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\ n men did but know themselves
more, they would be more humble.
Keep good princip and they will
keen you. " 4. s'
he who spends all bis time liz sports
Iislike one who wears nothing but
Ifinges, and eats nothing but success.
SIN, all sin, IL fluitless; II blossoms
flair but always deceives. "What
tfruit had We, lii those things whereof
| ye are now ashamed?' !
The pebbles III our path weary US,
land make us foot sore, more than the
rocks, which only require q bold effort
Ito surmount.
| The road ambition travels is two
marrow for friendship, too crooked for
Hove, too rugged for honesty, and too
Idark for conscience. s
| Any one can DRIFT. But it takes
prayer, religious principle, earnest
tnesS OF fpurpose, constant watching to
resist the evil Of this world-to strug.
Igle against the tide.
|eaIfyol wish success in life, make
| perseverance your bosom friend, ex-
lperience your elder brother, and hope
|y0AIr guardian genius
/ 1T is the great 10y OF Tile Gospel
| indeed, it is, that which makes it Cos
lpel, that It'll for'any and every poor
simmer who will believe.
Enjoy the blessings OF this day il
I(iAs1 flcs a MI f11n X,
patiently and sweetly. For this day
only is ours; we are dead to yesterday,
and are not born to tomorrow.
! Few parentslike to be told of the
faults OF achild. The reason is obvi>
Ious. All faults are hereditary or edu-
cational, and in either case to point
tile finger at'the child, is, indirectly
to reprove the parent.
| The approaches of sin are like the
conduct of Jael; It brings butter lin
lordly dish; II bids high for the soul.
But when it has been fascinated and
lulled the victim, the nail and the
hammer are behind. sa
4 You have only q day to spend upon
earth; act in such way that you may
spend 1t in peace. Peace is the fruit
Of love; for to live III peace, it is neces-
sary to put up with many things.
i He that lives in perpetual suspicion,
| lieved, whose business it is to look out
| for and expect an enemy, which is an
Ievil not very far short of perishing by
him.
In the depthso the sea the waters
4 are still; the heaviest grief is that
I borne in silence; the deepest love flows
II through the eye and touch; the purest
joy is unspeakable; the most impres.
sive preacher at funerals the Silent
one whose lips are cold.
II A man who will stab at another's
Reputation, by insinuation or inuendo
! lis far worse than q thief. Goods YOU
may replace, but character once lost
i, is all but irredcemable, and as a great
! writer has said,a word is enough to
ruin man.
NJ True Joy is a serene. and s0mber mo-
: ton; and they are miserably deceived
that take laughing for rejoicing; the
seat of 1t is within, and there is no
8 cheerfulness like the resolutions of q
brave mind, that has fortune under its
feet.
Let us accept different forms of re-
ligl0n among men, as we accept diff
;, ferent languages, wherein there, is
still but one human nature expressed.
Every genius has most power in his
own language, and every heart in its
own religion.
1t is not always in the most distiu-
guished exploits that mems virtues or
vices may be discerned; but frequently
an action 0fsmall note, a short saving
or q jest, distinguishes a PERSONS real
character more than fields of carnage.
or the greatest battles.
You cannot repent too soon. There
is no day like to-day, Yesterday is
gone; tomorrow is Gods, not yo,r
own. And think how sad it will be To
have your evidences to seek, when
! your cause is to be tried; to have your
oil to buy, when you should have it to
burn.
A man who Is allowed TO grow up
with his mind entirely nelected, has
inflicted upon him grievOus wrong.
He is cut of from the sweetest and
: noblest sources of happiness; and even
if he is regarded simply as an agent
J for the production Of wealth, he is
/. made, by ignorance comparatively
+ useless and inefficient.
When hannah Moore visited Mrs.
Garrick, after the death other hus.
band, and expressed surprise at hel
, great comp0sure, the widow Answered.
"Groans aud complaints are very well