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Inward freedom and outward ne
cessity these are the two poles of
1.-THE tragic world [Schlegel.
No manners are 80 fine as the most
awkward manifestations Of goodwill
to men,. Every Saturday. &
Our past experience tells, il every
soil, that those that think must gov
ern those that toll. [G Goldsmith.
! A Christian should never plead
Spirituality orsbeing a sloyen. sh hcS
be q shoe cleaner, he should be tho
best in the parish. "
In manner be tender, loving, anima-
ted; earnest. Win the elrildren,s
hearts, secure their confidence, then
Head them to Christ.
The:road ambition travels is too
narrow for friendship, too crooked for
love, too rugged for honesty, too dark
for conscience. &, Il
Men are capable Of greater things
than they perform. They are sent
into the world with bills Of credit,
and seldom draw to their full extent.
1.-THE prudence Of reserve and de-
corum dictates silence in some cir
cumstances, in others prudence Of q
higher order may justify us ia speal s;
ing our thoughts. Burke.
I Man was never intended to- be idle;
|inactiYity illustrates the very design
Eof his creation; whereas an active
llifa is the best guardian Of virtue, and
(thef greatest preservation Of health.
Aristotle tellsus TINT the world is
atranscript Of those ideas which are
in the mind Of the first being, and
those ideas which are in the mind cfs
man arc q transcript of the world.
f Be good, sweet maid, and let who will
1 s be clever; 4 q rs ;ssse;ys IL
do noble things, not dream them, all
lle And So makefife, death and that vast
forever, =
If onegfand, sweet song. Kingsley.
1t is NO disgrace not to be able to
do everything; g;bnt to undertake, or
pretend to dosWhat you are not made
for, is not only shameful, hut extreme
| ly troublesome and vexatious.-Pl Plu-
tarcE. g
The roses of pleasure seldom las
long enough to adorn the brow OF
him who plucks them, and they arc
the only roses which do not retain
their sweetness after they have lost
their beauty.-Blaia.
The Able Malot expressing a d, u1t
to Richelieu how many masses would
save soul, the cardinal replied,
"Phol you are a blockhead-as many
as it would take snowballs to heat
an oven!s'
Men and statues that are admired
in an elevated station have q very
different effect on. us when We ap-
lproach them; the first appear less
than we imagined them, the last
larger LRochefoucauld.
He only great who has the habits
of greatness: who, after performing
what none in The thousand could ac-
complish, passes on like Samson, and
g tells neither father nor mother Of
it.-Lavater.
Joy is the happiness of love; it is
love exultln.g tbs love aware Of its
|owntfelicity, and .rioting in riches
which it has no fear Of exhausting:
it is love taking q look at its treasure,
AMI surrendering itself to bliss with :
out foreboding.
1t is safer to affront some people
than to oblige them; for the better a
man deserves, the worse they will
speak Of him; as if the profession of
open hatred to their benefactors were
an argument that they lie under no
|obliyation.-Scneca
Like morning dream, life becomes
more and more bright the longer wc
live, and the reason of everything be-
comes more clear. What has puzzled
US before seems less mysterious, and
the crooked paths look straighter as
we approach the end.-Richter.
Invain do they talk of happiness
who never subdued an impulse in
obedience to y principle. He who
never sacrificed present to q future
good, or a personal to general one,
can speak of happiness only as the
blind do Of colors -Horace Mann.
Irrcgularity and want of method
arc only supportable in men Of great
learning or genius, who are often too
full to be exact, and therefore choose
to throw down their pearls in. heaps
before the reader, rather. than be ut
the pains to string them--Addison.
The race of mankind would perish
did We cease to help each other.
From the time that the mother binds
the child's head till the moment ssme
kind assistance wipes the dew of
death from tho brow of the dying,
we cannot exist without mutual help.
Sir Walter Scott.
ROBERT J. BRECKINRIDGE-AT A
/ Coop OLD AGE, GONE.-One of the most
DISTINGUISHED diYineS of the PRESBYTERIAN