Year: 1879

All llVcB nave Cuelr prose LF6nSl@Gl0W
as well as their ideal meaning.


There can be no peace In human life
without the contempt OF all evil.


When man has forfeited his integ-
rity, nothing else will serve his turn.


Wisdom is pedestal from which en-
Wy or malice canRot hurl the occupant.


The man who is always fortunate
clnno' easily have great amount Uf
virtue. aHrg HgTf


AS too long retirement weakens the
mind, so too much company dissipates
it.


Despair gives the shocking ease to
the mind that modification gives 20 the
BODY.


Physical force, moral force, and the
police force, are what keep the world
going. .. f..r..,...


Mankind thirsts a hundred-fold more
for wealth than it will ever hunger af-
ter righteousness.


The uses Of adversely may possibly
be very sweet, and yet no one wishes
TO find out what they are.


The readIest way toentangle the mind
with false doctrine is first 70 entlce the
will te wantOn living.


1t is easy to pick holes In other peo-
pies work, but tar more profitable TO do
better work yourself.


You must walk like a camel, which
Is said 10 be the only beast which rum
mates when lt walks.


Death, to the Christian, Is the funeral
of all his sorrows and evils, and the re-
surrection of all his joys.


TO be wise is to feel that all that Is
earthly is transient, and TO experience
misfortune Is TO become wise. .A,,


One should not dispute with man
who, either through stupidity or shame
lessness, denies plain and visible truths.


The keenest abuse of our enemies will
not hurt US so much In the estimation
Of the discerning as the injudIciOus
praise of our friends. s


If we grieve the spirit OF God by eur
lightness, wOrdiness or presumption,
we do but fill our own cup with worm
wood and gall.


He that has really felt the bitterness
of sin will fear to commit it; and he
that hath felt the sweetness Of mercy
will fear TO offend it.


When a true genius appears In the
world you may know him by this sign,
that the OUNCES are all I'm cOnfederacy
against him.


Sensibihty is like the stars; they
can lead only when the sky is clear,
Reason is the magnetic needle when
the skies are wrapt In darkness.


There is this difference between ha-
tired and pity: Pity Is q thing often
avowed, but seldom felt; hatred La
thing often felt, but seldom avowed.


Be careful not to interrupt another
man when he Is speaking; hear him
out, and you will hear him better, and
be able to give him better answer.


Kindness has converted more sinners
than zeal, elOquence or learning, and
these three last have never cOnverteA
any one unless they were kind also.


Man is physically as well as meta
physically thing OF shreds and patches
borrowed unequally from good and bad
ancestors. and misfit from the start.


1t requires a great deal of holiness
and great deal of caution to make a
great fortune, and when you have got
it, 1t requires ten times as much wit
to keep it.


No man has come TO true greatness
who has not felt In some degree that





what God gives him He gives him for
mankind. r,o


Men talk too much about the world.
Each one of us Is here, let the world 20
as it will, and be victorious or not VIC
torious- has he not life of his own rO
lead? rF


A weak mind sinks under prosperity
as well as under adversely. A strong
mind has two highest tldes-when the
moon is at the full and when there is
no moon.


In the dark we are most apt to be
frightened; the clearer sight we have
Of the sovereignty and power Of heav-
en-, the less We shall fear the calamities
of this world. @


The violet in the shadow of the deep
woods is as lovely and fragrant and
precious as the violet in the conserva-
tory Of an avenue palace. Real value
is not to be measured by notorieGy.


One of the Illustrations Is that th o
present hour is not the critical, decl
sive hour. Write it on your heart tha
every day Is the best day in the year
No man has learned anything righl
until he knows that every day is doOms
day. saEs sh


When Wilberforce died, Daniel O.
Connell said: "He has gone up to hea-
ven bearing q million broken letters i'm
his hand" Happy he, whatever he
may leave or may not leave, on earth,
who goes thus freighted into the other
world. sA0


He who has no resources Of mind iB
more to be pitied than he who is in
want of necessaries for the body; and
to be obliged to beg our daily happl.
ness from others, bespeaks more la
mentable poverty than of him who begs
his daily bread. & is.ss


The tree will not only lie as it falls,
but it will fall as it leans. And the
great question every one should bring
home to himself, is, "What 10 the in
clinatien of my soulP Does it, with all
its affections and powers, lean toward
God, or away from him?"


Be more prudent for your children
than perhaps you have been for your
self. When they, too, are parents, they
will initiate you, and each of you win
have prepared happy generations, who
will transmit, together with your me-
mory, the worship Of your wisdom.


Conscience Is your magnetic needle.
Reason is your chart. But / would
rather have a crew willing to follow the
indications of the needle, and giving
themselves no great trouble as to the
chart, than a crew that had ever so
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