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"Good-bye' that is, "God be with you." Is this your earnest prayer in parting from your friends?

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.-Richter.

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends good-by.-Ouida.

Adien! I have too grieved a heart to take a tedious leave.-Shakespeare.

Let us not unman each other; part at once; all farewells should be sudden, when forever.-Byron.

What! gone without a word? Ay, so true love should do: it cannot speak; for truth hath better deeds than words to grace it.-Shakespeare.

To die and part is a less evil; but to part and live, there, there is the torment.Lansdowne.

Parting and forgetting?-What faithful heart can do these?-Our great thoughts, our great affections, the truths of our life, never leave us.-Surely, they cannot be separate from our consciousness; will follow it whithersoever that shall go, and are, of their nature, divine and immortal.Thackeray.

A chord, stronger or weaker, is snapped asunder in every parting, and time's busy fingers are not practised in re-splicing broken ties. Meet again you may; will it be in the same way? with the same sympathies? with the same sentiments? Will the souls, hurrying on in diverse paths, unite once more, as if the interval had been a dream? Rarely, rarely !-Bulwer.

There is such sweet pain in parting, that I could hang forever on thine arms and look away my life into thine eyes.-Otway.

Farewell, God knows when we shall meet again. I have a faint cold fear thrill through my veins, that almost freezes up the heat of life.-Shakespeare.

PARTY.-Party is the madness of many, for the gain of a few.-Pope.

He knows very little of mankind, who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party-man.-Lavater.

Such is the turbulence of human passions in party disputes, when victory more than truth is contended for, that the post of honor is a private station.- Washington.

Nothing can be proposed so wild or so absurd as not to find a party, and often a very large party to espouse it.-Cecil.

One thing I certainly never was made for, and that is to put principles on and off

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at the dictation of a party, as a lackey changes his livery at his master's command. -Horace Mann.

Most modern partisans go for what they regard the seven cardinal principles, namely, the five loaves and two fishes.

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The political parties that I would call great, are those which cling more to principles than to consequences to general, and not to special cases; to ideas, and not to men. Such parties are usually distinguished by a nobler character, more generous passions, more genuine convictions, and a more bold and open conduct than others.-De Tocqueville.

If we mean to support the liberty and independence which have cost us so much blood and treasure to establish, we must drive far away the demon of party spirit and local reproach.- Washington.

He that aspires to be the head of a party will find it more difficult to please his friends than to perplex his foes. He must often act from false reasons which are weak, because he dares not avow the true reasons which are strong.-Colton.

Men naturally sympathize with the calamities of individuals; but they are inclined to look on a fallen party with contempt rather than with pity.-Macaulay.

People who declare that they belong to no party certainly do not belong to ours.J. P. Senn.

Party standards are the shadows in which patriotism is buried.-St. Pierre.

The tendency of party-spirit has ever been to disguise, and propagate, and support error.- Whately.

Of all kinds of credulity, the most obstinate is that of party-spirit; of men, who, being numbered, they know not why, in any party, resign the use of their own eyes and ears, and resolve to believe nothing that does not favor those whom they profess to follow.-Johnson.

Men in a party have liberty only for their motto; in reality they are greater slaves than anybody else would care to make them. ---Saville.

Party-spirit is a lying, vociferous, reckless spirit, a stranger to candor, willing to pervert truth, and to use underhand and dishonest means, so it may gain the victory. -C. Simmons.

There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government, and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty. This, within certain limits, is probably true. But

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in governments of a popular character, and purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency, there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose. And there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be, by force of public opinion, to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent it bursting into a flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume.Washington.

PASSION. (See "RAGE,"-"ANGER.")

Passion may not unfitly be termed the mob of the man, that commits a riot on his reason.-Penn.

Passion is the great mover and spring of the soul: when men's passions are strongest, they may have great and noble effects; but they are then also apt to fall into the greatest miscarriages.-Sprat.

The passionate are like men standing on their heads; they see all things the wrong way.-Plato.

A wise man's heart is like a broad hearth that keeps the coals from burning the house. Good deeds in this life are coals raked up in embers, to make a fire next day.-Overbury.

