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 WORDS. Time to me this truth has taught ('Tis a treasure worth revealing,) More offend by want of thought Than by want of feeling. --_Charles Swain._ 1465 A dog's obeyed in office. --_Shakespeare._ 1466 A bad man in office is a public calamity. --_French._ 1467 Omissions, no less than commissions, are oftentimes branches of injustice. --_Antoninus._ 1468 It has been shrewdly said, that, when men abuse us, we should suspect _ourselves_, and when they praise us, _them_. 1469 No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion. --_Cicero._ 1470 SELF-CONFIDENCE. Men often lose opportunities by want of self-confidence. Doubts and fears in the minds of some rise up over every event, and they fear to attempt what most probably would be successful through their timorousness; while a courageous, active man, will, perhaps with half the ability, carry an enterprise to a prosperous termination. 1471 Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period or other, when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other--it is our own. Past opportunities are gone; the future may never come to us. --_Colton._ 1472 To let slip a favorable opportunity is the greatest proof of imbecility. 1473 He loses all who loses the right moment. 1474 OPPORTUNITY.