Vindictive, spiteful, resentful, revengeful, unforgiving.

Virtuous, just, upright, moral, chaste, pure.

Visible, apparent, obvious, clear, plain, evident, manifest, distinct, palpable, patent.

Vivid, lively, clear, lucid, bright, sunny, glowing, graphic.

Vocation, profession, calling, trade, business, employment, office, mission.

Vogue, usage, way, custom, fashion, use, practice.

Void, null, invalid, unfilled, empty, hollow, useless, nugatory.

WAFT, transport, bear, convey.

Wage, make, carry on, engage in, undertake.

Wages, salary, hire, allowance, stipend, pay, remuneration, earnings.
Waggish, frolicsome, funny, jocular, sportive, merry, wanton.
Wait, await, abide, bide, stay, remain, tarry.

Waive, forego, relinquish, let go.

Wanton, licentious, libertine, unrestrained, unbridled, uncurbed, dissolute, loose, lax.

Ward, v., avert, parry, fend, repel, turn aside, guard, defend.
Warlike, bellicose, martial, military, soldier like.

Warm, affectionate, attached, devoted, ardent, fervent, fervid, glowing.

Warmth, ardor, fervency, fervor, cordiality, vehemence, heat, fervidness, glow,

Wary, careful, cautious, circumspect, guarded, watchful, heedful, prudent, vigilant.

Wash, clean, rinse, wet, moisten, stain, tint.

Waste, v., squander, dissipate, lavish, destroy, decay, dwindle, wither.
Way, method, plan, system, means, manner, mode, form, fashion,
course, process, road, route, track, path, habit, practice.
Wayward, forward, obstinate, stubborn, unruly, perverse, disobedient.
Weak, feeble, infirm, enfeebled, debilitated, powerless, helpless, ema-
ciated, prostrate, thin, watery, diluted, flimsy, slight, poor, silly,
defenceless.

Weal, prosperity, welfare, advantage, well-being, happiness.
Wealth, riches, opulence, affluence, plenty, mammon.

Welfare, good fortune, well-being, prosperity, happiness, success.
Wheedle, coax, cajole, flatter, entice, decoy, humor, court.

White, snowy, pure, spotless, unspotted, unblemished, stainless, clean. Whole, sound, healthy, well, total, all, entire, perfect, complete, integral, aggregate, undivided.

Wholesome, nutritious, healthy, salubrious, healing, salutary.

Wholly, entirely, totally, altogether, quite, perfectly, completely, utterly.

Wicked, bad, ill, unjust, irreligious, ungodly, godless, profane, impious, unhallowed, black, dark, foul, atrocious, villanous, enormous, monstrous, outrageous, profligate, abandoned.

Wide, broad, ample, large, expanded, diffuse, extensive.

Wild, savage, uncivilized, loose, irregular, disorderly, untamed, undomesticated, unruly.

Wilful, perverse, stubborn, self-willed, headstrong, obstinate.
Wilfully, designedly, purposely, intentionally.
Willingly, voluntarily, spontaneously, gratuitously.

Win, get, obtain, gain, procure, effect, realize, accomplish, achieve.
Wind, v., coil, twine, wreathe, turn, bend, curve, twist, wriggle.
Wing, v., fly, mount, ascend, soar, tower.

Wisdom, sense, knowledge, learning, prudence, judgment, intelli gence, sagacity.

Wise, intelligent, learned, skilled, judicious, rational, discreet, prudent.

Wish, desire, long for, yearn, hanker, covet.

Wit, mind, intellect, understanding, genius, imagination, humor, satire, irony, mirth.

Woe, distress, sorrow, affliction, disaster, trouble. Wonder, amazement, surprise, astonishment, admiration, miracle, marvel, prodigy, curiosity, rarity,

Wonderful, marvellous, wondrous, amazing, astonishing, striking, surprising, admirable.

Wondrous, wonderful, amazing, marvellous, stupendous, miraculous. Word, term, expression, accent, promise, engagement, account, tidings, message, order, command, signal.