Men spend their lives in the service of their passions, instead of employing their passions in the service of their life. Steele.

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after.Swift.

There are moments when our passions speak and decide for us, and we seem to stand by and wonder. They carry in them an inspiration of crime, that in one instant does the work of long premeditation.George Eliot.

The passions are unruly cattle, and therefore you must keep them chained up, and under the government of religion, reason and prudence. If thus kept under discipline, they are useful servants; but if you let them loose and give them head, they will be your masters, and unruly masters, and carry you, like wild and unbridled horses, into a thousand mischiefs and inconveniences, besides the great disturbance, disorder and discomposure they will occasion in your own mind.-Sir M. Hale.

The worst of slaves is he whom passion rules.-Brooke.

The mind by passion driven from its firm hold, becomes a feather to each wind that blows.-Shakespeare.

People have a custom of excusing the enormities of their conduct by talking of their passions, as if they were under the control of a blind necessity, and sinned because they could not help it.-Cumberland.

It is the excess and not the nature of our passions which is perishable. Like the trees which grow by the tomb of Protesilaus, the passions flourish till they reach a certain height, but no sooner is that height attained than they wither away.-Bulwer.

A vigorous mind is as necessarily accompanied with violent passions as a great fire with great heat.-Burke.

The passions may be humored till they become our masters, as a horse may be pampered till he gets the better of his rider; but early discipline will prevent mutiny, and keep the helm in the hands of reason.-Cumberland.

Passions makes us fcel, but never see clearly.-Montesquieu.

The passions and desires, like the two twists of a rope, mutually mix one with the other, and twine inextricably round the heart producing good, if moderately indulged; but certain destruction, if suffered to become inordinate.-Burton.

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.-Lavater.

Passion makes the will lord of the reason.-Shakespeare.

Passions are likened best to floods and streams: the shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.-Sir W. Raleigh.

Passion is the drunkenness of the mind. -South.

"All the passions," says an old writer, "are such near neighbors, that if one of them is on fire the others should send for the buckets." Thus love and hate being both passions, the one is never safe from the spark that sets the other ablaze.Bulwer.

The passions are at once tempters and chastisers. As tempters, they come with garlands of flowers on brows of youth; as chastisers, they appear with wreaths of snakes on the forehead of deformity. They are angels of light in their delusion; they are fiends of torment in their inflictions.-Henry Giles.

Nothing doth so fool a man as extreme passion. This doth make them fools which otherwise are not, and show them to be fools which are so.-Bp. Hall.

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.-Emerson.

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The only praiseworthy indifference is an acquired one; we must feel as well as control our passions.-Richter.

The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps over a cold decree. -Shakespeare.

In strong natures, if resistance to temptation is of granite, so the passions that they admit are of fire.-Bulwer.

In all disputes, so much as there is of passion, so much there is of nothing to the purpose; for then reason, like a bad hound, spends upon a false scent, and forsakes the question first started. Sir Thomas

Browne.

Almost all men are born with every passion to some extent, but there is hardly a man who has not a dominant passion to which the others are subordinate. Discover this governing passion in every individual; and when you have found the master passion of a man, remember never to trust to him where that passion is concerned. Chesterfield.

It is the strong passions which, rescuing us from sloth, can alone impart to us that continuous and earnest attention necessary to great intellectual effort.-Helvetius.

The way to conquer men, is by their passions; catch but the ruling foible of their hearts, and all their boasted virtues shrink before you.-Tolson.

The passions are the winds that fill the sails of the vessel.-They sink it at times; but without them it would be impossible to make way. Many things that are dangerous here below, are still necessary.- Voltaire.

It is the passions of men that both do and undo everything.-They are the winds that are necessary to put every thing in motion, though they often cause storms.Fontenelle.

Passion often makes fools of the ablest men, and able men of the most foolish.Rochefoucauld.

The passions and capacities of our nature are foundations of power, happiness, and glory; but if we turn them into occasions and sources of self-indulgence, the structure itself falls, and buries everything in its overwhelming desolation.-G. B. Chee

ver.

