PATIENCE. Even the best must own that patience and resignation are the pillars of human peace on earth.-Young. It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.-George Eliot. Enter into the sublime patience of the Lord. Be charitable in view of it. God can afford to wait; why cannot we, since we have Him to fall back upon? Let patience have her perfect work, and bring forth her celestial fruits. The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.-Epictetus. There's no music in a 66 rest," but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody, always talking of perseverance and courage and fortitude; but patience is the finest and worthiest part of fortitude, and the rarest, too.-Ruskin. With patience bear the lot to thee assigned, nor think it chance, nor murmur at the load; for know what man calls fortune, is from God.-Rowe. Patience is the key of content.- Mahomet. He that is patient will persevere; and he that perseveres will often have occasion for, as well as trial of patience.-Tryon Edwards. Accustom yourself to that which you bear ill, and you will bear it well.--Seneca. Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses, and disappointments; but let us have patience, and we soon shall see them in their proper figures. -Addison. They also serve who only stand and wait. -Milton. There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting. -J. G. Holland. The conflict of patience is such, that the vanquished is better than the vanquisher.-Euripides. Patience and time do more than strength or passion.-La Fontaine. All that I have accomplished, or expect or hope to accomplish, has been and will be by that plodding, patient, persevering process of accretion which builds the antheap, particle by particle, thought by thought, fact by fact.-Elihu Burritt. Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.-Buffon. Patience! why, it is the soul of peace; of all the virtues, it is nearest kin to hea ven; it makes men look like gods. The best of men that ever wore earth about him was a sufferer, a soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit; the first true gentleman that ever breathed.--Decker. A patient, humble temper gathers blessings that are marred by the peevish, and overlooked by the aspiring.-E. H. Chapin, Endurance is the crowning quality, and patience all the passion of great hearts.J. R. Lowell. That which in mean men we entitle patience, is pale, cold cowardice in noble breasts.-Shakespeare. To bear is to conquer our fate.-Campbell. Beware the fury of a patient man.—Dryden. If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.—Mad. de Sévigné. Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. -Rousseau. Patience is so like fortitude that she seems either her sister or her daughter.Aristotle. There is no such thing as preaching patience into people unless the sermon is so long that they have to practice it while they hear. No man can learn patience except by going out into the hurly-burly world, and taking life just as it blows. Patience is but lying to and riding out the gale.— H. W. Beecher. Patience is the support of weakness; impatience is the ruin of strength.-Colton. There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience. Bruyère. He surely is most in need of another's patience, who has none of his own.-Lavater. Patience strengthens the spirit, sweetens the temper, stifles anger, extinguishes envy, subdues pride, bridles the tongue, restrains the hand, and tramples upon temptations. -Bp. Horne. God may not give us the trivial things we pray for, but that which is far betterpatience, and the development of faculties, and eternity for the use of the powers well schooled on earth. PATRIOTISM. acter has a dangerously weak spot, which at any moment may be its ruin. With it, the otherwise weakest has an element of invincible strength.—Congregationalist. There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience, and tears.-C. S. Robinson. A curtain lecture is worth all the sermons in the world for teaching the virtue of patience and long suffering.- Washington Irving. Trust to God to weave your thread into the great web, though the pattern shows it not yet.-G. Macdonald. Be patient in little things. Learn to bear the every-day trials and annoyances of life quietly and calmly, and then, when unforeseen trouble or calamity comes, your strength will not forsake you. There is as much difference between genuine patience and sullen endurance, as between the smile of love, and the malicious gnashing of the teeth.-W. S. Plumer. Patience is the courage of the conqueror, the strength of man against destiny-of the one against the world, and of the soul against matter.-Therefore it is the courage of the gospel; and its importance, in a social view, and to races and institutions, cannot be too earnestly inculcated.-Bul wer. Patience is even more rarely manifested in the intellect than it is in the temper.A. Helps. Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes silk.Chinese Proverb. The sincere and earnest approach of the Christian to the throne of the Almighty, teaches the best lesson of patience under affliction, since wherefore should we mock the Deity with supplications, when we insult him by murmuring under his decrees? Walter Scott. Steady, patient, persevering thinking, will generally surmount every obstacle in the search after truth.-Emmons. PATRIOTISM.-The noblest motive is the public good.— Virgil. Be just and fear not; let all the ends thou aimest at, be thy country's, thy God's, and truth's.-Shakespeare. He was the bravest citizen of Rome that did most love and best serve his country; and he the saint among the Jews who most loved Zion.-Baxter. Let our object be our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country. And, by the blessing of God, may that country itself become a vast and splendid monument, not of oppression and terror, but of wisdom, of peace, and of liberty, upon which the world may gaze with admiration forever.-Daniel Webster. National enthusiasm is the great nursery of genius.-Tuckerman. Had I a dozen sons,-each in my love alike, I had rather have eleven die nobly for their country, than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.-Shakespeare. There can be no affinity nearer than our country.-Plato. Of the whole sum of human life no small part is that which consists of a man's relations to his country, and his feelings concerning it.-Gladstone. When was public virtue to be found where private was not? Can he love the whole who loves no part? He be a nation's friend, who is, in truth, the friend of no man there? Who slights the charities for whose dear sake, that country, if at all, must be beloved?-Cowper. The love of country produces good manners; and good manners, love of country. -The less we satisfy our individual passions, the more we leave to our general.— Montesquieu. The proper means of increasing the love we bear to our native country, is to reside some time in a foreign one.-Shenstone. After what I owe to God, nothing should be more dear or more sacred than the love and respect I owe to my country.-De Thou. Whene'er our country calls, friends, sons, and sires should yield their treasure up, nor own a sense beyond the public safety. -Brooke. My country claims me all, claims every passion; her liberty henceforth be all my thought; for her, my life, I'd willingly resign, and say with transport that the gain was mine.-Martyn. The patriot's boast, where'er we roam, his first, best country ever is at home.-Goldsmith. Millions for defence, but not one cent for tribute.-C. C. Pinckney. I do love my country's good with a respect more tender, more holy and profound than mine own life.-Shakespeare. Liberty and union, now and forever, one and inseparable.-Daniel Webster. The age of virtuous politics is past, and we are deep in that of cold pretence.-Patriots are grown too shrewd to be sincere, and we too wise to trust them.-Cowper. PEACE. Our country's welfare is our first concern, and who promotes that best, best proves his duty.-Havard. True patriots all, for be it understood, we left our country for our country's good. -George Barrington. I have learned by much observation, that nothing will satisfy a patriot but a place.Junius. Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel!-Johnson. Love of country is one of the loftiest virtues; and so treason against it has been considered among the most damning sins. -E. A. Storrs. Stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages.-Milton. PEACE.-Peace is the happy, natural state of man; war, his corruption, his disgrace.-Thomson. Peace is the evening star of the soul, as virtue is its sun; and the two are never far apart.-Colton. Peace is such a precious jewel that I would give anything for it but truth.-M. Henry. "Tis death to me, to be at enmity; I hate it, and desire all good men's love.-Shakespeare. Peace does not dwell in outward things, but within the soul; we may preserve it in the midst of the bitterest pain, if our will remain firm and submissive. Peace in this life springs from acquiescence, not in an exemption from suffering.-Fénelon. Five great enemies to peace inhabit with us: viz., avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride. If those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.-Petrarch. If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources. -Rochefoucauld. Lovely concord and most sacred peace doth nourish virtue, and fast friendship breed.-Spenser. Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful. Schiller. The more quietly and peaceably we all get on, the better-the better for ourselves -the better for our neighbors. In nine cases out of ten the wisest policy is, if a man cheats you, quit dealing with him; if he is abusive, quit his company; if he slanders you, take care to live so that nobody will believe him: no matter who he is, or how he misuses you, the wisest way is generally to let him alone; for there is nothing better than this cool, calm, quiet way of dealing with the wrongs we meet with. Peace is the proper result of the Christian temper. It is the great kindness which our religion doth us, that it brings us to a settledness of mind, and a consistency within ourselves.-Bp. Patrick. Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind. Collins. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.-Emerson. Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than war.-Milton. Peace, dear nurse of arts, plenties, and joyful birth.-Shakespeare. We love peace, but not peace at any price. There is a peace more destructive of the manhood of living man, than war is destructive of his body.-Chains are worse than bayonets.-Jerrold. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace. - Washington. I am a man of peace. God knows how I love peace. But I hope I shall never be such a coward as to mistake oppression for peace.-Kossuth. A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.-Shakespeare. There are interests by the sacrifice of which peace is too dearly purchased. One should never be at peace to the shame of his own soul.-to the violation of his integrity or of his allegiance to God.-E. II. Chapin. Speak, move, act in peace, as if you were in prayer. In truth, this is prayer. -Fénelon. No peace was ever won from fate by subterfuge or agreement; no peace is ever in store for any of us, but that which we shall win by victory over shame or sin,-victory over the sin that oppresses, as well as over that which corrupts.-Ruskin. The man who consecrates his hours by vigorous effort, and an honest aim, at once he draws the sting of life and Death; he walks with nature; and her paths are peace. -Young. PEDANTRY. he breaks his neighbor's shins as well as his own. Keep a fellow of this description at arm's length, as you value the integrity of your bones.-Stanislaus. If a strong attachment to a particular subject, a total ignorance of every other: an eagerness to introduce that subject upon all occasions, and a confirmed habit of declaiming upon it without either wit or discretion, be the marks of a pedantic character, as they certainly are, it belongs to the illiterate as well as the learned; and St. James's itself may boast of producing as arrant pedants as were ever sent forth from a college.-B. Thornton. Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of learning, and stiffness of phraseology, proceeding from a misguided knowledge of books, and a total ignorance of men.— Mackenzie. There is a pedantry in manners, as in all arts and sciences, and sometimes in trades. Pedantry is properly the overrating any kind of knowledge we pretend to, and if that kind of knowledge be a trifle in itself, the pedantry is the greater.-Swift. It is not a circumscribed situation so much as a narrow vision that creates pedants; not having a pet study or science, but a narrow, vulgar soul, which prevents a man from seeing all sides and hearing all things; in short, the intolerant man is the real pedant.-Richter. The vacant skull of a pedant generally furnishes out a throne and temple for vanity. Shenstone. Deep versed in books, and shallow in himself.-Milton. As pedantry is an ostentatious obtrusion of knowledge, in which those who hear us cannot sympathize, it is a fault of which soldiers, sailors, sportsmen, gamesters, cultivators, and all men engaged in a particular occupation, are quite as guilty as scholars; but they have the good fortune to have the vice only of pedantry, while scholars have both the vice and the name for it too.-S. Smith. With loads of learned lumber in his head. Pedantry prides herself on being wrong 405 We only toil and labor to stuff the memory, and in the mean time leave the conscience and understanding unfurnished PEOPLE. and void. As old birds who fly abroad to Pedantry and taste are as inconsistent as A man who has been brought up among books, and is able to talk of nothing else, is a very indifferent companion, and what we call a pedant. But we should enlarge the title, and give it to every one that does not know how to think out of his profession and particular way of life.-Addison. Pedantry and bigotry are millstones, able to sink the best book which carries the least part of their dead weight. The temper of the pedagogue suits not with the age; and the world, however it may be taught, will not be tutored.-Shaftesbury. Brimful of learning, see the pedant stride, bristling with horrid Greek, and puffed with pride!-A thousand authors he in vain has read, and with their maxims stuffed his empty head; and thinks that without Aristotle's rules, reason is blind, and common sense a fool!-Boileau. PEDIGREE.