Part 71

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.

~Passions.~--Passions makes us feel but never see clearly.--Montesquieu.

Passions are likened best to floods and streams: the shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.--Sir Walter Raleigh.

The passions are the voice of the body.--Rousseau.

The advice given by a great moralist to his friend was, that he should compose his passions; and let that be the work of reason which would certainly be the work of time.--Addison.

A vigorous mind is as necessarily accompanied with violent passions as a great fire with great heat.--Burke.

There are moments when our passions speak and decide for us, and we seem to stand by and wonder. They carry in them an inspiration of crime, that in one instant does the work of long premeditation.--George Eliot.

The blossoms of passion, gay and luxuriant flowers, are brighter and fuller of fragrance, but they beguile us and lead us astray, and their odor is deadly.--Longfellow.

"All the passions," says an old writer, "are such near neighbors, that if one of them is on fire the others should send for the buckets." Thus love and hate being both passions, the one is never safe from the spark that sets the other ablaze. But contempt is passionless; it does not catch, it quenches fire.--Bulwer-Lytton.

All the passions seek after whatever nourishes them. Fear loves the idea of danger.--Joubert.

It is the excess and not the nature of our passions which is perishable. Like the trees which grow by the tomb of Protesilaus, the passions flourish till they reach a certain height, but no sooner is that height attained than they wither away.--Bulwer-Lytton.

~Past.~--Let the dead past bury its dead.--Longfellow.

Oh vanished times! splendors eclipsed for aye! Oh suns behind the horizon that have set.--Victor Hugo.

It is to live twice, when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.--Martial.

I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.--George Eliot.

~Patience.~--There is one form of hope which is never unwise, and which certainly does not diminish with the increase of knowledge. In that form it changes its name and we call it patience.--Bulwer-Lytton.

It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.--George Eliot.

Patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ills.--Johnson.

There's no music in a "rest," that I know of, 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.

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.--Epictetus.

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.--G. MacDonald.

'Tis all men's office to speak patience to those that wring under the load of sorrow; but no man's virtue nor sufficiency to be so moral when he shall endure the like himself.--Shakespeare.

He that hath patience hath fat thrushes for a farthing.--George Herbert.

Imitate time. It destroys slowly. It undermines, wears, loosens, separates. It does not uproot.--Joubert.

God is with the patient.--Koran.

Patience, the second bravery of man, is, perhaps, greater than the first.--Antonio de Solis.

Patience--the truest fortitude.--Milton.

~Patriotism.~--In peace patriotism really consists only in this--that every one sweeps before his own door, minds his own business, also learns his own lesson, that it may be well with him in his own house.--Goethe.