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0AAAANS OF
Thrift is the fuel of magnificenoe.
There is nothing little to the really great
in spirit.
Diligence is fair fortune and industry
a good estate.
True economy is the child of wisdom
and the mother of independence.
The more originality YOU have in your
selves the more you see in other people.
Men viii wrangle for religion. write for
It, fight for it, die for it-anything but
live for it. -[Colton.
The end of our life is God; the rule OF
our life, duty the obstacles, our bad pas
sions. II Lacordaire.
We turn a nearer and Il broader mark
To tnat keen archer, Sorrow, aud he strikes.
ALEXANDER Smith.
There is no way of making a perma-
nent success in this world without giving
an honest equivalent for it.
Ii women took as much pains to make
nests as they do to weave nets, more hus-
bands would remain lovers.
A mother breads no memories: those
shadows have all melted away in the
dawn of baby's smiles. Il George Eliot.
A few books, well studied and thor
oughly digested, nourish the understand
ing more than hundreds but gargled in
the mouth. -[osborne.
Mankind is always happier for having
been happy; if you make them happy
now you make them happy 20 years
hence by the memory of it. -lSydney
Smith.
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That IL do SINCE yourself; we may outrun
ky violent swiftness that which we run at,
And lose by overrunning.
-lshakespeare.
The man who wants to secure mus
cular, healthy heart till old age must loo
abStemious in his mode of life, temperate
in all things, and must take regular ex-
ercise.
Who ever heard of slandering a bad
man? Who ever heard of counterfeiting
bad notef SANDER, as rule, is the re-
venge of coward. 1t is generally tho
best people who are injured in this way.
When you make a mistake don't look
back at it long. Take the reason of the
thing into your own mind and then look
forward. Mistakes are lessons of wis
dom. The past can not be changed. The
future is yet in your power.
Solitude is pleasant. Ii is an escape
from the rough and tumble of life--from
hard words and hard knocks; but its
pleasures are dangerous. They are too
fascinating for any but the best balanced
minds, and doverindulgence in them means
melancholia and madness.
Noble deeds are held in honor
But the wild world sadly needs
Hearts of patience to unravel
The wcfth of common deeds.
"Tis sweet as year by year we lose
Friends out OF sight. IN faith TO muse
How grows in Paradise our store.
-tKeble.
We can use every part of our nature
conscience, intellect, heart. and will-so
as to reaffirm the old verdict that all is
vanity and vexation of spirit; on we can
give ourselves up to the divine possibili.
ties within, and, living i'm them, find our
relationship to the infinite life that has
no limits.
Although the desire to help and benefit
men is a primary condition for doing it,
the knowing how to accomplish it harm.
lessly and permanently is a large part Of
the work; and that must come, IL at all,
through intelligent reasoning. Strong
feeling is nearly always one sided, and
some of the truth is thus overlooked.
Many people never learn the full mean
ing of gratitude. They imagine that its
chief office is to make, if possible, some
corresponding return. If they would re-
member that the benefit conferred con-
sists much more ia the feeling of
kindness, good will, or sympathy which
prompts it than in anything actually
given or done, they would have differ
ent view of the sort Of gratitude that
ought to follow.