How soon would ease recant vows made in Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Be- pain as violent and void! - Milton. neath its breath souls develop. — Marie Ebner-Eschenbach. The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body. Publius Syrus. There is a pleasure that is born of pain. Owen Meredith. The pain felt for the crime committed separates the good from the bad. - Alfieri. God has scattered several degrees of pleasure and pain in all the things that environ and affect us, and blended them together in almost all our thoughts. Locke. Pain pays the income of each precious thing. Pain and disease awaken us to convictions which are necessary to our moral condition. Dr. Johnson. Patience alleviates, as impatience augments, pain; thus persons of strong will suffer less than those who give way to irritation.— Swift. Sweet the pleasure after pain. - Dryden. There is no mortal whom pain and disease admiration by the resemblance of things that What a vanity is painting, which attracts do not reach. Cicero. in the original we do not admire. - Pascal. Thank God, I too am a painter! - Correggio. Ah, would we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way, from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost! Lessing. James Ellis. 'Tis every painter's art to hide from sight, and cast in shade, what seen would not delight. Dryden. Painters and poets have liberty to lie. Burns. The brute animals have all the same sensations of pain as human beings, and consequently endure as much pain when their body is hurt; but in their case the cruelty of torment is greater, because they have no mind to bear If a picture is daubed with many glaring them up against their sufferings, and no hope colors, the vulgar eye admires it; whereas he to look forward to when enduring the last ex-judges very contemptuously of some admirable treme of pain. Their happiness consists entirely in present enjoyment. - Chalmers. designs sketched out only with a black pencil, though by the hand of Raphael. — Dr. Watts. I have very often lamented and hinted my sorrow, in several speculations, that the art of painting is made so little use of to the improvement of manners. When we consider that it places the action of the person represented in the most agreeable aspect imaginable, — that it does not only express the passion or concern as it sits upon him who is drawn, but has under those features the height of the painter's imagi what strong images of virtue and humanity might we not expect would be instilled into the mind from the labors of the Akenside. What find I here? fair Portia's counterfeit? What demigod hath come so near creation? nation, Shakspeare. The power of drawing, modelling, and using colors is very properly called the language of the art. Sir Joshua Reynolds. The untravelled Englishman cannot relish all the beauties of Italian pictures, because the postures expressed in them are often such as are peculiar to that country. Addison. The love of gain never made a painter. Washington Allston. In reality, poetry and rhetoric do not succeed in exact description so well as painting does ; their business is to affect rather by sympathy than imitation. - Burke. Style in painting is the same as in writing, -a power over materials, whether words or colors. James Ellis. The emperor one day took up a pencil which fell from the hand of Titian, who was then drawing his picture; and upon the compliment which Titian made him on that occasion he said, "Titian deserves to be served by Cæsar."-Dryden. pencil! Steele. PARADISE. When by a pardoned murderer blood is spilt, the judge that pardoned hath the greatest guilt. Ssr J. Denham. Pardon, not wrath, is God's best attribute.Bayard Taylor. Pardon is voluntary forgetfulness, while forgetfulness is involuntary pardon. - Stahl. The word is short, but not so short as sweet. Shakspeare. These evils I deserve, yet despair not of His final pardon whose ear is ever open and his eye gracious to readmit the supplicant. Milton. PARENTS. Cowards have done good and kind actions, but a coward never pardoned. — Schiller. Love is on the verge of hate each time it stoops for pardon. - Bulwer-Lytton. You cannot play the hypocrite before God; and to obtain pardon you must cease to sin, as well as to be exercised by a spirit of repentance. Beecher. Does not Nature for the child prepare the As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more parent's love, the tender nurse's care? freely. Mme. de Staël. Sir R. Blackmore. The most indifferent thing has its force and beauty when it is spoken by a kind father, | Once more, adieu ! — Shakspeare. and an insignificant trifle has its weight when offered by a dutiful child. — Steele. God give us leisure for these sights of love! As there is a partiality to opinions, which is apt to mislead the understanding, so there is also a partiality to studies, which is prejudicial to knowledge. - Locke. Favoritism manifests itself in all departments of government, public and private. It is the harder to avoid, because it is so natural. — Haliburton. PARTING. But still her lips refused to say, farewell; for in that word, that fatal word, howe'er we promise, hope, believe, there breathes despair. Byron. In every parting there is an image of death. George Eliot. with herself is the one whom she will soonest The man who leaves a woman best pleased wish to see. Rochefoucauld. The consciousness of being loved softens the keenest pangs, even at the moment of parting; yea, even the eternal farewell is robbed of half its bitterness when uttered in accents that breathe love to the last sigh. — Addison. That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought sharpest pang of sorrow. that last glance of love which becomes the - George Eliot. that she bid me return. -Shenstone. Will our souls, hurrying on in diverse paths, unite once more, as if the interval had been a dream?- Bulwer-Lytton. And by and by, will there come a time, when souls congenial will no more say adieu ? PASSIONS. Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, and to party gave up what was meant for mankind. - Goldsmith. There has ever been, and will always be, two dominant parties in politics, and this is indiMme. Dufresnoy.rectly an advantage to the general interests of the country. -Daniel Webster. All farewells should be sudden. — Byron. To know, to esteem, to love, and then to part, makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart. Coleridge. No sophism is too gross to delude minds distempered by party spirit.—Macaulay. The parties are the gamesters; but govern. ment keeps the table, and is sure to be the Absence, in its anxious longing and sense winner in the end. - Burke. of vacancy, is a foretaste of death. Mrs. Jameson. The parting of a husband and wife is like the cleaving of a heart; one half will flutter here, one there. — Tennyson. Oh! wherefore dost thou soothe me with thy softness? why dost thou wind thyself about my heart, and make this separation painful to us?-Rowe. PARTY. He that aspires to be the head of a party will find it more difficult to please his friends than to perplex his foes. Colton. Party spirit enlists a man's virtues in the cause of his vices. · Whately. How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party? - Addison. The worst effect of party is its tendency to generate narrow, false, and illiberal prejudices, by teaching the adherents of one party to regard those that belong to an opposing party as unworthy of confidence. Brande. PASSIONS. Is it strange that a woman is invincible, whose armory consists of kisses, smiles, sighs, Party is the madness of many for the gain and tears? — Haliburton. of a few. Pope. |