brings us new pleasures exposes us to new
pains.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
~Pardon.~--Pardon is the virtue of victory.--_Mazzini._
The heart has always the pardoning power.--_Madame Swetchine._
The offender never pardons.--_George Herbert._
Love is on the verge of hate each time it stoops for
pardon.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
These evils I deserve, yet despair not of his final pardon whose ear is
ever open, and his eye gracious to readmit the supplicant.--_Milton._
Having mourned your sin, for outward Eden lost, find paradise
within.--_Dryden._
~Parent.~--The sacred books of the ancient Persians say: If you would be
holy instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will
be imputed to you.--_Montesquieu._
~Partiality.~--Partiality in a parent is commonly unlucky; for fondlings
are in danger to be made fools, and the children that are least cockered
make the best and wisest men.--_L'Estrange._
As there is a partiality to opinions, which is apt to mislead the
understanding, so there is also a partiality to studies, which is
prejudicial to knowledge.--_Locke._
Partiality is properly the understanding's judging according to the
inclination of the will and affections, and not according to the exact
truth of things, or the merits of the cause.--_South._
~Parting.~--In every parting there is an image of death.--_George Eliot._
~Party.~--He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or
reasoning, to convince a determined party-man.--_Lavater._
He that aspires to be the head of a party will find it more difficult to
please his friends than to perplex his foes.--_Colton._
~Passions.~--Passions makes us feel but never see clearly.--_Montesquieu._
Passions are likened best to floods and streams: the shallow murmur, but
the deep are dumb.--_Sir Walter Raleigh._
The passions are the voice of the body.--_Rousseau._
The advice given by a great moralist to his friend was, that he should
compose his passions; and let that be the work of reason which would
certainly be the work of time.--_Addison._
A vigorous mind is as necessarily accompanied with violent passions as a
great fire with great heat.--_Burke._
There are moments when our passions speak and decide for us, and we seem
to stand by and wonder. They carry in them an inspiration of crime, that
in one instant does the work of long premeditation.--_George Eliot._
The blossoms of passion, gay and luxuriant flowers, are brighter a
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