OBESITY.

Fat paunches have lean pates.

ORDER.

Shakespeare.

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state; as the beams to a house; as the bones to the microcism of man, so is order in all things.

OPPORTUNITY.

Southey.

There is a deep nick in Time's restless wheel For each man's good; when which nick comes, it strikes:

As rhetoric yet works not persuasion,

But only is a mean to make it work;
So no man riseth by his real merit,

But when it cries clink in his Raiser's spirit.

Chapman.

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RAYER.

Prayer is a retirement from earth, to attend on God, and hold correspondence with Him that dwells in heaven. The things of the world,

therefore, must be commanded to stand by for a season, and to abide at the foot of the mount, while we walk up higher to offer up our sacrifices as Abraham did, and to meet our God. Watts.

PROGRESS.

"Take the Spade of Perseverance,
Dig the Field of Progress wide;
Every bar to true distinction,
Carry out and cast aside;

Feed the Plant whose Fruit is Wisdom;
Cleanse from crime the common sod;
So that from the Throne of Heaven,
It may bear the glance of God."

PRIDE.

Pride is so unsociable a vice, and does all things with so ill a grace, that there is no closing with it. A proud man will be sure to challenge more than belongs to him; you must expect him stiff in his conversation, fulsome in commending himself, and bitter in his reproofs.

Pride hath no other glass

Jeremy Collier.

To show itself, but pride; for supple knees Feed arrogance, and are the proud man's fees.

Shakespeare.

This life will not admit of equality; but surely that man, who thinks he derives consequence and respect from keeping others at a distance, is as base-minded as the coward who shuns the enemy from the fear of an attack.

Goethe.

"Pride has, of all human vices, the widest dominion; it appears in the greatest multiplicity of forms, and lies hid under the greatest variety of disguises; disguises, which, like the moon's veil of brightness, are both its lustre and its shade, and betray it from others, though they hide it from ourselves."

'Tis misery enough to be reduced

To the low level of the common herd,
Who, born to begg'ry, envy all above them;
But 'tis the curse of curses, to endure
The insolent contempt of those we scorn.

Lilly.

Great spirits bear misfortunes hardly:
Good offices claim gratitude; and pride,
Where power is wanting, will usurp a little,
And make us (rather than be thought behind-
hand)
Pay over price.

Otway.

Vanity's a confounded donkey, very apt to put his head between his legs, and chuck us over; but pride's a fine horse, that will carry us over the ground, and enable us to distance

our fellow-travellers.

How often have

you read of people rising from nothing and This was from talent becoming great men? sure enough; but it was talent with pride to force it onward, not talent with vanity to check

it.

Marryat.

Jaques.-Why, who cries out on pride,
That can therein tax any private party?
Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea,
Till that the very very means do ebb?
What woman in the city do I name,
When that I say the city-woman bears
The cost of princes on unworthy shoulders?
Who can come in, and say that I mean her,
When such a one as she, such is her neighbour?
Or what is he of basest function,

That says his bravery is not on my cost
(Thinking that I mean him), but therein suits
His folly to the mettle of my speech ?
There then; how, what then?

wherein

Let me see

My tongue hath wrong'd him: if it do him right, Then he hath wrong'd himself; if he be free, Why then, my taxing like a wild goose flies, Unclaim'd of any man.

Shakespeare.

PLEASURE.

Why, all delights are vain; but that most vain,
Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain.

Shakespeare.

The end of pleasure is to support the offices of life, to relieve the fatigues of business, to reward a regular action, and to encourage the continuance.

Jeremy Collier.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

Shakespeare.

"If we dive too deep in pleasure, we always find a sediment that renders it impure and noxious."

"Recreation should fit us for business, not rob us of time."

"The most necessary dispositions to relish pleasure, is to know how to be without them."

PRUDENCE.

Prudence is that virtue by which we discern what is proper to be done, under the various circumstances of time and place.

The wound of peace is surety,

Milton.

Surety secure; but modest doubt is call'd

The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches To the bottom of the worst.

Shakespeare.