pointing to vanity, that a great man's idea of himself gets washed out of him by the time he is forty.-C. Buxton.

I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.-George Eliot.

Conceit may puff a man up, but can never prop him up.-Ruskin.

We uniformly think too well of ourselves. But self-conceit is specially the mark of a small and narrow mind. Great and noble natures are most free from it.

CONDUCT.-Conduct is the great profession. Behavior is the perpetual revealing of us. What a man does, tells us what he is.-F. D. Huntington.

If we do not weigh and consider to what end life is given us, and thereupon order and dispose it aright, pretend what we will as to arithmetic, we do not, and cannot number our days in the narrowest and most limited signification.-Clarendon.

It is not enough that you form, and even follow the most excellent rules for conducting yourself in the world; you must, also, know when to deviate from them, and where lies the exception.-Greville.

Fools measure actions, after they are done, by the event; wise men beforehand, by the rules of reason and right. The former look to the end, to judge of the act. Let me look to the act, and leave the end with God.-Bp. Hall.

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.Junius.

I will govern my life and my thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other.-For what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open.-Seneca.

Every one of us, whatever our speculative opinions, knows better than he practices, and recognizes a better law than he obeys.-Froude.

In all the affairs of life let it be your great care, not to hurt your mind, or offend your judgment.-And this rule, if observed carefully in all your deportment, will be a mighty security to you in your undertakings.-Epictetus.

All the while that thou livest ill, thou hast the trouble, distraction, and inconveniences of life, but not the sweet and true use of it.-Fuller.

CONFESSION.-A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words,

that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday.-Pope.

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.-Augustine.

Why does no man confess his vices?because he is yet in them.-It is for a waking man to tell his dream.-Seneca.

Be not ashamed to confess that you have been in the wrong. It is but owning what you need not be ashamed of-that you now have more sense than you had before, to see your error; more humility to acknowl. edge it, more grace to correct it.-Seed.

If thou wouldst be justified, acknowledge thine injustice.-He that confesses his-sin, begins his journey toward salvation.-He that is sorry for it, mends his pace.-He that forsakes it, is at his journey's end.Quarles.

It is not our wrong actions which it requires courage to confess, so much as those which are ridiculous and foolish.-Rous

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Confession of sin comes from the offer of mercy.-Mercy displayed causes confession to flow, and confession flowing opens the way for mercy.-If I have not a contrite heart, God's mercy will never be mine; but if God had not manifested his mercy in Christ, I could never have had a contrite heart.-Arnot.

CONFIDENCE.-Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.-Emerson.

Trust not him that hath once broken faith.-Shakespeare.

He that does not respect confidence will never find happiness in his path.-The belief in virtue vanishes from his heart; the source of nobler actions becomes extinct in him.-Auffenberg.

Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom.-Johnson.

Trust him with little, who, without proofs, trusts you with everything, or when he has proved you, with nothing.-Lavater.

When young, we trust ourselves too much; and we trust others too little when old. Rashness is the error of youth; timid cantion of age.-Manhood is the isthmus between the two extremes-the ripe and fertile season of action when, only, we can hope to find the head to contrive, united with the hand to execute.- Colton.

Society is built upon trust, and trust upon confidence in one another's integrity. -South.

All confidence is dangerous, if it is not entire; we ought on most occasions to

speak all, or conceal all. We have already too much disclosed our secrets to a man, from whom we think any one single circumstance is to be concealed.-Bruyere.

Let us have a care not to disclose our hearts to those who shut up theirs against us.-Beaumont.

Fields are won by those who believe in winning.-T. W. Higginson.

They can conquer who believe they can.Dryden.

Confidence imparts a wondrous inspiration to its possessor.-It bears him on in security, either to meet no danger, or to find matter of glorious trial.-Milton.

The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.Maria Edgeworth.

Confidence in one's self, though the chief nurse of magnanimity, doth not leave the care of necessary furniture for it: of all the Grecians, Homer doth make Achilles the best armed.-Sir P. Sidney.

I could never pour out my inmost soul without reserve to any human being, without danger of one day repenting my confidence.-Burns.

There are cases in which a man would be ashamed not to have been imposed upon. There is a confidence necessary to human intercourse, and without which men are often more injured by their own suspicions, than they could be by the perfidy of

others.-Burke.

Self-trust is the essence of heroism.Emerson.

Confidence, in conversation, has a greater share than wit.-Rochefoucauld.

Confidence in another man's virtue, is no slight evidence of one's own.-Montaigne.

If we are truly prudent we shall cherish those noblest and happiest of our tendencies to love and to confide.-Bulwer.

Trust him little who praises all; him less who censures all: and him least who is indifferent to all.-Lavater.

To confide, even though to be betrayed, is much better than to learn only to conceal. In the one case your neighbor wrongs you; but in the other you are perpetually doing injustice to yourself.-Simms.

Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others. A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself. As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.--Hare,

All confidence which is not absolute and entire, is dangerous.-There are few occa

sions but where a man ought either to say all, or conceal all; for, how little soever you have revealed of your secret to a friend, you have already said too much if you think it not safe to make him privy to all particulars.-Beaumont.

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CONSCIENCE. Conscience! science! man's most faithful friend!— Crabbe.

Man's conscience is the oracle of God.Byron.

Conscience is the reason, employed about questions of right and wrong, and accompanied with the sentiments of approbation or condemnation.- Whewell.

A tender conscience is an inestimable blessing; that is, a conscience not only quick to discern what is evil, but instantly to shun it, as the eyelid closes itself against the mote.-N. Adams.

The truth is not so much that man has conscience, as that conscience has man.Dorner.

It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.-Channing.

He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure.-Thomas à Kempis.

Conscience is God's vicegerent on earth, and, within the limited jurisdiction given to it, it partakes of his infinite wisdom and speaks in his tone of absolute command. It is a revelation of the being of a God, a divine voice in the human soul, making known the presence of its rightful sovereign, the author of the law of holiness and truth.-Bowen.

I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.Shakespeare.

If conscience smite thee once, it is an admonition; if twice, it is a condemnation.

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!-Hawthorne.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.-Franklin.

Conscience is merely our own judgment of the right or wrong of our actions, and so can never be a safe guide unless enlightened by the word of God.-Tryon Edwards.

We cannot live better than in seeking to become better, nor more agreeably than in having a clear conscience.--Socrates.

The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so