oosens,
separates. It does not uproot.--_Joubert._

God is with the patient.--_Koran._

Patience, the second bravery of man, is, perhaps, greater than the
first.--_Antonio de Solis._

Patience--the truest fortitude.--_Milton._

~Patriotism.~--In peace patriotism really consists only in this--that
every one sweeps before his own door, minds his own business, also
learns his own lesson, that it may be well with him in his own
house.--_Goethe._

Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be
in the right; but our country, right or wrong.--_Decatur._

How dear is fatherland to all noble hearts.--_Voltaire._

Let our object be our country, our whole country, and nothing but our
country. And, by the blessing of God, may that country itself become a
vast and splendid monument, not of oppression and terror, but of wisdom,
of peace, and of liberty, upon which the world may gaze with admiration
forever!--_Daniel Webster._

There can be no affinity nearer than our country.--_Plato._

Of the whole sum of human life no small part is that which consists of a
man's relations to his country, and his feelings concerning
it.--_Gladstone._

~Peace.~--They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears
into pruning-hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
neither shall they learn war any more.--_Bible._

Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace.--_Shakespeare._

Lovely concord and most sacred peace doth nourish virtue, and fast
friendship breed.--_Spenser._

Peace gives food to the husbandman, even in the midst of rocks; war
brings misery to him, even in the most fertile plains.--_Menander._

Peace, dear nurse of arts, plenties, and joyful birth.--_Shakespeare._

A land rejoicing and a people blest.--_Pope._

~Pedant.~--As pedantry is an ostentatious obtrusion of knowledge, in which
those who hear us cannot sympathize, it is a fault of which soldiers,
sailors, sportsmen, gamesters, cultivators, and all men engaged in a
particular occupation, are quite as guilty as scholars; but they have
the good fortune to have the vice only of pedantry, while scholars have
both the vice and the name for it too.--_S. Smith._

With loads of learned lumber in his head.--_Pope._

It is not a circumscribed situation so much as a narrow vision that
creates pedants; not having a pet study or science, but a narrow, vulgar
soul, which prevents a man from seeing all sides and hearing all thing