The passions act as winds to propel our vessel, our reason is the pilot that steers her; without the winds she would not move; without the pilot she would be lost. -F. Shulz.

The passions should be purged; all may become innocent if they are well directed

and moderated. Even hatred may be a commendable feeling when it is caused by a lively love of good. Whatever makes the passions purer makes them stronger, more durable, and more enjoyable.--Joubert.

The passions are the only orators who never fail to persuade.-They are nature's art of eloquence, the rules of which never fail; and the weakest man, moved by passion, is more eloquent than the strongest who has none.-Rochefoucauld.

The blossoms of passion, gay and luxuriant flowers, are bright and full of fragrance, but they beguile us and lead us astray, and their odor is deadly.-Longfellow.

In the history of the passions each human heart is a world in itself; its experience can profit no others.-Bulwer.

Chastise your passions, that they may not chastise you. No one who is a lover of money, of pleasure, or of glory, is likewise a lover of mankind. Riches are not among the number of things that are good. It is not poverty that causes sorrow, but covetous desires. Deliver yourself from appetite, and you will be free. He who is discontented with things present and allotted, is unskilled in life.-Epictetus.

If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.-Rochefoucauld.

Strong passions are the life of manly virtues. But they need not necessarily be evil because they are passions, and because they are strong. They may be likened to blood horses, that need training and the curb only, to enable those whom they carry to achieve the most glorious triumphs.Simms.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.-Cicero.

Men are not blindly betrayed into corruption, but abandon themselves to their passions with their eyes open; and lose the direction of truth, because they do not attend to her voice, not because they do not understand it.-Johnson.

A man is by nothing so much himself, as by his temper and the character of his passions and affections. If he loses what is manly and worthy in these, he is as much lost to himself, as when he loses his memory and understanding.-Shaftesbury.

Hold not conference, debate, or reasoning with any lust; 'tis but a preparatory for thy admission of it. The way is at the very first flatly to deny it.-Fuller.

When passion rules, how rare the hours that fall to virtue's share.- Walter Scott.

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Even virtue itself, all perfect as it is, requires to be inspirited by passion; for duties are but coldly performed which are but philosophically fulfilled.-Mrs. Jame

son.

What profits us, that we from heaven derive a soul immortal, and with looks erect survey the stars, if, like the brutal kind, we follow where our passions lead the way?-Claudian.

In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and of all things afraid of being too much in the right. But the works of malice and injustice are quite in another style. They are finished with a bold masterly hand, touched as they are with the spirit of those vehement passions that call forth all our energies whenever we oppress and persecute.-Burke.

Passion, in its first violence, controls interest, as the eddy for a while runs against the stream.-Johnson.

The passions of mankind are partly protective, partly beneficent, like the chaff and grain of the corn, but none without their use, none without nobleness when seen in balanced unity with the rest of the spirit which they are charged to defend.Ruskin.

Passion looks not beyond the moment of its existence.-Better, it says, the kisses of love to-day, than the felicities of heaven afar off.-Bovee.

Exalted souls, have passions in proportion violent, resistless, and tormenting: they're a tax imposed by nature on preeminence, and fortitude and wisdom must support them.-Lillo.

Princes rule the people; and their own passions rule princes; but Providence can overrule the whole, and draw the instruments of his inscrutable purpose from the vices, no less than from the virtues of kings.-Colton.

All passions are good or bad, according to their objects: where the object is absolutely good, there the greatest passion is too little; where absolutely evil, there the least passion is too much; where indifferent, there a little is enough.—Quarles.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.-Bovee.

Give me that man that is not passion's slave, and I will wear him in my heart's core, aye, in my heart of hearts.-Shakespeare.

Alas! too well, too well they know the pain, the penitence, the woe, that passion

brings down on the best, the wisest, and the loveliest.-Moore.

Our headstrong passions shut the door of our souls against God.-Confucius.

As rivers, when they overflow, drown those grounds and ruin those husbandmen, which, whilst they flowed calmly betwixt their banks they fertilized and enriched, so our passions, when they grow exorbitant and unruly, destroy those virtues to which they might be very serviceable whilst kept within their bounds.-Boyle.

