Lord Elibank, the Scotch peer, was told that Dr. Johnson, in his
dictionary, had defined oats to be food for horses in England, and for
men in Scotland. "Ay," said his lordship, "and where else can you find
such horses and such men?"
1452
_Deuteronomy xxi, 20._--"This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he
will not obey our voice."
"I well remember," says a writer on Christian education, "being much
impressed by a sermon about twenty years ago, in which the preacher
said, were he to select one word as the most important in education, it
should be the word, obey. My experience since has fully convinced me of
the justice of the remark. Without filial obedience everything must go
wrong. Is not a disobedient child guilty of a manifest breach of the
Fifth Commandment? And is not a parent, who suffers this disobedience to
continue, an habitual partaker in his child's offense against that
commandment?"
1453
_Obedience._--Obedience, promptly, fully given, is one of the most
beautiful things that walks the earth.
--_Dr. Raleigh._
1454
Wise, modest, constant, ever close at hand,
Not weighing, but obeying all command,
Such servant by a monarch's throne may stand.
1455
An extraordinary haste to discharge an obligation is a sort of
ingratitude.
--_La Rochefoucauld._
1456
Most men 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