With union grounded on falsehood and ordering us to speak and act lies, we will not have anything to do. Peace? A brutal lethargy Very few in public affairs act with a view to is peaceable; the noisome grave is peaceable. the good of mankind. Franklin. We hope for a living peace, not a dead one!Carlyle. Blessedness is promised to the peacemaker, not to the conqueror. — Quarles. One country, one constitution, one destiny.- Patriotism influences men in one manner and women in another, acting through different channels and touching different chords according to the sex of those upon whom it operates. Men rise to lofty heights in virtue, heroism, moral grandeur; women in enthusiasm, fanaticism, inspiration. Lamartine. The properties of a patriot are perishable in the individual. - Junius. All true patriots will meet in heaven. -- I am not accustomed to the language of eulogy; I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women: but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets, since the creation of the world, in praise of woman, was applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war. - Abraham Lincoln. Peace gives food to the husbandman, even in the midst of rocks; war brings misery to him, even in the most fertile plains. Menander. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace. Washington. PEDANTRY. Five great enemies of peace inhabit with us, Where God is, all agree. - Vaughan. - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should inPeace rules the day where reason rules the fallibly enjoy perpetual peace. Petrarch. mind. Collins. 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. Peace o'er the world her olive wand extend, and white-robed innocence from heaven descend. Pope. I do not know that Englishman alive with Peace, dear nurse of arts, plenties, and joyful the infant that is born to-night. — Shakspeare. whom my soul is any jot at odds more than births. Shakspeare. He was famous for discovering the future PEDIGREE. when it had taken place. - Beaconsfield. Deep-versed in books, and shallow in himself. Milton. Pedantry is the unseasonable ostentation of learning. It may be discovered either in the choice of a subject or in the manner of treating it. - Dr. Johnson. The brains of a pedant, however full, are vacant. - Greville. With loads of learned lumber in his head. Pope. The most annoying of all blockheads is a wellread fool. Bayard Taylor. But even though you be sprung in direct line from Hercules, if you show a low-born meanness, that long succession of ancestors whom you disgrace are so many witnesses against you; and this grand display of their tarnished glory but serves to make your ignominy more evident. Boileau. PEN. The pen has shaken nations. - Tupper. The pen is a formidable weapon; but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people. — G. D. Prentice. The pen became a clarion. - Longfellow. I had rather stand the shock of a basilisk Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy in reli- than the fury of a merciless pen. gion, a form of knowledge without the power of it. Addison. The pen is the tongue of the mind. Cervantes. The pen is the lever that moves the world.- Take away the sword! States can be saved without it. Bring the pen !— Bulwer-Lytton. Pens carry further than rifled cannon. Bayard Taylor. The chisel is the pen of the sculptor. Pius IX. No man was more foolish when he had not a when he had. - Dr. Johnson. Pedants are men who would appear to be learned, without the necessary ingredient of pen in his hand [than Goldsmith], or more wise knowledge. - Bancroft. To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, to throw a perfume on the violet, to smooth the ice, or add another hue unto the rainbow, or with taper-light to seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, is wasteful and ridiculous excess. Shakspeare. God never made his work for God to mend. Dryden. We may be thankful to be admitted to contemplate such consummate goodness and beauty; and as in looking at a fine landscape or a work of art every generous heart must be delighted and improved, and ought to feel grateful afterwards, so one may feel charmed and thankful for having the opportunity of knowing an almost perfect woman. Thackeray. PERFECTION. If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself. H. W. Shaw. I have seen an end of all perfection. - Bible. There are no perfect women in the world; only hypocrites exhibit no defects. — Ninon de Lenclos. Even women are perfect at the outset. Rochefoucauld. Let no man measure by a scale of perfection meagre product of reality in this poor world the of ours. Schiller. There are many lovely women, but no perfect ones. Victor Hugo. A woman is not being by herself; neither is a man. The two constitute one; and that is a relation contemplated from the beginning by the Power that fashioned them. Dr. J. V. C. Smith. Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought. Dryden. The Divine nature is perfection; and to be nearest to the Divine nature is to be nearest to perfection. - Xenophon. Who durst thy faultless figure thus deface? Dryden. 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. |