Year: 1877

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Your character cannot be essentially
injured except by your own acts.


"A base ball player is said to be like
a railroad employee when he's out on
a strike.


Pleasure, like quicksilver, is bright
and shy. five try to gasp II, It still
eludes us and still gIitters.


That man who lives in vain, lives
worse than vain. He who lives to no
purpose lives to a bad purpose.


When any calamity has been suffer
ed, the first thing to be remembered is,
how much has been escaped


The friend who hides from Us our
faults is Of les service to US than the
enemy that upbraids us with them.


God had but this one end in the ere
alton Of the universe TO form an an
gelic heaven from the human race.


Persons who speak i'll Of themselyes
do 50 mostly IS the surest way Of prov
ing how modest and candid they are.


Things right in themselves are more
likely to be hindered than advanced
BY an injudiciOus zeal for promoting
them.


Happy childl The cradle IS still to.
thee a vast space; become man and
the boundless world viii be too small
for thee.


Men are made to be eternally sha-
ken about, but women are flowers that
lose their beautiful colors in the nose
and tumult Of life.


Assurance and intrepidity, under the
white banner discerning mcdesty, clear
the way to merit that would otherwise
be discouraged by difficulties.


No company is far preferable to bad,
because we are much more apt to catch
the vices Of others than their virtues.
as disease is far more contagious than
health.


Preachers paral Ee the truth by
prayerlessness Prayer is, at Frs, The
outgrowth Of need, the ciy.o s beg
ger; afterwards the outgow Of love,
the expression Of thanks.


Itappears 70 be among the laws Of
nature that the mighty Of ilteIlect
should be pursued and cooped up BY .
the little, as the solitary fight Of one
little bird is followed By the tvitterng
petulance Of many smaller.


Not only is kindness due to every
one, but a special kindness is due to
every one. Kindness is rot kindness
unless it be special Itsin its fitness,
seasonableness and individual applica-
ton that its charms consist


No man 5 defeated without some
resentment, which win be continued
with Obstinacy while he believes him
self in the right, and asserted with bit
terness if feven to hisown conscienceh he
is detected in the wrong


There is nothing more to be esteem
cd than manly firmness and deeis;op
Of character. I like person who
knows his mind and sticks to It; who
sees at once what's to be donein given
circumstances and does it.


Ifthis life Is unhappy, it is burden
to US, which is difficult to bear !; fits
in every respect happy. it is dreadful
to be deprived Of it, so that IN either
case the result is the same, for Ne must
exist in anxiety and apprehension.


Love makes itself understood BY the
simplest beings; it bears with It a
charm which moves the Indifferent,
and the eyes of two young lovers have
alanguage whose sweetness penetrates
even those who have never loved.


Be not ashamed to be helped, for it
is thy business to do thy duty like a
soldier in the assault on town. How
then, if beng lame, thou canst not
mount up on the battlements alone,
but with the help of another it is pos
sible.


In the intercourse of social life, it is
by little acts Of watchful kindness re-
curing daily and hOurIy-and oppor-
tunities Of doing kindness if sought
for, are forever starting up-it is by,
words, by tones, by gestures, by. looks,
that affection is won and preserved.


Appearances are deceitful remem-
Der that, and don't act too quickly up
on the inerences you draw from them.
The person in a shabby coat and hat
may be millionaire; the other, in the
latest style Of seal skin overcOat, the
clerk who has robbed him.


On there Is many aneyil which can
stand the blow Of honest indignation,
but trembles under the sharp thrust of
the polished sword Of wit, and feels the
blow to be mortal one. So use what
wit you have, O manIs Who is your
grumbling critic that he dares forbid
your Fa6


He will do the most work and do it
best who is happy and cheerful. There
s nothing like asinging heart for de-