Let the old life be covered by the new,
The old past, so full of sad mistakes;
Let it be wholly hidden from the view

By deeds as white and silent as snowflakes,
Ere the earth life melt in the eternal spring.
Let the white mantle of repentance fling
Soft drapery about it, fold on fold,
Even as the new snow covers up the old.

-Louise Chandler Moulton.

A dewdrop, falling on the wild sea wave,
Exclaimed in fear, "I perish in this grave!"
But, in a shell received, that drop of dew
Unto a pearl of marvelous beauty grew,
And happy now the grace did magnify
Which thrust it forth, as it had feared, to die;
Until again, "I perish quite,” it said,
Torn by a rude diver from its ocean bed.
Oh, unbelieving! so it came to gleam
Chief jewel in a monarch's diadem.

-Persian-Trench.

How soon a smile of God can change the world! How we are made for happiness!

Discharge aright

-Browning.

The simple dues with which each day is rife,—

Yea, with thy might.

Ere perfect scheme of action thou devise

Will life be fled.

-Schiller.

Earth seemed more sweet to live upon
More full of love, because of him.

Come what come may,

-Lowell.

Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.

-Shakespeare.

A man, he seems, of cheerful yesterdays,

And confident to-morrows.

-Wordsworth.

Get work:

Be sure it is better than what you work to get.

-E. B. Browning.

Culture implies all which gives a mind possession of its powers.

-Emerson.

The flighty purpose never is o'ertook

Unless the deed go with it.

-Shakespeare.

Eyes are not so common as poets would think, or poets would be plentier.

-Lowell.

Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.

-John Locke.

Taking the first footstep with a good thought, the second with a good word, and the third with a good deed, I entered Paradise.

Life is too short to waste,

'Twill soon be dark;

Up! mind thine own aim, and
God speed the mark!

-Zoroaster.

-Emerson.

The year's at the spring,
And day's at the morn;
Morning's at seven;

The hill-side's dew-pearled;

The lark's on the wing;
The snail's on the thorn;

God's in his heaven

All's right with the world.

"Ask God to give thee skill For comfort's art,

-Browning.

That thou may'st consecrated be,
And set apart

Unto a life of sympathy!

For heavy is the weight of ill

For every heart,

And comforters are needed much
Of Christ-like touch."

Culture implies all which gives a mind possession of its powers.

-Emerson.

The flighty purpose never is o'ertook
Unless the deed go with it.

-Shakespeare.

Eyes are not so common as poets would think, or poets would be plentier.

-Lowell.

Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.

-John Locke.

Taking the first footstep with a good thought, the second with a good word, and the third with a good deed, I entered Paradise.

Life is too short to waste,

'Twill soon be dark;

Up! mind thine own aim, and
God speed the mark!

-Zoroaster.

-Emerson.