The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.Thus they become, as in the ancient fable, the harnessed steeds that bear the chariot of the sun.-H. W. Beecher.

We use up in our passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.-Joubert.

The passions often engender their contraries.-Avarice sometimes produces prodigality, and prodigality, avarice; we are often resolute from weakness, and daring from timidity.-Rochefoucauld.

What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in maturer life.-Bulwer.

Happy is he who is engaged in controversy with his own passions, and comes off superior; who makes it his endeavor that his follies and weaknesses may die before himself, and who daily meditates on mortality and immortality.-Jortin.

Oh, how the passions, insolent and strong, bear our weak minds their rapid course along; make us the madness of their will obey; then die, and leave us to our griefs a prey!-Crabbe.

The passions are like those demons with which Afrasahiab sailed down the Orus. Our only safety consists in keeping them asleep. If they wake, we are lost.-Goethe.

Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.-T. Adam.

Many persons in reasoning on the passions, make a continual appeal to commonBut passion is without commonsense, and we must frequently discard the one in speaking of the other.-Hazlitt.

sense.

The ruling passion, be it what it will, the ruling passion conquers reason still.Pope.

May I govern my passions with absolute

PAST. So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.-Tennyson.

The past is the sepulchre of our dead emotions.-Bovee.

No hand can make the clock strike for me the hours that are passed.-Byron.

It is to live twice, when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.-Martial.

The true past departs not; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless changes.-Carlyle.

I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.-George Eliot.

Things without remedy, should be without regard; what is done, is done.-Shakespeare.

I know the past, and thence I will essay to glean a warning for the future, so that man may profit by his errors, and derive experience from his folly.-Shelley.

We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear bought experience.-Washington.

Nor deem the irrevocable past as wholly wasted, wholly vain, if rising on its wrecks, at last to something nobler we attain.Longfellow.

Study the past if you would divine the future.-Confucius.

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients, that they know not how to live with the moderns.Penn.

What's gone and past help, should be past grief. Shakespeare.

The admiration bestowed on former times is the bias of all times; the golden age never was the present age.-Home.

Our reverence for the past is just in proportion to our ignorance of it.-Theodore Parker.

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.-Mad. de Staël.

Many are always praising the by-gone time, for it is natural that the old should extol the days of their youth; the weak, the time of their strength; the sick, the season of their vigor; and the disappointed, the spring-tide of their hopes.-C. Bingham.

It is delightful to transport one's self into the spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has thought before us, and to what a glorious height we have at last reached.Goethe.

Age and sorrow have the gift of reading the future by the sad past.-Farrar.

The past is for us, but the sole terms on which it can become ours are its subordination to the present.-Emerson.

PATIENCE. Everything comes if a man will only wait.-Tancred.

He that can have patience, can have what he will.-Franklin.

To know how to wait is the great secret of success.-De Maistre.

It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.-Horace Bushnell.

Patient waiting is often the highest way of doing God's will.-Collier.

A phlegmatic insensibility is as different from patience, as a pool from a harbor. Into the one, indolence naturally sinks us; but if we arrive at the other it is by encountering many an adverse wind and rough wave, with a more skilful pilot at the helm than self, and a company under better command than the passions.-Dilwyn.

How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees. -Shakespeare.

I have known twenty persevering girls to one patient one; but it is only the twentyfirst one who can do her work, out and out, and enjoy it. For patience lies at the root of all pleasures as well as of all powers.Ruskin.

Patience does not mean indifference. We may work and trust and wait, but we ought not to be idle or careless while waiting.

Life has such hard conditions that every dear and precious gift, every rare virtue, every genial endowment, love, hope, joy, wit, sprightliness, benevolence, must sometimes be put into the crucible to distil the one elixir-patience.-Gail Hamilton.

Patience is the art of hoping.— Vauvenargues.

Patience is not passive: on the contrary it is active; it is concentrated strength.

There is one form of hope which is never unwise, and which certainly does not diminish with the increase of knowledge. In that form it changes its name, and we call it patience.-Bulwer.