Great families of yesterday we show,
And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who.
1300
DEFOE: _True-Born Englishman,_ Pt. i., Line 1.

=Parting.=

What! gone without a word?
Ay, so true love should do: it cannot speak;
For truth hath better deeds, than words, to grace it.
1301
SHAKS.: _Two Gent. of V.,_ Act ii., Sc. 2.

They who go
Feel not the pain of parting; it is they
Who stay behind that suffer.
1302
LONGFELLOW: _Michael Angelo,_ Pt. I., i.

Such partings break the heart they fondly hope to heal.
1303
BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto i., St. 10.

=Passion.=

Fountain heads and pathless groves,
Places which pale passion loves.
1304
JOHN FLETCHER: _The Nice Valour,_ Act iii., Sc. 3.

Passions are likened best to floods and streams:
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
1305
SIR WALTER RALEIGH: _Silent Lover._

=Past, The.=

Over the trackless past, somewhere,
Lie the lost days of our tropic youth,
Only regained by faith and prayer,
Only recalled by prayer and plaint:
Each lost day has its patron saint.
1306
BRET HARTE: _The Lost Galleon,_ Last St.

Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,
As the swift seasons roll!
Leave thy low-vaulted past!
1307
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES: _Chambered Nautilus._

=Patience.=

How poor are they, that have not patience!
What wound did ever heal, but by degrees?
1308
SHAKS.: _Othello,_ Act ii., Sc. 3.

Patience, thou young and rose-lipp'd cherubim.
1309
SHAKS.: _Othello,_ Act iv., Sc. 2.

Patience is more oft the exercise
Of saints, the trial of their fortitude,
Making them each his own deliverer,
And victor over all
That tyranny or fortune can inflict.
1310
MILTON: _Samson Agonistes,_ Line 1287.

Patience is a plant
That grows not in all gardens.
1311
LONGFELLOW: _Michael Angelo,_ Pt. ii., 4.

There are times when patience proves at fault.
1312
ROBERT BROWNING: _Paracelsus,_ Sc. 3.

=Patriotism.=

Strike--for your altars and your fires;
Strike--for the green graves of your sires;
God, and your native land!
1313
FITZ-GREENE HALLECK: _Marco Bozzaris._

One flag, one land, one heart, one hand,
One Nation evermore!
1314
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES: _Voyage of the Good Ship Union._

My country, 't is of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,--
Of thee I sing:
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims' pride,
From every mountain side
Let freedom ring.
1315
SAMUEL F. SMITH: _Nation