UNDERSTANDING, DEFECTS OF.--The defects of the understanding, like those of the face, grow worse as we grow old. -Rochefoucault.

UNDERSTANDING, ITS IMPROVEMENT.-The improvement of the understanding is for two ends; first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver and make out that knowledge to others.-Locke.

UNDERSTANDING, the, to be kept ACTIVE.-As in the body when no labor or exercise is used, the spirits, wanting their due employment, turn against the constitution and find work for themselves in a destructive way, so in a soul or mind unexercised and which languishes for want of action and employment, the thoughts and affections, being obstructed in their due course, and deprived of their natural energy, raise disquiet and foment a rancorous eagerness and tormenting visitition. The temper from hence becomes more impotent in passion, more incapable of real moderation, and like prepared fuel, readily takes fire by the least spark.-Shaftesbury.

UNHAPPINESS.-They who have never known prosperity, can hardly be said to be unhappy; it is from the remembrance of joys we have lost, that the arrows of affliction are pointed. Mackenzie.

UNINTELLIGIBLES AND INCURABLES.— -It may not be amiss for you to have two heaps, a heap of unintelligibles and a heap of incurables. Every now and then you will meet with something or other that may pretty much distress your thoughts; but the shortest way with the vexations will be, to throw them with the heap they belong to, and be no more distressed about them.-Cotton Mather's advice to his Son.

UNION, CHRISTIAN.-The union of Christians to Christ, their common head, and by means of the influence they derive from him, one to another, may be illustrated by the

loadstone. It not only attracts the particles of iron to itself, by the magnetic virtue, but by this virtue it unites them one to another. Cecil.

UNKINDNESS. More hearts pine away in secret anguish for unkindness from those who should be their comforters, than for any other calamity in life.-Young.

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VAIN-GLORY.—Vain-glorious men are the scorn of wise men, the admiration of fools, the idols of parasites, and the slaves of their own vaunts.-Lord Bacon.

VAIN-GLORY.-That tumor of a man, the vain-glorious Alexander, was used to make his boast, that never any man went beyond him in benefits; and yet he lived to see a poor fellow in a tub, to whom there was nothing that he could give, and from whom there was nothing that he could take away.-Seneca.

VALOR.-No man can answer for his own valor or courage, till he has been in danger.-Rochefoucault.

VALOR.--The better part of valor, is discretion.-Shak

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VALOR, TRUE. The truly valiant dare everything, but doing any other body an injury.-Sir P. Sidney.

VALOR, TRUE.--Perfect valor consists in doing without witnesses, all we should be capable of doing before the world. -Rochefoucault.

VANITY. Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.--Pope.

VANITY.-The most violent passions have their intermissions; vanity alone gives us no respite.-Rochefoucault.

VANITY. The general cry is against ingratitude, but sure the complaint is misplaced, it should be against vanity; none but direct villains are capable of wilful ingratitude; but almost everybody is capable of thinking he hath done more than another deserves, while the other thinks he hath received less than he deserves.-Pope.

VANITY. Nothing is so credulous as vanity, or so ignorant of what becomes itself.-Shakspeare.

VANITY.-Vanity makes us do more things against incli. nation than reason.-Rochefoucault.

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VANITY. The strongest passions allow us some rest, but vanity keeps us perpetually in motion. raise! says the fly upon a coach-wheel. do I drive! says the fly upon the horse's back.-Swift.

VANITY.--Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves, who are out of favor with all others.—Shakspeare.

VANITY. Of all our infirmities, Vanity is the dearest to us: a man will starve his other vices to keep that alive.-Franklin.

VANITY.-Extinguish vanity in the mind, and you naturally retrench the little superfluities of garniture and equipage. The blossoms will fall of themselves when the root that nourishes them is destroyed.—Steele.

VANITY AND AFFECTATION.-I will not call Vanity and Affectation twins, because, more properly, vanity is the mother, and affectation is the darling daughter; vanity is the sin, and affectation is the punishment; the first may be called the root of self-love, the other the fruit. Vanity is never at

its full growth, till it spreadeth into affectation; and then it is complete. Saville.

VANITY AND AMBITION.--Take away from mankind their vanity and their ambition, and there would be but few claiming to be heroes or patriots.-Seneca.

VANITY, A PROPER SUBJECT FOR RIDICULE.- -When men will not be reasoned out of a vanity, they must be ridiculed out of it.-Sir R. L'Estrange.

VANITY, OUR OWN.-It is our own vanity that makes the vanity of others intolerable to us.-Rochefoucault.

VICENO vassalage is so ignoble, no servitude so miserable, as that of vice; mines and galleys, mills and dungeons, are words of ease, to the service of sin; therefore, th; bringing sinners to repentance, is so noble, so tempting & design, that it drew even God himself from heaven to pros cute it. --Baxter.

VICE, ALWAYS EVIL.-It may happen that goodi, produced by vice, but not as vice; for instance, a robbe may take money from its owner, and give it to one who v Il make a better use of it. Here is good produced; but not by the rob bery as robbery, but as a translation of property.- -Johnson.

VICE AND VIRTUE.E.—Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.- Cowper.

VICE AND VIRTUE.—I lay it down as a sacred maxim, that every man is wretched in proportion to his vices; and affirm the noblest ornament of a young, generous mind, and the surest source of pleasure, profit, and reputation in life, to be an unreserved acceptance of virtue.-Letters concerning Mythology.

VICE AND VIRTUE, MARTYRS TO.-The martyrs to vice far

exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number. So blinded are we to our passions, that we suffer more to insure perdition than salvation. Religion does not forbid the rational enjoyments of life, as sternly as avarice forbids them. She does not require such sacrifices of ease, as ambition; or such renunciation of quiet, as pride. She does not murder sleep, like dissipation; or health, like intemperance; or scatter wealth, like extravagance or gambling. She does not embitter life, like discord; or shorten it, like duelling; or harrow it like revenge. She does not impose more vigilance, than suspicion; more anxiety, than selfishness; or half as many mortifications, as vanity!—Hannah More.

VICE, GRATUITOUS.— -Bad passions become more odious in proportion as the motives to them are weakened; and gratu. itous vice cannot be too indignantly exposed to reprehension.

VICE, ITS BEGINNING.-The only safety is, to fear and be ashamed of vicc in its beginnings, and for its own sake, not because our indulgence is made public. "Blush not now," said an Italian nobleman to his young relative, whom he met issuing from a haunt of vice," you should have blushed when you went in."

VICE, ITS COST.What maintains one vice, would bring up two children.-Franklin.

VICES.-When our vices have left us, we flatter ourselves that we have left them.-Rochefoucault.

VICES, OUR, DECEPTIVE.- -As a glass which magnifies objects by the approach of one end to the eye, lessens them by the application of the other; so vices are extenuated by the inversion of that fallacy, by which virtues are augmented Those faults which we cannot conceal from our own notice, are considered, however frequent, not as habitual corruptions