be sincerely convinced of the advantages of conquering his passions, without having yet obtained the victory, as a man may be confident of the advantages of a voyage or a journey, without having courage or industry to undertake it, and may honestly recommend to others, those attempts which he neglects himself.-Johnson.

VIRTUES.-Be not ashamed of thy virtues; honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.-Ben Jonson. VIRTUES.-We rarely like the virtues we have not.— Shakspeare.

VIRTUES.-I am no herald to inquire of men's pedigrees; it sufficeth me, if I know their virtues.—Sir P. Sidney.

VIRTUES AND VICES.-All the virtues that have been ever in mankind are to be counted upon a few fingers, but his follies and vices are innumerable, and time adds hourly to the heap.

VIRTUOUS, BIOGRAPHY OF THE.-There is no part of history which seems capable of either more instruction or entertain. ment, than that which offers to us the select lives of great and virtuous men, who have made an eminent figure on the public stage of the world. In these we see at one view what the annals of a whole age can afford, that is worthy of notice; and in the wide field of universal history, skipping as it were over the barren places, gather all its flowers, and possess ourselves at once of all that is good in it.—Middleton's Life of Cicero.

VIRTUES, OF OTHERS, AND OUR OWN.-Every man is ready to give in a long catalogue of those virtues and good quali ties he expects to find in the person of a friend; but very few of us are careful to cultivate them in ourselves.-Spec

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VIRTUES OF THE PURITANS.-By what causes has so in

considerable a beginning, as that of the colonies of New Eng land, under such formidable, and apparently almost insur mountable difficulties, resulted, in so brief a period, in such mighty consequences? They are to be found in the high moral and intellectual qualities of the pilgrims. Their faith, piety, and confident trust in a superintending Providence; their stern virtues; their patriotic love of liberty and order; their devotion to learning; and their indomitable courage and perseverance. These are the causes which surmounted every obstacle, and which have led to such mighty results.—John C. Calhoun.

VIRTUES, PERSONAL.-There is a nobility without heraldry. Though I want the advantage of a noble birth, said Marius, yet my actions afford me a greater one; and they who upbraid me with it, are guilty of an extreme injustice, in not permitting me to value myself upon my own virtue, as much as they value themselves upon the virtue of others.—Sal lust.

VIRTUES, SEEMING.—If we take a general view of the world, we shall find that a great deal of virtue, at least outward appearance of it, is not so much from any fixed principle, as the terror of what the world will say, and the liberty it will take upon the occasions we shall give.-Sterne.

VIVACITY IN CHILDREN.- "I do not," says H. More, "dislike extreme vivacity in children; but would see enough of it to make an animated character, when the violence of animal spirits shall subside by time. It is easier to restrain excess than to quicken stupidity." Gravity in childhood may

become stupidity in old age.-Sigourney.

VOCATION, THE INSTINCT OF.-What the impulse of genius is to the great, the instinct of vocation is to the mediocre: in every man there is a magnet-in that thing which the man can do best, there is a loadstone.

VOLATILITY.-Extreme volatile and sprightly tempers seem inconsistent with any great enjoyment. There is too much time wasted in the mere transition from one object to another. No room for those deep impressions, which are made alone by the duration of an idea, and are quite requisite to any strong sensation, either of pleasure or of pain. The bee to col lect honey, or the spider to gather poison, must abide some time upon the weed or flower. They whose fluids are mere sal volatile, seem rather cheerful than happy men. The temper above described is oftener the lot of wits, than of persons of great abilities. Shenstone.

Vulgar, the.—To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense, is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor. -Pope.

Vulgar, the.—Be true to your own highest convictions. Intimations from our own souls, of something more perfect than others teach, if faithfully followed, give us a consciousness of spiritual force and progress never experienced by the vulgar of high life or low life, who march as they are drilled, to the step of their tunes. - Channing.

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WANT. Of all the enemies of idleness, want is the most formidable. Fame is soon found to be a sound, and love a dream. Avarice and ambition may be justly suspected of being privy confederacies with idleness; for when they have, for a while, protected their votaries, they often deliver them up, to end their lives under her dominion. Want always struggles against idleness; but want herself is often over come, and every hour shows the careful observer those who had rather live in ease than in plenty.-Johnson.

WANT, WHO ARE IN.- -I do not understand those to be

poor and in want, which are vagabonds and beggars, but those that labor to live, such as are old and cannot travel, such poor widows and fatherless children as are ordered to be relieved, and the poor tenants that travail to pay their rents and are driven to poverty by mischance, and not by riot or careless expenses; on such have thou compassion, and God will bless thee for it.-Sir W. Raleigh—to his Son.

WANTS, OUR.-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; for if they be real wants, they will come home in search of you. He that buys what he does not want, will soon want what he cannot buy.-Colton.

WAR. Of all the evils to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the genius of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debt and taxes. And armies, and debts, and taxes, are the known instruments for bringing the many under the dominion of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments, is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force of the people! The same malignant aspect in republicanism, may be traced in the inequality of fortunes and opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state war, and in the degeneracy of manners and morals engendered by both. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.—Madison.

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WAR.-War suspends the rules of moral obligation, and what is long suspended is in danger of being totally abrogated. Civil wars strike deepest of all into the manners of the people. They vitiate their politics; they corrupt their morals; they pervert even the natural taste and relish of

equity and justice. By teaching us to consider our fellowcreatures in an hostile light, the whole body of our nation becomes gradually less dear to us. The very names of affection and kindred, which were the bond of charity whilst we agreed, become new incentives to hatred and rage, when the communion of our country is dissolved! We may flatter ourselves that we may not fall into this misfortune. But we have no charter of exemption, that I know of, from the ordinary frailties of our nature.-Burke.

WATER.-Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow.-Spanish maxim.

WATER-DRINKING, AND TEMPERANCE. If, therefore, you wish for a clear mind, strong muscles, and quiet nerves, and long life and power prolonged into old age, permit me to say, although I am not giving a temperance lecture, avoid all drinks but water, and mild infusions of that fluid; shun tobacco and opium, and everything else that disturbs the normal state of the system; rely upon nutritious food and mild diluent drinks of which water is the basis, and you will need nothing beyond these things except rest, and due moral regulation of all your powers, to give you long, happy, and useful lives, and a serene evening at the close.-Silliman.

WAY, THE NARROW.- -Many people labor to make the narrow way wider. They may dig a path into the broad way; but the way to life must remain a narrow way to the end.— Cecil.

WAYS AND ENDS.-The way of every man, is declarative of the end of that man.- -Cecil.

WEAK, THE.-The weak may be joked out of anything but their weakness.—Zimmerman.

WEALTH He is a great simpleton who imagines that the