLLEY CIBBER — Richard III. (altered). Act IV. Sc. 2. L. 15.

Much like a subtle spider, which doth sit In middle of her web, which spreadeth wide: If aught do touch the utmost thread of it, She feels it instantly on every side.— SIR JOHN DAVIES — The Immortality of the Soul. Sec. XVIII. Feeling.

"Will you walk into my parlour?" Said a spider to a fly; "'Tis the prettiest little parlour That ever you did spy."— MARY HOWITT — The Spider and the Fly.

The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.— POPE — Essay on Man. Ep. I. L. 217.

We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.

Seek to delight, that they may mend mankind. And, while they captivate, inform the mind.— COWPER — Hope. L. 770.

Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.— FROUDE — Short Studies on Great

Subjects. Education. Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown propos'd as things forgot.— POPE — Essay on Criticism. Pt. III. L. 15.

To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!— POPE — Moral Essays. Ep. II. L. 249.

Quod enim munus reipublicæ afferre majus, meliusve possumus, quam si docemus atque erudimus juventutem? What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?— CICERO — De Divinatione. II. 2.

Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam. Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.— HORACE — Carmina. IV. 4. 33.

Adde, quod ingenuas didicisse fideliter artes Emollit mores, nec sinit esse fervos. To be instructed in the arts, softens the manners and makes men gentle.— OVID — Epistolæ Ex Ponto. II. 9. 47.

Fas est ab hoste doceri. It is lawful to be taught by an enemy.— OVID — Metamorphoses. IV. 428.

Domi habuit unde disceret. He need not go away from home for instruction.— TERENCE — Adelphi. III. 3. 60.

Ab uno disce omnes. From one learn all. S.— VIRGIL — Eneid. II. 65.

Disce, puer, virtutem ex me, verumque laborem; Fortunam ex aliis. Learn, O youth, virtue from me and true labor; fortune from others.— VIRGIL — Eneid. XII. 435.