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is dependent on others for that support of the moral life-self respect.-Bulwer.

Few save the poor feel for the poor.-L. E. Landon.

A poor man resembles a fiddler, whose music, though liked, is not much praised, because he lives by it; while a gentleman performer, though the most wretched scraper alive, throws the audience into rapture. -Goldsmith.

Only experience can show how salt the savor is of others' bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs.-Dante.

Poverty possesses this disease, that through want it teaches man to do evil. --Euripides.

We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so.-Bovee.

It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy without physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art.-Johnson.

If poverty is the mother of crimes, want of sense is the father of them.—Bruyère.

It is only luxury and avarice that make poverty grievous to us; for it is a very small matter that does our business; and when we have provided against cold, hunger, and thirst, all the rest is but vanity and excess.-Seneca.

Poverty, in large cities, has very different appearances. It is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It

is the care of a great part of mankind to conceal their indigence from the rest. They support themselves by temporary expedients, and every day is lost in contriving for to-morrow.-Johnson.

Want of prudence is too frequently the want of virtue; nor is there on earth a more powerful advocate for vice than poverty.-Goldsmith.

Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.-Franklin.

Not to be able to bear poverty is a shameful thing; but not to know how to chase it away by work is a more shameful thing yet. -Pericles.

To be poor, and seem to be poor, is a certain way never to rise.-Goldsmith.

The real wants of nature are the measure of enjoyments, as the foot is the measure of the shoe. We can call only the want of what is necessary, poverty.-St. Clement.

Lord God, I thank thee that thou hast been pleased to make me a poor and indigent man upon earth. I have neither house nor land nor money to leave behind me.-Luther.

Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be 80. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.-Bovee.

Through tattered clothes small vices do appear; robes and furred gowns hide all. -Shakespeare.

That man is to be accounted poor, of whatever rank he be, and suffers the pains of poverty, whose expenses exceed his resources; and no man is, properly speaking, poor, but he.-Paley.

He is poor whose expenses exceed his income.-Bruyère.

Poverty palls the most generous spirits; it cows industry, and casts resolution itself into despair.-Addison.

Poverty is, except where there is an actual want of food and raiment, a thing much more imaginary than real. The shame of being thought poor is a great and fatal weakness, though arising in this country from the fashion of the times themselves. -Cobbett.

There is nothing keeps longer than a middling fortune, and nothing melts away sooner than a great one.-Poverty treads on the heels of great and unexpected riches. -Bruyère.

If riches are, as Bacon says, the baggage ("impedimenta ") of virtue, impeding its onward progress-poverty is famine in its commissary department, starving it into weakness for the great conflict of life.Tryon Edwards.

If rich, it is easy enough to conceal our wealth; but if poor, it is not quite so easy to conceal our poverty. We shall find that it is less difficult to hide a thousand guineas than one hole in our coat.-Colton.

Chill penury weighs down the heart itself; and though it sometimes be endured with calmness, it is but the calmness of despair. -Mrs. Jameson.

It would be a considerable consolation to the poor and discontented, could they but see the means whereby the wealth they covet has been acquired, or the misery that it entails.-Zimmermann.

Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship.-Hazlitt.

In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less.-Bovee.

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It is not poverty so much as pretence, that harasses a ruined man-the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse, -the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end. Have the courage to appear poor, and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.-Mrs. Jameson.

Poverty, labor, and calamity are not without their luxuries, which the rich, the indolent, and the fortunate in vain seek for.-Hazlitt.

When we have only a little we should be satisfied; for this reason, that those best enjoy abundance who are contented with the least; and so the pains of poverty are removed; simple fare can give a relish equal to the most expensive luxuries.— Epicurus.

The poor are only they who feel poor, and poverty consists in feeling poor.-The rich, as we reckon them, and among them the very rich, in a true scale would be found very indigent and ragged.-Emerson.

The extent of poverty in the world is much exaggerated. Our sensitiveness makes half our poverty; our fears-anxieties for ills that never happen-a greater part of the other half.-Bovee.

Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.-John

son.

A single solitary philosopher may be great, virtuous, and happy in the depth of poverty, but not a whole people. Iselin.

No man is poor who does not think himself so; but if in a full fortune, he with impatience desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.-Jeremy Taylor.

Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.-Richter.

There is not such a mighty difference as some men imagine between the poor and the rich; in pomp, show, and opinion there is a great deal, but little as to the pleasures and satisfactions of life; they enjoy the same earth and air and heavens; hunger and thirst make the poor man's meat and drink as pleasant and relishing as all the varieties which cover the rich man's table; and the labor of a poor man is more healthful, and many times more pleasant, too, than the ease and softness of the rich.Sherlock.

The poor and the stranger are sent by Jove, and what we give to them we lend to him.-Homer.

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Poverty is very good in poems, but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons, but very bad in practical life.H. W. Beecher.

The poor are always considered under the peculiar care of the gods.-Menander.

POWER. (See "AUTHORITY.”)

I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.-Burke.

