The most original writers borrowed one from another. Boiardo has imitated Pulci, and Ariosto Boiardo. The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbor's, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all. Voltaire.

All originality is estrangement.

P.

G. H. Lawes.

Pain.-Psychical pain is more easily borne than physical, and if I had my choice between a bad conscience and a bad tooth, I should choose the former. - Heinrich Heine.

The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains. - Bulwer-Lytton.

Pardon. - Pardon is the virtue of victory. Mazzini.

The heart has always the pardoning power. — Madame Swetchine.

The offender never pardons.

George Herbert.

Love is on the verge of hate each time it stoops for pardon. - Bulwer-Lytton.

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.

Having mourned your sin, for outward Eden lost, find paradise within.- - Dryden.

Parent. The sacred books of the ancient Persians say: If you would be holy instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you. - Montesquieu.

Partiality. Partiality in a parent is commonly unlucky; for fondlings are in danger to be made fools, and the children that are least cockered make the best and wisest men.— L'Estrange.

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.

Partiality is properly the understanding's judging according to the inclination of the will and affections, and not according to the exact truth of things, or the merits of the cause. South.

Parting. — In every parting there is an image of death. George Eliot.

Party. - He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party-man. — Lavater.

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. - Rous

seau.

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 George Eliot.

past.

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. - BulwerLytton.

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

Patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ills. -John

son.

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.

Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong. Decatur.

How dear is fatherland to all noble hearts. - Voltaire.

Let our object be our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country. And, by the blessing of God, may that country itself become a vast and splendid monument, not of oppression and terror, but of wisdom, of peace, and of liberty, upon which the world may gaze with admiration forever! Daniel Webster.

There can be no affinity nearer than our country. - Plato.

Of the whole sum of human life no small part is that which consists of a man's relations to his country, and his feelings concerning it. Gladstone.

Peace.

They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. Bible.

Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace. Shakespeare.

Lovely concord and most sacred peace doth nourish virtue, and fast friendship breed. — Spenser.

Peace gives food to the husbandman, even in the midst of rocks; war brings misery to him, even in the most fertile plains. Menander.

Peace, dear nurse of arts, plenties, and joyful birth.Shakespeare.

A land rejoicing and a people blest.— Pope.

Pedant.- As pedantry is an ostentatious obtrusion of knowledge, in which those who hear us cannot sympathize, it is a fault of which soldiers, sailors, sportsmen, gamesters, cultivators, and all men engaged in a particular occupation, are quite as guilty as scholars; but they have the good fortune to have the vice only of pedantry, while scholars have both the vice and the name for it too. S. Smith.

With loads of learned lumber in his head. — Pope.