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Words of Wisdom.

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to adopt who distrusts himself.
The best biography-the life which
writes charity in the largest letters.
Wisdom is the talent of buying vir-
tuous pleasure at the cheapest rate.
! Make no expense, but do good to
others or yourself-that is, waste moth
ing.
The man who studies to be revenged
only manages to keep his " wounds
green.
If a man desires many things he is ex-
allied by hope, if he fears many things
he becomes q slave.
Many. who find the day too long,
| think life TOO short ; but short as life is,
| some find it long enough to outlive their
characters, their constitutions and their
estates.
Boys that have been properly reared
are men, in point of usefulness, at six
teen ; while those that have been
brought up in idle habits are nuisances
at twenty-one.
A troubled mind is often relieved by
maintaining q cheerful demeanor. The
effort ~withdraws his attention from the
aus of pain, and the cheerfulness
which it promotes in others extends by
sympathy to itself.
When We are young we waste a great
deal of time in imagining what we will
do when we grow older, and when we are
old we waste an equal amount OF time in
wondering why we waited so long before
we began to do anything.
The only perfect friendship subsists
among those who resemble each other
in virtue, because those who love their
friends for their virtue, love them for
what is not q temporary appendage, but
a permanent essential in their character.
Pleasure and recreation Of one kind or
other are absolutely necessary to relieve
our minds and bodies from too constant
attention. The mind cannot labor with
safety more than one-third of it's active
existence, but the limbs will bear e1er-
else, healthfully, somewhat beyond that
proportion Of life.
There is scarcely any character so rare
as o man of real open and generous in
tegrity, who carries his heart in his
hand, who says the thing he pretends.
Though no one can dislike the character,
vet discretion generally shakes her head,
and the word SOC lets him into the rea-
son.
Sow not wishes in other peoples gar
dens ; wish not for that which you are
not, but earnestly desire to be the very
best of what you are. Endeavor your
best to perfect yourself whore you are
and bear manfully all the crosses you
may encounter. This is the leading
principle and the least understood in
a good life.
Donot keep the alabaster boxes Of your
love and tenderness sealed up until
your friends are dead. Fill their lives
with sweetness. Speak approving, cheer
ing words while their ears can hear them
and while their hearts can be thrilled by
them. The things you meal to say
when they are gone say before they go.
The flowers you mean to send to their
collins, send to brighten and sweeten
their homes before they leave them. If
my friends have alabaster boxes laid
away full Of perfumes of sympathy and
affection which they intend to break
over my dead body, I would rather
they would bring them out in my weary
hours and open them that I may be
refreshed and cheered by them when
I need them. I would rather have o
bare coffin without q flower and a fune-
raj without an eulogy than a life with
out the sweetness Of love and sympathy.
Let us learn to anoint our friends before
hand for their burial. Post-mortem
kindnesses do not cheer the burdened
spirit. Flowers on the coffin cast no
fragrance backward over the weary days.