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Words of Wisdom.

He is rich enough who does not want.
The excesses of our youth are drafts
upon our old age, payable with interest,
about thirty years after date.
Insult not misery, neither deride in
trinity, nor ridicule deformity; the first
is inhuman, the second shows folly, and
the third pride.
The true pleasures of temperance, and
the many benefits that follow sobriety,
cannot be- imagined by those who live
dissipated lives.
In the moral as in the physical world,
the violent is never the lasting; the tree
forced to unnatural lnxuriance of bloom
bears it and dies.
Bad habits are the thistles of the
heart, and every indulgence of them is a
seed from which will come forth a new
crop of rank weeds.
No species of falsehood is more fire.
quent than fsttery; to which the coward
is betrayed by fear, the dependent by
interest, and the friend by tenderness.
In every house, however humble,
flowers should be cultivated, for their
sunny light, their cheerful teaching and
for their insensibly ennobling influence.
The great art of conversation consists
in not wounding or humiliating any one,
in speaking only of things that we
know, in conversing with others only on
subjects which may interest them.
Adhere rigidly and undeviatingly to
truth; but while you express what is
true, express it in a pleasing manner.
Truth is the picture, the manner is the
frame that displays it to advantage.
No great man or woman has ever been
reared to great usefulness and lasting
distraction who was unschooled by adj
versity. Noble deeds are W done in
the calm sunshine Of summers light.
Though years bring with them wisdom,
yet there is one lesson the aged seldom
learn-namely, the management OF
youthful feelings. Age is all head,
youth all heart; age reasons youth under
the dominion of hope.
Imaginary evils soon become real ones
by indulging our reflections on them; as
he who in a melancholy fancy sees some
thing like a face on the wall or wainscot,
can. by two or three touches with a lead
pencil, make it look visible, and agree
ing with what he fancied.
Men know how thunder and lightning
come from the clouds in summer, and
they want to thunder and tighten some
times themselves; but it is better that
the contents of the clouds should drop
down in gentle rains, and make some
thing grow, than that there should be
flashing and resembling in the heaven,
and that the oak should be crushed to
pieces which has been growing for a
hundred years; and it is better, not that
men should produce a great racket in
the world, and work destruction round
about them, but that they should create
happiness among their fellow men.
The voices of the present say "Comel"
But the voices of the past say "Wait!
With calm and solemn footsteps the ris-
ing tide bears against the rushing tor
rent up stream, and pushes back the
hurrying waters. With no less calm and
solemn footsteps, no less certainty, does
a great mind bear up against public
opinion, and push back its hurrying
stream. Therefore should every man
wait-should bide his time; not in idle
ness, not in useless pastime, not in
querulous detection; but in constant,
steady, cheerful e%ndeavors, always will
ing and fulfilling and accomplishing
his task, that, when the occasion comes,
he NAV be cQnal to the OCCASION
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