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.

=Primrose.=

A primrose by a river’s brim
A yellow primrose was to him,
And it was nothing more.
1381
WORDSWORTH:  Peter Bell, Pt. i., St. 12.

=Printing.=

Blest be the gracious Power, who taught mankind To stamp a lasting image of the mind! 1382 CRABBE:  The Library, Line 69.

Some said, “John, print it”; others said, “Not so.”  Some said, “It might do good”; others said, “No.” 1383 BUNYAN:  Pilgrim’s Progress, Apology for his Book.

=Prison.=

Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage;
Minds innocent and quiet, take
That for an hermitage.
1384
LOVELACE:  To Althea, from Prison, iv.

=Procrastination.=

Procrastination is the thief of time: 
Year after year it steals, till all are fled,
And to the mercies of a moment leaves
The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
1385
YOUNG:  Night Thoughts, Night i., Line 393.

=Prodigies.=

When these prodigies
Do so conjointly meet, let not men say
“These are their reasons,—­They are natural;”
For, I believe, they are portentous things
Unto the climate that they point upon.
1386
SHAKS.:  Jul.  Caesar, Act i., Sc. 3.

=Progress.=

Yet I doubt not thro’ the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widen’d with the process of the suns. 1387 TENNYSON:  Locksley Hall, St. 69.

=Promise.=

And be these juggling fiends no more believ’d,
That palter with us in a double sense: 
That keep the word of promise to our ear
And break it to our hope.
1388
SHAKS.:  Macbeth, Act v., Sc. 8.