Worldly, terrestrial, mundane, temporal, secular, carnal, earthly.
Worry, plague, tease, torment, vex, annoy, irritate, fret.
Worth, price, value, rate, desert, merit, virtue, excellence.
Worthless, useless, valueless, frivolous, corrupt, libertine, dissolute,
licentious, profligate.

Worthy, excellent, deserving, eligible, preferable, meritorious, esti-
mable, commendable, laudable, praiseworthy.
Wrap, muffle, envelop, fold, encase.

Wreathe, v., turn, twist, interweave, enfold.
Wreck, débris, ruins, havoc, rubbish.

Wretched, deplorable, miserable, unhappy, distressed, afflicted, un fortunate, afflicting, disastrous, calamitous, drear, dismal.

Wring, v., twist, wrench, wrest, distort, squeeze.
Wrong, v., abuse, injure, maltreat, oppress, aggrieve.

Wrong, a., bad, evil, incorrect, erroneous, unsuitable, improper, un just.

Wry, twisted, distorted, awry, crooked.

YEARN, hanker after, long for, desire, crave.

Yield, bear, give, afford, impart, communicate, confer, bestow, give up, abdicate, resign, cede, surrender, relinquish, relax, quit, forego, let go, waive, comply, conform, accede, assent, acquiesce, succumb sink, submit.

Yoke, v., couple, link, connect.

Youth, boy, lad, minority, adolescence, juvenility. Youthful, young, juvenile, boyish, girlish, puerile.

ZEAL, energy, fervor, ardor, earnestness, enthusiasm, eagerness. Zest, relish gusto, flavor.

BSENCE destroys trifling intimacies, but it invigorates strong ones.-ROCHEFOUCAULD.

Actions are of so mixed a nature, that as men pry into them, or observe some parts more than others, they take different hues, and put contrary interpretations on them.ADDISON.

Hurry and cunning are the two apprentices of dispatch and skill, but neither of them ever learned their master's trade.-COLTON.

Admiration is a short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries.-ADDISON.

He that hath never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.-ATTERBURY.

Adversity borrows its sharpest sting from our impatience. -HOME.

Let no man presume to give advice to others that has not at first given good counsel to himself.-SENECA.

Affection is still a bribe of judgment, and it is hard for a man to admit a reason against the thing he loves, or to confess the force of an argument against an intent.-SOUTH.

The furnace of affliction refines us from earthly drowsiness, and softens us for the impression of God's own stamp. -BOYLE.

Age makes us most fondly hug and retain the good things of this life, when we have the least prospect of enjoying them.-ATTERBURY.

Providence gives us notice by sensible declensions that we may disengage from the world by degrees.-COLLIER.

It is proper that alms should come out of a little purse as well as out of a great sack; but surely when there is plenty, charity is a duty, not a courtesy; it is a tribute imposed by Heaven upon us, and he is not a good subject who refuses to pay it.-FELTHAM.

Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes by keeping them always in show, like the statues in a public place.MONTAGNE.

Ambition breaks the ties of blood and forgets the obligations of gratitude.-SCOTT.

Title and ancestry render a good name illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible.-ADDISON.

The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato-the only good belonging to him is underground.-OVERBURY.

When anger arises, think of the consequences.-CONFU

CIUS.

Anger is a transient hatred, or at least, very like it.-SOUTH. Anxiety is the passion of human life.-ADDISON. According to the stories, apathy meant the extinction of the passions by the ascendancy of reason.-FLEMING.

Passionate expressions and vehement assertions are no arguments, unless it be of the weakness of the cause that is defended by them, or of the man who defends it.-CHILLINGWORTH.

If your arguments be rational, offer them in as moving a manner as the nature of the subject will admit; but beware if the pathetic part swallow up the rational.-SWIFT.

The enemy of art is the enemy of nature Art is nothing but the highest sagacity and exertion of human nature; and what nature will he honor who honors not the human ?LAVATER.

