nd hasty is generally honest. It is your cool,
dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.--LAVATER.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous
only in one, through their excess.--BOVEE.

It is not the absence, but the mastery, of our passions which affords
happiness.--MME. DE MAINTENON.

PAST.--The past is utterly indifferent to its worshipers.--WILLIAM
WINTER.

Not to know what happened before we were born is always to remain a
child; to know, and blindly to adopt that knowledge as an implicit
rule of life, is never to be a man.--CHATFIELD.

No hand can make the clock strike for me the hours that are passed.
--BYRON.

The present is only intelligible in the light of the past.--TRENCH.

Study the past if you would divine the future.--CONFUCIUS.

The best of prophets of the future is the past.--BYRON.

Many classes are always praising the by-gone time, for it is natural
that the old should extol the days of their youth; the weak, the area
of their strength; the sick, the season of their vigor; and the
disappointed, the springtide of their hopes!--C. BINGHAM.

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients
that they know not how to live with the moderns.--WILLIAM PENN.

The past and future are veiled; but the past wears the widow's veil;
the future, the virgin's.--RICHTER.

PATIENCE.--He that can have patience can have what he will.--FRANKLIN.

Patience! why, it is the soul of peace; of all the virtues, it is
nearest kin to heaven; it makes men look like gods. The best of men
that ever wore earth about him was a sufferer,--a soft, meek, patient,
humble, tranquil spirit; the first true gentleman that ever breathed.
--DECKER.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses
and disappointments; but let us have patience, and we soon shall see
them in their proper figures.--ADDISON.

If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification;
time takes away as much as it gives.--MADAME DE SEVIGNE.

Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast;
hold out. Patience is genius.--BUFFON.

There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a
virtue.--BURKE.

We usually learn to wait only when we have no longer anything to wait
for.--MARIE EBNER-ESCHENBACH.

No school is more necessary to children than patience, because either
the will must be broken in childhood or the heart in old age.-