Even in war moral power is to physical as three parts out of four.-Napoleon.

The less the power-physical and political -of one man over another, the better. But of moral power, that of truth and virtue, of wisdom and love, of magnanimity and true religion, there cannot be an excess. This is the guardian of all right; it makes those on whom it acts, free; it is mightiest when most gentle.-Mere force must fall before it.-Channing.

Power, to its last particle, is duty.—John Foster.

Where is the source of power? The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men. The world stands on ideas, and not on iron or cotton; and the iron of iron, the fire of fire, the ether and source of all the elements, is moral force.-Emerson.

The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern, who is not better than the governed.-Publius Syrus.

All human power is a compound of time and patience.-Balzac.

Power and liberty are like heat and moisture; where they are well mixt, everything prospers; where they are single, they are destructive.-Saville.

The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something. The strongest, by dispensing his over many, may fail to accomplish anything. The drop, by continually falling, bores its passage through the hardest rock. The hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar, and leaves no trace behind.-Carlyle.

Men deride the self-conceit of power, but cringe to its injustice.

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of power, and forbearance implies strength. The orator who is known to have at his command all the weapons of invective is most formidable when most courteous.-Bulwer.

Arbitrary power is the natural object of temptation to a prince; as wine or women

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to a young fellow, or a bribe to a judge, or avarice to old age, or vanity to a woman.Swift.

Power acquired by guilt has seldom been directed to any good end or useful purpose.-Tacitus.

It is an observation no less just than common, that there is no stronger test of a man's real character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every latent vice.Plutarch.

Nothing destroys authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power, pressed too far and relaxed too much.-Bacon.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough, to be trusted with unlimited power.-Colton.

Power, like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to what is low, exaltation.-Colton.

Nothing, indeed, but the possession of some power can with any certainty discover what at the bottom is the true character of any man.-Burke.

We have more power than will; and it is often by way of excuse to ourselves that we fancy things are impossible.-Rochefoucauld.

Justice without power is inefficient; power without justice is tyranny. Justice without power is opposed, because there are always wicked men. Power without justice is soon questioned. Justice and power must therefore be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.Pascal.

It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.Demosthenes.

Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.-Goethe.

Power is ever stealing from the many to the few. The manna of popular liberty must be gathered each day, or it is rotten. -Wendell Phillips.

There is always room for a man of force, and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers, and the best heads among them take the best places.-Emer

son.

PRAISE.

By moral power we mean the power of a life and a character, the power of good and great purposes, the power which comes at length to reside in a man distinguished in some course of estimable or great conduct. -No other power of man compares with this, and there is no individual who may not be measurably invested with it.-Horace Bushnell.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it..The pains of power are real; its pleasures imaginary.-Colton.

PRAISE. The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.-John

son.

We are all excited by the love of praise, and it is the noblest spirits that feel it most.-Cicero.

Praise is the best auxiliary to prayer.He who most bears in mind what has been done for him by God will be most emboldened to ask for fresh gifts from above.-H. Melvill.

Praise undeserved is satire in disguise.— Broadhurst.

No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.Landor.

Be not too great a niggard in the commendations of him that professes thy own quality; if he deserve thy praise, thou hast discovered thy judgment; if not, thy modesty; honor either returns or reflects to the giver.-Quarles.

What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even, than what he condemns, of his character, information, and abilities. No wonder, then, that most people are so shy of praising anything.-Hare.

Praise is a debt we owe to the virtues of others, and is due to our own from all whom malice has not made mutes, or envy struck dumb.-Sir Thomas Browne.

I should entertain a mean opinion of myself if all men, or the most part, praised and admired me; it would prove me to be somewhat like them.-Landor.

Among the smaller duties of life, I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due. Reputation is one of the prizes for which men contend: it produces more labor and more talent than twice the wealth of a country could ever rear up. It is the coin of genius,

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and it is the imperious duty of every man to bestow it with the most scrupulous justice and the wisest economy.-Sydney Smith.

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise expectation or animate enterprise.-Johnson.

It is not he that searches for praise that finds it.-Rivarol.

Praise follows truth afar off, and only overtakes her at the grave; plausibility clings to her skirts and holds her back till then.-J. R. Lowell.

It is a great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.-Sir P. Sidney.

Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a congenial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.-Bovee.

Praise is but virtue's shadow; who courts her, doth more the hand-maid, than the dame admire.-Heath.

Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough, and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort.-Goldsmith.

Those who are greedy of praise prove that they are poor in merit.-Plutarch.

Praise is the reflection doth from virtue rise; its fair encomiums do virtue raise to higher acts.--Aleyn.

The villain's censure is extorted praise.Pope.

The most agreeable recompense which we can receive for things which we have done is to see them known, to have them applauded with praises which honor us.-Molière.

Praise is sometimes a good thing for the diffident and despondent. It teaches them properly to rely on the kindness of others. -L. E. Landon.

How a little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels is unjust chills the ardor to excel.-Bulwer.