No atheist, as such, can be a true friend, an affectionate relative, or a loyal subject.-BENTLY.

Men are atheistical because they are at first vicious; and question the truth of Christianity because they hate the prac tice.-SOUTH.

By attention ideas are registered in the memory.-LOCKE I never knew any man cured of inattention.-SWIFT. The practice of all ages and all countries hath been to do honor to those who are invested with public authority.ADDISON.

There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremities as that of avarice.-SENECA.

Poverty is in want of much, but avarice of everything.LYONS.

B.

Beauty is nothing else but a just accord and mutual harmony of the members, animated by a healthful constitution. -DRYDEN.

No better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; no true beauty without the signature of these graces in the very countenance.-RAY.

Rare benevolence, the minister of God.-CARLYLE.

A man must be exceedingly stupid, as well as uncharitable, who believes there is no virtue but on his own side.-ADDISON On Bigotry.

The blessings of fortune are the lowest; the next are the bodily advantages of strength and health; but the superlative blessings, in fine, are those of the mind.-L'ESTRANGE.

The bold and sufficient pursue their game with more passion, endeavor and application, and therefore often succeed.— TEMPLE.

Every good book is an action, and every great action is a book.-LUTHER.

We ought to regard books as we do sweetmeats, not wholly to aim at the pleasantest, but chiefly to respect the wholesomest; not forbidding either, but approving the latter most. -PLUTARCH.

C.

In some calamities we can have no relief but from God alone; and what would men do in such a case if it were not for God?-TILLOTSON.

As the calling dignifies the man, so the man much more advances his calling.-SOUTH.

If the calumniator bespatters and belies me, I will endeavor to convince him by my life and manners, but not by being like himself.-SOUTH.

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.-POPE on Candor.

Speech of touch towards others should be sparingly used; but discourse ought to be as a field, without coming home to any man.-BACON on Censoriousness.

Chance is but the pseudonym of God for these particular cases which He does not choose to subscribe openly with his own sign-manual.—COLERIDGE.

The opposites of apparent chance are constancy and sensible interposition.-PALEY.

These two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together, manly dependence and manly independence, manly reliance and manly self-reliance.-WADSWORTH on Character.

The smallest act of charity shall stand us in great stead.ATTERBURY.

Charity is made the constant companion and perfection of all virtues; and well it is for that virtue where it most enters and longest stays.-SPRAT.

To be pure-minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat, sleep and exercise, is one of the best precepts of long lasting.-BACON.

The cheerful man, truly wise, creams off nature, leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap on.— SWIFT.

I love little children; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are fresh from God, love us.-DICKENS.

Children are travelers newly arrived in a strange country; we should therefore make conscience not to mislead them.LOCKE.

I seem, for my own part, to see the benevolence of the Deity more clearly in the presence of very young children than in anything in the world.-PALEY.

There never was law, or sect, or opinion did so much mag. nify goodness as the Christian religion doth.-BACON.

Christianity, which is always true to the heart, knows no abstract virtues. but virtues resulting from our wants and use. ful to all. --CHARNOCK.

Everywhere throughout all generations and ages of the Christian world, no Church ever perceived the Word of God to be against it.--HOOKER.

It seems to be in the power of a reasonable clergyman to make the most ignorant man comprehend his duty.-SWIFT. Comedy is a representation of common life in low subjects. -DRYDEN.

Common sense is a phrase employed to denote that degree of intelligence, sagacity, and prudence which is common to all men.-FLEMING.

A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, where there is no love. --BACON.

Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which after the first or second blow may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.—ST. Augustine.

Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house. --SHENSTONE.

Too great confidence in success is the likeliest to prevent it; because it hinders us from making the best use of the advantages which we enjoy.--ATTERBURY.

Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom.— CHATHAM.

Conscience is the great ledger-book in which all our offences are written and registered.--BUrton.

The authority of conscience stands founded upon its viceregency and deputation under God.--SOUTH.

The last and crowning privilege, or rather property of friendship is constancy.--SOUTH.