-(See "ANCESTRY.") PEN. There are only two powers in the world, the sword and the pen; and in the end the former is always conquered by the latter.-Napoleon. The strokes of the pen need deliberation, as much as those of the sword need swiftness.-Julia Ward Howe. Scholars are men of peace; they bear no arms, but their tongues are sharper than the sword; their pens carry further and I had give a louder report than thunder. rather stand in the shock of a basilisk than in the fury of a merciless pen.-Sir Thomas Browne. Oh, nature's noblest gift,-my gray goosequill!-Byron. Take away the sword; states can be saved without it; bring the pen !-Bulwer. PEOPLE.-What people are depends not a little on who and what their progenitors were.-Ascribe what influences you please to education, examples, habits, etc., and after all a great deal depends upon the breed.-Mills. From the time when the exercise of the intellect became the source of strength and wealth, every addition to science, every fresh truth, and every new idea became a PERCEPTION. germ of power placed within reach of the people.-De Tocqueville. There are three kinds of people in the world, the wills, the won'ts and the can'ts. The first accomplish everything; the second oppose everything; the third fail in everything.-Eclectic Magazine. The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters.-Shenstone. You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time.Lincoln. Most people judge others either by the company they keep, or by their fortune.-Roche foucauld. Local assemblies of the people constitute the strength of free nations.- Municipal institutions are to liberty, what primary schools are to science: they bring it within the people's reach, and teach them how to use and enjoy it.-A nation may establish a system of free government, but without the spirit of municipal institutions it cannot have the spirit of liberty.-De Tocque ville. PERCEPTION.-Make a point never so clear, and it is great odds that a man whose habits, and the bent of whose mind lie a contrary way shall be unable to comprehend it ;-so weak a thing is reason in competition with inclination.- Bp. Berkeley. We like to divine others, but do not like to be divined ourselves.-Rochefoucauld. Simple creatures, whose thoughts are not taken up, like those of educated people, with the care of a great museum of dead phrases, are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.-O. W. Holmes. Penetration seems a kind of inspiration ; it gives me an idea of prophecy.-Greville. The heart has eyes that the brain knows nothing of.-C. H. Parkhurst. To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage, or of principle.-Confucius. PERFECTION.-Among the other excellencies of man, this is one, that he can form the image of perfection much beyond what he has experience of in himself, and is not limited in his conception of wisdom and virtue.-Hume. Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.- Voltaire. To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the other. Diogenes. Bachelor's wives and old maid's children are always perfect.-Chamfort. We are what we are; we cannot be truly other than ourselves. We reach perfection not by copying, much less by aiming at originality, but by constantly and steadily working out the life which is common to all, according to the character which God has given us. The more perfect the sight is the more delightful the beautiful object. The more perfect the appetite, the sweeter the food. The more musical the ear, the more pleasant the melody. The more perfect the soul, the more joyous the joys of heaven and the more glorious that glory.-Barter. Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. Neglect nothing; the most trivial action may be performed to God.-Angelique Arnauld. Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable.-However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.--Chesterfield. The Stoic philosophy insults human nature, and discourages all our attempts, by enjoining and promising a perfection in this life, of which we feel ourselves incapable. The Christian religion shows compassion to our weakness, by prescribing to us only the practical task of aiming continually at further improvements and animates our endeavors, by the promise of divine aid, equal to our trial. It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached. --Johnson. He who boasts of being perfect is perfect in folly. I never saw a perfect man. Every rose has its thorns, and every day its night. Even the sun shows spots, and the skies are darkened with clouds. And faults of some kind nestle in every bosom. -Spurgeon. If we pretend to have reached either perfection or satisfaction, we have degraded ourselves and our work. God's work only may express that, but ours may never have that sentence written upon it, "Behold it was very good."— Ruskin. Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to |