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Nursery-"The next age in its bud and blossom."

Dr. Thomson.

Ocean-"Thou glorious mirror, where th' Almighty's

form

Glasses itself in tempests."

Byron.

Old Age-"The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness."

Proverbs of Solomon.

-Familiar with Death, and neighbour to the

grave.

Opinion-"Is the rate of things,

From whence our peace doth flow;

I have a better fate than kings,
Because I think it so."

Orinda.

Order-"Is heaven's first law."

Pope.

"The sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. As the beam to a house, as the bones to the microcosm of man, so is Order to all things." Southey.

Orthodoxy-" Is my doxy; HETERODOXY is

another man's doxy."

Bishop Warburton.

Painters-"They that draw shapes,

And lively wicked faces, are but God's apes;
They come but neere the life, and there they

stay."

Decker.

Painting-"The intermediate somewhat between

a thought and a thing."

Coleridge.

Passions-"Like seas, will have their ebbs and

flows."

Lee.

"Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the

time, leave us the weaker ever after.”

Pope.

"Are likened best to floods and streams;

The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb."
Sir W. Raleigh.

Pastor-"The deputy of Christ for the reducing

of man to the obedience of God."

George Herbert.

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Patience" Why, 'tis the soul of peace;
Of all the virtues, 'tis nearest kin to heaven,
It makes men look like gods."

Piety-"That regent of God upon earth."

Decker.

Charlotte Bronté.

Pig-The gintleman who pays the rint.

Pity-"The straightest path to a woman's love."

Beaumont and Fletcher.

-A medicine when used by friends; a poison

when used by enemies.

"Some say pity is the child of love."

N. Cotton.

"Is love when grown into excess."

Sir H. Howard.

"Is akin to love; and every thought Of that soft kind is welcome to my soul."

Southern.

Pleasures-"Are like poppies spread,
You seize the flower, its bloom is shed;
Or like the snow-fall in the river,

A moment white, then melts for ever." Burns.

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