Expect not praise without envy until you are dead. Honors bestowed on the illustrious dead have in them no admixture of envy; for the living pity the dead; and pity and envy, like oil and vinegar, assimilate not.-Colton.

Damn with faint praise.-Pope.

Desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no reality in the one without the other.- Washington Allston.

One good deed, dying tongueless, slaughters a thousand waiting upon that. Our praises are our wages.-Shakespeare.

There is not a person we employ who does not, like ourselves, desire recognition, praise, gentleness, forbearance, patience.H. W. Beecher.

Praise never gives us much pleasure unless it concur with our own opinion, and extol us for those qualities in which we chiefly excel.-Hume.

Every one that has been long dead has a due proportion of praise allotted him, in which, whilst he lived, his friends were too profuse and his enemies too sparing.Addison.

The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art, reigns more or less, and glows in every heart: the proud, to gain it, toils on toils endure, the modest shun it but to make it sure. - Young.

Praise not people to their faces, to the end that they may pay thee in the same coin. This is so thin a cobweb, that it may with little difficulty be seen through; 'tis rarely strong enough to catch flies of any considerable magnitude.-Fuller.

Allow no man to be so free with you as to praise you to your face. Your vanity by this means will want its food. At the same time your passion for esteem will be more fully gratified; men will praise you in their actions: where you now receive one compliment, you will then receive twenty civilities. Steele.

Half uttered praise is to the curious mind, as to the eye half veiled beauty is more precious than the whole.-J. Baillie.

Praise of the wise and good! it is a meed for which I would long years of toil endure; which many a peril, many a grief would cure.-Brydges.

Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with; it makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant, turning his weak brain giddy.-Feltham.

True praise is frequently the lot of the humble; false praise is always confined to the great.-Home.

We are not fond of praising, and never praise any one except from interested motives. Praise is a clever, concealed, and delicate flattery, which gratifies in different ways the giver and the receiver. The one takes it as a recompense of his merit, and the other bestows it to display his equity and disc.ra.out.-Rochefoucauld.

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One of the most essential preparations for eternity is delight in praising God; a higher acquirement, I do think, than even delight and devotedness in prayer.-Chal

mers.

They are the most frivolous and superficial of mankind, who can be much delighted with that praise which they themselves know to be altogether unmerited.— Adam Smith.

As the Greek said, many men know how to flatter; few know to praise.— Wendell Phillips.

It is no flattery to give a friend a due character; for commendation is as much the duty of a friend as reprehension.-Plutarch.

The praises of others may be of use in teaching us, not what we are, but what we ought to be.-Hare.

Praise no man too liberally before his face, nor censure him too lavishly behind his back the one savors of flattery; the other of malice; and both are reprehensible: the true way to advance another's virtue is to follow it; and the best means to cry down another's vice is to decline it. -Quarles.

We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.-Colton.

It takes a great deal of grace to be able to bear praise. Censure seldom does us much hurt. A man struggles up against slander, and the discouragement which comes of it may not be an unmixed evil; but praise soon suggests pride, and is therefore not an unmixed good.-Spurgeon.

Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.-Steele.

The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie.-Zimmermann.

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.-Socrates.

There's not one wise man among twenty will praise himself.-Shakespeare.

His praise is lost who waits till all commend.-Pope.

Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear.-Shakespeare.

I will not much commend others to themselves, I will not at all commend myself to others. So to praise any to their faces is a kind of flattery, but to praise myself to any is the height of folly. He that boasts

his own praises speaks ill of himself, and much derogates from his true deserts. It is worthy of blame to affect commendation. -Arthur Warwick.

A truly worthy man should avoid naming himself; Christian piety annihilates the worldly me; worldly civility hides and suppresses it.-Pascal,

Praise, more divine than prayer; prayer points our ready path to heaven; praise is already there.-Young.

PRAYER. Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the soul to God, through Christ, in the strength and assistance of the Spirit, for such things as God has promised.-Bunyan.

Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance; it is laying hold of His highest willingness.-Trench.

The body of our prayer is the sum of our duty; and as we must ask of God whatsoever we need, so we must watch and labor for all that we ask.-Jeremy Taylor.

Heaven is never deaf but when man's heart is dumb.-Quarles.

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.Victor Hugo.

Let not him who prays, suffer his tongue to outstrip his heart; nor presume to carry a message to the throne of grace, while that stays behind.-South.

Every good and holy desire, though it lack the form, hath in itself the substance and force of a prayer with God, who regardeth the very moanings, groans, and sighings of the heart.-Hooker.

Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.-H. More.

The prayer that begins with trustfulness, and passes on into waiting, will always end in thankfulness, triumph, and praise.A. Maclaren.

I believe I should have been swept away by the flood of French infidelity, if it had not been for one thing, the remembrance of the time when my sainted mother used to make me kneel by her side, taking my little hands in hers, and caused me to repeat the Lord's Prayer.-John Randolph.

I know no blessing so small as to be reasonably expected without prayer, nor any so great but may be attained by it.-South.

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom,