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We always weaken what we exaggerate.

-La Harpe.

He spoils his house and throws his pains away

Who, as the sun veers, builds his windows o'er, For should he wait, the light, some time of day, Would come and sit beside him in his door. -Alice Cary.

What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love fixed in permanent outline.

-Thomas Wentworth Higginson.

No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when to-morrow's burden is added to the burden of to-day, that the weight is more than a man can bear. -George Macdonald.

Efforts to be permanently useful must be uniformly joyous,-a spirit all sunshine; graceful from very gladness, beautiful because bright.

-Carlyle.

Get but the truth once uttered, and 'tis like
A star new-born that drops into its place,
And which once circling in its placid round,
Not all the tumult of the earth can shake.

-Lowell.

FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH.

Let no threat'ning ill appall thee,
Trust in God what-e'er befall thee,
Serve him with thy latest breath;
Be thou faithful unto death!

Men may praise thee, men may jeer thee,
Ever keep in sight to cheer thee
What the heavenly Master saith,
Be thou faithful unto death!

Let no loss or suff'ring rue thee,

God at last will triumph through thee,
Crown thee with the victor's wreath;

Be thou faithful unto death!

-Chas. W. Wendte.

In the man whose childhood has known caresses there is always a fibre of memory that can be touched to gentle issues. -George Eliot.

Self-trust is the essence of heroism. -Emerson.

The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence. -George Eliot.

Lied is a rough phrase; say he fell from truth.
-Browning.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book.

-Thoreau.

If we can say with Seneca, "This life is only a prelude to eternity," then we need not worry so much over the fittings and furnishings of this ante-room; and more than that, it will give dignity and purpose to the fleeting days to know they are linked with the eternal things as prelude and preparation.

-Minot J. Savage.

Jealousy is a secret avowal of inferiority.

If I shoot at the sun, I may hit a star.

-Massillon.

-P. T. Barnum.

The world is a school, and the business of its occupants, the pursuit of an education fitting them to graduate into the invisible university of God.

-W. R. Alger.

Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself. -Montaigne.

Where much is given, much shall be required. There are never privileges to enjoy without corresponding duties to fulfil in return. -Phillips Brooks.

We proudly say "we are equal." In the largest sense before God we are, but in every other sense we are not. No two persons have the same gifts, the same tastes, the same habits. One must complement the other. It is a mutual life we lead in a mutual world.

Man's rank is his power to uplift.

-Caroline Hazard.

-George Macdonald.

I may not reach the heights I seek,
My untried strength may fail me;
Or, half-way up the mountain peak
Fierce tempests may assail me;
But though my goal I never see
This thought shall always dwell with me-
I will be worthy of it.

I may not triumph in success,
Despite my earnest labor;

I may not grasp results that bless
The efforts of my neighbor.
But though life's dearest joy I miss

There lies a nameless strength in this—

I will be worthy of it.

-Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

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