ly violated the laws, is, in effect, a cruelty to the peaceable subject who has observed them.-Junius.

Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God will never.-Cowper.

COMPENSATION.-There is wisdom in the saying of Feltham, that the whole creation is kept in order by discord, and that vicissitude maintains the world.Many evils bring many blessings.—Manna drops in the wilderness.--Corn grows in Canaan.- Willmott.

All advantages are attended with disadvantages.-A universal compensation prevails in all conditions of being and existence.-Hume.

No evil is without its compensation.The less money, the less trouble.-The less favor, the less envy.-Even in those cases which put us out of our wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.-Seneca.

Whatever difference may appear in the fortunes of mankind, there is, nevertheless, a certain compensation of good and evil which makes them equal.-W. Rochefou cauld.

If the poor man cannot always get meat, the rich man cannot always digest it.Giles.

If poverty makes man groan, he yawns in opulence.-When fortune exempts us from labor, nature overwhelms us with time.-Rivarol.

When you are disposed to be vain of your mental acquirements, look up to those who are more accomplished than yourself, that you may be fired with emulation; but when you feel dissatisfied with your circumstances, look down on those beneath you, that you may learn contentment.-H. More.

When fate has allowed to any man more than one great gift, accident or necessity seems usually to contrive that one shall encumber and impede the other.-Swinburne.

As there is no worldly gain without some loss, so there is no worldly loss without some gain. If thou hast lost thy wealth, thou hast lost some trouble with it. If thou art degraded from thy honor, thou art likewise freed from the stroke of envy.-If sickness hath blurred thy beauty, it hath delivered thee from pride.-Set the allowance against the loss and thou shalt find no loss great. He loses little or nothing who reserves himself.-Quarles.

COMPLACENCY.-Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agree

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able, and an inferior acceptable. smooths distinction, sweetens conversation, and makes every one in the company pleased with himself. It produces good nature and mutual benevolence, encourages the timorous, soothes the turbulent, humanizes the fierce, and distinguishes a society of civilized persons from a confusion of savages.-Addison.

Complacency is a coin by the aid of which all the world can, for want of essential means, pay its club bill in society.-It is necessary, however, that it may lose nothing of its merits, to associate judgment and prudence with it.-- Voltaire.

Complaisance, though in itself it be scarce reckoned in the number of moral virtues, is that which gives a luster to every talent a man can be possessed of. I would advise every man of learning, who would not appear a mere scholar or philosopher, to make himself master of this social virtue.-Addison.

Complaisance pleases all; prejudices none; adorns wit; renders humor agreeable; augments friendship; redoubles love; and united with justice and generosity, becomes the secret chain of the society of mankind.-M. de Scuderi.

COMPLAINING. We do not wisely when we vent complaint and censure.-We cry out for a little pain, when we do but smile for a great deal of contentment.-Feltham.

Every one must see daily instances of people who complain from a mere habit of complaining; and make their friends uneasy, and strangers merry, by murmuring at evils that do not exist, and repining at grievances which they do not really feel.Graves.

I will chide no brother in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults. -Shakespeare.

The man who is fond of complaining, likes to remain amid the objects of his vexation. It is at the moment that he declares them insupportable that he will most strongly revolt against every means proposed for his deliverance.-This is what suits him. He asks nothing better than to sigh over his position and to remain in it. -Guizot.

I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.-Goethe.

Murmur at nothing: if our ills are irreparable, it is ungrateful; if remediless, it is vain. A Christian builds his fortitude on a better foundation than stoicism; he

is pleased with everything that happens, because he knows it could not happen unless it had first pleased God and that which pleases Him must be the best.-Colton.

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.-Johnson. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint, and the cowardly feeble resolve.-Burns.

COMPLIMENTS.-Compliments are

only lies in court clothes.-Sterling.

A deserved and discriminating compliment is often one of the strongest encouragements and incentives to the diffident and self-distrustful.-Tryon Edwards.

A compliment is usually accompanied with a bow, as if to beg pardon for paying it.-Hare.

Compliments of congratulation are always kindly taken, and cost nothing but pen, ink, and paper. I consider them as draughts upon good breeding, where the exchange is always greatly in favor of the drawer.-Chesterfield.

Compliments which we think are deserved, we accept only as debts, with indifference; but those which conscience informs us we do not merit, we receive with the same gratitude that we do favors given away.-Goldsmith.

COMPROMISE.-Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another, too often ending in the loss of both.-Tryon Edwards.

From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. I insist that this shall cease. The country needs repose after all its trials; it deserves repose. And repose can only be found in everlasting principles.-Charles Sumner.

CONCEALMENT. (See "CRIME.") To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature.-I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.-Dickens.

He who can conceal his joys, is greater than he who can hide his griefs.-Lavater.

It is great cleverness to know how to conceal our cleverness.-Rochefoucauld.

"Thou shalt not get found out" is not one of God's commandments; and no man can be saved by trying to keep it.-Leonard Bacon.

CONCEIT. (See "SELF-CONCEIT.) Conceit is the most contemptible, and one of the most odious qualities in the world.

It is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.-Hazlitt.

It is wonderful how near conceit is to insanity!-Jerrold.

Wind puffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools. Socrates.

He who gives himself airs of importance, exhibits the credentials of impotence.Lavater.

The overweening self-respect of conceited men relieves others from the duty of respecting them at all.-H. W. Beecher.

Conceit is to nature, what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.-Pope.

The more one speaks of himself, the less he likes to hear another talked of.-Lavater.

They say that every one of us believe in his heart, or would like to have other believe, that he is something which he is not.-Thackeray.

Conceit and confidence are both of them cheats. The first always imposes on itself: the second frequently deceives others.Zimmerman.

A man-poet, prophet, or whatever he may be readily persuades himself of his right to all the worship that is voluntarily tendered.-Hawthorne.

None are so seldom found alone, or are so soon tired of their own company, as those coxcombs who are on the best terms with themselves.-Colton.

No man was ever so much deceived by another, as by himself.-Greville.

Every man, however little, makes a figure in his own eyes.-Home.

It is the admirer of himself, and not the admirer of virtue, that thinks himself superior to others.-Plutarch.

The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest.-Em

mons.

The best of lessons, for a good many people, would be, to listen at a key-hole.It is a pity for such that the practice is dishonorable.-Mad. Swetchine

If he could only see how small a vacancy his death would leave, the proud man would think less of the place he occupies in his life-time.-Legouve.

One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property, which it is very unpleasant to find depreciated.—George Eliot.

If its colors were but fast colors, self-con ceit would be a most comfortable quality.But life is so humbling, mortifying, disap