Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold Resolution the favorite of Fortune. Quarles.

A people never fairly begins to prosper till necessity is treading on its heels. The growing want of room is one of the sources of civilization. Population is power, but it must be a population that, in growing, is made daily apprehensive of the morrow.

W. G. Simms.

We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think we do; therefore, never go abroad in search of your wants; if they be real wants, they will come home in search of you: for he that buys what he does not want will soon want what he can not buy.

C. C. Colton.

The necessities that exist are, in general, created by the superfluities that are enjoyed. Zimmermann.

Obedience.

LET the ground on all religious actions be obedience; examine not why it is commanded, but observe it because it is commanded. True obedience neither procrastinates nor questions. Quarles.

He praiseth God best that serveth and obeyeth him most; the life of thankfulness consists in the thankfulness of the life.

W. Burkitt.

No principle is more noble, as there is none more holy, than that of a true obedience. Henry Giles.

The first law that ever God gave to man was a law of pure obedience; it was a commandment naked and simple, wherein man had nothing to inquire after, or to dispute, forasmuch as to obey is the proper office of a rational soul, acknowledging a heavenly superior and benefactor. From obedience and submission spring all other virtues, as all sin does from self-opinion.

Montaigne.

Obligation.

WHAT do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought to ask himself often.

Lavater.

Most men remember obligations, but not often to be grateful for them. The proud are made sour by the remembrance, and the vain silent. W. G. Simms.

It is a secret, well known to all great men, that by conferring an obligation they do not always procure a friend, but are certain of creating many enemies.

H. Fielding.

Opinion.

OPINION is the main thing which does good or harm in the world. It is our false opinions of things which ruin us.

Marcus Antoninus.

The greater part of men have no opinion, still fewer an opinion of their own, well reflected and founded upon

reason.

J. G. Seume.

Do not think of knocking out another man's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.

Horace Mann.

He who has no opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.

F. G. Klopstock.

To maintain an opinion because it is thine, and not because it is true, is to prefer thyself above the truth. R. Venning.

Among the best of men are diversities of opinions; which are no more, in true reason, to breed hatred, than one that loves black should be angry with him that is clothed in white; for thoughts are the very apparel Sir Philip Sidney.

of the mind.

It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself. Cicero.

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Opposition.

It is not ease, but effort-not facility, but difficulty, that makes men. There is perhaps no station in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered and overcome before any decided measures of success can be achieved. S. Smiles.

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a
Kites rise against and not with the wind. Even
No man ever worked

a head-wind is better than none.

his passage anywhere in a dead calm. pale, therefore, because of opposition.

Let no man wax

John Neal.

Ostentation.

I HAVE seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together. The sun, rising and declining, makes long shadows; at mid-day, when he is highest, none at all. Bishop Hall.

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

Addison.

Do what good thou canst unknown; and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen.

William Penn.

Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked

ones.

William Penn.

Patience.

OUR real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses, and disappointments; but let us have patience, and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

Addison.

Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.

Buffon.

All that I have accomplished, or expect or hope to accomplish, has been and will be by that plodding, patient, persevering process of accretion which builds the ant-heap, particle by particle, thought by thought, fact by fact.

Elihu Burritt.

A patient and humble temper gathers blessings that are marred by the peevish and overlooked by the aspiring. Chapin.

If the wicked flourish and thou suffer, be not discouraged. They are fatted for destruction; thou art dieted for health.

Fuller.