remember obligations, but not often to be grateful for them.
The proud are made sour by the remembrance, and the vain silent.

1457

To John I ow'd great obligation,
But John unhappily thought fit
To publish it to all the nation:
Sure John and I are more than quit.

--_Prior._

1458

People newly emerged from obscurity, generally launch out into
indiscriminate display.

--_Jean Ingelow._

1459

Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify itself.
It is persistence without a plausible motive. It is the tenacity of
self-love substituted for the tenacity of reason or conscience.

--_Amiel._

1460

Thrice happy they who have an occupation.

--_Byron._

1461

An oil-jar can be used again for nothing but oil.

(A man should follow what he was bred to.)

--_Chinese._

1462

Others may use the ocean as their road,
Only the British make it their abode:--
They tread the billows with a steady foot.

--_Waller._

1463

To call people peculiar is only a polite way of calling them
disagreeable.

--_W. S. Murphy._

1464

WORDS.

Time to me this truth has taught
('Tis a treasure worth revealing,)
More offend by want of thought
Than by want of feeling.

--_Charles Swain._

1465

A dog's obeyed in office.

--_Shakespeare._

1466

A bad man in office is a public calamity.

--_French._

1467

Omissions, no less than commissions, are oftentimes branches of
injustice.

--_Antoninus._

1468

It has been shrewdly said, that, when men abuse us, we should suspect
_ourselves_, and when they praise us, _them_.

1469

No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for
having changed his opinion.

--_Cicero._

1470

SELF-CONFIDENCE.

Men often lose opportunities by want of self-confidence. Doubts and
f