ANXIETIES OF. Long did his wife, not. Parents must give good example and reverent deportment in the face of their children. And all those instances of charity which usually endear each othersweetness of conversation, affability, frequent admonition-all signification of love GRIEF OF. and tenderness, care and watchfulness, must be expressed towards children; that Is a less evil; but to part and live, they may look upon their parents as their There-there's the torment. Lansdowne. friends and patrons, their defence and sanc-If I depart from thee, I cannot live; tuary, their treasure and their guide. Jeremy Taylor. JOYS OF. To die and part And in thy sight to die, what were it else death. The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and foars; they cannot utter the one, nor they will not utter the other. Children sweeten labours, but they make mis- With that, wringing my hand he turns fortunes more bitter; increase the cares of life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death. Lord Bacon. RESPECT OF. Honour thy parents to prolong thine end; With them, though for a truth do not contend; away, And tho' his tears would hardly let him look, Yet such a look did through his tears make way, As show'd how sad a farewell there he took. Daniel. Though all should truth defend, do thou INEVITABLE. lose rather Have not all past human beings parted, The truth awhile, than lose their love for And must not all the present, one day part? Parents are o'ersoon, Which the powers divine instruct them MANNER OF. Byron. Let's not unman each other-part at once: Else they make an eternity of moments, L. E. Landon. I have no parting sigh to give, When in their shallow judgments, they Farewell; God knows, when we shall meet may know At length this joy-these dreams-this parting-dissolved themselves into that nameless melancholy in which the overWhen young, men lay up for old age; flowing of happiness covers the borders of when aged, they hoard for death. pain, because our breasts are ever more La Bruyere, easily overflowed than filled. Richter. PANGS OF. My eyes won't ose the sight of thee, My heart is heavy at the remembrance of all the miles that lie between us; and I can scarcely believe that you are so distant from ine. We are parted; and every parting is a form of death, as every re-union is a type of heaven. Edwards. RELUCTANCE at. IMPRESSIBILITY OF. When passions glow, the heart, like heated steel, Takes each impression, and is work'd at pleasure. Young. INTOXICATION OF. The fumes of passion do as really intoxicate, and confound the judging and discerning faculty, as the fumes of drink discompose and stupefy the brain of a man overcharged with it. South. THE RULING. Good night, good night! parting is such The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still. sweet sorrow That I shall say-good night till it be mor row. Shakespeare. As wretches that are doubtful of hereafter, Pope. Search then the ruling passion; there alone The wild are constant, and the cunning known; Part with their lives, unwilling, loath and The fool consistent, and the false sincere: Priest, princes, women, no dissemblers here. Pope. fearful, And trembling at futurity. PASSION. DISAPPOINTMENT OF. Rowe. SLAVERY OF. Passion transforms us into a kind of savage, and makes us brutal and sanguinary. Broome. How terriole is passion! how our reason Falls down before it! whilst the tortur'd frame, Like a ship dash'd by fierce encount'ring tides, And of her pilot spoil'd, drives round and round, The sport of wind and wave. Barford. No man's body is as strong as bis appetite, but Heaven has corrected the boundIn thy breast there springs a poison foun-lessness of his voluptuous desires by stinttain, ing his strength and contracting his caTillotson. Deadlier than that where breathes the Upas pacities. Halleck. tree. Let the sap of reason quench the fire of passion. Shakespeare. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE. If we resist our passions, it is more from their weakness than our strength. Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever. D The passions are the only orators that always persuade. When the heart is still agitated by the remains of a passion, we are more ready to receive a new one than when we are entirely cured. Evil Influence OF THE. There is going on in the human breast a Then die, and leave us to our griefs a prey. Make us the madness of their will obey; perpetua. generation of passion. The passions often engender their contraLa Rochefoucauld. ries. What profits us that we from heaven derive, A soul immortal, and with looks erect, Survey the stars, if, like the brutal hind, We follow where our passions lead the way? Dryden. Govern your passions or otherwise they will govern you. Horace. The worst of slaves are those that are constantly serving their passions. Diogenes. He whom passion rules, is bent to meet his death. Sir Philip Sidney. The passions may be humored till they become our masters, as a horse may be pampered til. Le gets the better of his rider; but early discipline will prevent mutiny, and keep the helm in the hands of reason. Cumberland, Good Influence oF THE. Crabbe. Swallow'd her steps like a pursuing grave. Tennyson. It is necessary to look forward as well as backward, as some think it always necessary to regulate their conduct by things that have been done of old times; but that past It is but reasonable to bear that accident patiently, which God sends, since impatience does but entangle us, like the fluttering of a bird in a net, but cannot at all ease our trouble, or prevent the accident; it must be run through, and therefore it were better we compose ourselves to a patient than to a troublous and miserable suffering. Jeremy Taylor. By their patience and perseverance God's children are truly known from hypocrites Augustine. Patience makes that more tolerable which it is impossible to prevent or remove. and dissemblers. Virtue of. Decker. How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal, but by degrees? Shakespeare. If thou intendest to vanquish the greatest, the most abominable and wickedest enemy, who is able to do thee mischief, both in body and soul, and against whom thou preparest all sorts of weapons, but cannot overcome, then know that there is a sweet and loving physical herb to serve thee, named patience. Luther. WANT OF. He surely is in want of another's patience who has none of his own. Lavater. Churchill. GRACE OF. Patience PATRIOT. Of whose soft grace, I have her sovereign aid, CHARACTERISTICS OF THE. And rest myself content. LIMIT TO. Shakespeare. Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sin cere, There is a limit at which forbearance In action faithful, and in honour clear! ceases to be a virtue. NECESSITY FOR. Burke. Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, He that would have a cake out of the Who gained no title, and who lost no friend; Ennobled by himself, by all approved, wheat must tarry the grinding. Praised, wept, and honour'd, by the muse he lov'd. valour, fidelity, and humanity, and amidst | ATTRIBUTES OF. BLESSINGS OF. Shakespeare. the horrors of war cultivates the gentle In peace, there's nothing so becomes a man, manners of peace, and the virtues of a devout As modest stillness and humility. and holy life, he most amply deserves, and will assuredly receive, the esteem, the admiration, and the applause of his grateful country; and, what is of still greater importance, the approbation of his God. Bishop Porteus. Oh first of human blessings! and supreme! thou! By whose wide tie, the kindred sons of men Down the dark future, through long gen- ourselves. erations, The echoing sounds grow fainter and then cease; UNIVERSAL. They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning And like a bell, with solemn, sweet vibra-hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against tions, I hear once more the voice of Christ say"Peace!" Longfellow. ADVANTAGES OF. A peace is of the nature of a conquest; nation, neither shall they learn war any Isaiah ii, 4. more. |