It is often more necessary to conceal contempt than resent ment; the former being never forgiven, but the latter some times forgot.--CHESTERFIELD.

The highest point outward things can bring me into is contentment of the mind, with which no state is r able. SIDNEY.

The advantage of conversation is such that, f company, a man had better talk to a post than let' lie smoking and smothering.-COLLIER.

Conversation warms the mind, enlivens the imagination, and is continually starting fresh game that is immediately pursued and taken, and which would never have occurred in the dull intercourse of epistolary correspondence. --FRANKLIN.

The first ingredient in conversation is truth; the next, good sense; the third, good humor; and the fourth, wit.— TEMPLE.

Dangers are light, if they once seem light; and more dangers have deceived men than forced them.-BACON on Courage.

Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.— STERNE.

The covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy them, but to have them.-TILLOTSON.

Cunning pays no regard to virtue, and is but the low mimic of wisdom.-Bolingbroke.

Cunning leads to knavery; it is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery ; lying only makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.—LA BRUyere.

Curiosity in children, nature has provided to remove that ignorance they were born with.-LOCKE.

A person who is too nice an observer of the kings of the council, like one who is too curious in observing the labors of the bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.- POPE.

By custom, practice and patience, all difficulties and hardships, whether of body or of fortune, are made easy.—L'Es

TRANGE.

Custom has an ascendency over the understanding.WATTS.

D.

Death is the liberator of him whom pardon cannot release, the physician of him who cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.-COLTON.

The thought of being nothing after death is a burden unsupportable to a virtuous man.-DRYDEN.

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying. - RICHTER.

All deception in the course of life is, indeed, nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words to things.-SOUTH.

Despair is the thought of the unattainableness of any good, which works differently in men's minds, sometimes producing uneasiness or pain, sometimes rest and indolency.--LOCKE. Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press is destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.-COLTON.

To reprove discontent, the ancients feigned that on a hill stood a man twisting a rope of hay; and still he twisted on, suffering an ass to eat up all that was finished. -TAYLOR.

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to win all the duties of life.-ADDISON.

The greatest facts, without discretion, may be fatal to their owner.-HUME.

Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme diselish to be told their duty.-Burke.

There is not a moment without some duty.-CICERO. What is our duty to do we must do because it is right not because any one can demand it of us.-WHEMLE.

E.

Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.-FRANKLIN on Economy.

Frugality may be termed the daughter of prudence, the sister of temperance, and the parent of liberty.-JOHNSON on Economy.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.-LOCKE.

Education, in the more extensive sense of the word, may comprehend every preparation that is made in our youth for the sequel of our lives.-PALEY.

Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learnt in the schools. --COLTON.

False eloquence passeth only where true is not understood. -TILTON.

Eloquence comes, if it comes at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from the earth.-Webster. Employment, which Galen calls "

nature's physician," is

so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered the mother of misery. - BURTON.

He who would do some great thing in this short life must apply himself to the work with such a concentration of his forces as, to idle spectators, who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity.-FOSTER on Energy.

Is there one whom difficulties dishearten-who bends to the storm? He will do little. Is there one who will conquer? That kind of man never fails.-HUNTER on Energy.

Envy, like a cold poison, numbs and stupefies; and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair.--COL

LIER.

We ought to be guarded against any appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides. -PLINY.

How ready is envy to mingle with the notices which we take of other persons.-WATTS.

To be indifferent whether we embrace falsehood or truth is the great road to error.--Locke.

Every absurdity hath a champion to defend it, for error is always talkative.-GOLDSMITH.

Not one false man but does unaccountable evil.-CARLYLE. The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.-COLE

RIDGE.

The innocence of the intention abates nothing of the mis chief of the example.-HALL.

People seldom improve when they have no model but them. selves to copy after.-GOLDSMITH on Example.

All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience.-Sidney. The knowledge drawn from experience is quite of another kind from that which flows from speculation or discourse.SOUTH.

He that is extravagant will quickly become poor, and poverty will enforce dependence and invite corruption.JOHNSON.