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MEMORY.

My mind lets go a thousand things,
Like dates of wars and deaths of kings,
And yet recalls the very hour—
'Twas noon by yonder village tower,
And on the last blue noon of May-
The wind came briskly up this way,
Crisping the brook beside the road,
Then pausing here, set down its load
Of pine scents, and shook listlessly
Two petals from that wild-rose tree.

-Thomas Bailey Aldrich.

God will not mock the hope he giveth,
No love he prompts shall vainly plead.

-Whittier.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfil another. -George Eliot.

Life is grand, and so are its environments of Past and Future. Would the face of nature be so serene and beautiful if man's destiny were not equally so?

-Thoreau.

Defer not charities till death; for certainly, if a man weigh it rightly, he that doeth so, is rather liberal of another man's than his own.

-Bacon.

Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never

come.

-Lowell.

Just because there's fallen
A snow-flake on his forehead,
He must go and fancy

'Tis winter all the year?

-T. B. Aldrich.

I expect to pass through this life but once. If therefore there is any kindness I can show, or any good I can do to any fellow-being, let me do it now, let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. -Mrs. A. B. Hegeman.

Build a little fence of trust around to-day,

Fill the space with loving deeds and therein stay; Look not through the sheltering bars upon to

morrow,

God will help thee bear what comes of joy, or -Mary Frances Butt's.

sorrow.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?

-Thoreau.

If God made poets for anything, it was to keep alive the traditions of the pure, the holy, and the beautiful.

-Lowell.

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues. -Bishop Hall.

I think that we should treat our minds as innocent and ingenuous children whose guardians we are, be careful what objects and what subjects we thrust on their attention.

-Thoreau.

Believe me, every man has his secret sorrows, which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.

-Longfellow.

In a small chamber friendless and unseen,

Toiled o'er his types one poor unlearned young

man;

The place was dark, ungarnitured and mean;—
Yet there the freedom of a race began.

(Said of Garrison.)

-Lowell.

Let us be such as help the life of the future.

-Zoroaster.

The rapidity with which the human mind lends itself to the standard around it gives us the most pertinent warning as to the company we keep.

-Lowell.

"Use Time well, and you will get from his hand more than he will take from yours."

A good book, whether a novel or not, is one that leaves you farther on than when you took it up. If, when you drop it, it drops you down in the same old spot, with no finer outlook, no cleared vision, no stimulated desires for that which is better and higher, it is in no sense a good book.

-Anna Warner.

The fox condemns the trap, not himself.

-William Blake.

This is my youth,-its hopes and dreams,
How strange and shadowy it all seems,
After these many years!

Turning the pages idly, so,

I look with smiles upon the woe,

Upon the ioy with tears!

-Aldrich.

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