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| Obscurity | Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails and impious men bear away, The post of honor is a private station. |
| Ostentation | An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person. |
| Ostentation | An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person. |
| Painting | And those who paint 'em truest praise 'em most. |
| Patriotism | Who would not be that youth? What pity is it That we can die but once to save our country! |
| Perfection | It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others. |
| Philanthropy | Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence, of this virtue. |
| Prayer | Yet then from all my grief, O Lord, Thy mercy set me free, Whilst in the confidence of pray'r My soul took hold on thee. - Joseph Addison, |
| Pride | Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall. |
| Proverbs | A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, his next to escape the censures of the world. |
| Proverbs | When you are at Rome, live as Romans live. |
| Proverbs | A little nonsense now and then Is relished by the wisest men. |
| Providence | And pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm. |
| Punishment | See they suffer death, But in their deaths remember they are men, Strain not the laws to make their tortures grievous. |
| Reading | Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated, by the other, virtue is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed. |
| Repentance | O ye powers that search The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts, If I have done amiss, impute it not! The best may err, but you are good. |
| Results | From hence, let fierce contending nations know, What dire effects from civil discord flow. |
| Rivalry | It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age. |
| Ruin | Should the whole frame of nature round him break In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world. |
| Shoemaking | A cobbler, . . . produced several new grins of his own invention, having been used to cut faces for many years together over his last. |
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