What we have we prize not to the worth, Whiles we enjoy it; but being lacked and lost, Why then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.

1359 SHAKS.: _Much Ado,_ Act iv., Sc. 1.

Possession means to sit astride of the world, Instead of having it astride of you.

1360 CHARLES KINGSLEY: _Saint's Tragedy,_ Act i., Sc. 2.

=Poverty.=

My poverty, but not my will, consents.

1361 SHAKS.: _Rom. and Jul.,_ Act v., Sc. 1.

If we from wealth to poverty descend, Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend.

1362 DRYDEN: _Wife of Bath,_ Line 485.

Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong.

They learn in suffering what they teach in song.

1363 SHELLEY: _Julian and Maddalo._

In ev'ry sorrowing soul I pour'd delight, And poverty stood smiling in my sight.

1364 POPE: _Odyssey,_ Bk. xvii., Line 505.

=Power.=

What can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?

1365 DRYDEN: _Medal,_ Line 235.

The good old rule Sufficeth them, the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can.

1366 WORDSWORTH: _Rob Roy's Grave._

=Prairie.=

Far in the East like low-hung clouds The waving woodlands lie; Far in the West the glowing plain Melts warmly in the sky.

No accent wounds the reverent air,-- No footprint dints the sod,-- Low in the light the prairie lies Rapt in a dream of God.

1367 JOHN HAY: _The Prairie._

=Praise.=

Praising what is lost, Makes the remembrance dear.

1368 SHAKS.: _All 's Well,_ Act v., Sc. 3.

Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer.

1369 POPE: _Prologue to the Satires,_ Line 201.

=Prayer.=

Let never day nor night unhallowed pass, But still remember what the Lord hath done.

1370 SHAKS.: _2 Henry VI.,_ Act ii., Sc. 1.

If by prayer Incessant I could hope to change the will Of him who all things can, I would not cease To weary him with my assiduous cries; But prayer against his absolute decree No more avails than breath against the wind Blown stifling back on him that breathes it forth: Therefore to his great bidding I submit.

1371 MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. xi., Line 307.

He prayeth best who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.

1372 COLERIDGE: _Ancient Mariner,_ Pt. vii.

God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in 't.

1373 MRS. BROWNING: _Aurora Leigh,_ Bk. ii.

More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of.

1374 TENNYSON: _Morte d'Arthur,_ Line 247.

=Preaching.=

I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men.

1375 RICHARD BAXTER: _Love Breathing Thanks and Praise._

=Present.=

The Present, the Present is all thou hast For thy sure possessing; Like the patriarch's angel hold it fast Till it gives its blessing.

1376 WHITTIER: _My Soul and I,_ St. 34.

=Press.=

Here shall the Press the People's right maintain, Unaw'd by influence and unbrib'd by gain.

1377 JOSEPH STORY: _Motto of the "Salem Register."_

=Pride.=

Pride hath no other glass To show itself, but pride; for supple knees Feed arrogance, and are the proud man's fees.

1378 SHAKS.: _Troil. and Cress.,_ Act iii., Sc. 3.

And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin Is pride that apes humility.

1379 COLERIDGE: _The Devil's Thoughts._

=Priest.=

No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.

1380 MILTON: _Hymn on Christ's Nativity,_ Line 173.