PATIENCE. Be not too eager in the arduous chase; The Candidate.-G. CRABBE. PATIENCE of Celestial Origin. Celestial patience! how dost thou defeat The Force of Religion, Book 1. Line 249. PATIENCE in Labour and Tribulation. I will labour not to be like a young colt first set to plough, who more tires himself out with his own untowardness (whipping himself with his misspent mettle) than with the weight of what he draws; and will labour to bear patiently what is imposed upon me. Occasional Meditations, X.-THOMAS FULLER. Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned From wandering on a foreign strand! Lay of the Last Minstrel.-SCOTT. PEACE-under what Circumstances Honourable. Is not peace the end of arms? Not where the cause implies a general conquest; Or making head against commotions, After a day of blood, peace might be argued; The gods we worship, and, next those, our honours, And where they march, but measure out more ground Bonduca, Act I. Scene I. BEAUMONT and FLETCHER. PERSEVERANCE. Value of Perseverance merits neither blame nor praise; it is only the duration of our inclinations and sentiments, which we can neither create nor extinguish. Maxims, CCCXL.-ROCHEFOUCAULT. PHILOSOPHY. The Teaching of All that philosophy can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortunes. The Bee, No. II.-GOLDSMITH. PHILOSOPHY and RELIGION. Of all the weaknesses which little men rail against, there is none that they are more apt to ridicule than the tendency to believe. And of all the signs of a corrupt heart and a feeble head, the tendency of incredulity is the surest. Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny. While we hear, every day, the small pretenders to science talk of the absurdities of Alchemy, and the dream of the Philosopher's Stone, a more erudite knowledge is aware that by Alchemists the greatest discoveries in science have been made, and much which still seems abstruse, had we the key to the mystic phraseology they were compelled to adopt, might open the way to yet more noble acquisitions. The Philosopher's Stone itself has seemed no visionary chimera to some of the soundest chemists that even the present century has produced. Zanoni, Book II. Chap. VI. PHYSICIAN. The true E. B. LYTTON. Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay? PITY. Analysis of Pity is imagination or fiction of future calamity to ourselves, proceeding from the sense of another man's calamity. But when it lighteth on such as we think have not deserved the same, the compassion is greater, because then there appeareth more probability that the same may happen to us; for the evil that happeneth to an innocent man may happen to every man. But when we see a man suffer for great crimes, which we cannot easily think will fall upon ourselves, the pity is the less. And therefore men are apt to pity those whom they love; for whom they love they think worthy of good, and therefore not worthy of calamity. PLACE. Treatise on Human Nature.-THOMAS HOBBES. All rising to great place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man's self whilst he is in the rising, and to balance himself when he is placed. PLEASURE. Essay on Great Place.-LORD BACON. Slavishness to The world's a bubble; all the pleasures in it, Emblems, Book II. 4.-FRANCIS QUARLES. PLEASURE always mingled with woe. Childhood: A Poem. Part II.-H. K. WHITE. |