cation, or pedigree never
made one yet.--H.W. SHAW.

Be noble! and the nobleness that lives
In other men, sleeping, but never dead,
Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.
--LOWELL.

Howe'er it be, it seems to me,
'Tis only noble to be good.
--TENNYSON.

OBEDIENCE.--The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of
Christianity is obedience.--HARE.

To obey is better than sacrifice.--1 SAMUEL 15:22.

Look carefully that love to God and obedience to His commands be the
principle and spring from whence thy actions flow; and that the glory
of God and the salvation of thy soul be the end to which all thy
actions tend; and that the word of God be thy rule and guide in every
enterprise and undertaking. "As many as walk by this rule, peace be
unto them, and mercy."--BURKITT.

Obedience is not truly performed by the body of him whose heart is
dissatisfied. The shell without a kernel is not fit for store.--SAADI.

He praiseth God best that serveth and obeyeth Him most: the life of
thankfulness consists in the thankfulness of the life.--BURKITT.

No principle is more noble, as there is none more holy, than that of a
true obedience.--HENRY GILES.

"His kingdom come!" For this we pray in vain,
Unless He does in our affections reign.
How fond it were to wish for such a King,
And no obedience to his sceptre bring,
Whose yoke is easy, and His burthen light;
His service freedom, and His judgments right.
--WALLER.

Obedience, we may remember, is a part of religion, and therefore an
element of peace; but love which includes obedience is the
whole.--GEORGE SEWELL.

The virtue of Christianity is obedience.--J.C. HARE.

Prepare thy soul calmly to obey; such offering will be more acceptable
to God than every other sacrifice.--METASTASIO.

OBSTINACY.--Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the
wrong.--MADAME NECKER.

People first abandon reason, and then become obstinate; and the deeper
they are in error the more angry they are.--BLAIR.

An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him.--POPE.

Most other passions have their periods of fatigue and rest, their
suffering and their cure; but obstinacy has no resource, and the first
wound is mortal.--THOMAS PAINE.

Narrowness of mind is often the cause of obstinacy; we do not easily
believe beyond what we see.--LA ROCHEFOU